Jiangshan is hired [rebirth]

Chapter 37

Under Huo Lan, a young man in a tattered padded jacket grinned, his face was black here, yellow there, and all kinds of dirt stuck to it.Even so, Huo Lan still recognized this man as the little beggar she saw at the alley outside the West Market the day she first entered Beijing.

The little beggar grabbed and kicked Huo Lan with his hands and feet, trying to escape while Huo Lan was talking.

Huo Lan was already angry when he interrupted his good deeds, so he was even more rude to him at the moment. He took off the little beggar's coat, twisted his hands behind his back, and then stepped on his knees. There were only two or three moves in total.

The little beggar knew that he had encountered a hard stubble, but he didn't panic at all when he was pushed to kneel on the ground. He immediately put away his fierce look just now, and cried bitterly to Yun Miaoqing, who was watching the play nearby: "I I know I was wrong, please do me a favor, lady, I was so hungry that I stole your purse. You see, it’s a big festival, the food on the street outside is really delicious, I haven’t eaten for three days,—— I can't help it, I beg the lady to give me some food!"

Huo Lan was dumbfounded and almost applauded the little beggar on the spot.With such a speed of face-changing, none of the actors in the troupe watched at Thirty Nights may be able to keep up.

If the time and place were changed, this matter might be left alone, but Huo Lan—remembering the situation just now—would be furious—everywhere.

Just a little bit, a little bit!

She slapped the little beggar on the head and scolded, "Is there anyone like you who begs for food? What's the use of having long eyes? Didn't you see that we are, are..."

Huo Lan couldn't say the words after "is" and angrily slapped the little beggar on the head again.

The little beggar was very flexible, and after knowing that the other party couldn't provoke him, he was able to maintain his pitiful appearance after being beaten twice in a row.

"The alley is so dark, I really didn't see clearly just now. I'm sorry...how about you let me go and continue?"

Huo Lan—I'm even angrier after hearing this, and I'm still growing up!The ambience is ruined.

While the two were talking for a while, Yun Miaoqing straightened her slightly messy clothes, stepped forward and took her purse from Huo Lan's hand, and squatted down to look the little beggar in the eye.

"Are you from Qingjing?"

The capital and several villages and counties around the capital belong to Qingjing, and they speak with similar accents.This little beggar speaks an authentic Qingjing accent, which is a bit beyond her expectation.

He was not in the same group as those people... But judging from the expression on the face of the little beggar that day, he probably knew him even if he wasn't in the same group.

The little beggar heard that the person in front of him suddenly became curious about his life experience, his face was half puzzled and half alert.

"Yes, my family used to be in Mianyang Village."

Yun Miaoqing nodded, and asked again: "Then why did you get mixed up with those people from Fuzhou?"

The word Fuzhou stunned the little beggar for a moment, then he grinned and said, "What is this lady talking about? What Fuzhou, I grew up in Qingjing, where is Fuzhou?"

I was crying just now, and now I am laughing again.Huo Lan folded his arms and squinted at the man kneeling on the ground. The little beggar didn't have a word of truth in his mouth.

Yun Miaoqing picked up the purse and shook it, there was a muffled clacking sound from inside, - it sounded like there was a lot of money.

"Answer me a few questions truthfully, and I will give you all the money in this bag."

The little beggar's eyes followed the money bag in Yun Miaoqing's hand, as if hesitating.

"See that roast goose shop in the back? I'll buy you a roast goose when I'm satisfied."

The little beggar turned his head, and there was a roast goose shop diagonally across the alley. There was a row of roasted goose hanging in front of the shop, and the shop was still burning-new pots, and the smell wafted from the other side of the street to the other side of the street.

A customer stopped in front of the shop, and the shop owner took a goose from the hanging row, chopped it up with a few knives, wrapped it in oiled paper, and handed it to the customer.

The customer took the chopped roast goose, and before taking it home, he immediately opened the paper bag and took out a goose leg, mouthful of it was full of oil.

The little beggar gulped down his saliva, and slowly turned around, his eyes gleaming with hope: "Miss, you can ask me anything you want to know, and the villain will know everything without talking about it."

"What are those people doing in the capital?"

"What else can I do, do business."

"Will you be arrested for doing business?"

"How do I know this, you ask the official to send the master!"

Yun Miaoqing nodded again, got up and said to Huo Lan: "Since he won't say anything, let's do business."

Huo Lan - picked up the man and pushed him out of the alley.

"Hey, what are you guys doing here? Didn't I answer everything you asked, I don't want the money, you let me go!"

The little beggar struggled loudly, but his voice was very low, obviously afraid of being seen.

Yun Miaoqing glanced at the small stall near the entrance of the alley, the people who followed her and Huo Lan were still guarding there.She and Huo Lan escorted people past the two of them, and said loudly on purpose: "When you snatched my purse, why didn't you expect that I would escort you to the official? If you have anything to say, go to court."

"I was wrong, I was really wrong! Ladies and gentlemen, look at the Lantern Festival tonight, why do you have to waste such a good time on people like me? Let's go to the court, - come back - the night is over , won’t it delay your appreciation of the lanterns! I see that you two are good people with kind faces and kind hearts. Please forgive me this time. I will pray for you two day and night, and wish you a happy marriage for a hundred years and live together forever. , give birth to a precious son early, and have a full house of children and grandchildren..."

The little beggar was sharp-tongued, and he talked in a way.When Huo Lan first heard "Hundred Years of Love", it was good, and "Waiting together with Z" was also good, but when he heard "Early Precious Son", his complexion began to change, and the phrase "full of children and grandchildren" directly became the bottom of the pot.

Where did she and Yun Miaoqing get their "noble sons" and "sons and grandchildren" from!Isn't this a curse that there will be other men among them!

Thinking of this, Huo Lan angrily gave him a blow on the head.

The little beggar didn't understand what he said and made this person angry again, just as if Huo Lan was still throwing fire at the good thing he did to her and the two of them before, and kept talking non-stop on the way, making Huo Lan talk for no reason. Reminds me of another talkative master.

But ginkgo is not what this little beggar can say.This little beggar probably often hangs out on the street, and he hasn't learned much in other skills, but he has learned a lot about his glib tongue. It's just a small section of the main road from north to south in the West Market. Huo Lantou almost annoys him. It exploded.

There is another alley in front of you, and there is a wonton stall in the alley.I think it was too hard to grab a seat on the main road tonight, and the owner of the wonton stall couldn’t compete with the shop owners here, so he had to move the stall into the alley, and managed to attract a few diners by relying on the wonton fragrance overflowing outside the alley.

Yun Miaoqing watched the person following them fall behind them by a certain distance, and gave Huo Lan a wink.Huo Lan understood, and pushed the little beggar to the wonton stand to sit down.

The little beggar thought that Yun Miaoqing was really going to send him to see the official until he sat down, and he was still trying to negotiate with him, until he heard Yun Miaoqing say to the stall owner, "Here is a bowl of wontons" and he suddenly fell silent. , staring at Yun Miaoqing strangely.

Yun Miaoqing ate a lot of snacks at night, but now she couldn't eat any more, she turned around and asked Huo Lan, Huo Lan also shook her head and said no.

After a while, a bowl of hot wontons was served in front of the little beggar.Huo Lan and Yun Miaoqing sat on both sides of the table, the little beggar licked his lips, and when he saw Huo Lan let go of him, he shrugged his shoulders, put on his clothes, picked up the bowl and sucked Suck and eat.

There were a few customers on the other tables around, and the wonton stall was at the entrance of the alley, and the street outside was full of voices. If it wasn't very close, unless it was very loud, they wouldn't be able to hear what each other said.

The little beggar was very energetic when he spoke earlier, and Huo Lan didn't believe that he had been hungry for several days. Seeing him eating four bowls of wontons in one go, and eager to ask the boss for a fifth bowl, he really believed him He said he didn't eat for three days.

Yun Miaoqing was bored waiting, so she casually took the chopsticks in the support tube to play with.After the boss served the fifth bowl of wontons to the little beggar, he knocked on his bowl before the little beggar could do anything: "Don't eat this bowl after you finish it. You're nagging—on the way to Lantern Festival,—I'll get it to you later Buy a bowl of Lantern Festival and eat it, it’s like you’re celebrating the festival too.”

The little beggar ate four bowls of wontons, and he was not as anxious to get the bowls as he was at the beginning. Hearing this, his eyes lit up, and his face was full of flattering smiles: "Really? I knew that sister, you are kind and kind." - There must be good rewards!"

Good guy, I didn't say "Miss" this time, and called "Sister" directly. Huo Lan himself had never called Yun Miaoqing like this a few times, and the more he found this little beggar disliked,—hitting the little beggar with his chopsticks On the back of his hand: "You can't control your mouth even when you eat, is that what you call 'sister'?"

"Elder sister didn't even tell me not to bark, so it's none of your business!" The little beggar stiffened when he saw that the two of them would not send him to the government, "I was waiting for you to kiss her in that alley just now." It’s been ten years! Mo Mo ha ha, is it a man? It’s a shame that you can’t catch up with him in this life!”

Huo Lan: "..."

If this little beggar doesn't open any pot and lifts any pot, what's wrong with him if he's not a man? ——Thinking of what happened just now, she was so angry that she had a heart attack. If it wasn't for the fact that Yun Miaoqing still had something to ask the little beggar, she would have let the little beggar know how powerful she was.

"Didn't you say you didn't see the darkness in the alley before, but now you know it clearly?" Yun Miaoqing asked slowly.

The little beggar shrunk his neck, obviously the young man in front of him was very skilled in martial arts, but he couldn't explain why he was more afraid of that young lady.

"It's all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!"

"Then if I ask you now, is there any 'misunderstanding'?"

After Yun Miaoqing finished asking, the little beggar put down the bowl, put away his foolish look, and showed some seriousness for the first time tonight: "You let me go, and invited me to eat. It stands to reason that I should I told you. But the matter you asked, I promised them to keep it a secret, so I'm really sorry."

"The 'they' you mentioned are the people I asked you about?" Yun Miaoqing tapped the table casually with the chopsticks between her index and middle fingers.

The little beggar said "hmm".

"I can't see that you are quite honest?" Huo Lan mocked.

"That's it!" The little beggar puffed out his chest very proudly, touched Yun Miaoqing's eyes on the other side, and retracted quietly.

"Well, I'll just ask you one thing." Yun Miaoqing paused while playing with chopsticks, and looked straight into the eyes of the little beggar, "Where are they from Fuzhou?"

Yun Miaoqing's words made the little beggar hesitate for a while, as if he was struggling with whether this issue was within the scope of what he wanted to keep secret.

He struggled for a while, quickly scanned his surroundings, then lowered his voice and uttered a few words to Yun Miaoqing.

Leaving the wonton stall, Yun Miaoqing really found a shop selling yuanxiao and bought a bowl for the little beggar, stood by the roadside and waited for the little beggar to finish eating, then gave him the purse as promised.

"I'll forgive you this time. You're such an adult, you have hands and feet, you should find a serious job to do in the future, and stop stealing other people's things, you know?" Yun Miaoqing taught him loudly.

The little beggar was clever, and he noticed that Yun Miaoqing had a different attitude twice tonight, so he knelt down and kowtowed to Yun Miaoqing twice, thanked everyone loudly, and gave Yun Miaoqing and Huo Lan a gift —There were a lot of blessings, some of which were not, and then left with a purse.

The two watched the little beggar leave, and saw that the little beggar found a sesame seed shop not far along the street, poured out all the money in the purse and gave it to the clerk, and then he didn't know what he said to the clerk. When he left, he was empty-handed.

"It's really smart." Yun Miaoqing retracted her gaze and said in admiration.

Huo Lan didn't understand.

"We talked so loudly just now, and many people saw that I gave him the bag of money. He would be robbed as long as he left the crowd with so much money, so he found a shop that he thought he could trust and spent all the money. go out."

Speaking of which, Yun Miaoqing turned her attention to the sesame seed shop again: "I guess he was telling the guy just now that he will come here to pick up sesame seed cakes every day from now on. The bag of money I gave him is enough for him to eat sesame seed cakes for half a year. "

The jealousy that Huo Lan had accumulated during this time seemed to have an outlet today, but before she could continue with the reassuring breath, she was interrupted by a little bastard, and the little bastard also got Yun Miaoqing's compliment...

"So he is also a good seed, right?" Huo Lan said sourly.

Yun Miaoqing was surprised: "You also eat this vinegar?"

Huo Lan turned her head and hummed lightly.She did not forget that Yun Miaoqing said that the reason why she was willing to pick her back at first was because she thought she was a piece of rough jade, and now there is another piece of rough jade in front of Yun Miaoqing, how could she not be jealous!

Even if Huo Lan is jealous, she doesn't dare to eat too presumptuously, after all, she and Yun Miaoqing have no name or distinction now, so there is no capital for her arrogance.

Thinking of this, Huo Lan felt aggrieved, and then - thinking about the interrupted kiss just now... I can't think about it, and I will be even more aggrieved if I think about it.

Yun Miaoqing was pierced into Huo Lan's heart by Huo Lan's pitiful and pitiful little eyes, and for no reason she felt the urge to get closer to the person in front of her, not the usual kind of intimacy between family and friends, but like Hugging like lovers, neck to neck, heart to heart.

The last time I had this kind of impulse was after Ginkgo's mother came, after Huo Lan said something that seemed to be a confession to her.

She thought so, and did the same. She hugged Huo Lan gently, and quickly let go of him after noticing the stiffness in her arms.

"I owe you a kiss and a hug now, and I promise you to get it back later."

Those eyes that had been dimmed for a long time brightened up again, and he grabbed her hand and asked, "When is the future? I want to get it back right now."

"Not right now." Yun Miaoqing held Huo Lan back, and the corner of her mouth raised a small arc.In fact, there is nothing wrong with it, but she just wanted to tease Huo Lan.

"When can it be?"

"I said, look at your performance."

"Have I not behaved well recently? I am a good boy. I have trained hard every day and read books well. How can I behave? Tell me, I will definitely do it!"

"Of course I want to find a way to please me. Do you want me to teach you how to do it?"

"What do you mean..."

……

At the end of the street there was a house with lanterns, Yun Miaoqing asked Huo Lan to buy two lanterns, and borrowed a pen from the stall owner, wrote on the wish slips, and put the slips into the lanterns.

On the way, Huo Lan wanted to see what she had written, but she avoided Huo Lan's sight. Huo Lan went back angrily, and wrote "I wish Miaoqing good health and peace" on her own note.

In fact, she still wanted to write a sentence that she hoped that the two would never be separated forever, but she was worried that she had too many wishes, and God Z would not help her realize them all.She doesn't expect and needs God Z to help her with her own affairs. If there are gods in this world, then she still hopes to save this chance of making a wish to Yun Miaoqing.

After the two wrote the note, the shopkeeper helped them light the candles in the lantern.The two came to the river with the lantern in their hands and pushed the lantern into the flowing water.

- A gust of wind blows, and many lanterns are blown to one place, among them - the note in one lantern is blown up and stuck on the wall of the lantern.

Candlelight illuminated the note—a line of elegant lowercase letters, and I saw that it said "May every year have today, and every year have today".

On the carriage back, Yun Miaoqing finally asked Huo Lan to recover the debt of the kiss, but she misjudged the wolfishness of this little cub, until the red mark on the side of her neck was still there when she woke up the next morning. It was clearly visible, and she even suspected that if it wasn't for the fear of hurting her if it continued, Huo Lan would have wished to bite off that small piece of meat and hide it in his stomach.

In the morning, Yun Miaoqing sent Huo Lan to the guard office in the palace to report for duty, and in the evening when the duty was over, she went to the palace to pick him up again.

Huo Lan is now the third-class guard, and above her there are second-class guards, first-class guards, and the commander of the guards. There are a lot of them. For the time being, I haven't seen the two who followed them last night.

"...they are divided into three groups, and they take turns to watch the night. The group I am in is on the night watch in the first ten days of each month."

On the way back, Huo Lan told Yun Miaoqing what she saw and heard today, but she also concealed some of it.

The gossip about her and Yun Miaoqing has certainly been heard by many people in the guard office. These people regard her as a girl who relies on women, and they don't treat her well, but they are also afraid of her background, so they dare not provoke her. Come.

Huo Lan grew up surrounded by other people's comments and pointers. This little rejection is nothing to her.What's more uncomfortable for her is that she can't go back to Yun Mansion at night, although she doesn't live with Yun Miaoqing in Yun Mansion now, but at least they are closer to each other.

There is no way, even if she is not on night duty, she cannot stay in Yunfu during the day after she has an errand.

Huo Lan has been clinging to Yun Miaoqing almost every day for more than two years, and he is not used to the sudden loss of time together.

"After you go back from vigil in the palace, you can come to sleep in my room during the day."

Yun Miaoqing spoke casually, but Huo Lan instantly became excited.

In this way, wouldn't she be able to sleep in Yun Miaoqing's bed for ten days every month!If she came back early and Yun Miaoqing had just woken up, would Yun Miaoqing's body temperature still remain on the bed? !

Huo Lan knew that she was thinking like a pervert, but she couldn't control herself, and kept fantasizing about lying on Yun Miaoqing's bed in her mind.

It's a pity that she didn't have much time to fantasize tonight, the two of them went home, changed their clothes and set off towards Prince Zhuang's Mansion.

The author has something to say: Huo Xiaolan licks her teeth: next time it won't be a hickey~