Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Story of Chaoge
"Straw sandals?"
Hearing this, Chen Hao was stunned, looked down at the young man's feet with a wooden expression, and suddenly found that on the young man's feet was a pair of woven straw sandals, but they were broken, and half of his feet were exposed.
And the young man's bare feet were already red and swollen, bloody, and looked a little miserable.
Chen Hao suddenly realized, no wonder this kid wanted to buy shoes, it turned out that the shoes were worn out, and looking at his tired appearance, he should have been on the road for a long time.
"Sorry, I'm not a shoe shop, so I don't have extra straw sandals. Chen Hao shook his head, he didn't have this shoe shop here.
The young man endured the pain in his foot and smiled apologetically: "Disturbed ......"
After painting, the young man turned around and was about to leave, but at this time, Chen Hao pondered for a moment, and suddenly said, "Young man, do you know what kind of place this is?"
Chao Ge, who was about to leave, was stunned, turned his head to look at Chen Hao, scratched his head, and said embarrassedly: "Isn't this a city?"
Under the spirit jujube tree, Chen Hao raised his eyebrows slightly, and said bluntly: "This is indeed a city, but it is not a city inhabited by ordinary people, but an ancient city where monks live in seclusion!"
"The ancient city where the monks live in seclusion?" Chao Ge's face changed instantly, his eyes widened, and he looked at Chen Hao with some surprise.
Chen Hao was not surprised by his expression, nodded quietly, and said, "Yes, this is indeed an ancient place full of monks, called: Tomb City!"
After a pause, Chen Hao continued to mutter: "There may be some shoe shops here, but think about the price of the things inside, can you afford it?"
"I ......"
Chaoge's face was embarrassed, his expression became a little unnatural, and his hand holding a few strings of money was also sweating slightly.
He didn't have much money on him, and he had a small amount of silver before leaving the house, which his wife gave him before leaving. Except for everything along the way, there are only one or two left.
But now there are still hundreds of miles away from Yucheng, and the road is long, and these strings of money are far from enough, and it is already difficult to move forward.
At this moment, Chao Ge didn't speak, Chen Hao took in his embarrassed expression, couldn't help touching his nose, and coughed dryly, "Maybe I can help you, if you're willing to pawn something." ”
"Pawn something? Pawn what?"
Chao Ge's eyes were very pure, as innocent as a child, without the slightest scheming, he looked at Chen Hao curiously, not understanding what Chen Hao meant.
"The system prompts that if Chaoge wants to get help here in the system, he must pawn his story......"
Hearing this, Chen Hao was stunned, and the whole person was stunned for a long time, he was wondering if the system was wrong, and the pawn story could get the help of the system, which had never been done before.
Taking a deep breath, Chen Hao returned to the stone house and took out a jar of old wine, and said with a witty smile: "I have wine, do you have a story?"
"My story is sweeter than wine......
Chao Ge also smiled, he saw that Chen Hao wanted to invite him to drink, reached out and put the bamboo basket on his shoulder aside, and sat down around the stone table under the spirit jujube tree.
What Chen Hao didn't expect was that looking at the weak Chao Ge, he drank more ruthlessly than him, and his sorrow could be faintly seen between his heroic and immature eyebrows.
"Wine is good wine, Brother Chen also stopped my story......"
After three rounds of drinking, Chaoge's face was a little flushed, his eyes were still bright, but the sorrow between his eyebrows was not hidden, and it was directly displayed.
From the mouth of Chao Ge, a simple but full of twists and turns of the story was displayed in front of Chen Hao's eyes.
Chao Ge was born in the country of Tianxing, a nearby country, his family background is not prominent, and his life can be described as poor and white, poor and destitute.
In Chaoge's childhood memories, there is no shadow of his father and mother, he grew up with his grandmother, who knows that without a prominent family background, if you want to stand up, you must read and write, and become a Confucian Lin Xiu.
So my grandmother sold the family's ancestral house for Chaoge to go to school and learn Confucian culture.
Chaoge is indeed angry, for Confucian culture can be said to be familiar with the heart, has been groping and moving forward, five years ago, the elderly grandmother died, this incident hit Chaoge very hard, so that he was depressed for half a year.
The only thing that changed him was because of a girl, her name was Tao Wanjun, and the acquaintance of the two was in the Su family hall, Chao Ge improvised a tune called "Delay".
"The phoenix returns to his hometown, travels all over the world to seek his phoenix, has his lady in the boudoir, and the room poisons my intestines, why is the neck of the mandarin duck. ”
This kind of song, which seems to be straightforward, bold and enthusiastic today, makes Tao Wanjun, who is listening behind the curtain, feel heartbeat and spring heart sprout.
Soon, Tao Wanjun fell in love at first sight after meeting Chaoge, but this relationship was strongly opposed by the Tao family, and his father even wanted to break off the father-daughter relationship with Tao Wanjun.
The two were deeply in love, and finally agreed to elope south.
This Tao Wanjun is indeed a strange woman, eloped with the poor and white Chaoge, after returning to Linxian, facing the situation of the four walls of the family, as a young lady, instead of retreating, she generously returned to her hometown in Linxian County to open a wine shop and sell wine by herself.
And Tao Wanjun's hard work has never been recognized by his father, which makes Chao Ge feel very uncomfortable, he knows that although Tao Wanjun doesn't say it, he is very bitter in his heart, and he is often sad alone.
For Tao Wanjun, Chaoge, who had never had the idea of a career, embarked on a journey to Tiancheng to participate in the quadrennial liberal arts competition!
Liberal arts and sciences is a quadrennial event in the country of Tianxing, and it is also a stage for Confucianism and Taoism once every four years.
What's the matter, Chao Ge is really cystic and shy, and even the two taels of silver on his body were given by his wife Tao Wanjun before leaving, but halfway through, there is not much left.
After understanding the cause and effect, Chen Hao nodded clearly, and was very curious about this unmasked Tao family's eldest lady, the strange woman Tao Wanjun.
At the same time, Chen Hao also thought about Confucianism in Chaoge's mouth, because on the earth, there are also Confucianism and Taoism, and he wondered if there was any connection between the two.
The system prompted that Chao Ge pawned his own story and obtained: ten taels of gold. ”
Hearing the sound of the system, the corners of Chen Hao's mouth trembled, and there were 100,000 draft horses galloping in his heart, Chao Ge just pawned a simple love story, and got ten taels of gold!
This Nima treatment is too good, right?
After a while, Chen Hao came back to his senses, he returned to the stone house, took a stone plate, and walked out with ten taels of gold ingots.
"Chaoge, you and I are destined, these ten taels of gold are now given to you, you must not shirk it. Seeing that it was ten gold ingots on the plate, the corners of Chen Hao's mouth trembled, and his expression was a little speechless.
If he doesn't agree with this word, he will give gold, can he not be speechless?