Chapter 15 Good people are hard to do
"Haha, that's right, five days later, that is the annual large-scale auction day, according to the rules of previous years, before the eighth day of the third month of March, a small auction will be held every two days, and the venue will be warmed up first.
First, let the foreign guests feel the process and atmosphere of the Lingbao box auction in advance, and secondly, the people on the other side of the Lingbao box will touch the water to see if there are any guests with a thick family background, which has become an annual custom in Changzhou City.
Coincidentally, there is just one today, and the time is about the same, and there will be more than half an hour, you see, otherwise there are so many pedestrians crossing the bridge, and most of them are rushing to the spirit treasure box. ”
It is precisely because of this that the old man chose to set up a stall here, some guests like to watch the excitement, chewing something in their mouths to kill the time, not to mention, the old man is quite business-minded, the walnuts sold on this day can be compared to the weekdays sold for several days, without much effort, it is almost sold to the bottom of the basket.
Shen Lingjun and Tang Tang glanced at each other, they could understand why everyone was rushing to climb the bridge, it turned out to be such a reason.
"Shen Lingjun, let's take a look!" Tang Tang's clear eyes flashed and flashed, and his face was full of eagerness.
Shen Lingjun held the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow behind his back with his hands behind his back and slowly followed the crowd forward, and glanced lightly when he heard the words: "Are you rich?" ”
"I don't, you do." Tang Tang put his chin on Shen Lingjun's shoulder, and looked at Shen Lingjun with big black eyes, his long eyelashes fluttered, blinking, and he was good.
"Lord Ben is a Qing official." Shen Ling didn't buy it, and knocked Tang Tang's forehead with his crooked fingers.
"Debt to IOU." Tang Tang held his face and said with a smile: "When the time comes, let them go to Su Mutou to ask for money." ”
"Think beautifully." Shen Lingjun narrowed his eyes, daring to hit her family's wood idea, first ask her if Shen Lingjun agrees.
"Stingy!" Tang Tang stuck out his tongue at Shen Lingjun: "When I go back, I will tell Su Mutou that your apricot blossoms are out of the wall and a river of flowers." ”
Shen Lingjun touched his red lips up and down, and glanced at Tang Tang quite forcefully: "That's called red apricot out of the wall, water-based poplar." ”
"It's all flowers anyway, you just have a crush on that little white face." Tang Tang tilted his head and snorted.
"Has Ah Feng returned to Wuxiang Mountain? I flew the pigeon and asked. ”
Tang Tang smacked his lips and twisted his face.
Shen Lingjun hooked the corners of his mouth, revealing a smug smile that belonged to the winner, a little bit, fighting with her Lord Shen, it was too tender.
The two of them didn't pay attention to the crowd for a while, and they didn't move for a long time, and they only found out after they stopped.
"It's her, it's her, Lu Yaoyao." A broken gong shouted in front of him.
Tang Tang's eyes rolled, shining with a few points of fire, and her intuition told her that there was gossip!
After three or two clicks, he turned to the front with his flexible and small body, and then pulled an aunt, handed someone a handful of walnuts, bumped the other party's arm, looked like he had known him for many years, and accosted: "Auntie, what's wrong?" Who's that girl? ”
That aunt is also a wonderful person, and she likes to collect all kinds of gossip about her neighbors in her life, and she specializes in bad things.
"Yo, little girl, don't you know?"
"Huh?" Tang Tang opened a walnut, knocked a piece of walnut flesh out, threw it with his head up, and landed accurately in his mouth, crunching and chewing, before he said, "I don't know, my aunt told me about it." ”
"Okay." The aunt used pressed walnuts and babbled while peeling.
On the other side, Shen Lingjun also squeezed over, she first noticed that the crowd didn't know when it formed a circle, and three feet away from the middle became a vacuum, where a girl in green clothes stood alone.
The lake-green satin brocade is dotted with large lotus flowers, and the neckline is also made into the shape of ruffles, holding up a blue and white bloodless face, the woman looks eighteen or nineteen years old, Ying Ying's apricot eyes are dim, anxious, and look at the people around her without a god, looking tired and haggard, and the green silk is pulled into a simple bun, and a simple jade hairpin is inserted on it. The remaining strands of hair fell down to cover half of her face, setting off the woman's loneliness and embarrassment.
In the aunt and the crowd of onlookers next to her, Shen Lingjun and Tang Tang listened to the ins and outs of the matter.
This woman's name is Lu Yaoyao, she came to Changzhou City with her parents fifteen years ago and opened a grocery store in the city, and her life can be regarded as prosperous. In addition, sometimes some women have broken mouths, but in the end, most of them are mellow inside, and after a long time, they gradually accept that family, and there is one who helps each other on weekdays, and they come and go, and they also integrate in.
Lu Yaoyao's father is an authentic businessman, thoughtful and very popular, and her mother, like most women, loves to talk about gossip with melon seeds, and is proficient in needlework, living an ordinary life like everyone who teaches each other husband and children.
However, one day in the middle of last month, this life changed dramatically.
It was the middle of the night on the day of the incident, and the neighbor of the Lu family smelled a pungent and choking smell in his sleep, and the neighbor was a family of four, and the first person to find out was the mother-in-law in the family.
At first, the unclosed window slammed against the wall, which woke the woman up, and she felt something strange wafting in the wind in her half-asleep, and pushed her mouth to wake up.
When the two of them put on their clothes and looked out, they found that things were not good, and the old Lu family's house next door was smoking.
The neighbor's man slapped his thigh, this time it's broken, I'm afraid it's a fire in the middle of the night, hurry up and call everyone to get up and put out the fire. I couldn't help but rejoice in my heart, thanks to the south wind tonight, blowing to their house, if it was the east wind, that piece of bamboo forest wasteland was directly facing the bamboo forest, and it would be too late to wait for the fire to start.
The shops and houses in Changzhou City are all townhouses, and whoever is on fire is the first to be affected by the next-door neighbor.
At that moment, the gong slammed for a while, knocking everyone awake, and everyone heard that the old Lu family had somehow gone out of the water, extinguishing the fire, fetching water, and saving people, and suddenly they were busy for a while.
When they kicked open the grocery store, several strong men broke in and rescued a family of three who had fallen unconscious in bed.
However, after the Lu family woke up, instead of thanking their neighbors for saving their lives, they cried and asked the neighbors: "Why don't you let us die, why do you want to save us if you finally make up your mind!" ”
Hearing this, the neighbor was immediately bored, and the feeling was not that he accidentally walked into the water, but that he committed suicide?
Knowing this truth, while being depressed, the neighbor was even more angry, shouting, not to mention that everyone is tired of fighting fires and saving people, even if your family is going to die, don't bother others.
Father Lu wiped a handful of tears, and in despair, told everyone why he committed suicide.
It turned out that a few months ago, Lu's father asked people to take him to an underground gambling house, what kind of place is the gambling house, that is, the place where people eat people and don't spit out bones, according to the fishing method, first give you so two sweetness, and then start to lose all the way, and finally the lost house deed and title deed are all not bet on, and even take her daughter to compensate.
Everyone sighed, the neighbors who have been getting along for many years know that Father Lu is a person, and there is no lack of great wisdom and small shrewdness, why did they get such a field.
Lu's father cried bitterly, he really had no face and no hope to live, and the family discussed it for a while, so it was better to simply die, so that the family could still be companions on Huangquan Road and never be separated.
It was at this time that a very prestigious old man in the neighborhood stood up, lamented with compassion, and suggested that it would be better for everyone to help their family, take more with more money, and try their best at the family.
As mentioned earlier, these neighbors usually gossip, most of them are simple and heartless people, thinking about themselves, when they encounter this kind of thing one day, when they are facing a desperate situation, they also hope that someone can stand up to help them.
It was a hectic and suffocating night, but it was also a night of hope and love.
Lu's father handed over the raised silver to the underground gambling house and agreed, and the shop was still handed over to Lu's father to take care of and repay the debt according to a fixed monthly silver tael until all the silver was repaid.
Although the debt is still there, compared to the previous desperate situation, at least there is hope, people live, there is always a chance.
Lu Yaoyao's hands tightly wrapped around a package, pressed it against her chest, pressed her thin chin against the package, bit her lip, and said to the few people on the other side of the road: "Please let me go." ”
The crowd loosened for a while, and I don't know who suddenly shouted: "You liar, you cheated all our neighbors out of the silver, take it and buy a coffin, just when we burned paper money for your family in advance!" ”
This sentence was really vicious, Lu Yaoyao's eyes were suddenly covered with a layer of mist, and she wanted to cry, but she gritted her teeth and endured it, and said with a little choked: "Don't worry, everyone, I will exchange the silver for you, as long as you let me go, I will definitely return it to you when I have money." ”
"We don't believe you anymore, your whole family is a liar."
"Yes, sure enough, there is a father and a daughter, who blinded us and met this superb family."
"Bah, Lu Yaoyao is a little slut."
"Evil, this family is going to be thundered by the sky."
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All kinds of words are noisy, everyone is aggressive, approaching Lu Yaoyao little by little, and the circular encirclement is also shrinking little by little, Lu Yaoyao, who is the center of the topic, lowers her eyebrows, her pale face is almost sickly, and the corners of her eyes are slightly raised.
After Tang Tang finished eating the walnuts, he patted the crumbs on his sleeves, blinked his big black eyes, and raised his hand: "It's good, didn't everyone volunteer to help their family, could it be that now you all regret it?" ”