The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 167 Jade Pendant
Looking at Su Yunduo's embarrassed back, Lu Jinkang felt that he had finally regained his victory, and he felt a little proud and a little funny. It turned out that this girl was also shy, but her shy appearance was not at all like those ladies in the capital. Disgusting, on the contrary, it made him feel itchy, how could he break it if he really wanted to tease her again? !

But Lu Jinkang thought about it, and gave up his plan to go to the backyard to tease Su Yunduo. Although he had never seen Su Yunduo's toughness, he knew that this was a little wild cat with sharp claws, so it was better not to provoke him. She, anyway, she is the granddaughter of my aunt in name, although I haven't recognized her yet!
During this time, Lu Jinkang did not stay in Geshan Village all the time. He stayed in Geshan Village for about ten days, and left Geshan Village with his guards after the congratulatory gifts from the Holy Lord and Zhen Guogong arrived in Geshan Village and they were settled properly.

Su Yunduo thought that he would go back to the capital after leaving Geshan Village. It wasn't until one day that there was a faint rumbling sound from a distance, but the sky was completely cloudless. At the same place, Lu Jinkang, as the special envoy of the current emperor, is overseeing the development of the saltpeter mine. She also learned from the old doctor that Lu Jinkang once wanted to pull the ore out of the mountain from Geshan Village.

"Why don't you mine here again?" Su Yunduo asked the old doctor curiously.

"Are you willing?" The old doctor looked at Su Yunduo silently and asked back.

Well, if the ore really comes out of the mountain, not to mention the old doctor's Shenquan Villa will not be peaceful, and the little God Doctor Valley will also be in vain, and her great business of planting medicinal materials will naturally be difficult to sustain.

Although the old doctor didn't say it clearly, Su Yunduo has already understood it.

It may be a bit regrettable, but Su Yunduo's heart is more grateful.

Of course, Su Yunduo felt that it was better to keep this matter to himself and not make it public. If the villagers knew that Geshan Village had lost a chance to get rich immediately, it would probably cause an uproar.

Geshan Village is still too poor at present, if the import and export of the mine is opened in Geshan Village, it will naturally drive the economic development of Geshan Village, but in this way, Geshan Village will no longer be Geshan Village, and such opportunities for getting rich and developing are only short-term In the long run, it is the most beneficial for Geshan Village to develop the planting industry based on the local area.

When Lu Jinkang returned to Geshan Village this time, he came here specifically for Su Chengzhi.

After learning of Su Chengzhi's life experience, Lu Jinkang specially wrote a letter to Beijing. In the letter, he introduced how Su Chengzhi's life experience was exposed. Naturally, he must talk about Su Chengzhi's entanglement with the old Su family, as well as the name and life of Su Chengzhi's father. The birth date, Su Chengzhi's escape experience...

In addition to the portraits of Su Chengzhi and Su Yunduo's siblings, this letter was sent to the capital two months ago.

A few days ago, the reply letter from the capital was delivered to Lu Jinkang. Although the capital was 30% certain that Su Chengzhi was the concubine son of Su Yuanming, the governor of the Northland [-] years ago, he still hoped that Lu Jinkang could find a way to make a mold for the jade pendant or be like a human. Draw a portrait and send it back to the capital.

Of course, it would be the best thing if the family could be sent directly to the capital.

Lu Jinkang discussed with the old doctor and Ning Zhongping again and again, and felt that it was better to hide Su Chengzhi first and try to find a way to show Lu Jinkang the jade pendant that Su Chengzhi hid as a family treasure. The jade pendant is drawn in sevens and eights, anyone who has seen this jade pendant can recognize it.

In the past few days, both Lu Jinkang and Ning Zhongping were thinking of ways to get Su Chengzhi to take the initiative to take out the jade pendant for everyone to watch without making a fuss.

Ning Zhongping has already revealed the purpose of Lu Jinkang's trip to Su Yunduo. Su Yunduo agrees to keep this matter from Su Chengzhi and Ning's. Firstly, Su Yunduo doesn't want to burden his parents before the matter is fully determined. , the second is because the township examination is coming soon, and I don't want to distract Su Chengzhi.

Whether Lu Jinkang could see the jade pendant carefully collected by Su Chengzhi during this trip, Su Yunduo pursed his lips and said that it would be better for him not to interfere, so as not to arouse Su Chengzhi's suspicion.

Lu Jinkang really has two brushes. Whether it is the Five Books or the Five Classics, Lu Jinkang seems to be able to say something, and some ideas are even very innovative, but within a few days, he chatted with Su Chengzhi.

After chatting about the Four Books and Five Classics, Lu Jinkang turned the topic to court affairs. Most of the chatter was about the gains and losses of the late emperor when he was in power. During the chat, he talked about several wars that occurred during the late emperor's time. Naturally, he had to talk about the northern land more than 20 years ago. The war that killed Su Chengzhi's own father.

Not only did Su Chengzhi lose contact with his father's line during the war, but the mother who gave birth to him also died on the way to escape.

That war was the fundamental reason why Su Chengzhi lived such a tragic life in the first 30 years, and it was also the root cause of the pain he suffered from the loss of his father and mother.

When Su Chengzhi was a child, he heard the old couple from the old Su family talk about the war with him more than once, and he also deliberately collected some information about the war when he grew up, so although Su Chengzhi was just a baby when the war started, he said There is something to be said about the war.

In this way, Lu Jinkang quietly brought the topic to the war related to Su Chengzhi's life experience, hoping to learn more information from Su Chengzhi's words, and it would be best to lead to the jade pendant.

Sure enough, Su Chengzhi did not disappoint Lu Jinkang's painstaking efforts. After talking about it, the jade pendant that he carefully collected appeared in front of Lu Jinkang so gorgeously.

"My grandparents once told me that the war was unprepared. When they escaped from the Northland, they didn't even have time to clean up the household.

At that time, I was just born a few days ago. According to my grandparents, I was my father's only son. My mother hoped that my father would take us to escape together, but my father, as the head of the northern land, naturally couldn't leave the whole house behind. The common people escaped by themselves, so my mother had to take me and my grandparents to flee in a hurry.

My father stuffed this jade pendant into my swaddle, and asked my mother's maid to pack up some jewelry in a hurry, and asked several guards to meet my grandparents. Although I escaped from the Northland as I wished, my mother But failed to survive.

Relying on my mother's bag of jewelry, Lao Su's family escaped the war and finally settled in Geshan Village.

The other jewelry had already been sold, and only this jade pendant was preserved at the insistence of my grandparents because it was related to my life experience. " Su Chengzhi stared straight at the jade pendant that Lu Jinkang was playing with, for fear that Lu Jinkang would accidentally break his precious jade pendant.

"So, you knew your life experience when you were very young?" Lu Jinkang played with the jade pendant in his hand, not letting go of every detail of the jade pendant, and finally returned the jade pendant to Su Chengzhi when he asked questions.

"That's right. I knew about my background as early as 20 years ago. I even knew that my own father was the son of the third wife of the Su Mansion, a scholarly family in the capital." Su Chengzhi put the jade pendant away again, and then glanced at Lu Jinkang with a very serious expression on his face. Somewhat subtle.

This answer was beyond Lu Jinkang's expectations. He had heard many stories about the old Su family, and he always thought that Su Chengzhi didn't know his own background, but unexpectedly got an unexpected answer. He really didn't know what to say for a while. , After a long silence, he asked: "Then... why didn't you leave that Su family early and go to the Su family in the capital to recognize relatives?"

(End of this chapter)