Chapter 16: Behind the Scenes
With the sound of silk and bamboo, Tingsheng began to dance. The water sleeves are flicking, and the lotus is growing step by step, she is like a butterfly stepping in the sea of flowers, shocked.
I sighed from the bottom of my heart: "It's so beautiful~"
"Good!" A cheer from downstairs drowned out my voice, and I was very displeased.
At the end of the dance, all the lights in the hall were lit again, and the bright hull carried the restless heart, and the next step was the bidding process, and the highest bidder would win.
It's an unappetizing deal.
"Listen to Miss Sheng, but she is a clear girl, and she is a clean and jade body, which benefactor can relieve this meager wealth tonight, which is also a blessing for our girl." Before the offer, the old bustard came to the stage and said such a sentence that did not match the preface, what kind of small wealth is still a good blessing, among which the word "Chun Qier" made the face of the peach blossom who listened to Shengben turn white for a moment.
Downstairs bidding begins.
"I am willing to give a hundred taels, and I have to be accompanied by the girl all night. ...”
Tsk, it's so explicit~
"I am willing to give three hundred taels and get a beautiful kiss..."A pockmarked face, a guy with a big head and a thick neck, squeezed through the crowd with a big belly to bid in front, this look~ If you look at it more, you will lose your life, which makes people listen to how the Sheng girl can go down?
Although Tingsheng over there was still a decent posture, he bowed slightly, smiling and laughing. But I feel like she's about to cry, but too, who doesn't cry?
Which woman doesn't want to find her wishful husband, and her love is inseparable. In the spring dreams of Cardamom Nian, I thought that there would be a handsome young man as a companion, where would it be like this, like cattle and horses, and people bid for it.
I kind of regret that I was so bored to watch this tonight.
Prices are still climbing, and more and more people are bidding.
The corners of my mouth began to twitch, what was going on. I looked at the people bidding downstairs, from the old man in his 60s to the energetic teenager, were these people serious? I can't help but sigh: It's really a world of decline!
"I'll give you five hundred taels!!"
No one downstairs spoke, and they all looked upstairs to see that these words were the price offered by the few people next door to me. Listen to the voice, like a man who just spoke with a sense of banter.
"Five hundred and one taels!" Changji cleared his throat and let out this number.
I looked at him in amazement, what did he want?
There was an uproar at the bottom, and they all looked at the Tianzi No. 1 room and Tianzi No. 2 room on the second floor, Tingsheng was calm, and a smile fell in my eyes at the moment It became a successful smile, she looked up at me directly when she looked up at me, and looked at Changji with peach blossom eyes.
I turned my head to look at Changji, and the guy was still pretending to be cold. Furious, I slammed the cup in my hand on the table, slashed at him viciously and said, "I knew that you would come out with me for this matter, and I didn't agree to go out with you to say anything."
Changji was stunned for a moment, looked at me thoughtfully, didn't say anything, and then lowered his head and peeled peanuts seriously.
There was a commotion below, and the bidding was heard again.
"Six hundred taels!" The voice next door was a little disdainful.
"Six hundred and one taels." Add one or two to the long pole.
……
"Eight hundred taels." The man next door gritted his teeth.
"Eight hundred and one taels!" Chang Ji spit out a number without slowing down, without blinking his eyelids.
I choked my surprise and asked him in a low voice, "Where do you have so much money?"
Changji smiled and said, "Don't worry about this for now, the price is important."
I was speechless.
"One thousand taels, no more!"
Someone next door was visibly angry.
This time, Changji didn't speak again, dusted off the broken peanuts on his body, winked at me as if he had succeeded in his treacherous scheme, glanced at the unstable below, and sneered: "It's really interesting."
I was struck by lightning, and I didn't know what trick he was going to play.
"You're not going to increase the price?" Weakly asked.
He replied with a smile: "The goal has been achieved, why bother to join in the fun." The joke is almost enough, and if it goes on again, the joke will turn into playing with fire. ”
But when he put the peanut shell aside, he carefully blew the peeled peanuts in his hand and shredded them, and then naturally put them in my hands.
I was puzzled, and as if I knew the reason, I stopped asking, and happily ate the peanuts he had peeled for me.
There was a burst of exclamations from downstairs, and they were talking about the arrogant gold lord next door who had never shown up. I was eating peanuts, very pleasant, and at the moment others were just imaginary and insignificant in my eyes.
"Guest of Tianzi No. 1, I wonder if the little woman is lucky enough to be able to give you a cup of tea?" Tingsheng, who was standing in the center of the stage, suddenly spoke, obviously saying to others, but staring at Changji beside me with a complicated expression.
"Of course, of course, the beauty serves tea, and it is as sweet as food." The man could be heard laughing, but not frivolous.
Before Tingsheng came up with tea, the gold owner next door had already gone downstairs.
"Childe ......" Although it was a low voice, she could also hear her surprise and panic at the moment.
I was just as surprised as she was, and the peanuts that fell out of my mouth testify to that.
Tingsheng was probably surprised by the appearance of this gold lord, and I was surprised by who this person was. ~ Unexpectedly, the arrogant boy who bid so unambiguously just now turned out to be Meng Jie?
I have heard others say that Meng Jie is young and promising, although he is a prince and prince, but he has been obsessed with medicine and pharmacology since he was a child, and he has cured many incurable diseases, and most of the people who come to him to see a doctor are some wealthy nobles, and the consultation fee should be quite high, otherwise how could he be so generous, carrying a thousand taels of silver.
"Thanks to the love of the son, Tingsheng will try his best to serve the son." Listening to Sheng's eyes, his face was full of shame.
I froze, still staring at Meng Jie in disbelief. Fang Cai was full of voices, and he had no intention of publicizing it, and the two people next to him were the most energetic when bidding, and I couldn't recognize his voice for various reasons, but Changji should have known it a long time ago, otherwise he wouldn't have raised the price with him. But why should Changji be angry with him?
His fox eyes hooked, and he said with a smile: "Now, do you still think that you are the same kind of person as Meng Jie?" ”
I sighed and clapped my hands: "I'm a clean person, so I won't be like him."
Changji poked his head and stared at me for a while, his breath was on my face, itchy, I dodged for a while, and said, "You knew he was Meng Jie early on, why didn't you tell me." ”
Changji didn't answer my question, but asked me, "Don't you think this sound sounds familiar?" ”
I hummed casually, and then looked up and down at him vigilantly: "Just now, you deliberately raised the price to make a fuss, right?" ”
Changji touched my head, didn't say a word, only laughed narrowly.
I was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why are you doing this?"
The corners of Changji's eyes were crooked, and with a hint of a teasing smile, he said, "I'm just helping him, maybe he will have to thank me for winning him a beauty." ”
He's like a fox.
I took a deep breath and looked down at Meng Jie, I wanted to see how he ended.
Meng Jie's face was as usual, and he happily replied: "That's not necessary, it's just a whim, I just want my friends to have fun." It's worth it to buy a girl a wonderful song for a thousand taels of silver, and as for the rest, I really haven't thought about it. He had something to say, and he was already politely refusing.
Tingsheng's face gradually darkened, and he insisted: "No matter what, today it is the son who will auction Tingsheng's worth, although Tingsheng is not a good woman, she also knows the reason of not serving the two masters." Today, I will serve my son."
After speaking, he turned around and went back, leaving Meng Jie with a blank face and an indignant spectator.
Listening to Sheng's words, it shattered my human ethics, and the emotional people don't want to do that, what are you going to do with the pole? Dumbfounded, amazed.
Although I can understand that Meng Jie came out to drink flowers and wine for a reason, he is not only a young man, but also a wealthy man who is not short of money, looking for fun, and winning the bid, but he may not really offend her. It's just that this listens to Sheng, and Twenty-eight Years is actually so lustful?
In vain I was so sympathetic to her just now.
Looking through the curtain at Tingsheng, who had returned to the stage, she was some distance away, and she could only be faintly seen under the lights, and her expression could not be seen clearly.
"Then tonight's bidding for Miss Sheng will come to an end. Thanks to this son's love, he is really a talented woman, a match made in heaven. The old bustard shouted, and the whole house shouted.
Meng Jiehu's body was shocked, "This ...... What an unexpected! ”
I looked at Meng Jie downstairs and imagined his erosive and indulgent life after he fell astray. Alas, I can't help but feel sorry that another good boy has fallen. As I was sighing, Mougins looked up and met a pair of joking eyes. He doesn't seem to be as innocent as I thought. Whatever he does, he will always think it through in advance and will never do it arbitrarily. It's this joke, I'm afraid he has already thought about it in his heart, he must know that the other party is Meng Jie, so he will raise the price so methodically.
And I also refreshed my understanding of Meng Jie, it turned out that he was still a romantic, amorous and eccentric guy.
Before the dinner was over, Changji took me home early, and it is unknown where Meng Jie took Tingsheng......
During the lunch break after class that day, everyone did not go home, and all stayed in Shangshuyuan to eat. Men and women are in one place, separated by a wall.
When you're done eating, it's free time. If you want to take a hard survey, or wander around, or squint your eyes and take a nap, it's up to you, as long as you don't leave the college. Because I got up early, I didn't have much energy in the morning, and my appetite was not good, so I hurriedly drank a few mouthfuls of porridge and lay down on the soft couch to make up for sleep. Yu Gui Death dragged me to Baili Yuan to offer my courtesy, but I was defeated by my sleepy worm, so I had to give up. In order to hide people's eyes, she dragged Yunkang and Ankang again, Qin Luoxue also followed because of Yunkang, and I don't know how they get along. Changji and Meng Jie were called by Hao Fuzi, and the three of them played chess at noon.
I finally stayed up until the end of school, and I made an appointment to go shopping on the street together, but I was left behind by Hao Fuzi, and all my plans were interrupted, so I was naturally a hundred reluctant.
There is also Changji left behind, which makes me feel surprised, but my heart is also a little balanced, thinking that even a good student like Changji with excellent character and learning has been left to listen to the teaching, and I am not unhappy. What I didn't expect was that he was implicated by me.
Hao Fuzi asked Changji to stay, and led me to the library of Shangshuyuan, saying that he wanted me to read "Female Fan Jielu", and he would ask questions in class tomorrow. I didn't want to go to school anymore.
What the hell, I don't even understand the title of the book, let alone answer his questions.
Changji dragged me angrily in the direction of the library, and although I was reluctant, I had to go.
Located in the west of the college, the Fence Yuan Book Pavilion is the place with the largest collection of books in Nanzhan, which was built in the 32nd year of the Apocalypse and went through the five dynasties of Nanzhan Emperor. It is mainly used to collect some ancient books, medical books, agricultural administration books and so on. The environment here is beautiful, fresh and elegant, and the collection of books is rich and all-encompassing, and Nagaji told me that there are 4 million books registered here, which is the largest library in Nanzhan and even in the whole of Kyushu, and there are all kinds of books, and you can find any kind of books here. I wandered in front of the rows of bookshelves, surrounded by tens of thousands of books, and the smell of books came to my face. I think that if I had been exposed to books for a long time, over time, I might still be able to recite poems and write chapters or something. I feel that I will soon become a talented woman who is rich and knowledgeable, and I am inexplicably excited just thinking about it.
Thinking about it, I picked up a book and began to read it hard, uh no, I should have been sleeping, because after a short time I leaned against the bookshelf and fell asleep.
"What are you doing?"
There was a heavy blow on the top of my head, and the pain made me fall asleep at all. I opened my eyes, and my eyebrows were raised, and I glared at it, facing the upper pole of sight. He laughed slyly, and I twitched angrily.
He said: "I'm still too lazy to read books, you wait for Hao Fuzi's question in class tomorrow."
He moved out of Haofuzi, and I instantly lacked confidence. I decided to ignore him, and without saying a word, I turned away to look for the book.
The books are arranged in a fixed position and are easy to find. I stood on tiptoe to get the copy of "Female Fan Jielu", but the book was too high for me to reach, and of course, I wouldn't admit that I was short.
Seeing that I couldn't reach it after jumping for a long time, he finally couldn't stand it anymore and helped me take it down. I took it and said, "Nosy!"
Out of the corner of his twitching eyes, I smirked and walked to the desk by the window and sat down. Carefully opening the book, densely copied by hand, my head was big. The wind was blowing, and I had no intention of opening an old book left by someone else under the corner of the table, so I put down the "Female Fan Jielu" in my hand and picked up the book.
"Mountain, mountain...... Sea, warp. "I struggled to read a few big words on the paper, and I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to read all three words, which was not easy. I opened the book with great interest, and I didn't know the words in it, but the pictures in it were quite interesting. A bird with three heads, a monster with a human face and a snake body, and an animal with a rat head like a rabbit. Just by looking at these pictures, I can also put on a posture of tireless learning.
Changji followed, kneeling down with me, I looked up at him, but he didn't seem to want to talk to me with a straight face. He held a book in his hand, thick, delicately bound, and at first glance it belonged to the kind of book that was very deep and difficult. I stared intently at the book in his hand, trying to see what he was reading, but I didn't recognize the title of the book, and I only knew a Western character.
I poked him in the arm, and he didn't move, and I pressed harder. He frowned, and his tone was stiff: "What do you want to do!"
"What a murderous thing, I just want to see what you're reading." I was so angry that I tried my best to pat him on the back with the book, but I didn't expect him to be as hard as a fast stone, but it hurt my hand.
Seeing that I was exhaling pain, Changji's eyebrows and eyes seemed to soften, and he smiled and said, "I'm watching "Xishu National Policy". Books you can't read. ”
I tugged at the corners of my mouth and was very unconvinced, but I couldn't help but be curious and turned my head to look.
Well, I really don't understand.
These words are quite simple, but few people know them! He glanced up at me, and then looked at the book in my hand, the corners of his mouth squirmed, as if he was smiling, and said lightly: "I am actually reading the "Classic of Mountains and Seas"." , I pouted, why not.
He continued, "It's all of your kind, and it's worth seeing." The tone was clearly disdainful. I tried to persuade myself, this was not a mockery, it was just a tactful encouragement from him, but I couldn't help but say, "What are you laughing at?" Don't underestimate this book, this book is also very difficult. ”
His ridicule became more and more obvious: "Yes, it's more difficult than a thousand-character text, a three-character scripture or something!"
I decided not to pay attention to him, picked up my "Classic of Mountains and Seas" again, and quickly flipped through it, and the pictures in the book were lost after a short time.
Changji flicked the back of his hand on his knee twice, folded his legs, put aside the scroll in his hand, raised his hand and snatched my book: "Master Hao asked you to come to the library with me, so that I could urge you to learn more knowledge, so that you would not be embarrassed when you ask questions in class." But what are you doing now, lazy and unintentionally studying, I have accepted this miscellaneous book, and I am not allowed to read it again. ”
"Why did you confiscate my books? You give me back the book. With that, I reached over and grabbed the book. Don't give! He easily dodged and briefly refused. I got angry, got up and walked around the desk to grab the book.
"You should go to see "Female Fan Jielu", not this useless miscellaneous book."
I was choked by his words, glared at him and said, "Where is this miscellaneous book, Master Hao also took this book for us to defend, and I am also responding to Master's call." Rest assured, I will be able to read this book in no time, and I will be able to read it thoroughly in only half a cup of tea. ”,
He smiled and suddenly asked me, "How high do you think the sky is?" I didn't think about it, and blurted out: "As tall as the pole grows, the sky is as tall as it gets."
He was stunned for a moment, paused, and then sneered: "I want to tell you, don't have a heart higher than the sky!" With your ability, I'm afraid you won't be able to finish reading this book for a year and a half, and if you don't care, I won't be able to tutor you anymore. ”
"You didn't teach me half a word, and you are embarrassed to say that you tutored me? You just tutor me in a cool way, you don't want to answer my questions and teach me well, you just know how to talk nonsense. "I slapped the table in anger, glared at me, and just blew my beard.
Changji restrained his smile and said seriously: "It's obvious that you want to read miscellaneous books yourself, and you blame me." How many pages did you say you turned in that "Female Fan Jielu"? There is not a single page, how can you let me answer your questions? ”
I glanced at him and said, "I can only understand pictures, I don't really understand those words, how do you let me read them!" ”
I felt the blood all over my body rush to my face, but after saying that, my majestic momentum instantly weakened.
Shame, shame!! I think I am a dignified princess of Beiqiu, and I also went to school and read poetry and books when I was in Beiqiu. But when I arrived in Nanzhan, I actually became an illiterate person who couldn't read a few big words! This makes me feel embarrassed.
"You don't want to kill me like this...... You might as well teach me slowly. "My voice grew quieter and quieter, and at last it was almost none.
Now that I've made it so clear, he should know how to guide me effectively. But he had a calm face, his seductive peach blossom eyes squinted slightly, he looked at me for a long time, sighed, and threw the copy of "Female Fan Jielu" to me.
"What are you doing here?"
"You try to see, where you don't understand, you ask me and I'll teach you."
I picked up the book of "Female Fan Jielu" with great bitterness and hatred, and closed the book resignedly, and slapped it heavily on the bookcase.
The jar was broken, and he said angrily: "I don't look at it, I don't know how to read these words, I want to go back, I'm hungry, I want to eat."
His eyes rolled, and he suddenly remembered that on the way back from going out that night, he happened to see a new restaurant opened in Jiankang East City. Business is booming, and the dishes are impeccable. I've always been delicious, and I've heard people say that I'm really hungry, and if I hadn't been in a hurry that day, I would have gone for a hearty meal.
Patience left and right, swallowing saliva and swallowing, I couldn't help it, and forcibly dragged it to the long pole.
On the street, we went straight to the restaurant to eat roast leg of lamb.