sinovels Chapter 124 Collapse
Chapter 124 Collapse
Ding Qun went down to the hall in despair, and said he wanted to find the bustard, but the maids and servants in the hall were frightened by his rude behavior just now, so they dared not neglect him, and hurriedly led him to the bustard's yard.
The bustard recognized Ding Qun, he had only come to Yuyin Pavilion in the past few days, he looked like a baby at first glance, after two days of dating with Bai Mudan, he was so fascinated that he wanted to redeem her.Just now she heard from her servants that this reckless man was so powerful that he collapsed the thick fence with his bare hands. Mr. Jia also came to sue, saying that there was a villain who wanted to snatch Bai Mudan, and he was so unreasonable that he almost threw him downstairs .
The bustard thought to herself: "This kind of reckless man, if he confronts him head-on, he will only ask for trouble." Now seeing Ding Qun coming, she is not upset, and greets her with a smile on her face, saying: "Mr. Lu, you are here!" , sit down, sit down."
Ding Qun thought that he smashed the tables and chairs in the lobby just now, and the bustard would definitely ask him to blame, but instead of being angry, she greeted him with a smile, wondering: "Aren't you angry when I smashed your place? "
The bustard smiled and said, "It's just a matter of smashing some old tables and chairs. It's just a matter of replacing them with new ones. What's the matter?"
When Ding Qun told her about it, he felt very sorry.
The bustard pulled him to sit down, poured tea and said with a smile: "I understand, you like Peony, and hearing that Young Master Jia redeemed her, you feel unhappy, and it's okay to lose your temper."
Ding Qun hurriedly said: "Mom, I really like Peony!"
The bustard sat down opposite him, took a sip from the teacup, and said with a smile: "Mom is from here, can't you see what a young man is thinking?"
Ding Qun said: "I want to redeem her..."
The bustard sighed: "Peony has been by my side for many years, and she is like my own daughter. It is said that you treat her sincerely, and I should have agreed, but..."
Ding Qun said, "But what?"
The bustard said: "Young Master Jia has redeemed her first, so I can't go back on my word, can I?"
Ding Qun hurriedly said, "Peony and I really love each other!"
The bustard wondered, "Peony loves you too?"
Ding Qun nodded and said, "Exactly!"
The bustard said: "This is strange, she never told me..."
Ding Qun hurriedly said: "Mom, just let me go!"
The bustard said: "But I have already received Mr. Jia's money..."
Ding Qun knelt down and said, "Please!"
The bustard was taken aback and said, "No way!" and went to help her up.
Ding Qun said: "If you don't agree, I won't get up!"
The bustard stomped her feet repeatedly, sighed and said: "Come on, if that's the case, I'll let you this time for the sake of your true love for each other."
Ding Qun said happily, "Thank you so much!"
The bustard helped him up and said with a smile: "You don't need to thank me. If Mudan is with a man she likes and can make her live a good life, I will feel more at ease. It's money, who redeems it? Young Master Jia It’s not like your money is more fragrant than yours.”
When Ding Qun heard her talking about money, he felt a little apprehensive, and asked, "I don't know how much... is the money for ransom?"
The bustard said: "Peony is the number one girl in my Yuyin Pavilion, she has a noble status, if someone else wants to redeem her, I will definitely not allow it without 1 taels."
Ding Qun asked in surprise, "One... 1 taels?"
The bustard smiled and said: "But I am old friends with Mr. Jia, and he takes care of me a lot on weekdays. If he wants peonies, I naturally have to sell him to save face and give him an auspicious price." Then he opened the cupboard, took out a brocade box, Put it on the table and open it.
In an instant, the room was full of golden light, but the gold bars were neatly arranged in the brocade box.
Ding Qun was stunned.
The bustard smiled and said, "These gold bars are exchanged for silver ingots, a total of 800 taels."
Ding Qun said: "Eight thousand eight hundred taels..."
The bustard smiled and said: "For the sake of you and Mudan being in love with each other sincerely, I will also give you face, not 1 taels, you only need to get 800 taels, and I will immediately return these gold bars to Mr. Jia , Peony will let you take it away."
Ding Qun nodded repeatedly and said, "I'll go back to raise money right away..."
As soon as the bustard saw him, she knew that this man was not short of small money, and most of the big money would not be available, so she showed him the gold bars, so she wanted to make him quit, but she couldn't help but hear him say that she was going to raise money. Secretly worried: "I promised Mr. Jia that I would help him get things done, so I came up with such a method. If Lu Xianggong really has a great friend and raises these 800 taels, even though I don't have the business Unfortunately, it’s just that I didn’t help Mr. Jia settle the matter, he will be of great benefit in the future, but he won’t take care of me anymore.” Seeing that Ding Qun was about to leave, he hurriedly said with a smile: “Mr. Lu, where are you going?”
Ding Qun said: "Go and raise money."
The bustard smiled and said, "I'm not busy, I have something to say."
Ding Qun said, "Mom, please tell me."
The bustard looked him up and down, and said with a smile, "Looking at Lu Xianggong's accent, he's an outsider, right?"
Ding Qun said: "I am from Wu."
The bustard said: "I don't think you look like a businessman. Did you come to Nanchang to visit relatives?"
Ding Qun said: "No."
The bustard said: "That's for making a living, what are you doing now?"
Ding Qun couldn't say it, he came to Nanchang with Meng Cuiqiao, although he lived in the Chu Mansion, he didn't have to worry about food and clothing, he only played with Chu Juncao every day, the rest of the time he was idle.
The bustard shook her head and sighed, "If you only do things for others, how can you raise 800 taels in the year of the monkey?"
Ding Qun hurriedly said: "I will think of a way, please give me some time."
The bustard smiled and said, "I don't wait for the money to be spent, even ten days and a half months, I can wait, but...you said to raise money, I guess it's mostly borrowed from friends?"
Ding Qun didn't answer. In fact, he hadn't thought of how to raise the money at all. In Nanchang, he had no other friends except Chu Juncuo, but how could he ask Jun'er to borrow money?
Even in Meilong County, except for Bai Yingyang, he didn't have any friends who could give away 800 taels at once, let alone Bai Yingyang was not his friend.
Now there is still a sworn brother, Meng Cuiqiao, but his elder brother used to be in a brothel, disguised as a woman, and he is also a brothel member like Shanshan, and his savings are almost the same as Shanshan's. How can he get so much silver?
The bustard saw that his face was changing, and sighed: "Not to mention whether you can borrow such a large sum of money, even if I borrowed it for you, and redeemed Peony's body, what about the future?"
Ding Qun murmured: "In the future..."
The bustard said: "You owe a lot of debt, and you will have to work to pay it off in the future. Peony follows you, doesn't she want to accompany you to suffer and suffer?"
Ding Qun was dumbfounded when he heard the words.
The bustard said: "Although my Yuyin Pavilion is not a very rich and honored town, I never treat the girls badly. There is a servant girl waiting on her, and her ten fingers don't touch the spring water. Hey, I thought, Peony has been with me for so many years, and now she is grown up, and she is favored by Mr. Jia, so I let her go out. Although she is only a concubine, she belongs to a rich family. Aunt, no matter what, you are better than the small families outside."
Ding Qun became more and more inferior, thinking to himself that he was just a poor boy, his parents died, he was not very promising, he just got by all day, and he didn't even have a fixed place to cover his head. Eat and wait to die, and then go to the county government to eat and wait to die, and now come to Nanchang, still eat and wait to die, if Miss Bai followed him, where would she go when she left Chu Mansion in the future?Didn't she suffer a lot of grievances for such a delicate girl?
Seeing the change in his face, the bustard knew that what he said was on his mind, she couldn't bear it, and immediately ordered her servants to send him out.
Ding Qun walked out the door in a trance, and seemed to hear a woman's voice behind him saying: "Mom, do you really want him to redeem Miss Bai?"
The bustard replied: "If he can afford the money, I will redeem it for him naturally."
The woman said: "Although Mr. Jia is not rich, he is also a very wealthy young master. Miss Bai will be his concubine. At least she will have tiles to cover her head, and she will have no worries about food and clothing. If she follows Lu Xianggong, Miss Bai's frail body will But how can you bear it?"
The bustard sighed: "That's her fate, no matter how distressed we are, she chose the path herself, we can't."
Ding Qun was sweating on his back, his ears were ringing, his eyes seemed to see that he had married Shanshan, but was sleeping on the street, so he could only build a small shed on the corner of the street, it was freezing cold, raining and snowing, and the roof was leaking , Shanshan was wearing old clothes full of patches, shivering under the thin quilt, he thought to himself: "Do I want Miss Bai to accompany me to suffer? Even if Miss Bai is willing, how can I let her suffer this pain?"
He staggered back to Shanshan's room. Shanshan and Yingling were still waiting in the room. When he came back, the two daughters rushed up and asked at the same time.
Shan Shan asked, "How is it? Did mother agree?"
Yingling asked, "Where's the girl's money?"
Ding Qun put the iron box on the table.
Yingling hurriedly opened it and counted it. Seeing that there was a lot of money, she felt relieved.
Shanshan ignored her, seeing that Ding Qun was in a state of despair, she also said that the bustard had said something very unpleasant, so she comforted her: "What did mother say, don't take it too seriously."
Ding Qun didn't agree, poured a few cups of tea, collected himself, suddenly jumped up, rummaged through his body, and put all the money, including the inheritance left to him by his parents, on the table.
Shan Shan wondered, "What are you doing?"
Ding Qun said: "You take all the money. The young masters and wives of rich families are very powerful and condescending. If you are poorly dressed, even the servants will come to bully you. You...you followed Mr. Jia , You must take good care of yourself!"
Shanshan turned pale with shock, and said in a trembling voice, "What did you say?"
Ding Qun didn't answer, and ran away, went downstairs and ran away from Yuyin Pavilion, ignoring the anxious call of Shanshan who was chasing after him.