Chapter 4: A Heroine Who Keeps Her Promise Enters the Capital (22)
When I returned from Yunshuang, it was already the middle of the day. Tsubaki Ya stomped her feet in the room urgently, and her beautiful little face was crumpled.
When Luo Xiyuan told everything she had seen and heard in Yunshuang's place, Chunya and Luo Dongting were silent for a long time.
Tsubaki Ya supports Yunshuang's statement and disapproves of Luo Xiyuan's stay in Beijing. One is because she has no strength, and the other is because she thinks that people like Luo Xiyuan should live freely, and it is really not worth it to get involved in the disputes of the court officials. Although the Li family is her old patron, and Li Cefeng treats her well, she prefers her current master. So she tried her best to persuade Luo Xiyuan to stay in Beijing.
Luo Dongting used a roundabout tactic, first promising to cooperate with the master to achieve his wish, and then trying to evacuate safely. At the same time, he also proposed that you should not believe Yunshuang's words, and that you should not be impatient in everything, and you need to be carefully agreed by the three of you before you can act. Although he also hopes that his master will take him to Qingcheng Mountain to practice martial arts immediately, and stop caring about these official affairs that can't be beaten by eight poles. But he also knew in his heart that he and Chunya couldn't persuade her at all. Moreover, it was precisely because of Luo Xiyuan's temperament and persistence that he was more respectful in his heart.
So the three of them finally agreed to go and earn money first.
As the saying goes, the three Zhuge Liang are the stinkers, and the three of them drew up a detailed plan to make money after discussion.
There are roughly two kinds, one is to go to a big family with a happy event to juggle, and the other is to go back to the small flower industry. The first is to go to a big family with a happy event to juggle and perform, in addition to making money, if you can be favored by those people, it would be better to hire them as a nursing home. The second way, there is no time to have no work to do when there is a happy event, so he goes back to the small flower son line, while begging, he joins a beggar in the capital on a certain mountain, which can not only make money but also inquire about the news, killing two birds with one stone.
Tsubakiya advocated that all the inn rooms be refunded, and asked the store to return the remaining prepaid silver. The three of them can find a secluded courtyard in Beijing, regardless of the location, as long as the furnishings are oriented to avoid the rain, it is cheaper than living in a hotel, and it is clean and convenient to negotiate.
Tsubaki Ya originally wanted to take care of his master and apprentice's diet and daily life, and he could do needlework and sell it for money in his spare time, but he was rejected by Luo's master and apprentice. only said that no one can be wronged by the girl's family, Chunya laughed when she heard it, Luo Xiyuan has been dressed up as a man for a long time these days, but he really forgot that he was a girl. She saw that the girl trusted and reused Dongting more and more, and she didn't know why the girl always hid the fact that Dongting was her daughter, but now it seems that the princess is addicted to it, and he forgot to play for a while.
The actions of the three of them were very neat, and within two days, all the matters of the house had been arranged. By the third day, the master and apprentice of Luoxi Garden found a job to play. It turned out that the Tai Hospital made Jiang Juzheng's family add a little grandson, and after a few days of wine, he naturally invited the opera troupe to sing. It just so happened that the head of the troupe and Grandpa Chen, who raised and taught Luo Dongting, were old acquaintances, and Luo Dongting begged a little, and they agreed to add their programs, and said to the master that this juggling was an extra gift, which was novel and interesting, and it was the most boring thing to ask for money. The Jiang family is also a good person to talk about happy events, and after listening to a few words of the program, he added silver and agreed.
Reasoning, this imperial envoy is a five-grade Beijing official, and he is in charge of major events that affect the life and death of the royal family, and the rules in this family are extremely strict. But Mrs. Jiang, the wife of the envoy of the court, only favored the younger son, and the younger son had never had a man, only five or six girls. Therefore, the wedding feast is held for three days, and all the rules during the banquet are either or not, and everything is based on happiness and good luck.
That day, Luo Xiyuan played a set of "drunken boxing", and then let Dongting dress up as a tiger, and he was Wu Song who was not able to do three bowls. Neither of them was very good at singing and drinking, so they had to endure their scalps and learn from the storyteller's casual yelling.
Fortunately, the main people watching the play are the old and weak, women and children, and most of them don't mind the singing lines, just want to be lively. And Luo Xiyuan's set of boxing is really beautiful, and the tiger in Dongting is also silly and funny, because after their show is over, they get more reward than the troupe's golden program. provoked the head of the troupe to laugh and say: "You are born to eat this bowl of rice, why don't you follow us to the north and south!" ”
After the master and apprentice politely rejected the kindness of the class master, they returned to their residence with a heavy bag of silver.
When Tsubakiya saw the money, she smiled happily, her eyes were full of golden light, and she took the bag and counted it on the table.
Luo Xiyuan smiled and said that she was blinded by wealth, but Dongting didn't dare to joke, and only admired the spring breeze smile of Tsubaki buds with eyes full of eyes on the side.
After running around like this for half a month, I also made a lot of money. Summer has not come, Chunya is worried that there is no way to leave Beijing for a while, virtuous as her, she actually learned from Aunt Wang next door to raise a nest of chicks in the courtyard, and also planted a bunch of camellia. She thought that she could save a little bit, and it was excellent to use the daily leftovers to raise chicks, and at the end of the year, she would have fresh chicken soup to drink without spending money to buy it.
Master Xiyuan rolled his eyes and counted her, and he didn't live in this capital for a long time, maybe he would return to Luoyang in the next year. The apprentice Dongting looked at this beautiful girl who was three or four years older than him with an appreciative face, nodded incessantly, and muttered in his mouth, following Sister Chunya is the real feeling that he has a lifelong dependence. The apprentice was intoxicated, and he was caught off guard on the head, and he was hit with a chestnut.
It is said that on that day, Tsubaki Ya and Aunt Wang, who was holding a dustpan of soybeans, were chatting in front of the courtyard gate, and suddenly there was a rapid dog barking from the alley. Immediately afterwards, there were shouts and curses from officers and soldiers, and women and children cried, and there was a lot of noise in all directions.
Chunya probed to the mouth of the alley with her feet, and was called back by Aunt Wang's soft shout.
Aunt Wang glanced at Chunya, and the two walked quickly to Chunya's small courtyard.
Aunt Wang fiddled with the beans in the dustpan a few times, chose a few bean shells and threw them out, and whispered mysteriously: "In the big courtyard at the mouth of the alley, who do you live in?" The slave of the anti-thief Ao worship family, it is said that his family also harbored an accomplice of the anti-thief family, the person who should be killed! This time I was caught, and the whole family died! ”
Chunya was very scared by the smug look in Aunt Wang's eyes, dare to love that the person who reported the thief was this Aunt Wang? Tsubaki Ya asked in a trembling voice: "Auntie, how do you know so carefully?" ”
Aunt Wang saw that there was something wrong with her eyes looking at her, so she was shocked that she was a little too proud. In fact, she is just a red-eyed woman who wears red and green, and never meets and interacts with their neighbors in the alley, so she can't help but be a little angry. Now that I see that people are in a bad situation, I am very happy, and my pride is suddenly revealed.