The brook lowered her head and her cheeks crimson. Seeing that Hu Fei didn't answer for a long time, he cried with a blank face: "Brother Xiaofei, are you ...... Aren't you coming? ”

Hu Fei stood there awkwardly, not knowing how to respond. He asked himself, he had never given the other party any illusion, why did this girl say that? What did he do at her father's birthday party? He glanced at Chun Ying in embarrassment.

Chunying coughed lightly, hesitated slightly, and decided that it was better to help. Hu Fei is her partner in the end, and watching him fall into inexplicable peach blossom luck seems a little unkind. She smiled and said to Xiaoxi, "Sister, it turns out that your father is going to celebrate his birthday?" It's a big birthday, right? That's a good celebration! You're going into the city to buy him a present? She glanced at the basket in the other's hand, and a corner of the basket appeared to be a stack of red paper.

Xiaoxi gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and pouted slightly: "It's not a big birthday!" It's an ordinary birthday, my father said that he wanted to invite the whole village to eat and drink, and asked me to buy some red paper......" She couldn't help but glance at Hu Fei, "No one in the village dared not come that day, it must be very lively, Brother Xiaofei ......" The tone at the end of the sentence was slightly picked up, and it sounded like she was coquettish.

Chunying sweated profusely, and quickly blocked it with a smile: "Is the red paper enough?" Would you like to buy a piece of red cloth to make a dress for your father? People have said that it is most auspicious to wear red clothes when you are born. We happen to have a good big red material here, and a big man like your father must have a lot of face when he wears it......" She was talking nonsense, and the corner of her eye gave Hu Fei a look, and the latter was very alert and dropped a sentence, "I almost forgot that I made an appointment to meet someone, and I was almost late, so I will not accompany you to talk slowly" and turned around and ran.

Xiaoxi was in a hurry, and chased after her while calling "Little Feige", but she was disappointed because her little feet couldn't walk fast, and she complained to Chunying: "It's all you!" What are you doing in my way?! ”

Chun Ying quietly wiped a handful of sweat, smiled flatteringly and handed over the big red soft satin: "How about you look at this material?" Great! If you make a wedding dress, it is the most decent! My sister embroiders so well, at least she has to have such materials to be worthy? ”

Xiaoxi's face turned red, and she shyly said, "You damn girl! What to say! With that, he stomped his foot, covered his face with a handkerchief, lifted the basket and walked away quickly.

Chunying breathed a sigh of relief, and inadvertently turned around, and caught a glimpse of the betel nut uncle whispering to the persimmon vendor on the other side, his eyes glanced over from time to time, and he smiled a little ill-intentionedly. She vaguely heard what they said, "young children are used to hooking up with girls' families", "little daughters-in-law are all around him" and the like, and she couldn't help but feel a pang in her heart.

This is not a modern society, if Hu Fei makes a scandal in the relationship between men and women, but he will have a bad reputation for the rest of his life, he has been splashed with sewage by his brother, and if something happens, he will not want to gain a foothold in the capital in the future. Although they didn't know what this betel nut uncle meant, they still had to take precautions early.

Chunying thought about it secretly, and finally made up her mind to wait for the sun to set in the west. Hu Fei turned around, and without waiting for him to talk about today's situation, he took the first step to speak: "Let's go back, I'm a little uncomfortable." Hu Feiyuan still had some doubts, as soon as he heard her say this, he didn't say anything, quickly picked up the cargo box with his hands, picked it up, and turned back from time to time to ask Chunying if it didn't matter.

Chunying saw that the betel nut uncle was talking to the persimmon seller again, his eyes were still glancing, he hurriedly said no, and urged Hu Fei to go quickly, and stretched out his hand to support the cargo box behind, wanting to reduce his burden. Hu Fei thought she was really sick, so he didn't ask anything more, just quickened his pace.

When she got home, Chunying said that she was not sick: "I see that Xiaoxi girl is obsessed, and there are too many big girls and little daughters-in-law who usually come to patronize, no...... In fact, they are too enthusiastic about you, and I am afraid that some people will gossip about you. ”

Only then did Hu Fei understand her intentions, and said with a wry smile: "I understand my sister's kindness." Just doing this business, how can there be anyone who doesn't deal with female customers? I think that the people who come here are all foreign merchants, but there are so many sellers, and our goods are not much better than others', and they alone will not be able to eat. ”

Chunying thought for a while: "Why don't we change places?" In the future, you should also be a little more restrained, don't be too ostentatious, especially for young girls, don't be too enthusiastic, for fear that they will misunderstand you. ”

Hu Fei turned a few thoughts in his mind, gritted his teeth, and said, "That's it!" Let's just move to Dongzhimen Street! There are more sellers there, but the streets are also more lively, and there are also merchants from other places. We do business there, and if there is a Chinese business, it is also convenient to do it. After a pause, he looked at Chunying: "It's a little far away, and the girl doesn't have to go every day, with the help of the Chinese business, it's okay to do less business for a day or two." ”

Chunying disagreed: "How can it be done?" Far away, far away, I'm not afraid! I have more legs and feet now than I used to! With me, you don't have to worry about finding a business, and you can make more money, why don't I go? When I don't have a business, I can work in the stall! ”

Hu Fei persuaded a few words, and when he saw that she insisted, he felt that it didn't matter if he thought about it, so he agreed. So from the next day, they went to Dongzhimen Street to do business.

It is indeed more lively than Chaoyangmen Street, and the civilian atmosphere is heavier. In addition to businessmen from other places, more people come and go. Chunying knows that this is the only way for bricks, tiles, timber and other things from other places to enter Beijing, more than three miles long, there are all shops, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, as long as it is something that the people need to use, it is very complete, naturally, there are many sellers and flower sellers, but everyone guards a small piece of territory, at least twenty or thirty meters away from each other, and it seems that some well water does not violate the meaning of river water.

Hu Fei carried the burden to a vacant seat on the side of the street, asked the vendor next to him, and learned that no one occupied it here, so he put down the container, wiped his sweat, and said to Chunying: "I have to find someone as a guarantee, set up this stall, the girl will look at the things first, don't be busy with business, I'll come when I go." ”

Chun Ying hurriedly responded, watched him walk away, and retracted his gaze to look around. Gently beat your legs with your hands. Dongzhimen is really too far away, it is really tiring to come over, presumably Hu Fei is even more tired when he carries a heavy burden, so he still has to remind him that since he has made a business, he should buy the mules back as soon as possible, so as to save some effort.

She waited for a while, but Hu Fei hadn't come back yet, and she began to be a little impatient, thinking that Hu Fei just told her not to do business yet. But she didn't say that she couldn't organize the goods, so she opened the box, pulled out a drawer, arranged the jewelry inside, and cleaned up the thread that was accidentally occupied.

There seemed to be some unusual movement beside her, Chunying looked up, and found that the vendor next to her was suddenly farther away, and there was a little fear in her expression, she was surprised, she noticed that someone was approaching behind her, and when she turned around, she found that it was seven or eight strange men, the leader was wearing a silk robe, holding a folding fan in one hand, and the other hand was picking his teeth, spitting a mouthful of meat foam, and asked lazily: "Are you new here?" What's the matter? ”

Chun Ying thought to herself that she wanted to ask them what the origin was, and this hesitation, the man became impatient: "What about you, dumb?!" The dog behind him immediately shouted: "Stinky girl! Didn't you hear Uncle Qing ask?! Fat enough? Who doesn't know the name of Uncle Qing on the street? You don't say hello, and you don't have filial piety, so you dare to come here to set up a stall? Are you getting impatient?! ”

Chunying took a step back, finally knowing who they were. The legendary hooligan bully is like the kind of person who met the bull and tiger when the two of them were setting up a stall on the street. What they just said about greetings and filial piety refers to protection money, right? But I just arrived, and I didn't start business at all.

The so-called strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, Chunying still knows some rules, so she immediately bowed her head and said: "I'm sorry, Uncle Qing, I didn't know the rules when I first arrived, and I didn't start doing business, you see...... Can you give it some grace? Wait until I open a ......"

"You're so daring! How dare you say so loudly that you want to violate the rules of our Uncle Qing......" The dogleg shouted again, but was stopped by Uncle Qing: "Hey-don't be so fierce, be kind to the little girl, don't scare people away, we are not hooligans!" ”

Chunying thought to herself that they weren't hooligans yet, who would be? There was a look of awe on his face. He lowered his head and quietly glanced into the distance with the corner of his eye to see if Hu Fei had returned.

Uncle Naqing opened the fan and shook it a few times, and asked Chunying with a smile: "Little girl, are you here alone?" Where do you live? What are you selling? The pungent scent of his fan drifted into the nostrils of the dog's legs behind him with the cool breeze, and the latter couldn't help but sneeze, and the snow-white fan instantly became wet.

Uncle Qing's face darkened, he quickly closed the fan, and vigorously knocked on the dog's head: "Useless things, get out of here!" The dog hurriedly hugged his head, and the others immediately laughed and surrounded him, and some people seemed to understand the owner's wishes a little, leaning on the cargo box and saying to Chunying: "Little girl, look at your young age, how hard it is to come out to set up a stall?" It's better to go back with Uncle Qing to make a maid ring, so that you can be fed and clothed, and live comfortably. ”

Chunying has some black lines, she doesn't seem to be thirteen years old, right? They are all very small girls, what do these people mean...... Is it really teasing her? This Uncle Qing's taste is really wicked!

Uncle Qing glanced at the man with great appreciation, and opened the fan with a brush, suddenly remembered that there was a dirty piece on the fan, and closed it with a snap, picked up a silver hairpin in the drawer, opened another drawer, picked up a box of incense powder and smelled it, and blew at Chunying with a smile: "Don't be afraid?" I'm a good person. The whole street knows it! In the future, if you do business here, and someone bullies you, you just report my name, huh? After that, he put the incense powder and silver hairpin sleeves, and reached out and pinched Chunying's cheek.

Chunying was a little stunned, but she didn't dodge, and then she was greatly annoyed: "You ......" gritted her teeth, took a few steps back, and took a look at the expensive silver hairpin and high-grade incense powder inlaid with more than a dozen good agate beads, and hardened her heart: "This hairpin and incense powder are worth a total of three taels and eight dollars of silver, Uncle Qing took it, and we will do it for nothing today, but Uncle Qing likes it, and I can't say anything, please tell me about the rules, how much filial piety should be?" ”

"Yo, the little girl is still a little angry?" Uncle Qing not only didn't take her words seriously, but also reached out to pinch her again. Chun Ying angrily wanted to dodge, but felt a gust of wind behind her, and then her wrist tightened, and someone dragged her back, and a black shadow blocked her in front of her, and when she looked up, it turned out to be Hu Fei.

Hu Fei arched his hand towards Uncle Qing with a cold face: "Uncle Qing, the villain and the sister have honored the old lady according to the rules, I don't know what else Uncle Qing has to say?" ”。.。