Gu Zheqi, dressed in white, swinging a folding fan, casually walked into Hongxiang Pavilion with a middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man Gu Jiu also looked very familiar. This man was the original owner's eldest uncle, Gu Zheqi's father Gu Wensheng.
In the memory of the original owner, Gu Zheqi would go to the city a few days a month to compete with the talented people in the city.
I thought we were discussing knowledge, but I didn't expect that we were here to have fun.
Looking at the backs of the two of them, Gu Jiu suddenly felt itchy with hatred. The original owner's family worked hard to earn two more copper coins, trying to make their family's life better, but they ended up using the money to have fun?
"Come on, hurry up, don't hinder our business."
Seeing Gu Jiu staring inside, a woman wearing red tulle came over and waved her sleeves at Gu Jiu.
"Then why is sister here?" Gu Jiu reached out and grabbed Hongsha and asked.
"I heard that auntie said that women who come here can save money to redeem themselves. Is my sister going to save enough? I can help her save some."
The woman in red was stunned and pulled back her clothes with force: "Little guy, you know a lot, but this is not the place you should be. If the madam sees you and starts crying later, don't blame me for not reminding you."
After saying that, he turned around and went back to his previous position, but stopped in his tracks the next second because of Gu Jiu's words.
"Sister, won't you fight for once?"
It happened that the madam came out for inspection and noticed the situation here.
"Hongge, what are you doing there? Why don't you welcome the guests?"
The madam strode over with heavy makeup and a straight face, but when she saw Gu Jiu, she immediately beamed, as if she saw a money tree.
"Hey, look at this face, with some powder on it, she must be a first-class beauty!"
As he spoke, he stretched out his blue-dyed nails to touch Gu Jiu. Gu Jiu ducked sideways and quickly ran behind Hong Ge.
The madam closed her hand and looked at Hongge with the same expression as before: "Hongge, is this your mute sister? I didn't expect that after not seeing her for several years, she looks even more beautiful."
"It's also my fault, Madam Madam, that I was blind. I thought I should have taken you two sisters in together!"
"Little sister, do you want to be with your sister every day? The Madam has endless delicious food here!"
Gu Jiu: ...Do you think I look like a fool?
Hongge frowned, pushed Gu Jiu back and said, "Madam, my sister just came to see me. The family has already arranged a marriage with her."
"Don't talk so much. Maybe your sister wants to stay here! Little girl, you haven't been in there before! Come on, the madam will take you around!"
As the madam was about to come up to fetch someone, Hongge quickly turned around and pushed Gu Jiu: "Go back quickly!"
Gu Jiu looked at the madam, took out twenty copper coins from his arms and handed them over.
"Yo, you're rich!"
The madam happily took the copper plate from Gu Jiu's hand.
"You want to say that you want to chat with your sister for a while?" the madam said while looking at Gu Jiu's gestures.
Gu Jiu nodded.
"Tell me earlier, Madam, I am not unreasonable. I will give you half a stick of incense to reminisce about the past, but you can only stay here and cannot leave!"
Gu Jiu nodded, bent down to express his thanks, and the madam left with the copper plate in his hands with satisfaction.
As soon as they left, Hongge couldn't help but raise her hand and give Gu Jiu a slap on the back of the head: "Are you stupid?"
Gu Jiu shook his head, looked around, and lowered his voice and said, "Sister, do you remember the two people who just went in?"
"One is nineteen years old, wearing white clothes and holding a folding fan, and the other is in his forties, wearing brown clothes."
Hongge thought for a while and nodded: "That's Mr. Gu."
"Those are my cousin Gu Zheqi and uncle Gu Wensheng. They used the guise of studying to defraud the family's money for fun. Sister, they are from Gujia Village. They are both children. They are vain and have good noodles. You can take it. Use this information to blackmail them, so you can make money."
Hong Ge was startled and looked at Gu Jiu with complicated eyes: "Why do you want to help me? The other person is your cousin."
Gu Jiu was silent for a moment, lowered his head and took out the hairpin: "My...sister died here."
Hongge trembled when she saw the hairpin. It was her hairpin, the hairpin she secretly gave to the girl yesterday.
Hongge took a deep breath and slowly exhaled: "Come back at this time tomorrow!"
After saying that, he turned around and left resolutely, as if he had made some kind of decision.
After entering the house, Hong Ge approached Gu Zheqi with a clear purpose.
Hong Geyuan also has a family. Although she is not very wealthy, the life of a girl in the city is always better than that of a girl in the village below.
But something unexpected happened and her father died.
She was the eldest daughter and had no brothers, so her uncle and sister-in-law quickly set their sights on their third mother. Her mother was forced to remarry, and she and her six-year-old sister were sold to Hongxiang Pavilion.
Over the years, she had been working hard to save money and wanted to go out to find her sister, but the madam's commission was too much, so it was difficult for her to save money.
Although he only had half a tael of silver when he was sold, the redemption price was ten taels of silver.
As time passed by, her edges were gradually worn away. But the girl's determination yesterday made her dead heart start beating again.
She took a risk to help the girl, and also helped herself.
There are still three taels left. As long as those two people can come up with three taels, she can leave here!
After the people left, Gu Jiu went to exchange some copper coins and found a cheap inn to stay.
Tomorrow she planned to go to the city to look around. She couldn't survive by selling silkworm cocoons all year round. Besides, she couldn't pick silkworm cocoons every time. She had to leave enough time for the silkworms to thrive.
The next day, Gu Jiu walked slowly around the city. Opening a shop and doing business were not suitable for her. The cost of these things was too high.
Suddenly, Gu Jiu saw the pamphlet on the stall. He stepped forward and took a look. It turned out to be a traditional Chinese script.
"Girl, do you want to buy this book? Many ladies like to read this!"
"A lot of people like to read this?" Gu Jiu picked up the book and asked uncertainly.
"Yes, this one is selling like hot cakes, twenty coppers a copy."
twenty! Gu Jiu opened the book and took another look. Isn't this the story of a poor scholar and a rich lady? Still so short! A thousand or so words are just twenty copper coins!
"Girl, do you want it or not? We can't read it for free here!" The stall owner said as he reached for the booklet.
Gu Jiu quickly put down the things, took out two more copper plates and handed them over: "I'm sorry. My younger brother can also write this. I would like to ask where can I make this kind of booklet?"
The stall owner looked at the copper plate, put it in his arms and pointed to the bookstore not far away: "I don't know about that. The shopkeeper got everything. You can come and ask in a few days."
"Not now?"
"The shopkeeper went out yesterday. As usual, he won't be back for three to five days."
"Okay, thank you."
Perhaps they were enemies on a narrow road, so Gu Jiu saw Gu Zheqi again outside the teahouse.
Compared with last night, Gu Zheqi looked like a frost-beaten eggplant, so sad that his face was expressionless.
"Brother Qi, why are you here? Everyone is here and waiting for you. Come quickly."
A man in dark green clothes came out of the teahouse and greeted Gu Zheqi warmly. But the latter stood there and waved to him: "I didn't have a good rest last night, so we won't get together today. I'll go back and rest first. Just call me when you leave."
"Ah? That's okay. Brother Qi, please go slower on the road."
Gu Jiu followed Gu Zheqi quietly all the way, and finally found that he came to an alley and entered the innermost door.
Gu Jiu stopped and waited outside the alley. After a while, a seven or eight-year-old girl came out of one of the doors.
"Little sister, do you want to eat sweet potatoes?"
Gu Jiuma stepped forward and took out the last sweet potato.
"think."
"Then tell my sister who lives in the house at the end? If you tell her, she will give you the sweet potato." As he said this, Gu Jiu broke off a small piece and handed it to the little girl.
After eating sweet potatoes, the little girl obviously got closer to Gu Jiu: "Mom said that the family inside is a bad person."
"Bad guy?"
"Yes, mother said they robbed other people's houses. Sister, don't tell others, mother won't let me talk nonsense."
"Okay, it's all yours."
After remembering the location, Gu Jiu left.
No wonder Gu Wensheng can stay away from home all year round because he has already found a place to live.
Time flew by, and soon it was night. Gu Jiu arrived at Hongxiang Pavilion on time as agreed, but this time he did not show himself directly to the public, but observed carefully in the dark for a while.
There was no abnormality or irrelevant people, only Hongge stood there quietly.
Compared to last night, Hongge seemed to be in a much better state of mind. She also changed her clothes. She was no longer wearing a red shirt, but a set of decent civilian women's clothing.
Gu Jiu walked over and waved to her, and the latter took her with him and left Hongxiang Pavilion with his baggage.
"open to take a look."
He entered an inn and asked for a room. After entering the room, Hong Ge closed the door and took out a carefully wrapped handkerchief from his bag.
Gu Jiu was surprised. After opening it, the system that had been "dead" in his mind for many days suddenly came to life.
"Congratulations to the host for completing the test. The current task is to earn one thousand taels of gold within three years. If not completed, the system will erase your consciousness."
Gu Jiu: ...Other people’s systems are like cheats, but when it’s my turn, it becomes a reminder?
Gu Jiu: "Your purpose is to kill me at any time? Then I am so unlucky that I ended up with you, you are useless!"
System: "...The host is now randomly given one hundred taels of silver and twenty square meters of system space, which can store everything. In addition, the host can use the earned silver to make equivalent transactions with the system."
Gu Jiu: "What is the transaction?"
System: "Secret. However, due to the host's inappropriate remarks, the system has decided to deduct one of the rewards. One hundred taels of silver has been deducted."
Gu Jiu: ...I seriously doubt that you never gave it to me from the beginning to the end.
Gu Jiu looked at the ten taels of silver and asked uncertainly, "Is this my reward for providing information?"
"Yes. Those two are quite rich. They have a total of fifteen taels. I kept two taels for myself and the rest are here." Hong Ge sat down, picked up the teapot, and poured himself a cup of tea.
When she didn't come out, she kept trying to find her sister, but when she finally came out, she didn't know where to go.
