When Haoying and others came back empty-handed, Hua'er knew that the thief had run away again. Fortunately, no one was injured this time. Because there was one less team in the watch tonight, the county magistrate punished them and asked them to each get a board. Hua'er refused to be beaten like this and pulled Bai Qiling's sleeve to ask him to find the county magistrate to put in a good word for her and Ah Hui.
"What does it have to do with me?" Bai Qiling asked.
"If a slave slave has a big ass, he won't be able to go to the dock to help you run errands and sell goods!"
It makes some sense. Bai Qiling reluctantly asked Haoying to send a message to the county magistrate, and the matter was settled.
When Hua'er goes to the dock again, the momentum is extraordinary.
Ah Hui stood in front of her and opened his mouth in a loud voice: "Second Master Bai is here to give gifts to the ladies!"
"Sell" doesn't mean "to sell", it means "to give gifts". They are all rare things that no amount of money can buy in Yanzhuo City. They are first-class goods. Because they were laid out the day before, they have more or less a reputation. Miss Sun came first with her girl Lingdang, glanced down, and ordered Lingdang to squat down and pick, while she stood aside and ate the candied haws. Occasionally humiliate Hua'er with a few words: How did this little beggar Hua Zi become a dog for Mr. Bai? How old are you? Why do you look neither male nor female? Oh, yes, I remembered it. When we were drinking tea in a teahouse last year, did you knock over the teapot and almost burn me?
The slender finger pointed at Ah Hui: "I remember you, you were punished for her!"
Hua'er was about to argue with her, but Ling Ding suddenly said, "Shopkeeper, your box is cracked. Go back and get another one!" Hua'er took a look and saw that no, the glazed box was really cracked. This sentence interrupted Hua'er's words.
Lingdang picked some and showed them to the young lady. The young lady from the Sun family was a hands-off shopkeeper. She waved her hand and asked her to pay and leave. Lingdang paid the money and stuffed a box of rouge into her gown. Hua'er was stunned and thought to herself, you are a quick-tongued girl with a good heart but dishonest hands and feet. That Miss Sun deserves to be treated by such a powerful girl, I'm afraid it wouldn't be possible for anyone else.
The gadgets she picked that day were quickly sold out, and the price on this day was actually higher than the previous day. Someone asked her if Mr. Bai still had any more? She said where else could it be found? It's not like it fell from the sky. Go back and ask Mr. Bai to take a look again. If there is any, take it out and sell it. If not, just wait!
The rarer something is, the more valuable it is. Hua'er has finally figured this out. After returning home and having a good rest for a long time, when I went to change my clothes at night, I heard the two leading yamen servants say: "You guys can do the watch yourself today, just follow us at night. We have to do other errands."
"What errand?"
The yamen servant looked around and whispered: "The young master of Sun Mansion is dead."
Everyone was shocked: "How did you die?"
The yamen servant said: "How do I know? I only know that the Sun Mansion reported to the official, and the magistrate asked me to do this business quietly."
Hua'er felt a little strange.
She remembered that day at the Sun Mansion, Bai Qiling cut off the old shopkeeper's finger. Everyone was so frightened that they wanted to run away, but the bell blocked the door. She didn't look timid at that time, as if she knew it in advance; and On that day of the New Year, it was the time when the ladies needed to be taken care of. Where would she go? She doesn't seem to be someone who is greedy for small favors. Why did she steal that box of rouge?
After picking there for a long time during the day, the young master of Sun Mansion died at night.
Hua'er felt that she was thinking too much, but she also felt that she was right to be more careful. This night I was distracted and didn't say a word. Bai Qiling knew that she was rebellious, and he was worried that she might call him unexpectedly while he was sleeping, so he simply lay there and waited until daybreak.
He never expected that he would be tortured to this point by a dead girl who was late at night. He was even more difficult to deal with because of the lack of sleep. The girl came in with food and saw that he looked scary, so she put down her things and ran away.
The flower clearly understood his temperament and knew that he was not killing innocent people indiscriminately, so she opposed him several times. He didn't want her to wake up, but she insisted on doing it, and she walked to the front of the White House and shouted; he wanted her to call him as soon as possible so that he could go to sleep, but she didn't. In short, she was competing with him overtly and covertly. If he got aggressive, she would cry until Lihua was subdued faster than anyone else. If he was more aggressive, she would kill or cut you with a stick from her neck.
If this thing were to be killed, he would not be able to bear it. Don't kill, it would be too noisy.
On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, the flowers came.
Holding a money bag, he poured all the money on the table and proudly asked Bai Qiling for credit: "Second Master, look!"
Bai Qiling couldn't sleep well for several days and didn't want to talk to her. As for her, she sat down and counted each penny, counting nine for herself.
Bai Qiling's head was about to explode and he messed up the handful she had counted. Hua'er looked at him aggrievedly: "It was hard to count."
"Let me ask you, can you not give me an update?"
"When I get married, I will take care of my husband and raise my children." Hua'er said to him casually, thinking that it doesn't matter if you give me a break or not, you really have a lot to do!
Bai Qiling held a breath in his chest and nodded: "Okay, okay. With your virtues, you still want to get married, so you have to fight for the rest of your life. If you disturb my sleep again in the future, I will dig a hole and bury you."
With all your virtue, you still want to marry Miss Ye’s family! Hua'er retorted in her heart, with a smile still on her face: "Master Bai, please calm down and listen to my servant tell you something else."
Hua'er started talking to herself: "Do you think this is strange? Miss Sun's family came to the dock to buy our things the day before, and the young master of Sun's family died in the night."
"That girl named Lingdang is very powerful! At that time, when you were cutting the master's fingers in the Sun Mansion, everyone else ran out. She blocked the door and was not afraid at all. The servant almost thought she was your An. Insert into Sun Mansion's eyeliner." Hua'er paused, glanced at Bai Qiling's expression, and seeing the cunning man's expression remained unchanged, he added: "Then I thought about it, I must be afraid that someone would run away and make things worse, seriously. Loyal.”
Bai Qiling knew that Hua'er was smart, but he didn't expect that in that situation, she would remember all the actions of the people inside.
"People outside say that you are responsible for Mr. Sun's death! They say that Mr. Bai opened a restaurant in the capital, and Mr. Sun also opened one. Mr. Bai sells tonic soup, and so does Mr. Sun. They say that Mr. Bai's tonic soup The prescription nourishes yin, and Master Sun's soup-tonifying prescription strengthens yang. If one family is gone, the other will be the only one."
Hua'er squatted in front of Bai Qiling and looked up at him: "Second Master Bai, I don't understand the soups and medicines in the capital. I only know that the third brother Xianchan is not full from snacks. There is not much in his bones, so he can't cook anything." Come. If your restaurant is not for sale, will other restaurants sell it? I will not tell anyone about the bell. I only ask Mr. Bai to give me some guidance. Who stole the third brother?"
"If it was really stolen by the Sun family, and the government officials didn't pursue it, could it be that the government officials also knew something? The government officials knew about it, but what about the county magistrate? But according to my opinion, the county magistrate did not pursue the case after Mr. Bai's several incidents. What about the county magistrate? Which one is better with Mr. Bai? Or is it better with the Sun family?"
"Second Master, this slave can't figure out these things."
Bai Qiling looked at her quietly. A little girl dared to ask such a question. She really didn't know how much she weighed. He had made it clear to her before that he had no control over this matter, yet she just wanted to drag him into the water. Test him in various ways and make him spit. It is true that he had important things to do when he returned to Yanzhuo City, and he went rampant in Yanzhuo City in the name of confiscating family property. I'm afraid this ghost girl in front of me will see through all this. She ran to the Bai Mansion all day long when she had nothing to do, her eyes kept turning. Bai Qiling didn't care about her, but she was plotting against him.
"I don't know which bell it is. Why don't you go tell someone else about it. Now the Sun Mansion is looking for a scapegoat, and the bell happened to be the one to blame." Bai Qiling said nonchalantly: "Go ahead. Don't delay."
Hua'er stood there for a long time, knowing that it would be impossible for Bai Qiling to help him, so he simply sat back and counted the money again. She thought, she was so stupid, being taken advantage of by Bai Qiling again and again. That bell was definitely not a simple girl. Hua'er concluded that she was from Bai Qiling, and the young master of the Sun family must have been killed by Bai Qiling.
As she thought this, she thought of Fei Nu who had disappeared. She didn't know where he had gone.
"Stop shouting tonight." Bai Qiling said, "It won't be of any benefit to you if I die due to lack of sleep. After all, I am your "food, clothing, and parent" in Willow Lane. You don't have to be dirty in your conduct."
"Do you often have trouble sleeping?" Hua'er asked him.
"right."
"You can't sleep well because you've done too many things to worry about, right?"
Bai Qiling glanced at her quietly, this slave was really spoiled by him. He had the intention of scaring her, but he gave up after remembering her miserable crying appearance. She ran around the city every day, and the things he gave her were sold. The backs of her hands were still cracked, and her face was still chapped. He, the book boy in Bai Qiling, couldn't look like this.
"How do people in Willow Lane bathe on weekdays?" Bai Qiling asked unexpectedly.
"Bathing? Where to take a bath? It's a great thing to boil hot water and wipe yourself." Hua'er pointed upward: "It's not possible in winter. The roof is exposed to the wind. If you wipe your body once, you might get cold."
"Dine here tonight, and then stay here to bathe." Bai Qiling said.
Hua'er's jaw dropped in shock, and she had completely forgotten how to count the money: "I think you are just a weasel giving New Year greetings to the chicken - you are not so kind!"
"I won't take a servant out in such a... wretched state."
"Just say that you think the slave is wrapped in mud." Hua'er cut and said, "Just wash it. Use the big wooden bucket that the master has...and some more..."
She was not afraid of Bai Qiling doing anything to her. She was used to running to Bai Mansion all day long. If he had bad intentions for her, she would have died eight hundred times.
"You are really not afraid of me." Bai Qiling grabbed her ears and lifted them up: "I really shame you."
Hua'er groaned and covered her ears.
She had never bathed like that since she was a child, and the brand new tub still smelled like wood. She felt dizzy when she first entered the water. After sitting down, she closed her eyes tightly and slowly began to sweat. There was movement outside, so she stood up and sat down again, holding her chest: "Mr. Bai, please don't pretend to be a ghost!"
Bai Qiling, who was passing by, was scolded inexplicably and the door was kicked. Hua'er said again: "If you come in and see something you shouldn't see, I'm sorry for your Miss Ye family! You are no longer worthy of marrying her!" There was no movement outside, and she covered her mouth and smiled. She seemed to know Bai Qiling's weakness and could figure it out right away.
She rubbed the mud on herself, and her whole body became a little more hydrated. Her long hair was dried and tied up, with a few wet strands sticking behind her ears. The whole person is wet, and if you don't look carefully, it looks a bit like an immortal. But if you look carefully, it's still the same thing. Bai Qiling thought she was dazzled and took another look. Unfortunately, the hot water produced by her new bathtub and new firewood could not wash away her shameless face.
He said with some disgust: "If you put on some rouge and lipstick, you can look like a human being."
Hua'er didn't argue with him and said in defense: "You can see it again in spring! Shui Lingling is alone!" When bidding farewell to Bai Qiling, she said sincerely: "Mr. Bai, you can be considered a returnee."
