Yu Ren smiled lightly and bowed to the shopkeeper, "I am just a passerby. I just saw that this guy was beaten so badly that I couldn't bear it, so I came over to persuade him. As the saying goes, forgive me if you have to. It is naturally wrong for this guy to hit someone first. But you have already returned it and beat him so badly, so it's time to stop."

Yu Ren didn't want to cause trouble. He came to Beijing just to overturn the case for his father, but he caught up with the sensitive period of the Ming Empire. Emperor Wanli died before the new death of the first month, and the new emperor became seriously ill again. At such a historical moment, who will the future throne belong to? Everyone is really unsure.

Therefore, Yu Ren is extremely careful in his actions and does not want to offend anything easily, even if he is just a beggar on the roadside.

After saying that, Yu Ren took out a silver note worth fifty taels from the Jingli Datong Money Store from his sleeve. "This guy took the initiative to beat someone just now, it was his fault. I will compensate him here. I will pay this fifty taels of silver for him. Everyone can sell me a face. I will just let it go!"

The shopkeeper was a businessman. Seeing that Yu Ren was very arrogant, he could not guess his identity. But he also knew that when doing business in Beijing, he should be cautious and not offend others as much as possible. Hou Jingru was a little person without identity, and he didn't care whether he would offend him, but Yu Ren was different. Judging from his clothes and conversations, the shopkeeper clearly felt that he was definitely not an ordinary person.

Although he didn't know Yu Ren's identity, the shopkeeper still did not dare to offend Yu Ren. When he saw him come out to persuade him, he happily made a favor.

"What this young husband said is that our friend had something wrong just now, so we won't accept the money. Everyone let go of his hands and pretend that this has never happened." After that, the shopkeeper politely asked Yu Ren to come in to offer tea.

Yu Ren bowed to the shopkeeper, "Thank you for your kindness, I don't think there is any need to bother you."

After saying that, Yu Ren helped Hou Jingru up on the ground. I don’t know if Hou Jingru was afraid of being beaten by a few guys just now, or was shocked by the one I just said. At this time, he didn’t say a word, and let Yu Ren help him out and left the store.

After leaving the jewelry business, Yu Ren saw that Hou Jingru was seriously injured, so he said to Zhao Rui. "Ruirui, you go back first! I'll take him to the clinic to check it out and come back."

Zhao Rui glanced at Hou Jingru, and then turned around without saying a word.

Yu Ren sent Hou Jingru to the nearest clinic and asked the doctor to see Hou Jingru's injury and diagnose the pulse. It was nothing serious. Then the doctor prescribed medicine for Hou Jingru. Yu Ren asked the doctor to decoct Hou Jingru a dose of medicine in the clinic and fed him to drink it.

Seeing that Hou Jingru took medicine, he stopped bleeding from the doctor and applied plaster, his injury improved, and his expression seemed to have recovered a lot, no longer as stupid as before. Yu Ren asked him, "Where do you live in? I'll take you back!"

Hou Jingru nodded.

Yu Ren then found a soft sedan chair at the door and helped Hou Jingru in.

The sedan chairman followed Hou Jingru's instructions and walked for half an hour, and came to a small alley next to the city gate and fell into a sedan chair. Yu Ren paid for the sedan chair and helped Hou Jing get off the sedan chair.

This is a relatively remote alley, and most of the families living inside are poor. Hou Jingru helped Yu Ren to a small courtyard.

The yard is very small, with only two broken tiled houses in total, and the gate is not locked. When Hou Jingru saw the home, he went up to push the gate open and let Yu Ren enter the house.

Yu Ren walked into the house and saw that the house was almost empty. Apart from an old table that had been used for many years and two disabled wooden chairs, there was nothing left.

Hou Jingru struggled and wanted to stand up and pour tea for Yu Ren. Yu Ren stopped him.

Yu Ren was really surprised when he saw Hou Jingru's family like this. He didn't understand why Hou Jingru was obviously penniless, but he still had to go to a high-end jewelry store like Chang'an Street. It seemed that he didn't seem to be trying to make trouble.

Hou Jingru seemed to understand Yu Ren's doubts. He sighed softly. "I haven't asked the name of my benefactor yet."

"My name is Yu Ren." Yu Ren said. Yu Ren had no airs to a low-level little person like Hou Jingru, but he felt more intimate. After all, he was not the kind of noble son who grew up in a wealthy family in Shenzhen. He empathized with the sufferings of the people.

Seeing Hou Jingru's shabby home reminded Yu Ren of the poverty and embarrassment he had when he first met Li Ying. Those poor but very happy days still seem so warm. It is precisely because of this that when he saw Hou Jingru being beaten to death by those friends, he couldn't help but take care of his own business.

"This is how my family looks, so I am so happy." Hou Jingru said embarrassedly.

"It doesn't matter, there are always highs and lows in life! Even heroes like Qin Qiong still have time to sell horses, let alone you and me." Yu Ren comforted.

"Mr. Yu must think I'm doing something strange today!"

"It's a bit nonsensical. It's like seeing a monkey breaking into the ready-to-wear shop." Yu Ren smiled.

As the two were talking, a thin young woman walked in. Seeing that there was still a stranger in the room, she seemed to be surprised and was about to retreat, but Hou Jingru called her.

"Ruhui, don't be afraid. This is my benefactor, Mr. Yu. If it weren't for him today, I would have almost never come back."

After hearing this, the young woman named Ruhui hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to Yu Ren, "Thank you, Mr. Yu for saving my husband's life." After that, she wanted to kowtow to Yu Ren again.

Yu Ren hurriedly helped him up, "You don't have to be polite. I'm just a simple task."

Hou Jingru waved his hand to Liu Ruhui. "Mr. Yu Eng-hsien is a virtuous gentleman and doesn't like these common etiquettes. You should go to the back first, wash a clean bowl of Yu Eng-hsien, and make a bowl of good tea from the palace that Mr. Huang brought yesterday. "

Yu Ren was about to say there was no need to worry, but Liu Ruhui had already turned around and left.

When Hou Jingru saw his wife leaving, he said to Yu Ren again, "My benefactor is right. I am actually just like a monkey, so where can I get to the ready-to-wear shop."

When Yu Ren saw that Hou Jingru took what he said just now, he knew that he was sensitive. This is just like what people often say, poor people are most afraid of others saying that they are poor. Because they are poor, they have stronger self-esteem and are afraid that others will look down on him.

Yu Ren quickly explained, "I'm just kidding you, Brother Hou, don't care. What I mean is that judging from Brother Hou's situation, I'm not the one who goes to Chang'an Street to buy jewelry. And looking at Brother Hou's appearance today, it doesn't seem like he is going to make trouble on purpose. So I'm just surprised."

"My dear said it well. With our situation, we shouldn't go to that kind of place. However, there is a whole story. If my benefactor doesn't bother me, I'll tell you in detail."

Yu Ren felt that although Hou Jingru didn't look very good, he was still straightforward, so he listened quietly without interrupting.

"We have to start from the beginning. Our family was originally in Baoding Prefecture, Hebei. After my mother gave birth to me at the age of 18, she was hired to the palace and feeding countless emperors.

The family thought that our Hou family would be able to make a fortune this time. However, they did not expect that the grandson my mother raised was not favored by the emperor. My mother rarely came back since she entered the palace.

My father died two years ago, and my mother didn't come back.

Ruhui and I have been dating since childhood. Although the Ruhui family is in the same village as us, it is many times better than our family. My family only has three acres of thin land, but their Liu family has hundreds of acres of fertile land. His father passed the scholar exam in his early years.

At first, my father-in-law saw my mother enter the palace and was very attentive to my family. Later, when she saw that our family had no improvement, her mind gradually faded.

The year before yesterday, my father was seriously ill and hoped to see Ruhui get married with his own eyes before he died. So I went to save my father-in-law, but he did not expect that he would shirk his responsibilities. In the end, the marriage was not completed. Last year, I went to the Liu family to propose Ruhui get married, and my father-in-law repeatedly refused on the grounds that Ruhui is not young.

I knew that my father-in-law had no intention of begging Ruhui to me. So I made a private agreement with Ruhui to join my mother in the capital.
Chapter completed!