While the two were entangled, a woman in her early forties, with a round body, was about to wear a swaggering red embroidered kapok dress, and her face was full of flesh. She saw the woman in white who was still pulling with the man in brocade, and hurriedly stepped forward to grab the other wrist of the woman in white, and shouted sharply: "Little slut, I still owe my aunt and my two taels of silver for the house and medicine, where do you want to run?" ”

Both wrists were grasped without pity, either out of grief, or fear, or out of shame The tears that had been stored in the eyes of the woman in white for a long time finally slipped down. She cried with a pale face: "The shopkeeper's anger, I really didn't want to run, I just wanted to come out and sing a little song to make some small money and owe you money." ”

The woman sneered, "With your two little songs, you can't even support yourself, when will I be able to pay back my house?" And the corpse of your dead ghost father, I have asked someone to take the grass and send it to Yizhuang, and it cost me another 500 yuan. Coupled with your future food and housing expenses, this is all money! What do you little slut take to pay it back? ”

"Daddy! Why don't you take your daughter with you" The woman in white screamed sadly, only crying like pear blossoms with rain, and her liver and intestines were broken. The woman's crying also attracted many guests downstairs to come up to watch the excitement.

The man in brocade pretended to comfort with a smug face: "Little lady, don't be sad, I'll pay back this silver for you, as long as you are willing to go back with me obediently to be a ninth aunt." I guarantee that you will wear gold and jade in the future, and you don't have to worry about anything. ”

The woman in white trembled with fright. Cowering and afraid to speak. The woman's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly persuaded the woman: "This son actually doesn't dislike you and is willing to pay for you to save you, but it's a great thing." You don't want to go with this son. Such a good family, but after this village, there is no such shop. ”

The man in brocade grew more and more ambitious. The little eyes kept rolling on the woman's body, revealing the meaning of color fascination. His hand was still rubbing little by little on her slender arm, "Oh, this thin skin and tender flesh is so slippery to the touch!" Little lady, my carriage is below, why don't you go with my house! ”

The onlookers couldn't help whispering secretly: "Isn't this the young owner of the Jucai Gambling House in the west of the city!" I heard that he was lustful. There are several aunts in the family, why are they still not satisfied and are harming other people's girls here? Pity this girl still has filial piety! Although his body is a little thinner, he has clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes. It's a flower stuck in cow dung. ”

"This woman is too sour, but she only owes a few taels of silver. As for such hard work? ”

"Not necessarily, now the girl's family is gone. No one can force her to sell herself but herself."

The woman listened to the crowd around her, and seemed to be full of sympathy for the woman in white. Her mouth cracked. He sat down on the ground. patted his thigh and cried: "You little slut really has no conscience, you and your dead ghost father have no way to kiss and no one is willing to take them in." It's the old lady who is kind and doesn't dislike your bad luck, and rents a house for you to live in. Your dead ghost dad is sick and has no money to buy medicine, and it's also my mother, I will pay for the medicine and send it to you. Now that the house is still dead, people will feel unlucky, and they don't know when they will be able to rent it out. You little slut doesn't want to pay me back, but it really killed me" Her cry was sharp and sharp, and at once the delicate sobs of the woman in white were sobbed. There was also a lot of talk around it.

Originally, the guests who were not used to seeing this woman pressing forward step by step were not good enough to say anything. Only one of them muttered, "If there is a kind-hearted son who can buy this girl, it will be the best of both worlds."

Perhaps it was the bystander's words that alerted the woman, and her helpless gaze searched around, when suddenly she saw Zhong Ziyuan sitting by the railing and Cardamom sitting across from her, looking at her with sympathy on her face.

The woman's eyes lit up, and she immediately rushed to Zhong Ziyuan with her skirt in front of her, knelt on the ground all of a sudden, and kept kowtowing and crying: "Please also ask this son to forgive his sins." The little girl was penniless and unable to bury her father, and owed the store a lot of money, which was difficult to repay. I also hope that the son will take pity on one or two and buy the little girl, so that the little woman can repay the debt of the shopkeeper and bury her father. The little woman is willing to be a cow and a horse to repay the great kindness of the son. ”

After she finished speaking, she raised her face slightly, and her eyes washed with tears were amazingly bright. lined with the blue marks on her forehead, it looked even more pitiful. She also involuntarily stretched out a pair of slender jade hands, grasping the hem of Zhong Ziyuan's robe, like a person about to drown, clutching the only piece of driftwood in her hand.

The flawless, jade-like little hand attracted all of Zhong Ziyuan's attention, and she couldn't help lowering her eyes and watching quietly, without making a sound for a long time. Although Cardamom knew that her own situation was not suitable for buying a newcomer to enter, out of sympathy for this woman, she also looked at Zhong Ziyuan expectantly.

The man in brocade saw that the beautiful girl who was almost in his hands was about to run, so he rushed over in a few steps. However, after getting closer, he found that Zhong Ziyuan was actually wearing a luxurious Shu brocade robe, and he didn't dare to make a mistake after all, so he only stared viciously at the white-clothed woman who was kneeling on the ground.

A lady in a casual dress with narrow sleeves walked up with two domestic servants. She didn't expect the second floor to be so lively, and couldn't help but ask in amazement, "What's wrong?" ”

Cardamom glanced up, and immediately her eyes lit up. She hurriedly pushed Zhong Ziyuan and whispered, "Childe, look over there, it's Mrs. Mei here." ”

Zhong Ziyuan didn't care that the woman was still holding her robe, and hurriedly stood up to greet her. As she walked, the woman hurriedly gave her hand away for fear of tearing her clothes.

Zhong Ziyuan didn't pay attention to her at all, only hugged his fist at Mrs. Mei and said, "In Xia Jia Ming, I've seen Mrs. Mei." ”

"Jia Gongzi doesn't have to be polite." Mrs. May is about to be in her early twenties, and although her face is not stunning, she is beautiful with a heroic and shrewd spirit. She smiled happily: "I'm really sorry, I've kept you waiting for a long time!" ”

"Where! It's because we're anxious. I arrived early. Come, please sit here. Zhong Ziyuan politely led Mrs. Mei to sit down, and the two domestic servants she brought. He waited quietly behind her. Seeing this, Cardamom didn't dare to sit with Zhong Ziyuan unscrupulously, so after she poured tea for Mrs. Mei, she also stood behind Zhong Ziyuan honestly.

Seeing that Zhong Ziyuan's attention was not on the woman in white, the brocade-clothed man hurriedly reached out to pull her sleeve, and wanted her to go with him. The woman deftly avoided his pull, walked to Zhong Ziyuan on her knees, and kowtowed again and again: "Gongzi is benevolent." Please, do well, buy the little girl! ”

Mrs. May has just arrived, and she doesn't know what is going on here. couldn't help frowning slightly and looking at Zhong Ziyuan. Zhong Ziyuan said a little apologetically: "Please wait for a while, and then explain to Madame when I finish dealing with it." ”

"Please." After all, it was the first time they met, and Mrs. Mei also wanted to observe Zhong Ziyuan's behavior more, so she readily agreed. I only took the tea cup and sipped it slowly. It's time to watch the show.

I saw that the woman was still kowtowing. Zhong Ziyuan sighed lightly and said, "Since you have plans to sell yourself, why don't you go to find a tooth woman?" ”

The woman kowtowed heavily and cried: "The son doesn't know, if the little girl sells herself to the tooth woman, I'm afraid she won't be able to get out." After saying that, she glanced timidly at the brocade-clothed man, and then quickly lowered her eyes, like a frightened fawn. The man in brocade was glanced at by that look. I only felt that the bones in my body were lighter, and I didn't hear the obscurity in it at all.

Zhong Ziyuan heard the implied meaning of her words. She was afraid that after selling herself to Ya Po, the brocade man would buy herself directly from Ya Po, and she would not be able to get out of it at all. Zhong Ziyuan hesitated for a moment and asked, "Then how much money do you want to sell?" ”

The woman didn't expect her to agree so readily, so she kowtowed again and again in ecstasy, and said, "Thank you, thank you, thank you, it's only twenty taels." "Twenty taels is really a bit more, enough to buy four maids, or an ordinary rich family to marry an aunt. No wonder she refused to sell herself to Ya Po, it is estimated that even if she was willing, no Ya Po would be willing to spend this large amount of unjust money to buy her. However, everyone in the audience heard her cry about burying her father and returning the money to the proprietress, but no one thought she was greedy.

The cardamom over there was a quick mouth, and quietly told Mrs. May what had happened. Mrs. May glanced at the woman quietly and frowned secretly. When she saw that Zhong Ziyuan actually agreed to buy this woman, her lips couldn't help moving, and after thinking about it, she still didn't make a sound.

The man in brocade may have really taken a fancy to the woman in white, and hurriedly said: "I'll pay a hundred taels, little lady, you better go with me!" ”

Who knew that the woman in white didn't look at him at all, a pair of wonderful eyes only stared at Zhong Ziyuan, full of expectation, the man couldn't help but hate in his heart when he saw this, and his face full of pimples was blue and white.

Zhong Ziyuan quietly ordered: "Well, Cardamom, go to the store to borrow pen, ink, paper, and inkstone." ”

"Yes." Cardamom hurriedly walked downstairs, and after a while, he brought a pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and a small box of cinnabar ink.

Zhong Ziyuan picked up the pen and wrote a deed of sale with her own hands, then pushed it in front of the woman, and said gently: "Don't kneel, stand up and take a look." This is your deed of sale, and if you regret it, you can tear it up now. If there is no repentance, press your mudra. ”

The woman in white hurriedly stood up and said softly, "I can't read." ”

Zhong Ziyuan smiled and ordered, "Cardamom, you read it to her." ”

"Yes." Cardamom didn't postpone it, and took the deed of sale and read it according to it. After listening, the woman had no objection, and simply pressed her own handprint on the deed of sale.

Zhong Ziyuan handed over the deed of sale to Cardamom, then took out a money bag from his arms, threw it into the woman's arms, and said, "Take it!" There were exactly twenty taels of silver. ”

"Thank you, thank you, Childe." The woman was also overjoyed and wanted to kneel down and kowtow again. The woman, who had been peeping on the side for a long time, stepped forward with a shy smile and said, "Since the little lady has the silver, should she pay me back?" Her voice turned quickly, and the little-cheap-person immediately became a little lady.

The woman in white didn't care about her, opened the money bag that Zhong Ziyuan gave her, found a two-tael plum blossom silver ingot and a small piece of broken silver horn, and returned it to the woman.

The woman got the money and left with a smile, and everyone felt that the play was almost inseparable, and they dispersed in twos and threes. Only the man in brocade was still unwilling, and Tie Qing's face was still staring at him.

There was a strange smile on the corner of Mrs. May's mouth, and she didn't even raise her head, only silently tasting the fragrant tongue in the cup.

The woman in white carefully put away the money bag, then bowed her knees to Zhong Ziyuan, and asked delicately: "I don't know which family the son is from, how should he be called?"

The corners of Zhong Ziyuan's mouth hooked, and she said slowly: "The girl is clumsy, she is just a powerless and powerless traveling doctor, but she is not a powerful son in any house." ”

The woman in white was stunned for a moment, and the smile on her face immediately became a little reluctant, and she only said in a sneering voice: "Childe said that he was laughing." The brocade-clothed man's eyes lit up suddenly, and a hopeful light appeared. Mrs. Mei also raised her eyes in surprise and glanced at Zhong Ziyuan.

Zhong Ziyuan's face changed, put away his previous gentleness, and shouted: "Bold, the first thing the master said, you dare to question it, are you such a slave?" ”

The woman was stunned for a moment, and it seemed that she had not yet adapted to her status as a slave and maid, and after half a ring, she knelt down and said weakly: "The son forgives the sin, it is the slave and the maid who can't speak, and I won't dare next time." Her eyes were fogged again, and she looked very aggrieved. The brocade-clothed man saw it, felt pity in his heart, and couldn't help glaring at Zhong Ziyuan fiercely.

He also heard Zhong Ziyuan's words that he claimed to be a powerless and powerless traveling doctor, and he was suddenly ashamed and annoyed in his heart, only hating that he was frightened by her gorgeous clothes and missed the opportunity to accept this beautiful girl. So he began to secretly think in his heart how to get out of this evil breath for himself.

Zhong Ziyuan seemed to be worried that the woman would not believe her words, and explained in great detail and patiently: "Actually, my house is just a small courtyard, with five or six rooms. Except for the hall, every room was occupied. You're going, and you're going to have to lay a bunk at my door. Besides, the twenty taels of silver I bought you just now are all my belongings. Now that the family doesn't even have money to buy groceries, you may have to drink porridge with us for a few days if you go. But don't worry, the gruel is still full. ”

"Poof." Mrs. May couldn't hold back a single one and laughed out loud.

But Cardamom couldn't help but pout, and said in her heart that the son was too bad, how could he scare the little lady like this. Look at! scared everyone's little faces. Now where is the family living so miserable, isn't there a whole three thousand taels of silver waiting to be taken back! (To be continued......)