Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Walk in the Market
The sky outside was already dark, the sky was full of stars, and a thin moonlight hung shyly in the sky. Outside the gate of the palace, the two of them silently held hands and said nothing, just walking blindly.
The palace wall was long and silent, with a moat on the right hand, and the two of them walked for a while before reaching the end.
Walking along the riverside on a white marble arch bridge, standing on the bridge for a while, Qixia opened up first: "How are you going to help him?" ”
Mo Yin wrapped his arms around her waist, put his face on her neck, and said in a slurred voice, "I'm just casting a little spell. ”
Qixia dodged his kiss, pushed him away a little and said, "Don't hurt anyone!" I don't think the prince looks like a good man. ”
"Don't worry!" Mo Yin scratched her nose with his hand: "I have seen this prince of the Liang Dynasty, he has the emperor's life for fifteen years. ”
"Oh." She was still a little uneasy, she just felt that what Mo Yin and this prince conspired with was not an ordinary thing.
"This fairy," Mo Yin suddenly straightened off his white robe and made a 'please' gesture: "This beautiful fairy is willing to accompany Xiao Sheng to swim in the river of lights in the world?" ”
Qixia was amused by him and said happily: "Is there really a light market?" ”
Mo Yin took her hand and twisted it up from the ground, and in an instant the two of them stood in the shadow of the lamp of a restaurant.
Qixia was pleasantly surprised to see that she came to a lively street market, which was bustling and lively, and no one noticed that there were suddenly two more people.
There are all kinds of lanterns hanging on the street, and the surrounding area is like daylight, and it is not enough to see at a glance.
The streets were noisy, hawkers shouting, bargaining and bargaining. A short and thin man in short clothes came over, holding a large bamboo basket on his arm, the basket was full of colorful velvet flowers, and he was energetically selling.
He walked up to the two of them and said to Mo Yin enthusiastically: "This son, buy a velvet flower for the girl to wear?" Such a beautiful lady must look even better when she wears my velvet flowers. ”
Mo Yin glanced at Qixia, and Qixia nodded shyly. He picked a light yellow velvet flower from the basket and put it in her bun, and reached out and touched ten large copper coins from his bosom and handed them to the vendor.
The young man said, 'Enough, enough, not so much.' ’
Mo Yin said: "More is a reward." ”
The peddler thanked him one after another.
Qixia looked at him and said strangely, "Where did you get the money?" ”
Mo Yin smiled: "You have everything." ”
Qixia's face was solemn: "You are not allowed to give fake money." ”
He lowered his head and whispered a few words to her, Qixia nodded and smiled: "You will rob the rich and help the poor." ”
There was another syrup seller, the small cart was full of syrup and little people and animals, Qixia took a big rooster, and Mo Yin paid ten large copper plates in the back.
Along the way, there are people who sell cloth, needles and threads, jewelry, windmill toys, •••••• that sell rouge powder, as well as all kinds of snacks and dumplings, wontons, duck soup, dumplings, rice cakes, siu mai, everything.
After a while, Mo Yin's hand was full.
Qixia walked in front, only buying and eating, her eyes were dazzling, everything was novel, and everything was full of attractiveness.
This long street was crowded with people, men, women, old and young, wearing all kinds of clothes, red, green, flowers, pink, and the colors on the girls' bodies were really bright.
The vendors were selling all sorts of things, and all the people were in such high spirits that they had smiles on their faces.
Looking at this scene, Qixia couldn't help but sigh: This is exactly the place she has been to in her dreams!
Thinking of this, she turned her head to glance at Mo Yin, who was about to make a trick with a hand full of things and put them in his sleeve. Seeing Qixia smiling sweetly at him, he couldn't help but melt his heart, so he simply didn't use the spell, so he took it with a big bag and a small tire, and let her see her sincerity.
The two of them ate a bowl of sesame rice balls at a stall at the end of the market. Mo Yin scooped two and couldn't eat them, so Qixia took his bowl and poured it into her own bowl.
"How can you eat so much?" Mo Yin teased her: "Be careful that your husband can't support you in the future." ”
"Humph!" Qixia pouted: "What if I marry someone in the future?" •••••• find a chef! Eat whatever you want, just eat hard. ”
Mo Yin whispered in her ear and laughed, "Then I still have to learn how to cook ••••••." ”
Qixia hit him with chopsticks: "Who wants to marry you." After speaking, his face turned crimson, and he buried himself in eating rice balls, ignoring him anymore.
After eating the rice balls, she drank the soup clean, wiped her mouth, and said, "What else is interesting ahead?" ”
Mo Yin asked the shopkeeper.
The old shopkeeper said, "In front is the market of people and the city of livestock." ”
"What for?" Qixia asked with a twinkle in her eyes.
"Hey, girl, you are young and you haven't suffered much, so naturally you don't know that this human market and livestock market are selling people and livestock. Hey, people are not as valuable as animals! ”
Selling people, Qixia knows that there is human buying and selling in the mortal world, why is a big living person not as valuable as livestock?
Look at her silent. The old man sighed again and said, "A sturdy young man is worth fifty taels of silver, but a healthy horse with young teeth is worth eighty taels of silver. Speaking of those old and weak women and children, it is really not as valuable as a healthy mule and a strong ox. What a way of the world! Human life is worthless. ”
Qixia was silent when she heard this.
Mo Yin pulled her up and said, "Let's go, go over and have a look, I'll sell you at the right price." ”
Qixia smiled and followed him away.
The cattle market and the people market are at the end of the bazaar, close to the river beach.
Qixia saw that there was an empty field on the left side of the river beach, nailed some wooden stakes, and pulled a few large ropes, on which some cattle, mules, horses, donkeys and other animals were tied. On the right side is the riverbank, a row of large white lanterns hangs high, more dazzling than the others, and under the lanterns next to the big trees are a wave of people. Most of them were women and children, and they all had a straw stick stuck in their heads, which was meant to sell themselves.
She stood there and watched. I saw a fat man who looked like a broad boy took a fancy to a woman, and the woman had a very good complexion, and her tattered clothes couldn't hide her beautiful appearance. The man looked around her twice, the woman looked indifferent, and suddenly Kuo Gongzi pinched the woman's chin with his hand, forcing the woman to open her mouth.
"Shall I see if you are sixteen years old? Don't be thirty-six, hahahaha! Is it worth fifty taels of silver? I see that they were born and raised! The fat man let out a strange laugh, causing several attendants around him to laugh.
Qixia couldn't help but be very angry, and Mo Yin pulled her sleeve next to her to prevent her from coming out.
At this time, the trafficker stepped forward and sneered: "Where did the son say, this is obviously a chick, she was the daughter of a good family, and she sold herself to bury her father because of changes in the family, she can read a few words, and she is good at needlework, and fifty taels is very cheap!" ”
The fat man still didn't let go, but the woman didn't let her mouth open wide, and the woman refused, so the fat man slapped him with one palm and scolded: "Stink*! Shame on you! It didn't come from the kiln that had this virtue! The woman's cheek suddenly had a reddened palm print, and it soon swollen.
The man was still there, '*long, *short,' cursing and cursing incessantly. Qixia held on, and her body did not move, and she slapped him.
The fat man was scolding, and suddenly received a slap, and he didn't see clearly who slapped him, turned his head to look at the crowd of onlookers, and saw a fairy-like girl in white staring at him angrily. He asked, 'Who hit it?' He walked straight towards Qixia.
Qixia slapped him again.
He slapped twice out of thin air, but he didn't catch this beautiful woman, and he was suddenly annoyed and angry, and he pounced on him. Qixia's body didn't move, but he threw himself into the air, staggered to the ground, and stumbled on. The crowd applauded.
The fat man's attendant hurriedly went to help him, and the fat man shouted: "Catch this beauty for me!" A group of people pounced on them with their teeth and claws.
Qixia was about to teach them a lesson, but suddenly saw that the people around her froze, even the mules and horses froze, and a man on horseback on the street with his hooves in the air. Even the wind stopped blowing, and time and space seemed to be stuck.
Qixia knew that this was a technique of condensing time, and only a god with supreme mana could do it in heaven and earth, and she never thought that Mo Yin would also do this.
Mo Yin took Qixia's hand over and said, "Mole ant Diaomin, it's not worth your hands." ”
"What then?"
"Well said." With a wave of the sleeves of Mo Yin's robe, the fat man and his followers, along with the traffickers, turned into a pack of pigs and dogs and ran away.
Then he waved the sleeves of his robe again, and said to Qixia: "Look at what are in the arms of these body sellers? ”
Qixia went to open the woman's shirt and saw that it was a big silver ingot with white flowers. Seeing that Mo Yin had done so properly, she smiled and said to Mo Yin, "Let's go!" ”
Mo Yin grabbed her slender waist and said, "Don't leave in a hurry, play for two more days, and find an inn to live in first." ”
Qixia was of course happy to hear this, and happily followed him.
As he left, Mo Yin threw a marble into the air, and the marble exploded the silver flower tree in mid-air, and the spell was solved.
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The two of them found a clean and elegant inn in the city to live, and when they booked a room, Mo Yin meant to have one, Qixia insisted on one each, and Mo Yin also followed her and didn't say anything.
When he arrived in her room, he poured all the miscellaneous gadgets in his hand on the kang.
Qixia was very interested, and took the same thing to play with him.
When it was about the second watch, she was a little tired, Mo Yin helped her clean up the things on the kang, smiled and lifted the cover to let her go to bed, Qixia said: "I have to go to the morning market tomorrow morning, you are not allowed to lie in bed." ”
Mo Yin said: "There are days of shopping, I'm afraid you don't know if you get tired of it." ”
Qixia pushed him out of the door and latched herself to sleep.
Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was dawning, I heard the sound of horses' hooves on the street, and it seemed that something urgent had happened.
Qixia couldn't fall asleep in a mess, so she simply got up, and after freshening up, she went to knock on the door of the ink hidden room.
Mo Yin got up sleepily and opened the door for her, returned to the bedside and fell asleep again. Qixia went over and scratched his ear with a piece of hair, which was very itchy, and after a while he rolled over and sat up.
Qixia hurriedly helped him fetch water and wash, combed his hair carefully, wrapped his hair with a light-colored scarf, tied it with a ribbon of the same color, and dragged two long ones behind his head, which looked very elegant and elegant.
She tidied up his robe, looked back and forth twice, and was very satisfied.
Mo Yin saw her like this, and couldn't help laughing: "Sister is trying to sell men?" Didn't you bother to plant me a weed and sell me? ”
Qixia 'spit' at him, blushing and saying, "Whose man are you?" How much is it worth? Who scares about you?! ”
Mo Yin laughed and took her hand and went out.
As soon as they left the inn, a fast horse galloped past the two, followed by another one, and immediately sat a palace eunuch-like person striking a gong and shouting: "The emperor has died!" The people of the capital are all crowned and clothed, and they are not allowed to marry, and they are not allowed to have ••••••fun. ”
As soon as the group passed, the death knell rang one after another, and the bells of each temple also responded from afar, and for a time the bells rang loudly, one after another, dull and melodious.
Qixia turned her head and stared at Mo Yin in a daze, and Mo Yin said: "That emperor has a fever, but he died a few days early. ”
Qixia didn't speak, turned around and walked slowly along the street.
After walking for a while, Mo Yin grabbed her, and there were many breakfast shops on the side of the road.
The two of them sat casually on a stall next to the road, ordered two bowls of wontons and a plate of vegetarian dumplings, and Qixia ignored him and ate her own.
When the two of them finished eating breakfast, the bells of each temple and each courtyard rang again, and the fast horses of the official family were one after another.
Qixia was overwhelmed and said to Mo Yin: "I think it's better to go back!" Good work you do! ”
Mo Yin smiled wryly and said, "I'll go get you those precious things." She said angrily: "I don't want it!" ”
Mo Yin said, "Yes!" Yes! He pulled her back to the inn, settled the room money, took a big bag of those things, carried them with him, stepped on a piece of auspicious clouds in the air, and the two of them helped the wind away.