Chapter 18: A chance encounter on the street, subduing Chen Dong
Qingyan stood at the gate of the broken temple, looking at the carriage that was gradually moving away, and smiled, he originally wanted to ride a horse, but she stopped it, thinking that he would not listen to persuasion, but he didn't expect that she just said something casually, so he changed the carriage.
"Miss, do you want to go home?" Qing Ning stepped forward to urge, and the contact in the past few days made him understand that although the sixth lady in front of him was young, her mind should not be underestimated, if she was a man and cultivated well, her talent and resourcefulness would inevitably be above the fourth master.
"Let's go back!"
She nodded in agreement, walked into the carriage and sat down, and the moment the curtain was lowered, she couldn't wait to take out the jade pendant, wanting to know if there would be any information related to his name on this jade pendant.
"What is this word?"
Finally, in the corner of the jade pendant, I found a word the size of a corn kernel, but this font knew her, but she didn't know it, so there was no difference between having it and not having it!
She put it into her arms indignantly, thinking about saving him, but she didn't even tell her name, even if it was a pseudonym! It's stingy.
Just thought of this, she heard the lively shouting outside the car, she lifted the curtain, looked at the traffic in the city, and smiled: after Qingzhou Mansion is the capital Yingtian, so it can be said that it is a place for many merchants to stay, so that the business here is very developed.
"Stop-you, you dare to steal Lao Tzu's things, you stop for Lao Tzu-"
Bang –
"I let you run, let you run, why don't you run? Yes? Dare to steal Lao Tzu's things, if I don't cripple you today, you have to steal other people's things! Let you steal - you let steal-"
Bang - Bang Bang -
Suddenly, there was a burst of angry scolding, and then she heard the sound of someone falling, followed by the muffled sound of a stick falling on a person, and she couldn't help but wonder what kind of thief was beaten without making a sound.
"Miss no!"
As soon as she opened the car door and wanted to jump off, she was stopped by Qing Ning, her firm gaze made her very helpless, but the muffled sound of a stick falling on the human body came to her ears, so that her curiosity could not be stopped.
Bang –
She seemed to walk to the carriage, and when Qingning breathed a sigh of relief, she jumped down directly, and then quickly got into the crowd, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
At this time, Qingyan had already followed the muffled sound and scolding, at this moment it was full of people, and there were more and more gatherings, she was short, she drilled when she saw a crack, and stood in the innermost after a while.
I saw a burly man holding a stick with a thick arm on the ground and holding his head, he couldn't see the appearance clearly, but from the body shape and hands, he could tell that he was a young man, dressed in a Confucian robe, his black hair was tied up, and his hands holding his head were very clean. At this time, he honestly squatted in place, resisting the opponent's stick, without shouting or begging for mercy, until the big man stopped gasping for breath, and he looked up tremblingly.
"It's wrong for me to steal your money, but you also beat me, can you give me a tael of silver? My mother is sick, if it weren't for the way, I wouldn't have made this decision! ”
The man is quite delicate, his face is protected by his desperate protection, but there is not a trace of scars, there is a bookish breath between his eyebrows and eyes, and the conversation with the big man is full of sincerity and pleading.
The big man didn't seem to expect him to say this, he originally thought that he would beg for mercy, or turn around and run, but he didn't expect him to write the money bag and talk to himself about the conditions, although he also felt the sincerity in his words, but when he heard his words, he still felt angry, and his intuition was despised by a thief.
"Dream! Let's go, follow me to the official mansion, Lao Tzu wants to see if you still have this excuse when you get to the official mansion. ”
"This big brother, I can't go to the government, my mother is still waiting for me to go home, this big brother, the money bag will be returned to you, I didn't say what I said just now, okay?" The man was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly handed over the money bag in his hand and looked at him expectantly.
"No—" The big man snatched the money bag, but he didn't give up.
Qingyan glanced at the man seriously, and intuitively felt that he was not a wicked person, and he should have really encountered a difficult situation.
"This uncle, he already knows that he is wrong, why don't you let him go! I'm sorry for him! ”
She ran over in a few steps, tugged at the big man's shirt, looked up at him, her immature voice was extremely eye-catching in this quarrel, and the ten taels of silver in her hand instantly made her the focus of the audience.
"Where's the stinky boy? To excuse a thief, don't you want to live? Dahan's eyes lit up, and he stayed on the ten taels of silver ingots for a moment, looked at the onlookers, and gritted his teeth and said.
"Uncle, you only took him to the government for a few days, and now you can get ten taels of silver if you release him, isn't it? Besides, I'm sure he won't steal again, right? ”
She blinked her small eyes, and a very confident smile appeared on her chubby little face, which made the big man stunned for a while, and then looked at the man again, only to see the man nodding like pounding garlic, and shouting again and again: Never steal again.
"Let you go this time, if I see you stealing again, I will not spare you!" He picked up the ingots and left quickly, and the words of warning kept coming.
The onlookers thought that the big man was so chivalrous, but now they were disappointed and dispersed when they saw it, and they kept muttering in their mouths that sure enough, wicked people are common, and good people are rare.
"What's your name?" Qingyan didn't care what others thought, just looked at the young man in front of him with a smile.
"In Xia Chen Dong, thank you little brother for your help in this matter!" Chen Dong made a gesture to her.
She saw that he behaved quite gracefully, and that he really couldn't get in touch with the thief, and then looked at the bitterness in his eyes, and thought that what he had said before that his mother was seriously ill, and that it must be true, and then thought of the perseverance and stubbornness he showed when he was beaten before, and couldn't help but accept it.
"I see that you don't look like a thief, but like a scholar, but you have a reputation?" She led him to the side alley.
"The family is poor, my father died of illness a few years ago, and I dropped out of school to take care of my seriously ill mother, so I didn't continue to study, so I have no merit." He smiled bitterly and shook his head in disappointment.
"So what are your plans for the future? Is it possible to be a thief? ”
"Naturally, I won't do this kind of thing again, if it weren't for my mother's serious illness this time, how could I ......" He shook his head frequently, his firm eyes became more and more sad, but his heart was worried that his mother's illness had not been cured.
"In that case, follow me from now on! Although it can't let you join the officialdom and be rich and rich, it can make you eat and wear without worrying from now on, but it's just ......"
"Just what?" He looked at her in front of him full of hope, a good dress, must be from a rich family, before helping him, it can be seen that he is not a gentleman, a short conversation, the words are clear, enough to see that he is smart, if he can do things with his men, maybe he can really do something, and he will not be in vain to read the books for many years.
"It's just that you want to leave behind the high school of the scholar and shuttle among the homeless people in the market, are you willing?" Her face froze, and her tiny eyes burst with an astonishing light, causing him to take a step back in an instant, and his heart was shocked.
"Why?" He looked at him puzzled.
"Naturally, it's to gather information, and you should know that the information among the homeless people in the market is often accurate, and the little people are usually everywhere, aren't they?" She sneered and looked out at the bustling street outside the alley.
"Good! The villain Chen Dong visited the young master, and if there was any sending, he could send someone to No. 6 Hutong of the East and West Alleys of the city to find the villain. He looked at his small back, and for some reason, he suddenly had a feeling: although the person in front of him was small, his energy was huge, and following him, he might really be able to embark on an extraordinary road, at least his mother's illness had been settled, and his sister at home could grow up safely.
"Take this to your mother's medical treatment, if it's not enough, go to the carriage and horse house in Qingfu to find Liu Da, he will help you, if you have any news, you can also tell him, I will naturally know." She smiled happily, took out ten taels of silver and threw it behind her, and walked out of the alley quickly, she had already seen Yi Han and Yi Xuan looking frantically on the street.
Chen Dong looked at the ingots in his hand, thinking about the Qingfu in his mouth, and strengthened his inner thoughts, you must know that a child of his size, even if he is born in a wealthy family, it is impossible to take out twenty taels of silver one after another, so generous can only show that even if he is young, he also has a good status in the family.
At this time, Qingyan had already quietly returned to the mansion with Yihan and Yixuan, but as soon as she returned to Bishui Pavilion and changed back into her daughter's clothes, Jiang Yingyue and her father Qing Changgui rushed over.
"Yan'er, do you know what's wrong?" As soon as he came in, Qing Changgui didn't even have time to sit down, so he scolded him harshly.
"Mother-" Her heart trembled, and she turned to look at Jiang Yingyue, pursed her lips, and whispered.
"Alas! Yan'er, you are too bold today, do you know that you are still grounded? Do you know that if you meet a wicked person, you can't hide from it? Jiang Yingyue's heart softened, and her tone was naturally not as stern as Qing Changgui's, but her words still showed her dissatisfaction and worry about her.
"Yes! Yan'er knew that she was wrong! She stepped forward, knelt down straight, and admitted her mistake with low eyebrows, which suddenly made the faces of the two people sitting on the top seat relaxed, and their hearts softened, and they didn't know what to say.
"Humph!" Qing Changgui snorted coldly, brushed his sleeves away, and gave Jiang Yingyue a look when he left, as if to say: Discipline her well!
She glanced at his back with disgust, and said secretly in her heart: You can't be reluctant, how can I be reluctant? Thinking about it, he stepped forward to help Qingyan up, and left after many instructions.
"Yi Han, did you say that my mother and father are really angry?" She looked at the backs of the two people who were thundering and raining, touched their fleshy double chins, and said curiously.
"Naturally, I'm angry, Miss must not be like this in the future, it's really frightening the slave!" As soon as she heard it, she knew that the words of the fourth master and the fourth lady had not been taken to heart by Qingyan, and she was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat, and hurriedly said, for fear that she would do something terrible again.