"Can Hua's Yahuan, who left the mansion before, be sure that she is back in Anping?" The old lady thought for a moment and suddenly asked.

Mama Qin shook her head, "I heard what that cowgirl said." ”

The old lady sat up straight and said to Mama Qin: "You go and paint a portrait of that girl, and then let someone take it to the major trading houses and carriage and horse shops in the capital to ask if anyone has seen her since she left the house to today." ”

"Yes." Mama Qin answered, and hurriedly went down to make arrangements.

Of course, no matter how they looked, they wouldn't find any clues, because Hua Ronghua's master and servant were now nested in Yunqiu's tea room.

"Yunqiu, can't you really buy a house?" Hua Ronghua asked with a frown.

"Of course it's true." Yunqiu paused for a moment in pouring water, and then continued to pour water casually, "This is the capital, a pot of tea costs dozens of taels of silver, and it is really impossible to buy a house for two thousand taels." ”

Hua Ronghua rubbed the bracelet on his hand with his hand, "However, I can only spend so much, and there are some I have to keep for childbirth!" "Really, I knew that there would be today, and I didn't give any gifts to Gongxi Chu at Gong Lao's place, and those gifts were discounted and I received two thousand taels plus my own bracelet, a total of three thousand, I feel distressed when I think about it now.

"Don't think nonsense, don't talk about two thousand taels, even twenty thousand taels may not be able to buy a good house in the capital. Of course, if it's a private house in Beicheng, it's possible, but it's very chaotic there, and it's not safe for you three women to live. ”

Hua Ronghua's eyes lit up, "Can you buy a cheap house over there in Beicheng?" ”

Yun Qiu was taken aback, "Hey, you don't really plan to buy a house over there, do you?" ”

"But I can't always live with you, in case Gong Xichu comes again, it will cause you trouble." Hua Ronghua said worriedly, the important thing is that he doesn't want to be found by him!

"Afraid of what? You forgot that I am also a backer! Yun Qiu handed the poured tea to Hua Ronghua, "Let's drink saliva and moisten my throat all the way." ”

"I didn't need to go all the way, I took the car." Hua Ronghua took the water and asked curiously, "But Yunqiu, you are so powerful, you actually guessed in advance that the old lady and they would send someone to follow me to prepare two carriages, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to get rid of those people!" ”

Yun Qiu smiled, "How can I have such a great ability to guess this?" This was arranged by my master, Yong Anbo. ”

"Uh, it's Yong Anbo!" Hua Ronghua was a little uncomfortable and picked up the teacup to drink water, and suddenly thought of something and asked, "Then I live here Yong'anbo, do you know?" ”

"Of course I know, this tea is Yong'anbo's industry."

"Ahh Hua Ronghua was a little panicked, and stood up suddenly, "Then I can't stay here, in case I ......" I just finished pit someone's wife, turned my head and followed someone else's territory upside down, didn't I look for death?

Seeing this, the red hearts and cows not far away ran over thinking that the master had any orders, "Young lady! ”

Yun Qiu pressed Hua Ronghua's shoulders with both hands and pressed her down, "If you don't stay here, where are you going, now there are people from Old Lady Kang Lebo everywhere outside." Don't look at the Conleber Mansion is not very good, the old lady Conleber is a very powerful woman! If it weren't for her, Conlebor's House would have fallen long ago! If you want to be caught by her, you can't do anything to you, it is estimated that you will not have any good fruit to eat. ”

Looking at the two maids with panicked faces, Hua Ronghua hesitated again, "But I live here, won't Gongxi Chu come sooner or later?" And how can you live with you all the time? ”

Hearts interjected on the side: "Don't worry, it won't be in vain, I'll go to the back kitchen to help." ”

Niu Ya also rushed to say: "I'm going to help too, I can chop wood with a lot of strength." ”

Yun Qiu smiled, "Sister, these two girls are loyal and righteous. ”

Hua Ronghua also smiled, "Although they are nominally Yahuan, I regard them as relatives, and I don't have a mother's family, so I can only rely on them now." ”

Hearts and Cow couldn't stop laughing when they heard her words, and their joy was beyond words.

"Okay, don't give me a deep affection for my master and servant here, the room has long been prepared to rest, and the hearts know where it is." Yun Qiu smiled and drove people away, and said again, "Don't go to the front building, just in case people see it." ”

"Got it, go get busy, big shopkeeper."

In this way, Hua Ronghua took the two maids to nest in Yunqiu's tea room for several days. Although no one found here, she often had nightmares, every time she was found by Gong Xichu, and then she was slapped again, and then when she woke up, she touched her face, and she didn't feel pain for a long time before she knew it was a dream.

Hua Ronghua was embarrassed to eat and live in Yunqiu for nothing, and refused to accept anything when she gave her silver, so she tried her best to let the two maids help with the work, and walked around the backyard by herself.

Although this is just a backyard of a tea house, but if you look closely, you are about to catch up with a small courtyard, even bigger than the house in Anping County, and the flowers and vines, the verandah, everywhere is full of exquisite.

On this day, Hua Ronghua was walking in the yard again, and suddenly felt that the sun was a little dry, and he didn't want to go back to the house, so he walked towards the rattan trellis erected by the wall, and the green plants climbed all over the vine trellis. There was still some distance from the courtyard wall behind the pergola, and there was a path against the wall.

Hua Ronghua was curious and followed the path to an arch hidden by a green vineman, and when he opened the vineman, he stepped directly into a garden.

All kinds of flowers compete for fragrance and beauty, butterflies and bees dance and shuttle among them, the stone path rockery veranda flows water, and the decoration is more than one grade higher than the backyard of the tea house. Hua Ronghua was full of curiosity, where is this? How can there be a door connecting the two courtyards?

Hua Ronghua, who was feeling strange, suddenly heard someone talking from a distance, and Hua Ronghua, who wanted to return to the tea courtyard immediately, was stunned when he heard what the person said.

I only heard someone ask: "Xie shopkeeper, you ask Earl Smith how much silver he plans to give out of this colored scroll porcelain horse." ”

Then another voice sounded, "Earl Smith, how much money do you intend to pay for this colorful axis porcelain horse?"

“Five thousand pieces of silver.”

"Mr. Shaw, Earl Smith said he was willing to pay three thousand taels of silver."

"Three thousand taels?" The voice seemed to be surprised, and said, "You ask him, if he is willing, as long as he can pay the money now, this porcelain horse is his." ”

The next translator was a string of English, and Hua Ronghua didn't want to listen to what she said, and now she was full of surprise and walked towards the source of the voice.

Bypassing the rockery along the stone road, Hua Ronghua saw a stone pavilion standing among the flowers. There were three people sitting in the pavilion, a scribe under thirty in blue robes, a merchant in his forties and fat brains in colored satin, and the most conspicuous of all a blonde foreigner, and a wooden box on the stone table in the middle of them, and I don't know what was inside.

I saw that the foreigner was babbling a string of English, and then the merchant translated it to the scribe, and what the scribe said, the merchant spoke it in English to the foreigner. Several people said that they were very happy and very satisfied. But Hua Ronghua heard it very clearly, the foreigner said five thousand, but the merchant said three thousand to the scribe, and he swallowed two thousand from it!

Hua Ronghua was standing in front of the foreigner, and he inadvertently looked up and saw the big-bellied Hua Ronghua, opened his mouth wide in surprise, and asked the merchant and scribe, "Is that the girl who came for the drink?"

As soon as the scribe and the merchant turned around, they saw Hua Ronghua who was uninvited, and their faces were a little unsightly, and the merchant directly reprimanded: "Where is the cheap maid who doesn't know the rules?" I don't know if the backyard has been taken over by Mr. Xiao? ”

Foreigner Smith seemed to hear the merchant's unkind tone, and hurriedly said, "No, let her come. She has a lot of charm.”

Seeing this, the merchant looked at the young scribe, "Mr. Xiao? ”

Mr. Xiao was about to nod, but when he saw that the woman with the big belly had already walked over by herself, and looked straight at Earl Smith, he couldn't help but feel surprised, isn't this woman afraid of this Fanbang person? I remember that in order to help the fun, I deliberately found some girls to come over to accompany the wine, but they were scared and screamed and cried, and occasionally two of them were so bold that they didn't even dare to raise their heads, let alone drink, which made them lose face.

Instead of being afraid, the woman smiled at Smith and opened her mouth to say, "Sorry, I'm not here for the drinks. I'm just passing by. I'm sorry to bother you.”

Not only the foreigner was stunned, but even Mr. Scribe Xiao and the businessman Shopkeeper Xie were all stunned, and Shopkeeper Xie still faintly felt uneasy in his heart.

Looking at the expressions of several people, Hua Ronghua was a little proud, fortunately, his English was not consumed by more than a year of traversal life.

Smith laughed happily, and actually walked down from the gazebo, and said in front of Hua Ronghua: "Oh, my god, it's amazing that you can speak the language of our country. Where did you come from?”

Hua Ronghua pointed to the rockery behind him and said, "There's a door over there." ”

Mr. Xiao and Shopkeeper Xie also walked down from the pavilion, and they all looked at Hua Ronghua in surprise.

Listening to Hua Ronghua's words, Mr. Smith was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, "What a funny girl."

Shopkeeper Xie couldn't help but ask, "Which firm are you from?" "As far as he knows, there are only three people in the entire Beipeng who can speak, and no one is better than him, where did this woman come out?

Mr. Xiao also stared at Hua Ronghua.

For a while, Hua Ronghua felt as if he had become a little white rabbit targeted by several big bad wolves, and he couldn't help but be a little nervous, and subconsciously took a step back, protecting his stomach with his hands.

Seeing this, Mr. Xiao hurriedly said: "This, uh lady, don't be afraid, we are not bad people, we are doing business with these Fanbang people, but the language is a little different, if there are still people in your family who can speak Fan, it will help us a lot." But I secretly wondered in my heart, whose woman is this, with a big belly and running around.

Hua Ronghua glanced at Shopkeeper Xie, "Don't you already have a translator?" ”

"There are too many people in Fanbang, and Shopkeeper Xie is really too busy to do it alone." Mr. Xiao said hopefully: "If anyone in your family can speak......

"Nope." Hua Ronghua interrupted Mr. Xiao's words, "We learned English and Fan from my father, and my father has passed away. ”

Mr. Xiao was really disappointed.

Shopkeeper Xie asked on the side, "I don't know which business house your father works in Nanzhou?" ”

"What Nanzhou?" This time it was Hua Ronghua's turn to be stunned.

"Only Nanzhou can have access to the Fan people, and there are people who can speak Fan." Shopkeeper Xie frowned, this woman didn't even know Nanzhou, where did she learn the language?

Hearing this, Hua Ronghua regretted a little, just now she pushed the matter of her ability to speak to the dead old lady Hua, who knows that not all businessmen can speak, how can she lie now? After thinking about it, he smiled and said, "When I was a child, my father's friend lived at home for a while, and often told my father about the Fan Gang, and I listened to what I learned. ”