HCB Chapter 231 Acrobatic Performance
Chapter 231 Acrobatic Performance
Lin Jiaojiao came out with three exquisite wooden carved boxes, but she was thinking about how to distribute these three items.
Lan Jiu endured the whole process with a gloomy face. He knew that his master was somewhat unethical in business and could be said to be a profiteer.
He didn't feel anything before he encountered this situation, but now that he has, he just feels very aggrieved.
Now the two of them were wandering aimlessly on the street, because she knew that her brother would not be back until the evening after finishing his work, so she didn't want to go back so early.
Although there is nothing fun to do outside, at least there are many people and it is lively.
Because she gradually discovered that something was wrong with this place, but her brain was not enough and she couldn't figure out why.
Noticing that the sky had begun to turn blue, Lan Jiu leaned over to the person who was watching a street acrobatic performance with great interest and whispered in his ear to persuade him.
"Sir, it's getting late, let's go back."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, finish watching this show first, Lan Jiu, give them some tips."
He shook his head helplessly and took out ten cents from his purse and threw them into the bowl. The coins touched each other and made a crisp sound, which made the children who were performing work harder.
He didn't know what was so good about it. The performance of these children could be described as dog meat under the guise of mutton, with no technical skills at all.
He had asked her this before, and she said she would leave after seeing this one, but she ended up seeing one after another.
Moreover, he only threw two cents in at the beginning, but Lin Jiaojiao felt that the reward was too little, and the sympathetic rich girl immediately asked him to throw in more.
She also said that she would return it to him when she got home, and would give him ten cents for each performance. He suspected that these kids were just watching them and that was why they were reluctant to close the stall.
At this time, a carriage stopped behind the crowd. The person in the carriage gently lifted a corner of his fingertips, and the exposed finger joints were clearly slender and cold.
It is accompanied by a lazy and mellow voice, which makes people's hearts skip a beat when they hear it.
"Jiaojiao, go home."
The few onlookers turned their heads to look at the carriage behind them. Lan Jiu reacted immediately and prepared to remind the people around him.
However, the moment Lin Jiaojiao called out her name, she knew who was coming to take her home, and she turned around and shouted in surprise.
"Brother, you are back."
Then he trotted towards the carriage. Lan Jiu hurriedly helped the person into the carriage, and he stayed outside the carriage and walked towards the mansion with them.
After Lin Jiaojiao got on the carriage, she immediately took off her veil, then sat directly in the man's arms, hugged his neck, and rested her head on his chest.
"Brother, Jiaojiao misses you so much..."
"Oh? If you miss your brother, why haven't you come home yet so late? Or did your brother come to pick you up?"
She pouted and argued: "No, it's because my brother went out without Jiaojiao..."
Lan Jiu was outside the car listening to the conversation inside. His dark brown eyes dimmed and he immediately shook his head to get rid of this unrealistic idea.
When he adjusted his mindset, he turned around to look at where they had been before, only to find that the children performing the acrobatics and the onlookers had long disappeared.
really!
When the children performing acrobatics saw that their sponsor had left, they immediately packed up their stall and went home.
When the group passed by the steamed bun shop, the leader, a girl named Tang Xiaotang who was about fourteen years old, directly bought ten big meat buns.
The children following behind her were drooling as they hadn't eaten meat for a long time.
Seeing the greedy little cats behind him, Tang Xiaotang smiled and said, "Everyone has one, go home and eat first."
"Okay, big sis."
"I understand, sister."
The group returned to their dilapidated yard. The house was rented by Tang Xiaotang. There were twenty children living in two houses in one yard.
Originally they lived in a dilapidated temple outside the city, and on weekdays they went into the city to beg for a living.
However, during the Chinese New Year, beggars were restricted from entering the city to beg, but every day someone would go outside the city to distribute porridge to help these poor people survive the hungry and cold winter.
However, among the dozen or so children, Tang Xiaotang was the oldest, and the winter clothes and food they went to get were all snatched away by other older beggars, who even beat them up if they were not given anything.
During the Chinese New Year, Tang Xiaotang successfully sneaked into the city and stole other people's wallets, allowing them to survive the winter and even live in their own house in the city.
In the past few days, their group has accepted several new members, all of whom are homeless children, mostly boys.
It was impossible to let all these children beg. If there were too many people begging, they wouldn't be able to beg much after a round. So she took the children to watch acrobatics several times and bought some long benches and props to learn how to do it.
But most people would give them a penny out of pity, so they could earn about ten pennies a day, which was much better than begging.
The begging children had returned to the yard long ago, and the lame boy happily took out the spoils he had begged for today.
"Big sister, I got some clean clothes today. An old man gave me all the clothes he didn't want at home. I think the clothes are pretty good. They can be worn by you and your third sister. This way, you can wear better clothes when you go to perform."
Tang Xiaotang handed the buns in her hand and the half pound of meat and vegetables she bought later to the young man who was in charge of food and drink in the courtyard. She was surprised to see the bag of clothes the boy took out.
"You went to someone else's house?"
The boy also knew what she was afraid of, and hurriedly shook his hand to explain: "No, I didn't go in, my second sister was waiting outside with me."
Only then did she feel relieved. She had made a strict rule that no matter how many good things others gave her, she would not enter other people's houses.
Because there is a chance that once you go in, you won’t be able to get out, or there is a chance that you can get out but your life will be ruined.
The other boy saw that she was sad and quickly told her about the good luck he had encountered that day.
"Sister, we found a lot of food today, but a nobleman ate a bite and then threw it away. We followed him all the way."
When the third sister behind her heard what they said, she immediately told them about the nobleman she met today.
"Is he wearing a blue and white brocade robe and a plain veil hat?"
"Yes, yes, that's him."
"Wow! We met him too, and he gave us a lot of tips, a total of 190 coins! My sixth brother and I almost fell over and our legs cramped. If the young master's family hadn't come to pick him up, I'm sure we could have earned more than 200 coins today."
"Oh my god! One hundred and ninety cents is so much..."
Tang Xiaotang sat next to them, listening to their discussion with a smile, while the boy also prepared dinner for tonight.
Twenty children sat around two dining tables, swallowing their saliva as they looked at the food on the table. Each of them had half a meat bun in their bowl, and there were also some foods on the table that they had never eaten before.
This was arguably the most sumptuous meal they had ever had.