Chapter 84: Reminiscences of the Past (12)
In the more than 100 years that he has traveled around, he has traveled to many countries, learned the dialects, cultures, and ways of doing business in various Chinese, and is familiar with the customs and customs of various countries.
During this period, he had friends who drank and meat, had good friends who could deliver their lives, were deceived, betrayed, and betrayed by so-called good friends, and were also helped, generous, and warmed by real good friends.
There are also women he has touched, but because his personal circumstances do not allow it, he has to watch the woman he likes get married. There are also women who pretend to approach him and are recognized by him......
In short, for more than 100 years, he has basically seen all kinds of people and things.
personality, and therefore become more and more withdrawn and quiet.
Later, he returned to the Central Plains of country Z, and in a deep mountain in the suburbs, with the money he earned abroad in those years, he hired a craftsman to build a house in the mountains and forests.
Although the style of the house is simple, it is not simple. The front hall, study, bedroom, firewood room, kitchen, thatched room, should have. The style of furniture is also deceptively simple, but it is made of the best and most expensive wood that can repel insects and ants. All household appliances are also inconspicuous on the surface, but in fact they are the best and most expensive in the city.
Because, he has money and is willing to spend it, but he doesn't like to show off.
And his usual life is very simple but very regular, rising at sunrise and resting at sunset.
He cultivated two acres of land with his own hands, and in addition to planting some vegetables, he also planted peaches, plums, apricots, and pears. As long as the weather is fine, I will go to the field to take care of those crops almost every day.
He also dug a deep cellar and placed the vegetables and fruits he could not eat in the shady cellar.
Moreover, every half month, a hunt is carried out. The skins were taken to the city and sold for money, and the meat was made into dried meat, some of which were kept for one's own consumption, and the other part was sold for money or bartered.
Life seems to be hard, but in fact, there is no shortage of food and clothing, full and comfortable, and away from the hustle and bustle, and away from human nature.
Whether human nature is good or bad, he doesn't want to be involved anymore.
He lived like this for many years.
Until the beginning of autumn one year, there was a light rain, and he couldn't remember the specific date, after all, it was more than 700 years ago.
On that day, he drove his carriage out of the mountains into the city to sell live rabbits, animal skins, and dried meat, and met a girl in the city who had a straw stuck in her bun, and was on her knees crying for the burial of her mother.
The girl's surname was Gu, her name was Pan'er, and she was fifteen years old.
Leng Xingyun saw that Gu Pan'er was pitiful, and after getting out of the carriage, he pulled out the straw on her head without saying a word, took out twenty taels of silver and threw it at Gu Pan'er's feet.
Then, he turned around and jumped into the carriage to leave, but Gu Paner rushed forward to block the way.
In order to be grateful to Leng Xingyun, Gu Paner had to say that she wanted to marry Leng Xingyun. If Leng Xingyun is unwilling to marry her, he can not marry, but he must also be a concubine and give birth to a son and a half daughter for him, which can be regarded as repaying his kindness.
After Leng Xingyun repeatedly refused, Gu Pan'er asked to be his maid and serve his diet and daily life.
Leng Xingyun was very helpless, feeling that she was either really too desperate, or she didn't help enough, for fear that she would leave and no one would take care of the rest of the matter, so she was so entangled with herself.
So, he got out of the carriage and paid to call a few people who watched the excitement, went to the coffin shop to buy a ready-made coffin to carry it over, and paid for Gu Paner's mother to be buried in a coffin and carried to be buried.
After finishing the matter, Leng Xingyun said to Gu Pan'er: "The twenty taels of silver are enough for you to buy two acres of fertile land and two wooden houses, as well as the needs of life in the near future." In the end, I have a word of advice, whether you listen or not.
would rather be a maid than a concubine, even a rough man's wife is better than a rich concubine. Although the status seems low, it is not humble. It's not even necessary to sell your body. I advise you to make a good appointment as soon as possible, and life will naturally be better. ”
Leng Xingyun took advantage of Gu Paner's dazed expression and jumped into the carriage. Before leaving, he threw a few red rabbits that were still alive and tied up four times, and a large piece of air-dried meat.
thought that Gu Paner was like those passers-by who came and went in a hurry, and there would be no intersection with each other. Unexpectedly, this is the beginning of their story.
In the spring of the following year, the peach blossoms bloom.
Leng Xingyun once again drove a carriage into the city to make a trade, and encountered a group of strong men beating a girl with wooden sticks.
He stopped the carriage, and the more he looked at the excitement, the more he felt that the girl was familiar, and finally remembered that it was Gu Pan'er he had helped last year.
So, he jumped out of the carriage and beat the group of strong men away, and carried Gu Pan'er, who was scarred and unconscious, into the carriage and sent to the hospital.
After waking up, Gu Paner told Leng Xingyun that she was deceived and sold to a brothel by human traffickers in the name of recruiting embroidery girls. She pretended to be obedient and found an excuse to escape, but was chased and beaten by the old bustard's men.
Then, she knelt on the ground and hugged Leng Xingyun's legs, begging Leng Xingyun to help her redeem the deed of sale, saying that it was a deed of death, and whether she lived or died, she was a person in a brothel, and even the government couldn't control it.
Leng Xingyun naturally took care of this matter, smashed the brothel to the bottom, and after alarming the government, Leng Xingyun and Gu Paner and the girls who were also deceived into being sold into the brothel sued the old bustard.
When the government saw that the matter was getting bigger, they had to close down the brothel so that the persecuted girls could be rescued.
Gu Paner once again pestered Leng Xingyun in order to repay her kindness, and Leng Xingyun still escaped her entanglement after still giving some silver taels.
Another year's spring blossoms, Leng Xingyun met Gu Paner again in the city.
However, it was Gu Pan'er who recognized Leng Xingyun's carriage first, and then rushed over to block in front of the carriage.
It's still the same old story again, and said that the reason why he helped the fat powder shop set up a stall to sell fat powder here is not only for his livelihood, but also to wait for him to meet Leng Xingyun again.
Although, she didn't know when Leng Xingyun would enter the city, and even though she had missed many opportunities that could have been met. But she didn't change her mind, she just wanted to repay her kindness and follow Leng Xingyun.
Leng Xingyun was helpless, and gave some silver taels again, this time unceremoniously pushing away her who was blocking in front of the carriage and driving the carriage away.
But Leng Xingyun didn't know that Gu Pan'er had a lot more thoughts than before, and she had long thought that if she really couldn't meet this benefactor again, she would marry someone in ten years.
If you encounter it, you will definitely be rejected, so you will stalk your benefactor and you can't let it go no matter what. It is okay to be a wife or a concubine, a slave or a maidservant. She, as long as she can follow him, won't mind anything.
So, she prepared a pack of phosphor in advance and took it with her when she set up her stall.
Finally met her benefactor this time, how could she let go of this rare opportunity?
So, she rushed to the carriage and quickly hung the bag of phosphor on the axle of the carriage while Leng Xingyun was not paying attention.
The bag containing phosphor is actually a small eye pricked out by a needle, and when the carriage is not moving, the phosphor cannot leak out. But as soon as the carriage moves, the delicate fluorescent powder will leak out from the small eye.
When it was dark, Gu Paner rented a very cheap donkey, tied a carrot to a rope, and tied the rope to a stick. Then the carrot is hung in front of the donkey, and the donkey will run all the way in order to eat the carrot.
In this way, Gu Pan'er rode a donkey along the faint luster emitted by the fluorescent powder on the ground at the city gate, and ran all the way out of the city to find it.
It wasn't until the second half of the night that she finally found Leng Xingyun's residence in the mountains and forests.
After Leng Xingyun learned how Gu Pan'er came here and what she wanted to do, she was very surprised by her careful thoughts, but she didn't plan to open the door for her, so she threw out a small bag full of silver taels from the window.
and told her that he would not open the door for her, and said that he would never marry a wife or concubine in his life, nor would he need any slaves and maids to serve, so that she would die of this heart, and stop pestering herself shamelessly.
I don't know how to be honest, these four words are a great humiliation for the yellow flower girls of a good family in ancient times.
And when Leng Xingyun spoke, he already regretted that what he said was too heavy, but there was no need to apologize. If it hurts the girl's self-esteem like this, any girl will have to be angry and run away.
However, what Leng Xingyun didn't expect was that Gu Pan'er not only didn't run away, but took out a small packet of arsenic.
shouted outside the door: "It's really shameless to be a little girl, since you can't be your Leng Da Engong in this life, you will become the ghost of your Leng Da Engong!" In the next life, continue to tie the grass ring to repay your mother's burial, life-saving, redemption, and almsgiving! ”
Immediately, Gu Paner swallowed arsenic directly.