Spring comes to the desperate place

Song Chunlin looked up at the huge palace lantern. The side they were standing on happened to be a rabbit. The rabbit was covered with armor. The originally cute rabbit instantly turned into a majestic general.

The painters in the palace were very skilled. Although the Song family was standing quite far away, they could still see every hair of the rabbit clearly.

After admiring the largest palace lantern, the group continued walking forward. On both sides of the street ahead were vendors setting up stalls with a variety of items, most of which sold lanterns and snacks.

The Song family stopped in front of a relatively large stall that sold lanterns. Of course, one could also guess lantern riddles here, and there would be prizes for winning if one guessed correctly, usually some small gadgets and snacks.

Song Chunlin excitedly pulled Gu Fengyue in. He took a fancy to the moon lantern on the top. Gu Fengyue looked at the riddle hanging under the lantern and realized that this lantern could only be guessed and not bought.

However, this riddle was a bit difficult. Several people came but failed to guess it. Gu Fengyue looked at the riddle and thought for a long time before he gave the answer.

The two successfully won back the palace lantern. Song Chunlin happily carried the lantern to look for his family, but was stopped halfway.

"Hey, sir, stop. Our daughter likes the lamp in your hand. Please sell it to us for a hundred coins." The person who came was a maid. She held the money in one hand and was about to take the lamp with the other.

Song Chunlin was very disgusted with her self-talking attitude. She just came up and wanted to buy other people's things without caring whether others agreed or not. Song Chunlin clenched the lamp in his hand and took several steps back.

He said to the maid fiercely: "I won't sell it, go away!"

The maid seemed to have not expected that someone would dare to refuse her. She immediately frowned and put away the money in her hand.

"Our daughter wants to buy your lamp because she thinks highly of you. Please don't be ungrateful. Hurry up and give me the lamp. I won't tell the daughter about you. Otherwise, if the daughter gets angry, you will suffer the consequences."

This guy is really a bully. Seeing this, Song Chunlin quickly hid behind Gu Fengyue. Haha, she has power, doesn't he? He didn't believe that this fool dared to go against the Yongyi Marquis Mansion.

Sure enough, the maid looked at Gu Fengyue's extraordinary demeanor and felt a little puzzled. The clothes on this boy were obviously those of a commoner, but Gu Fengyue looked like a child from a wealthy family. At first glance, these two people were clearly not related at all, so how could they be playing together?

Gu Fengyue frowned when he saw the other party looking at them. He hated the look of this kind of person, so he called the guards who were accompanying him and separated the maid abruptly.

"A dog follows his master. It seems that your master is not a good person either. Go back and tell her to cultivate herself and stop thinking about stealing other people's things all day long."

Gu Fengyue was about to take Song Chunlin away when a woman's voice came from behind him.

"Wait, is that the second young master of the Yongyi Marquis Mansion in front of you?"

When Gu Fengyue heard his name, he also stopped in his tracks. He turned around and saw a young lady with narrow sleeves and a crown standing there. At a glance, he recognized this person as Liu Yusheng, the daughter of the Minister of Agriculture.

"Oh, it's you." Gu Fengyue's words were frivolous, making it clear that she didn't take the other person seriously.

Liu Yusheng was not angry, and asked Song Chunlin beside him with a smile: "My dear, I really like the lantern in your hand. Can I give it up and exchange it with you for ten taels of silver? Is that okay?"

Song Chunlin shuddered all over at the sound of her deliberately squeezed voice. Oh my God, was this person trying to trick him like an ignorant child?

Seeing that they were not leaving for a long time, the Song family members also gathered around them. Song Chunsheng asked his brother in a low voice what had happened.

Song Chunlin pointed at Liu Yusheng across the street and said, "She wants to buy my lamp, but I don't want to."

It turned out to be this matter. Seeing that his son was unwilling, Song Dazhuang, as a father, could only bow to Liu Yusheng and say, "I'm sorry, young lady, my son doesn't want to sell it. You should go to another store to buy it."

After saying this, Song Dazhuang took Song Chunlin away. Liu Yusheng wanted to ask more questions, but Gu Fengyue's guards stopped her.

Liu Yusheng was a little annoyed: "Gu Fengyue, what do you mean? I just bought a lamp. Why do you think a hundred coins is cheap? Ten taels of silver is enough, right? They are just common people. Ten taels of silver is enough for them to spend for several months. People should not be so greedy. Be careful not to lose more than they gain."

"Oh, your true colors are exposed now, Liu Yusheng. Everyone knows that you are always pretending to be nice. You look down on others, but you refuse to bow your head. You think you are condescending by giving them ten taels of silver. The Minister of Agriculture really knows how to teach his daughter. I think you should not marry a wife in the future. Find a man to come home and have children."

In the Da Jing Dynasty, it was allowed to marry a son-in-law, but most of them were girls and boys. It was rare to marry a boy-in-law. Most families would raise the boy-in-law as a boy so that he could inherit the family business when he grew up.

The reason why Gu Fengyue said this about Liu Yusheng was because the Liu family had another more outstanding younger son, who was born to the second wife. Although he was ordinary in all aspects, he was a boy. This point alone made the old people in the Liu family lean towards him.

Liu Yusheng hated it most when people asked her to have a baby, because that meant she would lose the right to inherit the Liu family in disguise.

Liu Yusheng was so angry at Gu Fengyue that he was shaking all over. He said nonchalantly, "Oh, that's better than that sickly guy in your mansion. I'm afraid he won't even have the chance to have a child in his lifetime. What a pity. If you don't mind, why not marry the boy next to you to make you happy? Maybe he will have a last burst of energy now."

This time Liu Yusheng had offended Gu Fengyue and the entire Liu family. Song Dazhuang almost wanted to rush over and hit him, but was stopped by Song Chunlin.

Song Chunlin stood in front of his father, still holding the lamp in his hand. The light flickered, and his face showed no sadness or joy. Liu Yusheng felt numb at the look in his eyes.

Song Chunlin said coldly: "I wonder if this young lady has ever heard of the old saying that people who don't do good deeds are likely to suffer retribution."

Before Liu Yusheng could refute, Gu Fengyue quickly took the Song family away, leaving Liu Yusheng alone, standing there helpless and furious.

The maid stepped forward cautiously: "Master, it's time for us to go back..." Before she finished her words, a loud slap hit her face. Liu Yusheng turned around and left angrily, but she had only taken a few steps when her foot was suddenly tripped and she fell heavily to the ground.

Seeing this, the maid came up to help her. After she stood firm, she angrily asked someone to bring a lamp so that she could see what had tripped her. Of course, she couldn't see anything. In the end, she could only blame herself for her bad luck and was helped back to her own sedan chair by the maid.