Chapter 8: Mother Liang

A man wearing a hat covering his face appeared in front of him, but his dress was a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, but it was certain that it was not from Xie Fu, and she didn't remember who it was for a while.

There was a woman standing next to him, her fair face gradually revealed a faint smile, vaguely with a hint of shyness, revealing a peach-like pink color, which made her even more beautiful.

Siwan held the sword, ready to rob people at any time, in order not to let people recognize her identity, her voice changed slightly: "Your Excellency, she is my person today, you are here, whispering to my people, have you asked me?" ”

The man didn't speak, just waved his hand in the air and then waved it downward.

This angered Siwan, because the people who lived in Nanzhao knew that people on the rivers and lakes made such gestures, implying that the other party was unworthy.

Siwan tightened the sword in her hand and brought it in front of him: "Do you want to fight?" ”

"I don't want to, it's just that this Excellency, you have to know how to come first and come later, I haven't finished my business yet, you can't wait to take people away, which makes me a little embarrassed." The man said, retracting his sword.

As soon as Siwan heard this voice, she immediately knew who he was, so she also drew her sword back: "Are you called Yun Qianhong?" ”

"Hey, I didn't expect Your Excellency to know my name, if you can know Your Excellency's name, then it would be a great honor to be here." Yun Qianhong's hand holding the hilt of the sword was already ready to move.

Siwan noticed his movements, immediately loosened her hair, and resumed her voice: "Why are you so vigilant, don't you know who I am?" ”

Yun Qianhong saw that it was Siwan who came, so he relaxed and put the hat on the table next to him: "No, it's just that I have been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, and I should always pay more attention to suspicious people, when you speak in that voice, I thought you were ...... I really didn't hear it just now. ”

"It's okay, it's okay, I don't mind, I don't know what Brother Yun is doing with her?"

Yun Qianhong poured her a cup of tea: "You can come here to find her, I must have heard about that incident, I have a friend who wants to drag me to investigate this matter, and it just so happens that there is nothing else to do in the past few days, so I just came to see if there are any good clues, I didn't expect you to come so quickly." ”

"In that case, why don't we discuss the information we found and see if there is anything that can be broken through? Siwan proposed.

Yun Qianhong agreed: "Yes, as rumored, Princess Pingle is a woman who is good at discussing and thinking." ”

Siwan sat down face to face with him: "According to the information I have checked, that man is not from our royal family at all, I have never seen him since I was a child, so I can determine which relationship he may be, bluffing and grandstanding there." ”

"Haha, this really makes you right, according to my friend, he is the nephew of Taiwei Yin, born in a nobleman, since he was a child, because his family is too doting, he has been living a life of fine clothes and food. This person has been doing things in a high-profile manner since he was a child, and he always thinks that his identity is superior to others, so he has a conceited character. I went to see his lair yesterday and found that there were a few more guards in his courtyard, who took turns patrolling every day in the middle of the night, probably for fear that the incident would be found out, and I would not have a chance to attack him at his house. But I heard that he is drunk and obsessed with money all day long, and he does not do his job, and this is where he has been coming a lot recently, so just now I thought that you were him, and I had a defensive mentality. At this stage, Mingwan's popularity is not small, I am here to wait for the rabbit, wait for the opportunity to catch him, let him tear apart the truth of the matter in public, and expose his ugly crimes. ”

Siwan asked, "Oh! It is worthy of Brother Yun! It's really thoughtful, but what if he doesn't come all the time? Aren't you just unable to act? ”

Brother Yun smiled: "Haven't you heard of Mingwan's representative words here now?" Then I'll tell you. As the saying goes, 'look back and smile at Bai Meisheng, the six palaces have no color', and you don't have to think about it, he is that kind of person, so what kind of loyal person can his friend be? It must still be those so-called friends who have passed their lives, and besides, I have inquired, and his friends are also soaked here every day, letting Miss Mingwan dance and play the piano, and spend all day drinking. And there's a flower feast held here tonight, and they see each other every day, so it's inevitable to discuss things here, so I thought about coming over and having a look. ”

Siwan sighed: "What a good idea! That Mingwan, as a person from our shop, should also do my part, and if there is a fight at that time, I can also practice my martial arts. ”

Yun Qianhong told her: "Okay, but I have one condition, you will watch us upstairs for a while, I will give you a look, you come down again, you must not act without authorization, and you will be in chaos!" It's a big deal! Also, if the situation is out of control, you get out of here first, and I'll be behind! ”

Siwan patted her chest and said, "I know, Brother Yun, please rest assured." ”

"Okay, then it's settled." He turned to her and said, "Tonight, you just do the same as usual, just perform and dance, don't worry or care about anything else, we'll take care of the rest." ”

Su Mingwan gave a thank you salute and said, "The people's daughter, thank you two for upholding justice." ”

Siwan looked at her face carefully at this time, only to realize that she was seven points similar to herself, and muttered in a low voice: "Is it because I think about that thing every day, do I have a delusion?" ”

Then I remembered that Xie Chen once said, "You look so good when you smile, I like it." So Su Mingwan also smiled, and the similarity of this smile soared directly to nine points, and at that moment, time froze. Siwan felt for a while that it was not Mingwan who was like her, but herself who was like Mingwan.

Her heart repeatedly comforted herself that this was an illusion, an illusion, and it was she who was too attached to that thing that caused everyone to look like herself, but the person in front of her was standing in front of her alive, which made his heart bulge with a hurdle that he couldn't overcome, fear and doubts came to his heart at this time, afraid because he was afraid that Mingwan would harm her in the future, and wondered because she was not what she thought, and if so, then how did she attract Xie Chen's attention, just because, is she seven points similar to herself?

For a while, the thoughts that couldn't be clarified lingered in Siwan's heart, but she quickly reacted, now is not the time to think about this kind of thing, she must forcibly drag herself out of it!

Yun Qianhong looked at her in such a daze, so he said casually: "Didn't you have a good rest last night, do you need to take a rest first?" ”

Siwan patted her head: "Huh? Hehe, I don't have to do it, you don't have to worry, by the way, if you fight with them, these tables and chairs will definitely be destroyed at that time, that's a lot of money, do you have so much silver? Do you need me to divide your points? ”

"Hey, girl, you don't have to worry about this, as long as the things we have here are used for good deeds, there is no reason not to let them be used." The voice of the proprietress sounded from behind.

Siwan turned her head and saw that it was really her, she walked over to Brother Yun and sat down. Yun Qianhong turned around and said to Siwan: "Come, let me introduce you, this is the proprietress of Zuichun Building, that is, Mother Liang, who once moved the capital with only a red plum dance, and the people who are familiar with her here, all call her Aunt Hong." ”

"Hey, Yun Qianhong, how many times have I said it, don't always exaggerate so much, it's just a dance, and the aristocratic family gave a few rewards. It's not that legendary, this girl can just call me Aunt Hong. Liang's mother said with a smile and a wave of her hand.

"Aunt Hong, you are humble, I think that the Zuichun Building you built at the beginning was nominally a Qinglou courtyard for the entertainment of those dignitaries and nobles, but in fact, I know very well, and I have seen with my own eyes that the women here are all selling their arts, and if there is a violator, they will be driven out together, and let him never want to set foot here." Brother Yun's eyes gradually revealed admiration when he looked at him.

Siwan was curious: "I didn't expect Aunt Hong to be so righteous, Brother Yun, can you tell me about Aunt Hong?" ”

Yun Qianhong came to be interested: "Okay, this has to start from the day I first met Liang's mother, it was my first year in the rivers and lakes, that day was cloudy, heavy snow, I walked on the snow road, I don't know how long I walked, it was dark in front of me, I passed out on the snow road, when I woke up, I found that I was in a warm room, Liang's mother woke up at that time and said to me, 'Yo, you woke up, just now I went up the mountain to collect medicine and came back, I found that you fainted, so I brought you back, but fortunately, you are fine, It's just that it's too cold and freezing, so let's drink a bowl of hot soup first. When I had finished the hot soup and lay down, she said to me, 'Come, give you a quilt for the day, cover it and sleep here, and you should be well recuperated tomorrow morning.' I looked at her and said, 'Where are you going to sleep?' She smiled at me: 'I'll go to the study in the attic for one night.' You can sleep well first. ’”

"Early the next morning, I opened my eyes, and my body was half better, so I wanted to go out and have a look, and I just happened to look up at her as she was preparing breakfast, and she still greeted me as warmly as she did last night: 'Hey, did you sleep well last night?' How does your body feel? I just prepared breakfast, let's come and eat together. I walked up to her and replied, 'Thank you for saving me last night.' It feels okay, breakfast is not necessary, I have other things, so I will go first. She stopped me: 'Huh? I'm just about to leave, wouldn't it be too hasty? Stay a few more days? I live in the mountains and I'm alone every day, and no one has spoken to me for a long time. Besides, are you people walking in such a hurry? ’”

"I was also a person who didn't like to deal with other people, so I replied to her directly: 'What do you want me to do?' She didn't continue, and paused for a while before she spoke: "I won't stop you if you want to leave, but you have to remember that yesterday's person was Miss Liang, who lived in a thatched hut on Huaixiang Mountain, and what she wanted to tell you was that the rivers and lakes are always fighting and killing, but you must also know that doing good deeds and accumulating virtue is a way back for yourself." ’”

At the time, I didn't understand the reasoning of this, but now that I think about it, it is indeed worth thinking about for the rest of my life. After listening to it, I felt inexplicable, ignored her, turned around and left Huaixiang Mountain. ”

"In the third year, my fame in the rivers and lakes became bigger, when I was idle, I revisited the old place, but the thatched house on the hill has long been deserted, in order to find her, thank her for saving my life, I walked all over the streets and alleys of the capital, and finally saw her in front of the restaurant in the center of the city, surrounded by a group of people where to watch, I squeezed in to see her dancing there, she was like a swan flying in the air, and like a peacock dancing on the ground, her graceful dance and music are integrated, The soft body brings out the unique noble beauty of the dancers, and everyone present is all amazing. It is estimated that the emperor is here, and he also wants to hide Jiaojiao in the golden house. ”

Liang's mother interrupted him: "Hey, Yun Qianhong, this is an exaggeration, to say something in my heart, if the emperor really comes to invite me into the palace, I am not happy to go, because instead of being a canary in a cage, I might as well be myself, be an eagle in the sky, and start my own career." ”

Yun Qianhong clapped his hands and said, "See, your Aunt Hong's bones reveal a free and easy nature, which I like very much." ”

Siwan looked at them intently: "Then what happened later?" ”

Later, she used the money she earned from dancing to build this drunken spring building, and generally the people she met were not bad people, but those who were righteous and had a sense of justice. After that, I secretly observed her, and always took in some down-and-out women from time to time, and I thought: 'Why is this proprietress of the drunken spring building still doing charity?' ’〞

"So I walked in, before I could speak, she warmly invited me to live here for a while, and took me to play all the fun in the capital, she told me that she had also heard about my affairs in the rivers and lakes, and they were all great heroes praised by everyone, saying that she did not save the wrong person, nor did she see the wrong person, and said that the thatched house had long been broken to the point that it could not live in people, so she was forced to move to the capital to settle down."

"Later, when I told her about it, she said, 'I used to wish I was a man a lot of times, because they had the right to do anything from ancient times to the present, but women had no place before, and I often saw young girls being discriminated against by their families because of their gender, and even being kicked out by their parents, and I was thinking at that time, I must let them have a place to live, where they would not be discriminated against and left out in the cold. Since there is no way for women to survive in the world, then I will volunteer to fight a bloody way for them! ‘”

"'I'm not always afraid of suffering and death, I'm afraid that women will never have a place to stand, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to change anything in the end. I used to be opposed because of this kind of thinking, but I know that they don't want women to be independent, for fear that they will have their own ideas and not be controlled by men or others. I once said in public that I hate this kind of people, and they cursed me, bullied me, and said that I would not do this for a long time, but now, they are all wrong, and some have even been found in the yamen because of corruption, but only I have done a good job, and the girls I led have also done the best, and we work so hard every day, not to prove how conspicuous and excellent we are, but to tell the world that women are not inferior to men, and women can be the same as men, or even better than them. You can do what you want without restrictions! She was the most righteous and broad-minded woman I had ever met, and when I heard her say this, my sense of awe grew stronger, and I told myself that she would be my only best friend in life. ”