Chapter Fifty-Eight: Sleep
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He actually gave these dancing girls away like objects?!
The admiration and respect for Meng Yuanzhou piled up in my heart seemed to be about to collapse.
"Good things come in pairs, let's sign the contract first, and it's not too late for everyone to drink and lose weight!" Meng Yuanzhou got up and looked at everyone with a smile, and after speaking, he gestured to the subordinates standing on the side.
The two subordinates took the contract that had been prepared on the tray, turned around and sent it to each merchant, and the dancers waved their sleeves and smiled and walked to the merchants they liked and sat down, hugged the merchant's arm, and said 'master' one by one, and the voice was tactful, and coaxed them to read the contract carefully.
Seeing the smiling faces of those dancing girls, they were not unhappy at all, and begged the businessman to take them away, and the discomfort in Du Ruo's heart instantly dissipated.
She knew in her heart that these dancing girls were inferior people and had no freedom, and if they could be taken by businessmen, it seemed that it would be much better to take them home as concubines, but being disposed of at will and selling their bodies made her unacceptable.
After thinking for a while, she came back to her senses and hurriedly put away the drawing paper, stepped forward and respectfully put it on the table in front of Meng Yuanzhou, Meng Yuanzhou glanced at it, and ordered: "Send it to each dancing girl and let them keep it as a souvenir." ”
Du Ruo nodded, took the drawing paper, and found the corresponding person to distribute it.
When she walked up to the merchant from the Western Regions who was sitting across from her, the merchant from the Western Regions smiled and looked her down from top to bottom, and when she reached over to hand over the painting, the merchant suddenly reached out and grabbed her wrist firmly.
"Meng Ye! I'm going to take her! The merchant of the Western Regions said to Meng Yuanzhou.
Du Ruo wanted to withdraw his hand hard, but he grabbed it very tightly, if it wasn't for the situation, she would have kicked him in the face.
Meng Yuanzhou turned his head to look at this side, and then got up with a wine glass and walked towards them.
"This woman is a female worker in the embroidery village, and she is married to a woman." Meng Yuanzhou glanced at Du Ruo, then bent down to pick up the wine jug, personally poured a glass of wine for the merchant of the Western Regions, and handed it to him with a smile, "There are many women, you can choose these dancing girls, if you like them, I will give them away." ”
The merchant from the Western Regions glanced at Du Ruo a few more times, and insisted: "I don't like women to talk the most, just now I saw that this woman didn't say a word during the banquet, I really like it, if she is already a woman, it is simple, I will buy her!" ”
Du Ruo cursed a few words in his heart, if this person really discussed with the Song family to buy her, I am afraid that the Song family is very likely to sell her secretly.
Meng Yuanzhou smiled slightly, and was about to speak, but Du Ruo said disdainfully: "You can't afford it." ”
"Oh? How much can I buy you? I have the money! The merchant from the Western Regions smiled wildly and looked at him with interest.
Du Ruo looked at him with pity in his eyes, "It's very simple, I just need a sincere heart and accompany me for the rest of my life, have you done it?" ”
The merchant of the Western Regions looked at her in surprise, he had never seen a woman who didn't want his money, and he had countless concubines, how could he only accompany her? I'm happy today, I'm looking for her to accompany me, I'm happy tomorrow, I'm thinking of another, I can't do such a thing.
Meng Yuanzhou's eyes flashed with a different color, but he still smiled on his face, and said to the merchant of the Western Regions: "Brother Tule should not be like a woman, there are old and young in her family, I am afraid she is not willing to leave her homeland, and I will order a few dancing girls to come over and drink with you later." ”
The merchant of the Western Regions finally let go of her hand, touched Meng Yuanzhou with the bowl arrogantly, and raised his head to do it.
Du Ruo took the paintings and continued to distribute them below, and when she was done, she walked back to her seat and sat quietly and waited.
Those merchants all signed orders, some asked for more goods, some asked for less, but the price was not low. The merchants drank and ate food and were accompanied by beautiful women, and they were very happy, and after a few more drinks, they called each other brothers.
After the banquet, the merchants were carried back to the room, Du Ruocai took a deep breath and looked at Meng Yuanzhou, who was sitting in the middle and resting with his head in his hands.
She got up and walked over, arching her hand and said, "Master Meng, I want to tell you something. ”
Meng Yuanzhou opened his eyes and saw that it was her, closed his eyes again, and said in a casual voice: "Say." ”
She had to dare to say: "Today, those merchants went to visit the good work building, listen to their speeches, I suddenly have an idea, now the business contacts between Chu and neighboring countries are getting closer and closer, if you want to attract more merchants from the Western Regions to embroider the village to place orders, it is better to do more publicity, our embroidery varieties are varied, not only other countries, but also the native people are not completely clear, it is better to draw down the embroidery made in the past, make a booklet, distribute it everywhere, and even let these merchants from the Western Regions take it back and send it to the people there, and so on, There will be more and more people who know Yunshui Embroidery Village, and there will naturally be more and more businessmen from all over the world. ”
She wanted to do what she was good at, so she came up with the idea of having one more chance.
Before she could say a few words, Meng Yuanzhou had already reopened his eyes and looked at her, with doubts and thoughts in his eyes.
After pondering for a moment, he spoke: "This is a good idea, while these merchants from the Western Regions will stay here for a few days, this matter will be left to you!" ”
Du Ruo nodded hurriedly, but he still had to say what he had to say, "May I ask Master Meng, how should my remuneration be calculated?" ”
Meng Yuanzhou sat up straight, thought for a while, and said: "According to the price of work, you draw a few pages for me to see, if it is good, the salary is naturally higher than that of a female worker." ”
"Thank you Meng Ye! Then I won't bother. ”
Meng Yuanzhou held a teacup in his hand and looked at her departing back, until Du Ruo disappeared in front of him, his gaze still did not retract.
On the way back from Xiuzhuang, Du Ruo's mood couldn't hide her excitement, she just wanted to have multiple opportunities, and it was nothing to mention it, but she didn't expect him to really agree. What's more, if she can sit all the time, she can earn more money.
When she returned home, Cai happened to be standing at the door with a crutch, and when she saw her coming back, she hurriedly said, "Go and see Ju'an!" He didn't eat or drink for a day! ”
Du Ruo walked into the house in surprise, lifted the bed tent to look at the sleeping man lying on the bed, and reached out and touched his forehead, which was very hot, and called him twice, but there was no response.
"Why don't you boil a potion and pour it down for him?" Du Ruo turned his head and asked Cai, who was standing at the door of the West House, with some reproach in his tone.
"He doesn't drink and he doesn't speak! I'm really anxious! Cai cried out loud, wiping his tears but not daring to cry too loudly.
Du Ruo hurriedly hooked the bed tent on both sides, brought a basin of cold water from the well outside to the house, wiped his hands, face, neck, and arms, and put a towel on his forehead after wiping, "Did you call Lang Zhong here?" ”
"I called, prescribed medicine, took a few packets of medicine, but fed him, Ju'an refused to drink it at all! How good is that! Your father is like that, Ju'an is like this, do I want a white-haired person to send a black-haired person?! Cai whimpered against the wall and began to cry.
Du Ruo looked at the man lying on the bed speechlessly, unbuttoned his clothes and pulled them down, and wiped his upper body again, he breathed heavily, and slept very deeply, as if he was unconscious.
From yesterday when she came back from outside to now, Song Ju'an didn't seem to be right, and she didn't know what happened to make him half dead.
Du Ruo took a pack of Lang Zhong's medicine and went to the kitchen to boil the medicine, he had to pour it for him if he didn't want to drink it, she didn't want to be a widow for the time being. If the fever has been burning out for a long time, his brain will burn out, and if she wants to leave, she will have to accept everyone's accusations and abuse, and a single spit can drown her.
At this moment, someone shouted loudly outside the gate, Du Ruo filled the firewood, walked out suspiciously, opened the door and saw Su Mingyang standing outside, just like in the morning, still worried and nervous.
"Sister-in-law! The village chief said to let Brother Song go to his house now! Su Ming said.
"An Lang is sick, he can't get up in bed now, he can't go, if he has to go, you can tell the village chief tomorrow." Du Ruo said.
Su Mingyang was taken aback and said in surprise: "Huh?!" I came over in the morning, Brother Song is fine, why can't he get up in bed after a day's work! Does it matter?! ”
"It's okay."
"Then I'll go in and have a look!" Su Mingyang walked into the courtyard and came to Song Ju'an's bedside, seeing him falling asleep with his eyes closed, he walked out more worried and said to Du Ruo: "Look at the village chief, it means that Brother Song must go today, he hasn't been to the school for two days, Hong Si'er and a group of students make trouble, and the village chief has to call the shots and not let Mr. Song teach!" ”
Du Ruo was indignant when he heard Hong Sheng's name, their Hong family had been targeting the Song family for a long time and had refused to let go.
That time there was a theft in the village, Hong Si'er and Pan Cuicui didn't bother the people in the village to trouble her, thinking of this Du Ruo gave her a headache, she couldn't let them go easily in the future, they were all people who kicked their noses and faces!
"You go and talk to the village chief first, he really can't go." Du Ruo said.
Su Mingyang nodded and walked out depressedly.
Du Ruo boiled the decoction, and left it outside to wait for it to warm up, then he entered the house with it and fed him with a spoon.
Sure enough, as Cai said, he couldn't drink anything when he fed him, and when he fed a spoonful, he spit out a spoonful.
"Hey! Don't sleep, open your mouth and drink the medicine. Du Ruo said impatiently.
The man on the bed didn't react at all, and didn't seem to hear what she said at all, so Du Ruo had to put the medicine bowl aside and wipe him with a towel.
Wiped every once in a while, Cai sat in the yard and cried non-stop, as if she had died of her son, and Du Ruo was even more upset when she heard it.
These people have to get by one by one, but she, a person who works hard every day, is not idle.
When she was sleeping, Du Ruo slept next to him, feeling that he couldn't stand the heat against herself, so she had to get up and scrub her body with cold water again.
Climbing back into bed, she sat inside, looking at the person lying next to her, his face handsome and ruddy, his ink hair scattered on the pillow, and the whole person fell into a deep sleep.
If it weren't for his face, Du Ruo sighed in her heart, she estimated that she would not tolerate him so easily.