Chapter 51
Afterwards, if Zhou ziruo is exhausted, Lu LiXiao, who is full of food and drink, leans on the head of the bed and fiddles with the bottle of ointment. Zhou ziruo is thrilled by his satisfaction.
“You Your soul is weak… ” Zhou ziruo rebuked Lu LiXiao feebly.
Lu LiXiao looked over and said, “didn’t you have a good time just now?”
Zhou ziruo had no strength to refute.
Last night, it can be said that Lu LiXiao was forced to bow, but just now, it is absolutely a complete evolution of full resistance → bearing humiliation and bearing heavy burdens → refusing to meet again → half pushing and half giving up → active obsession. The ointment that fat shopkeeper gave Lu LiXiao didn’t hurt even a few times in one night. The more waves, the fiercer, the more Su Shuang
Zhou ziruo was lying on the pillow and sighed.
Lu LiXiao did not know where to draw out the map of Yiyang City and started his research. Zhou ziruo glanced from the side, saw that most of the study above had drawn a circle, and asked, “do you want to inquire about one room?”
Lu LiXiao said, “no need. Although cedar paper was sold in all shops in Yiyang City, it was not so popular more than 20 years ago. An ordinary letter is made of cedar paper, which must be purchased in large quantities. Combined with the price of cedar paper in those years, the other party’s family is bound to be rich. As long as you go to the shops where cedar paper was sold and ask the customers who bought a lot of paper during that period, you should be able to narrow down the scope a lot. ”
It is true that men are the masters of men, and the analysis is correct, so the workload will be reduced a lot.
If Zhou ziruo yawned and nodded, he would go to Duke Zhou with his eyes closed.
The next morning they had breakfast and left the inn.
More than 20 years ago, there were only three shops selling cedar paper, all of which are time-honored brands in the city. However, due to the long time interval, the shops generally do not keep the account books of such a long time ago. If there is any more turnover, there will be no trace. After running two of them, they will get nothing.
These three shops dominate different areas of Yiyang City, and they are far away from each other. It’s lunch time when they come out of the second shop. They found a restaurant at random, ate something, and went to the last target, weimingju, an old study in Chengbei.
The environment of the study is quiet, and the fresh fragrance of paper and ink, if any, is contained in the air, making people feel relaxed and happy.
There were no guests in the shop. A famous woman with elegant style sat behind the desk and took a rest. Aware of someone pushing the door, the woman cheered up and said hello with a friendly smile.
Lu LiXiao enjoyed the stationery displayed in the shop at will. The woman recommended it thoughtfully. He picked up an old Topaz goldfish tail inkstone on the shelf and said with a smile: “this inkstone is made of warm jade. In cold winter, it can ensure that the ink will not solidify for a long time!”
Zhou ziruo, with his back to them, studied the pictures of beauties bathing on the wall with academic spirit. Hearing this, he glanced back at Lu LiXiao.
What kind of scholar? Why don’t you ask and go? If there is no clue, we have to go back and discuss what to do next!
Lu LiXiao turned the inkstone over and looked at it carefully for a while. He didn’t discuss the magic of the inkstone. Instead, he asked, “this inkstone seems to be some years old. I’m afraid it’s nearly 30 years now, I guess?”
Zhou ziruo, who is full of belly Fei, immediately understands that Lu LiXiao begins to beat around the bush.
Woman humanitarian: “childe really good eyesight! This inkstone was in the shop when my father was in charge of weimingju. When I was young, I came to the shop to help my father receive guests. I often met people who were interested in this inkstone. But I don’t know why, nearly 30 years, this inkstone has never been sold At the end, let’s sigh.
“Maybe it’s because this inkstone is so precious that it’s hard to find a pen, ink, paper that can match it, so it hasn’t been sold. For example, cedar paper sold in your store is a rare treasure. However, thirty years ago, only a few people would have been able to use cedar paper. ” Lu LiXiao road.
The woman nodded with approval: “indeed. At the beginning, Yiyang City produced Cedrus paper, which attracted scholars all over the country, but the high price of Cedrus paper turned many people away. At that time, the cedar paper in the shop only played the role of supporting the facade, not easy to sell! ”
“Oh? Weimingju is the largest ink shop in Yiyang City. How could it be so? ” Lu LiXiao looks a little surprised.
Zhou ziruo shook his head and despised Lu LiXiao. He left the essence of his words, flattery.
Sure enough, everyone likes to listen to flattery, “Yiyang City first” a few words to hear the woman closed mouth, as if to open the key to the whole information spit out.
“In fact, it’s not. Although there are not many people who can use cedar paper, there are also several big businesses. My father and I once received a distinguished guest who bought thousands of taels of cedar paper at one time. It is said that even the waste paper used by their children to practice calligraphy is cedar paper. ”
“Is there such a rich guest?” Lu LiXiao is novel.
The woman’s face was full of Affirmation: “not many people could buy a lot of cedar paper at that time. I remember that family name Fang very well…”
Fang!
Lu LiXiao and Zhou ziruo exchange eyes: found!
The woman was still chattering: “at that time, the Fang family was also a big family in the city, but later a few years later, a black sheep came out and all the family property was ruined. After the whole family moved out of Yiyang City, there was no news. It was the master Fang who ordered cedar paper that year. A few months later, they had a wedding. I heard that they had two boxes of cedar paper for dowry”Dowry? So the Fang family has a daughter who married into a big family? That should not lead to the loss of family wealth, even to the point of moving far away? ” Lu LiXiao road.
Speaking of this, the woman sighed deeply and sympathized: “the Fang family didn’t marry her daughter in those years. It’s said that she was a nephew or something from afar. Maybe she came here. The object of the marriage was also a wealthy family in the city, surnamed Wu. Fang’s niece had a daughter who was a few years old. She remarried as a concubine, but she didn’t like Wu’s mother. After two years, she was swept out by Wu’s family, and Fang’s family didn’t take her back. Mother and daughter live in the slum in the south of the city. Once I went there to deliver goods, and I saw two eyes in the distance. My mother was skinny, and her face was sick. My daughter was skinny, and she looked like a little girl. In winter, she was washing clothes for people in her single clothes Alas… ”
When Fang peiyin came to Yiyang City, he really answered lingpo’s saying, “it’s very rich, but it’s hard to last long. More than that, it will also affect people around him.”.
Finally, Lu LiXiao bought some cedar paper and two cute little carp pen holders from the shop. He said goodbye to the woman and left weimingju.
When he went out, Zhou ziruo said, “we’re going to the slums now?”
“Call for a carriage.” Lu LiXiao nodded and threw the two trinkets to Zhou ziruo, “I’ll give them to you. Take them to play.”
Pooh! Send the children away!
Although he thought so, Zhou ziruo immediately stuffed the two penholders into his sleeve.
There must be a shocking gap between the rich and the poor in every rich city. The carriage stopped at the boundary of the slum in the south of the city. Zhou ziruo got out of the carriage and looked ahead. He felt like he was in another world.
The dirty and shabby houses are huddled together in danger. The stinky ditch that has never been cleaned gives off the stench of disgusting people. On the uneven ground, the sewage and some filth that can’t distinguish the original appearance appear and disappear under people’s feet, and people will be startled if they don’t pay attention to it.
Although there are many slum dwellers, it is not difficult to find people because most of them have lived here for a long time and almost know each other.
Lu LiXiao asks three or four people, and finally finds a hunchback man squatting by the stinky water ditch to wash vegetables. With one or two silver, he inquires about Fang peiyin’s mother and daughter who moved to the slum.
Fang peiyin’s mother and daughter lived in the slum for six or seven years. Later, their daughter Liu Mei got married and moved away.
When she came to the slum, Fang peiyin was seriously ill. It must have been difficult for her to get married to the Wu family in those two years. Her years in the slum were also miserable. Fang peiyin became more and more ill. Finally, in order to cure her mother, Liu Mei, who was 28 years old, married the young master of the rich businessman Jiang family in the city as a concubine. Unfortunately, after two years, Fang peiyin still died.
The hunchback man lived in the opposite door of Fang peiyin’s mother and daughter. His wife, who had not died at that time, was very close to Fang peiyin. In private, he heard Fang peiyin say a lot of bitter things. For example, she took her daughter to her relatives, but her relatives designed her to commit herself to the Wu family, and eventually had to marry her. The Wu family’s mother was afraid that she would compete for favor and torture her mother and daughter It’s really pathetic.
After Liu Mei married Jiang’s family, she was raised in the boudoir all day long. Except that she came back once 30 years ago, until the news of her death came back 16 years ago, the hunchback man never saw her again.
Lu LiXiao asked about Jiang’s family and wanted to leave. The hunchback man said, “by the way, do you want to see the house where their mother and daughter used to live?”
“Their things are still there?” Zhou ziruo was very surprised. He didn’t believe that people here would be like the villagers in Daohe village. Any house would remain empty for decades.
Sure enough, the hunchback man laughed awkwardly and said, “I used the house to put things. Most of the things of Fang’s mother and daughter are gone But there’s still a little left… ”
Lu LiXiao said, “go and have a look.”
Fang peiyin’s room was nearby. The hunchback man took the key to open the door and let them look at it slowly. He retreated.
The room was in a mess. It was impossible to tell which items were left by Fang peiyin’s mother and daughter. If Zhou ziruo scolded the hunchback man several times in his heart, and made such a mess, he would not let them catch him blind, OK??
Zhou ziruo was about to urge Lu LiXiao to leave, but when he looked back, he saw Lu LiXiao’s shabby wooden table in the research corner. He went over and asked, “what’s wrong with the table?”
“Look here.” Lu LiXiao refers to a small area on the desktop.
Zhou ziruo looked at it carefully for a while, then suddenly said, “ink?”
“Give me a cedar note.” Lu LiXiao looked at the table and held out his hand to him.
Zhou ziruo quickly took out a piece of paper for him and hesitated: “can it be done?”
“It’s too long, not necessarily. Take a look. ”
Lu LiXiao spread the paper flat in that area, opened the water bag at his waist, poured a small amount of water, and soaked the paper gently. After a while, there was a little black on the white paper. Lu LiXiao opened the paper and turned it over. Most of the handwriting on the paper was incomplete, but a few words were barely recognizable.
One of the most striking words is “brother Peng”.
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