Chapter 350 Chapter 350: Why do you think you have a good face (3) [Two in one]
“Look for me?”
Shen Tang pointed at himself.
It feels like winning a small lottery prize.
Not much money, but unexpected.
However, Shen Tang's attention was always very strange. She thought about Gong Xiqiu's words carefully and found something wrong: "Wait a minute, I heard you asked the landlady about He Yin earlier, and I thought you were here to visit me. Co-authored Am I the one who came by the way?”
It turned out that I was quite touched that my friend remembered me.
Thinking about it again, she made the mistake of provoking
Gong Xiqiu was not embarrassed about being caught, but was confused by Shen Tang's question: "Aren't these the same?"
Shen Tang categorically said: “It’s different!”
That——
Gong Xiqiu tilted his head in confusion.
Asked in a soliciting tone: "Then I apologize?"
Shen Tang appreciated his approach.
“Well, okay, then I accept it.”
You can't break up with your best friend just because of a small conflict.
Gong Xiqiu apologized succinctly, and Shen Tang accepted it as a matter of course. Only onlookers could not understand the logical connection. This, this may be the reason why they can become close friends, but outsiders can only be confused, right?
"Parents, please have some tea."
The "boy" brought a pot of tea.
Shen Tang looked at the pierced ears on the "little guy's" plump earlobes, smiled meaningfully at Gong Xiqiu, and asked: "You?"
She gave a little thumbs up.
Gong Xiqiu looked at his little finger blankly.
“What does this... mean?”
Gu Chi: “The little finger belongs to water and refers to the younger generation of children.”
With Gu Chi’s wrong science popularization, Gongxi Qiu hurriedly explained: "This is not a junior in the clan, but a person who was rewarded by my adoptive father. I saw that she was pitiful and smart, so I stayed with me as a maid to help with daily expenses."
Originally, the people who took care of his life were attendants and wives.
With this maid, Gong Xiqiu no longer has to worry about finding the pearls thrown around. I didn't want to take her with me when I went out this time. The pressure of traveling day and night was a bit heavy for a weak woman. Just considering that someone might come looking for trouble when he was away, I thought about it and picked him up.
Shen Tang: "..."
One dares to explain and the other dares to answer.
Her gossip heart was forced to flame out.
The topic turned back to that strange boy.
"You said that young man just came to me, did he come to seek refuge with me, or did he come to seek revenge from me?"
Shen Tang is very confident in his own charm, but what in the world is it? Not many people can appreciate it. In addition, her reputation has not yet been completely established, so she should not be able to attract high-end talents to join her grassroots team. The young man has excellent bones. Despite his poor appearance, the details of his breathing and walking clearly show that this young man is a practitioner with a solid foundation.
With this condition, why bother to find her?
The probability of defecting is low, but the probability of seeking revenge is high.
Gong Xiqiu's answer was unexpected: "He must have defected. When he rescued him earlier, he kept saying that he wanted to find Mama to repay his kindness. He said it was his sister's order before she died. It's a pity that he doesn't know the way very well. ..."
"His sister?"
I have no memory at all.
Have you ever saved his sister?
Seeing Mama's reaction, Gong Xiqiu knew that she was also surprised, so he suggested: "How about calling someone to ask?"
"Okay."
Gong Xiqiu asked the "boy" to go to the stable in the backyard of the inn to call someone. After a while, the young man came over step by step, dragging the heavy chain. Gong Xiqiu pointed to the empty seat and said to the young man: "Sit down, I have something to ask you."
The young man had not taken a shower for an unknown amount of time.
The exposed skin was covered with dirt, and there was an indescribable sour odor floating all over his body. Although his clothes were ragged and his head was bare, he was not embarrassed at all when facing outsiders. When Gong Xiqiu asked him to sit down, he sat down generously.
"She is the one you are looking for."
Gong Xiqiu pointed at Shen Tang.
Hearing this, the young man's calm eyes finally changed, and he turned his head sharply in the direction pointed by Gong Xiqiu. He opened his mouth with three words without a clue: "Is that you?"
Maybe it was because he hadn't spoken to outsiders for a long time, but the boy's voice was much deeper and hoarse than that of his peers.
"What is me?"
The young man then asked: "You bought my nephew for forty coins? Where is he now?"
Forty cents?
Buy his nephew?
When did it happen?
Shen Tang felt vaguely familiar with this matter, but couldn't remember it for a while. Gong Xiqiu helped Shen Tang sell Amway for free, and he wanted to force the following words into the young man's mind: "As expected of Mama, she is indeed kind-hearted and has the heart of a Bodhisattva! It turns out there is such a connection. Don't worry. , Your nephew will definitely have a good time following me, Mama!”
Shen Tang’s forehead bulged: “Shut up!”
Gong Xiqiu didn't expect that he would be attacked. He lowered his head with aggrieved expression and quietly moved his eyes up to observe Shen Tang's reaction.
Shen Tang: "..."
She remembered the matter of "forty coins to buy a nephew." Last year when I was still in Xiaocheng, Sibao County, Shen Tang's base was a bandit camp on the mountain. In order to further expand the manpower of the bandit village, Shen Tang decided to go down the mountain to buy with Qi Shan, and it was on that trip that he bought Lu Jue.
Before meeting Lu Jue, Shen Tang saw a woman holding a son on the roadside. The son's skin was cold and he had died in the woman's arms, but the woman was obviously unconscious, or maybe She said she was not willing to accept the fact that her son had died in infancy, which seemed crazy.
Shen Tang took pity on the woman's motherly heart, so he spent 40 yuan to buy the body from her and buried it in the back mountain.
There is nothing more to it than this.
Shen Tang swallowed and secretly said something was wrong!
That woman must be the young man’s sister. If you look closely, there is indeed some similarity between their eyebrows. But why didn't the woman tell him that his nephew had died?
Where can she find a nephew for the boy now?
“Ahem, this is actually...”
Shen Tang looked troubled.
Gong Xiqiu knew something was wrong when he saw this posture. He pretended to adjust his sitting posture and changed his posture into a very casual and rude sitting posture, with his body slanted and his center of gravity leaning on the low table. The muscles under the dark outfit have entered a "ready to go" state.
Shen Tang chose to tell frankly.
"At that time, your sister was holding him and sitting on the roadside. I thought the child was sick and was still breathing, so I wanted to go over and have a look. Unexpectedly, I didn't know that he had any pulse at all. She died. She had a big belly, and she must have been suffocated by Guanyin soil. Your sister asked me if I wanted to buy it. I saw how pitiful she was in her confusion, so I paid for it and buried her alive... …The above words are absolutely true! If you don’t! I can tell you the location of your nephew's tomb."
As she told the story, the boy's eyes dimmed a little, his eyes turned red, and there was water mist. There was no doubt or anger, obviously. must Mentally prepared, slightly choked up: "My sister's family only has so much blood. I thought I could find him and raise him well, and then I found out about Shen Jun... I didn't expect it to be like this..."
The only blame is that he went back too late.
No wonder the others. Why didn't the young man doubt Shen Tang's words?
Of course it was because after he returned, he saw that his whole body was skinny except for his sister with a huge belly, so he realized what trouble had happened to his family. Except for the nephew, everyone in the family of five died in the same way. The young man had a glimmer of hope that his nephew was still alive, but his reason told him that it was unlikely.
My nephew is too young, and the two older ones died in infancy. Can he survive until he is bought and raised by a kind-hearted person?
Shen Tang's answer made his long-suspended heart fall to the ground, but the heavy sound made him feel sad.
"My condolences."
Shen Tang could only feel so relieved.
After hearing this, Gong Xiqiu roughly understood what was going on. He couldn't help but not open the pot and pick up which pot. He looked slightly dissatisfied and accused the young man: "You are also a brave warrior after all. You can't even protect yourself." Don’t all ordinary people have the skills?”
Shen Tang rolled his eyes at Gong Xiqiu.
Said: "The customs of the outside world are different from those of your clan."
In the Gongxiqiu clan, babies are usually raised by the mother and her maternal uncle together. The clan members live close to each other, so it is convenient for them to take care of each other. But in the outside world, when a woman marries her husband's family, it is impossible for a boy to marry as her brother-in-law.
Even if you want to seek asylum, it will be difficult.
The boy was good-natured and not angry.
Just lowered his head silently and said nothing.
In fact, it's really not his fault.
The boy was lucky. His bones were discovered when he was still a child, and he was taken away as his apprentice. Because there was a brave warrior in the family, which invisibly brought glory to the parents and sisters in the family, and her elder sister also found an excellent marriage.
The man is considered a wealthy family from a nearby village.
The boy returns home once every three years. Every time he goes back, he sees that his family is doing well. Even when Sibao County was captured by Zheng Qiao for the first time, his family fled in time. In the past few years, except that the living conditions are not as good as before, everything else is fine.
Letter from home also reports good news but not bad news.
As a young man, he studied with peace of mind and achieved success before he was born.
As soon as he came out, he heard that the Pig King rebels were raging in Sibao County. The crops had not been good in the past two years, and God would not reward them. He felt a thump in his heart, and went home while asking about it.
I just realized that so many things happened at home.
On the way to escape, his parents were blackmailed and forced to death by bullies. With tears in his eyes, he buried their bones again in the soil and went to look for his sister. When they found it, the stench of corpses in the simple shabby house was overwhelming. My sister, who used to have bright eyes and good eyesight, was like a dying skeleton holding her belly, huddled next to her rotting husband.
The young man had just recovered from the shock of the death of his parents, and was shocked to death by the several corpses in the broken house. He felt that the world was spinning before his eyes. My sister was still breathing, and after drinking the hot soup, her spirits improved significantly, and her gray skin became slightly reddish.
But the young man knew that this was a return to the past.
My sister was conscious and told him that her nephew had been bought by a kind-hearted person and that he would live a good life. If he had the chance, he would help take care of him. He rambled on describing the appearance, dress, and voice of the kind man, and his cloudy eyes were filled with gratitude and expectation.
She was grateful for Shen Tang's kindness and looked forward to her son's happiness, and she died in anticipation of this happiness.
The young man endured his grief and settled his sister's family.
Since then, I have embarked on the road to find my nephew.
Having lost all his blood relatives in just a few days, the young man's inner sorrow and anger were so deep that it was difficult to vent. He held on, asking for bits and pieces of information about Shen Tang like a normal person. By chance, they encountered the same bully who killed his parents and bullied women and children.
The nerve called reason is broken.
Punch after punch, the bully’s head was beaten into pulp, and he was finally caught and exiled. On the way to exile, he heard the officer talking about the governor of Fugu County in Heyin. He accidentally discovered that this person might be the person he was looking for, so he violently injured the officer and escaped.
As a result, he fainted from hunger and was picked up by Gong Xiqiu.
The latter heard that he was looking for the governor of Heyin County, and without saying a word, he agreed to take him on the road with him. The young man stayed with An Xin as a temporary groom, which was supposed to be a way of repaying Gong Xi Qiu's kindness.
"He also has a rough life." Shen Tang looked at the young man with pity and said warmly, "Do you have a place to go? If you have no place to go, why not follow me? I will move your nephew's tomb later. Although Heyin is a small place, it is still considered a place. A place to stay.”
The young man pursed his lips and seemed to be hesitating.
He originally went to Shen Tang to take care of his nephew, but now that his nephew is gone, he doesn't necessarily want to stay. It was just Shen Tang's invitation that poked at his weakness and made him shaken.
Gong Xiqiu was dissatisfied and crossed his arms: "Why are you hesitating?"
The young man looked at him and said: "It is more suitable to follow your parents."
Gong Xiqiu was also a brave warrior, and his intuition told him that this person was very strong, and even a head-on confrontation might not be able to shake him.
In comparison, Shen Jun seems too gentle and weak.
Unexpectedly, Gong Xiqiu did not welcome him at all.
Muttered in an imperceptible voice: "Follow me? You don't even know when you will die suddenly and in vain...
He patted the young man on the shoulder and laughed loudly: "I dare I pat my chest and promise you that Mama is definitely the best person in the world. If you miss her, you will regret it for the rest of your life. Even if you are with someone else now, you may still want to be with her in the future. Why go to all this trouble? It's better to get it right in one step, right? ”
Young man: "..."
He didn't really believe it.
But judging from Shen Tang's behavior of buying a corpse just to comfort his motherly heart, this is indeed a good person. A good person may not be a wise man to knowledgeable people, but he is a great blessing to the common people.
For a long time, the young man said: "My surname is Xianyu."
"Salted fish?"
The boy didn't hear the question.
Just pretend to surrender: "Xian Yujian."
"I am willing to listen to Shen Jun's orders."
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"I didn't expect that I would be able to pick up a brave warrior during this trip. He is still a good seedling." In private, Gu Chi joked with Shen Tang, "It seems that Master Lang's daydream was not in vain."
Shen Tang pouted: "Have you had enough teasing?"
Gu Chi stopped talking.
Shen Tang asked Yu Zi to find a set of clean clothes to send to Xian Yujian. This is also his subordinate. The treatment must keep up. The most basic thing is to clean up personal hygiene.
"Are you ready with the invitation to Zhang Yongqing?"
The time for this business trip is limited.
There are too few people in the Caotai team, and almost everyone has multiple jobs. She has been out there for too long, and the few literary scholars in the nest should rebel. She planned to make a quick decision and resolve the matter here as soon as possible. Gong Xiqiu also had similar thoughts to her.
On the second day, we made an appointment to come together.
Although he did not reveal his purpose of coming and his true identity, Gong Xiqiu's courageous tiger talisman was enough for Zhang Yongqing to receive him personally. To be honest, which man can refuse a fifteenth-level young master.
Even if the other party is not here to defect to you, what if it happens? Shen Tang thought he had figured out Zhang He's thoughts.
Unexpectedly, when they met, the latter’s eyes kept falling on her face—keep looking, just keep looking.
Shen Tang: "...Why is Mr. Zhang looking at me like this?"
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(End of this chapter)