Chapter 306: Money Recruits
Hu really said that he would go, stand up and drill to the door.
However, perhaps it was because she had been kneeling in the wet mud of the river embankment for a long time, and the cold of late autumn had already eroded her legs, and she had been numb from the cold before, and she didn't feel it for a while.
As soon as the person stood abruptly, the whole person staggered forward.
"Be careful!" Qi Yunshu shouted, and the magpie guarding the door quickly supported her, and helped her back to the cushion she had just kneeled on under Qi Yunshu's signal.
"I ...... I should go back, I still have a young son at home, he is only twelve years old, please let me go back, I will never talk nonsense before, and I dare not come to worship Lao Nantou and Yingying privately. ”
"Aunt Hu, I think you misunderstood, we just met in Pingshui, seeing you do that on the river embankment, I was afraid that something would happen to you, so I invited you to drink a cup of hot tea to warm up, we don't have any intentions for you!"
Qi Yunshu's lips were raised, her smile overflowed, and she was friendly and gentle, and General Hu glanced her up and down suspiciously.
All she saw was a beautiful young woman, gentle, kind and friendly, and it seemed that she was really thinking too much!
Also, since her man and Ying Ying are gone, her whole person seems to have gone crazy all of a sudden, sometimes sober, sometimes confused, sometimes she doesn't even know what she is doing!
"Aunt Hu, you take a rest here first, tell me where you live, we have a carriage, and I can use the carriage to send you back when you recover from it!"
Hu Shi blinked, looked at the woman who was smiling brightly and good-looking before meeting him, and didn't ask about anything, just leaned leisurely against the window railing and drank tea.
The tense string in his heart relaxed suddenly, and the erected vigilance slowly lowered, but he was still puzzled when he looked at Qi Yunshu's face.
Qi Yunshu tasted Chuzhou's special tea, and looked at the middle-aged woman opposite through the dense smell of tea, her face was dark, her eyes were cloudy, and her hands carried the traces of hard work unique to working people - thick calluses, holding the tea cup vigorously, shrunken shoulders, and looking uncomfortable.
She opened her mouth several times, but for some reason closed it tightly.
Qi Yunshu could see from her frightened eyes that the Hu family might have a good impression of her, but the defense in her heart had not completely lowered.
She was still worried and panicked, so she hesitated.
Qi Yunshu understood her thoughts, and did not force her, her expression was more relaxed, only occasionally when she threw herself into the busy merchant ships that would pass the river, would her eyes be covered with a layer of fog.
For example, the wharf of Dahe Avenue is often the most important place for exchanges between various places, but it is also the most trouble-prone place.
Zhao Jing is afraid that she has already fallen here, which is the reason why she did not look for Zhao Jing in the first place when she arrived in Chuzhou.
Originally, Qi Yunshu still felt that she was thinking badly, maybe she should immediately go to the Yamen of the Chuzhou Prefect to inquire about Zhao Jing's whereabouts, if he was injured, she would treat him.
But since she saw Hu Shi, she changed her mind, she was here to help Zhao Jing, but not to cause trouble!
After drinking a cup of tea for a long time, the fragrance of tea filled the entire tea room, the tea in Qi Yunshu's hand finally bottomed out, she saw the tea foam floating at the bottom of the cup, she couldn't help but blow gently, and she touched Hu's cautious eyes in the gap between her eyes.
"You can slow down, magpie, help Aunt Hu into the carriage and send her back!"
"Ah...... No, no, no, no, I'm much better, so I don't need to be sent by nobles, thank you...... Thank you for the tea, it tastes good, it tastes so good! ”
Hu Shi had an accent from the Bashu area, which made Qi Yunshu, who had been in Shu for some time, a little surprised.
She stopped Hu, paid for the tea, and asked the magpie to help her into the carriage, and she followed.
She told Hu that in fact, she was also selfish in giving her a ride.
When Hu Shi heard this, he immediately became nervous, for fear that she would inquire about something again, so he hurriedly defended that she was too stunned today, and said something that should not be said or did not exist, so that she must not take it to heart, and made it clear that she would not say anything and know nothing next!
Qi Yunshu smiled: "I just want to ask Aunt Hu, I first came to Chuzhou to join my family, but the address was wrong."
It's late today, I want to find an inn to stay, but I heard that this place is too chaotic, I am a weak woman, it's really not good to go out to inquire by yourself, just saw you a local, look good, this is the heart to make friends, but I want to inquire about a reliable place to go! ”
When Hu Shi heard this, he was stunned, his pale thick lips trembled, he lowered his head a little embarrassed, and pointed out to her an inn close to the prefect's yamen with a red face, called Xinyue Inn, saying that the big guests from the capital live there, and it is the largest and safest place here.
Because the innkeeper has a person, outsiders don't dare to go wild there, and local gangsters don't dare to come to the door to make trouble.
It's much better than the mixed places near the docks.
"But that's it...... It's just spending a lot of money and burning money! "Hu was afraid that they would be wronged, so he told the truth.
Qi Yunshu smiled and said that she came here to join her relatives and to do business, and she was not short of money.
The decision was made for UBM to open the room with her luggage first, while she and Magpie drove the carriage to Shugen Street in the west of the city, which was the residence that Hu pointed out.
Low houses, narrow alleys, broken fishing nets, hanging bamboo baskets, people in cloth clothes sitting on the ground, and children fooling around on bluestone slabs with bare feet...... Everywhere there was an indescribable smell, sour, fishy, and poor.
"I'm here...... The nobleman's carriage can't get in, thank you, thank you! Hu got out of the carriage at the head of an alley just big enough to make a U-turn, and pointed to a place behind a narrow alley that only allowed three people to pass through a wooden plank and said that she had arrived home.
Qi Yunshu's heart was sour, and she looked at Hu Shi, and her heart was full of sympathy for her.
Her life is really too bitter!
Just as she was sighing, Hu knocked on the door, and an unclothed child crashed into her arms, raising his head and calling his mother.
This must be the twelve-year-old son she called her.
He looks very short, barely 1.5 meters tall of Hu's chest.
A small face is sallow, and the chest is rickety, as if there is chicken breast disease, which is severe malnutrition.
Qi Yunshu felt sour in her heart, took the silver and told the magpie to buy some food at the restaurant selling food at the head of the alley.
The magpie looked at the idlers in the alley who didn't know when they gathered, hesitated, and wanted to say something, but after glancing at the soft sword at his waist, he finally swallowed it back. The young grandmother must have her own ideas when she acts, so it's better not to interfere too much.
The magpie bought a freshly roasted duck, two or two cooked pigs, ten large cakes, ten buns, and a plate of peanuts, which was enough for the mother and son to eat for three or two days.
Together with this fragrance, the idlers who were still circling around the periphery just now were like flies smelling blood, and they all squeezed up next to the wall.
At first, I was a little afraid of this rather large carriage, but after looking at it for a while, I found that except for the two young women sitting in the carriage, one by one they immediately got up and hurried towards them.
"Ah, go, go, noble, these are not good things!" Hu Shi shouted at the sight.
He also stood at the door with his waist crossed and scolded, trying to scare these idlers away.
But now in their eyes, Qi Yunshu, who was well-dressed and wearing a ring, was a moving money bag, and just now they saw a silver ticket of one hundred taels that she grabbed from her arms.
With so much money, they don't know how much cargo they have to carry at the dock to earn it back, and they can't earn it back in their lives!
Especially since there are only two weak women standing in front of them, so who will they rob if they don't rob them?
It's just that what they think is beautiful, where are Qi Yunshu and magpies to mess with?
Qi Yunshu waved at Hu Shi, who was not at ease with him: "Aunt Hu, go back quickly, we are not afraid of them!" ”
Where is the Hu family willing to believe it, they are only two weak women in her eyes, and one is thinner than the other, she turned back to the house, grabbed a flat pole and rushed out, and the six idlers had already rushed towards Qi Yunshu regardless of it.
"Hmph, look for a fight!" The magpie snorted coldly, flew up with a kick, and kicked the two who rushed to the front.
The other four froze in place, looking at the magpie in disbelief.
With her small body, she actually has such a strong strength, knowing that she is definitely not an ordinary person, she no longer underestimates it, the four of them exchanged a look with each other, divided into two strands, one of three people attacked the magpie, and one of them rushed towards Qi Yunshu.
I was going to pinch Qi Yunshu, who looked even more delicate, and use it to threaten the magpie that was difficult to deal with.
But where would you have thought that Qi Yunshu was a person who had been on the battlefield in Northern Xinjiang and had experienced the baptism of war, how could he be easy to deal with, and sprinkled a handful of medicinal powder on the person who rushed up.
"Ah......h
At the same time, the three people who attacked the magpie were also beaten to the ground at the same time.
"Weak chicken!" Qi Yunshu clapped her hands and spat out fragrant mouths, at this level, bullying and bullying ordinary people is almost the same.
Before he finished speaking, he heard the anxious call of the magpie: "Master, be careful! ”
It was the five people who fell to the ground who struggled to stand up again, Xu was used to being beaten, and the magpie was not heavy, they were all borne, and they gathered together to hug up, directly facing Qi Yunshu, and someone even waved a long stick and saw that it was about to hit the back of her head.
They came too fast, Qi Yunshu couldn't avoid it, and the magpie was blocked by them, and he couldn't save it, his eyes were red and he scolded with hatred: "You dare to touch my master, you want your life......"
The idler is an outlaw, and he is the master who wants money and does not want to die, the magpie's words don't work for them at all, a stick swung over, hit Qi Yunshu's shoulder, and the corner of her mouth twitched in pain, and when the other stick came down, she heard a gust of wind, and a sharp scolding:
"Who dares to commit murder in the street!"
This voice sounded unfamiliar, but when she raised her eyes and saw that person, her heart couldn't help but tremble, so familiar!