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Chapter 24 Yangzhou

Yuebai doesn't like Yangzhou and has never set foot on this land since she came back here at the age of 14.I can't tell whether it's disgusting or something else, it's just a subconscious reluctance to come.

He found Fang Siming's parents on a busy street.They lived well and opened a silk and satin shop on this street famous for its rouge, gouache, and satin.They wore brocade clothes and gold and silver, and their faces were filled with innocent smiles.Their youngest daughter is going to get married in half a month, and they are in good spirits every happy event, and the couple can be happy every day.

Who would have thought that before the new emperor came to the throne, they had to rely on the death of their own son to maintain food and clothing for themselves and other children in the family.It was Zhu Wengui's sum of money that gave them the capital to open a shop. In Yuebai's view, they all survived by drinking Fang Siming's blood.

Yuebai pretended to be a young master visiting from out of town, and came to this street to help her mother and sister pick out some gifts.He picked and bought some pearl hairpins and entered "Fang Ji".He was well-dressed, and a woman greeted him as soon as he entered the door.

That's the proprietress of the silk shop.Although it is old, it is well maintained.She smiled and said: "Young Master, this is your first time. The material we have written down is the best in Yangzhou. What do you want, Young Master? Let me help you look."

Yuebai glanced at her, and said: "Madam Boss, you don't need to say hello, just let me see for myself."

The woman nodded, and seeing the moon-white stalks of satin that hadn't moved for a long time, she couldn't help but leaned over and said, "Master, take a look at this Shu brocade, I guarantee you won't find anything better than ours." It's even better."

"Oh? I'll watch it." Yuebai responded lightly.

This is the time when there are the most customers, and the boss is so busy that he doesn't even have time to drink his saliva.The woman opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but the boss called her over loudly.

She managed to finish her work, and then saw Yuebai was still there.His fingertips slid across the fine brocade one by one, and rubbed it twice from time to time, the proprietress' face turned dark at that time.

"Young master, you can't do this. We are all doing small business, so you can stay here if you are here, but these good materials can't stand your mess." She said in a strange way.

Yuebai withdrew her hand, sneered, threw a 100 taels of silver bill on the table, and said: "I wanted to make a big deal with Madam, but I didn't want to "disturb" Madam's good stuff, so I left. These are the next apology."

As he was about to leave with his sleeves shaken, the boss quickly pulled him back.If a young master who looks like 100 taels of silver wants to do business with them, that must be a big deal.While apologizing, he scolded his wife, and Tong Yue was polite to him.

The woman was also dumbfounded, she originally thought that the person who came was a foreigner who was messing around, but who would have thought that he was actually a wealthy businessman who could call the shots.She quickly folded up the banknotes and hid them in her sleeves.With this silver ticket, she quickly apologized and flattered Yuebai.

Yuebai pretended to be impressed by them, and said condescendingly that he liked their material, but unfortunately the shop was too small and there was not enough material.There are many sisters in his family, and several younger sisters of the right age are married, so he needs a lot of good materials.The elders entrusted him with the shopping, but unfortunately he was addicted to playing games a few days ago and forgot about it, so he came to buy it today.

He is not short of money, but short of time.He wanted to bring those materials back in a short time, and he was willing to pay double the price as long as he could get enough.

Yuebai acted like a rich and a bit stupid young master.After talking about it, the proprietress said that your Fangji is the best, but she also expressed that it is a pity that the ingredients are not enough.He still has to go to other stores to look again.

What a shrewd boss.In a few moments, he began to fool the young man who was not deeply in the world, saying that the materials were mainly stored in the warehouse, and he patted his chest to guarantee as much as he wanted.The young master who thought it was troublesome immediately settled the goods with them, even if he heard them say how long it would take to check the goods, he gave a letter, and immediately gave a deposit of 500 taels, threatening to pick it up in three days.

The couple were so happy that they couldn't see their eyes, they respectfully sent the son out of the house, and then closed the door to discuss how to go to the opposite house to buy materials.To prepare the goods Mr. Qi wants, they are afraid that at least they will have to buy out the goods of several stores.However, with the savings of their family plus the 600 taels of silver given by the son, it is enough to borrow a little from the son and daughter's family.As soon as the couple gritted their teeth, the courageous one starved to death and the timid one starved to death. Just thinking about doubling the money in three days, they felt like they could wake up from a dream.The daughter's dowry can be thicker, so that her husband's family can also treat the child well.

Yuebai lost her trace in the alleys, and when she returned to the street, she had changed her face again.He was carrying a medicine box that he didn't know where he came from, and rang a medical bell, "jingling" a wandering wild doctor.

He found an inn to live in.

On the second day, I saw the Fang family couple trying their best to buy materials without telling people, while quietly inquiring about the wealthy son from other places.Naturally, it was impossible for Yuebai to leave this loophole, but the young master from other places had this person, and he even had a lot of imagination with Yuebai's appearance after changing his appearance.Yuebai intentionally made the two of them look exactly the same at first glance, but upon careful inspection, they can be found to be different.Sure enough, the Fang family couple was deceived, and happily began to borrow money to buy materials, just waiting to make a lot of money.

Their plan to buy materials went smoothly, and they had already bought everything they needed the next day.It is really not enough to make up, even if it is shoddy and mixed in a pile of good materials, it will not be obvious.

Yuebai made a pot of tea leisurely in his room, and from the window of his room, he could just see the opposite street.A group of people and angry customers gathered under the golden signboard with "Fang Ji" written on it.

The Fangs blushed and loudly explained something.But no one listened, the angry and resentful people attacked them loudly. "...Toxic..." "Fake..." "...Harmful..." The few broken words that came faintly with the wind reminded people of a whole story.

Yuebai lowered her eyelids, and her long eyelashes covered her clear pupils.He blew on the hot tea, and the hot air instantly covered his indifferent eyebrows and eyes.

Everyone in the world says "retribution is not good".But where is the retribution, where is the justice.He has lived for many years and has seen a lot of villains who succeed in ambition and gentlemen, but he has never seen a few cases where good and evil are rewarded.But it doesn't matter, just let him do it himself to make them suffer bad consequences.

The clouds in the sky seemed to be on fire, and Yuebai was stunned for a while but couldn't see it clearly. When he came back to his senses, he found that a building on a street was on fire.That direction was a little far away from Yuebai, but he recognized it as Hua/Street at a glance.

He stood up abruptly, that place... There was nothing wrong with it, it was the place he burned to a clean place six years ago.A gust of cold wind blew through the window and swept across Yuebai's body, and the sky turned out to be gloomy.Yuebai stretched out her hand in a trance, borrowing a piece of pure white, cold and flawless white.

Snowing.Yuebai raised his head, and the cold snowflakes blew in along the wind, covering his whole body and face.Yuebai couldn't help shivering.The snow in Yangzhou, the fire in the sky, he was suddenly dragged into the vortex of memory uncontrollably.White, white, still white.

In the overwhelming whiteness, his mother fell asleep with his arms around him for the first time, the first time since he could remember.He still remembered the soft and warm body, the whiteness outside the window, and the gentle fragrance of the flower named Joan lingering in his nose.

He fell asleep in that white snow and woke up in the gentle fragrance of flowers.Open your eyes and face a strange world, a familiar place.Finally his mother escaped the bitter sea, and then turned around and let him inherit the business of buying and selling flesh.

There he experienced two snow-white winters. In the first winter, he shared half of the only half of steamed buns he had with two people.The two of them took out the snow from the crack of the door together in the darkness where no light could penetrate, and you took a bite of each other, holding the stone-like steamed bun in your mouth.

Then a timid little voice said: "Brother Joan, I will repay you, I will definitely repay you."

repay?Yes, he repaid the last snow of the year in the second winter.

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The spring ice is thin and the branches are pressed, and the fragrance is divided into Yue'e.Suddenly it seems that the bottom of the ravine is deep in summer, and the old pine is holding the snow and whirling in white.

The little boy opened his eyes, not ecstatic, but still happy.Just last night his mother hugged him, and the mother's embrace was soft and warm.He thought that he must be more well-behaved in the future, and it would be best if his mother could hug him again, and hug him more.

He opened his eyes and saw a woman in her 30s, with heavy make-up and a shrewd appearance, very much like the mother in the Gusu building.She said he would be called "Joan" from now on.

one word.The little baby looked at the snow-white viburnum flying outside the window in a daze, thinking that this is really a perfunctory name.Ruyunge's mother pinched his chin, as if looking at a rare commodity, and said in her mouth: "This skin is good, like snow white snow white grease. The boy has big eyes and a big nose, not attractive enough and not eye-catching. Fuck us In this line of work, you may not be charming enough, but I am afraid that you are too temperamental, gentle and harmless to serve others." She patted the doll's face as she spoke, and beckoned the turtle slave outside to come in and take the doll away.

From then on, the doll named Joan settled down in Ruyun Pavilion.Ruyun Pavilion is divided into north and south pavilions, the south pavilion is for women, and the north pavilion is for men.Every night, bright red lanterns are hung up, flying red gauze, silk and bamboo playing in the blurred light and shadow, beautiful women laugh, and it is another feast to welcome the night walk of ghosts.