Zheng Haizhu actually met the girl in Fireworks Willow Lane, and it was because of her hostess who wanted to make a breakthrough in the theme of embroidery.

After Han Ximeng saw the picture of Japanese ukiyo-e, he had the idea of learning from Tang Yin to paint Shu and embroider the beauty of the wind and moon in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, Han Ximeng tried to draw more than ten line drawings on the embroidery book, but he was always dissatisfied, so he sent Zheng Haizhu to go out more to observe the real people on the pretext of shopping.

Near the Moon River in Songjiang Mansion, there are many goulan tea houses and brothels and wine shops, which are known as small Qinhuai.

Even during the day, standing in the pickle workshop and needlework shop for a while, Zheng Haizhu can also see many warblers and swallows passing by the waterside bridge.

Once, Zheng Haizhu came out of the fragrant lees shop that sold yellow mud snails, and saw a petite girl wearing a red jacket skirt, and a mother-in-law accompanying her, standing in front of the stall where she wrote family letters, holding a green-skinned boy.

When Zheng Haizhu stepped forward to hear it, it turned out that Qingpi was going to rely on five cents of silver for his book money.

The stall owner was a thin middle-aged man with a gloomy face, and he was talking about it.

But the girl and the mother-in-law did not give up, and the girl was even more spicy, so she directly reached into the placket of the boy's clothes to pull out the coat, which caused the onlookers to laugh and coax.

At this moment, the companion of the green-skinned boy rushed over and surrounded the two women who had come out of the righteous position.

Seeing that the girl in red and her mother-in-law were about to be beaten, the surrounding shishu only waited as if they were watching a good show.

Are all these men dead? Zheng Haizhu's anger rushed up.

She got out of the crowd and scolded sharply: "I am the Zheng family of the Han Mansion, and I received a reward from the government for helping the court to suppress bandits." If you make a mistake today, I will go to Lord Huang, the official of the government, to sue you! ”

In the miscellaneous onlookers, there are people who are familiar with the hot news in the city, recognize Zheng Haizhu, and help a few words crisply, after the evil people believe that Zheng Haizhu does have some friendship with the government officials, his arrogance is really a little shorter, and the leader snorted roughly, threw down a few gold and copper coins, greeted left and right, and scolded and left.

The girl in red and the others thanked Zheng Haizhu earnestly.

After some conversation, Zheng Haizhu realized that the woman in red was called Ru Li'er, a Qingqi person from the nearby Qingfeng Building, and the mother-in-law who accompanied her was surnamed Fan, and the middle-aged man who spent the stall was the benefactor of the Hongqi people that Fan's mother-in-law had served in the past. The benefactor was originally an eight-rank petty official, but he was deposed back to Buyi for dereliction of duty, and his land property was confiscated, and he was poor and destitute, so he had to rely on writing for others to make a living.

Granny Fan's old owner died of tuberculosis a few years ago, but Granny Fan remembered the kindness of this middle-aged scribe, and sometimes secretly gave him two cakes from a brothel to eat, and also told Ru Leek the reason. Today, when the master and servant saw him being bullied, they stood up.

Zheng Haizhu traveled through this life, with the courage to break through, he took his nephew from southern Fujian to Jiangnan, and saw many low-level people begging for a living along the way, but without the influence of Han Ximeng, she is a modern woman, and she will not be shallow and naïve to define a maid as a lowly group.

What's more, Ru Leek is so chivalrous, better than many big men watching from the wall.

On that day, Zheng Haizhu was the east, and invited Ru Jiuer and Granny Fan to go to the restaurant and had a very happy conversation.

Ru Leek'er's master and servant didn't expect that the rumored Han family's somewhat unusual foreign self-combing girl didn't even care too much about the gap between good and low.

Zheng Haizhu gained even more, in this dynasty that suppressed and imprisoned women, she never knew that this matter was going to be done, and came into contact with a fireworks woman like Ru Jiu'er who was in the mud and angry, but was scurrying towards the clarity of the Dao.

After going back and forth like this, the two can be regarded as having a friendship.

At this moment, Ru Lean's pretty face was full of urgency.

"Sister Zheng, to make a long story short, I accompanied a guest to hike the mountain today, I was going to get rid of the guest halfway, and I made an appointment with my good Ruan Gongzi to escape, I don't want Ruan Gongzi to have arrived yet, the brothel seems to have gotten the wind, so I have the Gui Gong to take the courtyard to the back mountain, and it is getting closer and closer. Luckily, I saw my sister eating here with the grandmothers, so I came in and begged my sister to hide ......"

Zheng Haizhu's expression was awe-inspiring: "Young Master Ruan, is the person you said some time ago that you want to redeem your body?" ”

"Exactly, if I had lasted more than half a year, the silver I saved would have been enough to redeem myself, but he was in a hurry to take me to Beijing, so we were ready to escape......"

Ru Li'er was still slurking, and Xu Huizhen, who was hiding behind Zheng Haizhu, suddenly opened her mouth and said: "This son wants to take you away, but he has to spend your money, which is not decent enough." If you don't have enough money, you will be asked to run away, which is even more wrong. ”

Zheng Haizhu turned her head and looked at Xu Huizhen with some surprise.

Xu Huizhen still looked like a little adult: "Miss Zheng, I know what you mean. In the church of mercy and grace in my house, there are also people like this girl who come to pray and express their sorrows and difficulties......"

Ru Yun'er interrupted her and said, "Miss turned out to be the proprietor of the Mercy and Grace Hall, so you should understand that there is one of the teachings of your foreign religion, that is, do not testify, that is, do not judge what you don't know. We do this business, and the people who volunteer to do long-term employment for the family and receive monthly wages are completely different, we are not allowed to enter the fire pit, and when we want to jump out of the fire pit, we are blackmailed and made difficult, you are the eldest lady of the golden branches and jade leaves, I don't know the truth, and only use the eyes of the trader to judge whether I and Ruan Gongzi are decent or not, and whether they are doing the right thing, they are standing and talking without backache. ”

Xu Huizhen pursed her lips and listened, turned her head to think about it for a moment, and nodded solemnly: "Well, what you said makes sense." ”

In this short round, Zheng Haizhu has decided to help Ru Leek, but she feels that Xu Guangqi's granddaughter is also there, but it is a little difficult.

Unexpectedly, Xu Huizhen seemed to be convinced by Ru Yun'er's refutation, and simply pointed to a big wooden box under the bamboo couch in the study and said: "Then you can hide there, you are small, we will cover you with a painting scroll." Even if those male servants can enter the Heming Tower, I am the daughter of the Xu family, and I paint here with Sister Zheng, and they are not government officials, so they dare not make too many mistakes, at most they have to look outside the door. ”

Zheng Haizhu and Ru Jiu'er listened to it, and they both felt that this was the most reasonable way in an emergency.

They hurriedly dragged out the wooden box, Ru Leek bent down and curled in, Zheng Haizhu deliberately found a few blue silk silk framed scroll covers, which were the same color as Ru Leo'er's cloth clothes, and then pushed the wooden box with Xu Huizhen hard, and then found a few round stools scattered around to block the light.

Zheng Haizhu and Xu Huizhen still returned to the table, while mixing colors and drawing lines, while listening to the movement outside.

Sure enough, not long after, a noisy man's voice came.

Zheng Haizhu carried a pen and walked to the door, just in time to see the Gu family's grandmother's personal maid Cui Liu, and also walked from the banquet hall to the courtyard, with a little cold arrogance, and asked the shopkeeper of Heming Building what was the matter.

Qingfeng Building, where Ru Leeker sold herself, is a famous brothel in Fucheng. The shopkeeper of Heming Tower heard that it was Qingfeng Lou who searched the mountains and villages to find people, and he did not dare to refuse bluntly, so he had to bow down and complain to Cui Liu.

Cui Liu didn't get angry with the shopkeeper, but only stared at a few people behind the shopkeeper: "Inside are the grandmothers and ladies of the Gu family's Dong family, as well as Lord Huang's wife, do you think you are bothering here, decent?" ”

The turtle man led by Qingfeng Lou is a ruthless character who is sinister and deceitful at first glance.

But when he heard that it was really the noble ladies in the city who were holding a banquet, he was afraid of their husbands after all, so he hurriedly suppressed his voice and said, "Sister, don't be strange, let's only go into those empty rooms to see, and the places where the ladies eat and drink must be avoided." ”

Cui Liu waved his hand impatiently, no longer responded to the other party, and stood at the door of the flower hall with his arms crossed, watching Gui Gong arrange his men to search for several vacant private rooms in the Heming Tower.

At this moment, a young man rushed in from outside the hospital, about twenty years old, with a long face, fair complexion, handsome eyebrows, and a fine rhombic brocade straight coat.

It was clearly a noble son with a good demeanor, but he was holding a ball of water-red clothes in his hands, vaguely revealing the folds of bright embroidery and horse-faced skirts, which looked like a woman's skirt, which made him look quite strange.