Chapter 021: Xiaobai, Uncle, Senior Sister?
The black robe raised his head, and saw that it was an elder in a green robe with a kind face, and then looked at the small bag handed by the elder, and instantly felt a little excited, and hurriedly stood up, stretched out his hand to take the bag, and replied respectfully: "Old man, please speak." ”
"I don't know how long you've been here, I want to ask, have you seen a girl about twenty years old waiting for someone here?" Pei Qingqing said.
"Old man, I've been here for more than half a day, and earlier, there was indeed a girl who seemed to be waiting here, but there was a middle-aged man beside her at that time. Then they left, and they were on a black bee-lion boat, I remember, that kind of boat, I can't afford to sit now......" replied the black-robed robe.
"It turns out that ...... have already left," Pei Qingqing said silently, he looked at the soul beside the black-clothed robe and looked up at the sky, and asked again: "Isn't the salary of your guider quite high, and the ticket for the black bee-lion boat is not very expensive, why can't you afford to sit on it?"
The black robe removed from the hat revealed a resolute face that looked to be about forty years old, with a long scar at the center of the left eyebrow that passed through the left eye and reached the base of the left ear. He sighed lightly and said, "I won't tell you, a few months ago, not to mention the Black Bee Lion Ship, even the Golden Stone Eagle Boat also sat up. But one day, our captain suddenly said that after receiving the order from above, the money of all the leading workers would be halved. Old man, you give me a comment, we who do coolies have no other skills, so we dare not speak out! We can only continue to work hard, and now we can only look forward to the day when the wages will come back. This ship can only wait to take the free white bull ant ship! This is really cheap and not good, you said that I have been waiting here for more than half a day, and I still haven't seen a white bull ant ship come......
"Ah, how can you reduce your wages so much at once? Aren't you Night Wolf Clan providing fur to the Ice Moth Clan all year round, it is said that the Ice Moth Clan is very generous...... "Pei Qingqing said strangely.
"Old man, don't you know that those in our clan who rely on hunting for fur are now almost unable to eat! In recent years, many animals have almost become monsters, running faster than before, and reacting faster than before, and those who hunt all year round have half the harvest less than before, which is burned with high incense. But for some reason, the Ice Moth Clan gave less money, and I was a ghost, a profiteer! Now the world is so chaotic, I think they are all harmed by those profiteers of the Ice Moth Clan, especially their martial family's youngest daughter Wu Yingying, at a young age, that is a fighter among profiteers...... "The black robe became more and more vigorous, the green tendons on his head flared up, and the scar was even more bloody, as if he wanted to tear that Wu Yingying apart.
"Young man, dissipate your anger, dissipate your anger!" Pei Qingqing hurriedly comforted, "Now the world is not too chaotic, life is still very beautiful, you can go to my yard to plant flowers and raise grass, young people should often cultivate their sentiments, don't always say some nonsense about the sun......"
"Old man, I'm not disrespecting you, I really don't have that kung fu, don't you know, now this world is really not an ordinary chaos, I just heard, hey, old man, I told you don't tell others......" The black-clothed robe looked back and forth, and after making sure that no one was eavesdropping, he blocked his mouth with one hand, and said mysteriously in Pei Qing's ear, " I just heard someone say that five years ago, 30,000 people died in the world very mysteriously, and these 30,000 ghosts are still floating in the world, it is said that the great leaders of the underworld and the heavenly realm can be angry, you say that such a hurtful thing can happen, how chaotic those who are in power, in the end, it is still difficult for us people......
Pei Qingqing looked at the black-clothed robe with a half-believing half-heart, and interjected and asked, "Young man, who are you listening to here......
The black-clothed robe scratched his head, scratched his buttocks, looked at the sky with his eyes and pondered, his posture was the same as that of the soul next to him who was in a daze, and after a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said loudly: "That person seems to be called Xiaobai!"
Pei Qingqing opened his mouth slightly, and couldn't help but secretly say in his heart: Why are so many people calling such a riotous name these days......
At this time, in Pei Qingqing's house, Du Xiaobai sneezed and woke up from his deep sleep.
Because the poison on his body has not been completely dissipated, he has always had a low-grade fever, and just now he sent Pei Lao away, Du Xiaobai has been sleeping soundly.
This unprovoked sneeze not only woke him up from his dream, but also shook his injured arm to the point of pain. He wiped his nose and felt as if there was smoke in his throat, so he put on the gray cloth robe that Yun Yun had prepared for him, and went out of the house to find water to drink.
Pei Lao's home is very simple, three bedrooms and one living room, the decoration is antique, seeing these, I don't know why Du Xiaobai remembered the seventh master, the decoration style of these two old men is indeed very similar.
Xiaocang and Yunyun didn't know where to go, Du Xiaobai searched for two bedrooms and halls, but there was no water.
The smallest room was simply furnished, with a dozen oddly shaped flowers and plants on the floor, a pair of brown crockpots on a shelf next to it, and a table against the wall.
There were only two transparent bottles of the same size on the table. One bottle had a lid and was filled with clear liquid, while the other had no lid and only filled more than half a bottle of clear liquid.
Du Xiaobai first opened the bottle with a lid and smelled it, there was an indescribable smell, he shook his head and screwed the lid on.
Then he picked up another bottle without a lid and only half a bottle of liquid, smelled it, it didn't taste anything, thought it should be water, and he was so thirsty that he drank some of it, and after feeling a little more comfortable, he went back to sleep.
After a while, Yun Yun and Xiao Cang entered the courtyard from outside, and the two of them picked up a large bucket of water with a flat pole, and after putting it down steadily, Xiao Cang picked up a gourd and began to water the flowers and plants in the courtyard. Yun Yun wiped her sweat beside her and said, "I don't know which bastard poisoned the Lechuan River, this is good, I can only go so far to Zhishui River to carry water back in the future." ”
Xiao Cang carefully poured a few drops of water on a plant covered with thorns, and then got up and replied: "The master said, fortunately with me and Xiaoshuang, otherwise he has difficulty in drafting, and the master's health has not been very good recently, and we are often woken up by his cough in the middle of the night." ”
Yun Yun sighed and asked, "Isn't Pei Lao's body always very good?"
Xiao Cang shook his head, took a small bucket again and began to fill it with water: "More than two months ago, Xiao Shuang kept vomiting for some reason, and there were just no medicinal materials at home, so the master asked me to take care of Xiao Shuang, and he went to Lingdie Castle to buy medicine by himself, and he ran into Aunt Liu......
Yun Yun stood still and said, "You mean Aunt Liu Peixi?"
Xiao Cang nodded.
Yun Yun blinked her eyes and said suspiciously: "She is the first lady of the Stone Elephant Clan, doesn't she rarely go out to see people, and has always lived in the Stone Elephant Castle?"
Xiao Cang continued to scoop water into the bucket and said, "The master said that Aunt Liu was veiled that day, and she secretly went to a third-rate doctor in Lingdie Castle to see a doctor, and she happened to be bumped into by him. As a result, the master found that Aunt Liu's face was covered with purple bruises, and when he asked her what was going on, she didn't say anything, and after the master came back from the fight, her health began to be bad......"
Yun Yun was still a little incredulous, and exclaimed: "The first lady of the dignified stone elephant clan, one of the four great talents who was once admired by thousands of people, Liu Peixi, actually secretly went to Lingdie alone to see a doctor? Or to a third-rate doctor......! What's going on?"
"Yun Yun Xiaocang," a sudden shout came from behind the two, and the two of them knew each other by listening to the sound, it was Miss Xiao.
"After the person, chew the root of the tongue less. The master's affairs, he will take care of it. Xiao Yuyao glanced at the two of them.
Xiao Cang and Yun Yun suddenly felt an aura coming from their faces, and they invariably shrank their necks.
They are all very familiar with Miss Xiao's style of acting, doing their own things well and not caring about other people's private affairs. This attitude of doing things completely inherits the survival attitude of the Lingdie family, to put it nicely, it is called to sweep the snow in front of the door, and the well water does not interfere with the river water. To put it mildly, you play yours, and I play my own.
Although this style of acting is extremely controversial and even ridiculed by many people, it is this detached style that has allowed the Lingdie family to stand in the underworld for thousands of years.
"What about that man?" Xiao Yuyao asked.
"He's been having a low-grade fever, he should still be asleep now, miss, his recovery speed is really fast, he can already walk on the ground, Pei Lao is surprised!" Yun Yun said with a fluttering eyebrow.
"Well...... What about the teacher and Xiaoshuang?" Xiao Yuyao looked left and right, but there was no trace of Xiaoshuang and Pei Lao, so she asked again.
"Xiaoshuang helped the master send things to the Stone Elephant Castle, the master ...... He didn't tell us where we were going, but Uncle Xiaobai said that the master had sent a letter to one of my senior sisters, and I didn't know who he was talking about. Xiao Cang scratched his head and replied.
"Xiao Bai, uncle, senior sister?" Xiao Yuyao supported her chin with a perfect arc with her hand and asked, "Xiao Cang, are you called the man inside?"
"Yes!" Xiao Cang blinked, not knowing why his Yaoyao sister asked.
Yun Yun next to her laughed, touched Xiao Cang's head, and said: "The man inside, called Du Xiaobai, he said that he can also call him Xiao Bai, Xiao Cang looks at his old face, so he calls him Uncle Xiao Bai." Originally, Xiaocang and Xiaoshuang planned to call him brother, how similar are the names of the three of them, and the word 'small' is in the middle. ”
Xiao Yuyao then understood, and immediately said: "No, Xiao Cang, you call us sister, and you call that man's uncle, then don't we have to call him uncle too?"
Xiao Cang's eyebrows were raised, his hands pinched his waist, and he said in a milky voice: "Jianghu juniors, just call it~"
Xiao Yuyao burst out laughing, lightly touched Xiao Cang's forehead with her fingers, and said, "Okay, you are a Jianghu junior, you will say it!"
Xiao Cang grinned at Xiao Yuyao, revealing a tooth in his mouth.
Xiao Yuyao saw him like this, and she laughed even more, she took the small bucket from Xiao Cang's hand, and took the two of them into the house together, without asking a word about Xiao Cang's senior sister who forgot to answer.