Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 91
Mai Xiang bid farewell to Tong Liwen, and sat by the wishing pool for a long time, not knowing what she was thinking.

Tong Liwen didn't seem to understand the meaning of Mai Xiang's words, he just simply understood that Mai Xiang really had to be busy for a while, and he just happened to be at home to accompany the guests from the capital for a few days.

"Forget it, it's still early for emotional matters. In this era, parents' orders and matchmaker's words are emphasized. It's better to let nature take its course, but there is one thing, please bless me not to be a child." After Mai Xiang finished speaking, she put a The copper plates were sent to Guanyin Bodhisattva.

After Mai Xiang made her wish, she looked around, there was no one at the wishing pool at this time, and she looked at the sun above her head, she didn't know that it was noon, when she just got up, she saw Huai Ci standing behind her.

"When did you come?" Mai Xiang didn't know how long the other party had been standing there, and whether she heard what she said.

"Just here, can we start?"

Seeing Mai Xiang nodding, Huaici led Mai Xiang from the Reclining Buddha Hall to the backyard. There was a pavilion in the backyard, and there was a set of stone tables in the middle of the pavilion. At this time, the sun was at its peak. Not to mention people, even cats and dogs No one likes to come out, only the cicadas on the tree are singing tirelessly.

"Few people come to this place." Seeing Mai Xiang looking around, Huai Ci explained.

Mai Xiang nodded. She didn't want others to see that she was with a man all day long. Although she was still young, in ancient times, men and women had different seats at seven years old, and men and women could not kiss each other. Her behavior was shocking enough. .

Thinking of this, Mai Xiang regretted her impulsiveness again, but she couldn't go back on her promise to others, so she could only end it as soon as possible.

"I'll give this to you first, and I'll recite it when I go back." Mai Xiang took out a few pieces of paper from the basket, in addition to the Jiujiu table, there were also some abacus formulas, which Mai Xiang wrote in great detail.

Huaici was also very serious in reading. When he encountered something he didn't understand, he would ask questions. He also wrote notes with charcoal pencils while asking. It could be seen that he really wanted to learn abacus.

While talking, Mai Xiang explained and demonstrated on the abacus. The two got very close. Mai Xiang saw the other party's outstretched hand, with slender and white fingers. Mai Xiang looked at these hands and thought that these hands should be placed on the piano or It's a pity to put it on the guqin and on the abacus.

Huai Ci saw Mai Xiang staring at his hand in a daze, a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, although Mai Xiang didn't notice it, but Mai Xiang could see the extreme patience in the other party's eyes, it seemed that the other party regarded himself as a nympho.

"I'll give you some questions. You can go back and practice by yourself. At this time tomorrow, ask me if you don't understand anything." For your sake, do you think I will agree to teach you?

After all, since then, Mai Xiang came to teach Huaici some mathematics knowledge every day. After ten days, Huaici was able to make a good calculation. It seems that he did not practice less at home. Taught him a set of simple accounting methods.

On this day, Mai Xiang watched him complete a set of simple accounting forms, and said with a smile: "You have learned what you need to learn, and the rest is to practice by yourself. This thing is not difficult, practice makes perfect. "

"Thank you, Master, for your dedication. Actually, I also want to say goodbye to you today. This is my thank you." After Huaici finished speaking, he took out a five-liang silver ingot from his sleeve.

"This thank you gift seems to be a bit heavy." Mai Xiang worried that the other party would be ashamed again if she gave it to her.

"It's not heavy, I think it's worth the price." Huai Ci stubbornly handed the silver ingot to Mai Xiang.

Mai Xiang saw that the other party didn't seem to want to owe her any favors, so she happily took the silver ingot and said with a smile, "Thank you so much, goodbye, and good luck."

"I wish you good luck too, and I'm leaving." Huai Ci glanced at Mai Xiang, bowed his body, and left the Reclining Buddha Temple first.

Mai Xiang packed her things and was about to leave when a gust of wind blew the manuscripts in the basket to the ground. When Mai Xiang bent down to pick them up, she actually picked up a receipt. Zhang pawned the ticket, but the words on it were too scribbled and I couldn't read them all.

Mai Xiang waited for a while, and seeing that no one was looking for her, she put the things away, thinking of going back to let Cao Xueqin show them, because Mai Xiang suspected that the things would be dropped by Huai Ci, an outsider who usually came from the backyard Rarely, the people in the temple will not go out to pawn things.

Coming out of the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, Mai Xiang went directly to Cao's house. As soon as Mai Xiang entered the yard, she saw two horses tied to the horse posts, and knew that Cao's house had visitors again.

As soon as Mai Xiang walked to the door, she heard Cao Xueqin say: "My uncle is now a formal Buddhist disciple. I don't know if he is willing to recall these past events."

"Why don't you want to? Hasn't he read all your books? Doesn't he have anything to say?" Dun Cheng nodded.

"I also think that Uncle Ling can completely replace Uncle Ling and Prince Heping. After all, there are many stories about your Cao family in this book. Uncle Ling should be the one who touched me the most. I still remember Mr. Tangcun, the younger brother, who was very fond of Mr. The "Treasure of Wind and Moon" has written a lot of comments, and only you Cao family can have a deep understanding of these Cao family's past events." This is Dun Min's voice.

"That's really good. One from your Cao family, one from the Li family, and Prince Pingjun, this group of scholars is also complete." Dun Cheng laughed.

After hearing this, Mai Xiang, does he dare to believe that one of Zhiyanzhai or Jihusou is really Cao Fu?But, who would it be?Also, since Fu Peng once participated in storytelling, what is his code name?And that Uncle Ling, it should be Li Ding, he is also one of the critics?

Could it be that this Zhiyanzhai is really a small group, not a certain person?However, in the past few months, Mai Xiang found that the people who had the most contact with the Cao family were Dun Min and Dun Cheng, and Ming Lin also came to visit Cao Xueqin occasionally to send some wine and rice noodles to Cao Xueqin. No one ever came.

Of course, Mai Xiang knew that Cao Xueqin often went out, but most of them came back on the same day, and it was rare to see him spending the night outside, so how did these people get together?
Also, according to what Dun Cheng said, the Cao family, the Li family plus a member of the Aixinjueluo family, this group of scholars is complete, does it mean that there is really something about the Aixinjueluo royal family in this book?

"Mai Xiang, why don't you come in?" Liu Huilan noticed Mai Xiang at the door when she served them tea.

"I want to ask you about something trivial, but seeing that you have guests, I was afraid of disturbing you, so I was hesitating when my wife saw me." Mai Xiang's words were reasonable.

"Mai Xiang is here, what's the matter, come in quickly." Cao Xueqin also recognized Mai Xiang's voice.

After Mai Xiang said that she recognized them as godparents, Cao Xueqin really used the ten taels of silver to buy a piece of wasteland behind Mai Xiang's house under Mai Xiang's hard work. However, there is no money to build a house at present.

However, because of Mai Xiang, Cao Xueqin also changed a little bit and reflected on herself. Mai Xiang, a small and weak woman, knows to support a family. He, Cao Xueqin, is a dignified man. As a husband and a father, what reason does he have? Decadent?
Therefore, these days, Cao Xueqin began to paint besides writing. Mai Xiang has seen two stone paintings he painted, both of which used light brush and ink to express the elegant artistic conception, which was very similar to his own personality. I heard that his calligraphy and paintings are bright Lin helped him store it in a calligraphy and painting shop in the capital for consignment. As for whether it was sold, Mai Xiang still doesn't know yet.

"Mai Xiang, long time no see." Dun Min greeted Mai Xiang proactively.

"Hello, both masters." Mai Xiang greeted at the same time.

She was a little puzzled by this. The friends around Cao Xueqin were all so much younger than him, but they hit it off very well. The two Dunmin brothers are die-hard fans of Cao Xueqin, and they would come here every few days. Looking at the new draft, I heard that they have taken "Zhiyanzhai's first commentary on the stone story" for copying.

"Miss Mai Xiang, are you still frying pumpkin flowers for us today? I still remember this pumpkin flower with wine, which has a special taste." Dun Min said with a smile.

"But there are no more pumpkin flowers outside." Mai Xiang glanced out of the window.

"Okay, don't tease her anymore, she is now my goddaughter and your junior sister." Seeing that Mai Xiang was serious, Cao Xueqin hurriedly said with a smile.

"Little junior sister? Mr. recognized such a big happy event as a daughter and didn't say it early, so we didn't prepare the meeting ceremony." Dun Cheng looked at Mai Xiang and smiled.

Someone who can be valued by Mr. must have good character, so Duncheng mentioned that there is no meeting ceremony.

"By the way, Mai Xiang, what are you looking for from me?" Cao Xueqin just remembered that Mai Xiang said she wanted to find him.

Mai Xiang took out the receipt just now, "Sir, show me what it is?"

Cao Xueqin took the bill, glanced at it, and said, "This is a pawn ticket. Where did you get it?"

"It's really a pawn ticket? I picked it up at the Temple of the Reclining Buddha today. This person bought something from me. I guess he dropped it, but I don't know what it was pawned for?"

Cao Xueqin took the pawn ticket, looked at it carefully for a long time, and then said: "I pawned a jade bracelet, and I can't tell how much money I pawned. It's the Tong family's pawnshop in Changning."

"Jade bracelet?" Mai Xiang only saw the word "stone" on it.

But knowing that it was Tong's pawn shop, Mai Xiang thought it would be easy to handle, so she planned to go to Tong's house in one or two days to ask Mrs. Tong if she wanted this new pendant, and how much would she pay for it?After all, by selling from the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, the sales volume is limited.

Thinking of this, Mai Xiang took a pair of longevity flowers from Liu Huilan, and planned to go to Tong's house early the next morning, it would be best to redeem the bracelet and return it to Huaici sometime.

As soon as Mai Xiang came out from the next door, she saw Mai Huang running out in a hurry and called to stop her.

"Sister, why did you come back? Someone is waiting for you at our house."

After hearing this, Mai Xiang took Mai Huang's hand and entered the yard of her house, only to see Nanny Li walking over with a smile.

(End of this chapter)