Chapter 2 Zheng Cuiwen
The two paid forty cents and waited in the procession, and after a while, it was their turn to enter the cloth fence to watch.
"What is it? Is it just a statue, and it has attracted so many people to watch, fooled! Miss, let's go and get the money back, fooled!" When the maid saw that it was a metal statue, she immediately shouted dissatisfiedly, and turned around to pull the young lady out, but the young lady looked at the statue blankly, motionless.
"Miss, what's wrong with you?" the maid asked puzzledly, and tugged Miss's arm again, but Miss still stood motionless in front of the statue, looking up at the statue slightly.
"Who is he? Why is he so sad? A pair of eyes are dull, as if heartbroken, what's wrong with him? Is his lover dead? Or has he been abandoned by his lover?" The young lady looked at the statue stupidly, feeling the sadness of the statue, tears couldn't help but burst out of her eyes, and she stretched out her jade hand and gently stroked the statue's cheek, so cold and cold!
"Miss, why are you crying?" the maid exclaimed, and hurriedly took out her handkerchief to wipe it for Miss.
Yes, why am I crying? Is it infected by his sadness? What kind of person are you, how can you be so disappointed, miserable, and broken!
"It's time, you guys come out quickly, there are others waiting!" Lao Wang's voice came outside, urging the two to leave, and the maid immediately pulled the demented young lady away, and she didn't care about reasoning with this gang of liars.
When she got home, she sat on the bed in the boudoir in a daze, her head full of the sad eyes of the metal statue, who is he?
Miss's name is Zheng Cuiwen, her father Zheng Yuanshan is just an outsider, her family has dozens of acres of land, she lives by collecting rent, and her family background is average, so Miss Zheng Cuiwen only has a maid and a little peach. But Zheng Cuiwen's face is ugly, and her facial features are quite good, but a mouthful of buckteeth is exposed outside her mouth, which deforms the whole face and looks very ugly. However, Zheng Cuiwen has a very good heart, she is usually willing to burn incense and worship Buddha, and treats Xiao Tao like a sister, and never scolds.
Now that I've seen the statue, I'm so sad that I don't know how to get home.
At night, her dreams were full of statues, constantly dangling in her mind, and tears couldn't help but wet the pillow towel.
The next day, Zheng Cuiwen took Xiao Tao to Chenglin's booth early in the morning, paid the money and continued to watch the metal statue. This time, Zheng Cuiwen looked more seriously, every inch, every place was very carefully, from the sculpture exuded a strong will to die, he was very sad, disheartened, no desire to live! Zheng Cuiwen burst into tears again, and finally was dragged home by Xiao Tao, who couldn't stand it.
For several days, Zheng Cuiwen came to see the statue, crying heartbroken every time, as if she was the statue. After a few days, all the people who saw the statue were gone, no matter how good the carver was, it was just a dead thing, and people gradually lost interest, only Zheng Cuiwen came to see it rain and rain, and asked Cheng Lin many times, who carved the statue and which person to refer to. Where did Cheng Lin answer, he shirked it, anyway, in a few days, he also earned dozens of taels of silver.
"Miss, if you like it, you can buy it for eight hundred taels of silver, don't you get it?" Go home and watch it every day, no one will stop you!" Cheng Lin was really impatient with Zheng Cuiwen's entanglement, and said to Zheng Cuiwen.
"Ah, eight hundred taels is too much, why don't you grab it?" Zheng Cuiwen didn't speak, but Xiao Tao on the side was reluctant, and shouted with her feet, "How can a broken statue be worth so much money?"
"It's your business whether you buy it or not, anyway, it's this price, and you won't sell it for nothing!" Cheng Lin flicked the dust on his body, sneered, and said.
"You" the maid Xiaotao was about to argue, but was stopped by Zheng Cuiwen and said to Cheng Lin: "Boss, I only have two hundred taels, or my private money, you see"
"Two hundred taels? Do you want to call Hanako? No, since you don't have any money, don't have any ideas, hurry up, don't affect my business!" After speaking, Cheng Lin waved his hand and was chased away by Zheng Cuiwen and the others.
"Miss, why do you have to buy that statue, I think it's ten taels of silver at most, two hundred taels is too much!" Xiao Tao pouted and said as she walked.
"Xiao Tao, don't you understand, don't you feel the sadness of the statue? He is so pitiful, every time I see him, my heart hurts inexplicably, and I can't help but want to cry!" Zheng Cuiwen said, her eyes red again.
"Miss, don't cry anymore, Madame said that I had a good chance to come back, you are not in good health, and it is terrible to cry!" Xiao Tao hurriedly took out a handkerchief and handed it to Zheng Cuiwen to persuade.
"It's okay, I know, go back and discuss with Daddy to see if you can borrow some silver first and buy the statue back." ”
"Miss, it's not me who poured cold water on you, the master definitely can't agree, you better find another way, anyway, I don't think it's worth it!"
Cheng Lin saw that the two girls had gone away, and he spat with disdain in his heart, there was no money to pay it back, and no one wanted to take the statue away without eight hundred taels! Seeing that the goods were basically sold out, he would go to various famous blacksmith shops to sell the statue from tomorrow, and he could go home, this trip was really lucky, and he made a lot of money, especially this statue, if it was sold at a high price of eight hundred taels, it would be able to catch up with his net profit for half a year.
When Zheng Cuiwen came to Chenglin's booth again the next day, Chenglin and the statue were gone, which made Zheng Cuiwen anxious, pulling Xiao Tao and starting to look all over the city, it was more than two hours to go, and the tired Xiao Tao was sweating, but Zheng Cuiwen was like a blank paper, miserable, and Xiao Tao's soul was not possessed, and she didn't let Miss continue to look for it, and she didn't go home, Zheng Cuiwen fainted.
"Doctor, how is my daughter's illness?" Zheng Yuanshan hurriedly stepped forward and asked when he saw Lang Zhong coming out.
"You parents are really aware that your child is not in good health, and you still make her so tired. Miss Zheng is overworked, and she will be fine after a few days of recuperation, but she can't be tired in the future, and she must pay attention to rest!"
"Yes, yes, what the doctor said, we will pay attention in the future. Xiao Tao, send the doctor out. Thank you, doctor!"
Seeing off the doctor, Mrs. Zheng burst into tears, lay on her husband and cried bitterly, "Master, Wen'er is so pitiful, since she was diagnosed by the doctor as born with a dead pulse, she has been locked up at home like a golden bird. The doctor said that Wen'er will not live to be twenty, she, she is still so young, but how can it be good? Yuanshan, is there a way to save Wen'er?"
"Alas, of course I also hope that my daughter can live a long life, but several doctors have said that at most she will live to be twenty years old, because she is born with no pulse, and she can't overdose on any medicine, even if she has money for treatment, Wen'er's body can't withstand it!" Zheng Yuanshan looked up to the sky and sighed, extremely sad in his heart.