Chapter 139: Warmth
The carriage went straight into the city, and under the whip of the shirtless and strong man, only the neighing of the three fierce horses pulling the carriage could be heard.
Then, the three fiery red horses with one-horned heads all four hooves fluttered, and they stepped into the void in unison, and disappeared again.
"It turned out to be a Void Beast, but I don't know which big man has arrived. ”
The lieutenant guarding the city gate was very knowledgeable, and he immediately recognized the origin of the one-horned cart-pulling beast, and couldn't help but whisper to himself.
Void Beast, ranked fifteenth in the "Kyushu Spirit Horse List", it is said that he has the blood of the Taixu Ancient Dragon, and can travel in the void, and can travel 80,000 miles a day.
If it weren't for its irascible temper and difficult to domesticate, it would be enough to rank in the top 10 on the list.
On weekdays, it's rare to be able to walk with a Void Beast.
It can pull three such foals at the same time.
It is conceivable that the identity and status of the person who came must be extraordinary.
Besides, Jiang Xiaoman and the three of them went all the way out of the Star Picking Tower, and they had already spent more than 3,000 taels of silver before they walked out of half a street, which was naturally mostly due to Ji Xiaoyue's girl.
The little girl seemed to want to express her indignation against Jiang Xiaoworm by shopping, so she walked all the way to buy all the way, but she had the style of spending a lot of money without frowning when Xuan Zhiqiu was in Fancheng that day.
However, take a closer look at the big bags and small bags that Jiang Xiaoman is carrying at this time, there are very few things that the little girl uses herself, except for a purple tassel cloak that is only more than ten taels of silver, the rest are all needed for the next journey north into Qin.
Despite this, Ji Xiaoyue enjoyed it, a pair of big eyes were about to squint together, jumping in the snow with her hands behind her back, and from time to time teasing the naughty boy who was building a snowman on the side of the road, but she was quite at ease.
Beiliangcheng is located in the northernmost part of the Southern Regions, and the border land is in general, and the people of the three states in the North are naturally not afraid of the cold.
Although this year's snow came very early, it was also very coincidental.
Such a sudden heavy snow is regarded as an auspicious omen for the people of the Northland, indicating that next year will inevitably be a bumper year.
Although it is a good sign, for poor families who have no money to fill winter clothes, this kind of weather is the most difficult.
Fortunately, there are many good people in the peaceful and prosperous world, regardless of whether he is a true and good person who is enthusiastic about the ancient way or a hypocrite who is greedy for fame.
In short, after a night of snowstorms, there are many large businessmen who scatter their wealth to help poor families.
"I said Ji Xiaoyue, you dead girl is really generous and tight," Jiang Xiaoman rubbed the little girl's head and scolded with a smile.
When Fang just passed by a slum, Ji Xiaoyue couldn't walk anymore, turned around and took Jiang Xiaoworm and Miss Xiao to Qianzhuang, and exchanged more than 2,000 small silver tickets for one or two.
It is also a loss that Beiliang City is the largest city in the north.
Otherwise, if it were another small town, which money bank would have so many small silver ticket reserves.
That's it, in order to exchange for these silver tickets, the little girl has an extra 100 taels of handling fees!
This made Ji Xiaoyue's heart ache for a while, and the people who talked about opening the money bank all the way were black-hearted ghosts, and it wasn't until she entered the slum with low and dilapidated houses again that she regained her smile.
Xiao Ying was a little puzzled, although she could probably guess Xiaoyue's purpose, she still cast an inquiring look at Jiang Xiaoman.
"Miss Xiao looks at it with peace of mind, and you will get used to it slowly in the future. ”
Jiang Xiaoman shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly.
As early as when I was in Fancheng, I was already used to Ji Xiaoyue's stupid Nizi's excessive kindness, but I didn't think it was strange.
I saw Ji Xiaoyue squatting under a lush old tree, concentrating on spreading out one silver ticket after another, and then wrapping each one with a small pebble.
The little girl moved quickly, and after a while, she wrapped the thick pile of silver tickets one by one, and stuffed her crumpled brain into the small burden on her body, her big eyes blinked, and she seemed to be very satisfied with her masterpiece.
Jiang Xiaoman's heart was playful, and he quietly walked behind the tree and then flew up and kicked the trunk of the tree.
The snow was already a bit unusual, but fortunately, the northland forest was hardy, and it was not difficult to see that the old tree was lush with branches and leaves, and the canopy was covered with a thick layer of snow, but it was still full of green.
It's just that although it was snowed overnight, it was not as tightly rooted in the canopy as the branches and leaves, and with Jiang Xiaoman's kick, the snowflakes fell from the trees in an instant.
"Jiang Xiaoman!"
I only heard a scream from the little girl, and in a blink of an eye, she became a 'little snowman'.
Not only is the hair gray, but even the eyelashes are stained with a thick layer of 'white frost'.
Ji Xiaoyue's eyes turned red all of a sudden, and she held a small burden in her hand and glared at the young man who turned around and ran, and she didn't wipe the snowflakes on her body, and she was about to cry when she looked at it.
Ji Xiaoyue was very aggrieved, this dead worm, she hadn't lost her anger yet, and she came to bully herself again, it was really bad.
Jiang Xiaoman turned around and ran, but after waiting for a long time, he didn't see Ji Xiaoyue chasing after him, so he couldn't help but stop curiously and turned around to look, and saw Ji Xiaoyue, the girl, standing under the tree, with a pair of big red eyes, and a mouth staring at him.
Snowflakes fell all over the little girl's shoulders, snow-white clothes, like a wronged little white rabbit for a while.
Xiao Ying smiled helplessly. stepped forward and hugged Ji Xiaoyue in his arms, gently helped the little girl brush off the snow on her head, and couldn't help glaring at the young man standing not far away.
Ji Xiaoyue leaned her head on Miss Xiao's arms, looked at Jiang Xiaoman from afar, puffed out her mouth and didn't speak.
Jiang Xiaoman, who knew that he had made a mistake, lowered his head, moved in small steps in front of the two girls, looked at the little girl's red eyes, and smiled embarrassedly: "That...... That, I was wrong, don't cry. ”
The gentle voice is like a stone thrown into the lake, and a stone can frighten a thousand waves.
Jiang Xiaoman didn't comfort her, but the more she thought about it, the more she felt sad, the more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she became, and she couldn't help it, and cried out with a "wow".
"Dead worm, bad worm, rotten worm!" The little girl broke free from Xiao Ying's arms, fell on the snow, cried pitifully, picked up the snow and smashed the young man in front of her, and choked up, "You die! You die! Bastard Jiang worm! I don't like you anymore, I don't want to go to Beiqin with you, I'm going to find Aunt Lin and I'm going to tell her that you bullied me!"
"I was wrong, I'll buy you sugar gourds later. Jiang Xiaoman didn't hide from the painless snowflakes, squatted down and raised his hand to touch the little girl's head, and chuckled.
The sky gradually cleared, and on the old tree in front of the three of them, there were red flowers blooming, which were extremely eye-catching among the golden sunlight and the vast white snow.
The next moment, the little girl pursed her mouth and really stopped crying, in the snow, raised her little head and blinked at the young man in front of her with a pair of big eyes, but her voice was still a little choked: "Really?"
Helping the little girl up from the snow, Jiang Xiaoman nodded and chuckled: "Naturally, it's true, you can eat as many skewers as you want!"
"I'm not rare for your sugar gourd!" Ji Xiaoyue turned her head away from looking at the hateful ginger worm, and whispered in her mouth: "But I ate a lot of rock sugar hawthorn just now, and it ......hurts to eat sugar gourd teeth again."
Jiang Xiaoman shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "Then you owe it first, and when you want to eat, I'll buy it for you." ”
Xiao Ying couldn't help but caress her forehead with her hand, and secretly sighed in her heart that Xiaoyue's girl was too easy to coax.
Actually, the girl surnamed Xiao didn't know that the reason why Xiaoyue liked to eat sugar gourds so much since she was a child was because every time she saw her father away in front of the grass house when she was a child, the former Cangming Gun Emperor of Beihai Country would always hand her daughter a string of rock sugar gourds.
Under the action of sweet and glutinous syrup and hawthorn that can sour teeth, the little girl does not feel how sad it is to part.
So later, every time she was sad and sad, as long as a string of red rock sugar gourds was handed to her, Ji Xiaoyue would be sad and sad and burst into laughter.
This is Jiang Xiaoman's trick to coax Ji Xiaoyue from his ghost mother-in-law, and it is naturally effective.
"I haven't forgiven you yet!" Ji Xiaoyue stood up, and in a blink of an eye, she burst into laughter.
raised his head and glared at the young man in front of him, who was more than a head taller than himself, and tried to say with a straight face: "Go, Jiang Xiaoworm will first scatter the silver for this girl." ”
"Okay!" Jiang Xiaoman took the little burden from the little girl's hand, turned around, and ran the light cornices to distribute the silver taels.
One or two pieces of silver is not a lot, but for these poor people, sometimes it is undoubtedly life-saving money.
With this tael, parents can buy new clothes for their children who are thin in winter clothes.
With these two pieces of silver, people who originally had no money to buy charcoal for heating could make the stove at home warm again, so that the elderly in the family would not be frozen in this suddenly cold weather.
For the poor people, what they want is not much, but it is fortunate that they are full of food and hot kang without illness and disaster.
Therefore, now the era of peace and prosperity, especially the three states of the Northland, has not fought for a long time.
But that doesn't mean that every household is a cannibal.
There will always be slums in this world, and it is inevitable.
Jiang Xiaoman's movements were very fast, and with a snap of his fingers, he threw the thick stack of thin silver tickets wrapped with small stones into the low courtyard wall in turn, and accurately fell into the conspicuous place in the courtyard of these people's houses.
There are small pebbles wrapped in them, and they are not afraid of the wind blowing away the silver tickets.
I have to say that the little girl is really careful, and every silver ticket is carefully folded so that it will not fall apart.
"That's it!"
In less than half an hour, Jiang Xiaoman fell back in front of Ji Xiaoyue briskly, and smiled.
Ji Xiaoyue squatted in the snow, looked at Jiang Xiaoman with two small hands, and said, "Jiang Xiaoworm, you stand back a little." ”
Jiang Xiaoman scratched his head and took two steps back.
Although I can't figure out what the little girl wants to do.
But when I thought of making people cry just now.
There's nothing wrong with being obedient at this point.
"Not enough, not enough, a little later. The little girl shook her head, waved her hand, and said, "Two more steps back, no, three steps back." ”
Jiang Xiaoman shrugged, had to do so, took three steps back, and when he leaned his back against the trunk of the tree with a lot of red flowers, he finally knew what the little girl wanted to do, and couldn't help but secretly say no.
I just wanted to dodge, but it was too late.
I only heard a loud bang, and the snow fell from the sky.
This time, it was more violent than his previous kick.
Jiang Xiaoman only felt a chill on his neck, and then he was caught off guard and buried most of his body by the falling snow.
I saw Miss Xiao falling lightly from the tree, as if she was afraid of the young man's revenge, and she jumped in front of Ji Xiaoyue with a light tiptoe, and she stepped on the snow without a trace.
Xiao Ying looked at the young man who was staring at her helplessly, and covered her mouth at the little girl next to her and chuckled: "How about Xiaoyue, this time you are angry, right?"
"Ji!Xiao!Yue!"
"Xiao!
Jiang Xiaoman shook off the snow, looked at the two girls who were smiling and bent over, and gritted his teeth word by word.
Immediately, he squatted down and grabbed two clumps of white snowflakes and pounced with his teeth and claws.
"Ahh
The two girls were not slow to react at all, turned around and ran.
The movements are light, like two fluttering butterflies in a silver-white world.
In the snow, this river and lake can be very warm.