"There are a lot of teahouses and taverns in the city, and I also invited some well-known ones, such as playing music and telling stories, and you can sit for an afternoon by directly paying dozens of dollars for tea."

"But there is still a difference in this location, the outermost is the cheapest, and the inside, it can cost hundreds of dollars."

Lin Shuqing listened, isn't this just a stage performance or something?

It's just that the place has been moved to the teahouse tavern outside, but this person may be different.

Unlike the rows of beautiful young ladies, there may only be two or three girls.

"Wait until we find a place to eat, and there will be singing in the dining hall."

After saying this, everyone was a little interested, and hastened into the city.

Walking into the city, Lin Shuqing felt that the style of the city was not ordinary.

There are fewer people singing songs on the river in the city, more fishermen and small traders carrying vegetables to sell on the river.

There are many houses living on both sides of the river, separated by a stone staircase at intervals, and there are many women who wash vegetables.

The shops are on another street, a paved avenue, which is more spacious.

Here, Lin Shuqing also saw a lot of vendors in different clothes, all with different things in their hands, some were full of Luo Qi, and some were beggars in rags.

Birds spread their wings and skimmed past the eaves, through the layers of cries, and flew into the greenery, leading to a burst of bird chirping.

"Miss Lin, this is the closest county from the north to the south, so there are more people. It's all going from south to north, and it's all going here. Zhang Liqiang explained.

"I'll take the girl to try the specialties here!"

Zhang Liqiang took Lin Shuqing to a small restaurant, and the signboard said a few big characters of Weimanlou.

However, the paint on it is already a little mottled, and it looks quite old.

Zhang Liqiang took Lin Shuqing and a few people to the table, and the shopkeeper immediately greeted him.

"A few guest officers, please come inside!"

Then tea and snacks were served.

"What would you like to eat?" We've got it all! The little two said, and then showed a few people the bamboo sign hanging on the wall.

A few large characters were written in ink pen, and rows were neatly hung on the wall, tied with string.

Lin Shuqing took a cursory look at it, there were all kinds of chicken, duck and fish, and even beef.

Considering that there were more people, Lin Shuqing handed over the order to Zhang Liqiang and asked him to come, while he waited to eat.

She hasn't been here before, she doesn't know what is delicious, and she still understands people.

During this period, Lin Shuqing tasted this tea, it seemed to be brewed with fried rice, pale yellow, with a grain aroma, the tea was warm, although it was a little hot on this day, but the temperature of this tea was quite satisfactory.

This dim sum is said to be a dim sum, and it is better to be classified as a fruit.

Just a plate of emerald green lotus flowers, as if they had just been plucked from the field, with a fragrance of lotus leaves.

Lin Shuqing hadn't eaten this for a long time, so she immediately peeled a few of them, and tasted them in her mouth, they were crispy and crispy, very delicious.

While everyone was waiting for the food, a little girl with a basket came to the door of the store and looked timidly at the store.

looks like he wants to come in, but he doesn't dare.

Xiao Er in the store was busy greeting customers, and he didn't notice the little girl, and when he turned his head, he was immediately shocked.

Quickly stepped forward to greet the girl and said, "Oh, my little aunt, why are you here again?" ”

"With so many lotus canopies, this can't be sold? Treat our store as a big wronged person? It's so an eyesore that customers don't dare to come in. ”

Xiao Er said, flicking the lotus canopy in her basket.

The little girl was probably not more than a meter tall, but the basket she was carrying was several times as wide as her own, and it looked very laborious.

"I, I sold some, but they said no," the little girl whispered......

Lin Shuqing listened from the sidelines.

"They don't want you to come to our shopkeeper, hey, can't you just go find something else to do? Just these two months of lotus pods, what do you eat without the back? Xiao Er said.

"In the back, there are lotus roots, I sell lotus roots......"

"You, you're so young, why does your mother always let you come out and sell things by yourself, it's really!" Xiao Er's tone was full of disgust, but he still mentioned the basket in the girl's hand.

"Come with me to the backyard and weigh it, the lotus pod is not worth much this season, a penny and a catty, and I can't give you more......"

When the girl heard this, she immediately smiled, and her eyes had a lot of brilliance.

"After I sell these, there won't be much left in the pond, so I won't sell them." The girl said happily.

"Alas......"

Xiao Er took the girl to the backyard, and it didn't take long for her to come out again.

The little girl was holding an empty basket and her steps were full of joy.

"If your mother can't support you, don't let her sell you, you can find a place to learn music and sell it for a few years to redeem yourself, at least the money is in your hands, and you can't starve you."

"I know, Brother Sun, thank you, you are a great person."

"Hey, what's the use of being a good guy? It's useless to be a good person, and there's no food to eat when you're a good person. ”

"In the future, when you sell lotus pods, take less, take more and let your mother sell it to you, you are a little girl, how can she be embarrassed to let you raise it when she is so big?"

"My mother said she was not feeling well, so I came......"

Lin Shuqing sat at the side door, so the conversation between the two could be heard for most of the time.

I don't know if the little girl walked away, and I couldn't hear it at all, but I saw a few more guests in the restaurant, and the guy rushed in from the door, and immediately greeted him with a smile.

"Miss Lin, is this quite touching?" Zhang Liqiang suddenly asked.

He saw Lin Shuqing holding chopsticks in a daze, listening there with her ears pricked up, and felt that she was listening.

"Yes, this girl has a mother, why is she waiting for her daughter to raise her?" Lin Shuqing asked.

"This is also a relatively common thing in Jiangnan. Girl, don't look at the current scenery of those singing songs, when they get older, many people can't sing when their voices are broken. When I was young, I met a few rich sons, or amorous scholars, and generally had a son and a half daughter. ”

"If it's a girl, she can continue to sing when she is raised. If it is a man, he may be sold and sent to someone else's house to be a son. When I met a few lucky people who were good and rich, I directly brought the man back to inherit the incense, not to mention what will happen in the future, at least I have something to eat. ”

"When the singers were young, they were all held by others, especially those who sang well, and there were subordinates who served them, and then they were old and decrepit and had no money, so they could only rely on their daughters to support themselves......"

Zhang Liqiang said lightly, it seems that he has seen a lot of this kind of thing.

"That little girl was still lucky just now, she hadn't been sold by her mother at such an old age, and some of them were sold when she was two or three years old, and the price was much more expensive. Come out to sell goods, and there are nobles to buy. ”

Lin Shuqing thought about the village on the southern slope of Pingping, although the life of every family is not too good, but it is not to the point of selling children and daughters.