Chapter Forty-Eight: The Troublesome Princess and the Prince of Diaomin
I was worried on the street with a white jade pig's head.
This thing can't be exchanged for money, and it's a pity to lose it, but it's also handmade with good jade. If I had brought a carving knife, I could have cut off the four-leaf mark on the underside of the pig's head and sell it at another jade shop. But it's a pity that the carving knife and Qingji should have let Qian Guanzi and his sister take them back, not to mention the knife, I don't even have the money to buy a knife now.
Keep it for now, and then dispose of this pig's head later.
Money, money, where can I get some money? I am a prince of Shonan, but I have been reduced to the point where I am not as good as a beggar!
The day after tomorrow is the sword trial conference, and I have been training for the past two days, and I haven't been able to play well in this town. Although I am penniless now, I can still take a walk and take a look. In order to avoid encountering the people of Tianzhumen, I specially put on a ghost mask, although it is a bit eye-catching.
The downtown area of Wang Street is crowded, and one of the ten people is carrying a sword, and I believe that there would not be so many people here in normal times.
I walked around in a mask, and when I saw someone paying in front of a stall that bought and sold silk scarves, a copper coin in my money bag fell to the ground and rolled down the street.
It's money!
I'm worried that I don't have any money, even if it's a penny. I chased the copper coin, shuttling through the people coming and going. But it was lucky, it didn't get stepped on, just rolled all the way, and I bent down several times before I could pick it up, and someone kicked my hand and hit my head and babbled.
Until the coin finally got tired and collapsed in front of an embroidered shoe. I ran over happily, crouched down and was about to reach out to pick it up, but the owner of the embroidered shoe moved, and the copper coin was trampled under the shoe.
Tut!
I looked up in displeasure to see that the owner of the embroidered shoes was wearing a green cloak and was arguing with the marshmallow seller. Although because it has its back to me, it is not visible. But listening to her voice, it is very sharp and immature, and it is obviously a young girl.
She didn't notice that she had stepped on a copper coin, and I didn't intend to remind her, so I crouched behind her and waited for her to get out of the way, lest she know that there was money under her feet and would classify it as her own.
However, the content of her argument with the uncle sounded strange.
"Girl, I'm in a small business, I don't change things."
The girl took something and shouted to the old man: "My golden spirit bracelet is so beautiful, why can't I exchange it for your marshmallows?" Is your sugar more precious than my bracelet? ”
The old man was embarrassed and said: "Little girl, don't tease me, no matter whether your bracelet is real or not, my marshmallow only costs a penny, and if you want it, you can give it a penny, and I won't change it with you." ”
"What is money? I didn't. ”
The old man was a little angry and a little funny: "You are not small anymore, how can you not even know what money is?" No money? You are looking for your parents to go, I only do a small business and can't give it to you in vain. ”
The little girl was also anxious, and held the bracelet and handed it to the old man: "Don't you give it for nothing, I'll change it with you!" ”
This girl's attitude is very arrogant, she must exchange the bracelet with the old man for a marshmallow, but the old man does not dare to change it. And this little girl doesn't know how to speak politely at all, if my child has to beat ten times a day, it is enough, but since she is not my child, it doesn't matter how she dies.
There were more and more passers-by around, not only watching the dispute between the girl and the marshmallow master, but more people were looking at me who was squatting behind the girl, waiting to see what I was going to do. I didn't wait for the little girl to move her foot away, so I put two fingers into the soles of her shoes to dig out the copper coin. Fingers squeezed in halfway, and the outline of the copper coin was already felt.
When I was secretly happy, I don't know if the girl was angry or something, she suddenly stomped her foot and stomped my two fingers hard.
"Ahh
I covered the two fingers that had been stepped on, and I looked up to the sky and screamed.
Everyone around me was frightened, and the cloaked girl who stepped on my fingers was even more frightened, and turned to look at me with her bracelet, I glared at her angrily, and frightened her into retreating, but she regained her majesty, pointed at me and shouted fearfully and recklessly: "You, who are you?" What's behind me? I warn you, there is a royal law in this world! ”
It's good that I have a little bit of Taoism, otherwise this finger would have been stepped on by her.
I stood up with the copper coin in my hand and said angrily: "What is the king's law and not the king's law?" I'm picking up money! ”
The cloaked girl suddenly stared curiously at the copper coin in my hand, and she didn't know whether she was really stupid or fake, and suddenly said, "So this is money...... It doesn't seem like a big deal. ”
Looking at her from the front, this chick looks only fifteen or sixteen years old, and she looks pretty good, petite and cute, with skin as white as a boiled egg.
In retaliation for her stepping on me, I pretended to be very happy and slapped the copper coin on the old man's peddler's car: "Uncle, come to a marshmallow!" ”
"Okay!"
After receiving the money, he poured a spoonful of sugar into the grinding wheel, stepped on the pedal to make the grinding wheel rotate quickly, and took out a bamboo skewer and stretched it into the grinding wheel and kept wrapping it, and layers of cotton were wrapped around the bamboo skewer like that.
I peeked at the cloaked girl next to me, and I was shocked to see her watching the marshmallow gradually take shape.
"How? Amazing, right? Hillbilly, haven't even seen this. ”
"What do you say about my hometown?!" The caped girl glared at me angrily, frightened back by my grimace mask. She snorted stubbornly, turned her face away and said disdainfully: "What's the big deal, if I want, I can let someone make hundreds for me." ”
"Then you can go home and let someone do it."
The girl was obviously rarely ridiculed like this, pointed at me for a long time and was speechless, and finally said angrily: "I remember you as a strange person, I will put you to death!" ”
"You're so funny."
By the way, I glanced at the golden bracelet she was holding in her hand, full of gold luster and looked like it was really made of gold, and the workmanship was very exquisite. And the inner ring of this bracelet is also inlaid with a familiar green four-leaf logo......
I hurriedly snatched her bracelet and took out my white jade piggy head to compare it - these four-leaf Peugeot are exactly the same!
Weighing the weight of this bracelet, it does look like real gold.
The girl was very angry that I suddenly snatched the bracelet, and kicked me with a non-itchy and painless palm, "Give it back!" You criminal, I'm going to ask the Guards to capture you and behead you!" ”
I looked at this delicate and willful girl who was holding me with a heavy heart.
What's going on, how could this girl have something that could incur a head-killing scourge that was exclusive to the royal family? She still looked ignorant, which felt like she was a member of the royal family...... And her little face looked very similar to the little face of Princess Rose in the carriage I saw in the street that day. I don't think it's such a coincidence, but now it seems that it is like that.
She's the one called Princess Greenbrier, right?
The old man quickly made the marshmallow and handed it to me, and I took it and looked at the princess who was still beating me and was a little tired.
I handed her the marshmallow, and she froze for a moment, then stopped and looked up at me vigilantly, "What do you want to do?" ”
"How about swapping with you?" I shook her bracelet.
Green Rose was a little suspicious of my sudden offer of the deal, but finally happily accepted the marshmallow I handed me: "You have a good attitude of admitting your mistake, I will let you go today!" Next time you don't obey, I'll beat you ten boards! Then he happily took a small bite of a marshmallow, and was immediately greeted with a sweet smile.
I didn't know if I was deceived, but I was so happy, and it was really a princess's score!
It is estimated that being such a princess's maid is pitiful enough, and if you don't go well, you will be punished.
If I had been ruthless and had a few dollars on me, I might have cheated her out of all the gold, silver and jade she had brought out. If her real gold bracelet is cut off and then sold for the Green Miao royal family, she can buy hundreds or thousands of marshmallows without a problem.
I don't know how this princess ran to the people, and she was alone without even a guard. But maybe I didn't notice it, maybe there were dozens of plainclothes guards around her, and they would rush out to protect the princess as soon as they found a critical situation...... I'd better get in less trouble.
I waved my hand to her: "That's it, goodbye." ”
Just as I was about to turn around and leave, she stopped me holding a marshmallow and shouted, "Diao Min, what's your name?" ”
I thought about it for a while, and felt that it was better not to tell her my identity, so I pointed at myself with my thumb and replied casually: "I, my name is Yuwen Aotian." ”
"Yuwen Aotian? What a silly name......"
Leaving her alone, I turned away.
I walked down the street with the gold bracelet I had swindled from her, and probably the princess and I would never see each other again in our lives, and she would soon forget who had deceived her. The world is sinister, since she has entered the people, it is not okay to have no common sense and no vigilance, and my lesson is not small enough to give her a long memory.
But after walking for a while, I always felt a little uncomfortable.
Anyway, my Wang Yi is also a cultivator, and I haven't lost any money by stealing the dividends of the master's sect, if it weren't for all the money being cheated away by the little slut, I wouldn't be interested in cheating things from the hands of children.
Alas, there is such a thing as conscience, or it is not there in the beginning, and if you have it, the more you scratch it, the more itchy.
"Straight yes, Lao Tzu is short of this money!"
I hesitated for a moment, and finally turned back the way I came.
When I returned to the old man who sold cotton candy, she was gone, so I guess I went to play somewhere else. I asked the old man where the girl had run just now, and walked briskly in the direction that the old man pointed out, looking around all the way, and if I didn't find the bracelet, I wouldn't return it to her.
However, the princess's green cloak was a bit conspicuous, and it wasn't long before I spotted her in the crowd of people on the road.
I was about to walk up and talk to her, but I stopped.
Green Rose was reluctantly pushed and dragged into a small alley by two men with a somewhat vicious expression, just wondering if it was her guards or something to catch her back, but it didn't feel like it, the two men were hanging from their waists with the swords of the Jianghu people, not the swords of the palace guards.
There is a bad premonition, and if you keep up, you will definitely get into trouble again.
But if you leave it alone, is it still a man?