The creditor favors the little orphan girl alone

Chapter 23
"Hmph." Yuan Bao raised his fist to his mouth, coughed twice, to cover up his untimely smile and embarrassment.His eyes dodged a little, he was thinking about how to answer so that the simple Tao Qiqi could understand.

Tao Qiqi picked up the chopsticks and poured food into his mouth from time to time, but his eyes never left Yuan Bao's handsome face, waiting for his answer.

"Desolate." Yuan Bao lowered his fist, pursed his lips, and his expression was serious. "Do you know what a wife is and what a concubine is?"

"Wife and concubine?" Tao Qiqi thought for a while, then shook his head. "have no idea."

"The so-called wife refers to the first woman a man marries. The women who come in later are called concubines." Yuan Bao can only say this, although there are still some deviations.Before a man marries a wife, he may also take a concubine or a housemate.

Tao Qiqi opened his mouth slightly in surprise, and the meatball fell directly from the chopsticks before he could put it in his mouth. "Young master, you mean a man can marry several wives?"

"Probably that's what it means." Yuan Bao showed a childish smile. "Then let's talk about Zuiyue Tower. To put it more pleasantly, the women in Zuiyue Tower are concubines raised by men outside."

"Huh? Can concubines be kept outside?" Tao Qiqi put down the chopsticks in his hand, full of surprise.

Seeing that Tao Qiqi understood Tao Qiqi's words, Yuan Bao continued. "Yes, and no. The woman in Zuiyuelou is not a fixed concubine of a man. Generally speaking, it is a transaction. As long as you give money, she will be your concubine."

"..." Tao Qiqi was speechless, she didn't know what to say.In her cognition, she always thought that people in the world were just like parents, monogamous, and had never heard of concubines, let alone trading concubines raised outside.

"Qiqi, do you know how people in the world use idioms to describe these women?" Yuan Bao did not forget to teach Tao Qiqi how to learn idioms at this time, wrote four large characters on the table with his fingers dipped in tea, and read come out. "Everyone is as good as he can be."

"What do you mean?" Tao Qiqi stared at Yuan Bao with his big eyes full of confusion and thirst for knowledge.

Yuan Bao's tone was full of disgust and shame. "A woman treats all men as her husband, husband."

Tao Qiqi gasped. "There is such a woman?"

"The women in Zuiyue Tower are all like this." Yuan Bao shrugged disapprovingly. "Forget it, we don't care about our business anyway, as long as you know what Zuiyue Tower is for. But, remember, you don't want to go out alone. If someone sells you in, you won't be able to get out again."

Of course Yuan Bao had to give Tao Qiqi a warning first, the previous Tao Qiqi was skinny and skinny, even if he gave it to Zuiyuelou, he wouldn't be able to send it out.After staying in the Yuan Mansion for more than a year, Tao Qiqi has been raised by Yuan Bao to be very beautiful.No worse than those great ladies, even worse than that.

Tao Qiqi shuddered, not daring to imagine that scene. "Ok, I know."

"Hurry up and eat." Yuan Bao picked up a piece of chicken leg and put it into Tao Qiqi's bowl, beckoning, signaling her to eat quickly.

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"Master, what does this sentence mean?" Tao Qiqi took the book that was about to take the exam in five days, walked up to Yuan Bao who was swaying the brush on the rice paper, and read out the sentence. "Hold the hand of the son, and grow old together with the son."

With a shake of his hand, the ink left the nib of the pen and dripped onto the picture of a hundred years of longevity, which can be called a masterpiece. This painting is Yuan Bao's birthday gift to Mr. Yuan next month, and it is only two years away from completion.Yuan Bao turned his stiff neck, looking at Tao Qiqi who inadvertently said the oath, lost in thought
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"Ah, young master." Tao Qiqi hurriedly dropped the book in his hand, knowing that he had caused a catastrophe, he hurriedly wiped the dirty place with his sleeve. "sorry Sorry."

Yuan Bao grabbed Tao Qiqi's wrist and stopped her movement.He knew that the painting was destroyed, and that Tao Qiqi didn't really say that sentence, even though he knew it, he was still very happy. "I don't know how to erase it, just write it again, anyway, it's still early."

"Master, I'm sorry, if I didn't make a sudden noise, I wouldn't have scared you." Tao Qiqi frowned and apologized repeatedly.

"It's all right. Don't you want to know what that sentence means?" Yuan Bao suddenly took Tao Qiqi's hand and placed it on his chest, precisely where his heart was, and said affectionately. "I want to hold your hand tightly and grow old with you forever."

"It's all right. Don't you want to know what that sentence means?" Yuan Bao suddenly took Tao Qiqi's hand and placed it on his chest, precisely where his heart was, and said affectionately. "I want to hold your hand tightly and grow old with you forever."

Startled by Yuan Bao's sudden action, Tao Qiqi withdrew the hand tightly held by Yuan Bao like an electric shock, and smiled unnaturally. "Master."

"Okay. I won't tease you anymore." Yuan Bao snickered in his heart, and was very happy to see Tao Qiqi's shy avoidance, which showed that Tao Qiqi still had feelings for him. "What I said just now is the meaning of that sentence, do you understand?"

"Understood, young master." Tao Qiqi stuck out his tongue cutely, and blinked mischievously.

Yuan Bao waved his hand lovingly. "Go and read by yourself, young master, I'm going to redraw the hundred-shou picture."

Tao Qiqi looked down at the painting again, feeling guilty. "Master, do you want me to help you?"

"You?" Yuan Bao looked Tao Qiqi up and down, and leaned over to Tao Qiqi's ear. "Are you sure your dog can see people?"

"Master." Tao Qiqi's kindness was ignored, she stomped her little feet a few times coquettishly, picked up her book and turned to leave angrily, not forgetting to turn her head and stare at Yuan Bao.

Yuan Bao smiled helplessly, removed the ruined painting from the project, and wrote a new stroke on another piece of clean white rice paper.

Sitting on the soft couch, Tao Qiqi was thinking about what Yuan Bao said just now, his face was blushing.Remembering that next month will be Mr. Yuan's birthday banquet, Tao Qiqi, who didn't know what to give, softened his body and fell down as if discouraged. "What should I send?"

Raising his hands to slap his face directly, Tao Qiqi sighed heavily from under his palms. "Ugh.."

"Ah..." Tao Qiqi rolled over from the soft couch and sat up, thinking that tomorrow seemed to be his birthday.

"Ai." Another sigh, Tao Qiqi bent his legs, hugged his knees, and pressed his forehead against them.Both parents passed away, and Tao Liangliang also went to the temple with Mrs. Yuan and Mrs. Yuan to pray for God a few days ago. No one could celebrate her birthday with her.

Tao Qiqi muttered and complained softly. "Liangliang, tomorrow is my sister's birthday, you can't accompany me even if you are a little heartless."

Tao Qiqi, who was immersed in his own world, didn't notice the burly body standing upright behind him.

(End of this chapter)