Peach blossom nunnery in Peach Blossom Dock, peach blossom fairy under Peach Blossom Nunnery.The peach blossom fairy planted peach trees and picked peach blossoms for wine money.When you wake up, you only sit in front of the flowers, and when you are drunk, you come to sleep with the flowers.Half-awake and half-drunk, day after day, flowers fall and bloom year after year.I hope that the old man will die in the wine room, and he will not bow in front of the carriage and horse.The dust of the car and the horse are full of obvious things, and the wine cup flower branch hermit fate.If the manifest is compared to a hermit, one on the plain earth and one in the heavens.If the flowers and wine are compared to the carriages and horses, why should they be idle and I will be idle.Others laugh at me for being crazy, and I laugh at others for not being able to see through it.I don't see the tomb of Wuling heroes, and there are no flowers and no wine hoeing fields.Taohuawu is famous all over the world because of this poem by the talented Tang Yin, and has become a holy place that scholars all over the world yearn for.Chen's mother is a person from this Taohuawu, she opened a theater garden, raised a group of excellent female prostitutes, and made a living by selling dramas.It's just that the business of the opera garden is not easy to do this year, and there are too many famous opera gardens here, and Chen's mother's opera garden is not conspicuous.After opening every day, not many people came to listen to the opera, so the business of her family's opera garden was very bleak, and it was almost unsustainable.On this day, Chen's mother was settling accounts, but found that the silver was not enough.Although the business of the theater garden she opened is not good, the expenses are not a lot.The clothes and jewelry of the excellent singers must be fully purchased, otherwise they will wear tattered clothes, and there will be no customers willing to come to the play.I have to keep these people eating and drinking, or if I don't lose my face and voice, how can I sing?
The costumes also have to be purchased, and she can't afford the brocade costumes, so she has to be full of embroidery, right?
Otherwise, it's cold!
In her business, face is the most important thing, and if she doesn't have a good face, who will patronize it?
In fact, Chen's mother also knows the reason for the poor business of her family's opera garden.It's just because her actress's appearance is not outstanding, and her appearance is too ordinary.Now in the pear orchard industry, if there is no finale, those customers who have been raised will not come at all.To put it bluntly, the pear orchard is also a servant of Israel.Chen's mother is sighing, she is ready to let the actress under her hand directly pick up customers, this is also money!
But?
If you let them pick up the customers directly.will make their worth plummet, not only will no one watch the rehearsed plays, but also offend those big customers who have supported them for many years.Yes, although the excellent people in this industry do not directly pick up customers, they will also sell themselves secretly, but they are more secretive.Mother Chen was holding the abacus and sighing, complaining that Youling under her own hands was too uncompetitive, jealous of other businesses, why was it so hot?
Suddenly, she saw a woman wandering in the garden with a skinny little girl.This woman is dressed very plainly, and at first glance she is an honest person, the girl is thin and small, and she has a yellow-haired girl.So two people come to listen to the play?
Don't be a petty thief, right?
In the past few years, Suzhou has not had a good year, and there are broken settlements everywhere, and these broken settlements have no way to sustain their lives, so they have to steal chickens and dogs for a living.Chen's mother hurriedly asked the little maid to ask them, and when she asked, she realized that they had come to join their relatives.The woman had an older sister who used to work as a cook in Chen's mother's garden, and the woman wanted to entrust this girl to her sister.Before I could think that the woman's sister had already left the place, the woman was asking where her sister was!
Chen's mother asked the two to be brought over.The woman suddenly saw Chen's mother, who was wearing jewels, and she didn't know what to say.And that little girl also looked cowering, and she hadn't seen anything in the world at first glance.This woman is Wu's mother.Mother Wu bowed in a restrained manner, "The little woman Wu has seen the lady, and the lady is blessed." ”Chen's mother's voice, "I heard that you are looking for Sister-in-law Wu?"
”Sister-in-law Wu is Wu's mother's sister, and the two sisters have relied on each other since childhood, and their relationship is very good.Later, Wu's mother married in Changzhou, and Wu's sister-in-law married in Suzhou, and the two sisters lost contact and did not see each other for many years.Mother Wu only knew that her sister was helping out in Mother Chen's garden in Taohuawu, and she didn't know anything else.Wu's mother trembled and said, "Exactly, the little woman's sister is also surnamed Wu, she has always been here to help cook, the little woman brought her niece to join her relatives this time, but I heard that she has left." ”Chen's mother smiled, "Sister-in-law Wu left three years ago, and I don't know where she is now?"
”Wu's mother's expression suddenly became sad, she was unaccompanied in Suzhou, and the money she brought when she came was also used up.If her sister can't be found, then she and Chen Yuanyuan will have to sleep on the streets.In these years, there are so many scoundrels roaming around, and if the two women of them sleep on the streets, God knows what terrible things will happen?
Mother Chen saw that Mother Wu's face was not good, and she rarely felt compassion.Chen's mother asked, "Sister Wu, what's so difficult?"
”Wu's mother hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Don't hide it from the lady, the little woman is from Changzhou, and her husband's family is patriarchal, and she has always disliked me for giving birth to a money-losing product."
In the past few years, the harvest has not been good, and the family has not enough food to eat, so my husband's family wants to sell my daughter for money to improve her life.Unfortunately, my daughter was still so young, I couldn't bear to sell her, so I borrowed a little money from my neighbor and fled to Suzhou with her.I thought that my sister is in Suzhou, so it's better to let this girl follow her sister for the time being, than to be sold?
Unexpectedly, the money ran out, and my sister couldn't find it, so she was about to sleep on the streets. ”Mother Wu's words were extremely complaining, which made Mother Chen feel compassion.It turned out that Chen's mother's parents were also patriarchal, and when she was very young, they sold her to a family as a child daughter-in-law.It's hard to be a child daughter-in-law!
but they get up earlier than the chickens, and go to bed later than the dogs.She works non-stop every day, and her mother-in-law still dislikes her for being slow, and she is beaten and scolded every day.Later, with great difficulty, she brought up her husband, and she was able to get married, and the hard days came to an end.Who knows, her nominal man no longer looks down on her at this time, and dislikes her as an old mother and is not worthy of herself.simply divorced her with a letter of resignation.Then he sold Chen's mother to a brothel, and was tortured every day, and all the money she earned was taken by the bustard, and not a single money fell to Chen's mother.Later, Chen's mother stayed up for many years, and finally met a benefactor who was willing to help her redeem herself.This person spent a lot of money to get her out of the sea of suffering, and Chen's mother thought that her good life was coming.But he didn't expect that this benefactor had a wife, and he was very afraid of the inside, so he didn't dare to take Chen's mother home at all, so he only rented a separate courtyard outside for her to live temporarily.