A retired aunt traveled through time and space, and her daughter became rich!

He Laosan agreed verbally. After finishing his breakfast, he met with Mao Ge'er and said a few encouraging words to him. Then he left Aunt Xiu's yard and returned to his study. He wandered around the study and finally picked out a jade mountain on the desk. He picked it up, wrapped it in a handkerchief, and put it in his arms.

Only then did he leave the Duke's Mansion with his attendants.

After leaving the Duke's Mansion, He Laosan went to a pawnshop as if he was familiar with the place and pawned the jade mountain for two hundred taels.

The pawnshop owner naturally recognized He Laosan. He was very reluctant to give the two hundred taels of silver. Instead, he stared at the watch on He Laosan's hand with shining eyes.

"If Mr. He is short of money, why not pawn this treasure?"

"If you really can't bear to part with it, then you can just treat it as if it's your own treasure and let me enjoy it for a few days."

He Laosan hesitated for a few moments, but finally gave up the idea.

Although this watch could be worth at least a few thousand taels, it was a treasure given to him by his mother-in-law. If it was lost and his mother-in-law asked about it, how would he, the third master of the Duke's Mansion, put his reputation aside?

Besides, there is a portrait of a pair of children and words engraved on the watch. If it really falls into the hands of outsiders, he will have no chance of getting along among his friends!

"That won't do. This is given to me by my mother-in-law. There are words engraved on it. How can I take it as a pawn?"

Mr. He San shook his head and sighed, then left the pawnshop with two hundred taels of silver and went to a jewelry store.

I carefully selected a pearl hairpin, and one hundred taels were gone.

Mr. He Sanye put the pearl hairpin in his pocket, hired a sedan chair, and went to Hongxiang Yaguan.

The third girl is of elegant mind, pure and innocent, and untainted by worldly affairs.

The wealthy young man who has fallen at the feet of the third girl is at least nineteen years old, if not twenty.

But the third girl treated him, He Lao San, differently.

When He Laosan thought of this, he pinched the sachet on his waist, opened it, and took out two incense pills from it.

This incense pill is made by the third girl herself using the spices she brought from her hometown and fumigated with fragrant flowers for a whole year...

According to the little maidservant beside the Third Miss, she made ten incense pills in total. Apart from the ones she gave to her parents and sisters, there were only a few left. These two were the ones that the Third Miss asked the little maidservant to give to him privately, and she also asked him not to tell anyone else, in case others heard about it and blamed her.

The beauty gave me a scented pill, so I should repay her with a pearl hairpin.

He Sanlang held the incense pill under his nose and sniffed it vigorously, as if he could feel the warmth and softness of the beauty, his expression full of intoxication.

As for Aunt Xiu’s suggestion of finding a school for Mao’er, hey!

What are you doing?

If there are people in your family who cannot afford to go to school, they have to go to academies outside. Not only do they have to pay extra tuition, but they also have to find someone to pick them up and send them off. How troublesome is that?

If she was bullied by her brothers in her own family school, she could go and find the school manager. But if she was studying outside and was bullied by outsiders, wouldn't Aunt Xiu have to cry in front of him again?

Isn’t this asking for trouble?

Besides, why didn’t you say you were going outside earlier or later? Why did you have to say it now?

Isn't it because Hu Ge'er went to Dongcheng Academy that she has to fight for it as well?

But they didn't think about it. Hu Ge'er and his family were supported by their grandmother, who paid for their tuition and provided them with a house. What about her parents' family?

Not only does she not think about giving financial support to Mao Ge'er, she is also always thinking about getting some benefits from Aunt Xiu!

When He Laosan thought about this, he decided that he would never go to Aunt Xiu's yard in the next month.

It would save me from having to listen to her asking for money and making demands just for a night's sleep!

Besides Aunt Xiu, he has two other concubines. If you want one too, I want to get up too. The toys in his study are not enough for him!

He Laosan was just thinking about his appointment with the beauty when the sedan chair suddenly stopped.

"what happened?"

He Laosan lifted the curtain of the sedan chair unhappily.

"Replying to Master San, there seems to be a fight ahead, blocking the road."

"Then just take a detour."

The sedan bearers turned around with great effort and went to another street.

This time, before he had taken a few steps, He Laosan frowned and directly lifted the curtain.

"Why does it smell so bad?"

The attendant who answered had a bitter face and frowned.

"Master San, there's a manure cart ahead, and it flipped over at the intersection! The ground is full of dirt...Master San, do you still want to go this way?"

Before he could finish his words, someone came hurriedly from the front and ran away, covering his nose with his sleeve, bringing with him a gust of smelly wind.

He Laosan was almost suffocated.

He had no time to stretch his head to see whether the manure truck in front had really overturned, and whether there was really no clean place left.

"Quick, quick, change back to the road you just took."

The carriage went back again.

But the stench did not dissipate at all. He Laosan lifted the curtain and saw that the street corner was relatively clean, so he stopped the sedan chair and jumped down impatiently.

He Lao San pointed at the stains at the bottom of the sedan chair and said, "Ah, no wonder the sedan chair stinks! It's so stinking for me!"

Why don’t these sedan bearers know how to be more polite?

He swung his sleeves angrily, turned around and went into a guest house next door.

Now, he felt that he was about to be pickled.

If I go to see the beauty like this, wouldn't it be too abrupt?

Moreover, it ruined the good impression he had on the beautiful woman.

"I want a room upstairs, and some hot water. I want to change my clothes!"

Fortunately, when he went out, he deliberately brought an extra set of his best clothes.

But if you go up to the room and ask for it, hot water and scented soap will also be provided.

When he was about to change his clothes, he sniffed and discovered that the clothes he was carrying seemed to have been stained with a foul smell at some point!

Isn't this delaying his important business?

He Laosan threw the clothes aside in annoyance. He originally wanted to ask the servant to go back and get another set of clothes. But then he changed his mind and thought that if the servant went back, he would just ask the maid in the yard to pick out the clothes. How could the clothes picked by others compare to his own taste?

I might as well go back by myself.

As for missing the appointment with the beauty, couldn't he just ask someone to deliver a message to the third lady?

So he asked for paper and pen, and wrote a short letter in a flamboyant style, using several rather sentimental allusions. He felt that it was very romantic and elegant, so he asked his long-time servant to deliver the letter, and he hired another sedan chair and returned to the Duke's Mansion.

After returning to the Duke's Mansion, everything in his own yard was naturally clean and ready. He washed his hair, cleansed his face, and fumigated himself. He changed into clean clothes, and was once again the elegant and handsome young man with a graceful demeanor like a beautiful jade. Then he left the Duke's Mansion, found a sedan chair on the street, and staggered towards the Hongxiang Yaguan.

It’s not that the Duke’s Mansion doesn’t have carriages and sedan chairs, but when the three brothers were young, the old Duke disciplined them very strictly, so they never dared to go to any brothels!

Later, the three brothers grew up, got married and had children. The old Duke was getting old, and after suffering several illnesses, he turned a blind eye to these things in the mansion.

All the small matters outside are left to the eldest son of the first wife, and he will make decisions on the big matters himself.

But in these peaceful times, what big things could happen?

Therefore, even if the Duke is not in charge of the affairs now, He Lao San would not dare to openly use the carriage in the mansion to go to Hongxiang Yaguan to meet the girl in private.

I still remember the scene when the Duke used family rules on my brothers when we were little!

As soon as I arrived at the door of Hongxiang Yaguan, I saw a man with disheveled hair, looking around in a vulgar manner.

He was about to yell at him, but when he opened his eyes and took a closer look, he found that it was his long-time attendant.

Upon further inquiry, it turned out that this servant was also in a miserable situation. He originally came to deliver a letter, but at the street corner, someone stole his purse.

This long-time attendant has been with He Laosan for many years and is very capable.

Although the third house is nothing in the Duke's Mansion, it is still a superior person that ordinary people cannot afford to offend.

It's good enough that he doesn't bully others. How could anyone be so blind as to dare to provoke him?

Naturally, he ran after him.

This chase became even more miserable. He didn't know how he followed the thief into an alley. Then a sack was put on his head and he was thrown to the ground. He was kicked and beaten, and he was crying for his parents in pain!

The kicking and beating finally stopped, and the men who beat him disappeared without a trace.

He trembled and pulled off the sack on his head.

He limped towards Hongxiangyaguan.

He Laosan was speechless after hearing this. After a long while, he asked, "Where is the letter on you?"

The long-time attendant had just remembered this and frantically searched his body for something.

After searching for a long time, I didn't find even a piece of paper.

"Third, Third Master, I, I... must have been that group of thieves who stole the letter! And my purse, and" the silver coins hanging around my waist!

He Laosan interrupted him impatiently.

"Alright! You are in such a mess, you can't follow me in. You are embarrassing me. You should go back first and I will get someone else to do the job!"

It was reasonable for those thieves to steal some money bags, but why did they steal that letter?

It must be that this guy was careless and didn't keep the letter properly, so it disappeared.

It seems that next time I come here, I will have to change to a smarter attendant.

The attendant limped away. He Laosan watched him walk away, shook his head, and prepared to walk through the gate by himself.

Little did he know that after he had taken two steps forward, a man came sideways, without even looking where he was going, and ran straight towards him!

He Laosan naturally dodged quickly, but the man was so big and strong that he didn't even have time to dodge before he was knocked to the ground.

The strong man yelled, "Ouch, sir, how did I knock you down? Hurry up and see if you are hurt anywhere."

He Laosan wanted to curse loudly, but when he saw the man's size, he swallowed the curse back.

Then the man stretched out his arms and lifted him up. He wanted to break free, but the man was so strong that he couldn't move at all!

"You, you..." Let me go! I belong to the Duke's Mansion!

He Laosan was about to shout when another person came over from the other side, enthusiastically helped him hold on, and slapped him in the face to cover his mouth tightly.

He couldn't even utter a single word of the last two sentences.

He Laosan was half hugged and half dragged by these two men and was dragged out in broad daylight.

However, the gate of Hongxiang Yaguan looked as if the people inside were dead, with no movement at all.

Hongxiang Yaguan is different from other brothels in that it pursues the elegance of a good family. Therefore, its gate cannot be like other brothels, decorated with lights and open doors, with girls soliciting customers and guards.

Whenever He Laosan came here in the past, he would make an appointment at a time, then knock on the door outside and wait for a while before a cold and aloof old man came to answer the door.

At this moment, looking at the ruthlessly closed door, many tragic stories he had heard flashed through He Laosan's mind like a kaleidoscope.

I couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

No, how could he, a son of a duke, put himself in such danger?

While He Laosan was complaining to himself, the two thieves had already taken him to a dark alley nearby, one on each side.

The man who was covering He Laosan's mouth finally loosened his hand, and He Laosan's mouth was finally free. Just as he was about to shout, a hemp seed was stuffed into his mouth.

The bearded man who knocked him down earlier, however, smiled and bowed to him, saying, "Don't panic, sir. I'm just going to take you to see a good show."

The two men took him and jumped over the wall.

There were naturally ordinary houses inside the wall, but these two people seemed to be very familiar with the terrain in this area. They took him around the yards of each house, and the house he finally jumped into looked familiar to him.

Isn’t this Hongxiang Yaguan?

Why did these two thieves bring him here?

It couldn't be that they captured him and used him to threaten the third girl, right?

Although his guess was not correct, it was almost right.

A quarter of an hour later, he actually saw the third girl.

Those two damn thieves actually threw him into the third girl’s boudoir!

Although he had been gentle and considerate to the third girl these days, and had catered to her preferences, and had spent no one knew how much money, he had only drunk tea and arranged flowers with the third girl in the teahouse, and walked and chatted in the garden. When they were deeply in love, he had only touched her hand and hugged her slender waist. He would not be willing to offend the beauty if he did more than that.

He is not thirty years old anymore, but he still wants to learn the behavior of those young boys.

When he was in his teens and twenties, what had he not seen?

Those women are either cautious and trying to please others in every way, or they are cold and dull and have no interest at all. How can they compare with the rare pure beauty like the third girl in the world?

So he willingly offered all kinds of gifts just to make the beautiful woman smile.

But these two killers actually threw him in like this!

Come in!

It was so abrupt. How would the beautiful woman see him and think of him?

He is not a lecher...ah!

Ahhhh…what is this!

He was thrown into the boudoir and rolled over several times.

It just happened to roll to the side of the embroidered couch, where a pair of people were lying.

Although he is not naked yet, he still has two pieces of clothing on, but judging from his posture, he is quite passionate!

In He Laosan's chest, the most precious piece of glass heart suddenly shattered.