Chapter 60: Strange Talk
On Wuque Mountain, the entrance of the bluestone cave burst open, shaking the stone chips and shaking the woods. Frightened, some mountain hares and squirrels burrowed into their holes and stretched out their heads in horror to look.
Lian Zhu jumped out of the stone cave, the fiery red fox body was dazzling in the sun, and she instantly turned into a Duanli woman when she landed, she dusted off her big red clothes, looked up at the afternoon sun, squinted her eyes, stretched out her arms, and bathed in the bright spring sun.
Sixteen years, sixteen years of retreat! That old man Sangyin caused me to separate my flesh and bones, and was claustrophobic in the bluestone cave, licking my wounds alone.
Thinking of sixteen years ago, she had just given birth to Rongduo, Sang Yin appeared to catch her, she put her daughter in a wooden barrel in a hurry, pushed it down the river, and saw the wooden barrel flowing downstream, and disappeared in a blink of an eye, and it is unknown whether her daughter is dead or alive now, and it is time to settle this account!
Daughter, my mother is coming to you! Wait for me. Lian Zhu raised his head to the sky and let out a long roar, turned around and disappeared into the vast forest, and the rabbit and squirrel bit their ears and carefully slipped out of the hole......
Mitsu got up early, put on a gorgeous costume, and began to knock on the doors of various boudoirs in the cloister. "Get up for me! If anyone stabs me in the leak today, I will not spare it! β
She twisted to the emerald door and tapped on the door, "Get up, don't sleep anymore." Cui Hong opened the door, stretched her waist, leaned against the door with her thin waist branches, and looked at the drunken spring with a smile.
"Cui Hong, you are the top brand of the Red Mansion, if your sisters steal your limelight tonight, don't take it to heart, give them a chance to show their faces, and you won't have to work so hard in the future." If your regular customers make a bid, you must not be coquettish and noisy, if there is a price increase, the value of the sisters can show their luxury, and it is not all for the sake of the Red Mansion! β
"Yo! How can that! The price of my sisters is high, and it's too late for me to be happy! β
"That's good, hurry up and dress up, and it is estimated that the guests should be down one after another in the afternoon." The chieftain will open, and then you will bring your sisters more! Drunken Chun comforted the old Oiran, but thought in his heart, don't be arrogant, the new Oiran will be selected tonight, and see how you still throw your face at me.
Cui Hong pursed her lips, closed the door, and climbed back into bed.
Zuichun turned around and suddenly remembered Xu Chen, "This fool doesn't know what's going on, shouldn't he freeze to death!" It's really unlucky. She hurriedly beckoned the two strong slaves to come to the porch, Xu Chen lowered his head, his hair was messy and scattered in front of him, and a layer of wind and frost was formed.
Although the beginning of spring has passed, this spring is even colder. She probed his snort, a faint hint of breath.
"To sell or not to sell?" A hoarse voice suddenly came from behind him.
Zuichun was startled, and when he looked back, he saw a man with messy and tangled hair, dressed in clothes that couldn't tell the color, and his eyes were squinting at her.
"Goβbeg for food!" Zuichun waved his hand impatiently and ignored him.
"One or two."
"It's so bold, it's blatantly asking for one or two, it's better to grab it! Boom him away. Drunken spring said urgently.
The two strong slaves pulled the man, "Ten taels of silver, sell him to me." β
Zuichun thought that his ears were wrong, and pointed at Xu Chen and looked at the man and said, "You-you mean you want to buy him?" β
"That's right!"
"Ten taels of silver?"
"No lie!"
Zuichun rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "I am usually reluctant to beat this child, and it hurts in my heart to hit him." If you can treat him well, my heart will be relieved. β
"To sell or not to sell?" The man had a gold ingot lying in his palm.
Zuichun's eyes lit up, and he said in a loud voice: "Sell, sell!" Hurry up and put the fool down and let this master take him away. Realizing that something was wrong, he hurriedly added: "This kid's name is Xu Chen, he is very smart, and he has suffered a little cold in the past two days. If you buy it, drink some ginger tea and you'll be fine, and it will definitely help you work. β
The man didn't say much, threw the gold ingot to Zuichun, carried Xu Chen and left.
Zuichun took the gold ingot and looked at it in the sun, and bit it with his teeth again, his mouth closed happily. He said, "This fool can sell a piece of gold." "Look at the man again, he is gone.
In the evening, the Red Mansion was crowded with men of all colors, hugging the girls of the Red Mansion left and right, drinking and amusing themselves. The red curtain on the high platform was lowered heavily, looking mysterious and fragrant.
Seeing that the time for the chief had arrived, Drunken Chun bewitched up to the high platform, cleared his throat, and said in a loud voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, today is the day of great joy in the Red Mansion, the girl in the Red Mansion has grown up, and the girl has to marry when she is older, who will she marry?" I don't say that the big officials knowβ"
"Marry me!" "Marry me!" The men below echoed in loud voices, laughing loudly.
Drunken Chun groaned for a moment, glanced at the hall, and said with a smile: "Who to marry?" It doesn't matter if I say it, it doesn't count if you say it! Zuichun raised the gold ingot in his hand, "It has the final say!" Whoever is offered the highest price tonight will be the Oiran. Whoever bids the highest price is the groom of the Oiran. β
The men below shouted and cheered, and laughed and talked one after another.
"Tell the girls to come out and see if they look handsome."
"Can't wait, don't delay Lao Tzu as the groom!"
"I'm going to be honored."
β¦β¦
The curtain opened, and the four girls stood on the stage, shyly bowing their heads, wearing only close-fitting gowns, their bodies exposed, and their white skin was even more dazzling in the dazzling light. Everyone has a name tag around their waist.
The price of ten taels of silver starts now......
An hour passed, and all eight girls were set by the high bidder.
The curtain was lowered again, and Zuichun stood in front of the curtain in the center of the stage.
"Officials, be quiet, be quiet!" She tugged back her hair, her eyes glistening with water. Said slowly with emotion:
"Everyone knows that I have a daughter in Zuichun, called Rong Duo, although it is not my own birth, but it is better than my own birth, I have been carefully trained for 14 years, and I am looking forward to this day, there is a person who pities her and loves her, will that person be you?"
"It's me!"
"Don't rob me, don't rob anyone, she's mine."
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There was excitement at the bottom, they had already known Rong Duo's name, and Zuichun covered it to prevent these men from seeing her, so she wanted to sell it for a good price one day.
"Go!"
The red yarn rose heavily, Rong Duo was dressed in a red gauze robe, her graceful body loomed under the wonderful clothes, and her head was covered with a red yarn with silk tassels hanging on her head. β
"I endured my distress tonight to marry my daughter, and I believe that the person who married her will definitely cherish her." Drunken Chun wiped away his tears, raised his head, and said in a loud voice: "One hundred taels of base price, fifty taels of price increase, start to intertroduce!" β
"I'll give you two hundred taels."
"Two hundred and fifty taels!"
β¦β¦
"Five hundred taelsβ"
Drunk Chunwang stepped forward to row the man with the highest bid, she recognized this as Li Daguanren, in his fifties, lean and white-faced, in the capital Hualiu Lane, known as the "flower destroyer".