The Moon Over Tang Dynasty

Chapter 36: No way to retreat, no need to retreat anymore

With a loud "bang", Liuli didn't look back, and she knew it was the sound of the black wooden door of An's house closing decisively. The early autumn morning was already a bit chilly. Liuli raised her head, looked at the sky above her, and let out a long breath.

The door slamming shut, the beautiful woman holding a small package in her hand, and her blank expression looking at the sky speechlessly. This meaningful scene immediately attracted the attention of the people walking on the street. First they looked at them from head to toe, and then They were whispering to each other, "Isn't this An's family? Who is his family?"

Liuli stood for a moment, guessing that enough people had seen this scene, and then slowly turned around and walked towards the west gate of Huaiyuan Square. The long bells of Guangming Temple in the square and the curious pointing were heard until she walked into Chongqing Chongqing. Huafang finally stopped.

Deep in the small street, the door of Kudi's house was ajar as usual. The door was roughly swept, but the doorkeeper Pu Bo didn't know where he ran. Liuli shook his head, smiled, and walked in.

Aye was drying her clothes in the yard. When she looked up and saw Liuli, she couldn't help but be stunned. She subconsciously wanted to salute, but noticed that she was only wearing a half-new moon-white shirt and a lake-colored underskirt. Holding a coarse cloth bundle with blue background and white flowers, there was no slave behind her. The situation was very different from the previous two times she came back. She rolled her eyes and still smiled, "Isn't this aunt? Why are you back today?"

Liuli ignored her and asked lightly, "Master, are you at home?"

A-Ye was confused, but nodded. Liuli walked straight to the upper room. A-Ye looked at her back, frowned for a long time, then suddenly clapped his legs and ran out.

Kudi Yanzhong was not in the main room, but was sitting in the east room reading a book. Suddenly he saw Liuli walking in with the curtain drawn up. He was also surprised and blurted out, "Why are you back? Is there anything you can't do?"

Liuli made a blessing ceremony before replying, "Liuli unintentionally angered a noble family, causing her uncle's Jiavalier shop to be shut down. She has no face to stay any longer, so she will go home and bother her father for a few days."

Kudi Yanzhong was even more surprised and hurriedly asked, "Which noble family have you offended?"

Liuli said calmly, "She is Mrs. Wei Guo, the mother of the current queen."

Kudi Yanzhong's face suddenly changed. He stood up and pointed at Liuli and said, "How could you offend her? What should I do? What should I do?"

Liuli looked at his face and smiled, "Master, please be at ease. The trouble my daughter caused is not a big one. She can solve it by herself. She can only stay at home for two days at most."

Kudi Yanzhong looked at Liuli suspiciously, and then said after a while, "You have to find a way to solve the trouble you caused yourself. Don't involve your family."

Liuli lowered her eyes and nodded, "That's natural. Please ask someone to tidy up the house where Liuli lived."

Kudi Yanzhong hesitated for a moment and looked left and right out of habit. Then he remembered that Mr. Cao had just brought Huanhu and Qinglin to the cloth shop in the square. He waved and said, "Just go to the yard and find someone to clean up."

Liuli turned around and went to the yard. Aye had long disappeared. Only a servant girl who was doing rough work was still busy, so Liuli called her over and opened the door. There was already a layer of dust in the small room, and there were a lot of clutter piled up. Liuli asked the maid to fetch water, and the two of them started working together. Just as they had finished cleaning up, they heard a crisp laughter coming from behind, "Isn't this sister? Why don't you settle down there and go back to our house? ? Don’t you think this house has wronged you, the eldest daughter?”

Liuli straightened up, looked at the gloating face of Hualu at the door and smiled, "It's only for a night or two at most. There is no grievance or grievance."

Color was startled, her brows furrowed, she looked Liuli up and down again, snorted coldly, and turned around to go to the upper room. When Liuli saw that the debris in the room had been cleared out and people could sit on the bed, she dropped the rag and went to the well to wash her hands. Before the water on her hands was wiped dry, Cao's screams came from the upper room, and people rushed out. When they saw Liuli's eyes turned red, they pointed at Liuli's nose and cursed, "You bitch, Do you want to hide back after causing trouble outside? Why don't you get out of here if you want to hurt the whole family?" Just as he was about to continue scolding her, Liuli looked at her and smiled, "Concubine, do you know Liuli? Why did you offend Mrs. Wei?"

Ms. Cao couldn't help but be startled, Liuli's tone was still calm, "Mrs. Wei Guo annoyed Liuli just because Liuli's patterns were pretty good. She repeatedly wanted her daughter to go to her house as a client, and promised that once she went, she would be the lady in charge. But Liuli didn't want to be a slave, so Mrs. Wei closed her uncle's shop in anger, leaving Liuli nowhere to hide. It would be easy for you to get Liuli out, but if Mrs. Wei comes to ask for someone, , I wonder if the concubine is going to use the coral to pay for it? But it’s hard to say whether the painting of the coral will catch the eye of Mrs. Wei.”

 Cao was speechless immediately. Liuli glanced at her and walked back to the room leisurely. When she reached the door, she looked back and sure enough, Mrs. Cao had gone to the upper room again.

After a while, the door curtain opened, but it was Ku Di Yanzhong who walked out with Cao's face solemnly. Seeing Liuli still cleaning the room, he said coldly, "What else are you packing? Come get in the car with me!" Liuli sighed. He turned around and said, "Does the father want his daughter to go to Mrs. Wei's place to write her own documents now?"

Kudi Yanzhong said, "That's natural! Then Mrs. Wei Guo can close the store if she says to close it. If you stay at home, why don't you wait for her to come and demolish the house?"

Liuli smiled and shook her head, "Father's words are wrong. Since Mrs. Wei Guo can seal up her uncle's shop, she is bound to get her daughter. You must know that there is a price difference between selling yourself into slavery. Father feels that Is it more expensive to deliver it to your door, or is it more expensive to wait for them to come and buy it?" After saying that, his eyes turned to Mr. Cao's face behind Kudi Yanzhong.

Before Kudi Yanzhong could speak, Cao's heart was already moved. Ever since Liuli refused the betrothal gift from both families, she has been feeling extremely sad. Now that she has the opportunity to sell Liuli again, if she can sell it for a good price, won't the coral's dowry be secured? She hurriedly pulled Kudi Yanzhong's sleeve and whispered, "Or, should we inquire first and then make plans?"

Kudi Yanzhong was originally instigated by her to come here, but now that he heard what she said, he had no choice but to frown and walk out. Liuli didn't care what they planned. She turned around and asked the maid to take out the only bench in the house, wash it and dry it in the courtyard. She also took the mattress from the cupboard and hung it outside to dry.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Liuli turned around and saw Hualu walking over, with a sneer on her face, "You still have the mind to deal with this. Don't think that you can stay here because I didn't drive you away today! I Let me ask you, where are the mirrors and pearls you took from me last time? Why don't you return them to me quickly! Sooner or later, you are no longer worthy of these good things, and what about the slap you gave me last time? It’s time to pay back the interest, right?” He said and took a few more steps.

Liuli looked at her and smiled sweetly, "Coral, do you know that if a good man wants to become a maid, he must sell himself voluntarily? Otherwise, even if the father and mother sell their children, they will be punished! Think about it, if Mrs. Wei Guo When people come to the door, I tell them, I only have one girl, you, and I must share the joys and sorrows, otherwise I will never betray myself, so what will happen? "

 Coral's face changed and she screamed, "How dare you!"

Liuli couldn't help laughing, "Sister, what do you think my sister wouldn't dare to do now that she's at this point? We're just sisters, if you please me, my sister might be in a better mood, and she'll be in a good mood by then. I won’t mention it.”

 Color stood there, neither advancing nor retreating, with a very wonderful expression on her face. After a while, she stamped her feet and screamed, "Grandma, grandma, Liuli said that she wants to sell her daughter with her!"

Cao and Kudi Yanzhong ran out in a hurry. Hualu ran over and took Cao's hand and said Liuli's words again. Cao's face suddenly turned green and said angrily, "Liuli, everything Hulan said Is it true? You actually want to harm others? "

Liuli patted the quilt and said calmly, "Liuli wanted to settle the matter, but it was Hualu who made a fuss and refused to let me go. He came to ask for things and hit people, so Liuli had no choice but to scare her. Go to Mrs. Wei's house. It turned out that the incident had nothing to do with anyone else. It was Liuli's own fault, and she had to bear it. But if someone still had trouble with her daughter in the past two days, there was nothing that Wei would not dare to do when her daughter was in a bad mood! In Mrs. Guo's eyes, Liuli is now in her pocket. Since she can't tolerate this thing not being in her house, she can't tolerate it being damaged by others. If my father-in-law and my concubine think that our family is not afraid of her wrath, they might as well Try killing Liuli!"

Ms. Cao was angry and scared. She wanted to curse a few words but didn't dare to speak, so she could only push Kudi Yanzhong hard. Kudi Yanzhong also felt that each of Liuli's words was harsher. After thinking about it, he said, "Just go back to your room and stay there. Naturally, no one will come to provoke you. You also remember that you are the daughter of Kudi's family." , If you really do something, I will definitely kill you!"

Liuli patted the dust on her hands and clothes, smiled and said, "My daughter is waiting for her father to deal with her."

Kudi Yanzhong looked at Liuli's smiling face and was so angry that his hands were shaking. He couldn't speak anymore and walked back with a cold snort. Ms. Cao also glared at Liuli bitterly and pulled Huanhuo to follow.

Liuli shook his head and smiled, turned around and went back to his room, then packed up the tables, chairs and other items. On this day, no one came in to bother her. Only Qing Lin secretly took a look at the door and left after seeing that there was nothing interesting to see. Even three meals a day are brought in by the maid, so the food is not harsh at all.

 At night, the small room had been neatly tidied up with colored glass. Just sitting on the small bed, she suddenly realized that she was a bit ridiculous: she knew that she would only sleep for a night or two, but she couldn't tolerate sloppy places in this room. It was like she was obviously a person of this era, but she still kept doing it. Thinking of being able to live a clean life like before, maybe it was this **** mysophobia that finally made me have no way out, right? But now, she can no longer take a step back. This feeling of risking one's life is actually not bad. Isn't it more shameless than shameless people and more cold-blooded than cold-blooded people? Maybe only in this way can we live better.

Blowing out the candles beside the bed in one breath, Liuli stared out the window in trance for a while. Xiaotan's letters had been delivered, and the people her uncle had entrusted with her should have told Madam Liu that she was back home. Tomorrow, It might be an exciting day!

  p.s. There should be another update in the evening…

 (End of this chapter)