Chapter 477: Old Knowledge

Style: Historical Author: braggartWords: 2820Update Time: 24/01/11 23:20:12
After saying that, he quickly handed over the IOU and laughed with him, "It's all slaves who are dim-sighted and ate shit..."

Lin Ming collected the IOU and said with a smile: "You have a good eye. I just dropped a Delong note. Didn't you pick it up for me?"

The bustard smiled dryly and said: "Yes, yes." He reluctantly handed back the note in his hand. Lin Ming took it in his hand and took a look at it, and said: "It doesn't seem to be mine. The one I have is five hundred taels..."

** almost collapsed and almost knelt down to beg, but Lin Ming just smiled and said: "Oh no, it's this one. Just go ahead."

** As if granted amnesty, he hurried away rolling and crawling.

Lin Ming helped the woman up and said, "Hurry up and pack up. There are five taels of silver here. You can find a ship tomorrow and go to see relatives and friends wherever you want. Leave this place quickly..." The woman's tears were broken. Yu Ban fell down, knelt down and said softly: "Yes... thank you... thank you for your grace, I will never forget it..."

At this time, the moonlight came over and shone on her face. Lin Ming was stunned and blurted out, shouting: "Su... Aunt Su!"

Cummings was startled. He saw the woman tremble, slowly raised her head, glanced at them, then quickly lowered her head and said, "I recognized the wrong person..."

Cummins looked at her carefully. I saw this woman wearing a green-dot plum coat and a crimson silk skirt covering her little feet. She was really only three inches long. A Suzhou peg hung loosely on her black hair hung half way over her shoulder. On her face, which was full of white melon seeds, her eyebrows were filled with smoky green. Cummins felt a little crazy. No wonder Elder Mei has always been obsessed with Qinhuai's Eight Beauties. It's just this appearance. Such a graceful appearance is indeed very interesting!

"Aunt Su!" Lin Ming was shocked. The woman in front of her has a pair of shallow dimples at the corners of her mouth, slightly crooked eyebrows, and a small mole on her right cheek. She still seems to have the charm of the past. Who is Su Ai if not Gao Shunqin’s concubine!

Speaking of Su Ai, she was really an old acquaintance of his. When Gao Shunqin disappeared, he was entrusted to investigate the matter, and Su Ai was one of the suspects. The lady of the Gao family secretly gave him a few hundred taels of silver and asked him to beat Su Aiqu into a move. If you become an "accomplice", you will be tortured to death. Thanks to Su Ai for knowing the current affairs. He bribed him with all the wealth he had accumulated over the years. Lin Ming had always been a compassionate person, so he was merciful and did not suffer much. The two of them can be considered to have such a friendship.

Gao Shunqin's case later became an unsolved case. Lin Ming helped Guangdong officialdom get through, gaining money and losing favors. Naturally, Su Ai's whereabouts were ignored. Unexpectedly, three years later, the two would meet again on such an occasion!

What a vicissitudes of life, so unpredictable! Lin Ming's face instantly turned pale. At that time, I took my sister-in-law to investigate the case and interrogated the "suspect" in the high house at night. I searched for clues and went all the way to Haojingao. My sister-in-law disappeared... The past events flashed through clearly one by one, but they were like a fog and a blank. Can't remember anything clearly. With such a strange and bizarre fate, Su Ai was originally just a passerby in his life, but what happened to him later. I have a great relationship with this woman, and finally meet here again...

He stared at her face, tried his best to suppress the various emotions in his heart, and said: "I am Lin Ming, Jin Yiwei Trial Hundred Households..."

Su Ai was like a sleepwalker, looking at him with dull eyes. Suddenly, it felt like being pricked by a needle. She knelt down and collapsed on the ground, covering her face with her hands and crying loudly. Her whole body was convulsing and shaking, and tears were pouring out from her fingers.

This alarmed the people in the courtyard. The residents in each room looked out through the windows, and the idlers who were not asleep also poked their heads in and talked among themselves. Lin Ming hurriedly said: "Aunt Su, it is God's will that we meet here - this is not a place for talking. Please clean up and let's move to another place!"

Cummings was so dizzy that they cried incomprehensibly. He stood aside like a fool. Listening to Lin Ming's words, he immediately realized that the people here were unfamiliar and it was midnight. What's the big deal? He quickly said: "Let's go back to the boat to talk." Then he ordered the escort, "Pack up the things on the ground and lock the door here."

Lin Ming was a little at a loss. He was not the owner of the salt boat, and there was no reason to bring a woman back rashly. Although he had acquaintances in Zhaoqing, he couldn't go into the city to disturb him in the middle of the night. Cummings' words relieved him. He was busy. He said: "Mr. Kang is right. If you have anything to say, let's go back to the ship to talk about it first!"

When he got back to put on his clothes, Thorpe was a little surprised. Lin Ming explained the cause and effect. Thorpe thought that he had met an acquaintance! He had read the report from Guangzhou Station and knew the relationship between Su Ai and Pei Lixiu. Originally it was just a gossip like reading a story, but I never thought that the protagonist in it would appear in front of me.

However, this made him less suspicious, and he said with a smile: "In that case, we will send Buddha to the West. It's just that it will be inconvenient for her to go on the water and sail with us, so we will send two escorts to send her there first tomorrow. Just leave Guangzhou to Pei Lixiu."

When the word Pei Lixiu came up, Su Ai shrugged her shoulders and tears rolled down her face. Seeing her haggard appearance, Thorpe hurriedly asked someone to bring her face wash, and then said, "It looks like she hasn't eaten yet. Get some food!"

"Thank you gentlemen, I'm not hungry, so I don't need to bother to make arrangements." Su Ai seemed to have just recovered from a serious illness, her body was trembling, and she was barely blessed, "The gentlemen met by chance, saved the slaves from fire and water, and the slaves worked like cattle and horses... …”

Lin Ming said: "Why are you talking about this now? I think you seem to have recovered from your illness soon? Sit down and have a rest. These two gentlemen are not outsiders! Don't be polite."

Su Ai sat down on the stool on the bulkhead. She seemed to have had a big dream. This man who was not even close to her at the time suddenly appeared here and rescued her from the fire pit... What a chance in life. It cannot be said.

Lin Ming asked: "Aunt Su, after the case was settled, why didn't you go back to the Gao family? How could you end up living here?"

Su Ai slowly shook his head: "Mr. Lin, the case is closed. You also know that the Gao family does not tolerate me. After the master's accident, he almost wanted to put me to death. I don't have a man or a woman to rely on. The master is gone. Even if they asked me to go back, I wouldn't dare to go back. I didn't get the wealth I had accumulated over the years. Fortunately, I still had some savings, so I invested them with a sister from my past."

After all, the savings around you are limited, so you can't just sit back and have nothing. She has been raised as a thin horse since she was a child and does not know how to make a living. As she got older and didn't want to display her beauty again, she married a Zhaoqing businessman as a concubine through the help of a little sister, and then came to Zhaoqing.

"Why didn't you go find Pei Xiuli in the first place? With your friendship with her, it wouldn't be difficult to let you have a bowl of rice in Ziminglou or give you money to go back to Nanzhi." Thorpe asked suddenly. road.

"Is this gentleman also an acquaintance of Miss Pei?" Su Ai asked weakly, "I originally wanted to find her, but at that time the Australians were at war with the court, Ziming Tower was sealed, and Miss Pei's whereabouts were unknown. Some people said that she She has already fled back to Australia, and some say she was robbed by a big boss in North Korea."

She had calmed down at this moment, but occasionally there was a twitching and sad voice in her words, and she said eloquently: "I am probably born with a tough life. I defeated my mother-in-law when I was a child. I finally escaped from the fire pit and entered the high house, and I was defeated again." Mr. Gao: When he returned to Zhaoqing, he didn’t live a stable life for many years, and he defeated another man... He had been with two men, but he didn’t leave any flesh and blood, and he didn’t have any support at all..."

At this point, she was filled with tears that she couldn't wipe away, and several people couldn't help but sigh.

"... As soon as the old man died, my aunt came to kick me out. I said, after all, I had to wait for someone to be buried, so I broke the seven. Naturally, I took my things and left. The aunt said: 'You are not from my family at all. , It’s just a thing I bought. It would be a great mercy for you not to sell it now.’ Kick me out immediately! No matter what, he entered the house like a robber and took away all my savings and clothes. , and kicked me out directly..."

Su Ai was so sad when she said that, her eyes filled with tears again, she held her mouth and choked for a long time, and then said: "It's the coldest month of winter, and the wind is blowing. I don't know where to go. Standing by the river, looking at the river, at that time There is really no way to go from heaven to earth, and I really want to jump down and die. Fortunately, some kind people saw and tried to persuade me, so I didn't let me go to the dead end. I hid some money in my body, so I finally didn't do it. I died of hunger. I wanted to go back to Guangzhou, but there was no man around to take care of me, and there was no money to pay, so I had no choice but to eat this bowl of rice here again..."

Thorpe originally didn't sympathize with her very much. He felt that she had fallen into prostitution and had become a concubine twice. Although she had "no choice", to put it bluntly, she was just as indolent as her counterparts in the 21st century. Putting herself in her shoes at this moment, her situation is different from that of another time and space. There is no place for a single woman in the 17th century! Come to think of it, there are too many "last resorts". I couldn't help but sigh: "Now that you have met Mr. Lin, I don't think you need to eat this bowl of rice anymore. I will send you back to Guangzhou tomorrow, and you can join Pei Lixiu. Ziminglou's business is getting bigger now. When you arrive Go to her and do any errand for you - it's better than doing things to people in Israel. How many years can you eat like this?"

Seeing the confusion in Su Ai's eyes, Lin Ming quickly introduced him: "This is Mr. Suo, my... um... boss... Mr. Suo heard your cry, and he was kind-hearted and asked me to come and take a look. , that’s why today’s adventure happened.”

Su Ai knelt down on the ground and said with choked sobs: "Master Suo must be the reincarnation of Bodhisattva...God will bless your descendants for generations to come..."

Thorp secretly thought that Lin Ming was a good man! But this sounds useful. He raised it with his hand and said, "No need to be too polite. That's it. I'll send two escorts to take you back to the lower part of the temple to pack your luggage. You can rest for one night and pay the rent tomorrow before making arrangements." "(To be continued)