Concubine

Chapter 478
"Hey! Why are you so stubborn, little girl?" After several cups of burning knives went into his stomach, Yang Tashan was a little drunk, "Didn't I just say that? I am a laborer, and I can't support myself. What kind of maid? Wouldn't it make people laugh their teeth off!"

Xing'er put down the wine cup, knelt down on the ground with a thump, kowtowed and said: "Young Master, Xing'er can eat any kind of hardship, Young Master buried her mother for Xing'er, Xing'er is your servant, Xing'er is willing to follow and serve Young Master for the rest of her life. I am willing to eat bran and swallow vegetables. Please, young master, don't drive Xing'er away, please!"

Yang Tashan bent down to help her up, Xing'er struggled and said: "If you don't agree, Xing'er will not be able to kneel forever!" After saying that, she prostrated herself on the ground and wept bitterly.

Seeing this, the fat shopkeeper who was greeting customers at the counter came over hurriedly, and said to Yang Tashan: "Guest officer, it's rare that this girl is so benevolent and filial, so you can take her in from now on, why don't you let her be a girl? Where are you going?"

Yang Tashan sighed, and asked Xing'er, "Do you have no family?"

Xing'er was already crying like a tearful person: "When I was very young, my father died. In this famine, everyone in the family starved to death. My mother really had no choice but to bring me to celebrate the famine. Yang Mansion—Young Master, just let me follow you, I won’t drag you down, I can do everything, I can help you work. I can endure hardship, please…”

The store clerk who spoke harshly before also came over and sighed: "Yes, guest officer, this girl sold her body to bury her mother, and no one paid attention to her for two days. You were so kind and paid for her to bury her mother. She is your old lady." It's only natural for me to become a servant. Besides, now we are in a state of chaos, and the Tartars cross the border to harass her from time to time. She has no family, a little girl's family, and encounters soldiers and bandits. What should I do? You are always good. In the end, take her in."

The fat shopkeeper also said: "Yes. I see that this girl is filial to her mother. She can't be wrong with the young master. She can help you make the bed, make the quilt, wash and cook, and warm your feet when it's cold. The two depend on each other for a long time. OK."

Xing'er wept and kowtowed: "Yes, young master, I can do anything and endure hardships, so I won't drag you down, so you can take me in."

Yang Tashan smiled wryly, thinking about what the fat shopkeeper and the store clerk said made sense, he said: "Okay, but let's be clear, following me will have to suffer, if you want to follow me, follow me, if someday you can't bear the hardship If you don’t want to follow, or if you have a good place to go, you can leave at any time, okay?”

Xing'er was overjoyed, kowtowed and said: "Thank you young master, the young master's kindness to Xing'er is as great as a mountain, Xing'er knows that the young master is a good person, Xing'er will follow you for the rest of his life, and repay you like a cow and a horse."

Yang Tashan said with a smile: "It's not necessary to be a cow or a horse. You can eat whatever I eat. Anyway, I will never let you be hungry when I am full. Well, get up."

"En! Thank you, young master!" Xing'er was full of joy, kowtowed again, and then got up.

The fat shopkeeper smiled and said to Yang Tashan: "Guest officer, this girl is right, you are really a kind person, her mother's body has been parked at the door for two days, it stinks, no one is willing to pay to help her Glancing at the two hundred copper coins on the table, swallowed secretly, and continued: "You don't have much money yourself, and you still give all you have to help this girl. It's really admirable!"

Yang Tashan smiled and said: "Hehe, the shopkeeper is being polite." With a move of his hand, he said, "Shop down and have a drink or two?"

"No, no," the fat shopkeeper waved his hands, and said with a smile, "I still have to greet the guests, so please take it easy." He took the waiter and left.

Yang Tashan asked Xing'er to sit down, smiled and took a glass of wine: "Since you will follow me from now on, we are a family, come on, let's have a drink!"

Xing'er picked up her half glass of wine, stood up, and said, "Thank you, young master! Xing'er will definitely serve you young master with all her heart in the future."

Yang Tashan smiled and said: "Okay, but your body is too thin. In the future, the young master will feed you better and grow stronger. We workers can't do it if you are thin. Come on, do it!" Neck drank the wine in the glass.

After Xing'er thanked her gratefully, she drank half of the glass of wine.With the previous experience, this time I didn't cough, but it was so hot that tears came out.Yang Tashan smiled and asked her to grab a bite of vegetables to eat.

After drinking the wine, Yang Tashan ate two more bowls of rice. When he was full, he called the fat shopkeeper over and asked, "Shopkeeper, do you know where there is work?"

"This city is full of people looking for jobs, and it's really hard to find jobs." The fat shopkeeper thought for a while, then looked Yang Tashan up and down, and said, "I saw you carrying the coffin away this afternoon. The strength is really not small, I have some work in this shop, I wonder if you would like to do it?"

"Okay!" Yang Tashan stood up happily, "What are you doing? Waiting hall?"

The fat shopkeeper smiled and said: "That's not true. I just hired a temporary worker. I bought a few cars of firewood a few days ago and piled them in the backyard. I want to ask you to help chop firewood, okay?"

"Okay!" Although it was only a part-time job, but after all, he had some income, Yang Tashan immediately agreed.

"Okay, you follow me." After the fat shopkeeper told the staff to take care of the store, he brought Yang Tashan and Xing'er to the woodshed in the backyard.Pointing to a pile of firewood that looked like a hill, "That's all. I'll chop it up in a day, and it will be neatly stacked. Two meals, one meat and one vegetable, enough for twenty cents. Why?"

Yang Tashan looked at the firewood and said, "Can you take care of my two meals with Xing'er?"

The fat shopkeeper looked at the thin Xing'er, and nodded: "Okay! It's settled like this. Work will start tomorrow morning. It can be explained that the chopping can't be finished tomorrow, and the chopping will continue the day after tomorrow. Until the chopping is finished, the day after tomorrow doesn't matter. No extra wages!"

"of course!"

Xing'er looked at the pile of firewood and said, "Young master, it's such a big pile that two strong laborers can't finish it in a day, and I only give you [-] Wen, which is too little!"

The fat shopkeeper blushed. He originally offered [-] Wen for this pile of firewood. He would split it for two days and take care of six meals, but he didn't want it. Seeing that Yang Tashan is an honest man, he was trying to take advantage of him.Not only killed the price, but also reduced the number of days and meals.Now that Xing'er had exposed her, she felt a little embarrassed, and said, "Okay, just go to the kind-hearted Keguan, and add another ten Wen. Is that okay?"

Yang Tashan didn't care about it, but it's good to have an extra ten wen, so he nodded and said, "Okay, we'll come over to start work on time tomorrow morning."

After leaving this "Weixiang Restaurant", it was already dark, Yang Tashan felt a little fuzzy, with his hands behind his back, humming a folk song in a low voice, walking on the street with one deep foot and one shallow foot, Xing'er saw this and hurried forward Supporting him, he walked a few streets and saw an inn named "Qingyang Inn". A pair of stone lions at the entrance were very mighty, four red lanterns were raised high, and the whole building was magnificent.Yang Tashan chuckled: "Well, that's right, we'll be staying here today!" He stepped into the inn.

The shop waiter greeted him with a smile: "Two guest officers, are you staying at the shop?"

Yang Tashan wobbled, pointed at the shop waiter and said, "Nonsense, we don't live in the shop, what are you doing here? Two rooms!"

The shop waiter walked up the stairs with a smiling face: "Okay! There are two rooms in the upper room! Please go upstairs, both of you!"

Yang Tashan was about to go upstairs.Xing'er grabbed him and said in a low voice: "Young Master, wait..." Turning to the waiter in the shop, she said, "How much do you pay for the house?"

"Five hundred cash per day for a coat room in the upper room, three hundred cash for a single room, and four hundred cash for a two-person room..." the waiter said with a smile on his face.

When Yang Tashan heard that his head was getting bigger, he only had a total of 250 Wen, not even enough for a single room, and suddenly he was more than half sober: "Why is it so... isn't there a cheaper one?"

The waiter in the shop glanced at Yang Tashan's coarse green shirt, and knew that he was working as a coolie. However, he did not look down on others with a dog's eye, and said with a smile on his face: "Guest officer, we Qingyang Inn is one of the best in the entire Qingyang Mansion, a century-old brand, and the bath tubs inside are made of fragrant sandalwood. The Babu bed in the suite alone is worth 18 taels of silver..."

Xing'er said: "Master, let's...we haven't brought our luggage yet, so go get it first and then come back to stay, okay?"

Yang Tashan borrowed the donkey from the slope, and pointed at the waiter in the shop with his finger: "Yes, yes, yes, come when the young master goes to pick up the luggage! Leave a suite and wait!"

The waiter in the store heard that Xing'er called the coolie the young master, and immediately put away his underestimation, and said respectfully: "Yes..., I will definitely keep it for you two, master and girl, go slowly..." until the door .

Yang Tashan staggered and walked a long way, then he stopped, and said with a wry smile: "Xing'er, thanks to you, otherwise, the two of us would not be able to get out."

Xing'er said: "Master, let's go further, my mother and I walked through these streets when we were begging for food, I know there are some inns in the streets ahead, they are quite cheap, why don't we go there and have a look. "

Yang Tashan agreed, and the two came to the inns that Xing'er mentioned.

I saw that the people coming in and out of the door were some coolies who were dressed similarly to Yang Tashan. It was a hot day, and some of them sat at the door with their chests exposed to enjoy the cool and chat.

Yang Tashan walked over, and a burly shop waiter came up to meet him, glanced at Yang Tashan, then at the thin and thin Xing'er, curled his lips contemptuously, hugged his shoulders and said in a strange way: "Do you want to stay in the shop? "

"Well, how much?"

The waiter didn't answer, but pouted at the wall.

Yang Tashan looked up, and saw a big wooden sign hanging on the wall at the door, with the price written on it: 45 Wen per day for a single room in an upper room; [-] Wen for an ordinary single room, [-] Wen for a double room, [-] Wen for a triple room Ten Wen for each, and six Wen for each floor shop.

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