After being reborn, she became the richest man without being a queen

Chapter 127 Cold Food
"Can I beg for saliva?" Shen Qingling took out a handful of jujube candy from her bosom, and handed it to the little girl, "I'm a passer-by, not a bad person, I just want to beg for saliva."

"Ninny, come back!"

A rather shrill voice sounded in the yard.

The little girl was so frightened that she quickly backed away.Even if her eyes were still on Shen Qingling's palm, she didn't dare to take another step forward.

Shen Qingling straightened up, looked in through the crack of the door, and vaguely saw a middle-aged woman wearing a crimson skirt standing in the courtyard, with a sallow complexion and frightened eyes.

Then, the woman came over a few steps, picked up the little girl, and hurriedly pushed the door shut, and hastily unbolted it.

"Excuse me, I'm just a passer-by, and I want to beg for a drink." Shen Qingling took the gold-embroidered jade bracelet, leaned over and pushed it in along the crack at the bottom of the door, "If you don't mind, you can Accept it, but I really need a sip of water, if I can have more mouthfuls of steamed buns, it would be even better."

It was very quiet inside the door.

Shen Qingling was neither in a hurry nor urged.

She tied the horse to the tree trunk at the door, then walked back, put one hand on the door, and glanced at the ground from the corner of her eye, until she saw that the bracelet was taken away, she let go and took a step back, waiting for the door to open.

In fact, if the woman does not accept the bracelet and refuses to open the door, Shen Qingling intends to take it by force.

Fortunately, everything does not have to go to that step.

"Let's talk about it first, just a bowl of water and a piece of steamed bun." The woman held the little girl with one hand, opened the door a crack, dragged Shen Qingling in neatly, and quickly closed the door again.

Only then did Shen Qingling realize that there was still someone sitting in the yard.

A man without legs.

He just sat indifferently under the locust tree in the yard, there was nothing below his knees, and there was a book on his knees.It seems that the book is not for reading, so the pages are blown and turned by the wind.

"This is my husband. There were some accidents in the early years." Seeing Shen Qingling's surprised expression, the woman introduced, "You wait for me in the main hall, and I will boil water and steamed buns for you."

After the little girl was put down by her, her eyes were still entwined with Shen Qingling's hand.

"Want to eat?" Shen Qingling handed both hands clenched into fists to the little girl, and then said with a smile: "Then guess which hand has candy? If it's right, then I'll give it to you .”

Originally, Shen Qingling thought that the little girl would happily come and choose, but she didn't expect that the little girl just bit her lip, turned her head to look at the man under the tree, and didn't move or speak.

The man slowly raised his eyes, looked at Shen Qingling, and said: "The distinguished guests should leave as soon as they finish drinking the water. This is not a place to stay for a long time, and I don't like foreigners either."

"Father." The little girl called him in a childish voice.

"Don't eat it." The man categorically blocked the little girl's dream of jujube candy, "What will happen if you eat it, you don't remember? Be honest with me, don't get distracted."

Shen Qingling only felt that the whole family was very weird, so she didn't say anything more, she sat on the floor in silence, and stuffed another piece of candy into her mouth, eating it very sweetly.

The poor little girl swallowed her saliva.

In that room, after a busy work in the kitchen, the woman brought out a bowl of hot water and a piece of yellowed steamed bun, and asked Shen Qingling to sit in the main room and enjoy it.

The man was also pushed into the main room with great effort by the little girl.

It seems that in order to save firewood, the woman simply cooked meals for the whole family.It's just that what they had in front of them was not steamed buns or white rice, but a small bowl of gruel that was obviously cold.

"Did you turn on the stove?" The man glanced at the steaming water in front of Shen Qingling and asked.

The woman shook her head quickly, and explained in a low voice: "It was a bit of charcoal left over from earlier, which was simmered in soot, and there was no fire. After all, she is a guest, and she has been given money. She can't let her drink cold water."

"Send people out early. It's getting dark, and it's too late to leave after dark." The man seemed not going to talk about whether he was angry or not. The porridge, I drank it slowly.

But looking at the way he drank the porridge, Shen Qingling concluded that this person came from an extraordinary background.

His demeanor is not that of ordinary people who face the loess and their backs to the sky. Although the brows and eyes are a little mottled by the years, but if you look closely, you can still see the former style.

Shen Qingling picked up the steamed bun obediently, and ate the steamed bun with a mouthful of water.She was not afraid that the food or water in front of her would be poisoned. In fact, if Shen Qingling wanted to, she could sit alone in this room at any time.

The man took a few sips of gruel and put it down, poured the rest into the little girl's bowl, and then started the book he was reading before turning over.

"I have a question I want to ask you two, I don't know if I should ask it or not." After eating the steamed buns, Shen Qingling asked quickly: "Why do you say it's late when it's dark? After dark, why is it late?"

He clearly said that he didn't know whether to ask or not, but he asked directly without waiting for others to speak.

The woman who was still drinking the soup just now paused with her hands, half of her slightly yellow eyes were exposed behind the bowl, as if she was looking at Shen Qingling, and also as if she was observing the man's face.

"It's remote here, my little lady's family, it's better not to walk outside at night, lest I be picked up by wild animals." The man said without raising his head.

Shen Qingling sighed, and asked again: "Then since it's getting dark, I wonder if the two of you can take me in for a night?"

The man raised his head, wanting to refuse, but heard Shen Qingling hastily added:
"As you said just now, there are probably wild beasts out there, and if I, a powerless little lady, go out, I'm afraid it will be very dangerous. If the two of you can do some good deeds, I will have Xie Yi here."

What was placed on the table by Shen Qingling was an ingot of gold.

"There is a skinny horse outside, if you two are rare, you can keep it." Shen Qingling looked at the man very firmly, and had a panoramic view of the entanglement between the man and the woman.

"Matchmaker, hurry up and bring the horse in." After thinking about it, the man could only ask the woman to get up first, "We want this ingot of gold and the horse, but all we can give you is a one-night stay. If you If you want to ask for anything else, I'm sorry."

As if she had been pardoned, the woman got up panting heavily, strode out, opened the courtyard door and led the horse.

"What else can I ask from you?" Shen Qingling pretended to be curious and asked back.

But the man looked like I had seen through you, and said: "People like you have come here before, no less than twenty. But no matter who they are, no matter how good their skills are, they will all die in the end. Do you think you How capable are you to get out of here alive?"

Hearing this, Shen Qingling frowned slightly.

No fire, no smoke, doors closed.

It seems that Jinyun County is in the atmosphere of a cold food festival or a funeral, but it is not a cold food festival right now, and I have not seen anyone holding a funeral along the way.

(End of this chapter)