Chapter V: Measures
Xie Roujia looked up at the shop in front of her, and hesitated.
"This is what they say is the biggest cinnabar seller in the city." Zhou Chengzhen lay on his horse and said weakly.
But it's not quite like that.
Or is it because the town is too small?
"Second Miss, hurry up, I'm going to starve to death." Zhou Chengzhen urged.
Xie Roujia glanced at him, took a deep breath and walked in.
Zhou Chengzhen crouched on the horse's back and seemed to have no strength to dismount, and after a while, he saw Xie Roujia coming out of the inside.
"You don't need to prepare a good feast, just come and fill your stomach first." Zhou Chengzhen hurriedly sat up and said.
"Nope." Xie Roujia looked at him and said.
"Nothing?" Zhou Chengzhen asked with a glare.
"They are not the Xie family's sand shop." Xie Roujia said, her ears were a little red.
This is the first time she has taken the initiative to deal with people since she walked out of Pengshui, and the result is a bit embarrassing.
"Isn't it?" Zhou Chengzhen let out a wail of disappointment, "Second Miss, isn't your Xie family's cinnabar the first in the world?" â
Xie Roujia's face tensed.
"Let's think of something else." She said, "Don't you have anything else to do?" â
This is the first time she has taken the initiative to mention finding a way along the way, Zhou Chengzhen snorted.
"Nope." He said, "I don't have a father or mother, and my grandfather hasn't seen it, and I don't have anything worth carrying with me except for my life." â
Along the way, Xie Roujia only treated Zhou Chengzhen as not a zĂ i, and would not pay attention to what he said. But hearing this sentence at this moment, there is still some inexplicable strange feeling.
"Don't you?" Zhou Chengzhen asked.
Xie Roujia shook her head.
When I went out, I brought earrings and beads, but the rolling and fighting all the way was long gone, and as for the things I wore with me......
Neither did she.
The atmosphere froze for a moment.
"Aren't you guys the best cinnabar here? It doesn't work? â
The voice of an old woman was heard in my ears, accompanied by the crying of children.
Xie Roujia subconsciously looked over and saw an old woman holding a two- or three-year-old child walking into the shop, complaining as she went.
"My grandson still cries non-stop, and he doesn't frighten at all."
"Aunt Song, you are embarrassing us, your child is sick. Wearing it with cinnabar doesn't work. â
After some arguments. The old woman came out helplessly with the crying child in her arms.
"I'm sick, I'm sick, and seeing a doctor doesn't work." She muttered, and couldn't help but raise her hand to wipe her tears, "How can you stand this unbearable crying day and night." â
Zhou Chengzhen listened impatiently.
"Daughter-in-law. Let's go. He said. Then he urged the horse to turn around. saw Xie Roujia standing in front of the old woman.
"Grandma." Xie Roujia looked at her and said, "I, I can cure your child's convulsions." â
The old woman and Zhou Chengzhen were stunned.
"You?" The old woman said. The little girl looked at her suspiciously.
"My family has an ancestral way to cure children's fear and anxiety." Xie Roujia said, stretching out her hand.
The old woman was startled and hurriedly took the child to hide.
"What do you want to do?" She shouted vigilantly.
Think of yourself as a child snatcher.
Xie Roujia retracted her hand.
This is not Bashu, and the people don't know the people of the Xie family.
The old woman glared at her and was about to walk around.
"Stop!" Zhou Chengzhen shouted, and the person jumped down from the horse, "Give her the child quickly!" â
The old woman was stunned by this sudden drink, and Xie Roujia reached out and hugged the child.
The old woman came back to her senses with a wit.
"Oh my God, rob ......" she opened her mouth and cried, but before the shouting began, she suddenly found that the child who was put into the little girl's arms stopped crying.
The little girl was holding the child and shaking it gently, humming something in her mouth.
The voice is low and soft, and the tone is strange.
The old woman's shout stopped inexplicably in her throat, and she watched this scene with some blankness.
The little girl held the child and swayed, her body began to shake, her steps moved gently, one step at a time, slowly turning in circles in place, and the humming sound in her mouth became louder and louder.
The old woman felt that the sound was close to her ears, and it seemed that a pair of hands were clapping her, and the restlessness of the days suddenly vanished.
"Grandma."
A voice shouted in his ear.
The old woman woke up smartly and watched the child being handed to her.
She finally remembered what had happened, and a choked cry erupted.
ââŚâŚ My baby. She shouted.
Xie Roujia booed her.
"He's fine." She said.
It's okay?
The old woman's shout was stuck again, and she looked at the child in her arms in disbelief.
The child, who had been crying with his eyes closed and his mouth open, was staring at her.
"Grandma." He shouted milkily and stretched out his hand, "I'm hungry." â
The sound of I'm hungry was a natural sound for the old woman, and the jammed shout gushed out again.
"My son!" She shouted, holding the child in front of her, "You can talk without crying or fussing." â
The child did not feel the slightest emotion about her excitement.
"Hungry, hungry." He just said that he was a little unhappy that his wish could not be fulfilled.
The old woman could not care about anything at this time, and her grandson, who had not slept well or eaten well for several days and nights, said that she was hungry, and she longed to pluck the stars from the sky and feed him, and she was about to leave.
Someone stopped her with a shout.
"What? When you're cured, you want to run? I haven't paid yet. Zhou Chengzhen glared and shouted.
The old woman finally realized what was going on, and looked at Xie Roujia in disbelief.
"Did you really cure it?" She asked, "How did you cure it?" â
Neither medicine nor needles, just hold it and shake it for a while?
"My family's ancestral little song can cure children's fears and insecurity." Xie Roujia said.
Little tune?
"If you don't believe it, I'll teach you, and when the child is frightened again, you can try." Xie Roujia said.
The old woman looked at the child in her arms, and the child reached out and grabbed the hem of her dress.
"Eat, eat." He shouted noisily.
This noise was like heaven to the old woman.
"Okay, you teach me." She hurriedly said to Xie Roujia.
Zhou Chengzhen stretched out her hand.
"Take the money." He said.
"How much?" The old woman asked.
"A tael of silver." Zhou Chengzhen said.
A tael of silver!
The old woman's eyes widened, and the people around her were also surprised.
"A tael of silver?"
"A little song for a tael of silver? What about liars, right? â
"Aunt Song, don't be deceived."
Listening to the discussion around her, the old woman looked hesitant.
"Does it really work?" She asked.
Xie Roujia looked at her and nodded.
"I don't lie to you." She said.
The old woman looked at her, this little girl had fine skin and tender flesh, smaller than her granddaughter, in the past, such a young girl was a yellow-haired girl who didn't know anything in her eyes, she didn't pay attention to them, but at this moment, looking at this little girl's bright eyes, she nodded in a ghostly way.
"Okay, I'll buy it." She said.
As soon as this statement came out, there was an uproar all around.
"Aunt Song, you can't be so bad if you have money."
"I was really sick and rushed to the doctor."
In this noise, the old woman untied the money bag, and sure enough, she poured out a tael of silver, Zhou Chengzhen reached out and took it and smiled happily.
Xie Roujia stepped forward and whispered a few words to the old woman.
"Grandma, do you remember?" She asked repeatedly.
Although this little song sounds strange at first, it is also catchy, and I remember it after reading it a few times.
Zhou Chengzhen was already waiting impatiently, and when she saw the old woman nodding, she grabbed Xie Roujia and got on the horse, and galloped away without stopping for a while.
The people behind them saw that they were running so fast, and they thought they were liars.
"Poor Aunt Song was cheated out of her money like this."
The old woman holding her grandson was said to be a little annoyed.
"I am willing to spend money if I have money, even if I buy my grandson a moment of stability for a couple of silver, I am willing." She shouted.
The child in her arms reached out and grabbed her ear.
"Eat, eat, eat." He yelled and began to flutter in his arms.
"Eat, eat, eat." The old woman hugged the child tightly and shouted loudly to squeeze through the crowd.
At this moment, Zhou Chengzhen, who was galloping on a horse, stopped in front of a lively restaurant and rushed in.
"Eat and eat, Lao Tzu wants to eat, pick up the best!" He crossed his waist and shouted, thought for a moment and added, "Within one or two pieces of silver." â
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The second update, there is another chapter to add more, continue to turn the next chapter. (To be continued......)