Four hundred and seventy-seventh chapter therefore know
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 Madam smiled dryly and said: "Yes, yes." He reluctantly handed the note back 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 note I have is five."
One hundred taels..."
** almost collapsed and almost knelt down to beg, but Lin Ming just smiled and said: "I'm sorry, this is the 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 as soon as possible..." 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, "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..."
Cummings looked at her carefully. He saw that this woman was wearing a green-dot plum coat and a crimson silk skirt that covered her feet. She was really only about three inches long. Her green silk hair was tied loosely with a Suzhou prong, and it hung halfway down on her shoulder.
, the white melon seeds on the face, the two bays of black eyebrows with smoky green. Cummings felt a little crazy, no wonder Mei Yuanmei has always been obsessed with Qinhuai's eight beauties, that's all. Such a graceful and graceful appearance, it really has a special interest!
"Aunt Su!" Lin Ming was shocked. The woman in front of him had a pair of shallow dimples at the corners of her mouth, a slight eyebrow, and a small mole on her right cheek. She still had the charm of the old days. Who was Su Ai if not Gao Shunqin's concubine!
Speaking of Su Ai, he 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, asking him to beat Su Ai into a trap.
He was made an "accomplice", and at worst he had to be tortured until he was half dead. Thanks to Su Ai's understanding of the current situation, he bribed him with all the money he had accumulated over the years, and Lin Ming had always been a compassionate person, so he was merciful and did not suffer a big pain.
.The two of them can be considered to have such a friendship.
Gao Shunqin's case later became an unsolved case. Lin Ming helped the Guangdong officialdom get through, and received money and favors. Naturally, Su Ai's whereabouts were ignored. Unexpectedly, three years later, the two would meet again on such an occasion!
The world is really vicissitudes and unpredictable! Lin Ming's face turned pale in an instant. Back then, he took his sister-in-law to handle the case, interrogated the "suspects" in the high house at night, and searched for clues all the way to Haojing Ao. His sister-in-law disappeared... Historical events one by one
It flashed through clearly. It was like a fog, a blank, and I couldn't remember anything clearly. It was so bizarre and fateful that Su Ai was just a passer-by in his life. However, his various subsequent experiences had a great relationship with this woman. In the end,
We met here again...
He stared at her face and tried his best to suppress the various emotions in his heart. He said: "I am Lin Ming, Jin Yiwei Trial Hundred Households..."
Su Ai was like a sleepwalker. She looked at him with dull eyes. Suddenly, as if she had been pricked by a needle, she knelt down and collapsed on the ground, covering her face with her hands and crying loudly, her whole body trembling with convulsions.
, tears welled up from between the 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 to discuss among themselves. Lin Ming hurriedly said: "Aunt Su, we meet here, too.
God's will - this is not a place for talking, please clean up and let's move to another place!"
Cummings was so dizzy and inexplicable that they cried. 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: "We
Go back to the boat and talk." Then he ordered the bodyguard, "Pack up the things on the ground and lock the door here."
Lin Ming was initially at a loss. He was not the owner of the salt boat, and there was absolutely no reason to bring a woman back rashly. Although he had acquaintances in Zhaoqing, he could not 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, let's go back to the ship to talk if we have anything to say!"
When he went back to put on his clothes, Thorpe was a little surprised. Lin Ming told the story of the cause and effect. Thorpe thought that he had met an acquaintance! He had read the report from the Guangzhou Station and knew about the relationship between Su Ai and Pei Lixiu. Originally, he just wanted to read about it.
It was like a story, but I never imagined 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 Su Ai said the word "Pei Lixiu", 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 seems that she hasn't eaten yet. Let's get some food."
Come!"
"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 water and fire, 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 rest quickly. 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 her head: "Mr. Lin, the case is closed. You also know that the Gao family does not tolerate me. After something happened to the master, they 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 her were limited, and she couldn't just sit back and have nothing. She had been raised as a thin horse since she was a child, and she didn't know how to make a living. As she got older, she didn't want to show off again, so she married a Zhaoqing businessman as a concubine through the help of a little sister. Arrive at 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 said 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 came into the house like a robber and took away all my savings and clothes." Well, they kicked me out directly..."
Su Ai was so hurt when she said this 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 for it, 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 there was a "last resort", to put it bluntly, she was just as idle and indolent as her colleagues in the 21st century. At this moment, putting herself in her shoes Think about it, her situation is different from that of another time and space. There is no place for a single woman in the 17th century! Thinking about it, there are too many "last resorts". She couldn't help but sigh: "Now that I have met Mr. Lin, I don't think you need to Let’s eat this bowl of rice again. I’ll take you back to Guangzhou tomorrow, and you can join Pei Lixiu. Ziminglou’s business is getting bigger now. Go to her, and they’ll do any errand for you – it’s better than doing it in Israel. How many years can people last with this kind of food?"
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, he was kind-hearted and asked me to come and have a look. , that’s why today’s adventure happened.”
Su Ai knelt down on the ground and choked with sobs and said: "Master Suo must be the reincarnation of Bodhisattva...God will bless your descendants for generations to come..."
Thorpe secretly thought that Lin Ming was a good man! However, these words sounded useful. He raised his hands and said, "No need to be polite. In this case, I will send you two bodyguards to take you back to the lower part of the temple to pack your luggage.
You can rest for one night and come over tomorrow to make arrangements after paying the rent." (To be continued.)