Chapter 13: Dressing Up
After a while, Liu Jing returned to the house.
As soon as he entered the door, Uncle Wang strode up to greet him. He led Liu Jing to the corner of the side, lowered his voice and said, "Da Lang, the situation of the adults in prison is not good. ”
Liu Jing's face turned white.
After a while, she suppressed her panic and asked, "Why is it bad?" ”
"I heard that the adults have been in prison for several months, and they have not been visited by their relatives. Those jailers all said that he was poor and sour, and he was harsh on food and clothing, and there were often jailers who took out their anger at adults when they were in a bad mood. ”
Speaking of this, Uncle Wang saw that Liu Jing's face was pale, and her pearl-like teeth were biting her lower lip tightly, and blood was oozing from her lips. At this time, he remembered that Liu Jing was just a daughter, and he told her such a cruel thing, but he forced her.
After Uncle Wang closed his lips and was silent, Liu Jing asked in a calm voice, "If I want to see my father, how much gold do I have to spend?" How much would it cost to get the jailers to be kind to their fathers? ”
Uncle Wang replied bitterly: "Those jailers said that the adults are serious criminals who have been cared for by the above, and they dare not let the idlers go...... According to my inquiry, from the first level to the meeting of adults, a total of seven people have to be beaten, and one person will cost two taels of gold. ”
That is, to meet each other, it will cost fourteen taels of gold?
Uncle Wang said again: "As for the dots up and down, so that the adults can be treated well, I am afraid that it will cost more than 100 gold before and after." "I'm afraid of scaring Liu Jing, his 100 gold amount is compressed and compressed.
After a pause, Uncle Wang said again: "I don't dare to tell the master mother about the matter of adults. Today, I added some things, and the main mother only had a dozen taels of gold in hand. ”
In other words, just seeing my father will deplete the family's surplus wealth. Before the old house and shop are not sold, they will have no food and clothing?
After thinking about it, Liu Jing gritted her teeth and said, "Leave my father's affairs to me, Uncle Wang, you can leave for Luoyang as soon as possible." ”
"Okay."
"By the way, Uncle Lu doesn't remember the appearance of Gu Jiaerlang?"
Uncle Wang frowned and pondered for a while, and said, "Lao Lu has met Gu Jiaerlang's parents. It is expected that even if Gu Jiaerlang grows up, his appearance should be similar to his parents. It shouldn't be hard to recognize. ”
"That's good, let Uncle Lu act immediately."
After watching Uncle Wang leave, Liu Jing walked towards the cleanest courtyard.
Before she could get started, she heard the laughter of the third sister Liu Xuangege. The little girl who doesn't know the sorrow of the world is playing a game of hide and hide with a servant.
Glancing at the third sister, Liu Jing turned to her mother.
Mother Liu was gathering the rest of the servants to talk there, and as soon as Liu Jing approached, she heard her mother say, "A few of you, go and find a nearby silk village to see if you can recruit people." Aunt Cheng, you can help me pick up some embroidery work...... but it turned out to be arranging this.
These servants in Liufu are all the people who accompany Liu's mother, and they have been there since Liu Jing can remember. After all these years, they have long been like relatives with each other. So Liu's mother arranged for them to go outside to find a job to support their family, and no one had any objections.
Liu Jing listened for a while, then turned to leave
The most pressing issue at the moment is to visit my father once and change his situation in prison. As for my father's life, it should be all right before autumn comes. Because since ancient times, the court has believed in the natural principle that the spring lord is born and the autumn lord is solemn. Generally speaking, no matter how many prisoners there are, they are executed in the spring, and if they want to be killed, they will wait until after the fall. The term 'execution after autumn' is common among all people.
In a blink of an eye, Liu Jing regretted again, knowing that Lu Dao's father was having such a difficult time, the family's old house and shop should have been taken off first. It's just that then again, those people in Yanghe County are too down-and-out, they know that something happened to their family, and the price they offer is less than half of the normal one. And later, Liu Xuan also knew that he said, don't look at the buyers divided into several batches, in fact, they are all people sent by Zhao Xuan, who is a loan shark.
Liu Jing returned to her room and read the gossip heard by more than two dozen prodigal people when she was in Liyang.
In these market gossip, there are many truths that she has not been exposed to before, and they are mixed with ways to make money that ordinary people can't see. She wanted to find a way to make a quick buck.
Just as Liu Jing was thinking about it, a day passed quickly.
Early the next morning, as soon as Liu Jing walked to her mother, who was squinting and embroidering in the sun, she heard Liu's mother's hoarse voice due to poor sleep, "Jing'er, you should visit your father today, right?" After that, Liu's mother, whose eyes were red from staying up late to embroider, raised her head and looked at her daughter.
Liu Jing's lips moved.
She hadn't spoken yet, and Liu's mother, who had been staring at her, turned pale and said in a panic, "Is there something wrong with your father?" ”
Hearing her mother's frightened almost screaming voice, Liu Jing hurriedly shook her head. At this moment, she didn't know if she was stimulated by her mother, and she actually came up with a bold plan.
At that moment, she didn't care about her mother, she waved her hand and whispered, "Let me be quiet." With that, she paced with her hands on her shoulders.
After turning around like this for a few times, Liu Jing suddenly walked to her mother's side, squatted down and looked at Liu's mother and said, "Mother, you said that if I go to the pawnshop to rent a set of clothes and shoes that are common to the nobles, you can help me dress up." How sure are you that people feel that I am a real Langjun from the Luoyang family? ”
Mother Liu was stunned, infected by her daughter's attitude, and she also calmed down. After looking at her daughter for a while, Mother Liu said: "My Jing'er is naturally noble, and she is also a noble person without deliberately pretending. ”
Liu Jing stood up at the moment and said, "Mother, you give me ten taels of gold." I went to visit my father. ”
Liu Mu looked at her in a daze, and then nodded after a while: "Okay." ”
Taking the gold handed over by Liu's mother, Liu Jing casually stuffed it into the cuffs and walked out.
To Liu's mother's surprise, Liu Jing came back not long after she left, and when she came back, she was still dressed in simple cloth.
Then, in the afternoon, Liu Jing went out for a while, and on the third day, she went out once in the morning and once in the afternoon.
On the fourth day, as soon as Liu Jing left the house, she walked directly to the pawnshop.
When she came out again two quarters of an hour later, she was already dressed in fine clothes. This silver dress is inlaid with thin gold threads, and in the sunlight, it shines with a nouveau riche atmosphere.
However, Liu Jing dressed up in men's clothes, there was a kind of temperament that was too gentle and elegant, this kind of gentleness and elegance was washed by this golden light, but it was strangely neutralized, and she looked like a kind of eyebrows, gorgeous but not overbearing.
Of course, Liu Jing took out ten taels of gold, and what she rented was not just a robe, her middle coat, her bottom clothes, and her shoes were all the same set as this robe.
Walking onto the street like this, for a while, Liu Jing felt that everyone around her was looking at each other. And wherever she goes, someone gives way.
After walking down the street for a while, Liu Jing heard the sound of horses' hooves behind her. And the sound of horses' hooves is accompanied by a tidal wave of people receding to both sides.
At that moment, she slowly turned her head.
What appeared in her field of vision were three knights, all of whom were dressed in green clothes and black robes, with an awe-inspiring momentum, although there were only three people, but these three people rose and fell in unison, and their momentum was amazing, so they attracted passers-by to avoid them.
Seeing this, Liu Jing also slowly retreated. When the three knights came to her, she frowned, and involuntarily took two steps back.
These three people are all a little kind-looking, think about it carefully, aren't they the people next to the black-clothed leader?
If you want to say who Liu Jing is most afraid of, it is the black-clothed leader. Seeing the people around him at this moment, she even forgot the demeanor she had worked so hard to maintain along the way, and the way she was in a hurry to dodge, she couldn't wait to hide herself. Therefore, she did not notice that after the three knights had rushed over for a while, one of them glanced back in her direction, and when he turned around, he smiled and said something to his companion.
As soon as the three knights left, the city of Wu County was lively again. At that moment, Liu Jing stepped forward and walked towards the house of Chang Gong, the richest man in Wu County, in the west of the city.
After a while, she came to the outside of Changfu. Looking at this 100-acre area, the stone gate is amazingly imposing. She walked over without stopping.
When Liu Jing appeared, the two men were also looking at her. Seeing her come forward, they hurriedly strode to meet her.
Facing these two people, without waiting for them to speak, Liu Jing was already in her hands, and said gently: "Please tell Chang Gong that I have something important to look for him." As she said this, she looked at them quietly with a pair of warm and clear eyes like spring water.
Liu Jing is dressed in cloth, and she also has an elegance and purity that belongs to the literati, not to mention that she is still dressed up now?
After the two men glanced at each other, one of them saluted her and said, "Lang Jun is a little longer." With that, he pushed the door open.
Forced by Liu Jing's demeanor, the two didn't dare to leave her outside to wait, so they opened the door and welcomed her into the main hall of Changfu.
Liu Jing sat in the main hall for a while, and just took two sips of the wine presented by the maidservant, when a deep and powerful footstep came. In the blink of an eye, a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties, with a round face, who looked smiling at first, but whose small eyes were full of brilliance, walked out.
When he saw the handsome Liu Jing, he raised his thick eyebrows, and his voice sounded like a bell, "Xiao Langjun is looking for me?" ”
This person looked kind, but this opening sounded loudly, which made Liu Jing's ears buzz.
"Yes." Liu Jing stood up, she took a deep look at the middle-aged man, and said with a smile: "My surname is Liu, and I just came from Liyang." I heard that Chang Gong was kind and giving, and admired ......" She said this, Chang Gong's brows furrowed: Could it be that this handsome and dazzling little Langjun actually came to join him and wanted to be a guest?
Just as he was thinking like this, Liu Jing had finished his words in a gentle manner, "Liu came here specially to send two sentences to Chang Gong. ”