box of hearts

Chapter 82
"I knew my mother was fast-talking." Dui Xia slapped her thigh, her skirt was embroidered with a pattern of climbing branches and playing with dolls, and she was full of joy, "Hey, what can I do? Take the new section of "The Divine Book of the Twelve Flowers" I flipped through it, and it was full of fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls. Die Xian and I didn’t have the competitive spirit long ago, so it’s not an option to keep messing around like this every day. Especially in the past few months, My business here is getting worse day by day. Whenever I think of a sick old woman lying in the house, brothers and sisters waiting to eat in the room, and that unbelievable gambler father, I am so worried that I can’t eat or sleep. So I gritted my teeth and stomped my feet, and simply found a guest to help me out, let’s talk about it after I get married, and solve the urgent need first.”

"Who do you ask for help? Master Sun?"

"Who else is there besides him? Among my few guests, only Sun Xiaocai is a top-notch official and wealthy person. Although he is a bit stingy, but we have been married for so many years, and we will marry him later. The official family will not starve my family. dead?"

"I wouldn't be surprised if you marry him." Qing Tian glanced at Die Xian.There is a rhinestone lotus hairpin in her hair bun, which looks like countless playful smiling eyes, "You little rascal, I remember paying homage to Empress Huarui on August [-]th last year, who kept saying gold and dung, but now Throw away gold and pick up dung?"

"I expected you to be so talkative!" After a burst of laughter, Die Xian sighed softly, "To be honest, I really don't really follow my conscience. It's just that I have spent as much as I have these years, and I haven't saved anything. , but owed a lot of bad debts. It stands to reason that when the shepherd redeems himself, some of them will pay for it themselves, and the guests will help pay for it, and some of the guests will cover it all. It's just that our Huai Yatang is expensive, and the redemption money that can easily cost tens of thousands is just the opening The ones in Yinzhuang also have to weigh it. I am used to running to the theater, and my reputation has never been very good. Several old customers also know that I am restless, and no one will be stupid enough to pay me to marry me back. Mr. Meng, he is a popular person in front of the regent, and he has plenty of spare money in his hands. He is born to be the leader who is in charge of meticulous work. After a few rounds, he found out about my incompetence, and he also jumped to Wulingchun. It's rare to meet Cao Zhimu, the eldest son of Cao from other places. Not only is his family rich, but he also goes out to sail boats and sell salt, and there is only one wife in the family, and there are no other wives and concubines. Everything I ask for. I thought it would be better to ask him to be a pestilent, pay off the debt for me, and then pay the ransom. I just go back to Henan with him for a few months, and then think of a way, or make noise every day. If he gets tired of it, he will send me out of the hall, or he will flee with some family property, or return to our Huai Ya Tang to do business."

Qingtian laughed and realized, "So you want to take a 'bath'!"

This is a southern dialect, which means "bath".Sister Yao lied to a customer to redeem her body, then begged to go away, and became Feng's wife again.That's why the kilns call this method of hurting people "bathing".

Die Xian also generously admitted: "That's it. When I come out, I will be my own body. Every time I do a business, the money will fall into my own pocket. In addition, I can say by myself whether or not to pick up customers and which customers to pick up." Forget it, let alone being beaten or scolded, wouldn't it be a hundred times better than living under the fence now?"

Qingtian smiled and shook his head again and again, "You don't need to be so grandiose, I see that you don't want to be a good concubine from a rich family, and you only want to go to the dust again, probably just because you can't let go of your big martial arts student in Hualelou, called, Call--"

"Zha Ding Kui Cha Liulang!" Dui Xia and Feng Qin said in unison, covering their mouths and laughing.

Die Xian was taking a sip of tea, and sprayed half of it on the fan with a "poof", slapping the wet fan from left to right, "Okay, now you are also getting your nose up and your face up." But he couldn't help it Laughing, "What should I do? There are thousands of pleasures in the world, and I have to go to this one. I sleep alone all night and feel uncomfortable. It doesn't matter whether he is poor or rich, expensive or cheap, as long as the bed is good, it is good. It is not me. It is said that those opera singers have practiced since childhood, and their physique is different from that of ordinary men, and they have their own indescribable beauty."

Qingtian smiled so much that he fell on the armrest of the big couch, "You can speak more and more nicely."

Die Xian lowered her voice a bit, but raised her eyebrows high, and cast a glance, "It's the same for people who practice horses and martial arts. You don't know? Hey, the regent is very skilled, right?"

This question caused Qing Tian to ask with red cheeks and green brows, "What nonsense!"

Die Xian squinted her eyes, looked up and down, "No way? Sister, you haven't talked to anyone yet—? Oh, hey, you've pretended to be tight enough! But after hearing this, you should pretend I can't go on anymore." She blew the fan halfway over, "It is said that the prince went to Lianzi Hutong in disguise for the first time two years ago, and found the most experienced Xiao Longyang. After that guy, he will return the money to him and refuse to do anything—”

"Bah!" Qingtian spit it off, "Fengqin is still here, you are so crazy, do you want to lose face?"

Diexian said "嗛", turned the fan in her hand and lightly pressed it on Fengqin's shoulder, "She was raised in a kiln since she was a child, what's wrong with her? Besides, she is also a person who is about to bloom. This embarrassment?"

"By the way, who opened the buds for you?" Qing Tian took the opportunity to change the subject and asked Feng Qin with a smile.

Fengqin was also a little unnatural, rubbing the fragrant purse under her waist, "That's the second master Jia."

"Oh," Qingtian nodded, "he has been your guest for many years, he knows everything, he is gentle and has a gentle disposition, which is excellent."

"What's so good?" Feng Qin's small mouth curled up, her eyeballs went straight to her upper eyelids, revealing the big whites of her eyes, "I don't believe that there is any good in this matter between men and women! Only men like it—and Die Xian as well." idiot."

"Hey, dare to say that about your sister, I think you are tired of living." Die Xian pushed Feng Qin down on the head of the bed, "You don't like it when you are other women? They are just prudish and can't say it That's all. If you don't believe me, you can ask now. Don't say that you are good at putting on airs to Sister Xia. You, Sister Qingtian, are so good at putting on airs. When you meet the man you love, you only hate the shortness of the spring. If you don't believe me, tell her to swear, you See if she dares?"

Qingtian only smiled with his face covered and didn't make a sound, but Xiangxia put a blue and white twisted glass hairpin in Fengqin's hair again and neatly put it back on, "Thousands of words are useless, the taste in it You have to experience it yourself to know exactly how it is. My sister told you a joke, saying that there is a woman who is about to get married. Before the first night of the wedding, she cried and asked her sister-in-law: "Who ordered this wedding ceremony?" Sister-in-law Said: "Duke Zhou." The woman was a "pig" and a "bastard" and scolded Duke Zhou severely. When she came back from the Three Dynasties, the bride asked her sister-in-law again, "Where does Duke Zhou live?" Huh?' The sister-in-law said, "Why do you ask this?" The bride said shyly, "I want to make a pair of shoes for him.""

Immediately, everyone was so happy that they couldn't speak and couldn't straighten their backs. Fengqin even blushed and turned over to stay on the bed, but was grabbed by Xiangxia, "Where is the bride going?"

Qingtian cupped his cheeks with both hands, couldn't help laughing, "Don't mess around with them, my sister will ask you, when is your wedding date?"

Fengqin remained ashamed, twisted her shoulders with one hand, and glanced at the ground, "It will be at the end of next month."

"I'm here to congratulate first, and I'll give you a generous gift when the time comes." Qingtian smiled warmly, and asked the two of them again: "How about you two?"

Die Xian waved her fan, and raised the fringe slightly, "We just mentioned this a few days ago, and we are waiting to discuss it with them."

"What?" Qingtian raised his eyebrows, "You guys brought up this matter of redemption?"

Xiangxia said "hmm" and nodded.

Qingtian sat upright, his expression turned restrained, "In the first-class small class, if a guest wants to marry a shepherd, or a shepherd wants to marry a guest, as long as one party opens the mouth and the other party refuses, it will be a loss of face for the first class. A deep hatred that cannot be shared. Don't say that Sun Xiaocai was originally a third-rank official in the capital, and the one who has been in the kiln for a long time is that Cao Zhimu. .Since you said the word 'marry', they have to agree. Mr. Sun has been with Xia you all these years. No one knows his temperament better than you. You want to break a penny in half. If you don't want to spend it in leisure, you can do it. Asking him to come up with such a large sum of money for ransom is probably more difficult than taking his life. As for Die Xian, Mr. Cao, even though he was generous, he was not stingy at all, but you think, he Huaiyang Suzhou and Hangzhou , I have played all over the world, and there is still only one wife in the family, and I haven’t even added a side room. Either the family rules are strict, or I am shrewd, and I have seen that the son is from the family. You can’t marry. If you rashly say that you go back to Henan with him, he said Promise, I really don't know what kind of plan is in my mind. You just think about those guests in the past who said they wanted to marry, how did we play tricks to confuse them? So I tell you, if you really think about it, you will marry me. Marriage, you must manage carefully and act cautiously, don’t make a scene known to the world, but in the end you are killed by the guests, if you don’t get married, you will lose your own face, then the gain will outweigh the loss.”

Xiangxia showed worry on his face, "Oh, what my sister said is true, and we don't know that most of them are trying to save face, and they don't really want to marry. It's just that they have already taken this step, so they have to go on step by step."

(End of this chapter)