Qingchuan smiled and pointed to the sign on the door: "Look at it. Although it says it is a clothing store, many passers-by on the street are illiterate. If you don't put your clothes outside, how do they know you? Does this shop sell ready-made clothes or shoes?"
Gu Xiaochun also thought about it. Looking at Qingchuan’s smiling face, she felt a little embarrassed. Don’t go too far and said uncomfortably, “I know, but don’t work so hard in the future. Let me do this kind of rough work. Just do it."
Qingchuan waved his hand indifferently and said, "No, you are the boss, and I am a female worker. I take your wages and of course I have to do things for you. Is there any reason for you to do it for you?"
Gu Xiaochun stunned unconsciously, and a faint frustration flashed in her heart, and she muttered in a low voice, "But... I didn't treat you as a female worker in my heart..."
As he was talking, there was noisy gongs and drums on the other side of the street. Qingchuan only saw Gu Xiaochun's mouth move, but did not hear what he was saying, and asked, "What did you say?"
Gu Xiaochun looked at Qingchuan’s delicate facial features, his face flushed suddenly, where there is still the courage to say it again, and hurriedly said in a veiled manner: "Nothing to say."
Qingchuan's mind was simple. Hearing Gu Xiaochun's words, he didn't think about anything else. His attention was immediately drawn to the crowd on the street. He saw horse-drawn carriages passing by the street, and eunuchs followed each other. Accompanied, there are guards on the left and right to clear the way, the team is very spectacular. Qingchuan asked Gu Xiaochun strangely: "Hey? Who are these people, so prestigious?"
Gu Xiaochun glanced, smiled, and replied: "It's the palace girl chosen for the palace."
Chosen for the palace? Qingchuan looked curiously, and saw occasionally the curtains on the carriages were blown open by the wind, revealing the young woman wearing uniform inside, Qingchuan suddenly realized and nodded: "Oh, I understand, these are all chosen for the emperor. woman."
Gu Xiaochun laughed when she heard it, and corrected: "No, the women chosen for the emperor are the women who are selected for the first three years. These are the palace ladies who are selected for the year and serve others."
It turns out that there are differences in the selection of women in the Qing court. The Eight Banners are selected every three years to prepare for the selection of the queens and concubines, or to give marriages to the nobles and nobles. The women who are covered with the Three Banners are selected once a year, but after entering the palace, they take on the harem chores and cannot leave the palace for marriage until the age of twenty-five.
Today, these are the women from ordinary families in the Three Flags, who are used as maids after entering the palace.
How can Qingchuan distinguish the difference between a beautiful lady and a court lady? Just looking at choosing some court ladies to enter the palace, there will be such a battle. She can't help but sigh in a low voice: "The court ladies are so elegant, isn't the fair lady more elegant? If I can enter the palace, see you. It’s good to see Yongzheng, I’m a big fan of him."
Gu Xiaochun listened to Qingchuan's muttering, but didn't understand what she was talking about. She couldn't help asking, "Who is Yong? What is a super fan?"
Qingchuan was shocked. It is still the Kangxi dynasty, and it has been many years since Yongzheng ascended the throne. People now naturally don't understand who she is talking about. Qingchuan regretted it secretly, in the future, she must not be so unobtrusive, in case someone knows her identity from later generations, she still doesn't know how much trouble it will cause!
Seeing Gu Xiaochun looking at herself strangely, Qingchuan hurriedly made a haha, concealing: "Oh, you don't know after I told you, don't ask, hurry in and work, and the guests will come home soon! Money, making money is the most important thing!"
He said that he quickly pushed Gu Xiaochun into the shop.
Mother Gu was packing the clothes on the container and saw Gu Xiaochun and Qingchuan come in from the outside while talking and laughing, she couldn't help but put a smile on her face. With the help of Qingchuan these days, the sales of ready-made clothes in the store are very good. Gu's mother's frowned brows have already been relaxed, and her face is always happy, sweeping away the sorrows of the past. She can see her mind clearly. She originally disliked Qingchuan as just being a relative, and her family background was unknown. However, when she saw that Qingchuan was cheerful and hardworking, she wanted to marry this girl as long as her son liked it. Not bad.
Qingchuan is a girl with ingenuity, but she is a bit slow when she is born with the word "love". How did she know that Gu Xiaochun had developed a love for her, and she couldn't guess that her mother had already tested her as a daughter-in-law. Seeing that Gu Xiaochun's mother and son were getting better and better to her, she was only fortunate that she had met good-hearted people. As a result, he became more and more serious in his work, helping the Gu family mother and son to run the garment shop more and more prosperous.
There is only one thing called Qingchuan's extremely distressed, and that is that she has not been able to find the wood she has traveled through.
Since the clothing store’s business got on the right track, when Qingchuan got free, he looked for an excuse to find relatives and went out to look for the woods, but I searched all the woods near the city of Beijing, but I couldn’t find the tree that pierced Dakong. Trees.
Qingchuan went out to find for a short time on that day, but it was nothing, and when he came back, he looked a little dejected. Mother Gu moved her heart when she saw it, avoided Gu Xiaochun in the shop, secretly called Qingchuan into her room, and asked with concern: "How is it? Still can't find it?"
Qingchuan felt a little depressed and shook his head.
Gu's mother gently held Qingchuan's hand, but she asked, "It's been a while since you came to our house. I wonder if you are used to the life here?"
Qingchuan couldn't help but feel a little strange to hear her ask, but he nodded and replied, "It's quite used to it."
Mother Gu couldn't help but smile upon hearing this, and then asked: "Then do you want to live here forever?"
Qingchuan was taken aback, not knowing what she meant by asking this, so he hesitated to ask: "Auntie, what do you mean...?"
Mother Gu smiled and said mildly: "Although we have not been together for long, I can see that you are a good and diligent child. Since ancient times, you have married a wife and a virtuous person. Although our family has a few money, we don't know what to do. You take it very seriously. You know that Xiaochun, this child, has a solid heart. He is a good man of the first class..."
Gu's mother praised her son like a king-in-law selling melons, but Qingchuan became more and more frightened when she heard it, and then recalled the problem that Gu Xiaochuan blushed at every turn when she saw her, and her heart suddenly brightened and asked Gu in astonishment. Mother said: "Stop—auntie, you don't want me to marry Xiaochun, do you?"
Gu's mother smiled without saying a word.
Qingchuan was so frightened that he waved his hand again and again: "No, no, I can't marry Xiaochun."
Seeing that Qingchuan didn't seem to be shy, Gu's mother couldn't help asking, "Why?"
Qingchuan didn't know how to explain to her that he was not from this era. After thinking about it, he could only say vaguely: "Because... Because I am not here, I will go back sooner or later."
Mother Gu laughed when she heard it, and said, "Silly girl, where our husband is, where is the home, there is no reason why you have to return to your hometown to marry. Besides, don't you have no relatives in your hometown?"
Even if there is no reason to have to return to her hometown to marry someone, she can't be asked to marry someone three hundred years ago! Qingchuan felt unacceptable even after thinking about it, and waved his hand vigorously, "I... I don't know how to explain it to you, anyway, I can't marry Xiaochun."
He said that he wanted to hide, but when he opened the door, he saw Gu Xiaochun standing outside the door holding a new dress. Qingchuan was taken aback, and said in surprise: "Xiaochun?"
Gu Xiaochun's complexion was a little pale, she grinned reluctantly at Qingchuan, and hurriedly turned around and walked out. Mother Gu chased it out from the house and yelled anxiously: "Xiaochun! Xiaochun!"
But Gu Xiaochun didn't seem to hear it, and ran out even bigger.
Qingchuan guessed that Gu Xiaochun must have overheard the conversation between her and Gu's mother just now. After thinking about it, she said to Gu's mother, "I'll chase him, I'll explain to him."
After speaking, he chased Gu Xiaochun and ran out.
Besides Gu Xiaochun, he didn't deliberately come to eavesdrop on what his mother was talking to Qingchuan. He just made a new dress for Qingchuan. He brought it to him and wanted to have Qingchuan a try. When he didn't want to hear Qingchuan said that he couldn't marry him. Gu Xiaochun was kind and thin-skinned. Now that he heard Qingchuan reject him so categorically, he felt uncomfortable in his heart and couldn't hold back his face, so he ran out in a hurry.
Gu Xiaochun ran straight to a rather remote grove, stopped alone under the tree, and glanced back at Qingchuan, which was chasing behind him. He only felt more embarrassed on his face, and pressed his lips hard, and said: "I know I don't deserve you. It's all my own wishful thinking. Can you give me some dignity for the sake of our acquaintance and don't come to see my jokes?"
Although Qingchuan did not like Gu Xiaochun, he was grateful to him, and he didn't want to let him misunderstand that he was looking down on him before rejecting him. Hearing this, Qingchuan said calmly, "No one laughs at you. No one says that you are not worthy of me. It’s just that feelings are not something you can have. I’m very grateful that you saved me. I always treat you as my relatives in my heart, but this kind of feeling is related to two people. Being together is different."
Gu Xiaochun couldn't understand it, and couldn't help asking, "What's the difference? Isn't it the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker between men and women?"
Qingchuan wondered if he could explain to him that a man and a woman need to be happy with each other, but now is not the time to popularize the modern concept of love with him, so he can only say: "You are here, but we are not. ."
Gu Xiaochun's eyes lit up when he heard it, and hurriedly said, "I can follow your rules."
Qingchuan suddenly felt a bit big head, "Impossible!" Seeing Gu Xiaochun still looking at herself with doubts, Qingchuan had to continue to explain: "I... I don't know how to explain it to you. Anyway, Xiaochun, I will always treat you as my closest person and best friend. I can’t give or give to other things, do you understand?”
Gu Xiaochun naturally didn't understand, but Qingchuan had already spoken for this purpose, and he couldn't say anything else.
Seeing Gu Xiaochun turned around for a long time, Qingchuan didn’t speak, only when he was angry, he couldn’t help but walked around in front of him, and deliberately agitated him: "So ignore me? Man man, you wouldn’t be so stingy. Right?"
Gu Xiaochun looked slightly embarrassed, and shook her head hurriedly: "Of course not."
"It's okay?" Qingchuan asked again.
Gu Xiaochun nodded: "It's okay."
Qingchuan breathed a sigh of relief, patted her chest exaggeratedly, and said, "That's good, let's go back."
Speaking of taking the lead in turning around and walking back, who knew Gu Xiaochun behind him did not move. Qingchuan looked back a little surprised, and saw that Gu Xiaochun's face was reddish, and he lowered his head and said quickly: "Qingchuan, I won't give up. Sooner or later I will let you like me."
After reading it, I didn't dare to look at Qingchuan, but quickly jumped over Qingchuan and ran forward, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Qingchuan was a little dumbfounded, she said all those things in front of her for nothing? OMG, why is Gu Xiaochun this stupid boy so stubborn? Also, why would Gu Xiaochun run without a trace when he is shy! And, why is he shy, she is a woman, OK? She should run to run, right
Qingchuan was completely speechless, no way. She really has nowhere else to go. No matter what Gu Xiaochun thinks, she should go ahead and live in his house with a cheek. Anyway, she also cooks for him for food. Qingchuan is doing psychological construction while raising his foot and walking back. Not long after I walked, I suddenly heard a gust of wind blowing over my head, as if someone had jumped from a tree.
Qingchuan turned his head in amazement. Before he could see the face of the masked man behind him, he felt a pain in the back of his neck and his eyes went dark, and he suddenly lost consciousness. Then two more masked men leaped from the top of the tree, one of them stepped forward to lift Qingchuan who had passed out from the ground, and ran out quickly.
A humble oil awning carriage was parked outside the woods, and a man dressed as an ordinary businessman greeted him from inside, took Qingchuan over, and asked the black-clothed man back and asked: "Can someone see it?"
The man in black shook his head, and replied: "The kid with her ran away first. We didn't let go until he ran away. No one saw him."
The businessman nodded in satisfaction, put Qingchuan in the carriage, and said: "That's good, I'll send people in for the master, you guys, be careful."
Several people in black nodded together, and after seeing the carriage disappearing into the distance, their figures were all scattered into the woods. When Gu Xiaochun found out that Qingchuan hadn't returned to the shop and found it again, there was already silence in the woods, and Qingchuan seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.