Chapter 20: The Little Coachman
The next day, Xiao Chenyi took the little mouse out of the door as soon as dawn and walked east along the direction guided by the shopkeeper. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info However, what he didn't expect was that he didn't dare to play along the way, and he still didn't reach the so-called east of the city at noon.
The little guy reluctantly asked the passers-by, and an old lady who came back from buying vegetables with a basket of vegetables in her hand listened to Xiao Chenyi's words, and said with a surprised face, "Oh! Little baby, why do you still want to go to the east of the city, then you have to walk for two days and two nights to get there." The aunt complained for a while, and then said, "Your little baby is the first time to come, right? Then you probably don't know how big Tianyun City is, forget it, you should also go to the Cangming Academy to sign up, in the past two days, I have seen a lot of people in a hurry like you, you can see that there are many cars parked next to the intersection in front of you, that is specially for people to enter the city, where can you go to take a car, an ordinary car to Cangming Academy is about three pennies enough." Although this aunt is verbose, she is warm-hearted after all, and immediately helps after knowing the trouble of the little one.
The little one thanked him and walked over to the parking lot.
Most of the carriages parked here, there are also some unknown tigers and wolves pulling carts, those coachmen are sitting in their seats to rest, as soon as they see a guest coming, they immediately get up and greet hard, "Little boy, you want to take a car, take my car, comfortable." "This young master, are you going to sign up for the Cangying Academy, I'll take you there, I've been through several trips." ”
It turns out that the people in the big city solve the problem of distance in this way, and Xiao Chenyi remembered it in his heart. He looked at the past and saw that these cars were also divided into grades, some cars were good-looking, some cars were ordinary, some cars were gorgeous, and some cars were elegant. The little guy originally wanted to take a car that looked magnanimous, but I thought that I was going to the college to sign up, if the teacher saw it, would it affect it badly, and thought that I was vain, but then I thought that if I made an elegant car to go over, others would not think I was pretentious, Xiao Chenyi thought that if it was not good, then I would do an ordinary car to go over, but I felt that it was inappropriate, and it would not be fair to deal with those people in the future. The little guy was inexplicably cranky. The coachmen looked at the child and thought that business was about to come to the door, but they didn't know what he was thinking when he stood still, and the coachmen looked at each other blankly, standing there not knowing what to do.
Just when Xiao Chenyi was fighting fiercely in his heart, the little mouse in his arms couldn't stand it anymore, and said softly in a voice that only the little guy could hear, "What are you thinking, I think that brown carriage is not bad, why don't we do that!"
Xiao Chenyi looked in the direction that the little mouse said, and saw a very unsociable carriage in the distance, parked alone on the side of the road, there was nothing special at a glance, no different from those ordinary carriages, but after a closer look, he found that a six- or seven-year-old little boy in plain clothes was holding his knees and shrunk on the seat (carriage driver's seat), looking at Xiao Chenyi with a small face.
The little guy walked over curiously and asked, "You also use this car for transportation?" The little boy saw that Xiao Chenyi really walked over, and immediately became happy, nodding fiercely, "Hmm!", jumped off the seat, lifted the curtain with one hand and made a gesture of please.
Xiao Chenyi couldn't help but laugh out loud when he saw this, "Go to the Academy of the Underworld!", lowered his head and sat in the carriage that seemed to be a little different from the car in the little guy's mind. The boy smiled happily, lowered the curtain, jumped up and sat down on the seat again, and waved his whip happily, only to hear a crisp sound of "pop", and the carriage gradually drove into the distance.
The group of coachmen in the back looked at the carriage in the distance, and couldn't help but show a very strange expression, and finally someone seemed to can't help but scold, "This thoughtful little baby! Since his father died, he still thinks he is pitiful, but now it's good, he really pretends to be pitiful every day to rob us of business!" "That's it, this little brute!" "Don't take us old people in your eyes at all!"
Of course, the cursing behind the little guy couldn't be heard, and at this time, he and the little boy outside the carriage discussed with great interest, "Hey, why are you doing this at such a young age? What about your family?"
Sure enough, as soon as he heard this, the little boy outside fell silent for a long time before he spoke, "My parents died a long time ago, and this carriage is the carriage that my father used to pick up guests at that intersection when he died, and my parents didn't leave me anything else except this carriage." I had to go out to do something to make a living, but I was too young to do anything, so I had to come out and see if I needed a ride. ”
Chen Yi reacted at this time and said the wrong thing, "I'm sorry, I don't know you,"
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xiao Tong in advance, "It's okay, I know." Saying that, the coachman smiled and changed the topic, "Did you also go to Cangying Academy to sign up, and so did I, I thought that I couldn't drive a carriage to pick up guests for a lifetime, and I thought I had to learn some skills, so I was working hard to earn money for a while, hoping to save enough for the tuition fee to go to Cangming Academy, but I also saved a lot, but it was still a little short, and I hope to save enough before the end of registration." ”
Xiao Chenyi didn't notice what the little boy meant when he said this, but simply noticed that he still had to pay tuition fees to go to Cangying Academy, so he said casually, "Then Cangying Academy still needs tuition?"
"You're the first time Tianyun," said the boy with a chuckle, "of course it's tuition, or where do you think those teachers eat and where do they get their books?"
"I see," Xiao Chenyi nodded and thought, "How much is the tuition?"
"I want a tael of gold. Xiao Tong said this sentence very quickly, even with a hint of helplessness.
However, the little guy still didn't hear the meaning of what the boy said, but secretly rejoiced that he had enough money, and he realized that the matter of entering the academy was halfway there, and he began to imagine what kind of life he was in the academy.
Outside the carriage, the little boy was expectantly waiting for the child inside to continue talking, but after waiting for a long time, there was no follow-up, and the originally smiling face couldn't help but fall silent, and even with a hint of anger. Just drove the carriage silently.
Xiao Chenyi sat in the carriage and thought about it for a long time, only then did he notice that he had neglected the little boy outside, and he didn't know what he remembered, and asked out loud, "How much money did you say you had saved?"
The little boy who had been calming his face outside suddenly smiled when he heard this, forced his own urgency, and said, "I, thanks to my father's former fellow uncles who take care of me on weekdays, I have saved more than seven hundred taels of silver now." ”
The little guy in the carriage thought thoughtfully, but the little boy outside was not in a hurry, and drove the carriage with a relaxed face.
After a while, the little boy pulled the reins fiercely, only to hear the sound of "call", "The Academy of the Underworld has arrived!"
The little one lifted the curtain of the carriage, jumped out of the carriage, took the boy by the hand and said to him, "I have nothing to help you, but this is a tael of silver, and you can take it." ”
The little boy waved his hand again and again, "I can't help it, how can this be, the driving car is only three cents, where do you want to get so much." ”
Xiao Chenyi insisted on stuffing the money into Xiao Tong's hands, "Don't shirk, everyone should have their own ideals, I just helped you a little." As he spoke, he ignored him and turned his head and walked back.
The little boy watched the little guy gradually walk away, and the original look of gratitude was immediately gone, and he shook the silver in his hand with a sneer, and then looked at the Cangying Academy behind him, said nothing, and drove away.