Chapter 26: A Sleepover
Jiang Cheng stopped in front of the door, staring at Chu Mubei and Ah Si vigilantly, his brows furrowed, "My family doesn't take in strangers." ”
Chen Xianyue was dumbfounded, she didn't dare to refute Jiang Cheng.
"Brother~"
Jiang Luo tried to be coquettish at him.
"Luo'er." His face was solemn, "Where did you get such a precious jade pendant?" ”
Their Jiang family was also a well-known family in the capital back then, and he only needed to look at it and knew that the jade pendant was unspeakably expensive.
But when the Jiang family raided the house, they couldn't even bring back a piece of loose silver, how could Jiang Luo have the previous jade pendant.
"His." Jiang Luo replied honestly, "I felt it out of him." ”
"He's a white-eyed wolf, what are you doing to save him?" Jiang Cheng refused to retreat and insisted on not taking him in, but instead had a good face towards Ah Si, who was standing quietly with his head down.
Chu Mubei pursed his lips and was silent, the reason why he didn't come to the rescue when he first saw him was just that he didn't feel the need to offend Yang Taishou's stubborn old man for them, because he was reprimanded by his father after he went back.
His father felt that Jiang Zheng was an upright official, and he also rescued Chu Li, so he shouldn't stand idly by.
As for letting Jiang fall to test the medicine......
Chu Mubei was quite apologetic.
"Sorry, ...... last time"
mentioned last time, Jiang Luo stood beside Jiang Cheng angrily, and pretended to help, "My brother is right, you are not a good person." ”
"But brother, you see that he has nowhere to go, why don't you let him sleep in the firewood room?"
Jiang Cheng saw that his sister was on his side, his face softened a little, he didn't say anything, and turned around and went back to the room.
Chen Xianyue beckoned him into the door and explained to him in a low voice, "Don't listen to Luo'er's nonsense, the family is too poor, there is not even a bed, she let you live in the firewood room to be warmer." ”
Chu Mubei smiled faintly and nodded respectfully at her, "Thank you for taking in, when my entourage comes back tomorrow, we will leave immediately." ”
Dinner was still wild vegetable soup, Chu Mubei stared at the bowl full of wild vegetables, and after a long time of melancholy, he ate nothing left.
The slightly bitter wild vegetables made his heart even more bitter, this world is so difficult, the people don't even have food for their stomachs.
Ah Si was nervous, he sat in the room, and he didn't even have a table. He didn't dare to eat too much, for fear of being kicked out.
This is the first time he has been sheltered by an eaves in more than two years of wandering.
When he was very young, his father and mother were gone, and he grew up eating a hundred family meals, and he didn't know how much he was bullied and blinded, and then he finally grew up and was able to rent a field with the landlord to farm, but when the natural disaster came, he followed the people in the village to beg in the countryside.
After dinner, before Jiang Luo got up, Ah Si was busy helping Chen Xianyue clean up the dishes and chopsticks.
Chen Xianyue stopped him, "No, you're tired for a day, so take a good rest." ”
"It's just ......" Chen Xianyue was a little embarrassed, "The family is too poor, and I can only sleep on straw mats at night." ”
"No, no." Ah Si had tears in his eyes, "This is already good." ”
He knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Chen Xianyue, Chen Xianyue hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks to help him up, "Manly husbands, don't kneel at every turn, we don't like people to kneel the most." ”
He stood up with red eyes, and Jiang Cheng led him to the next room to rest.
Jiang Ran nervously pulled his sister's sleeve, "Luo'er, why do you want to leave them at home, I'm afraid." ”
Jiang Luo wiped the corners of her mouth for her, and a beautiful dimple appeared on her face, "Don't be afraid, even if they are bad people, Luo'er will protect my sister." ”
"That's not right." Jiang Ran corrected her, "I...... I'm timid, but I'm going to protect my sister. ”
Jiang Luo handed a bottle of wound medicine to Chen Xianyue, and asked her to give it to Chu Mubei by the way when she went to the firewood room.
In the dead of night, she couldn't sleep, sitting on the steps of the courtyard and watching the scenery.
The stars are dotted and the crescent moon hangs high.
The night is as cool as water, lying down to see the morning glory Vega.
The poem popped into her mind, and she chanted it casually, followed by a slight sigh. She doesn't have such a good interest now, looking at the situation tonight, tomorrow is a sunny day, and the vegetable patch in the garden should be watered again.
As soon as she went out, she alarmed Chu Mubei, who was not sleeping in the firewood room. Chu Mubei wanted to see what this little girl was going to do, but who knew that she was tiptoeing out of the door, just sitting in the yard and admiring the moon.
In the night of the sky, I didn't expect her to fall into the dust from the official lady, and she didn't complain at all, but her mood was so open-minded and clear.
"Little girl, what are you doing when you don't sleep so late?" He walked out of the firewood room, as if a layer of light was shrouded in his body. The bridge of the nose is high, the face is comfortable, the jaw is smooth and clear, and especially the eyes, which are either distant or deep.
"What's the fuss?" He stretched out his hand and shook it in front of her, Jiang Luo suddenly came back to his senses, fortunately, fortunately, she is not very old now, otherwise this Chu Mubei must think that she is plotting against her.
"Admire the moon." Jiang Luo took it for granted.
"Is the injury on your foot getting better?"
Chu Mubei sat down beside her, "It's much better, thank you for the medicine your little lady gave." ”
"Yes."
The two were speechless for a while.
Chu Mubei turned to look at her sideways, with a thin and small body, his eyes were very bright and vibrant. Looking at her eyebrows and eyes, it shouldn't be too ugly when they grow in the future.
"I heard your little lady say that you have also been outside Yangchuan City?"
Jiang Luo stared at him in surprise, and told him about the things outside the city gate without exaggeration, "Those officers and soldiers have no humanity, exchange food for women, and if there are disobedient people who want to break into the city, they will be killed directly." ”
She said a lot, and seeing that Chu Mubei was silent, her voice stopped abruptly, and she asked tentatively, "You came to Yangchuan to investigate the matter of Qian Taishou, right?" ”
"yes." He smiled self-deprecatingly, his eyes full of disappointment, "It's a pity that there is no useful evidence. ”
"The people who were still killed were hunted down, and the dead were wounded."
Jiang Luo asked, "No, they closed the city privately, which should be a big crime." ”
"Qian Taishou said that it was because the plague was rampant that the city was closed as a last resort."
Chu Mubei rubbed the slightly messy hair on her head, "You will understand when you grow up, there are many things that adults can't help themselves." ”
"In fact, as long as you can get retribution for the bad guys, it doesn't matter what crime you charge." Jiang Luo tilted his head to look at him, his eyes shining as if there were hidden stars.
Chu Mubei suddenly felt that the clouds and mist in front of him suddenly dispersed, and he had been staring at the killing of people in front of the city gate for these days, and then he was tired of fleeing for his life because he was being chased and killed.
Jiang Luo is right, as long as Qian Taishou can be dismissed, expedient measures are not unavailable.
When Lingzhou sent people to Yangchuan, Qian Taishou was filial to Shangguan, as well as his looting of people's fat and ointment, and the matter of fish and flesh for the people!
He was happy in his heart, he didn't have a girl who had seen the film thoroughly.
"Little girl, when I go back to Qinzhou, will I send someone to pick you up and go to Qinzhou?"
"Not good." Jiang Luo refused.
He didn't understand.
Jiang Luo casually folded a dry grass and drew a pattern on the ground, "We just want to live in peace, we don't want to go to the whirlpool." ”