Today's matter of the academy has ended, and Bai Jinqing ran alone to prepare gifts and prayers. Shao Xi saw that there was nothing to do now, so he said hello to Hu Yushan and the others and left the Egret Academy, planning to go back to the Stargazing Inn to continue his cultivation.

Lao Wu, who was waiting outside the academy, saw Shao Xi come out and asked, "You asked for the rest of the fruit core that I gnawed last night, and went to buy a wooden box this morning to put it in, what are you for?" I sat outside thinking about it all morning and didn't figure it out. ”

Shao Xi glanced at Lao Wu and said casually: "It's a gift for Old Master Bai." ”

"What?"

Lao Wu's mouth opened widely, and a pair of yellow eyes glared at Shao Xi in surprise, saying in his heart that he was afraid that he was not crazy, right? Give the two remaining fruit pits from last night as gifts to Bai Dinggong?

Shao Xi looked at Lao Wu with a "don't make a fuss" expression and said: "When the gift was given to the old master, he liked it very much, and he especially thanked me, thank you for this." ”

After speaking, Shao Xi turned around and walked in the direction of the Stargazing Inn, leaving Lao Wu standing in place staring at his two eyes, with his mouth open for a long time without reacting, until Shao Xi called him.

"Old fellow, why are you stunned, why don't you go quickly? When you're hungry, find a place to eat. ”

"Huh? Oh! Here it comes. ”

Lao Wu frowned, shook his head and followed all the way, always wondering what was going on, why did the two fruit cores be given away as gifts? How could Bai Dinggong like two gnawed pits? It always felt like something was wrong.

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Back in the inn room, Shao Xi reached out and took the cowhide satchel over, took out all the contents and put them on the table.

Since the last time he knew that these gadgets were worth a lot in Taihe Trading House, Shao Xi took care of these things a lot more carefully, and now the glass beads and "fairy tears", including those Tianyan stones, have been wrapped into small cloth bags.

Shao Xi counted these items, and now there are still six glass beads left, three "fairy tears", and after removing the nine-eyed heavenly stone, the heavenly eye stone is only the twelve that Wu Rina gave him at the beginning. In addition, the most important one is a small prism that he took a lot of effort to complete.

The things in front of him were carefully selected by Shao Xi and left with the best quality.

The best and most beautiful glass bead Shao Xi gave to Wu Rina when he left the grassland, although the six in his hand are not as good as that one, but two are relatively special, they are two with phosphorus powder, where did the phosphorus powder come from? I have to ask Guo Youde.

Because the chemical properties of yellow phosphorus are too lively, only two pieces were produced after a lot of effort in the production. These two translucent glass beads will emit a faint light in the dark after being irradiated by the light, and they can be called night pearls in this era.

The other four glass beads, the Yunxia texture in them also looks very beautiful, and the colors are relatively rich, although they are worse than the one in Urina's hand, which is also considered to be of superior quality.

The three "fairy tears" have nothing to say, of course, there are fewer impurities, they look more transparent, the individual size is more moderate, the form is more graceful, and there is nothing special in other aspects.

As for the prism, it is about the length of a toothpick, less than a centimeter wide. I tried a lot of them, but in the process, they either mixed in too many impurities, or they shattered, after all, the conditions are limited, and it is still difficult to make things with non-spherical surfaces.

But this prism is the one that Shao Xi is most satisfied with, the overall look is very transparent, there are almost no impurities, bubbles, and the shape is also very standardized. Only two of them of this quality were made, he and Guo Youde kept one alone, and all the others were thrown away.

This is also Shao Xi's most precious thing, because it is too brittle and too easy to break, so the left and right layers are wrapped in cloth.

As for the twelve Heavenly Eye Stones with the best quality, Shao Xi planned to pack them with the Nine Eyes Heavenly Stones as a bargaining chip to exchange benefits with the Tang Sect, anyway, it was useless to keep this thing for himself, so it was better to simply exchange it for treasures with them.

Shao Xi picked out one of the four Yunxia glass beads, rewrapped the other things, and put them back in the cowhide satchel.

Asked Lao Wu to call Ning'er over, Shao Xi took out a piece of broken silver from his arms and stuffed it into Ning'er's hand and said: "You go and help me buy a beautiful box and come back, remember to ask for a brocade wrapping surface, a soft lining, and use it to put this bead, the more luxurious and beautiful it looks, the better, and you can keep the rest of the silver money for your own pocket money." ”

Ning Er looked at the piece of broken silver in her hand and asked with a surprised expression, "It's just to buy a box, why did Gongzi give me so much silver?" There will be a lot of money left after buying the box.,Childe said to leave me pocket money.,That's too much, right? ”

Lao Wu said to Ning Er with a smile on the side: "Our young master is a rich man now, this money is nothing to him, in the future, you have to get used to having more pocket money on hand than others." ”

After Ning Er heard Lao Wu's words, her face was incredible. Look at the young man in front of him, he is only two or three years older than himself, and he is already the rich man in his grandfather's mouth, and he doesn't seem to have much arrogance, and he treats his subordinates so kindly.

Shao Xi called Ning Er to his side with a smile, looked up and down, and said, "I was in a hurry last night, I didn't buy you a few decent clothes, after you went out to buy a box today, use the remaining money to buy some clothes you like and things you like to eat." I said, in the future, you can treat me as a brother, and don't call me a son, as long as it is within my ability, I will give you the best. ”

After speaking, he also glanced up at Lao Wu.

Lao Wu was also moved in his heart, nodded with a smile but didn't say anything.

Ning Er blinked at Shao Xi with a pair of big eyes, and only after a while did she come out and say, "Then I'll call you brother from now on?" One of you is my grandfather, the other is my brother, you will be Ning'er's relatives in the future, and Ning'er will serve you for a lifetime. ”

Shao Xi was amused by Ning Er's words.

"Silly girl! How can you serve us for a lifetime, you are going to marry when you grow up, and then your grandfather and brother will prepare a thick dowry for you, so that you can marry beautifully. ”

When Ning'er heard this, her head shook, her mouth pursed, and she said, "Ning'er won't marry!" Ning'er will stay by your side for the rest of your life, don't drive Ning'er away, Ning'er will be obedient. ”

Shao Xi and Lao Wu glanced at each other, and laughed in unison, unexpectedly Ning Er, this kid is quite affectionate.

"Silly boy, it's not to drive you away, even if you get married in the future, you are also my granddaughter, your brother's sister, and we are still a family."

Lao Wu likes the female doll in front of him very much, she is clever and well-behaved, and he is very happy to have such a good granddaughter now.

Who knew that Ning Er shook her head desperately and said, "Don't marry, don't marry!" I will not marry anyone, I will not go anywhere, I will stay with you. ”

As he spoke, the child's tears fell.

This can make Shao Xi and Lao Wu panic, how can this be said so well that they suddenly cried? I think that this child has been bereaved for a long time, and he has suffered a lot over the years, and now he has regarded the two of them as the closest people in his heart, as his only support in this world.

"Okay, good, if you don't marry, you won't marry! Let's Ning'er marry if she wants, and if you don't want to marry, you won't marry, Ning'er has the final say, and we all listen to Ning'er. ”

Shao Xi never dreamed that this kid was so stubborn in this matter? Anyway, let's coax her first, it's really unclear to be seen crying out.

Ning Er saw that Shao Xi and Lao Wu promised not to let her get married, and she burst into tears and laughed.

"Ning'er has no parents since she was a child, and now she finally has a grandfather and brother, I will never be separated from my relatives in the future, and I will never be a homeless little flower child again."

"Ning'er, don't worry, you will never be a little Hanako again, but since you recognize me as your brother, shouldn't you tell your past story to your brother? Let my brother know what Ning'er was like when she was a child? How have you spent all these years? ”

Ning Er nodded vigorously, blinking her big eyes and began to recall her childhood and experiences over the years.

"My family originally lived in Tanxi Village, 12 miles south of Daliang City, I remember when I was a child, my parents were farming for a living, on weekdays, my father would carry water and firewood to the nearby nunnery to subsidize the family, and my mother would also do some sewing clothes, female red embroidery work."

"Then your parents died of illness?"

Ning Er shook her head, with an expression of pain and fear on her face, and said, "One day when I was four years old, my father and mother went to the nunnery to deliver firewood and sewn clothes, but I didn't want the nunnery to catch fire that day, and neither the nuns in the nunnery nor my father and mother could escape alive. Later, I heard from the people in the village that a group of black-clothed people rushed into the nunnery, killed all the people in the nunnery at that time, and set fire to the nunnery, and my father and mother were among them. ”

After hearing Ning'er's story, Shao Xi's memory of Feng Yuyan in his mind was instantly activated. The picture of a group of black-clothed people chasing after him and Lao Wu in the fire of Fengjiazhuang seemed to be right in front of him, and the pain on Feng Yuyan's body and the feeling of suffocation before death after the black-robed man knocked him over were as if he had experienced it himself.

How similar the scenes!

Lao Wu also had a solemn face at this time, as if he was thinking about something, but he didn't speak. Shao Xi knew that he didn't want to say it, and it was in vain to ask if he asked, so he continued to ask Ning'er.

"Have you heard of those men in black? The leader of them was a black-robed man in a black cloak? And how have you come through all these years? ”

Ning Er tilted her head and thought about it, then shook her head and said, "I only heard that those people are very mysterious, and the others don't know." Since my father died, someone wanted to sell me to a rich family as a child daughter-in-law, and after I escaped, I have been begging on the street, making a little flower child, I have been bullied all these years, and now I finally met my grandfather and brother. ”

Shao Xi sighed, patted Ning'er's shoulder and said, "Don't worry!" In the future, you will have a home and relatives, and you will no longer be bullied. ”

Ning Er nodded happily, "Then I'll go buy a box for my brother, buy a few more sets of clothes to wear, and I'll be back soon." ”

After saying that, he turned and ran towards the door.

Shao Xi looked at Ning'er's back, pulled his neck and asked again, "Ning'er, what's your surname?" ”

"My surname is Sue!"

"Oh, surnamed Sue, huh? Suning? ”