Chapter 19: The Beggar
In the afternoon of the next day, Ye Chaoyan and Li Jingmo returned to the city.
Ye Qiyang and Xiaoliu were busy in the front shop, and Mrs. Ye was the only one in the courtyard in the back.
Seeing Li Jingmo coming, and hearing that Li Jingmo wanted to rent her own guest room, the smile on Mrs. Ye's face was not to mention how happy.
"What to rent or not, Li Gongzi has so much kindness to our family, you can live if you want, you can live as long as you want!"
Li Jingmo insisted on setting up a deed to rent a house, and made a witness to the Zhuang Zhaiya people, saying that it was for Ye Chaoyan's good.
Mrs. Ye thought about it, although they both wanted to match these two children together, they had to pay attention to proportions before they really combined.
If you ruin your daughter's reputation, you will lose more than you gain.
Mrs. Ye was more satisfied with Li Jingmo in her heart, and felt that he was very thoughtful.
Li Jingmo paid for the house for three months first, and Mrs. Ye had to accept it in front of the tooth man, and she already planned to use the silver to make a bed and quilt for Li Jingmo, and then make two sets of clothes.
In the evening, Ye Qiyang came back from the front bunk, saw the rich dishes, and knew that Li Jingmo had rented a guest room in his own house and wanted to stay for a long time, so he happily ate an extra bowl of rice.
Nothing was said all night.
The next day, Li Jingmo got up early in the morning and took his new article to the Zongwen Academy.
On the way, he bought another box of dim sum and gave it to the master of the academy.
Three years ago, he was a student at the Zen Academy.
After Li Wenyuan's accident, he was affected, and he never went to the academy again under the obstruction of the Li family.
Not long after Li Jingmo left, Ye Chaoyan cleaned himself up, picked up the back basket with a lid and went out.
She stayed in the space at night and saw that the seeds of the golden ginseng scattered in the field had sprouted.
The ginseng in the space has reached the three-year medicinal age in reality and can be sold, and she is going to the medicinal herb market to find Boss Zhao.
Although the pharmacy is now on the right track day by day, there is a daily turnover in the account, and there are still many places where money is needed.
Some medicinal materials have to be sold and replenished, and the precious medicinal materials must be replenished slowly, and the medicinal materials that have been emptied in the space have to be replenished little by little, in case of emergency.
Therefore, she has to keep making money.
The street is still lively, but there are many more officials patrolling the street.
When he arrived at the medicinal herb market, Ye Chaoyan found that there were obviously fewer people in the market than last time.
Fortunately, Boss Zhao is here.
"Miss Ye!" Seeing that Ye Chaoyan and Boss Zhao hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, his face was full of smiles.
The last time Ye Chaoyan sold the Ganoderma lucidum to him, he sold it for a good price, and he made a lot of money.
Ye Chaoyan put down the back basket and first took out a ginseng from his sleeve pocket to show Boss Zhao.
Boss Zhao took it, looked up and down, and nodded slowly, "The color is golden brown, the beard is long and tough, and the body is exquisite, this is the best wild ginseng." Miss Ye, is this really your own planting? ”
"Of course." Although Ye Chaoyan didn't know why, the things grown in the space were of similar quality to those dug up in the deep mountains and old forests.
Boss Zhao didn't get to the bottom of it, and said briskly: "I want as many as you have." ”
Pay with one hand and deliver with the other.
Ye Chaoyan counted the silver tickets, and his heart was happy.
"Boss Zhao, why are there so many officers and soldiers on the street today? I also have fewer people watching the market. Ye Chaoyan felt that Boss Zhao had a wide network and was well-informed, so he asked casually.
When Boss Zhao heard this, he whispered: "I heard that the emperor drove the expedition in person and lost to the Turks in Sunit City. The arrogance of the Turks rose all of a sudden, and Pengyang City was close to the Turks, so I was afraid that it would be chaotic. Miss Ye, you should pay attention to safety when you go out recently. ”
Ye Chaoyan frowned, thinking to himself how could the emperor of this world be so stupid, and he could be defeated by the imperial driver.
Boss Zhao sighed again, "I heard that the queen of heaven is furious, I'm afraid the sky is going to change." ”
Ye Chaoyan returned with an empty basket on his back, and after a closer look on the way, he found that there were more beggars.
The beggars, who were squatting by the wall with a broken bowl and begging, saw a girl who was neatly dressed and had a sweet and pleasant appearance look at them, and at once surrounded them.
"Girl, it's okay!"
Ye Chaoyan instinctively took two steps back, "Hugh wants to touch me!" ”
She frowned in disgust and lowered her head to dust off her clothes.
She saw that the beggars were unkempt, unclothed, and thin.
In her previous life, she had never left the guards, and the beggars in the capital had never been close to her, and everything she knew about the beggars was from the people in the house.
They say that beggars are lazy and lazy.
She stared at the first beggar and asked, "How did you become a beggar?" ”
When the beggar heard this, tears flowed from his eyes, "Girl, I fled back from Guanwai, Sunit lost the Tang Dynasty in the First War, many soldiers were captured, the people were displaced, the houses were burned, the grain was robbed by the Turks, and my wife and children were also ......"
Speaking of sadness, the beggar can't cover his face and cry bitterly.
Ye Chaoyan's small face condensed, a look of compassion appeared in his eyes, and he took out a piece of broken silver from his pocket and handed it to the beggar, "This silver is for you, buy some food." ”
When the other beggars saw her kindness, they stretched out their hands and cried out, "Girl! Have mercy on me! "Girl, okay!"
Ye Chaoyan simply took out the copper plate and broken silver in the money bag and asked the beggars to divide it.
The beggars were grateful to Dade, and shouted "Good people have good rewards", and some even knelt down for Ye Chaoyan.
Ye Chaoyan shrugged his eyebrows slightly, it seems that most of the beggars were forced to fall into this situation.
If there is a good life, I am afraid that no one wants to be a beggar.
Most of the beggars took the money to buy food, Ye Chaoyan saw a beggar with long hair curled up in the corner, he didn't move, and he didn't stand up when everyone was asking for money just now.
Ye Chaoyan walked over and asked softly, "Aren't you hungry?" Do you want silver? ”
Plop!
The beggar fell to the ground.
Ye Chaoyan was startled, and quickly squatted down and pulled up his wrist to check the pulse.
Some of the beggars who remained in the same place gathered around and took the initiative to say:
"Girl, this man has been here for days, and he is so strange that he doesn't talk to us."
"He doesn't go to beg, he squats here, and we pity him for giving him some food, or he would have starved to death."
"He doesn't look like a local."
"I must have escaped from the gates."
In the gossip of the beggars, Ye Chaoyan had already figured out the situation of the beggar who fell to the ground, he was very weak and had internal injuries on his body.
Ye Chaoyan said: "You help me carry him away, he is injured and needs to be treated immediately!" ”
The beggars saw that Ye Chaoyan was a good person and enthusiastically helped.
In this way, Ye Chaoyan led them to Jishitang, entered the backyard from the alley next to them, and placed the fainted man in Li Jing's ink room first.
Mrs. Ye came out of the house when she heard the sound and was startled when she saw five or six beggars standing in the courtyard, "What's going on?" ”
The beggars hurriedly retreated, not daring to rush into Mrs. Ye.
Ye Chaoyan came out of the house and grabbed his mother's arm, "Mother, I rescued a person, you help watch first, I'll go ahead and get some medicine." ”
Then he said to the beggars, "You can go, and if there is anything that you can't get through, you can come to the pharmacy and find me." ”
An hour later, Ye Chaoyan and Mrs. Ye worked together to clean up the beggar.
This man is tall, and Xiaoliu's clothes are not good at all, so he has to take Li Jingmo's clothes and put them on him.
After washing his face and arranging his hair, Ye Chaoyan and Mrs. Ye lay in front of the bed to watch.
"Tsk, I didn't expect a beggar to be a talent." Mrs. Ye was surprised.
"He's definitely a refugee, not a beggar." Ye Chaoyan was determined.
"Mother, I heard that there is a war in Sunit City in the north, the Tang Dynasty was defeated, and the people of the Tang Dynasty in the city have suffered, and now there are many refugees who have fled from Pengyang City, which is so pitiful."
Mrs. Ye and Ye Qiyang have lived all their lives, and what they do is to cure diseases and save people, and they have always been kind-hearted, and when they heard this, they couldn't help but say:
"It's really pitiful, look at his fine skin and tender meat, he must have been the old man and young master of a rich family."
Ye Chaoyan looked at the man's appearance, he was in his thirties, he should have already started a family, his family must have been taken away by the Turks, he was disheartened, so he was depressed and didn't speak.
Li Jingmo came back in the afternoon, and when he entered the house, he saw a weak strange man lying on his bed, and he was just about to go out to find Ye Chaoyan to ask what the situation was, when he saw Ye Chaoyan coming from the kitchen with a bowl of boiled medicine.
He took the initiative to help her open the curtain, and when he saw her little face stained with black ash, his black eyes moved slightly.
She learned to make fire, but she was not very proficient, and every time she made her face dirty, like a little cat.
Li Jingmo took the medicine and gestured with his chin, "Your face is dirty." ”
Ye Chaoyan hurriedly took out a handkerchief and wiped it, glanced at the man on the bed, and whispered: "This person is a refugee who escaped from outside the border, very pitiful, I will put it here for the time being, but my mother is cleaning up the utility room, preparing to set up a bed there and let him sleep there." ”
Li Jingmo saw that the man on the bed was breathing weakly, and said, "No, let's set up a bed in my room." The utility room is not ventilated, it is not safe for him to sleep there when he is so weak, and he has to have someone by his side to take care of him, so I watch him at night. ”
Ye Chaoyan looked at the books on Li Jingmo's table and pursed his lips, "Will it affect your reading?" ”
Li Jingmo smiled gently, "No." ”
Seeing that Ye Chaoyan wanted to help the man up, Li Jingmo took the initiative to go over and take over the job and let the man lean on his arm.
Ye Chaoyan fed the man medicine spoonful by spoonful.
Although the man was weak and in a coma, as if he could hear them, he took the bitter medicine and swallowed it without spilling a drop.
The obedient patient, Ye Chaoyan liked it, and after taking the medicine, he took a candied fruit and stuffed it into his mouth.
Li Jingmo sat at the desk reading a book, and saw the girl guarding the bed staring at the patient with a curious face, and felt that she was so kind.
A wave of tenderness flowed through his heart, and he asked, "What injury did he have?" ”
Ye Chaoyan's delicate eyebrows furrowed, "He has arrow wounds and knife wounds, as well as internal injuries, he should have been beaten." Fleeing from Guanwai to Pengyang, his body was malnourished and very weak, but fortunately I found him today, and if it was too late, he would have died. ”