Chapter 16 The salesman finished carving the walnut
Xiao Baojing woke up in a red lacquer cage.
She lay on the edge of the cage and looked around. She didn't know whether he was too tired or too full to eat, but he was sleeping under the ruins of the wall. He was jumping on his unburned leg to catch butterflies in the distance.
She guessed that the salesman carried her and Yaoyao back.
"Young and graceful."
she shouted.
Yaoyao jumped over quickly: "You're awake!"
"Here," Xiao Baojing took out a brown paper bag from his bag, "Here you go."
"What is this?" Yaoyao opened the paper bag curiously, "Braised pork?"
"When we were running for our lives, I saw that the tables were not moved, so I grabbed a plate." Xiao Baojing touched her dark head, "The braised pork cooked by the chef of the Sheriff's Mansion should be delicious. , it’s just a pity that it’s already cold.”
Yaoyao held the braised pork with a dull expression.
After a while, she shook her head: "Your Highness, I am not worthy of eating braised pork."
"Why?"
Yaoyao lowered her head, told her the story of Furong Town, and sobbed: "I will never use my father's medicine money to buy meat again, but my father and mother are both gone..."
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Xiao Baojing was silent.
This young girl must have spent these years in regret, right?
She thought about it and told her seriously: "Although you did something wrong, you have corrected it, right? It is a normal desire for a child to grow up and want to eat meat. You can't do it because you are young and ignorant. It's wrong, punish yourself for the rest of your life. It's the county governor's fault that's really wrong. It's their arrears of wages that make your family unable to buy meat. It's their cruelty that makes your parents captured by the officers and soldiers. Yaoyao, you are also a victim. .”
Yaoyao opened her eyes wide and looked at Xiao Baojing blankly.
After a long time, she suddenly rushed over and hugged Xiao Baojing: "Oh, your highness, Princess!"
Xiao Baojing fell on his back.
Her waist!
She is really falling apart!
Yaoyao is not afraid that the braised pork will get cold.
She broke off a piece of charcoal from her body and began to grill the braised pork: "Your Highness, I am a puppet carved from jujube trees. My father once said that jujube wood barbecue is the most fragrant. Do you want to try it?"
Xiao Baojing looked at the piece of coke in shock: "That's not necessary."
Seeing that Yaoyao disliked the lack of heat and broke off a piece of charcoal, she couldn't help feeling worried for her.
If you peel it off at this speed, will Yaoyao peel yourself off?
I hope she can grow a more lush body next year, preferably one with three heads and six arms, so that she can withstand heat better.
She sat in the cage and held her little face in her hands: "Yaoyao, when can we become adults?"
"Puppets made of jujube trees like me..." Youyao ate happily, her dark cheeks bulging, "As long as you can practice until it blossoms and bears fruit, you can transform into a human being."
Xiao Baojing secretly thought, as expected, these monsters have their own cultivation methods.
But she is not a puppet made of trees. How can she blossom and bear fruit and cultivate into an adult?
Yaoyao stuffed a bulging piece of braised pork into her mouth and turned to look at her: "As for Your Highness, how about you first cultivate into a tree, then learn to blossom and bear fruit, and finally cultivate into a human being? I am also a tree, and I have experience. I can guide you in your cultivation.”
Xiao Baojing: She doesn’t even know how to cultivate a tree.
I always feel like I've gone too far.
She was curious: "Then how far have you cultivated? Have you blossomed?"
Yaoyao paused while eating the braised pork: "I'm still in the theoretical stage."
Xiao Baojing: So what’s the difference between this and not starting to practice yet?
Graceful and unreliable.
Xiao Baojing decided to go to the capital to find Master Goubi.
The salesman slept all day and night.
After waking up, he looked very energetic. He did not go foraging for food or clean up the ruined house. He just sat cross-legged under the charred ruins, picked out a walnut from the basket, and started carving with a carving knife. pondering.
Xiao Baojing guessed that he probably wanted to carve something and sell it in the market in exchange for some food rations. After all, the county magistrate's mansion was on fire and there was no one to pay him for his work.
This guy starts working as soon as he wakes up. He is really a model salesman. She lay on the edge of the cage and watched for a while before falling asleep.
It was already dark when I woke up.
The walnuts were carved by the seller into a lifelike little house. Even the plantains and hibiscus flowers in the yard were carved out, and the windows and doors were actually movable!
This craft!
Xiao Baojing couldn't help but think of "The Story of the Nuclear Boat" that he learned when he was studying: "There is a clever man named Wang Shuyuan who can use wood of an inch in diameter to build palaces, utensils, people, and even birds, beasts, wood and rocks, regardless of the situation, and each has its own mood. .”
I didn’t expect the salesman to be able to carve carvings!
The young man in Taoist robes and hairpin held the nuclear sculpture in his palm and blew gently on it.
A few cirrus clouds appeared.
The next moment, the nuclear sculpture in his palm disappeared and was replaced by a newly completed courtyard in front of him, with green tiles and red walls, carved doors and windows, banana hibiscus, exactly the same as the nuclear sculpture!
It was the small courtyard where the salesman was before he was burned!
Xiao Baojing: Huh? !
ah? ? !
She didn't know that the salesman had such magical powers!
Shang Bingjiu picked up Xiao Baojing with one arm, dragged his slim back collar with one hand, and stepped into the courtyard door gently and deftly.
"My brother taught me the technique." His voice was clear and clear, "My brother is very powerful."
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Xiao Baojing lay on his shoulder.
It turns out he has an older brother.
But she has been in this world for so many days and has never seen him once.
"My brother is dead."
Shang Bingjiu said again.
The mountain breeze blowing through the house is cool, and the green lanterns hanging under the eaves sway with lonely light and shadow.
Xiao Baojing saw the salesman's shadow, thin and thin, like an abandoned puppy.
He has no parents or brothers, but he has raised himself with plenty of food and hunger.
She quietly raised her hand and touched his head from a distance.
Shang Bingjiu paused slightly in his steps.
Although he never looked back, he also knew what his puppet was doing.
A strange tingling sensation spread down his spine.
He doesn't hate this feeling.
When he bent down and stepped through the door, the puppet's delicate white palm rested on his other shoulder. She lay obediently on his shoulder, her flowing satin-like silk stockings and layers of palace skirts bending with him. The waist is drooping, like a blooming hibiscus.
Her body seemed to become softer and warmer.
Shang Bingjiu placed her in front of the dowry, held her hand that touched his head, lowered his head and smelled it.
Xiao Baojing: This person doesn’t have a fetish for hands.
Shang Bingjiu put down Xiao Baojing's little hand.
He smelled the residual scent of orange flowers on her hands, thinking it was because the orange pollen that fell on her cheeks and fingertips that night had not yet been washed away.
It turns out that orange flowers smell so good.
This is what she used to smell like.
The next day.
When Xiao Baojing woke up, the girl came over happily: "Look, I sprouted! Maybe I don't have to wait until next spring to grow back, maybe I can grow new limbs this year!"
The little girl stretched out her half-burnt arm, and sure enough, two pleasant green buds sprouted from the wood.
"Yaoyao, you are so amazing!"
Xiao Baojing was amazed.
After studying the little sprouts for a while, she remembered something and asked: "By the way, where is the salesman?"
(End of chapter)