Chapter 37: Family Trouble
In front of the White Mansion, there was already a lonely scene. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Needless to say, it can be as crowded and crowded as before, but now it seems that even a few pedestrians passing by have to speed up their pace and avoid them. Winter already gives people a gloomy and dull feeling, and when Luo Ying saw this scene, her heart suddenly became restless. She parked the horse at the intersection dozens of meters away, and saw from a distance that the door plaque of the courtyard gate engraved with the two big golden seals of the White Mansion was hanging high on weekdays and disappeared, and the moment her eyes moved down, she found that the two male and female lions used to use the town house at the door were also missing, and the only extra was the soldiers wearing bronze helmets and armor and guarding the two lines of majestic and cold soldiers in front of their own doors.
"Is something wrong?" Luo Ying muttered distractedly as she looked at the door of the completely unfamiliar door.
She dismounted gently, her heart felt like a boulder had been crushed, and she couldn't lift up a trace of strength. Daddy once said that the world is impermanent, if one day, someone in the family encounters an accident, the living can go as far as they can, and don't care about the dying person and do unnecessary stupid things. Suddenly, Luo Ying's heart popped up what Daddy said, although she didn't believe that there would be any accidents in her family, but her intuition pulled her hands and feet like a storm of wind sweeping the waves, so that she didn't dare to take another half step forward.
Luo Ying, who had nowhere to go, wrapped her mouth and nose with cotton cloth, and she took the green horse, which had been as tired as herself after two days and two nights, and walked slowly and aimlessly around the blue brick courtyard wall of the Bai family's compound. When he saw the camphor tree, which had been climbed countless times before, peeking out of the wall with wrinkled branches, Luo Ying paused, and memories of the scenes jumped from his heart. Two sparrows were standing side by side on the branches, sometimes pecking at each other's beaks, sometimes chasing each other from the top of the tree to the eaves, Luo Ying couldn't help but feel a trace of gratitude in her heart, she was grateful to these two little birds, even if time flies, time passes, they still never leave. However, Luo Ying smiled and shook her head, she mocked herself in her heart, what words of gratitude, I'm afraid I envy them!
She walked away, resolutely not overdoing it, just like the day she left Jiangjia Town, Luo Ying found that with the first time, the second time was obviously much easier. No matter what happens, the first thing I should do right now is to go to eat, and then feed this little little green who has been suffering with me for many days, Luo Ying rubbed the horse's cold and smooth mouth hair, nodded affirmatively to him, and asked for permission commandingly.
She walked through the entire market to a noodle shop with a modest storefront before stopping. The noodle restaurant is indeed inconspicuous in the bustling and noisy street market of Jiangning City, but a plaque at the door and a couplet on the door frame have attracted people's attention. The plaque is printed in red lacquer in cursive font with a line of large characters of "Chenjia Noodle Restaurant", and the right couplet of the door frame reads: "The face is like life, and it will come and go for a long time." The left alliance is: "Laugh proudly, bathe in the fire." Although it was not yet noon, the intoxicating aroma of beef noodle soup had already wafted from the room, and the aroma was transmitted from the nostrils through the esophagus to the stomach, and every second made Luo Ying's mind blur, she had been hungry for a day. It's not that she didn't bring dry food on the road, but she was bumpy on horseback, and she would vomit out whatever she ate, so she had to hold back and not eat. Luo Ying swallowed her saliva, let the stomach that secreted a large stream of acid churn, and walked straight into the store after leashing the horse.
"Boss, how much does a bowl of beef noodles cost?" Luo Ying wrote a flat wallet, didn't dare to count how much was left, just asked softly.
The couple who opened the noodle restaurant, one was responsible for making noodles, the other was responsible for serving noodles, and the proprietress of the noodles heard a little girl whose face was tightly wrapped and asked how much is a bowl of noodles, and she was suddenly stunned, but instantly returned to her normal expression, she smiled and quipped: "People who usually come to eat noodles say, 'Boss, come to a bowl of beef noodles!', you are good, as soon as you enter the door, ask me, 'How much is a bowl of this noodles?' Are you afraid that I will deduct you if you don't have enough money!"
The proprietress winked at Luo Ying, she put down the rag in her hand to wipe the table, pursed her lips and smiled at her, Luo Ying's tears instantly snapped and fell, gurgling and unstoppable. The proprietress stretched out her index finger to make a gesture of boosing her, and after a few glances out of the door, she grabbed Luoying's shoulders, walked out of a small door, and after passing through the small inner courtyard, led her into the bedroom where she and her husband usually lived.
The inner room was much quieter, and a stove in the middle of the house had been clearly roasted for a long time.
"It's getting colder and colder, and I haven't been willing to put it out all night. The proprietress looked at the stove and muttered, and after moving the stove a lot in front of Luoying's bench, she took off her trendy white flowered cloak, put it on the stove and roasted it while asking, "Where have you been for so many days?"
"I ,,,,,," Luo Ying hesitated for a long time, and finally didn't know how to answer, so she had to bow her head and respond in silence.
The proprietress looked at her with some anger, but the depths of her anger were also mixed with helpless distress, "After you left that day, in less than half a month, Young Master Ah Bao sent another letter. When she said Ah Bao, Luo Ying raised her head suddenly, her eyes that were red from crying just now flashed with a few tears, and she asked in a hoarse voice, "Ah Bao, are you okay?"
"How can it be good! He is fighting in Mongolia! After the victory in Yingzhou was launched, the northern Xinjiang area was full of war smoke and gunpowder, but Young Master Ah Bao was fighting the enemy with flesh and blood on the battlefield every point!"
Luo Ying lowered her head again, tears rolling in her eyes, "So, did he say anything?"
The proprietress let out a sigh in her nose, she turned around and walked to the dresser, pulled out a neatly laid yellow paper envelope and handed it to her, Luo Ying caught it, and opened it with bated breath.
"After you left, I didn't come to get the letter for a long time, so I went to the Bai family to find you, who knows, only after I went to know that the Bai family had such a big incident overnight!" At this time, Luo Ying had already seen the important things written by Bao, and when she heard the heartfelt sigh and pity of the proprietress, the tears in her eyes finally couldn't hold back, and she crumbled the Huang Tong paper in her arms and cried silently. When the proprietress saw this scene, her eyes were also red, and she hurriedly hugged her in her arms and comforted: "Hard-working child, good Luoying, cry if you want to cry, you won't be sad when you cry!" Luoying buried her head deep in her silk-tied arms, whining to vent all the pain accumulated these days.
At this time, on the sky outside the window, the shaded clouds scattered like a violent wind, but the winter sun behind the clouds was still wearing a dark veil, and he hid in a place where people could not see, like a prisoner who had done something wrong to escape from the world, and his huge eyes gave a chilling and cautious gaze.