Peach Blossom at the Bottom of the Fan

Chapter 46
Unconsciously pinching the sleeve pocket with his hands, he felt at ease when he touched the banknotes folded into small squares.

Standing on the pier, Gu Sixiao looked around, and when he finally saw the familiar figure, he couldn't help smiling and waving.

From a distance, seeing Gu Sixiao, Sun Tiancang's eyes lit up.

"Big brothers, my sister came to see me, so she left first. I will invite some big brothers to drink tomorrow to make up for today's."

Pleading guilty, the men who originally pulled him didn't care, and pushed him with a smile, "Go! It's rare to have a younger sister come to look for it. If it's delayed, but we brothers have sinned..."

He could hear the meaning of ridicule, but Sun Tiancang just smiled and ran all the way with his coat in his arms.

"Why don't you put on a jacket?" Seeing him running close, Gu Sixiao reprimanded.

"It's not cold, it's not cold at all. I just finished unloading, and I still feel hot!" Sun Tiancang said, met Gu Sixiao's eyes, but smiled and put on the padded jacket he was holding in his arms.

"You really found it, I still think you will never find it!"

"Why can't I find it? I don't have a mouth under my nose?" Gu Sixiao gave him a blank look, and asked with a smile: "Have you eaten?"

"I'm not hungry, but you, it's not easy to get out, don't you have to go back soon! Well, I'll take you to see that Gu—Wang Fu."

"Don't be in a hurry, let's eat first!" Pulling the impatient Sun Tiancang, Gu Sixiao looked at him with a smile, "My brother is much more important than that Wang Fu."

When Sun Tiancang's face became hot, his chest was full. He wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say, so he turned around in a disguise, "The meat buns over there are delicious. I'll buy them for you."

You're welcome, Gu Sixiao looked at his back and followed him slowly.

When she walked to the steamed stuffed bun stall, Sun Tiancang had already turned around with the greased paper bag in his hands.

The white steamed buns are steaming, and they are already fragrant just by smelling them.

"Hey, it's still hot!" Sun Tiancang picked up a steamed bun, and moved his fingers so hot that he didn't blow his fingers, but kept blowing on the steamed stuffed bun with his mouth, "Be careful, don't burn it."

After taking the bun, Gu Sixiao looked at him with a smile, thinking of the past.

Instead of eating the bun directly, she broke open the bun and handed half of it to Sun Tiancang.

"There's more! You eat quickly..."

"I just want to share it with you."

Looking at Gu Sixiao, Sun Tiancang also smiled, took the half of the steamed bun, took a big bite, he took the steamed stuffed bun in his mouth, without even chewing, he said vaguely: "It's really delicious."

"Well, it smells so good."

In fact, the taste of the steamed stuffed bun is just average, not to mention compared with before, even the one she eats at Gu's is better than this one now.

However, this taste is different!Only the buns eaten with Sun Tiancang are delicious.

Holding the buns in his hands, he ate and walked, walked out of the pier, crossed the long street, and walked around half the town before arriving at the alley that Sun Tiancang mentioned earlier.

"Well, look, it's the house in front of you. I've visited it a few times before, and Wang Fu hasn't done anything yet, but I heard that he seems to have visited a few shops, maybe because he wants to open a silk shop. .”

Turning his head, Sun Tiancang pricked up his ears and listened for a while, then suddenly smiled, "The roast chicken seller is here, just watch, that Wang Fu will come out in a while."

Gu Sixiao frowned, but still didn't understand.

Does Wang Fu like roast chicken?
Just as he was thinking, a man selling bamboo baskets came over from the alley.

"Plop, pop! Ten cents, a chicken..."

With a flicker of eyes, Gu Sixiao also understood why Sun Tiancang said that Wang Fu would appear as soon as the roast chicken seller came.

Although the Great Xia Dynasty had a law prohibiting gambling, both folks and nobles liked to gamble.

In addition to those formal gambling games, even folks who sell things have another kind of gambling.That's what this roast chicken is called "pumai".

The so-called fluttering sale is a big deal with a small amount.Just like this roast chicken, if you buy it normally, it may cost a penny.But when selling, the buyer only needs to pay ten pennies to gamble once. If he wins the bet, he will get a chicken for free with ten pennies. If he loses the bet, the seller will get ten pennies for nothing. .

Gu Sixiao has heard of this before, but has never had the chance to see it.

The cat was at the entrance of the alley. She looked around and saw that the roast chicken seller barked step by step. When he reached the door of Wang's house, he took a step back and walked around the door, his mouth growling louder. I couldn't help laughing.

Looking at the behavior of the peddler, it was clear that he had taken advantage of Wang Fu before, so he stayed at the door for a while, waiting for the people inside to come out and buy.

Sure enough, within a moment, the door suddenly opened.

Wang Fu was wearing a fur cloak and a dog fur hat, with his head held high, nodding his chin at the peddler, his goatee still sticking up.

"Hey, Mr. Wang, what a coincidence, are you going out?"

The peddler pretended to be a coincidence, looked at Wang Fu, and didn't even mention the matter of rushing to buy, as if he hadn't hawked at the door of Wang's house just now.

After chattering for a long time, it turned out that Wang Fu lost his temper, "Li Xiaoer, if I try to sell you again today, I won't believe it, I won't win this time!"

"Of course I'm going to win!" Holding the basket, Li Xiaoer first complimented, "Dr. Wang's luck is good! It's the first time you rush to buy, and you just got me a fat chicken for ten cents! Your luck! , but it scared the little ones, and they almost didn’t dare to buy in this area again.”

Wang Fu stroked his beard, feeling a little proud, took out his purse, counted the copper coins and said with a smile, "Let's not talk about that, come quickly."

Li Xiaoer took the copper plate, smiled and stuffed it into his purse, then took out a bamboo tube from the bamboo basket, held it in front of Wang Fu, "Your Majesty Wang, smoke it!"

Nodding his head, Wang Fu rolled up his sleeves, raised his hands high, and stared at the sticks in the bamboo tube, picking and choosing, and finally pulled out one.

He didn't look at it with Li Xiaoer, he looked at the bottom of the bamboo stick first, "Ah, there is no red dot."

"Really not," Li Xiaoer shook his head regretfully, "This time I'm unlucky, maybe next time I'll be lucky. Mr. Wang, do you want to try again?"

Wang Fu snorted and didn't answer, just counted the copper coins and threw them to him.

He stretched out his hand and pulled it out, but there was still no red dot.

With a sullen face, Wang Fu counted another ten coins, but this time he was not as happy as before. He held a bamboo stick with his fingers, but he didn't take it out. Instead, he pondered for a moment and changed another one. Change.

After finally pulling out a bamboo stick, the two of them leaned forward together to look at it, but the bamboo stick still had no red dot.

Wang Fu's face was a little ugly, he didn't even hum, and just counted the money.

Unfortunately, five or six times like this, but still missed.

"Okay, Li Xiaoer, are you cheating? How could you miss so many times? Ah, yesterday and the previous one, I didn't hit anything either! Could it be that you don't have any red dots in your bamboo tube?" bamboo stick!"

After repeated failures, seeing someone next to him come out to ask how much the roast chicken cost, Wang Fu's face darkened and he asked directly.

Li Xiaoer didn't panic, "What are you talking about? Mr. Wang, although I am a small business owner, I have been doing business honestly. How could I do the kind of thing you said? Who are the neighbors in this neighborhood?" I don’t know that I, Li Xiaoer, are the most fair in business, and I’ve never been short of money. Ah, you said that I didn’t have a stick with a red dot in this bamboo tube, so how did you draw my fat chicken for the first time? Or did you put the red dot on it yourself?"

At a loss for words, Wang Fu pursed his lips, and said in a loud voice: "You don't have to argue, is there a stick in this bamboo tube, and whether I have wronged you, just look at it."

"That's right," Li Xiaoer didn't evade, looked at Wang Fu, and said with a smile: "You can tell it at a glance, but, Mr. Wang, if there is a stick with a red dot in my bamboo tube, what would you say?"

"What do you say? It proves that you are not playing tricks."

"Ah, that's not the case. I didn't play tricks at all! Mr. Wang, you said that I was just playing tricks. I was wronged by you, and I promised you to read it, but you didn't have the slightest sincerity!"

"Then how are you doing? I'm not bragging to you, I'm very familiar with the team leader in the yamen."

"Naturally, you are a rich and powerful official!" Li Xiaoer smiled, but showed a smug air in the market, "But no matter how familiar you are with the team leaders, you can't recklessly wrong people, right—this old lady, Do you think it makes sense?"

The aunt who came out to buy roast chicken smiled and didn't answer, but looked at Wang Fu with strange eyes.

Wang Fu also felt awkward, coughed, and said in a deep voice, "How are you doing?"

"That's not the case," Li Xiaoer raised his eyebrows, "Mr. Wang, if there is a bamboo stick with a red dot in my bamboo tube, how about paying me a tael of silver?"

"Bah, what an insatiable fellow!" Wang Fu spat and cursed, "One tael of silver can buy you five fat chickens!"

"It should be like this!" Li Xiaoer tilted his head, looked at Wang Fu and asked with a smile, "Your Majesty Wang, can't you afford to bet?"

Such a contemptuous question made Wang Fu angry, "Why can't you afford to gamble? When I know how to gamble, you don't know where you are! I will bet with you, if there is no bamboo with red dots in your bamboo tube Sign, I don’t want your money either, just kneel on the ground and kowtow to me three times.”

Li Xiaoer chuckled, but stretched out his hand.

Glaring at him, Wang Fu untied his purse and weighed it. There is always one or two pieces of silver, but instead of giving it to Li Xiaoer, he turned his head and looked at the aunt who was watching the fun, "Sister-in-law, please do me a favor. a testimony."

I have seen a lot of gambling on the street, the aunt smiled and did not refuse, she really took the money and held it in her hand.

After Wang Fu gave Wang Fu a blank look, Xiao Li flipped through his hands and dumped the bamboo tube on the ground.

Wang Fu hurriedly lowered his body and squatted on the ground to look for it. Li Xiaoer on the other end also moved quickly. With a squeeze of his hand, he had already picked up a bamboo stick and held it in front of the old lady.

"Isn't this a bamboo stick with a red dot on it?"

Wang Fu also hurriedly stood up to look, staring straight at Li Xiaoer letting go, revealing the lower half of the bamboo stick.

"Sure enough, it has red dots." The aunt smiled and picked up the bamboo stick, looked at it, nodded, and without asking Wang Fu, directly put the one tael of silver in her hand on Li Xiao's second hand.

(End of this chapter)