Chapter 4: The Pot-bellied Man and the Little Princess
Aunt Zhang sighed, she knew the reason why her daughter treated Chen Yue like this. personally walked to the table where Chen Yue was sitting, glanced at Chen Yue with pity, turned his face and asked the young man softly, "This son, what do you want to eat?" ”
Who knew that the young man looked at Chen Yue, smiled and asked: "This ...... Gong" wanted to call Chen Yue's son, seeing Chen Yue's tattered clothes and down-and-out appearance, the word "childe" was not embarrassed to shout.
"This brother, whatever you want to eat, just order." The boy smiled generously.
"Then let's have ten vegetable and meat buns and three bowls of millet porridge. Aunt Zhang is bothering you! Chen Yue looked at Aunt Zhang with a smile and said. is different from the feeling of Zhang Xiuer, Chen Yue is full of gratitude to Aunt Zhang, in his memory, many times when he was hungry, he would come to the steamed bun shop before, and every time Aunt Zhang would happily give him two big steamed buns. Many times when his clothes were torn, Aunt Zhang would call him to take them off and sew them for him herself. In the heart of the fool Chen Yue, he regarded Aunt Zhang as his mother.
"No trouble." Aunt Zhang smiled and went to serve steamed buns, but soon came to her senses, why did Chen Yue speak so methodically, not as stupid as before, and there was a beautiful noble son who invited him to dinner, what the hell is going on! Aunt Zhang couldn't help but turn her head and look back at Chen Yue frequently.
"Don't call me any brother, just call me Chen Yue, by the way, haven't asked for advice yet?" After chatting for a long time, I still don't know the name of the young man opposite, which is really rude.
"I, my surname is Zhou, just call me Gongzi Zhou." The young man lowered his head and snickered, and said to Chen Yue, in his eyes, the person opposite was too funny. obviously looks ragged and vulgar, and he has to learn from other people's reading and humanistic crepe talk. Maybe he doesn't come out to play very often, and he hasn't been in contact with too many people, but he is full of curiosity about everything here, and a pair of beautiful big eyes look around from time to time.
As she spoke, Aunt Zhang brought the bun up, and the young man's eyes widened suddenly. Unlike the small and delicate buns he had eaten, the buns here were so big that he couldn't even eat one.
Ten snow-white fragrant buns are divided into two plates, stacked high in front of them, and the shocking impact is extremely strong, how can this Chen Yue call it so much, can he finish eating? .
"Zhou Gongzi, please!" Chen Yue raised his hand and asked the young man to eat first, and the young man smiled and asked Chen Yue to take care of himself. So Chen Yue picked up a bun and stuffed it into his mouth, took two bites of three bites, and took the second one.
Looking at the huge bun in his hand, the young man was in a dilemma about how to put his mouth, and he was shocked to see that Chen Yue was already eating the third bun.
After three buns, Chen Yue felt that he had a bottom in his heart, and smiled at the young man embarrassedly: "I'm really hungry, Zhou Gongzi smiled." ”
"It's okay." The young man pursed his lips and smiled, honest and unpretentious, Chen Yue gave him an excellent impression.
Zhang Xiu'er was holding a plate of pickles as a gift, and he was heavily in front of Chen Yue, snorted and turned around to leave, and when he turned around, he just saw a Xiucai in a cyan robe pacing in, and he greeted him with joy.
"Lu Xianggong, you are a little late today." Zhang Xiuer greeted her happily, and her words were very gentle. It is very different from the pungent performance when he scolded Chen Yue.
"I was so focused on reading that I forgot the time." Lu Xiucai smiled slightly, shook his back, and sat on the bench in a chic manner.
"This time is just right, I saved even lunch after breakfast." As he spoke, two people came in from outside, a fat man and a thin man, the fat man was as short and fat as a water tank, and the thin man was as tall and thin as a hemp rod.
The one who spoke was a short and fat man named Wu Liang, nicknamed Wuliang, and another thin man named Ma Liu, nicknamed Ma Gong, and the two were famous scoundrels in Xicheng. is also Chen Yue's "old acquaintance", Chen Yue's head injury is due to them, and it is also them who his father Chen Jianghe ordered not to ignore Chen Yue.
Wu Liang and Ma Zhu were teasing the poor and sour talents, and they hadn't found Chen Yue who was facing away from them for a while, and Chen Yue didn't want to do much, for him who was hungry, eating a full stomach was the most important thing at the moment.
For such a scoundrel, Xiucai Lu Qinghou ignored it with disdain, and did not insult his identity.
"It's best to leave when Miss Xiu'er secretly gives two buns, so that Xiucai Xianggong's dinner will be saved." Ma Pole also laughed.
"What nonsense! The two of you are shut, tell you two, our store is not on credit! Don't want to eat white food again! Secretly glanced back at her mother Aunt Zhang's expression, Zhang Xiuer scolded. Zhang Xiuer has always fantasized about marrying a scholar, so she has a good impression of the single and handsome Lu Xiucai. But these two dilapidated households are shouting indiscriminately, so that people can hear it, but how can it be good?
"That's not good, why do you owe Lu Xiucai on credit, but you don't want to owe our brother on credit. Xiu'er girl, this is not fair! Isn't it a sister, you look down on our brothers? Wu Liang smiled and expressed dissatisfaction.
"How can our brothers compare with Lu Xiucai, they are white and tender, but they are a little white face!" Ma Pole laughed.
"Ahem, it's insulting!" Lu Xiucai couldn't listen to it anymore, and flicked his sleeves and scolded.
Zhang Xiuer's face was blushing, and she was about to pounce on the two of them when she lifted the broom, but the horrified two hurriedly shook their heads and closed their mouths.
Just ridiculed a few words, the two of them didn't dare to really annoy Lu Xiucai and Zhang Xiuer. Lu Xiucai is famous, and if he annoys Zhang Xiu'er, I'm afraid it will be impossible to take credit again.
"Hey, isn't that a fool?" As soon as he sat down, Wu Liang saw Chen Yue's back and was about to step forward to say hello.
"Don't move," Ma Zhu grabbed him suddenly, and said in a low voice: "Look at the son who is at the same table with him, we can't afford to mess with him." ”
Wu Liang carefully looked at the son opposite Chen Yue, whether it was the pearl on his hat or the jade pendant on his waist, it showed that the other party was either rich or expensive, and it was not something that a gangster like him could climb up to and provoke. The pond in this place in the capital is too deep, the hidden dragon and the crouching tiger, the emperor's relatives, the sons of the nobles, the dignitaries, the children of the eunuchs, there are as many as cow hairs, as a gangster, the most important thing is to have eyes, otherwise you will offend any fairy, I am afraid that I don't even know how to die.
But how could such a noble boy come to such a place as a bun shop to eat, and how could he get mixed up with a fool? Looking at Chen Yue not far away from time to time, the two scoundrels finally stopped.
At this time, Chen Yue had already eaten the eighth bun, and the amount of food for the young man and his entourage was too small, and each person did not finish a bun.
Pouring the porridge in front of him, Chen Yue rubbed his stomach and burped, feeling comfortable beyond words. Eat buns casually, drink porridge with pickles, and be happy no more than this!
For the big-bellied man in front of him, the young man could only be speechless, and when he called Zhang Xiu'er, who was running the hall, to check out, he learned that he only needed twenty-three copper coins, and the young man was shocked. sighed in his heart that the bun was cheap, and took out a small ingot of silver from the purse to settle the bill.
"Brother Chen, let's have dinner too, let's talk about your Trojan horse. I like it very much, can you make an offer? Zhou Gongzi smiled at Chen Yue.
"This ......" Chen Yue was a little embarrassed, according to his plan, he was going to slaughter this Zhou Gongzi ruthlessly. At the very least, you have to ask him for twenty or thirty taels of silver. But people just relieved themselves when they were humiliated by Zhang Xiu'er, and generously invited themselves to a full meal, how can they speak?
Forget it, it's just a broken thing that no one cares about, and now Chen Yue really can't pull his face to kill people.
"It's just a plaything, and I'll give it to Zhou Gongzi." Chen Yue said angrily, he couldn't bear to slaughter the fat sheep in the face of it, his heart was dripping blood, but thinking about it on the other hand, it didn't seem that he had suffered a loss by exchanging such a broken thing for a full meal.
"That's so embarrassing!" The young man's face showed a look of embarrassment, "I can't take such a good thing for nothing, I must give you silver." As he spoke, the boy went to dig out the money in his purse.
Chen Yue insisted on not wanting to, he was like this, if it was a stranger, he would have no burden at all to deceive and coax. If it's an acquaintance, you won't be able to open your mouth at all. Now that Zhou Gongzi has invited him to a full meal, Chen Yue has already subconsciously regarded him as a friend, how can he be embarrassed to coax his silver?
Seeing that Chen Yue didn't want it, Zhou Gongzi had no choice but to leave with his entourage holding the wooden horse.
Leaving the bun shop, the young Zhou Gongzi walked in front of him, smiling.
"It's a broken Trojan horse, I don't see how good it is." The attendant looked at the ugly wooden horse in his arms depressedly, and did not understand why the master was so excited.
"This is a walking Trojan horse, a miniature version of the wooden ox flowing horse, as long as it is handed over to the craftsmen for study, maybe a real wooden ox flowing horse can be made, and the father will definitely be happy."
"Since it's such a good thing, princess, why don't you give Chen Yue some silver, you can see that he is indeed quite poor." Finch asked, puzzled.
"He is poor, but the royal family has no surplus food, I only have ten taels of silver a month, and my father has not rewarded me for a long time. Last time, the music box king said that he could buy it for three thousand taels of silver, and I am afraid that such a good thing as a Trojan horse is worth at least hundreds of taels of silver, where can I get it. The boy wrinkled his cute nose and said pitifully.
It turned out that this young man was dressed as a woman and a man, and he was still a princess, but how could a princess leave the palace without permission and come to such a shabby place? How could he be so shabby, he didn't even have hundreds of taels of silver, and he had to rely on tricks to get things from others?
Chen Yue didn't expect that the Trojan horse that no one cared about was worth hundreds of taels of silver in the eyes of others, and he didn't expect that the person who chatted with him for a long time and invited him to a meal turned out to be a princess dressed as a man!
Chen Yue didn't have time to think about it, because Wu Liang and Ma Liang blocked his way.