Chapter 29 old lover

The place where Huixiang lives and picks up guests is located on the north side of Wuding Bridge.It was an old river house with a patio. When you enter the door, you are facing a three-bay bungalow. A small wooden building stands on the left at the back, and a small courtyard is left on the right.Under the green shade of plantains in the courtyard, there are a few lake stones scattered.On the side facing the river, there is a terrace as usual.Judging from the layout, the river house was small and unique when it was built; but later, probably because the owner changed it again and again, the house has not been repaired much, and it has been idle for the past two years, and now it is colorful. The paint is peeling, the beams and columns are corroded, and it looks a little rickety.

Huixiang moved here in a hurry after breaking up with Li Zhan.At that time, the news that the Qing army was approaching the city was already spreading, and she was also panicked, hoping that her old friend would come to pick her up.Unexpectedly, there was no news after waiting left and right, but at the end, he suddenly received a cold short letter, which did not explain any reason, only that from now on, all contact would be severed.Huixiang turned pale with astonishment, asked someone to question her several times, and even came to the door herself.Li Zhan refused to see him at all.Suffering such a merciless blow, Hui Xiang was so miserable that she became demented all day long, unable to think about food and drink, and then fell ill in bed.Seeing that her backing had been lost, and the city was full of soldiers and horses, her madam was even more afraid that something would happen to Huixiang, a sick and crooked "money tree", so she made up her own mind and returned the original river house with high rent overnight, and moved it. Come to this poor house.After Huixiang recovered from her illness, she didn't take her mother's actions seriously at first, thinking that she had lost her role, but later learned that even in the old courtyard of Qinhuai, those girls who used to be famous all became famous overnight. After being left out in the cold and her business plummeting, she realized that today is really not the same as in the past, and she has no idea how to support her in the future, so she has to make do with it for the time being...

Now, Hui Xiang has followed the dog back to the river house and got off the sedan chair.Due to the delay in reporting the letter a while ago, she was afraid that the guest would have left after waiting impatiently, so she looked around first, and found a donkey with a complete saddle and harness resting not far from the door, and a young boy who looked like a servant was crooked. After taking a nap by the wall, she felt relieved, so while walking in, she asked the hairy girl A Hao who had already heard the sound, "Well, where are the guests?" "Oh, it's sitting upstairs in the back! Mom, hurry up! Grandma is so anxious that she's going to lose her mind when she doesn't come back!" Ah Hao replied hastily, with a savior expression on his chubby round face. look.

"Isn't it the Mr. Zheng who came here once! Why is it worth waiting?" Hui Xiang said nonchalantly. "Oh," Ah Hao spread his hands, "Mother, go and have a look! You have been here for a long time, but you are silent, like a mud bodhisattva, you shouldn't talk to him, but you won't leave either!" Grandma said Well, at her age, what kind of guests haven't she seen before? But it's the first time she's served a 'dumb bird' like Mr. Zheng!" Hearing what the maid said, Huixiang stopped asking.Mentioning this "Mr. Zheng", a shy, fair child's face, and a pair of equally delicate, fair hands appeared in front of her eyes.Strange to say, this person claimed to be surnamed Zheng, asked his name, but refused to say high or low.Moreover, his speech and behavior are also different from those of ordinary guests. The last time I came back, I sat there for an hour. Although I also opened the banquet and served wine as usual, I didn't look frivolous at all, and even my little finger didn't dare to touch Huixiang. Sitting quietly, listening attentively and respectfully to what Huixiang said, occasionally adding a sentence or two, but like a girl, she blushed before she could speak.In the end, leaving the money and leaving, Huixiang and her mother guessed for a long time.Now, hearing that he is coming again, and he is still so stupid, Huixiang can't help but feel curious, determined to find out his details.

"Okay, okay, I'm back!" When Huixiang walked through the main room and stepped on the escalator to the back floor, she heard a familiar voice say happily from above.Then, the floor board creaked, and her mother's thin face with heavy makeup appeared on the escalator.In order to try her best to attract customers, and in order not to look too shabby and lose her status, since she moved to this dilapidated house, her mother tried her best to dress herself up neatly and neatly.However, this instead made Hui Xiang more acutely aware of her current situation, and felt piercing resentment for Li Zhan's fickleness and ungratefulness.

But the bitterness was only a surge, for she had reached the last step and saw that the guest had left the chair.So she had no choice but to gather herself together, and immediately folded her sleeves around her waist as usual, apologized and said: "It turned out that Mr. Zheng is here! I don't know this concubine, I'm sorry, please forgive me!" "Ah, no, dare not!" The scholar immediately cupped his hands on his chest, "The young lady will come back immediately after hearing the news, Xiaosheng is already... flattered!" He stammered, leaning forward at the same time, half-opened. Mouth, a pair of bulging eyes showed a long-awaited surprise.When Huixiang walked forward gracefully, he hurriedly took a step back to make way for her.

Hui Xiang smiled slightly: "Sir, please sit down!" "Ah, my lady, please sit down!" "My lord, please!" "Little lady, please!" Hui Xiang couldn't help laughing: "Mr. Zheng, why don't we invite anyone else, we should each sit in our own space!" The scholar, who was still arching his hands respectfully, was taken aback for a moment when he heard this, and then suddenly realized: "Yes, yes, each sits in its own way, each sits in its own way!" After speaking, he wiped his sweat with his sleeve , sat down on the chair. "Mr. Zheng," the madam who was watching from the side, was obviously relieved at this moment, and when Ah Hao brought the tea again, she immediately apologized and said, "There are still some mundane things in the humble house, so , I’m going to work on Hui Niang’s company with the young master, and the concubine will leave first.” After saying this, she saluted and hurriedly went downstairs.

"Hey, son—" After Ah Hao also disappeared without a trace, the small attic became quiet and secret again, and after clearly smelling the elegant fragrance of sandalwood, Huixiang suddenly shone slender and charming Looking sideways at the other party from the side of the white gauze palace fan, he said in a complaining tone, "You are too cruel! Why have you been gone for a long time since I came back last time? But the slave's neck Looking forward to it!" The scholar was holding the teacup, lowered his head, and gently wiped the water stains on the rim of the cup with the lid. After hearing this, he raised his face, opened his eyes wide, and said suspiciously: "What a long day? Little, Didn't Xiaosheng just come here the day before yesterday?"

Hui Xiang covered her mouth with a fan, smiled "puchi", then wrung her slender and tender fingers, and reproached solemnly: "Oh, it's not too long! The husband went there at the time of the unlicensed the day before yesterday—Wei, Shen , You, Xu, Hai...well, it has been twenty-five hours now!" The scholar surnamed Zheng opened his eyes even wider: "Two, twenty-five hours—you can say that. But..." "Okay, forget it!" Huixiang waved her fan tolerantly, "This time I will keep the account first! Next time I will not do it like this!" Then she squinted at him again, and said softly, "My lord How would you know how people think about you!"

"This—" the scholar's face turned red immediately, "I am so grateful for the kindness and love of the little lady...but..." "Needless to say, needless to say, I know, I know it all!" After expressing so considerately, Hui Xiang stood up, tilted her head, and asked lovingly: "Then, the master's intention is to play chess. Or listen to music?" "Oh no--" "Then, is it possible that the young master intends to recite poems and paint?" "Little lady means—to paint? No, and don't want to!" Hui Xiang rolled her eyeballs, and then pretended to have no idea and asked: "Then, how do you want my servant to serve you?"

"Serving? Ah, no, Xiaosheng only wants to--just think about the little lady... I don't know, I don't know..." The scholar looked at Huixiang and said in a low voice, his face was flushed, but his eyes began to sparkle. Seeing him like this, Hui Xiang somewhat understood: "It turns out that he is so anxious!" She thought, so she deliberately avoided the other party's sight, "Could it be that the young master wants to be a slave..." So low After saying a few words, she paused, and quickly threw out an affectionate wink, then turned around, pretended to be angry with a shy smile, and said, "Hey, you...you are so bad!" "Hey, no, no! Xiaosheng didn't mean that!" Seeing that Huixiang had already started to unbutton his front placket, the scholar was obviously taken aback, shaking his hands, and said hurriedly. Huixiang didn't care about his tricks.It's true that the family's business has been sluggish these days, and finally a customer came, so she naturally wanted to go all out to wrap him up tightly so that she could make a fortune.But after coming down these two times, she found that Zheng in front of her was not only full of nerds, but also obviously a fledgling "younger", who didn't understand the threshold of Fengyuechang at all.Based on Huixiang's experience, at this time, she must take the initiative and bring the other party into the net. "Oh, look at you! You're still shy! What a little villain! When you come to my place, you can do whatever you want, and the servants will obey you, so what are you afraid of!" She half-opened her skirt, revealing her red tube top, smiling He held up the cup, walked over with a swaying body, sat down on the opponent's lap, stretched out his snow-white and plump arms, tightly hooked the other's neck, and kissed on the girl's fair face first. After a while, he rubbed his body against him, and coquettishly said from his nose: "Poor thing, as long as you drink this cup of fragrant tea that my concubine drank, your heart will be settled! Hey, drink, I want you drink!" The scholar was obviously not wary of her coming, and was at a loss for what to do in a hurry; moreover, he clearly didn't dare to offend Huixiang too much, so he was force-fed and swallowed.However, even so, he still resisted afterwards, pushed Huixiang away, and stood up. "Please, please, please, little lady, take it easy!" He gasped and said in embarrassment, and then coughed again and again. "Be more self-respecting?" Hui Xiang, who was full of hope to lure the fish to the bait, was greatly disappointed by this unexpected refusal.While shaking off the tea spilled on her sleeve, she gritted her teeth and said with a sneer, "Young master, what you said is so funny! Tell me, what is this place? What are you coming here for? what?" "Because I have long admired my little lady's name, I came here to pay a visit. I don't have any other intentions..." the scholar surnamed Zheng said in a murmur. "Hmph, Jiu Mufang's name, I'm here to pay a special visit—this girl has seen many people, is there any young master waiting to visit?" Seeing the other party bowed his head and kept silent, she put the cup on the side table again, and urged bitterly: "Hey, tell me, tell me!" The scholar was clearly uncomfortable being questioned.For a moment, he coughed dryly, as if he wanted to speak, but he didn't say anything. On the other hand, Huixiang has no love at all with the other party. All the intimate behaviors just now were nothing more than acting, so although she expressed annoyance, she was already changing her mind quickly at the same time.That's right, before that, she just thought that the other party was full of nerds and didn't understand the tricks of Fengyue Field; but now, with years of experience in the world, she found that the intention of this uninvited guest who behaved pervertedly seemed not so simple up. "Well, then, the young master is seeing Gu today. Could it be that there is something embarrassing for me to help?" After a long while, she finally buttoned the front button slowly, looked at him, and asked coldly. "Ah, no, no!" The scholar shook his head quickly, but his face immediately turned red. "Being courteous to others, you must ask for something. The young master took care of you twice, neither did he want a concubine to play the piano and perform skills, and he didn't want a concubine to serve on the pillow mat, so he must be here to ask for a concubine to do things! Am I right?" When Hui Xiang was talking, Shining eyes kept staring at the other party, the scholar glanced in panic, then looked away as if fleeing. Seeing the other party like this, Huixiang became even more convinced that her guess was right.Only in this way, she was not in a hurry to ask. "Well, since he's begging me, he'll talk about it himself," she thought. The indistinct fragrance of Shen Tan slowly drifts away from the Boshan furnace.Due to the cessation of the conversation, for a while, the attic became quiet, only the bright sunset light came in through the curtains of the west window and projected onto the east wall, reflecting the rosewood furniture and gold and jade decorations in the room. shine brightly. "Xiaosheng is...he came here for love!" Finally, a low and bitter voice sounded in the silence. Hui Xiang was taken aback for a moment, and when she confirmed that the answer was really from a scholar surnamed Zheng, she couldn't help but tilt her neck and laugh out loud. "You said—oh, you came here for, oh—for love! Then, you say, who are you for? Of course, it's not me. Then, could it be that you are here for Ah? Yes, that girl Stupid, but you and the young master are a match made in heaven!" Hearing such sarcasm, the scholar surnamed Zheng didn't get annoyed, just shook his head and said, "No, it's not." "Then, who is the young master here for?" Seeing that the other party looked very serious, Huixiang's tone has softened a little.However, the scholar surnamed Zheng still waited for a while, and then said softly: "Xiaosheng is really here for Ah Yin!" "A Yin? Which A Yin?" Hui Xiang asked suspiciously. "A Yin is A Yin. How many other A Yins are there in this world?" The scholar surnamed Zheng raised his head and answered, his eyes shone like rainbows, and when he mentioned A Yin's name, his voice was filled with infinite love Feelings. Huixiang didn't know who Ah Yin was, and she still looked at him in surprise.Suddenly, her heart skipped a beat and she stood up from the chair. "What? You mean Rushi—Liu Rushi! You're here for her?" She asked in surprise. "Ruyue—she changed her name later. She used to be called A Yin!" "Hmph," Hui Xiang couldn't help but sullen her face due to accident and some kind of instinctive dislike, "Young Master is so bold, you dared to make a proposal to the Shangshu Mansion! Don't you know what Rushi's status is now? Is it?" "Xiaosheng knows. But Xiaosheng is not afraid. As long as he can see Ah Yin again, Xiaosheng will die immediately, and he is willing!" Huixiang blinked.The reckless fanaticism and sincerity shown by the other party when he said these few words surprised her once again. "Who the hell is your son? How do you know I can help you?" After a moment of silence, she finally asked again. "Young lady, you don't need to ask any more questions. Xiaosheng is well aware that this matter is dangerous, and he doesn't want to implicate young lady. I just ask young lady to help Xiaosheng meet Ah Yin, and I will definitely repay you generously, and I will never break my promise!" "Hmph, why do you think Ah... Ah Yin is willing to see you?" "Just rely on this!" The scholar surnamed Zheng said confidently, then took out a kit from his bosom, stroked it lightly, and handed it over with both hands. This is a very delicate brocade pouch, with the pattern of double lotus flowers woven with gold and silver threads.Opening the kit, inside was a small bundle of jet-black shiny hair, and a handkerchief with the words "Life and death will never change" written on it, and it was clearly written like blood... Seeing clearly that the other party was relying on such a "token", Hui Xiang couldn't help shaking her head secretly.Because to put it bluntly, this is a way for them to win over customers as prostitutes, and it can't be taken seriously at all.Take Huixiang herself as an example, how many similar tokens have been given out. "It's ridiculous that this idiot hides it like a baby!" she thought.Seeing the appearance of the other party's deep love, she couldn't bear to tell the truth, so she had to sit down again, and Guan Zi gently shook the white gauze palace fan. "Xiaosheng has been in love for five years, and he is exhausted physically and mentally. This time, he came here for his life. I implore the little lady to save you!" Perhaps seeing that Huixiang was silent, the scholar surnamed Zheng actually "plopped" and knelt down. Huixiang remained silent.Because she knew exactly what kind of thing it was and what consequences it would have.Although as far as she is concerned, she has nothing to worry about or fear in the current poverty-stricken situation, but she still decides to think things through. "If the slave family transfers this kit to A Yin for the young master," she finally raised her head, stared at him with burning eyes, and asked, "How can the young master thank me?" Due to despair and distress, the scholar surnamed Zheng had already become dejected and teary. Hearing this, his eyes suddenly lit up: "Ah, if, if the little lady agrees to help, Xiaosheng is willing to pay a hundred, a hundred gold!" "Then, well, please come and listen to the good news in three days, sir!" After agreeing so decisively, Hui Xiang straightened up and stood up. ... "Hey, are you really going to do this for him?" After sending away the grateful and overwhelmed guests, the madam asked worriedly as she turned around. "Of course I do! Why not? It's a reward of one hundred taels of silver!" Hui Xiang waved her hand and answered simply. "This, this is a matter of turmoil, if something goes wrong, it will not be fun!" "..." "Besides, Mrs. Liu is very close to you, so you shouldn't just point to the fire pit and make her jump!" Hui Xiang giggled: "Mother, when did you become so hearted as a bodhisattva, you don't even want white money?" After a pause, she said, "Don't worry, you can do it yourself if you want to do it or not." Elder sister makes up her mind, it's not our turn to take care of her! Besides, her old man Qian is really pissed, and if he is determined to wait like that, he should be allowed to touch bad luck!"