Chapter 5, selling flowers into three or seven
There was a "flat crack" outside the restaurant. Mr. Liang loved to watch the bustle and went to the railing to look down. Several big men and several teenagers downstairs fought. The big man led just walked over to the flower girl with a ferocious smile, and the little flower girl next to her was screaming, "Go away, go away."
"Brother Huaixian, come and have a look," Mr. Liang waved to Chu Huaixian to have a look. Chu Huaixian came over and was also unhappy: "What's going on?"
Lin Xiaochu downstairs dragged his leg that was too painful to walk and retreated step by step. Mr. Liang pointed to the approaching man and said, "This is the family of Mo Zhifu, who accompanied his youngest son Mo Xiaobao out to flirt with women and do bad things every day."
When it comes to flirting with women, Mr. Liang turned around and looked at Zhu Niang. Zhu Niang also heard this and bowed to Mr. Liang shyly and timidly.
Mr. Xu, who also watched the bustle behind him, whispered to Chu Huaixian: "The last time Brother Liang saved the beauty was to save the girl who sang this song from Mo Xiaobao."
Chu Huaixian laughed when he heard it. In his letter to himself, Mr. Liang also mentioned once that Mo Zhifu's youngest son was not good. Now it seems that it is for the sake of fighting for women.
"Can you save this flower girl?" Mr. Liang said again, Chu Huaixian just wanted to go down. The girl's face was in pain, and it was difficult to retreat and she didn't run. It should be that the injury on her leg was not healed.
In broad daylight, if you are a girl you don't know, you will be bullied, and Chu Huaixian can't stand it. Hearing Mr. Liang mention it, Chu Huaixian, who was a little anxious, still held it and said without hurry, "Let's take a look. This matter is too rude."
Several people went downstairs, and before Mr. Liang could come out, he scolded him first, " Stop!"
The man who approached Lin Xiaochu just threw Lin Xiaoyi aside and stretched out his hand with a smile, only a finger away from Lin Xiaochu's white and tender chin.
Hearing the shout, the big man turned around and was surprised to see several princes, shouting "unlucky" in his heart. Last time, Mr. Mo Xiaobao said a few words with the girl who sang the little song, but he touched his little hand and was robbed by Mr. Liang. In fact, in addition to not forcing people, Mr. Liang chased the girl with his beautiful appearance and lost a lot after chasing her. I don't know whether Mr. Xiaobao is not good or Mr. Liang is worse.
"Little Moju didn't know that the princes were here and disturbed the prince. Please forgive him." The big man is Mo Xiaobao's family. As soon as he said a sentence, he listened to the hurried footsteps in his ear, and then shouted a few times, "Don't let people go."
Mo's face changed greatly. Mr. Liang and several people just smiled, only Chu Huaixian didn't understand. Mr. Xu whispered to Chu Huaixian and said, "The person who came is the left guard. Mo Zhifu and the left guard have a conflict. It's a common thing to fight in a few days."
Chu Huaixian, who understands, has heard more or less about the contradictions between the two officials in his hometown in Beijing, and his family will also write to talk about the officialdom dynamics here. Chu Huaixian didn't want to cause trouble and whispered to Mr. Xu, "Let's talk less." Then he came over to see Lin Xiaochu.
Lin Xiaochu retreated unavoidably. He had fallen down on the street and saw Mr. Chu coming and stretching out his hand to fold the fan for her. There was a smile at the corner of his mouth: "Grab the fan and I'll pull you up."
Lin Xiaochu, who got up awkwardly, looked for Lin Xiaoyi first. Finding Lin Xiaoyi crying under the wall, Lin Xiaochu was shocked: "Xiaoyi, where did you fall?" I was about to walk over and have a look, but there was another pain in my leg. Fortunately, I still held Mr. Chu's folding fan in my hand, so I didn't fall down again.
"Jinger, go and have a look." Since Mr. Chu helped people to the end, he gave an order to Jin Xier. Lin Xiaochu whispered awkwardly, "Thank you, prince." Chu Huaixian whispered with a smile, "I'll help you calculate the account of stealing flowers with you later. If something happens to you, who will I settle it with?"
"Dear son, did you say you would not pursue it?"
"If you sell the money, you have to have a three-seven share, right?"
The left guard family who came to the street rescued several people and was arguing with Mo Ju. Others watched the bustle, and no one noticed that Mr. Chu and Lin Xiaochu were whispering here.
Lin Xiaochu was shocked: "I'm seven and you three, son, are you too cruel?" To this surprised face, Mr. Chu was very happy and said, "I'm seven and you are three. You picked and sold my flowers for nothing, and it's good to share 30% of them with you.
After saying this, looking at the flower girl's face full of chagrin, she let go of the folding fan's hands and put on her clothes and whispered, "My labor costs, the cost of running errands, and the hot weather, I have to give some money to prevent heatstroke..."
and her amused Mr. Chu listened to her mutter, but smiled and suddenly said, "Your sister is coming." In the stream of people, Jin Xier brought Lin Xiaoyi back and put it down. Lin Xiaochu quickly checked that there was no injury on Lin Xiaoyi's body, but he fell so hard that he couldn't get up for a while. Then he was relieved that he said, "My body was only green for a few days," and then glanced at Mr. Chu and whispered, "I only sold 200 articles in total today, and I have to catch and take medicine for Xiaoyi. Today Forget it."
Mr. Chu smiled happily: "Forget it today. If you don't pick my family's flowers in the future, forget it." Lin Xiaochu was overjoyed, and his face changed from a bitter face to a smile: "I won't go again."
He wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth and asked, "Xiaochu, Xiaoyi, are you all right?" Then he wanted to get angry: "If you see me fighting in the future, you can go further. If you don't look around, I won't be distracted.
When he met Lin Xiaochu's very indecent white eyes, Lin Xiaoyi flattened his mouth and tears were still spinning in his eyes: "I'm telling you not to fight. I'm afraid."
The angry land lost his temper. He lowered his head and rubbed his little hair: "I know," and then looked at Xiaochu's scolding eyes, accompanied him with a smiling face: "Brother Zuo brings someone here, I can send you back."
When Mr. Chu came to talk, he slowly retreated and watched the left guard's family and Mo Zhifu's family blamed each other on the street. At the corner of his eyes, he saw that the bargaining girl was helped away, and Chu Huaixian continued to watch the fun.
He supported Lin Xiaochu, pulled Lin Xiaoyi in his hand, and slowly walked out of the city. Seeing that there were not many people before and after, he squatted down: "Come on my back and I'll carry you."
To the red and swollen corners of his mouth, Lin Xiaochu hated it again: "Brother Zhi, I have to tell you several times. Don't always fight with people. If you are Zuo Shoubei's family, you are also loyal to your master, but you are not. You are just a gangster on the street. Zuo Shoubei and Mo Zhifu are taking advantage of you bastards. Why don't you listen to me?
quickly covered his ears and smiled: "Xiaoyi, help your sister on my back." Lin Xiaochu shook his sleeves: "Men and women are not close. You are not my brother. I'll go by myself."
"Of course I'm not your brother," I've always been happy to hear this sentence. What he feared most was that Lin Xiaochu regarded himself as his brother, just like a neighbor's lotus flower. Next door, he grew up with Lotus and could get married after he grew up. Lotus actually said, "If you are my brother all the time, how can this marriage be done?"
Lin Xiaochu refused to let the ground carry it, so he could only hold Lin Xiaoyi and help Lin Xiaochu slowly go home. There are still many ways away from home in the city. People with their legs and feet are fine will arrive in a quarter of an hour. Lin Xiaochu, who has bad legs and feet, grinned and arrived home with hot sweat and painful cold sweat.
"Five aunt, come out for a favor. Xiaochu and Xiaoyi both fell." A few steps away from home, I called my fifth aunt to come out first. When the money matchmaker heard the shout, she also came out to look. Pointing to Xiaochu to earn money, the matchmaker even politely accompanied Xiaochu's grass house and looked at the four walls of the family again in her heart.
Such a poor family told Xiaochu to go to be a girl in the Chu family and go to Beijing in the future. The money matchmaker was very happy, and Xiaochu would definitely agree, and I could make 50 taels of silver steadily.
"His fifth aunt, let me go and invite Dr. Qin to have a look. You help boil hot water, and I'll sit with Xiaochu." The money matchmaker showed unprecedented diligence and enthusiasm, and the fifth aunt was not polite. The neighbors should have helped each other. The matchmaker has always disliked poor people like us. Today, the sun comes out from the west.
Lin Xiaochu, who slept on the bed, was still clear-headed. Lin Xiaochu, who had just come here, knew that the money matchmaker was a person who could not afford to get up early. Lin Xiaochu spoke to the money matchmaker's hospitality and became wary.
"Little Chu girl, how much money can you have to sell flowers on this day?" Qian's matchmaker planned to impress Lin Xiaochu with the word Qian. Why did the Chu family buy a girl? Sun Erhai made it clear in the morning. Mr. Chu didn't buy a girl, but maybe his aunt. Matchmaker Qian pouted at that time: "Mr. Chu is a family in Beijing. I don't want us to have such a blessing in Xiaochu."
Lin Xiaochu asked the money matchmaker for a day and quickly smiled: "Dang Qian, we only earn dozens of yuan a day." The matchmaker Qian sighed, "Well, it's not easy for you two sisters. They are both neighbors. If there is a place that can help you, you should also help."
The fifth aunt who was boiling hot water in front of the stove listened to this and turned around and said seriously to the money matchmaker, "Sister Qian, you know that there are many people and help Xiaochu find a good family. Xiaochu Shuiling, it should be no problem to find a rich person.
There is no way for Lin Xiaochu to talk to the fifth aunt. When the daughter got married, the fifth aunt proposed more than once to ask Xiaochu to make a marriage quickly, so that the other party can manage the lives of the two sisters as soon as possible, and the two sisters can also be more relaxed.
The fifth aunt's words were right in the arms of the money matchmaker, and the money matchmaker began to talk loudly, and her face was also full of smiles: "If you want to say this, you really have to say this. His fifth aunt, the Liu family who opened a rice shop in the city, the banker who opened a silk farm, and..."
Speaking of this, the matchmaker asked Lin Xiaochu with a smile: "Don't be annoyed when you say girl. Although you are born well, you come from a poor family. First-class marriage requires a woman to have a bride price. We don't have it. You only have two ways to get married.
"Which two ways to get married?" The fifth aunt asked, even Xiaochu also wanted to listen to these two marriage methods, and the right is a pleasure in recuperation.