I do beauty in Jianghu

Chapter 1 1. Bai Muxi

At that time, it was the second year of Qianzheng.

The weather is good, the country is peaceful and the people are safe.

The people have ample food and clothing, and all walks of life are prosperous. Among them, Jiangnan is the most prosperous place in the world. When ordinary people live and work in peace and contentment, they want to start a small business, so many individual merchants have emerged.

To put it bluntly, he is a hawker.

Bai Muxi is one of them.

He is in the makeup business.

The day was sunny.

In Jiangnan water town, in a wealthy businessman with green tiles and vermilion eaves, Bai Muxi is respectfully holding a white cosmetic powder box with a big palm, which contains milky white, grease-like paste, and is presenting to the famous Jiangnan businessman in front of him. Boss Yu, a rich man, shows.

"Boss Yu, this is the exclusive secret recipe, Ling Jing Yunzhi Pearl Cream, which was bestowed by the Nanhai Immortal."

"In addition to the commonly used medicinal materials, it is mainly made of high-quality South Sea pearls, the unique fairy grass Lingjinghua and old tortoise oil in the South China Sea. Applying it can moisturize the skin, remove wrinkles and dark spots, and it doesn't take long. Make the skin of Mrs. Zun be as soft and smooth as a newborn baby."

Boss Yu listened with a half-smile, his squinting eyes fell on Bai Muxi's hand holding the pearl ointment.

Bai Muxi has a delicate and handsome appearance, a little bookish, thin and fair, and the eyes of the slender and fair Boss Wu Zhiyu have a faint light: "Is it like you?"

Bai Muxi was taken aback for a moment, then lowered his head following his gaze, then smiled awkwardly, and said reluctantly: "Ah, yes, but I'm still far away, I only wiped it off for half a month, but The effect is already evident.”

30 taels of pearl ointment, in order to personally verify its effect, he reluctantly opened a box.

After Boss Yu heard this, his fat big hand touched the back of Bai Muxi's hand directly. The tentacles were indeed delicate and smooth, and he sighed, "It's only been half a month, and it has achieved such an effect?"

Bai Muxi felt goosebumps all over his body, but he didn't dare to take his hand back, and said bravely: "This pearl ointment is also very effective in removing wrinkles and freckles. If Mrs. Zun uses it for more than a month..."

Just as he was talking, Boss Yu held his hand in the palm of his hand, kneading and pinching it as if he wanted to experience the effect of the pearl ointment.

The unfamiliar temperature and rough skin feel through the palm of his hand to the bottom of his heart, Bai Muxi felt a chill in his heart, and wanted to find an excuse to pull his hand back.

"Ah, by the way, our pearl ointment not only has a good caring effect on the skin, but also has a very effective repairing effect on scars..."

As he spoke, he pulled his hand back. Of course, Boss Yu was not willing to let go.

Under the rivalry between the two, Bai Muxi got a little stronger and pulled his hand back violently.

Boss Yu's face was suddenly clouded.

Bai Muxi's heart skipped a beat, yes, offended another one.

After being kicked out, Bai Muxi wondered for the [-]st time that, as a man, why would he want to sell this kind of makeup powder for a girl's home.

I can only blame the old man with the white beard who was so good at fooling people when he was in the South China Sea. He saved his life by himself, but before he had time to ask for some gold and silver treasures, he was fooled into accepting a prescription that claimed to be able to regenerate bones and muscles , and drew a big cake for him, claiming that it would make him rich in an instant.

Bai Muxi, who was confused by the big cake, took this prescription with bright eyes.

As a result, I had to buy the medicinal materials I developed, and I had to grind the pearl powder by myself. I spent half my life savings, and I barely managed to make a dozen boxes of pearl ointment.

Not a single box has been sold yet.

The cheapness has been taken up a lot.

He looked depressedly at the back of his hand that was rubbed red, and sighed helplessly.

It's hard to live.

But no matter how difficult it is, I want to live.

Sighing was useless, he managed to pull himself together, and seeing that it was getting late, he detoured to the night market in the city. When he passed a sesame seed stall, he took out a few copper coins from his pocket and bought two sesame seed cakes for dinner.

As soon as he left the biscuit stand, Bai Muxi stopped and thought for a while, then went back and bought another biscuit, and asked the boss to put an egg in it, and carried it back to his residence.

His residence is in a remote small yard in the west corner of the city. There is a bedroom, a small living room, and a small kitchen in the yard. There is also a well and a budding peach tree in the yard.

According to the neighbor, the peach tree has been dead for several years. He just moved here a few years ago. It was so cold and snowy that he couldn’t tell that the peach tree was dead. He even surrounded it with a thick layer of straw. Unexpectedly, the peach tree would die next spring. Shot the sprouts.

The old man next door said it was a good sign.

When Bai Muxi returned to the yard, seeing the new budding peach tree, he felt better, and went into the house with sesame seed cakes.

There is a faint smell of rotten wood in the deserted room. The house is too old, and Bai Muxi is reluctant to buy incense, so he can only comfort himself to get used to this smell. There is no light in the room, and it is dark as hell. Xi lit the candle and saw that the breakfast that had been left on the table when he went out in the morning had not been touched.

Bai Muxi frowned slightly, and looked up towards the bedroom.

There was a man lying straight on the bed in the bedroom, what was his posture when he went out in the morning, and what is his posture now, motionless, like a dead person.

In other words, it has been ten days since the day Bai Muxi carried him back, and this man has not moved.

Not eating or drinking, not speaking, if not for the slight ups and downs in his chest, Bai Muxi really thought that what he brought back was a corpse.

Looking at the breakfast on the table, Bai Muxi felt angry, but he was hungry, so he took the breakfast into the kitchen and heated it up.

The hot porridge and shredded green peppers and potatoes gave off a tempting aroma. Even if it was leftovers, Bai Muxi moved his index finger. He took out two sesame seed cakes he bought for himself, sat at the table and ate them, and put the other A sesame seed cake with eggs was placed on the opposite side of the table, and he called out to the person on the bed: "Hey, I put it here for you, if you want to eat, come and get it."

The person on the bed still didn't respond, Bai Muxi didn't have the strength to care about it, she buried her head in her own meal, and when she was half full, she looked up at the person again, but she still remained motionless.

Bai Muxi secretly sighed.

Just as he couldn't understand why he used all his savings to make this pearl ointment on a whim, he also couldn't understand why he carried this person back home that night.

He still remembered that night, he sneaked into a rich merchant and recommended this pearl ointment to his wife, but he was misunderstood by the rich merchant as an adulterer, and he wanted to beat him when he chased him. Fortunately, Bai Muxi slipped away quickly and hid Only escaped death by entering a stinking cowshed.

As a result, this half-dead man was found under the straw pile in the cowshed.

He thought it was the drunk family member of the owner of the cowshed, but he called the owner's family, but they didn't know who this person was. They only said that they picked him up when they entered the mountain one day, and saw that he was seriously injured and had a high fever. Qing, I brought it back because of a kind heart. I didn’t expect this person to have no business. After bringing him back, he wouldn’t eat or drink, and didn’t respond to the outside world. If he didn't look like that, he was thrown in the cowshed to fend for himself.

Bai Muxi stared at this person for a long time, and suddenly asked, can I take him away?

The master was also afraid that this man would die in the cowshed, and he couldn't tell what happened later, so he was naturally very happy.

So Bai Muxi carried the smelly man home.

He still can't figure out what his motivation for saving people is. Maybe it's because it's pitiful to see this man in such a desolate state, or maybe it's because he has been alone for more than 20 years and wants to talk to someone.

Maybe it was thinking of the despair that I felt when I was six years old and huddled alone in the cowshed.

But the next day after carrying this man back, Bai Muxi felt the feeling of the owner of the cowshed leaving him in the cowshed to fend for himself.

Really annoying.

People like them who are so poor that they worry about food and drink all day long are still trying to live. This person doesn't care about the meals he prepares every day when he brings them to his mouth. If it weren't for his injuries, Bai Muxi would have wanted to be with him He did it.

But having said that, this person is really miserable.

When Bai Muxi carried him home, he struggled for a while, although he was poor, the bed in the house was always clean, seeing this man was so dirty that he couldn't even see the color of his clothes, Bai Muxi didn't struggle for a long time Throw the person directly on the bed, but put him on the chair first, take off his clothes and wipe his body.

This person's consciousness is still very chaotic, let him fiddle without moving.

As soon as he took off his coat, Bai Muxi gasped. There were countless large and small wounds on this man's body. The blackened blood stains stuck his underwear to the wounds. There were also countless wounds on his face covered by his unkempt hair. Road scars, has been completely disfigured.

Bai Muxi didn't dare to pull his underwear, so she brought a small stool over, sat in front of him, took a basin of water, wet the towel, and separated the clothes from his wound little by little. There were some wounds in the process. Inevitably being torn apart again, Bai Muxi felt cold all over when he looked at it, but this person remained silent, not even humming.

After serving him for most of the night, when the man was tidied up and put on the bed, the candles on the table had already burned to the bottom. Bai Muxi stood up straight with his sore waist, seeing that it was getting cold outside.

Later, Bai Muxi bought some cheap wound medicine with a small amount of money, and applied medicine to the countless wounds on his body and face twice a day, morning and evening, talking to himself while applying the medicine enlighten him.

Although he didn't know why this person had no business, but looking at the current tragedy, it must not be a good memory, so Bai Muxi pondered what to say.

The pain of the past will always pass, people have to look forward, anyone can live without it.

Comfort him, and indirectly comfort yourself.

The night was long, and compared to the past when he was lying alone in the house and sleeping, now there was a big living person beside him listening to him. Although he never responded, Bai Muxi still felt better listening to the other party's steady breathing.

For this reason, he slept on the floor bunk for several days, which was quite solid.

Although the medicine prescribed by the old doctor was cheap, the effect was good. After six or seven days, most of the wounds on the man's body had scabbed over, and the high fever from the previous few days also subsided.

Only the appearance of waiting to die on hunger strike remained unchanged.

It has been ten days, and Bai Muxi is too lazy to be angry with him. He thinks that this person has not starved to death after ten days of starvation. He must have some skills, so he doesn't worry about him, thinking that he will naturally get up when he can't stand it anymore. eat.

So after eating and drinking, Bai Muxi went to the bedroom and bent over to hit the floor.

Unexpectedly, just as he had just laid the floor and was about to lie down, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside the yard, from far to near, menacing.

Immediately afterwards, with a loud bang, the door of the yard outside was kicked heavily, but it was not kicked open, and the sound was loud. Bai Muxi was so frightened that she hurried to the window, and carefully opened the window to look out. .

A group of people holding torches surrounded the yard. At the head of it was a plump and beautiful lady standing in front of the door, asking aggressively: "That little boy who seduced your master lives here?"

A dog beside her nodded: "Yes! I live here! I saw him come in with my own eyes."

The lady sneered, waved her hand and said, "Come on, break open the door, and drag out that shameless slut!"

Bai Muxi was shocked!

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