Su Cheng ran away from home and left a letter to her parents, saying that she was going to Taiwan to watch the excitement of Jia Tanchun's wedding. Su Tao was furious and ordered someone to chase her on a fast horse. However, Yang Guotai said from the side:
"Sir, I have known the eldest lady for many days in my humble position, so I know something about her temperament. Since she ran away, why did she write down her whereabouts so clearly?"
Su Tao thought about it, this girl is very clever. She knew that I would catch her, so why did she need to explain her whereabouts? He thought, "Could she have just feinted? Where else could she go if not to Taiwan House?"
Yang Guotai said: "I don't know about my humble job. Could it be that I went to the capital? The eldest lady grew up in the capital."
Su Tao thought for a moment: "Send two groups of people out, one to the south and the other to the north." Yang Guotai agreed and left, laughing secretly in his heart: The eldest lady will never go to Taiwan, nor will she go to the capital. Since she left a letter saying that she
I've gone to other places, and there's a good chance I'm still in Jiangxi.
Yang Guotai's guess was correct. Su Cheng knew very well that he was not Chen Ruijin, and running a long distance alone would be in danger, so he went straight to Jia's Horse Racing House with the token of Rongguo Mansion. The shopkeeper, whose surname was Zhou, recognized her and hurriedly greeted Su.
Cheng winked, and the two of them ducked to the back. Su Cheng said with a smile on his face, "My grandfather tested me to see if I had the ability to leave home and still be alive. Shopkeeper Zhou, I don't have much money, maybe I need to feed myself?"
Shopkeeper Zhou immediately smiled and said: "What did the eldest lady say? The eldest lady came to our shop, which is exactly what makes her so beautiful."
Su Cheng said, "I'll help you with your work. If you have anything I can do, just give me your instructions. Otherwise, even if I don't eat the Su family's meal in vain, I'll end up eating the Jia family's meal in vain." She thought for a moment, "You guys eat it."
I eat whatever I want.”
Shopkeeper Zhou was slightly embarrassed: "This..."
Su Cheng waved his hand: "We've even come here for military training. Can your guys' food taste worse than those in military training?"
Shopkeeper Zhou smiled bitterly and said: "... Then... Miss, let's try it first." He hesitated for a moment and then said, "The food of the Taiwan Army is excellent."
"It's okay, I'm just here to experience life." Su Cheng looked at Shopkeeper Zhou with a smile, "Don't worry, I won't cause you any trouble. No one knows who I am, they just think I'm a newbie doing odd jobs.
good."
Shopkeeper Zhou sighed: "The eldest lady only cares about her own style. How can she be a part-time worker?"
Su Cheng blinked: "What do part-time workers look like? I'll take a look and imitate their postures."
Shopkeeper Zhou glanced at her, said nothing, and called a waiter over and said, "Take this girl to the packing department." Su Cheng, still wearing the clothes of a servant, looked at the waiter and said a soft blessing. Shopkeeper Zhou was walking slowly behind.
He said, "Ordinary female workers who do part-time jobs will not be blessed." Su Cheng stuck out his tongue. Hearing this, the waiter glanced at Shopkeeper Zhou, and Shopkeeper Zhou responded with a look of "You just go ahead." The waiter then led Su
Cheng left.
The packing department is at the back of the horse shop. The doors and windows of the huge room are all open, and there are no partitions inside. There are eight rows of short long tables neatly arranged, and there are many people sitting at the tables. They range in age from seven to
They ranged in age from 13 to 13, 70% of them were girls. The seats of these little girls and teenagers were widely spaced apart, and there were two trolleys behind them. They all took out boxes and bags from the trolleys tied with red cloth strips and tied them with hemp ropes.
Okay, put them in the car tied with blue cloth strips. Su Cheng and the waiter walked in. No one looked up at them, they were just busy with their own business.
Su Cheng frowned and asked, "Why are they all such young children?"
The waiter said: "Although they are small, they do good things."
Su Cheng asked: "Isn't there a bigger one?"
"Third Grandma said, use them as much as you can. At least you can have a good meal by working in our horse shop."
Su Cheng was surprised: "According to your opinion, they won't be able to have enough to eat at home?"
The waiter said: "Every household has limited rations, so naturally the males eat first."
Su Cheng made a sound inside. She had never thought that there were so many people who didn't have enough to eat. Her eyes passed over the faces of the rows of girls, and she suddenly realized that there wasn't even a decent-looking person among them. They were just a bunch of little losers.
Yan Nu suddenly thought of something. She breathed quickly and tried her best to calm down and not tremble. She asked: "These are all average-looking. Are there any good-looking ones that can do the work?" After asking, she took a long breath and pricked up her ears.
, she immediately prayed to the gods and Buddhas all over the sky, hoping that it would not be the same as what she thought.
What happened was counterproductive. The clerk said casually: "All the good-looking ones have been sold. The female workers here are all ugly, so we sell them to people who don't want them."
Su Cheng smiled bitterly. She was still thinking about opening a girls' school a few days ago. She had already planned where to buy a house and how to find a husband. She didn't want the daughter of an ordinary family to study even if she couldn't even eat. She sighed softly.
Said: "I just think that I will never 'why not eat minced meat'..."
The waiter added: "This girl must be from a wealthy family. You look nothing like them among them."
After a moment of silence, Su Cheng whispered: "Did the good-looking ones be sold to the brothels?"
"Only those who look very good can be bought in the brothel, and they can cost a lot of money. I am probably looking forward to selling my daughter to the brothel. Most of the ones who are not ugly are sold to rich families in other places as servant girls. The price
It’s also low. The stronger ones can be sold to Zhuangzi to work. But if you can raise your children to be strong, is there any need to sell them?”
"Boys are actually pretty much the same."
"Men are better. When they grow up, they can work in the fields and buy a wife. It's not expensive."
Su Cheng nodded: "I never thought it would get to this point." She thought for a moment, "What kind of workshop like your horse shop?" The clerk glanced sideways at her, with words written all over his face - Girl, are you kidding me? Su Cheng sipped.
Mouth, "Isn't Jiangxi a land of plenty? How come you can't even get enough to eat?"
The waiter said: "There are bandits in remote areas. Where there are no bandits, doesn't all the land belong to the rich?"
Su Cheng thought for a while: "Now that the Mei family and the Xie family are overthrown, the relatives of the Xie family have also fallen. Those lands can be taken away from the public and distributed to ordinary people for farming. Well... priority is given to planting potatoes. The ones that ripen quickly will not be chosen.
Earth, fill your stomach first and then talk."
The waiter smiled and said: "The girl was sent from the prefect's family, right?"
Su Cheng smiled bitterly and said, "That's right." Nai sighed, "The magistrate is only busy asking questions now..." He raised his eyes and glanced at these little girls, "Even if the government divides the land, it won't be their turn for the time being.
Eat enough. It is better to open more factories where women can work." Nai lowered his head and looked at himself, "My appearance is really not suitable." She turned around and went out. The assistant naturally followed.
Su Cheng went outside and took off her bun, braided a hemp braid on the back of her head, tied it with a handkerchief, and asked with a smile: "How?"
The waiter said honestly: "My hands and face are too white, and my clothes are too neat."
"Where's the kitchen?"
The waiter then led her to the kitchen. Su Cheng got some cigarette ashes and put them on her face and hands. She still didn't look like a female worker. Su Cheng sighed: "That's it, that's it. After all, they are still young."
The waiter said: "Girl, are you still going?"
"Go." Su Cheng said, "I need to know what they know."
The clerk arranged a table for her and called a little boss to teach Su Cheng how to tie the boxes. The little boss looked about twelve or thirteen years old, with squinted eyes and dark appearance. Su Cheng rolled up his sleeves and exposed
The snow-white arm came up from below, and he was stunned for a moment. The waiter couldn't help laughing a few times. Su Cheng said with a sneer on his face, "I used to work for a wealthy family."
The little boss said with a straight face: "I don't care where you worked in the past, but now you just listen to me."
"I understand..."
Su Cheng was smart. It was not difficult to tie boxes and bags. In the blink of an eye, her hands and feet became dexterous. The little boss saw that she was doing well and left. At first, Su Cheng's hands and feet were quite fast, but after working for only half an hour, she became tired.
All the workers in the field were younger than her, so she was too embarrassed to take a break, so she had to continue working. All the other children were obviously faster than her, and Su Cheng was the slowest one.
It was not until noon that Su Cheng realized how delicious the food in the Taiwan Army Barracks was. But she didn't have a grain of rice left - she was really hungry. After the meal, the little girls had a rest. Seeing how good-looking Su Cheng was, some of them were brave
The older ones came to talk to her. Su Cheng had intended to strike up a conversation with them, so he happily got together.
By the time she got off work that day, Su Cheng had become familiar with the girl at the work station next to her. The girl's name was Xiaoque, she was twelve years old, and her father was a bricklayer who lived in Nail Lane in the north of the city. The girl who first talked to Su Cheng
It was her, whose mouth was nimbler than her hands and feet. Although she looked plain, her smile was very cute. Because Su Cheng said that she was alone and living in a Taoist temple in the south of the city, Xiaoque asked her if she would go to her house to play.
Su Cheng originally wanted to help her father understand the public sentiment, and also planned to open a factory where girls could work, so she agreed.
The two girls walked to Xiaoque's house together, but her father and brother hadn't come back yet. Her mother was scolding a few naughty younger siblings with a loud voice. Su Cheng looked at it with great interest. Xiaoque hurriedly pulled her mother and said: "
Mom, I brought my friends over to play."
Her mother cursed casually: "There is no rice in the house, and you still invite people to eat? Do you think the rice comes from your mother's ass?"
Su Cheng hurriedly said: "I will go back to Guanli to eat, I don't have to eat at your house."
Xiaoque also said angrily: "Mom, I have food to eat, but you are the only one who is in a hurry." He squeezed her mother's hand, turned around and smiled at Su Cheng, "Don't pay attention to her, let's go play in the house.
Don't you want to see the cloth flowers I made?" Su Cheng smiled hurriedly at her mother and followed Xiaoque in.
I saw that the room was messy and dirty, with several thumb-sized spiders crawling on the four walls. There was an old wooden bed lying across it. There were three broken pillows and a thin quilt piled on the bed, with reed flowers exposed on the quilt. Su Cheng
A little sad. Xiaoque just searched for a long time in a crippled wooden cabinet beside the bed, muttering: "Why is it missing?" He turned around and said with a smile, "Sister Zhang, wait a minute, I asked my mother, but she took it elsewhere.
" So she turned around and jumped out. Before Su Cheng could say a word, she disappeared. Su Cheng suddenly felt a strange feeling in his heart, and he felt that Xiaoque was a little too happy.
After a while, Xiaoque ran back with a smile on her face, holding four or five cloth flowers in her hands, and said with a smile: "It was not my mother who took them, but my sister hid them. Sister Zhang, look at how good they are?"
"
Su Cheng took a look and praised: "They are all rags. It's so rare to be able to do something like this."
Xiaoque raised her face and said, "You obviously know how to do it, why don't you do it too for me to see?"
Su Cheng said: "I'm not very good at it."
"Do I believe it?" Xiaoque shrugged her nose, "Sister Zhang seems to be very handy."
Su Cheng said: "I really haven't learned it before." She looked at the little birds and thought, "It must not be difficult to learn it."
Xiaoque immediately said: "I'll teach you!" and he picked up the flowers and taught her with great interest. Su Cheng had no interest in making flowers and knotting since she was a child, and didn't want to learn this. However, Xiaoque was full of energy, so she just
He steeled himself to listen to what she said. Xiaoque first took apart a cloth flower and slowly made it for her to see. Then he took apart another flower and said, "I'll make it again for you to see."
Su Cheng said: "No need, I already know how to do it." He took the scattered pieces of cloth and made them according to Xiaoque's instructions.
Xiaoque stared at her until she was finished, which was exactly the same as the one that was removed. She couldn't help but exclaimed: "Sister Zhang, you are so awesome!"
Su Cheng smiled and said, "It's just that I have a good memory."
The little bird's face showed ecstasy, as if she had picked up a gold ingot, and she praised: "Sister, I knew from the first glance that you are extremely smart!"
Su Cheng felt a little uncomfortable and looked sideways at the window: "I almost forgot, I have to rush back to sweep the yard. Xiaoque, I'm going back."
Xiao Que hurriedly stopped her: "Why are you so anxious about sweeping the yard? It doesn't matter if you don't sweep the yard for a day."
"Nonsense. Since it's my errand, how can I not do it easily?" Su Cheng walked around her and left.
Xiaoque became anxious, grabbed Su Cheng's arm and begged: "Good sister! Don't leave, I finally brought a friend home, can't I let my brother see it?"
Su Cheng frowned: "This doesn't make sense. Men and women are not intimate, so why would your friend show it to me?"
Xiaoque was confused: "What is skinny? We are all quite skinny."
Su Cheng shook her head and tried to break free from her hand. Xiaoque held on tightly, causing Su Cheng's arm to hurt. Su Cheng was annoyed and stretched out her other hand to grab Xiaoque's wrist and twist it. Xiaoque said "Ouch"
He let go. Su Cheng rubbed his arm and said, "That's all, I've seen the flowers anyway, so I'll go back." He picked up his feet and left.
Xiao Que ran behind and caught up: "Don't leave, don't leave! Mother—Sister Zhang is leaving—"
Their house is really too small, and there is a very small yard right outside the house. The little bird girl hurriedly ran out from next door: "Miss Zhang, don't leave! I've already cooked your food!"
Su Cheng, even though he was a fool, could tell that this family had evil intentions. He turned around and looked at the two of them. He reached out and took out the pistol from his arms and held it in his hand. He sneered, "No need. I have food to eat."
One of Xiaoque's younger brothers rushed to the door and slammed the broken door shut, shouting: "You can't leave! If you leave, my brother will have no wife!" Su Cheng was confused. He stood there stupidly for a while.
——She never dreamed that Xiaoque coaxed her home to find a wife for her brother. They only met today.
Then Xiao Que said anxiously: "Sister Zhang! I have two brothers. It's up to you to choose which one you want to marry! Don't leave!"
Su Cheng looked at the family for a moment, then suddenly smiled and turned the revolver a few times in his hand: "I can kill you all in an instant, do you believe it?" The family's eyes were blank, and it was obvious that they did not recognize them at all.
Pistol. Su Cheng smiled bitterly and murmured, "What a mess my father has inherited! How can I educate him..."