In front of the rockery in the courtyard, there is a Taishi chair, on which sits a wicked woman with a mole at the corner of her mouth, picking her teeth with a toothpick.

Critical eyes looked Liu Zhijie in front of him up and down.

Liu Zhijie was uncomfortable when she glanced at her last and the next, and realized that it was the woman who splashed her swill last night, and hurriedly lowered her head.

The wicked woman mocked:

"Look at you with fine skin and tender meat, what kind of work can you do?"

Liu Zhijie lowered his head and said vaguely:

"In the lower quite a lot of writing and ink, landscape calligraphy and painting and piano exercises, imitating the calligraphy of Feibai can also be said to be able to pass the eyes of famous masters."

The wicked woman sneered:

"Although I am a scholar here, I am not recruiting staff and scholars, your ability to take the top exam is nothing to me, Lao Feng, pull him to dismantle the house and chop firewood, not enough to get a dry firewood stack, let him get out of the house tomorrow."

Listen, the last word, you must not have any contact with my sister, but if I hear a word, roll up and leave! ”

The housekeeper Lao Feng dragged Liu Zhijie to go, Liu Zhijie has a pair of big ears and keen hearing, and before leaving, he can still hear the noise between the wicked woman and Miss Lin in the boudoir.

Lin Wanxi said:

"Aunt Feng, you are not my biological mother, just forget the first few things, last year your brother-in-law bought Wenmo for Shangshu Mansion, and privately embezzled two hundred taels of silver, I didn't say anything, but you interfered with Shangshu Mansion to recruit long-term workers, this is a bit excessive."

That Aunt Feng cried and cried:

"Oh, my sister, you never know, this is a mess, who knows what the way this long-term worker is coming from, sister, don't be deceived by him, now most of these flower thieves look like scholars.

I can't control you, but you are not Lin Shangshu's biological child after all, but my wife hid the matter of Yangzhou Thin Horse from you, you can't go to tea and cool down......."

"Shut up!" Lin Wanxi looked at the old woman in front of her viciously and said no more.

Liu Zhijie heard a rough idea in his heart, he knew the inside story.

This Lin Wanxi is not Lin Rui's biological daughter, but her goddaughter.

I remember five years ago I was still the Oiran in Yangzhou Twenty-four Bridge Garden, blowing, pulling, playing, singing all fine, at that time Liu Zhijie was down-and-out Yangzhou, the only spiritual motivation was to go to the Twenty-four Bridge Garden to listen to a Suzhou flat play, that tone was bleak and soft, and he could not forget it for the rest of his life.

Subsequently, the Lantern Festival went to the lanterns, sent an umbrella after the rain, and got acquainted with this Miss Lin, and the two victims who met in Pingshui have since become bosom friends.

One listens to singing on time every day, and the other has tears in the smoke and rain building, and over time, the two young people have feelings.

Liu Zhijie is not like those noble sons at all, who often buy beauties for a smile, but the sweet plums after dinner every day are a must-have thing on Miss Lin's dinner table.

By the way, at that time, she was not called Lin Wanxi, her name was Jin'er, and Mandarin Duck Jinpa was the love affair between the two.

However, although Liang Yuan is not a long-term love family, the Qingyang bandits attacked Yangzhou, and the prefect ran away without a trace, but it was this affectionate and righteous plum merchant who hid her in a wooden cart and passed through layers of checkpoints.

However, after all, the thin horses in Yangzhou are to meet the buyers, these thin horses are first funded by the local salt merchants to buy back the girls from poor families and then practice, teach them singing and dancing, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and sell them to the rich as concubines or enter the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion after they grow up, so as to make a profit from it.

Because the poor girls are so thin, the name "thin horse" comes from this. When he first bought a virgin, he only paid a dozen yuan, but when he got married, he could earn as much as 1,500 taels.

Ordinary people see that it is profitable, compete to emulate, it is a trend, Yangzhou salt merchants monopolize the salt transportation industry in the country, and the waist is full of thousands of dollars, rich in the world, so in the Celestial Empire at that time, Yangzhou "raising thin horses" is the most popular.

When the two separated, Jin'er finally entered the Ruyi Garden in Hojing, and on the day of separation, the merchant brother left two lines of tears rarely:

"Jin'er, the plum merchant has no interest, he can't buy you a big house, he can't afford to support you, and when he is developed in the future, no matter how difficult it is, the plum merchant will definitely marry you to get started, and he will have a red eight-lift sedan chair."

Jin'er cried and pulled Jinpa:

"Brother Merchant, the slave family is not rare in any big house, and don't carry the sedan chair eight times, the slave family's life is saved by the merchant's brother, let us stay in the cold kiln, isn't it good for a lifetime?"

Liu Zhijie's eyes were blurred with tears at that time:

"Jin'er, you are so affectionate and friendly, the plum merchant should be unrequited, but you are willing to work hard with me to guard the cold kiln, but I can't stand up to the sky, I don't even have the ability to buy you a big house, how can I still settle down in this pickaxe capital, I can't be famous in my lifetime, and I will definitely never see you again."

With a "stab" sound, the mandarin duck brocade was divided into two, and since then it has become the only witness to the separation of men and women.

Mandarin duck refers to male birds, and ducks refer to female birds, so Mandarin ducks are compound words.

In Liu Zhijie's hometown, there is another set of names.

The male bird is called Liang Shanbo, and the female bird is called Zhu Yingtai.

That year, Liu Zhijie was eighteen years old and Jin'er was sixteen years old.

[The story is good, thank you for the collection]