The guys didn't want to do it now, so they quickly stopped him. "Hey, wait a minute, sir, you can't give him any money."
Zhao Changyuan asked in confusion: "Why?" Could it be that everyone here knew that this beggar was a liar, so no one was willing to give him money just now and they wanted to beat him?
One of the waiters said: "If you give him money, he will come every day from now on."
Zhao Changyuan raised his eyebrows with an expression of enlightenment, but finally put the silver in the beggar's hand and said calmly: "The silver is mine, and it's my business to give it to him if I like it. The store is yours, and he will
Whether you come or not has nothing to do with me."
"Hey..." The shopkeepers were choked and speechless.
"Thank you, Master. This Master is really a kind man!" The old beggar naturally thanked him profusely and walked out with the money in his hands with satisfaction.
Zhao Changyuan then returned to the table and leaned over to wipe away the footprints kicked by the waiter on his robe.
This brief scene had a wonderful effect in this spacious shop. No one was embarrassed to stare at him with blunt and rude eyes.
At this time, the waiter in the shop also came over with a smile, holding a tea set. "Sir, you are so kind-hearted. There are many beggars here, but there are really not many people who are willing to give alms."
Zhao Changyuan didn't say anything, but smiled shyly.
The second brother poured tea for him and asked earnestly: "What would you like to eat?"
He then looked at the vegetable brands on the wall that didn't arouse his liking, frowned helplessly and asked, "Do you have mandarin fish here?"
The younger brother smiled and shook his head: "Hey, how can we have such a thing in a place like ours? Sir, you really know how to joke."
“Where’s the soy sauce beef?”
"Uh...it just happened to be sold out."
"No roast goose or anything?"
He asked him all about his favorite food, but the younger brother always shook his head with regret.
"Then what do you have here?" He was a little unhappy, and his stomach growled a few times.
The second brother thought for a while and then recommended to him: "The sweet and sour pork ribs here are excellent. Do you want to try it?"
"Okay, let's try it." Although under Gong Yueyue's influence, he gradually began to reject sweets, but he knew that in this situation, it was already good to have meat, so it was better not to be picky.
For about half an hour, people who were coming and going were shocked and speechless by the empty plate in front of Zhao Changyuan. This guy ate six plates of ribs, four steamed buns, and a few small meat dishes, which was an astonishing amount of food.
When settling the accounts, the younger brother smiled from ear to ear: "Young master, you have a good appetite. How about it? Is your recommendation correct?"
"It's indeed good." Zhao Changyuan wiped the corners of his mouth and hands elegantly, with the aura of "the biggest eater in the army is here, if you don't accept it, come and argue".
The second brother counted the plates on the table and did some quick mental calculations. "Well, a total of six taels of silver."
This meal was equivalent to eating the food of an ordinary people's family for several days. But to Zhao Changyuan, it was really nothing. But when he reached for his money bag at his waist, he was stunned...
The younger brother also saw something different in his expression. He glanced at his empty waist and asked hesitantly: "Sir... what are you..."
"Where's my money?" Poor Zhao Changyuan, how has he ever encountered such an embarrassing thing?
"Yes, where is your money?" The second brother also looked like a monk who was two feet tall and couldn't figure it out. Just now I saw him spend a lot of money and give the beggar a whole ingot of silver!
"Why is it missing?" Zhao Changyuan hurriedly unpacked all the baggage he carried and searched through it, but still found nothing. Suddenly, his face darkened and he suddenly realized. "It was the beggar just now! He stole my wallet!
"
After saying that, he raised his feet and wanted to chase me out, but the waiter stopped me and hugged me: "Hey! Sir, you can't leave!"
"I'm going to chase him back, and I won't rely on you for these few taels of silver." Now that he is penniless, how will he travel in the future? It doesn't matter if he suffers a little, but if he misses the important task of finding medicine, then it will be really serious.
Dead.
The waiter in the shop stopped him helplessly and advised: "I can't catch up. It's been so long. Are they still waiting for you to catch up?"
Zhao Changyuan knew that he could not escape in vain no matter what, so after thinking about it, he had to take off the jade rabbit pendant given to him by an elder on his tenth birthday from his neck and hand it over. He was actually born in the year of rabbit, so Pan Ershao
The nickname White Rabbit given to him is well-deserved. "Brother, how much is this pendant worth? Do you think..."
"Hey, young master, please don't embarrass me. I don't understand this." It's not that the second brother is unreasonable. This kind of jade is very precious in the Central Plains, but it is really difficult to sell it in this border desert. It can't be used as food.
To fill your stomach, you cannot make clothes to protect you from the wind and sand...
It was really difficult for Zhao Changyuan now. He had to make the heavens and the earth inoperable in this unfamiliar place.
"Young Master, please be like this. I see that you are not a scoundrel, but in our world, six taels of silver is really not a small amount. I think your robe is quite good, otherwise..." It is indeed true.
Folks on the Silk Road don't care about stones, but they care about this high-quality Jiangnan brocade.
"What did you say?" Zhao Changyuan became angry as soon as he heard this. He only had a few taels of silver? As for asking him to take off his clothes in public, was it so humiliating to him?
The younger brother caught a glimpse of his gentle jade face turning as gloomy as iron, and there was an indescribable majesty between his brows and eyes. He was so frightened that his whole body shivered, and he quickly changed his words: "Uh... Young Master... Don't be angry, Young Master.
I didn’t say anything. Forget it...forget it, I’ll just treat you as a guest."
The other party's frightened look made Zhao Changyuan shocked to realize that he had lost his composure, and the chopsticks in his hand were unknowingly pinched into two pieces.
Thinking about it calmly, it is wrong to eat the King's meal no matter what. Besides, how can he really let the waiter in this shop take care of him? It must not be easy for him. If he goes out to chase now, he may still have time to find the beggar and wait for him.
It won't do anyone any good to go down. I don't have anything to offer now. If someone wants these clothes, just give them to me.
Thinking of this, he raised his eyelids and scanned the surrounding diners, and found that everyone was looking in his direction intentionally or unintentionally. The unprecedented shame and embarrassment made him blush so much that he almost bled.
"Why are you so coquettish, a grown man? Do you still want to save the lady?" After making up his mind, he really reached out to untie the belt of his robe.
"Sir, wait a minute!" The voice was clean and crisp, coming from a man who was about the same age as Zhao Changyuan. As he spoke, people had already arrived in front of Zhao Changyuan. This man was average in appearance, but he was also very eye-catching. Because no matter the purple color on his body,
The robe embroidered with gold thread, the pair of embroidered boots on his feet, or the huge onyx jade button on his hairband all fully accentuated his gorgeous nouveau riche temperament, making him extremely vulgar. "I see you just now
The jade pendant I took out is quite good, can I show it to you?"
Zhao Changyuan handed over the pendant silently. The young man held it in his hand and played with it carefully for a moment. He raised his eyebrows and said cheerfully: "Master, if you are willing, I am willing to pay you two hundred taels of silver for this pendant."
As soon as I finished speaking, everyone was sighing, especially the waiter, whose face turned green. Is such a small stone so valuable?
Zhao Changyuan immediately agreed without even thinking about it. "Okay." Of course he knew that his jade pendant was actually much more than two hundred taels, but how could he care about it now?
With one hand he handed over jade, and with the other hand he handed over silver. The young man did not forget to sneer at the waiter who was standing aside and his guts turned green with regret: "Second brother, you are so ignorant of the goods. This is a high-quality tribute jade. Five
You can’t even buy it for a hundred taels.”
"Uh...ah?" The second brother, holding back his internal injuries, silently stepped aside.
In any case, Zhao Changyuan was sincerely grateful to this wealthy man for his timely help. "Thank you, Master, for rescuing the siege. I am deeply grateful."
The wealthy man waved his hand and said nonchalantly: "I am a businessman, I only know how to buy and sell. You don't need to take it to heart, sir." At this moment, he only had the fresh and warm jade rabbit in his eyes, not this silly ordinary rabbit. For fear of it.
The other party regretted asking him to get it back, so he turned around and left.
Although he hadn't slept in bed for several days, Zhao Changyuan still couldn't sleep soundly that night on the high bed and soft pillow.
What he encountered while eating downstairs today made him feel uneasy. He is not a stupid person, but he tends to be soft-hearted when facing the weak, which is a great weakness in some cases. He knows that this weakness will not last for a while.
He can change, but if he really changes, he will no longer be Zhao Changyuan. He will be released from detention tomorrow, and he doesn’t know what kind of dangers and emergencies are waiting for him to face. If he is not careful, he will
Never come back.
Fortunately, the moonlight outside the window shone gently on his chest, just like Gong Yueyue's gentle eyes and love.
Fortunately, he could always remember in his mind what she said the night before she fell into coma: "Mr., I love you." Whenever he remembered it, any fear and anxiety would dissipate like floating clouds.
When the deep sleep embraced his whole body, he heard the voice in his heart saying: "There is nothing to be afraid of. Anyway, the result is nothing more than living together or dying together."
Getting out of Yumenguan and sneaking into the Western Regions were smooth and smooth for him without any hindrance. He had also been stationed under the city and checked the visitors coming from the south and the north, so he naturally knew how to make clever changes and get through.
But after entering a foreign land, the first problem that gave him an extremely headache arose...
"Uncle, do you know how to get to Orchid Valley?"
"Auntie, how can I get to Orchid Valley?"
"Excuse me……"
He asked people dozens of times along the way, but no one understood what he, a "foreigner," was talking about.
Since he didn't have a clear direction, he didn't dare wander around, lest he take the wrong path and get further and further away from his goal.
Although he kept telling himself to calm down, his confusion, anxiety and concern for Gong Yueyue still made his collapse more and more serious. Even he himself felt puzzled that even if it was his first time to lead troops to fight, he was not so panicked.
At a loss.
He was full of foreigners, speaking in dialects he could not understand, walking back and forth in front of him. It was spring, the temperature was cool and pleasant, but he was still sweating. (To be continued)