said that Shen Yun was repented of marrying by the Pei family, and she didn't feel very sad, but Du Yue'er was in a trance and wanted to tell her about the past, so she knew that it must be a very bitter past, so she led her to the window and sat down, cooking tea, and listening to her story quietly.

"I was a good family, is a small squire outside the city of Bianliang family of the concubine, seven years old to learn words, ten years old poetry, but at the age of twelve, my father unfortunately died, I and my mother was kicked out of the house, my mother is the daughter of a scholar, I don't know how to support me, had to take me to the brothel to laugh, fortunately the bustard Wang Sanniang is still enthusiastic, always help our mother and daughter, and teach me pipa singing and dancing, let me perform on stage, earn some money to make a living, we will also be in a mess for two or three years, to the age of fifteen, Once, I was drunk by a guest, and I woke up to know that I had lost my innocence, in fact, I also knew in my heart that in this kind of place, these are things sooner or later, so I simply broke the jar and broke it, clearly marked the price, pillow gold eleven two nights, and signed a contract with Wang Sanniang, fifty-fifty points, she is responsible for holding me, I am responsible for picking up customers. That Wang Sanniang naturally has the means, and soon after, I got the nickname of 'Oiran Lady', and since then I have responded to those few lines of poetry: 'Wuling young people are fighting for their heads, and a song of red silk is unknown. The silver grate of the head is shattered, and the blood-colored skirt is stained with wine. This year's laughter will be next year, and the autumn moon and spring breeze will be leisurely. 'Until... He appeared..."

Du Yue'er said, two lines of tears flowed in her eyes, Shen Yun saw it, silently handed her a handkerchief, and poured a cup of cooked tea and handed it to her. She picked up the cup, took a sip of tea, and held a handkerchief, but instead of wiping the tears from her face, she continued to murmur:

"In fact, when I entered the brothel with A-Niang, I knew that there was such a person as him. He is the son of a scholar's family, but also lost his father at an early age, his family is in the middle of the road, his mother is a capable person, every day to make some head oil and water to sell, in exchange for money, not only to make a living, but also for him to study, everyone knows that she has good craftsmanship, so the brothel little ladies use the head oil, are ordered in his house, and then his mother died, he inherited this craft, but every time the hair oil is made, it is only handed over to the ladies to call the girl, so, we only know the person, but have never seen him. However, one day, I don't know if it was my beckoning girl who was lazy or what, he actually asked him to put the hair oil in my room by himself, and he probably knew that I was not there at the time, and did not think that there was anything, so he went in as he said. Coincidentally, I was unwell that day, and I got drunk after a few drinks, and he didn't have time to leave when I was helped back to my room by the guest. ”

He must have panicked at the time, and hid behind the tent, thinking that he would not go out until there was no one, so as not to be embarrassed. As soon as I arrived in the room, I vomited and vomited all over the guest, and the guest slapped me twice in disgust, and when he saw it, he ran out to stop it, and reasoned with others, and finally was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, and the next day he was accused of being jealous of being in a brothel with others, and was reprimanded by his teacher for a long time..."

As she spoke, tears rolled down her eyes.

"I couldn't help it, thinking that I had nothing but this body, so I pushed the guest that night, and put wine in my room, thinking that serving him for one night would be repaid. But I didn't expect that he was a restless Yanagishita Hui, no matter how I teased, people didn't even glance at me. ”

"I was still a little annoyed at the time, thinking that he must be looking down on me, who knew that he actually looked into my eyes and said affectionately: 'Yue'er, I don't look down on you, maybe you don't know, from the first time I saw you, I liked you, so I can't see others bullying you. But I don't want you to repay me like this, and if I accept your devotion today, I will defile my friendship. When he had finished speaking, he got up and left. ”

When she said this, she raised her eyes to look at Shen Yun and asked with a smile: "You say, is he a stupid boy?" ”

Seeing that Shen Yun was silent, she said to herself: "Later, I asked him to send me hair oil every time I came by myself, and even my maid knew that my hair oil was used up very quickly, and it was a pot in a few days, but he was still pretending to be confused." ”

"Until one day, I was careless in my words, which angered the son of the Wu family, and he stripped his clothes and threw him in the yard, and let people take a thin whip dipped in salt water and whip him, and said that he would give one or two silver for a whip, and I was also young and hard-mouthed at that time, crying and shouting, 'Then I will earn a hundred taels or a thousand taels for my son today.'" Then Wu Gongzi really threw down a silver ticket of 1,000 taels, and when I was beaten and rolled all over the ground, he happened to come to deliver the head oil, and when he saw this scene, he didn't say anything, just came to hold me, and took those whips with his body. ”

Later, Wu Gongzi probably found it boring, so he asked the family to stop and went by himself. He had a big illness because of this, and he had no relatives around him, so I left him in my room to take care of him, and that stupid boy, after he got well, he still had to thank me. ”

"I asked him, how are you going to thank me?" He thought about it for a long time, and said that I won't charge you for the hair oil you use in the future. I laughed when I heard it, and I said, where is it so cheap. He thought about it for a long time before he said, then I still have twenty taels of silver, I wanted to keep it for the exam in Beijing, so I'll give it all to you, nothing else, there's really nothing. When I heard this, tears were about to fall, so I asked him, then you didn't go to catch the exam? But he smiled and said, "I can save more money." When I heard this, I said to him, "That's not enough, I want you now, and I want you to make a promise..."

When Du Yue'er said this, the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were smiling, and she murmured, "Xue'er, do you know? It was also that night that I learned how gentle a man can be to you, and how happy it is to be with his beloved. ”

Shen Yun listened, and thought sadly in his heart, of course I don't know. Then I heard her say: "Since then, I have never wanted to pick up customers, and when others touch me, I feel disgusted, but I can only think of them as him, and I just want to be happy with him." ”

"Later, there were more guests, and Wang Sanniang naturally had a whisper, so I asked him if he would like to marry me, he was silent for a long time, and finally sighed and said: 'I really want to marry you, but I don't have the money to redeem you, and even if I redeem you, I can't let you live a good life.' I thought he was all a pretext, and I couldn't help but be discouraged, but he probably saw it, so he said to me again: 'Yue'er, you wait for me for three years, let me go to the exam first, if you pass the exam, I will ride a tall horse to meet you, if you can't pass the exam, three years later, I will still come to marry you, you can rest assured, I will go out every day to ask for food, and I will never let you go hungry. When I heard this, I believed and gave him a great deal of money and sent him to the exam. ”

When she said this, she stopped, Shen Yun waited for a long time and didn't see anything else, and couldn't help asking, "That... And then? ”

Du Yue'er's eyes showed a blank look, "Later? Then I waited five years and didn't get anything. Wang Sanniang also died of illness, and entrusted me to Xiang Yan'an before she died, and I am here. ”

After she finished speaking, the two of them were silent, and after a long time, Du Yue'er spoke again: "Xue'er, do you remember that tea merchant Qin Liulang?" ”

Shen Yun thought for a moment and nodded.

Yue'er said: "In two days, I will leave with him." ”

When Shen Yun heard this, she panicked for a while, and knocked over the teacup in her hand, and the tea trickled down the case to her skirt.

"So... So suddenly... When did you decide. ”

"I decided a long time ago, I wanted to see you get married and leave, but it's a pity..."

"Won't you wait?"

"What are you waiting for? I'm twenty-five, and now I can pick someone else, and then I can wait a little longer, and I talk about picking others, and others don't even want to pick me. ”

After speaking, the two were silent for a while, and Shen Yun suddenly asked, "Then you... Regret it? ”

Du Yue'er chuckled, stood up, and said as she walked out: "Spring travel, apricot blossoms blow all over your head." Who is young and romantic? The concubine intends to marry and rest for the rest of her life, even if she is ruthlessly abandoned, she cannot be ashamed. ”

After she left for a long time, Shen Yun looked at the sky outside the window and muttered to herself: "You are a good family and have not been naturalized, so you have the opportunity to meet your Mo Shang boy, even if it is fruitless, you can still take advantage of your appearance to redeem yourself and marry, and people like me can only stay here all their lives, laugh this year and next year, and when you are old and decrepit, what should you do." ”

A few days later, Qin Liulang came to pick up with a merchant ship, Du Yue'er and Shen Yun shed tears and said goodbye, coming back from the dock, Shen Yun saw a woman kneeling at the door of the teaching department, holding a child in her arms, about four or five years old, looking at the dying breath, Shen Yun approached, and heard the woman pull the sleeve of the sister-in-law and cry: "Sister-in-law, you don't pity me, but also pity the child." I haven't eaten for two days, so I'll be allowed to do some chores in the courtyard, as long as I reward our mother and wife with a mouthful of food. ”

That Xiang Yanyan has probably been pestered by her for a long time, and said impatiently: "How can there be such a person like you, when you are old, you can't play, play and sing, you can't even do laundry and cooking, I leave you to do any work, you can't do work, and you don't want to put down your body to be a prostitute. ”

As he spoke, he pulled back his sleeves and went in, Shen Yun walked to the door, and heard the woman's mournful cry: "It's not that the slave can't let go of his body, it's just that the bones of my head are not cold, sister-in-law, I beg you, you can let the slave wash your feet..."

Although Shen Yun has seen a lot of such things over the years, and his temperament has become much colder, he is a little unbearable at this moment, so he casually plucked a plain silver hairpin from his head and handed it to the woman: "That's it, let's go buy something to eat for the child first." After saying that, he went in without looking back.

Who knew that the woman was also a sincere person, and after receiving Shen Yun's favor, she always wanted to repay her, and the next morning she led her son to thank her in person.

But said that Shen Yun, because of taking extreme cold drugs such as Shunzi soup all the year round, has done many diseases, not to mention menstrual disorders, every month when the letter arrives, he has abdominal pain, tossing and turning at the light time, numbness in the hands and feet when it is heavy, and almost fainting. Unfortunately, when his mother and son came, it was when Shen Yun was in the most pain, the woman heard the movement inside the door was wrong, and saw a little girl running out in a panic, and hurriedly grabbed her and asked what was wrong, the little girl saw that it was the woman at the gate of the first day, so she said: "The lady has a letter to the moon, and the pain is almost fainting, and the slave went to beg the concubine to see if she can find a man to take a look." ”

The woman listened and said, "Hey, it's useless for you to invite Langzhong, besides, which Langzhong can easily come here to see the disease, so you go and get some boiling water first, and then boil a bowl of thick brown sugar ginger soup in the kitchen." ”

The little girl listened, and hurriedly did as she said, and the woman dipped the boiling water with a handkerchief, and gave Shen Yun a stomach dress, and wiped her hands and feet, tossing for a while, and she eased up a little, and then the little girl also served brown sugar ginger soup, and the woman fed her little by little, and her face gradually became a little bloody, and after a long time, she said to the woman weakly: "Thank you, sister-in-law." ”

When the woman heard this, she pulled her son and kowtowed to her, and said, "Where did the lady say, if it weren't for the lady, this child's life would have been gone." ”

Shen Yun reluctantly pulled a smile and asked, "I don't know what sister-in-law is called?" ”

The woman said, "The slave's family name is Gu." ”

Shen Yun thought for a while and asked, "Then what are Sister-in-law Gu's plans in the future?" ”

When Gu Shi heard this, his expression became a little dazed: "I don't know, after the slave head left, the land property was occupied by the little uncle, and the slave mother and son were driven to the street, and the slave took Nansheng and wanted to come to Kyoto to seek refuge, but the relatives also moved away... When the slave is in charge, he takes care of all the work outside the house, so the slave doesn't know anything," she said, her eyes turned red, and she murmured: "Why did he say that he would leave as soon as he left, and what should the slave do in the future..."

When Shen Yun heard this, he sighed in his heart, thought for a while, and said to the little girl beside him: "You go to my makeup and take a tael of silver to cook, and say that their mother and son are my distant relatives, and they will stay here for two days. As he spoke, he said to Gu's again: "Sister-in-law Gu, I have wronged you to take Nansheng to live in the firewood room for the time being, and I will help you find a way when I get better in two days." ”

After hearing this, Gu Shi thanked him for his kindness, and then he was led down by the little girl.

In this way, she took the child to stay in the teaching department for more than ten days, and she would go to Shen Yun every day to shake it twice, quite a bit of morning and dusk, although she didn't know anything, but she was always enthusiastic to help do this and that, and her mouth kept chattering, but fortunately, what she said was not annoying, everyone thought she was quite interesting.

On this day, she still came early, Shen Yun didn't wait for her to start chattering, so he pulled her to the desk and sat down, took out a small box from under the table, and said to her: "Sister-in-law Gu, I helped you think about it, it is not beneficial for you to take Nan Sheng to be in this workshop all day long, especially Nan Sheng, who was born so smartly, at this age, it is also the time to study hard, if you stay here any longer, it will really be delayed." ”

As she spoke, she opened the box, pushed it in front of Gu's family, and continued: "In your name, I bought a small house at the mouth of the alley behind the Jiaofang Division, and asked someone to help set up some stall things, you can set up a stall in front of your house to sell wontons or something in the future, although it will be more difficult and you won't earn much, but it should be enough for your mother and son to make a living." ”

The Gu clan was dumbfounded when he heard this, and it took him a while to react, and he stammered: "But... But slaves don't know how to make wontons. ”

Shen Yun smiled slightly: "I will, I can teach you." And it is guaranteed that everyone who has eaten it will say that after a long time, your business will naturally prosper. ”

So the next day, I really taught Gu to make wontons, and when Gu learned it, Shen Yun gave her some silver as capital, and said to her, you will let Nansheng send ten bowls of wontons to the teaching department every day, enough for three months, even if you pay enough money for me with interest, we will not owe each other.

When Gu Shi heard this, he wiped his tears and said to Shen Yun: "How can you repay the kindness of the lady?" ”

Shen Yun tilted his head and thought about it, then smiled: "Then you invite me to eat more bowls of wontons every day." ”

Since then, the Gu family has really sent eleven bowls of wontons to the teaching department every day, and ten bowls are sent to the counter, all of which are considered to be a treat for the snow lady, and whoever wants to eat will eat it by themselves, just help promote Gu's wonton stall with the guests after eating. There was also a bowl, and Nan Sheng personally sent it to Shen Yun's room, rain or shine, and the thunder could not move.

One day, Nan Sheng brought the wontons again, and was about to leave after putting them down, but Shen Yun stopped him, and asked him while stirring the wontons in the bowl, "How is the business of your mother's stall?" ”

Nan Sheng replied happily: "Business is getting better and better, and my mother is not very busy sometimes. ”

Shen Yun smiled and nodded, and then asked, "Then what did I think about letting your mother go to school when I told you before?" ”

Nan Sheng said: "Mother went to ask, the gentleman in the vicinity collected too much, we can't afford it, and what we can afford is too far." ”

Shen Yun let out an "oh", thought about it and said, "In this way, you come to me every morning in the future, follow me to read the book for an hour, and then go back to help your mother work." ”

Nansheng was naturally happy when he heard this, so he came to the "teacher" early every day, waiting for her to take him to study, rain or shine, and thunder could not move.