Buying Property with Housing Vouchers, Bloodstained Clothes on a Rainy Night (Seeking Monthly Votes)

Fang Shu returned to Solitary Gu Hall. Nothing happened that night, and he rested well.

Before dawn had even broken, he was already up, beginning his daily cultivation.

When it was time for breakfast, the ones bringing food were not only his second uncle, Yu Le, but also Li Hou'er.

Li Hou'er was cradling several buns in his hands, each thin-skinned and generously filled, steaming hot as he kept stuffing them into his mouth. Every now and then, he would toss a bun spinning through the air, then seize the chance to take a bite.

Fang Shu watched him curiously. As he took the food box from his second uncle's hands, he asked, "What brings Brother Li to see me again today? You have time to spare?"

Li Hou'er did not answer right away, merely mumbling, "Eat first, you eat first! I'll tell you after we're done eating."

Fang Shu looked toward his second uncle, Yu Le. The latter shook his head as well, seeming not to know, and smiled as he opened the food box, signaling Fang Shu to eat breakfast first.

So Fang Shu sat at the stone table outside and, like a whirlwind sweeping away fallen leaves, neatly polished off the breakfast packed in all six tiers of the food box.

Before he could ask Li Hou'er what this was about, the other man swallowed his final bite of bun, let out a satisfied burp, threw an arm around Fang Shu, and pushed Yu Le along. "Come on, come on! That fellow Li Yuan has been waiting at the courtyard gate for ages."

It was only as they neared the courtyard gate that Fang Shu learned the reason from the man's mouth.

It turned out Li Hou'er had received Li Yuan's instructions to drag Fang Shu and