incense as a medium

Chapter 15 Wedding Dress
"Bailu!" Liu Sushi sternly stopped Liu Bailu's words. She got up and went out to close the door. She turned around and took Liu Bailu's hand, and said in a low voice, "Have you forgotten what I taught you before? Listen more, watch more and talk less! If you want to talk, you have to think about it at least three times! Why don’t you listen! This prince is fine, how can we criticize the Holy One?"

But what I said is the truth.

Liu Bailu lowered her head a little dissatisfied, and Liu Su knew her daughter hadn't listened when she saw it, she sighed and stood up and said, "Forget it, forget it, I've been talking about you for so many years, and my temper has calmed down, but this It’s still the same.”

Liu Sushi's sad appearance of hating iron but not steel made Liu Bailu panic, she got up in a hurry and grabbed Liu Sushi's sleeve and said, "Mother, don't worry, my daughter is so unscrupulous only at home." , My daughter speaks as little as possible outside. Mother, your daughter is the flesh that fell from your body, don't you know what kind of temper your daughter has?"

The daughter is his heart and soul, how could Liu Su really annoy her?She patted Liu Bailu's hand and said with a smile, "I'm not angry. Don't you want to change your boots? Don't move this clothes. Take my bracelet and change two more pairs. You should prepare some so that you can change your clothes." .”

As Liu Su said, he took off a white jade bracelet from his wrist. This bracelet is not very good. If it was in the past, Liu Su would never wear it. But now, it is inconvenient to bring good things out, so she hides them Get up and prepare to leave it to your son and daughter.Even though this thing is not good, it is worth a few dozen taels of silver, which is enough for their family's expenses for a year.

Liu Bailu pushed the bracelet back and said with a smile: "Mother, you should take this back. These days, neighbors come to visit you, you should also have a piece of jewelry to show off."

The people living here are all poor people, and this bracelet can probably be worth their life savings. Isn't such a bracelet eye-catching when worn on their hands?

Mrs. Liu Su thought for a while, then sighed: "Forget it, I'll put away this bracelet too, and I'll tell your sister-in-law to bring less gold and silver jewellery, so don't be too eye-catching. It’s not good to grab hold of it.”

The Liu family can keep so much money and things, isn't it because of those old friends?But if they are too flamboyant, it will inevitably lead to people's prying eyes. When the time comes, losing money is not a big deal, and it is a big crime to bring people who help them.

Liu Bailu's words were blunt, but it didn't mean she was stupid. When Liu Su said this, she understood, nodded and said: "My daughter also restrained all the things she used on a daily basis, leaving only a few pieces of silver jewelry and A gold-plated colored glass hairpin would be fine."

Liu Su nodded with a smile, and urged: "It's getting late, you go and come back quickly, by the way, ask Uncle Xiang to follow, lest you be deceived."

Liu Bailu pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Since that's the case, it's better to go to the second brother and ask him to help. He is very good at this."

"Egret, this is inappropriate." Liu Su shook her head and said, "Your second brother guards the rice store and doesn't have much income. Lack of money, upset because I can't help my family to solve their worries."

Liu Bailu said: "It's my daughter who didn't think well, it's not his fault that the shop is not profitable, this shop is opened by the family of criminal officials like us, there are few people going there, no matter how talented he is, he can't use it. "

Liu Su sighed again, patted Liu Bailu's hand, and left her room.

Liu Bailu found a piece of cloth to wrap the clothes, thought for a while, opened the closet and took out a set of bright red clothes.

This set of clothes is brocade-woven, the skirt and cuffs of the skirt are embroidered with intricate and exquisite patterns with gold thread, the skirt is full of flowers, and a skirt is spread out on the bed, it seems to be covered with a bed of flowers, the fragrance is very fragrant.

The tail of the wide-sleeved cloak sweeps the floor, entangled on the back in the posture of a phoenix singing harmoniously.

On the wide sleeves that are about to fall to the ground, there are phoenix tail bamboo inscriptions, red cedar and green bamboo, which are particularly eye-catching and elegant.

Liu Bailu caressed the embroidery on it, which was completed after three years of embroidery stitch by stitch. During those three years, she almost blinded her eyes.

However, the wedding dress was embroidered, and the relatives also returned.

Liu Bailu sighed, carefully folded the wedding dress, found an exquisite brocade box and put it in, put on the veiled hat and asked Xiang Bo to accompany her to find a pawn shop.

There are a total of five pawnshops in Xiongtang County, big and small. From the hesitation when she stepped into the first one, to the hopefulness later, Liu Bailu's mood was ups and downs. She held the brocade box and looked up at the last one in front of her "" Feng Ji" pawn shop.

This Fengji pawnshop is the smallest pawnshop in Xiongtang County. Because of its small scale, most of its collections are pots and pans or worthless items covered with gold and silver from poor people, so it has been operating in a miserable manner.

Xiang Bo whispered to Liu Bailu: "Miss, although this pawn shop is small, the price is very fair, and there are several branches in Yongkang Pass."

"Why do you keep driving if you don't make money?" Liu Bailu was a little puzzled.

Xiang Bo smiled and said, "Isn't our rice and grain store making a lot of money?"

Liu Bailu was speechless when he said this sentence, yes, even if he doesn't earn much, he still has some income, and at least he can supplement his family.

At the moment when Liu Bailu was standing hesitant at the door of the pawn shop, Fang Yu's carriage stopped not far away. She looked at Zhou Weiqing who was holding a horse outside the carriage and staring at Liu Bailu in a daze. There was an unknown light flickering in her eyes. He said softly: "Young Master Zhou, look at how difficult Sister Liu's life is now. It's all my fault. If I hadn't loved Young Master Zhou, and my father insisted on retiring and remarrying Young Master Liu, Sister Liu would not have ended up in such a situation. Young Master , I’ll go back to Beijing and ask my father to resign, and you and Sister Liu will get married.”

Fang Yu's words were sincere, and the deep affection and friendship in his eyes overflowed, making people unable to bear to look directly at him. Zhou Weiqing looked away, and said with difficulty: "No need."

Fang Yu's tears rolled down, she climbed out of the carriage, stood in front of Zhou Weiqing and stared at him, as if she wanted to engrave his face into her bones.

Under her gaze, Zhou Weiqing's face turned red little by little, as if he noticed something strange about him, Zhou Weiqing's complexion changed.

Fang Yu hurriedly lowered his head to wipe away his tears, and whispered softly: "I saw Sister Liu, she must be in trouble, I'll go and have a look, Young Master Zhou, please don't go there, after all, Sister Liu is still there I don't really want to see you."

What happened at noon was still vivid in his mind, and Liu Bailu really avoided him, so Fang Yu didn't think much about Zhou Weiqing when he said that, so he nodded.

Yan Hong lowered her head and said: "Miss, let the slaves follow."

Fang Yu shook his head, and said in a low voice: "I'll go by myself, it's not far away, it's okay. If you go, sister Liu will look at you, and she will probably think of the past again and be unhappy. "

Cuizhu sighed: "What a daughter of a thousand gold, now there is no one to serve her, no wonder she is sad."

Liu Lu slapped her lips, her cheeks were so red and swollen, she shrank behind Ming Xuan and muttered: "No wonder she doesn't give Miss a good look, so it's because of this."

"Shut up!" Fang Yu yelled suddenly, she tilted her head slightly and scolded: "Aren't those ten slaps just now not enough? What kind of a lofty person is Sister Liu, how can she be so fussy about such a son thing?" Get up? I'll go by myself! You all stay here obediently!"

"Yes."

Liu Lu covered her face, afraid of being punished, she hurriedly responded, shrinking back even more.

Fang Yu lowered her head and tidied up her clothes. She was very conspicuous in a pink brocade dress when she walked in such a small town. The flowers on her dress swayed and swayed as she walked, which was even more eye-catching.

Liu Bailu saw Fang Yu approaching gracefully from one side of her head, her brows furrowed indistinctly, and then she smiled: "Miss Fang."

As if he didn't notice Liu Bailu's alienation, Fang Yu went up to hold her hand affectionately, but saw the brocade box in her arms, and couldn't help asking: "Sister, what are you doing?"

After saying hello, it was considered that the politeness was over, Liu Bailu didn't want to talk to her more, so he walked into the pawn shop.

Seeing that she was ignoring him, Fang Yu hurriedly grabbed Liu Bailu's arm, stared at the brocade box in her arms, and said, "Even if Sister Liu didn't say anything, I guessed it, it's probably my sister's clothes and jewelry inside." Is it so difficult at home? Why didn’t Sister Liu tell me?”

Liu Bailu raised the gauze curtain, looked at her with a half-smile, and said, "Tell me? Will you give me money? As the saying goes, if you help me for a while, how can you help me?" For the rest of my life? Is it possible that I can ask for money from you all my life? "

"Why is sister talking like this?" Fang Yu's slender willow eyebrows frowned, and said with infinite grievances: "My sister just wants to help my sister, how can my sister speak so badly?"

"What? Is my speech ugly?" Liu Bailu narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a smile on his lips: "Then I apologize to my sister, but for a woman who stole my marriage, I really can't say What a good way to come out. If my sister really feels that she can't stand me, then how about giving me tens of thousands of taels of silver?"

"Tens of thousands of taels!" Fang Yu's voice suddenly rose, Zhou Weiqing, who had been paying attention to this side, frowned at Liu Bailu, Fang Yu turned his head to look at Zhou Weiqing, lowered his voice in a low voice and said: "Sister Liu, how can I get so much money? What's more, how can marriage be bought and sold by money? Sister Liu is angry, I know, but I can't make fun of my life, can I?" Can my sister find a good marriage in such a place? My sister is such a beautiful woman, the No. 1 yuan in the capital, is it possible that she wants to marry a street person? In the future, she will shrink in a small place like the border and have a baby Parenting? Even if my sister is willing to do this, but my sister doesn't think about her own children?"

(End of this chapter)