The Pearl of the Lady

Chapter 72
Ah Fu entered the door and saw that the eldest brother had already arrived, and said, "Wo [I] thought I came early."

After taking a few steps to the seat of her parents, she folded her sleeves and saluted respectfully, "Female Gu Jiao wishes her father and mother good fortune and a new day, every year."

Princess Hua'an peeled an orange with her, and said with a smile, "Pepsi is auspicious."

After a while, Gu Qixuan and Gu Zixuan also came over, and Ah Fu laughed at them as lazy people. After the family had breakfast, they went to the street to play.

In recent years, the country has been prosperous and the people are strong, and the scene of a prosperous age. Today, the streets are even more lively. Not only the residents of the capital, but also many foreign missions who are going to participate in the Yuanzheng Dynasty Conference, arrived early to enjoy the scenery of the Great Zhou.

The square market is too lively, and it is inconvenient for a carriage to drive in it. Of course, if you are willing to bear the reputation of being a bully in front of all foreign envoys, you can also brandish a whip, but most people will not do this. Come out today. For the sake of play, it is more fun to wander around.

Ah Fu was a small man, once he stood on the ground, he could only see all kinds of skirts and pants, Gu Qixuan laughed, "Little man."

Ah Fu pouted, and stretched out his hand to his eldest brother, "My [brother] hug."

Brother Gu picked up Ah Fu, and she was happy now. She patted her brother on the shoulder to express her gratitude, "Let's go eat wontons first."

Princess Hua'an and his wife stood in front of a small jewelry booth, holding two wooden hairpins sweetly as they talked, and vaguely heard Princess Hua'an say, "For the first time... give me... wood, yourself... engraved."

The two recalled their youth sweetly, and they didn't care about the children, they only asked Gu Weixuan to take good care of his younger siblings.

The few people listened to Ah Fu and went to eat wontons. Brother Gu didn't think she was troublesome, but he had to cross a street, and the pedestrians on the street were shoulder to shoulder. Thanks to the three brothers who were not short, they were able to break through , As a result, when I got closer, I saw that the old man had already closed the stall, and the old woman selling gauze flowers next to him said, "The business is so good today, it was sold out early in the morning."

Ah Fu had no choice but to hold his brother's shoulders and stretched his neck to look around, looking for an interesting place to play. He saw a lot of people gathered in a distance, and Ah Fu directed his brother's brand safety car to go.

As soon as I walked in, I heard loud laughter, and from time to time, someone with money squeezed into the middle of the crowd, Ah Fu pointed and asked, "What is that for?"

Gu Qixuan laughed at his sister just now, which made Ah Fu pout, and now he hastened to make amends, "This is a custom that existed in the previous dynasty. Tourists gathered in the imperial street, and the audience was like weaving. Selling earthenware powder to make small elephants, and painting them on paper , Seeing people bring them back, I think they are offering their legacy."

Big brother nodded, "Qixuan is talking about small bets. When you enter the door, precious jade, odd toys, pieces of silk, and moving tea and wine utensils are closed, so that carriages and horses, mansions, singers, and dancing girls can all be arranged. The price is to pounce on it."

Ah Fu became interested, and asked with sparkling eyes, "How did you lay [打]?"

"The seller says the reserve price, and then the buyer bids." Brother Gu explained.

Ah Fu nodded, "Let's go and have a look."

Gu Qixuan and Gu Zixuan both love to be lively, so there is nothing to disagree with. Big brother Gu can't refuse his sister's big flickering eyes, so he can only agree.

Of course, the four of them would not stand outside and rush to buy. They paid the entry fee of 20 taels of silver per person, and entered the small building. Except for the restaurant artistes, the small building was all the things they bought, and they were all placed under the color screen. On the road, there is a seller standing next to him, his brother is holding Ah Fu, and a few people walk around in the venue. There are indeed some treasures here, but the daily food, clothing, housing and transportation of the few people are extremely exquisite, and these are not yet precious. to the point of impressing them.

After turning around, only Gu Zixuan bought a cricket jar, saying that it was made by a miscellaneous family in the previous dynasty. He collected a set, but this one happened to be missing. Just as he was about to carry Ah Fu to Rongxi Zhai to have some snacks, when he reached the door, Ah Fu patted his brother on the shoulder and said excitedly, "Come down [let me down], I'll come down."

As soon as she was put down, she trotted and squatted in front of a booth, and showed her elder brother the trick of tilting her head and smiling cutely, pointing to a cage, and said "I want" sweetly.

Gu Weixuan frowned, "This is?"

The stall owner saw the buyer, and quickly introduced, "This is a civet caught in the mountains. It has a very strong temper. If you can make it recognize its owner, it will be the most loyal."

Gu Qixuan also squatted down and looked carefully, "This cat is not beautiful." The cat is small, very thin, and its coat color is mixed with brown and black. It’s not good, sister, look at that little white cat next to it, how cute it is.”

Gu Zixuan also squatted down, pointed at the one Ah Fu was looking at, and then Gu Qixuan said, "Look at it again?" As Gu Zixuan pointed at it, the cat let out a low cry and waved its paws, looking fierce.

Gu Weixuan frowned even more, and coaxed Ah Fu in a low voice, "This cat is too fierce. It's mostly a Fanbang caravan in the past two days. The palace has paid tribute to many clever pets. My brother will take you to pick them out?"

Ah Fu squatted there, unwilling to get up, and said aggrievedly, "I just like it, this... this is called eye edge".

The businessman saw that the business was about to turn yellow, so he quickly said, "This cat is really clever. It is harder to catch it than a leopard. On the way, he pretended to be dead to trick me into opening the cage. As soon as I opened the cage, he jumped out." He said more and more in his heart. The more uncertain, this cat is really clever, and it's really wild, it's just a kitten like that, I don't know how powerful it will be when it grows up, who wants this kind of cat to buy a pet for a little girl.

Sure enough, Brother Gu's eyebrows were so frowning that he could pinch a mosquito to death. Just for a while, he thought of his sister being scratched by the cat and crying tears all over his face, or the cat ran away by itself, and his sister was sad Unable to stop, Gu Weixuan wanted to pick up Ah Fu and coax her, "Let's go to Rongxi Zhai to have some snacks, and after the new year, my brother will pick you a docile kitten."

Ah Fu squatted on the ground and couldn't get up "But I don't like this one any other kittens. I like the camellia in my yard. I don't like her because other people's camellias are more beautiful. It's like My brother likes me, is it possible that the little girl from other people's family is more obedient than me and cuter than me, so my brother doesn't want me to be a younger sister?" Ah Fu cried out anxiously, speaking with a tooth missing.

Gu Weixuan seems to have a cold face, but in fact, he is the most soft-hearted when it comes to Ah Fu's affairs. He is second only to Gu Zhao in terms of unprincipled, and basically on par with Wei Sheng. Patted Ah Fu's head and looked at the seller, "What is the approximate price of this cat?"

The seller wanted to sell the cat as soon as possible, otherwise it would starve to death, and all the hard work would be in vain. "15 taels of silver. After all, this cat was caught in the mountains, and a lot of manpower and material resources have been put into it."

Gu Weixuan nodded, and signaled the servant behind him to pay, "I offer 20 taels."

Ah Fu said, "Wo [I]...Wo [I] pays 50 taels."

Gu Weixuan was taken aback, then smiled helplessly, since no one was arguing with the two of them for the cat, Ah Fu untied his small purse, and gave the seller a silver ticket of 50 taels.

The seller finally sold the cat, and took the cage happily. He also saw that these were the little lords of the rich family who brought the little lady out to play, and he dared not hand over the cage to the little one. Girl, if this scratches the little girl, I can't bear the responsibility, Gu Qixuan stretched out his hand, "Give it to me."

The cat struggled endlessly in the cage and hooked its paws to scratch Gu Qixuan's hand. Seeing that the elder brother's face turned dark, Ah Fu snatched the cage from the second brother before he could react.

Strange to say, the cat stopped meowing once it was in Ah Fu's hands, and only meowed softly twice, Gu Qixuan said, "Hey, this is really destined."

The cat was soft at first, but suddenly it stretched out a claw from the crack of the cage. The three brothers of the Gu family felt tense and wanted to grab it with their hands, for fear of scratching their sister, but they didn't stretch out their nails, they just used it. The soft little pad just clapped hands with Ah Fu, and then obediently shrank back and nestled.

After leaving the door of Pumai's small building, Gu Qixuan looked at the kitten being carried by the younger sister in front of him, and said in a daze, "I think it gave me a glance."

Gu Zixuan nodded, "I think so too."

Carrying the kitten Ah Fu, I didn't have the mood to go shopping anymore. I had a palace banquet in the evening, and I had to go back early to prepare. The four of them went home after rounding up with their parents.

Ah Fu changed into the clothes he picked out in the morning, went to the imperial concubine's bed, and tapped the kitten's nose, "You were born at home, eat obediently, it's cold outside, don't go out casually." Ping Anxi laughed, Ah Fu told the kitten These two sentences seem to come from daily experience, which is similar to what Princess Hua'an told her.

(End of this chapter)