Shi Keqi suddenly became interested after hearing this, and said, "This is really a maverick woman, do you want to meet her?"

Wang Yuan's mouth slammed it, and he rolled into an O-shape in a circle, and threw himself to the ground in admiration of Shi Keqi's taste.

"It is said that she is a little old, and she is looking for young and beautiful women in this industry. ”

Shi Keqi said indifferently: "How old are I? Anyway, I'm not for the body." ”

"You don't tell a woman's age, or you should ask her. ”

"Okay, let's go now. ”

Wang Yuan was remorseful, and gently slapped his mouth and said: "The mouth is really cheap, I have to tell a story about the old kiln sister Aiqin." It would have been better to ask to see the Oiran if I had known, at least it would look much better. ”

"Why don't you listen to that pianist Gao Jiangnan?"

"Ah, you don't think a place on my body hurts enough, and you have to add the pain through my ears, and the sound of the piano will kill me. Hey, okay, hello, I'll take you to see Sister Hong. ”

Tingtao Pavilion will specially spare carriages for Tianzi customers, and the guy saw that Wang Yuan was limping when he walked, so he specially added a cushion to his seat.

Xiaolan came back from the grassland and began to sleep for some reason, often sleeping seventeen or eighteen hours a day, waking up listless, eating and falling back to sleep.

When Wang Yuan came, it fell asleep again, and Shi Keqi left it on the bed and covered it with a quilt, hey, it should be a semi-hibernating state of snakes, he thought.

The groom looked to be in his twenties, thin as a bamboo pole, and after hearing Wang Yuan's address, he neatly put the carriage on the horse, flicked the whip, and the carriage went at a uniform speed.

Youfu is the capital of a state, there are many prosperous and lively places, but the general extent is similar to Xiangzhou Mansion, four markets in the southeast and northwest, either the east market is prosperous or the west market, and the Confucius Temple or what temple in the middle.

The carriage went all the way to the west, from the bustling East Market to the ordinary people's homes, walked for about two quarters of an hour, and finally came to an alley, where the coachman reined in his horse and opened the curtain.

Shi Keqi got down from the carriage and saw a wooden sign standing at the corner of the street, on which were written the words Laoyang Hutong.

"Is this it?"

Wang Yuan rubbed his numb legs on the side, half of the distance was half-squatting and half-standing, and when he heard Shi Keqi asking, he raised his eyelids and said: "It's not wrong, there is only one Laoyang Hutong in the city, and there is no other alley." I'll lead the way, let's go in, Sister Hong lives in the third building, the location is quite high and easy to find, but I don't know if I can't live here. ”

He picked up the cushion on the carriage and said to the coachman, "The cushion is good, borrow me to sit in it, and bring it out." ”

"You can use it, I am waiting for the two distinguished guests here. ”

Wang Yuan said thank you, led Shi Keqi into the alley, and walked only a dozen steps to the third house.

The house was only one floor, but there was a small courtyard, the roof could not be seen from the courtyard wall, and there were more than a dozen wet moss spots on the left and right walls by the door.

"Oh, look at the familiar road, I'm afraid you've been here, don't want to trick me. ”

"A few times before that, there were two people in her house, and the other one was young and pretty. ”

Before he could knock on the door, the door opened automatically, and the people in the house heard the sound and came out to open the door.

It was a woman in her twenties with half of her shoulders exposed, her curved eyebrows painted like thrushes.

"Yo, it's you, the official hasn't come to see the slave family for a long time, I don't know if the slave family is about to die if you think about it...... You brought such a handsome boy with you. She stepped forward and grabbed Wang Yuan's arm with her left hand, and swam with her right hand to hold Shi Keqi, her accent was crisp and quite moving.

Shi Keqi shook her hand without a trace, she took it again, but it was unsuccessful, and she came in with Wang Yuan, and saw Shi Keqi follow across the threshold, and reflexively covered the courtyard door.

This one-story house has four rooms in a row, and the yard is quite large, with some flowers on both sides.

"Who's coming?" Xiaolin, there are guests visiting so early?" A person came out of the middle room, she yawned, and although she had been groomed, there were still a few loose hairs on her head.

Halfway through the morning, the winter sun warms the earth, but people who work in this profession are generally still catching up on sleep.

"Well, Sister Hong helps make tea. Kobayashi responded.

This is Sister Hong, Shi Keqi looked at her, she felt thirty at first glance, and after a few more glances, it looked like forty again.

She is thin and small, with two good-looking Danfeng eyes, and her eyes have lost the smoke and waves of her youth, with some years of wind and frost, like some white hair on her sideburns.

The tea has not been served yet, over there Wang Yuan's legs are not lame and his buttocks are not painful, he hugged Xiaolin to the leftmost room with a smile and left a sentence.

"Brother can't help it, I'll take the first step, and Sister Hong will greet him for me. ”

Sister Hong took off the handkerchief from the opposite corner of her shoulder placket, and shook it at Shi Keqi charmingly.

"Petty officials, please come in. ”

Shi Keqi coughed, pretended to be a veteran, and stepped into the middle room.

The furnishings in the house are simple, there is a table, two chairs and a bed, the tables and chairs are neatly arranged, the embroidered incense red quilt on the bed is neatly folded, only the sheets are a little wrinkled, presumably it is the traces made by Sister Hong's sleep.

There is also a cabinet in the corner with thermoses.

Sister Hong took Shi Keqi's hand and sat on the bed.

"Sister Hong, I just want to hear your story, double the money. ”

When she saw the handsome Shi Keqi, she thought it was a young man who had come to seek physical comfort, and her eyes lit up.

When I heard the patron resolutely say that he was just to hear the story, his expression slowly fell lonely.

"Hey, people are old, the old people don't want concubines, and the young people don't like it even more. She laughed to herself, apparently Shi Keqi was not the only young man who came to listen to her story.

She quickly adjusted her mood, put a professional smile on her face, straightened her sleeves, and invited Scoch to sit in her chair.

She made two cups of tea, handed one to him, one at her table, and sat down with a slight tilt towards the guests.

Keqi was a little embarrassed, and Tete came to listen to the story of a kiln sister.

The atmosphere was awkward for a while, but Sister Hong broke the deadlock and said, "Young man, what kind of story do you want to hear?" ”

"May I ask why you like piano?" asked Scoke.

"It's just like, how can there be so many why? ”

Sister Hong was silent for a while, and continued: "When I was a child, I was from a wealthy family next door, and my children invited a pianist to teach me, and I didn't understand it or think it was good. After a while, I inexplicably fell in love with the piano. ”

"I stole a piece of wood that I was going to make a stool at home, sharpened a four-like piano with a kitchen knife, and put on the white thread for sewing clothes to make strings, thinking that it would be played. ”

But before he could get it done, he was found by his father and played his ass. ”

"When I got older, I realized that what I liked at that time was an illusion, fantasizing that my family was rich and I could hire a luthier like the rich man next door, but I didn't really like the piano. ”

"After I went through a lot, I didn't need the guidance of others, as long as the person who composed the music poured feelings into the piano, I could understand some of it, and I naturally liked the kind of emotional love songs after listening to more. ”

"I thought it would be great if one day, like the pianist, could incorporate my past into the tune, and I wanted to compose a song for life. It's a pity that I studied with Mr. Gao for a year, leaving a laughing stock. ”

"Do you want to listen to the nursery rhymes I learned to play?"

Shi Keqi politely refused: "No, thank you, Sister Hong, can I move on to the next question?"

"Yes, excuse me. ”

"I would venture to ask a sharp question that you can leave unanswered. ”

"Oh, how sharp is it? You ask, answer as much as you can, anyway, you have done too many unsightly things, your face is gone, and your mana is boundless. Sister Hong smiled, and there was a hint of bitterness in that smile.

"Okay, then I'm presumptuous. Shi Keqi smiled and said: "I heard that you have been renting a house and engaged in this since you were young, why don't you go to the big yard, where the income is higher, and there is a security point in the future." ”

"You mean that the backstage in the courtyard is quite hard, and the general gangsters dare not find fault, and the source of customers is wide, and a lot of silver is coming in every day. Sister Hong said.

"That's right"

Sister Hong gritted her teeth and said, "Let's be honest, I can't be on the stage, and I was disgusted after going once." I did it myself. Hmph, what's the big deal, isn't it just a few clicks in and out, can it still make a mess?"

"Can you tell me about that situation?"

"That's a sharp question, young man, you have a needle in your words. ”

"I'm sorry, then I'll ask the next one. Skech smiled apologetically.

Sister Hong said: "But this can't stab me, it's okay to talk about it, and it's not a sin of murder and arson." ”

"I am a woman who fled from the countryside, with low self-esteem and self-confidence. has no relatives in the city of Youzhou, and has found two rough jobs, and the main family is too difficult and mean. If you can't do it for a long time, you can't survive if you don't work, and when you can't survive, you should try it once when you go to the yard. ”

Speaking of this, Sister Hong's face appeared like self-deprecation and sarcasm.

"The old bustard asked if he was good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, or light singing and dancing, and I replied that I would listen to the piano. ”

"What did she say, listen to the piano, can't play?"

"Yes, I can understand the meaning of the piano. ”

"You are here to be the eldest lady, do you want the guest to play the piano to you?" The fat on the bustard's face shook when he said this, and I still remember that look. ”

"No, how can you provide opportunities to learn the piano, I must learn faster than others. ”

"She said that I am already an adult, and there is no habit of cultivating adults in this hospital. If you don't mind, let me pick up the guests first, if it's still a virgin, she can arrange a good price for the first night, and the money she earns in the future will be divided into six and four points, and she will be six and four points. ”

I could feel the smile on my face diminish a minute, and I said thank you with difficulty, turned away. Since then, I have never entered the yard again, and I have to rent a room to attract customers to survive, and then I met Xiaolin, so I live together. ”

Later, the story of getting acquainted with Mr. Gao spread, and he was no longer young, and there were still people who came to visit him. Some of them listen to stories, and some communicate physically, but most of them come once, so they won't come a second time. ”

"This must be Mr. Gao's deliberate promotion to help me pull some business, if it weren't for a strange reputation, I'm afraid I would starve to death. ”