Chapter 18: Once bitten by a snake
The teahouse of the red sleeves is in the middle of the city, and after getting into the carriage, even the girl has been silent, of course the red sleeves will not open her mouth to ask for her own boring, and she also closes her eyes and recuperates: she is pregnant, and it is normal for her to be tired now; Even the girl can't blame her for being slack. ♀
Suddenly, the carriage stopped, and Red Sleeves opened his eyes, looked at Miss Lian and said, "I'm really sorry, I just fell asleep." Of course she didn't go to sleep, saying this just to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Even the girl looks a little arrogant: when this kind of person is unreasonable, it is a headache.
Even the girl nodded lightly when she heard this: "Madame, if you have a body, it is normal to be tired; But I insisted on being accompanied by my wife, which was really a bit unkind. ”
Listening to this, this person is not an unkind person; But she knew she did it anyway.
Red Sleeves smiled bitterly in his heart, but he still said politely on his mouth: "Where, where." As she spoke, she gently lifted a corner of the car: it was noisy outside, as if there were many women's voices.
She thought that she had misheard, that in this era, even if a woman came out to make a living and set up a small stall or shop, she would not sell herself, but would not make people feel pity if she was annoying, and of course the business would not be much better.
Of course, the old woman's hawking is another matter
She lifted a corner and looked at it, and then froze: she was shocked, almost unable to believe her eyes; She had never been there, but she recognized at a glance the long, embroidered street across the car.
This is the Green House! No, it should be said that the concentration of green buildings. ♀ She couldn't help but think of what she heard in her previous life about the Bada Hutongs in old Beijing.
She could see that in front of the doors of the buildings on both sides of the street, there were several women with flowers and branches, beckoning the men who came and went to sit down.
Red Sleeves was shocked to find that it was already night: it was already dark, and only the last rays of sunset were left on the horizon.
"That street, I've heard people call it fat powder." The faint voice of the girl came over: "I have always wondered what the women there are like. ”
Red Sleeves took a breath, lifted the corner, turned his head and said very calmly: "It's getting late, we should go back." ”
She was saying we should go back, not that she was going to leave: this place, she couldn't get out of the car; If someone sees it, recognizes it, or something else happens, it's not what she thinks.
She is the eldest girl of the Zheng Mansion and the fifth young grandmother of the Shen Mansion, of course she can't come to this kind of fireworks land: how can she be near this place if she can't say it or listen to it?
In this era, women are very harsh; She didn't want the lewd Zheng and Shen families to become the laughing stock of people because of her; Now, she doesn't have a good impression of Miss Lian.
Even the girl just smiled, this was the only time she smiled after seeing the red sleeves today: "Madam, how about I go in and invite you to have a glass of wine?" ”
Red Sleeves resisted the urge to roll her eyes, and she said very seriously: "It's not good, Lian girl, there are some things that we can not take seriously, but there are some things that we must not be wrong." ♀”
She pointed to the side of Fat Powder Street: "There, it's not where we should go, and we definitely can't go." After speaking, she looked at Miss Lian and said in a deep voice, "Now, let's go back." ”
She was even thinking: This Lian girl couldn't be sent by the enemies of the Shen and Zheng families, right? Or Prince Lian, who wants to harm the Shen and Zheng families?
When Miss Lian saw Red Sleeves sinking her face, she thought it was very funny, looked at Red Sleeves more and sighed: "You say, why do men like them?" ”
Red Sleeves was stunned when she heard this, although a lot of speculation flashed in her heart, but she was not interested in other people's private affairs, especially Lian Girl's private affairs.
It was about the reputation of the Shen and Zheng families, and she didn't dare not take it as a thing.
"Girl, let's go back first, the people who want to come to the house are also waiting for the girl to eat."
She just wanted to get out of this place now.
Miss Lian didn't squeak when she heard Red Sleeves' words, and it took a while for a while to raise her eyes and look at Red Sleeves: "I heard that your husband is very good to you, how did you do it?" ”
Red Sleeves really wanted to give her a big look, but she still said solemnly: "Miss Lian, it's very late now, how about talking about it tomorrow?" Now, let's go back. ”
Red Sleeves had said Lian many times, but Lian girl only looked down and thought about her own affairs as if she hadn't heard it. Red Sleeves didn't want to have any conflict with Miss Lian in this place, so he could only persuade him with good words.
Lian girl finally sighed softly: "Go back." ♀ It's not the place we should go, or else," she shook her head slightly, but didn't go any further.
Red Sleeves finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and he was very annoyed that it was not good to go out today, why did he want to leave the house today? .
How good it is to stay at home, but she wants to come out to sulk, not to mention, and her reputation is almost damaged: if she is seen in this place, I am afraid that some people in the Shen Mansion will jump up with joy - I am worried that I can't find the fault of the red sleeves.
The car finally turned its head little by little in Che Chun's drinking; Finally turned around, and when Red Sleeves was waiting for the carriage to leave, he heard a terrible cry and scolding outside.
Redsleeves doesn't want to be nosy: it's not that she's hard-hearted, and the nosy of this place can't be managed; Which green building has no people in distress? It can be said that almost every woman in the watchtower is in distress - if you want to save, which one will you save?
Smashing the watchtower? It's hard to think of the red sleeves if you can't think of being famous.
This is a veritable place of right and wrong, and Red Sleeves just wants to leave quickly; This place made her very uncomfortable, and she pitied the women, but she was powerless.
However, Lian girl said softly: "Stop." ”
Redsleeves lamented in his heart why his luck was so bad today, and there was nothing else; The car belongs to the girl, and the driver belongs to the girl.
Even the girl sat and didn't move: "Let's go and see, what's going on." ”
When Red Sleeves heard this, she knew that the trouble could not be pushed away, and she couldn't help but rub her forehead gently: What a headache, she really has a headache.
It was a woman's voice who screamed, and it was the voice of some men who were scolding: Red Sleeves didn't need to go out to look, he knew that it must be a woman who escaped from the Qinglou, or some people wanted to sell the woman to the Qinglou, and the woman resisted at this time.
This kind of place should not be anything else.
After a while, someone went back and forth to the girl, and everything was just like what Red Sleeves guessed: it was a woman who was going to be sold to the Qinglou, and she only knew that she had been deceived after arriving here, so she cried and did not comply; The two men turned their faces, beating and scolding, trying to drag the woman to Fat Powder Street.
Redsleeves heard the woman's voice and went to the carriage; As long as you are not a fool, if you see someone asking about this at this time, of course you will pounce and catch this straw.
When the girl heard this, she lifted the curtain and glanced at the woman who was in front of the carriage, she looked very beautiful, very beautiful.
Even if she cries a lot, even if there is no decoration, she can't reduce her appearance, and the appearance of pear blossoms with rain is even more cute.
After seeing the woman's crying appearance clearly, Red Sleeves was also slightly stunned, and finally understood that it was true that the ancients said that a woman crying like a flower in the rain was a witness.
If it were her, she could only cry ugly, and a hundred or a thousand women would be ugly when they cried; A woman who cries beautifully, that's rare.
Even the girl's brows were already furrowed: "You, how could you be sold there?" ”
Red Sleeves shook his head slightly, even the girl is really everyone's daughter; What else could be the reason? It's nothing more than that there are changes in the family, she is deceived when she meets someone, etc.; No matter what happened to the woman, it was summed up in one sentence in the end, and it was like this.
The woman wept mournfully and told what had happened; She is the only daughter in the family, and she is going north with her parents, and there is still a lot of way to go after the capital, but she encounters bandits on the road, although the family escapes, most of the money is lost; My parents were too frightened and kept getting sick, and when they arrived in Beijing, they couldn't afford to get sick, and then they died.
She was a weak woman, and when she was unaccompanied, she normally met two distant cousins and cousins in the original family, so she cremated her parents under their auspices and temporarily deposited them in the temple.
Then the cousin and cousin used various excuses to cheat her out of the money around her, and then today tricked her into meeting an elder of the clan; I don't want to, but I want to sell her to the land of fireworks.
Red Sleeves shook her head when she heard this, and met her cousin in Beijing, thousands of miles away from her hometown; How can it be so coincidental? She didn't think about it?
However, just now she also saw the woman's hand, which was white and tender, and at first glance it was a woman raised in the deep boudoir, but she was also called her.
Even the girl was furious when she heard this, so she asked the two men to be arrested, sent to the government tomorrow, and then let the woman get into the car.
Red Sleeves's brows furrowed again, she didn't object to saving the woman, but how to place the woman? Red Sleeves sat aside and squinted her eyes, she didn't want to care about this kind of nosy - this matter, from beginning to end, was done by the girl, and it had nothing to do with her.
Therefore, the woman has nothing to do with her, since there has been a color gone, Red Sleeves has made up his mind not to take the rescued woman to the house.
It is okay to save people, but it is absolutely impossible to take them in, which is a principle that I am also prepared to abide by for the rest of my life.
The woman trembled and climbed into the car, and jumped down and kowtowed to Miss Lian three times: "Thank you for saving your life!" Then he kowtowed to the red sleeves three times: "Mrs. Xie's life-saving grace!" ”
Red Sleeves had already been paying attention to the woman, and when she knelt down to her, she quickly avoided the side seat of the carriage, she didn't save anyone, and she didn't want to be involved with this woman.
(Nine-headed Bird Academy)