Chapter 218: Choice

Yizhou, Daotai Mansion, in front of Yimen.

Dong E Jinghui leaned over to Chu Yu, and Chu Yu hurriedly stepped forward to support her: "What is my cousin doing? You shouldn't give such a big gift!"

Dong E Jinghui said with tears in her eyes: "If my cousin had not taken it in, I would not have cared for her if my cousin sister-in-law..."

Chu Yu held her hand and comforted her: "The past is gone, my cousin should not be too sad!"

Dong Ejinghui nodded with tears in her eyes, thanked Zijing, Xiyun and others for their care over the past few months, and everyone returned the greetings. Cao Song was beside him, watching Dong Ejinghui parting with everyone one by one, and just pulling herself down, her face looked a little ugly. He thought to himself, did this ugly girl forget who saved her?

The nanny who came to pick her up said, "Girl, this road is still far away, let's set off!"

After hearing this, Dong Ejinghui turned around and looked at Cao Song, took two steps forward, leaned over and said, "Thank you for your second cousin's help!" The voice was not loud, but it was real, which made people feel sad.

Cao Song hesitated for a moment, took out something from his arms, handed it over, and said, "Ugly girl, what if you still want to come out... this... will not be bullied!"

It was a beautifully decorated Mongolian knife. The top of the handle was inlaid with a ruby ​​as big as a thumb cover, and the scabbard was also dotted with various small gems. This gift is of great value and is really too expensive.

Dong Ejinghui didn't know how to refuse, but Cao Song had already taken a step forward and stuffed the Mongolian knife into her hand.

Because he knew that Dong Ejinghui returned to Beijing today, Cao Song didn't go anywhere, and he became interested in following his brother to go shopping. Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time, she would get a word from her. She originally wanted to lose a few words, but when she saw her crying and frowning slightly, he couldn't even make any angry.

Perhaps because of the closeness, Cao Song could smell the faint fragrance on Dong E Jinghui's body and couldn't help but realize it. For a moment, he really didn't know what to say, and looked at Dong E Jinghui and couldn't help but be stunned.

The two nannies who came to pick up Dong Ejinghui by the order of Mrs. Jueluo, saw that the second master of the Cao family, who looked a little silly and annoyed, stood a little close to his own lady, so they coughed twice and said, "Girl, it's time to leave!"

Dong Ejinghui glanced at everyone again, turned around and sat in the carriage. As soon as the nanny was about to put down the curtain, she heard Cao Song say, "Ugly... I will go to Beijing next year, and I will see you then!"

Dong Ejinghui nodded and tightened the Mongolian knife even more. The curtain of the car cuts away everyone's sight. Dong Ejinghui returned to Beijing!

Although Dong Ejinghui doesn't talk much on weekdays, she is honest and well-behaved. Not only Chuyu, but also Zi Jing can't bear to let go, and Xiyun and others have red eyes.

Cao Song felt his chest was stuffy and he was indescribable. He stretched his arms and waist hard. Because he slept less last night, he felt a little tired.

In March, the sky was clear and the weather was clear. Cao Song was impatient to go back to the house to sleep, so he asked Chu Yu: "Sister-in-law, when will the brother come back? How many people should I bring to welcome him?"

Chu Yu smiled and said, "Your brother said it's going to take three or five days. He wants to go to the counties below to see. I don't know where to welcome you now, where to go?"

Cao Song looked at the blue sky, grabbed his head and said, "Since that's the case, then my sister-in-law will go back to the yard to rest first. Brothers go around the martial arts hall!"

Chu Yu responded and took the people back to the inner courtyard. Zi Jing had nothing to do with her hands and was idle, so she followed Chu Yu to the main room to talk. Before she could reach the door, she saw Yu Qing in the west courtyard standing at the door of the yard, looking quite hesitant.

Chu Yu asked with a smile, "Why are you standing here? Are you looking for Sister Amethyst or are you here to find me?"

Yuqing's face was a little shy and replied, "I have something to do, I want to report to the princess and sister Zijing to know!"

Chu Yu and Zi Jing looked at each other and asked her to sit in the main room. Yuqiong hesitated for a while, and said with his head down: "In theory, there is no room for me to talk too much about the matter in the Second Master's room. But Madam Zhang is not here at the moment. If I don't say it, I'm afraid that the Second Master will not be able to come back to you!"

When Chu Yu heard this, he glanced at Amethyst with a little embarrassment. Although Cao Song was still young, he did not have the reason that his sister-in-law was in charge of his uncle's room.

Zi Jing smiled and said to Yuqing: "Looking at you being so hesitant, but the second master is ignorant, so you are wronged?"

Yuqing was afraid that the two of them would misunderstand, so he shook his head and said, "It's not like this... it was the second master who raised Sister Yu Zhu..." After speaking, it was already inauspicious.

Chu Yu was fine yet, Zi Jing frowned slightly, then asked with a smile: "I see that she is very close to Miss Jing these days. Today, Miss Jing returns to Beijing, why don't she see her coming out to see her off?"

Yuqing replied with a smile: "Sister Yuzhu thought of it, but she accidentally saw the wind last night and her body was a little hot. She is now lying in the house!"

Zi Jing knew it in her heart and said to Chu Yu: "Princess, since the second master raised the Jade Spider and became a person around him, he could no longer use the past monthly money. Look..."

Chu Yu nodded, thought for a while, and said, "Since this is the case, you can add more clothes on the head and face according to the previous monthly rules of Yulong." Speaking of this, he looked at Yulong with a smile: "The monthly rules of Yulong remain unchanged, but it is only appropriate to add more and reduce them during the holidays!"

Yuqiong refused, stood up and thanked him solemnly, and then went back to the west courtyard.

Because Cao Song was not married, Yuqing did not formally look down on her face, but everyone treated her as an aunt. In addition, she was the same age as Chu Yu, didn't talk much, and had a good temperament, and everyone liked her very much.

Before the young master got married, there were two people in the room. Three people in the room were nothing, but it was common for men to "lost to the new and tired of the old". Chu Yu and Zi Jing thought of this and complained about Cao Song's promiscuity. However, due to their limited identity, it was difficult for both of them to speak, so they could only shake their heads and sigh.

*

In the wing room of the West Courtyard, Yu Zhu took a short while and got up to wash. When he saw Yu Qing coming in, he couldn't help asking: "Are you back?"

When Yuqiong saw that her face was full of spring breeze, she seemed to have changed her body as if she had changed her body yesterday, she was stunned. Yu Zhu noticed that she was incompetent, so she quickly lowered her head, wrapped her fingers around the corner of her clothes, and couldn't speak.

Although Yuqing felt sour in his heart, he also understood that the woman had this fate. She had given her body, so how could she keep her heart? She smiled and pulled her to the kang to sit down, and said with a smile: "I just came back and asked the servant of the second sect, saying that he had gone to the martial arts hall!"

Jade Spider nodded, her face turned red, and she said, "Yulong...I..."

Seeing her embarrassed, Yuqiong saw a small plate of hawthorn placed on the small table next to her, he picked up one and said with a smile: "I'm very confused, fortunately, Mr. Zhuang has more knowledge. After hearing the two aunts mentioned it, he knew that it was inappropriate. Why don't this be a good intention to do something bad? Now, the red hawthorns in each courtyard and room are all these red hawthorns, which makes people feel sore at a glance!"

Yuspider picked up one and took a bite, disagreed: "Who knows whether Mr. Zhuang's words are true or false! The more knowledgeable people are, the more particular people are. When I was a child, my relatives had a happy wife. I ate this more, but I didn't see anyone's mistake! Even if there were no hawthorns, sour radish, and sour beans, there was nothing they didn't eat!"

When Yu Zhu mentioned the past, Yu Qing also thought of herself. She was from Wuhu, and her parents were honest farmers. In the 46th year of Kangxi, Wuhu was drought severely, and the rivers and ports were dried up, and the crops were not harvested. In addition to her parents, she also had two younger brothers, and the family of five had no food. The family really had no choice but to sell her twelve-year-old son to her.

The man-child taught these teenage girls well for two years and sold them to wealthy families in the capital as maids at high prices.

*

After returning from Daxing Town, Tancheng, Cao Yong and the others did not return the same way, but went east and north through Linmu Town, first to Junan Town, and then to Juzhou. On the north and south roads of Juzhou South Gate to the north gate, there were many shops scattered one after another, but they looked not as prosperous as Daxing Town.

Not long after he entered the city by hitting the south gate, Cao Yong saw half a circle of people sparsely surrounding him not far away, pointing at someone.

When he got closer, he realized that it was an eight- or nine-year-old girl wearing a patched gray cloth jacket, kneeling on the side of the road with a grass mark on her head. A middle-aged man in his thirties was squatting beside him, covering his face with his hands.

"Selling children and girls!" Cao Yong felt indescribable and held the reins of the horse and watched.

The little girl's eyes were red. It seemed that she had cried for a long time, but she looked dumb and looked muddy. Where could she have the aura of a child?

Some of the onlookers asked about the price of selling, laughing and making fun of each other; some looked at the little girl to see if it was profitable; some were not ashamed of what the man did, and scolded loudly: "Look at your father, you have healthy limbs, why are you willing to sell your daughter?"

The man did not defend himself, his shoulders moved, wiped his tears, and cried like a child.

At this time, two people ran towards the street. In front of them was a woman wearing a big-collared jacket and holding a child. She didn't care whether there were too many people or not. She directly squeezed in, looked at the grass mark on the girl's head, immediately knelt down, put her in her arms, and cried loudly. The little girl leaned in the woman's arms and slowly cried out. The baby in the cradle seemed to feel the sadness of her mother and sister, and started crying "ahhh".

Behind the woman was a middle-aged man in his forties. When he saw the grass mark on the little girl's head, he immediately said angrily: "Zhao He, my girl is your own flesh and blood. How can you be worthy of your younger brother and sister if you do this?"

The man beat his head hard: "Brother Zhou, I'm all unpromising. I have been in vain for more than 30 years, but now I can't let the two elders fill my stomach! What else can I do? I can't starve to death!"

"Brother Zhou" sighed and said helplessly: "This is the trouble of those black-hearted grain merchants. It's not your fault. If the rice price continues so long, who can afford it!"

"Dad girl, please keep it!" the woman said crying, then put the baby in her husband's hand, pulled out the grass mark from her daughter's hair, and slowly inserted it into her hair.

Although she has pale face and thin skin and her hands are a little rough, she is twenty-six or seven years old and has a bit of beauty. Perhaps because of the baby's breasts, her breasts are bulging, which looks very inconsistent with her slightly thin figure.

Among the people who were originally watching the nostalgic business, someone immediately spoke out: "How much is the silver price? The master wants it, so there is only one less breast at home?"

Everyone looked in the sound. A fat old man in a blue silk robe was squinting his eyes and looking into the woman's arms. Although his face was not wrinkled because of his fatness, he looked at his gray hair and the old spots on his face, so he had to be in his sixties.

When the people next to him saw it, they couldn't help but laugh: "Do you have less breasts or less young grandma? Do you want grandchildren or grandma?"

Someone said again: "Whatever he breastfeeds, when he gets into the house, isn't he just breastfeeding what he wants?"

The more he spoke, the more vulgar he was, the fat old man just smiled, thinking about the purse in his hand, and looked at the couple and said, "Master, haven't had enough food yet. Don't be tired of it, please offer a price!"

The woman looked at the man with tears in her eyes. How could the man think of anything else? The family of four was holding her head and crying. The little girl stopped first, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to the people around her: "Uncles and uncles, the girl begs you, don't buy the girl's mother, she also has to take care of her brother and cook for her grandparents and dads. You should buy the girl!"

No matter what others do, Cao Yong could no longer watch it, so he turned around and rushed to Wei Hei and the others not far away to signal.

Wei Hei, Wu Mao and others stepped forward to disperse the people watching the fun. Some people saw that they were not local accents and wanted to argue a few times, but Wei Hei was whipped to be honest.

In fact, in Wei Hei and Wu Mao’s arms, there were clerks from the Taotai Yamen, and the words “Official Office Handling Case” could also make them retreat. However, because they saw that this family was really pitiful and the excitement was shameful, they would not have any good attitude.

The big man noticed something was wrong, stood up and protected his wife and children behind him. Even "Brother Zhou" who came with the woman also came forward and stood on the side of the man.

Among the people who had just been dispersed, a few of them stood not far away and wanted to continue watching the fun. Wei Hei stared at him and immediately ran away.

Cao Yong looked at the family of four, secretly clenched his fists, and murmured: "Seven days, give me seven days!"

Mr. Zhuang felt very heavy. After hearing Cao Yong's words, he turned his head: "What seven days? Furuo has made up his mind?"
Chapter completed!