Chapter 56: Bai Qiuyan and Hua Yingying (1)
Yongtai County Street recently came to a "tofu Shih".
Every morning, "Tofu Shih Tzu" pushes a stall cart to the street to sell tofu, and many people like to buy her tofu, one is because her tofu is really good, fresh and tender, and the other is because she is good-looking, white and beautiful.
As soon as "Tofu Shih Tzu" came out of the stall, the flow of people instantly poured into her stall, surrounded by water, crowded around, and rushed to buy her tofu......
"Tofu Shih" is surnamed Bai, and everyone is used to calling her "White Girl", or "White Lady".
The "White Lady" is really beautiful, and her face is just like the tofu she sells, white and tender, as if she can pinch the water; Her slender hands, with a pair of white silk gloves and snow-white wrists, raised and raised when she brought tofu to the guests, and everyone stared at her hands.
On this day, she went out to sell tofu again, and in just a cup of tea, she had sold all the tofu on the stall, and was about to clean up the stall and leave, when suddenly a young man came to the stall.
When she raised her head and looked at the young man in front of her, her eyes lit up and she said in surprise, "It's you?"
Song Ting smiled faintly, nodded, and then walked over to clean up the stall with her, like greeting an old friend, and said, "How are you doing?"
Bai Qiuyan smiled lightly and pointed to her tofu stall, but did not speak.
After a moment of silence, she asked, "Are you okay?" I hear people talk about you all the time. ”
Song Ting looked up at her, at this time, she was dressed as a little peasant lady, with a cloth dress and skirt, a silver hairpin with an openwork flower on her head, a few strands of sideburns in her ears were light and sticky and sweaty, and her face looked whiter and more delicate against the backdrop of a cloth dress.
She took off her white silk gloves at this time, revealing a pair of slender jade hands with ten fingers, took out a white silk sweat towel from her waist and wiped the fine sweat on her ears...... Staring at people......"
Song Tingwan'er stopped looking at her, and after cleaning up the stall, he took the initiative to push the stall car forward, which was not heavy, but not very laborious. Bai Qiuyan carefully held a corner, and followed forward step by step, the corners of her eyebrows and eyes were full of smiles.
Song Ting suddenly raised his head and asked her, "Where do you live?"
Bai Qiuyan pointed to the left, and Song Ting pushed the stall to the left, at this time, many people on the street saw Master Song personally pushing the cart, and they all took the initiative to come up and say that they wanted to help, but Song Ting shook his head and refused.
There was silence for a while, both of them seemed to have a lot to say to each other, and they didn't seem to know how to speak, and after a while, the two suddenly said at the same time: "You ......"
"Let's talk first." Bai Qiuyan said.
Song Ting said first and asked, "On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, you shouldn't be in the painting boat, right?" I don't seem to see you......"
On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, there was an incident in which the Liangshan people robbed the prisoner car to save Lu Junyi, and many people died that day, and the "black whirlwind" Li Kui also cut off one of the arms of a girl in the painting boat, and I don't know what happened to the girl......
"I was not there that day, and I heard about what happened that day." It was hot, Bai Qiuyan wiped the sweat on her face with a sweat towel before continuing: "I went back to Yangzhou to find my mother to redeem myself."
Hearing that she had redeemed herself, Song Ting also breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the tofu box on the stall car, and asked with a smile: "Do you plan to make a living by selling tofu in the future?"
Bai Qiuyan smiled, like a flower blooming, purple and red, and nodded vigorously: "If you don't sell tofu, how can you pay back your money?" That's five thousand taels ......."
Song Ting shook his head and said his true thoughts: "It's just...... After all, you are too condescending, you are a genius who is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs, but you want to sell tofu here...... This way is not appropriate after all......"
Who knew that Bai Qiuyan smiled, stared at him and said, "What if you don't sell tofu?" I learned to make tofu from elementary school, and I can still make some money selling tofu...... As for the other way, sell yourself? Or go and make a concubine for a rich man? ”
I didn't expect her to be able to open her heart and say it so directly, Song Ting's heart throbbed slightly, and she couldn't help but feel a sigh, the fate of Qinglou women in this era seems to be really only the two she said: sell her body until she is old and decrepit, or be a concubine for a rich person, because of the imprint of "prostitute", it is almost impossible to be a wife in this life, and she can only be a concubine.
Seeing that Song Ting bowed his head and didn't speak, Bai Qiuyan also seemed to feel that what she said was inappropriate, and she met in Pingshui, but she had only met a few times, but she talked to him so directly, there was really something wrong with it...... Thinking of this, her pretty face flushed slightly.
At this time, Song Ting sighed slightly, and said with a wry smile: "In this world, since a man has the final say, as long as the man is rich and powerful, he is a group of wives and concubines, a prostitute every night, and a song every night, and the world also thinks that it is right and reasonable; And if a woman really doesn't follow the rules, and does something out of the ordinary with a man other than her husband, she will be soaked in a pig cage and beaten to death with a cane...... In this world, women are treated like this, it can be seen that women are just used as utensils, tools for giving birth and venting desires, but women have never been treated as human beings......" At this time, the stall cart pushed into the alley, and he pushed while saying, but no one else heard his "big rebellion" remarks.
Hearing his words, Bai Qiuyan stared at his face, and a pair of beautiful eyes looked at him in surprise for a long time before he said: "I didn't expect you to be able to say such a thing, now all the people who are reading all over the world, which one is not for the sake of entering the office, not for power, not for women?" What has the concubine ever heard's drunk and lying on the knees of a beautiful woman, waking up to control the power of the world'...... It's just the little bit of lust of the reader, but you're not, it's really ...... to be a reader like you all over the world I can't find a second one, hey, it's a pity...... It's a pity ......"
Song Ting couldn't help but ask, "What is a pity?"
Bai Qiuyan let out a long sigh, but lowered her head gloomily, and didn't say it anymore, as if she thought for a long time, before she mustered up the courage to say: "It's a pity, Jun Mingzhu is ......in tears" Speaking of this, he stopped, and the next sentence still didn't dare to say it.
Returning Jun Mingzhu's tears, hating to meet when he was not married......
How could Song Ting not know this poem, she said the last sentence "Returning Jun Mingzhu to tears", he naturally knew that the next sentence was "Hate not to meet when you are not married".
Song Ting looked at her blankly, she mustered up the courage to look at him, only to feel that the heart was like a deer, she bit her red lip, her eyes were full of hope, just like this to meet his gaze, like an electric current for a few seconds, she finally mustered up the courage again, her heart was like a drum, and said: "Chaozhong, are you willing to ...... it"
"Qiu Yan!" Suddenly, a voice interrupted her.
"Qiu Yan! Is it really you? A woman with a burden on her shoulders came from the street, shouting at Bai Qiuyan, looking very familiar with her.
Song Ting and Bai Qiuyan both looked back, Song Ting saw that this woman was born with a beautiful style, and was thinking about where this woman seemed to have seen it, but who knew that Bai Qiuyan had already stepped forward, hugged the woman and said excitedly: "Yingying!" Yingying! ”
It turned out that this woman was Hua Yingying.
However, isn't Hua Yingying married to some prince of Jinzhou? How did it suddenly appear here?
Hua Yingying hugged Bai Qiuyan, as if she had seen the closest person in the world, and said with tears in her eyes: "Qiuyan, woo woo...... I've been scammed...... I was lied to ......"
Bai Qiuyan let go of her hands, stared at her and asked in surprise, "What did you say that you were deceived?"
The tears in Hua Yingying's eyes were like beads that had fallen off, falling suddenly, and she cried: "Qiuyan, I was deceived...... I was deceived by Wang Gongzi......"
Bai Qiuyan's face suddenly turned pale, and she said in a lost voice: "You were deceived by Wang Gongzi?" Didn't he take you as a concubine? ”
Hua Yingying shook her head like a rattle and said hurriedly: "No, no......"
Song Ting took two steps forward and said in a groaning voice: "Let's talk about it when we go home."
Bai Qiuyan also nodded solemnly.
The three of them walked towards Bai Qiuyan's residence, and entered the house, Bai Qiuyan took a cup of tea, Song Ting picked up a chair and sat down, Hua Yingying saw him so calm, and asked with tears on her face: "Did you redeem Qiuyan?" Are you two married now? ”
Hearing her say this, Bai Qiuyan's hand pouring tea suddenly stopped, and she stood there in a daze, her face flushed, and she wanted to say something, but Song Ting spoke first: "No, I think you misunderstood, it was she who redeemed herself, I am also here today, and the two of us are not married."
He asked again, "Didn't you just say that you were deceived by Wang Gongzi?" What's going on? ”
As soon as she heard him ask, Hua Yingying took a sip, her eyes were red, and she said angrily: "What prince Wang!?" He's not a prince at all! He's not the son of a lieutenant, he's actually a brothel! He spent money to redeem me and said that he would take me as a concubine, but in fact, he lied to me! He's a liar at all! ”
Speaking of this, tears swirled in her eyes again, and she hurriedly hugged Bai Qiuyan again, crying bitterly: "Qiuyan, he lied to me!" He lied to me! He bought me, not to be a concubine for him! He bought me over and forced me to sell my body to him to make money...... Woowoowoo...... He's a big liar! He also beat me......" he said, rolling up his sleeves, and his arms were covered with scars and whip marks, which were terrifying.
Bai Qiuyan seemed to be infected by her, and the corners of her eyes were filled with tears, hugged her tightly, and said with tears: "How can this be...... How can this be......"
Hua Yingying continued to cry: "I actually sold myself to him...... I gave him my body and sold it for him to make money...... I'm so stupid...... I'm really stupid...... I don't want to live anymore wow......"