There is a face, the sky is high and the earth is wide, and it is passable everywhere, but the road without a face is narrow and steep, and the steps are difficult.

The girl's name is Xiao Cong'er, and she lives in Lujiadian outside the mountain. The family is considered well-off, but the father is not engaged in agriculture and business, and he is dedicated to studying and becoming an official, ten years of cold windows, and the family property should be exhausted, although he is familiar with the five classics and four books, and he is proficient in poetry and songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but because of his stubborn temper, he took the lead in exposing the cheating and offended the examiner during the government examination, and was disqualified from the examination by picking quarrels and provoking trouble. He saw that the uneducated and unskilled sons of the wealthy families of the official eunuchs or gunmen ghostwriting or impostor Zhongju Zhongju, the officials who were officials, one by one, were arrogant, and they couldn't swallow that breath, so they left their only daughter and good wife and three broken grass houses, and sent themselves to the west with a hemp rope.

When her father died, Cong'er was just three years old. After burying my father, there was no food left in the house except for shelves full of books.

"No one asks about the poor in the city, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains.

If you don't believe it, but look at the wine in the feast, and pay tribute to the rich first. ”

When Cong'er's father was alive, due to the family's poor money and tight money, coupled with the arrogant temperament, he had a bad relationship with the powerful people in the town, had no contact with the neighbors, and had no face.

When it was the most difficult, Cong'er Niang begged several families to borrow a bowl of rice, and finally met a good person who borrowed half a bowl, and was counted down for a long time: "No face is no face, and you have to save face." When can you borrow it? Isn't it the same as begging? Isn't it the same as begging? Isn't this hypocrisy? Isn't it even more annoying? If you don't have a face, don't fight for face, don't die to save face, just say begging, coarse tea and light rice, who can not pass a little bit?"

Cong'er's mother was beaten down by the good people, went back and cried for a long time, in order to feed Cong'er, she had to throw her face off, take Cong'er out to beg, and piggyback on picking up rags.

Mother has great hopes for Cong'er, and she has devoted all her efforts to survival, although it is very difficult to survive, but she has not forgotten to let her learn knowledge. During the day, her mother took her out to beg for food, pick up rags, and taught her to read and count when she was resting; when she came home after dark, no matter how tired she was, she still did not forget to urge her to study female popularity, or read books to seek knowledge; Ba hoped that she would make up for poverty with her talents, and recruit a good son-in-law when the time came, so as to win back the lost face.

Xiao Cong'er was smart by nature, and at the age of three or four, he memorized the "Three Articles of Mengxue", "The Daughter's Sutra", and a hundred Tang poems. In addition, he also read a lot of miscellaneous books, and accumulated a lot of knowledge in business, medicine, easy to learn and other aspects.

Cong'er's mother saw that Cong'er was already able to write and calculate, and she had accumulated a few taels of silver in the past five or six years, so she implemented the plan that had already been brewed in her heart and set up a grocery stall at the corner of the street to make a living.

Although Cong'er is not yet nine years old, he is better at business than adults. Especially arithmetic, which is even more prohibitive. Eight or nine kinds of bits and pieces of goods, he only glanced at them, and immediately said how many pennies they were worth, and how much money she could sum up with just one page by opening one page of thick accounts. The bulky abacus is like a piano in her hand, and with a wave of her small hand, "crackling", the sound is the same as the crisp and pleasant music, and in your wonderful enjoyment, the accurate result appears in front of you.

When Cong'er was a teenager, he was able to operate on his own. When my mother went to buy goods, she would read books or do needlework while guarding the stalls to sell things. Don't look at her young age, but she is very good at business.

He is handsome and has a sweet mouth, which is especially pleasing to the elderly. When the elderly came to buy something, she got up to help, and while "grandpa" and "grandma" shushed the cold and asked for warmth, she sent the chair under the buttocks of the people, and held the tea in front of her hands. After the old man sat down, drank tea, and did the homework, he introduced the goods in the same way. Therefore, the elderly are especially fond of her, and they all go to her stall to buy things. Even if the children and grandchildren go out shopping, they always have to explain, "Buy the one on the Cong'er stall, that girl is real, and the things are not fake!"

When children come to buy things, Cong'er always has to ask a few more words, in case the children can't explain clearly, and the adults are not satisfied with the things they bought. If it is a child's own use, such as hairpins, head ropes, small jewelry, etc., she always carefully acts as a good adviser, selects the appropriate color style, and also teaches them how to use it, and teaches them how to tie bows, braids, buttons and other life skills. The children like her, and often bring the adults to her stall to buy the gadgets they want.

She also painted a variety of embroidery patterns for the buyers for free, and the painted peonies, green bamboos, mandarin ducks, ducks, and small fish were lifelike, attracting several girls and daughters-in-law on the street to buy her needlework and embroidery tools.

When he encountered a treacherous buyer, he thought that Cong'er's small accounts were not clear, and he deliberately miscalculated the account and wanted to pay one or two small dollars less, and Cong'er was not angry. The other party's "three-one-three, left-two, eight-up-two, five-in-one" counted, reported the undercounted number, and asked Cong'er if it was right. Cong'er has actually already calculated, as long as it is equivalent to the purchase price or has a slight profit, he pretends to be confused, and answers sweetly: "Uncle has calculated, I won't count!"

The business of Cong'er and his mother is getting better and better, and within a few years, they have raised dozens of taels of silver, rented a storefront room, opened a small grocery store, and gradually became richer.

The eighteen changes of the female college, and the more she changes, the better she looks.

Xiao Cong'er grew up to the age of fourteen, and he was already slim and elegant, with a convex body, a concave concave, a thick thick, and a thin thin, gradually revealing and plumping curves.

There is poetry and books in the belly, and the most important thing is that the fragrance of books can go far. Her appearance is already outstanding in the town, and she reads a lot, is knowledgeable, and her demeanor and temperament are even more eye-catching.

Other girls wear very ordinary clothes, and she has an elegant and luxurious atmosphere, which was an old dress that was outdated many years ago, as long as he wears it, the big girls and little daughters-in-law in the town are also fashionable, setting off a wave of imitation.

Xiao Cong'er's fame spread throughout the town, and people regarded it as a legend according to the longitudinal comparison of her original faceless history, and they all took the title of "Shun Fa in the acres, Fu Shuo in the plate building, Jiao Ji in the fish salt, Guan Yiwu in the Shi, Sun Shu Ao in the sea, and Baili Xi in the city." Therefore, the heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty their bodies, and act chaotically, so they are tempted to endure and benefit what they can't." I once saw a big bird falling on the tree at the door, and it must be a candidate for the next concubine. ”

Such a living god of beauty, which man in Lujiadian is not greedy, and which man is not tempted? The face is hot and timid, when she sees Xiao Cong'er going out, she always has to find a reason to follow behind, look at her even-flowing figure, the shoulders that slide slowly, the waist that suddenly closes in, and the legs that are straight and curved; These people are tempted to be tempted, and their eyes are greedy, and ordinary people are just as mentioned above, full of eyes, feeding their mouths, and they are satisfied, which is regarded as their own blessing, where do they dare to touch it, let alone get her. Only Lu Xing, the young owner of the Xinyi Oil Mill who is also the chief of the Lu family, thinks that he is rich, powerful and has a face, and unlike the common people, he quietly took Xiao Cong'er's idea.

For more information, please see the next episode: Flying Face Stunt.