Chapter 27: Town Restaurant
The salesman saw that the girl was very polite and asked with concern: "Girl, are you okay?"
The girl said: "I'm fine, senior."
The girl apologized a few words and gave the salesman a few taels of silver to pay for his car.
The salesman refused to accept the money, but the girl forced her to pay compensation. The salesman had no choice but to accept the money.
Seeing that the salesman was in good health, the girl said goodbye, then mounted the white horse and prepared to leave.
Qi Ying suddenly found that the girl had dropped something on the ground. He hurriedly grabbed the girl's horse rein and shouted urgently: "Girl, something, something!"
The girl looked at this strange man and remembered the scene where their noses touched their noses just now. She was still shy. Now she saw him pulling her horse's rein again, and she couldn't help but become angry.
She whipped up her riding whip and said angrily to Qi Ying: "Don't pull my horse."
Qi Ying was afraid that the horse would run away, so he did not dodge the whip and was whipped on his arm.
He became angry in pain and asked: "Girl, why do you hit someone?"
The girl's almond-shaped eyes widened and she said: "I told you not to pull my horse, let go!"
Qi Ying was so frightened that she quickly let go of the horse's reins and watched the girl ride away dumbly.
After the girl disappeared, the salesman collected the remaining wood from the car on the ground. He sighed: "My car has not had any accidents in many years!"
Qi Ying took out the remaining five taels of silver and gave it to the salesman, comforting him and saying, "Old man, I still have five taels of silver. You can go to the city and buy another one!"
The salesman shook his head and said, "You don't have much money, so keep it for yourself. I'll just take the carriage to the city and repair it."
Qi Ying saw several long iron cylinders in the pile of residual wood on the car body, and asked curiously: "Why do you still have iron cylinders in the car body?"
The salesman said: "This is used to make carriage supports."
Qi Ying then asked no more questions and helped the groom collect the remaining wood.
After picking up the scraps of wood, he looked at the thing the girl had dropped and found it to be a shining golden hairpin.
He picked it up and murmured to himself: "This golden hairpin must have been lost by that woman! What should I do?"
Just as he was talking, he heard the clatter of horse hooves approaching. It turned out to be the girl in red turning around and coming back.
Qi Ying held the golden hairpin between his two fingers, and the girl happened to see it. The girl shouted urgently: "My hairpin, don't touch my things!"
Qi Ying held the hairpin and was stunned.
"Don't touch my hairpin!" The girl became anxious, jumped off her horse, and ran to Qi Ying to grab the gold hairpin.
The girl took back the gold hairpin, stepped on Qi Ying's foot before leaving, and said angrily: "I let you touch my things!"
Qi Ying felt that her self-esteem was a little frustrated, so she pulled the reins of the girl's mount again and said loudly: "No
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You misunderstood me like this!"
The horse was pulled and screamed several times. The girl shouted: "Let go!"
Qi Ying refused to let go and argued: "You don't respect me!"
The horse was still yelling, and the girl was angered. She raised her whip and wanted to hit Qi Ying again.
Qi Ying was so frightened that he put down the reins and ran away. The girl chased after him on horseback.
When Qi Ying saw that the girl was chasing him, he used Qing Gong to run quickly. Although he was good at Qing Gong, he couldn't compete with the endurance of a horse.
In the first hundred steps, Qi Ying could barely run faster than the horse. Then the white horse was faster. Qi Ying was quickly caught up by the white horse.
The girl raised her riding whip and whipped it at Qi Ying. Qi Ying dodged a few times and dodged the whip.
Unexpectedly, the girl refused to give up and even pestered Qi Ying to swing the riding whip back and forth.
Qi Ying kept dodging. She couldn't run away. There were wild wetlands on both sides of the road, and she couldn't get her legs stuck in it.
He couldn't fight. Although the girl had some internal strength and her martial arts wasn't too bad. But as long as Qi Ying fought back, it would be easy to injure the girl.
I'm afraid that if we fight back, the misunderstanding will deepen and things will get worse.
Qi Ying was at a loss and had an idea. He jumped onto the girl's horse and sat behind her.
He clamped the girl's arm with both hands, clamping the girl so hard that she couldn't move, and begged loudly: "Girl, can you stop beating me?"
The girl's arms were clamped so that she could not move. She struggled hard and shouted: "Let me go! Let me go!"
The white horse was frightened by the two men's tossing on the horse. It ran forward like crazy and would not stop no matter how hard the two men pulled the reins.
The white horse was out of control. Qi Ying held on to the girl's arms tightly, fearing that she would fall off the horse and get hurt.
The girl was in shock all the way, feeling like the sky was shaking and the earth was shaking, and she was so frightened that she screamed all the way. The horse ran for half an hour before slowing down and stopping.
Qi Ying jumped off his horse. Now he stopped walking on the road and ran away into the wilderness.
The girl was in shock. When she came to her senses, she could only see Qi Ying's back from a distance.
Her resentment was still lingering, she looked at his back and said angrily: "You run fast, don't let me, Wang Yuejiao, touch you again!"
After Qi Ying ran a long way, she looked back and saw that the girl was not chasing her. She breathed a sigh of relief and sighed: "This woman is unreasonable!"
He looked around and didn't know where he was. He saw desolate fields, dilapidated houses, and corpses on the road.
Qi Ying walked on the path in the field, and after walking for an hour, she met a figure. He was a hunchbacked old man on crutches, walking slowly with a basket of day lilies on his back.
Qi Ying was very happy to see a living person and hurriedly went to say hello: "Hello, old man!"
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The old man's face was wrinkled and his face was like a tree trunk. He was already in his twilight years. He opened his dry eyes wide, looked at Qi Ying curiously, and said in a hoarse voice: "My child! You haven't left yet!"
Qi Ying was stunned for a moment and asked curiously: "Let's go? Where are we going?"
The old man came closer and said, "The Japanese pirates are coming. It's better to run away."
It turned out that he wanted to avoid the Japanese invasion. Qi Ying asked the old man concernedly: "Why didn't you leave?"
"I'm old, I can't walk anymore!" The old man shook his head and said, "Half of my body has been buried in the loess."
Qi Ying looked at the frail old man and felt inexplicably sad. He gave the old man two taels of silver.
The old man shook his head and Qi Ying stuffed it into his pocket.
Qi Ying asked: "Old man, where does this place belong?"
The old man pointed to the north and said: "Going north is Ninghai County, which belongs to the countryside of Sanmen Town under Ninghai County."
Qi Ying said goodbye to the old man and walked north.
The closer we get to the county seat, the more and more people there are. Many of them are refugees with their families, building huts in the wild to avoid the Japanese pirates.
Qi Ying arrived at a small town called Sanmen Town.
He walked on the stone square of the street, stepping on the bluestone brick road, and saw two-story buildings on both sides of the narrow street. Looking up, he could only see a sliver of sky.
But the shops on both sides of the street were closed. The shop flags were blown to the ground by the wind. The long street was empty with not a single person in sight.
There are many discarded items scattered on the street. The street has not been cleaned for a long time.
Qi Ying thought that he had to find a place to eat first to solve his stomach problem. After searching for a long time, he finally found a pub that was still open.
He walked into the store and saw that the restaurant was very large, with two floors. There were only two people in the empty restaurant.
One is an elderly shopkeeper, sitting at the counter, squinting his eyes and looking at the yellowed booklet carefully.
The other person is a man dressed in a raincoat and should be a guest in the tavern.
Qi Ying saw that the man in the coir raincoat was wearing a black cloth and a coir raincoat hat on his head. The upper half of his face was hidden under the coir raincoat hat so that it could not be seen clearly.
The man in the coir raincoat chewed the raw beef and drank slowly, making almost no sound.
After Qi Ying came in, the shopkeeper just raised his head slightly, and then continued to look at the yellowed booklet, treating Qi Ying as if he didn't exist.
Qi Ying felt strange, found a table, sat down, and shouted: "Shopkeeper, please bring a bowl of noodles!"
The shopkeeper didn't even raise his head and said coldly: "Where are the noodles? There is wine and meat hidden in the hole. Go and bake it yourself."
Qi Ying was greatly surprised. There are still people doing business like this? He was puzzled and said angrily: "Shopkeeper, are there any people doing business like you?"
Chapter completed!