Ding Tian's Ancient Life

In places like Bada Hutong, no matter what time of day you come, there are shops open for business.

But Ding Tian asked Wang Dafu to find a shop that was open for business, Wang Dafu was terrified: "Young Master Tian, ​​do you really want to go in?"

Ding Tian said as a matter of course: "That is, this is the place I came to."

With his outfit, to be honest, as soon as he got out of the car, the old bustard rushed up as if seeing a cash cow: "Congratulations to the young master, all blessings!"

Seeing the old woman with all the powder and dross falling from her charmingly smiling face, Ding Tian frowned: "Speak well."

Probably because Ding Tian's aura was too upright, after the old bustard was stunned for a moment, he immediately became more honest, and even stretched out his hand to tug on his own bust, hoping to raise it a bit, so as not to obstruct the nobleman's eyes.

"Go in, find a private room, I have something to discuss with you." Ding Tian has a decent aura, and he walks like a tiger, and the old bustard dare not make trouble with him, especially Lu Yan and Yu Fei, with eight One person, all holding the handle of the knife, it seems that this person must come from a high-ranking family, otherwise it would be impossible to have ten guards, and each of them can be seen as a generation with high martial arts skills.

After entering this brothel, Ding Tian didn't look much, the old bustard directly led him into a private room closest to the gate, this is the best private room on the first floor, with the windows open, you can see the pedestrians on the street outside, There are also some shrubs and flowers planted under the windows, but in winter, they are all bare, and the windows are not open.

There is a sweet aroma in the room.

After Ding Tian sat down, Lu Yan frowned, opened the window, and Yu Fei quickly threw the incense burner with the incense inside, and threw them all out.

The old bustard shrank her neck. In a building like theirs, peach blossom fragrance with aphrodisiac effect is lit all year round. It is not incense mainly made of peach blossom, but a mixture of spices with aphrodisiac effect. It makes people appreciative, and after a long time, there are also some distractions...so it is called "Peach Blossom Fragrance".

This is the practice in general brothels and Chu houses, except that the "peach blossom fragrance" here is a little bit more exciting, and a little bit richer....

"Do you have any elderly women here?" As soon as Ding Tian sat down, he asked something confusing.

"Yes, yes!" The old bustard nodded quickly, "There are two of them."

"How much will I buy it for?" Ding Tian said happily, and asked simply.

"This... you want to redeem them?" The old bustard was stunned.

"Yeah." Ding Tian nodded.

"But...my lord, there are plenty of young and beautiful girls in our Chunhua Building, you...?" The old bustard didn't understand.

This young master looked very young and tender, but he was so upright that he couldn't bear to look directly at him.

And the eyes are clear, there is no such meaning, not to mention the people who come upstairs this early in the morning, basically no one is really so anxious to find a girl.

But he didn't expect that when the young master came to redeem someone, he didn't just redeem some young and beautiful girl, but also an old woman.

What's the use of such an old woman...?

"Call out and have a look." Ding Tian sat on the stool, feeling upright.

The old bustard limply called the two oldest old women in the building to come over, but these two said they were old women, but they were only in their 40s, half-old mistresses. That's right, everyone was surprised when they heard that someone was going to redeem them.

There are two in total, looking at Ding Tian eagerly.

Ding Tian frowned: "Is there no one older?"

The old bustard had worked in the brothel Chu’s house all his life, and this was the first time he saw such a "guest", so he couldn't help but smiled wryly: "Young master, the work done by the women in the brothel...is just like that, it doesn't last long. life……."

Ding Tian understood that the ancient brothels and Chu houses were fire pits for women.

In this pit of fire, some people are lucky enough to be redeemed by others and become good.

But most of them were devastated for half their lives, and most of them ended badly. They either died of illness or died suddenly, let alone those who survived.

It's good to have two old women like this.

"Young Master Tian, ​​if you don't have what you want, let's forget about it?" Lu Yan couldn't hold back, and said in a low voice, "What do you want...

Really not, tell us? "

The light in the eyes of the two old women dimmed.

Ding Tian's heart softened: "These two... aunt, I will redeem you, follow me."

The eyes of the two old women suddenly burst into dazzling brilliance.

"Young Master Xie Tian!"

No matter what the young master wants to do to buy them, it's better than waiting to die in the building.

They are no longer young, and now the guests they receive are becoming more and more vulgar, and their bodies are becoming more and more unbearable. If this continues, they will not have a few years to live.

"How much is the money for the redemption?" Ding Tian asked the old bustard.

The old bustard didn't expect her to be redeemed, so she made a plan immediately: "200 taels per person..."

"Two people, 100 taels!" Ding Tian counter-offered: "No second price, don't talk about it."

The old crow laughed.

"Or do you think that there are soldiers patrolling in front of your building every day?" Yu Fei knew better than Ding Tian what these old bustards were thinking, and immediately threatened: "I still want to be called by the people from Wucheng Bingmasi to ask talk?"

Those who open brothels in Beijing have people behind them, let alone the large brothels in the outer city. In addition to making offerings to the backers, it is also necessary to manage the security yamen like the Wucheng Bingmasi.

Otherwise, as Yu Fei said, there will always be soldiers patrolling in front of your door...you are safe, and the guests are scared away.

People from Wucheng Bingma Division always ask you to ask questions, and Louzi's reputation will be ruined.

"Okay, 100 taels for the two of you!" The old bustard gritted his teeth and admitted.

Goofing around in Beijing, you can be greedy for money, lustful, and even addicted to gambling, but you can't lose your eyesight.

If this person can say it, he can definitely do it.

Then why should she cause trouble for two old and decrepit women?

He paid the money with one hand and took the deed of sale with the other.

Ding Tian took a look. One was called "Dong Hehua" and the other was called "Dong Lianhua". They turned out to be two sisters.

Looking at the deed of sale, Ding Tian thought that the two of them would hug each other and cry, but they didn't, maybe... they were already numb.

"Let's go!" Ding Tian got up, took the two old women out of the brothel called Chunhualou without hesitation, got into the carriage and left.

Of course, not the same carriage.

Wang Dashi, Wang Dafu's eldest son, was also driving a carriage, a very large ordinary one-shaft carriage.

It's just that after Ding Tian got in the car, he found a breakfast shop here and went in. A group of people had already eaten breakfast. Ding's breakfast was very rich, far beyond what such a breakfast shop could compare.

But Dong Hehua and Dong Lianhua sisters didn't eat breakfast, Ding Tian thoughtfully ordered a breakfast, simple millet porridge, steamed stuffed bun with sauerkraut meat, shredded pickled vegetables with sesame oil, and two salted duck eggs.

"Eat it!"

The two sisters devoured it unceremoniously.

When they were almost done eating, Ding Tian asked them: "I want to buy some old women who came out of brothels and Chu houses. Where can I find them?"

"That kind of old woman is never kept in the kiln." Dong Hehua said: "Master, if you want to find an experienced old woman, you have to go to the Tianqiao cave at the entrance of the North Hutong. There is a beggar's hiding place there. It’s not easy to be discovered, I go to beg for food during the day, and spend the night there at night, I’ve met my sister there a few times, the sisters who were kicked out of the kiln were begging there…”

"I see." Ding Tian felt sore in his heart, although he tried his best to ignore that this was a feudal era, but certain things never happened if he didn't want to escape...

Ding Tian's itinerary was very strange. He really took people to the gate under the bridge over there.

There, he saw five old women. They all had weather-beaten old faces and thin bodies, and their origins were clearly reflected in their speech and behavior.

"Let's go, take it home!" Ding Tian took a look and felt that he couldn't stand it anymore.

Lu Yan and Yu Fei were two older, and Tian Shao was usually a very easy-going person. For some reason, he suddenly became someone they could see but couldn't see through.

These actions revealed an unusual weirdness.

But he is the young master, they are just guards, they can't control him, so they have to obey orders.

This time, a total of seven women were brought back to Ding's house. The Ding's house heated a hot bath, washed them, and cooked thick millet porridge for them to eat. For the time being, they can only eat soft food, otherwise They have been hungry for an unknown period of time, and they can't stand meat.

These seven people were arranged by Ding Tian in an empty room in the back room, where there was a large heated kang, enough for seven of them to live in, and they were given new clothes, new clothes from inside to outside. , so that seven people are a little confused.

One of the oldest old women, she is already 60 years old, with white hair, ravines on her face, and few teeth left in her mouth.

But what he said was well-founded: "What do you want us old ladies to do in this family?"

The oldest among them is 60 years old, and the youngest is [-] years old. The Dong family sisters are still young in front of them.

What about people.

"I don't know, Young Master Tian didn't say anything." Dong Hehua shook his head.

To be honest, neither she nor her sister thought about the day when they would get out of that pit of fire.

The other old women were also muttering, but after lunch at noon, they were arranged to rest here. After their hair dried, another housekeeper sent some simple headwear, which were not expensive, but more expensive than It's much better since they used to wrap their hair in rags.

They didn't get lice, not because they were clean, but because they were out so long that the lice froze to death.

For dinner, they had gnocchi soup with some shredded cabbage and a little diced chicken.

Then someone brought them hot water, soaked their feet, wiped them clean, and then they could rest in the pit.

They were not asked to work, nor were they beaten or scolded. The housekeeper did not look at them with disgust, but sympathized with them.

The old women who have experienced ups and downs are a little dazed, thinking that they are dreaming, and some people pinch themselves, fearing that it will not hurt, the pinch is purple.

Ding Tian, ​​on the other hand, didn't feel any better at noon, but at night, Wang Zuo came!

With a black wind on his face, he saw Ding Tian and immediately slipped him into the bedroom: "Say, who did you go to Bada Hutong to redeem?"

Ding Tian Yile: "I redeemed a pair of sisters."

Wang Zuo's face became even more stinky: "Where is it?"

"It's in the back room." Ding Tian pointed to the back: "Do you want to go and see it?"

Wang Zuo said, "I... I... I'll go and see it!"

In front of Ding Tian, ​​he didn't want to lose face at all, and went directly to the back room, just in time for the Dong sisters to come out to give them the dishes and bowls they had lunch.

The two sisters, who have washed away the lead, can see the wrinkles on their faces at a glance, and they will unconsciously take on a posture in the building when they walk, and they will be full of dust at first glance.

Wang Zuo came back after reading it, and Ding Tian sat on the kang drinking tea and eating sesame cakes.

"Why did you buy such a woman and come back?" Wang Zuo couldn't figure it out.

"Of course it's useful, don't worry, isn't there a Buddhist hall in my new mansion? The big deal is, let them spend their old age in the Buddhist hall or Taoist temple." Ding Tian had already thought about it: "Only when I need it , they will help me... do things."

"What can they do?" Wang Zuo looked disgusted: "I'm afraid they won't be able to wash the clothes clean."