Chapter Twenty-Three: Buying a Maid
Lan Muya frowned, secretly complaining that Mama Fang was troublesome, always thinking that the couple would reconcile. She didn't want to be entangled, so she changed the topic and said: "Master, when the concubine was originally in the boudoir, she had a very good personal relationship with the second lady of Xue Yuanwailang of the Ancestral Officials' Department, and I heard that she is now a noble lady in Luoxia Palace, and she has a lot of face in front of Li Zhaoyi. ”
"When I go back, please pay more attention to the eldest son of the Wang family, if it is really a good one, I will give up my old face and ask Xue Guiren to give Fusu a face-saving marriage, do you think it is good?"
Bai Shilang thought about the appearance of his own daughter-in-law, and then went through the noble daughters of other families in Chang'an City in his mind, and suddenly lost confidence in his daughter, and felt that it was best to be able to get married.
But...... He said with a smile on his face: "Madame has such a personal relationship, why don't you go around with Xue Niangniang more in the future?" It's good to bring hibiscus to see and know. ”
When Lan Muya heard this, she couldn't help sneering in her heart, and promised in her mouth: "Yes, the concubine can save herself." "My daughter's business hasn't been done yet, so let's pull that concubine first? She's not stupid!
Bai Fusu, who had already left the mansion, was now full of joy and joy, but he didn't know that there were many things behind him. She sat in the sedan chair of Miss Lang's Mansion, followed by Bai Shao, and more than a dozen rough envoys followed. went straight to the house of the mother of the man Yazi who specializes in walking in large households.
Mrs. Wang was shouting at home for the little girl to unveil the steamed Erhe noodle bun, with pickles and pickles to prepare for dinner, when she suddenly saw the little maid in the waiter's house calling the door, saying that the eldest lady in the house had come to pick someone personally.
The mother-in-law was flustered, and hurriedly put down her chopsticks and hurriedly shouted for the girls to come out. I saw a commotion in the house, chickens and dogs jumped for a while, and a group of half-sized girls came out, all with yellow muscles and thin appearances, and there was a longing for light in their timid eyes.
Bai Shao and a group of subordinates stood in front. When those little girls saw that she was dressed well, and that she was wearing bright silver ornaments on her head, they thought that it must be the eldest lady, and they bent down to salute her, and rushed to shout: "I've seen the eldest lady!" ”
Bai Shao blushed, turned sideways and said, "Miss, come and see for yourself." ”
Bai Fusu walked up a few steps, carefully looked at them one by one, and occasionally asked a few words to see his response. Only then did the girls understand that the real eldest lady in front of them was just a decent maid.
Seeing that this eldest lady looks very ordinary, she is not as good-looking as the maidservant, but her body and bearing are extremely extraordinary.
Bai Fusu looked at it attentively and pointed out four of them. Bai Shao understood and said to Mrs. Wang: "My young lady wants the four of them." Take the deed of sale. ”
Mrs. Wang wiped the slag on her mouth, and the mouthless lady boasted of her vision: "It's not that the old body is boasting, these four Nizi are the best here!" These two female celebrities are good at tricks, and those two are surprisingly strong, and they usually rely on her to carry water and chop firewood! ”
Bai Shao said impatiently: "Don't boast anymore, you are not selling melons!" Let's talk about how much money it is, and the young lady is still waiting to return home. ”
Mrs. Wang laughed and said with a smile: "No, the mother-in-law is confused." Eldest sister, you have to make it clear to the eldest lady, these four Nizi, at least this number. She said, holding up a thick, wrinkled slap.
Bai Fusu listened to Bai Shao's reply, and did not suppress the price of the mother-in-law, and directly asked the little maid to exchange fifty taels of silver. At that time, one hand paid the money and the other hand delivered, Mrs. Wang smiled from ear to ear, and immediately took out the broken silver horn and called the little girl to run to fight wine and meat and come back to add food to entertain guests. The four girls followed Bai Shao into the carriage without mentioning it.
That night, the suave young master Luo Feng was chanting poetry under the moon, and was suddenly secretly stopped by a little girl with a raw face, saying that the eldest lady invited him to come to the rockery at the end of the corridor for a private meeting. Luo Feng didn't doubt him, and he was overjoyed when he landed, and he thought triumphantly: The little girl was only hard at the mouth, isn't she still Huaichun? is as suave as this young master, what kind of girl is not ready to be caught!
He hurried to the scene, and after turning the rockery, there was a black figure standing with his back to him in the moonlight. Luo Gongzi's heart was full of joy, and he pinched his voice and smiled: "Xinhe, I'm here now, how can you compensate me?" As he spoke, he couldn't help but pounce on him and hug him and arch it to his face.
The man trembled, turned his rough face, frightened Luo Gongzi's handsome face, and the man scolded: "You fucking rabbit cub, aren't you blind, you dare to bully your grandfather?" ”
The horse-faced man suddenly turned out to be the henchman of the big housekeeper Li Yi, and Ding Liu, the nurse, was also!
Ding Liu'er's face was deformed angrily.
He secretly drank two more glasses of wine with his companion tonight, and he was in a hurry to urinate for a while, so he simply came here for convenience.
I didn't want to pee halfway, but suddenly this immoral ghost jumped up from behind and held it down, so frightened that he shivered all over, and peed all over his pants.
I usually look at this kid unpleasantly, it turns out that he is a rabbit master, and now he is a bold and reckless person who dares to come to fight Ding Ye's idea. Ding Liu turned his face on the spot!
Luo Feng was also frightened. He was spitting at Ding Liu's roar, and he didn't have time to dwell on the question of how Miss Jiao could become an ugly black man, so he bent down again and again in a panic to beg for mercy, and slapped himself in the mouth a few times.
He was afraid that Ding Liu would shout. Young Master Luo has always been a gentleman, and if this incident happened in his cousin's mansion, he had to look bad. It was because of these mouths that they were beaten and fell, and their faces immediately became red and swollen.
Ding Liu ate this humiliation, how could he spare it gently. I saw him laugh twice and roll up his sleeves, and when he stepped forward, he was punched and kicked, and after the fight, he quickly ran to the backer Li Da Butler, leaving only the miserable Young Master Luo lying on the ground, holding his stomach and howling.
This dark night of floating undercurrents has finally passed.
In the early morning of the next day, Bai Shao's brother Xiao Zhang Xian'er brought a shocking news: there were several well-known gambling houses in Linxian County, which turned out to be the private property of Lord Bai.
Coincidentally. Zhang Dahai was originally staring at Luo Anran's woman, but he really hoped to take some of her unknown whereabouts so that he could come to the courtyard where his sister was on an errand to exchange for silver;
I didn't want to come down these days, but I found that the little woman was still in charge of the business of the Linxian gambling house. Thinking about the words of the mother-in-law and the henchman, it turned out that she was acting as the steward for Master Bai.
That's a lot of news! Xiao Zhang Xian'er thought that he had made a great contribution, and he thought to himself that it was worth one or twenty taels of silver? He immediately put down the work of the patron in his hand, ran to tell the sister-in-law's master in one breath, and then went back with a smile and a bulging money bag.
In Fusu Garden, Bai Fusu was so angry that he said to Bai Shao: "Mother will only blindly forbear, see what has become of the house now?!" The business of the gambling house also dares to touch, doesn't my father know that this is illegal? ”
The law formulated by the Empress of Donghua was that officials were not allowed to participate in gambling houses, money and fortune, and were not allowed to raise soldiers from more than 100 provinces. Violators will be stripped of their official positions, the whole family will sit together, and depending on the seriousness of the circumstances, the family will be exiled or even beheaded.
Lord Bai, as a waiter of the Ministry of Works, a dignified and second-class official of the imperial court, dared to be so bold! Bai Fusu thought about it for a long time, and then took leave of Mr. Shangguan, and brought Bai Shao and two of the newly acquired maids, wanting to go to Linxian to find out.
The four girls I bought from Mrs. Wang this time are very popular with Tang Yi!