Farmhouse Qiaofei

Chapter 239
When Bai Shao got down from the carriage, Linglong was knocking on the copper ring on the big red iron door. Above her head was a big plaque with two words "Wu's Mansion" written on it.

"Uncle Wu, open the door, open the door." Linglong shouted towards the mansion with her hips akimbo.

After about a dozen breaths, a trembling voice sounded in the mansion, "Is Miss Linglong back?"

Immediately afterwards, the big red iron door was opened, revealing an old man who was nearly seventy years old and trembling when he walked.

"Uncle Wu." Linglong shouted excitedly.

"Miss Linglong." The old man also shouted excitedly, "You are finally back."

"Yes, not only did I come back this time, but I also brought many friends here. They have no place to live at the moment, so I invited them to live in the Wu Mansion." Linglong smiled and pointed behind her.

As soon as the old man heard this, and then saw so many people standing at the door, the smile on his original face immediately froze.

After a while, he whispered tremblingly, "Miss Linglong...the mansion has not been cleaned for two years. The weeds grow as tall as my waist, and the cobwebs are so thick that they can't be poked with a stick. You ...Are you sure you want people to live in?"

Linglong's smile also froze, "Uncle Wu...you...haven't cleaned the house all these years?"

"I'm an old man with loess buried up to my neck, how can I have so much strength?" The old man looked at Linglong confidently, "If Miss Linglong went to tidy up, maybe I could still live."

Linglong's face suddenly turned red and swollen as if someone had strangled her neck, and she couldn't say a word for a long time.

Seeing this, Bai Shao hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Linglong's sleeve, and said in a low voice, "Sister Linglong, in fact, we can live in the inn, just buy the yard quickly."

"You don't know, Shao'er." Linglong said a little irritably, "This is Yanjing, at the foot of the emperor. The Yanjing is not rich in land, not as vast as Ruocang Zhou Guqiang, and because it is at the foot of the emperor, people People are flocking to it, so yards are in short supply, it’s not a rich man’s house, and even if you have money, you can’t buy a good yard.”

"So that's how it is..." Bai Shao was a little dazed, "I didn't expect it to be like this no matter what age..."

"What did you say?" Linglong asked a little puzzled.

"No, I didn't say anything." Bai Shao shook his head, "It's better to stay in the hotel first, it's going to be dark, it's true to find a place to settle down first."

"That's the only way to go." Linglong sighed, and looked at Bai Shao apologetically, "It's true that I didn't think carefully about this matter, Uncle Wu is getting old, and he is the only one in the entire Wu Mansion... hey .”

Bai Shao patted Linglong's hand to express her understanding, and took the initiative to tell her family about Linglong's situation here.

The Bai family members are all reasonable people, and immediately agreed to go to the inn.

Because the Wu Mansion was really completely uninhabitable, Linglong simply decided to follow her to live in the inn.

But just when everyone was about to get into the carriage to find the inn, a man suddenly ran over, stopped the carriage, and asked Zhao Long, "Excuse me, the people sitting in the carriage are Mr. Bai's family from Xieyang County."

"So what if it is, so what if it's not?" Zhao Long looked at the man warily.

The man was not angry, and still said with a straight face, "I am entrusted by Centurion Bai Yunshi to wait for a convoy from the north in the past few days. I don't know if you are here."

"It's Yunshi." Upon hearing this, Bai Wei quickly stretched out her head, and said with some joy, "Yes, we are from the Bai family from Xieyang County."

"Yes." The man smiled gratifiedly, "I have noticed since your convoy entered the city, but I expected you to go to the inn, but I never thought that you would come to the Wu Mansion, so I didn't dare to go there rashly. Come on, I heard that you were going to the inn, so I came to ask again. Fortunately, I did not admit the wrong person. In this way, Master Bai, Mrs. Bai, and the two young ladies, according to the instructions of the centurion Bai Yunshi, specially for you I have found a house, now you can come with me."

After speaking, strode ahead and led the way.

"Mother, did you hear that Yunshi has found a yard for us." Bai Wei happily took Wu's hand and said.

"This kid Yun Shi really has a heart." Wu Shi also said very happily.

On the other hand, Bai Shao, after looking at each other with Linglong, a slight suspicion arose in each other's hearts.

First of all, although the letter was written in Bai Yunshi's tone, the handwriting was not Bai Yunshi's handwriting. If Bai Yunshi's token hadn't been sent at the same time, Bai Shao might not have read the contents of the letter at all. Yanjing.

The second is about the arrangement of the house. Bai Yunshi has only been a soldier for more than two years. Even if he has been promoted to the position of a centurion, he is only a small person in the barracks. How could he have such ability to help Bai? What about family arrangements for the house?
Thinking of this, Bai Shao wanted Zhao Long to stop, and then asked carefully about the identity of that person.

But at this time, the man had already stopped, pointing to a courtyard only half a street away from the Wu Mansion, and said loudly, "This is it."

Linglong was startled, and whispered, "My father was able to have a courtyard here, it was entirely because of his credit. But how could your brother own a courtyard here? You know, although Yanjing's courtyard is hard to buy, but To a certain degree. For example, this street, because it is too close to the imperial city, can be said to be hard to buy with money. Shaoer, it seems that there is something wrong with it."

Bai Shao nodded lightly, frowned, and before she had time to speak, the man outside seemed to have guessed what she was thinking, and said loudly, "The yard here does not belong to Brother Yunshi, but our general knows His family came to Yanjing and specially lent it to him."

In this way, it was clearly explained why Bai Yun could actually arrange the Bai family here.

Bai Wei got out of the car very happily, although Bai Shao still had slight doubts in her heart, she didn't say anything, and got out of the car with her sister.

On the other hand, Bai Chuanbai and Wu Shi did not get out of the carriage immediately, but lifted the curtain of the carriage, looked at the familiar mansion and the familiar plaque, and both shed tears.

"Hurry up, wipe it off, don't let the children see it." Bai Chuanbai patted Wu's hand, and said in a low voice, "It's not the time to talk about it yet, but the distance is not far away."

"Hey, hey...it's been ten years...he's finally back. It seems that the young master...he knows everything." Wu Shi reluctantly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said with a sob.

"Oh, my lord has grown up." Bai Chuanbai sighed, "Hurry up, my child, don't let Shao'er see that something is wrong, she is so smart."

"En." Wu Shi nodded, and hurriedly got out of the carriage with Hongliu's men.

At this time, the man had already opened the gate of the mansion and walked in voluntarily.

Everyone in the Bai family also walked in, only Bai Shao and Linglong stood at the door, staring at the big plaque with the word "Gu Fu" in a daze.

"This is Gu's residence..." Linglong was taken aback, and leaned into Bai Shao's ear and whispered, "In Yanjing, if there is a courtyard in the street near the imperial city, and the surname is Gu, it should be the Gu family. Gu from the army... Shao'er, in my opinion, maybe your brother got the favor of General Gu..."

Bai Shao pursed her lips and did not speak.

Her natural intuition told her that there was no danger here, so she allowed her family to enter the mansion and settle down.

But her cautious character made her feel that the matter would never be that simple. Now she just temporarily suppressed that doubt, and in time, she will definitely figure out everything.

"Go in." Bai Shao glanced at the members of the Bai family who had already walked to the second gate, and strode up to follow.

When Wu Shi and Bai Chuanbai and his wife walked side by side, their red eyes had returned to normal. When they saw Bai Shao, Wu Shi still smiled gently, and then took her hand, while Go, reminding her to take a closer look at the mansion while beating around.

Look at this house?

Bai Shao looked around with some doubts, and found that although the Gu mansion was large and clean, it revealed a sense of time everywhere.

It's like... It's like no one has lived in it for a long, long time.

There is a sense of popularity in the house where people live, but there is no popularity here in Gu's house, on the contrary, it is very deserted.

That kind of desertedness makes people feel distressed, as if there was laughter and warmth here.

But the invasion of time has displaced the people here, and made a warm house deserted and lonely, without the smell of fireworks.

It's like an old man who has been abandoned, reaching his twilight years, old and decayed, and dying.

(End of this chapter)