When the vendor approached her, Gu Qingsheng dodged and the corners of his mouth curled slightly under his cloak hood.
"Forget it, Bai Lu, no more."
She pushed back the candied haws the vendor gave her and walked past him without looking back.
Bai Lu quickly put the copper coins back into her purse.
“That’s right!”
"You're asking for too much, and we won't buy it."
The peddler paused for a moment, looking a little bewildered, and then immediately chased after Gu Qingsheng.
"Oh, oh! Two cents! Two cents will do! No more!"
His compromise made Gu Qingsheng stop.
From the vendor's perspective, the girl was wearing a white rabbit fur cloak and had a delicate figure, making her stand out and look tall in the crowd.
A large cloak covered her head, and only her thin cheeks, cherry-red lips, and snow-white skin could be seen.
A faint fragrance lingered around her, and then she saw those pink lips slowly lift up
"If you don't want to pay, then I'll give you one."
The vendor stretched out his white fingers and plucked a candied haws from the wooden stick.
"You said this is the first time I've met a lady like you. Other young men and women don't care if I ask for a high price or not. They just give me whatever I want, even 20 taels."
Gu Qingsheng smiled. The red color of the candied haws made her skin look even better.
"You are right."
She should say
"However, although I have no worries about food and clothing, I also understand that my father toils day and night without sleep, which is why I have the life I have now."
"As the saying goes, hoeing the fields at noon, sweat dripping down to the ground. Whether it's two cents or two ounces, it's all earned by my elders with their own hands. I shouldn't squander it like this."
A gust of wind came from nowhere, rustling the girl's cloak in front of him, blowing the fragrance further and deepening the smile on her lips.
The peddler was stunned for a moment, standing there unable to move, and his throat moved.
"In that case, I'll take my leave."
Throwing the money to the vendor, Gu Qingsheng waved to him and left.
He took the silver blankly, his eyes following Gu Qingsheng's back as he walked further and further away, and then he slowly lowered his head to look.
An ounce of silver lay quietly in his palm, feeling a little cool.
…
After walking a long way, Bai Lu pouted and asked with some dissatisfaction
"Princess, why did you give him one tael of silver? He only wanted two cents."
"That vendor is obviously a profiteer. He's very good at raising prices and he probably cheated countless people."
She didn't understand Gu Qingsheng's actions, but she didn't stop him at the time.
Gu Qingsheng walked away calmly, having already bitten off two of the candied haws in his hand, the sour taste spreading in his mouth.
"Of course I have my own plans."
She said.
As the two chatted, they saw a huge crowd gathered at the entrance of an alley ahead.
There were shouts and cheers, as if some magic trick was being performed.
"Miss, it seems very lively ahead."
Bai Lu cried out, and stars were already shining in her eyes.
However, despite experiencing so many intrigues in the mansion, Bai Lu's mentality is only that of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old, so it is very normal for her to be interested in such lively occasions.
Gu Qingsheng has lived two lives and has long been accustomed to such jokes and tricks.
At that time, Luo Zhaozhao was obsessed with opera and magic for a while, so Chu Zhiyao specially invited the best opera troupe master to perform for her in the outer courtyard every day.
Later, Luo Zhaozhao got tired of it and stopped coming to the outer courtyard, but the masters still sang every day, which was convenient for Gu Qingsheng who lived in the outer courtyard.
I listened to the masters singing and rehearsing plays every day, and finally I could hum some tunes.
"Since you want to see it, let's go and take a look."
Thinking of the things in the previous life, one can't help but sigh. Gu Qingsheng took Bai Lu's arm and led her over in Bai Lu's flattered eyes.
Through the crowd, one could see that some traditional magic tricks were being performed inside, such as breaking stones with the chest. People kept throwing copper coins into the bowl, making very crisp sounds.
After the two squeezed in, Gu Qingsheng couldn't move forward at all.
Those who perform this kind of trick usually do physical work and are mostly men, but this time it was a woman.
She was dressed in red and moved with great vigor. The huge rock on her chest was already higher than her head, and a strong man above her was holding a sledgehammer and hitting her chest with it!
The woman looked serious, but without a trace of fear, and was trying very hard to regulate her breathing.
Bai Lu didn't expect to see such an explosive scene as soon as she came in. She was so scared that she quickly covered her eyes.
What surprised Gu Qingsheng was not this. She looked at the woman who was pressed under the stone with a turbulent mood in her eyes. She didn't expect to meet her here.
Zheng Xueyi.
The female assassin who single-handedly broke into the general's mansion in the previous life and killed Chu Zhiyao's eighty elite soldiers, and eventually seriously injured Chu Zhiyao but was captured!
Her village was heavily taxed and the villagers were living in poverty.
After much difficulty, one villager arrived at Chu Zhiyao's door. When he wanted to hand over a letter of appeal to the great general, he was hacked to death by Chu Zhiyao because he soiled the hem of Luo Zhaozhao's skirt.
Zheng Xueyi was furious when she learned about this. Relying on some skills she learned in her childhood, she rushed into Chu Zhiyao's general's mansion and killed everyone.
He was eventually tied to a wooden stake and died of thirst in the outer courtyard under the scorching sun.
Gu Qingsheng also lived in the outer courtyard at that time. When no one was around, she secretly gave Zheng Xueyi a few sips of water.
She knew that Chu Zhiyao's actions were extremely cruel, but at that time she was already a woman in the deep palace and knew that she was powerless to change anything.
She still remembered that sunny afternoon when she carefully put the bowl of water into Zheng Xueyi's dry and cracked mouth.
The woman was in a dispirited state at the time, but her eyes were blazing and intimidating.
"It's okay! I won't die here! Are you also imprisoned in the mansion by that dog general?"
"Wait until I escape! I'll find someone to rescue you! You're such a kind person, you can't spend your whole life in this cage!"
Perhaps it was because Zheng Xueyi's gaze was too sincere and passionate, it was an emotion without any impurities.
Seeing this look, Gu Qingsheng suddenly felt a little ashamed of himself.
As if I were the dirtiest one.
She concealed the fact that she was the general's wife, just smiled awkwardly and left in a hurry.
What a pity.
In the end, Zheng Xueyi, the red swallow, was unable to fly away, and she herself had become a speck of light gray in the deep courtyard.
"Miss……"
Bai Lu called Gu Qingsheng cautiously, and Gu Qingsheng felt as if he were in another world.
When I came back to my senses, my face was cold.
"Why are you crying?"
Only then did she realize that her face had been covered with tears since she hadn't noticed, and even the fluff on her cloak was wet.
Not only Bai Lu, but even Gu Qingsheng himself was a little surprised.
"fine."
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