Chapter 88: Pretending to be pitiful can gain sympathy?
Chapter 88: Can you gain sympathy by pretending to be pitiful?
The uncle next to him saw other painting sellers approaching with ferocious expressions, and quickly said to the busy mistress: "Mistress, take a look quickly."
Wang Xiaosan looked up and was stunned for a moment and said anxiously: "Dear colleagues, my mother is very ill and Xiaosan has no choice but to do this. I hope everyone will understand Xiaosan."
"Humph, your mother is very ill, so we don't need to eat?" A scholar said fiercely, "If you want to sell it at a lower price, we will tear up all your calligraphy and paintings!"
"Ah!" Wang Xiaosan smiled bitterly.
"I said you are being a bit unreasonable. The calligraphy and painting are his, and he can sell them as much as he likes. How can even a very difficult painting be sold at a high price? The mistress's mother is waiting for the mistress to buy 'medicine' to cure her illness, but you are not.
Have some sympathy?" the firewood seller helped.
"It's just today. I'll start selling for three pennies tomorrow. I really can't help you." Wang Xiaosan clasped his fists and bowed his head to his colleagues.
"Damn! Can you win sympathy by pretending to be pitiful? If your calligraphy and paintings are sold out at low prices, who will come to buy ours!" someone shouted.
Hua Yueling looked at this farce and was a little speechless.
"How come, Uncle Miao's paintings are very popular. Even if they sell for five taels, many people come to buy them." Wang Xiaosan pointed to Hua Yueling not far away.
Hua Yueling turned around and saw a middle-aged man wearing commoner clothes, a blue scarf hat, a Chinese character face, and a very steady look, sitting and looking over here.
"Everyone has regular customers, but we don't!" someone said.
"It's just one day, brothers, please do your best. It's really a last resort. At most, Xiaosan won't come to set up a stall for three days from tomorrow." Wang Xiaosan apologized sincerely while doing business. He had seven cents in his hand and looked at it.
His beloved calligraphy and painting were sold at a loss, and he felt distressed and helpless on his face.
"I bought them all!" Hua Yueling walked up to Wang Xiaosan and said coldly, and at the same time reached out and took out a certain amount of money and gave it to him.
"Ah, girl, I can't find any change." Wang Xiaosan watched Hua Yueling's surprises and joys, and finally stared at the five taels of silver and said distressedly.
"No need to look for it, just pack up and follow me!" Hua Yueling said looking at his surprised face.
Wang Xiaosan was really frightened by Hua Yueling, but he immediately nodded with a red face and said: "Okay, thank you, girl." He thought to himself that this girl is really beautiful and kind-hearted.
Others were angry and jealous when Hua Yueling bought Wang Xiaosan's calligraphy and paintings alone, but fortunately they were all literati, so they cursed a few times and went back to their own stalls. Anyway, Wang Xiaosan wouldn't fight again.
Wang Xiaosan packed up the things quickly, put a bamboo stick on his back, held a large roll in his hands, looked at Hua Yue Ling with a smile and said: "Miss, it's all right."
"Let's go!" When Hua Yueling said this, he glanced at Uncle Miao over there and found that this man was very calm and looking here with a smile.
Hua Yueling walked in front, and Wang Xiaosan followed her anxiously. The five taels of silver in his arms warmed his heart.
"Your name is Wang Xiaosan?" Hua Yueling asked after turning a corner.
"Yes, yes." Wang Xiaosan stuttered.
"Where do you live? Who else is there?" Hua Yueling looked like a household registration checker.
Wang Xiaosan was stunned and looked at Hua Yueling in confusion, but still replied: "The younger one lives in Qiushui Hutong, and he has a younger sister and mother at home."
Hua Yueling nodded, understanding his pain.
"You have good handwriting and can also draw. Why don't you find a secure job? Where is your father?"
Wang Xiaosan lowered his head uncomfortably and said: "It's not that I don't want to look for it, but I can't find it. My father was so angry to death because of this. He went to ask the clerk of the Yamen for me, but the clerk took the money but didn't cash it.
He said my father didn’t give him any money.”
Hua Yueling knew what was going on even if she didn't listen.
"My father couldn't afford to fall ill when he came back, and then he passed away and returned home. My mother also fell ill due to grief." Wang Xiaosan lowered his head and wiped his tears, but the bitterness in it could not be explained clearly in a sentence or two.
"How about I introduce you to a job?" Hua Yueling smiled.
Wang Xiaosan raised his head in fright and looked at Hua Yueling in surprise.
"Do you know who I am?" Hua Yueling looked at him and it was a bit funny.
Wang Xiaosan looked at Hua Yueling's beautiful little face, her face turned red, and she shook her head.
"Haha, my name is Hua Yueling." Hua Yueling believes that there are many people in the capital who don't know her personally, but there are probably very few who don't know her name.
"Hua, Hua Yueling? You, you are the third princess?" Sure enough, Wang Xiaosan was so frightened that his face turned pale again.
"Am I so scary? Let's go. I'll take you to the Ministry of Justice. They can give you an errand there, but you have to promise to do it well and not to lose my face, Hua Yueling. Do you understand?" Hua Yueling is serious.
stand up.
Wang Xiaosan was overjoyed. He knelt down in front of Hua Yueling excitedly and said, "Thank you, Miss. Thank you, Miss. I will do my best and not embarrass Miss." After saying this, his face was already filled with tears. This was very important to him.
It means that he can earn the whole family.
"Okay, get up and talk as we walk." Hua Yueling personally bent down to help him up, which made Wang Xiaosan even more excited. Hua Yueling's deeds have been widely circulated in the capital, both good and bad, but
At this moment, Wang Xiaosan felt that Hua Yueling was like a fairy who saved the world.
"Thank you, Miss." Wang Xiaosan thanked her again with emotion.
"Miss San, when you go to the Yamen, you will see a person. This person often goes to your market to buy paintings. I want you to help me identify who he always buys paintings from, okay?" Hua Yueling tilted her head.
To see him.
"Okay! Don't worry, young lady, I have a very good memory. I remember all the customers who bought paintings, and I also remember the paintings bought by others."
"That's good, but you can't let him know this, otherwise it will be detrimental to you. You also know that the Criminal Department is a very special department, and some things cannot be said randomly. Do you understand?" Hua Yueling said in concern.
"Yes, I understand, don't worry, young lady." Wang Xiaosan felt a little confused inside, but at the moment, he was completely happy.
Back at the Yamen, Hua Yueling took people directly to Mr. Liao's office room. Mr. Liao naturally did not object and gave Wang Xiaosan a job to record personnel affairs. Wang Xiaosan was extremely excited, but Li Yun was not there, so Hua Yue
Ling asked Wang Xiaosan to come tomorrow and let him go back to see his mother early today, and also gave him an extra ten taels of silver. Of course, Hua Yue Ling also didn't let go of the wormy master from the capital's yamen.
Hua Yueling looked at the dark sky and thought of Mo Wushuang. She felt depressed and didn't know what he was doing now. She was about to go to Tianjiu Tower to find him, but Mo Wushuang suddenly came.
The two met at the door. Mo Wushuang, dressed in silver, shouted with joy on his face: "Ling'er."
"Wushuang, why are you here? How's your foot injury?" Hua Yueling stepped forward to help him, and she was very happy in her heart. If he could come to her by himself, does it mean that he has made a decision.
"I'm fine, Ling'er, don't worry, let's go, let's have dinner first, I have good news for you." Mo Wushuang saw that there was no one in the lobby of the Criminal Department, and pulled Hua Yueling to leave.
"Okay, where should we go to eat?" Hua Yueling smiled as freshly as a girl, thinking that he must tell her that he will not leave her, right?
"Come with me, okay?" Mo Wushuang looked at Hua Yueling with a smile. Those crescent-moon eyes were particularly bright and tender, making Hua Yueling feel even happier.
Mo Wushuang's foot was injured, but it obviously didn't affect his walking anymore. He quickly took Hua Yueling to an old small street. There were wooden buildings on both sides, mostly residential buildings, but Hua Yueling soon smelled it.
There is a strong fragrance, which is cured meat.
"That's it." Mo Wushuang stood in front of a small shop selling 'Lotus Leaf Claypot Rice'.
"Oh? Here? Do you want to eat preserved rice?" Hua Yueling was a little surprised. She thought it was some mysterious place.
"Ling'er doesn't like eating cured rice?" Mo Wushuang took her hand and walked in, and an old woman came out to greet her.
There were only four tables in the whole store, and three customers were eating cured rice. Hua Yueling saw that they were eating with gusto, but she felt a little hungry.
"Master Mo, is this still the backyard?" the old woman said with a smile.
"Well, thank you, Mom Zhang." Mo Wushuang pulled Hua Yueling, who was a little confused, and walked in. Only then did he realize that there was a yard behind. There was a large wooden shelf in the yard. Green vines had climbed all over the shelf, like
A big green umbrella.
Four antique oil lamps were hung on the four corners. They were like the kind of small iron houses that squeaked when shaken but would not be blown out by the wind.
Under the big umbrella is a small square table and two bamboo and rattan chairs. It looks a bit romantic and interesting.
Hua Yueling curled her lips and walked out again. She found that the outside was not a wall, but an underground river in the city. On the other side of the river was a place Hua Yueling would never have imagined, the backyard of Yuemanlou.
Hua Yueling turned around and looked at Mo Wushuang in surprise. Mo Wushuang smiled and said, "I just discovered it not long ago. I'm going to get food first. Ling'er, don't be anxious. I'll tell you later."
Hua Yueling nodded, and then she realized that Mo Wushuang had brought her here for a purpose, but she was obviously very happy. It must be useful news to her, and looking at this place, it really didn't have an ordinary artistic conception.
Soon, Mo Wushuang came in carrying a large tray with four plates of side dishes and a small pot of wine, which made Hua Yueling burst into laughter.
The two sat down opposite each other, Hua Yueling smiled and said: "How did you find this place?"
"When I was returning from Yuemanlou that day, I wanted to take a shortcut, and then I smelled the fragrance, so I came here to have a bowl of cured rice and discovered a secret." Mo Wushuang blinked mysteriously.
"Oh?" Hua Yueling became nervous.
"It turns out that Ouyang Ruyan also likes the cured rice here." Mo Wushuang's lips raised an evil smile.
"Is there anything strange about this?" Hua Yueling knew there was something more to come.
"The strange thing is that there used to be an old black dog here. When Ouyang Ruyan came here to eat that day, the old black dog suddenly died." Mo Wushuang looked at Hua Yueling mysteriously and gave Hua Yueling a hand.
Yue Ling poured some wine.
"Haha, stop showing off." Hua Yueling gave him a cute look.
"Come on, it's rare for Ling'er to drink with me. Let's have a drink first." Mo Wushuang said.
Mo Wushuang shook his head and smiled: "It's nothing to worry about, it's just a minor injury. If you're happy tonight, Ling'er will have a drink with me."
"You're weird." Hua Yueling found that he was a little different tonight, but he couldn't tell what was different.
"Haha, is there any? No, I miss Ling'er. I would be happy to be with you." Mo Wushuang stretched out his big white hands and wrapped Hua Yueling's small hands tightly.
"Don't be so cheesy, what's going on?" Hua Yue Ling's face turned red. This kind of Mo Wushuang made her a little strange. He has never been a glib person.
"The old black dog died in front of Ouyang Ruyan. She felt very filthy, so when the aunt wanted to bury it under the tree, Ouyang Ruyan took out a bottle of something and turned the big black dog into a monster under the eyes of the aunt.
Nothing, only a pungent smell." Mo Wushuang looked into Hua Yueling's eyes and said.