Chapter 399, Goodbye Golden Flower

In the carriage, afraid that the coachman would hear it, the three of them hugged and rolled together, and they couldn't help laughing and trembling all over, Shu'er fell on Mingjing's body, holding her stomach and yelling in pain, and it took a long time for the three of them to sit up straight and panting, Changsheng rubbed Shu'er's stomach while pointing to the outside of the carriage, and asked her in a low voice if she was happy.

Shu'er stuck out her tongue and said in a low voice, "I'm so happy, thank you third uncle and aunt for finding a way to take me out, I'm about to suffocate." But aunt, there is one thing I want to tell you and the third uncle, Master Cen resigned and quit, saying that I am a big girl, he is not suitable to teach me anymore, let the county lord hire a female teacher for me, and he also said that he will not bother you and the third uncle, let me resign to you for him, and we will meet in the future. ”

Changsheng and Mingjing looked at each other speechlessly, but this is fine, some things and some people should be cut off without a trace. Anyway, with Cen Hao's piano skills, he is not worried about no one hiring at all, compared with the rich and noble, he is a poor pianist, compared with ordinary people, his monthly income has risen to thirty taels of silver, as well as three meals and four seasons of clothes, not counting the rewards and festival offerings, it is very rich, and he can marry a wife and have children in the future, and he can live a well-off life without worrying about food and clothing.

So they have nothing to worry about, and they don't need to worry about anything, Cen Hao is just an ordinary friend who has had a relationship, not a friend of life and death, everything is as fate would be.

Originally, they were going to the most lively and prosperous Nanshi, Xie Mingzhu had taken Changsheng and Shu'er to go there once, which was also the closest to Uncle Xu's house, just took Shu'er to play for a while and then buy gifts, went to the restaurant to pick up a few boxes of good dishes, and the family had a lively lunch and then returned.

However, in view of the fact that they are now living in the county lord's mansion, if Anyang knows where they went, he will definitely feel that the people who have lost the county lord's mansion will not be allowed to leave the mansion for a long time, and they will not be easily allowed to leave the mansion in the future, so Mingjing ordered the carriage to go straight to the Xisanfang where the rich and noble people shopped, ate and gathered.

There are the best rouge gouache shops, jewelry shops, silk and satin villages, calligraphy and painting antiques and other shops in Beijing, as well as dozens of restaurants with rich characteristics, dim sum shops, lap-mei shops, etc., as well as many shops run by foreigners, the whole street, all of which are all kinds of shops, the highest grade of goods, the most complete and the most expensive, it is the place where the rich people in Beijing burn silver, and the men, women and children who come and go are dressed in bright clothes and demeanor, and there are girls or small maids around to follow and wait.

If it weren't for the sake of going to Uncle Xu's house, it would be better for them to go there, and now they can only wait for next time.

In order to hide people's eyes, Mingjing ordered the carriage to stop at the entrance of Xisanfang Street, and the three people got out of the car, and gave the coachman a reward of two taels of silver, so that he could go to play and buy food, without waiting for them, and wait for them here at Shen Shizheng (four o'clock in the afternoon), and return home at the end of Shen Shizheng (five o'clock in the afternoon) at the latest.

The coachman took the silver and thanked him and left, Mingjing pulled Changsheng and Shu'er straight to the other end of Xisanfang, Xisanfang is a place for rich people to hang out, they all have their own carriages, there is no place to hire a sedan chair, go out from the other end and turn around, there is a car market, there are all kinds of cars and sedan chairs in it.

There are many people in Xisanfang, they can't go fast, Mingjing looked at Changsheng and Shu'er along the way, and felt even more ashamed, I just hope that thing is true, if it is true, Changsheng's fate will soon be changed, and he will no longer be controlled by others, but he has become a person who lives dependent on Changsheng, but he doesn't care, it is his wife, the wife of the rich and the poor.

With a pillar of incense, they had already gotten into a hired ordinary carriage and went straight to Nanshi. Nanshi is as lively as ever, although the streets are narrow and the shops are ugly, the pedestrians who come and go are much more ordinary, and some middle- and lower-level military officials and officials and students also come and go from time to time, after all, not everyone can afford to go to a place like Xisanfang.

But the popularity here is even more prosperous than Xisanfang, and even in the middle of the store, there are people who set up stalls to sell things, and there are many juggling shouting and singing, candy blowers, dough pinching people, selling sugar gourds, carrying and selling snacks, everything, full of fresh and hot life, obviously Shu'er prefers here.

It's just that the three of them are too dazzling to stand here in bright clothes, in order not to be suspicious of the county lord's mansion, Changsheng still has a few bright golden hairpins on his head, and he is looked at curiously from time to time, obviously there are very few people like them who come here, fortunately, they don't care about being watched, Shu'er squirmed for a while.

In order to let her take time to play for a while, the two decided to divide the labor, Mingjing went to buy gifts, and found a better restaurant, renovated a few boxes of good wine and food to take away, and Changsheng took Shu'er to play around to make her happy.

Changsheng first took Shu'er to watch the monkey for a while, gave her a dozen rewards, and took her to blow a candy man, pinch a noodle man, and eat a string of sugar gourds, but she still couldn't wait for Mingjing, and she didn't dare to go far, so she had to take Shu'er to see the monkey again, anyway, she never got tired of watching it.

After a while, Mingjing came over sweating profusely with a bunch of gifts, followed by a man who looked like a man, carrying two heavy food boxes, and it seemed that there were a lot of dishes.

The two didn't dare to delay, gave the food money and the deposit of the food box, made an appointment to return the food box in the afternoon, and then got into the carriage and went straight to Wicker Lane, in fact, the road is very close, but there are too many things to take.

At the beginning of the day (more than 11 o'clock at noon) finally arrived at Uncle Xu's house, the alley was narrow and uneven, the carriage could not enter, Mingjing was carrying two heavy food boxes, Changsheng and Shu'er were holding a lot of gifts, although it was the late autumn season, the three of them were still hot and sweaty.

opened the door to greet their cousin Wang Jinhua, she was still wearing an apron with wet hands, she seemed to be washing clothes, she was taller and calmer than before, and she no longer had the original pride. In the yard, Uncle Xu was chopping wood, and Aunt Xu was sitting on a small stool to choose vegetables.

Seeing them, the three of them were very excited, but they didn't know what to say, Jin Hua choked and said: "Cousin, you are finally willing to come to see me, I thought I would want to kill you if you don't care about me anymore, do you know?" ”

Changsheng's eyes were also wet, although she had a lot of dissatisfaction with this cousin, and this cousin was also very annoying before, but she still couldn't help but get excited, and said angrily: "Silly girl, why don't you catch me soon?" I'm dying of exhaustion."

The gifts bought are the most practical clothes, snacks, dried vegetables and medicinal herbs, Mingjing also said that he would send a few baskets of charcoal after the cold weather, so that they could also make braziers in winter, Uncle Xu and Aunt Xu just wiped their tears.

Changsheng took out two pieces of bright and thick clothing specially bought for Jinhua, which were specially used to make winter clothes, and a set of clothes that she took the time to make for Jinhua, the clothes were not very good, but the color was warm and soft, and the patterns were good, which were suitable for Jinhua to wear, and took out a gold hairpin and a silver hairpin from her sleeve pocket, which she had worn, and the color and workmanship were good.

Jin Hua blushed and refused, Changsheng saw that she was really no longer as ignorant as before, and his heart was even happier, and he stuffed it into her hand with a smile: "Good sister, I am really happy to see that you are becoming more and more sensible." Take it, this thing was given to you by my sister, when the girl's family is older, she has to dress up beautifully, a good girl is begging for a hundred families, and my sister can still see that you can't get married? Come in, change your clothes, put on the hairpin and show it to my sister, and I'll ask someone to find me my in-laws."

Jin Hua was so ashamed that her face was flushed, and she asked Aunt Xu to call the shots for her, saying that her sister was bullying her. When they were almost in trouble, Mingjing pulled Changsheng into the house.

In fact, Changsheng is really thinking about Jinhua's lifelong event, the good family affair she set before has been withdrawn, Jinhua said that she has no face to go back to marry anyway, just want to marry in the capital, and look better when she goes back in the future.

Of course, Changsheng can't marry her regardless of whether it's good or bad, so he is very concerned about her family affairs, but this kind of condition is really high or low, and she and Mingjing don't know many people in Beijing, but it has become her heart.

Jinhua is a smart and clever person, and the children of the peasant family are very diligent and capable, but they are too arrogant and ignorant at home, and they have not seen much of the world in that small place, and because of their beauty, they were connived at by her mother in every way, and were praised by some shallow villagers, so they were arrogant and arrogant before, and they thought that they were the golden phoenix in the ravine, and they could be their mothers as long as they came to the capital.

But after coming, first because there was nowhere to go, Changsheng stayed in the Xu family, although it was not bad to eat with Mingjing's funding from time to time, it was much better than her mother's house in the countryside of Yunzhou, but it was too far from the capital she imagined.

At first, I was extremely aggrieved and regretful, and even hated Changsheng for being ruthless and unintentionally caring about her life or death, but I slowly figured it out. This path was chosen by herself, she begged Changsheng to bring her, and Changsheng made it very clear at the beginning that everything was voluntary for her, and not anyone had the obligation to spoil her and raise her, and slowly stopped complaining. What's more, thinking about the ignorance and arrogance at the beginning, I feel ashamed, how can I blame others for not liking her?

Out of the wicker lane is the prosperous place in Beijing, she often goes to the south of the city to buy common necessities, when there are some young girls and ** in and out, people wear that demeanor and rhyme, lined with how they look at the village atmosphere, often people think that she is selling snacks, at first even out of the door did not dare to speak, for fear that others would hear their foreign accent and despise.

Uncle Xu also said that the women who came and went in and out of Nanshi were all middle-class and lower-class women, and those noble people didn't bother to come here at all, and a piece of jewelry and clothes of those women might be chewed and wrapped by the Zhuanghu people for more than ten years or even a lifetime.

Only then did I realize that I was just a wild flower in the ravine of Yunzhou, and it was just a small grass at most. She was indignant and frightened, closed herself off and felt sorry for herself, as if she had been disappointed in life, it was Uncle Xu and Aunt Xu's meticulous love and care that made her gradually come out of the shadows and gradually calm her mind.

She is a smart and capable person who does not admit defeat, and believes that Changsheng will never leave her alone, and if she chooses this path, she must work hard to walk well, so that she will not be ridiculed by her hometown, and she will be worthy of her resolute decision to destroy that good family business.

She regained the courage to live, and soon integrated into the family, doing her best to take care of the family's life every day, she believed that her changes and immortality would be seen, and she would do her best to help herself, and her good luck would eventually come.