The Sweet Little Fulang

The two found a secluded corner and sat down. After ordering food and drink, Luo Biao said, "If you don't come to me, I will come to you."

The buddy brought a pot of wine and poured it for the two of them. Shen Xuanqing toasted with him and asked, "What's the matter?"

"The hunter in Niujiazhuang knows that you have raised a lot of rabbits. Last winter, he also built a rabbit shed and raised a lot of rabbits. He heard that you sent them to the building. These days, he is looking for someone to trust and give benefits to the chef. .”

As he said that, Luo Biao lowered his voice: "At the beginning, the chef paid 45 cents for a rabbit, and I bought our rabbits for [-] cents, but the one surnamed Niu sold it to the chef for [-] cents. , trying to grab business, two days ago I ran into Brother Shen who came back from your place in the town, he told me that he might not send rabbits to the building, and I haven’t responded to the building yet, this happened to me .”

The relationship between Chef and Luo Biao is just like that. Since there are greater benefits, naturally they won't let the money they get go away.

Shen Xuanqing smiled and said: "It seems that it is God's will. If we can't do it, let it go. If we don't compete with him, we will be angry in vain if we work hard."

Since he could see it, Luo Biao didn't care anymore, he just sighed while drinking.

"What's the matter?" Shen Xuanqing asked. When I saw Luo Biao in the alley just now, I saw that his complexion was not very good, his brows were gloomy and sad, and he was absent-minded and lost when he walked to the tavern.

Xiao Er brought two dishes, one big elbow and one green fungus mixed with bamboo shoots, one meat and one vegetable also had a plate of peanuts, the two chatted while eating.

Luo Biao raised his head, Zi'er drank the wine in the wine cup in one gulp, sighed and said, "I'm not afraid of your jokes, it's not that I'm old, I don't have a home yet, I'm worried."

Shen Xuanqing picked up the jug and filled it up for him, and said, "If you don't mind, let my mother look out for you later to see if there is any suitable one, but I don't know what kind of one you want to choose, daughter-in-law or husband?"

Luo Biao smiled wryly and said: "There is no difference between a wife and a husband. I don't have anything to dislike. It's just my reputation of running errands in the building. Most of the sons and daughters of good people don't want to hear it."

After drinking several glasses of wine, he was depressed and no one could tell. Now when he saw Shen Xuanqing, he couldn't stop talking, and said: "I'm on good terms with Hongyao. I was young and didn't know much about it two years ago, and I told her that I would earn money in the future. I paid money to redeem her, and we lived together, but in that kind of place, even if the old bustard bought her for only five taels of silver, to redeem her, it turned out to be 300 taels."

"Hongyao has a hard life, but she grew up well. When her parents die, she becomes a gambler uncle. What will happen to her? The girls who entered the building were tied to it for the rest of their lives. How many of them can come out? I made a promise, which made her happy in vain."

After Luo Biao finished speaking, he was stunned, and there seemed to be tears in his eyes.

Shen Xuanqing had never seen the red medicine in his mouth, and poured another glass of wine while listening without interrupting.

"I know, I don't have that kind of fate with her, she..." Luo Biao couldn't continue talking, and just drank his head in suspense.

Seeing that his expression was wrong, Shen Xuanqing frowned and asked, "What happened?"

There was a knock between the wine cup and the table, Luo Biao choked with sobs, and raised his hand to cover his forehead to cover his eyes. After recovering, he said in a hoarse voice: "Three days ago, it was still dark, I was not on duty that night, I was sleeping Then I was woken up, saying that she jumped down."

There was already a crying sound in the back of the voice, and he couldn't say anything else. He still covered his eyes with his hands, and could only hear a suppressed low cry.

Shen Xuanqing, who was about to take the wine cup, paused, but he didn't expect it to be like this, and asked after a while: "Well, it's a good burial? I have some in my hand. If you don't have enough, just open your mouth."

Luo Biao wiped away his tears, put down his hands and said: "She once put some money with me and saved it on the back of the old bustard. I also have a little money myself. I bought a coffin and buried it in the south."

Outside Fenggu Town, there is a mass grave. Most of them are the last places where prostitutes and beggars go. Some of them don’t even have broken straw mats.

The prostitute has no household registration, let alone a family grave, so he can only be buried there.

"You don't know how happy she was when I told her I wanted to redeem her." Luo Biao looked dazed, and went on to himself: "When she secretly gave me the money, she asked me to save it for her. In the future, we can buy a house, and maybe we can buy a few acres of land. Although she has been in the building for several years, she still remembers weaving and doing needlework. Let me plant the land and collect firewood to earn more money. She can buy the cloth so that she can give it to me. Make new clothes."

He suddenly laughed again, and said, "I don't know her handicraft? You can't tell that it's a pair of mandarin ducks even if you secretly embroider a handkerchief."

After laughing, he opened his mouth in a daze, and the tears in his eyes became more and more obvious. He wiped away the tears after he regained his senses, and said: "The old bustard only has money in his eyes, I know, even if I collect 300 taels, I can't bring her out. "

"It's not bad to live in the building if you look good, but it's even more difficult to redeem yourself if you look good. She also knows that, so she committed suicide."

Shen Xuanqing patted him on the shoulder for comfort.

After drinking a jug of wine, after expressing those sorrows and grievances, his heart was no longer so depressed. Luo Biao wiped his face, picked up the jug and saw that it was empty, and called Xiaoer to make another jug.

"It was said to be drinking, but I ate most of it." He said with a smile.

"It's okay." Seeing his ugly smile, Shen Xuanqing sighed softly in her heart and asked, "Then what are your plans for the future?"

Luo Biao took a bite of meat with his chopsticks, and said: "The old bustard has raised eyebrows at me for the past few days. I guess I can't stay in the building anymore. It's better to come out, so that others will not say anything when they hear that I work in the brothel. Squinting at me behind my back."

The man poured wine for the two of them, Shen Xuanqing raised his head and finished drinking, and said, "If you have no place to go, there are many houses in my hometown, if you don't dislike it, just stay here with peace of mind, and it won't be too late to make plans when you have an idea in the future .”

"Second brother Shen's kind intentions are appreciated, but I really can't bear it. Yesterday, I heard from Qiu Laosan that they are going to the north to sell horses. It will take two months to go away. They are so grown up, it's time to go out and see the world."

Luo Biao took a sip of wine and said: "The caravan is recruiting people. I have no great prospects in my life. It's okay to be a thug guard to deliver goods. This trip is far away, and I can earn more than the building."

Now that he had an idea, Shen Xuanqing didn't force him to stay, and asked him, "When are you leaving?"

"The morning after tomorrow." Luo Biao replied.

Shen Xuanqing raised his glass: "Okay, this meal will be practiced for you, and come back to Jixing Town to find me."

"Definitely." After Luo Biao finished speaking, the two drank it down in one gulp.

In the afternoon, after the hottest time of noon, the number of pedestrians on the street gradually increased.

"Ma'am, my man is not here, and I have to take care of the children and watch the shop. This chicken can't be killed." Lu Gu hugged Brother Ling who had just cried, and took out the hen from the cage with the other hand.

When the woman at the door heard this, she frowned and said, "Why is it that I'm not here at this moment? I'm going to buy chickens so I can save my hands."

Lu Gu smiled and said, "I'm really sorry, he went out."

"Forget it, forget it, I don't want it anymore." The mother-in-law felt unhappy and left directly.

He wasn't annoyed, since he didn't want it, he put the hen in the cage again.

The place in the shop is small, Brother Ling is used to staying in the old house and the new house, and he likes open and bright places. After staying in the shop with him for a long time, he wanted to go out arguing, but he was looking after the shop alone, how could he just leave, Ling My brother lost his temper and began to cry.

He went out to look at the street, Shen Xuanqing didn't come back, thinking that Brother Ling lost his temper, he probably didn't sleep at noon, so he went back to the shop and hugged the child and patted him to sleep.

This morning, I brought a small quilt. After Brother Ling fell asleep, he put the child on the bed. Half of the bed and half of the cover were enough.

He came out to sit and rest in front, looking through the crack of the door from time to time, for fear that the child would tumble out of bed.

Fortunately, not long after, Shen Xuanqing came back.

Lu Gu quickly poured tea, and Shen Xuanqing sat down and said: "The pig is tied in the backyard, and I will bring it over to kill it tomorrow morning. After entering the town, I will yell along the road, explaining that the pig will be slaughtered tomorrow."

If you want to do business, you have to let go of your face. He yelled all the way along the street. Even if no one paid any attention to it, if the news of the pig killing spread, people who wanted to buy it would naturally come and take a look.

"I sold a chicken, and an old lady came to ask to kill the chicken. Brother Ling was not good, and he cried as soon as he put it down. I could only tell her that I couldn't kill it, so she didn't want it." Lu Gu also sat down, smiled and shared with him. He talked about today's events.

"Don't forget it." Shen Xuanqing put down the tea bowl: "Where's the child?"

"Sleeping, put it in the house." Lu Gu asked him again: "Are you hungry? Have you eaten at noon?"

"Eat, how about you two?" Shen Xuanqing smiled and agreed.

"After eating a bowl of noodles, I asked for an extra poached egg. I ate half of it for Brother Ling, and then I fed milk fruit." Lu Gu smiled, and now he is used to staying in Jixing Town. would be too flustered.

"That's good." Shen Xuanqing was relieved, he paused and said: "I will not send rabbits to brothels in the future, I have already told Biaozi."

"Yeah." Lu Gu nodded, if you don't give it away, you won't give it away, and there are shops that can make money.

Shen Xuanqing hesitated at first, but Lu Gu was not an outsider, so he whispered to him about the Niujiazhuang Orion and the red medicine.

In fact, Lu Gu and Luo Biao were not very close, and they didn't exchange a few words, but when Shen Xuanqing said that Luo Biao was a good person, he believed it.

He had never seen Hong Yao before, but after listening to it, he knew that she must be a good girl.

"Guzi, do you have any more eggs? Weigh some for me, there are so many people eating scrambled eggs today." Mrs. Zhao, who was wearing an apron at the noodle shop next door, yelled before she got there.

"Okay." Lu Gu quickly agreed, got up and asked her how much she wanted.

Life and death are impermanent in the world, weep a few times and sigh a few times, but we must continue to live when we look back.

The mule tapped and turned into the back alley, and stopped at the back door of the sixth house.

At the entrance of Pearl Alley, Ji Qiuyue turned in with Zhao'er in her arms, the front yard door was wide open, and before she entered the yard, the boy got up from the ground with a whimper, and wagged his tail to rub her when he saw her.

"Sister-in-law." Lu Gu was making the bed in the east wing, when he heard the dog barking and Zhao'er's voice outside, he hurried out.

"Daqing came in from the back alley." Ji Qiuyue smiled.

"I'll go and open the door." Lu Gu hurried to the backyard.

Ji Qiuyue put Zhaoer down and let her run on the ground, and Guaizi immediately came to play with Zhaoer.

Shen Xuanqing wanted to go hunting in the mountains to earn more money, but it was not good to leave Lu Gu and the child alone in the town, and someone had to look after him in the butcher shop, so Shen Yaoqing could only come over when he went away for several days.

Shen Yaoqing is a man, in order to avoid suspicion, he had to drag her and Zhao'er along anyway, and also came to live with Lu Gu for a few days to relieve boredom.

It was like this last time, she was familiar with the way, went into the east wing to have a look, went in and made the bed by herself.