Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Cart for the Dead

Wow, how can it still be audited... I finished writing the last chapter last night.,I was interrogated by the small black room.,It was only released this morning.,I thought I'd break it.。

Fortunately, no one watched it and no one found it. TwT

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King Snake went on to explain, "The last time I hung out with them, I mentioned you. Tell them a little bit about your past and what happened after I got to know you. They were very enthusiastic at the time, and they all wanted to get to know you, a young genius, a future master. As a result, I brought you here today, but this Ma Laosan has inexplicable convulsions..."

"It's okay Brother Snake, I didn't even take it to heart. And the two of them, Fat Brother and Brother Kuroko, aren't they very good to me! The third brother may be in a bad mood today, it's okay. Cheng Jingling smiled heartily, looking indifferent.

But he is actually a little bit mustard in his heart, not for the king snake, but for Ma Lianxi.

Wang Snake shook his head and said, "Anyway, it's my brother who took care of the matter today, I'm sorry, and I'll compensate you later." Now let's talk about the dancing girl, although the life of a dancing girl is not worth mentioning, but since we have saved it, we can't let Ma Laosan turn around and kill her again, otherwise where will our brothers' faces go? That's why I suggested that you take her back. ”

"Hmm..." Cheng Jingling thought for a while, still a little hesitant, and shirked: "But when I think of taking a woman home and living together in the future, I feel a little awkward." Brother Snake, I'm really not used to being taken care of by others, and I don't need ...... Why don't we give her her the deed of sale and let her leave on her own? ”

"Jing Ling, you have to try to change your mind. In the future, your road will definitely get wider and farther. In the future, you will have to change to a bigger house, buy a car and a horse, buy a family property, and don't you need someone to take care of it? How can you do everything yourself! You saved the green rament... Oh, it's this Wang Erya, and she took her out of the Qinglou, she will definitely be grateful to you, isn't it a good opportunity for you to cultivate your own cronies? Wang Snake persuaded again, and after speaking, he quietly looked at Cheng Jingling, waiting for his reaction.

After a while, seeing that Cheng Jingling was still embarrassed and unwilling, Wang Snake sighed lightly again and continued: "Of course, if you are really unwilling to accept her, then return her deed of sale to her and let her leave by herself." It's just that the slaves and maids bought back by Qinglou are all in other places, look at this Qingluo, um... Originally from Changmingzhou, thousands of miles away from our Yulan Prefecture. She is a dancing girl who can only sing and dance and serve people, she has no skills, she has no power to tie the chicken, and she has no relatives in Juma City, even if you let her go, she has nowhere to go. In the end, either starved to death outside, or didn't know which bad guy was cheaper, and if he was lucky, he could be taken away by a big family, and continue to be a slave and maid, if he was unlucky, he might be found by Ma Laosan and brought back to be tortured and killed. ”

After Wang Snake finished speaking, Cheng Jingling opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything if he wanted to refuse, but fell silent.

If Ma Lianxi directly killed this dancing girl named Qingluo today, although Cheng Jingling would be sympathetic and unbearable, he would not have any guilt.

After all, he couldn't stop it, he couldn't do it.

But now there is an opportunity to save his life, waiting for his own decision, and the life or death of a life is between his own thoughts. Seeing her die, Cheng Jingling couldn't bear it.

Even if she is left to fend for herself, if she dies, Cheng Jingling will still have a sense of guilt in her heart that "I didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of myself".

It's not Our Lady Cheng Jingling, but he hasn't had human life on his hands, and his heart is not so hard.

And in the end, he doesn't have to pay anything to accept the green rament, he just opens his mouth to eat. The reward is that someone will take care of their diet and daily life in the future, and the family will be more popular. is beneficial and harmless, which makes Cheng Jingling unable to find an excuse to refuse.

Maybe King Snake was right, he should really get used to being taken care of.

Although he used to be a slave, he is now a promising military guard. The talent is extraordinary, and there is also a booster login, and the friends are all the top sons in a state.

Talking and laughing are powerful, and there is no vain exchange.

What a private slave and maidservant, who used to be the same kind as him, but now he is just a group of ants.

Whether people are high or low, they must put themselves in a correct position, and they should not look down on themselves, but they should not despise them.

After figuring it out, Cheng Jingling finally nodded and agreed: "Okay, Brother Snake, I'll take this green radish away." It's just that... Third brother, he won't find me because of this, right? ”

"No!" Wang Snake said categorically: "At the wine table just now, although Ma Laosan's attitude towards you is average, has he ever embarrassed you directly in person?" You snake brother and I still have this little face, Ma Laosan, he will never dare to do anything to you. I've already said that you are my brother, if he deals with you, then he will really turn his face against me, and he won't even have to be a friend in the future! ”

"That'll be fine." After getting the promise of Wang Snake, Cheng Jingling put his mind at ease and put away the deed of sale with Wang Erya's name written on the table.

"Okay, then nothing else." The king snake asked, "Are you going home now?" ”

Cheng Jingling nodded: "Hmm." ”

"Why, you still recognize the bed?" King Snake teased him.

Cheng Jingling scratched his head and said a little embarrassedly: "It seems to be a little, it's not my own bed, and I can't sleep well." ”

"You can't do this, you will be lucky to be able to find a barren mountain and wild temple to settle in when you walk the rivers and lakes in the future. Many times, it is the quilt and the bed on the ground, what can you do? After chatting casually, Wang Snake patted Cheng Jingling's shoulder and instructed: "Okay, if you want to go back, go back as soon as possible, it will be dawn in a while." Have a good rest, and I'm going to be on duty in Weili tomorrow. Oh, by the way, that dancing girl, you can go straight to my carriage in the backyard and find her in a moment, and then let Lao Li send you both back. ”

"Oh, good." Cheng Jingling nodded in response, then changed his head and said strangely: "You have already arranged Qingluo in the carriage?" Brother Snake, this is sure that I will definitely accept her. ”

"Sure, I'm afraid that Ma Laosan will kill her while we are having fun. You don't know how small Ma Laosan's heart is! If you don't accept her, I'll let Lao Li send her away, find a random place, and let her fend for herself, it's better than staying here and waiting for death. King Snake explained.

"That's just as well." Cheng Jingling grinned.

Saying goodbye to the king snake, Cheng Jingling left the room, and as soon as he closed the door and turned around, the smile on Cheng Jingling's face faded a lot, and there was a thoughtful look between his eyebrows.

At this time, it was midnight, and all the guests who stayed overnight were basically working hard in the girl's room on the second and third floors.

There are few people on the first floor of Zhaochun Garden, not as lively and noisy as when Cheng Jingling came, and the festive hall is empty, giving people a sense of loneliness like a prosperous ending.

Occasionally, I saw one or two people, and they were all hugging the girl left and right, and they were drunk.

Like Cheng Jingling, who left alone at night, it was a little weird.

I haven't met Lan Qing again, even with her long-standing experience, today's incident is estimated to be scared.

Cheng Jingling came to the backyard, where King Snake's carriage was parked.

The coachman, Lao Li, was sitting on the edge of the car at this time, looking up at the stars in the sky in a daze, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

After seeing Cheng Jingling, he immediately jumped out of the car, bowed down and put down the stool, and said respectfully with a smile: "Cheng Gongzi, my second master has already ordered me to wait for you here and send you back to West Eighth Street." Oh, by the way, there is also a girl in the carriage, the second master has said hello to Zhao Chunyuan, let's just take it away. ”

"Well, thank you for your hard work." Cheng Jingling thanked him casually and stepped on the stool to get into the car.

Lao Li hurriedly lowered his head and said flatteredly: "Don't dare, don't dare, Cheng Gongzi, you are polite, you should do, you should do it." ”

After Cheng Jingling got into the carriage, Lao Li put away the stool on the ground, turned the head of the car, and drove away from the backyard of Zhaochun Garden.

Inside the carriage, there is a lamp hanging from the top, and there is a candlestick on the table, and two warm lights make the small carriage very bright.

Qingluo, the dancing girl who had just been injured by Ma Lianxi, was shrinking in the corner of the carriage at this time, with a piece of gauze on her head and bandages on her feet, sitting on the wall of the carriage and falling into a deep sleep.

When Qingluo was dancing in the room just now, she was not outstanding among the dancing girls, and her face was covered with blood after being injured by Ma Lianxi, so Cheng Jingling never saw what she looked like, and at this time she finally had the opportunity to take a closer look.

Qingluo looks a little younger than Cheng Jingling, that is, at the age of fourteen or fifteen. The skin is milky white, the face is small, the nose is small, the mouth is small, the willow leaves are curved eyebrows, although the eyes are closed at this time, and they can't tell the size, but Cheng Jingling remembers that they are quite big.

Although she couldn't see Qingluo's appearance clearly before, her eyes full of helplessness and horror, as timid as a little stray dog, made Cheng Jingling's memory very deep.

I have to say that although Qingluo is just a dancing girl and a maidservant, not a woman, she is still quite beautiful, at least in the middle and upper range.

Of course, this can also be said to be nonsense. Because there are basically no unbeautiful girls in the Qinglou, at most they have their own characteristics.

Otherwise, there are so many girls in the world who can't eat, and Qinglou is not a good hall, why take her in? Eat and drink, and teach singing and dancing?

It must be because she is beautiful, and she can sell it for a good price after she is raised, and she can return to her capital!

After seeing Qingluo herself, Cheng Jingling's somewhat hesitant and irritable heart couldn't help but calm down, feeling that she was really right to decide to keep her.

It's not that he wants to see it, or it's not just that, it's more because a living life is in front of him.

It's like if it's hearsay about how many people have died in such and such a place, you won't feel too much, you will only feel that natural and man-made disasters are very common. But when you go to the scene and see a corpse in front of you, the feeling in your heart must be indescribable.

Maybe it was because of the small bumps in the carriage from static to moving, or maybe it was because she felt Cheng Jingling's presence, Qingluo slowly opened her hazy sleepy eyes, her big and bright eyes were full of confusion, like a kitten that had just woken up, and it seemed that she couldn't figure out the situation.

And the moment she saw Cheng Jingling, Qingluo's eyes quickly filled with panic, and she hurriedly struggled to get up, regardless of the fact that her leg had just been injured, she immediately knelt down in front of Cheng Jingling, and said fearfully: "Slave Qingluo has seen the master." ”

"Oh? Master? Cheng Jingling raised his eyebrows and said curiously, "Do you know that I will accept you?" ”

The master is the name of his own slave to his master, and it stands to reason that the current Qingluo should be called Cheng Jingling Gongzi.

"Yes, it was Wang Shao who told the slave maid." Qingluo cautiously explained: "If you come, it means that you are willing to accept me and give the slave a chance to serve you." If、If you don't come, you can only count the life of the slave family as bad, and whether you live or die in the future depends on the will of God. ”

"Oh." Cheng Jingling nodded clearly, then sat down on the chair and ordered, "Okay, get up." What happened to the injury? ”

Qingluo obediently got up, continued to curl up in the corner, and replied softly: "Master Lao is worried, the slave family just has a small hole on his head, and his left ankle is broken, so it won't get in the way." ”

Saying that, Qingluo seemed to think of something, and hurriedly added: "The doctor said that the opening on the slave's head is not deep, and it will not leave a scar and affect the appearance!" The ankle didn't hurt the muscles and bones, just raise it for a few days, and you won't be disabled and delay your work! ”

Obviously, Qingluo clearly knows where her value is, for fear that she will be discarded by Cheng Jingling after the value is lost and becomes a waste.

Feeling Qingluo's nervousness, Cheng Jingling couldn't help laughing, and was about to say something more, when he suddenly heard the shouting and scolding of Lao Li, the coachman outside.

"Fuck the shit! Do you want to die? Do you know whose car this is? Pushing a dead man in front of the car, is it looking for bad luck? ”

Then, a cautious voice replied: "I didn't mean to bump into the nobles, I didn't mean to!" This is the corpse that has just been pulled out of Zhaochun Garden, it is getting late, and I can't get out of the city, so I am thinking about spending the night here, and then pushing it to Yizhuang when it is dawn tomorrow. I didn't expect, I didn't expect that there would be a car leaving the backyard so late. It's in the way of the nobles, I'm really sorry, I'm sorry, I'll push the car away now! Let's go now! ”

Cheng Jingling frowned slightly, lifted the curtain and poked his head out.

I saw that at this time, the carriage had already walked into the alley at the back door of Zhaochun Garden, and was about to go out of the alley to the street, and a trolley was just in front of the carriage.

Next to the trolley was an old man dressed in sackcloth and wearing a straw hat, thin and short, with dark skin like charcoal, and at this time he smiled at the coachman Lao Li with a flattering face.

Don't look at Lao Li's humble attitude towards Cheng Jingling, but as the saying goes, the prime minister's third-grade official in front of the door, the chauffeur of the dignified and jade-clothed chauffeur family, not to mention meeting an old man pushing corpses, even if it is an ordinary petty official, he must be polite to him!

Lao Li glanced at the old man with some disgust, and said angrily: "Do you have no time to go out, or do you not want to go out, and deliberately want to spend the night here?" Don't think I didn't see what you're doing to that corpse! Filthy the dead, and do such things without fear of retribution, bah! Get out of the way of the way! Don't stain the eyes of the nobles in the car! ”

"Yes, yes, yes."

Seeing that Lao Li just scolded but didn't mean to dig deeper, the old man was obviously relieved, nodded again and again, and moved the corpse cart to the very edge to make room for the carriage to pass through.

And at the moment when the old man turned the corpse cart, Cheng Jingling inadvertently saw the corpse that could be covered under the straw mat, and he couldn't help but sink in his heart at the moment, and shouted: "Slow! ”