When Chu Yunqiao looked at Zuiyue Tower, by the window of a house on the second floor in the backyard of Zuiyue Tower, Yan Yan, the proprietress, also glanced at the carriage Chu Yunqiao was riding in, frowned slightly, and sighed coldly.

He spat out two words coldly, "Trouble!"

After kneading her stiff neck a few times, Yan Yan twisted her waist like a water snake and walked out of the wing, went down to the second floor, turned a corner and came to the door of the woodshed in the backyard, staring at the old man sitting on the threshold of the woodshed, picking and rubbing his feet.

Qu, yawned lazily, and said calmly, "Don't think about your wages this month. Not only this month, but next month, and the month after that, you don't have to ask me for wages again..."

"Why? Why!" Lao Qu's hand that was rubbing his feet froze, he raised his head, looked at Yan Yan blankly, and said with a bitter face, "Three months' wages, enough three taels of silver, enough to buy five large altars.

Knife’s!”

Yan Yan snorted coldly, leaned over and poked Lao Qu's forehead with her index finger, rolled her eyes and said, "You have the nerve to ask me why... You men are all heartless. When you get into trouble, you don't say anything."

I just patted my butt and left, leaving my mother to deal with those gangsters wielding sticks and guns all by herself, so she was very busy... If she missed work for half a day, all her wages for this month would be forfeited!"

Lao Qu pursed his lips and said unwillingly, "Then why were my wages deducted for the next two months? I was only absent from work for half a day. Isn't it too shameful to deduct three months' wages?"

"Don't pretend to be crazy like this, don't you think about what you have done? You can figure out the cost of my boy's decoction and medicine. As long as you have one month's salary, it's already a big hit for the sake of you being an old man."

The discount..." Yan Yan pursed her lips toward the woodshed, "Also, boy Shen brought an extra wild woman back today, so we don't need to add more bowls and chopsticks to the house. Three meals a day cost a lot of money, so let's start with that.

I will deduct your salary for the next month and treat it as a deposit. When that wild woman leaves here, we will calculate the details!"

Laoqu slapped his mouth, lowered his head and sighed, "Okay, you can do whatever you want... People have to lower their heads under the eaves." Suddenly he tilted his neck and looked at Yan Yan, "I thought you

Xiao Jia and I will be asked to leave. I originally planned to discuss it with you and move out after tonight..."

"What a beautiful idea!" Yan Yan folded her arms and raised her mouth and said, "You signed a fifty-year contract. It's only been ten years, only one-fifth of it has passed. Now I let you slip away. Then

I’m losing all my blood. If I don’t work until the last day, I won’t be able to take off your waiter’s clothes!”

Lao Qu shrugged his nose with emotion on his face, "Mrs. Boss, you are so kind to me, I can't wait to marry you..." He looked at Yan Yan's unnatural neck, blinked his eyes and said, "Stiff neck

Isn’t it healed yet? I’ll squeeze it for you right now!”

"Look at your dead look. I really want you to commit yourself to me. Do you dare?" Yan Yan pinched her neck and glanced at the woodshed. "As people get older, they are not as good as before. I look like

When that wild woman was as old as she was, how could she know what a stiff neck was... By the way, why are they hiding in the woodshed without even drawing the curtains in broad daylight?"

"It's not a shameful thing, why do you have to close the curtains..." Lao Qu coughed dryly, "Xiao Jia said that he wanted to give the mute girl some psychological development to prevent her from suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and thinking about committing suicide..."

"Talk about people! Don't use those nonsense words..."

"In layman's terms, it's storytelling."

"what story?"

"A fairy tale."

In the woodshed, which was only about ten steps long and wide, Shen Xiaojia pushed himself up and put away the large and small animal traps and rope traps on the ground. He walked to a black cabinet and rummaged through it to find a bag wrapped in red cloth.

He opened the small box carefully and took out a piece of ginseng as thick as his little finger. After hesitating for a moment, he put it into his mouth with a pained expression. He chewed it a few times and turned to look at the man sitting on the bed like a log.

The mute girl said softly, "Wait until you finish listening to my fairy tale and then decide whether to use the scissors in your sleeve to help yourself out."

The mute girl's pupils shrank, and she quietly hid her right hand behind her back. A strange look flashed in her eyes, but soon became hollow. She stared at Shen Xiaojia expressionlessly, as if she was listening attentively.

Slowly walking to a pile of firewood opposite the wooden bed, Shen Xiaojia lay down on it in a graceful and skillful manner. He supported his head with one hand and picked up a wooden stick with the other hand and traced it in the air. He said calmly, "

The grass is emerald green, the stream is emerald green... There is a nest of crow eggs on the tree, and the cracks are gradually opening... The mother crow looks at the child with gray feathers in the black, watching it flapping its wings.

He couldn't fly, so he said with some disappointment, it doesn't matter, even if you can't fly, you are still my biological child..."

"However, a flightless crow will be looked down upon wherever it goes, and even its brothers and sisters are not willing to play with it... The crow chief said that if you still can't fly when you become an adult, you will leave us.

It's a big tree, its branches are too thin to bear a stupid chicken like you."

"Suddenly one night, a brown goshawk flew across the sky. The crows on the tree all fled in panic, but they were still caught and killed by the goshawk one by one... Only the gray crow

Because he couldn't fly, he was pushed off the branch by the mother crow and fell into the grass. Only then did he escape..."

"The next morning, the gray crow woke up in the grass, poked his head out, and looked at the black feathers all over the ground, and the broken body parts lying in various directions, including the crow's mother and those brothers and sisters...

...It was very angry and sad, but there was nothing it could do. It flapped its wings several times, but still couldn't fly... It fell into the stream with a splash. It struggled to climb to the shore and looked at it.

In the shadow of the water, the gray crow cursed himself for being useless, climbed to the cliff, and wanted to jump down and die..."

"At this time, there happened to be an old sparrowhawk who was teaching his children how to master the secret of flying. He saw the gray crow, waved to it, and said happily, Come on, kid, let's fly into the sky together... Gray

But the crow shook his head, showing that he was just a crow that could not fly..."

"The old sparrowhawk laughed, called several young sparrowhawks, and together they surrounded the gray crow, pecking at the feathers on the gray crow's body, and rubbing the gray crow's beak on the ground..."

"Soon after, the gray crow discovered that he looked exactly like those sparrowhawks, and it seemed that even his wings had become much lighter... The old sparrowhawk took the gray crow to the edge of the cliff and kicked the gray crow in the butt.

He went up, kicked it off the cliff, and said cheerfully, "Look, now you can fly!"

"One autumn passed, and with the help of the old sparrowhawk, the gray crow finally found the goshawk that killed its crow mother, and then inserted its pointed beak into the goshawk's chest..."

After Shen Xiaojia finished telling the long story, he felt a little thirsty. He threw the stick aside and walked to the small square table in the center of the woodshed. He picked up the kettle on the table and drank a few sips.

, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, looked at the mute girl whose eyes had regained some vitality, touched her withered belly, turned and walked towards the door of the woodshed, and said with a smile, "You should be thinking about it here by yourself, but it's best not to

I'm looking for something to eat. I've been so busy that I haven't even eaten a bite. I'm so hungry! This man, as long as his stomach is full, he will forget all his worries..."

The mute girl pursed her lips, sighed deeply, took out the scissors in her right hand and put them aside, pointed at her stomach, and screamed a few times.

"Don't worry, I can't do without you..." Shen Xiaojia smiled, walked out of the woodshed, closed the door, and turned around to see Lao Qu and Yan Yan staring at him, wondering, "Why are you all staying here? What's going on here?"

There’s nothing exciting to see…”

Yan Yan looked at Shen Xiaojia for a while and suddenly said, "The story is very interesting and inspiring... As long as you believe in yourself and don't give up, you will be able to spread your wings and fly into the sky one day. As long as you have a breath left, you will have a chance to take revenge."

...I will tell this story to Yan Qi later, so that he should not feel inferior at any time or be easily discouraged. Sooner or later, the day will come when the eagle spreads its wings..."

"Mrs. Boss, you may be mistaken..." Shen Xiaojia scratched his head in embarrassment, stared into Yan Yan's eyes seriously and said, "This story is not to tell people not to feel inferior. The reason why the gray crow was able to fly in the sky in the end was

It's because it is a bird that can fly, and those who can't fly will only fall to death if they jump from the cliff... In addition, it can't take revenge in the end because of itself. It's not a bird, no old bird.

With the help of the eagle, it depends on whether it can find the goshawk..."

Yan Yan and Lao Qu were both stunned for a moment, looking at Shen Xiaojia's face thoughtfully, as if they were meeting Shen Xiaojia for the first time.

At this moment, an angry shout suddenly came from the hall of Zuiyue Tower, "Where did Shen Xiaojia, the murderer of a thousand swords, die? Didn't he say we would meet at the Yamen at noon? What time is it now! Are you really going to force me?

Get mad!"

Shen Xiaojia's expression froze, he lowered his head and sighed, clasping his fists at Yan Yan and saying, "Madam boss, I'm probably going to be very busy these two days, so I'll ask you to take care of me, old man Xie's daughter... I won't bother you for too long.

, she should be able to reveal her trump card in two days..." She patted Lao Qu's shoulder sideways and raised her eyebrows, "Help me pack some things for my stomach so that I can deal with some people on the way back to the Yamen.

mouth……"

Lao Qu took out a roast chicken from his arms like a magic trick, stuffed it into Shen Xiaojia's hand, and said with a smile, "It has been prepared for you a long time ago... I put it in the stove to roast it when I went out to find you. The heat was just right.

It's charred on the outside and tender on the inside, leaving a fragrant aroma on your lips and teeth. I also specially applied honey on it, which makes it look delicious and delicious!"

"Wait a minute..." Shen Xiaojia said suspiciously, "When I came back and passed by the chicken pen, I took a quick look and saw that there was not a single chicken missing in our restaurant. Where did this come from?"

Lao Qu glanced at the woodshed meaningfully, stroking his beard and walked to the restaurant hall, licked his lips and said, "What fell from the sky... must be the kind of flying chicken you mentioned before... You are a lucky boy.
Chapter completed!