Chapter 20: The Old Place
The window of the inn is a straight window, and Banqin stands next to it and looks down through the window lattice.
"Lady, lady." She shouted again, "I remember, that's where I used to go grocery shopping..."
She said and looked back.
"That's where we heard about the dumb son's illness, and we made five hundred dollars that time."
Cheng Jianniang sighed and looked at the scroll in her hand.
Banqin continued to look outside, and it was almost evening, and the crowd on the street outside had dispersed.
When I first lived here, it was not a short time, and with the fact that I was walking around, it was very familiar.
Where I lived...
Banqin couldn't help tiptoeing to look out.
"Lady." She looked back again, "Lady." ”
Cheng Jianniang put down the book in her hand and looked at her.
"Lady, let's go for a walk." Banqin approached, knelt down and pulled her sleeve and said.
Cheng Jianniang picked up the book again.
"I don't have any memory here, what are you going to go out of?" She said.
Banqin smiled and shook her sleeve.
"Lady, go." "What's the point of being stuffy in the house all the time?" she said. ”
Cheng Jianniang looked at her and was a little surprised.
"You're getting bolder." She said, smiling slightly.
"Go, go, lady, we went from Bingzhou to Cheng's house, you went from Cheng's house to the capital, whether you are in the capital, or from the capital, you are never in the car or in the house and in the courtyard, lady, you have never seen the scenery and played." Banqin said.
Cheng Jianniang put down the book in her hand, stood up and walked to the door.
Banqin was stunned for a moment before she reacted, and she was surprised and happy to follow.
"Lady. Are you really going? I'm just going to say it casually..."
"I'm so pathetic to hear what you say. I feel sorry for myself. ”
"Lady. Are you kidding? ”
"Probably not, you're not smiling."
"Haha
The sound of clogs clattered on the stone path by the river, accompanied by the laughter of children.
"Fly, fly"
Two teenage girls clapped their hands and shouted, while pulling a five or six-year-old girl in a butterfly embroidered gold dress with a red background and pointing.
Two teenage boys were running one after the other, pulling the thread in their hands, and a big butterfly paper kite in the sky was swaying and flying.
Four or five servants stood by the wall, smiling.
"I'm going to put it too, I'm going to put it too." The girl shouted. As he stretched out his hand, the clogs walked unsteadily on the stones.
The little girls hurriedly beckoned the little girl to hurry up and bring it over.
The little girl cautiously ran over and half-knelt down to hand the spool to the girl, and then ran with her in front.
The girl happily walked like a young girl, holding a spool.
But she couldn't, she ran slowly, and the little guy didn't dare to go over the line and pull it, so she could only watch the paper kite fall staggering down and fall on the person who was walking on the road...
"Oops!"
Several whispers rang out.
The girl let go of the spool in her hand and covered her mouth with some uneasiness.
The servants put away their laughter and hurried over.
Banqin reached out and took the paper kite from her body.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." The servant woman came and made amends and said.
Banqin smiled, looking at the girl hiding behind the little girl with a nervous expression.
She spat twice with a soft hollow sound.
"Bad luck doesn't come. Bad luck doesn't come. She said, looking at the paper kite in her hand. Wow, that's beautiful. ”
It is unlucky for the paper kite to fall on the body and the house, this is in front of their Zhang family, and there are few people on the whole street, because they have been watching the girl carefully, but they have not paid attention to when this line of people comes, and the servant woman is also a little uneasy, seeing that the maid is not angry, and the smile is still the same, and then look at the little lady with the fence behind her did not make a sound, and the four entourages who followed were not annoyed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Banqin returned the salute with a smile and continued to walk forward.
"Are you looking for someone?" The servant asked hesitantly.
There were no houses down the street, and the maid's accent wasn't local.
"It's not." Banqin said, stretching out her finger and pointing ahead, "We're here to see the house." ”
There are several independent courtyards facing the river on the side of the road in front.
"Oh, are you renting a house?" The servant woman asked, with a bit of a surprise, and then said with a smile, "That house is not rented. ”
"Not renting anymore?" Banqin asked with some surprise.
"Yes, there is a master." The servant woman said.
"It's already sold?" Banqin said, looking at the courtyard with some surprise and some sighs.
The front of the door is cleaned up, and there are no weeds on the wall at the door, which is obviously taken care of by someone every day.
"Yes, it's my savior." The girl couldn't help but interject at this point.
A lifesaver?
Banqin looked at her.
This kid...
"If you want to rent a house, why don't you go to East Street and ask..."
"Lady, lady, look at you." Banqin turned around a little excitedly and said to Cheng Jianniang, looking at the girl.
What to see?
The servants were stunned for a moment, and they followed Banqin's gaze.
My sister is very good-looking, and they all say that they are getting better and better....
Seeing that everyone's eyes were on her, the girl shrank back behind the little girl and hid.
"You know me..."Banqin was about to speak happily, and halfway through her words, she thought that the girl was in a coma when she was sent, even if she was not unconscious, where would a three- or four-year-old child remember her, so she smiled to herself and swallowed what she was about to say, "Now that she has grown so tall." ”
Growing so tall now?
Have you seen it before?
The girl poked her head out from behind the little girl and looked at Banqin cautiously and puzzled.
The servant woman was also a little puzzled.
Cheng Jianniang took a few steps forward, stood in front of the girl, and lifted the fence.
The girl's eyes widened a little, and she was a little stunned.
Because they turned their backs to the servants, the servants only saw the girl's surprise, but could not see Cheng Jianniang's face.
"Here you go." Cheng Jianniang said, handed over a bag in her hand, and smiled slightly.
This is Banqin was afraid that she would be hungry, so she specially brought her own snacks, and the bag was specially customized for Taipingju, and Banqin felt that it was convenient to keep some.
The girl reached out and took it with some trepidation.
The servant woman was even more surprised, although she was still young, but the most basic rules had been taught, how could she reach out and accept something from outsiders?
They were busy shouting and wanted to stop them.
The corner door next to it opened.
“… Come, sister, Madame has called you," the two servants shouted urgently.
The servant woman here was busy answering, pulling the girl while taking the bag.
Cheng Jianniang had already turned around and left.
"This lady, this lady, we can't take this thing," said the servant woman.
"Take it, just some snacks." Banqin looked back and smiled, bent down to salute, "It's a meeting gift for you to see you again." ”
A goodbye greeting gift?
The servant woman was stunned.
Do you really know?
"Sister Yu'er, do you recognize her?" They couldn't help but ask the girl.
The girl was still a little dumbfounded.
"What a pretty lady," she replied.
The servants laughed, and wanted to have a snack to see that the lady had already walked out of the street, and the servants inside urged again, so they had to give up.
"Mother, mother."
The girl took off her geta and stepped into the hall.
The beautiful lady who was sitting and reading the account book put down the scroll in her hand and took her daughter's hand with a smile.
"What are you so happy about?" She asked.
"Mother, I have seen such a beautiful lady, just like the beauty painted in my father's study." The girl's eyes lit up.
Mrs. Beauty smiled.
"Is there really such a beauty?" She followed the child's words.
"What kind of beauty?"
A male voice outside the hall asked.
The people in the house saw that it was a young man in a green shirt walking forward.
"Brother Yuan Dynasty." The girl shouted happily.
Han Wonchao stepped in.
"Sobered up?" The beautiful lady asked with a smile.
Han Wonchao was a little ashamed.
"It's all because my uncle is too good at drinking." He laughed.
"That's all he's capable of." Mrs. Beauty snorted.
As a junior, he really couldn't understand this, Han Yuanchao raised his hand and touched his nose with some embarrassment, and his eyes fell on the girl.
"Sister Yuan, what beauty did you meet?" He asked.
"I put paper kites... Smashed on the body... Beauty is beautiful, just like a painting," the girl preached upside down.
Han Yuanchao listened to the laughter.
"I don't believe it, there are more beautiful beauties than our sister." He quipped.
"Really, my brother didn't see it." The girl said, stretching out her hand, "The beauty gave me something back?" Where's my stuff..."
The servant woman on the side hurriedly stepped forward and pushed a bag over.
"Madam, this is a gift from that lady to my sister." She said.
Are there really beauties?
Mrs. Beauty and Han Yuanchao were stunned.
What was the beautiful lady going to say, Han Yuanchao reached out and took the bag first.
This bag is exquisitely made, it can be seen that it is done with thought, Han Yuanchao took it in his hand and looked at it, and saw a corner embroidered with small characters.
"Taipingju...", he read, a little stunned when he finished reading.
It's like I've heard it somewhere... (To be continued......)