I listened to her talk well, and in this case, she can still take care of paying me compensation, she should be educated. If it weren't for the suffering, I wouldn't have come to this point.

"Nothing." I helped her up. She seemed to have found a support, and she was crawling on top of me with gravity and crying silently.

I looked at the old man Xia: "How much does she owe you?" ”

Old Man Xia's tone was very bad: "Her husband doesn't owe much, it's only twenty taels of silver." But her husband had no money to pay it back, so he gave me his daughter-in-law. ”

I asked Zhike, "How much is in the money bag?" ”

"Enough for him." Zhike handed it to me.

I took out twenty taels of silver from the money bag: "I will pay it back for her, and from then on I will pay it off." ”

Master Xia took the silver, tossed it in the palm of his hand, and gave the woman two ingots casually: "I didn't mean to embarrass you, blame you for your bad life, and put on a husband who is not a good person." These two ingots of silver can be regarded as my kindness and blessing for myself. ”

The woman took it in her hand, and her slender fingers were covered with tiny wounds, as if they had been cut by something rough. With tears in her eyes, she glanced at Master Xia a few times, and was speechless for a while.

"Thank you." She said it in obscurity.

It turned out that her name was Begonia, and she was also a rich boudoir girl when she was a child, and her family was rich, and she had a good education. Later, the family fell into the middle of the road, and when the family moved, they encountered bandits on the road, and all the families died here, and she was the only one who was lucky to save her life. She was a weak woman who was unable to avenge her family, so she had to flee. But she grew up at home since she was a child, and she didn't understand the dangers of the world, and it didn't take long for her to be deceived into the Qinglou and lose her body, becoming a despisable woman. She has seen too many joys and sorrows, served too many men, has long seen through the world, and no longer has the luxury of the love she has always longed for. She began to fall into self-depravity, and began to flatter and please like other women. It's just that later she met a scholar who suffered the same thing as her and was destitute in Bibo City, and Begonia was kind and kind, as if she saw herself back then. She began to take care of the man, accompanied her to read and write, and wrote poems elegantly. The two of them have been together for a long time, and Begonia did everything for that man to escape from the Qinglou.

"He said that he would not dislike my past, that he would not think that I was dirty, and that he would live a good life with me for the rest of his life. He also said that it was not easy for us, our backgrounds were miserable, and there was no more suitable person than the two of us. Haitang shed tears: "Not long after the days of the male farmer and the female weaving, he began to be obsessed with gambling, and after losing all my remaining money, he did not listen to my persuasion and borrowed, stole, and even robbed. He went from a literary scholar to a gambler. ”

I listened to Qi Xu: "Such a man, why didn't you leave him?" ”

Haitang smiled miserably: "I have no relatives in this world, and I have long regarded him as my only relative after all these years of getting along." I can't live without him, even if he doesn't care about me anymore. ”

A husband who can give his wife to another man at will, how can he care about the word.

I didn't speak, I helped Begonia down the stairs from another road, and walked out of Yingqing Building under the leadership of Yingqinglou Xiaoer. Outside the lights were bright, the candles were shining, and the smoke and rain were hazy. Haitang bowed to me and thanked me: "These things are hard to say, but I am willing to say to you, because I see the same helplessness in your eyes as I do." Even though I was very sad, I couldn't let it go. ”

She smiled at me: "It's not easy for people to live for a lifetime, even if I am ridiculed, I don't want to die." Who knows what the next life will be like, maybe it might be better now. ”

Perhaps, even if the heart is full of holes, there is still faith to support oneself to live.

I stared at the back of the begonia little by little in my sight, washed away by the spring rain, and drifted away.

I also smiled, and suddenly felt that this day, this cold rain was so warm and lovely.

Le Changfeng asked me why I had been there for so long, and I ignored him, I knew that Zhike would tell me clearly. My eyes fell on the sound of silk and bamboo on the stage, and the weak and boneless dancers wearing water show long skirts. They are all young and beautiful, and their close-fitting dance skirts outline their charming figures. Just like a blooming flower, show your most beautiful side as much as possible, so that it can be more beautiful. The guests were noisy and lively.

Actually, I know a few dance songs. When I was a child, my father saw that I was not a martial arts student, so he specially found a few masters with superb dancing skills to teach me, hoping that I would not be able to be a female chivalrous guest, and I would not be mediocre. I was playful, and I didn't learn much, but I learned a little under my father's coercion and temptation. Now that I look at them, I always feel much older.

The dancing girls dispersed, and a handsome boy holding a white jade flute and wearing a white moon ivory robe immediately appeared on the stage. He played a tune, lingering and leisurely, as if stepping on a piece of cotton. The second half of the year was high and low, sonorous and powerful, as if the whole body was caught in a slaughter, which made me think of the general who had been wearing armor and fighting bloodily. A song falls, and what falls with it seems to be the ups and downs of a person's life.

I withdrew my gaze, and when I turned around, I saw that Le Changfeng was looking at me. I ate the pastry and then continued to listen to the music. The man changed the piano again, and his slender fingers plucked the strings, and the notes popped out from under his hands, and then converged in the sky to form a tune. When I was a child, I liked to listen to my mother play the piano, and she only knew two or three songs, but each song was delicate and subtle. This man also played very well, much like her mother's soft piano sound.

"Same as my mother." I muttered to myself, my eyes met the man playing the piano, and the momentary exchange of eyes was fleeting. The moment I saw him looking at me, his eyes were deep, and it was clear that he meant something. I couldn't help but be stunned, and while Le Changfeng didn't notice it, I looked down again. The man plucked the strings, his eyes scanned the hall, smiled brightly, and met me for a moment. This time I was sure that the man was deliberately looking at me. I don't know him, why did he do this?

I suppressed the doubts in my heart, and deliberately held my head with one hand to block Le Changfeng's gaze from looking at the audience. The man stared at the white jade open space at the end of the piano, brushing the white jade with his fingers intentionally or unintentionally as he plucked the strings, and then looked up at me again.

One time was a coincidence, three times in a row, and I was sure that this man was sending me something.

But what is it?

I couldn't figure it out for a moment, the man left with the applause of the many guests, and now there was a group of singers below. I withdrew my gaze and lowered my head to eat a piece of autumn water hibiscus cake.

"Are you satisfied?" Le Changfeng asked me.