The reborn abandoned woman reigns

Chapter 172 Trading
Smiling eyes regained their former brilliance, Changsun Jingrong said calmly: "They can arrange whatever they want, but no one can change my mind!"

After finishing speaking, Changsun Jingrong got up and went to the window, looked at the blue sky outside, and murmured: "Sima Xukong, let's see what kind of tricks you are playing this time!"

In the snowflakes flying all over the sky, a little girl wrapped in a thick cotton padded coat, with a bamboo basket on her shoulder, walked with difficulty on the snow, leaving a string of small footprints on the clean ground.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the little girl saw a wooden house in front of her, ran over quickly, and knocked on the door.

After a long while, the little girl didn't hear any response from inside, so she carefully pushed them away and poked her head out to look inside.

Going straight to the fire, the girl looked around, rubbed her palms together, and murmured, "Why is no one here today..."

As soon as the words were finished, the girl heard footsteps behind her, felt happy, turned around and ran to the door.But after seeing the person who came, his face sank and he was a little disappointed.

Wearing a blue padded coat, Bi He shook the remaining snow on her body after entering the wooden house, and said with a smile, "You came really early today."

Xiaojie bit his lip, looked behind Bihe again, and asked timidly: "Is that beautiful sister not coming today?"

"She's off today, so she won't come. By the way, what good things did you bring?"

Bi He leaned over to pick something out of Xiaojie's bamboo basket, and said with a smile, "There are still fish. It seems that you are digging ice to get fish."

Xiaojie still lowered his shoulders in disappointment, nodded and said: "Well, the village chief grandpa took my brothers to the river to catch fish. I think you live in this mountain and you must not have anything good to eat, so I brought you some fish." gone."

Seeing that the lady was in a low mood, Bi He couldn't help but leaned over and squatted down beside her, touched her head, and asked, "Why are you unhappy? Is it because you can't see my lady? Hey, you little guy, what are you doing?" So want to see my lady?"

"Because that beautiful sister can teach me how to write. I have learned to write my own name now." When mentioning this matter, Xiaojie raised his head happily and smiled.

"You're really a smart girl," Bihe said with narrowed eyes, "I can teach you what you want to learn, sister, I can also read."

"Really?" The little girl's eyes lit up and she said, "Then this time, can you teach me to write my parents' names?"

"Of course!"

The smile on his face suddenly froze, and Xiaojie held his forehead in annoyance, and murmured: "Oops, I forgot! I'll ask Grandpa when I go back."

Seeing the child's naive appearance, Bi He couldn't help but smile, then took out a silver silk cloth belt from her bosom and handed it to her, and said carefully: "These are the silver for exchange, please take it well."

Holding the heavy cloth belt, Xiaojie panicked and said, "Grandpa said, you have given too much, and we deserve it." After speaking, Xiaojie pushed the cloth belt back.

Seeing that the little man was so stubborn, Bihe smiled, shook her head, pinched the cloth belt back into Xiaojie's hand, and said: "It's hard to find something to eat this winter, and it's not easy for us to go down the mountain once." , you have helped us so much, you deserve the money, so you don’t have to feel guilty. Although these things are not worth much on weekdays, but now is an extraordinary time. If we don’t have these things, we But it will starve to death. Do you think, which is more important, this money or life?"

Xiaojie felt that what Bihe said was very reasonable, looked at the silver in his hand, and said in a low voice: "Well, I'll take it back to grandpa. But, sister, how long are you going to live on the mountain? Grandpa said Now, next month is the snow season, if you stay on the mountain, it will be dangerous."

"Snow season?" It was the first time Bihe heard such a statement, and she couldn't help asking, "Is it because it snows a lot?"

"Yes, when there is more snow, avalanches are prone to occur. Not to mention people, even trees will be destroyed. So you should leave the mountain as soon as possible."

After hearing this, Bihe couldn't help but suppress her smile, patted Xiaojie's forehead again, nodded and said, "Okay, I see, thank you very much."

Looking at the gentle and smiling Bihe, Xiaojie thought to himself, these people have really good tempers, they are good-looking, and they are also very patient with others. Much stronger.

Thinking of those aunts, Xiaojie felt a chill in his bones, their calculating eyes always wanted to see through people.I don't know if he was too obsessed, Xiaojie even heard the rough voice of the old lady behind him!

"Let me just say, how can you, a little girl, have so much money? It turns out that you secretly sold things from the village!"

The figure that appeared suddenly made Bi He jump. After seeing that the other party was just two middle-aged women with thick backs, she felt relieved a little, and asked with a frown, "Who are you and why are you here?"

Looking at the two middle-aged women, Xiaojie shrank behind Bihe and murmured softly, "Aunt Zhang, Aunt Li, why are you here?"

The leader, Aunt Zhang, put her hands on her hips and said with a smirk, "I feel that something is wrong with you these few days. How do you have the money to buy medicinal materials for your grandfather? It turns out that you came here to eat and eat!"

Seeing the bad tone of those two people, Bi He couldn't help but suddenly became angry, and shouted: "Hey, why are you making things difficult for a little girl!"

When the two aunts saw that the other was just a thin little girl, their hearts were full of confidence, and they said: "We haven't settled with you yet, but you came to us to make a fuss!? Say, are you beating our village?" What an idea!"

"Your village is so poor, I have nothing to worry about, it's ridiculous! I said, don't you envy this kid for making money, so you want to keep it for yourself!"

The two aunts straightened their backs and said righteously: "We are just worried that she has gone astray! You have betrayed the interests of the village! Now you come back to the village with us and let the village chief interrogate you. What are your intentions?" !"

Although the two middle-aged women were tall, Bi He and Lei Qing'er had also learned some self-defense skills, so they were more than enough to deal with them. They were dealt with in two or three strokes, and let them lie on the ground whimpering. Twisted body.

Looking at the three people coldly, Bihe looked fierce, and said, "I'm really blind to think that the people in your village are reliable! Now I regret it, take your things and leave, and take my money with you." give me back!"

After finishing speaking, Bihe threw the bamboo basket in front of Xiaojie, snatched the money bag from her hand, and left angrily.

Stupidly looking at the one who swears in front of him, Xiaojie doesn't know why this happened. The things are gone, the money is gone, and he will definitely be punished by his aunts. The big sister is also angry. What should I do now? What to do...

Standing up slowly from the ground, the two aunts patted the dust off their bodies, and said angrily: "I thought I could get some money, but I didn't expect to meet someone who is really good, it's really bad luck, bah!"

Another person glared at Xiaojie, stretched out his hand to poke her forehead, and said in a bad tone: "You bastard, you know how to provoke troubles, and you have made all the old women suffer!"

"Don't be as knowledgeable as her, go back before it's snowing outside."

The two ignored Xiaojie, who was sitting on the ground crying, and left together, still cursing, not knowing where the confidence came from.

Xiaojie sat there alone and cried for a long time, his nose and eyes were red, he looked so pitiful, like an abandoned little rabbit.

"Hey, they're gone, don't cry!"

Hearing this sound suddenly, Xiaojie stopped crying, looked at Bihe who was smiling at him, and murmured: "Big sister, you didn't leave?"

Reaching out to pull the young lady up, Bi He smiled and said: "I lied to them, otherwise, I don't know how to refuse to let them go." Stretching out her hand to wipe the teardrops on Xiaojie's face, Bi He said with a smile , "This trick is called a trick. At most, they will go back and taunt you for a while, but they will never set your mind on it again. You keep the money secretly, and you must never be discovered by them again!"

Blinking his eyes, Xiaojie asked, "Are you not angry?"

"I'm angry only because of those guys who only know how to envy others, but don't know how to work hard. In the future, you have to be strong so that you won't be bullied by others. Also, don't be stupid and talk to others about everything. Said, even if you have some money, you still have to spend a little bit, so as to save people with ulterior motives from taking your ideas, understand?"

Nodding vigorously, Xiaojie said: "I see, then, can I still come in the future?"

"You also said that the mountain is not safe. We may have to leave too. In the future, don't come to deliver things for us."

Xiaojie hung his shoulders in frustration, and said, "Then what should you do if you don't have anything to eat?"

"Of course I figured it out on my own. Don't worry, there are so many of us and we are strong, so finding something to eat won't be a problem for us!" Rubbing the top of Xiaojie's head again, Bi He said with a smile, "We must take good care of ourselves in the future." ,do you know?"

"Ah."

"Okay, let's go home before the heavy snowfall!"

Looking at Bihe with some reluctance, Xiaojie waved to her and shouted: "Big sister, we will meet later!" Then, he ran out of the room, running farther and farther.

Looking at the child's back, Bi He slowly put away her smile, then packed up the things in the bamboo basket, carried them on her shoulders, and slowly climbed up to a higher mountain range.

Facing the wind and snow, Bihe climbed up to the lee of a mountain peak, where there was a small stone house, although it was freezing outside, it seemed like there was a natural barrier inside, keeping all the wind and snow out .

Pushing open the stone door hard, Bihe walked in quickly, looked at Shaoyao who was boiling water, and said with a smile: "This water is really boiling at the right time, we have fish to eat today!"

"Really?" Shaoyao's eyes lit up, she hurried over and said with a smile, "Then we can make fish soup today!"

Putting down the writing brush in his hand, Changsun Jingrong looked at the excited two people and said, "Today is really lucky, and it happens to give you a change of taste. The weather outside is getting colder and colder. Drinking some soup can also warm you up. "

Hearing this, Bihe remembered what Xiaojie had said, and couldn't help but said with a little worry: "Miss, I heard from that child that the snow season is coming soon, and it is easy to cause an avalanche. It is dangerous for us to stay on the mountain. Better get out of here as soon as possible."

"Xue Beng?" Shao Yao's eyes widened and she said, "It sounds scary! Then Miss, let's pack up and leave, just in time to go down the mountain and meet Lei Qing'er and the others."

Changsun Jingrong pondered for a moment, and said: "But after tracking this place, Sima Xukong's clues have been broken. Now leave, where are you going? After the avalanche, all the traces left behind will definitely disappear. It will be difficult."

Bi He understood the mood of the eldest grandson Jingrong, so he suggested: "Then let's use these few days to search more and see if we can find any more clues."

But Shaoyao was not hopeful about this proposal, and murmured: "It's easy to say, but this mountain is so big, we have been searching for almost half a month, and we still haven't found anything. Just find the clues? It’s really difficult!”

Bihe raised her arms and rested her chin with her fingers, obviously looking distressed, she frowned and said, "It's really strange to say, why did the prince come to this snow-capped mountain? This place is simply barren, and there is no one left here. significance."

"Of course the lord has the lord's intentions, if we can find out, then we can find the lord now." Shao Yao said, "But no matter what, it is more important than anything to prove that the lord is indeed still alive, isn't it? "

"That's right, you have to give yourself some confidence in order to make a breakthrough in the long road ahead."

"However, we always have to find out where to go one step before we can continue to form."

After listening to the conversation between the two maidservants, Changsun Jingrong suddenly thought of something and asked, "How long will the snow season here last?"

Bi He was stunned, recalled carefully, and then said: "I asked Xiaojie, she said it would last about a month. It is winter now, and the snow will be clear for more than ten days, and a new round will start again. The snow season. Repeatedly, until spring comes.”

After pondering for a moment, Changsun Jingrong speculated: "I guess, maybe he also left here to avoid the snow season."

"After the snow season is over, the prince should come back again." Shao Yao also felt strange, and asked suspiciously, "Why didn't we meet the prince?"

"I guess, he should have found more important clues, so he gave up here and went to a new place."

Looking outside with some frustration, Shao Yao said: "How do we find it now? The world is vast, and if there is no clue, it is simply looking for a needle in a haystack."

Pursing her lips in thought, when the eldest grandson Jingrong raised her eyes again, a gleam of brilliance flashed in her eyes, and she said, "Before we leave, let's go to the village and ask them if they have seen the prince on the mountain."

"Yes!"

Because there is no need to go to the mountains to deliver food, Xiaojie has nothing to do these few days, so he stays at home all day and does some farm work.Looking up at the continuous snowfall outside, Xiaojie felt slightly worried. He wondered if the sisters on the mountain would have fresh food to eat.

"Xiaojie, the village head sent someone to look for you, go and have a look."

"Grandpa Village Chief looking for me?" Xiaojie turned to look at Grandpa, stood up in surprise, and said, "Why did Grandpa Village Chief seek me?"

"I don't know, quickly approve a coat, and grandpa will go over with you to have a look."

Feeling apprehensive, Xiaojie grabbed his coat and hurried out the door.Stepping on the thick snow, it made a creaking sound.In the past, Xiaojie's favorite thing was to step on the snow, leaving a series of footprints, but now she was in a panic, and her footprints were crooked. Occasionally, she ran faster and almost fell.

At this moment, many people had gathered in front of the village chief's grandfather's door, which made Xiaojie even more uneasy, and timidly followed behind his grandfather, and walked in.

As soon as he entered the door, Xiaojie saw a familiar figure, and he couldn't help calling out happily, "Beautiful sister?"

Turning around slowly, Changsun Jingrong looked at Xiaojie with a smile, and nodded slightly to her.

When the village chief saw Xiaojie, his voice was a little serious, and he said, "Why did you come here, come quickly, you have kept the distinguished guests waiting for a long time."

Walking up to the village head in a daze, Xiaojie asked in a low voice, "This is... what's going on?"

Giving Xiaojie a soothing look, Changsun Jingrong said calmly: "Xiaojie has helped us before, and now he is leaving. We came here to express our thanks. And these small gifts only represent a little bit of our heart. I hope the village chief I can accept it for you."

The so-called "small gift" by Changsun Jingrong was two boxes of golden jewels, enough for the whole village to enjoy the glory for ten years, and everyone couldn't help but stare straight at them, unable to move away for a long time.And the two aunts who had followed Xiaojie felt remorse in their hearts, thinking that if they had persisted then, maybe the two boxes of jewels would have been taken for themselves!

Although the village head was shocked by the wealth in front of him, he still had some backbone and said: "I also heard from Xiaojie that she just provided you with some fresh ingredients and paid for them at the time. Now We really have no reason to accept these things.”

The words of the village chief made many people feel embarrassed and sighed, but the grandson Jingrong still insisted, saying: "I have my own reasons for sending these things. One is because Xiaojie has helped us a lot. , that can't be measured by money, it's just an expression of heart. Second, Xiaojie and her grandfather are in the village, and they will definitely need everyone's help in the future. I also hope that you can take care of Xiaojie on your behalf Grandfather and grandson. Also, the most important point," Changsun Jingrong paused slightly, looked at the village, and said, "I want to ask you about someone."

(End of this chapter)