Chapter 32 Does the Old Master and Mistress Still Remember Me?

  "Yu Rui Xiang!" Yu Lei said slowly: "Yu Rui Xiang saved Lu Bao Yin's life, and if Lu Bao Yin says that this person has any other good points, it is that he values loyalty. Therefore, afterwards, he always stood up for Yu Rui Xiang, which is also the most important reason why Yu Rui Xiang was fearless!"

  Wang Hengyue quickly understood: "Use Yu Rui Xiang to force Lu Bao Yin out?"

  Yu Lei said calmly, "The adults are wise."

  "Laozi used to fight against bandits, now he wants to be a bandit himself." Wang Hengyue burst out laughing: "Ha ha! Yu Lei, you go and take care of this matter. The rest of you, keep an eye on Lu Baoyin's movements at all times!"

  Yu Lei's eyes showed a hint of joy, and then returned to normal: "Yes, student leads the order."

  Watching Yu Lei leave, Deng Xia frowned: "Sir, I always feel that Yu Lei and Yu Rui Xiang seem to know each other."

  "It's more than just recognition." Wang Hengyue smiled: "There must be a grudge between them. Yu Lei brought Yu Rui Xiang to coerce Lu Bao Yin, this is deliberately trying to get Yu Rui Xiang killed."

  "Then what about the adults?"

  Yu Lei's plan is not bad, and a local tyrant like Yu Rui Xiang should be disciplined. Yu Lei wants to use my hands to teach Yu Rui Xiang a lesson, I'll just grant him a favor, killing two birds with one stone.

  "Master, master, something's wrong."

  Yu Rui Xiang, who was already feeling anxious and flustered, put down the teapot in his hand: "What's the hurry? The sky isn't falling!"

  "Oh no, sir, another large group of soldiers has arrived."

  "What?" Yu Rui Xiang suddenly stood up: "Another large team of officers and soldiers? How can this be, how can this be!"

  His wife, He Guowen, didn't care at all: "Old master, what are you panicking about? Those officials and soldiers who came before, we've seen them too. The new army doesn't look like a new army, the Green Camp doesn't look like a Green Camp. Are they here to suppress bandits again? With just that many officials and soldiers, those broken weapons, I'm afraid they'll be scared off by Lu Bao Silver even before they see him."

  "What do you know!" Yu Rui Xiang glared at his wife: "This time the officials and soldiers are completely different, I heard that the leader of the team defeated a foreigner a few days ago, this time they're probably here for real."

  He walked a few steps in his annoyance, then stopped: "No way, I have to send a message to my brother Bao Yin, don't let him suffer at the hands of the government soldiers."

  "Mr. Yu has always been quite well!"

  At this moment, a neutral voice suddenly came from outside the courtyard, and then a scholar-like person led in ten or so soldiers.

  Yu Rui Xiang was taken aback, staring at the scholar who seemed somewhat familiar, but couldn't recall where he had seen him before. Seeing so many soldiers coming in, he became anxious: "This is a civilian residence, how can you enter like this?"

  "Yes, yes, that's what Master Yu taught. The scholar suddenly enlightened, patted his head and said to the soldiers: "You all wait outside, I'll call you when it's time for you to come in."

  Saying so, Yu Rui didn't wait for an invitation and sat up by herself: "Master, mistress, do you still remember me?"

  Yu Ruixiang carefully measured for half a day, then exchanged a glance with his wife, seeing that she was also perplexed and shook her head. Accompanied by a smile, he said: "Excuse my ignorance, may I ask your name?"

  "Is the old master and mistress really a noble person who forgets things?" The scholar sighed: "Eleven years ago, you wanted to find an accountant, and a scholar came to apply for the job. It was agreed that the salary would be paid once a year. The scholar was diligent and cautious, afraid of making mistakes. After working hard for a year, when it was time to pay the salary, you said that the scholar was not clean-handed, not only did he not get a single coin, but he was also sent to the government office."

  Yu Rui and He Guoyun's faces changed drastically. The scholar, however, remained calm and continued to say:

  "That bookworm was originally a honest and simple person, hoping to earn some money to continue taking the imperial examination. Who would have thought that he didn't make any money, but instead spent half a year in prison? He had no money to bribe his way out of jail, only a young little sister who came to find her brother, begging for food all the way from Leshan to here. After kneeling in front of the prison guard for a whole day, she finally got to see her brother. Do you know what that little sister gave to her brother, sir and madam?"

  Yu Rui and his wife shook their heads in confusion.

  The scholar's words were devoid of emotion: "She gave her brother a steamed bun, which she had begged for with great difficulty. The scholar held the bun and wailed loudly. But his sister cried while trying to comfort him not to cry. From that day on, the scholar made up his mind that one day he would avenge this grudge. After he came out of prison, the first thing he did was sneak back to Mòlín under cover of night and poison one of his enemy's cows before escaping elsewhere."

  The couple's faces changed suddenly, and they blurted out in unison:

  "Yu Lei!"

  Yu Lei smiled slightly: "Master and madam have a good memory, Shengyuan is indeed Yu Lei. Shengyuan has returned."

  "Yu Lei, what do you want to do?" Yu Rui suddenly thought of the cow that was poisoned to death and the note on its body:

  "You will pay for this, Yu Lei!"

  Yu Rui was extremely stingy, and he valued every penny more than his own life. When his cow died, he scolded Yu Lei for over a month, but he didn't want to spend money to ask the government to catch Yu Lei, so the matter was dropped. He never thought about revenge; what could a poor scholar like him do to take revenge?

  But what I never expected was that Yu Lei actually came back!

  "Old Master and Mistress have prestige and face, with Lu Bao Yin helping to prop them up. What can a mere scholar like me do? Yu Lei still smiled: "It's just that my family's elder knows that Old Master is on good terms with the great thief Lu Bao Yin, so he specially ordered me to invite Old Master."

  Yu Lei was smiling, but Yu Rui's village was afraid. Yu Lei let out a soft sigh:

  "Old man, I heard that your wife likes to have affairs outside and was even caught by you once. However, she ended up beating you up instead, and from then on, you didn't dare to speak out again. Is this true?"

  "You, Yu Lei, you son of a bitch, nonsense!" He Guojuan shouted in a sharp voice, while Yu Rui's face turned pale with anger. Which man would not take this as a great humiliation?

  Yu Lei stood up: "A pair of dog-like men and women, Sheng Yuan said that he wanted to avenge, and he must avenge. Now the opportunity has come, old master, madam, I guarantee you, I will make you worse than dead."

  "Yu Lei, is there still no king's law?!" Yu Rui village shouted out loud.

  Yu Lei said faintly, "In this world, whoever has the army and guns is the law. In those days, what the old master and mistress said was the law; now what the scholars say is the law. Fortunately for me, I have the opportunity to follow the right person."

  Yu Lei's face always had a smile on it. After finishing speaking, he waved his hand at the soldiers standing outside the door:

  "Someone, tie up the old master and mistress! No one in this house is allowed to leave!"