Chapter 13: The Forgotten Dust Building
What is different is that this year's winter seems to have broken very early, and finally it is still the anti-guest who can't stop the spring. The birds in the tree seemed to be unwilling, and they were always arguing about the magpie's nest. It's better to listen to the persuasion of the white goose who is freely plucking the anthurium, and learn the mentality of the flower floating and flowing freely.
Four years have passed, and the little girl who entered the different time and space has completely integrated into this new world, adapted to her new identity, painted Taishou's youngest daughter, painted her face, in addition to the change in appearance, her temperament has long been different from before, and she is full of infinite love for this new world.
At this time, she was sitting leisurely by the small pond in the courtyard, watching the little animals and seeing how they were adapting to the new season. She turned the flute in her hand and blew a few tunes at random, without a beginning or an end, just like her thoughts. The newly built building in Taoyuan was renovated last month, so the father-in-law and the masters should move in...... It's been almost a year since I left them, and I wonder if Aunt Pan will still be sad because she misses herself...... The current court is like a bird's nest in this tree, and the magpie's nest dove occupies it. Liu Yu was in power, and all kinds of waste were waiting to be revived, and it was the time of employing people, and the painting Xia Shan was suddenly dispatched to Kyoto, and was also promoted to Taishou.
"Miss! Small...... Sister...... Yes! ......”
Just as she was sitting on the edge of the pond and distracted, a little girl in a yellow shirt ran over panting with an envelope in her hand. As a result, the girl had not yet run to the destination, I don't know what tripped over something, one was unstable, the whole person fell and ate, and the envelope in her hand was about to fall into the pond, but suddenly a gust of wind swept in, and when the girl reacted, she found that her young lady was already standing quietly in front of her.
"Miss, are you alright?"
On the other side, a girl in a blue shirt also rushed in, and she hurriedly asked.
"You're slow again, help Xinqiao up." After Hua Yan finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the place where he had just sit.
"Miss, you are a close disciple of Qin Daxia, even if Sheng Lan practices light skills for another ten years, he can't surpass you, Miss." The girl in the yellow shirt limped behind and pouted.
"Little girl, you can't walk steadily, what right do you have to speak? Shenglan, right? ”
"Yes, miss."
"Hey! Shenglan, can't you hear that I was just talking for you? I don't know the ...... of good people."
Hua Yan walked to the tea house by the pond, sat down, held her chin and watched the two girls in front of her frolic, and unconsciously threw all her thoughts out of the clouds. She recalled that summer, on the way back to the painting house from Yizhuang, she saw the two girls through the rickety curtain of the carriage. At that time, Xin Qiao was lying in rags in the wet mud and dying. The road was full of people fleeing the war, and she was seriously ill and had no money for medical treatment, so she was cruelly left behind by her family. The painter took her back to the house with them, and when they got out of the carriage, they found that there was a little girl who had been following them. The girl was covered in mud, and a pair of feet without shoes had long been worn into a bloody blur. It turned out that the girl's parents had already died of serious illness in the escape, homeless, and when they saw a well-wisher, they followed all the way. When the prefect at that time saw this tragic situation, his heart was distressed, so he left the two of them together as a personal maid for the painting. The two girls are Xinqiao and Shenglan, they are the same age as the painting, one has an outgoing temperament, the other has an introverted personality, and the three of them grew up together.
"Miss, what are you thinking? Don't you want to read the letter from the shepherd? Xin Qiao bent over to Hua Yan and asked softly.
"yes, I almost forgot. How could the shepherd suddenly write a letter, didn't something happen to the Forgotten Dust Building? ”
Hua Yan opened the envelope and immediately read it. After a long while, he put down the letter, stood up, and walked back and forth with his hands behind his back. The two girls also walked back and forth after her, both trying to wait to hear what she had to say. After a long silence, she finally spoke.
"Change!"
"Today, Madame and Eldest Miss will come over to check Miss's homework in the afternoon, Miss, you have to prepare well, you can't go out of the house again at this time!" Xin Qiao said anxiously on the side.
"I built the Forgotten Dust Building, and now the business is not as good as day by day, if it is not for the moment of last resort, how can the shepherd mother cry out for help? If I don't solve the problem, how can I be at ease? Besides, I have Xinqiao to block the car, what else is there to fear? You don't have to go with me today, stay in the house, and when the lady and sister come, you will say as usual that I miss the masters too much, and I am not in a good mood, so I will rest early, isn't it good? Xinqiao, I'll leave it to you here! Shenglan, let's go. ”
After Hua Yan finished speaking, she entered the house without looking back, leaving Xinqiao alone and jumping to her feet in a hurry, and there was no way to stop her, because she knew that what her young lady decided, there would never be a second choice.
Hua Yan didn't take the afternoon spot check homework to heart, she knew that Xinqiao's cleverness would definitely help her settle all this. She neatly took out a set of blue men's clothes from a hidden box and put them on, tied a ball head, and then pasted two small mustaches, and nodded in satisfaction to the mirror, then opened the door and looked around, and saw that Shenglan had already changed into clothes and was waiting for herself on the side of the courtyard wall, so she tiptoed out of the room. The two of them easily climbed over the courtyard wall and came to the lively back street.
From their skillful movements, it is not difficult to see that it is not the first time that they have sneaked out of the house. A year is enough for Huayan to get acquainted with every corner of the city, and make a small name on the famous "Dragon and Snake Street", and the people on the road call her, Eight Masters, of course, this nickname is due to the two conspicuous swallowtail mustaches she loves. Of course, it is impossible to survive in this mixed dragon and snake street by relying on appearance alone. In the three years in Jiangling County, with her cleverness, she learned a lot of unique skills from her masters, and she was able to sweep this street with just one move of the wind and leaves, although she only refined eighty percent of her skills, but it was more than enough to deal with these people outside the rivers and lakes. No one has ever dared to make trouble on her turf.
The Forgotten Dust Building is a three-storey circular building located in the middle of Dragon Snake Street, which is the most prosperous place in the city. With the lively market on the left and the mighty river on the right, if you climb to the private room on the second floor, you can see the scene of the entire capital from the wide window without railings. The willows by the bridge, the raccoon girls on the riverside playing, the play and singing on the street, and the flags on the top of the city gate are fluttering. The endless beautiful scenery, coupled with the original wine, makes people forget themselves, let go of the dust, and indulge in it, hence the name, forget the dust building.
The threshold of the Forgotten Dust Building is naturally higher than the others, it is not an ordinary theater, let alone a tea restaurant. It is not only for the literati to be elegant and discuss poetry, but also for the collection of essays and the sale of books and periodicals. It is said to be like a modern magazine, but it is more like a grocery store, because it also has clothing customization and clothing sales. Of course, different sales places are also differentiated. The costume department is located on the third floor, the viewing paper area is located on the second floor, and the book and periodical sales point and stage are located on the first floor. However, all the products sold by the Forgotten Dust Building are of excellent quality, and the price is cheap and good, and over time, it has attracted a lot of repeat customers.
However, it is not easy to enter the door of the Forgotten Dust Building, and you must answer the word puzzle held by the doorman. In addition to the unique brewing of fine wines and delicate dim sum, the characteristics of the Forgotten Dust Building are as described above, that is, the dance is wonderful. The singers and dancers of the Forgotten Dust Building have been carefully selected and trained by Huayan, and they are all from the group of people who fled due to the war. Of course, painting will never make them feel wronged, they will be veiled on the stage, not showing their true faces, and let them choose their favorite places, or learn to perform, or learn embroidery, or serve as a scholar.
Every night, there will be a song and dance, or a drama. Although there is only one show, the content of each scene is carefully designed by the painting, and the effect is often breathtaking. During the festive season, there are also lantern riddles, poetry competitions and other items, and the winners will receive big gifts. Forget the dust building is a place of elegance, and being able to camp in the black water of Dragon and Snake Street is all based on the hard work of painting Yan bit by bit, as well as the protection of her group of loyal cadres.
Huayan's real estate is not limited to the Forgotten Dust Building, among the top three schools in the center of the capital, one of them is hers. The school she opened always recruited more students than other schools, because there was no tuition fee and allowance, so naturally they were all poor students. In addition, there is a medical clinic at the end of Dragon Snake Street, which also belongs to her name. The doctor of this medical hall is the apprentice taught by the jade-faced divine doctor, and because he can't bear all kinds of requests for painting, he is willing to go out of the mountain and sit for this medical hall. The name of the hospital is "Charity Hall", which treats diseases and administers medicine, but does not charge a penny. Mi Wenqing, the business elite of the year, in this dynasty, if he wants to do business, he can rub his hands. The ultimate purpose of operating these real estate projects, of course, is not for profit. She wanted more children to have a good education and minimize the suffering of the sick, and these thoughts were born when she first saw the starving refugees. It's just that everyone only knows that the Forgotten Dust Building was opened by her little eighth master, and for the owners of the school and the medical hall, the paintings are all kept secret. Naturally, she alone can't support the overall situation, thanks to the group of capable subordinates she trained to help her take care of her, and Shepherd Niang is one of them.