Chen Chao withdrew his hand, turned around and leaned against the door, raised his eyebrows, and looked at the man holding a big bowl and taking rice into his mouth, "What, you're envious? I'm not even envious.
No way, who told me to be handsome!"
The man had just swallowed the last mouthful of rice in the big bowl, and swallowed the cabbage leaves at the corner of his mouth with a slurp, "What's the point of looking good? How can I feel safe with my wife weighing more than two hundred pounds?!"
Putting the big bowl in his hand on the threshold, he wiped a handful of the soup from the corner of his mouth. The man with yellowish teeth grinned and said, "Boss Chen, listen to the advice of me, a veteran, you can't handle a beautiful little wife.
You, a humble person, don’t have that fate!”
"I said that girl, who does she belong to? Why did you blindly fall in love with this poor boy?"
The man's eyes looked back and forth on Xie Nandu, but he just skipped the places that needed to be skipped, and only glanced at the places that needed to stay without leaving any trace, making it quite hidden.
Xie Nandu held the steaming food that was not finished yet, and glanced at the man. There was no disgust in his eyes, but he looked curiously at this sloppy man who was destined not to be seen at home.
"Get out of here!" Chen Chao cursed and raised his middle finger towards the man. In the past, he would have sat down and had a good talk with this old boy, but today he didn't know what happened.
Because of his size, he lost interest.
Chen Chao thinks that his mouth is not bad, but he doesn't know why he always falls behind when he quarrels with the middle-aged man in front of him. This old boy seems to know what he is thinking, and he can say exactly what he says every time.
To death, the two of them lived across the street from each other, so they often met each other, and whenever they met, they would inevitably have a quarrel.
Still not enough effort.
Chen Chao gritted his teeth and shouted towards the gate over there, "Auntie, your man said he wants to marry Widow Li as a concubine. I want to ask you what you think!"
After hearing these words, the man who was still raising his head and pointing his nostrils at Chen Chao's face changed slightly, and his aura suddenly weakened. He lowered his voice and said, "You bitch, you are so unkind. Be careful not to find a wife."
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Before he finished speaking, an extremely loud voice sounded from inside the door, "Zhou Gouqi, get out of here!"
Xie Nandu looked towards the man and could vaguely see a strong woman in the courtyard, holding a rolling pin in her hand.
As soon as this voice sounded, the alley burst into laughter, and the atmosphere suddenly became very cheerful.
Hearing the sound from inside the door, the man sitting on the threshold with his legs crossed looked at Chen Chao fiercely, but still raised his voice and said indifferently, "Why do you want to marry Widow Li? I also like Princess Daliang, it's different.
Holding my nose and living with a bitch like you? What, do it?
Forget it if you don't become the consort, why don't I think about it?"
The man said this with great force, but obviously the neighbors present were not outsiders. They had already heard such words and had calluses on their ears, so they were just waiting to see the show.
Suddenly the wind picked up, and a rolling pin flew out of the yard, hitting the man on the back of the head. The man let out an ouch, fell from the threshold, and sat on the ground in a state of embarrassment, yelling, "You fat bitch, I'm waiting for you."
I’ll hang you up and beat you later!”
At the moment when these words were said, a tall woman with an ordinary face but a strong figure had already arrived at the door with a dark face. Without saying a word, she grabbed the man by the collar and dragged him into the door.
It doesn't look like it's the first time.
There was some laughter in the alley again.
"Boy Chen, wait for me..."
The man who reluctantly entered the door snorted coldly and disappeared from Chen Chao's sight.
Chen Chao looked at this scene and grinned, feeling comfortable!
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"It's all gone, it's all gone."
Chen Chao waved, regardless of whether the neighbors were really going to disperse, he just turned around, opened the door quickly, and walked into the small yard.
The layout of the yard is simple. Apart from a stone table, there is only a water tank covered with moss. There is a thin layer of snowflakes on the edge of the water tank. The ground is covered with snow. There are some in the gaps between the stone bricks near the eaves.
The withered weeds are dormant, and it seems that after this winter, they will grow tenaciously.
"Leave far away!"
Chen Chao grabbed a ball of snow and hit it accurately at a black wild cat under the eaves. The wild cat meowed, climbed to the roof through the pillars, turned around and glanced at Chen Chao, and disappeared into the heavy snow.
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The girl behind him followed quietly, neither fast nor slow, always keeping a distance of about ten feet from Chen Chao.
After watching Chen Chao finish all this, the two of them came to the main room.
The whole yard is quite old. The paint on the wooden pillars and other items has fallen off a lot, and the exposed parts have even been eaten by insects.
Chen Chao dragged out an old wooden chair and a bench from the main room, scratched his head, and when he was about to speak, Chen Chao looked at Xie Nandu in front of him and walked straight towards the wooden chair, and then sat down.
"Conscious enough." Chen
Chao muttered, originally planning to let Xie Nandu sit on that bench.
But at this moment, he could only sit on the bench by himself and twist his butt. It was really uncomfortable.
She was looking at this young man who was completely different from the one in the ruined temple.
In the ruined temple, this young man was decisive and calm, but here, he seemed like a gangster, and his whole body was full of gangster energy.
This change made the girl feel very strange.
Chen Chao leaned on a pillar nearby and picked off a piece of patent leather that was about to fall off, looking a little bored.
While talking, Chen Chao's palm kept rubbing back and forth on the handle of the broken knife.
Those calluses on the palms actually mean something.
It's easy to say that it's easy to kill the blood demon with one knife, but if it weren't for daily hard practice, there would be no such result.
"Still thinking about those things?"
Chen Chao saw the sadness in the girl's eyes, which has not dissipated even now.
Xie Nandu said, "They escorted me all the way north, from Bailu to here. Uncle Song even taught me a lot."
"People cannot be resurrected after death. If you think about it a little more liberally, people are eaten by monsters. This happened every day in the Liang Dynasty."
That is to say, it is better to live in Tianqing County. In other remote places in Daliang Dynasty, even the county town is not safe.
Xie Nandu shook her head, she naturally knew about such a thing.
Sitting on the chair, she was a little absent-minded. At this point, she also knew that there was no other way except to write a letter back to Bailu when she got to the capital of gods and ask her family to provide more support to the family members of these people.
There was a long silence between the two, with no words spoken.
However, Chen Chao didn't care. He didn't live alone for a day or two anymore. He ignored her. He just leaned against the pillar with badly painted paint, and was distracted, thinking about something.
Xie Nandu glanced at the heavy snow outside, then looked away, and said somewhat seriously, "If you save my life, maybe I can give you a better future."
"If you want me to send you to the capital of gods, I advise you to give up this idea as soon as possible." Chen Chao reached out to catch some snowflakes, then pressed them on his forehead, and said tiredly, "You know some things, and I can guess them too.
Some, but it would be meaningless to explain it thoroughly.”
"Besides, I don't want to leave here yet."
After hearing this, Xie Nandu's face became a little more solemn. He looked at the young man in black in front of him. He wanted to speak several times, but finally just asked:
"Where do I live?"
"There are two rooms in total. The one on the east has not been occupied for a long time. It has an old quilt and is not guaranteed to be warm. If you don't like it, bring me the money and I will buy it for you later. But we have agreed that this will be done by then.
You can’t take anything away.”
Chen Chao rubbed his red nose, and there was a cunning look in his eyes.
A quilt costs nothing, but now every day's money is extremely important to Chen Chao, and he is not willing to spend any money on it.
"Also, how many days do you want to stay? It doesn't matter how many days. Anyway, ten coins a day will be used as your daily expenses."
"You seem to be a little greedy. Ten pieces of gold here can last for at least several months."
The girl was born into a wealthy family, but that doesn't mean she is the kind of woman who asks why she doesn't eat minced meat.
Tianqianqian was a currency circulated in the Daliang Dynasty, but this kind of coins was more circulated among wealthy households and practitioners. The people living at the bottom of the Daliang Dynasty used copper coins engraved with the four characters of Daliang Tongbao for daily use.
One day's money is enough to exchange for a hundred Daliang Tongbao.
"It's a small business, you just want to make some money if you don't want to, right?"
Chen Chao was smiling all over his face, looking like a common man.
Hearing the words "small door and small household", Xie Nandu recalled for no reason the previous conversation between Chen Chao and the man at the door.
If those words were heard by those scholars who taught her the principles of saints and virtues, they would be angry and cursed with vulgarity. However, she had never heard these words before, but she did not feel any disgust at all, but she could not say that she liked them.
"I don't mind it. As for daily expenses, it only costs one dollar a day."
She didn't even realize that she and this boy seemed to have a closer relationship.
"You are too good at bargaining, aren't you? No one can bargain like you, how about five? Or three!"
"Just one."
Xie Nandu looked at him and said nothing.
Chen Chao rubbed his messy hair and said, "Just one."
He muttered a few words, but didn't think it was anything. He was always like a lion, and it was reasonable that he couldn't do it at this moment.
It's getting late.
Xie Nandu walked towards the east house, while Chen Chao looked at her under the eaves.
Not long after, Xie Nan crossed over and returned, throwing a money bag far away.
"Go buy a quilt, here's the money."
This chapter has been completed!