time travel system

Chapter 188 Golden Lotus
Although it was also during the Northern Song Dynasty, the tragic story of Jinlian and Ximen officials would never happen, and Jiang Xiaobai was just flirting in his heart.

After rubbing his forehead, Jiang Xiaobai stepped aside.

The other party didn't do it on purpose, and he wasn't injured, so there's no need to make it too clear.

However, the little girl felt sorry, and after a few seconds of silence, she suddenly called out, "Hey, are you a firewood seller?"

Jiang Xiaobai looked up: "Do you want to buy it?"

"I bought it!" The little girl pointed to the left side and said, "Come in from there!"

Although there is no apology, this can be regarded as a kind of compensation.

Jiang Xiaobai smiled wryly in his heart, he really regarded me as a firewood seller.

Seven or eight meters away on the left, there is a gate, apparently leading to the front yard of the small building.

Jiang Xiaobai picked up the firewood and wobbled over.

A very special house, with a horse hitching post at the door, and two burly men standing beside it.

The big man obviously heard what the girl said just now, he just glanced at Jiang Xiaobai, and waved him to go in quickly.

After crossing the gate, there is a small courtyard in front, about [-] square meters. Facing east and west is a small two-storey building. There are three wing rooms in the north and south directions respectively. There are many yellow talisman papers that have not been completely burned.

There is a moon gate just south of the small courtyard, behind which there seem to be stables and a kitchen, with the sound of animals honking, and the sound of pots and pans clinking.

Jiang Xiaobai reckoned that this must be a big family, and the girl just now might be the eldest daughter of this family.

Suddenly, a flirtatiously dressed middle-aged woman with a slightly fat body came out from the first floor and shouted at Jiang Xiaobai: "Hey, hey, who is running around?"

Jiang Xiaobai said quickly: "I am a firewood seller?"

"Let's go, we don't lack firewood here!" The middle-aged woman waved her hands in disgust.

"Mom, I let him in!" A small door in the middle of the second floor opened, and the young woman came out, leaned on the railing and said, "Just now I accidentally dropped something and hit his head, and I feel really sorry .I thought he was pitiful standing by the side of the street, so I let him in."

"There are so many poor people in this world, how can we call them all?" Although the middle-aged woman was dissatisfied, she still raised her finger to the moon gate and said, "Bring the firewood over there, and I will give you fifteen elders." Son!"

Jiang Xiaobai didn't know how much this load of firewood was worth, but fifteen copper coins were still obviously less.

Three copper coins for entering the city, three copper coins for going out of the city, and only nine copper coins for one trip, which is about ten steamed buns. This labor value is not fully reflected.

Fortunately, Jiang Xiaobai just wanted to get rid of these burdens, so he picked up the firewood and walked inside without saying a word.

Behind him, the woman said displeasedly: "Mom, it's too little, give it to twenty big boys?"

"Jin Lianna, you don't know the price of firewood if you are not in charge of the family. There has been a lot of chaos recently, and your business has been low. Yesterday, you got into trouble again. Asking Taoist priests to do it, it cost me a whole three taels of silver!" The middle-aged woman was also full of complaints. , Said: "I heard that last night the Jinbing camp outside the city was in trouble again. More than 100 people were eaten, and the Jinbing has all entered the city. This business can't be done!"

Listening to this conversation, it doesn't seem like a mother and son.

Jiang Xiaobai walked through the moon gate, and immediately found a kitchen on the left, with thousands of catties of chopped dry firewood piled up under the eaves.

The middle-aged women are right, they are indeed not short of firewood.

Jiang Xiaobai put the firewood under the eaves and returned to the courtyard with a pole.

The middle-aged woman had already started counting the money, and said, "Hey, that firewood seller, I only have fourteen big ones in my hand, go to the pancake in the kitchen and eat it!"

Well, if you give less, you still deduct one, which is really stingy.

"Mom, I told you to give me twenty!" The girl upstairs pouted angrily.

The middle-aged woman said with a sullen face: "Our pancakes are not worth money. If we go out to sell them, our pancakes will be more than two big ones!"

"Hey, Master Fang, please slow down." At this moment, the guard outside the door shouted loudly: "Master Fang is here!"

The middle-aged woman's face immediately showed joy, she didn't care about giving the money, she trotted up to meet her, and said with a flattering smile: "Master Fang, you are late today!"

As soon as the girl upstairs heard that Uncle Fang was coming, she immediately showed disgust on her face, turned her head and went back to the room, and closed the door with a "bang".

At that moment, Jiang Xiaobai was suddenly in a trance, where this woman seemed to be.

The small mouth pouted, the eyebrows raised, it was too familiar, but I couldn't think of where I saw it.

While talking, the middle-aged woman walked in with a fat head and big ears.

The man is about 40 years old, wearing a blue-gray gown, holding a folding fan with painted landscapes in his hand, walking lightly, but his eyes are very treacherous, constantly fluttering from side to side.

Walking to the center of the courtyard, the man stared at the incense burner on the square table and asked, "The master has come?"

"I've been here, I did the seven or nine ceremonies, and I messed around until midnight!" The middle-aged woman smiled with wrinkles all over her face.

Jiang Xiaobai became more and more strange. This person is also called mother, so he is brother and sister with the woman upstairs.

That's not right, he seems to be older than a middle-aged woman, how did he become a son?
Could it be that the middle-aged woman is his stepmother?

The stepmother calls her son the uncle, it's too messy.

The man continued to ask: "What is the effect?"

"The sorcerer introduced by Uncle Fang is naturally easy to catch!" The middle-aged woman said: "You haven't seen it. Last night, the great sorcerer swung the mahogany sword like this, and a lot of blood appeared on the yellow paper. It's scary!"

No wonder there is an incense burner in the middle of the courtyard. It turns out that last night there was a ritual to drive away ghosts.

"So, that ghost has been killed?" The man looked up to the second floor with a happy expression on his face.

"Unfortunately, Jinlian today...Tiankui..." The middle-aged woman hesitated, speaking hesitantly.

"What kind of sunflower, it's obviously lazy!" The man stared, then took out a silver coin and weighed it back and forth in his hand.

According to Jiang Xiaobai's visual inspection, this piece of silver is at least five taels, which is about the same as the money he bribed that yamen servant.

"Master Fang, I'm joking, Jinlian is washing and dressing up!" The middle-aged woman was overjoyed, grabbed the silver and shouted loudly: "Jinlian, come down quickly, Master Fang is here!"

"Here we come!" The voice was lazy, as if unwilling, but also as if sleepy.

The door opened, and the girl walked out with twists and turns, lying on the railing, gently shaking the flowered handkerchief in her hand, and said with a coquettish smile, "Master Fang, you really want to die!"

I'm going, it won't be so coincidental, will it?
In an instant, the chaotic relationship between the three people was cleared up. It turned out that this was the legendary brothel!

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