Suxi chewed the potato chips "kachakacha" and looked at the wrinkled and stern cartoon bun face of the game villain.
However, if this Prince Ning's mansion wanted to frame the blame, wouldn't the cost be too low? With just the testimony of a few servants, that second young master can indiscriminately lead a large group of people into the Chai Yard? It's too much!
Something like this must have happened often before. And this time, Lu Wenxiu suffered a big loss from her game villain. She was slapped in the face on the spot, and she must have even more resentment in her heart. Next, she didn't know how to find trouble with her game villain.
Looking at the dirty knees of the game villain, Suxi knew that when he was not online this evening, something unpleasant must have happened, and he might have been punished for kneeling.
But you can't play games online 24 hours a day!
So, is there any way to at least prevent Lu Wenxiu and those servants from entering this Chai Yard at will? Otherwise, things that are framed and blamed will definitely happen again.
Suxi thought about it, and took the initiative to open the mall to see if there was anything to buy.
According to her idea, the system immediately popped up a product list box.
From left to right at the top are: "Secretly Protected Peerless Master", "Secretly Protected Martial Arts Master", "Secretly Protected Jinyiwei", "Secretly Protected Master Guard", "Secretly Protected Ordinary Guard", "Secretly Protected" A rookie whose hands of protection are powerless."
Suxi's eyes lit up, and he rubbed his hands together excitedly.
This is good, buy a game villain for her, and if Lu Wenxiu dares to provoke him again, he will just beat him to the ground.
But when Suxi glanced at the price below—
"… "
She almost fainted.
"What the hell, why is the price so high? The peerless master is 10,000,000 gold coins, and even a rookie who has no power to hold a chicken needs 100,000 gold coins?!"
If a peerless master is converted into RMB, it is 100,000 yuan. Of course, it is impossible for Suxi to spend 100,000 yuan for a game.
And even a chicken with no strength, it costs one thousand yuan - what's the use of buying it? It's said that he is a rookie, and he is dragging his feet next to the game villain
"Unscrupulous merchants, the charging system is simply insane." Suxi said angrily.
The system is indifferent: "Shut up if you can't afford it."
Suxi: "… "
Next, there are some silver swords, poisons, etc. that can be bought for the self-defense of the game villains, but the prices are beyond the reach of Suxi.
Of course, even without considering the price, she felt that she would not be able to use these for the time being.
According to the current situation of her game villain, a bodyguard suddenly appeared beside her, or a packet of poison suddenly appeared in her hand. Do you want to be sent to Dali Temple for investigation
Suxi pulled the frame down and found that the skill exchange column also had some skills such as "Knowing astronomy and geography", "qin skills", "swordsmanship", "cavalry and archery", and "painting skills".
It should be possible to improve her game villain's skills through krypton gold.
But for now, these skills are all grey and locked. It should be that the current plot and world view have not progressed to that step and cannot be exchanged for the time being.
Suxi had to give up.
The system prompts: "You need to find a backer for the protagonist."
Suxi suddenly realized something.
At present, the plot outside Ning Wang's mansion has not been unlocked, and no one knows that the real identity of her game villain is the prince, and it has not yet risen to the level of power struggle.
Now her villain is just a bastard who is struggling to survive in Prince Ning's mansion. In order to avoid the repeated bullying by Lu Wenxiu and Mrs. Ning, she really needs a more powerful backer than Mrs. Ning.
Thinking of this, a message pops up on the screen.
"Please accept the main quest (primary): get the appreciation of the old lady of Ning Wangfu."
The old lady was not mentioned in the previous character introduction, and in the plot so far, the old lady has not appeared. Suxi couldn't help but be puzzled, how to help the game villain gain the appreciation of the old lady.
She doesn't even know her preferences, identity, and background.
It just doesn't work.
Suxi clicked on the map of Prince Ning's mansion, and found that the Mei'an Garden where the old lady lived was located at the back of the main hall, next to the back mountain, the whole yard was actually one-third the size of Prince Ning's mansion, and the size of the Chai Yard of hundreds of cubs! From the living area alone, you can tell that this old lady is a character!
Suxi geared up and asked, "Can you unlock the old lady's Mei An Garden?"
The system said: "To unlock the old lady's Mei Anyuan, you need to accumulate 50 points, and you currently have only 7 points."
Suxi died down: "..."
Ok.
Suxi couldn't think of how to complete this main task for the time being, and was about to switch the screen to see what the villain was doing. Suddenly, a call popped up from the phone, and it said "Auntie".
She quickly turned off the game and connected the phone.
"Hey, aunt." Su Xi shrank in the bed, her feet were a little cold, and she couldn't help but clump together.
She thought she was hospitalized with a broken bone, and her aunt specially called to care, so she didn't wait for her to speak, she quickly laughed and said: "Aunt, my leg is fine, but it was broken during the exercise, the doctor said that I can go back after a while. Class begins."
But who knew that there was a moment of hesitation, and said: "Xixi, aunty can rest assured that you are okay, but can you help aunty to urge your parents to return the 100,000 yuan to me as soon as possible when you have time? It's almost New Year's Eve, and my aunt is eager to pay your cousin's tuition for the new semester..."
"One hundred thousand?" Su Xi was a little confused. When did her parents borrow money from her aunt, how could she not know at all
"Yes, it was originally planned that your parents would pay it back in the spring of next year, but isn't there an urgent need for aunt to use the money?"
The aunt's tone was awkward.
Suxi was also a little embarrassed, after all, being called for debts is not an honorable thing.
She bit her lip and said, "Okay, don't worry, auntie, I'll ask."
Hanging up the phone, Su Xi held the phone for a while.
Is there something wrong with the factory? Why did you suddenly borrow money
Although Suxi's family can't be called wealthy, it can be considered to have no worries about food and clothing. Her parents didn't let her worry about money since she was a child. Although she was not given the most pocket money among her classmates, it was definitely a lot. All kinds of remedial classes and interest classes also made her fall in love with anything.
Therefore, Suxi suddenly heard that her parents asked her aunt to borrow money, and she couldn't help but panic a little, afraid that something would happen.
She couldn't hide anything, so she quickly called her father.
"Why haven't you slept so late?" Dad got up and said, "Your mother is already asleep."
Su Xi said, "Auntie called me just now and asked me to urge you to repay the money before the end of the year."
Suxi's father frowned suddenly: "she can just tell us about this, why go to you as a child?"
Suxi asked, "Dad, why didn't I know that you borrowed money?"
Suxi's father hesitated, and then explained it.
In fact, it's not a big deal, that is, something went wrong at the factory at the end of the year, and some funds could not be turned over.
The husband and wife originally had a deposit of more than 100,000 yuan, but last month, unfortunately, the instrument was damaged and they took out 80,000 yuan.
Then this month, Suxi suffered a fracture and was hospitalized. Although the medical expenses can be reimbursed, the hospitalization expenses add up to a small amount of 20,000 yuan.
Things all happened together, and the money became very tight all of a sudden, so I temporarily borrowed 100,000 yuan from my aunt to make money.
"Originally, your aunt promised to wait until the end of this year, when your mother and I's salaries are paid in the spring of next year, and we will pay her back immediately, but who would have expected her to start collecting debts within half a month of lending us. Yes." Su Dad sighed in embarrassment.
Paying off debts is a matter of course. But when their family was relatively generous, they lent tens of thousands to the aunt's family, but they never urged them.
Suxi suddenly felt a little guilty and worried, and didn't know what to say.
Because of her unfortunate constitution, she ran to the hospital every three days from childhood to adulthood.
This time, I was hospitalized, did a lot of examinations, and smashed 20,000 yuan directly into the hospital.
She thought that her parents still had savings, so she didn't care much, but she didn't expect that it was a difficult time for her parents at the end of the year.
"Don't worry, no one has a difficult time, just wait until the spring of next year." Su's father coughed twice.
Suxi was a little anxious: "Dad, are you calling in the living room without your coat on again? What should I do when I catch a cold?"
Su's father comforted her and said, "You too, go to bed quickly, don't think about it, I'll go to your aunt's place to turn around, it's a big deal to pay more interest."
"It really doesn't work. I'll go to a friend to lend it to your aunt, and return it to a friend in the spring of next year. Xixi, this is not something you should worry about."
My aunt probably regretted it after she lent money to their family. She felt that the less interest could not be paid for, so she called for the debt.
Suxi said "um", hung up the phone, and tightened the quilt, but she was still very worried.
She could just imagine that if the money was not paid back, her aunt would definitely tell everyone during the Chinese New Year that their family owed her a lot of money.
The aunt wouldn't save face for her parents.
But where did Su Dad find a friend to borrow such a large sum of money
Ugh.
Thinking of this, Su Xi felt that if he hadn't been hospitalized, at least his parents wouldn't be so stretched.
If you are idle, you are also idle. If you want to find your classmates and help them with their homework, how much can you earn
But that was a drop in the bucket.
This time, she didn't even bother to play games anymore. She threw the phone under the pillow and turned on the airplane mode, and went straight to sleep with a lot of thought.
…
At the same time, after Lu Huan packed the food box, he returned to the house with a cold expression.
Lu Wenxiu was so embarrassed that this happened tonight, and she probably won't come to trouble him in a short time.
The noisy servants around also quieted down, and finally it was quiet in the middle of the night.
There was heavy snow outside the house, Lu Huan wrung out his robe as always, hung it up, then blew out the candlelight, and lay on the bed and covered the quilt. It's just that he reached out and touched it, pinched the dagger in the crack of the wall in the palm of his hand, and pressed it under him, becoming more vigilant than ever.
The patched roof is just visible from this position.
There, some tiles were blown away by the strong wind, and the snow was too heavy, so a small piece collapsed. Two days ago, Lu Huan came back from outside to find some straw and stones and repaired it.
But he clearly remembered that because of the fever and weakness that night, the repairs were not finished, and there were still some gaps left.
There wasn't even the slightest gap in that place, far more neat and tidy than what he had repaired!
Not an illusion.
All the strange things that have happened in the past few days are not illusions.
So far, the roof has been repaired, the firewood door has been stuffed with straw, the quilt has thickened, the cold wind is whistling outside the house, and there is a long-lost warmth inside the house.
-what is the problem
Lu Huan's expression was cold. He naturally didn't believe in ghosts and spirits. He thought that someone must be playing tricks.
But there were not only countless servants in Prince Ning's mansion, but also hundreds of diners, literati, and guards who were good at martial arts. It was not easy to guess who did it.
For the time being, Lu Huan couldn't tell whether the other party was benevolent or malicious. Although in terms of the current series of strange things, it seems that the other party has not done anything unfavorable to him, but in any case, Lu Huan cannot take it lightly.
He spent fourteen years in Prince Ning's mansion, and what he knew the most was not to hope for any kindness, it simply did not exist.
The goose feather-like snow fell all over the Chai Yard, and the rice bran steamed buns in the food box did not move.
All sounds are silent.
In the darkness, Lu Huan frowned, squeezed the dagger tightly, closed his eyes, half-slept and half-awake, and did not relax his vigilance all night.
…
The next day, Lu Huan got up before the cock crowing as usual. The typhoid fever had lasted for three days, and it was finally completely eradicated from him, and the top-heavy feeling finally disappeared.
Although his face was still a little pale, Lu Huan sighed heavily and got up and went down the mountain to fetch water.
Before leaving, he quietly left the firewood door and the window a little gap that only he could detect.
He also sprinkled a few beans on the roof, the firewood yard, and by the bedside, which were also subtle traces that only he could detect.
If someone sneaks in again, he can find out, and even roughly know the size of each other's footprints.
I don't know who it is and what is the purpose of doing this.
Maybe a new trap.
There was a hint of coldness in Lu Huan's dark eyes, he must find out as soon as possible.
He was probably taught a lesson by Lu Wenxiu. Lu Jia kept covering his butt when he walked and stumbled while walking, while Lu Yi kept covering his face, and when he removed his hand, he could still see a clear red slap print.
These two people have always liked to trouble Lu Huan, but after being taught, they became a lot more at ease. They didn't dare to go to Lu Huan's Chaimen and kitchen. When they got close, it was like seeing a ghost.
Lu Huan didn't have the time to care about what happened to them. He worked with the servants in Prince Ning's mansion, and he had to do things like fetching water and chopping firewood, so he didn't return to his firewood garden until sunset.
He returned to the firewood courtyard, put down the firewood stack, and went to check everywhere first.
Today, however, the house is empty, nothing unusual, nothing extra, and nothing moved or repaired.
Some of the traces that I have specially planted have not been passive.
Is it because he found out that he had made arrangements, so the other party did not act rashly
Or is it just because there is no action today
Lu Huan naturally did not relax his vigilance, and he laid traces for three consecutive days.
However, just like this day, the next three days were nothing out of the ordinary.
Lu Huan breathed a sigh of relief.
…
On the Suxi side, because of a phone call from her aunt, she was so worried, how could she care about the game.
She called a few friends who usually played well and asked them if they knew of any place to write homework to earn living expenses.
"What are you doing, why are you suddenly short of money?" Gu Qin slipped into the corridor after class and made a video with Suxi: "My brother's training school needs a tutor, but he has to come to the house to do tutoring. You can't move your legs now."
Suxi asked, "Is there such an online service?"
Huo Jingchuan, who was on the side, passed by the corridor, brought his head close with a smile, and said, "Su Xixi, why do you rely on talent when you can rely on your looks? The people chasing you are almost lined up to the opposite high school, why don't I help you? Go to the campus forum and make a post, five hundred yuan for a date, the money will be earned quickly."
This buddy has always been serious, and Suxi replied, "Go away."
Hanging up the phone, Su Xi frowned and buried his face in the pillow.
For high school students, money is really not that easy to earn. With a large amount of 100,000 yuan, Suxi didn't expect herself to be able to help her parents share much, but she looked at the cast on her leg and always felt that she was a "prodigal" and went to the hospital every three days.
Although they don't know why Suxi borrowed money, Gu Qin and Huo Jingchuan felt that there might be some trouble in her family. If she didn't say it, they didn't ask much, but since they were friends from childhood to adulthood, how could they just sit back and watch. reason? So I called a few good friends over.
Gu Qin said: "Let's discuss and make some money for Suxi? How much can be collected?"
Here, Suxi didn't know that his friends were discussing lending him money.
Because Su's father and Su's mother were a little busy, she didn't come today. She was alone on crutches, hopped to the hospital cafeteria to finish her meal, and then returned to the ward alone to do her homework.
After finishing her homework, she couldn't help but glance at the game app on her phone.
I haven't been online for a whole day, and I don't know how her game villain is doing, whether she is starving or freezing, she actually misses a little. However, she has no money, so she should study hard and make progress every day.
It's just a game, don't get addicted.
Su Xi shook his head, trying his best to put the urge to open the game behind him, and took the textbook to continue reading.
But at this moment, the system pops up a message.
"You go buy a lottery ticket now."
Suxi glanced at the phone, a little inexplicable: "Buy lottery tickets? What do I buy lottery tickets for?"
The system said: "I said that if you accumulate 10 points, you can exchange for the first koi carp. You are almost there. Are you sure you want to fall short now?"
"I don't believe it." Su Xi didn't believe in koi or koi. The system's mouth and deceitful ghost must be a gimmick made by the game planner.
And in the lottery, where can you win if you want to? That probability is even lower than when she was admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University!
Rather than placing hopes on winning a lottery ticket, it is better to place hopes on the sudden demolition of their home.
The system suddenly said: "Try it and you won't die. It's your idea of being poor."
Suxi: "… "
Fuck me, if you have something to say, don't attack the system with precise personal attacks!
I haven't played games for about a whole day, and I was really itchy. Suxi still couldn't control himself. He opened the familiar "Road to the Emperor: The Sick Prince Loves You" app, and by the way, when the nurse came in , Blink Blink and ask her to go to the convenience store downstairs to buy some fruit and a lottery ticket for herself.
Suxi's hair is black, her skin is snow-white, and her appearance is cute and non-aggressive. Even the nurse sister can't bear it.
The lady nurse is very nice, and she quickly helped to buy it back.
After getting a two-dollar lottery ticket, Su Xi thought that he would not die if he tried it anyway, and stuffed it into his trouser pocket, then nibbled on the apple and entered the game interface.
It's daytime again in the game, the sky is snowing, the wood house is empty, and her game villain is not there.
Su Xi was a little melancholy, how the damn Ning Wangfu, how could she oppress her villain all day long, she finally got online and the villain was not there. And other places have not been unlocked, Suxi does not know where the villain is, so naturally there is no way to find it.
In the upper right corner, the number of gold coins is 37, and the number of points is 7.
Suxi held his cheeks and pondered.
According to the system, points can be obtained from five aspects: skills, interpersonal relationships, external appearance and environment, physical fitness, and main lines.
Now the first main quest (appreciated by the old lady of Ning Wangfu) has not yet been written, and the skills have not yet been unlocked. Of course, she can only start by improving the environment where the villain lives in the game.
Suxi opened the firewood house and realized again that the house was really simple. Although the door and the roof have been repaired, there will be no more air leaks, but in this empty room, there are no tables, chairs, pots, and pans.
There is even a charcoal fire in the back kitchen, but there isn't one in her playhouse!
Little cabbage, life is really hard.
Suxi was heartbroken, and without thinking about it, he clicked on the mall, marked the column of basic items, and planned to pick out a pot of charcoal fire. Unexpectedly, the system mall is very rich in products, and even there are many kinds of charcoal fires, and there are seventy or eighty on a row of shelves.
The cold system was excited when she saw her starting to buy, and immediately recommended it enthusiastically: "Dear, take a look at this gilt bronze furnace with exotic animal patterns, it only costs 999,999 gold coins—"
Before the news was finished, Suxi ruthlessly rowed it away: "Climb away for me."
She dragged it straight to the end and chose the most common "a pot of charcoal", which cost 8 gold coins.
After selecting the charcoal fire, Su Xi moved his fingers up and down on the screen, and placed the charcoal fire in a ventilated corner, which was warmer and less prone to carbon monoxide poisoning. Of course, she reacted after moving, this is the game world, there is no carbon monoxide! Aren't you too involved in the play!
The house also lacks tables, chairs, and teacups.
Suxi bought the cheapest set in the mall. Although it is a table made of simple wooden slats, it can be used. I believe that the cubs will not mind.
With such crazy consumption, the gold coin balance in the upper right corner will soon only have 7 gold coins left.
Suxi was so distressed that he rummaged through the mall bitterly to see if there were any bargains he could pick up.
Her fingers suddenly stopped, and she found a pair of clean and simple black boots - just 7 gold coins.
It just so happened that Su Xi was overjoyed. Last night, she noticed that her game villain had been kneeling for a whole day without knowing where, and her boots were worn out. The worn boots must be cold, so it's time to get new ones.
Suxi happily spent all the gold coins, and then placed his boots neatly beside the bed in the house.
As a result, tables, chairs and charcoal basins were added to the house, which seemed to be somewhat popular.
Suxi asked cheerfully: "I have improved the environment, how many points can you add?"
The system pops up: "Congratulations on the successful improvement of the external basic environment, the gold reward +3, and the point reward +1."
Suxi: "???Why only 1 point reward?"
The system said: "Because your behavior is judged to be unearned, the task is too simple, just spending gold coins simply and rudely is not enough to get more points. And the improvement of the environment itself does not get many points. If you want to get more points, please try Start with relationships and main quests."
Suxi:…
Just when Suxi was going crazy, footsteps came from outside, and when the footsteps were at the door, there was a slight pause.
Lu Huan noticed the traces outside the door, and found that his arrangement was still not passive, and nothing unusual happened today.
Therefore, he walked to the corner of the yard, put down the basket on his back, pushed open the door, and walked in.
However, when his casual gaze fell into the room, his pupils suddenly froze.
The doors and windows were clearly untouched, which meant that no one came in through the doors and windows, but—
Why are there so many things in the house out of thin air? !
There was an extra table that could hold things, and the teapot was moved from the windowsill to it.
There were extra chairs to sit on, and they were wiped clean.
There is also a pot of charcoal fire in the corner. Although it is not an expensive stove, it does warm the air in the whole room.
Lu Huan was covered in wind and snow, his robes were covered with some frost, and the skin on his slender and clean wrists was frozen white, but the heat was blowing in his face, melting the cold at the corners of his clothes, and gently wrapped around his unconscious body. skin.
He rarely gets warm.
Therefore, when this trace of warmth fell on the corners of his eyes and brows, it was so unfamiliar that his brows jumped nervously.
Lu Huan didn't know what to think for a while, his face was still cold, and he was even more shocked when a pair of black boots by the bed came into his sight.
He frowned and walked over quickly, picking up his black boots.
I saw that the stitches were densely packed and the workmanship was rough.
But it was a clean, new pair of boots with no needles or anything hidden in them.