After selling myself, I became the head of the family

Chapter 47 Candlelight flickering
  When Su Yueyue returned to the Lu family, Grandma Cai was sitting in the yard looking out of the house.

How come this person hasn't come back after being out for most of an hour?
  The market is only three blocks away from Qingshui Lane. It shouldn't take that long just to buy a sea bass in the market.

Worried that something had happened to her, Grandma Cai felt uneasy, like an elder who was afraid of losing her child.

"Mama Cai, what are you looking at?"

When Aunt Cai walked to the courtyard gate for the third time, Lu Xingzhou couldn't hold back and asked.

"Aren't I worried about Yueyue? I just went to buy a fish, but why didn't I see you back for a long time?"

Aunt Cai explained in a low voice.

She was afraid that Yueyue would be taken away by the person taking pictures of flowers.

"She is already fourteen years old. She will never get lost. She should be back soon."

Lu Xingzhou rubbed his eyebrows and said helplessly.

It's better now, Su Yueyue has almost become the eyeball of Aunt Cai.

Protect tightly.

"Young Master, what you are saying is that Yueyue is only fourteen years old, she is still a child."

Aunt Cai said dissatisfied, but she felt relieved in her heart.

She only hoped that the young master could regard Yueyue as one of his own earlier.

Lu Xingzhou said nothing, just shook his head helplessly and continued to read the book on the table.

"Mommy, I'm back."

After a while, there was only a banging sound on the courtyard door, and Su Yueyue's call came from outside the door.

Lu Xingzhou looked at the yard, but there was no sign of Nanny Cai. After waiting for a while, she still didn't come out. In desperation, he had no choice but to wheel his wheelchair out of the house and go to open the door.

After waiting for a while, she heard the sound of the courtyard door opening. Just as Su Yueyue was about to pick up the bass to claim credit, she saw Lu Xingzhou with a straight face.

"Mr. Gongzi..."

She hurriedly swallowed the words as she was about to leave her mouth. Su Yueyue almost choked herself to death.

"Come in quickly."

Lu Xingzhou didn't say much else. After saying this, he turned the wheelchair and went back to the house again.

Su Yueyue, who was carrying the bass, was a little at a loss. She didn't know how she made the young master angry, so she could only quietly close the courtyard door, and then carry the bass into the yard.

"Mommy, look, the sea bass I bought."

Aunt Cai was sitting in the main room. As soon as she saw her, Su Yueyue carried the bass over to ask for credit.

"Okay, okay, this bass is really good."

Aunt Cai also reached out and touched her head, then took the bass back to the kitchen to raise it.

It will take a while before dinner is cooked, so don’t rush to kill the fish yet.

"Mommy, why don't you open the door for me?"

Su Yueyue asked coquettishly, following Aunt Cai.

"If I don't open the door for you, won't you come in?"

Aunt Cai smiled and nodded her forehead before putting the bass into the water tank.

"But doesn't the young master want to read a book? It doesn't feel right to ask him to open the door for me."

Su Yueyue scratched her head, she always felt weird about the young master opening the door for her.

"I have read the young master's books countless times. The weather is fine today, but I would like him to come out and take a walk."

Aunt Cai had a look of helplessness in her eyes when she spoke.

How can the young master really have the temperament to sit still in the house?

At that time, the young master liked to go to the suburbs of the city to ride horses and have fun with his friends. If he came to the Spring and Autumn Period, he would always go hunting in the mountains together.

But now that I have a leg disease, I have to sit at the table and read.

Su Yueyue said no more, just squeezed Nanny Cai's shoulders and followed her to the side to listen to her talk.

"Young master has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. He has been able to fight with the master several times at a young age. He used to be naughty and was often punished by the master. However, no matter how the master punished him, he still ran out all day.      Later, the master also I came up with a way to treat him. As long as he makes a mistake, I will go to his playmates' homes to find their parents. After that, there will be no one to accompany him to go out and cause trouble all day long."

Su Yueyue giggled when Aunt Cai told Lu Xingzhou's interesting stories from her childhood.

The girl's silvery laughter floated over from the kitchen, disrupting Lu Xingzhou's mood while reading.

Now is a good day for hunting.

But let alone riding a horse, he couldn't even stand up.

The young man looked dejected, looking at the green onions in the vegetable garden and thinking of the grassland outside Beijing.

It's just a pity that those are all dreams from the past.

“Can’t the young master’s leg be cured?”

Su Yueyue hesitated for a while and finally asked her doubts.

Now the young master seems to have no other problems except his leg injury, so why does he have to drink soup and medicine all day long?
  "The doctor only said that it is very difficult to return to normal. The young master's legs were frostbitten in the snow at the beginning of the year. He can only rely on this decoction to recover. But whether he can recover or not depends on what God thinks."

Recalling the scene at that time, Grandma Cai still felt very distressed.

At that time, when the young master was sent back, his whole body was almost losing all color. Only one of his legs was red and purple from the cold. The imperial doctor said that if he came back later, I am afraid that both of the young master's legs would have to be completely amputated. Only then can a life be saved.

It was also that time that the young master was successful in rescuing him, and that was why the emperor finally spared his life.

The Lu Mansion was confiscated, and only the few hundred taels that his wife had given her for old-age care were placed in her small courtyard.

But fortunately, I still have that amount of money, otherwise I would not be able to support just the soup and medicine that the young master needs to drink every month.

"That's right."

Su Yueyue had always been curious about how the young master's leg was injured, but now that she knew it was frostbite, it became clear.

No wonder the young master's legs are always itchy, red and swollen, but I don't know if Dr. Feng can cure the young master's legs.

Looking at the food being brought into the room during dinner, Lu Xingzhou hesitated for a while, then stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a piece of sea bass.

The fish tasted fresh and sweet, not as fishy as the fish he had eaten before, which surprised Lu Xingzhou.

Unwilling to light the lamp, Grandma Cai and Su Yueyue sat on the small table in the yard and ate dinner.

Aunt Cai also ate a piece of seabass with chopsticks, and then she said in surprise, "Yueyue, where did you buy this fish today? Why does it taste so fresh?"

"It was a fish seller named Gu Erlang who sold it to me. His business was good, and as soon as he saw him coming, many people rushed over to buy it. I waited for two-quarters of an hour before I squeezed in."

Su Yueyue felt funny when she recalled the scene in the afternoon.

"Is that the guy from the Gu family who sells fish with a bucket?"

Hearing her talk about Gu Erlang, Grandma Cai remembered that every time she went to the market in the afternoon, she would hear the older girls and younger wives laughing and talking about a man named Gu Erlang.

So he was a fisherman?

"That's him. When I squeezed in, this was the only bass left. I was going to sell it to another person, but he said that the lady had already bought three fish, so he gave it to me."

"Then you're in luck."

The two of them were talking to each other, and their voices naturally reached Lu Xingzhou's ears.

Gu Erlang, the fish seller?
  The young man pursed his lips and lost interest looking at the seabass on the plate.

After eating, Su Yueyue gently opened the door of Lu Xingzhou's room and asked in a low voice, "Sir, have you finished eating?"

"You come in and get it."

Lu Xingzhou sat upright by the window and whispered.

Seeing that he was still reading in the light outside, Su Yueyue took out a fire stick from her arms and lit the oil lamp, and then handed the oil lamp over.

"Sir, it's getting dark, so I can light a lamp and read without hurting my eyes."

After saying that, she took the dishes and chopsticks and walked out of the room.

The candlelight was swaying in the wind, just like the mood of a young man.

　The temperature is cooling down, babies, please keep warm (˙▽˙)
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(End of this chapter)