Chapter 21: The First Time on the Street
Early the next morning, Jiang Xinyi got up early, called Xiaoping who was going to make breakfast, and then took out a bag from under the bed, opened it and handed it to Xiaoping.
"What are you doing? Hurry up and put it on. Jiang Xinyi found a piece of white cloth, wrapped her chest in several layers, and looked down at the flat chest, she was very satisfied.
"Master, where did this come from?" Xiaoping asked strangely.
"Don't ask so much, it's not stolen anyway." Jiang Xinyi promised to collect the night incense, and she would not say it to anyone, but people dared to accept one of her gold ingots to buy it for her, so she would never say it.
"Master, just go out like this?" Xiaoping asked as she changed her clothes.
"Silly, aren't we going to go through the back door?" Jiang Xinyi rewarded a chestnut on Xiaoping's head.
"The back door? How can we have a back door? Ah, master, you don't mean climbing the wall by the back door, do you? Xiaoping suddenly asked.
"The son can be taught, hurry up and help me comb my hair." Jiang Xinyi sat in front of the dresser and shouted.
Xiaoping knew what the master decided, and it was impossible to dissuade her, so she had to honestly comb a man's hairstyle.
"Wow, I really didn't expect me to be so handsome pretending to be a man, and go out like this to let other men live?" Jiang Xinyi said narcissistically in the mirror.
Xiaoping combed her hair and turned around and said; "The master is very handsome, but your flower?" She pointed to Jiang Xinyi's eyebrows and said.
"I've been prepared for this for a long time." Jiang Xinyi opened the jewelry box and took out something, it turned out to be a blue ribbon one and a half fingers wide, with a jade pendant in the middle, she tied the ribbon to her forehead, and the jade pendant just covered the peach blossom on her eyebrows. Jiang Xinyi proudly admired her style.
"Master, you're amazing." Xiaoping really admires her master, she sewed the ribbon for her master, but she doesn't know what it's used for.
"If I were really a man, I would definitely marry Ping'er." Jiang Xinyi reached out and pinched Xiaoping's chin.
"The master is good or bad." Although Xiaoping knew that she was a woman, she still blushed.
The master and servant looked at each other, and if they didn't look closely, they really looked like a son-in-law who looked like Pan An, and even the entourage looked like a person who only had a painting.
"Hurry up and go shopping." Jiang Xinyi and Xiaoping walked out of the bedroom, closed the door, and checked the board blocking the courtyard door, for fear that the two chickens would run out if they were not tightly closed.
As the saying goes, once born, twice ripe. They were much more proficient at climbing the wall this second time, and for fear of soiling their clothes, Xiaoping also found old clothes to cover the wall.
In the blink of an eye, the two of them were outside the wall, "Wow, what fresh air, so blue sky." Jiang Xinyi sighed.
Xiaoping behind her looked puzzled, just isolated by a wall, is there such a big difference?
Along the path in the forest, the two of them quickly walked out, maybe the people in the capital knew that this was the forest of the third prince, so no one broke in, and they didn't see anyone when they walked far away.
After walking for a while, and seeing the street, Jiang Xinyi slapped her face excitedly, and was immediately stopped by the timid Xiaoping, who hurriedly stretched out her tongue, pretended to take figure-eight steps, and walked over.
"Xiaoping, find a money bank first." Jiang Xinyi whispered to Xiaoping. Xiaoping understands that who made her master too rich, but in addition to the large-denomination silver tickets, that is, gold ingots, this shopping and eating a few buns or something, you give gold ingots to others, isn't it embarrassing for others.
found the money bank, and after entering the door, a kind little old man greeted him, "Childe is here, not just to save money?" β
"Young Master Ben is here to exchange some loose money today." Jiang Xinyi explained her intentions.
The boss quickly called a young man to help Jiang Xinyi replace a gold ingot of ten taels with scattered broken silver, as well as copper plates, and charged some handling fees, Jiang Xinyi felt that it was very cheap, and she also wanted to exchange it for a silver ticket of five hundred taels, but she knew that if it was all exchanged for loose silver, it would be a problem to put it heavily, and it would not be safe.
Jiang Xinyi put the loose silver into a beautiful purse sewn by Xiaoping for her, and filled Xiaoping's purse with it, so she carried the rest in her arms and walked out of the bank.
"Master, where are we going?" Xiaoping asked.
"Find a breakfast shop first, stuff your stomach and then go shopping, Ping'er, do you know which one makes the best breakfast?" Jiang Xinyi asked.
"Master, Ping'er doesn't know, in the past, when the master and they went out, how would I know." Xiaoping lowered her head and replied in a low voice.
"So? Today, I'll invite Ping'er to eat enough, which one is delicious, someone will tell us, do you see, which one has more customers, it should be right. After she finished speaking, she led Xiaoping straight to the morning shop opposite.
"What do you want to eat? If you want to eat at the store, please wait. The shopkeeper said to the master and servant.
Jiang Xinyi looked inside, heh, good guy, it was full inside, she really wanted to tease those people, what's the matter, the pots in your house are broken? But when I think about it, I don't know people well, and they can't understand it, so it's not good to misunderstand.
So, she said to Xiao Er; "Bring us ten meat buns, take them, really wait for a place inside, I'm afraid that the two of us will be hungry and faint."
Xiao Er packed two buns in a paper bag and handed them over, Jiang Xinyi asked Xiao Ping to take them, "How much?" She asked.
"Hehe, Childe is the first time to eat the buns in this store, right? It's not expensive, it's a penny. Xiao Er said happily.
"It's cheap." Jiang Xinyi whispered. He took out ten wen from his purse and handed it over. Today, her one tael of gold ingots was exchanged for eight taels of silver, and one tael of silver was exchanged for a penny, and one tael of silver was a thousand Wen, damn it, you can eat buns for a long time.
Jiang Xinyi saw a stone slab under the big tree opposite, and hurriedly dragged Xiaoping over and sat on it, "Hurry up and eat, it's not enough to buy it." She handed over a bag of buns and said to Xiaoping.
Xiaoping opened the paper bag, reached out and grabbed one, first with a small bite, and then followed Jiang Xinyi's example, and ate it in a big gulp, anyway, both of them are men, and they don't have to work hard to pretend to be ladies.
When the two of them were about to eat, two little people called Hanako came up, one was eight or nine years old, the other was four or five years old, their clothes were sewn and repaired, and they couldn't see which piece was original and which piece was made up, and the little brothers didn't speak, the big one looked at the small one drooling, and couldn't bear to pull him up and leave, the little one refused to cry and said, "Brother, I'm hungry and want to eat steamed buns." β
"My brother told you, the buns are not delicious at all, let's go, my brother will dig sweet potatoes for you, it's sweet." The big ones even coaxed and deceived the little ones.
Xiaoping looked at the last bun in her hand and wanted to give it to the poor brothers, but she looked at Jiang Xinyi and didn't dare.
Jiang Xinyi threw the empty bag in her hand on the ground, and the small one hurriedly broke free from her brother's hand, ran over and picked it up, pinched the empty one, and her little head hung down in disappointment. The heart caught up with the big one, threw himself into his arms and cried aggrievedly; "Brother, it's gone, it's empty."
Jiang Xinyi wiped her mouth with a handkerchief and walked towards the two brothers, the little one was so frightened that she hid behind the big one, and the big one hurriedly said; "Young master, I'm sorry, my younger brother is not sensible, please don't hit him."
"Hey, did I say I was going to hit him?" Jiang Xinyi asked with a smile, then stretched out her hand and pulled the little one in front of her and asked gently; "Want to eat steamed buns?"
The little one didn't speak, wiped away his tears with his sleeve, sniffled, and nodded affirmatively.
"Then you just need to tell your sister, no, tell your brother, what is your name, and if you say it, my brother will invite you to eat steamed buns." Jiang Xinyi almost said it wrong, but fortunately the other party was two children.
"Back to the young master, my name is Liu Yiran, he is my brother, his name is Liu Xiaohu, I also told you my brother's name, do you also give my brother steamed buns?" Liu Yiran asked with big eyes.
Jiang Xinyi just smiled, and then took his little hand and walked towards the bun shop, Xiaoping looked at it in disbelief, how could the master even pull such a dirty hand? If you sympathize with them, tell her to buy it. Liu Xiaohu followed with a wary face.
"Boss, ten more." Jiang Xinyi shouted to the people behind the steamer.
When Xiao Er heard it just now, he hurriedly came over and filled ten more, and handed it over, Jiang Xinyi casually handed the bun to Liu Xiaohu, telling him not to let his younger brother get burned. Liu Xiaohu believed that she was sincere, not teasing her younger brother, and hurriedly bowed to Jiang Xinyi gratefully.
"Xiao Ran, we can't eat it all, we have to leave a few for Daddy." Liu Xiaohu said to his younger brother, and the little sensible nodded again and again.
Watching the little brothers eat while walking, Jiang Xinyi's heart was a little sad, these two children are clear-eyed, not like ordinary children, how can they wander on the streets? She tried to stop them and give them some silver taels, but in the blink of an eye she couldn't see them, so she had to give up.
Just when they were standing in front of a stall selling bamboo utensils and wanted to buy a small steamer, they heard a chaotic scream behind them, Jiang Xinyi looked back, and it turned out that a carriage was rushing towards them not far away, and the coachman shouted loudly on it; "Get out of the way, the horse is scared." People retreated to the corner, and Xiaoping also pulled Jiang Xinyi to hide behind the stall. But in front of them, an older lady stood in place in a panic, no matter how much everyone shouted, it was useless, seeing that the carriage was getting closer and closer, just when everyone was watching the upcoming tragedy, Jiang Xinyi shook off Xiaoping's hand and walked forward, "Master" Xiaoping shouted silentlyγγγγ