Chapter 5: The Gears of Fate

Zhang Yuqing stood up and looked condescendingly at the Wang couple who were huddled together, "I'll give you thirty taels of silver, and from now on, Wang Chunniang and I have nothing to do with you!" ”

The royal father suddenly realized and was furious, "I said that I tied it so strong with a rope, how can you still run!" It turned out that Chun Niang's little cheap hooves released you! ”

"What do you want Chun Niang to do? She is married, and she is from someone else's family! The Queen Mother asked in shock.

Zhang Yuqing stretched out her fingers, raised them on her red lips, and sighed softly, "Don't talk so much nonsense, I don't like to hear it." What to do is your business, I just have to take the people away. ”

"But thirty taels is too little, I can't ask for someone from Chun Niang's mother-in-law!" The royal father said with a smile.

Zhang Yuqing sighed, a little distressed, "I can't do it......"

"It can't be done! Ask those rich men for more silver! In the future, you take your Yangguan Road, and our well water will not violate the river water! The royal father hurriedly said.

Zhang Yuqing got up and looked at him with a smile, "I'll go and talk to those rich people about the year, and see if they are willing to give more silver for the sake of seeing my family ruined." ”

"Return, come back!" The royal father fell to the ground in horror and grabbed the corner of Zhang Yuqing's skirt.

Zhang Yuqing looked resolute, "Thirty taels of silver plus one Wang Chunniang, Cheng, I will take my Yangguan Road, you and I have each other's handles, and we will not know each other in the future, and we will not get along with each other!" If it doesn't work, then tear your face and shake out each other's old bottoms, and die together! ”

The royal father looked at Zhang Yuqing's hibiscus face, scratched his heart with a hundred claws, and quickly calculated in his heart that if he wanted Wang Chunniang to come out of her mother-in-law's house, he might have to spend five taels of silver, and thirty taels of silver would only end up with twenty-five taels in the end.

Such a beautiful girl only sells for twenty-five taels, he is really unwilling!

Zhang Yuqing kicked away the hand of the royal father pulling the hem of her skirt, and asked impatiently, "Okay or not?" ”

Seeing that the royal father refused to nod her head, the queen mother said anxiously: "The master, there are thirty taels of silver, which is good!" This girl is a scourge! Jinbao is still young, but he can't live without his father! ”

"What if you run back to the capital, recognize a powerful relative, and find someone to kill me?" The royal father's eyes flickered, and he glared at Zhang Yuqing viciously.

Zhang Yuqing said indifferently: "I went to the capital to recognize my relatives so that I would not have to worry about eating and drinking in the future, I have a good life, but I tried my best to find someone to kill you, I have a lot of money and nowhere to spend it?" Want to use it on you? Besides, you are not my adoptive parents, so who are? Why should I cause trouble? ”

"Everyone just wants to live a good life, so why make a fuss? As long as you keep your mouth shut, I will forget who you are. However, if you prevent me from living a good life without worrying about eating and drinking, I can only play with you! Zhang Yuqing looked at the Wang couple coldly, "People die for money, birds die for food, you understand this truth better than me." ”

Hearing Zhang Yuqing's meaningful words, the Wang couple looked at Zhang Yuqing, trembling all over, and their hearts were filled with coldness.

Zhang Yuqing stood up straight, smiled and said, "Your son Jin Bao likes me a lot and wants to marry me as a daughter-in-law, why don't I take him to die with me?" He and I will be a pair of ghost mandarin ducks, and we will honor you two in the underworld! ”

"No, no!" The Queen Mother exclaimed, and covered her mouth in hindsight, for fear that someone outside would hear it.

Wang Jinbao is the lifeblood of the Wang couple, and it is also a weakness, the royal father gritted his teeth ruthlessly, "Cheng!" You give me thirty taels of silver, and I'll let you go with Wang Chunniang! ”

"Good daddy, it really hurts me!" Zhang Yuqing smiled with satisfaction and quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

The back of her palms was covered with cold sweat, and she was all supported by a breath.

The royal father raised his head and stared at Zhang Yuqing fiercely, "If you dare to come to us for trouble after recognizing your relatives, you can wait for me!" ”

"I'll give you back as it is! After I confessed my relatives, you dared to come over and beat my autumn wind and ask me for money, and you waited for me! Zhang Yuqing said coldly.

Lu Wei waited outside, his long body was jade, the folding fan waved lightly, and the horses on the fan were galloping, lifelike, as if he could jump out of the paper. The handsome and cold boy just stood there, making the simple tea room flourish and become a good scene of his own.

The three of them didn't see the Wang couple and Zhang Yuqing come out for a long time, the curtain in the tea room was closed, and the three of them spoke in a very low voice, and they couldn't hear what they were talking about.

"Childe, let's go! It can't be done! Impossible! Fang Mo glanced at the sun outside, "She's procrastinating, maybe she is thinking of some crooked idea to rely on us!" ”

Although Fang Qin didn't speak, the expression on his face already showed that he was thinking the same as Fang Mo. Let's go, don't let that girl get entangled!

"Wait." Lu Wei said.

After a while, the curtain of the tea room was lifted, and Zhang Yuqing walked over, with a straight back and an indifferent expression.

Looking at Lu Wei, who was standing on the windowsill of the teahouse on the street, bathed in the sun, Zhang Yuqing thought indifferently, no matter where the world is, it is unfair.

Some people, born with a good life, are the darlings of heaven, the protagonists of this world, live in the sun, have a bright future, and can turn evil into good fortune in everything.

And some people, born upside down, life and death are unpredictable, it is difficult to move an inch, and they try their best to exert their strength and dignity, but all they want is to survive and barely survive.

Lu Wei watched her walk up to him.

"Childe, my adoptive parents agreed, allowed me to leave, and thirty taels of silver ended the parenting relationship." Zhang Yuqing said with a smile.

Fang Mo's mouth opened wide in shock, and it took a while to find his voice, "No, it's impossible!" ”

"If Childe doesn't believe me, you can ask my adoptive parents." Zhang Yuqing said, looking at Lu Wei nervously, "A gentleman is worth a thousand gold, shouldn't the son want to fulfill the gambling contract?" ”

Lu Wei closed the folding fan and instructed Fang Qin, "Give her thirty taels of silver." ”

"Master Lu, please wait a little longer." Zhang Yuqing saw Lu Wei turn around and walk out, and quickly stopped him.

Fang Mo muttered impatiently, "What else are you going to do!" ”

Lu Wei looked back at Zhang Yuqing.

Zhang Yuqing clenched her hands into fists in her sleeves and said with a smile: "I still want to bring someone into Beijing, and she will be there soon." ”

Fang Mo pointed at Zhang Yuqing, he couldn't believe that this woman was so brazen, "You, you, you ......"

"Who?" Lu Wei asked.

Zhang Yuqing said: "The second sister of my adoptive parents, Wang Chunniang. ”

"What are you taking her for?" Fang Qin asked with a bitter face.

Zhang Yuqing wanted to speak and stopped, her eyes flashed a few times, and finally said: "Wang Chunniang has served me for many years, and I am used to it. ”

Fang Mo was shocked, "You actually used your sister as a maid?!" ”

How brazen a person can be, he can be regarded as a long insight today!

Zhang Yuqing cheekily said to Lu Wei: "Don't worry, son, the money to buy Wang Chunniang is included in these thirty taels of silver." ”

Lu Wei didn't pay attention to Zhang Yuqing anymore, turned around and went out.

This woman has a beautiful face, and her behavior is really despicable, so that people are too lazy to take a look.

"Is this a matter of silver?" Fang Mo was not angry to complain to Fang Qin.

Fang Qin smashed Fang Mo with his elbow, "Childe didn't say anything, so you can say a few words!" ”

Fang Mo muttered out, his face full of unhappiness.

The royal father and queen mother went to find Wang Chunniang and said to Zhang Yuqing that they would pay the money with one hand and the others with the other.

Fang Qin was careful, gave the shopkeeper a lot of money, and asked the shopkeeper to be a witness and write a note to avoid trouble in the future.

The shopkeeper of the teahouse was very happy to help with this, and said to Fang Qin while writing a note: "I know this Wang Dali, he is not from us, he took a large family to settle down in us more than ten years ago, and settled in the mountains more than ten miles to the south. The mountains are full of stones, and there are few fields, and there have only been two families in the mountains for more than ten years. ”

"Another family?" Fang Qin asked casually.

The shopkeeper nodded, dipped his pen in ink, and said: "That family doesn't go out much, but there are still people who go into the mountain to find Wang Dali to collect debts, and when they see the smoke coming from the next mountain, they know that there is another family in this mountain." ”

"This Wang Dali, when he first settled here, he was quite generous, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling everything. Later, it was estimated that the family was almost defeated by him, owed a lot of gambling debts, was almost beaten to death, and stopped for a long time, but he still came to gamble every once in a while. Now that he has the money to sell the girl, it is enough for him to be chic for a while! The shopkeeper shook his head and sighed, blew dry the ink, and handed the note to Fang Qin.

Fang Qin snorted disdainfully.

Not long after, the royal father and queen mother came with a woman in her early twenties, dressed in sackcloth. The woman was carrying a light bag, thin and haggard, and the cloth covered most of her face.

Zhang Yuqing saw the woman and breathed a sigh of relief.

The woman walked quickly to Zhang Yuqing with a pair of gentle eyes like autumn water, and looked at her with trepidation.

Zhang Yuqing held the woman's hand and whispered comfortingly: "Chun Niang." ”

The royal father snorted from his nostrils, his flesh ached, "Chunniang, I brought it to you, and I asked Lao Tzu for five taels of silver!" ”

"What the hell is going on?" Wang Chunniang asked Zhang Yuqing in horror.

Zhang Yuqing said in a low voice: "I'll talk about it later." ”

"Where's the silver?" The royal father asked angrily.

Fang Qin patted the heavy bag of silver on the teahouse counter.

The king's father's eyes suddenly lit up, and he was about to grab it, but Fang Qin's eyes quickly moved the silver to a position, making the king's father pounce.

"You!" The royal father was astonished and angry.

Fang Qin smiled, "Please sign a note first." ”

The royal father knew a few words, looked at the note, pressed his handprint stupidly, snatched the silver from the counter, and hugged it into his arms.

Zhang Yuqing looked at the bright red handprints on the note, exhaled lightly, and the stiff muscles of his limbs relaxed.

Finally, the dust settled.

"Let's go." Zhang Yuqing pulled Wang Chunniang out.

Wang Chunniang turned around, looked at the royal father and queen mother, and couldn't help shouting with tears: "Mother! ”

The royal father borrowed the scale from the shopkeeper, and was busy weighing the silver, so he didn't pay attention to Wang Chunniang.

The queen mother looked at her tearful daughter, in the end, it was the flesh that fell from her body, maybe she would never see her again, she lowered her head and wiped her reddened eyes, don't look over her head and couldn't bear to look at it again, waved her hand, and motioned for her to go.

Zhang Yuqing pulled Wang Chunniang into the donkey cart that Lu Wei instructed Fang Mo to buy.

Lu Zhao pinned the long sword hanging from the saddle to his waist, turned over on the horse neatly, and gave a brief order: "Go!" ”

Fang Qin shook the reins in his hand, and the donkey cart chased the horse in front of him and trotted forward.

The wind in early summer rolled up the curtains, and the customs of the town gradually became farther and farther away from Zhang Yuqing.

The gears of fate, which had been stagnant for thirteen years, finally began to turn again on this day.