Chapter Seventy-Four: Sheng Jing
"I miss my mother......"
Jiang Yifei suddenly whispered.
The land of the Western Regions is vast and boundless, and it is even more frightening at night.
The starlight seemed lonely and shrunken, far away, hanging high in the sky, unable to bear to look directly or eavesdrop on the stories of the Jianghu people.
Jiang Yifei began to venture alone at the age of eight, and he is thirteen years old this year.
For the first time in five years, he said this.
"I miss my mother......"
His voice was low, full of longing, pain, loneliness, self-improvement, self-reliance, and pride......
Xiao Teng didn't know what to say, he also missed his mother, but he was afraid that he would never see him again in this life.
However, he knew that his mother should still be good and strong. After all, she is accompanied by her husband and daughter.
Therefore, Xiao Teng only misses his mother.
Jiang Yifei is different.
"My mother is dead, and she called me that before she died......"
Jiang Yifei's voice was a little choked.
The spider stared blankly at Jiang Yifei. She didn't know what her mother was, because she was given up by her mother as soon as she was born.
For more than ten years, she has been gritting her teeth and working silently alone.
It is true that the master is very good to her and dotes on her, but the master is the master, not the mother.
If she were a mother, she might not be pushed into the fire pit for the sake of a few poisonous scriptures, or because she was afraid of power.
She now suspects more and more that a strong woman who is so shrewd and capable as her master will not know the details of the Peng family.
Even if she didn't know the details of the Peng family, how could she rest assured that she would be pushed out to be a concubine for others?
Even if it's just a stopgap measure, I'm afraid that no mother in the world will do this.
Mother?
What is a mother?
The spider was at a loss. Other people's mothers can work hard for their daughters, but her mother gave up on her at the beginning.
She only has endless resentment towards her mother.
"My mother committed suicide in order to give me and my father a way to live. She called me that before she died. My child...... My wretched child......"
Jiang Yifei sobbed in a low voice.
Xiao Teng didn't know how to comfort him, the spider lay on the horse's back and followed silently, unable to say a word of comfort.
Perhaps, Jiang Yifei doesn't want comfort, just listening.
The night is dark, three people, two horses, three sad people, and an unknown river and lake.
As the night grew darker, the horses stopped at some point, bowing their heads to nibble on the roots of the grass buried deep in the ground.
The spider fell asleep on the horse's back, and Xiao Teng and Jiang Yifei fell asleep leaning on each other.
The stars dimmed, and the cold wind gusted.
The night in the Western Regions is incomparably vast and profound, and it can bury all the pain of the rivers and lakes.
The night will pass, but what about the pain?
When the night was over, and the sun was shining, the spider woke up from its haze.
A piece of aroma is fragrant, Jiang Yifei is roasting rabbits, and I don't know where he got it back.
Xiao Teng also called for water and told her to get up and wash up.
The horses under him kept snorting and raising their hooves, and the sun was shining around them, and they were warm.
"Oh, you two are so early, I've become a lazy woman!"
Spider smiled and jumped off the horse to wash, smelled the roast rabbit in Jiang Yifei's hand, and couldn't help but praise: "Good craftsmanship, it's so fragrant!"
"Of course, do you think that I have been in vain for so many years in the rivers and lakes? Young master, I can not only enjoy wealth, but also endure poverty. ”
Jiang Yifei was smiling all over his face, and he became the carefree young master again. Last night's sadness has been buried deep in my heart.
Spiders are not stupid, Xiao Teng is not stupid, he/they will naturally not dig people's sore spots.
Who doesn't have a tragic past? Since they have to live, it's better to be happy.
All three of them understand this truth. Therefore, Spider smiled and went to wash, Jiang Yifei happily roasted the rabbit, Xiao Tengle was busy and didn't know what he was doing.
At the end of a breakfast, the three of them turned over and got on their horses, still carrying the sunshine on their backs, all the way to the west.
The horses under their crotches stretched out their hooves and galloped wildly for a morning, and finally a huge city appeared in the distance.
Between heaven and earth, a black city wall stretches endlessly, and more than a dozen huge city gates are opened, and the flow of people is like a tide.
This is the largest city in the Western Regions, Shengjing.
Jiang Yifei, Xiao Teng and Zhu'er got off their horses, led the horses, and slowly moved towards the city with the crowd.
The three of them came to Shengjing for the first time, and saw the crowd around them, and their appearance and dress were very different from the characters in the Central Plains.
The people here are taller, with rough facial features, more imposing, and very rough dress, many of them have strange decorations around their necks and bodies, and some even have eagles, wolves, and thick pythons......
Exotic.
The three of them looked strange and dizzying.
The crowd moved slowly, and when the three of them finally entered Shengjing, they were immediately stunned by the scene in front of them:
Magnificent!
Immensely magnificent!
Not to mention Jiang Yifei and Spider, even the most knowledgeable Xiao Teng was amazed by the grand scale of Shengjing in front of him.
It's too big, the streets are extremely wide, the high-rise buildings are lined up one after another, and there are as many people as ants......
Even with his extreme imagination, Xiao Teng would never have imagined that the ancients would be able to build such a magnificent city.
The three of them walked slowly on the extremely wide street of Shengjing, looking around and around, completely looking like a country talent entering the city.
"Three, do you want to stay in the hotel, our inn is the cleanest and cheapest in Quanshengjing......
Suddenly, someone rushed out to solicit customers, startling the three of them.
"Clean, cheap, young master, I never live in a cheap inn!"
Jiang Yifei said with a glare. Although it was the first time he had come to such a large city, he must not lose his momentum.
"Oh...... The most expensive inn?" The young man looked at Jiang Yifei, and at a glance saw that Jiang Yifei's clothes were expensive, and said with a smile: "The most expensive inn in Quanshengjing is Hongbin Building, not far ahead, 10,000 taels of silver for a night......"
"Oh...... That's pretty much ......."
Jiang Yifei smiled and waved his hand, led the horse and walked forward.
Spider and Xiao Teng secretly scolded Jiang Yifei in their hearts, but in the end, people spend their own money, and even they spend other people's money, so what else is there to complain about?
"Brother Xiao, why is everything so expensive when you enter the city? we don't have a penny in our hands......
The spider whispered in Xiao Teng's ear.
"yes...... We don't have any money......"
Xiao Teng is a little embarrassed, in front of a beautiful woman who trusts you very much, it is really embarrassing to have no money.
For the first time, Xiao Teng felt that money seemed to be more important than kung fu sometimes.
"What are you two muttering?" Jiang Yifei shouted dissatisfiedly: "Why don't you have money, isn't my money your money? Who said we don't have money, what we have is money!"
Jiang Yifei said as he took out a large handful of silver tickets from his arms, trembling in the air, looking like an upstart.