Cheng Fengtai was going to watch his master sing an opera with Shang Xirui that day. Shang Xirui's apprenticeship has always been very chaotic, there is no structure to test, many well-known characters in this dynasty have more than half of their mentorship with him. This Taoist old Gandan came to Beiping from Nanjing to visit the acupoints halfway, and Shang Xirui received him very generously. Today is the first day of the full edition of "Jade Hairpin", Shang Xirui ordered four flower baskets to send over by himself, forcing Cheng Fengtai to order four as well, from now on it will be inviting seats, adding color, and writing newspapers to complete the set . Shang Xirui said with respect to his master, he is a good apprentice who understands human affairs.
Cheng Fengtai's beautiful perfume has also been sprinkled, his hair is combed smooth, and he is putting one foot on the chair, tying the shoelace of his leather shoe. The servant ran in in a panic: "Second Master, go and have a look. My uncle just got drunk at the gate of our house. I brought him in. Where do you put him?"
Cheng Fengtai tied the other shoelace nonchalantly, stomped his feet on the ground for two steps, and put it on firmly: "Anything - find a kang and throw it away. Did you tell Second Mistress?"
"I told you, Second Mistress is undressing Uncle and feeding honey water."
Cheng Fengtai smiled disdainfully and said: "Fan Lian is a bastard, he really knows how to find a place to lay his body! He must have not come home last night, I don't know where he got drunk." He turned around and looked at the mirror and looked at his hair: "I'm rushing out Open the door, if the uncle gets drunk, you can tie him up with a rope and keep the second mistress away."
The servant responded with a smile.
Cheng Fengtai stepped out of the house door, and another servant came quickly from the corridor: "Second Master, stay a while, Uncle calls you to come, I have something to say."
Cheng Fengtai kept walking out, and said impatiently: "Let's talk about it when I come back." From the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the second grandmother standing in the corridor with a gold hairpin and wearing jade, looking at him seriously, he had to stop and walk back : "Really! What can he do? What's the matter and he's in the mood to get drunk?"
Second Mistress glanced at him, and asked back: "What's the matter with you? Are you really in the mood to dress up?" Second Mistress used very accurate words in order to bury Cheng Fengtai's modern tone.
Cheng Fengtai said: "Business! Entertainment!"
Second Mistress turned her head and sneered at him, Cheng Fengtai immediately fell silent. The couple came to the inner room, and an electric fan in the corner was blowing cool air on the kang. Fan Lian unbuttoned his shirt, was naked, his eyelids and the tip of his nose were red from rubbing, and he was lying on his back on the kang, committing grievances. Cheng Fengtai sat on the edge of the kang, patted his face, and then he turned his head slowly as if returning to his soul, and when he saw Cheng Fengtai, he felt even more wronged, sighed before saying anything, and was about to cry.
Cheng Fengtai was terrified, and smiled in amazement: "Oh! Brother-in-law, what's wrong with you? Let me see, was it ruined by the Japanese devils?"
Second Mistress scolded him: "Speak well! Be virtuous!" After a few words of relief, she left the room and closed the door tightly for them. Fan Lian grabbed Cheng Fengtai's hand and put it on his forehead, gritted his teeth and let out a sigh from his heart and lungs. Cheng Fengtai was chilled all over by his sigh, felt that something bad had happened, leaned over and asked him softly: "The land of the Fan family was taken by the Japanese?"
Fan Lian shook his head.
Cheng Fengtai thought for a while: "Occupied by a lock?"
Fan Lian said: "There is only a lock in my family."
Cheng Fengtai asked: "Mongolian?"
Fan Lian said: "My fourth aunt is Gege."
After Cheng Fengtai asked about the two most terrifying situations, he frowned: "Hey, someone blackmailed you in business?"
Fan Lian shook his head again: "I'm the only one who blackmailed people."
Cheng Fengtai pulled his hand back angrily, but Fan Lian clenched it tightly, unable to pull it away, he said angrily: "What the hell are you doing here? To sing a funny show with me?"
Fan Lian held Cheng Fengtai's hand on his chest, looked into Cheng Fengtai's eyes, and said softly: "Brother-in-law, let me tell you, I have a child."
After Cheng Fengtai was stunned for a moment, he immediately subconsciously looked at his stomach, and when he was done, he let out an annoyed snort—it was all because of Fan Lian's crying attitude, did he mess up? Fan Lian is also a bastard who has been dating all over the world. Cheng Fengtai didn't know which girlfriend he was dating now, so he restrained his smile and said, "Who did you hit in the stomach? Why are you so careless?"
Fan Lian was silent for a while, then Fang Hong said with red eyes: "The one in Dongjiaomin Lane—Zeng Aiyu is pregnant."
The dancing girl in Dongjiaomin Lane has only been revealed her full name and surname until today, but with a tone of reluctance and uncertainty, she is used to calling "the one in Dongjiaomin Lane" and "the dancing one". Forgot her name—of course, in this line of work, it was unlikely that she would use her real name. Hearing this, Cheng Fengtai immediately counted the days quickly in his mind, for a person like him who loves the new and dislikes the old, and doesn't take wild flowers and weeds seriously, it's really hard to recall the last time he and Zeng Aiyu had a good relationship. Fan Lian guessed the dirty water in his stomach, rolled his eyelids, and said, "Don't be afraid, it's not yours. I went to the hospital for an examination, and it's only been two months."
Cheng Fengtai blurted out: "It's definitely not mine." Fan Lian looked at him dissatisfied, he coughed, and said, "What are you going to do?"
Fan Lian sighed: "It's difficult!"
Cheng Fengtai was silent for a long time, and said: "You let go of my hand first, you squeezed out water." Fan Lian let go of his hand, and it really squeezed Cheng Fengtai's palms to sweat, Cheng Fengtai rubbed his shirt on his shirt, and said slowly : "You want to figure out whether you want it or not? It's a bit troublesome if you want it, but it's too easy if you don't."
Fan Lian gritted his teeth and choked out a word: "Yes."
Cheng Fengtai said: "Yes, you like children very much, let alone your own." He was silent, and patted Fan Lian's chest: "Then take it! What a big deal! Let her live in the house in Dongjiaomin Lane, and the child will be born." Come down, you still can't support their mother and son?"
Fan Lian was asked about his sadness: "I can't marry her, and she won't live with me either. She doesn't want to have children!" She was really being bullied, Fan Lian sniffed, with a sense of vulnerability The naivety: "She wants to give birth to the child and give it up. If she leaves, what should I do with this child? If I raise him outside, no one can take care of him for me! In the foster family, don't say that I'm not married, I'm just married. After getting married, a child who is not born in our family will have to suffer! Isn't my suffering enough?"
Cheng Fengtai was unable to answer. He had never lived in this kind of old family. Although his father also took concubines, he treated the children equally regardless of whether they were male or female. When we met for the first time in Shanghai ten years ago, Cheng Fengtai gradually grew up and became ruthless under the family changes. However, Fan Lian's delicate and expensive body does not touch the horizontal grass, does not twist the vertical grass, but he is already very sophisticated in the world, very good at protecting himself, and when necessary, he is also very ruthless. From this, he can probably infer a little bit of what happened to him since he was a child. For a sensitive and intelligent child, there is nothing more cruel than destroying self-esteem. The self-esteem of the concubine's children in the old family is something that cannot be kept after landing.
Fan Lian said: "When I was young, my mother was not dead yet, and my father still spoiled my mother, so what about me? A cat jumped out of the big room and I was startled. I kicked the cat and had to kneel down and endure it." What's more, a child without a mother? There are so many people in the Fan family, and the rules are outrageous. I can't keep an eye on him, I can't protect him!" Speaking of what happened when he was a child, he was really sad: " Don't say it's a concubine, so what if it's a concubine? My sister—is your daughter-in-law a concubine? Let me tell you the truth, when it was rumored that your Cheng family was going to retire, the gossip of the Fan family's own family was the first to kill everyone! Don't wait for outsiders to chew your tongue! Later, when they said that they wanted to change their employment, those women shamed the eldest sister in person, saying sour and unpleasant things. The eldest sister got angry and became ruthless, so she tied her hair up. This is the case of the Fan family. People are chasing people, people are chasing people, your own family and your own family are the biggest enemies, no one should think about it."
Cheng Fengtai matched what Fan Lian said with the members of the Fan family, and was a little dazed. Seeing that he was silent, Fan Lian turned his face to the side and smiled coldly, showing a gloomy sense of strangeness: "Why? You really think you are romantic and handsome A flower, my sister sees your photo and thinks you are the one who is not married? Don’t tell you! When she heard that her husband was five or six years younger than her, she was still a child, and she cried bitterly behind her back at night! She and I both I was harmed by this world, by this family!"
Cheng Fengtai became furious, and spat at him: "Shut up, you deserve to die! I don't care!" Standing up, he was about to leave. Fan Lian put his arms around his waist, anxiously: "Brother-in-law! Brother-in-law! I'm so annoyed that I feel angry in my heart, so talk now!"
Cheng Fengtai was hugged tightly by him, with his hands on his shoulders: "This child is pitiful before he is born, his parents are unreliable, and there is no way to settle him..." He suddenly thought: "How about giving it away? Isn't Chang Zhixin childless?"
Fan Lian said: "Not now, but there will be in the future. When the time comes, there will be a biological child, and an adopted child. It's too much."
Cheng Fengtai really put all his heart and soul into making troubles for him, thinking about it, he suddenly lowered his head to stare at him, Fan Lian met his gaze, and a moment later, he looked away guiltily. Cheng Fengtai took a sharp breath, pulled him off his body forcefully, and threw him on the kang like a sack, causing him to fall on the kang in pain, all over the place.
"Are you planning on me? Ah?!"
Fan Lian murmured: "Ouch... brother-in-law..."
Cheng Fengtai waved his hand: "Don't call me brother-in-law! You have always had such a bitch's temper, and it takes a lot of effort to divide a sentence into ten sentences! Are you waiting for me here? Waiting for me to ask you for it myself Is that right? It’s intentional for you to drink like this and fall in front of my house, right? Pretending to be pitiful, pretending to be innocent, you really worked so hard to get me to say this?!”
Fan Lian scratched the back of his head twice, turned over and sat up: "I drink to strengthen my courage."
Cheng Fengtai stared at Fan Lian angrily. Fan Lian lowered his head and rubbed his face with his palms. He himself felt guilty. After ten years of acquaintance, Cheng Fengtai treated him with sincerity. He was really unkind to ambush Cheng Fengtai, so he said in a low voice helplessly: "I can't help it, brother-in-law, I can't help it... I don't know how to talk to people directly anymore. I always feel that people will laugh at me. Those who don't laugh at me are waiting to scratch my ears. "
Cheng Fengtai looked at his hairy rolling head, turned his eyes away, and felt that this unborn nephew really must not be left in the care of Fan's family.
Cheng Fengtai drove to the small mansion in Dongjiaomin Lane. The well-known Miss Zeng Aiyu also had dinner, and fell down on the sofa, smoking a cigarette and reading pictorials. Cheng Fengtai still has the key to the small mansion. Seeing him open the door and come in, Zeng Aiyu revealed a pair of beautiful eyes from the pictorial, and said in a swaying voice, "Hey! The negotiation is here!"
Cheng Fengtai threw the coat into the old mother's hand: "You avoid it for a while."
The old lady hung up his clothes and went to the backyard to stay. Cheng Fengtai sat on the single sofa: "Do you really have a child?"
Zeng Aiyu hummed: "It really is."
Cheng Fengtai leaned over and took her cigarette from between his fingers, extinguished it in the ashtray, and then took away a lady's cigarette case next to him: "Smoking with a belly, the child has freckles on his face."
Zeng Aiyu sighed and sat up from the sofa: "It's hard to say whether you can see the child's face or not!"
Cheng Fengtai glanced at her contemptuously, and said with a smile: "Don't do this with me. You really don't want a child, you sneaked in and fell off, and you still lie here waiting for me to negotiate?"
Zeng Aiyu squinted at him, and he continued, "I don't know how you made trouble with Fan Lian. Fan Lian is in a mess if he cares. He's thinking about it at home. When he thinks about it, he won't have any fruit for you."
Zeng Aiyu combed her hair, hugged a pillow and fell back, staring at her eyes, but still there was nothing wrong with her. Cheng Fengtai found that she was very good at negotiating, because in negotiating matters, whoever makes the terms first will lose out. The two sat in silence for a while, Cheng Fengtai saw that her attitude was calm and steady, she seemed to have the spirit to fight it out and not to do anything endlessly, compared to her, Fan Lian became a little girl who was tossing and turning with the shadows of her childhood. Some women are born stronger and more determined than men, such as Cheng Meixin, such as Zhao Yuanzhen, an old neighbor in Shanghai, who usually look weak and weak, but once encountering the unlucky thing of thunder and lightning, they wipe away tears and still Live there softly and weakly, and live quite moistly. Men can't do it. Men look strong, but in fact, they are decadent, and they are not human. Zeng Aiyu and Fan Lian are good examples. Cheng Fengtai didn't dare to underestimate these women at all, he treated them so seriously as business rivals.
"Rich people value children very much. Gold is precious. One hundred is not too much. If you feel sorry for the child in your stomach and want to give him a life, you might as well talk about the conditions and ask Fan Lian to make it up to you. If you really don't feel bad, I will drive you to the hospital now and tell Fan Lian that you slipped in the bathroom. It's so clear whether you stay or not, do you still want to be Mrs. Fan? "
Zeng Aiyu tilted her head, looking at Cheng Fengtai pitifully.
"Come on, it will take another two months. I'm pregnant. If you want to take Qiao Fanlian, you won't be afraid of you anymore. The child is on your body, and you are the one who hurts it. , It's not the current price. What do you think Fan Lian is? He was stunned by your trick. When he wakes up and snatches the child from you, what can you do to him? "
Zeng Aiyu smashed the pillow in her arms to Cheng Fengtai's face: "You are such a bastard!"
Cheng Fengtai put the pillow aside: "Stop pretending, it makes me look like I'm bullying you, have you ever thought about these words? Fan Lian and I support you for three or four years, think about it, I really admire you." He laughed and said, "Is it the two of us fighting to keep you? Actually, you played with the two of us, and you played around, didn't you?"
The first time Zeng Aiyu saw the uncle and uncle, she felt that they were attractive, and they happened to be rich. It would be better to cook them together. One year would be worth two years' harvest, so she could realize her wish as soon as possible. With a little trick, these two people are still jealous of her, and feel that she is troubled! At this moment, she looked at Cheng Fengtai in surprise, she didn't expect that he was not a pervert.
"I don't see you as a woman now, and if I can't figure you out, I won't do this business. I still think that your child is also a conspiracy. Even if it wasn't a conspiracy at the beginning, you still use it as a conspiracy now." " Cheng Fengtai thought of Er Yuehong: "I just met a girl who was in the same situation as you a while ago. She has a child and has nothing to do. It's not your reaction. Do you think you can still be considered a woman?"
Hearing this, Zeng Aiyu sneered and said: "You men are so ridiculous. A woman who cries and wipes her tears is a woman. But if you are strong and calculating, you don't deserve to be a woman in your eyes? Women should be pitiful, wait Does it hurt when you are free? If I am not a woman, then I must be your father!"
Cheng Fengtai raised his hand: "Don't discuss your gender issue."
In the past, the two people who had a dewy marriage and were close brothers and hot sisters, now their attitudes have changed drastically. Cheng Fengtai regards her as a business partner, she is evenly matched and very intelligent, so he no longer feels sorry for her; Fan Lian's mouthpiece, so he no longer pretended to be coquettish. The two of them held each other with arms folded, and it was indeed very unlike the atmosphere of a pair of school-age men and women alone in a room, both of them had a sense of authority.
Zeng Aiyu got angry and didn't bother to talk nonsense, she stretched out three fingers: "Make a real price, the child will be taken away regardless of gender."
Cheng Fengtai said: "Wan?"
Zeng Aiyu said: "Add a zero!"
Cheng Fengtai almost gasped: "Are you crazy? Do you know how many big girls this can buy? Fan Lian works harder, and he can give birth to a man from Forty-Nine City!"
Zeng Aiyu withdrew her hand: "Then you let him give birth to Sijiucheng! When the child is born, if it is a girl, I will sell it to a brothel, and if it is a boy, I will sell it to an opera troupe."
Cheng Fengtai looked at her for a long time: "What do you want so much money for? Don't talk about keeping flowers, wouldn't it be more rewarding to guard the child as a long-term cash cow? You'd rather leave the child with such a big baby as a mother." Once the money is gone, there must be a purpose, right? Let’s hear it, I’ll look at the counter-offer.”
Zeng Aiyu raised her eyebrows: "No purpose, just keep flowers!"
Cheng Fengtai thought for a while, then smiled and said: "Then I will talk to you, my mother is similar to you, you dance, she sings. She gave birth to me, and when I still don't recognize anyone, she will take care of my father A lot of money went away. She felt lonely at home and went to Hong Kong to continue singing and playing. What are you doing for?"
This time it was Zeng Aiyu's turn to be surprised, she didn't expect Cheng Fengtai to be in such a way, let alone Cheng Fengtai's background. The two looked at each other for a while, and she said: "I want to redeem my house and my family members, so that the family can live a good life." She lowered her voice: "The longer the time drags on, The harder it is to find. While I’m young, I need to get the money quickly.”
Cheng Fengtai pondered silently for a while: "Over the years, you have saved around 200,000 yuan in cash and jewelry, right? A house with more than 500,000 yuan is full of people with loud noises. You..."
Zeng Aiyu interrupted him: "Don't ask this, I won't say it. The things I did are enough to sink in my hometown."
Cheng Fengtai's mind and expression are completely different now, this Zeng Aiyu not only hurt Fan Lian, but also hurt him. Who doesn't have a bad past? Seeing people who have encountered the same situation again, it is heart-wrenching, and it is light to say that they have sympathy for each other, it is almost like a compatriot. This child is similar to his background, obviously he has a fate with him. Zeng Aiyu also saw the change in him, so her attitude softened, she turned a ring on her hand and waited for an answer.
Cheng Fengtai slapped his thigh, and generously said: "That's it, three hundred thousand, break his front teeth, and I'll give you some money out of your dog's mouth."
Seeing his loyalty, Zeng Aiyu couldn't help being moved, and said, "Aren't you afraid that I'll lie to you by making up nonsense?"
Cheng Fengtai said: "If you cheat, just cheat, you have cheated me so cleverly, and I deserve to be cheated by you."
Zeng Aiyu lost her aura and looked like a weak woman again: "This is not a small sum of money, would Fan Lian want it?"
Cheng Fengtai smiled and said: "Then I will go."
Zeng Aiyu looked at him in puzzlement, she didn't believe that the two of them were good businessmen who could make money together. Cheng Fengtai explained to her in a deep voice: "Fan Lian entrusted me to support your child. The situation of the Fan family is very complicated. I can't tell you. Anyway, it's not good for the child, and it's not good for Fan Lian's future marriage. My house is clean. My daughter-in-law is the child's aunt and will not treat him poorly."
Zeng Aiyu thought about Fan Lian's wimpy temper, it would be better to leave it in Cheng Fengtai's hands, but he still said unforgivingly: "Your wife and Fan Lian are separated by a mother, how close can you be? You are afraid of your wife."
Cheng Fengtai laughed and said: "Who said I'm afraid of my wife?"
Zeng Aiyu said: "Needless to say, I know it when I see it."
Cheng Fengtai said sternly: "My daughter-in-law loves to be angry with me, she is still kind to others. If she has a bad heart, no matter how kind she is, I will leave her alone and ignore her."
Zeng Aiyu stared at him, Cheng Fengtai said: "You don't have to think about these things, I'm really worried, keep the belt for yourself." Zeng Aiyu turned her head. Cheng Fengtai patted his knees and stood up: "Tomorrow, I'll send someone a sum of money first, so you can eat better. Then I'll find you a little nurse to take care of you. En?" He said while looking at the clock hanging on the wall , I was terrified when I saw it, Shang Xirui's play has been played for most of the time, it's not bad! Hastily grabbed his clothes and was about to leave, Zeng Aiyu sent him to the door, he did not forget to pat Zeng Aiyu on the arm: "No need to send him off, good girl, talk to you, I will come to see you in two days." He really didn't take Zeng Aiyu When a woman sees it, she just shakes hands with Zeng Aiyu and says it's a happy cooperation!