Chapter 17: Selling Yourself to Bury Your Mother
After a cursory glance, Chi Dongyu was obviously not interested in the expensive Night Bone Jewelry. What she liked at a glance was a pair of yin and yang fish pendants, a yin fish, a yang fish, the material was average, and it was an extremely hard translucent stone.
Ning Qingru looked at this thing, couldn't name it, and didn't bother to ask the store, after paying the money, he and Chi Dongyu left here.
Standing on the side of the street, Chi Dongyu held the two pendants and looked through the sunlight to observe their materials.
The translucent stone is brighter in sunlight, but it is still cloudy. Chi Dongyu watched it for a long time, but he didn't see a name, so he didn't continue to look at it, he accepted the Yin Fish pendant, and handed the other one to Ning Qingru.
Ning Qingru naturally knew what she meant, and she already knew it when she took a fancy to these two pendants.
"Nu, won't you put it on for me?" Ning Qingru stretched his neck and said with a smile.
Chi Dongyu gave him an angry look, but he still untied the red rope with both hands and hung it around his neck.
Under the sun, the young men and women with beautiful faces seem so intimate, like love, and the passers-by have stopped and cast a kind gaze.
Who hasn't been younger?
After Ning Qingru also put on the pendant for Chi Dongyu, the two clasped their hands, looked at each other and smiled, and continued to walk forward, there was a feeling that they seemed to have found it.
Time passes slowly.
When it was almost noon, Ning Qingru and the two of them had actually gone shopping, and they had bought everything they should have bought, so they discussed and went to see the famous Tianque of Changxin in the afternoon.
I heard that the building is the tallest building in the south of the entire Dayan, straight into the clouds, after reaching the top, you can hear the whispers of the immortals, see thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, as if you can reach out to pick the stars.
Ning Qingru yearns for this kind of depiction.
He had actually seen the towering tower on the first day, but he had never had time to go. Today, he decided that he had to go and see it.
At lunchtime, Ning Qingru and Chi Dongyu found a very famous restaurant and ordered good food and drinks, Ning Qingru asked Chi Dongyu with a wicked smile: "Can I drink?"
Chi Dongyu's good-looking brows furrowed slightly, shook his head, and said that he would not drink anything. Ning Qingru was dumbfounded and asked her why, and she told her the embarrassing past of being ugly after drinking for the first time.
Ning Qingru looked at her gently, and when he heard her say, "There is no one around to take care of herself", he gently held her hand and said: "I don't have any skills, I have learned to flirt with little girls for a few years, I don't know what the future will be like, but I will learn to take care of you, as long as I want." ”
Chi Dongyu stopped talking, subconsciously broke free from Ning Qingru's big hand, shrank to his chest, and became silent.
Seeing this, Ning Qingru was just silent for a moment, and the corners of her mouth slightly hooked up a warm smile.
Well, it's only when you're serious. Although Chi Dongyu is not a human, he looks serious and is still quite cute.
The appetizer was served first, and Ning Qingru put a chopstick in the bowl for her, and said, "Don't think nonsense, eat, and go to see how tall that day is in the afternoon after eating." ”
"Hmm......" Chi Dongyu replied with some restraint.
Ning Qingru didn't care why she suddenly got up, and ate with a smile.
The wine came up, and the dishes gradually came together, Chi Dongyu seemed to have just sorted out his thoughts, and secretly glanced at Ning Qingru, and for the first time felt that he was handsome, and the whole person was shining as if he was shrouded in divine light.
Separated so closely, Ning Qingru naturally knew her small movements, and while smiling slightly, a touch of strangeness also swelled up in his heart, he felt more and more that Chi Dongyu, the little fox, was a goblin who could steal his heart.
After three rounds of wine, the meal will be exhausted.
The entrance to the lobby of the restaurant suddenly became noisy.
It seems that someone is shouting insults at someone, and there is a group of spectators who are heckling.
Ning Qingru looked up.
There was a dirty girl with thatch stuck in the collar at the back of her neck, and she was standing at the door of the restaurant, and the guy in the restaurant was frowning to get rid of this Hanako, so as not to delay the business. The drinkers sitting on the side were interested in having fun, and they were all adding to the fire.
The girl was full of anger, and she couldn't hold on to the guy in the restaurant, so she just refused to leave. The guy in the restaurant was about to be rough, but he was calmed by the girl's red eyes and resentful eyes, and the scene froze for a while.
Ning Qingru stood up and walked over.
"What's going on?"
When the guy in the restaurant heard someone asking, his heart was relieved, and when he turned around and saw that he was a handsome boy in brocade clothes, his attitude was even more respectful, and he said helplessly: "Son, forgive me, this little Hanako wants to sell herself to bury her mother, and no one pays attention to her after wandering around the street for a long time, so she plans to go to our restaurant to have a look, but we are also a businessman, how can we let this kind of disheveled person enter, so what do other guests think? But this little Hanako just doesn't leave, so there is no way." ”
Selling himself to bury his mother, Ning Qingru only noticed this point.
The people of Dayan, very few of them do this kind of thing, plus this place is Changxin City, next to the imperial capital Changling, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the foot of the Son of Heaven, the people of this area are probably the best in Dayan, why are they so miserable that they sell themselves to bury their mother?
Ning Qingru's inquiring gaze focused on the girl, the girl's hair was scattered, very short, as if it had been cut, her face was dark, she couldn't tell whether it was dirty or black, and the clothes on her body were full of holes and patches, which was very in line with the image of a beggar.
However, when he saw a chain of iron hanging from the girl's neck, his expression was shocked.
"How did you get this!" Ning Qingru stared at the girl with a stern expression, and at the same time, looked at the iron piece more carefully, hoping that he had seen it wrong.
However, when he finally recognized the extremely smooth "Ning" character, his whole body trembled slightly.
Without waiting for the girl to respond, he raised his voice, pointed to the piece of iron, and said angrily, "How did you have this!
"Fart! This is my father's! He's dead! It's the only thing! You people, do you want to take the last thing my father left me?!"
As the girl spoke, she finally couldn't hold back and cried heartbreakingly.
Ning Qingru slowly closed his eyes, and after a moment, he stabilized his mind and said softly: "I'll help you bury your mother, you don't need to sell yourself, tell me your father's story." ”
The girl suddenly stopped crying, her eyes widened in disbelief, she looked at Ning Qingru's handsome appearance, expensive clothes, and didn't say anything for a long time.
"What's wrong?"
Chi Dongyu walked to Ning Qingru's side, she just heard that Ning Qingru's emotions were a little out of control, so she couldn't sit still, and after paying for the wine and food, she walked out.
Ning Qingru stared at the girl, shook her head, and then took Chi Dongyu's hand, walked up to the girl, and said, "Follow me." ”
As he spoke, he walked towards his little courtyard.
Although the girl's eyes were full of distrust, when she thought of her mother, she gritted her teeth and kept up, she would not give up a chance.
"Whose young master is this? ”
In the restaurant, some diners witnessed the passage and saw Ning Qingru walking away, so they started to talk about it.
"I don't know, it's very face-to-face, but with his temperament and the stunning appearance of his female companion, I'm afraid the family background will not be too bad. ”
"Don't say it, that son's female companion is really beautiful, and she has a feeling of charm to the bones, tsk, no wonder that son looks a little weak, no matter who it is, he can't stand such a woman. ”
"Yes, that mother-in-law, it looks more energetic than Qin Huakui, who spent a lot of money to sleep on the Huai River, if you let Lao Tzu press under you, wouldn't it be a desperate plough for a night?"
"Hahahaha........."
Drinkers, the market is diverse, and the most indifferent scoundrel.
Ning Qingru led the girl to her small courtyard, and handed over all the money on her body to Chi Dongyu, saying, "Go buy a few clothes she can wear." ”
Chi Dongyu wanted to say that what he had given him before hadn't been used up, but when he saw that Ning Qingru's expression was wrong, he didn't say anything and did as he was told.
Ning Qingru took out a few stools from the house, saw the girl standing in the courtyard at a loss, frowned slightly, pointed to the stool, and said with a hint of command, "Sit." ”
The girl didn't move.
Ning Qingru stared at her, silent, and the girl stubbornly raised her head to look at him, not giving in.
"Northerners?"
Ning Qingru asked suddenly.
The girl's expression froze stubbornly, and she looked at Ning Qingru suspiciously, not knowing why this person asked her so surely, and there was not even a hint of speculation in her tone.
"Which boundary?"
Seeing that she didn't speak, Ning Qingru changed the question and asked again, but the girl still didn't speak.
He looked up to meet her.
Saw a fleeting vigilance.
He sighed slowly and said something that made the girl's eyes widen.
"I'm also a northerner. ”
.......
"My family lives in Dongjin City, I grew up in the heavy snow in the north, and I came to the south, but I was forced, and now at this time, there is probably sparse snow in the north, right?"
Ning Qingru raised her head and looked at the sky, and said very plainly, but the girl heard a strong sense of longing.
She lowered her head slightly, and also remembered the heavy snow on the mountain, and her eyes were slightly red.
"I plan to help you bury your mother, because you are from the north, and because of the chain of iron around your neck, what I need from you in return is to tell me how your father died, and why you two ended up in the south. ”
Ning Qingru said lightly.
The girl subconsciously stretched out her hand to rub the iron piece, and gradually, the weakness disappeared, and the rest was full of resentment.
Ning Qingru carefully observed the change in her expression, shocked by the hatred in her eyes, he didn't know what was going on, why a girl who should have been innocent was forced to be like this. Not only did he live outside his hometown, but he also fell so hard that his mother died and had no money to bury him.
He needs to know why.
Not for anything else, just for the chain of iron, which is the thing of his Guanning soldiers.