Chapter 42: The Kid Who Dressed
Qin Xiangru was apprehensive, carefully kept his distance from Yuan Dongchu, and walked all the way to the bookstore he inquired about.
He also regretted it, he just said the wrong thing. He shouldn't have said that he was going to the bookstore, or before Miss Yuan made a statement, he said that he would go with Tiancheng to see it first.
But he reacts slowly, and the result of his slow reaction is like this......
Thinking back to Tiancheng's cold eyes floating over him, is it okay for his back to be cold?
Tiancheng is really, if you like other girls, you ask a matchmaker to ask for a kiss. is so consumed, in case Miss Yuan is asked to marry by another family, will he and the brothers in Muliang Town still have to live?
Yuan Dongchu abided by the rules of this era, and walked with Qin Xiangru at a distance of half a step.
Qin Xiangru was afraid that she would get lost, and he was very afraid that she would come closer, so strange, of course Yuan Dongchu saw it in his eyes.
"What is Qin Gongzi fooling around?" Yuan Dongchu simply asked, only half a step short of his position, which did not affect his speech at all.
"This ...... I ......" to Yuan Dongchu, Qin Xiangru had no sense of resistance at all, and he stammered.
Yuan Dongchu was also quite depressed, Gu Tiancheng is this guy, can he still show his thoughts a little more obviously?
Although Yuan Changhe's whole heart is to find a good family for his daughter, including turning into a Chinese people's bank, and now buying a boat to do river freight, to a large extent, it is to save enough money for the family, so that the daughter-in-law can choose a higher level and a more dowry.
But Yuan Dongchu himself didn't think so.
She wants to give full play to her strengths and abilities to make life more exciting.
Engagement? And it's still with Gu Tiancheng?
Before getting married, he mixed with his fiancΓ© and ran around the world, how much baptism did he have to bear?
She does want to make her life more exciting, but she has no hobby of masochism, and she will not specifically look for the world to guide, and she is proud to stand on the opposite side of the broad masses of the people and be complacent.
That's a neurosis, and it's not a maverick.
Dongxu Bookstore is not deservedly called a bookstore, it is indeed very large, and the books are divided into different regions and have a wide variety.
Qin Xiangru chose books on hydrogeology, geography and shipbuilding, and Yuan Dongchu almost did these.
It's just that Qin Xiangru's choice is highly professional and the content is obscure.
Yuan Dongchu's choice is more superficial, more like an interesting record of rivers and river transportation since ancient times.
There are a lot of books in the bookstore, but the two of them have very little money.
Qin Xiangru chose three copies, and Yuan Dong chose two copies, so he paid the money and left.
Behind the two, various lines of sight met:
Master and girl? Not like.
Sibling? Not like that.
A certain son and the little sister next door? This is a bit of a sideline, looking at the two of them with clear eyes and a serious look, they came to buy books on a special trip, right?
This combination is very good at saying something interesting, but after watching the whole process, I really can't find a groove to talk about.
It's so tangled, such a hot topic, just give it up?
There were two young men and women who were not husband and wife in the bookstore, and as a result, they couldn't say any rumors, and everyone was very unaccomplished, okay?
Qin Xiangru was still apprehensive, and when he returned to the inn with Yuan Dongchu, the sun had already set in the west, and Yuan Changhe and Gu Tiancheng had not seen anyone yet.
The two of them went back to their rooms and looked through the books they had bought.
waited until it was dark, Yuan Changhe and Gu Tiancheng came back, and together with two half-grown children in ragged clothes.
Yuan Dongchu saw them at the door of his room, and the four of them had just come up from the wooden staircase.
The two and a half children walked behind Gu Tiancheng, looking thirteen or fourteen years old. No need to ask, just look at the way the neck is stalked, and the air is scared, the street gangsters haven't run away.
It's just that these two boys now have a blue nose and swollen face, and even if they are holding their necks, they don't have any momentum, and what they show is completely helpless depression.
Yuan Dongchu was a little dumbfounded: What is the situation, taking in street children is a good deed? Or did you get the two little brothers back?
However, Gu Tiancheng was disgraced, and it was not much better. And that bruise on the chin, what's going on?
Yuan Dongchu turned his questioning gaze to Yuan Changhe.
Yuan Changhe also looked helpless, and said: "Tiancheng will go to change his clothes first, and by the way, he will take the two of them to wash their faces." Let's eat first, and we'll talk about the rest. β
Gu Tiancheng and Yuan Dongchu nodded in greeting, waved their chin at the two boys very ruffianly, and turned around and walked to another room separated by two doors.
The two problem children reluctantly dragged their steps to keep up.
Qin Xiangru hurriedly chased after him.
Yuan Dongchu craned his neck to watch the four of them enter the guest room, turned his head and asked Yuan Changhe: "Will these two children follow Gu Tian in the future?" He took in two younger brothers? β
Obviously, Gu Tiancheng and the others entered the newly opened guest room just now.
"Well, come in and say." Yuan Changhe entered the room where he and Gu Tiancheng and Qin Xiangru were and sat down at the table.
Yuan Dongchu followed, lifted the teapot on the table, poured a cup of tea and handed it over.
Yuan Changhe took it, drank it dry, handed the empty cup back, and said, "Those two boys are gangsters at the dock, with no father, no mother and no home. It is said that they can do everything from begging for food, stealing things, cheating money, and beating sticks. Tiancheng and I are looking for a fleet at the dock......"
Yuan Dongchu sat opposite Yuan Changhe and understood the reason why the two half-sized sons appeared here.
In fact, it's quite simple, the two gangsters are just messing around on the docks, stumbling when they see the opportunity, and risking the water to slander people's goods.
The two of them are not eyeless, they are not looking for Gu Tiancheng, but looking for Yuan Changhe to touch porcelain.
The two didn't touch the money bag on Yuan Changhe, and one of them fell at Yuan Changhe's feet, blood gushing from the corners of his mouth, and screaming like a pig was constantly screaming.
Another person grabbed Yuan Changhe and asked him to pay for his life.
Then it was very simple, in the crowd of onlookers, Gu Tiancheng appeared, first wiped the blood from the corner of the boy's mouth and smelled it, and after confirming that it was a scam, the two boys became angry.
As a result of his anger, he was knocked down by Gu Tiancheng and beaten up.
Although Gu Tiancheng also took a few punches when he was fighting with two fists against four hands, it was obvious that Gu Tiancheng was more experienced in such a thing as fighting, and he had always subdued the two stubborn boys.
"Oh, Gu Tiancheng's brothers in Muliang Town, he called them back like this." Yuan Dongchu had an understanding.
"Why do you call it by its name again? Tiancheng is older than you, so he wants to call him Brother Gu. Yuan Changhe corrected.
Yuan Dongchu ruthlessly ignored her father's correction and continued her original topic: "Does he want to take these two people back to Muliang Town?" β
Yuan Changhe nodded: "Those two children have been mixed around the dock since they were young, and they have excellent water quality, saying that they have stolen the boat to play on the river, and their boat driving skills are also very good." β
"......" Yuan Dongchu looked at the sky speechlessly, she wanted to re-examine her feelings about Gu Tiancheng.
Isn't this a bit unconscionable? It's embarrassing to calculate children like this, and they rely on their hands.