beg for chivalry

In February, Jiading.

There are three rivers converging here, the snow waves are rolling, and it is like a stream of chariots and horses, noisy with merchants.The streets and alleys of Qingshi are winding and criss-crossing, Langfang is one after another, peddlers holding small gongs are shouting sky-high prices, and the market is in full swing.In Jiading, the most eye-catching thing is that sea mangroves are planted beside the roads and in the courtyards of every household. When spring comes, delicate pink and white or bright red flowers bloom, like colorful clouds covering the sun, hanging from the branches.

Behind the clusters of sea red flowers, there is a gorgeous tall building with carved beams and painted buildings. It is brightly lit at night, and there are often actors singing in it.If you are a lonely and old drinker who is familiar with this place, you will know that it is a drunk spring garden that deals in skin and meat. There are often new and tender babies in the garden. At the beginning, they do some rough work for the waiter to boil water and wash clothes. When they are old, they will be bought for the first night.If the appearance is good, it will be sold at a higher price.

It seems that there is a distinguished guest in the garden today.Upstairs, there are many children timidly lined up in a row, wearing silk dresses, with rice powder and rouge on their faces, all dressed up beautifully.A rich man in a gold dress embroidered with thread was holding a mahogany fan inlaid with silver thread, proudly being greeted by the madam, picking and choosing among these children, as if he wanted to find some to go back to be a housemaid.

The madam wrinkled her face with a smile, and said enthusiastically: "Master Yu, just take a look, we have carefully selected these goods from all over the world, and they are just waiting for a distinguished guest like you to take them away." He spat at the row of girls, "Quickly stand up for Master Yu!"

Mr. Yu pinched his beards, carefully pinched the chins of each child, scrutinized their faces, and asked his servants to pinch their figures to see if they were fair and frail, and could please him. The master is happy.

When he walked in front of a girl, Master Yu's eyelids twitched suddenly, he squatted down while stroking his beard, and approached the girl's face: "Um..."

"Master, have you fallen in love with her?" The madam followed with a smile, rubbing her hands constantly, "This is a doll from the mountains, although she has not received much education, but she has a pretty face and a clean person. "

Master Yu said harshly to the female doll, "This is what I want."

The little girl was wearing a pink dress, her face was flushed like a ripe natto, and her eyes were delicate.The most eye-catching thing is her pair of big, lacquered eyes, which are lively and agile, and there seems to be brilliance flowing in them.

The bustard was overjoyed, she hurriedly tidied up the baby girl, and ordered Mr. Gui to send it along with the rest of the couple.Several little girls were put on the mule cart, covered their heads with cloth, and would be sent to the mansion in a short while, where they would be ordered to play with them wantonly.Today's world is that money can buy life, and the rich are greater than the sky.

On this night, the moon is as bright as water, and the stars are sparse.

In the quiet of the mansion, a small head suddenly appeared on the blue tiles.A child in a pink dress struggled to climb up the tile eaves and climb over the white wall.

The little girl climbed over the wall, and as soon as she landed, a black figure jumped out from the corner, grabbed her by the arm, and dragged her into the darkness.

The girl struggled a few times, and looked up, only to see the silver glow of the moon disc lightly sprinkled down, illuminating the face of the shadow that was holding her.It was a young man with sword eyebrows in a hemp shirt and a jacket, but he had peach blossom eyes for tenderness.When the girl saw the young man, she stopped struggling and let him drag her into the darkness.

When he got to the corner of the alley, the young man put the girl doll on the ground, panting and wiping the sweat from his forehead: "Stupid bastard, have you eaten up the grand master's granary and didn't eat cakes? You're dead!"

The little girl didn't speak, just lifted the red skirt and lifted it to her belly.I saw a heavy money bag wrapped around her body, and it would rattle when she trembled slightly.

"Father, this skirt is so hot." Wang Xiaoyuan said, "Can I take it off?"

It turned out that this was not a girl, but a pretty boy.Although Wang Xiaoyuan said so, he already moved his hands first, lifted up the red skirt, and took off the whole thing.He didn't wear underpants, and he wasn't shy, so he stripped himself off in a short while, and his white flowers looked like a peeled winter melon.

Mrs. Wang was overjoyed when she saw that Qian's eyes were open, and she took off all the money bags on Wang Xiaoyuan's body. In a blink of an eye, she saw Wang Xiaoyuan standing naked with her skirt in her arms, and said with a frown, "You don't have any clothes to change?"

"I want to ask you, Father. Didn't you bring it for me?"

"What kind of dignity is it to be naked? Put it on." Mrs. Wang patted her head, realizing that she had really forgotten about it, so she scolded him with a straight face, then took the red dress from his hand, and put it on for him. up.With a bitter face, Wang Xiaoyuan was caught under his armpit, slipped out of the city all the way, and threw into the boxcar that Erengou came to pick him up.Mrs. Wang went up to the car shed happily carrying the money bag, poured out the pieces of silver, gold, and jewelry on the car floor, and counted them one by one.

Sitting in the front room and driving the car was a little bald boy with a melon skin cap on his head, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy named Qian Xian'er.At this time, Qian Xian'er was holding the reins of the car in her hand, she turned her face and said with a grin, "Brother Wang, this time we made another big bag of money!"

Mrs. Wang raised her hand and slapped Wang Xiaoyuan on the head: "This time I brought less, how many bowls of rice do you think you have for a meal?"

"I can only carry so much. If I take too much money at once and my body is too heavy, I will not even be able to climb the wall..." Wang Xiaoyuan protested aggrievedly.

Qian Xian'er laughed and said: "Then I can only wrong Mrs. Wang to sell you a few more times to earn some money!"

It turns out that after Wang Xiaoyuan grew up, she was often dressed up by Wang Tai as a girl doll, and mixed into the Drunken Spring Garden, waiting to be bought by a rich man. Load up on many pieces and sneak out.This behavior has happened several times before, but fortunately, the two of them exchanged a ticket for another land, but they were not arrested by anyone.

Wang Xiaoyuan grabbed the corner of the skirt and twisted the silk dress with his fingers.Mrs. Wang asked him to wear a skirt, so he put it on, and asked him to dress up as a doll, and he never refused once, but why did he have such a natural appearance?In the Evil Man's Ditch, he often saw children as thin as monkeys, tanned by the sun, but when they grow up, they will grow into strong men. Only he is like a little girl, white and clean, and flexible. Extremely strong.

He also asked Mrs. Wang, but Mrs. Wang said that it would be great for him to grow up like this, he could sneak into the Drunken Spring Garden, and he could cheat a dowry when he grows up, but he is a good cash cow.

The boxcar creaked, and the father and son swayed in the boxcar.Wang Xiaoyuan suddenly asked:

"Father, where did I come from?"

Mrs. Wang held the grass branch in her mouth and said casually: "Where else did it come from? It jumped out of your mother's belly. Stupid boy, don't ask here and there, I am busy counting money."

"Where is that mother?" Wang Xiaoyuan asked.As soon as these words came out, Wang Taisu glanced over coldly, making him tremble all over.Mrs. Wang flipped the shun bag in her hand, and the broken silver fell to the ground with a tinkling sound.

After a long time, he said, "It's far away."

"How far is very far? Is it farther than walking out from the top of the mountain?"

"Even if I break two legs, I won't be able to walk." Wang Taidao looked up at Daiqing's sky, and vaguely pointed to the distance, "Here, she is there."

Wang Xiaoyuan stuck his head out of the carport.He looked along Mrs. Wang's fingers, only seeing scattered stars. "Where is that?"

"Heaven."

"Yeah, why is mother in the sky?"

"The dead always go to heaven."

Wang Xiaoyuan just felt puzzled: "But, after a person dies, don't they just dig a hole and bury it in the ground? Why did they go to the sky?"

"Stupid bastard." Mrs. Wang slapped him hard on the head again, looking at the sky and murmured, "If you dig through the soil, you can still see carrion and bones eaten by insects, as well as traces of this person. But If there is no trace of people, then only in the sky."

Wang Xiaoyuan was very puzzled by these words, he was still young and didn't quite understand life and death.He only knew that some old mountain ghosts would never come back one day. Qian Xian'er said that they went to the deep mountains, where no one was seen, and never came back.

Qian Xian'er, who was sitting in the front room, interrupted suddenly: "Brother Wang, I see that you have been saving money after you brought Xiao Yuan out these few years. Is there any use for it?"

Mrs. Wang coughed a few times, with an unnatural expression: "No, no. I have to eat several bowls of rice for a meal, and I have two big food buckets with you, so naturally I need to save more money."

Qian Xian'er said thoughtfully: "But our elders are saying that you are hiding private money... that you have hidden a woman in Tianshan, and you are supporting it in Haosheng."

These words taught Wang Tai's face to swell and turn red, as if on fire.He yelled: "Oh, yes, I want to go to Tianshan. I have been thinking about it for a long time! But to go to Tianshan, I can only hire a car from a car dealership. It costs a few hundred taels of silver, and I have to do some comfort along the way." It costs a lot of money to move the joints!"

"Brother, don't be in a hurry." Qian Xian'er said with a smile, "If you are short of money, don't hide it, just tell us directly. Don't talk about hundreds of taels of silver, even the little ones with a thousand taels of gold will be fine." I want to get it for you!" He has been Tai Wang's follower and little follower since he was a child, even if he had to go down a mountain of swords and seas of fire, he would not hesitate to do it for this big brother.

"Right, Wang Xiaoyuan?" Qian Xian'er turned her head to Wang Xiaoyuan and said, "Look at your father is so pitiful, even if you want to see his mother-in-law once, let's work harder, earn more money, and give him a ride, okay?" ?”

Wang Xiaoyuan listened in bewilderment, thinking in his heart, isn't father's mother-in-law his own mother?But he knew that he was picked up, even if the person in Tianshan was really the old lady's good friend, he could only call her Yimian at most.

"Okay, what do you want me to do?" Wang Xiaoyuan nodded ignorantly, and asked Qian Xian'er.

Qian Xian'er and Mrs. Wang smiled broadly, grabbed his arm, winked at him, and said:

"All in all, hey, let's sell you ten or eight times first!"