Chapter 399 Wu Chun Yuan
Yingbao was listening enthusiastically when she suddenly heard someone calling her: "Hey! The sesame seed seller! Come here!"
Walking over, I heard this person say: "Bring me two sesame seed cakes."
Ying Bao took out two pieces of sesame seed cakes and gave them to him, "Chenghui is twenty cents."
"Twenty cents?" The man slapped the table, blowing his beard and staring: "In the past, at most three cents was available for each one, how do you sell it for ten cents?"
Yingbao took back the sesame cakes and turned around to leave. No matter how the old man behind her yelled and cursed, she just didn't look back.
After standing on the street and thinking for a while, Yingbao decided to go to the county government office to have a look.
Passing by his own shop, he saw that two specialty shops facing the street were burned down, but the house behind them was still there.
Including the newly built two-in-one mansion next to it, they are all standing well.
However, it seems that someone is living in the new house.
After asking nearby vendors, I found out that this house was occupied by Cao Shen's cronies, and his whole family moved in.
Ying Bao sneered and walked quickly towards the county government office.
Before approaching the county government office, I saw soldiers all over the road. They had Mo swords hanging on their waists. They stood three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry. When they saw the people, they shouted loudly and forbade anyone to approach.
Yingbao stepped back and ran to the hook fence again.
I bought a lot of candied fruits and other snacks from the vendors and put them in my basket.
These are the things that the dancers at Wu Chun Yuan love to eat the most, and she is going there to drum up business.
"We sell preserves! Sweet and sour apricot and peach preserves. You won't get fat if you eat more!"
The masters of Wuchun Yuan strictly prohibit dancers from eating too much rice to prevent them from gaining weight, so many dancers like to buy some snacks and preserved fruits to eat when they are hungry.
After a while, several heads popped out from the pavilion of Wuchun Courtyard and waved to Yingbao: "Brother! What do you have in your basket?"
Ying Bao looked up at them with a smile: "There are apricot and peach preserves, and candied milk cake."
When the dancers heard that there was milk cake, they smiled as brightly as peach blossoms: "Then come up quickly and show it to us."
"Okay, sisters, tell the gatekeeper before I can go in." Ying Bao said.
She had stayed in Wuchun Courtyard for several years in her previous life, and seeing several familiar faces today made her feel even more friendly.
Entering from the back door of Wuchun Courtyard, there is a large courtyard where several teenage girls are practicing Hu Xuan dance.
If she made a mistake, the master would whip her calf hard with a bamboo stick until the little girl cried.
Ying Bao seemed to have returned to that time in her previous life, and she was beaten a lot.
A teenage girl came down from the attic and stood at the top of the stairs waving to her.
Ying Bao walked over quickly and followed her upstairs.
There are three little dancers sitting upstairs. They are all about thirteen or fourteen years old. There is a dancer who is about seventeen or eighteen years old and is applying make-up to one of them.
The two dancers took the basket in Yingbao's hand and began to pick preserved fruits and milk cakes, throwing them into their mouths as they went.
Ying Bao looked at them quietly, feeling a little funny.
Taotao and Yingying's love of taking advantage is exactly the same as in their previous lives.
The two of them finally picked out the preserved fruits and milk cakes and paid for them. Seeing that Ying Bao still didn't leave, they couldn't help but smile and said, "Look at the larvae who want to pay us money."
Ying Bao smiled at Taotao: "Actually, I can also dance the Hu Xuan Dance."
Taotao looked at the vendor in front of her, covered her mouth and chuckled: "Really? You can dance for us to see."
"Okay, you can help me play the drum." Ying Bao put down the basket, straightened her clothes, and stood on a round dance carpet.
Seeing that the hawker was serious, Taotao couldn't help but become curious, so she took a leather drum and started beating it with her hands.
The sound of the drum beat became more and more rapid.
Yingbao was spinning faster and faster, like a whirling butterfly.
The Hu Xuan Dance must not only be fast, but the dance must also be light and rhythmic, and the steps must not go outside the two-foot-wide dance carpet.
The little dancers who were watching were shocked, and even the dancer who helped them put on makeup was also shocked.
After several years of hard training, he was still inferior to a small merchant. This made several people feel uncomfortable.
The drumming gradually stopped, and Yingbao also stopped.
"Okay!" The class leader came up to the attic at some point and clapped his hands.
He looked at Ying Bao with a smile and asked, "What's your name, little lady? Who does she study under?"
Ying Bao glanced at him and said seriously: "My name is Huanxi, and I learned the Hu Xuan dance from my aunt. Now that she has passed away, it is inconvenient to mention her name again."
The class leader still smiled and said: "Huanxi? It's a good name. I see that you are very familiar with me. Are you new here?"
Yingbao nodded: "I'm not from the county. I went to the city to sell preserves a few days ago, but I ended up being trapped in the city and couldn't leave. Now I don't even have the money to stay in an inn."
The squad leader pretended to sigh: "Oh, what a disaster. Huanxi, why don't you stay in Wuchun Courtyard? When the city gate opens, you can go home."
Ying Bao immediately saluted him: "Thank you sir for taking me in."
The class leader said: "Don't thank me. To tell you the truth, I saw that you danced the Hu Xuan dance very well, and I am short of people here, so I want to ask you to be a dancer in my dance class."
Seeing the hesitation on Ying Bao's face, the class leader added, "Don't worry, I will pay you for every dance."
Yingbao lowered his head and thought for a while, then asked: "How much will you pay me, sir? If it's too little, I, I'll stop dancing. If my fellow villagers see me and tell my family, they will definitely scold me."
The class leader curled his lips and said, "How about two hundred coins per game?"
Ying Bao shook his head: "Then forget it."
"Three hundred, three hundred for a game, if you don't want to, just do it." The squad leader lifted his robe and sat down next to him, with a pair of fox eyes filled with calculations.
Ying Bao hesitated for a long time before nodding: "Okay, then, I will live here from now on. Sir, you won't charge me for accommodation, right?"
The manager smiled and said: "I won't accept it, but you have to perform every day."
"Yeah." Yingbao responded obediently.
The class leader stretched out his jade-white fingers to flick his robe, and said to the seventeen or eighteen-year-old dancer: "Ah Lian, take Huanxi to wash up and change clothes, and ask her to go on stage with you later."
"Okay." Ah Lian led Ying Bao to the bathroom and asked someone to bring water in to bathe and change her clothes.
When Yingbao put on a red dance dress and appeared in front of everyone, everyone was silent.
The class leader looked at Ying Bao up and down, feeling amazed.
I didn’t expect that this kid was actually stunning, and I really earned it.
The smile on the squad leader's face became more kind, and he quickly ordered someone to make a bowl of bird's nest.
"Huanxi, are you really a country boy?" the class leader asked.
Yingbao: "Yes, I grew up in the countryside."
"Then are your parents still there?"
"My parents are here. My family is from Simen Town. My brother is still young and can't live alone. Otherwise, my mother would come to the county town with me to sell preserves."
"I see." The squad leader pondered for a moment and said, "When the city gate opens, I will go to your house to visit your parents and brother."
"Okay." Ying Bao said with a happy expression, "I'll ask you sir to try my best dish then."
snort! I can't beat you to death with an old fist!
A woman came in with a food tray and placed a bowl of bird's nests on the low table.
The squad leader smiled and gestured to Yingbao: "Eat, it's specially cooked for you."
Ying Bao didn't show any politeness, she sat cross-legged on the round carpet, picked up the bird's nest and ate it by the spoonful.
The bird's nest tasted the same as in the previous life, with a fishy smell and not delicious at all.
But she must eat, because only after eating bird's nest will the class leader let down his guard.