The woman's unique aroma lingered on the tip of Jiao Niang's nose, her fingertips touched a piece of softness, and Jiao Niang only saw that the woman's cheeks quickly turned red.

"Girl, are you alright?" asked the girl.

The woman suddenly came back to her senses, pushed away Jiao Niang with one hand, looked at her crampedly, awkwardly for a long time, and said, "Thank you." ”

Jiao Niang smiled at her and arched her hand: "It's hard work, if you still have something to do, you will leave first, and there will be a period later." "Let's go, take the first cicada away.

The woman in red looked at Jiao Niang's back and opened her mouth, hesitated for a moment, and finally didn't make a sound, and turned her head away as if deflated.

Chu Cicada turned his head, looked at it, and then turned back to Jiao Niang and said, "Master, that girl-" with a little crampedness.

Jiao Niang glanced at her and said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense." ”

She was also a woman, she knew very well the shyness on the girl's face, she smiled and shook her head, who has not yet had the beginning of love.

The two continued to walk forward, and when they came out, Jiao Niang only took a simple bite, and after shopping all morning, her stomach was empty. So I asked for two bowls of Yangchun noodles at a street shop, and she and Chu Chan each had a bowl.

The noodle shop is a stall outside, with three or four tables, there are not many people, but people come and go, and the business is not bad.

The owner of the store is an old couple, fifty or sixty years old, one of the two is responsible for the bottom, and the other is responsible for cleaning up the tables and chairs.

"Here it is, hot spring noodles. Although the old man is old, he is still full of energy, and he shouts loudly.

He used a tray to serve two bowls of noodles, Yangchun noodles are very simple, with a poached egg and a few vegetable leaves, but the color of the noodles is very bright, Jiao Niang picked up a chopstick, took a bite, very chewy.

The first cicada didn't eat it first, and only stood beside Jiao Niang, she felt that it was not in order. It was Jiao Niang's order that she reluctantly sat down to eat with her.

After just a few bites, her tears entered the noodles, and she ate them in her mouth while shedding tears.

"Why are you still crying?" Jiao Niang asked when she saw this.

The tip of the cicada's nose was red from crying, she looked at Jiao Niang with teary eyes, sniffed, she still had noodles in her mouth, and her speech was slurred, "The slave didn't expect the master to be so elevated." ”

Jiao Niang was amused by her, and thought it was something wrong, just because of this.

Qinghuan followed her, and there were times when she didn't pay attention to the rules, and she never liked stereotypical rules.

Jiao Niang took out a handkerchief, handed it to her, and teased: "Wipe it quickly, don't drop your snot into the bowl and eat it." ”

Maybe it's because except for her mother, no one has been so good to Chu Cicada, she was moved in her heart, took the handkerchief with a smirk, and wiped her face embarrassedly.

She was very grateful to Jiao Niang in her heart, she only felt that it was her own fate to meet such a good master, and she secretly swore in her heart that she must be loyal to Jiao Niang in this life and repay her kindness.

She didn't know, in fact, Jiao Niang didn't want her to repay her kindness, everything she got now was just based on the kindness of her previous life.

Yangchun noodles are five cents for a bowl, and the first cicada has no change on him, so he directly gave one or two silvers, so they don't have to make change. The old couple are honest people, but they don't do anything and insist on putting together the change.

"Our old couple has been in business all their lives, although they don't make much money, but they have always been undeceived and will never take advantage of other people's money. The old man put out a large string of copper coins, "You count, is the number enough?"

His face was serious, as if the cicadas wouldn't let them go until they were counted.

Jiao Niang and Chu Cicada looked at each other, stunned, and the old lady slapped her old man, "What are you doing here, you are scaring the guests." ”

smiled at the two of them and said: "Don't mind, two guest officers, my old man has such a strong temper, Ding is Ding Mao is Mao, everything has to be clear and understandable." ”

The old man snorted, put the towel on his shoulder, sat down with a big sword and golden horse, put his hands on his knees, and said negatively: "Although we are poor, we are also poor and ambitious, and we will never do anything that harms others, unlike the corrupt official, who fell into the eyes of money and buried his conscience." ”

As soon as his voice fell, he received another hard blow from the old lady, "You old man, you are old, your head is stupid, what are you talking about every day?"

He smiled at Jiao Niang and them, "Two uncles, don't listen to my old man's nonsense, he broke his head two years ago, and he always loves to talk nonsense, don't take it to heart." ”

The old man said angrily: "You just broke your head, I didn't talk nonsense." ”

The eldest lady was so angry that she wanted to stomp her feet, but in front of people, it was not easy to attack, so she only glared at him vigorously.

Jiao Niang pondered for a while and asked, "Who is the corrupt official that the uncle is talking about?"

The old lady stared dryly and couldn't control her old man's mouth, "Who else could it be, isn't it that Zhang Yan." ”

Speaking of Zhang Yan, the old man was full of anger, "He eats and drinks spicy food every day, see what has happened to the common people of Chongyang? Last year's catastrophe, the disaster relief sent by the imperial court, a few taels went into the hands of the common people, not all of them went into his pocket, and his brain was full of fat intestines, but I don't know how many people starved to death." Even with the slump in business, I don't know how long our noodle shop can last. ”

He hung his head heavily, like a wilted eggplant, and sighed.

The old lady also sighed helplessly, "Everyone is poor, how many people can come in and spend money to eat noodles." Fortunately, the old man and I have saved some savings over the years, and we can barely make ends meet, but we pity those who are helpless. ”

She was willing to say more when she saw that Jiao Niang and the two of them didn't look like bad people.

"If that's the case, why hasn't anyone sued him?" asked Chu Chan.

The old man sneered at Chu Cicada, "Sue the people, sue the officials, can you sue them?" Since they are not all officials and officials, I am afraid that before the case is handed over, my life will be gone." ”

Jiao Niang looked at him, "You don't know, now that His Royal Highness King Rui is here, he is the prince, so naturally he will not shelter a courtier." And King Rui has always been upright, and has inspected officials for the Son of Heaven many times, just like last year, he inspected Licheng and punished the governor of Licheng, which made the people of Licheng very happy. ”

The old man sighed helplessly, "I have also heard of this King Rui, and I heard that he is the prince who is very favored by the Son of Heaven." However, you're not one of us, so I don't know how deep this Yan is. ”

The old lady was afraid that he would get into trouble by talking too much, so she tried to interrupt him, "Old man!"

The old man waved his hand to her impatiently, and continued to say to Jiao Niang, "This Zhang Yan, there is someone behind him, and he is a big man." He glanced around, saw that there was no one around, and lowered his voice again, "This big man, but he is above King Rui." You say, does King Rui dare to do him?"