Chapter 106:
Luo Zhi’er got tired from picking with Miaomiao at noon and encountered a nest of August Explosion Fruit on the road.
She looked up, and the vines were wrapped very high. Several large and fat August Explosion Fruits dangled overhead like a string of gourds!
She dropped the bamboo basket and clumsily jumped a few times, but couldn’t reach them!
She had to pull them down along the vines wrapped around the tree. Luo Zhi’er picked a few August Explosion Fruits and handed them to Miaomiao to eat.
She also wrapped her stomach.
While eating, “Mother, this August Explosion Fruit is so sweet! It’s fatter than the one last time!”
“Hehe, Miaomiao, eat all these!”
Before she finished speaking, a wave of abdominal pain hit, instantly her head felt dizzy and swollen, pain surged through her whole body, it felt like bugs were drilling, and she rolled to the ground…
“Mother, what’s wrong with you?”
Miaomiao was so scared that she burst into loud tears!
Luckily, she was under a big tree that could shield the sunshine, and there were no wild beasts.
Luo Zhi’er lay down on the spot to rest for a while and fell into a confused sleep…
Miaomiao was so scared that she kept shouting, “Mother, Mother, what’s wrong with you? Don’t ignore Miaomiao.” Seeing her mother in pain, she cried along.
Luo Zhi’er pinched her own thigh. Miaomiao saw her mother open her eyes and comfort her, “Miaomiao, don’t cry. Mother is fine, just sleepy… Be good and don’t run around.”
“Mother… sleep for a while, and you’ll be fine!”
“Got it, Mother. You sleep obediently, and Miaomiao will watch for snakes!” Miaomiao wiped her sweat beads on the side and got some bamboo tube water for her to drink!
Li Sanmao asked several passersby along the way about the route and arrived at the main gate of Zeng Manor.
Sure enough, it was a two-courtyard house with the main gate tightly closed!
He stood at the doorway and thought for a moment, then stepped forward and knocked the door knocker!
Soon, a man who looked like the butler ran to open the door. Seeing a burly man standing at the doorway, he showed a puzzled expression…
“Hey, brother, who are you looking for?”
“May I ask if this is Zeng Manor? Is Master Zeng at home?”
The butler frowned, “You are…”
“I’m a distant relative of his!”
The butler was stunned. Did the old master have other relatives besides his nephew Zeng An?
He said with a slightly nervous expression, “Which Master Zeng are you looking for?”
“Of course it’s the master of this manor, Master Zeng! Could there be other masters in this manor?”
Li Sanmao said with a frown.
“What are you saying? Wait here, I’ll go report right away.”
The butler’s eyes flickered, and he turned back to the Hugua Room in the main hall of another courtyard in the second courtyard.
“Master, someone is looking for the old master!”
“Who?”
That Master said lazily.
Of course, he only had his confidants call him that in private to satisfy his vanity!
He had just been flirting with a young woman who looked like a maid.
He was lying face-up on the couch, legs crossed very comfortably, and the maid was still feeding grapes into his mouth…
“He says he’s a distant relative of the old master!”
“What?”
Zeng An sat up abruptly and told the maid to leave.
“Does this old thing have any other relatives besides me, Zeng An?”
No, doesn’t he only have this one nephew? If another relative comes, will some of his belongings have to be divided to others?
“Niu Pu, who is this person?”
“Master, I don’t know. I just saw him dressed like rural people, with an accent from Taoyuan Town. He’s probably a countryside person from nearby!”
Zeng An contemplated for a moment, “Find someone to beat him out. Zeng Manor has no other relatives. He’s just here to swindle…”
“Shouldn’t we notify the old master?”
“Why notify him? Idle people, no need to disturb Uncle!”
“Master, the old master wants you to come serve him…”
At this time, a servant came from outside to report…
“Hmph, this old thing just likes to see me bowing and scraping in front of him like an ox or horse all day…”
After cursing, he said,
“Go tell the old master, your nephew is coming right away!”
He composed himself, put on a respectful demeanor, stood up, turned, and walked out.
If he didn’t perform well, this old thing wouldn’t be willing to hand over the key to his private stash!
At his age, he still wanted to leave his own seed, but didn’t check if he had the ability?
Cough… They had two ways of castration, one of which he still had some function for, just couldn’t get pregnant!
But this Master Zeng, after leaving the Imperial Palace, was bent on producing a child, especially with some perversions in that area, spoiling quite a few young women!
This Zeng An was the one helping him scout young women, of course the kind without family background, so if there were problems, no one would make trouble.
If done well, he’d get two pieces of reward money!
This time, this Li Zhenzhu was someone he met at the gambling table, recommended after losing silver to him!
Of course, he also got reward money from the old master’s hand!
Li Sanmao was waiting at the doorway, who knew suddenly the main gate opened from inside, and three or four servants came out with clubs chasing him!
“Bold scoundrel, daring to impersonate our master’s distant relative! Come on, drive him away! Give him a lesson!”
The butler Niu Pu changed his facial expression, shouted loudly, and without distinguishing right from wrong, drove Li Sanmao out!
“Stop it! What are you doing?”
Those few people didn’t listen to him at all, raised their clubs to hit him, but Li Sanmao wasn’t a pushover!
He countered and grabbed the club, roared angrily, pushed back hard, and the few men fell flat on the ground, scaring Niu Pu so much that his neck shrank and he looked ashen-faced.
This guy actually knew some martial arts!
“Hmph! What are you doing? Don’t you look at what kind of poor wretch you are? Our master came back from the Capital City. Where would he have poor relatives like you? Randomly claiming kinship, be careful we go to the prefectural yamen to sue you!”
“Get lost quick!”
Li Sanmao looked at these people’s facial expressions and felt something was off in his heart, like there was something fishy…
Otherwise, why rush to drive him out?
“Hmph! Bullying with borrowed power. Tell Master Zeng, I am…”
Li Sanmao thought about it. On this first visit, better not mention it, don’t beat the grass and startle the snake!
Niu Pu perked up his ear wanting to hear what he said, “You are… what? Speak up…”
“Forget it, nothing. Since Zeng Manor doesn’t welcome me, I won’t go in. Goodbye!”
“Hmph! Remember, if you dare spout nonsense and claim kinship again next time, be careful our master ties you up and sends you straight to the yamen jail!”
Li Sanmao left. In the Zhuyuan of the first courtyard of Zeng Manor, old Master Zeng asked tremulously, “Who was outside?”
“Uncle, no one. Did you hear wrong?”
“Is that so?”
