Chapter 1183: Where the Gaze Lingered, Love Ran Deepest
Yichi Lane had promising descendants like Yuan Zhengding and Guan Yiran, who built achievements and brought glory to their households. It also had those who could not earn an official robe or scrape together an inherited title, who simply drifted through life—for the sake of making money, nothing more.
Today, while Cao Gengxin was walking home, he ran into just such a wastrel. Forget about shouldering the family's main beam—if he did not tear it down, his family ought to burn high incense in gratitude. His family could not even be said to be terribly disappointed in him. After all, Yichi Lane and Chier Street had no shortage of such sons of official households and descendants of generals. So long as, during holidays and festivals, they stayed out of their elders' sight and did not go seeking a scolding, they only had to suffer a few days in the first lunar month to enjoy themselves for the rest of the year. The carriage slowly came to a halt. Having heard his driver's heartfelt warning that Attendant Official Cao was not on duty at the government office today, the man hurriedly lifted the carriage curtain with a pale, fleshy finger. He was the same age as Cao Qinglang. Today, he had brought along a seductively charming woman dressed in luxurious finery. She said she wanted to stroll through the legendary Yichi Lane. Ordinary carriages would never dare wander here; even if the law did not forbid it, they lacked the nerve to tour this lane. So he had brought her here to broaden her horizons. This sort of thing had never failed him—more effective than aphrodisiacs. Moving over to the window, the man raised the curtain woven in Caiyi Kingdom and spotted