The tall girl in the red skirt in the room stood with her back to the door, facing the half-open window lattice, and blindly threw an arrow into the pot with one hand, which immediately attracted the exclamation of the five or six flower-girls in the room.

"Entered, entered! It's in again! ”

"Ji Niangzi is really accurate!"

"I've been to the Northland for half a year, and Miss Ji's blind casting is still so accurate." A young flower girl standing beside Hengyu diligently pinched Hengyu's shoulder.

There was also a slender flower girl who hurriedly took the tea and sent it to Hengyu: "Miss Ji is also tired from painting today, so take a sip of tea and take a break." ”

"Today, Miss Ji is painting for Sister Peony, when will it be my turn." Another flower girl stepped forward and grabbed Hengyu's sleeve and shook it coquettishly.

These few shakes made Xiao Muzhi a little dizzy, and he put his hand to his lips and coughed lightly.

"Okay, don't make any trouble, didn't you see Miss Ji's guests arrive? and all of them will go with me. The eldest of them looked to be in her early thirties, wearing a moon-white veil, holding the pipa on the side, and blessed Hengyu.

Seeing that she treated Hengyu with respect in her words and demeanor, Xiao Mu paid more attention to the woman.

"That's it, don't delay Miss Ji's friends, let's take a walk......"

"Let's go with Danrong Lady to practice music later."

The flower girls walked out in a noisy manner, and when they passed by Xiao Mu's side, some people saluted, and some people cast curious eyes.

Xiao Mu's face was not different, and he bowed politely to them.

"That Lang Jun is so handsome, and he is a face he has never seen before......"

"Danrong lady, you have known Miss Ji for the longest time, do you know where this Langjun is sacred?"

The Danrong lady holding the pipa glanced at them with disgust and said, "Why do you ask so much, take care of your mouths." ”

"Of course, you have to keep your mouth shut outside, and you won't say a word nonsense when you die, but you can't ask a few more words in front of you."

"Yes, yes, our sisters also want to check for Miss Ji, isn't ......"

The flower girls talked in a low voice and left, and Gu Tingnan closed the door from the outside.

"Why are you here?"

"Why are you there?"

She and Wang Jingyong asked each other almost at the same time.

"......" Wang Jingyong frowned, "I naturally follow my family...... Lang Jun came to the appointment. ”

"We, of course, have grown up with Ah Heng."

Wang Jingyong twitched the corner of his eye.

What kind of insight is this?

"I heard that this is the first flower building in Jingshi." Gu Tingnan moved closer to him, took off his chin and pointed in the direction where the flower girls left, and poked Wang Jingyong lightly with his elbow: "Have you seen it just now, those beauties are really one in a million, that figure, that look, the fragrance on the body, and the voice that speaks, all seem to be soaked in honey......

She spoke in a low voice, but she couldn't hide the excitement of admiring the beauty.

Wang Jingyong stiffly glanced at her arm next to him, and Mu Ran's face was a little hot.

"Jingshi is really Jingshi, it's really not comparable to the other places." Gu Tingnan sighed: "You're right? ”

Wang Jingyong looked ahead and nodded more and more stiffly: "Hmm." ”

Gu Tingnan noticed his strange appearance, turned his head to look over, and couldn't help but wonder: "What are you blushing for?" ”

"Where?" Wang Jingyong frowned.

Seeing his reaction like this, Gu Tingnan laughed out loud: "Why are you still angry?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense." Wang Jingyong looked at the front steadily, and saw a pair of men and women with close manners coming out of the opposite room through the fence, and immediately turned his eyes away, his heartbeat seemed to be in harmony with the high music playing in the hall downstairs, and explained: "...... The rouge and wine here are smoky, and it is really boring and panicked. ”

Gu Tingnan let out a long "oh-" sound, and said with a smile in his eyes: "I see." ”

In the room, Heng Yugang invited Xiao Mu to sit down.

"Why is the offer here?" Xiao Mu asked.

Hengyu casually poured a cup of tea and pushed it to him, saying, "It's quiet here, it's suitable for talking." ”

Xiao Mu: "...... Quiet? ”

"They're all people I trust, and no one will tell me about my meeting with you here tonight." Heng Yu lowered his voice and said: "Besides, even if there are eyeliners from all walks of life staring at you, they will only think that you are here for recreation tonight, and they will not be suspicious of anything if they are human-but if you change somewhere else, it is difficult to say." ”

Hearing this sentence of "human nature", Xiao Mu was silent and said, "...... Thank you so much for taking care of me. ”

"It should be." Heng Yu said: "I've planned it, and you will be a frequent visitor here in the future." ”

Xiao Mu almost choked on a sip of tea, coughed twice and looked at her: "You trust them so much?" ”

"That's nature." Hengyu replied without hesitation.

Xiao Mu was a little curious: "How did you get along with these people?" ”

He didn't mean to despise the women of the Qinglou, just because he was born in an official family, he knew better the misery and involuntary nature behind the fall of these women.

He was just curious - although he knew that she was very good at making friends, and she could coax people with one mouth, but in the end, the so-called identity is different, and she is a girl, how did she get along with these flower girls?

"Where is there a place where you don't go to the flower building?" Hengyu also poured a cup of tea for himself, and said casually: "If you come and go, don't you get acquainted." ”

Xiao Mu didn't believe it: "Who are you, I still know more or less." ”

Her so-called deceitful manners, after careful consideration, can be seen to have a purpose, not really just blindly indulging in fun.

Even if she entered the official media yamen as a painter, it was to facilitate contact with those powerful people, and secretly investigate the clues of the tattoo pattern back then-the name of the gentleman, which was convenient for her to act, and no matter what she did, it would not attract too much attention.

In the end, a girl who has been living abroad for several years and her 'reputation' has been ruined, if she locks herself in the back house, she will never be able to contact the truth she wants.

"There is indeed an opportunity." Only then did Heng Yu answer his question seriously: "Did you see the lady holding the pipa just now?" ”

Xiao Mu nodded.

"I'll call her Sister Danrong." Heng Yu said: "When I was sold into the Tingzhou Qinglou, I tried to escape because I was still young, so I was locked up. The girls who were locked up in that courtyard would be let out to pick up guests when they reached the age of fourteen or fifteen, and if they were 'obedient', they could also go out at the age of eleven or twelve to do some tea and water and serve the flower girls. ”

She held the tea and said unhurriedly: "Only when I go out can I have a chance to leave, so I pretended to be obedient and was able to leave the courtyard in the winter when I was eleven years old, but those turtles were very close and did not allow us to leave the flower building, and the slightest sign of wanting to escape would be beaten and punished." ”

"I was the sister Danrong I knew at that time, and she was still the Oiran lady in that flower building at that time." Hengyu continued: "Once, I was embarrassed by a drunken guest, and she saved me and helped me get out. ”

This sentence was very short, but it made Xiao Mu's mood low.

"After that, she took care of me a lot, and I recognized 'Yan Jin' from her, and after getting acquainted, I tried to ask 'Yan Jin' to come forward to redeem me and help me send a letter back to Beijing." Heng Yu recalled: "Soon after I returned to Beijing, my family and Her Royal Highness the eldest princess secretly investigated the matter, and the flower building was punished by the government for the crime of smuggling belovers, and the old bustard was sentenced to hanging, and most of the girls who were abducted and trafficked were sent home by the government to find out their origins. ”

"Sister Danrong was voluntarily sold into the Qinglou by her biological father, and she made a document to sell herself, but she was not abducted, so she was not on the list of naturalization. Later, I asked someone to inquire and found out that not long after I left, a guest ransomed her and took her out of Tingzhou, where she went. ”

"I couldn't worry about it, so I kept trying to inquire about her whereabouts, and it took me a year or two to find her in the kiln alley, which Jingshi is known as the lowest." When Hengyu said this, her eyes darkened: "I remember that when I saw her that night, she was beaten all over by a man who was covered in dirt and smell, and her face was also scratched. ”

She told me that the man who took her away from Tingzhou was not the person she thought she was beloved, and that the man held her deed of sale and treated her like a private slave like goods, and when he got tired of it, he gave her to someone else. After doing this several times, she was sold to Jingshi and entered this dark kiln. ”

"I took her out, ransomed her, took her deed of sale, and went to the government to cancel her lowly status. A house was bought for her to recuperate from her wounds. It's just that the injuries on her body are healed, the scars on her face, and the knot in her heart are left here, and she has never gone out to see anyone for almost a whole year. ”

"And then?" Xiao Mu's voice was very soft and gentle.

"Then one day, I gave her a pipa that she had loved for a long time." Heng Yu said: "She began to pick up the pipa again and practice music. Then one day, she went out. Later, she came to this Yanchun Tower alone with a pipa. ”

"She said that pipa is her only skill, and she wants to be self-reliant, she doesn't want to be a drag on me, and she doesn't want to lock herself up for the rest of her life."

Of course, it is not possible to sell herself as a slave again, so she agreed with the shopkeeper in the Yanchun Building that the musicians who would make music here and teach the girls in the building music. She is brilliant with a pipa in one hand, which adds a lot of color to Yanchun Building, and the shopkeeper also values her very much. ”

"Over the past two years, she has repaid the money I used to redeem her and buy a house." When Heng Yu said this, his face was a little lighter: "I redeemed the two little girls who were sold into this building, and now they are raised in her house." ”

Xiao Mu smiled slightly: "In the future, you opened the academy, just let them study, plus the girl of the Ma family, there will be three students to accept." ”

Hengyu nodded: "I think so too." ”

Immediately, after thinking about it, he smiled again: "There will be more in the future." ”

She also redeemed several young children, and if she couldn't find her family, or if her family was not worth finding, she stayed in Jijia or Zhuangzi outside the city.

But with her and Sister Danrong, there are only a few things that can be done.

"So you paint for them." Xiao Mu looked at the pictures of the beauties she had just drawn on the side of the case to be dried, and said, "I only knew that it was rumored that you were good at painting beauties, and the beauties in your pen were printed as albums, which can be said to be widely circulated." ”

"The silver from the sold albums, I am three, and they are seven. The flower girls here are either sold into slavery because they have no way out, or they are sold by their families for so-called forced reasons, but they are mostly private slaves, not official slaves who were demoted to lowly status because of the affairs of the Jin Palace. According to the "Shenglu Household Marriage", private slaves are like assets, which can be freely bought and sold by the master, and if the master allows it, they can also redeem themselves. ”

Speaking of this, Heng Yu sighed: "But in the end, the flower girls in Yanchun Mansion are all worth a lot of money, and the money for redemption is not so easy to save." ”

But in the past two years, there have been three or four flower girls who have been able to redeem themselves because of the income of the album.

Xiao Mu said: "Self-redemption is always the best policy, and this is a long-term plan. ”

Those who are so-called redeemed by others, just like the previous experience of the Danrong lady, although they were able to get out of the Qinglou, most of them are still lowly, and their lives and freedoms are in the hands of others.

Most of the men who "saved them from the dust" were unwilling to buy *** for them to go to the government to sell the deed of sale for them, and they often chose to hold on to their deed of sale to ensure that they could never get out of their control.

At this time, Xiao Mu looked at the girl in front of him and said, "Thank you for being willing to tell me these things." ”

He seemed to have listened to a long, dark story, but in this darkness he glimpsed a ray of heavenly light shining in.

She is the light of the sky.

And all this is not a story, it is a real thing.

People in the world say that she is squirming, public, and does not follow the so-called secular rules, ruining Mr. Qinghan's name, and I don't understand why she has such "good luck", she is still spoiled by her family after having such an experience, and Her Royal Highness the eldest princess of Yongyang connived at it in every way, all of which seems unreasonable-

But if you get to know her and get to know her, you won't have any of these puzzles.

He had no doubt that she deserved all praise, and that she was especially worthy of being loved, even respected.

"It's just a small talk, what is there to thank you for?" Hengyu took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and felt that his words of thanks were a little funny.

"At least you'll be willing to talk to me and tell me these things that few people know—"

Facing those sincere eyes, Heng Yu coughed lightly, but he couldn't see him have such an illusion with his conscience, and said, "Actually...... I've told quite a few people. ”

"......" Xiao Mu was silent for a moment, nodded slightly, and went to serve the teacup.

Hengyu couldn't help but smile: "The tea is cold, add some hot." ”

Xiao Mu: ...... No matter how cold it is, can he have a cold heart?

"Why don't you ask me why I asked you out today?" Heng Yu looked at him and asked, "Aren't you in a hurry?" ”

Xiao Mu also looked at her: "You're not in a hurry, what am I anxious about?" ”

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It's a four-thousand-word chapter, good night everyone!

(Thank you for your concern, my mother-in-law is already well, but she swears to stay away from yoga for the rest of her life)

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