Chapter 82: Mother
Ah Zi unconsciously paced towards Ah Brown's room, and saw Xing Fu guarding outside from a distance, pausing in his footsteps.
Tomorrow is the night of the full moon, but these two days still have to hurry, now Ah Brown needs the most is to recuperate, and he broke into it so uninterestingly, although Xing Fu will not stop it, Ah Brown will also patiently accompany him, but Yu Ah Brown's body is extremely unfavorable.
Thinking of this, Ah Zi sighed and turned to leave.
It's impossible to rest in a room like that at night, but it's a long night, and you always have to find something to do.
Since this inn is built so cold, damp and closed for safety, it is better to boil some ginger tea for everyone, which can not only drive away the cold, but also dispel dampness and detoxify.
Ah Zi thought that he finally had something to do, and happily went back to the bedroom and took out two bags of ginger tea from the medicine box. But when I got out of the room, I thought that this two-story building with closed doors and windows had no stove room at all, and where did it come from to boil soup.
Looking down at the end of the corridor, and seeing the shopkeeper who was still looking at the account books behind the counter, Ah Zi mustered up the courage to go down and expressed his intention in as tactful tone as possible.
"Do you think this place looks like you can make soup?"
The shopkeeper didn't raise his head when he spoke, only raised his eyelids, and glanced at Ah Zi with a pair of triangular eyes.
Ah Zi had expected to get such an answer, but being rejected so directly still made her a little surprised, and she turned around in a panic and was about to leave, but she didn't pay attention, her body slammed into the corner of the table behind her, and the two bags of ginger tea in her hand flew out.
She didn't care to look at the shopkeeper's expression, and hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the tea bag.
At this time, if she only glanced back, she would find that the shopkeeper's mouth was half open at this time, his eyes were shining, staring directly at the glimmering Longyan Mine that flew out of Ah Zi's neckline at some point.
"Girl, stay!"
Ah Zi picked up the tea bag and was about to go upstairs when she heard a shout from the shopkeeper behind her, and the voice revealed an intimacy she had never heard in this person's mouth.
Ah Zi turned his head, looking dazed.
The shopkeeper tried his best to fix his gaze on Ah Zi's eyes, not looking at the dazzling necklace around her neck, squeezed out a somewhat reluctant smile, and said: "I just forgot for a while, there is a fireplace behind the escalator in front, for heating, if you just want to boil ginger soup, you can use that stove, just try not to stir up the smoke and dust." ”
By the sudden change in the shopkeeper's attitude, Ah Zi was a little caught off guard, and stood in place and looked at him in a daze, until the shopkeeper looked at her with that weird smile and urged her twice, she nodded a little stiffly and walked in the direction pointed by the shopkeeper.
Sure enough, I saw a tightly closed fireplace in the corner.
Ah Zi didn't doubt him, put down the tea bag, picked up the teapot from the side, fetched water, and busily opened it.
She didn't notice that she was standing behind her at this time, her smile had become extremely gloomy, and her hands were like withered branches, and she was walking towards the shopkeeper who was approaching her.
"Ah Zi!"
There was a shout behind him, and the shopkeeper who was standing behind Ah Zi and was about to wrap his neck hurriedly put down his hands, put away the smile on his face, and turned his head to look over in a panic.
"Ah Zhong?" At this time, Ah Zi also turned his head to look at the past when he heard the sound, and then found that the shopkeeper who was further away from him was startled, and asked, "Shopkeeper, why are you here?" ”
The shopkeeper stumbled back and forth at the two of them and said, "Oh...... I...... Didn't I see that your kettle was in the wrong place, and I was worried that the smoke would fill up and destroy the already closed room......"
Ah Zi didn't think much about it, and quickly smiled and apologized, and reached out to straighten the kettle again.
And Ah Zhong, who had been standing behind and watching all this, had a calm face, staring at the shopkeeper with a pair of eyes, and saw the shopkeeper's heart arched his back weakly, nodded at Ah Zhong flatteringly, and went back to the counter in a panic.
"What to do?" After making sure that the shopkeeper was far away, Tang Yinzhong took a step forward, looked at the kettle in front of Ah Zi with a warm expression and asked.
Ah Zi answered truthfully, Tang Yinzhong nodded, and said, "I'll help you watch it, it's so late, it's inconvenient for you to be alone here, so you have to pay more attention." ”
Thinking of the shopkeeper who was almost about to pounce on him just now, Ah Zi suddenly took a breath and said vaguely in some puzzlement: "I have nothing on my body, what could it be?" ”
Ah Zhong raised his eyebrows, stretched out a finger and pointed at the pendant on Ah Zi's neck that shone with cold light.
Ah Zi was shocked to realize that the pendant had slipped out at some point, and quickly reached out and stuffed it back.
"Longyan Mine?" Ah Zhong asked, Ah Zi nodded, and he also nodded, not saying anything more.
"There's so much humidity in the room that I can't stay." Ah Zi said with a smile on changing the subject.
"Yes," Ah Zhong said, looking up, "Fortunately, I brought a cashmere blanket with me, so Bao'er can sleep well at night, but it's a bit of a pain for us." ”
Bao'er's treatment has always been the highest in the group, Ah Zi didn't think much about it, knowing that Ah Zhong couldn't sleep like herself, so she came out to relax, smiled and pointed to the two stools behind her, and motioned for the two to sit down and wait.
Listening to the intermittent clicking sound of the charcoal fire, both of them were silent.
Ah Zhong casually fiddled with a circle of tape with a strange texture wrapped around the thumb of his right hand, Ah Zi looked curious, pointed and asked, "This is used when drawing the bow?" ”
Ah Zhong nodded and said, "Most archers wear good jade wrenches, but I have been troublesome since I was a child, and I don't want to wear them. And I always feel that a good archer should communicate with the bow in his hand and the string between his fingers, and when the arrow is on the string, he needs to feel the vibration of the string with his fingertips, so as to better control the direction and distance of the arrow, and even the depth of the tip piercing the target.
"It's just that I don't have a wrench, I often cut my fingers, when I practice diligently, new injuries and old injuries are layered, my mother is really distressed, so she asked for a good animal skin for me, and made this finger guard for me, I have used this use until now, and it seems to grow on my hands."
Ah Zhong seemed to understate the past two sentences, but his tone was full of gratitude to his mother, and his eyes softened as he spoke.
"Your mother must love you very much." Ah Zi said, with a faint smile on her face, she had never felt a moment of maternal love, and she was very envious at this time.
"Yes, it's a pity that she has been in poor health, and the reason why I studied medicine with Master Zhen Yachen was to cure her solid disease one day."
Ah Zi listened and couldn't help but ask a few more questions.
One of the two people is willing to talk about the deeds of their loving mother, and the other is eager to be contaminated with some maternal love in the bottom of their hearts, the topic has been around Tang Yinzhong's mother, the ginger soup has been boiled dry, the water has been refilled, and the night has passed.