Chapter 116: Homecoming
After a short time, the group arrived at the horse market, stopped at the gate of the horse market, Xia Xiaoba came back and pointed to the small tea shop opposite and said to Xiao Ming: "There is chaos inside, don't go in, drink a cup of tea in the tea shop and wait, I will go with Xiao Han and Brother Yi." ”
"Okay, you guys go and get back quickly, and book a carriage if you don't have anything ready." Xiao Ming nodded hurriedly, she didn't want to go in at all, even if she stood here, she could smell inside.
"Mother Yi, let's go to the tea shop to drink tea and wait for them." Xiao Ming said, leading Aunt Yi, Li'er and the three boys into the tea shop.
The shop is not big, it is quite clean, there are only a few tables of guests drinking tea inside, Xiao Ming and a few people chose the table at the door and sat down, and the old teahouse quickly poured tea and water for a few people.
"The girl has learned etiquette since she was a child." Yi's mother asked tentatively, she looked at Xiao Ming's action of raising her hand to pick up the cup, the demeanor and bones were naturally revealed, and the red lips touched the cup like flowing water and pecked a little, feeling that what was in front of her was not an ordinary cup of tea, and the teacup was not made of rough clay, but the best tea brewed by a high-quality tea set, she had cultivated countless girls, and no one could make a simple tea-drinking action as elegant and comfortable as her.
Etiquette is not something that can be learned overnight, it is the accumulation of years and months, and it is rubbed into the bones.
Mother Yi looked at the pear next to her drinking tea again~~, and after a sip, the cup bottomed out, and there was a little tea foam left at the bottom of the cup and sank lonely at the bottom of the cup.
Like a cow drinking water, it is unbearable! If you look at it more, you feel like you're going to hurt your eyes.
Sure enough, there is no harm if there is no contrast.
Suddenly, she remembered the past many years ago, ten years ago she was fortunate to see the pearl of Beijing, now the queen mother, at that time she looked dignified and beautiful, fresh and refined, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are omniscient, famous in the capital family nobles, etiquette and demeanor can be a model, countless family nobles all take her as a model.
She is the crown princess personally selected by the first queen, and since the marriage of the prince, she has been favored by her true love, envy of others, but unfortunately the beauty is jealous, the princess encountered that disaster when she gave birth, and finally although she became the most noble queen of women in the world, it is a pity that she injured the root because of childbirth, and she lingered on the sickbed all the year round, and she did not even have the strength to preside over the harem, and she was cheaper than others.
Her life has also changed dramatically since then, and after several turns, she has been living here, and as for the child, she should be dead, and she hasn't heard from her for so many years.
I didn't expect her to see a little shadow of her in this little peasant girl, a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl looks on par with her back then, calm and calm bearing, elegant and demure temperament, she suddenly has some expectations, I don't know what kind of elegance she will have when she grows up.
Maybe it's a good choice to follow her.
Whether it is the girl in front of her, or the other two teenagers of the Xiao family, her appearance is not inferior to those noble young masters in Beijing who are known as the century-old families, especially Xiao Han, who has the same appearance as her sister at a young age, with a temperament as moist as jade, handsome posture, dignified appearance, male and female, and flourishing.
The words and deeds are remarkable, and they are slightly deficient compared to their sisters, but in a small farmhouse, it is a miracle that they can grow like this without their parents.
"Etiquette~~~" Xiao Ming was gloomy, hehe, I learned it, in my previous life.
However, with a teacup, Xia Xiaoba came back, and he came back with a carriage, a brown horse, and the carriage was made of huanghuali wood, compared with the previous carriage, the high-end atmosphere was high-grade.
Yi Feng drove the car and stopped steadily in front of the tea shop.
Xia Xiaoba jumped out of the carriage, pointed to the carriage in front of him, which was more than twice as large as the old carriage at home, and said: "We are really lucky, we just met a ready-made carriage, someone booked and returned the carriage, which is cheap for us, you look at this carriage, this wood is made of huanghuali, the gap is polished smooth and smooth, the workmanship is solid, and this carriage uses fifty-five taels of silver." ”
Seeing that it was so good and brand new, and that no one had used it, he immediately bought it, picked a good horse, drove the carriage up, and drove straight out.
Xiao Ming looked at it and nodded very satisfied, it is indeed very beautiful, mainly spacious, but the price is not cheap, it is more than twice as expensive as the one I bought before, which is not a horse money.
"Xiao Ming, you take your daughter, Yu'er, and Tiandong in a new car, Xiaohan and I take Yi Xuan in another car, and Yi Feng catches the car, he is an old man." Xia Xiaoba said.
"No, let's go take the old car." Mother Yi objected, she was referring to her, Li'er Yi Feng and others, how could there be a slave to take a new car, and let the master and young master go to Li'er in the old car.
"No defense, the old carriage is cramped, and it can't fit so many people." Xiao Ming stopped her, "Mother Yi, let's sit with us, just enough to talk." ”
She couldn't refuse, so she pulled Yi's mother into the new carriage.
It was not early, and several people did not have the heart to hang out, so the two cars went out one after the other.
Waiting to leave immediately, two people slowly walked out of the tea shop, looking at the direction of the carriage leaving.
"Big brother, what you said Liu Fushun said is the truth." The person who asked was hesitant and uneasy.
"Whatever, if you dare to lie to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will kill him." The other didn't look back, but kept looking ahead, with a viciousness in his eyes.
"I think this Dr. Xiao is quite rich, so it's better for us to ·····" I didn't blink my eyes when I saw them buying the carriage just now, and nearly a hundred taels of silver were spent like this.
"Nope." The man denied, "You also saw it at noon today, Jiang Sihai has come out for them, and there will be a lot of trouble in asking for ransom, and it will be easy to be discovered." “
The two people who spoke were Liu Fushun's creditors, Wan Datou and Wan Si'er of the gambling bank, the two brothers of the gambling bank, what happened at noon today happened to be seen by them passing by, and it also made them see her appearance clearly, as Liu Fushun said, she was a beauty embryo at a young age.
In order to repay the rising debts, Liu Fushun gave them the idea of kidnapping Xiao Ming and asking for ransom, they didn't care much at first, their five brothers opened a gambling house, saw too many of this kind of gamblers, lost all their wealth, had to pawn the house, the field, and finally sold their sons and daughters and mother-in-law, it was the first time for Liu Fushun to sell a good look.
They have done kidnapping, ransom and even tearing up tickets, and they specially picked the female dependents of large families in the city, who paid attention to their reputation and did not dare to publicize the matter, so they had to secretly give the silver and bring the people back.
They did it without realizing it, and they got more money from it than they made in the casino, and when they saw Xiao Ming, the two of them remembered Liu Fushun's bad idea.
After following for an afternoon, I found out that she was not as unrelated and unreasoned as Liu Fushun said, at least the famous dart shops in Pingcheng were willing to stand up for them, and she would lose more than she would gain if she moved rashly.
She is also accompanied by a practitioner, and it is not easy to tie her to her hands.
However, they have been wandering around the Tao for many years, and they have their own ideas, and he has to think of a perfect solution.