Chapter 3 Cuiyu Mingdao
The sun gradually rises, and shops everywhere are opening.
Even in the open space on the side of the street, some snack stalls were set up one after another.
Although Lianshan Town is not very big, the streets paved with bluestone are slightly narrow, and the road surface is bumpy and not very flat. The buildings on both sides are made of old wooden houses, which look a bit old.
However, because it is located at the junction of southern Chu and western Yue, it is a thoroughfare of water and land, and goods from south to south must pass here, so the market has always been extremely prosperous.
The entire Lianshan Town is evenly separated by two streets from east to west and north to south, and the rest are some small alleys. If you can look down from the air, the entire Lianshan Town will be like a piece of rice cake cut into four parts.
The third uncle’s teahouse is right in the middle of rice cakes, while the old lady’s tailor shop is on the edge of rice cakes, heading east to the intersection of the street, and the location is very good.
Anyone who enters the town from the east will see a plaque at first glance. Although it is eroded by wind and rain, it can still be clearly seen that the words "Hanjia Inn" are written on it.
In a side room next to the inn is Aunt Han’s tailor shop.
There were already a lot of people on the street, and various bargaining sounds were slowly filling my ears. Whether it was Yuexi's accent, Chunan's accent, or even Yanbei and Jiangnan's dialects, they could be heard here.
Sometimes when you are lucky, you can even see herders from the grassland or barbarians from the 100,000 mountains in the south. Although they may not understand their language, the villagers of Lianshan Town will be honest and polite in business with them, and will never bully foreigners.
A donkey that deserves a beating is constantly sneezing at Li Mu. Looking at the donkey owner with an apology smile, Li Mu could only helplessly avoid the donkey, run along the street quickly, and soon arrived at the tailor's shop.
Maybe because it was early in the morning, there were no customers in the tailor's shop. A middle-aged beautiful woman with a charm was sitting behind the counter doing needlework. She was Aunt Han, the owner of the tailor's shop.
Although Aunt Han behind the counter also had some traces of time on her face, the natural tranquility still had a different charm than ordinary people in the town.
Every time I see Aunt Han, Li Mu always reminds him of his mother.
According to the rumors revealed by Mr. Jiumeng in Xilou, Aunt Han’s original name was Su Hanzhi, and her ancestors were actually from a scholarly family. Her father also worked as a fourth-rank Qing official in the court. However, after somehow, he offended the powerful and powerful in the dynasty and was forced to retire. When he returned home and passed by Lianshan Town, he unfortunately got sick and soon left the world.
Before his death, he had no choice but to find someone to take good care of his daughter, so he entrusted Aunt Han to Han Dagui, a young shopkeeper of the kind and honest Han Family Inn, who had been taking good care of his family and was kind and honest, which could have fulfilled his thoughts.
Unfortunately, it was because of God's jealousy of beauty, or Han Dagui married such a talented and beautiful woman, and he had no luck to survive. After more than ten years of marriage, he fell seriously ill and left a hotel with a son and a daughter.
It is said that when Han Dagui was dying, he held Aunt Han's hand and smiled and said that the happiest thing in his life was to marry a well-educated woman like Aunt Han. The happiest thing was to have a son and a daughter with Aunt Han, with a strong son and a beautiful and innocent daughter. He had no shortage of children and had endless children. Even if he had a decades of life, what's the harm?
Han Dagui felt that he could already go to the ground to see the ancestors and ancestors with his chest.
This incident was rumored to be a good story in Lianshan Town. While the wives of all families envy Aunt Han, they must shed tears at home to teach their men a lesson - if they marry a virtuous wife like themselves, they will be content with their blessings?
For a time, the number of strict wife management in Lianshan Town increased significantly.
But no matter what, it is not appropriate for a woman to run an inn.
So shortly after Han Dagui's death, Aunt Han rented the inn and opened a tailor shop in the side house next to the inn. She didn't ask for much silver to earn, but at least she could spend some time and occasionally chat with the women in the town.
"I don't know how Mr. Xilou knows so much. It seems that there is nothing he doesn't know about Lianshan Town. It won't be as the third uncle said, this guy is the reincarnation of a mouse spirit, right?" Li Mu murmured to himself, while raising his legs and crossing the threshold of the tailor's shop.
"Aunt Han, I need to buy two short shirts and a pair of cloth shoes. The size is similar to what my third uncle wears, but it is a little stronger than my third uncle. Do you have any ready-made ones here?" Li Mu shouted as soon as he entered the store, which scared Aunt Han's hands trembled and accidentally stabbed an needle on his finger.
Aunt Han raised her head and glared at Li Mu with some angriness. Then she put down her work and stood up to teach him a lesson. She was so old and she still kept it all day long. She borrowed some of her own collection of books, and she was a little more flexible, but she didn't learn to be calm at all.
"Mugetu, why are you here today? Isn't this the day for Mr. Xilou's mouse storytelling? You are willing to run out. It seems that my charm is getting bigger and bigger, hehe..." Before Aunt Han could speak, footsteps came from the stairs, and then a string of silver bell-like sounds floated down.
"Please, Cuicui, you should call me Brother Li. Even if you don't want to, you should call me Brother Mu, not a wooden lump, okay?" As soon as he heard this voice, Li Mu leaned on the door frame with helpless expression and covered his forehead with his hand, as if he really hoped that he would faint soon.
Then he stretched out his right arm, a trace of tragic expression appeared on his face, and he looked like he was beheaded in the field of justice.
A doting smile flashed in his eyes and said, "And, can you change your lines? Every time it is because of your infinite charm, it makes me feel like I am gone for three autumns. Can't I be more reserved from a big girl?"
As soon as he finished speaking these words, the meticulous footsteps became even more rapid.
Suddenly, a green figure appeared on the stairs, and then floated over very quickly. Before Li Mu could react, there was a severe pain on his arm.
A girl wearing an emerald green light shirt and a simple girl's hair bun, and was glinting with beautiful almond eyes, stood in front of Li Mu in a pretty face, and was placing her hands on Li Mu's arm with a gentle look on her face.
Looking at the beautiful little girl in front of her, who pretended to be innocent, although Li Mu had expected it, he still couldn't believe that it was her who attacked her arm just now, Aunt Han's beloved daughter, Miss Han Jincui.
Since it is difficult for me to believe it, I naturally cannot get justice. It is not the first time anyway.
Seeing his daughter bullying Li Mu, Aunt Han looked helpless, but there was a smile in her eyes. She was not as happy as her daughter back then. Although she grew up in an official family, she had no worries about food and clothing, but every day she was either facing books or facing the empty yard, or she was a girl-red person.
"Hmph, I know how to teach me a lesson. You still owe me a lot of stories! What you promised before is that as long as the story told by Mr. Xilou's dead mouse will be told to me." Han Jincui gently rubbed the pinched part on Li Mu's arm, while telling her reasons without showing any weakness. "I owe me five games now, do you know, five games."
With the crisp sound, a white and tender little hand, five fingers like spring onion opened, swaying in front of Li Mu, as if declaring the authority of his creditor.
Seeing Li Mu's embarrassed look and trying to explain, Han Jincui raised his eyebrows and curled his lips, "Don't think that if I don't go to the library, I don't know when the dead rat Mr. Xilou will come. Just just look at the abortion on the street and you will know when he will come out of the mouse hole one day."
"Yes, yes." Li Mu quickly responded with a stack of voices, "Miss Cuicui is charming. The young actor has admired her for a long time, and he wishes he could accompany her every day to solve her problems."
Seeing Han Jincui's apricot eyes slowly bent, Li Mu secretly breathed a sigh of relief and continued with a bitter face: "However, today's mundane things are plagued by you, I believe Cuicui doesn't want you. Your elder brother Li died in the mouth of the third uncle. Please give me a few days to pay for the debt. When I find time, I'll tell you about Cuicui again?"
Since the pain was caught by someone and his neck was stubborn, it was not done by a wise man. Master Li claimed to be smart, so it was the right thing to give in immediately. After saying that, he said it was sincere and he almost burst into tears.
"Hmph, I know this girl is so charming this time? See if you dare to talk nonsense next time, hee..." Seeing Li Mu's appearance, Han Jincui raised her fist proudly.
Then he waved his hand and said generously: "Well, because of the fact that you and I have met each other, I don't think it's too much, so I'll give you a few days to give you a grace."
After saying this, Li Mu knew that things would not pass so easily. Han Jincui followed the appearance of a big creditor, paced back and forth with her hands behind her back, and her eyes as dark as ink turned twice with agile...
Li Mu suddenly shouted in his heart that something was wrong. Sure enough, seeing Han Jincui stopped, he continued, "But, I see that I am so generous and don't care about the guilt of your previous lessons. Should you show it?"
"How do you express it? I am the meat on your chopping board now. If you want to kill or cut, give me a sure letter." Li Mu felt like a chicken waiting to be slaughtered, and said weakly, hoping that the little girl would not act too ruthlessly.
A happy smile flashed in Han Jincui's eyes, and she pretended to be deep and said, "Let's do this, I will give you five days at a time, with principal and interest. You just need to pay back seven stories about this girl."
After saying that, Han Jincui habitually stretched out a small hand and shook it in front of Li Mu. She felt something was wrong, so she stretched out the two fingers of her left hand and put them in front of Li Mu.
"Why don't you go to usury? You will have 40% interest in five days. Isn't this too dark?" Li Mu said expressionlessly, then stretched out his thumb and little finger, "One price, six games, no more, this hero is strong and will rather die than surrender."
"Tsk, I would rather die than surrender! This girl is not the mountain king who robs the wife of the village." Han Jincui wrinkled her small nose with a look of disdain. It seemed that she was ruined by the leader of the Huanglong Gang. "It's still a hero, so stingy, you just have a big prawn, or a big prawn made of wood."
Seeing that the blackmail was not successful, Han Jincui couldn't help but look embarrassed, but in a blink of an eye he became happy again, stuck out his tongue and grimaced at Li Mu, and said, "Okay, there are only six games in six games, hehe, there is another one more game, so happy."
Looking at Han Jincui's cheering look in a blink of an eye, Li Mu knew that he had been deceived by this little girl again.
Strangely, I didn't feel unhappy at all. Instead, I felt inexplicably happy when I looked at the pure and narcissus smiling face.
"Okay, you are the best. I still have something to do with you now." Li Mu reached out to grab Han Jincui's small nose in a doting way, twisted it gently, but was slapped away by a slap.
After sniffing, Han Jincui was still trying to speak, but Aunt Han walked over and handed it to Li Mu with two sets of cotton clothes and a pair of thousand-layer cloth shoes.
Then he touched Han Jincui's hair and chuckled to Li Mu, saying, "This girl has been spoiled by me and her elder brother. Since her elder brother enlisted in the army two years ago, it is heartbreaking to look alone. After meeting you, and now you are spoiled by you, I know that I bullied you all day long. I am a little worried that I will not find my husband's family in the future."
"No, there is no such thing as bullying him. Right? Brother Li." It turns out that he is a smart person. When he needs it, he is Brother Li, and when he blackmails it is a lump.
Looking at the little hand with five fingers in front of him, Li Mu had no doubt that if he dared to say the word "wrong", two fingers would appear in front of him on the other hand.
Under the little girl's power, Li Mu had to smile and said with a fool: "No, Cuicui is my sister, innocent and cute. We are just having fun, so where have we been bullied."
At the same time, I kept comforting myself that a real man can bend and stretch, so there is no need to be as knowledge as a little girl.
"Seven Sessions..." After a crisp sound rang, Li Mu was stunned.
Five fingers plus two fingers should be seven, right? Li Mu was a little unconfident, so he calculated carefully in his mind, and felt that he was not wrong. Then he wiped his eyes, worried that he had not slept yesterday and looked wrong.
That’s right, each of the seven white fingers, like a newly peeled green onion, would never be wrong. But I obviously didn’t admit that I was bullied, why did I change my mind and turn it into seven games in a blink of an eye?
Li Mu looked at Han Jincui in confusion. The little girl gave herself a hateful look and turned to the stairs.
However, Aunt Han glanced at her daughter's back, then looked at Li Mu who was inexplicably in front of her, smiled and took the silver from him, turned around and returned to the back of the counter, took out a pair of scissors, and cut off a small piece of silver from the silver with force, about two cents, and handed it back to Li Mu.
"Okay, everything is ready, you can go back soon. Auntie doesn't want you to be drowned by your third uncle's saliva." Aunt Han covered her mouth and said with a smile, "Be careful on the road."
It turns out that he is from a scholarly family and has no teeth to show his smile. He is not like that dead girl Han Jincui, and his temper is inexplicable.
Li Mu said goodbye to Aunt Han, turned the corner of the house and came to the street. He saw two knights wearing veils and horses standing opposite the street looking at him, and couldn't help but look at him strangely.
Then he turned around and grimaced at the window on the second floor, and left arrogantly.
Although there was nothing on the window on the second floor, Li Mu knew that Han Jincui must have hid behind the window and looked at him.
"Damn wood, rotten wood, I'm so angry that I've increased the price. Eight games, eight games must be eight games." Han Jincui rolled her eyes behind the window in anger, then stomped her feet angrily, stretched her two small hands in front of her, considering whether she needed to put away two of the fingers.
Frowning with a delicate brow, the little girl hesitated for a while, maybe she felt that her interest rate was high enough today, so she finally barely curled up the index finger and thumb of her right hand.
"Eight games, hum, one less game is not enough..."
Chapter completed!