The ancient city of Sunset, the peaceful town was no longer calm because of the arrival of a third-rank official of the imperial court. The officers and soldiers were stationed in the city and patrolled on time every day.
After a few days, the people in the city became accustomed from the nervousness at the beginning. No matter the time, the people's adaptability is beyond ordinary. As long as they can't survive without being forced, they can obey. In the east corner of the city, in front of the dilapidated house, a delicate-looking woman stuffed the little silver left in the house into the hands of the young man in front of her, with a stern look on her pale face, and said, "Xiaowen, go out to study. To know how to make progress and achieve success
You are not allowed to come back until you are named, otherwise, your mother will not recognize you."
"mother"
Tears filled Xiaowen's eyes. After five years, he has grown from a little boy to a teenager, but his eyes are still a little green.
On the side, Ning Chen stepped forward, put the prepared coils into the hands of the young man, and said with a gentle expression, "Listen to your mother's words, work hard, these silver coins are given to you by your husband, wait for your gold medal title, come back and let your mother have a good time"
"gentlemen"
Xiaowen held the silver, hesitation flashed on his face, not knowing whether to take it or not.
Xinyu stepped forward and said softly, "Xiaowen, it's better to go out than at home, bring some extra money for emergencies, as long as you study hard, you will be named in the gold list in the future, and your husband's face will also shine."
"Thank you, Mrs. Xie"
Xiaowen accepted the money with tears, and bowed to the two of them, thanking them.
"It's getting late, hurry up and hit the road," the woman urged.
Xiaowen looked at his mother in front of him with reluctance in his eyes.
"Let's go, remember to work hard, don't let your mother down," the woman said with tears in her eyes.
Xiaowen wiped away the tears in his eyes, nodded vigorously, knelt down and kowtowed a few times, and immediately suppressed the sadness in his heart, turned and left.
Looking at the distant figure, the tears in the woman's eyes finally couldn't be suppressed any longer, dripping down drop by drop.
"Thank you, Mr. Ning, thank you Mrs. Ning." The woman turned around and gave a big salute to the two of them.
Xinyu stepped forward to support the woman, and said softly, "You don't need to thank us, but, don't you regret doing this?"
"As long as Xiaowen can live well, that's enough"
The woman responded with difficulty, and immediately her face flushed morbidly, and she coughed violently.
The dazzling red overflowed between the fingers and fell drop by drop. The sick body suppressed by the medicinal properties, after all, could no longer be supported and exploded.
"I'll help you into the house to take medicine"
Xin Yu sighed softly, supported the woman, and walked towards the house.
Ning Chen stood outside the house, looking at the dilapidated ancient city, a look of emotion rose in his eyes, parting from life and death is always a lot of sadness.
Ordinary, there is ordinary happiness, but also ordinary helplessness.
After a while, Xin Yu walked out of the house, took the hand of the person in front of her, and walked towards the house.
"Husband, Xiaowen's mother doesn't have many days," Xinyu said with a sad expression.
"You did your best"
Ning Chen held the former's hand and said.
"If my medical skills were better, maybe Xiaowen's mother would be able to live longer," Xin Yu said with a lot of self-reproach on her face.
"Birth, old age, sickness and death, as long as you do it naturally, you don't need to be too sorry. You are already the best doctor in the world, otherwise, Xiaowen's mother wouldn't be able to survive today," Ning Chen comforted softly.
"Husband," Xin Yu called softly.
"Huh?" Ning Chen replied.
"Do you regret marrying me?" Xin Yu raised her head and asked.
"not regret"
Ning Chen stretched out his hand and stroked the face of the woman in front of him. With a gentle smile on his face, he said, "I have never regretted it for a moment."
Tears welled up in Xin Yu's eyes, and she smiled brightly and said, "I don't regret it either."
She knew that the person he liked was the woman in the barren city or the little princess of the savage dynasty, but she still couldn't help wanting to be with him, even if it was only twenty years.
She won't drag him down for too long, twenty years is enough, and after twenty years, she will give him back to them.
"Silly girl"
Ning Chen gently took the former into his arms, and said softly, "You are my wife, now, in the future, always. I marry you, just because I want to marry you, there is no other reason."
"Yeah," Xin Yu nodded slightly.
Ning Chen raised his hand to wipe away the tears from the eyes of the person in front of him, and said with a chuckle, "Our Ninth Princess is the most beautiful woman in the world. There are countless children of powerful and powerful people who are seeking marriage, but I finally got married and went home, you It's too late to regret it"
Hearing the former's teasing, Xin Yu burst into laughter, stretched out her hand and hit the person in front of her lightly, and said, "I want you to treat me well. If you are not good to me, I will go back to the princess' mansion, and I won't have sex with you."
Ning Chen smiled softly and said, "That's right, how dare I treat our Nine Princesses badly"
Back home, Xinyu went to the East Kitchen to prepare dinner, Ning Chen walked to the desk, took out the rice paper, added water to grind it, and painted the figure bit by bit.
Not long after, Xin Yu came over with the food, saw the figure in front of the desk, and asked, "What are you writing?"
"nothing"
Ning Chen smiled, covered the scroll, and stepped forward, "It's been a long time since I saw you go to the street to buy rouge gouache or something. You don't have to go to the school tomorrow. I'll accompany you to buy it while this is the day."
"Do you hate me as a yellow-faced woman? If you don't put on rouge gouache, you can't watch anymore?" Xin Yu gave the former a white look and said.
"Ah"
Ning Chen chuckled lightly and said, "If you are a yellow-faced woman, all the women in the world will be invisible. I just feel that I haven't gone out with you for a long time, and I want to make up for it."
"Seeing that what you said was sincere, I agreed." Xin Yu smiled.
The next day, when the morning light illuminated, in front of the bronze mirror in the house, Xin Yu was dressing her makeup in the mirror. Even if she was not sculpted, her face was as perfect as a person in a picture.
Ning Chen had long been ready to wait and waited patiently. It is natural for a woman to love beauty, whether it is a woman or a little girl, so it is never too fast for a woman to dress up, he has fully learned it.
After an unknown time, Xin Yu got up, looked at the figure waiting in front of the door, the corners of her mouth curved slightly, and said, "Impatient waiting?"
Ning Chen heard the words, hurriedly cheered up, shook his head and said, "How could it be, husband waits for his wife, it's only natural, how can I be impatient?"
"That's good"
Xin Yu nodded with satisfaction and said, "Let's go."
The two walked side by side towards the outside. On the main street in the city, pedestrians came and went, not too lively, but not too deserted.
In front of a rouge stall, Xinyu stopped, opened it and smelled it, looked at the woman behind the stall, and said, "How do you sell this rouge?"
"Twenty Words"
Looking at the woman who was painted in front of her, the woman hurriedly responded.
"This is twenty wen, you can take it"
Xinyu took out twenty pennies and put it in the hands of the woman in front of her. She immediately stuffed the rouge into the people around her, and said, "Take it, don't lose it."
Ning Chen nodded and took the rouge.
In front of a gouache shop, Xinyu stopped, picked it out for a while, asked for two boxes of gouache, and continued to walk forward.
Ning Chen took the packaged gouache from the shopkeeper and followed it.
In the cloth shop, Xinyu looked at the pieces of cloth in the shop, picked it out for a long time, took out a piece of cloth, looked at the people around her, and asked, "Does it look good?"
"Good-looking." Ning Chen hurriedly nodded.
Xinyu put down the cloth in her hand suspiciously, picked up another cloth, and asked, "What about this?"
"It looks good too," Ning Chen said honestly.
Xinyu put down the cloth again, picked up the worst cloth, and asked again, "This?"
Ning Chen looked at it, but didn't feel any difference, nodded and said, "It looks good."
On the side, the proprietress of the cloth shop only wanted to laugh, but she held it back.
Xin Yu gave the people around her an angry look, and said, "It's really useless for you to choose. Do you think all the cloths here are good-looking?"
Ning Chen glanced at the cloth in the shop, and couldn't really see much difference. However, his intelligence and ability to pacify the world told him that if he said yes now, it must be a scam.
"of course not"
Ning Chen shook his head, picked up a piece of cloth at random, and said seriously, "I don't think this looks good."
"cluck"
Seeing this, the proprietress of the cloth shop couldn't bear it any longer, and Huazhi laughed quiveringly.
Xin Yu was also so angry that she could not wait to slap her out. "Master, the piece of cloth you took is Yueyang silk. It is made of the best silk and dyed with the best material. My shop can't buy only a few pieces at a time. If you think it is not good-looking, There is really no good-looking silk and satin in the world." The lady of the cloth shop
Jiao smiled.
Ning Chen's expression froze, slapped in the face, and the gutter capsized. How could he understand this? In the past, Ruoxi helped to take care of it, but now with Xinyu, he has never bought this thing himself.
"Madam, you don't need to pay attention to him, he's just an uncle, he usually doesn't care about anything at home"
Xin Yu said angrily and continued, "How much silver does this Yueyang silk cost?"
"Twenty taels," said the proprietress of the cloth shop, holding back her laughter.
Xinyu nodded, the proprietress didn't ask for much, it was indeed the price.
"Help me wrap it up, we want this cloth," Xin Yu replied.
"Okay, I'll wrap the girl up right away"
The lady of the cloth shop showed a happy look on her face. Although this cloth is precious, it is indeed not very easy to sell. Today, it is considered a big customer.
"Boss Lady"
At this moment, outside the cloth shop, a young man with a paper fan walked in and said, "I want all the cloth from your house. Pack it up and send it to the City Lord's Mansion."
The proprietress of the cloth shop was startled and looked at the young people outside the shop in disbelief. Is it true or false
This is the first time she has seen someone who wants goods like this.
After a while, the proprietress of the cloth shop responded and hurriedly replied, "Young master, wait a moment, I will help this girl wrap the cloth and deliver the goods for the master."
"Don't you understand what I said, what I said is that I want all the cloth from your house" the young man said with a cold expression.
In the cloth shop, Ning Chen looked at the young man outside the shop, a faint smile flashed in his eyes, and whispered, "Xin Yu, let's make a bet, this person must be a woman"
Xin Yu was slightly surprised, her eyes swept over, how did you see this
"Why are you so sure?" Xin Yu asked in confusion.
"Guess." Ning Chen's mouth curved up and replied.