MTL - I’m Against the World-Chapter 120 The kind-hearted little fairy 14 shows you a way...

"The concubine has settled in Yecheng for the past few years and has been sheltered by officials to live in peace."

There is not a single bad word in it.

She said to the official with a look of gratitude: "In the concubine's heart, the grace of the official is like a mountain, and the concubine is naturally grateful."

"If the officials want her, that's to flatter her."

I have been with this person for two or three years. Mrs. Yuan doesn’t know much about him. Judging from his appearance, Mrs. Yuan knows that his patience has been exhausted. Spit out, I'm afraid it won't be good.

Yuan Niangzi scolded this official for being stingy and stingy, and nodded wisely: "But you also know, official, Ma Tao took a lot of thought to come out. The old-age girl, according to the rules in our business, this girl must not be hasty when she greets customers with open faces, do you think you need to take care of this matter, officials?"

Only the women at the bottom will collect money according to the number of times they serve men. After all, the more they sell, the less valuable they are, so famous girls will not easily let customers touch their bodies.

Got a chance to sit down with the girl and talk about poetry and painting.

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If the guest is generous and willing to spend money, the madam will arrange the next routine, first stop him from seeing anyone: "Yo~, Lord, you can come, the girl was there last night. I think you can shed tears, now, this is the poems & paintings & embroidered purses made by the girl for you, look, the girl has all her heart on you."

The female ticket customer has long been tickled by the professionally trained female branch, and when she hears the old bustard, she is even more impatient: "If that's the case, don't hurry up and invite the girl Come out and meet me?"

The old bustard has something to say again: "The girl is thinking of you day and night, but it's not easy for her to come out to see guests at this time."

If she doesn't dress up beautifully, how could she have the nerve to show her face to you?"

If the female voter is illiterate and says I don't mind the girl wearing old clothes, the bustard will shake the handkerchief and ask the female voter to sit downstairs, let alone talk to the girl. , I can't even see the girl's shadow again, the poor ghost is not qualified to waste the girl's time.

No more.

The bustard has countless excuses and reasons to take money out of the female ticket customer's pocket. When the female ticket customer spends the money to the price in the bustard's heart, she will arrange the last level - Pick an auspicious day, hold a simple ceremony, and invite the female ticket passenger and the girl to go to Wushan.

If it is the first time for this girl to pick up a guest, the ceremony will be more solemn. Cup, and then the bustard will lead the other girls in the building and the familiar guests to congratulate them.

The two of them are considered a dewy couple. In this way, the female ticket customers can only kiss and kiss.

That Guan'er was originally the guest of Mrs. Yuan, so Mrs. Yuan would not be able to ask him for money in person. Not to mention hurting her feelings, she would appear to be too low-level, and she doesn't have the bearing of Auntie Hong.

Now that the official wants Ma Tao, the identity of Yuan Niangzi has changed, Ma Tao is her tune | taught, she is Ma Tao's bustard mother, this first business is related to Ma Tao's future worth, she planned for her own girl, and it was not embarrassing to talk about money with the official, so she generously put forward a request to organize a fight.

The official is a starving ghost, and he is not ignorant of the rules in the building. Ma Tao is not worse than the red aunt in the building in terms of temperament and appearance. Young and fresh, although he is stingy, he will not be stingy at this time. He rolled his eyes and pondered in his heart for a while. In the end, he took two cakes of gold to Mrs. Yuan.

Now the world is chaotic, copper coins are heavy and difficult to carry, the purchasing power of gold is stronger than copper coins, two gold cakes can buy a small house, can buy four or five good horses, seriously It's not a small thing to get up, but when Mrs. Yuan took the two pieces of gold, she was still stuck in her chest, making her wish to spit the official.

When she debuted, the first benefactor spent ten gold in the building for three days to be her guest of honor.

Just before she left for the Northland, there was a rich man who spent hundreds of gold and asked the world-renowned poet to write a poem for a girl in the building and hold the girl Only when the land of the smoke and willows in the south of the Yangtze River became popular, did the beauty return.

This dog officer only spends two gold to pick flowers that she has cultivated for several years.

In the Taiping years, if she wanted to embrace a "fairy" like Ma Tao, let alone two gold, it was two hundred gold, she would have to carefully choose a person for Ma Tao Woolen cloth.

The only thing she hates is that the situation is better than others. The building she used to stay in has a background, and the old lady can ignore the faces of those petty officials and only pick the high-profile guests for the girl to receive.

They were trapped in Yecheng and couldn't escape. The senior official of Yecheng, Mrs. Yuan, had no connections, and this official was the backer she managed to find, so even if she had Unwilling to do so, he forced himself to hold back his distress and reluctance, and took the two golden pancakes.

Since the money is received, it will be someone.

If Mrs. Yuan told Ma Tao directly that you go to sleep with my concubine, Ma Tao would definitely not agree even if she was careless. On Guan'er's bed, that Guan'er would definitely be a disappointment. For the Guan'er's experience, she had to make Ma Tao willing to accompany him.

As for how to make Ma Tao willing to accompany the official, Mrs. Yuan has her own idea.

Sending away the concubine, the Yuan lady is "sick".

The journey from Beidi to Hejianfu was uneventful. Lady Yuan "was tired from traveling on the road, and the root of the disease has already fallen." Taking money out to do good deeds, she "wasn't able to recuperate properly due to lack of food and clothing", so she can't hold it anymore, "the terminally ill and difficult to get up".

Lady Yuan lay down.

After coming to the door, this old doctor with a virtuous style played with a peach wood sword for a while, beheading two "evil evil spirits" who got lost and stranded in the house, and then diagnosed the pulse prescription.

The old doctor said that Mrs. Yuan's illness is not serious, but she was weak and weak after suffering hardships in her early years, and she was exhausted by running back and forth on the road, and she was dying.

It's easy for her to get better. Drinking one pair of Dabu's "Dou Shen Soup" a day, make up for it for three years and five years, she will definitely be refreshed and restored to its original state.

"Single ginseng soup" needs to use whole ginseng as medicine.

No one grows ginseng these days. It grows in the deep mountains and old forests. The number of people who need to be found by experienced herbalists is scarce. high.

Rao Shima Tao didn't take money seriously, and when she heard the news, she couldn't help but be shocked.

"Forget it, I have a cheap life, how can I enjoy a good thing like Solitary Ginseng Soup?"

Yuan Niangzi showed a wry smile and took Ma Tao's hand: "I have been lonely for half my life, and it was so easy for God to take pity on you and recognize Tao'er as a righteous daughter. Being able to depend on each other for life, how can you know that your mother and daughter have a deep relationship, but I don’t regret dying, but if you suffer for your daughter, you will run around alone in this world of red, thinking about it, my heart will break."

Before she could finish her words, Ma Tao was already in tears.

Ms. Yuan grasped Ma Tao's hand tightly, coughed for a while and then added a strong medicine, she touched a small box from the bedside and handed it to Ma Tao: "There's only a little bit of silver left in the house, you can take it, you don't have to spend money to buy a coffin for me after I've breathed, just take a straw mat and roll me up and bury me outside the city. Now, the money saved will be left to you."

"Mother!"

Ma Tao's cry was like a cuckoo crying blood.

"The world is very difficult, and it is difficult to move without money, but it is a pity that the adoptive mother is useless and cannot leave me more money for Tao'er."

Yuan Niangzi opened her mouth and gasped like a dying fish: "Good boy, you are the only one left in the future, you, you must grow up well, don't let The adoptive mother cares about you underground."

"No! I won't let you die!"

Ma Tao's eyes were swollen and she picked up the wooden box that Yuan Niangzi handed her: "The doctor said, as long as you eat Dushen soup for three or five years, you can take care of your body. I'll go get you medicine now."

"Hey! You kid, what kind of family are we? How can we afford Dushen soup for three or five years?"

Yuan Niangzi patted the bed and helped Ma Tao to reason sadly: "Eating it once or twice is totally useless, why bother to waste money? It's better to save the money for you to live. It's normal."

How can Ma Tao listen?

The life of a pheasant will be blocked by her chest, not to mention the life of Lady Yuan who has a "mother-daughter relationship" with her? She could give all her money to someone she didn't even know, how could she be willing to ignore the life and death of Lady Yuan for a little money?

Ma Tao took the box and rushed to the medical hall, poured out the money inside, mixed a pair of Dushen soup, returned home with the medicine, boiled the medicine and paired Weeping in the box with only two green coins left.

I have the medicine today, what about tomorrow? What about the day after tomorrow?

Giving the boiled medicine to Mrs. Yuan, and waiting for her to clean her hands and rinse her mouth, Ma Tao went straight out to earn money.

There was a circle on the street, and Ma Tao was at a loss and found nothing but gave two green coins to a sick beggar.

She has no capital and no source of goods to set up a stall and open a shop. It means that she does not need to think about it, and it works for others. No matter whether it is a restaurant or a cloth shop, she does not recruit female staff, not to mention the chores of sewing, pulping and washing. .

In these years, she followed Yuan Niangzi to learn to sing beautiful songs, learn to write Yin poems, and did not make any progress in needlework. With her omission, she was only able to sew clothes for the poor. People who are a little more particular don't look down on her work. They rely on sewing and repairing, not to mention letting Mrs. Yuan drink Dushen soup. It won't take a few days for her to starve to death.

Ma Tao, who was helpless, went back to see the "severely ill" Lady Yuan, leaning on the courtyard door and wiping tears, when Wang Yapo next door came out: "Yo, what's the matter? Is your wife ill?"

Ma Tao wiped away her tears and forced a smile to Wang Yapo: "Let Madam Wang laugh, the lady is fine."

"Oh~! It's no wonder you're crying." Madam Wang sighed with empathy: "Your wife's symptoms are dangerous, if the decoction can't keep up, I'm afraid it will only happen in the past few days. son."

"No, I must save the lady."

Ma Tao bit her lip, clutching the last ray of hope and pounced on Wang Po's hand: "Wang Po, I want to sell myself, you help me find someone who can offer a reasonable price. Bar."

"My good girl, your heart for your wife is sincere."

Wang Po was so moved that she was so moved that she looked at Ma Tao with a sympathetic expression: "It's a pity that the world is now in chaos, and there are refugees everywhere who can't eat. In exchange for a girl as big as you, who is willing to pay a high price to buy slaves? You sell the three melons and jujubes as slaves, not to mention prescribing medicine for your wife, it is not enough to feed her."

The last way is impossible, Ma Tao can't think about it anymore, she took two steps back and sat down on the threshold and muttered: "My lady is at stake, what should I do?"

The sympathetic Wang Granny looked at Ma Tao's dejected appearance, sat with her on the threshold, and said slowly, "Tao'er, if you really want to save your wife, old lady I can show you the way."