Chapter 100: To the West
Liang Tian was a little surprised, it was just nonsense, Liang Meng took it seriously, and he happened to know something. Looking back at him, the coarse cloth clothes looked yellow in the sun, the hair was tied casually, the dark shoes were old and white, and there were a few obvious tufts of mud at the tips of the shoes. The stature is not tall, thin as a material, the appearance is not amazing, and he is used to flattery, which is a common method for poor families, and I don't know what his mother took so much money for.
"You don't care what I do with him, you have to be afraid to leave before it's too late." Liang Tian still didn't intend to give him a good look, and walked forward again as he spoke. The young man stretched out his hand and led Liang Tian into a small alley, turning around to a more hidden place.
When Liang Tian was about to break free, his lips were blocked by his fingers, which angered Liang Tian even more, he shook off the young man's hand, and said with an angry face, "What are you doing!" ”
The young man was a little helpless, spread his hands and said, "Sister was too careless just now, and she was blatantly followed and didn't notice it, wasn't she the best able to get rid of me a few days ago, but now she doesn't care about the people on the street at all." ”
"Then it's not your turn to take care of it, don't think that if I went to you before, you really think of yourself as your own family." Liang Tian's anger has not disappeared, looking at this wild son who has come up without authorization, he really regards himself as his own brother, and he can't tell the line.
A moment of loss flashed on the young man's face, he stood a little farther away, lowered his voice and said, "If you don't go to him, he will come to you, after you escaped last time, they were also angry, and now they don't let us interfere, I'm afraid that you are in danger here." Sister, go back to Long's house, this street is too dangerous, I can't protect you all the time. After you go back, let the Long family send you out, don't go back to Baidi City immediately after you go out, at least don't take the waterway, wait for the wind to pass a little, and find the second sister when you go back, only she can help you. "I didn't have a serious word just now, but at this time, I didn't look like a teenager, and my face changed to another serious look.
"Why should I believe you."
In a fleeting seriousness, the young man returned to his joking appearance, put his hands behind the back of his head, and said with a smile, "After I had a private meeting with Sister A at the inn that day, I happened to meet a man in black coming out of the inn. Guess where he went, he ran to someone else's door, and he was not afraid of death, if it weren't for my protection, he wouldn't know which wilderness he was thrown to feed the wild dogs. ”
"You're talking nonsense."
"I'm talking nonsense, you can just ask him, but he may not know that I saved him, and he thinks the journey went well. You also let him restrain a little, this is not as good as his white city, and someone will take him back when he is drunk. ”
"Drunk?"
The boy laughed dryly twice, and said loudly, "It's just an analogy. Let's go, I'm here to hold them back, it's too late for us to go. The young man said that he didn't care about Liang Tian's willingness, so he pushed the person away in reverse, and went out to entertain the oncoming person by himself.
Liang Tian didn't want this person to follow him for a long time, so he didn't stay in the alley, he walked all the way forward in the alley, and it took a long time to get to the main road, when the oncoming carriage stopped beside him, and was about to dodge, but it was Siming who came down, with an anxious look.
"Where have you been?"
Seeing Siming's anxious appearance, Liang Tian's previous boredom disappeared, and he was suddenly a little relieved, and said slightly apologetically, "I just came out for a walk, and I was about to go back." ”
Siming looked at the alley inside again, and then turned around and said to Liang Tian, "Go back, Ah Pan is also looking for you." Siming got into the carriage, stretched out his hand again, and motioned for Liang Tian to go up.
Liang Tian also stretched out his hand, his neatly trimmed nails, some cold touches, not much wider than himself, it was just enough to pull him into the car, how could he be addicted to such a person.
"Siming, shouldn't you give me the bracelet you gave me before, you see that my hands are empty, and I don't have to wear it well." got into the car, Liang Tian still held Siming's hand and refused to let go, and said coquettishly.
"Well, I'll give it to you when I get back." Siming's eyes were a little evasive, he withdrew the hand holding Liang Tian, put it on his chest crampedly and unnaturally, and only after a while did he take out a handkerchief from his sleeve and hand it to Liang Tian, "This is what you gave you before." ”
"You've always carried it?"
"It just so happened."
Liang Tian took the handkerchief, there was still residual warmth, and sniffed it with his nose, it was the aromatherapy smell that he had smelled by chance in Siming's room, it was already a little light, different from the faint smell of soaphorn last time, it was carefully kept and brought on his body.
After walking all morning, Liang Tian was also a little tired, leaning on Siming's shoulder, looking at his empty arm, and suddenly remembered the bracelet he gave Siming last time, but he never saw it again. At that time, on a whim, he was given a bracelet, how could he wear a bracelet for girls, and when he went back, he should find a suitable jade pendant from the package.
"Siming, I don't want to go back again."
"Then don't go back, go to Mincheng, and take you to see the mountains and rivers there."
Liang Tian remembered last night's incident again, frowned and said, "It's okay not to go there, how about going to Tong'an City, I haven't been there yet, and then hire a carriage to trek back to Baidi City, I want to try the feeling of being a traveling merchant no matter what." ”
"What did I say last night, did you care so much about Mincheng before?"
deliberately diverted the topic, but it was still brought up, Liang Tian decided not to hide it, if he held everything in his heart like him, then how to explain it, and said, "You mentioned your mother, it was very painful, I am afraid that you will touch the scene again." ”
That's the case, Siming thought for a while, and said, "I heard Uncle Zeng say that Mincheng suffered a locust plague last year, and the price of rice rose sharply at this time, so you and I hired a carriage to join in the excitement, and when we come back, we will bring some fur back to Baidi City, which is the late autumn time." ”
Liang Tian listened to it and became interested, but he was afraid of Siming's mood, and still asked, "Is it really okay?" ”
"It's okay, it's all old."
After lunch, Siming took the bracelet that had been returned from the package and gave it to Liang Tian, which made Liang Tian a little surprised, I thought that Siming said that he would go back in Baidi City, but I didn't expect him to even carry this with him.
Liang Tian stretched out his hand and said to Siming, "You help me wear it." ”
It's one thing to give a bracelet, but it's another thing to wear it personally, Siming is still a teenager after all, so he immediately blushed and tried a few times with his head down, before the bracelet was put on Liang Tian's hand.
Liang Tian was very satisfied, raised his hand to meet the light, and said with a smile, "It's very good." As he spoke, he also took off the unicorn jade pendant he was carrying around his neck and put it in Siming's hand, "This is my favorite piece of jade pendant, I got it by chance in the jade market, and now I will give it to you as a return gift for the bracelet." ”
Siming pushed the jade pendant back and said, "Didn't you already give me a bracelet before, you don't need to give me another jade pendant, since you like it, you can wear it yourself." ”
Liang Tian turned his head and said, "It's a good thing to wear your favorite jade on your favorite person, and the bracelet before is not suitable for you to wear, just change it at that time, this is really a gift." ”
'Favorite person', originally just Si Ming, who was just red in his ears, even his face was red at this time, and he was speechless, and after a long time, he stammered, "Then I'll take it, I won't return it to you." ”
"Hmm." Liang Tian said and pushed Siming to the chair to sit again, wrapped the jade pendant around his neck, and put it on Siming's body. Siming put the jade pendant into his clothes again, sticking to his skin, and a warm heat spread throughout his body.
In the early morning of the third day, the two people who were ready went out from Long's house. Hearing that Siming was going back to the northwest, Long Ping also prepared a carriage and sent some retinues to send the two out of the city. Only Gu Pan cried with tears on his face, and scolded Brother Qiao for being a liar and not going back to Baidi City with him.
The groom who drove the car was the brother of the man in Tsing Yi a few days ago, named Quan Gui'er. As his name suggests, he is a stocky-looking short and fat man, who is best at dealing with people, and even gives a few copper plates less than others for the passage money out of the city.
At first, the road was quite stable, several small cities around Ningzhou were richer than the average place, less than a day's journey, there were towns of different sizes, for people to stop, inns, stables, shops, everything is relatively complete.
Some places are even much more prosperous than those in Baidi City, but Liang Tian has opened his eyes to often go to the lively market to exchange some cheap goods and sell them in the next city. Although there were gains and losses along the way, one night, the food and lodging of the three people were covered, and there was still left. This made Liang Tian happy for a long time, and he was even busier to join the team of traveling merchants from all over the world, and the excitement along the way passed.
It's just that the west side of the road where Siming is going is not the road of the Silk Road, and he is separated from these people as he walks, and gradually only some scattered merchants and monks can be seen. Fortunately, Liang Tian was not distressed about this, and came up with a way to collect some rare things with some peasant hunters and sell them in the city.
Although he was persuaded at the beginning not to buy these objects of unknown origin, he couldn't pull Liang Tian's growing desire to make money, so he could only spread his hands and go with her.
At noon that day, the three of them met a tea shed on the side of the road halfway to the road, so they sat down to rest, ate some refreshments and then went on the road, but they heard the shopkeeper say that there was no place to rest on the way, so it was better to change the road when the sun was about to set, stay in a small village called 'Li Zhuang' for one night, and then go back to the main road the next day to go to the next city.
Siming's memory of this side of the road was very vague, and after listening to the shopkeeper's suggestion, he also felt reasonable, so he asked Quan Guier to pay special attention to what the store said about Li Zhuang, and the three of them went to stay for one night.