0042 Water lotus
Erlu is located in the north of Jingzhou, there is the Jin River, a tributary of the Wuxing River on the right, and the Canglan Mountains on the left, the plains are thousands of miles, and the fertile fields are thousands of hectares. When the emperor is far away, North Yin Rin is the hegemon.
The city is bigger than the capital, and there is nothing that cannot be done as long as the merchants come and go, as long as they pay enough money. In this regard, Bei Yin Rin is the most trustworthy, and he will never allow himself to take money and break the rules he has set.
He loves money, and naturally the most lucrative business will not be handed over to others to do, gambling houses, brothels, gold mines and salt fields, in his opinion, everything in the world can be called wanted, between light and heavy, until he has to choose, he wants it.
Bei Yin Huai, Yang Zi, Shi Baoyue, Qu Xiao and the four of them came to the outside of Eryu City, a monk, two beauties, and a handsome young man, they couldn't help but attract people's attention wherever they went.
At this moment, Qu Xiao saw seven and a half tall boys, claiming to be the Seven Heroes of Hezuo, wearing tattered clothes and trousers, turning his heels and knocking on the bowl, standing outside the city wall and singing to the officials.
"We'll have to disguise ourselves." After Qu Xiao finished speaking, he walked to the side of the road to ask for food, took out two taels of silver, and exchanged them for clothes to ask for food, and the four of them put them on, leaving only the too white face to be flattened unharmoniously, Qu Xiao rubbed it on the ground with his hand, and first wiped it on Yang Zigui's face.
Seeing this, Bei Yin Huai Shi Baoyue grabbed the dust and rubbed it on his face. The four of them followed the victims to the edge of the city.
The officials at the gate of the city listened with pleasure, but they wanted to watch and prevent these beggars from going to the city to ask for food. The seven heroes of the left side of the river danced and sang around the door, and after a while, two of them jumped behind the official messenger, and then jumped out again, just back and forth, jumping back and forth, and when the official messenger relaxed, the seven people immediately rushed into the city with their front and back feet.
The official messenger was anxious to take seven people, and in a panic, the victims took the opportunity to crowd the city. Yang Zi returned to the north and Yin Huai entered the city with the victims.
The main street of Eryu is spacious, and there are more than ten horse-drawn carriages side by side. On both sides, in addition to the small merchants and vendors who set up stalls, there are casino brothels everywhere, red, green, green and white, either women with half of their breasts twisting their waists, or shirtless men guarding the door.
They had not yet walked a few steps into the city when they were confronted by a large wave of officials who had driven away the victims. In a hurry, the four of them hid in an alley, which was a dead end, and there was only one door in the alley.
Seeing that the official errand was getting closer and closer, Bei Yinhuai and the four of them flew over the wall and hid in.
Inside this wall is the backyard of Qianhongfang on the main street.
At this time, the front yard was lively, and there was little contact in the back yard, so a few people boldly got up and began to find a way along the yard.
Bei Yin Huai suddenly took a step back, frightened, and said to Yang Zigui: "There are dogs!" ”
The four of them held their breath and were too frightened to move, but they didn't hear the sound of chains.
Yang Zigui pushed Bei Yinhuai behind him, and slowly poked his head out, and there was indeed a low iron cage at the corner of the stairs.
But what made Yang Zi depressed was that there was a pile of sackcloth wriggling in the cage.
The more Yang Zigui looked, the more she felt that she didn't look like a dog, she boldly took two steps forward, and only then did she see that it was a little girl crawling in the cage.
Yang Zigui was startled, and the little girl was also startled.
"Who are you? Why here? Yang Zigui asked in a low voice.
As if she hadn't heard, the little girl continued to crawl on the ground and nibble on the black bun on the ground. Yang Zigui was not afraid, and raised his eyes Qu Xiaobei Yin Huai Shi Baoyue had already walked in front of her.
Shi Baoyue couldn't see this, even if she wanted to pull out the knife to open the cage, she didn't wait to do it. Behind the four of them, a woman's voice was remembered.
"Who are you? How did you get in? ”
The four of them froze, not daring to turn around.
"You're the one who's being arrested in the city, come on!"
Bei Yinhuai hurriedly turned around, ran behind the woman in two steps, strangled the woman's throat with one hand, and covered the woman's mouth with the other.
This woman is the top water lotus of Qianhongfang, she asked herself to see a lot of Daguan Gongzi, although Bei Yinhuai was ragged, but when she leaned closely, she smelled the hidden fragrance on Bei Yinhuai's body.
A cold fragrance of the world after the snow is hidden in the smell of sweat in the outer shirt. Shui Lian deliberately rubbed Bei Yinhuai's body, more than six feet tall, with chest muscles and abdominal muscles, white and delicate fingers, and long joints like thin onions.
How could such a man be a beggar. Looking at the other three again, the ash on their faces was obviously freshly smeared, and the white skin under the ash could not be concealed.
Although Shuilian didn't know what the purpose of these four people was here, she probably guessed that these four people were either rich or expensive, she gently patted Bei Yinhuai's hand covering her mouth, and signaled Bei Yinhuai to put it down.
Seeing this, Bei Yinhuai put it down, only to see a woman with a smile on her eyebrows and a peach-like face turning her face to him.
"Come with me, don't worry, although I don't know the origin of the four, but those who hide from the officials will not be bad."
"What do you mean by that?"
Shui Lian smiled: "The bad guys have already taken care of the government, where do they still use it to hide in Tibet." ”
"Come with me."
Shui Lian didn't wait for Bei Yinhuai and the four of them to say whether they were willing or not, so she turned around and went up the stairs and walked up to the attic.
The four of them had no choice at the moment, and there was still the sound of officials taking people everywhere outside the wall, and they didn't dare to go out without permission, so they could only believe in Shui Lian once and followed them upstairs.
The corner of the corridor turned, it was a long and narrow corridor, Bei Yinhuai looked up and suddenly saw that the sunny day was exceptionally quiet, and followed the water lotus into a room, only to find that it was the boudoir bedroom.
Shui Lian said two words to the two and a half big girls, and the girl turned around and went down the stairs in the corner of the building, and Bei Yin looked at the girl with doubts.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to tell you a secret, I'm afraid you haven't eaten a few full meals like this, I'll let them prepare some food."
Bei Yinhuai looked up and down his body, and realized that Shui Lian might have begged them and pitied them.
Shui Lian entered the door, opened the window in her room, and smiled at the four people standing outside the door: "Now you can come in with confidence, if the official messenger comes in, you can see it immediately, and you can jump from the window." ”
Bei Yinhuai paused and raised his feet to enter, but saw that the room was not only spacious, but also exquisitely furnished. Bei Yinhuai paced around the house, glanced around, and his eyes fell on a guqin by the window.
Yang Zi returned to Shibao Yue Qu Xiao was imprisoned by extraordinarily tranquility, cautious, and did not dare to make a sound. Shuilian has read countless men in half her life, looking at Bei Yinhuai's behavior back and forth, and she is even more sure that Bei Yinhuai is not very human. Delicate skin, slender neck, facial features are not only good-looking, but also faintly revealing a domineering and extravagant.
Shui Lian poured tea for the four of them, paced slowly, and in order not to make the four of them feel depressed, she stepped aside and stood beside the guqin.
Bei Yinhuai watched from afar as Shuilian stood sideways in front of the piano, and the green trees outside the window reflected Shuilian's pink face and red lips, like a painting.
"Can you play the piano?" Bei Yinhuai said this first sentence for a long time.
Yang Zigui held the teacup and looked at the water lotus by the window with great interest.
Shui Lian smiled: "I'm not a showman." ”
Bei Yinhuai was also amused for some reason, and he wondered in his heart, looking at the water lotus, and he was a little admired.
"I don't understand, I also posted my mother upside down for this piano, and my sisters said I was fooled. Can you help me see if it's a valuable object? ”
Shui Lian got up and walked away, giving way for Bei Yinhuai to get closer.
Bei Yinhuai suddenly forgot his identity as a beggar, stepped forward in two steps, his slender fingers fell on the piano, and he plucked it slightly, only to feel that the sound of the piano was clear.
"It's a painstaking object, it's not great, but it's not far off."
The corners of Bei Yinhuai's mouth rose unconsciously.
"That's good, it's so good that I don't deserve it in this house." Shui Lian confirmed in her heart, and couldn't help but smile at Bei Yinhuai's innocence.
The girl who came downstairs came up again, brought a few dishes of food to the door, and put them on the table.
Bei Yinhuai stood by the window and looked out, suddenly felt that this scene was familiar, and for a while he couldn't remember whether he had seen it in a dream or somewhere, he was thinking about it in his heart, but he was suddenly stunned.
His gaze fell again on the iron cage at the corner of the stairs.
Bei Yinhuai turned his head and immediately asked Shui Lian, Shui Lian didn't know what was going on, so he hurriedly walked to him, and looked out of Bei Yinhuai's eyes in the distance from Bei Yinhuai's turn.
Shui Lian smiled lightly: "The little girl I just bought back is too pouting." ”
"She's not ten years old."
"It's pretty much the same, it's normal for people to be thinner and smaller."
"How can you lock a child in a cage when you're growing up?"
Shuilian looked at Bei Yinhuai, and almost said something to remind Bei Yinhuai of the identity he was playing now. When I came back to my senses, I thought about what kind of noble person I was, and I even felt strange about such a thing.
"Childe laughed, who in this world is not in a cage? The visible, the invisible, and a few people who are not trapped. ”
Bei Yinhuai was surprised when he heard Shuilian's words, and decided that Shuilian was not a kitsch mortal, and he should have had his own experience at this point.
"Childe, eat something, I'll come when I go." Shuilian bowed her head and walked out of the room.
Bei Yinhuai walked to the table, sat next to Yang Zigui, and picked up the chopsticks.
"This water lotus girl doesn't look ordinary." Yang Zigui looked at Bei Yinhuai with a smile.
"Probably a poor man, too." Bei Yinhuai did not perceive Yang Zigui's implication.
"Ao" Yang Zigui pretended to nod: "I'm full." ”
Yang Zi got up and walked to the piano again, looked down, and searched around for the child who had just been in Bei Yinhuai's mouth. From a distance, I saw Shui Lian take out a little girl from an iron cage, and the little girl walked slowly and staggered with an anklet bracelet.
Where is the water lotus going to take people? Yang Zigui was suspicious, listening to the sound outside, there was no sound for half a sound, and he didn't know where he went, but the water lotus came in.
Shuilian stood at the door, smiled and said, "Come in, you are blessed today, you are favored by the son, and you don't come in and kowtow." ”
When Bei Yinhuai raised his eyes and looked out again, he saw a little girl with a hammerhead who had just washed her face and the water beads were still hanging on her sideburns kneeling outside the door.
"If the son doesn't dislike it, this girl will be given to the son."
Bei Yinhuai was stunned, looking at Yang Zigui Qu Xiao and didn't know how to answer.
"How can that work?" Yang Zigui stepped forward: "We are just beggars, we are all in danger, where do we dare to delay her." ”
Although Yang Zigui was dressed as a woman, Shui Lian saw through it at a glance, and saw Yang Zigui pull Bei Yinhuai's arm: "Thank you girl for the rescue, we should go." ”
Shi Baoyue Qu Xiao got up and walked out one after another, and Bei Yinhuai was pulled by Yang Zigui and could only follow.
Just took two steps, Bei Yinhuai stopped and turned to Shuilian: "Children are mostly temperamental, and the girl is a good girl, and she will definitely be the same as the girl in the future, and she will not be a vulgar person." ”
Shuilian was happy when she heard "It won't be the music of the vulgar people": "Okay, since the son likes it, I will definitely train you for a good life." It's better for Childe to be tired and give her a name. ”
"Let's call Qiao'er."
After Bei Yinhuai finished speaking, he turned around, and without waiting for Shui Lian to lead the way, he went downstairs along the way in and walked to the backyard wall. The four of them jumped over the wall and disappeared from Shui Lian's sight.
"Get up, will you be my maid?"
"Yes."
Qiao'er got up and looked at the courtyard wall with Shuilian: "Who is he?" ”
"Remember his face?"
Qiao'er nodded first and then shook her head.
"He's my guest."