Crossing the world of Lin Zhengying

Chapter 9
And Qiusheng's aunt raised him entirely by this shop.

Qiu Sheng's parents died since he was a child, and he relied on his aunt for everything. Although he didn't like to look at this kind of shop, there was nothing he could do about it.

At this time, he was standing on the board, cleaning the signboard in front of the door with a feather duster, and my aunt was sitting by the door, using a thread to clamp a girl's facial hair.

At this time, a young girl passed by under the signboard, stopped aside, and looked into the shop again, but she didn't dare to walk in.

Qiu Sheng, a girl like this, was used to it for a long time, and he was no longer surprised by it, and then the feather broom sank down and swept the girl's neck.

The girl turned her head in surprise at this moment, her face was freckled, and her appearance was really scary enough.

Qiu Sheng was taken aback at this moment, but he didn't fall off, so he hurriedly asked, "Girl, what do you want to buy?"

At this moment, the girl looked at Qiusheng and replied with shame.

Qiu Sheng jumped down, walked back to the counter with the board, and said with a smile on his face, "I am not shy as a man who sells women's things. What are you afraid of, a woman who buys women's things? Tell me..."

At this time, the girl became more courageous and said: "Gong Fan..."

"So how much do you want?"

"Three catties..."

"What, you want to sweep the wall!" Qiu Sheng said casually at this moment.

At this time, the aunt heard the words and immediately stopped what she was doing, turned around and said, "Qiu Sheng, you sell things as you sell, why are you talking to customers like this?"

"Understood!" Qiu Sheng shook his head at this moment, reached in and took out boxes of palace powder from the counter, and placed them in front of the girl.At this moment, another girl in calico poked her head in and asked, "Is there any rouge?"

"The face or the lips?" Qiu Sheng asked casually again.

"Is there a difference?"

"Of course there is a difference." At this moment, Qiu Sheng took out a rouge box and opened it, dyed some rouge powder with a cotton ball, and lightly printed it on the calico girl's face: "For cheeks, use this."

"What about the lips?"

"Open your mouth." Seeing Qiu Sheng take out another box of rouge papers, he picked up one and said.

At this moment, the calico girl obeyed and opened her mouth.

"Have it in your mouth." Qiu Sheng immediately put the rouge paper in and said.

The calico girl closed her lips as she said.

"One, two, three—open!" Qiu Sheng pulled out the rouge paper, then pushed a mirror in front of the calico girl and said, "Look for yourself!"

The calico girl's lips had already been dyed blood red at this time, she looked at the mirror and smiled instantly: "It's so beautiful..."

At this moment, Qiu Sheng squinted one eye, pretending not to see it, but the girl who came to buy palace powder could see it clearly, and immediately shouted: "I want rouge, two boxes of each."

At this time, my aunt turned her head and said, "Calculate clearly, don't make a mistake."

"It can't be wrong, aunt, don't you believe me!" Qiu Sheng dialed on the abacus with his fingertips.

The aunt continued to pinch the girl's facial hair.

The girl closed her eyes, simply enjoying it.

After dismissing the two girls, Qiu Sheng couldn't help walking towards his aunt, and said, "Auntie, I just don't understand, women have to talk endlessly about every penny they buy. And this rouge and gouache, you can ask her how much you want." How much?"

"You! You just don't understand girls' feelings, so no girls like it until now." Auntie shook her head when she heard what Qiusheng said.

At this moment, the aunt paused, and stuffed the thread into Qiusheng's hand: "Okay, you come, I'll go buy stuffing."

Qiu Sheng couldn't help but said with a bitter face: "Auntie, this...how is it possible! This is a woman's job...!"

"You lost your father at the age of three, and your mother at the age of seven. If you didn't rely entirely on this kind of woman to work, you would be able to grow so tall?" The aunt immediately said a lot of things in displeasure.

At this time, Qiu Sheng took the thread with his head downcast, wrapped it in his hands, and was about to pinch the girl's facial hair.

The girl still had her eyes closed.

Before the Qiusheng line fell, he couldn't help shivering, and couldn't bear to watch.

Auntie glanced at him at this moment, he knew that auntie was watching him, so he pinched him helplessly.

Until the aunt turned and walked away, he pinched it a few times and then stopped, took a feather duster and swipe at the girl's face, and said: "Girl, it's finished."

"It's over..." The girl winked at the words.

At this moment, Qiu Sheng waved his hands impatiently and said, "Let's go! Let's go!"

The girl immediately cast another wink.

At this moment, Qiu Sheng couldn't help but shuddered again, and hurriedly waved the girl away again.

Fortunately, after the girl left, my aunt came back with a bag on her arm. Seeing that the girl was not there, she asked strangely, "Why so fast?"

At this time, I saw Qiu Sheng clapping his hands: "We young people, of course we have quick eyes and quick hands!"

"It seems that my aunt is really old!" At this time, my aunt took a few steps forward, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and told Qiu Sheng: "By the way, there is a girl named Qingqing across from Lichun Courtyard. Come here to buy rouge powder."

"Auntie, I know, according to the usual practice, cut her three times in a row, and slapped her hard, right?" Qiu Sheng replied.

The aunt immediately yelled: "Qiu Sheng, you must not do this. She lost her mother at the age of three and her father at the age of eight. She is a bitter child."

Qiu Sheng was startled when he heard that: "Her experience is similar to mine."

At this time, my aunt sighed: "She entered Lichun Courtyard because she sold her body to bury her father."

"Wouldn't that be worse than mine."

"Qiu Sheng, please remember that it is as cheap as it is. The money they make is really bloody and tearful." The aunt told me to move on.

Qiu Sheng couldn't help his nose sore when he heard this, and looking up, he happened to see his aunt meeting Ren Tingting in front of the Lichun courtyard.

Aunt, of course she knew Ren Tingting. She had always been in charge of the rouge and gouache used by the daughters of high-ranking officials in this area.

She hurried forward to say hello: "Miss Ren, what a coincidence."

"I worked so hard to convince my father to let me come to the street."

"By the way, how are you using the rouge and gouache that Master Ren ordered to send a few days ago?" Auntie is a businessman, and she doesn't forget about business at this time.

"The quality is very good! Please send me some more in a few days!"

At this time, my aunt's heart was moved, and she pointed to Baoxiangzhai: "My shop is there, you may as well take a look in the past. If you like it, ask Qiusheng to write it down, and I will send it to you."

"Qiusheng?"

"Oh! Qiusheng is my nephew, he is both smart and sensible." When Auntie talked about Qiusheng at the moment, she was delighted.

At this time, Qiusheng could see clearly from there, but couldn't hear clearly, so he said casually: "That must be Qingqing, she is beautiful, what a pity!"

At this moment, he murmured and shook his head, not paying attention to the girl with the hairy face just now, who suddenly appeared behind him, poking his finger on his back.

Qiu Sheng was taken aback and quickly turned around: "Why is it you again?"

At this moment, she saw that there was still some white powder on the girl's face, so she pointed with her finger and said, "There is still a pinch of facial hair here...."

Her face turned towards Qiu Sheng immediately.

"It's really over this time." Qiu Sheng had no choice but to pinch her face a few times indiscriminately.

"Then hurry up, I still have other customers..." Qiu Sheng hurriedly drove the girl away, and couldn't help pinching the girl's direction with the pink thread a few times.

At this time, a burst of silver bell-like laughter came from behind him immediately.

He looked back and saw Tingting standing there with a charming smile on her face.

It is impossible for Qiusheng not to admit that Tingting is really beautiful, but he thinks she is Qingqing from Lichunyuan, and he feels even more pitiful in his heart, and he can't help but sigh.

Tingting looked at him in response: "Are you working hard?"

"It's just a little sad." Qiu Sheng played with the pink thread in his hand unconsciously.

Tingting looked at Qiusheng's hands, and persuaded her, saying: "Work does not distinguish between high and low, it is for life, no one will make fun of you."

She let Qiusheng feel sorry for herself for pinching the girl's face.As for Qiusheng, he thought that Tingting was telling her about her miserable life, and replied with some surprise: "You know how to think like this."

At this time, Tingting's eyes fell on the rouge and gouache: "Your aunt just...."

At this moment, Qiu Sheng rushed to say: "She has already said that you can take whatever you like."

Immediately afterwards, she brought boxes of rouge powder and willow branches for thrush to Tingting, and lined them up on the counter. These were the best things.

Tingting looked strange at this moment, and said: "So there are so many choices!"

Qiu Sheng then asked, "Do you seldom go out?"

"Yes..." Tingting answered casually while choosing rouge and gouache.

Qiu Sheng asked again: "Do you watch it very closely?"

"Yes..." Tingting replied casually.

"Worried that you will come out and refuse to go back?"

"Maybe it's like this..." Tingting still said casually.

Qiusheng sighed, and Tingting then asked, "Have you ever been to our place?"

"How can I have this qualification?"

"Why do you say that, we are not such snobbish people."

"Is your place really big?"

"It's really big."

"There must be a lot of people going in on weekdays?"

"Sometimes, the holidays are the most frequent time."

Qiu Sheng was a little confused at this time, so he asked again: "A lot of people are looking for you?"

"I have to meet each of them."

"Then you are very busy?"

"There is no other way..."

Qiu Sheng sighed again and said, "What age are most of them?"

When he was talking about the clients in the brothel, Tingting thought he was asking about relatives at home, and then replied: "There are also those who are in their 80s and [-]s."

Upon hearing this, Qiu Sheng blurted out: "Those old immortals..."

"What?" Tingting was startled when she heard the words.

At this moment, Qiusheng felt sorry for her, and didn't want to say any more, so he asked, "Have you chosen it?"

"I want this... this!" Miss Ren said, pointing.

"Sent……"

"And this...this!"

"It's a gift, it's all a gift..." Qiu Sheng said boldly.

(End of this chapter)