The old housekeeper was unkempt, his clothes smelled of sweat, and he hadn't changed it since the last time, it was said that Liu Yanzhi gave them a lot of silver, and they shouldn't have fallen into such an embarrassing situation.

After the great joy came great sorrow, the old housekeeper howled and cried, saying that he was sorry for his master and failed to take care of the young lady.

Liu Yanzhi chuckled in his heart, and hurriedly asked Miss What's wrong?

"Miss, she...... She, she, she...... The old butler only cried, but he couldn't speak.

"Tell me what's wrong!" Liu Yanzhi raised his brows, grabbed the old housekeeper's placket, and wanted to throw him into the Huangpu River to be sober.

"Miss, she's in the dust." The old butler stomped his foot and said something earth-shattering.

"Wind and dust?" Liu Yan's eyes were dark, and he almost fell to the ground, he knew very well what Fengchen meant, it was the kind of prostitute who stood on the second floor of Yihong Courtyard and waved a handkerchief to attract prostitutes, receiving all kinds of prostitutes every day, as long as he gave money, he had to sleep with him, and if he didn't obey, he would be beaten and scolded by the bustard, Miss Lin was such a quiet and elegant daughter, and she actually fell into this field, how did the housekeeper and the master take care of it!

"She's in that brothel?" Liu Yan asked directly, and at the same time quickly took stock of whether the money on his body was enough to redeem Lin Su.

"I know, it's on the four horses." The old butler was ashamed and couldn't bear it, and hid his face with his hands.

Zhou Jiarui was calm, he looked around, and said, "It's too noisy here, talk in a different place." ”

The three of them left the dock with the bustling flow of people, and no one noticed that there was an idler squatting on the ground by the trestle with a two-foot-long card, and a line of black letters was written on the sign: Omi Liu Yanzhi.

They came to a noodle shop near the dock and ordered a bowl of shredded pork noodles for the old housekeeper, but the poor old housekeeper had not eaten for three days, and was already hungry, but when he saw that the food could not be chopsticks at all, he calmed down a little, and told the ins and outs again.

It turned out that something happened after they left Omi by boat, Master Zhou was disheartened and lazy, and had no hope that Liu Yanzhi would rescue Lin Huaiyuan, and when the boat arrived in Nanjing, he eloped with Lin Zhifu's aunt, and swept away all the silver taels.

Fortunately, the boat money has been paid in advance, and the other three still go to Shanghai according to the agreement with Liu Yanzhi, but after arriving, they are unaccompanied, living on the streets, the only valuable thing on Lin Su's body is the jade Ruyi, but he is reluctant to take it to the pawnshop for money, Shanghai is the base camp of foreigners, every day the newspaper publishes the news from the north, the Eight-Nation Alliance occupied the city of Beijing, wantonly slaughtered the Boxers, countless casualties, the original hope became slim again, helplessly, the second aunt had a bad idea, took Lin Su to the sea.

The second aunt was originally the top brand that Lin Huaiyuan bought from the Qinglou, and she has not been in good time for a few years, and she is familiar with the old business at this time, but she shouldn't have brought Miss Lin with her, and the daughter who has not left the cabinet has entered the prostitution door, and the face of the Lin family will be lost in the future.

This decision was made behind the old housekeeper's back, he didn't know it, and he couldn't go back to heaven if he knew, Miss Lin's sign was hung out, and he went to the street as a beggar in a fit of anger, and ran to the dock every fifteenth day to wait, hoping for a miracle, but he didn't expect the Bodhisattva's mercy to really make him wait.

"How's my lord?" The old butler remembered another important matter.

"He's fine." Liu Yanzhi didn't want to say more, took out a copper round and slapped it on the table to pay the bill, and said, "Go to Sima Road now!" ”

Shanghai in 1900 was divided into two parts: the concession and Shanghai County, the former was the Bund in later generations, the latter was the old city of Nanshi, the county still has a city wall, the streets are narrow, the buildings are old, and the concession is a wide road, European-style buildings and Chinese-style buildings complement each other.

Four Horse Road is a road parallel to the Second Road of the main road, along the street are brothels and newspaper offices, the new cultural people who run newspapers are tired of work, so they go to the fireworks woman to relax, but Liu Yanzhi thought of Miss Lin's pair of jade arms and thousands of pillows, and the slightest taste of the red lips, his heart was as tormented as if he had opened a pot.

The old housekeeper led the way and led the two to a two-story building on the four roads, but it was not full of obscene and debauchery as Liu Yanzhi imagined, but had some elegant and quiet temperament, with white walls and gray tiles, a lush bamboo forest in the wall, and a small bamboo sign hanging on the door, on which the words "Meilan Study" were written in ink.

"This is it." The old housekeeper gritted his teeth and hated the second aunt very much.

Zhou Jiarui breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it, and said straight to Liu Yan: "Don't worry, your Miss Lin didn't lose her body." ”

"What do you mean?" Liu Yanzhi is a little confused, how can there be a reason not to lose her body as a prostitute.

"This is the Long Three Books." Zhou Jiarui said that the head is the Tao, "It's not a two, let alone a salted meat village, but the most upscale Qinglou in Shanghai, a salon for officials and businessmen to talk about things, and cultural people to kill time, chanting poems and smoking, drinking wine, tea, and playing mahjong, this is the daily program, you think it is the bathing center of our era, and if you fall in love, you will enter the artillery room to have a shot, the ancient people are not as vulgar as you think." ”

Liu Yan stepped forward and knocked on the door, saying that it was better to knock than to smash, smashing the door, and after a while, the door opened, and there was a sleepy-eyed man standing inside, opening his mouth and speaking softly, the language was not clear, but he could understand the general meaning, it was not open yet, and the guests were invited to come back in the evening.

"I'm looking for someone." Liu Yan pushed the turtle man away and rushed in.

The turtle man hurriedly turned back to block them, and the gentlemen of the study room went out day and night, and they were all sleeping at this time, and it was not good to disturb them.

Liu Yanzhi lifted the turtle Gong up with one hand, frightened him to dance and shout loudly, and the window on the second floor was pushed open, revealing a pointed melon seed face: "Noisy Teller, Nong Sa twisted?" ”

Zhou Jiarui raised his head and arched his hand, and said in a straight and round Beijing accent: "Prime Minister, National Affairs Yamen Wupinzhang Jing, Zhou Jiarui, Xisang, take the liberty of it." ”

"Xisang" is the pronunciation of Mr. Wu Yu, the melon seed face listened to his southern and northern tones, and laughed, this smile is really captivating and charming.

Gui Gong is also a discerning person, and when he saw that Mr. smiled, he knew that these were distinguished guests, so he immediately changed his face and politely welcomed them in to serve tea.

The living room of the study is not big, antique, the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are complete, the rosewood furniture of a water, the ambergris incense burned in the Xuande furnace of the Ming Dynasty, the ancient paintings hanging on the wall also have a great origin, it is the true work of Shi Tao, in short, every object in the house is valuable, just right.

Liu Yanzhi was impatient to go upstairs, but Zhou Jiarui advised him not to be impatient: "If you come, you will be safe, this is not Longtan Tiger's Den, everyone is a Sven person, don't worry." ”

After a cup of tea, the melon-seed-faced woman hired Tingting to come downstairs, her head full of pearls and emeralds, her whole body was full of ayaluo, and she walked with a good demeanor, Zhou Jiarui's eyes were straight, but Liu Yanzhi was absent-minded and restless.

A simple greeting, Mr. is a native of Suzhou, named Shen Xiaohong, can speak Suzhou dialect and Beijing official dialect, opened a book on Sima Road for two years, and the reception on weekdays is the gentry and wealthy businessmen, literary scholars, and new people in Western clothes are still the first time to receive.

"This is my brother Liu Yanzhi, the Queen Mother's personal seal of the sixth-grade Lanling guard, we want to find a person named Lin Su, but here is Mr.?" Zhou Jiarui asked.

"Oh, this little brother is Zhao Zilong in Su Su's mouth." Shen Xiaohong's beautiful eyes looked forward to it, and glanced at Liu Yanzhi, "The person is here, but I have already signed the deed of sale." ”

"How much, I'll give." Liu Yan said straight.

"It's not okay to give money, I'll make three pairs, and if you can match it, I'll let you go upstairs." Shen Xiaohong laughed, picked up a delicate hookah, lit a fire and smoked.

Liu Yanzhi is a rough man, where can he chant poetry against him, he took out a Colt revolver from his arms and slapped it on the coffee table: "I won't be a pair, it will." ”

It happened that the turtle came up with tea, and was so shocked that he almost knocked over the tray, Shen Xiaohong was also frightened, she was just joking, she didn't expect this master to be so incomprehensible, such an elegant and interesting thing, and such a big trouble.

"Okay, okay, I'll tell her to come down." Shen Xiaohong hurriedly got up and went upstairs to invite someone in person, and saw Lin Su standing in tears at the top of the stairs without taking two steps.

Lin Su and the second aunt went downstairs, the two sides greeted each other, after only a month, Lin Su changed greatly, the whole person lost weight, the weakness in his eyes was gone, replaced by tenacity and perseverance.

Everyone has arrived, Zhou Jiarui began to uncover the mystery, he was born as a teacher, and he didn't say it eloquently, adding a little deduction to this legendary experience, everyone was fascinated, Shen Xiaohong dragged his cheeks, and looked at Zhou Jiarui with big foggy eyes, seeing that he was ape-minded, adjusted his mind and continued, but he mythologized himself again.

The turtle man came to add tea, and what he heard was more enjoyable than the commentary, and the hot water in the teapot overflowed the teacup and kept flowing down, causing a burst of laughter.

Knowing that the old man was promoted to a higher level, the old housekeeper cried with joy, Lin Su couldn't help crying, and the second aunt was too temperamental, and tears fell down.

"It's all a happy event, what are you crying about, I'll be the east tonight, everyone won't go home if you're not drunk, hehe, you don't have to go home if you're drunk." Shen Xiaohong said with a smile, the woman in the wind and dust is free and heroic, and she has more charm, Zhou Jiarui is confused, I am afraid that Xiaocui has been thrown out of the clouds.

The stone in everyone's hearts fell to the ground, and talked about Lin Su's joining the book, saying that the second aunt and Shen Xiaohong have been friends for many years, both of them were prostitutes in Suzhou, and this time they came to Shanghai by mistake, it is said that Shanghai's Changsan Shuyu has very strict rules, Mr. must be able to sing Kunqu Opera, play the pipa, and be able to speak fluent Wu, the second aunt is too reluctant to pass, Lin Su is a native of Hunan, and grew up in the capital, there is no problem with piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, it is difficult for her to sing music and speak Wu language, so in fact, Shen Xiaohong really took her in, I didn't plan to let her out to accompany the guests.

Liu Yanzhi was very grateful, and took out the jade wrench given to him by the Empress Dowager Cixi and presented it: "Sir, I don't have anything to look up to, this wrench is still worth some money, so I think it is the cost of Miss Lin and the second aunt to bother him for a few days." ”

Shen Xiaohong just glanced at it and said indifferently: "I have a lot of jade objects here, not rare, if you really want to thank me, just do one thing." ”

"Go up the knife mountain and go down the oil pot, in a word." Liu Yan said straight.

"I'll make three pairs......" Shen Xiaohong smiled slyly.

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