In a lively and bustling street market.
At a noodle stall, after finishing a small bowl of delicious noodle soup, Su Jin'er kicked His Highness Duan Wang opposite from under the wooden table, who was eating happily: "Xiao Xuanzi, are you ready? What you said is funny.
Where is the place?”
Tears, there was a god of plague guarding him, how could he dare to take her there.
Xiao Xuan raised his face from the edge of the bowl, winked at her, and mouthed: Then you must get rid of your bodyguard first, otherwise he will come to spoil our fun again——
Su Jin'er turned her head and looked across the street. The iron-faced man had a sword stuck in his waist and was leaning against a tree with his hands folded. He stared at them for a moment and suddenly felt dizzy. "Forget it, that's interesting.
Let's save it for next time, let's just go shopping today." Damn it, you don't even have any privacy. It seems that you have to go back and have a good communication with him. If this continues, it will drive people crazy.
"Xiao Jin'er, you really have bad eyesight. You pick such a difficult guy to keep next to you and see how he looks like a bodyguard. He is more senior than the master. He is not even afraid of me. Xiao Jin'er, I think you should just do it."
Just tell him to pack up and get out." Xiao Xuan bit the noodles angrily, glancing at a certain guard on the opposite street with a pair of beautiful red phoenix eyes, as if he wanted to chew him into pieces, grinding them hard with every bite.
"Tell him to get out, but not now."
Su Jin'er was also helpless: "You think I'm just trying to make myself uncomfortable?"
Xiao Xuan ate the noodles without any image in his mouth. After chewing, he grinned, his white teeth shining brightly, which almost made him blush and dazzle a group of girls on the street who peeked at him: "Hey, can we help you?"
Little Jin'er is helpless, he couldn't have been forced to be arranged for you by Prime Minister Su or Yu Wenshu, right?"
"Yes, and no, it's hard to put it into words."
Su Jin'er lamented, the compulsion was real, but he guessed the ending, but not the beginning.
Suddenly, her eyes flashed.
No, maybe Xiao Xuan got it right.
Xiao Li's biggest hidden danger is the Yuwen family. The demon sect is only hired to do things for others. There is a chance that the person behind it will be Yu Wenshu. She has thought about this possibility before.
But everything is safe. The leader of the Demon Cult said that several people have paid bounties. It is a bit difficult to guess who the remaining half may be. There is a saying that it is easy to hide from open guns, but difficult to guard against hidden arrows.
The most terrifying thing is this kind of person.
"Sister, sister..."
Su Jin'er was lost in thought, and a crisp childish sound sounded in her ears.
When she came back to her senses, she saw a boy of about ten years old running up to the noodle stall at some point. He had an old, broken basket hanging on his arm, and he didn't know what it contained. He was looking at her eagerly. "Sister.
, Do you want to carve a doll?”
Behind him was a smaller girl, probably his sister. She was so thin that she was just skin and bones, with no flesh on her face, and her eyes were bulging out. She was smelling the fragrance of the noodles vigorously, and she was so greedy.
Swallowing, after hearing his brother's unreasonable sales pitch, he timidly hid behind his brother, showed his head with a little fear, and added in a low voice: "Sister, my brother's craftsmanship is very good, he is our village sculpture."
Got the best one.”
Su Jin'er looked at the two children's clothes, which were patched and patchy and so worn that they were almost naked. She couldn't help but frowned, paused and asked, "Carved dolls? What are those?"
Seeing her asking, the little boy nervously placed the basket on the ground, took out a pair of carved dolls from it, and put it timidly on the wooden table: "Sister, this is the carved doll. Like this, whatever you want to carve, I will
Everything can be carved."
Su Jin'er picked up the wood carving on the table and looked at it. It was a pair of lifelike dolls. At a glance, she could tell that the carvings were of a little boy and his sister. Their craftsmanship was really good at such a young age. She said in surprise: "
Are these wooden dolls all in pairs?"
The little boy nodded, twisted the hem of his clothes with his fingers and lowered his head and whispered: "Well, in our hometown, a pair of wooden dolls means a pair, so we can't carve just one doll."
Xiao Xuan just finished eating the noodles, picking his teeth with a bamboo skewer and teasingly saying: "Children, look up and see if your brother and this eldest sister are in pairs. If you satisfy your brother, I will let you carve it once."
"Ignore him." Su Jin'er slapped him, looked at the pair of dolls with a thoughtful look, and suddenly bent down and whispered a few words into the little boy's ear. Seeing him nodding, he pulled the little guy aside.
He didn't forget to turn around and warn the two people who were about to follow him. "Stand still, they are all waiting for me."
Xiao Xuan touched his nose and sat back angrily. Su Jin'er took the two children and stopped not far away. She was squatting on the ground writing and drawing something. He poked his head to take a look from time to time.
, I was as curious as if there was a cat scratching at me.
Just as he couldn't help but raise his feet and prepare to sneak over to take a look, a sword banged on the wooden table. A deep sword nest was immediately dug into the flat table. The iron-faced guard who had been guarding across the street had already
Sitting in front of him.
Suddenly frightened, Xiao Xuan was stunned and yelled at him: "You want to f**king scare people to death, didn't I tell you to stay five meters away? Who asked you to come over?
of!"
"You're not a young lady, so you can't give me orders." The iron-faced man said forcefully, and glanced at him coldly. Without Su Jin'er present, this time it could be said that he was giving a clear warning to Xiao Xuan.
"Also, His Highness Prince Duan, don't let me remind you a second time to stay away from her, otherwise I don't mind informing people from Prince Duan's Mansion to collect your body."
Knowing that his fist could not be stronger than the sword in his hand, Xiao Xuan's handsome face froze, and the next second he started to break the jar with great satisfaction. While talking, he turned his head slightly and patted his neck: "Come on, give me a knife.
I'm so scared. If you're a man who has the ability, just stab your hand without shaking. If you don't know how to do martial arts, it's no big deal. If you dare to touch even one of my fingers, let's see how your lady will deal with you. I'll tell you.
, Don’t look at Xiao Jin’er who is easy to talk to and let you, it will definitely not be easy for her to get angry, come on, come on, my neck is sore from stretching, don’t just talk but don’t do anything.”
"..." The man with the iron mask tightened his grip on the sword, resisting the urge to draw the sword out of its sheath. He estimated that in his career as a killer, he had never encountered someone who was so despicable that he stretched out his neck to let him cut him. He couldn't bear it.
He said forcefully: "If I want someone to die, I will never let him die too easily. Today is just a reminder. Your Highness, Prince Duan, is better off not pushing the limits."
"Hey, this is what you said. If I give you a chance, don't let it go. It's such a waste of my time."
"..."
"By the way, now is not the time to talk about this. Where is Xiao Jin'er? Why did he disappear in the blink of an eye?! It's all your fault for his facial paralysis. Why did you stop me from doing anything? It's okay now. Where can I go to find someone!
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Outside the imperial city, a certain missing person was led by two little guys towards a certain place.
"Sister, we're here. Just wait a moment while I go get the wood. It will be ready soon. It won't take long."
After leaving the bustling and dazzling imperial city, and arriving at his own territory, the little boy became less cautious and put the basket in his sister's hand, fearing that Su Jin'er, the only guest, would be impatient and leave because the time was too long.
He quickly ran ahead.
What caught his eye were rows of simple awnings outside the city. Seeing the little boy get into one of them, Su Jin'er was stunned and stopped in her tracks.
This is a refugee camp.
The rows of tents are all built with a few pieces of wood. The hard stones and weeds on the ground are covered with only a thin layer of dry straw that can see the soil, and a few patchwork pieces of straw are covered on top.
The linen became a shelter. There were many people in ragged clothes coming in and out around the tent. Some were cooking something to eat in a big pot, some were nibbling dry food, and a few were lying on the ground groaning in pain.
.
Su Jin'er guessed that these were probably the refugees who had fled to Yecheng from this year's flood. Although Xiao Li allocated the money early, the disaster relief money fell into the hands of officials. How many more coins could be transferred to benefit the people?
Success? The case of the millions of taels of silver previously released has not yet been investigated. The flood has not receded. No matter how much money the national treasury has, it cannot withstand the consumption.
This is the imperial city of Da Qin!
There are still so many refugees in the Imperial City, what is it like in other areas? It is really hard to even think about it.
If the wood for the little boy's wood carving hadn't been of the right size today and he hadn't brought her back to get it, she might not have known that there was such a group of common people outside the imperial city.
The city is luxurious and extravagant, while the hungry people are everywhere outside the city. They are two completely different worlds.
The little boy quickly ran out with a few pieces of palm-sized wood of similar shapes, took out the knife from the basket, sat on the ground and started carving it according to what Su Jin'er told him before, while blushing and feeling embarrassed.
Said: "Sister, wait a moment, I will be there soon, very soon."
"Brother, this is so hard, Duoduo can't bite it."
Just when Su Jin'er wanted to reassure him that he was not in a hurry, he heard the slightly aggrieved voice of a little girl. Following the sound, she lowered her head and saw the little girl squatting quietly on the side holding a black and yellow paper that she couldn't tell.
A lump of something, with tears in his eyes.
The little boy took the black and yellow thing in his sister's hand and carefully put it into his palm. He raised it high to the sun as a demonstration and said, "It doesn't matter if it's too hard. Like my brother, just put it in the sun and dry it."
It will be softer, here I give it to you."
"Oh." The little girl nodded obediently and took it, holding it in her hand and taking a big bite. After chewing something in her mouth, she stretched out her little hand and moved the food under the sun. She was obviously very hungry.
Seeing this, Su Jin'er felt sour in her heart. After thinking about it, she turned around and went to a food shop outside the city that sold passing merchants to buy some hot buns, wrapped them in oil paper and brought them back.
Chapter completed!