When Fang Jinshi returned to his home, it was completely dark. He walked through the gate and wanted to go to Huang Jinmian. He passed by the wing where Baozhu lived and saw the indoor lights projected through the window panes, reflecting the figures. Fang Jinshi stopped. He stepped down, turned around and walked over. ¦ç
As soon as he reached the steps, the little girl from Baozhu came out. When she saw Fang Jinshi, she immediately turned around and said to the room: "Miss Baozhu, the young master is here."
Baozhu soon appeared at the door of the room, and she let Fang Jinshi into the room. Fang Jinshi saw that she had just taken a bath, her hair was wet and disheveled, there was no makeup on her face, and she was wearing a pink embroidered jacket. She was dressed casually. Fang Jinshi looked at her and felt that she was very beautiful and soft. He couldn't help but praise: "Yes, you look good like this."
Baozhu smiled and said, "Why are you here tonight?"
Fang Jinshi said deliberately: "Can't I come? Have you forgotten that this is my home?"
Baozhu stopped smiling and said straightly: "No, of course you can come at any time. It's just that you left in the middle of the night. I was thinking about what I did wrong and that I didn't serve you well. I'm afraid you won't come."
Fang Jinshi sat down and said, "How could it be your fault? Don't think too complicatedly. Do you know that you are the most expensive woman redeemed in the Jiaofang Goulan Courtyard on the East and West Roads of Lianghuai? I won't let you accompany me if I don't come." Do I still treat you as a Buddha and keep you at a distance?"
He was just joking, but Baozhu took it seriously. Her face quickly turned gloomy, and she walked up to Fang Jinshi. Her knees softened and she knelt down in front of him. Fang Jinshi was shocked and hurriedly supported her and said, "What are you doing?" What?"
Baozhu said: "I was too rude today and made you lose face in front of outsiders. If you don't believe what you say, I have to go and have a look. It's really wrong."
Fang Jinshi pulled her up and said softly: "This is human nature. I naturally understand why she is wrong? This is not a loss of face. I have never taken it to heart."
Baozhu slowly pulled him up, and Fang Jinshi said: "If you really want to apologize, just come and have dinner with me."
Baozhu calmed down and said, "You haven't eaten at this late hour? I'll ask someone to make arrangements."
Fang Jinshi said: "I met Li Bao. He wants to kill me, so where can I eat?"
Baozhu was shocked and asked urgently: "Seriously?"
Fang Jinshi said: "Why lie to you? It's just that he said that if I treat you badly, he will make trouble for me. If I treat you well, he will never show up."
Baozhu breathed a sigh of relief, and for a moment he didn't know what to say. Fang Jinshi took out the small cloth bag that Li Bao threw to him, handed it to Baozhu and said, "He asked me to give this to you."
Baozhu looked at him, opened the small cloth bag, and took out the contents. She unfolded the knife and looked at it carefully, then sighed deeply and remained silent.
Fang Jinshi said: "This seems to be a wedge."
Baozhu nodded and said: "Yes, it's an old house in my hometown in Shandong. If it weren't for this house and land, I wouldn't have been living in a Goulan tile house to suffer and be humiliated. This piece of paper really killed me."
Fang Jinshi said: "Then tell me what happened back then."
Baozhu turned her head away and remained silent for a long time. Obviously she didn't want to mention what happened back then to Fang Jinshi. Fang Jinshi said: "So, this Li Bao is also a fake person. He just said it nicely. If it were me, , I have to work hard to do something.¡±
As expected, Baozhu couldn't stand his anger, so she turned around and said, "Back then, he was studying in Luoyang, thousands of miles away. How can you blame him?"
Fang Jinshi asked: "Then he didn't save you after he came back?"
Baozhu said: "When he came back, more than half a year had passed, and it was irretrievable. At that time, my redemption price already required five hundred guan. Unless he went to kill people, steal goods, block roads and rob, otherwise how could he come up with these 500 guan?" Come on, I'm afraid that he has gone to extremes, so I can only be cruel to him and let him earn legitimate money to redeem me."
Fang Jinshi groaned and said, "At the Hundred Flowers Party, Prince Lika'an said that you were worth five hundred coins. That's what that sentence meant. But how did Prince Persia know about it?"
Baozhu said: "The Prince of Persia must be familiar with him. I heard him talk about it." She never mentioned Li Bao's name, only said "him".
Fang Jinshi smiled and said: "That Persian prince's sister also likes Li Bao and wants to marry him. She even came to my store to cause a scene the day before yesterday."
After hearing what he said, Baozhu didn't say anything or say anything further.
Fang Jinshi had no choice but to say to himself: "I think Li Bao thought that the fastest way to make money was to go to sea, so he went to Persia."
Baozhu said: "Where are we?"??Some people go to sea to work as shipwrights for large merchants. There are risks, and the wages are quite reasonable. "
Fang Jinshi asked: "How many years has Li Bao been at sea?"
Baozhu thought for a moment and said, "More than four years."
Fang Jinshi asked: "Did he not come to you all the time?"
Baozhu hesitated for a moment and said, "If you keep talking, you might be unhappy, so please stop talking."
Fang Jinshi said: "I have nothing to do, I still want to hear about your past."
Bao Zhu shook his head and sighed, then said: "When he came to me with five hundred guan, he was asked for 700 guan. When he took 800 guan again, my ransom money was already 1,000 guan. What¡¯s the use?¡±
Fang Jinshi thought for a while and felt the same. If he were in Li Bao's position, he could also imagine Li Bao's anger and sadness. The most annoying thing in the world is that the people you love are suffering, but you are We couldn't save each other and failed again and again.
So Fang Jinshi also sighed. He didn't say anything, but Baozhu continued: "At this last time, I also thought about it. We are destined to have no destiny, so why force it? You won't get it if you ask. It just so happens that the Prince of Persia is willing to spend money. He paid a large sum of money to redeem my life and gave it to Mr. Meng Da, and he gave me to you as his concubine. For someone with my background, how could there be a better destination than this? No more."
Fang Jinshi smiled and said: "Yes, I bought Ma Zhengjun for a thousand gold, and went to Yangzhou for a hundred thousand gold. I have a good temper and am not stingy, and I won't beat you or scold you." He always likes to boast when he has the opportunity, and makes some nonsense. The sentence slipped out smoothly.
Baozhu said: "Yes, you are indeed a very kind and compassionate person. You are ten thousand times better than those who are unkind because of their wealth. When I first met you, I thought you were just like those who come to have fun and laugh, and you said bad words to me." , I don¡¯t know what I was thinking about being so rude today, doubting you for no reason. Looking back, I think it¡¯s really inappropriate for me to be so ignorant and still obsessed with the past.¡±
Fang Jinshi said: "Today's things have already happened, there is no need to mention them again."
Baozhu said: "The past is like a dream. Now that it's gone, what's the use of keeping it?" She had been holding the hairpin in the small cloth bag in her hand. At this time, she raised her hand and the hairpin flew out through the window and flew to the ground. Among the flowers in the rear window.
Fang Jinshi looked out the window, then turned around and said, "The past may not be like a dream. I want to know, since Li Bao is not a coward, why didn't he take you to escape and start over again in a place where no one knows you? good?"
Baozhu said: "It's not that he hasn't thought about it, he even mentioned it to me several times, but I didn't want to."
Fang Jinshi asked strangely: "Why is this?"
Baozhu said: "I have stayed in that place for several years, how can I be worthy of having him do this to me? If others know about my past, he will never be able to hold his head up for the rest of his life. Escape is against the law and is not allowed by the world." No, I believe he will become a great man in the future and will have a way out to honor his ancestors. If he escapes with me, he will be buried for the rest of his life. How could I be so selfish?"
She made up her mind and said: "It would be best for him to marry a girl from a good family, but a foreign girl is not suitable either."
After hearing her last words, Fang Jinshi also smiled and said, "You still can't let him go."
Baozhu said solemnly: "Don't worry. From now on, I will never see him again. It's not good for a woman to come out of that kind of place, but once she is sure and determined, she is more determined than many women."
Fang Jinshi said: "You think so, but Li Bao may not think so."
Baozhu said: "Since he said that, he will definitely not come to me again."
Fang Jinshi said: "That's not what I mean. I mean, Li Bao may not think that marrying you will make the world unacceptable. Since he is so desperate and has thought of everything, I think he will give up everything for you. "
Baozhu only listened to his words and stayed there for a long time. Fang Jinshi looked at her face silently and waited for her to speak. After a long time, Baozhu said: "So what, everything is just a fantasy."
Fang Jinshi stood up and said, "I have an idea, would you like to hear it?"
Baozhu asked: "What do you think?"
Fang Jinshi said: "I just want Li Bao to do something for me and find an opportunity to give you to him in the future. Since you are mine, it is not against the law for me to give it to him. You two can be together openly." , wouldn¡¯t it be good?¡±
Baozhu could hardly believe his ears and asked, "What?"
Fang Jinshi said: "I am in a hurry to find someone, and I am short of confidants. Li Bao can fight, and he has been to Persia at sea. If he can come and help me sincerely, I can't help but hope for him. He must have real skills. If I have the chance, I will recommend it to Prince Yun. Isn¡¯t it much better than him being helpless?¡±
? ?Zhu looked at him blankly and muttered: "Youyou really want to fulfill your wish?"
Fang Jinshi laughed and said: "Of course you are sincere. Didn't you praise me just now for my benevolence, righteousness and affection? I have a wife and concubines, and having a concubine for you is nothing more than multiple women to serve you, but you and Li Bao are different. , I am a beautiful adult, and I have such a warrior to help me, why not?"
Baozhu suddenly knelt down again and said, "Whether the young master has a benevolent heart or a selfish desire for virtue, your words are enough to make Baozhu grateful."
Fang Jinshi hurriedly pulled her up and said, "Why do you like to kneel down so much? I have two thoughts. I speak from the bottom of my heart and it is absolutely not false."