Zhen Lian of the Red Chamber

When they arrived at Li's house, the matchmaker saw the appearance of Li's family, and then took another look at Li Laosan. She couldn't help but doubt what Li Laosan said. How can such a family raise a world-class beauty?

But I came here too, and there was nothing to be wasted by just taking a look, so I followed Li Laosan into the house.

Li Laosan invited the matchmaker to sit down and drink tea.Seeing that she hadn't seen Zhen Lian yet, she asked Granny Li beside her, "Where's Lian Er?"

Mrs. Li pointed to Zhen Lian's room and said, "Where are you sewing in the house? I'll ask her to come out!" She went into Zhen Lian's room and pulled Zhen Lian out.

Zhen Lian used to be doing needlework outside, but when she saw someone coming, she ducked into the house, but now she saw Mrs. Li came into the house looking for someone, she knew she couldn't hide, so she had to go out with her.

When the matchmaker saw Zhen Lian, she looked up and down.He took her hand and looked at her for a while, and the smile already bloomed on his face?Said: "That's it? Sure enough, I didn't deceive me! It's stunning!"

Zhen Lian lowered her head and let her watch with a blank expression. She hated these people looking at her with eyes that looked at the goods. She wanted to slap them a few times every time, but she couldn't, so she could only endure it secretly.

Li Laosan and his wife knew that they were very satisfied when they saw what the matchmaker said, so they felt relieved.

Niu Matchmaker said that tomorrow she would bring a painter to paint a portrait so that she could show it to Mr. Huang, and she sat for a while before going back.

On the second day, Niu Matchmaker brought a middle-aged man and let Zhen Lian sit down. The painter stared at Zhen Lian for a while, and the ink was drawn.

When the cow matchmaker saw it, she asked, "What's the matter?"

"I don't know where to start writing!" Shaking his head and putting down the pen, he sighed.

"Can't you just follow the picture?" The cow matchmaker was puzzled.

"You don't understand! You don't understand!" The artist glanced at Zhen Lian and smiled wryly, "It's because I have always thought highly of myself!"

"I don't care what you lament, as long as you finish the painting today!" The matchmaker doesn't care what he thinks, as long as it doesn't destroy her business.

The painter didn't argue with him, so he had to start painting slowly, and the painting stopped, and it took about half a day to finish the painting.

Seeing that the painting was finished, Niu Matchmaker hurried over to have a look. Seeing that only Zhen Lian's □□□□ was drawn, she was dissatisfied: "Why is there so much difference?"

The painter also said helplessly: "I have been painting beauties for so many years, this one can only be painted like this!"

Niu Matchmaker also knows his skills, seeing him can only draw like this, and finding someone else can't draw better than him, so she has to do like this!

Niu Matchmaker was planning to slowly find someone to choose for Mr. Huang, but she didn't want to think that since she saw Zhen Lian yesterday, she would never find someone better than her.I didn't see anyone else anymore, and rushed to Mr. Huang's house to settle down when Zhen Lian's portrait was ready.

After collecting the portraits, the matchmaker and the painter bid farewell and left.

The matchmaker and the painter went all the way in the carriage, sent the painter home, and then turned around to go to Mr. Huang's house.

Master Shu returned home, thinking about the portrait just now, sat there for a while, the more he thought about it, the more dissatisfied he became.

Thinking of his usual pride and arrogance, he only said that there is no beauty in the world that he can't draw!It turned out that he was short-sighted and mediocre!

Thinking of getting up immediately, he hurried to the study room, took out the best paper and laid it out, adjusted the paint, took out the long-preserved ink, polished it carefully, thought for a while, and started to draw.

After finishing the painting, he sat down with a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and smiled with satisfaction looking at the painting.

When the painting was dry, the artist thought about it, and it was best to mount it, so he carefully rolled up the portrait, put it in the painting tube, and went out with it to the special place where Su usually goes to mount paintings.

When I arrived at the shop, I handed over the painting to the shop owner, gave careful instructions, made an appointment to pick it up tomorrow, and then went home.

When Niu Matchmaker arrived at Huang's house, she didn't say much, she just said: "I brought a portrait here today, and I will keep Mr. Huang to your satisfaction, and I will never look at anything else from now on!"

"Oh? It must be extraordinary to be praised so much by your matchmaker!" Master Huang became interested, "Bring me to see!"

The cow matchmaker slowly unfolded the flower roll in her hand in front of Mr. Huang.

Master Huang was shocked when he saw it, took the portrait from Niu Matchmaker, and looked at it carefully.

In the painting, I saw a woman sitting crookedly on the couch, with her head slightly lowered, her beautiful eyes were shining brightly, her smile was half a smile, and the corners of her mouth were slightly pursed, half mocking.Thousands of amorous feelings emerge from the painting, it is beyond description!

Niu Matchmaker saw that Mr. Huang was staring at the woman in the painting with squinting eyes, and his eyes were shining, as if he was stunned.Without urging, sit down and drink tea.

After a while, Master Huang said in a bewildering way: "I didn't know there is such beauty in the world!" After speaking, he sipped his mouth, stood up and walked around, shaking his head and becoming intoxicated.

The cow matchmaker saw that he was only intoxicated, so she had to interrupt him and shouted: "Master Huang!" Seeing that he didn't seem to hear him, she got up and walked over and said, "Master Huang!"

Only then did Master Huang put down the painting, turned to look at the matchmaker and said, "What's the matter?"

The cow matchmaker shook her head with a smile, and said, "You just look at a picture and that's it. Then if you see a real person, you will have eyes on her?" She laughed.

Master Huang was not annoyed either, and asked curiously, "Is a real person more beautiful?"

"That's right! This painting only depicts her first point?" Niu Matchmaker said helplessly, "Then Master Shu is also a master in this field, even he can only paint like this, but I think her color !"

After hearing this, Mr. Huang unfolded the portrait and looked at it again, saying: "The painting is so beautiful, what can people do!"

"Master Huang will know it when he sees it!" Niu Matchmaker said with a smile.

Master Huang nodded, called the housekeeper, and ordered to prepare things for concubines.Then he turned to the matchmaker and said, "That's all, I'm very satisfied! You can make a decision tomorrow, and when the matter is settled, I will thank you very much!"

Niu Matchmaker agreed with satisfaction, and went to Li's house again.

Li Laosan and his wife hurriedly asked: "How is it? What did Master Huang say?"

"Master Huang is very satisfied after seeing the portrait, let me come over tomorrow to make a decision. You are ready to prepare!"

Li Laosan and his wife were overjoyed when they heard this, and couldn't help thanking the matchmaker.

Zhen Lian heard it in the room, and was so anxious that she was sweating profusely, walking up and down in the room.

If you make a decision tomorrow, you will take yourself back in a few days?Only a few days, what to do!

Zhen Lian felt uneasy, thought about it, and decided that it would be better to run away!Just wait for Li Laosan to go out, and then find a chance to escape desperately, and don't care what will happen after he goes out, first close this thing before him!

So he took off the clothes he was wearing today, and found something inconspicuous to put on.I found another bag that I had sewn before, packed some clothes and hid them on the bed, waiting quietly.

Sure enough, after the matchmaker left, Li Laosan and his wife were happy for a while, and then discussed to buy some wine, vegetables, fruits, tea and snacks for the guests tomorrow.

After a while Li Laosan went out in the carriage, and Zhen Lian followed into the yard.Seeing Mrs. Li closing the door, Zhen Lian took the small hoe back to the room and hid it calmly.

After leaving the room and waiting, seeing Mrs. Li smiling into the kitchen and taking out the wooden bucket, knowing that she was going to fetch water, she quietly went back to the room with a small hoe and walked to the door to wait.

When she walked to the well to fetch water and brought it up, Zhen Lianfang held her breath and trotted lightly behind her, raised a hoe and hit her hard on the back of the neck, with a muffled sound, Grandma Li was beaten to the body With a tilt, the hand loosened, and the wooden bucket filled with water fell heavily into the water, with a "boom" and splashes of water.

Mrs. Li's body softened and she fell towards the mouth of the well, and she was lying on the well mouth without moving!Zhen Lian used too much force, and she also fell forward due to inertia, staggering a few steps and barely stopped.

Seeing that Mrs. Li was motionless, Zhen Lian couldn't help jumping up, "thumping", "thumping", she couldn't die!

Zhen Lian lifted Granny Li's head and tested her breath with her hand. She was still angry, and she was relieved. Although she hated them, she didn't dare to kill anyone and let her hands be stained with blood.

I went to the house to find a rope and a piece of cloth, and tied up Mrs. Li's hands and feet tightly, and stuffed her mouth with the cloth.

Then she took off the key on her waist, ran quickly into Mrs. Li's room and searched for it. After searching for a while, she only found a few pieces of silver.

Zhen Lian was not greedy to search again, and immediately ran back to the room, picked up her bag, ran to the door, opened the lock with the key, opened the door carefully, stretched out her head and looked outside, and seeing no one, she turned around and closed the door, Run to the right.

Zhen Lian didn't know the way either, she just ran indiscriminately, and when she saw a cross street in front of her, she turned left and started running.I ran a few streets, but I don't know where I went.

Seeing that she had already run a long way, Zhen Lian turned around and ran into an alley and stopped, leaning her body limply against the wall, gasping for breath.He opened his mouth and breathed heavily, and his heartbeat slowly calmed down.

When Li Laosan came home and saw that he had run away, he would definitely come to look for him, and maybe he would tell the Huang family to help them find him.There are many adults in the Huang family, so they can easily find them. It is only safe to go out of the city and go far before they find out.

But I don't know where the city gate is, so I can only ask others!

After Zhen Lian had a good rest, she went out to find a shop, walked in, and asked with a smile on her face, "Excuse me, how can I get to the city gate?"

There was only one clerk in the store, and he was stunned when he saw Zhen Lian, and he didn't understand what Zhen Lian was talking about.

Zhen Lian saw that he just looked at her and didn't move, so she asked loudly again.

"Excuse me, do you know how to get to the city gate?"

The guy came back to his senses, his eyes were still fixed on Zhen Lian, and he asked, "Which door?"

Zhen Lian didn't know which door it was, as long as she could get out quickly, she asked, "Which door is the closest?"

"Simon is the closest!"

"How to get there?" Zhen Lian was anxious, and asked again quickly.

"Go straight from here, turn right at the front intersection, and just keep going." The clerk walked to the door of the store and pointed to the right side of the store.

Zhen Lian wrote it down, thanked her, and quickly walked out of the shop to the right.

The waiter in the shop said it was close, but in fact the street is very long, and when Zhen Lian half-run and half-walked to the intersection, half an hour had passed!

Turn right according to the road pointed by the buddy, and after walking for a while, the sky darkened. Zhen Lian felt terrible when she saw that the gate of the city would be closed when it was dark, so she ran as hard as she could.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and Zhen Lian was getting more and more anxious, running faster and faster, and finally the distant city wall appeared in front of Zhen Lian, Zhen Lian was overjoyed, and quickened her pace again.