The outstretched hand of Sister Hua, who was called Sister Lian, paused, then put down and sneered at the sister who spoke, and said, "Mei Niang, don't talk too much, I'm just joking, and I won't take it seriously if I think about it." ”

As he spoke, he raised his eyes and smiled lightly at Qu Xiaomo.

Qu Xiaomo smiled stiffly and asked again, "I wonder if the two sisters can tell the location of the shopkeeper?" The doctor explained that the medicine in the food box should be drunk while it was hot. ”

Afraid that she had really come to the master by mistake to drink the medicine, the Mei Niang raised her hand with the green jade bracelet and pointed inside: "The master is on the fourth floor, and the little brother can see it when he goes up." ”

"Thank you, sister." Qu Xiaomo bowed slightly to the two of them and thanked them, then stepped up with the food box and walked inside.

Looking at his anxious pace, Mei Niang and Lian'er glanced at each other, and they didn't know if this little guy was afraid that the master's medicine would be cold or afraid of the two of them, could it be that his complexion had deteriorated after staying up all night? Or is the makeup spent?

In the confusion of the two flower sisters, Qu Xiaomo entered the Qingfeng Pavilion, and as soon as he entered the door, he heard a pleasant sound of the piano, Qu Xiaomo looked around and saw some tired Hua sisters lying lazily on the railing, and saw that she was dressed as a small girl when she came in, and no one stepped forward to greet her.

According to the guidance of Sister Hua Cai, Qu Xiaomo went up to the fourth floor, and met a familiar face of the guard at the staircase, so he asked, only to see him pointing to the door in the middle, Qu Xiaomo fell down and walked over and knocked on the door outside.

Jin Yu had already known that she was coming, and when he heard the knock on the door, he said 'enter', Qu Xiaomo pushed the door in with the food box, and saw Jin Yu sitting at the desk, with a half-meter-high ledger piled up in his hand, and a plate on the table was no longer hot, as if he had used a snack or two and a cup of tea.

Qu Xiaomo frowned, closed the door and walked over and said, "Big shopkeeper, the doctor said that you should try not to eat cold." ”

As he spoke, he put the food box down, took out the soup and medicine inside, handed it to him, and said, "Drink the medicine first, and then I will go down and prepare some food for you in a while." "I saw that he had been buried here since he got up early in the morning, and he estimated that he had not eaten breakfast, and she was used to worrying about it for three months.

Jin Yu just raised his head and stretched out his hand to take the medicine, then drank it in one gulp, handed the bowl to her, and continued to settle the account, Qu Xiaomo took the bowl and put it out of the house, asked the location of the guard kitchen outside, and turned around and went to the backyard.

There was no one in the kitchen, it was still early for lunch, Qu Xiaomo looked for the things in the kitchen, made simple meat porridge and side dishes, it took nearly half an hour to get right, and when he entered Qingfeng Pavilion again with the porridge, the Hua sisters had already washed and slept, and there were only a few guards guarding the building, and the door was closed, which seemed a little cool.

I went upstairs with food, didn't knock on the door, went in directly, and put the dishes and chopsticks in place before saying, "Big shopkeeper, let's eat something first." ”

Jin Yu put down the pen, closed his eyes, raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows, only after a while did he get up and sit down at the small table, smelling the porridge and really feeling a little hungry, going out in the morning until now, he just drank a few cups of tea and two snacks, picked up the porridge and took a sip, and saw Qu Xiaomo standing beside him obediently waiting, so he raised his head and asked, "Have you used it?" ”

The leader cared about himself so much, Qu Xiaomo of course responded with a sweet smile: "Xie Da shopkeeper cares, and the little one has had breakfast before going out." ”

Hearing that he had eaten the golden sting, he didn't ask again, he held the porridge bowl and ate the side dishes, Qu Xiaomo went to the desk to try the temperature of the teacup, it was already cold, so he picked up the teacup and said: "The big shopkeeper, the small one will make you a cup of hot tea." ”

didn't wait for the meal Jin Yu to respond, turned around and went out with the tea tray, and when he came back, he saw that Jin Yu was already sitting at the desk, and the porridge on the small table had been eaten cleanly, Qu Xiaomo put down the tea cup, looked at the pile of account books and didn't dare to ask if he wanted to help read it himself, although Jin Zhen was much better to her during this time than before, after all, the account book is an important thing, and she didn't dare to say it easily, so as not to make him think that he had a conspiracy and his life was difficult to protect!

She also saw something at this time, Jin Yu is afraid that he is not just a businessman, it can be seen from the affairs of the Pei family that there must be a big man behind him, otherwise how could he let the two brothers of the Pei family fall into trouble and no one dares to pay attention.

Speaking of the current situation of the Pei family, she really heard Jin 13 talk about it on the way to Youzhou, after the death of the two sons of the Pei family, Master Pei and Pei Xuanqing had no way to redress their grievances, and Prince An ignored them, the third prince was the emperor's most favored son, in order not to offend him, Prince An instead took back all the money he invested in the Pei family.

The Pei family was originally just a small wealthy businessman, and because they climbed to the powerful of Prince An, they began to slowly gain some fame in the capital, and as soon as this happened, Master Pei and Pei Xuanqing were panicked, and they still couldn't see Prince An after asking to see them a few times, so they could only watch the minions of King An's Mansion take away the account books and the land deeds of those shops, and they didn't dare to stop it.

The rich and noble man who was originally worth a lot of money was about to catch up with the bankruptcy in a blink of an eye, and with the notoriety of his two sons, the capital naturally couldn't stay, and the father and son had to go back to Ning County with a gray roll, originally she didn't care much about the Pei family, and she passed by after listening to it.

However, what is waiting for the Pei family's father and son in Ning County at this moment is the gossip that is enough to kill people, and the Pei family's status in Ning County has plummeted because of the matter of the eldest son and second son, but Pei Xuanqing's backyard is full of gunsmoke.

In the past, because the Pei family was bigger than Pan's mother's family, the Pan family would also restrain a little, and this time the Pei family has been half down, and they will have to rely on the Pan family in the future, so Pei Xuanqing didn't dare to help the beautiful concubines say a word about Pan's no, but instead didn't go into the backyard all day long, avoiding it.

made a room full of beauties chill, and Zhou Mei, who had just become a concubine, was also secretly worried about her situation, she was also willing to become a concubine because of the Pei family's money and status, who would have thought that if she hadn't enjoyed happiness for a few days, the Pei family would not be able to do it.

Looking at the first meal full of dishes on the table, meat dishes accounted for more than half, and now there are only three or four dishes, and there is only one meat, she can't help but secretly regret her original decision.

was also stimulated by the little slut next to Jin Gongzi, she thought that she was from a peasant family, and everyone else could marry such a handsome and rich husband, and her appearance was not bad, so she half-pushed and half-followed Pei Xuanqing, although she was a concubine, but she had heard others talk about the matter of spoiling concubines and killing wives in this world, thinking that it was not impossible to serve Pei Xuanqing well, and it was not impossible for a concubine to become a wife.

But people are not as good as heaven, she only entered the house a few days after the Pei family had such a big thing, and even when she came with her mother the day before yesterday, she complained about herself, saying that she was implicated in this incident of the Pei family, and many people in the village were watching their jokes.

Zhou Mei was also very angry, why didn't she complain about herself when she went to the silver and clothes and jewelry at home from her? Now that something has happened, it depends on herself, but now that the Pei family has not been defeated, the matter has come to this point, and she can only pave a way out for herself to get more benefits in the future.

And Qu Xiaomo in Youzhou City was still waiting for Jin Yu to read the account book in Qingfeng Pavilion at the moment, and it was already lunch, so he went out to the kitchen to make food.

The whole day was spent in food and napping, and it lasted until the end of the night, when the girls in the building got up, and a lot of laughter reached the fourth floor.

The fourth floor of Qingfeng Pavilion can't go up, whether it is a guest or a flower sister, they are not allowed to approach, Qu Xiaomo, who is idle, heard the sound and came out and lay on the side of the railing to look at the flower sisters who are wearing colorful clothes and thin shirts below, all of them are wearing light makeup and heavy makeup, very beautiful, they are busy dressing themselves up at this time, looking at the flower girls in this building, they are all smiling like flowers, and they don't see anyone showing a sad look on their faces, Qu Xiaomo can't help but be curious about them.

In this era, prostitutes are the most inferior people, but most of the women who enter this kind of place are abducted and sold, very few are voluntary, there is no good way out when you enter the flower building, whether you sell or not, you can only be a concubine if you are ransomed, and you will be ridiculed, and you will be left in the building weakly, and you can only wait for death when you are old and can no longer pick up customers, you can only wait for death, but there is no sorrow in this aspect from the faces of these people.

When Jin Thirteen came over to deliver a letter to Jin Yu, Qu Xiaomo pulled him and asked, "Brother Thirteen, where did all the flower girls in this building come from?" "With her understanding of Jin Zhen, she should not do the kind of business of robbing people's girls and forcing them to become prostitutes.

"These! They all entered the building voluntarily. Jin 13 looked at the girls who had hung lanterns below and were ready to pick up guests: "Back then, this Qingfeng Pavilion was not a flower building, but a tea house, a place for the sons and officials to listen to small songs and drink tea, but later it became a flower building through the hands of the master, not only to listen to the music but also to sell skin and meat, but these flower sisters who bought skin and meat were all voluntary, and the son did not force them." ”

"In the future, if it is irrelevant, you can still get a lot of silver, change your name and find a strange place to live for a lifetime, you can also follow the person you like, we don't interfere with or redeem the silver, but when you go out, you won't want to come in."

"Why?" Qu Xiaomo asked: "If the man who follows is not a good person, then isn't this woman like being in purgatory?" ”

Jin Shisan glanced at her with a smile and said, "That was also her own choice at the beginning, but whoever comes out of Qingfeng Pavilion, we will not let her in again." ”

Qu Xiaomo wrinkled her eyebrows, she could hear that Jin Thirteen didn't answer the question she said, obviously she didn't want to say it, and it was more likely that she couldn't say it, could it be that there were still things in this building that people couldn't know?

Turning her head to look at the door behind her, she felt more and more as if she were hovering on the edge of a pool of muddy water, but she couldn't see what the muddy water looked like.