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Chapter 381
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The wick of the candle was pinched very dimly, and the room was dim and yellow.

The shadow of the gauze is cast on the ceiling, like a big spider web.

Red Thread lay there, not sleeping.

She just lay there straight, with her hands on her chest, motionless.

There was a smile on his face, seven points proud and three points mocking.

When she was alone, she was very different from when she was in front of people, as if she had removed a mask and changed into a different person.

"Weakness is the root of standing, and tyranny is the root of trouble."

This sentence was taught by her father when she was a child.

Hong Xian kept this sentence firmly in his heart, no matter who he was facing, he always looked soft and weak.

She never speaks harshly, let alone swears at each other.

But she never suffers, and always makes others suffer dumb.

This is all due to her way of doing things with retreat as advance and softness to overcome rigidity.

As time goes by, this ability of using softness to overcome rigidity has become more perfect.

As the shopkeeper of the small book store, her father is also a tried and tested scholar.

But in this capital where there are so many officials, what is an old scholar?

No one even remembered that he still had such a small fame on his back.

Her father had no ambitions all his life, read poetry and books, and lived in a poor family, but he always lost his name.

He wanted to give birth to a son to teach in person and fulfill his wish of becoming famous all over the world, but he didn't even have a son.

He often drank alone and wrote a few poems expressing his sorrow when he was drunk, but he never showed it to others.

He only has one daughter, Hongxian, probably because he has no son, so he raised his daughter like a son.

However, the red line is bright and clever, and it can be learned once it is taught, and it can also draw inferences from one instance.

This made the old scholar very happy, taught her to read more books, and asked her to pick up a pen to write articles.

But there is always a kind of regret that cannot be made up for. He often looks at the red line and shakes his head distressedly: "It's a pity, you are not a man. Otherwise, you will definitely be named on the gold list and honor your ancestors."

When drunk, he would even ask angrily: "Why are you not a man?! Why can't you be a man?!"

Even when he was dying, he still couldn't forget this incident.

Hongxian has known Lu Yuzhi for a long time, the eldest son of Chengyihou's mansion, and occasionally goes to their bookstore.

Hongxian didn't have his idea at the beginning, because she knew that her father would never allow herself to be a concubine.

But at this time and at that time, his father died, the book shop was burned to ashes, and his dependent mother also passed away.

The red thread immediately became a helpless orphan girl.

She didn't even care about being sad, because she realized that her fate was at a critical moment.

She remembered that her father taught her to read history books. She once said that Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty died, but Empress Lu, who was the biological mother, could not cry.

Later, all the ministers sealed all the Lu family members as marquises, and Empress Lu wept bitterly.

She didn't understand at the time, what was going on?

Her father told her that because Empress Lu was worried about the fate of herself and her natal family, she couldn't care about her crying son.

Only when I let go of my heart did I cry.

She understood Lu Hou's mood at that time, because she was more worried about her future life than her mother who cried to death.

To be honest, she didn't have money to take care of her mother's funeral at that time.

Although the book store was burned, the savings of so many years are still there.

She could have finished her mother's funeral affairs, and then went to her uncle's house with all her money.

But her uncle was just a peddler selling tofu, and she defected to him, so she could only marry a peddler.

Even if it is shameless to be a concubine for others, I am afraid that finding a county magistrate will be a high bid.

She is a native of the capital, how could she be willing to be reduced to this point?

After much deliberation, she chose Lu Yuzhi.

Lu Yuzhi was handsome and kind-hearted.

The most important thing is that he is the eldest son of the Hou family.

Even if he can't pass the Jinshi examination in the future, relying on his ancestral shadow, the emperor will give him a Jinshi background.

Old Lord Hou is gone, he is Lord Hou.

As long as I hugged his thigh, I would be a maid first and then an aunt, and I would be able to rely on him for life.

So she deliberately said that she had no money to bury her mother, and asked Lu Yuzhi for help, and Lu Yuzhi really generously helped her.

The simple-minded Young Master Lu would never have thought that this weak and helpless woman would actually use this incident as an introduction to lead him into a trap step by step.

Hong Xian put on a terrified appearance that he could not repay the kindness of others, and thanked Lu Yuzhi a thousand times.

And after burying his mother, he came to Lu's house and said that he would be a slave and a handmaiden to repay his great kindness.

Sure enough, neither Lu Yuzhi nor Madam Lu agreed with what she should do.

Lu Yuzhi simply didn't want anything in return, but Mrs. Lu suspected that she had ulterior motives.

Hongxian was keenly aware of the differences between their mother and son, and she feared and feared in front of Mrs. Lu, and sowed right and wrong in front of Lu Yuzhi.

But her methods are very clever, she never said anything wrong with Mrs. Lu, and even praised Mrs. Lu repeatedly.

But it made Lu Yuzhi feel that his mother had misunderstood the red line and treated her a little too rudely.

The purpose of the red line is only one, and that is to enter Lu's house and stay by Lu Yuzhi's side.

Seeing that she couldn't be soft, she started thinking about something else.

He tricked Lu Yuzhi into sending her away in person, but when she got outside the city, she pretended to be sick.

Because she just wanted the Lu family or others to know that she was with Lu Yuzhi.

In this case, the Lu family would naturally not be able to explain clearly.

And she was an orphan and came from a good family, so the Lu family couldn't do too well.No matter what to say, it makes people laugh.

She knew that the more noble a family was, the more they cared about face.

Otherwise, what would she have to contend with the Lu family?
Of course, she was not so naive as to think that she would succeed.Maybe it really made the Lu family anxious and killed him.

But seeking wealth and danger, instead of wasting a lifetime living in firewood, rice, oil and salt, it is better to fight with one's back, if you fail, you will be benevolent.

It's just that she didn't expect that it wasn't the Lu family who came here, but Xu Chunjun.

She had heard about Xu Chunjun before, but only after seeing her today did she realize that it was nothing more than that.

It's not that Xu Chunjun's methods are not enough, but they all have scruples and dare not hurt Lu Yuzhi's heart.

"Unless you kill me, I will never let go!" Hong Xian gritted her teeth, thinking silently in her heart.

As long as Lu Yuzhi takes pity on her and protects her, others will have nothing to do with her.

"Father and mother, your spirits in the sky must bless me to fulfill my wish." Then she silently prayed in her heart, "Whether the rest of my life will be silk and satin or rags, it depends on this one time."

At this time, the night was already deep, and the sound of clappers on patrol was beating, drifting into people's dreams.

Hongxian blew out the candle and buried her face in the brocade quilt, she was going to sleep too.

(End of this chapter)