The heroine Jiangshan

Chapter 5 Little Beggar

Chapter 4: The Little Beggar

"It seems to be really lost..."

The boy couldn't remember how many times he had passed by this pile of rocks.

If he hadn't thought this pile of rocks looked familiar the last time he passed by, so he casually drew a mark on it with a block of yellow mud, he wouldn't be sure that he had gone back to the same path.

He had been walking in this bamboo forest for a long time, seeing the moon passed the climax, but he hadn't been able to walk through the bamboo forest to the mountain villa inside, the young man couldn't help feeling a little anxious.

There was a rain during the day, and the dark clouds in the sky cleared up. The moonlight tonight is much brighter than the previous few days.The quiet and bright moonlight gently sprinkled in the bamboo forest, and every green bamboo seemed to be covered with a thin layer of silver gauze, and the thin figure of the young man was also reflected very clearly.

This boy was only seven or eight years old, his unkempt hair was randomly tied behind his head, his head, face and body were covered with dirt and dust, his whole body looked like a dingy mouse, obviously a little beggar.But if you look closely, you will notice that his eyes are flickering, and the whole person is a bit alert because of these big eyes.

He is naturally an extremely intelligent young man, otherwise he wouldn't have thought twice about marking the random stones on the roadside.But now he is in a difficult situation... How can he walk through the bamboo forest?

"Hmph, never mind!"

The little beggar resolutely left the cobbled path, and walked in along the direction he remembered, pushing aside the bamboos.

"Who cares about your road, I don't believe that if you walk in a straight line, you won't be able to get there? If you keep going, it will be dawn!"

As he walked, he pulled up the thin bamboos that blocked his way and threw them aside.Strange to say, he just walked like this for a while, and sure enough, he soon saw the big house he wanted to sneak into.

"Hee hee hee……"

Young people are always easy to be happy.Seeing that he finally arrived at his destination, the little beggar put aside his previous anxiety, put his hands on his hips, and silently laughed with his mouth open.

During the day, he had just been discussing tea with the owner of the tea shop at the foot of the mountain, and overheard the owner of the tea shop chatting with the guests, saying that the owner of this long-abandoned house on the mountain unexpectedly came to spend the summer.Coincidentally, he happened to see this family's car going up the mountain to buy food...

There are so many chickens, ducks and fishes, his mouth is watering!
He originally planned to go to the capital with those refugees to eat disaster relief food.But, tonight, it’s not bad to steal two chickens and roast them to satisfy your hunger.

He has taken out countless chicken coops in the nearby ten miles and eight towns.Although he is just a little beggar, he is considered a veteran in the world of stealing chickens.

While imagining the bright prospect of eating roast chicken later, he kept digging small holes from under the back wall of the other courtyard with his hands and feet.There used to be a dog hole here, but it was blocked by people from the inside.It doesn't matter, he is also very skilled at digging dog holes!
"Huh... finally dug through."

The little beggar first wiped off the hot sweat from his forehead and shook the dirt off his body, then he calmly huddled himself into a small ball and swished into the small hole.It's so hot in the middle of the night!
By the moonlight, he could see where he was.It's about the same as what he estimated before, it's in the corner of the front yard, the location of the kitchen should be...

He clung to the wall, half prone on the ground, and groped towards the kitchen.Chicken, duck, big and delicious ham, here I come!
He hid behind the bushes and walked around a corridor. Seeing several steps in front of him, he climbed up with hands and feet.Level one, level two, level three...

Uh?
On the top step, he suddenly saw a pair of dusty boots.

someone!

The little beggar was about to shout in horror, but before he could turn around and run away, someone grabbed his collar and slipped away the next moment!

"Ah, let me go!"

The man who grabbed him was tall and strong, and he held him firmly with only one hand.The little beggar was suspended in the air, his face was blue with fright, and he couldn't help shouting.

"To shut up."

A deep male voice came from the top of his head with a slight coldness.But the yelling of the little beggar had already alarmed the guards in the yard, and within a short while the lights were lit up one after another in the yard.

"Put me down, let me down!"

Although the little beggar is clever and courageous, he is just a child after all.Seeing many people running from all over the courtyard, but he couldn't break free from the shackles of the person behind him, he was so desperate that he almost cried.

"Staff Nie!"

Several nurses came panting with lanterns in hand, and were stunned when they saw the man who was carrying the little beggar in the air.They hurriedly bowed to him, their eyes fixed on the little beggar who was still struggling.

"Take it down and ask how he got in."

Nie Shen flicked the little beggar on the ground like throwing a feather.When several nursing homes heard what he said, Khan immediately came down.

The prince, Huang Niangniang, and the princess are all in the mansion. Steward Nie has repeatedly told them to keep an eye on the yard, but they actually let people sneak in in the middle of the night!Thinking of this, several people's eyes were fierce, and they glared at the little beggar viciously.

"Don't, don't hit me, I just want to come in and steal a chicken... woo woo woo..."

The little beggar squatted on the ground with his head in his arms and shivered, half of it was genuine fear, and half was acting.I'm just a child, okay, can't you adults have a lot of money and don't care about me?

Nie Shen was obviously unmoved, and ignored the little beggar on the ground. Instead, he turned to another guard and said, "I'll go to the backyard and ask the masters what's going on in the yard. Before I come back, check him out." details."

"Yes!" The nursing home hurriedly responded.

Hey, big manager, do you still have sympathy?See me crying so pitifully, so what if you let me go?

The little beggar was about to howl again to pretend to be pitiful, but suddenly he heard voices coming from the direction of the backyard, and the tall Manager Nie hurried up to meet him.

"Princess, why are you here?"

Nie Shen asked in surprise.It has been less than a quarter of an hour since he caught this little thief, but the princess has brought people to the front yard, as if he knew that someone would break in...

"Uncle Nie, is that him?"

The slightly childish girl's voice softly penetrated into the little beggar's ears.

Hey?Hearing the voice, it seems to be a girl who is about the same age as me?Although the voice is very nice...the Princess!He didn't quite understand the meaning of this title, but...it sounded like it was very honorable.

The little beggar was thinking in a mess, and for a moment he forgot to pretend to cry.He couldn't match the curiosity in his heart, and quietly raised his head, wanting to take a peek at the face of the "princess master".

Unexpectedly, just as he raised his eyes, he met a pair of eyes as deep as a pool!
It was a beautiful girl in a white dress.Under the water and moonlight, her fair skin faintly reveals a jade-like luster, and her eyebrows are picturesque.Although she was slender, but because of her thinness, her eyes were especially big, her chin looked sharp, and she was so beautiful that she didn't look like a real person.

The little beggar was crying and sweating profusely, but when he saw the girl in white, he seemed to drink a bowl of ice water suddenly, and the hot air around him seemed to be gradually fading away.

"It really looks like a fairy carved from ice and snow..."

This sentence inexplicably appeared in the little beggar's mind, and then he felt that it was really... couldn't be more appropriate.

The girl's Yingying eyes stared at him without blinking, as if she wanted to see something from his face.

Nie Shen hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Princess, please go back and rest first."

Yun Ruochen shook his head, still looking up and down the little beggar.

Suddenly, she pushed aside the crowd and came to him. "How did you get in here?"

"I... I crawled in through the dog hole in the back wall..." The little beggar was dumbfounded by her, and he hesitated to answer.

"I'm not asking you this. How did you get through the bamboo forest?" She noticed the fluctuation of the Jiugong Bagua Formation in the room, and thought that there was another killer intruding, but she didn't expect that the intruder was a child who didn't understand anything.

bamboo forest?The little beggar was puzzled, hesitated for a while, and then told the story of how he had lost his way in the bamboo forest for a long time and ended up wandering on impulse.

He has a clever mind, and when he talks about it, he is also coherent.

Yun Ruochen listened quietly, with sparkles in his eyes.

"To be able to unintentionally destroy my Jiugong Bagua Formation..." When she said this, her voice was almost inaudible, and the little beggar could barely hear a few words.

"Uncle Nie."

"Princess, please order."

"Don't embarrass him, he is destined for me."

Because of Yun Ruochen's words, not only was the little beggar spared from being beaten to death, but he was able to stay in another courtyard.

Only later did he know Yun Ruochen's identity.

Princess Huarong of Prince Jing's Mansion, a true nobleman, the grandson of the royal family.

No one knew why the Princess would look at a thief differently, not even Nie Shen.

Not only did she keep him, she even asked him about himself.

"what's your name?"

"I... I am an orphan, I only remember that my surname is Ye... everyone calls me Ye Zi."

"Ye?" Yun Ruochen looked him up and down a few times, and suddenly said: "Speaking of the tongue... the name should be suppressed, so let's call it Shenyan." What does the tongue of the tongue mean?He couldn't understand what she was saying again.Like what, Jiugong Bagua Formation?
The young Ye Shenyan never imagined that the rest of his life would be closely linked with the girl who named him after him.
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"Princess, why did you keep that child?"

Nie Shen did not agree with Yun Ruochen's actions this time.He is also very clear about Prince Jing's current situation. In this sensitive period, is it really okay for the princess to keep a child of unknown origin at home?
Yun Ruochen was flipping through the few books of arithmetic left by his mother.She pointed at the books without answering the question, and looked at Nie Shen: "Uncle Nie, are these books my mother and concubine loved to read when she was alive?"

"...The villain doesn't know."

Nie Shen was taken aback, then slightly lowered his head.Why did the princess suddenly think of asking this?

"Don't you know?" Yun Ruochen looked at Nie Shen playfully, but from this angle, he couldn't see his expression clearly.

Nie Shen thought that Yun Ruochen changed the subject on purpose because he didn't want to answer his question.Unexpectedly, Yun Ruochen said, "Uncle Nie, it's useful for me to keep that child."

If she was not mistaken, he might be the "medicine man" who could make up for her congenital weakness...

(End of this chapter)