It snowed overnight, and the sky and earth were covered in snow. The cold wind blows in the wax moon, and the snow falls on the eaves and treetops.

Ah Yao held a blue and white cloth burden and walked in the alley with one foot deep and one foot shallow. As soon as she turned out of the alley, a gust of wind blew, and the snow particles drilled straight into her body through the squeaky opening of the cotton clothes, and A-Yao couldn't help but shiver. The burden was thrown over her shoulders, she rubbed her hands, put her hands together and breathed into the palms of her hands.

The already frozen and numb hands came into contact with the hot air at first glance, and the pain of splitting hit, watching the once slender jade fingers become now coarser than a burning stick, Ah Yao sighed.

The world is impermanent, who would have thought that Hu Yao, a girl from the Hu family, who lived in the Zhu Pavilion Qihu three years ago, wore silk and satin, ate delicious food, and traveled incense cars, would be reduced to the situation where she is now unclothed, hungry, and living on pawns.

Three years ago, Daddy encountered mountain bandits on the way to travel abroad, and his bones were gone. Under the grief, Qi Niang also died after the beginning, and within half a month, she was the only orphan left in the once prosperous imperial merchant Hu family. The house leak coincided with the overnight rain, during the funeral period of the Hu family's old house went to the water, after the fire was extinguished, the gold, silver and jade piled up in the treasury disappeared, and then the shopkeeper who cooperated with the Hu family came to the door to settle the accounts, and there were more eight poles that could not be beaten by the male grandson who came to the door and said that he wanted to continue the Hu family's incense.

All kinds of charms and spirits are coming, how can she be a delicate girl raised in the boudoir to deal with. When he was anxious, his uncle's cousin stepped forward. He first took the marriage contract of the two as a reason to voluntarily join the family, and drank the retreat from the suspicious branch; and then used his own fame as a guarantee to stabilize the shopkeepers. Later, he intervened to mediate and pawn the Hu family's house and land to settle the accounts.

My cousin is good at everything, but he's not good at taking care of business. Originally, after settling the accounts, the Hu family still had a surplus, and they would soon be able to make a comeback by relying on the name of the imperial businessman. But my cousin, who was so smart when he was studying, couldn't even figure out the basic accounts when he was doing business. In this way, in the past two years, not only was the name of the imperial merchant robbed by the old rival Shen family, but even the last bit of family wealth was consumed in several losses.

Finally, she listened to her aunt's persuasion and sold her old mansion to accompany her cousin to Beijing to take the exam. But it seems that they were entangled in bad luck, and on the way to Beijing, they were intercepted by mountain bandits, and the carriage and baggage were taken away. Fortunately, there were a few silver tickets sewn into her clothes, and they rented a small courtyard in the capital to settle down temporarily.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation in the capital are expensive in all aspects, and the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone that my cousin wants to use are even more expensive, and how can a few silver tickets withstand the flowers. Seeing that the Chinese New Year was coming, the rice tank at home had bottomed out, so she gritted her teeth and took out the fire fox fur at the bottom of the box. She was wearing this one when she was robbed that day, and I don't know if the kidnappers didn't see her or took pity on her, so she kept it anyway.

It was the last thing she could come up with.

Tightly wearing a torn cotton jacket, she unconsciously walked in the direction of the pawnshop. A group of freshly dressed and angry horses ran on the wide street, and Ah Yao hurriedly lowered her head to the side.

The unique smell of the horse wafted beside her, the horse's hooves splashed and the snow hit her face, and Ah Yao was busy protecting her baggage. In a moment, when the sound of the horse's hooves was far away, she raised her head again and hurried towards the pawnshop.

Seeing that he was about to walk to the door of the pawnshop, there was the sound of horses' hooves behind him. Dawan Ma, whose coat was black and shiny, circled around and stopped in front of her, and what caught her eye was a pair of suede soap boots, and above the boots was a dark corner.

"You want to pawn this big gun?"

Ah Yao lowered her head lower than just now, and without saying a word, she could be regarded as admitting.

"When I was kidnapped by the mountain bandits that day, I heard you say that the house in your hometown has been sold, and this fire fox fur on your body is the last thought left to you by the first exam."

He even remembers! Surprised, Ah Yao looked up, only to see that his face, which was enough to dazzle people's eyes, was still the same arrogance. His eyes met, and he looked at her in disgust.

"For the sake of the lover, discard your father and mother at will like this? Take it! ”

After saying that, he threw over a purse, and Ah Yao took it easily. The purse was very light, and when opened, it contained a stack of silver tickets.

"Wait."

Seeing that he turned his horse's head to leave, Ah Yao hurriedly grabbed the corner of his clothes. The young man in Xuanyi sat on his horse, and the disgust on his face was even stronger.

"What? Too little? ”

Ah Yao felt uncomfortable for a while, she used to be a young lady who could afford to smash people with silver tickets. The heroes don't mention the courage of the year, but the earnest teachings of my father and mother since childhood cannot be forgotten.

Passing the purse over with both hands, she looked at him, her eyes full of sincerity: "No merit is not rewarded, these silver ticket girls can't ask for it." My cousin is kind to the people, if he hadn't insisted on joining him, he wouldn't have fallen into the situation where he can't return to his home now. As for the father and mother, although the folk girl sold the Qingcheng mansion, the silk and satin house deed handed down by the Hu family's ancestors is still there. Only after the cousin's high school in the spring of next year, the people's daughter will find an opportunity to revive the ancestral business, and then it will be regarded as comforting the spirit of the second elder in the sky. ”

After speaking, A-Yao didn't wait for him to react, pinned her purse to the boots of his soap boots, straightened her back, and entered the pawnshop with her baggage.

Thinking of the empty rice jar at home, A-Yao didn't care about any decent upbringing. took out the shrewdness of the merchant girl's bones, and after a verbal battle with the pawnshop shopkeeper, she finally died as this fire fox fur at a price thirty percent higher than expected. Touching the round purse around her waist, she felt less lost in her heart.

Coming out of the pawnshop, the young man in Xuanyi was still there. Seeing her, he turned over and dismounted, and the scarf embroidered with black dark flowers fluttered in the snow, showing his flamboyance.

"Give."

Wrapping himself around her neck, he rolled over his horse and ran out of the city without looking back.

Ah Yao was stunned for a while, until the smell of fresh meat buns coming out of the pot from the bun shop next door to the pawnshop came. My cousin was still waiting for her to go back to cook at home, and the road was already difficult to walk on snowy days, so she had to hurry.

Tightly she went directly into the rice shop at the opposite door, and after buying the rice, she thought of the thirty percent price that was plainly high, and she was going to go back in a different direction, and walked into the silk village next to it. After careful selection, she bought a piece of light cyan silk. Dad had taught her how to recognize these when he was alive, and although she had learned so-so at the time, she knew what was comfortable and strong. Except for the poor gloss, this one is no different from fine silk in other aspects.

In the past, she couldn't use this kind of material to make bed tents, but now she is only willing to cut off a piece of clothing.

My cousin is going to end up in the new year, and he must have decent clothes no matter what. Along the way, she was thinking about how to cut it, and her female popularity has grown by leaps and bounds in the past six months since she entered Beijing. When she arrived at the mouth of the alley where the courtyard was located, she had already calculated, in addition to making clothes for her cousin, the remaining large rags could also be used as a hand warmer, the small one could be made into two purses, and the smaller one would be put together into sandbags for the little tiger next door to play.

A happy smile spread across her lips, and before she turned into the alley, she glanced at the carriage parked at the mouth of the alley. The whole carriage was made of golden silk nanmu, the carriage was wide, and the wheels were inlaid with intricate patterns of jade, she had never seen this carriage before, but she felt that everywhere was familiar, and the more she thought about it, the more she wondered.

Her wondering didn't last long, and as she walked softly into the bedroom with the fabric in her arms, wanting to surprise her cousin, she heard the wheezing of other women inside.

"It's hard for Song Lang to endure for three years with such a stinky little girl. Now most of the Hu family's wealth is in the hands of you and me, and only ...... remains."

"Ah Ci, my cousin is already so pitiful, why do you want to kill them all."

"Yo, distressed? On the same day, I said that I would not be as rigid as a boudoir woman like Daxia, and if we get together, we will get together and disperse. If you like her, you can cook raw rice and stay by your side as a concubine, and you will have a reputation for benevolence and righteousness in high school in the future. ”

The man felt more and more that the woman couldn't catch it, and hurriedly expressed his loyalty: "How can Ah Ci not know my mind, you are the only one living in this life." Isn't it the deed of the Hu family's ancestral shop, A-Yao put it in my place. I wanted to help her go back to Qingcheng to do some small business after the lift, but since Ah Ci didn't like it, I sent her back to her mother. ”

"Who said I don't like it, I am short of a maid by my side."

"This ......"

No matter how ruthless Song Qinwen is as a cousin, he can't bear to be such a little cousin of his childhood sweetheart at first glance.

"Why, Song Lang refuses?"

Ah Yao outside the curtain only felt that the sky had fallen, and she said why the carriage was so familiar. The golden silk nanmu used to build the car body is a thousand workers who gave her a stepping bed from her father, and the wheel is inlaid with jade from the Hu family's warehouse, and she used it as a toy when she was young, as well as car curtains, bridles, and bridles, all from the Hu family, how could she not recognize her own things!

The root cause of the myriad things after the death of my father and mother that day was the lack of money. If the treasury had not been drained and the gold, silver and jade had not been stolen, it would not have been embarrassed to the point of buying and selling the deed of good land for the settlement of accounts.

The source of Qiē is here, it is she who mistakenly took the enemy as a benefactor, lured the wolf into the house and let him ruin the hundred-year foundation of the Hu family.

Thinking of this, she couldn't hold back any longer, kicked open the bedroom door and rushed in. Seeing the two white bodies sticking together like a swim bladder, the smell of the room made her almost vomit.

Seeing her, Song Qinwen looked panicked: "Cousin, why did you come back so early?" ”

Ah Yao's eyes were split: "Fortunately, I came back early, otherwise wouldn't I have been deceived by you as fools?" ”

Shen Moci on the bed shook his head: "How come?" I came here today to wait for you to come back, little cousin. Be honest, after all, Song Lang and I are in love, and we can't keep it from you. ”

"You are really honest, presumably the Hu family's treasury was also burned by you?"

Seeing that she didn't deny it, A-Yao's heart flashed: "Then your father was killed by the mountain bandits, too?" ”

Shen Moci shrugged his shoulders, and his face was full of disdain when the lust had not completely receded: "I never have blood on my hands, that kind of dirty work is not for women." ”

Speaking of which, A-Yao still doesn't understand anything.

Hate? How can it not be hate! What's the use of hate, Shen Moci has befriended several princes, and even the emperor has publicly praised her for "women don't let her eyebrows". In the past, she owned the wealth of the Hu family, and she easily designed it with a Song Qinwen. Now that she has nothing, what can she take revenge?

But this revenge can't be avenged, Yu Guang glanced at the windowsill, she sarcastically said: "My heart is already so black that it stinks, do you care if your hands are dirty?" ”

While she was stunned for a moment, she strode to the windowsill, picked up the scissors of the pineapple grains, and leaned over to stab her exposed heart. This is her only chance!

Seeing that the tip was about to pierce the flesh, a strong force suddenly came from the side to grab her.

"Cousin, if you don't feel happy, you can say it, why bother ......"

Before the words behind "Why bother" came out, Shen Moci, who had never received a real threat to her life for many years, snatched the scissors and stabbed her back like crazy in shock. With both hands behind Song Qinwen, Ah Yao couldn't break free at all, so she could only let Shen Moci poke out one blood hole after another on her body.

Springs of blood gushed out from his body, a cold sensation hit, and consciousness gradually disappeared. Before she died, what she was thinking about was not her resentment towards Song Qinwen and Shen Moci, but her father and mother, who had passed away three years ago, if they had spirits in the sky, how sad it would be to see her so confused.

What Ah Yao didn't know was that the moment before she lost consciousness, the young man in Xuanyi rode to the small courtyard. Hearing the movement inside and breaking into the bedroom, and seeing her lying in a pool of blood, covered in blood, he sank his face and knocked out the two without saying a word.

Then he fed the two of them spring water and locked them in the dark room, and when their fierce battle was at its fiercest, he poured mud from the roof and poured the two of them into a clay sculpture of the same height as the Buddha of Joy, and transported it to Qingcheng as a birthday gift for the 60th birthday of the old man Shen.

After a few years, a new round of changes in the imperial court, the young man personally asked for orders to inspect the Jiangnan Buzheng, and he made eight major crimes for the Shen family for reasons such as seeking money and killing people, which was enough for their whole clan to sit in prison. The property of the Hu family that was recovered was not collected from the treasury by the successor. The output of the field shop was supplied to the royal family, and the gold, silver and jewelry were allocated to the Salesian Bureaus and Futianyuan in various parts of Daxia after a turn in the treasury, saving countless widows and lonely people, and the merit was immeasurable.