Brother, did you confess today?

Ru Ji went to find the woman the next day. As far as she knew, the woman who claimed to be her mother was surnamed Wang, and her husband was surnamed Zhao. People who came with her called her Aunt Wang.

Aunt Wang was sitting in a dilapidated courtyard, lying on a recliner and fanning herself with a cattail fan. Her clothes were dusty, but her face was not full of helplessness and vicissitudes because of poverty.

On the contrary, there was a kind of domineering that Ru Ji didn't understand.

When Ru Ji walked to the door, Aunt Wang caught a glimpse of her, and jumped out of the chair crying, and she threw the cattail fan aside: "My daughter——you are finally willing to come and see your mother... ...We, we'll go back right away!"

"Wait a minute." Ru Ji is not so innocent, she is dressed simply today, without powder, and she also took earrings, "I signed a contract of sale with my employer...he said that if I want to leave, I must give Give him 200 taels... what do you think?"

"Two, 200 taels?" Aunt Wang's face froze, her face was very pale, and her eyebrows and eyes were indeed somewhat similar to Ru Ji's, but her voice was much sharper, not at all as tender and mellow as Ru Ji.

"Isn't this stealing money?! How can you give it? You are an actor, so you can't just take advantage of that man! Isn't it enough to serve him on weekdays?!"

Aunt Wang said the same thing yesterday, Ru Ji frowned, and explained: "My boss and I don't have that kind of thing..."

"No? How could there be no opera singers? There were before now!" Aunt Wang snorted a few times, "You serve them, and it's fine if they don't welcome you back as a concubine. Why do you need money?"

"What do you think of me!" Ru Ji turned cold and shook her hands.

The woman who came with Aunt Wang hurriedly ran over from the kitchen, supported Ru Ji's shoulder that was about to turn, and said, "Why are you angry, girl? Your mother loves you so much. Tell me what you should do." The actor has been wronged for so many years, isn't it enough? Now your mother is making arrangements for you, let's leave Liuzhou and find a place to live, so you can marry a good family."

Aunt Wang seemed to remember her purpose just now, and she also put on a smile: "Yes, yes, mother loves you so much! You don't know, when you left mother, you were only three years old. I cried day and night, wishing I could jump into the river to die! As soon as I knew you were still alive, my mother came to look for you immediately. There were disasters and bandits on the road, but it scared me badly. Look at you now Now that you have grown up, mother naturally wants to find a good marriage for you..."

Ru Ji's eyelashes trembled, and there was a look of unbearable expression on her pale face, as if she believed Aunt Wang's words.

"But, but my boss won't let me go..." Ru Ji covered her face and wept, "My boss is very evil, and he deliberately tricked me into signing a contract of sale... His family is very famous in Liuzhou, I can't leave , I can only pay back the 200 taels, mother, what do you think I should do?"

When she called mother, her eyes were extremely cold, but her voice was soft and delicate, as if she wanted to leave Aunt Wang immediately.

Aunt Wang also laughed when she heard the words: "Oh, what can I do? Your mother, I don't want anything just to find you. I'm so poor that I can't get rid of it! You said that you are an actor, don't you get a lot of rewards? 200 taels...you should have it, right?"

Ru Ji chuckled, "Yes."

Aunt Wang's eyes lit up.

"This is all my belongings, and my boss did it on purpose, but since my mother loves me so much, I will go and pay back the money..."

"Hey hey——" Aunt Wang immediately stopped her, and smiled coquettishly, "This, silly girl, there is still room, don't worry... let mother think about it..."

"Mother has already thought about it, what should I do?" Ru Ji lowered her head, "The boss is still forcing me to sing, if mother has no idea, I have to go back..."

"Go, go..." Aunt Wang swallowed her saliva, "I, I have a solution, anyway, remember, mother just treats you well."

Ru Ji agreed, and walked out the door with low eyebrows, her demeanor changed instantly, and she stared coldly at the gate of the yard: "Bah!"

She went back angrily, and the little maid beside her ran over to pass her tea, and Ru Ji drank it in one gulp, then let out another pooh.

"I thought she didn't know how to be polite, because she could take me back after a few troubles, so I had such little expectations... The co-author came to covet my money."

Ru Ji grabbed the handkerchief fiercely: "Ling Lan, go invite the boss over... I have an idea."

"Hey." Ling Lan also nodded, "The boss also sent a message to the girl, saying that she will wait for a few days."

Wait a few days?

Ru Ji rolled her eyes, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that I can only let my boss look it up for me."

……

It's easy to find out why.

Zhu Xuguang knew Aunt Wang's name, followed her way to check, and found out that the woman next to her had been living in Liuzhou, and further checked, there were other clues.

"What does this mean?" Xu Xiangfei finished listening, "The woman has always lived in Liuzhou?"

"More than that, that Wang's husband was also in business in Liuzhou before, but the shop went bankrupt and owed a lot of debts, so the family moved away..." Zhu Xuguang thought for a while, "Others are difficult to find out, but you can be sure. The matter, Mrs. Wang probably wants to raise money to pay off the debt, and the woman next to her... used to be the cook of Lelou."

Xu Xiangfei was taken aback: "It's better to settle this matter quickly... After telling Ru Ji, let's see what she thinks."

"Words have spread over Jingning Street, and they are all talking about opera singers looking for their mothers. It spread faster than I invited them before." Xu Xiangfei smiled helplessly, "Ru Ji has a good reputation over there, and there are also rumors. The reason I deliberately promoted it, and now she is in a stalemate, I think it is also my fault."

Of course, he wanted to clear the reputation of Ruji and Fengqingyuan, deliberately spread the name of Ruji, and later asked Ruji to give porridge to the victims, and Zhuyu Pavilion mentioned Ruji several times.

In this way, her reputation in Jingning Street will not be small.

When the woman made a fuss, other things were trivial, even if the things Ru Ji had accumulated in the past few days fell short, it was no wonder that she was so angry that she went straight back to the courtyard.

But she was angry, and Ru Ji still had some expectations in her heart. Even if she didn't like Aunt Wang's behavior, she still couldn't help being curious about her own mother.

"Is this Aunt Wang really Ru Ji's mother?" Xu Xiangfei couldn't help but doubt, "I haven't come to look for her for so many years, but now she came here suddenly... I always feel something is wrong."

"I don't think so." Zhu Xuguang lowered his head and thought for a while, "I heard that Aunt Wang once had a sister."

As soon as these words came out, the two looked at each other, and Xu Xiangfei let out a long sigh.

"Ru Ji may not be able to fulfill her wish."

He asked Zhu Xuguang to continue to investigate, and he took a leisurely carriage to find Ru Ji.

Ru Ji waited for him for a long time, but she became impatient, and complained: "My master doesn't know how to clean up a room in Fengqingyuan, and every time I come back, I really make my slave wait."

Xu Xiangfei groaned, tapped the paper fan in his hand, and slowly motioned her to look at the trees around him: "This yard is so big, how can I care about it? And I come to live, how can I be decent? Please be patient, girl. "

Ru Ji decided not to argue with him: "I said today that my boss insisted on asking for 200 taels before letting me go."

"This..." Xu Xiangfei understood after thinking about it, and couldn't help but smile, "The girl has achieved her goal, what can I do with my reputation?"

"I thought my boss didn't care about these things." Ru Ji didn't feel guilty at all, "Tell me what my boss has."

Xu Xiangfei sighed and had no choice but to tell Ru Ji everything.

I saw her tightly holding the embroidered handkerchief slowly loosen, not as sad as Xu Xiangfei thought, but relieved with relief: "I just said that I am not so unlucky, and my mother... That's how it should be."

Ru Ji smiled coldly: "Now, Master, let's enjoy the show."

Xu Xiangfei said nothing, just reached out and poured her a cup of tea: "You are a good girl."

……

Miss Ru Ji from Fengqingyuan suddenly quit!

Everyone was talking about it, not understanding what was going on.

The storyteller just knocked on the table: "What else could be the reason? The black-hearted boss forced the girl to give out 200 taels to redeem her body, and the poor mother and daughter can only cover their faces and cry! Miss Ru Ji can't come up with so much money."

"Didn't it mean that Ru Ji used to be... an actress?"

"That pear opera is not an opera, why do you think that all other opera actors do this?"

"Pear opera is famous all over the world, but Miss Ruji..."

Several people laughed.

Ru Ji was not angry when she heard such words, she just left crying on purpose, and ran to Aunt Wang and said, "Why did mother tell you about this?! The boss said that she had to pay 500 taels to let her go! What should I do? !"

"This..." Aunt Wang rolled her eyes, "Just sue him."

"Sue him? How dare I, if mother has this idea, I will not go back with mother!"

"No, mother's good daughter, you have suffered." Aunt Wang gritted her teeth, "How about this, mother will find you a good family and pay back the money, what do you think?"

"Where is a good person willing to give 500 taels of silver?" Ru Ji muttered, "Mother lied to me..."

"Mother didn't lie to you, let mother tell you carefully." Aunt Wang saw that she was moved, and immediately said the words.

What she didn't know was that when she finished speaking, Ru Ji's smile was still hanging on, and her eyes seemed to want to eat her.

It was already late when Ru Ji returned to the courtyard, and she went straight into the room without looking at the eyes of those around her, and drew her eyebrows in front of the bronze mirror.

This bronze mirror was bought by Xu Xiangfei. Ru Jifei said that she felt bad about being cheated, and asked her owner to give some money to comfort her.

Xu Xiangfei's rouge shop hadn't opened yet, and all the money was spent there, so he had to buy a bronze mirror worth [-] Wen for Ru Ji.

The bronze mirror is very similar to when she was in Lelou, Ru Ji couldn't help laughing after seeing it for a few times: "I didn't expect to go around, I'm still here..."

No different.

Ru Ji picked up the wooden comb, straightened her black hair, and sang softly: "When the peach blossoms are blown away, where is the beauty? The door is full of red..."

"There are neither beautiful women nor peach blossoms."

Ru Ji smiled lightly, the hair falling in front of her fell like a waterfall, her eyebrows were cold and gorgeous, Lan Hua finger picked up the pearl hairpin, and took a closer look: "That's all, it's my life."

Aunt Wang's idea was to let her become a concubine for a wealthy businessman from other places.

The wealthy businessman had taken a fancy to Ru Ji's beauty early on, but because he couldn't find Xu Xiangfei to talk to him, and Ru Ji ignored him at all.

Now that he had the opportunity, he naturally sent someone to tell Aunt Wang, and Aunt Wang quickly took the money, and then turned around to persuade Ru Ji to let her agree to return Xu Xiangfei's money and get back the deed of sale.

Ru Ji pretended to agree, and said that the rich merchant should set a date. Aunt Wang wanted to hurry up and get someone to pick up the sedan chair to pick Ru Ji away, but she cried and complained, and Aunt Wang had no choice.

"Oh, my girl, this is a great opportunity." Aunt Wang brought a wedding dress, "By the way, I will help you pay back the money, you have to give some dowry... Let your mother help you with your money." keep it?"

"Dowry? I'm just a concubine. Where did I get the dowry? There is no dowry, so naturally there is no dowry."

Ru Ji glanced at the wedding dress, and then at Aunt Wang: "Mother, you've made up your mind...do you really want to do this?"

Aunt Wang immediately said: "Girl, you can't go back on your word!"

Ru Ji smiled: "I don't go back on my word."

The day was set early and quietly, after Ru Ji put on her wedding dress and looked at Aunt Wang who was crying, someone was already urging her into the sedan chair outside the door.

Ru Ji smiled: "Wait a little longer, I'll talk to mother."

Aunt Wang looked at the bundle in her hand: "This is..."

"My mother is right. I should also repay this official. My mother will help keep these taels so that they can be given out as a dowry."

Aunt Wang's eyes lit up, she immediately rushed forward, opened the bag and took a look: "Hey, my good daughter..."

Before she finished speaking, the faint fragrance in the burden made her fascinated, and she fell down slowly.

"Since you don't regret it, then don't regret it." Ru Ji untied her wedding dress, restrained her melancholy and distressed body, and said with a burning and aggressive aura, "Being a concubine is of course what you are best at."

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