Chapter 136: The Lives of the Three
Mu Xiwen leaned back on the bamboo chair for a long time, "I bought this Manchun Courtyard for Sister Yuanhe, Sister Zuiqin, and Sister Nanshuang, it's just-"
She dragged out her voice, bent at the eager gaze of the three.
Zuiqin couldn't hold her breath the most, and hurriedly asked, "Just what?" It is not expensive to buy this Manchun Courtyard, as long as 8,000 silver...... Don't think that 8,000 taels of silver is expensive, when my sister and I are at their most beautiful, how many rich people want to see me will have at least 500 taels of silver. ”
She stretched out five slender jade fingers with some trepidation, "It's a big deal, sister, I'll work hard, show up a few more times to help you earn money back." ”
Mu Xiwen shook his head, "Money is not a problem, don't say eight thousand silver, in my heart, the three beautiful sisters are worth thousands of gold and ten thousand gold." The only thing that made me hesitate was the identity of the sisters. Don't say you're all ordinary women, my eyes haven't been blind to this extent. I don't want to pay for a hassle back. ”
The three of them fell silent for an instant.
The wind blowing in from the window shook the candlelight, and dim shadows jumped on the walls, as if struggling to break free.
Yuan He's eyes swept over the drunken Qin and Nanshuang who were silent, and a look of desperate determination suddenly ignited in those indifferent eyes.
She raised her head and looked at Mu Xiwen with her eyes as gentle as flowing water.
Zuiqin and Nanshuang both understood her choice from Yuan Lotus's expression, and their hearts trembled, but they just didn't know what to do.
"My identity, I think Childe should have seen it, I am a sinful body. My father was the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites in Shunping for fifteen years, and ten years ago, because of disobedience to the saint, His Majesty confiscated my family, the man was exiled to Tuzhou, and the woman was put into lowly status. Since then, I have been in Manchun Temple, and it has been ten years now. ”
When Yuan He said this, his tone and expression were very indifferent, as if he was telling someone else's story.
She didn't pause, nor did she feel any sadness, and continued: "Because my father was friends with the Shangshu of the Criminal Department and the prefect of Tai'an Mansion at that time, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department secretly operated and sent me to Tai'an Mansion. It was precisely because of the secret protection of Lord Xie, who was the prefect of Tai'an Prefecture at the time, that I got through the first difficult and embarrassing time.
Later, I gradually showed extraordinary talent, and Qingqi has always been more valuable than Hongqi, and in order to use me to make more money, Li's mother in Manchun Courtyard tried her best to make me the top card of Qingqi. Even if Mr. Xie was transferred to another place after his term of office expired, I was still firmly in front of my Oiran of the Spring Garden.
The back story is also very lackluster, although my talent is not reduced, but my appearance is gradually aging, plus other green buildings are menacing, Manchun Courtyard slowly loses its competitiveness. Sajin Street is full of talented and young and beautiful girls, and the customers who used to chase me have also switched to other Oiran heads. ”
With that, she turned her gaze to Nanshuang. Nanshuang froze, but her expressionless face showed a slight struggle.
In the end, she still chose to believe in Sister Yuanhe, who had been taking care of her, and nodded like a dragonfly.
Yuan He continued: "Nanshuang is in a similar situation to me, she came here five years ago. Her father was in the middle of the matter, and he was punished for persuading His Majesty not to build a palace.
Although she was six years younger than me, I knew her when I was still in the boudoir, so after learning that she was also in the Qinglou, I took advantage of the privilege of the Oiran at that time to shelter her, and asked Li's mother to promise her that she could wear the veil all the time.
Five years ago, I was in the limelight and had the support of Master Xie, so although Mother Li also coveted Nanshuang's beauty, she still had to accept this request because of my threat. ”
Hearing this, Mu Xiwen frowned imperceptibly. I don't know why Yuanhe's father disobeyed Emperor Shunping, but just the matter of Nanshuang is enough to see how mediocre he is.
Some people may not be very familiar with the names given to the matter, but in another word, everyone must know - Yanguan.
The official department is one of the officials in the matter, and the rank is very low, only the seven grades, but its power status is very high.
As far as the duty of the official is to advise the emperor and supervise the hundred officials, that is to say, Nanshuang's father is completely within his part, and Emperor Shunping did not say anything about the crime, and even humiliated the other party's wife and daughter like this.
However, Mu Xiwen also knows where Nanshuang's poor and unmovable arrogance comes from, Yanguan has been a representative of the "Qingliu" faction since ancient times, they would rather die than bend, and they will not bend, to put it mildly, they are stubborn, pedantic and conservative.
called the wife and daughter of a speech official to fall into the dust, and Emperor Shunping completely wanted to force Nanshuang's family to death. Fortunately, Nanshuang met Yuanhe, otherwise she would have committed suicide by observing the festival a long time ago with her character of preferring jade to jade rather than tile.
Although Mu Xiwen tried her best to maintain an indifferent expression, this flash of disgust was still captured by Yuan He, who had been paying attention to her intently, her eyes flashed, and her moist eyes seemed to be filled with the most brilliant sunshine.
She was right!
After learning that Mu Xiwen was a female owner, she had a crazy idea. This kind of woman who dares to defy the world's condemnation and do deviant things must be people who regard restraint and dogma as nothing.
In the first eighteen years of her life, she was raised in the boudoir, and learned all over the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry, calligraphy, etiquette and music; In the last ten years of his life, he was locked in this red mansion, and he was hypocritical and hypocritical to countless men.
Now that she is twenty-eight years old, if nothing else, she will soon become a red man with an old face.
The end of the future is to be riddled with all kinds of diseases and linger in this cannibalistic world; Or in less than two or three years, he contracted a dirty disease and was wrapped up in a table and thrown into a mass grave to die.
But she was not reconciled! How could she be willing?!
She asked herself that her knowledge was no worse than that of many men in the world, and that her self-questioning heart was more calm than many people, why, why was she buried in this Red Mansion?!
She wanted to find a way out, but as a lowly person, she didn't even have the possibility of redeeming herself.
After struggling in the mud and darkness for so long, she finally found this possibility. She's, she's going to catch it!
Seeing the soft-hearted nature of the "little boy" opposite, she changed her previous indifferent tone, lowered her head lightly, and the flickering candlelight shone on her face, leaving a fragile and confused look.
"When I was fifteen years old, I married the grandson of Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, and then his grandmother died, I waited for him for three years, only waiting to marry him at the age of eighteen, but I didn't expect that the whole family was copied when I was waiting, and I was also in the Qinglou."
She choked slightly in her throat, and a crystal tear snaked down her head and disappeared in her hair.