Mingxi visually measured the amount of money and said, "It's enough to buy two shirts." But how did you collect money this time? Didn't you ask for something other than money before?"

Luo Ying showed unprecedented generosity, and said very sincerely: "But you want to buy a shirt." ”

"For me?"

"Of course, why else?"

Mingxi was grateful in his heart, and said with a mouth: "Thank you, thank you, what do you want me to do, I will do it well." ”

Ning Meng thought to herself, how can Qi Xian be nothing more than an employee, carrots and sticks, quasi-safekeeping, taking advantage of Mingxi's good mood at this time, he hurriedly ordered: "When I buy a shirt, go and bring the child to her, it should be at grandma's house." ”

"Yes. Mingxi replied casually, but he didn't think it was right, so he hurriedly asked, "Rob it?"

Ning Meng took out a box that had been hidden a long time ago and said, "That child's grandmother likes jade, give this to her, she can't not be unmoved." ”

Mingxi felt that the box was familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while, so he quickly opened it. It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, but this time, Mingxi's eyes almost fell out of his sockets, and he screamed wildly: "This jade pendant is something I have kept for more than a thousand years, and it is old, so you just took it out and gave it away?!"

"So what?"

"So of course you can't give it away!"

"I am the owner of the Relief House, everything in the Relief House is mine, if I remember correctly, even you are mine. As soon as these words came out, Ning Meng's face turned red first, but fortunately, Mingxi didn't notice it.

Mingxi cared about his jade wholeheartedly, and hurriedly asked, "I put this thing in the Treasure Pavilion, who gave it to you?"

Ning Meng immediately said, "I took it myself." ”

"They told you all about the Treasure Chamber, where are all the treasures I've collected over the past two thousand years, and what have they said?"

"I remember when you say that, did my grandmother bring me to the Worry House when I was a child?"

As soon as Ning Meng mentioned her grandmother cherry, Mingxi was angry, I didn't know whether she was resentful or angry, and said, "Why are you mentioning her." It's because of you that Cherry hasn't appeared in the Worry Relief House for more than 20 years, let alone brought you, even if she herself has never been here. ”

"That's weird. I've been in the house for a long time, and I always feel like I've been here before. The Treasure Pavilion seemed to have been found naturally. Why is that?"

"How do I know? Probably because you're obsessed with money, so your little human greed led you to my Treasure Chamber. ”

"How could it be. If you are stingy, you will be stingy, and you will blame me again. Okay, hurry up and get your things and go to the errands, can't you all buy shirts?"

"Is it okay to change one, do you really want to use this jade pendant?"

"No, that's it. ”

Mingxi went to run errands, and Ning Meng finally had time to shop by herself. Since coming to the Worry Relief House, she has also found that something is different. She was always busy in the worry room to grant wishes to all kinds of people, and what was going on outside could only be known through news and information, but what it was?

Ning Meng saw the crowd of people coming and going on the street, and saw a thousand years ago in a trance. At that time, there were also such people coming and going, but the building was not so high, and there were not so many people. Still, people think almost similarly.

Maybe history always repeats itself, and this statement is true. She wondered why people were always making the same mistakes and doing the same things.

"Do you want to buy flowers?" said to Ning Meng suddenly an old woman carrying a basket.

Ning Meng was not interested in these flowers and plants, but she just looked at the old woman and showed kindness, so she bought a bouquet. She picked up a bunch of purple ones, and the old woman seemed to have a deep meaning, and said, "Purple is good, take it." When the flower is gone, good things will happen. ”

Ning Meng thanked the old woman, and went back without paying much attention.

Mingxi has already finished his errand and returned to the house of worry. He was depressed at the loss of his jade pendant, but he rejoiced at getting a new shirt. In Ning Meng's opinion, he probably really didn't know the value of the thousand-year-old jade pendant, maybe for Mingxi, who had a long life, the past things should always be thrown away, and only new things were worth having.

"Is it done?" Ning Meng asked.

"Well, the old lady saw that Yu Pei and handed over the child to me without saying a word. I only told her that I was sent by the child's mother, and it was strange that she didn't even ask for more information. ”

"It's not surprising. There will always be a moment of surprise when people see more wealth than they expected, and then their brains will short-circuit, and they will lose their minds like taking ecstasy. Everything that is done is unreasonable. If it weren't for you today, if someone else had changed, her grandson might have been lost. ”

"Well, I think it's very likely. ”

"What did she say when the child was delivered?"

She took the child back and said nothing. ”

Mingxi looked at Ning Meng and thought for a while and said, "After Wang Shuaishuai's accident last time, has there been any change in the lifeline in your hands?"

"Well, yes. ”

"There's a way to get your lifeline back. ”

"Will you give me someone else's life to keep me alive?"

"You know?"

"I guess. I just feel that everything in this world needs to be exchanged for equal value. Just like a wish, the grander the wish, the more you will be paid. Life should be the most precious thing in the world, and if you want to continue life, you naturally need to exchange it for the lives of other people. ”

"I haven't said it because I know that if you say it, you won't agree to it. It seems that you really won't agree. ”

"How do you know I'm unwilling?"

"Would you like to?"

"I don't know, but I'm still alive and well, and when the day comes, I don't know if I'll have the same thoughts as today. ”

"Well, let me know when you want to live a little longer, and I'll help you. ”

"And what about you, what do you have to lose?"

"That's what you don't need to know. I'll talk about it later. ”

"Don't say it. ”

About a month later, the alcoholic woman came to the door, and all this seemed to be expected by Ning Meng.

As soon as the woman entered, she began to shout, "Pay back!"

Xiao Bai and Xiao Hei stepped forward to stop it, but this woman was too fierce, and she rushed in regardless of the rules, where are they opponents.

Ning Meng waved her hand and said, "Let her come over." ”

The alcoholic woman propped her hands on the table in front of Ning Meng and shouted, "You have collected so much money from me, where is the child?"

Ning Meng replied unhurriedly: "Child, didn't the child already send it to you? Why do you still ask us?"

"I sent it, but I was taken away. ”

"It's not our fault. If you want your child back, you can continue to make a wish, and we will still help you do it. ”

"You treat me as fools! Are you still cheated out of money!

Ning Meng sneered and said, "If you really think we are liars, we should not be here at this moment, but at the police station." If you don't believe us, you won't find us at all. Do you think I'm right?"

"Okay, even so, so what?"

"How about listening to my advice, if you're willing?"

The woman gritted her teeth and said, "What do you say?"

"How's it going?"

"Quit drinking, quit drinking again. The old lady also told me to quit drinking, but you don't understand that wine is the source of my inspiration, and without it my inspiration will dry up. ”

This woman is actually a painter, and her favorite way to create is to create while drinking. Originally, it was an innocuous habit. It's just that as time went on, she drank more and more. It even affected myself and affected my normal life. The family felt that she could not continue like this and tried to dissuade her. But she was so stubborn that she always had a thousand reasons to refute it. In the end, he had a bad relationship with his family, which led to his family leaving him.

"You know what? All my inspiration comes from alcohol, and without the catalyst of alcohol, I would be a withered flower, losing all inspiration. ”

The painter said it very poetically, but in Ning Meng's eyes, she was completely. She had studied the painter's paintings before, and at that time she was still a drunkard, but the paintings were not bad. Recently, she has become obsessed with alcohol, but she has not had any good works.

In this way, alcohol is not her muse, and creation is nothing more than an excuse to buy her drunk.

"When did you start drinking?" Ning Meng asked.

The painter recalled. It was a winter three years ago. She has just finished a solo exhibition with her new paintings, but after this solo exhibition, the evaluation of her paintings has plummeted. Since then, she has been labelled as an "out-of-fashion painter". At that time, her friend asked her to go out to play, and the friend handed her a bottle of wine and said, "If you are sad, borrow wine to drown your sorrows." ”

She used to drink a single drip, but after that time, she felt that wine was really a good thing. She likes to feel drunk, she likes to be drunk and indulge in dreams that may not be real. After drinking, when she picked up the brush again, she felt that the hand was no longer her own, but someone else's.

She was drawing, and seemed to feel better.

At first, it was good, but the feeling slowly faded away. She drank more and more, and so she drank more and more, and drank more and more. So much so that she didn't forget to drink when she was pregnant. So much so that her family was worried that she would take care of her newborn child.

"Now that you've found the reason, don't you want to quit drinking?"

"As I said, all my creative inspiration comes from wine. Are you asking me to make a choice, to choose between children and art?"

"It's hard to say. Since you're not willing to give up, go ahead. ”

"But didn't you just say that quitting alcohol can help me find my child?"

"But you don't want to, so I'll have to think of another way. Now make a wish. ”

The painter took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and solemnly made a wish: "May my children return to me." ”