Chapter 10: The First Encounter with the City of Merian
At this time, Du Shi had formed a preliminary plan in her mind to teach her daughter, and she planned to start implementing it immediately.
First of all, she wants to customize a dress for her daughter to wear when she dances, and she also wants to buy a set of head jewelry for her daughter to wear when she dances, although these things are expensive, but in order for her daughter to show her face in front of the queen, get the queen's love, and then get a better future, she will spare no effort to do it!
What she plans to teach her daughter to dance is the famous "Flying Dance", which is the most famous dance in the Great Jin Kingdom, and it is also the most difficult dance to dance, and it is the story of a beautiful young lady cultivating immortals.
This dance has extremely strict requirements for the dancer's body shape and appearance, if the dancer is not beautiful enough, the body shape is not good enough, even if the dance is good, there is no fairy charm, but it has become Dong Shi Xiaofeng, not only is it not beautiful, but it is disgusting, therefore, the dancer should first be a beauty with a beautiful appearance and shape, and it is also quite beautiful to meet the standards of a fairy, this alone, few people can achieve, and the daughter happens to be such a beauty.
Secondly, there are also certain requirements for the dancer's skill, and the most beautiful part of this dance is the moment when the dancer stretches his wide sleeves and throws out the long water sleeves!
Generally speaking, the length of the dancer's water sleeve is determined by their dancing skills, basically, most of the dancers who have practiced this dance can throw out three to six meters long water sleeves, and those who can reach six meters are very powerful, if they can exceed six meters, it is simply rare.
And she, since she was a child, practiced this dance, ten years of sharpening a sword, and finally practiced to be able to easily throw out the eight-meter-long water sleeve, that day, at the birthday banquet of the old An Guogong, when she danced this dance, she clearly saw the amazement and admiration in people's eyes, at that time, she was really like a fairy about to soar, so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off!
Although there are only three or four days to rehearse, but with her daughter's intelligence and the flexible figure she has practiced martial arts, coupled with her stunning beauty, she will be able to practice a * not far from ten, and when the time comes, she will be able to leave a good impression on the queen.
Cai Wei is not as optimistic as Du Shi, what she is thinking about now is what the queen is going to do? How can she escape from her grasp?
After being dragged back to Changchun Garden by her mother, the family heard that she was about to be invited into the palace by the queen's mother to be a guest.
"Eldest sister, I heard that the emperor is a real dragon, you go to the palace and help me see if he has horns on his head, okay?"
Wu'er raised her white and tender little round face, blinked her big eyes and asked cutely.
Without waiting for Cai Wei to speak, Wen'er disdainfully 'cut' and said, "What real dragon?" Don't you see that there are many short-lived emperors recorded in the history books? If it is a real dragon, how can it be short-lived? What a little baby who doesn't understand the world......"
"Oh, don't you dare to talk nonsense."
Du Shi hurriedly stepped forward to hold Wen'er's mouth, and reprimanded in a low voice: "Wen'er, don't say such things again, if you spread it, you will be killed, and our whole family will be killed......
Cai Fei also said sternly: "Wen'er, remember, you must not talk about royal affairs outside without permission, you must know that the wall has ears, in case any words are listened to intentionally, our family will be ruined on your mouth." β
At this time, a woman's laughter suddenly sounded outside the window, startling everyone, and the woman laughed and said, "Look at the fourth sister's cautiousness, and you are not afraid of scaring the child?" β
Before the words fell, the door curtain was lifted, and the Wang family in the second room walked in with the girl's hand, Wang is the niece of the old lady Wang, and she is deeply loved by the old lady.
She walked and smiled, walked to the inside, stood still in front of Du Shi, and said: "Sister-in-law is here to congratulate the fourth sister, the fourth sister has raised such a good daughter, and the sister-in-law is also happy, and now the niece is about to enter the palace, what does the sister-in-law need to buy for the niece?" The old lady has instructed that if the niece lacks anything when she enters the palace, the fourth sister only needs to talk to her sister-in-law, and all the products that the niece needs will be released by the public in our house. β
Du Shi glanced at Cai Wei, lowered his head, and did not say a word.
In fact, she wants to buy a decent dance dress for Cai Wei, plus the matching head jewelry and the clothes she wears when she enters the palace, these things do require a lot of expenses, although the restaurant in the house makes money, but only two or three days after opening, only a hundred and a few taels of silver, this little silver is not enough for those ladies to buy a piece of jewelry, how to buy it for her daughter?
However, she didn't dare to ask the Wang family for money without authorization, for fear that Cai Wei would blame her, I don't know when the Du family began to obey her daughter's words, and she basically made the decisions about the family, and even the prime minister unconsciously gave up the position of the head of the family, and everything listened to her daughter!
She also discussed this matter with Xianggong, Xianggong smiled and said: "The affairs of the family, there should be a capable person living in it, since the daughter can be out of the blue and better than me, what if she is in charge of this family?"
Du Shi didn't dare to make the decision, although he was anxious, he was just silent.
At this time, Cai Wei opened her mouth generously and said with a smile: "In this way, there is Second Aunt Lao, Mother, what do I need to enter the palace, you look at it and discuss it with Second Aunt and Aunt, there is still something in the shop, I will go and see it first." β
Du Shi hurriedly said: "You have to come back quickly, my mother still has something to do with you..." β
"Got itβ"
Cai Wei answered, and went without looking back.
She knew that her mother's so-called something was nothing more than teaching her to dance, so she didn't want to learn to dance to those who hated her, so she didn't plan to learn at all, but she couldn't bear to blow her mother's kindness, so she had to excuse herself and run away.
She didn't plan to go to the store at all, the store is now more staffed Chaoyun, Uncle Zhang's family, Chunliu and Sister-in-law Liu, etc., they are already busy, and after two days of operation, they are completely on the right track, it doesn't matter if there is her or not.
Therefore, she walked out of the gate of the Guogong Mansion and went in the opposite direction to her own restaurant......
This will only, her mood is extremely depressed, why did the queen let her go to the Shangsi Festival, what did she want to do? If she wanted to take her life, how simple would it be to send a group of killers? Why bother making a big deal about the next post and setting up a bureau?
But if she doesn't have any conspiracy, Cai Wei won't believe it until she dies.
Thinking of this, she used her consciousness to contact Brother Parrot and told him to go to the queen's palace to investigate.
After Brother Parrot flew away, Cai Wei had nothing to do, so she thought of going to the small courtyard rented by Zhang Darttou to have a look, and by the way, she taught them the skills of making those few snacks.
She bought the materials needed to make dim sum, and after buying all the things, she stored all the things in the space, and just wanted to hire a car to go to Zhang Dangtou's house, when the voice of the white-haired tiger suddenly came from the space, very low and depressing.
"Master, I'm hungry!"
Cai Wei suddenly remembered, I haven't bought anything into the space today, it's already Shen Shi this time, they must be hungry!
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry for you, it's me who was too busy today to forget jì, I'm going to buy it, I'm going to go..."
Cai Wei hurriedly asked passers-by about the nearest butcher shop and went in to buy meat.
As soon as the shopkeeper of the butcher shop saw Cai Wei coming in, and saw that she was dressed gorgeously, he immediately stepped forward with a smile on his face, nodded and said, "Miss, do you buy meat?" How much? The small one will be weighed right away. β
Cai Wei looked at the red and white fat pork on the board and said, "Let's come to ten catties!" β
"Hey, that's good!"
The shopkeeper saw that a big customer came, and he asked for ten catties for a mouth, so happy that his eyes suddenly narrowed into a slit, and he hurriedly flashed into the case to cut the meat.
At this time, a thin young man walked in, the young man was seventeen or eighteen years old, fair-skinned, with delicate facial features, wearing a white-washed cotton robe, with several eye-catching patches on the robe, although ragged, but cleanly washed, ironed evenly, without a trace of wrinkles.
The young man walked to the board and looked at the fat on the board, with a look of expectation in his eyes.
"Yo, the little official Mo is here? But you're here to get meat on credit? β
The shopkeeper squinted his eyes and looked at the young man sourly.
The young man who was called Mo Xiaoguan pursed his lips and said gloomily: "Shopkeeper, the doctor said"
"The doctor said that your mother's body is too weak, she is a long-term malnourished, and she needs to eat more meat to make up. You have said these words to us four or five times, I see that you are a filial son, and I take care of you a lot, but I also have the capital for this business, you have already paid me eighty dollars of meat on credit, so far I haven't paid back a big son, I didn't go to you to ask for it, it's already a big face, how dare you be cheeky to credit? β
The shopkeeper interrupted the young man's words angrily, had a seizure, and sneered: "Little official, it's not me who said you, your old man has asked you to go back several times and then be your rich and noble brother, but you refuse, and insist on putting this idle breath with the old man, now I heard that the new lady is also pregnant, and the doctor who looks at the face and the doctor of the hospital all say that the new lady is pregnant with a male baby, if you just have to be awkward with the old man, then all the furniture in the house will be inherited by the unborn little son, and you will regret it too late!" β
As if he hadn't heard his advice, Mo Xiaoguan said to himself: "I have now found another job copying scriptures for the temple, and by the end of the month, I will be able to settle the salary of two or three hundred yuan, and when the time comes, I must have even repaid the money I owed to the shopkeeper before, just ask the shopkeeper to be accommodating, and then give me half a catty of pork on credit!" β
Although the shopkeeper's mouth is black, his mind is not too poisonous, and after listening to the words of Mo Xiaoguan's money to repay the debt, he snorted and said: "Anyway, whoever calls me a soft-hearted person, I will make an exception to credit you once, but this is the last time, if you haven't paid it back by the end of the month, beware that I broke your leg." β
"Yes, thank you for the fulfillment of the shopkeeper, I will definitely do what I say and never lose my trust to others."
The little official Mo whispered, hugging his fist at the shopkeeper.
"Alright, let's wait for now!"
The shopkeeper waved his hand impatiently, cut the meat for Cai Wei neatly, and sent the men to the backyard to find a basket of suitable size, ready to fill the meat for Cai Wei.
Then, he cut off a thin slice from the big piece of fat, picked it up and weighed it, then threw it on the board, and shouted: "Half a catty of meat, twenty yuan, plus the eighty yuan you owed before, a total of one hundred yuan, remember what you said, and pay the bill at the end of the month!" β
Mo Xiaoguan didn't have time to take care of the shopkeeper's attitude, and said lightly: "Yes!" β
After speaking, he took a hemp rope from the side of the case, tied the small piece of meat, and turned away with the meat, and when he walked, the young man's posture was straight, not at all like a poor man who had just whispered and begged someone, even if his dress made him look like a poor man, he was also a proud man from top to bottom.
When Cai Wei saw it, she was curious for a moment, so she asked the shopkeeper about the young man.
The shopkeeper was a big customer, and he wanted to make her a repeat customer, so he was particularly enthusiastic about introducing her to the situation of Mo Xiaoguan.
"Hey, this little Mo official is also a bad luck, his father was a poor short-term worker, relying on a shop of the Huo family to do chores for a living, when his mother gave birth to him, because the family was too poor, did not recuperate, fell ill, and his health has not been very good, and then his father came to run, was favored by the second master of the Huo family, and was promoted to become the shopkeeper of the shop, and later, he was promoted to be in charge of the shopkeeper of Jufu, the largest restaurant of the Huo family in the capital, and was in charge of everything in Jufu, so he became more and more proud."
"As people say, full of warmth and lust, the big shopkeeper is now worth tens of thousands, entering the Zhumen house, and going out is a herd of slaves and horses, but he has to guard a sick yellow-faced woman every day, naturally he is not happy, so he bought a thin horse in the Skinny Horse Pavilion and put it in the house to be an aunt."
Later, I was bewildered by the thin aunt horse, and couldn't stand the instigation, so I divorced his mother and straightened the thin horse, this little official is also a tough person, he left home with his mother, changed his surname, and changed his surname with his mother's surname, and broke off the relationship with his father.
Although his father is unconscious, but Mo Xiaoguan is his only son after all, how can he bear to let him be left out, and he is also laughed at, so he has looked for him several times in private, persuaded him to go home, and promised that he will inherit the furniture in the future, but he was all pushed back by the petty officials, and after a few times, his father also had a cold heart, especially after the new lady was pregnant, he no longer cared about them. β
"His mother's health has always been bad, she can't do any work, she has to eat dozens of dollars a day for a decoction, and she is a poor little official, who has to take care of his mother and go around doing odd jobs to support her mother, but she always can't make ends meet......"
The shopkeeper's nagging, the guy had already found the basket and put the pig Houqiu meat bought by Cai Wei into the basket, Cai Wei paid, refused the shopkeeper's door-to-door delivery, took the basket, and chased in the direction where Mo Xiaoguan left.
Cai Wei is a little sympathetic to this young man, embarrassed to look like this, she refuses to turn back to find the scumbag medicine silver, it seems that she is determined to cut off relations with him, she has always admired ambitious people, and she is now the time to use people, how can she be willing to let go of such a person?
Chasing to no one's place, she quietly sent the basket and the meat in the basket into the space, and quickly chased forward empty-handed, and soon saw him.
I saw that he was walking forward quickly, as if he was in a hurry, and after walking for about a quarter of an hour, he turned into a filthy alley, which was built in a disorderly manner with many small and dilapidated houses, some of whom lived in makeshift sheds, and stinky ditches with rotting garbage flowing in front of the doors, exuding a stinking smell that made people want to vomit when they smelled it.
If Cai Wei hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she wouldn't have believed that anyone would live in such a dirty and dilapidated place, which was worse than her house in Mujia Village.
"Ahem!"
Cai Wei coughed twice, trying to get his attention, but the kid didn't even look back, and still walked forward by himself, Cai Wei was helpless, so she could only make a sound.
"Mo Xiaoguan stays!"
Hearing this beautiful voice, Mo Liancheng turned his head in surprise and saw a beautiful girl dressed in gorgeous clothes, looking at him with a smile.
"Girl, are you calling me?"
Cai Wei smiled: "Is there a second Mo Xiaoguan in this alley?" β
Mo Liancheng still looked surprised: "The girl called me, why did you call me?" β
"Here's this, here you go!"
Cai Wei stepped forward and took out a large silver ingot with bare and white flowers from her bosom (actually space), which was fifty taels of silver with filaments of full color.
When Mo Xiaoguan saw the silver, he was startled, reflexively turned his back on his hand, took a step back and said, "What is the girl doing here?" The so-called merit is not punished, I have never known the girl in my life, where can I collect so much money from the girl? Why did the girl give me money? β
Cai Wei's hand sent it forward again, and said, "You are in a hurry to use the money now, someone gives you silver, you just use it, just ask what you are doing with these things?" β
Mo Liancheng still refused to take it, and said seriously: "Although we are down now, we are not people without a bottom line, if it is money from unknown sources, I will never accept it." β
Cai Wei Wangtian rolled her eyes, both moved by this kid's openness, but also felt a headache for his stubbornness, people have fallen to such a situation, someone gave him silver for nothing, and he didn't quickly accept it, what does the bottom line do?
Thinking of this, Cai Wei said angrily and funny: "Don't worry, I want to help your mother and son because I heard about your family, you just have to rest assured to accept the money." Even if I have any bad intentions, you have no money and no appearance, and there is nothing worth deceiving me! β
Listening to Cai Wei's sarcasm, Mo Liancheng's face blushed, and after thinking for a while, he seemed to think that Cai Wei was reasonable, so he reached out and took the big silver ingot, and said in a low voice: "Thanks to the girl's generous gift, I will pay it back with interest in the future." β
Cai Wei said unceremoniously: "I have to pay credit to buy a piece of pork for my wife, what do you pay me back?" Before you are sure enough to make yourself stronger, don't promise anything to people, lest you be embarrassed in case you can't fulfill it. β
Mo Liancheng pursed his lips and said in a low voice: "Thank you for the girl's advice, what the girl said is very true, I have written it down." β
Cai Wei is extremely satisfied with his attitude of being able to be taught with an open mind and being able to bend and stretch, if he is blindly high and refuses to accept this silver, Cai Wei will definitely turn around and no longer care about his life or death; If he sees the silver and is grateful to Dade for accepting it, Cai Wei's impression of him will be greatly reduced, and his personality and style are just in line with Cai Wei's mind.
"Don't just thank me over and over again, take me to see your mother! Speaking of which, I still know a little bit about medicine, maybe I can help your mother see a doctor! β
Cai Wei laughed and said to Mo Liancheng.
"So, thank you, girl!" Mo Liancheng was pleasantly surprised.
"Poof, here we go again......."
Cai Wei laughed, and walked into a dilapidated courtyard with Mo Liancheng.
The small courtyard was really small, and it was separated by a fence made of sorghum stalks, and I heard Mo Liancheng say that this small courtyard was still rented, and it cost 45 yuan a month.
There was only one room in the house, and the stove had to be built in the house, and the stove was already blackened, and the walls were full of mottled cracks, which looked crumbling and seemed to be ready to collapse at any moment.
At this time, Mo Liancheng's mother was sleeping on the kang, already skinny and bone-covered, with a sad look in her pale sleeping face, covered with a bed of broken quilts with exposed cotton wool, and had not yet woken up.
In addition to a broken table with paint peeled off and two broken benches, there was also an earthen basket containing half a cabbage cut in half and a few small potatoes, and in the corner, there was a jar with half a jar of brown rice, and on the stove, there were several small jars of coarse porcelain, and some spices such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. The house was very shabby, but it was very clean.
Mo Liancheng invited Cai Wei to sit on the edge of the kang, poured a bowl of water for her, and began to be busy cutting meat and boiling broth for her mother.
Because of the space, Gui Daxian can't take the pulse, and can only look at the disease through guΓ² looking, smelling, and seeing, but it has excellent medical skills, even if it only uses hope, it can also see a * inseparable from ten.
"This lady is overly worried, depressed, and has been malnourished for a long time, and her body is extremely weak, and now her body is very bad."
"Can it be cured?"
"Yes, it just takes a few years to slowly recuperate before it gets better, first of all, this living environment is not suitable for patients to recuperate, the owner still finds a way to help them change the environment!"
"Got it, thank you!"
Mo Liancheng was cooking broth for his mother, while chatting with Cai Wei, after talking, Cai Wei knew the situation of Mo Liancheng clearly, and it was basically the same as what the butcher shopkeeper said.
When their mother and son left home, they brought a little entanglement, but the mother was divorced, desperate and sad in her heart, and got a serious illness in a hurry, which spent the little money they brought, and the mother and son had no place to live, so they had to rely on Mo Liancheng to set up a stall at the temple gate to write letters for people for a living, although it was very hard, but always could not earn a few dollars, and the mother often took medicine, so their money was always not enough to spend.
Mo Liancheng also knew that Cai Wei was the owner of the newly rising Bafu Restaurant in the capital, and couldn't help but admire her very much.
Cai Wei smiled: "If the money you earn from writing letters for others is not enough to spend, you can come to me at any time at the Bafu Restaurant, and I can provide you with an excellent position to help you make money." β
Mo Liancheng didn't expect such a big pie to suddenly fall from the sky and smash it on his head, and immediately said that when his mother's illness improved, he would go to Cai Wei to report.
This time, he didn't even hesitate.
Soon, the broth was boiled, and Cai Wei saw that it was not too early, so she got up to say goodbye, and Mo Liancheng sincerely invited the future owner to stay and have dinner before leaving, but Cai Wei refused.
Before leaving, Cai Wei instructed him to rent an independent courtyard with a good environment to house his mother, which was smelly and unsuitable for recuperation.
Mo Liancheng agreed, and now, he has silver, so he can make his mother's life a little better.
Leaving the Mo family, the sun was about to set, Cai Wei wanted to go to Zhang Dangtou's house first, but when she was at Mo Liancheng's house just now, she was aroused by the aroma of the broth in his house, she didn't eat at noon, this time it was time for dinner, she was already hungry, so she walked on the street for a while, found a ramen restaurant with a neat face, and walked in.
"Guest officer, please come in!"
Xiao Er greeted Cai Wei warmly and led her to a private room.
Cai Wei entered the private room, sat down and ordered a bowl of shredded chicken noodles, asked for two side dishes, and sat alone in a private room to eat.
was eating, and suddenly thought that Changmei and Gui Daxian hadn't eaten yet, and Brother Parrot hadn't eaten either, but the foodie who thought of eating didn't complain to her when he saw her, which was so abnormal!
So, she called Xiao Er again and ordered two bowls of shredded chicken noodles and a few special side dishes.
Xiao Er looked at Cai Wei in surprise and asked, "Miss, are you alone?" β
Cai Wei raised her eyebrows and asked unhappily, "What?" Questions? β
"Ah, no, no, no, nothing, nothing, you later, the noodles will come soon."
Xiao Er quickly withdrew, muttering as he walked: "It looks like a flower and a moon, but I didn't expect it to be a glutton, scared to death!" β
------Off topic------
Yesterday, someone complained that Cai Wei performed and danced cheesily after entering the palace, ladies and gentlemen, who would have thought that she would be able to make a blockbuster?
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