Chapter 72
Dongsan Lane lives in wealthy families with status or status. Rao Mansion is located in the middle of Dongsan Lane, with green trees in front of the door, which is quite quiet.
There was a carriage parked at the gate. It should have been Liu Qing and the others who arrived first. They asked the servant to take the carriage down and place it. The housekeeper led them to the living yard to resettle their luggage first.
As he arrived at the guest yard, he didn't see a few servants. Fu Tian always felt something strange. The house always felt a lifeless feeling. He looked around and saw the butler in a corner saying "Come tea for the guests". Then a maid who looked young walked out and walked out quickly with her head down.
The surprise in his eyes was even more serious.
The housekeeper seemed to think that this situation was not normal no matter how you look at it, and hesitated to explain, "After Master Nian disappeared, the master fell ill. In addition, something happened in the mansion. Now the young master is in charge. The two young masters grew up together. The young master was in a bad mood now... So the servants also became cautious in their words and actions."
He seemed to be happy again, "But now that Young Master Nian has returned, the young master's anger should be gone, and the mansion will soon become lively."
Fu Tian nodded with a smile and agreed, "The two young masters have a good relationship."
"Who said no?" The old housekeeper showed a loving smile on his face, and even the wrinkles on his face stretched out. "I grew up watching the two young masters, and they are in good relationship."
As they said that, they had arrived at the main hall. Dai Fu and the servant went to the inner room to get luggage, and the housekeeper called the servant over, "If you are bored in the yard, you can let Zhang Shan take him in the mansion or out for a walk. There are many fun places in Qulin County in our country."
Seeing the butler's joy in his wrinkles, Wen Tian said considerately: "If the butler has something to do, we will do it first, so we can do it."
"Hey, I'm really worried about Young Master Nian," the housekeeper accused him repeatedly and ordered his servants to entertain the guests, and then hurriedly left.
The servant who served in the room was very eye-catching. After serving tea and pastries, he quietly retreated and left the space for the two of them.
He glanced left and right as if he was a thief, and was sure that the servants outside could not hear them. Fu Tian leaned close to Chu Xiangtian and whispered: "Don't you think the Rao family is weird?"
The servants in the house were silent. Apart from the servants, there were no other owners in the house. Moreover, the person in charge of the house was a man from another surname, and he felt that there were strange things everywhere.
Chu Xiangtian saw something, but he didn't want to tell the young master so simply.
"Want to know?" Chu Xiangtian curled his lips with evil spirits.
Fu Tian, who was already very experienced, immediately looked at him vigilantly and said "hmm" from his nose.
His index finger tapped on his lips, and Chu Xiangtian said, "If you are satisfied, I will tell you."
Fu Tian: "..."
He looked around nervously, but he felt relieved if he didn't see the others. He quickly approached and touched the man's thin lips. Fu Tian looked fierce with a fierce face, "Speak quickly!"
It was different from the imagined scene. A former bandit leader licked his lips regretfully. After looking at the young master with a fierce look for a few seconds, he gave up the dangerous idea of carrying someone over and kissing him, and talked about his guess.
"Liu Qing and Rao Qunian are a couple." Chu Xiangtian lowered his voice and said, "I guess Rao Qunian's disappearance was not an accident, but a man-made one."
If it is artificial to think that something happens, then everything will make sense.
Rao Qunian disappeared, and Rao's father who learned the truth would be sad and ill, and asked his nephew Liu Qing to come forward to take charge of the matter...or maybe it wasn't really sick, but because of some reason, he could not come forward, and he was under house arrest or he himself did not want to come forward. As for the murderer who designed to murder Rao Qunian, maybe it was related to Rao's father...
Fu Tian didn't expect that it would be like this. Thinking of Liu Qing's thin and haggard appearance, he didn't look like someone who could do such a thing as house arrest.
Chu Xiangtian shook his head and pinched his nose helplessly, "Why are you always stupid? That Liu Qing, although not young, is definitely not as harmless as it seems."
"If you don't believe me, think about what the butler said just now. Who are these servants afraid of?"
Fu Tian recalled that since they came in, they had never seen any servants walking around. When they arrived at the living yard, the housekeeper still spoke up to ask for things before the servants appeared. Even if they appeared, they looked trembling.
"The housekeeper said that Liu Qing was in a bad mood..." Halfway through, he felt that this reason was unreasonable. Even if the master was in a bad mood, the servants didn't have to be afraid of being like this.
——Unless he did something else.
Seeing that he figured it out, Chu Xiangtian rubbed his head, "But this is someone else's business, how Liu Qing has little to do with us..."
Thinking about it, he was just a little help in saving people, and he didn't think about anything about the other party. If the agreement was made, there would not be much interaction with Liu Qing.
It was already evening when they came back from Hongyuan Temple. Not long after they arrived at Rao's house, it became dark. The two of them were too lazy to go out again, so they rested early.
The next lunch, Butler Rao came to invite them to the main courtyard for lunch. When Liu Qing passed by, he had arrived in advance. His face was much better than when Fu Tian first met him. Even if he didn't smile, his whole body seemed to be filled with joy, unlike yesterday.
"I was too worried about my cousin yesterday, so I was very negligent about you. I hope he can forgive me." Seeing them arrive, Liu Qing greeted him and bowed and smiled.
He looks about twenty years old, and his appearance and tone are very gentle. Unlike the gentleness of being angry when he goes around studying, his gentleness is more like a kind of thoughtfulness, and every word and action makes people feel comfortable.
Fu Tian bowed and returned the gift, "Young Master Liu, how are you doing in your health?"
"I've asked the doctor to see it. The trauma is not serious. My cousin's health has always been poor. This time I'm displaced and suffered from being displaced outside. I have to slowly adjust it." When talking about Rao Qunian, Liu Qing's tense face became soft and unconsciously. When talking about his body, his eyebrows would be slightly frowned, and he looked very worried.
Thinking that Chu Xiangtian said that they were a couple, Fu Tian couldn't help but have a little subtle expression.
The servants came up one after another with the dishes. Fu Tian secretly observed them and found that they were all bowing their heads very unanimously. When they approached Liu Qing's position, their bodies would subconsciously tense, and they were indeed very afraid of his appearance.
Liu Qing did not realize it at all. He gently found the topic and talked with them. As he was talking, he happened to talk about Fu Tian and his friends' purpose in Xingdong County.
"Buy land?" Liu Qing was a little surprised and puzzled, "Brother Fu bought so much land for it. Moreover, the journey between Nanming County and Xingdong County is far away, so it is not convenient to patrol. Why bother to look far away?"
Fu Tian couldn't tell him that this was preparing for the disaster next year. If it weren't for the time being, he would have wanted to buy all the land near the canal so that the grain produced in this way would definitely be able to cope with the severe drought in the future.
This is not his great love, but his own intention after knowing Chu Xiangtian's identity.
Natural disasters are always connected. Once a war begins, Chu Xiangtian, as King Yu and the god of war in Da Chu, would never stand by and watch. The battlefield is ruthless. The sword is without eyes. Fu Tian is worried but never said it, because he knows that this is the responsibility that Chu Xiangtian bears. He cannot let him give up this responsibility because of his own selfishness, so he can only grow up bit by bit in his own way. In this way, even if a war really happens in the future, he will not be able to help at all, and he can only sit at home and be anxious.
"The Fu family rice shop has been passed down from generation to generation. After hundreds of years, it has only lived in the small Nanming County. I plan to start with the nearest Xingdong County and spread the Fu family rice shop outward..."
Fu Tian said it half true and half falsely, and Liu Qing actually finished listening very seriously, "This is not bad. Brother Fu is here to Xingdong County to see the land this time?"
"Well, I'm not sure about it. In fact, I saw a few pieces of land before coming, one of which was the piece of land where the Rao family was in the east." Fu Tian felt a little embarrassed after saying that, and always felt that it was a bit like asking for favors after saying the current situation.
Liu Qing didn't seem to think so much and said bluntly: "Brother Fu saved his cousin, and he was the benefactor of the Rao family. We have not yet repaid, so why bother to talk about business and sad feelings?"
"The land in the east is not good, and the output on the farm is average. If Brother Fu doesn't dislike it, I will give it to you."
Fu Tian quickly waved his hand and refused, "Young Master Liu has helped me a lot. As for saving Young Master Rao, it was a complete accident. We are doing business, so Young Master Liu doesn't have to be so polite."
Seeing that he really had no intention of asking for a reply, Liu Qing's smile became more serious and raised his glass to toast him, "Since that's the case, I won't force it. Brother Fu is going to open a rice shop in Xingdong County. If you need help, you can just say it."
Fu Tian touched him a glass and drank the wine in the glass. Chu Xiangtian, who had been silent all the time, picked up a chopstick of vegetables for him, leaned over and whispered to bite him in a low voice, "Drink less wine."
After saying that, he picked up another piece of fish, picked up all the bones before putting them into his bowl.
What he did was natural, and what Fu Tian accepted was natural. The intimacy between the two could be understood without any unnecessary words.
Liu Qing's eyes flashed, "I'll ask you, you two are..."
Fu Tian glanced at Chu Xiangtian, bent his eyes, curled up a little badly, and introduced: "This is my inner person."
Under the table, Chu Xiangtian touched him ambiguously with his legs, but did not refute.
Chapter completed!