Pagoda Immortality

Serve me?

Lu Li wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, he decided not to. It was not appropriate to do anything abnormal when he just arrived here.

The two walked east along the street outside the mansion for about two miles, and finally stopped in front of a high-ranking mansion.

There was a pair of stone lions in front of the door and two vermilion doors, but the door plaques on them were empty. There should have been door plaques, but they might have been removed.

Lu Li took out the key and went forward to open the door. There was a courtyard at the entrance.

There was a carved screen wall opposite the gate, and a circle of flower beds were built along the corners of the wall. Perhaps no one had taken care of it for a long time, and some weeds had grown inside, and some leaves were scattered in the courtyard.

The maid Xiao Ling looked around and said, "Sir, please go in first, I'll clean it up in a while."

Lu Li nodded, walked slowly inside, bypassed the screen wall, and passed through a corridor to reach the inner courtyard.

The central courtyard of the inner courtyard is an elegant garden landscape, with rooms on the east and west sides and a reception room in the north. There are some stone pavilions and exquisite stone tables and stone chairs beside the gravel path in the forest of the courtyard.

It seems that the original owner is also a person who knows how to enjoy life.

After Lu Li got familiar with the mansion, he moved a recliner from the room and slept in the courtyard with his eyes closed.

The maid Xiao Ling greeted Lu Li and went to work.

Later, the chief steward of the City Lord's Mansion came to visit Lu Li and brought him some daily necessities and four guards, two to watch the gate and two to guard the entrance of the courtyard, saying that it was to ensure his safety.

And a plaque with the words "Ji Mansion" was hung on his gate. From then on, this mansion was truly owned by Lu Li.

The maid Xiao Ling was busy until night fell, and finally cleaned everything up, and then she was busy washing vegetables and cooking. By the time the meal was ready, it was already late at night.

Lu Li was sleeping soundly in the east wing bedroom. He got out of bed when he heard a knock on the door. He frowned at the maid with sweat on her forehead: "You haven't rested yet so late?"

Xiao Ling shook her head and apologized: "I am a little slow and disturbed your rest, sir. I prepared some midnight snacks for you. Do you want to eat?"

"You girl, you can't finish it today. Don't you know how to do it tomorrow?"

"Sir, you are right. Xiao Ling is confused. The midnight snack is in the dining room. Do you want to eat?"

"I won't eat it. You can eat it yourself."

Lu Li waved his hand and prepared to go back to the room. Suddenly he thought of something and stopped and asked, "By the way, are the four guards eating here too?"

"No, they have their own place to eat and rest. And there are more than four of them, but sixteen people. They will rotate every few hours." Xiao Ling shook her head and explained.

"So that's how it is."

Lu Li nodded in realization and asked, "What about you?"

Xiao Ling blushed and said, "There's a room outside the small door on the east side of the front yard. I live there. If you need anything, you can call me anytime."

This is what the elder sisters and seniors taught her after she entered the City Lord's Mansion. They said that when you meet a master you don't dislike, you should know how to seize the opportunity. However, when she really said these words, she felt a little regretful, wondering if she was too unrestrained.

Lu Li didn't understand what the other party really meant. He saw Xiao Ling's immature face suddenly flushed, and he couldn't help but feel a little dazed, as if he saw a familiar figure again.

Shaking his head, he retracted his thoughts: "Look at you busy sweating, eat supper and go to bed, I'm tired, we'll talk tomorrow if there's anything."

After that, he turned and went back to his room.

Xiao Ling was slightly stunned, helped Lu Li close the door, got up and walked towards the dining room.

Lu Li returned to his room and fell asleep again.

The next morning, Xiao Ling prepared breakfast and waited for Lu Li. After eating, Lu Li went to the lounge chair in the courtyard to bask in the sun. Xiao Ling cleaned up and waited beside him, waiting for instructions.

Lu Li closed his eyes and thought hard for a long time, and suddenly said, "Do you recognize a person named Tong Bao?"

Xiao Ling was distracted, and did not expect Lu Li to suddenly talk to her. She was stunned for a moment and shook her head and said, "No, I don't recognize him."

"Okay."

Lu Li sighed softly and kept silent again.

Little did she know that Xiao Ling remembered this sentence in her heart. When it was almost time to make lunch, she took the opportunity to talk to the guards.

However, the result was not good, because none of the four had heard of this person.

But in the evening, after the guards changed shifts, she had some gains, so while Lu Li was having dinner, she happily said to him: "Sir, I have a good news, do you want to hear it?"

Lu Li looked back at Xiao Ling, "Sit down and talk, you always stand behind me, I am not comfortable eating."

"Sir, you are really a strange person, I heard that those masters never let us servants sit at the same table, saying that if we sit together, the family will definitely fall into poverty in the future. Aren't you afraid?"

"Ugly people are prone to gossip, I don't have this rule here." Lu Li pointed to the round stool next to him, "Sit down."

"Well, if you are unlucky in the future, don't blame Xiao Ling." Seeing Lu Li's insistence, Xiao Ling didn't say anything more and sat down next to Lu Li.

Lu Li put down his bowl and chopsticks, "What good news?"

Xiao Ling said: "It's like this, didn't you ask me this morning if I knew someone called Tong Bao? I asked for you, and the guard in the courtyard, Wu Fang, said that he had heard about this person."

"Really?"

Lu Li was secretly happy, "What did he say."

Xiao Ling replied: "Wu Fang said that he has a distant relative who works in the government office. He once mentioned a jailer named Tong Bao. I don't know if he is the person you are looking for."

"Jailer? Does he mean that Tong Bao is the one who guards the cell?" Lu Li was a little surprised. He didn't expect that he could actually find out about Tong Bao's whereabouts with just a casual word.

"It should be like this from his tone." Xiao Ling replied.

Hearing this, Lu Li couldn't help but secretly calculate, and then asked Xiao Ling a few more questions, then got up and walked out of the restaurant and came to the entrance of the atrium.

When the two guards saw Lu Li coming, they hurriedly greeted: "Hello, Mr. Ji."

Lu Li nodded and looked at the tall middle-aged guard, "Are you Wu Fang?"

"Yes, sir, what do you want to do?" The tall middle-aged man was slightly startled and replied.

"Well, come with me, I have something to ask you." Lu Li said, and walked towards the study. Wu Fang hesitated slightly and followed Lu Li.

After a while, the two came to the study.

Lu Li said lightly: "I heard that you have a distant relative who knows a man named Tong Bao?"

Wu Fang finally understood what was going on, scratched his head and said: "Yes, there is such a thing, but I don't know if that person is the one you are looking for?"

"It doesn't matter whether it is or not, the key is whether you can find him and let me see him?"

Lu Li said, and took out a thousand Yan banknotes from his purse: "He and I are from the same hometown. We haven't seen each other for some time. You help me find him and this is yours."

As the saying goes, money makes the devil work. In this world where one Yan coin can drink a pot of wine and fifty Yan coins can sleep with the beauty in the building, a thousand Yan coins are already a windfall for people like Wu Fang.

So, when he saw this golden Yan coin, his eyes were straight, "No, no problem! Everything is up to me."