Qingfeng Lane is a quiet and simple alley adjacent to Crescent Lane, however, unlike the simplicity of Crescent Lane, Qingfeng Lane is full of large mansions with green tiles and vermilion eaves, and there is a word "Ya" everywhere.

The people who enter and leave Qingfeng Lane are people with some status in the capital, and they are in the house or meet friends with literature, or appreciate treasures together, or just to taste a rare delicacy......

This night, Cheng Yunqing and Zhang Gongzi, who had not known each other for a long time, were having a small gathering in a house at the end of Qingfeng Lane.

This house is actually a low-key private restaurant, and it is said that the main family was once the imperial chef of the palace, and the cooking skills are very extraordinary.

It's just that not long after Cheng Yunqing sat down in the private room, he heard the crying and noise outside the window, he pushed open the window in the house, and by the moonlight, he saw the desperate and sad face from a distance.

With just one glance, Cheng Yunqing's heart felt as if it had been hit hard, and it hurt abnormally, because the soft face under the moonlight was very similar to the appearance of his mother in his memory.

Cheng Yunqing couldn't help but go downstairs, walked out of the house, and walked to Crescent Lane.

Mixed with the crowd of discussions, Cheng Yunqing quickly understood the grievances of the four people who were watching.

The thirty or forty-year-old man with a bowed waist is called Zhuang Dafu, the long-faced woman is Zhuang Dafu's wife, called Zhuang Ma's, the eighteen-year-old and nineteen-year-old young man is Zhuang Dafu and Zhuang Ma's son Zhuang Jinbao, and the soft girl who was beaten on the ground is Zhuang Dafu's niece Zhuang Chun'er.

Zhuang Dafu's family was a resident who had just moved to Crescent Moon Lane a month ago, although the original residents in the alley and Zhuang Dafu's family got along very shortly, but as soon as they moved over, it didn't take a few days, but everyone listened to the big and small things of the Zhuang family clearly.

It turns out that this Zhuang Dafu was also born in a well-off family, he has been an honest and cowardly character since he was a child, his father saw that he was a big man who was soft all day long, and he didn't know what it looked like to be bullied, so he chose to marry a domineering daughter-in-law Zhuang Ma.

It's just that Zhuang Dafu's father never expected that Zhuang Ma's temperament was unusually domineering, and he was even more short-tempered, lazy, and greedy......

Zhuang Dafu's father knew in his heart that his eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law were not business materials, so before he died, he gave Zhuang Dafu the big shop with a good location among the two shops in his hand, and the smaller one to his younger son Zhuang Erfu.

It is said that the location of the shop that Zhuang Dafu was assigned is really good, as long as he keeps it safely without merit, it is absolutely generous to earn the family's daily expenses, but without the control of the elders, Zhuang Ma's will soon give full play to her selfish and treacherous philistine face, and it is not too much to cheat and abduct, and it is not too much to do shoddy things......

In this way, the business in Zhuang Dafu's shop naturally got worse and worse, until it was forced to close and still owed a lot of debt.

On the contrary, although Zhuang Erfu's shop is in a partial location, under Zhuang Erfu's diligent management, business is becoming more and more prosperous.

During this period, Zhuang Ma's family forced Zhuang Dafu to go to Zhuang Erfu's place to fight the autumn breeze, Zhuang Erfu thought of brotherhood, and naturally helped the eldest brother's family, and even contributed money to help Zhuang Dafu set up a small shop, but the shop didn't open for long before it turned yellow.

The sky is unpredictable......

When Zhuang Chun'er was twelve years old, Zhuang Erfu was on his way to buy goods in other places, but unfortunately he fell seriously ill and died of illness in a foreign land...... Zhuang Erfu's wife, Zhuang Liu, has been in poor health since giving birth to her daughter, and after hearing the news of this thunderbolt on a sunny day, she also followed.

In this way, Zhuang Dafu's family lived in the big house that Zhuang Erfu bought with great difficulty, took over the savings and shops left by Zhuang Erfu, and naturally, also adopted Zhuang Erfu and Zhuang Liu's only daughter Zhuang Chun'er.

At the beginning, Zhuang Ma's treatment of Zhuang Chun'er was also good, but as the business in the shop became worse and worse, Zhuang Ma's treatment of Zhuang Chun'er became more and more excessive.

Zhuang Chun'er grew up under the favor of her father, although she was not a fine dress and food since she was a child, but she was also a pampered young lady...... Less than half a year after her parents went, Zhuang Chun'er was actually washing and cooking, cleaning windows and mopping the floor, not only living a hard life as a slave and a maid, but also suffering from Zhuang Ma's beating and scolding at every turn......

Zhuang Dafu and Zhuang Ma's business is getting worse and worse, and in two or three years, they not only lost all the family property left by Zhuang Erfu, but also owed a lot of debts...... The dealer had to move from the big mansion to the humble little place of Crescent Lane.

From the day the Zhuang family moved in, the people in the alley often heard Zhuang Ma's cursing to Zhuang Chun'er, and from time to time, they could hear low whimpering and banging in the door......

Business is not going well, and life is getting harder and harder...... Zhuang Ma's temper also became more and more irritable.

If anyone in the neighborhood dares to persuade him, Zhuang Ma's beating and scolding of Zhuang Chun'er will be even more ruthless, and he will chase him to the "nosy" person's house to scold him.

Since then, no one in the entire alley has dared to care about the dealer's affairs.

Zhuang Chun'er's beauty is obvious to all, and her ability is even more obvious, since the Zhuang family moved to this crescent lane, many people have asked Zhuang Ma about Zhuang Chun'er's marriage, but they were all frightened to retreat back by Zhuang Ma's high dowry.

As for why Zhuang Ma sold Zhuang Chun'er today, it was because she and Zhuang Dafu's son was the young man who stood behind Zhuang Dafu.

Zhuang Dafu and Zhuang Ma's only son is called Zhuang Jinbao, nineteen years old this year, since he was a child, he can't read books, he is annoyed to do business, he is lazy all day long, as if he can't open his eyes, as long as he goes out, he will definitely get into trouble, either hit someone, or steal something and be arrested......

Zhuang Jinbao has such a character, and there are fathers and mothers like Zhuang Dafu and Zhuang Ma, naturally no good girl is willing to marry.

However, just a few days ago, a family suddenly had the intention of marrying the dealer, but the dowry proposed was a bit high...... After thinking about it for a while, Zhuang Ma came up with the idea of selling Zhuang Chun'er into Wanhualou.

On the same day, Zhuang Ma told Zhuang Chun'er the news that he was going to sell her, and scolded Zhuang Chun'er for a long time who was unwilling.

Selling her niece, although Zhuang Ma's temperament is not afraid of people, but she also knows that it is better to avoid people as much as possible, so she chose tonight, wanting to sell Zhuang Chun'er quietly, but she didn't expect that she was desperately resisted by Zhuang Chun'er, so there was this farce in the alley.

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"Stop!" Cheng Yunqing shouted angrily again and walked straight forward.

Zhuang Ma retracted his feet, and looked Cheng Yunqing dressed as a noble son up and down with a pair of sharp eyes.

"This son......" Zhuang Ma asked Cheng Yunqing with a smile, "Is there something wrong with the son?" ”

Cheng Yunqing's eyes glanced at Zhuang Ma like a knife, and then he bent down to help Zhuang Chun'er who was lying on the ground up.

"Girl," Cheng Yunqing stared at Zhuang Chun'er's face, which was four or five points similar to his mother's, and asked worriedly, "Are you okay?" ”

Zhuang Chun'er's eyes seemed to be closed, she looked at Cheng Yunqing in a daze for a long time, suddenly reached out and pulled Cheng Yunqing's sleeve, and said in a low voice: "Childe, childe save me, save me......"

"Girl, don't worry, since I have met me, I will not sit idly by......" Cheng Yunqing hurriedly comforted.

"Yo!" Zhuang Ma let out a long sigh coldly and said, "Which one is this singing?" ”

Cheng Yunqing handed Zhuang Chun'er into the hands of the little nobleman, he turned around, ignored Zhuang Ma's, but stared at Zhuang Dafu, and said coldly: "I heard that this girl is your niece, the only blood left by your brother, how can you, as her uncle, connive at his wife to sell his niece!" ”

Where did Zhuang Dafu dare to answer, trembling and hiding behind Zhuang Ma's family.

Cheng Yunqing's brows couldn't help frowning.

"Who are you, this son? What I'm going to sell is my niece, what does it have to do with you as an outsider, what do you have to do to come out and say irresponsible ......" Zhuang Ma's eyes purred on the sparkling jade pendant tied around Cheng Yunqing's waist, and smiled meaningfully: "Could it be that Gongzi has an old relationship with my niece......"

"Presumptuous!"

didn't wait for Cheng Yunqing to speak, and the noble son who was holding Zhuang Chun'er scolded loudly: "You dare to slander my young master!" How daring! ”

Zhuang Ma was panicked by Guizi's yelling, and Zhuang Dafu behind her was even more trembling.

"You, don't scare me," Zhuang Ma looked at Cheng Yunqing a few more times, and said stiffly: "How can I slander, you, if your young master has nothing to do with my niece, then why do you want to stand up for that dead girl?" ”

"I haven't met this girl yet," Cheng Yunqing said with a straight face: "I just can't get used to seeing you sell your niece, she is your uncle's only daughter, how can you be so ruthless." ”

"Oh, this young master, you don't know," Zhuang Ma pointed at Zhuang Chun'er, gritted his teeth and said: "This dead girl is a lonely star, not only did she kill her parents, but even her family's good business was unable to do it...... Since I raised her, I haven't been able to do anything...... I have a good big house and a thriving shop, but I was ruined by this dead girl, and I should sell her......"

"You! You woman! How can you say such mean words! Cheng Yunqing said angrily: "She's just a girl who doesn't understand anything, how can she blame her for this...... After a hundred years, what will you look like to see your uncle and concubine......

"Oh, son, don't say it, I sold this dead girl, and my uncle still wants to thank me," Zhuang Ma was very proud, and said loudly: "My Jinbao is the only seedling of the old Zhuang family, and I want to inherit the incense...... After selling Chun'er, my Jinbao will be able to marry a daughter-in-law, and the old dealer will have a queen...... Childe, you say, does my uncle want to thank me! ”

Such brazen remarks made Cheng Yunqing angry, but what made him even more chilling was that among the onlookers around, there were still many people who nodded frequently in praise of Zhuang Ma's words, and his heart was like falling into ice.

"Heh, I said Childe," Zhuang Ma's eyes lit up, and said, "If you really feel sorry for my niece, why don't you buy her!" ”