Traveling to Xiangfan, Zai Xiang and I both felt that we should find an inn to rest temporarily, and set off again a day or two later, because these days have been walking on a deserted mountain road, inaccessible, the dry food materials originally prepared in Macheng on the carriage have been eaten almost all over the place, the boat is tired, and the horses are also too thin to do it, for the sake of the future trip, how can we also give the horses some better grass to make up for it, otherwise, we will only go slower and slower in the end.

Although Xiangfan is not a very rich place, but it also has its own prosperous and lively, on both sides of the roadside are mostly stalls set up by craftsmen, there are those who sell cloth, there are also those who sell porcelain, there are those who sell wood, and there are also those who sell gadgets, the carriage has long been placed in the inn, and I have not seen such a boiling street market for a long time.

Otherwise, wouldn't you be disappointed?

Zai and I walked ahead.

Xiao Kunzi followed.

After walking for a while, my eyes were suddenly attracted by a stall selling rouge, led Zai Xiang over, and picked up a dark blue box to open, which was made of peach-colored rouge, I picked out a little bit with my fingertips and wiped it on my lips, and asked Zai Xiang with a side smile: "Is it good-looking?" ”

Before Zai Yan could answer, the stall owner smiled and said, "Madame is really good-looking, this is made of the juice wrung out of fresh peach petals, and the process is complicated, so there is only one box." ”

Zai Yan glanced at the stall owner a few times, and the stall owner saw that it was a man about forty years old, with a clean appearance, so Zai Yan couldn't help but ask curiously: "Is there a man who sets up a stall to sell such women's things?" ”

When I heard this, I couldn't help but smile.

The stall owner was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "Everyone has a love for beauty, let alone men and women? ”

I gently pulled Zaiyan's sleeve, looked at him sideways, and said with a smile: "Rouge is a woman's thing, but those who can make rouge must be all women, and the stall owner has good craftsmanship, why can't it?" ”

Zai Yan raised his eyebrows and said more.

I winked at him.

The stall owner smiled: "It's still Mrs. Mingli." ”

I handed the rouge box in my hand to the stall owner, smiled and asked, "How much is this?" ”

The stall owner smiled, "It should have been a tael of silver, but seeing that I fell in love with my wife like this, forget it!" ”

I hurriedly said: "This can't be counted, the stall owner is a craftsman, and this is the money he earns." So saying, I took out a tael of silver from my purse and handed it over.

The stall owner took it, "Since I have such a fate with my wife today, then I will give my wife another Zhu Hai," before the words fell, the stall owner picked a mandarin duck and wrapped it together with Fei Mingzhu, "Double yellow birds, two mandarin ducks." This is the meaning of this step. I just knew that the lord and the lady must be in deep love, and they are even worthy of this step, and my small stall can also please the lottery. ”

Zai Xiang smiled, "The meaning of this step is not bad!" ”

As I was talking and laughing, I suddenly heard a melodious tune in my ears, and I raised my eyes to look for it, and found that there was a woman wearing linen and filial piety kneeling not far away and playing the huqin. The stall owner happened to wrap up the two things, and handed them to me, and I pointed to the woman in front of me and asked him, "What's the matter?" ”

Jae-yan was also curious.

The stall owner glanced at it, and said with a clear "oh", and said: "This woman is about from other places, and recently she has been here every day in the name of selling herself to bury her father, doing things of blowing, playing and singing, guarding her father's corpse, and it is not unusual to say, everyone sees her pitiful, she is not as knowledgeable as him, and she does not ask her for rent when she occupies the place, maybe after two days, this woman will leave when she has enough money to bury her father!" ”

I gave a soft "um" and nodded.

After a moment, Zai Yan sighed: "It also hurts this woman's filial piety." ”

I didn't talk.

Then, Zai and I walked forward in silence, and neither of us spoke first.

When passing by the woman, Zai Yan and I both glanced at the woman, Xiao Kunzi seemed to see something, and suddenly asked aloud on the side: "Master, madam, do we want to help her?" ”

I looked at Zaiyan. boundless

In fact, after the refugee incident, I was indeed more afraid of the complexity of the people's hearts in the world, so I didn't dare to act lightly.

In the past, in modern times, I have encountered a lot of such things, but most modern people know the inside story of begging, and no one will take the initiative to throw money to the beggars on the street, to put it bluntly, in the modern beggar industry has long declined, and the little ninety-nine in it has been clearly touched, and the beggar can't get money at all.

Modern people, both men and women, have adapted to this world of the jungle, and there is no gender in the competitive field, where can we tolerate people like beggars who have hands and feet but are unwilling to support themselves?

In modern times, almost no one looks down on beggars, and no one sympathizes.

Because it's a scam.

I thought that the ancients would be simpler and not have as many twists and turns as modern people, but in the end, I found that they were all the same.

Having said that, this woman's situation is not completely confused with those beggars and refugees, although I don't understand the huqin, but I think at least she has sold her strength.

Performing like her can barely be regarded as self-supporting!

But for a tael of silver, he sold himself to bury his father?

And listening to the stall owner's words, this woman actually stayed here for more than a day, I really don't believe it if she doesn't have another purpose!

I've seen a lot of people like this in modern times!

Zaiyan's footsteps had already froze, crowded in the crowd of threes and twos, his eyes swept lightly over the woman, and then, retracting his gaze, whispered in my ear: "She plays the huqin quite well." ”

I glanced sideways at him, "Got a crush on someone?" Then he frowned and said: "If you sell yourself to bury your father, why don't you buy a few ingots of silver to be a concubine?" ”

Zaiyan's eyes lit up, "You know I didn't mean that." ”

I asked, "So what do you mean?" ”

He said, "This woman's piano skills are indeed worthy of a tael of silver." Besides, it is not enough to sell one's body to bury one's father for one or two pieces of silver. ”

I said, "No, it shows that this woman's mind is not pure." ”

He said: "People are just a weak woman, how can they be so unbearable as you think?" ”

I stared at him and didn't answer.

Weak woman?

Hehe!

It's clearly a scheming here.

I was thinking in my heart, and Xiao Kunzi was also beside me and said: "The little woman is alone, and it is really pitiful to go to the point of selling herself to bury her father." ”

I looked at the two of them lightly and exclaimed, "Pathetic? ”

Both nodded.

Are they really invisible, or are they falsely invisible?

So, I said "um": "You two think she is pitiful, then you two go and help her bury her father!" ”

With that, I turned around to leave.