"My Qingqing girl makes kimchi, the best in the world, it's so delicious!"

Lu Jinping sat on a cracked stool in the kitchen of the old house, holding a mud bowl and chopsticks, and chewing with an exaggerated movement. Although the bowl had aged brown rice with a musty smell, it felt uncomfortable to run away from the sand, but his expression seemed to be enjoying the delicacies of mountains and seas.

"If you taste delicious, eat more!" The little maid Ye Qingqing happily picked up a pickle with chopsticks and placed it in Lu Jinping's earthen bowl. Her eyes on the oval's face narrowed into two cute little crescent moons because of joy. "By the way, sir, a matchmaker was a matchmaker to you yesterday. Why did you knock him away before you finished listening?"

"Marry a wife?" Lu Jinping knocked on the earthen porcelain bowl with chopsticks twice. "The money our master and servant earn every day is enough to eat aged brown rice and kimchi. Do you think we can still raise an aunt?"

"But... the matchmaker said that if that girl doesn't want to enjoy your happiness with you, she would like to be the title of a founding county man and this old house that has been over a hundred years old. She got married and endured us with hardships."

Lu Jinping looked up at the dim roof of the old house. It was early morning. The late autumn sun shone in from the window frames and passed through the crisscrossing beams. The carved beams and painted buildings on it were already dark and blurred after erosion of hundreds of years. However, they still revealed the glory of the mansion back then. Unfortunately, they are now homes with only a wall, and all the furniture that can be sold have been sold.

He sighed and said, "Forget it! I don't want to implicate other girls. Either I don't marry them, and if I want to marry them, I have to let my wife live a good life. - Marry a man and have a man, dress and eat! Can't dress and eat white rice for others, what's the face I have to marry someone?"

Lu Jinping is a forensic doctor. It has been half a year since he traveled from the unexpected soul of modern society to the Tang Dynasty and Emperor Zhongzong of Tang. He possessed a destitute lord who had lost his family and still had a lot of debts. The great-grandfather of this lord was Lu Deming, one of the famous 18 scholars around him when Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin was the King of Qin in the early Tang Dynasty. He was named Wuxian Male. Because his descendants were not good at managing finances, nearly a hundred years have passed. By the time of Lu Jinping's generation, the family business has almost been defeated.

Lu Jinping's parents died early, and only one sister had already married a foreign land. Lu Jinping inherited the title of the man from Kaiguo County, and was determined to take the imperial examination and reorganize his ancestral property, but failed many times. He was instigated by someone to sell his land and use his old house as collateral to borrow usury to bribe him, trying to find a job, but he didn't expect that after the official received the money, he was executed by the court for various bad deeds such as embezzlement and bribery. Lu Jinping was angry and anxious, and he died of several liters of blood. The forensic doctor who came over was leaning over him. There was only a close maid Ye Qingqing bent over his side.

Ye Qingqing is an orphan and was taken in by Lu Jinping's parents. She is Lu Jinping's personal maid and a book boy. The Lu family is in decline and all the servants are exposed, but she swears to follow the young master to the death.

Seeing that he looked a little dim, Ye Qingqing rolled his eyes and laughed: "There is a bird nest on the big tree in our backyard. I guess it's laid eggs. Why don't we go and take the bird eggs back and cook them? You haven't been caught in meat for a long time."

Strictly speaking, the bird eggs are not considered meaty, but for the poor master and servant, it was already a good thing for the tooth sacrifice. When Lu Jinping heard this, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva. He immediately put the remaining half bowl of rice on the table with a bang and said, "Okay, go now!"

This old house is a courtyard with three entrances. There is a front hall in front, an inner house in the middle, and a back garden behind. There is a bay of water in the back garden and a towering tree beside the pond. It is late autumn now, and the fallen leaves on the trees have almost all fallen. The morning sun passes through the bare branches, illuminating a bird nest near the treetops particularly brightly.

Lu Jinping spat in his hands, rubbed it, and was about to climb a tree. Unexpectedly, Ye Qingqing snatched in front of him, took off his embroidered shoes, barely wore two white and cute little feet, holding the trunk in both hands, and climbed up like a cat-like crocodile.

Lu Jinping smiled and said, "You little girl moves very quickly. - You have to hold your hands tightly, you have to step on your feet firmly, and grab the tree trunk with your hands, right, that's it..."

Ye Qingqing quickly climbed to the bird's nest. After a moment of silence, she carefully reached into the bird's nest, grabbed something, took it out, looked in the palm of her hand, and then stretched out for Lu Jinping under the tree to see. It turned out to be a squeaking chick who had just been born.

Ye Qingqing said: "They have been hatched, there are three. Sir, they are so pitiful. Otherwise, don't eat them?"

Lu Jinping was not interested in eating live young birds. He shouted: "No! Come down quickly, be careful!"

Ye Qingqing put the chicks in her hand back into the bird's nest. She used her hands and feet together and quickly went down under the tree.

The bird's nest was not finished, so he could only go back. Walking through the pond, Ye Qingqing said in surprise: "Sir, there are fish in the pond! A small fish swam over and hides under the lotus leaves."

When Lu Jinping heard this, the braised carp immediately appeared in his mind. He was so greedy that his saliva drooled down. He quickly turned around and asked in surprise: "Where is it? Where is the fish?"

"Hide under the lotus leaves and wait for a while before you can come out."

Lu Jinping squatted by the pond, widened his eyes and looked down at the withered lotus leaves on the water. Ye Qingqing also squatted beside him and looked at him with wide eyes. After a while, the fish finally swam out, but it was only the size of a chopstick.

Lu Jinping was disappointed, sighed and said, "Forget it, let's go, set up a stall!"

The two of them packed up and went out, and went to set up a stall next to the street in front of Tongzhou Prefecture.

When Lu Jinping came over, he happened to go to the murder scene and carried a forensic investigation box with him. Although there were advanced instruments and medicines inside, they were all used for forensic investigation. Because there was no way to enter the yamen, he could not use it. He studied Western medicine, did not know Chinese medicine, and had no Western medicine and equipment, and could not treat people. In order to make a living, Lu Jinping set up a stall on the street next to the yamen, copying judgments for people, writing letters, copying scriptures, etc., and earning a few cents a day to live.

The business of the zitan stall is not very good as usual. It’s almost noon, so I only earned two cents in total.

Lu Jinping was bored as he looked at the pedestrians coming and going on the street. Ye Qingqing sat on the bench beside him, as well-behaved as a gentle cat.

Suddenly, with a bang, someone slapped his table hard, shaking the pen, ink, paper and ink on the table jumped up.

Lu Jinping was startled and turned around and saw two big men standing at the table with a few gangsters behind him, staring at him with a fierce look.

One of these two people was named Bald Tou Zhang and the other was named Fatty Yao. It was they who instigated the scholar who possessed Lu Jinping to use his old house as collateral to borrow usury from them, and sold the remaining property and land to raise money to bribe him, so he sought an official position. As a result, he was useless to get a bamboo basket.

Bald Zhang, Fatty Yao and others originally hoped to help Lu Jinping bribe Lu Jinping and become an official, and if he failed, he could still collect a loan of usury. Anyway, he had his old house as collateral. So when Lu Jinping failed to become an official, he came to force him to sell his old house to pay off his debts. Lu Jinping refused because the Lu family had no other valuable things to sell and repay his debts except this empty old house. So Bald Zhang and others went to the yamen to sue Lu Jinping, demanding that the order to sell his old house to pay off his debts.

After the governor learned the whole story, he ruled that this was the only ancestral property left by the 18th scholar of Taizong Emperor Lu Deming, and was rewarded by the late emperor. Unless the current founding county man Lu Jinping agreed, he could not be forced to sell it. Not only that, the governor was very angry at the bald head Zhang and others who sued the lord, and scolded them, saying that they were just the lord, and ordered the yamen runners to beat Bald Head Zhang and others out of the lobby.

Bald Head Zhang and the others were discouraged when they saw that the yamen was still protecting the destitute lord, so they could only discuss with Lu Jinping about repaying the debt with him. But Lu Jinping only said that he had no money.

On this day, Bald Head Zhang and Fatty Yao brought people to Lu Jinping's stall. Bald Head Zhang put his hands on his hips and looked at Lu Jinping with a cold face: "Sir Lu, when will you pay the money you owe us?"
Chapter completed!