Chapter 147 Night Market
Xi'an City under the night is not quiet, with lights, silk and bamboo, and a noisy night market as loud as the daytime.
Two figures, one tall and one short, walked by the night market. Under the irritating wind lights, there were various small stalls, dazzling, and the dim lights made the objects on the stall look heavier and more refined than during the day.
Chen Tong raised his chin and said to Xiao Ren: "Okay, let's send it here, there is Shuyuan Street in front."
"The prince asked me to take you home." This is not Shuyuan Street. Even when he arrived at Shuyuan Street, he had not been sent home yet. Therefore, he had to watch her walk into the house before he had completed the task assigned by the prince.
Chen Tong prefers to visit the night market with Fangfei, and they can always find a lot of delicious food and fun.
"I want to buy some snacks and take them home, and I have to go for a while. If you send me here, it can be considered as delivering me home."
When leaving the palace, the King of Qin asked the nanny with the identity in the palace to send Chen Tong home with the guards. Xiao Ren said that he was just going back to Qingshui Lane and he just needed to send Chen Tong back.
Let the nanny send Chen Tong? A joke, if you really meet a bad person, Chen Tong will still protect that nanny?
Although the King of Qin has lived in Xi'an for more than ten years, he always rushes and rushes when he goes out. He doesn't know where Qingshui Lane is or where Shuyuan Street is. Of course, he doesn't know that he won't pass by Shuyuan Street from the royal palace to Qingshui Lane.
Xiao Ren said with a stern face: "What snacks do you want to buy? I'll buy them."
"I don't know what to buy, I'll go shopping before buying. So you go back first, thank you today." Chen Tong said.
"Then you go shopping, I'll take you home after the shopping." Xiao Ren ignored Chen Tong after saying that, and walked forward with his head held high and his chest raised.
Chen Tong scratched his head. This child was really a pity. The King of Qin asked him to take her home. If he didn't send her home, he would not leave?
Because the entire street here is a night market and cars and horses are unavailable, Xiao Ren's entourage stayed where he was and did not follow him.
Chen Tong felt that a famous child like Xiao Ren was not safe to be alone outside at night, so Xiao Ren could not send her home, so she would send Xiao Ren back as well.
Thinking of this, Chen Tong was no longer in the night market. He bought a few candied haws and walked towards the Academy Street. Xiao Ren glanced at the candied haws in her hand and asked, "Do you like to eat this?"
That time he came to Shuyuan Street and saw Chen Tong and Fangfei eating candied haws on the roadside. They were sour. Is it so delicious?
"Fangfei likes to eat." Chen Tong said.
It turned out that I bought it for that silly girl?
Xiao Ren looked at the candied haws that Chen Tong held in his hand, and the more he looked at them, the more he became disgusted.
On the way from the capital to Xi'an, he heard Fangfei brag about how much fish his lady caught were. Why? Chen Tong caught fish for Fangfei and bought candied haws for Fangfei. Fangfei was her maid, not her child.
Chen Tong is obviously a child himself.
"What do you like to eat?" Xiao Ren asked.
Chen Tong turned his head and thought for a while, and smiled and said, "Just fill your stomach, I have nothing I particularly like to eat."
She didn't like to eat anything, but she knew that he liked to eat osmanthus, so she brought him a can of candy osmanthus from all over the place.
"...Let's go." Xiao Ren didn't want to speak anymore.
Chen Tong shrugged. She thought Xiao Ren was going to treat her to midnight snack. It seemed that she was thinking too much.
When Chen Tong arrived at Shuyuan Street, he saw a lamp at the door of his house from afar. How could there be a lamp?
Walking into a little, Chen Tong saw clearly that it was Huang and Xinwu, who were holding the lamp.
Chen Tong said to Xiao Ren: "My mother has come out to pick me up, now you can rest assured."
Xiao Ren nodded, turned around and walked, and after walking a few steps, he turned around and said, "Chen Tong, Zhou Zheng and I will go outside the city in three days. Yining will also go, so you can go with Yining, and be a companion with Yining."
"Okay." Chen Tong answered clearly and decisively.
Xiao Ren's mood suddenly improved. As Shangyuan approached, the moonlight shone like water, making people's hearts brighter.
Xiao Ren walked quickly and ran as he walked.
Chen Tong waved at his back, and it seemed that this child would run away every time.
She turned around and walked towards the doorstep.
"My mother, I'm back." Looking at Huang, Chen Tong felt warm in her heart.
Huang held her hand and said with distress: "The little hand is cold, why don't you bring a hand? Go home quickly. My mother cooked hot porridge for you and drank it to warm up."
Nagging and trivial, but very warm.
After entering the house, Huang asked her nothing, and brought out the hot porridge simmered on the stove. She watched her drink a bowl of porridge before returning to her house.
Chen Tong also returned to her room and looked at Fangfei who was sleeping as a pig on the edge of the kang. She took out a candied haw and rubbed it on Fangfei's mouth. Fangfei hummed and changed her position, subconsciously stretched out her tongue and licked her lips. After tasting a little sweetness, she continued to sleep with satisfaction.
Chen Tong laughed, leaned half on the pillow, picked up a book and looked it out.
This is "Spring and Autumn Annals". She doesn't understand it very much, but it doesn't matter. You will always understand it after reading it a few more times.
The next day, the palace sent a lot of rewards, two large carts. The one who came to give the gift was a eunuch. The carriage was parked on Shuyuan Street, which immediately attracted a lot of people. Most of the people in the first lunar month were at home, so neighbors came out to watch.
Xu An and the others who lived next door also heard the news. When they came out, they saw several eunuchs moving their things in.
Chen Tong said to the eunuch in the lead: "Thank you, Mrs. Ding, and Princess Yining, and my father-in-law for this hard work."
These rewards were given by the King of Qin, and those given by Concubine Ding and Princess Yining.
The King of Qin did not deliberately conceal what happened in the palace yesterday. Although the streets and alleys have not spread yet, everyone in the palace knew that the little girl had made contributions in protecting the emperor, so he smiled: "Miss Chen is so polite. The Sha family will definitely tell the masters about Miss Chen's words."
"Come in and have a cup of tea." Chen Tong said.
"No need, come and ask trouble next time." The eunuch left with a smile, and the people watching the fun on the street also dispersed.
Xu An and his friends stood in front of the door and asked, "Miss Chen, what's going on?"
Before Chen Tong could speak, Fangfei said excitedly: "Miss has made meritorious service, these are all rewarded by the prince."
The Shen family is full of female relatives, and Huang is also a widow, so Xu An and others rarely come to visit each other.
Chen Tong called Azhi to help, and took a few jars of fine wine, medicinal materials and other items from the things sent by the royal palace, and moved them to the home of Xu An and others next door.
Chen Tong asked Fangfei to help Huang organize these things, but she and Azhi came to the next door.
Xu An and the other two didn't know what happened yesterday until now. Everyone in Xi'an was talking about the Lord Zhongling County, and they were like others. They just thought that Lord Zhongling was the Princess Qin sent by the Empress Dowager, but they didn't expect that it would be an assassin.
Chapter completed!