Before Hua'er arrived home, she knew that it was really good to be Mr. Bai's "face". The old housekeeper of the Bai Mansion came to the door in person with two servants. The two men were carrying a large bamboo basket. They were not shrinking in such a cold weather.
"This..." Sun Po was so frightened that she didn't know what to do. Hua'er stepped forward to help her, and stretched out her own neck. She looked at the bamboo basket and asked, "What? It's not a corpse..."
"Girl Hua'er, the basket was given by the second master. You can take a closer look later. The second master also said: be a good honor to the second master, and you don't have to do the work of watching the clock at night. If you still want to do it, you can do it later. Come back from Liangqing."
"Oh." The old housekeeper was serious about words. Hua'er was a little afraid of him and didn't dare to say too much. After sending the person away, he and Sun Po began to look at the basket. Bai Qiling is quite generous, with top-quality charcoal, lipstick, rouge, and hand grease that even the famous ladies in the city cannot buy, as well as rice as clear as white jade, solid meat, and lively fish.
Sun Po was frightened. She held Hua'er's hand and asked her: "Did Mr. Bai bully you? Ask you to give him a baby? Hua'er, Sun Po will tell you clearly today! Sun Po didn't raise you to go to others." Be small!”
Hua'er blinked and said with a smile: "Then what does grandma do to raise me?"
Grandma Sun slapped her: "Grandma wants you to be a human being! A person who stands upright! Grandma doesn't want you to follow the old path of others, fight in that big house, and never get out. Grandma..." Grandma said, feeling that she was just imagining it. That's all, what's wrong with that big house? Girls, ladies, and ladies are all as pretty as flowers. There is no shortage of silks and silks, there is no shortage of the world's delicacies, and they are not hungry or cold. What's wrong with that?
Seeing that Grandma Sun was serious, Hua'er hurriedly said: "Grandma, my granddaughter can't look down on that Second Master Bai. When that Second Master Bai talks, his eyes are as big as those of an ox. He also has a rough temper and will punish him if he doesn't agree with her." Man. That good skin is lost in vain!"
"How is Mr. Bai doing?"
Hua'er thought about it seriously, Bai Qiling was fighting and killing all day long, and no matter how good his skin was, he couldn't hide his violence, but he still said it fairly: "He was born like a dog."
Sun Po was amused by her, laughed twice and coughed again. Hua'er hurriedly helped her to the bed and took out the box containing hand grease to play with. There is a market after the New Year, and there is a long trip to the pier, where there are reselling and other things. Hua'er looked at the basket of things and her eyes came alive.
I immediately went to Xianchan and asked her to help me figure out how much money I should sell it for. Xian Chan stared at those things, his eyes widened: "Hua'er, are you rich?"
"how do I say this?"
"This Kou Zhi is the one Miss Sun was looking for all over Yanzhuo City last year! At least three hundred coins."
"This thing? Three hundred coins?" Hua'er refused to believe it.
"Yes." Xian Chan reported the prices of other things one by one. Hua'er listened and suddenly jumped up: "Let's go and cut the meat! We started eating good food in the new year and continued to eat until New Year's Eve! Eat until Mouth full of oil!"
Xian Chan walked out with her and asked her, "You don't want to sell it, do you?"
Hua'er snorted: "What are you keeping these for? Even if you eat one meal and not the next, are you going to starve to death and become a pervert?"
"Second Master knows he will be angry."
"He won't know. I won't be afraid if he finds out. I have my own way to deal with him. Bai Laoer is easy to deal with!"
Xianchan praised Hua'er as a powerful person. How many people mentioned that Mr. Bai ran away and she could still compete with Mr. Bai. As she talked, she remembered that Master Mo asked her to copy the book in the first place. Now she wanted to talk to Hua'er, but she remembered that Master Bai asked her: "Are you strict with your mouth?" So she held back.
The two went to the butcher's shop to cut meat, and Hua'er went to the tavern to get a drink, and also said that she was going to Lianxinzhai to pack a box of soft braised plum pork. Xianchan knew that she had something in her mind, so she followed her. They had not been able to eat meat during the hard days of the new year like this year for several years.
On the way, I met Ah Hui who was coming back from Bai Mansion, and found out that his errand was actually the groom of Bai Qiling. It was said that the second master Bai took a fancy to his good strength and asked him to drive the carriage for the second master.
"Are you talking about going to Liangqing after the New Year?" Hua'er asked.
"I told you, I'll go too." Ahui rubbed his head: "That Haoying said you went to help Feinu ask for errands?"
"Shhh." Hua'er shushed: "Don't say it, just think that the Baifu regretted it and went to invite Fei Nu. Okay?"
"good."
Ah Hui was strict with his words, but Hua'er was not worried that he would tell her. Also because Ah Hui was going to Liangqing together, she felt that she had an extra companion. All in all, I was really happy on this day, so happy that I didn’t even care about my life or death the next day. Call a few people together and have a solid meal.
Zhaoye was reluctant to eat, so Fei Nu said, "You can eat it if Sister Hua'er wants you to. Brother Zhaoye is always so coy. Come on, give me a cup as punishment!"
Zhaoye picked up the cup: "Then I'll punish you with one cup!"
"Two drinks for penalty!" Hua'er rolled up her sleeves and raised her glass, imitating what the storyteller said about the children of the world, and wanted to drink the wine to the sky. Xian Chan covered his face with one sleeve, twisted slightly, and took a sip.
Her alluring posture was so endearing. Hua'er put his arms around her shoulders and said with a smile: "Xianchan, Xianchan, just get married to me! I will treat you well, put you on the desk, and let you open your eyes." Write and embroider, build you a big garden, dig a lake in it, and raise so many big carps! If I’m hungry, I’ll catch one, if I’m greedy, I’ll catch one…”
"You have wanted to live like this yourself, right?" Ah Hui exposed her.
"Hehe." Hua'er smiled naively: "I don't know a few Chinese characters, so I can't write; the embroidery needle doesn't obey my hand, and I can't embroider; I'm greedy, and that big carp lives in my lake. Inside, I’ll eat it up within a few days!”
Everyone laughed when they heard the words, and Grandma Sun commented from behind: "We Hua'er are suitable to be the female shopkeeper. If she is destined to open a shop, she can be like the Bai family, and one shop can become two shops, and two shops can become two shops. Ten rooms…”
Hua'er nodded: "Yes, yes, I only like money, lots of money, endless money to spend!"
It became lively at this time. You came and I said one sentence after another, just like the spring swallows holding the mud and the spring river rushing, it became more and more noisy.
A few of them didn't usually drink much. Hua'er and Xianchan were particularly drunk, and their eyes became diffuse after just a few drinks. Hua'er smacked her lips: "This wine is really good. I finally understand why those officials like to drink wine. I like it too!"
"If you like you, eat more. Anyway, Mr. Bai won't allow you to go out and face the cold these days." When Xian Chan said this, Fei Nu's hand holding the wine glass was unsteady and he spilled some wine. Ah Hui hurriedly caught it with his own wine glass and shouted: "Fei slave! What a waste of natural resources! I don't know when I will have wine next time, but you let it slip!"
Fei Nu slapped his mouth, brought the wine cup to his mouth and drank it all in one gulp. There was no need to go to work that night, and eating wine became the happiest thing in the world. Holding the charcoal fire pot and taking another bite of plum pork, the whole body will be warmed up.
Xianchan went home to deliver food to her third brother. When she went out, she saw Zhaoye standing there waiting for her.
"Brother Zhaoye." She murmured to him, a little unsteady on her feet. Zhaoye stepped forward and grabbed her wrist. After all the struggles in his heart, he finally dared to hold her hand. I only dared to hold her hand once, for fear of offending a good girl. Perhaps Xianchan was drunk even more and her mind was even less clear. She held him back and took his hand until she reached the shabby house in the alley where she couldn't see her fingers. She stood on tiptoes and kissed his cheek, calling him softly: "Zhao Ye" Brother, Brother Zhaoye, let’s get married!”
The murmur was like wine, and it came to mind again at night, forgetting all the great truths that I usually talked about and the good reputation I had accumulated. I hugged the cicada and kissed her cheek randomly, several times, and finally landed on her lips.
The flower on the other side held the wine glass and asked, "Where's the cicada?"
"Send rice soup to my third brother." Ah Hu replied.
"Where's Brother Teruya?"
"Go...go...go to the toilet..." After finishing speaking, Ah Hui fell to the ground, drunk to death.
"Come on!" Fei Nu patted his face, threw a tattered gown on him as a cover, then stood up and walked out.
"Where are you going? Brother Fei Nu." Hua'er asked him vaguely with drunken eyes.
"I'm going out to do something."
"Go and come back quickly, there's still wine!"
"Okay." Fei Nu swayed out of the door, wrapped his clothes tightly, and walked along the wall to the alley. Hua'er forced herself not to close her eyes, and knocked her head on the table little by little, gradually not knowing what was going on. What year.
The moon was covered by clouds, and snow fell from the sky. Winter in Yanzhuocheng has always been snowy one after another, with no sunshine for one, two, or three days at a time. Officials like to set up a table on the verandah on snowy days, boil sheep in clear water with various condiments, and then look at the snow and sigh: What a wonderful scene! Look at the people outside the 16 streets and alleys. The huts are penetrated by the wind and snow, and the people are shivering in them, and they are still singing in their stomachs: Cold! Bitter!
In the past, these people were the ones who sang about how cold it is and how bitter it is. Today, Hua'er looked at it with her chin up and muttered: "After eating, you are not afraid of the snow. After eating, you are not afraid of the cold." After finishing the story Fell on the table.
The wild cat in the alley meowed, someone's feet stepped silently on the snow, and the sharp knife in his hand glowed coldly in the snowy night...
