box of hearts

Chapter 97
The four girls watched from a high place for a while, feeling very bored, so they sipped tea and chatted.Only Die Xianjiang held the fence with one hand, swinging a palace fan in his hand, and glanced down from time to time.Glancing at a handsome young man with gorgeous clothes, he let go of his hand.The young man let out a cry of pain, and covered his head downstairs, while the evil slaves behind him started to yell and curse.Die Xian grinned in front of the building, "Yo, I missed it for a while, and I hope you will forgive me."

Her voice was soft like a ray of enchanting sunshine, which splashed on her beaded hair, making it blinding to see.

The young man raised his face in a daze and opened his mouth wide, while the servants closed their mouths unanimously. One of them bent down and picked up the palace fan from the ground and handed it to the master.

After a while, there was a rush of footsteps on the stair boards, and someone called out from the screen of the private room, with a melodious voice:

"Xiaosheng found one downstairs, may I ask which sister is missing?"

In the private room, Xiangxia and the others laughed so hard that they couldn't close their mouths. Diexian also laughed, but only squeezed her throat and raised her throat coquettishly: "That fan was lost by my family. If you see it and return it, I will be very grateful." Just put it outside, thank you gentleman."

The voice paused and said: "Since it is my sister's property, it should be returned. I just need my sister to look carefully, so there is no mistake."

It's even more joyful for Xia and others, just pushing Diexian blindly.Die Xian smiled and pushed them away with one hand, and exclaimed, "It's a palace fan with a round waist and a tooth handle. On the fan is double-sided embroidery of begonias with pistils. There is a green jade fan pendant. You don't need to look at it."

There was another pause, but he insisted again and again, "It's not bad, but it's expensive and needs to be handed over, so why not just have a look?"

Dui Xia who was beside Die Xian covered her mouth with one hand, smiled and leaned into her ear, "Why not just take a look? - You should go out quickly and let others take a look."

After a while, Diexian got up and walked around the screen to face each other, then bent his knees to accept the fan, "My family was only greedy for the street view, so I lost my mind for a while and dropped the fan. I didn't want to offend the young master. Don't blame the young master. Now that the young master has picked up this fan, I still look forward to Gao Yi, and I am willing to see you back."

The younger generation looked at the butterfly fairy from the feet to the head, and saw the wind flow upwards, and then saw the wind flow from the head to the feet, and saw the wind flow downwards, and heard her talk elegantly. It was expected that she was either a concubine of a big family or a small class of servants, and he was so happy that he scratched his heart Gan, returned the gift heavily, "Where is Xiaosheng's good luck to pick up this fan? It's really a fluke. There are more than a hundred passers-by downstairs, but my sister's fan fell on Xiaosheng's head impartially, like the one who invited relatives." The hydrangea is normal, isn’t it Tianyuan? Speaking of it, Xiaosheng passers-by should not speak frivolously, but I am afraid that the fate will be lost, and there will be no time to meet again, so I have to ask my sister’s Fangming where she lives, so that I can see the fairy again in the future , I hope sister will not be guilty."

The two chattered affectionately outside the screen for half an hour, but inside they laughed so hard that they dared not make a sound.When Die Xian turned around for a while, the girls couldn't bear it any longer, all pointing at her and laughing wildly.

Die Xian just waved the fan contentedly, and sat back to the original place, "The newly appointed second son of Mr. Du, the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, named Du Kesong, brought friends to our place for a tea circle tonight."

Feng Qin clapped her hands first and shouted: "It turns out that my sister is going out today to attract guests."

Zhaohua also pursed her lips and giggled, "It's hard for my sister to be so willing to share her mother's worries."

"Come on," Dui Xia glanced sideways, "She just can't do without a man, and she's been exhausted since she fell out with Cha Dingkui, who sang martial arts. Die Xian, let me tell you, girl, today If people really come to the door at night, don't 'steal work'[3] with the guests when you open the dishes again, lest your mother scold you as a nun in your previous life, and you will be weak when you meet a man."

Die Xian shook a beaded hairpin on her temples, just in time to catch a glimpse of Du Kesong, the second son of Du, who was leaving with someone, and was looking here at the bottom of the building. Said: "Don't pretend to be lofty here, you don't have any martial arts niche, but who is the biggest Mr. Persian horn in the mother's room? Please go away, but I want to say here—" Before I finished speaking, I was already told Xia blushed and rushed forward, "I see that your skin is itchy, let you talk nonsense!"

Just laughing and twisting together, Feng Qin knocked on the table opposite, "Hey, stop making trouble, stop making trouble, look!"

Several people looked downstairs, and even a group of maids also went to the fence, but saw many women were led out from the shed, just like the men, their hands were tied with knots, and every ten people were tied with long ropes. In a row, in several rows, standing on the high platform, let everyone take a closer look.

Xiangxia has the best eyesight, and said roughly: "It's true, as mother said, all the pretty ones have been scoured away, and they're just waiting for the bustard and the babe to look at the goods, and all the ones left are crooked melons and dates." , I see, if you buy it back, you can only be a rough maid."

The light from the eaves moved an inch to the west and was now shining on the high platform.A name on the roster was called, and a woman was pushed to the front of the stage.She has a fair face, and her eyes are looking down blankly.Zaoli, who sang and sold, raised his voice and yelled: "Naikou, nineteen years old, just four months after giving birth to her first child, no peculiar smell, no hidden diseases, first-class good milk."

The spectators in the audience, who were almost sunburned, were excited, and some people laughed and booed: "Look at this half-dead look, it's hard to tell whether there is milk, I'm afraid some baby will starve to death if I buy it back!"

Zaoli, who sang and sold, wiped his greasy and sweaty face and shook his head.Immediately, a servant came forward from behind, and a big hand grabbed the woman's chest and squeezed it.In the scorching heat of summer, the woman was wearing a gauze dress, which was thinner because it was torn, and there was an obvious wet spot on the front of the dress, mixed with dust and sweat, attracting a fly to land on the raised on one point.

Zaolifu yelled again: "How is it? Do you have any milk? Let me tell you, this is the pacifier selected by the ceremonial room outside Dong'anmen. Every day, white rice and eggs are served. They don't eat salt or spicy food. They eat and sleep well. The milk was milked twice, and the milk was sent to the royal palace for steamed milk tea for the royal masters."

The woman didn't move at all, allowing the guard to grab her chest twice with a wicked smile.The noise from the audience was louder and more chaotic, clapping, whistling, shouting swear words... so compared with that woman, they seemed more numb, as if they were the crazy crowd in the audience.

The pacifier was sold for ten taels of silver, and was sent to the other side of the awning to be inspected by the owner.The second one brought up was a servant girl, she covered her face with her limp body, and asked someone to forcibly break her hands to hold her shoulders and give a comment to the audience.After coming down, there are some who are silent, some who are crying, some who can be sold, and some who are not. They are of different heights, short, fat and thin, but there is really no one with a slightly different appearance.

Upstairs, Diexian and the others looked at each other, sighed at each other, and laughed heartily at other times, as if they were watching a play.After a while, I saw a middle-aged woman pushed up from below, with unkempt hair, long face and small eyes, yellow complexion, standing there listlessly.As soon as Duia Xia saw her, the hand that was pinching food stopped at her mouth, and she pointed it straight out, with a half-eaten plum still in her teeth, "Well, isn't that—, whoops, It's on the lips, she's the one, the one—"

Everyone stretched their necks to look, Zhaohua suddenly realized "Oh", Diexian's maid Baoyan also patted the railing anxiously, "Yes, that's the one who brought a group of people to our yard to make a big fuss that day , whose wife is here?"

"Qiu Jinqi," Die Xian called out afterward, "It's Yushi Qiu Jinqi's wife!"

Feng Qin sneered, "Why not? This is that majestic Grandma Qiu!"

At this time, I don't know what the people in the audience yelled. An officer stepped forward and pushed Grandma Qiu around, then tore open her lips with his hands, showing her teeth for the next inspection.

Looking sideways at Xia, she shook her fan up and down, "Hmph, she also has today. Grandma Yushi, who has always been a buyer, now also tastes what it's like to be sold."

Die Xian rolled her eyes, stood up suddenly, leaned her elbows on the railing of the building and looked out, "Grandma Qiu—! Grandma Qiu—!" Cracking the stone, it was too late to say it, and the people on the street "hula-la" all turned their heads to find the sound here.

Dui Xia pinched Die Xian's butt from behind, "I said, what's wrong with your hoof?"

Diexian only slapped Xiangxia's hand, arched her waist obliquely, half-raised her fan to cover the sunlight, and yelled out loudly: "Grandma Qiu, I thought we were old acquaintances, and I begged my mother to buy it just now." You come in to be a company with everyone. Who would have thought that my mother said that grandma's face is like the entrance of the peach blossom garden, "no one cares about it"[4]! I'm sorry, grandma, it looks like it's only now. Sao Yeji' You can't be that anymore, so you have to sell it to be an old woman, sprinkle water and sweep the floor, cook and do laundry!"

Grandma Qiu squinted her eyes against the light and recognized Die Xian. She was so angry that she waved her hands wildly and wanted to jump off the stage, but the guards grabbed her by the neck and bound her to the ground.Grandma Qiu couldn't move her body, but her mouth was opening and closing. Presumably she must have been swearing, but because she had stood under the poisonous sun for a long time, she didn't have a sip of water, her throat was dry, and her swearing was completely buried in the audience. In the messy laughter.

Die Xian had crossed her legs and sat down again, frowned and said with a lace smile: "Sister is too abrupt, if you shout and scold me in the street, won't you lose your identity?"

"That's right," Feng Qin also cast her eyes away, "Take a look, it's all looking at us, pointing and poking, what a shame."

(End of this chapter)