Story World (5)
When Yeli felt that someone next to her raised his head, Carlos had been standing in front of her for a long time, Carlos stood in front of her expressionlessly, so frightened that Yeli hurriedly closed the diary and put it aside, and hurriedly said a few sorry words to him, Carlos didn't do anything to her, just picked up the notebook on the side and flipped through it, and then looked at Yeli:
"Is that all you want to see inside? Then I'll read it to you myself, this is the first one! ”
Carlos's eyes and voice were filled with invisible anger, and he seemed to blame Yeli, who quickly apologized to him and said that he shouldn't have read his diary without his permission.
But Carlos still didn't accept her apology, but grabbed her neck: "Shut up for me, listen to me, don't you really want to read the content?" I'll read it to you now, and if you dare to move it, I'll screw your head off, do you hear? ”
Yeli was so frightened that his whole body trembled and nodded silently, Carlos also shifted his gaze to the notebook again, but when he turned the first page, he showed a very confused look, and he even whispered: "When was this written, how come it's been more than two hundred years, why don't I know?" ”
But he did not abandon the fragments that he did not remember:
"Tell me about the origin of one of my countries...... What is this all about? Have I written any of these? ”
Carlos also seemed surprised, but after a while he regained that angry gaze, he closed the notebook and put it in the drawer, turned his head to look at Yeli: "Didn't your family teach you not to peek at other people's diaries without their permission?" ”
Yeli raised his finger and pointed at Carlos's hand holding her neck and motioned for him to let go, but Carlos didn't pay attention to it and blessed the hand that was holding Yeli's neck with a little more strength, Carlos looked at her with angry eyes and asked, "Didn't I say that your family didn't teach you not to mess with other people's things?" Yeli showed an uncomfortable expression, and squeezed out a few words from her mouth with difficulty: "I've been taught, I don't dare anymore, I'm sorry." In the end, Carlos chose to forgive Yeli, he let go of his hand and sat down on the chair next to him, crossed Erlang's legs, and looked back at Yeli with indifferent eyes.
Yeli also knew that she had made a mistake, and Carlos didn't punish her too much, she picked up Carlos's cloak and walked slowly to him: "That, this is your cloak, you put it on." Carlos just mumbled and didn't say anything, just turned to look at the tree in the doorway, and Yeli could only walk behind Carlos and put his cloak on.
Carlos didn't pay much attention to her, Yeli seemed to sense that he was still angry, so he took the lop-eared squirrel and walked out, outside she met Xiao Xiang who had just gotten up and was about to go grocery shopping and cooking, she shouted to Xiao Xiang: "Sister Xiang." ”
Xiaoxiang glanced back at Yeli and smiled at her, "Xiaoli, you got up so early." Yeli walked up to Xiaoxiang and asked her where she was going, if she could go with her, Xiaoxiang said to her, "That's great, you can buy more dishes today." ”
With that, the two of them chatted and hurried to the market, and after watching them walk a short distance, Carlos got up from his chair and walked out.
Yeli's age is not very big, she is only eighteen years old now, but she still maintains a childlike mentality in the bazaar, she buys a lot of sweets until she spends all the change she carries, Xiaoxiang reminds her that eating too many sweets is easy to gain weight, but Yeli handed a marshmallow in her hand to Xiaoxiang for her to taste, although Xiaoxiang wants to eat it but she doesn't eat it, because what she is most afraid of is being out of shape.
When the two of them encountered a corner, they were accidentally hit by a person, but the person hurriedly walked away as if gold had been dropped, but she subconsciously touched the jade pendant on her belt, and it was gone!
She immediately turned around and chased after the person, shouting and catching the person in front of her, but the passers-by next to her all cast strange eyes on her, because this is a country where men are inferior to women, who will listen to the words of a woman? And Xiaoxiang also ran after Yeli: "Xiaoli, what's wrong?" What do you run? ”
Yeli, who kept shuttling through the crowd, attracted the attention of many passers-by, and although she kept shouting that the person in front of her was a thief, no one was willing to help stop the thief, but instead "forway" the thief to make a way for him to escape.
In the end, because Yeli's physical strength became more and more exhausted, she stood in the middle of the road out of breath and could not chase any further, and her eyes were filled with tears.
"That's the only thing my mother left me when she was alive." Yeli, who couldn't help herself from crying, still had to step aside and wipe her tears.
But this can't stop the thief from snatching her jade pendant, and now the only thing her mother left for herself is gone, the more Yeli thinks about it, the more sad she becomes, Xiaoxiang also chased after her from behind, looking at the heartbroken Yeli, she walked over and comforted her, "Xiaoli, tell my sister what's wrong?" ”
Yeli raised her head and told Xiao Xiang about the jade pendant, Xiao Xiang also felt sorry for her, but it was useless to be angry now, and there was no way to make the jade pendant return, and there was no use for the government here, if you wanted to report to the official, you had to walk more than fifty miles to do it, at that time, the thieves might have sold the jade pendant, and in a small alley not far from them, a black figure turned around and disappeared.
On the thief's side, he was showing off his possession to his accomplices, this jade pendant looked exceptionally crystal clear in the sun, without a trace of impurities, it was carved from a piece of fine jade, but just as he was showing off that he would definitely sell it for a large price, Carlos kicked the door of their location and walked in.
"Give it back to me!"
The group of people looked at each other with surprised expressions after hearing Carlos say this, and the thief who snatched the night glass jade pendant asked Carlos, "This old brother, what are you talking about?" Carlos looked at the jade pendant in his hand, pointed at him and said, "The jade in your hand." The thief would not have handed over what he had stolen after so many trips: "This is my thing, why should I give it to you?" ”
Carlos's tense face repeated what he had just said: "Give it back to me, it's my friend's." The thief saw that Carlos had decided that he couldn't get along with him, so he slapped the table directly: "I don't know what to do, brothers, fix him!" As the boss gave the order to the group of thieves to run over and go to Carlos, but Carlos just stood there and released the magic energy on his body, and the powerful magic energy fluctuations shook them and slammed them on the wall, and the thief who took the lead saw Carlos's strength and only felt that his legs were weak and he knelt on the ground, holding the jade pendant in both hands and shaking constantly, and handed the jade pendant to Carlos: "Big brother, spare your life, we are just to eat for a mixed meal, we will never dare in the future!" ”
Carlos took the jade pendant in his hand and looked at the things that confirmed that they were Yeli, and then took out a few gold coins from his pocket and put them in the thief's hand: "These gold coins should allow you to do a little bit of business, stop robbing other people's things, it's really immoral to rob other people's things." Then he turned and left.
Looking at the back of Carlos leaving, the thief who took the lead looked at the gold coins in his hand and couldn't believe his eyes, he picked up one of the gold coins and bit it with his teeth, and then saw that there were tooth marks on it, these were indeed gold coins! The leader shouted at him, "Big brother, what's your name?" ”
Carlos paused when he heard his name asked, "What, you want to trouble me in the future?" The thief was obviously misunderstood by Carlos, and he quickly explained: "No, we plan to repay you in the future, and there is no malice." ”
When Carlos heard this, a smile rose on his lips and he said, "My name is Man in Difficulty. With that, he disappeared into the crowd outside the gate.
Yeli has been lying here and refusing to leave, Xiaoxiang can't go back, seeing that it's about to be noon, Eric and they should also get up and have breakfast, but she hasn't gone back to cook, and now she is having a hard time.
Just when she was anxious, a person walked up to them and knocked Yeli's head with a piece of jade pendant, Yeli looked up and saw that it was her lost jade pendant, snatched it over, pinched it in her hand, and didn't dare to let go, she wanted to thank this person, but she raised her head and saw Carlos with an expressionless face: "Brother Carlos..."Xiaoxiang heard Carlos and immediately looked back, it was really Carlos, but why is he here?
"Xiao Luo, what are you doing here?"
Carlos picked up a paper bag in his hand and showed it to her: "I came out to buy some strong tea, and when I saw someone snatching her things, I asked for it back." Yeli kept thanking Carlos for helping her get her things back, but Carlos didn't mean to pay attention to her, Yeli didn't know it doesn't mean that Xiaoxiang didn't know, this is not a coincidence.
"Okay, Xiao Luo, take Xiao Li around, I'll go home and cook first."
After thanking Xiaoxiang for being willing to take her out, Yeli walked to Carlos and waited for Carlos to take her around, but he stayed where he was and didn't move, Yeli didn't dare to say anything more, so he could only wait there, and finally Carlos spoke: "Go wherever you want, I'll go with you." After a few steps, she looked back at Carlos and saw that Carlos was following her, and then boldly walked forward.
In front of a stall selling marshmallows, Yeli was fascinated by the colorful marshmallows, but she had no money, and she was embarrassed to ask Carlos to borrow money, she just asked the boss how much these marshmallows cost, how they tasted, and the boss was a kind old man who took out two marshmallows from them and gave them to her: "Come, you two taste them." ”
After taking the two marshmallows from the old man, Yeli walked up to Carlos and wanted to give one of the marshmallows to Carlos, but he shook his head and said that he didn't eat it. Carlos looked at Yeli with this expression, and half-convinced, picked up the marshmallow in her hand and stuffed it into his mouth
"Boss, how much does this candy cost?"
The old man at the stall raised five fingers: "There are only two copies left today, so I will sell them to you cheaply, two copies of five copper plates." Carlos took out a dozen copper plates from his waist and counted them and handed them to the old man, took the two packets of marshmallows in the frame, and gave one to Yeli by the way, Yeli said thank you after seeing Carlos give her something, Carlos raised his hand and tapped Yeli's eyebrows with his index finger: "It's okay, I know you want to eat." The two of them ate as they walked, and soon Yeli saw someone selling sugar gourds, cones, and hot milk, and Carlos bought her whatever she wanted to eat like a roundworm in her stomach.
Soon it was noon, and the vendors and people in the market had already left one after another, and the two of them should go back, and on the way back, Yeli asked Carlos: "Brother Carlos, how do you know that I want those things?" Carlos glanced at her: "It's nothing, I'm just very insightful." ”