Chapter 775: Portrait
The ancient city of Sunset, a peaceful small city, has become no longer peaceful because of the arrival of a third-grade official of the imperial court, and officers and soldiers are stationed in the city, patrolling on time every day. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
After a few days, the people in the city gradually became accustomed to the initial nervousness, and at any time, the people's adaptability was beyond the norm, and as long as they were not forced to live, they could go against the grain.
In the east corner of the city, in front of the dilapidated house, a handsome woman stuffed the little silver left in the family into the hands of the young man in front of her, and her slightly pale face showed a stern look, and said, "Xiaowen, you must know how to be motivated when you go out to study, and you are not allowed to come back until you have achieved fame, otherwise, your mother will not recognize you."
"Mother"
Xiaowen's eyes are full of tears~ full, five years have passed, and he has grown from a little boy to a teenager, but there is still a little green color between his eyebrows.
On the side, Ning Chen stepped forward, put the prepared coil into the young man's hand, and said with a gentle expression, "Listen to your mother's words, work hard, this silver is given to you by Mr., wait for your gold list title, come back and let your mother live a good life."
"Mister"
Xiaowen held the silver, and hesitation flashed on his face, not knowing whether to take it or not.
Xinyu stepped forward and said softly, "Xiaowen, going out is no better than at home, bring more silver in case of emergency, as long as you study hard, you will be named on the gold list in the future, and your husband's face will also shine."
"Mr. Xie, Mr. Xie"
Xiaowen tearfully accepted the silver, saluted the two of them respectively, and said.
"It's not early, let's hurry up and get on the road," the woman urged.
Xiaowen looked at the mother in front of him, and his eyes were full of reluctance.
"Let's go, remember to work hard, don't let my mother down," the woman said with tears in her eyes.
Xiaowen wiped away the tears in his eyes, nodded vigorously, knelt on the ground and kowtowed a few times, then suppressed the sadness in his heart, and turned to leave.
Looking at the distant figure, the tears in the woman's eyes finally couldn't be suppressed anymore, and a drop fell down.
"Thank you, Mr. Ning, thank you, Mrs. Ning," the woman turned around and saluted the two of them.
Xinyu stepped forward to support the woman and said softly, "Don't thank us, it's just, don't you regret doing this?"
"As long as Xiaowen can live well, it's enough"
The woman replied with difficulty, and immediately a sickly flush appeared on her face, and she coughed violently.
The piercing red overflowed through the fingers, falling drop by drop, and the diseased body that was suppressed by the medicinal properties was finally difficult to hold and exploded.
"I'll help you into the house and take your medicine"
Xinyu sighed softly, helped the woman, and walked towards the house.
Ning Chen stood outside the house, looking at the dilapidated ancient city, his eyes rose with emotion, life and death were always quite sad.
Ordinary, there is ordinary happiness, but there is also ordinary helplessness.
After a while, Xinyu walked out of the house, took the hand of the person in front of her, and walked in the direction of home.
"Husband, Xiaowen's mother doesn't have many days left," Xin Yu's expression flashed with sadness, and she said.
"You've done your best"
Ning Chen held the former's hand and said.
"If my medical skills were more sophisticated, maybe I could let Xiaowen's mother live a few more days," Xinyu said with a lot of self-reproach on her expression.
"Birth, old age, sickness and death, as long as it is natural, there is no need to regret it too much, you are already the best doctor in the world, otherwise, Xiaowen's mother would not be able to survive today" Ning Chen comforted softly.
"Husband," Xinyu called softly.
"Huh?" Ning Chen replied.
"Do you regret marrying me?" Xin Yu raised her head and asked. "No regrets"
Ning Chen stretched out his hand and stroked the face of the woman in front of him, with a gentle smile on his face, and said, "I have never regretted it for a moment."
Xin Yu's eyes overflowed with tears, and then she smiled brightly and said, "I don't regret it either."
She knew that the person he liked was the woman in the deserted city or the little princess of the barbarian dynasty, but she still couldn't help but want to be with him, even if it was only for twenty years.
She wouldn't hold him down for long, twenty years would be enough, and after twenty years, she would give them back.
"Silly girl"
Ning Chen gently took the former into his arms and said softly, "You are my wife, you are, you will be in the future, you will always be, I married you just because I want to marry you, there is no other reason"
"Hmm," Xinyu nodded lightly.
Ning Chen raised his hand to wipe away the tears from the eyes of the person in front of him, and chuckled, "Our ninth princess is the most beautiful woman in the world, and there are countless children of powerful people who have asked for marriage, but I finally married home, and it's too late for you to regret it."
Hearing the former's teasing, Xinyu burst into laughter, stretched out her hand and gently slapped the person in front of her, and said, "If you want to treat me well, if you treat me badly, I will go back to the princess's mansion and not live with you."
Ning Chen smiled softly and said, "That's, how dare I treat our ninth princess badly"
Back home, Xinyu went to the East Kitchen to prepare dinner, Ning Chen walked to the desk, took out rice paper, added water and grinded, and drew the person in the painting little by little.
It didn't take long for Xinyu to come over with her meal, and when she saw the figure in front of the desk, she was puzzled, "What are you writing?"
"Nothing"
Ning Chen smiled, covered the picture scroll, and stepped forward to say, "It's been a long time since I saw you go to the street to buy rouge gouache or something, you don't have to go to the school tomorrow, take advantage of this day, I'll accompany you to buy it."
"Don't you like me, a yellow-faced woman, if you don't apply rouge gouache, you can't stand it?" Xin Yu glanced at the former and said.
"Huh"
Ning Chen chuckled and said, "If you are a yellow-faced woman, then all the women in the world will not be able to see it, I just feel that I haven't gone out with you for a long time, and I want to make up for it."
"Seeing that what you said is quite sincere, I agreed," Xinyu smiled.
The next day, when the morning light is illuminated, in front of the bronze mirror in the house, Xin Yu dresses the mirror, and the face of the country and the city, even if it is not carved, is also perfect like a person in the painting.
Ning Chen was ready to wait, waiting patiently, it is the nature of women to love beauty, whether it is a woman or a little girl, so a woman's makeup is never too fast, he has fully understood.
I don't know how long later, Xin Yu got up, looked at the bored waiting figure in front of the door, the corners of her mouth curled slightly, and said, "Waiting impatiently?"
When Ning Chen heard this, he hurriedly cheered up, shook his head and said, "How can it be, husband and wife, it is natural, how can I be impatient"
"That's good"
Xinyu nodded with satisfaction and said, "Let's go."
The two walked side by side outside, on the main street of the city, pedestrians came and went, not too lively, but not deserted.
In front of a rouge stall, Xinyu stopped, opened it and sniffed it, looked at the woman behind the stall, and said, "How to sell this rouge?"
"Twenty Texts"
Looking at the woman in front of her, the woman hurriedly answered.
"This is twenty texts, you can take it"
Xinyu took out twenty yuan, put it in the hands of the woman in front of her, and then stuffed the rouge to the people around her, and said, "Take it, don't lose it"
Ning Chen nodded and took the rouge.
In front of a gouache shop, Xinyu stopped, picked for a while, asked for two boxes of gouache, and continued to walk forward.
Ning Chen took the wrapped gouache from the shopkeeper and followed.
In the cloth shop, Xinyu looked at the pieces of cloth in the store, picked them for a long time, took out a piece of cloth, looked at the people around her, and asked, "Is it good-looking?"
"Good-looking," Ning Chen hurriedly nodded.
Xinyu put down the cloth in her hand suspiciously, picked up another piece of cloth, and asked, "What about this?"
"It's also good-looking," Ning Chen said honestly.
Xinyu put the cloth down again, picked up a cloth with the worst texture, and asked again, "This?"
Ning Chen looked at it, but he didn't feel any difference, and nodded, "It's good-looking."
On the side, the proprietress of the cloth shop just wanted to laugh, but she couldn't help it.
Xinyu glanced at the people around her angrily, and said, "Let you choose, it's really useless, don't you think all the cloth here is good-looking?"
Ning Chen's eyes swept over the cloth in the store, and he really didn't see much difference, but his ingenuity to calm the world told him that if he said yes now, he must be looking for a draw.
"Of course not"
Ning Chen shook his head, picked up a piece of cloth at random, and said very seriously, "I don't think this looks good."
"Giggles"
Seeing this, the proprietress of the cloth shop couldn't hold back any longer, and laughed wildly.
Xinyu was also very angry, and she couldn't wait to slap it out.
"Childe, the cloth you are holding is Yueyang silk, the best silk is used, and the best material is dyed, and I can't afford to buy a few horses in this small shop at a time, if you think it's not good-looking, then there really won't be any good-looking silk in the world," the proprietress of the cloth shop said with a smile.
Ning Chen's expression on his face stiffened, he slapped his face, the gutter capsized, how could he understand this, he used to help take care of it, but now that there is Xinyu, he has never bought this thing by himself at all.
"Boss, don't pay attention to him, he's an uncle, and he usually doesn't care about anything at home"
Xinyu said angrily and continued, "How much silver does this Yueyang silk cost?"
"Twenty taels" The proprietress of the cloth shop couldn't help laughing and said.
Xinyu nodded, the proprietress didn't ask for much, it was indeed this price.
"You can help me wrap it, we want this cloth," Xin Yu replied.
"Okay, I'll wrap the girl up right away."
The proprietress of the cloth shop showed joy on her face, although this cloth is precious, but it is indeed not very easy to sell, and today it is considered to have met a big customer.
"The hostess"
At this moment, outside the cloth shop, a young man holding a paper fan walked in and said, "I want all your cloth, pack it up and send it to the city lord's mansion."
The proprietress of the cloth shop looked stunned, looking at the young man outside the store in disbelief, real or fake?
It's the first time she's seen someone who asks for goods like this, and she doesn't look at it, she just asks for it all?
After a while, the proprietress of the cloth shop reacted and hurriedly responded, "This son, wait a minute, I will help this girl wrap the cloth and deliver the goods for the child."
"What I mean, don't you understand, what I'm saying is that I want all your cloth," the young man said with a cold expression.
In the cloth shop, Ning Chen looked at the young man outside the store, a faint smile flashed in his eyes, and he whispered, "Xinyu, let's make a bet, this person must be a woman."
Xinyu was slightly surprised, her eyes swept over, how could you see this?
"How can you be so sure?" Xin Yu wondered.
"Guessed"
The corners of Ning Chen's mouth curled and responded.