Chapter 31 Sugar Candy
Baijia Village, which is actually a small town, used to be inhabited by the Bai family, but later because of the prosperity of trade, many foreign merchants and craftsmen lived in. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
There is a small river outside Baijia Village, named Baixi, which is a tributary of the river, but there is another one leading to the canal, and Baijia Village is where these two tributaries fork.
Although Baixi can not be navigated by large ships, it is no problem to pass the ordinary barge, so it has become a branch road connecting the canal and the river, Baijia Village has this advantage, and it is not far from Yangzhou, but the price is lower than Yangzhou, so it gradually prospered.
However, because it is a spontaneous market town, there is no long-term planning, so the layout of the buildings in the village is chaotic, with different heights, blue bricks and black tiles, and broken thatched houses with adobe and mud walls live next to each other.
Except for a large road in the middle of the town, which is straight and wide, the other roads are tortuous and narrow and difficult to navigate.
Wang Mao's thatched hut was under a large willow tree on the edge of the village, and there were no dwellings around, but when you walked into the village, the situation was very different.
Villagers farming, vendors coming and going, and children playing in tattered clothes in the middle of the road.
Perhaps because there are few people from the rivers and lakes here, those children were all curious when they saw Xie Xun and the others, and they looked at each other, bowed their heads and whispered.
A little girl was still staring at the blue black giant sword on Xie Xun's back, reluctant to look away.
Although Xie Xun didn't hate children, he didn't have anything to say to children, and at this time, the little girl who had been staring at the giant sword on his back spoke first.
The girl looked like she was seven or eight years old, with a dirty little face, red and fluttering that seemed to be a little cracked, probably blown by the cold wind in winter, which is very common among ordinary children, and a big snot.
Her voice was timid, it was the sweetness of a common little girl, but Xie Xun didn't understand what she said, Xie Xun guessed that she was probably speaking in the local dialect.
It was Liu Ying who translated it for him: "That little sister asked you if you are a hero?" Speaking of this, she herself giggled.
She smiled, and even the children watching them straightened up, where they had never seen such a beautiful young lady in the ordinary past were small traders and vendors and nearby farmers.
"You ask her why she thinks I'm a hero?" Xie Xun also found it interesting and smiled at Liu Ying.
Liu Ying hadn't translated yet, but the little girl seemed to be able to understand the official language, and said, "Because you are carrying a big sword." ā
Xie Xun also understood this sentence, and the three of them couldn't stop laughing, and the child's mind seemed to be so simple.
"Little sister, what's your name?" asked Liu Ying with a smile on her face.
"Her name is Slugg. A little boy next to him shouted, preemptively answering for her.
The little girl stared at the boy with wide eyes and viciousness, and the boy grimaced, and the children around him laughed.
Xie Xun also smiled knowingly and said, "Isn't it just a little slug." ā
This kind of nickname is very common among children, and he also had a partner called this nickname when he was a child, anyway, everyone's nickname is not very good, it's just a joke between children, so Xie Xun didn't take it to heart.
The little girl didn't seem to understand Xie Xun's words, and said to Liu Ying crisply:
"Sister, my name is Tang Yi, one, two, three, four, five. ā
Xie Xun said in his heart that this parent is too trouble-free, how did he give his child such a name, how did he know that ordinary children who are not married or have gone to school are all named like this, the eldest is called one, and the second is called two.
Liu Ying didn't pay attention to Tang Yi, just when she heard the little boy say that Tang Yi was called "slug", she suddenly remembered herself, she also hung a big snot all day long when she was a child, and was called a slug by the children in the family.
"Slug, your snot is coming out again. ā
"Slug, you run slower and watch out for your snot flying over your head. ā
"Stop, don't run!"
At that time, he was always angry, chasing them all over the mountains, and always complaining that his brother did not help him.
At that time, how happy the days were, although the Western Regions were deserted and full of yellow sand, there were still those lovely people, brothers and sisters of uncles and uncles, and uncles and parents......
Now that they are all gone, only he and his brother are left, and whether they can find the enemy who destroyed the door is also two words.
Liu Ying was a little choked unconsciously, but she didn't cry, she never cried, she hung all the joys, sorrows and sorrows on her face, but she never cried, although the tears did exist in her - she had choked on tears from chili peppers.
Liu Xu looked at his sister's demeanor, and knew that she remembered the Xie family again, but he didn't say anything, although his sister is a little bit petty and her emotions are easy to expose, but her heart is still quite strong.
When they first learned the news that the Liu family was destroyed, both of them almost collapsed, but it turned out that Liu Ying returned to normal first, and turned around to comfort and enlighten her brother.
And they have traveled in the Central Plains, and they have also had several adventures, if there is no sister, he doesn't know if he can still persevere and get to this day.
"Sister......" Tang Yi seemed to have noticed something wrong with Liu Ying.
"Ah, I'm sorry, little sister, my sister just thought about some of the past, and I was distracted, I didn't hear your name clearly, can you tell my sister again. Liu Ying quickly restrained her emotions and tried to make a sweet smile at Tang.
"Okay, sister, my name is Tang Yi, one, two, three, four, five. ā
"After that, I'll call you Sugar Candy, okay. ā
"Okay. ā
At this time, Liu Ying seemed to remember something again, and said:
"Tangtang, do you want to learn martial arts, and become a hero who punishes adultery and eliminates evil in the future, and acts chivalrous and righteous?"
"Okay, okay, I like heroes the most, and I want to learn martial arts and be a hero. Tang Yi jumped up and down happily, and his little face was as bright as the sunshine of this spring.
Liu Xu glanced at Liu Ying, and Xie Xun also looked at her suspiciously, wondering what she meant.
She explained to the Liu Xu Chuanyin: "We have accepted the inheritance of Hua Wuguo's predecessors, but the road to revenge is full of fog, and perhaps the danger ahead is even worse, if something happens to our brothers and sisters, it is sorry for the efforts of our predecessors." ā
"And I hit this child at first sight, quite a bit of fate, and I see that she is clever and lively, pure and good-natured, is a good seedling, so I want to simply accept her as an apprentice, if my brother and sister really have an accident, my Liu family and Hua predecessors also have a successor, he will inevitably have no chance to inherit the inheritance. ā
"There is some truth in what you say, but it must always be agreed by her parents, and neither of them must involve her in our hatred. ā
"That's nature. ā