I am born with insufficiency

Chapter 120 Peach Blossom Beauty Makeup ([-])

In the twinkling of an eye, it is the middle of winter.

For some reason, the winter of this year was colder than in previous years. The price of coal that people use for heating has skyrocketed. According to the official price, ordinary people can’t buy coal at all, and the private price of the ghost market is even more unaffordable. In addition, there is a famine in the south. The victims flooded into the capital, causing starvation and freezing to death on the road.

For Gu Buquan who grew up in a small town in the south, this was a really difficult winter, but she refused to listen to Master's words and leave the capital.

"I said you are really serious. You don't rely on a tree as big as King Ji, but you want to hide from others and move to Luoyanpo. Raising chickens and growing tea every day is exhausting. Not to mention, you finally have a few eggs. You have to go all the way to the city to sell it, what do you think you are planning?"

Flower Rattle babbled and complained all the way.

She thought that she could go to Prince Ji's Mansion with Gu Buquan to enjoy the blessings, at least to have enough food and clothing, but unexpectedly, Gu Buquan turned around and went to Lizheng's house in Luoyanpo, begging them to let her live in the Fu's courtyard.

Li Zheng took a look, the yard was idle even if it was idle, it would be abandoned if no one lived there, so he agreed for Funing'er, saying that Funing'er would have a place to go when he was homesick.

I can't thank you enough, but I seem to be living a serious life in Luoyanpo.

Fujiayuan is a shelter that doesn't cost money, but there was a tragic murder there, Hua Yaoling still has lingering fears, if it wasn't because she didn't have money to stay in the inn, she would not be willing to live there with Gu Buquan.

Let her live as long as she lives, nagging a thousand times a day, urging Gu Buquan to go find King Ji, according to her words, even if you don't want to be Princess Ji, at least ask for some money to come back to live, if you have money, you can live in the city Living in a nicer house is better than the Fujiayuan.

"You can go to King Ji by yourself and see if Eunuch Gao will tear you up?" Gu Buquan replied coldly.

Hua Rattle finally closed her mouth.

She had humiliated the poor scholar Chen Chuzhi in every possible way before, but now she would not dare to go to King Ji by herself even if she had ten guts. Regardless of others, the little Eunuch Gao with eagle eyes alone was enough to make her terrified.

King Ji is not a big tree to rely on, and it is impossible to exchange a fool for silver, and it is not reconciled to spend 1 rattles.

But judging from the current situation, if she dared to go out alone to earn a living, she would end up freezing to death if she didn't starve to death.

"Hey, let's talk about it after this winter." She covered her clothes tightly, but she still couldn't resist the cold wind pouring down her neck, shivering from the cold.

In fact, Gu Buquan went to the city not only to sell eggs, but also to see Master again.

Ever since Master left the inn that day, she never saw him again, not even Black and White Impermanence.

Walking on the road, she always unconsciously raised her eyes to look at the roof, or glanced at some corner, took a deep breath, and stretched all her nerves to feel it, but unfortunately, there was no breath of Master anymore.

But she was convinced that neither Master nor Black and White Wuchang had left the capital, which was why she lingered here and refused to leave.

As long as she doesn't know her own life experience for a day, she is still a leaf of duckweed, and she can't take root anywhere.

Sun Xiaokong followed Ling An to the roof again, and he did not stop looking for her master just like her, but his purpose was completely different from hers.

After recovering from his wounds, he picked up a saw and planer to build the coffin. When he was tired, he sat by the firewood pile in the backyard and thought about his thoughts. When he saw Gu Buquan, he grinned and jumped out word by word.

She could feel his preoccupation, and understood that he never gave up his original intention of arresting her master.

Every time she thinks that there will be a life-and-death fight between him and the master, she can't help but kick his feet, but he still asks her with a naive smile, does the kick hurt?
Sometimes, she has some doubts, is he Ling An or a fool, or is he just pretending to be stupid?She couldn't be sure.

"Egg sellers, come here."

Passing by the door of Shangshutang, a woman with hairpins all over her hair waved to Gu Buquan.

The former Shangshutang no longer exists, and has become a brothel. The old bustard knocks melon seeds in front of the door when he has nothing to do. With some copper plates in his hand, he wants to buy a basket of eggs.

"Not for sale." When Gu Buquan saw the old bustard, he remembered Qi's mother in Qingzhou Mansion, and immediately became angry.

"Hey, you don't sell your eggs to my house, do you sell those beggars who starve to death or freeze to death without food?"

The old bustard looked contemptuous, and even waved away the victims, thinking they would dirty the ground in front of her door.

"I'll give it to them."

Gu Buquan walked over, put the bamboo basket in front of a ten-year-old beggar, and said, "I'll give it all to you."

"Gu Buquan, are you crazy? You have to exchange money to buy charcoal."

It was too late for Hua Rattle to get back the basket, the eggs had already been snatched up by the swarming victims, and they didn't care if they were raw eggs, they poured them into their mouths when they cracked open, Hua Rattle felt disgusted just looking at them.

But the little beggar didn't move.

Gu Buquan was very surprised, when he leaned over to take a closer look, the little beggar had already frozen to death, and a tear on his face had frozen into ice.

All of a sudden, a burst of sadness welled up from his eyes.

But at this time, the sound of silk and bamboo came from the brothel. Even if the road was frozen to death, it did not affect the rich people's food, drinking, singing and dancing.

Many disaster victims gathered in front of Shangshutang because they heard that every winter, Mr. Yu would make ginger soup for the people to drink for free. Unexpectedly, when they came here, things changed and people changed, and the medical center had become a brothel.

"You will also feel sad? But all this is not because of your good deeds? If you are not meddling, Shangshutang will still be Shangshutang, and Mr. Yu will still be Mr. Yu. He still treats people and makes ginger soup. Let everyone drink, how can there be so many dead people on the road?"

When the cold wind hit, Hua Rattle was trembling all over, her lips were purple from the cold, but it still couldn't stop her yin and yang aura that harmed others and did not benefit herself. Her logic has always been very perverse, no matter what, the culprit is incompleteness.

"You can go in if you want." Gu Buquan said coldly.

Hua Yaoling suddenly shook her head like a rattle, she still owed a lot of money to Madam Liu in Qingzhou Prefecture, if this old procuress met Liu Mama and begged for money from her, wouldn't it be her life?

Gu Buquan was too lazy to chatter with Hua rattling the bell. At this moment, her eyes fell on a creaking cart. An uncle with a big beard loaded the little beggar's body onto the cart. Several corpses were piled together.

These are frozen dead bones on the side of the road, and the uncle wants to drag them to a mass grave outside the city.

"Uncle, do so many people freeze to death every year?" Gu Buquan asked the bearded man while rubbing his hands and stomping his feet in the cold.

"Frozen dead bones occur every year, but this winter is much colder than usual, and more people died of freezing than usual. Most of them are from the south, and some local families are too poor to afford charcoal heating. If so If we don’t move it to landfill, I’m afraid there will be a plague.”

"Charcoal is expensive. The big guys switched to coal. It was okay before, but this year it's so expensive that charcoal and coal can't be burned."

The bearded man sighed one after another, saying that his family could no longer afford charcoal, and that if he collected the corpse for someone else today, maybe someone else would collect the corpse for him someday.

"Are they filling the pit directly?" Hua Yaoling asked.

The bearded man looked at the flower ringing the bell in amazement: "Young lady's question is so strange, if you don't bury them directly, can't you buy them a coffin to restrain yourself? Not to mention these foreigners, even local people, I'm afraid they will also take the coffins in their hands. The copper plate was weighed again and again, thinking about whether to buy charcoal for heating, or should I save it to buy a coffin?"

The bearded man put away the corpse, pulled the cart, and creaked away, Gu Buquan still stood there in a daze.

"Yes, Bai went to the city and suffered from the cold, and even the basket was robbed. Gu Buquan, you really deserve the name Buquan, and being with you is a bad luck."

Hua Yaoling was full of resentment, but Gu Buquan had a flash of inspiration, wiped away tears, and said firmly.

"I've made up my mind to open the coffin shop."

"Okay, I'll make the coffin, and you'll sell the coffin." Ling An jumped down from the roof with a thud, and landed right in front of Gu Buquan, rolling his eyes at the bell in anger.

But Hua Yaoling thought about it, and said happily: "The price of coffins has skyrocketed recently, which is exactly profitable. If you don't take care of everything, you must be the strongest head to make money!"

Thinking of the scene of every household in Maple Leaf Town queuing up to buy a coffin, Hua Yaoling couldn't help rubbing her hands happily, waiting for the cashier to make a fortune.

However, after all, she still missed the game and made a wrong calculation.

There was heavy snow in the sky.

The strange thing is that a peach blossom tree on Taoshan Mountain is blooming majesticly in the wind and snow, beautiful and strange.

(End of this chapter)