I steamed buns for the general

Chapter 54

There are many nobles in the capital, but no matter how expensive they are, they are not as expensive as the royal family.The current emperor is the ninth son of the first emperor, and he and his half-brothers suffered many casualties in the battle for the throne. Only the thirteenth prince was not in Beijing at that time, and he did not love power, so he was able to survive. In his mouth, he named the thirteenth prince King Yu.

King Yu is cautious and knows that he is powerless to compete with the emperor. He has been an idle prince for more than 20 years, which is considered smooth. His two sons and one daughter are all born to Princess Yu.

And Prince Yu's son Yan Ruyu, is even more true to his name. He is extremely handsome, with red lips and white teeth, and eyes like peach blossoms. He is extremely loved among the noble girls in Beijing.

If it is said that women from aristocratic families admire Qin and Jin because of their merits and appearance, but it is not the best marriage.But Yan Ruyu is different. She inherits the throne and does not need to go to the battlefield. She is the first choice for a noble lady in the capital.

But such an outstanding and attractive man has been depressed and depressed for the past two years.

There is no other reason, but the little bald girl who caught the eye of Xiangxiang at the Temple of the Reclining Buddha that year.He thought it was a girl from the Qin family, and thought it would be nice to come to her in the future.Unexpectedly, she became Qin Jin's fiancée in the end.This dealt a blow to Yan Ruyu, who had always been confident.

Over the age of eighteen, she has never been married, Princess Yu Shang is anxious but helpless, she has seen many noble ladies in a year, but none of them can catch Yan Ruyu's eyes.

On the day of next month's [-]th, when Princess Qingping of Prince Yu's Mansion leaves the cabinet, Princess Yu prepares the dowry early, thinking of sending more dowry to her daughter.So Yan Ruyu went out to make jewelry together.

Yan Ruyu was also idle, so she agreed.After breakfast early in the morning, I prepared the carriage and went to the most prosperous East Street in the capital.

There are many business travelers on East Street, and all walks of life gather here.When she arrived at the Jincui Pavilion, Yan Ruyu got off her horse and went to help Princess Yu.At this time, there was a loud noise not far away, which made him stop and couldn't move anymore.

"This is the capital..." Princess Yu was talking to him enthusiastically, when she found her son stopped, she couldn't help but follow his gaze, and saw a group of people in front of Defeng Restaurant not far away, and there was a sound coming from inside. A delicate and gentle voice: "How could he be so rude in public, even if he is a servant, he shouldn't be beaten and scolded like this..."

Concubine Yu laughed, it turned out that which woman was fighting the injustice, there are so many injustices in the world, it is surprising that a woman defends the poor in court.She turned her head and urged Yan Ruyu to come in, but seeing Yan Ruyu's expression was gloomy, she couldn't help frowning.

The shopkeeper of Jin Cui Pavilion greeted him with a smile, cupped his hands and said, "Concubine Yu, please come in, a batch of jewelry has just arrived, the concubine will definitely like it."

Yan Ruyu returned to her senses, left that place aside, and asked casually, "What happened there?"

Shopkeeper Wang is used to being arrogant and rude when he sees young masters. It is rare for Prince Yu to be polite. When he heard his question, he laughed and sent his servant to ask, "Your Majesty, why don't you come in and rest in the store, and I'll get someone to check it out. some."

Yan Ruyu cared about the owner of the voice, and turned her head to help Princess Yu go in and sit down, "Mother, I'll go and see."

"Why do you go to see those, the little ones lose their status." Princess Yu said displeasedly, frowning.

Yan Ruyu smiled mischievously, "My son is curious, I'll be back later." She waved her hand and led the servant out the door.

The place was surrounded, Yan Ruyu squeezed through the crowd and got to the front, only then did she see the situation clearly, it turned out that a servant of a merchant was unjustly stolen from the merchant's concubine and sold out.The girl looked at him pitifully, and felt that the man was not a bad person, so she talked to the seller.

Yan Ruyu was stunned when she saw the girl's face clearly.He had seen her more than a year ago. At that time, there was no hair on the top of his head, and his face was a little immature. If he hadn't heard her voice, I'm afraid he couldn't believe that the little girl with a blushing face in front of him was the Xie Zhijin he saw that day. .

Many people around couldn't help but look at Zhijin's face, Yan Ruyu was displeased, so she couldn't help but ask the boy to find someone to disperse the crowd watching.

Today, Zhijin and Xie Zhihang agreed to go out on business.One is to buy slaves, and the other is to see if there is any way to make money.But they didn't understand these two things, and they couldn't make up their minds after wandering around the East Street, but they happened to run into the sale of slaves by unscrupulous merchants.

Originally, this was just a businessman's own business, and others had no right to intervene.Who would have thought that the merchant was a rascal, who beat and wounded his servants and insulted them in public.

Xie Zhihang was at the age when he was curious about everything, and the onlookers shook their heads and sighed before asking a few questions.

After asking, I found out that the person who was beaten was originally Qi Zhen, the shopkeeper of Defeng Restaurant, who was usually kind and well-spoken.But being displeased by the boss, who was wronged and stolen the boss's concubine, he didn't allow the shopkeeper Qi to argue at all, first he got someone to beat him up, and then he was thrown on the street and humiliated in public.

"Girl, you don't care about our family's affairs." A luxuriously dressed man squinted at so many people looking around, and felt even more proud.

"You want to betray someone, right?" Zhijin wasn't annoyed, she had already heard about it from others.

It turns out that Qi Zhen has been the shopkeeper of this Defeng restaurant for many years. She is handsome, but what is rare is that she is decent. I don't like this concubine.When the concubine was going out, she happened to meet Qi Zhen in a restaurant, and she secretly agreed with her, trying to seduce Qi Zhen to elope with her.Qi Zhen didn't agree, the concubine beat her up and told the boss that Qi Zhen had seduced her.That's why this was done.

The owner's surname is Li Mingqi, and he is the same young man in Huayi who spoke rudely just now. After hearing Zhijin's words, he suddenly had an idea, "That's right, that's right. This lowly slave is sold on a death contract, and I sold him today."

At this moment, Yan Ruyu's people came over and drove all the onlookers away from the scene.Li Qi saw that there was a son of a noble family present, and the spectators left, he couldn't help being annoyed, he waved his hands and said, "I won't sell it, I won't sell it. Anyway, he is a slave with a death contract, so let's beat him to death."

"Why don't you sell it?" Yan Ruyu curled her lips, glanced at Zhijin from the corner of her eye, and then looked at Li Qi, "This gentleman is quick to say something, and the words have already been spoken, so how can you change them randomly? Is it possible to do it?" Are you afraid of being found out?"

Zhijin was amazed at the words of help from the rich young man, and couldn't help but be grateful, and hurriedly said: "That's the reason, you want to sell it at the beginning, I intend to buy it, but the young man said it in front of so many people."

Li Qi pursed his lips and yelled: "He belongs to my family, and I can sell it if I want, why are there so many nonsense."

"Boss Li, can you listen to me?" Zhijin's lips curled up, her pretty color made Li Qi unconscious, staring at her blankly, swallowing her saliva, "Please...please tell me. "

"This slave has angered the boss, but don't you think it's too cheap to kill him? Why don't you sell it to me, and I'll let him live or die. How about it?"

Li Qi was only focused on arrogance just now, but he didn't notice the girl's pretty color. Now that he noticed it, he was so fascinated, he didn't care about a servant, and nodded hurriedly: "That's the reason."

Zhijin asked with a smile, "How about selling it to me?"

Li Qi nodded blankly: "Okay."

Zhijin waited for these words, put away her smile, and said to Yue Ban: "Take money, buy someone." Then he looked at Li Qi and asked, "How much will you sell this person to me?"

Li Qi shook his head foolishly: "No money." The beauty was talking to me.

"No, I need money." Zhijin shook her head calmly, took the 100 taels of silver from Yue Ban, and handed it to Li Qi, "This is 100 taels, enough. Please give me the deed of sale."

"This..." Mentioning the deed of selling one's body suddenly woke up from the vortex of beauties, "This person is not for sale..."

"But you have already collected my money." Zhijin shook her head, then turned to Yan Ruyu, and asked, "Can you be a witness?"

Yan Ruyu nodded, solemnly: "The so-called paying with one hand and delivering the goods with the other hand, since you have promised to sell, you must not break your promise."

"This person is mine. The deed of sale is in my hands. I will sell it if I want, and I will not sell it if I don't want to." Li Qi suddenly felt that he was cheated by this delicate beauty, and he was displeased immediately, and his hands tightened even more. Contract of sale.

Yan Ruyu shook her head, this person really doesn't know what to do, it seems that today he is going to use his status to suppress him.

Before he could speak, Chang Yu, the guard behind Yan Ruyu, said angrily: "Well, you small trader, you actually bullied Prince Yu's son in the street. It seems that you are impatient. Come on, get it for me and send it to Beijing. Zhaoyin, let Jing Zhaoyin make a decision."

The majesty of these words shocked Zhijin, and she couldn't help but look at this person twice.Then I found that this person was very familiar, it was Prince Yu's son who I had met with Jiang's family at the Temple of the Reclining Buddha that year. I hadn't seen him for more than a year, but he was much more handsome, so he didn't recognize him for a while.

Li Qi is just a businessman.Since ancient times, the people have not fought with each other, even if he has more money and silver in the capital, he would not dare to openly become an enemy of Prince Yu's mansion.Hearing that this handsome young master is the heir of King Yu, he was speechless, shrank his neck, took the bank note in Zhijin's hand, and handed over the deed of sale in dissatisfaction, "Huh, good people don't agree with you!" Guan Dou, isn't he just a servant." Then he left cursing.

Qi Zhen had never suffered such a great humiliation.He was sold three times during his lifetime.

The first time when he was only nine years old, he was sold by his family for ten taels of silver and became a servant of a large family. Later, the young master of this family couldn't see that he was disobedient, framed him secretly, and then sold him to this Li Qi family. .He was smart since he was a child, and learned abacus from the Li family, and gradually became the shopkeeper of this restaurant. Who would have thought that such a thing would happen.

Now my contract of prostitution is held in the hands of a female doll, and my life for more than 30 years has been really miserable.

I just saw this young girl fighting wits and bravery with that Li Qi, and I also saw that this young girl seldom goes out and is not good at quarreling. Fortunately, with the help of a noble person, she actually saved herself.

Qi Zhen struggled to get up, then cupped her hands and thanked: "Thank you for saving me, Miss, since then Qi Zhen has been driven by her."

Unexpectedly, Jin sneered, and raised her hand, "Hey, I'll give you the contract of sale, and you're free."

Not only Qi Zhen was surprised, even Yan Ruyu was also surprised. After spending so much talking and talking, she spent 100 taels of silver, and then returned the deed of sale to the sufferer.

Yue Hui tugged on her sleeve anxiously, and whispered: "Girl, such an expensive person, why don't you just say no? Isn't the reason we came here to buy someone?"

Zhijin looked at Qi Zhen with a smile, and then put the contract of sale into his hands, "You are free."

Qi Zhen couldn't react for a long time, and when he did, the girl had already left with a girl and a boy.

"Miss stay." Qi Zhen ran a few steps to catch up, knelt down on the ground, and presented the deed of sale with both hands, "Qi Zhen is not talented, but I am willing to follow the girl, to follow the girl's example, and hope that the girl will not dislike her."

(End of this chapter)