Love of Daiyu in the Red Chamber

A few days later, Zhong Chu received posts from several acquaintances, inviting him to meet in Huicai Building the next day.

Zhong Chu arrived at the invitation, and Tang Mou, who worshiped Mr. Song as his teacher with him, had already brought a few young talents and sat on the street facing him.Seeing Zhong Chu coming, he called out "Brother Ziyuan is here".

Zhong Chu smiled, Tang Mou first became a teacher, theoretically he should call Tang Mou senior brother.But Tang Mou was half a month younger than him, this man had a thick skin, and started calling "Brother Ziyuan" and "Brother Ziyuan".

"Brother Hongyuan!" Zhong Chu saluted back and looked at Tang Mou teasingly.

Tang Mou choked up, looked up at the sky and said nothing.

Several people around him and Zhong Chu's acquaintances came forward to say hello one after another, while the unfamiliar ones sat still.

Literati have the arrogance of literati. Qiongzhou talks about big and small, and Zhong Chu is not famous. Faced with such a small character, they don't even bother to deal with them.

After greeting several people, Tang Mou pulled Zhong Chu to sit in front of him, and asked in a low voice: "The list will be released in a few days, you can be sure."

Zhong Chu shook his head lightly, signaling him not to speak and look at the next door.

Sitting next door were a few middle-aged men in rough clothes and rags. During the days when he was with Lin Ruhai, he knew that those people didn't look obvious, but they actually carried official authority.

When you go out, you still have to be cautious in your words and deeds. Walls have ears. You don’t know whether what you say in front of a stranger today will be heard by others tomorrow.

Tang Mou understood, changed the subject, and talked about the new oiran lady in Baihualou.Several of them were half-grown boys, and when they were young, someone suggested that they should go to Baihualou to see the oiran lady, and if they were lucky enough to kiss Fangze...

Zhong Chu's face darkened. If Zhong's father and Zhong's mother knew that he was going to Hualou, they would be hit by mixed doubles.

In the end, Zhong Chu was dragged to Baihualou. They didn't see the new oiran lady, but there was a coquettishly dressed young lady sitting next to him.

Several people put their arms around the coolly dressed little lady and talked dirty jokes.

Zhong Chu played with the small wine glass and didn't drink much. The little lady sitting next to him just put her hand on his lap, but he moved it away calmly.After a few more visits, the little lady also knew that he had no intention of doing so, so she poured wine and vegetables for him seriously.

"Brother Hongyuan is sure to win the top spot this time?" Ouyang Lan, who was sitting on Tang Mou's right hand, swallowed the peanuts she was chewing, and asked casually while following Xiaohuaniang's eyebrows.

"I don't dare to be at the top of the list, but I am sure of being in the top [-]. If I want to say that the top [-], Brother Nan should be more confident. We are a great talent in Qiongzhou, who else is at the top of the list?" Tang Mou answered him unclearly, and said something. Probably, he handed the hat to Nan Feiyan's head again.

Zhong Chu's reputation is not obvious, his family background is not obvious, after each exam, he is the well-behaved Jiazi No. For Tang Mou, it was really not enough to watch.If it wasn't for Tang Mupihou pulling him and Mr. Song's relationship, Zhong Chu would probably follow another group of people and wouldn't be able to squeeze into Tang Mou's circle.

Several people came and went to compliment each other, except for Tang Mou who occasionally looked at Zhong Chu and no one noticed him, he just looked at them with a dark face (he had dark skin).

Ouyang Lan is the youngest son of the county magistrate of Qiongzhou. She has an older brother who works in Kyoto, her brother-in-law is the magistrate, and her sister-in-law's family is well-known in Kyoto.As for Nan Feiyan, like Zhong Chu, he is a student from a poor family, but Nan Feiyan has a bright mind, and after every test, he is the top of the list, and has become the top of Qiongzhou's exams.

As for the other people, they are either from the same family background as the few people, or they are the people around them, so let's not mention it.

"Brother Ziyuan was the eighth in Jiazi several times before, if he is the eighth in Jiazi again this time, we will not call you brother Ziyuan, but we should call you "Eighth Brother" instead."

Zhong Chu said "haha" in his heart, Brother Eight, why not just call him Brother Eight.

He picked up the wine glass and toasted the speaker, with a look of daring to do so.The man looked bored, and turned his head to talk to the people around him.

"Achu, you don't talk too much. Could it be possible to turn gold into gold if you cherish words like gold?" Tang Mou whispered to Zhong Chu secretly, ignoring those young masters.

"Yes." Resisting the urge to roll his eyes, Zhong Chu replied him.

Tang Mou's heart was hurt by thousands of arrows from his friends, and he pretended to be suffering.

Several people drank for another quarter of an hour, and suddenly heard the noise downstairs.Tang Mou likes to be lively, as soon as he hears something, he asks people to go down and ask what happened.

After a while, the boy who went down came back and said that there was a girl downstairs who was tied up by her family to be sold. She woke up unwilling, crying, and a group of people gathered downstairs to watch the fun.

As soon as Tang Mou heard that it was okay, he got up and wanted to go out, but was grabbed by Zhong Chu.

"Chu drank too much, it's time to go back, I'm leaving here, thank you for your hospitality today."

Tang Mou wanted to sneak away, but was dragged by Zhong Chu.

Although Tang Mou is the host today, everyone loves to hear good things, not to mention that Tang Mou himself doesn't mention it, so everyone followed this sentiment and said goodbye to him one after another.Nan Feiyan was dragged by Ouyang Lan to watch the fun, but after a while, there were only the two of them left in the guest room.

"Ah Chu, tell me about you, it's fine if you don't let me watch the fun. Then you say go, and now you stay here again."

"Go downstairs to see what happened, don't let anyone see it, tell me later." Zhong Chu ignored him, and only ordered Tang Mou's servant to go down and have a look.The servant was puzzled, and looked at Tang Mou inquiringly.

"If you are told to go, go, there are so many things." Kicking the chair's feet, he sat down angrily.It's just to watch the excitement, maybe a hero can come to save the beauty, and there will be no danger. Tang Mou didn't understand what Zhong Chu was worried about, but he sat obediently and didn't go down.

The two were relatively silent, Tang Mou couldn't sit still, he moved around, stood up and took two steps for a while, then sat down again.Scratching ears and cheeks like a monkey, restless.

"That girl is the eldest daughter of the family, and there are three younger brothers under her. Parents really can't do anything about it, so they want to sell her." The boy who went downstairs went back and forth.

Selling her daughter, and even selling her daughter to the brothel Chuguan, it doesn't look like life is difficult, but it looks like a grudge.

It's no wonder that the girls are unwilling. A good daughter from a good family suddenly changes from a good family to a low one.

"The main reason is that that girl is Nan Xiucai's cousin. When Nan Xiucai went down and saw that girl, her face turned blue."

Tang Mou's eyes widened, and he looked at Zhong Chu in admiration.Nan Feiyan looked open-minded, but in fact he held grudges the most. If he went down to watch the excitement just now, he accidentally did something...

"Later, Nan Xiucai and Uncle Ouyang borrowed 30 taels of silver and gave it to his cousin's parents, and this matter was over." The young man continued: "I heard that the couple took ten silver coins from the building and took them Nan Xiucai's 30 taels didn't care about the girl, and left on her own, and it was Nan Xiucai who took her away in the end."

After finishing his glass of wine, Zhong Chu stood up.

"Come on, go home."