The first work of the imperial prison

The person Ying Pu Xin likes is the Cai family?

Ye Baiting and Qiu Yiqing glanced at each other quickly: "I remember you said that you don't like wearing red?"

"Yes, I don't like it very much." Cai lowered his eyes, and his long eyelashes cast a faint shadow under his eyes, "It's not that I haven't worn them. When I married him, the color, fabric, and style of the wedding dress were all from him. I picked it myself, he likes me in red."

"Why don't you like it?"

"Because it's too dazzling and too dazzling."

Cai's voice was very weak: "...my mother died in front of me, and was beaten to death by my father. She went out that day, wearing a moon-white dress, and red blood smeared out, soaking her whole body. Yes. She didn't want me to see her, she turned sideways, huddled into a ball, and said, Niuniu, go away, she obviously likes me the most, knowing that she is going to die, she can be ruthless, turn her back, and don't even look at me."

"But I've seen it all."

"I was eight years old that year, and I hated red the most. The more positive and darker the red, the more I hate it."

The warm wind blew outside the window, with the sound of willow branches knocking lightly, Cai stared blankly at the sky outside: "The relationship between the world is broken, the relationship between the dust and the world is broken... After taking the medicine today, recalling the past, I feel a little bit lost. If you two have time, , would you like to hear about my useless past?"

Ye Baiting was holding the pot of tea, with an elegant posture: "It's my luck that Madam is willing to talk to each other."

Cai's eyes widened, and he spoke slowly: "...my biological father is not a thing. I have never hated a person so much. From that day on, I called him an old beast. Of course he doesn't like me very much, because I am a girl. He thinks raising me is a waste of food, he almost strangled me when I was born, he likes to gamble, he doesn’t go home every day, every time he comes back, he beats and scolds me, he never gave me a good face, if it wasn’t My mother is protecting me, I probably won't be eight years old."

"The old bastard tried to sell me more than once or twice. When I was young, I was protected by my mother. My mother died. I am not a piece of wood. Of course I can run, but every time I run very hard, sometimes he finds me, holds me down and beats me severely." , sometimes he can't find him, I have to go back sooner or later... It's not that I haven't thought about going to other places, but I can't. What is it, you are Jin Yiwei, you should be able to guess?"

Ye Baiting didn't speak.

Nowadays, it is difficult for women to establish households, and it is almost impossible for women who have not left the cabinet. Without household registration, there seems to be only one end for them - low status.

Cai snorted: "I can only fight with that old bastard to see who dies first. I think I will definitely win. When he sees that I don't run away, he thinks that I don't want him. Every time he is asked to pay a debt, he says Take me to pay off the debt, the gambling shop has thugs who will come to arrest me, he is different, he can go in the gambling shop and continue to gamble. The people in the gambling shop tried to reason with me, saying that my eyebrows and eyes are still clean, they They won't torture me, just give me a job to train a little servant girl to serve others. Those who have wages, I can relax, and they can relax too. Otherwise, this kind of thing will happen again in the future. I can run once or twice, Can you still run forever?"

"At that time, I was small and stubborn. I always felt that their hearts were holding back some bad ideas. If they didn't want to, they could only run. In the entire Linqing City, no beggar could run faster than me, and no one could run faster than me. I am more familiar with the streets and dark alleys, where they are being repaired, where they are blocked, and where they are more convenient to hide..."

"I beg people to do work for me everywhere, I can do any job, run errands, help people carry corpses, collect night incense, as long as they are paid, I will do it, bully me when I am young, and deliberately pay harshly, as long as next time Still looking for me, as long as I can eat, as long as I don't get caught by the people in the gambling house... I can live. Occasionally, if I am not lucky, I will be caught by the people in the gambling house and stuff all the money in my hand. I beg them to spare me half a cup of tea and run first, I can take advantage of this opportunity and try my best to survive."

"I have been treacherous and cunning since I was a child, and I like to deceive people. When I bump into people who are not easy to get along with, I can even take advantage of my weak status as a child or a girl, and... I have stolen the purses of rich men on the road. I have never , are not good people."

Ye Baiting held the teacup tightly with his fingertips.

These things, heard from other people's mouths and seen in news files, are far less shocking than what the person concerned said.Cai's voice was actually not heavy. This past was over for her, and there was no fuss, but he could still imagine how helpless and sad she was at that time. It took a lot of hard work for a little girl to struggle like this among the wicked. Tenacious, to do it?

"I'm not always running away. Occasionally when the old beast wins money, I will relax a bit. I don't have to run even to eat. I can walk on the street and bask in the sun slowly. The life of the old beast is quite hard, Winning or losing at the gambling table, I broke a few fingers and a leg, and I am not dead, but I have grown up slowly, and I have a figure like a girl."

Cai lowered her eyes: "When other people's girls are fourteen or five years old, the elders start to worry about marriage. They look at each other, for fear that they won't be able to see right. In the future, my daughter will be wronged at her husband's house. I am different. From the age of 12, I am an old beast. He devoted himself to selling me to all kinds of 'bosses', and even stopped me, persuading me nicely, saying that this one is good, that one is good, and the other is better, as long as I want to, I used to wear gold and silver Rich, you can get what you want, heh, it’s so good, why doesn’t he go? When I don’t see the eyes of these people looking at me? Is it to see people or goods? Even if I am looking for a man, I have to find someone who is pleasing to the eye Yes, all of them are full of fat, and I feel disgusted just by looking at them."

"I used to always look forward to growing up. I always felt that when I grow up, I will be taller and stronger. People will not treat me as a child. Life will be much easier. I never thought that when I grow up, I will not be as good as I was when I was a child." Convenience, children are inconspicuous, and it is difficult for others to pay more attention to them. It is not necessarily the case for grown-up girls. I encounter more and more difficulties, rich in tricks, and I also work harder and harder. Almost every time I run away, I am accompanied by Fighting with people, I really tried my best to escape..."

"I sometimes think, am I going to live like this all my life, there is no end, there will be no light, should I bow my head and admit it, don't grit my teeth and carry it, but then I think, no matter if I bow my head and give in, or It's boring to live like this forever, it's better to just die, it's over."

"I was 15 years old that year, and I killed Mao San."

Mrs. Cai closed her eyes and said, "Mao San is a gangster. There are only a few thugs in the gambling shop, and there are too many debt collectors. When he can't take care of it, he will ask some street ruffians to help. Mao San has taken this kind of work many times and chased me several times. My mouth is not clean, my hands and feet are not clean, I always want to take advantage of me, I have confronted him many times, of course I ran away immediately when I saw him, and he ran very fast, but that day he chased him very fast, he couldn’t die Let go, it wasn't like this before... I knew I couldn't run away, and he made up his mind. This time, there will only be two results, either, I pay back the money, and he can leave, or he gets it."

"I'm different from other girls. I don't think so much about chastity, and I don't think it's so important, but I don't want to be so abused and humiliated. They are human beings, and I am also human...Why? I abducted I went to the river, thinking that if I couldn't escape today, I might as well die. Anyway, there is nothing to miss in this disgusting world, but I didn't expect, I didn't jump, he turned too fast, and accidentally fell into it. "

"Of course I turned around and ran away. I didn't pay any attention to him. He kept calling for help, but I didn't turn my head back. I thought he was pretending. I knew he knew how to swim, but who knew he died... Wu Zuo said that he was in the water. I got cramps in my legs while swimming, and no matter how good my water skills are, I can’t save myself.”

Mrs. Cai paused for a moment, looking down at the tea in the cup: "There is nothing to say about this matter. Kill people to pay for their lives, and debts to pay back money. The government is right. Although Mao San is a debt collector, he is not a good person. He fights outside every day. Filial piety, but he never killed anyone, even for me, at least in the results at the time, he just teased me, frightened me, hit me a few times and I returned it, there were no more serious consequences, but he died Well, I didn't kill him, he died because of me, and there is a blind old lady in his family..."

"I don't know the law, and I don't know if I have the responsibility, but when I saw his blind old lady, I felt guilty. I took care of his old lady. It's not that I think I'm wrong, I may have other mistakes, For example, I stole the purse of a rich man on the road, but I was right about it. I will do it again, and I still won’t believe Mao San’s cry for help, but his mother is innocent. I’m not atonement, I Not guilty, I just don’t want to have a bad conscience for the rest of my life.”

"My aunt didn't like me at the beginning, she always drove me away, and she would scold me if I didn't leave. Later I realized that she didn't actually like me, but she just felt that she was old and blind, and would drag me down. She didn't hate me because of Mao San, she said it was an accident, she and her son were not close, Mao San never took care of her, gave her money and food, but would rob her of her things and savings , and even hit her, she behaved like that, just because she didn't want me to be a good big girl, because she wanted to accompany her, and the flowering period was delayed."

Cai's voice was a bit self-deprecating: "You say it's ridiculous, my father never cared about me, his biggest idea was to sell me, but my enemy's mother felt sorry for me, remembering that I was still a little girl and needed someone to love, but she How would you know that a girl like me would have a flowering period? I also... won't have any marriage. "

"Men don't have a good thing, and I don't care about it. My aunt is easy to support, and I am easy to support. I have a stutter. Slowly, I saved some money and opened a steamed stuffed bun shop. As before, there are often people Come here to bully me, but I have already seen it, I am a person who has killed people, I have no worries about the world, and I will die together at the worst. I bought a sharp bone cutting knife and sharpened it every night. I know what they are saying in secret In other words, I sleep with the knife in my arms, and I am not afraid at all."

"The steamed stuffed buns are spread along the official road far outside the city. The land price over there is cheap. I built a small house and lived with my aunt. It's not good in the city. I have a bad reputation. No one is willing to patronize the business. Over there. Officially, although there are not many guests, fortunately there are no companions, but anyone who passes by and wants to have a drink and rest, they have to sit with me."

"I don't pick customers, as long as they pass by, I will entertain them if they pay money. I won't accept more or less. I know how much my things are worth. I do know the bandits that others talk about. Bandits also go out and have to travel. In my place, they are customers. They pay, and I give buns. If they want to bully me, I use a boning knife. In fact, bandits have nothing to fear. No more, you can spare anything, but they will respect you a foot, and will not exceed the rules."

Cai's mouth was a little dry when he spoke, so he stopped and took a sip of tea.

Ye Baiting then asked: "So you only know bandits, and you have no friendship with them?"

"Why should I have friendship with them? Although they are guests, they are also bandits, and they have a fierce aura. I have lived enough, do I think I have too little trouble?"

Cai sneered: "I know how other people arrange me. I even have 'human meat buns'. I don't care about it, and I can't clarify. Since I was a child, have I been arranged less? It doesn't matter, one more or more. It’s just a rule, there’s no need to explain it, and it doesn’t make sense.”

Qiu Yiqing tapped her fingertips on the table: "It was at this time that you met Ying Puxin?"

"……Yes."

Mrs. Cai held the teacup, her eyebrows and eyes were a little dark: "He likes to travel in mountains and rivers, his clothes are always meticulous, and he never leaves his fan. He is a son of a rich and noble family, and he is very delicate. He would yell at flying insects from a distance. Make me wipe the table."

"The guest likes cleanliness, I have to take care of it myself, but how can there be no bugs in the mountains and countryside? He sits for a quarter of an hour, eats a bowl of soup, and two plates of buns. I was called to wipe his clean table ten times. I soon discovered that he was actually not afraid of bugs. A big flying bug landed on his feet, and he stepped on it to death when he raised his foot. arrive."

"I got angry with him right away. I didn't walk people around like this. What I made was for the entrance. No matter how unconscionable I was, I was guaranteed to be clean. I even lit an incense stick to repel insects not far from the table. What's so dirty? I was the first to see something, and I will deal with it immediately, it is absolutely impossible to be as exaggerated as he said, I am considerate of which rich and wealthy son he is used to, it is okay to work a little bit, how can he insult people like this!"

"Seeing that I was holding a boning knife, he hurriedly told the truth, saying that this was not the first time he saw me, he knew that I was not afraid of bugs, this time he just wanted to talk to me, say a few more words, and had nothing else to say, I can only use worms as rafts, which is why I misunderstood him, and he apologized to me with a blushing face, and wanted to pay for it... Heh, I don’t want his money, I just want to tell him to go away.”

"I seldom chat with people. I don't chat with bad people, because there will be trouble, and I don't chat with good people, because I am also troublesome and will hurt others. I just thought he was playing for fun. That's it, I won't meet again since then, who knows that after a few days, he came again, and said pitifully that he climbed an unknown mountain, hurt his leg, it was not good for walking, and his purse was touched again Well, he is a foreigner, and he is not familiar with the inn in the city, so he dare not let him pay on credit. After seeing the doctor and taking the medicine, he is stunned. Keep it for a period of time, and say that you will be rewarded by Xie Yin."

"I didn't want to talk to him at first, but it's pitiful to see him jumping on one leg. If I walk out like this, I'm afraid I won't be caught by wolves halfway. For Xie Yin's sake, I agree."

Cai looked at the sunshine outside the window, and there was a touch of tenderness in his eyes: "I knew I was right, he is a very lazy son, he can't pick the dishes, wash the fire, burn the table, wipe everything. No, he can coax people with just one mouth, the blind aunt is coaxed by him, her teeth are almost laughing, and she can eat two more bowls every day."

"He also wants to tease me. I don't like to talk to him, but I don't know why. He just understands me and what I'm thinking. When I look up at the sky, he will tell me to rest assured that it will not rain tomorrow; He paused when the meat was stuffed, and he told me that today's guest has a thick tongue coating, red eyes, and a little bit of a fire, he must be sick, the taste is not accurate, it's not that the buns are really salty, it's not delicious; I suffered from a cold, a fever, and still had to open a shop to do business. The blind aunt loved me so much that she scolded me and even threatened me on a hunger strike with my own body. I had to rest for two days. He was different. He just cooked for me clumsily. He took the medicine and said that as long as I take the medicine on time, he doesn’t care what I do.”

"I know my body. It's just a little fever. It really doesn't matter. I can persist, but I don't want to insist on taking care of other people's emotions when I open a shop and do things... I have never expressed my feelings to anyone. I I didn't like to laugh since I was a child, but why, he understands?"

Cai's eyes drooped: "He doesn't know that I'm a bad woman, but he will know sooner or later. Sooner or later, he will be like those people in the city. He dare not talk to me, dare not get too close to me, and won't make eye contact with me. Treat me like a plague god. Everyone in the world is the same, no one likes to be troubled, after the freshness passes, Brother Young Master is no different from ordinary people."

"But his legs are all healed, and he is still dawdling. He shouldn't be dawdling just for 'fun'. Bandits are here. Bandits are going to go out to 'do business', and they generally don't harass Surroundings, but when "business is sluggish", it may not be necessary. The neighbors in the surrounding area are the grass beside the rabbit's nest, and they also raise sheep. When there is no food, don't they have to use it? That time they seemed to lose a lot of money. Business, especially murderous, a pair of lessons to vent, the appearance of not giving up until there is no blood."

"It's not the first time I've encountered this kind of thing. I'm used to it. As long as I look down on property and can spare my life if someone bullies me, they won't dare to kill me. No one wants to provoke a lunatic. I'm ready Well, he pressed my hand and told me not to be afraid."

"What a joke... Do I look like I'm afraid? Ever since I was a child, no one has asked me if I'm afraid. It seems that I'm born to be bold. I can't be afraid. I have to be brave and grit my teeth in order to live. But he said The appearance is very serious and serious, as if I am no different from other girls, I need to be protected, I can be afraid and weak occasionally."

"I was a little slow to react, and he rushed out. He is a young man, he doesn't know martial arts, he doesn't know how to fight, and he has no power to restrain a chicken. I thought he would definitely pay the price for his recklessness. The corpse was buried in the mountains, and I even thought about the location of the grave for him. I didn't expect him to be so eloquent. Those bandits who tricked him with his words ran around. After a round of drinking, these people actually ran away. Hurry up, I won't come back for a long time."

"It turns out he's not trying to show off his abilities... I can really be afraid, the sky won't fall."

"...I really like to open a shop and make steamed buns. It's not a great thing, and I don't have much to do. I just feel that this process makes my heart very quiet. Watching the water vapor in the steamer and the steamed buns grow up little by little, I will I feel very satisfied, as if all the things I am doing now will be rewarded in the future, maybe some are just a little late. He never stopped my hobby, not when I was in the mountains and wild, nor when I was married. It’s amazing, what you want to do must be successful, even though you can only make ordinary steamed stuffed buns now, one day you will achieve the success that will be handed down from generation to generation..."

"He lived for a long time, and rumors about him began to spread outside, which was not very nice. I drove him away, scolded him, and said a lot of ugly things, such as a wolf with ulterior motives and a mask. He was not angry and looked at me for a while. He also laughed, saying that I don't trust others easily, which is a very good advantage, and I will not be easily deceived in the future, so I must keep it."

"That should be the first time I blushed. I scolded him, said he was a bad person, and didn't believe him, but he encouraged me and said that this is very good, with a sincere smile... But he still has to leave, he is a man with a family. Merry Young Master, before you leave, you still don’t forget to tease me, telling me that I can trust him, he is very honored.”

"I'm a little annoyed. I never trust others easily, but I trusted him and relied on him to help block the bandits. It's not that I hate him and drive him away. He obviously appreciates it. He knows it, so he insists on pointing it out. Seeing me blushing, my tail raised up to the sky in fear! I realized at that time that there were buckles in what he said. Sometimes it was a joke, but it was the truth; Good at annoying me, and saying a heart-pounding word, it doesn't make me hate or angry, my heart is sour, and I have the feeling of being understood and unraveled."

Mists melted in Cai's eyes: "I thought our intersection was only here. Life is a long road, and duckweeds gather together. I sent the blind aunt away, and the old beast died, but the shop by the official road was not willing to close it, and it kept opening. Then, eight months later, he came again. This time he was not injured, and he didn’t live for a long time, but he came here often after that, and often wrote me some inexplicable letters..."

"He seems to be very busy, coming and going in a hurry, the bun shop is too remote, no one knows, there will be no trouble, so I didn't stop him. I didn't think he liked me at that time, it was just a joke of the young master, he likes to be funny, he At any rate, he has helped me, so I endured it and didn't scold him very much, unless he made me anxious."

"I'm the kind of person who is a lone star, born with a bad life. If I don't look for trouble, trouble will come to me. Maybe it's been a long time, and the bandits have finally come to their senses, knowing that they were cheated, thinking about it. When I got it back, when I was found fault by the government, they planted me, a big pot, and forced it on my head... Is it surprising that others still believe it. The reason for believing it is the ridiculous things in the past. The bandits are friends' rumors, they obviously made up those rumors themselves, but they still believed them, and asked me to bear the result."

Cai's voice was slow: "I was sent to prison, and I was recruited by others. I don't know anything. How could I be recruited? I saw the torture equipment of the prison head, and I knew that if I didn't recruit the next day, others would use it. 'Take care' of me, the government is different from the gangsters in the market, I can't run away, my life is at an end. I am not afraid of death, I should have died, and no one in this world expects me to be safe and happy for my life."

"When he was on the torture rack, there was a voice shouting from outside. I saw him in a dusty world. He said he hadn't received my letter. I was surprised because I usually didn't answer his letters. Five or six, ninety, one It’s okay not to reply for two months, why just because he didn’t receive my reply this time, he drove his horse at night, his face turned pale with fright, as if he knew something happened to me.”

"He didn't explain. He just hugged me and said that it's good that I'm alive. I don't know what he was thinking at that time. I just felt that his arm was too hard, just like when someone was going to hit me, but I... Didn't struggle and didn't want to struggle."

"After calming down, he told me that he had a solution and told me not to worry. Within two days after that, I saw the old Hou Ye in prison. The old Hou Ye saved me, negotiated a deal with me, and asked me to marry Giving him his second son, I can't agree, if I want to sell myself, I would have done so long ago, and it won't be his turn at all, after a long stalemate, I finally found out that Ying Puxin is the second son of Lord Hou..."

"He came to see me that day and talked to me a lot. Only then did I realize that he was a wealthy and high-ranking son in the eyes of others, but he was nothing in the eyes of my own father. His marriage, including him, They are all doomed to make way for others. He can't be outstanding, ambitious, or even reveal what he really likes, because his father doesn't allow it, and his father will definitely destroy it. He even has to form a big net for resistance. You have to be able to deceive others, the thoughtful old fox, before you can be 'forced' to arrange something that he really likes, people he likes."

"I hate this world. It seems that I have been fighting against it, but in fact I have been escaping. He also hates this world, but he never thought of escaping. He has been actively coping with it since he was a child, and his heart is toward the sun. I don't like him. I'm not curious, but I never thought about really getting to know him. He never said that he liked me, but he has already thought about the way for 'us' in the future. He wants me to be in his life."

Cai gently stroked the letter paper on the table: "I have never been a dazzling person, I am not worthy. But he is light. I looked at the light in his eyes, and suddenly wanted to know what I would see if I walked with him landscape."

"I don't like red dresses. He actually doesn't know. He likes me in wedding dresses, so I occasionally wear red dresses to show him."

"The girl in the red dress in the small portrait is me, the love poem is me, and 'Qing Qing Ru He' is also me. On the night of my marriage, he chose a small character for me, named 'Nian Qing'."