Chapter 15: Old Acquaintances
Sending them to the market, the carriage turned.
The two of them entered the Jade Alley, the sun had not yet set, and there were already many people in the main hall, and it was estimated that they all knew that there was a performance by Miss Beiyin tonight, so they came to determine the location in advance.
The old bustard, who was greeting the guests, hurriedly greeted him and looked at the book and chess.
"Master Dao, are you here? It's up to you when everything is ready, who is this girl? The old bustard had a smile in his eyes and an expression that he wanted to hear about it.
"She's a sister-in-law in the Taoist temple, don't guess, she has to come to your place to change into such a dress." Chang Lai suppressed his voice.
"Oh, it's me who doesn't have long eyes, girl, oh no, don't be weird, Miss Beiyin is upstairs, if you don't come to her fidget, go up quickly." The old bustard made a gift and said to the girl in the back: "Big sister, take the two upstairs." ”
Seeing Chang Lai enter the door, Sha Xuan, who was walking around the house, hurriedly greeted him: "Dao Chief, you are here." Suddenly, he saw the chess following behind him, his expression froze, but he quickly came back to his senses and said, "This girl? ”
"I'm the sister-in-law in the Taoist temple." Shuqi said angrily, especially when he saw Sha Xuan's dazzling brilliance, he was even more ashamed of himself.
"Ah, yes, yes, this is my colleague, my accomplice, ah no, that fellow believer." Chang Lai stumbled, listening to books and chess and talking with anger, and muttered a little in his heart.
"It's time to greet Aunt Dao, please take a seat." Sha Xuan let the two of them into the house.
Shuqi didn't say a word, entered the room and sat at the table, Chang Lai saw that there was a teapot on the table, picked out two from the tray and poured water, picked up a cup and drank it with a bang.
"I don't drink." Shuqi glanced at another glass of water and turned his face away.
"I know, it's not for you." After speaking, Chang Lai tilted his neck and toasted again.
"You... Hum. Shuqi blushed and stared at Chang Lai.
"How's the preparation? Are all going well? Chang Lai ignored Shuqi and looked at Sha Xuan.
"Well, it's all in order, it's just that last night, the guy surnamed Rong came." Sha Xuan was still watching the fighting spirit of the two one second ago, and the next second it suddenly ended, and the conversation pointed at herself.
"How much money was charged? Recognize you? Chang Lai went to Sheung Shui again and picked up the cup.
"I didn't recognize me, my mother said it was 1,500 taels."
"Poof." "Ahem." Chang Lai squirted out the water in shock, and Sha Xuan coughed choked.
"Oh, you're all right." Sha Xuan hurriedly took a handkerchief to help Chang Lai wipe the water on his chest, seeing this, Shuqi also stood up, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve to help Chang Lai wipe it up, and arched Sha Xuan to the side, Sha Xuan was slightly startled and withdrew his hand.
"It's okay, it's okay, I'll do it myself, this guy is still a big guy?" Chang Lai took the handkerchief of the book and wiped it himself.
For the words that Chang Lai didn't understand from time to time, Shuqi and Sha Xuan were already surprised, and they probably understood what the big guy in his mouth meant.
The day has been slanted to the west, Yuren Lane is ready to stop, the opposite drunken guest Xuan tasted the sweetness in the last performance, and the next day he rearranged the VIP seats, each compartment is more spacious, and the tables and chairs are also more elegant, after all, he can earn dozens of taels for each table of guest fees alone, and he can top the day's running water in his restaurant.
Throughout the performance, the book and chess were engrossed in seeing the end from the beginning, happy for a while and sad for a while, only to see Chang Lai next to him secretly shouting in his heart, 'Woman, moody animal'.
In this performance, Sha Xuan stretched out the arrangement a little, and the guests were more enjoyable, and the rewards were only a lot more than the last time, and in the final bidding session, the two guests shouted all the way until the yarn tent was torn off by one of them, and the other party did not stop.
One of the two people who shouted the price was Rong Wenxian, and the other was the black boss Brother De, the winner was naturally Brother De, Rong Wenxian was not afraid of making silver, but he was afraid of things, there were almost no people who were not afraid of Brother De in the vicinity, after all, he was a character who had to tremble when he snapped his fingers.
Brother De is not as rough as the outside legend goes, his face is a little dark, but he looks quite good, it is not him who pulls the yarn tent, but the attendant next to him, Chang Lai stood at the corner of Jade Lane, looking at the compartment of the drunken guest Xuan, Shuqi said in his ear, the middle is Brother De.
"This person does have an aura, full of masculinity, and it's not as rough as I imagined." Chang Lai saw him look at the attendant who had pulled the gauze tent, and he didn't accuse, but the attendant's face instantly darkened.
"Brother De is not a barbarian, there are things here." Shuqi nodded his head.
"Then he also let you go to the Qinglou and let you be a killer." Chang Lai couldn't figure out Dege's intention to show Shuqi the way at that time, but he should have known that this was the result.
"I also had no choice but to look for him, who would have thought that he would lose his wife and lose his soldiers." Shuqi looked depressed.
Those who had booked seats in Jade Lane in advance all entered the door one after another, and Rong Wenxian was among them, he sat at a table with two other rich sons of similar age, drinking sullenly, and glancing upstairs from time to time.
The old bustard welcomed the guests into the hall, and then sent the girls and the men to entertain them, and walked to Chang Lai's side to report the benefits to him.
Upstairs, inside the Sassoon room.
"Master De is not as fierce as the rumors, he turned out to be a gentleman." Sha Xuan didn't dare to snub this guest, after all, she offended him, but she didn't have her own good fruit to eat.
"I was here to have a good time today, but I didn't think I could sit here." Brother De took a sip of tea.
"Don't say you think I look like one of your old friends, that's a coincidence." Sassoon pursed his lips and smiled, then got up and poured him another glass.
"You do remind me of some old things, things that have always kept me in my mind, things that I regret." De Ge seemed to fall into memory.
"I am willing to hear it in detail, if Master De is willing to say it, then Beiyin is very willing to listen."
"If you don't wear that veil today, I don't think she wore that veil when I saw that girl, and your eyes were exactly the same as hers." Brother De stared at Sha Xuan's eyes.
"I always thought that Brother De was a middle-aged man with five big and three thick, I didn't think you were still so young, then you should have been a teenager when you first met that girl." Sha Xuan didn't dare to look at Brother De, and looked at the table from time to time.
"About four or five years ago, I had a confrontation with someone in Mapletree Bend, and it was the most embarrassing time for me, I was drugged by someone, and I escaped with the last bit of consciousness and hid in a firewood house on the side of the mountain." Brother De's eyes were full of memories, and the corners of his lips were smiling.
"You had a wound on your head and a knife in your shoulder?" Shuqi suddenly interjected and looked at Brother De fixedly.
"Are you the girl? Are you Wanmei? Dege stood up suddenly.
"You've ruined my family." Sha Xuan said and cried, this Wan Mei, no one has called her for many years, at this moment, it sounds, as if she is in a different world, Sha Xuan said while crying: "I boiled mung bean soup for you, you drank it, the strength of the medicine gradually dissipated, you said that you want to go back to gather brothers, you must come back to me within three days, I don't ask you to come back to me or thank me, who knows, I didn't wait for you for three days, but waited for a group of thieves, they found out that you had come to my house when they were looking for you, killed my father and mother, and sold me to the Qinglou." ”
"These brutes." Brother De's eyes were fierce, he slammed his fist on the table, realized his recklessness, and said slowly: "I returned to Deguangshe, the knife wound infection and high fever did not go away, and I was in a coma for three days, and when I got better, I returned to Mapletree Bay and copied their nest, and when I went back to look for you, your house was in a mess, the walls and the ground were covered with dried blood, but there was no one to see, and I asked the neighbors nearby, but no one told the truth, maybe I was afraid of getting into trouble, I always thought you were dead." Speaking of this, Dege's eyes were slightly red.
"Creation makes people, the cycle of cause and effect, it must be that I did bad things in my last life to end up in the field I am today." Sha Xuan's tears rippled, thinking of sad things, it was difficult to control her feelings, and looking at Brother De's eyes, she was resentful and aggrieved.
"Sister Wan, come with me, I will definitely compensate you well, now, in this realm, friends from all walks of life have given me a little thin noodles, I have the ability to protect you." Dego reached out and shook Sassoon's hand.
"I call you Deye, do you think that the women in this fireworks willow lane can be any light, now my name is Beiyin." Sha Xuan withdrew her hand, wiped her tears, and said with a straight face.
"No, no, I don't know how to express it for a while, I don't mean to be frivolous, I haven't been so out of shape for many years." Brother De stood behind Sha Xuan, like a child who had done something wrong, where was there the majesty of a black boss.
"When my family was destroyed, although it was thanks to you, but it was not your intention, I shouldn't hate you, today you are generous, I should thank you even more, you and I are destined to be here, don't live here." Sha Xuan walked into the gauze tent and disappeared from Brother De's sight.
"I... Wan Mei. A thousand words turned into a sigh, and Dege turned around and walked out of the room, leaving only the tea on the table still steaming.
"Hey, Brother De, I'll take a look at Miss Beiyin." Chang Lai, who was eavesdropping outside the door, was startled by the sudden opening of the door.
"Who?" Brother De looked at Chang Lai, who was smiling evilly, and frowned.
"I'm my own people, my own people, Beiyin, Beiyin?" Chang Lai looked at Brother De's clenched fists and hurriedly shouted twice into the house.
"Dao Chief, are you here?" Sha Xuan heard Chang Lai's shout, hurriedly ran out, and saw Brother De who had not left, and his steps slowed down again.
"Beiyin, I came over to tell you a few words and left, and I happened to meet Brother De." Chang Lai looked at Brother De, which means that you can go.
"Who is this? Dao Chief? Brother De stretched his brows and asked Sha Xuan.
"Master De, please, Dao Chief, let's go in and talk." Sassoon gave an eviction order to Dege and let Chang Lai in.
Chang Lai smiled politely at Brother De, and Sha Xuan slammed the door shut.
'This is a failure at the small recognition scene', Chang Lai muttered in his heart.
Shuqi opened the door of the old bustard's room a crack, looked at the sound of dogs and horses outside, sometimes rolled her eyes and sometimes shook her head, and when she saw Brother De going downstairs, she subconsciously covered the crack in the door a little smaller.
Brother De walked to the main hall, the old bustard greeted him with a smile on his face, Brother De whispered a few words to the old bustard, looked upstairs again, and left with his subordinates with a lonely expression.
In the following days, there was a performance every two days, and until the end of the fifth performance, Sha Xuan never received a guest again, but when he settled accounts with Chang Lai, he had at least five hundred taels of silver to take every day.
Ten days later, the pit dug by Shuqi could no longer hold the silver, so he had to continue digging the pit next to him.
"If you don't play later, Sha Xuan will stay in Jade Lane." Shuqi panted with a hoe.
"I'll be there for the time being, but he'll be useful in my plans later." Chang Lai was half-lying on the kang and crossed Erlang's legs, looking at Sha Xuan who was doing coolies comfortably.