"Hmph! The face is yellow and thin, and that girl is worth five taels of silver. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info," said a woman dressed in brocade as she said as she raised her forehead.

"Mother Yue, don't look at that girl's thinness, but at a glance, you know that she must be a lovely person when she grows up, and I have no choice but to do it, so you can add more. A man bowed his head and said flatteringly, the red rosacea and yellow teeth really made people feel unkind.

Qiu Sheng hid in the corner of the wall outside the house, listening carefully to the conversation between the two in the house with his ears against the window, and when he heard that Daddy was going to sell his sister, he stood up excitedly and hit his head on the window lattice, and he grinned in pain. It alarmed the two people in the room, and he quickly ran towards the gate with his short legs regardless of the pain.

Xingqi is the eldest daughter in the family, and her mother is a cowardly woman, Xingqi has often seen her mother secretly hiding aside to wipe her tears since she was sensible, her eyes are always floating, she doesn't know what she is thinking, and every time she asks, she only gets her mother's silent shake.

Daddy is Yang Lao Wu, a well-known drunkard in the village, who beats and scolds his mother every time he drinks and often holds a wine jug to her broken shoes. He even tugged at her hair and said that if she dared to run away again, she would throw the star diaphragm into the river to pay tribute to the river god.

Xingqi didn't understand her mother looking haggard until many years later, but she couldn't hide her beauty and temperament, why she chose her father in the first place, so that she was so unbearable.

Yesterday, Yang Lao Wu suddenly said that he would take Xingqi to the city to sell flower cloth to make clothes, and he would follow his sister in the autumn life. Before leaving, his mother hugged the diaphragm and cried, Yang Lao Wu dragged the diaphragm away regardless of it, and his mother knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing and whimpering, begging Yang Lao Wuxing to let her hug the diaphragm again and take a good look.

Xu was guilty, Yang Lao Wu let go of his hand and dropped a sentence Hurry up, squatted at the door with his hands crossed, took out a dry cigarette, and smoked it one by one.

Xingqi sat on the threshold, and she still remembered the way her mother looked at her at that time, with reluctance, remorse, and a sense of perseverance and determination that Xingqi never knew. The mother gently combed the hair and clothes of the star, and carefully told the weather to dress more when it was cold, and stop climbing trees and catching birds like boys. In the end, she fumbled in her arms for a long time, took out a long small cloth bag and stuffed it into Xingqi's arms, and whispered: This is given to my mother by my mother's favorite person, you must keep it well, don't lose it.

She didn't know that this was the last time she saw her mother, and she didn't know why her mother looked at her like that and said those things to herself, she felt that she was just going to the market with her father and brother.

Just thinking about it, Qiu ran out panting and shouted loudly: "Sister, run away! Dad wants to sell you." ”

Before Xing Yan could ask her carefully, she saw Yang Lao Wu and a woman follow, although Qiu Sheng was only four years old, he had a deep love for Xing Yan's sister and brother since he was a child. He also knew that several playmates in the same township had been sold due to the drought this year, and he simply thought that as long as his sister ran away, Daddy couldn't catch her, and when his sister came back in two days, they would be together again, just like Daddy beat him every time.

Xingqi was also afraid, so she listened to her brother's words and ran away.

"Get her back for me. ”

Xingqi looked back while running, and saw Yang Lao Wu grabbing his younger brother's ear and holding a cigarette stick to hit him. Seeing this scene, Xingqi hesitated, she suddenly ran back and bypassed the people who came to arrest her, she knelt on the ground and begged Yang Lao Wu to stop fighting, she was willing to be obedient and never run again.

That day, Xingqi and Qiusheng hugged each other, and the two cried and refused to part until they were picked up and walked separately. From then on, they never knew when they would see each other again.

At the age of five, Xingqi was already the main working member of the family, and it was not used to cooking and washing and taking care of his younger siblings for poor children of his age. So the other children in the carriage didn't cry like stars, though they were all curled up in fear.

The star diaphragm was scared, but more confused. She hoped that she could be sold into a good family, and she had heard that some people were beaten to death by their owners, and then thrown into mass graves with no one to bury their bodies. I heard that the second dog of the next door also went to pick up something on them, but they died not long after. The old man in the village said that it was the resentment of the unjustly killed person who left in the world, and the second dog was entangled in the resentment of the unjustly killed person before he died. Anyway, the star diaphragm is so big, and I have never dared to look at it.

The carriage bumped through for a day and finally arrived at Lin'an City, and this group of children who had been growing up in the mountain village suddenly forgot their grief and looked at this bustling city.

Xingqi and a few children were placed in a house on the edge of the eastern city, which was not a large two-entry courtyard. Two men led them to the main house, then closed the door and locked it, and passed the time by talking some meat words at the door.

Yueniang is the head of the most famous Tianxiang Building in Lin'an City, to put it bluntly, she is a human tooth, and she specializes in providing maids and servants for the Gaomen Mansion. It's just because the maids and servants sent by Tianxianglou will be taught by their aunts, so their reputation has always been very good, and naturally they collect more money than other people.

Yueniang straightened her clothes and pulled her hair before pushing the door into the door in front of her, the light in the room was not very good, only to see a man sitting on the main seat but couldn't see his face clearly.

Yueniang was very respectful and owed him and said, "Landlord"

Yes, this person in front of him is the real master of Tianxianglou, and all matters can only be carried out with his approval, and Yueniang is just for outsiders to see.

Yueniang was originally sold, but she performed better among many people, and she acted shrewdly and decisively, and she was promoted to be the manager of Tianxiang Lou three years ago.

The man didn't have any extra words, just snorted softly, and leisurely played with the tea lid in his hand.

"The landlord, there are five of them bought back this time, and one of them is only five years old, and there is no particularly good qualification among them, only the small one can still be seen. Yueniang lowered her head and said respectfully, her tone calm.

With a ding, the man lowered the lid of tea, and a low voice sounded in the room, "It's business as usual." Then there was silence, as if the man had never existed.

Yueniang stood for a while and saw that he didn't have any instructions, and after blessing the body, she turned around and retreated, and her slender fingers just touched the door frame, and a low voice came from behind her, "It's been three years, and you don't have to report everything to me in the future." ”

Yueniang turned around and saw that there was no place for people on the main seat. She pursed her crimson lips, reached out and pulled the door open and walked out.