Chaoyan saw that several people had spoken out, so he could only look into his eyes pitifully, as if pleading with him.
"This... Miss Chaoyan, I see that you are wearing a neat high-waisted skirt and bright clothes. You don't look like a girl from a poor family?" Qin Zheng didn't seem to believe it and declined politely: "Besides, I'm just out for fun, no.
It's convenient to carry the women. Are you alone in this wilderness, do you have any other unspeakable secrets?"
"Of course I do!" Seeing that he rejected her, Chaoyan stood up eagerly and pointed at his face to explain, "Look at my unlucky face, how does it look like a girl from a poor family? I am really a
A poor girl who couldn't survive. She accidentally broke my mistress's beloved bracelet, so she kicked her out of the house in anger. This dress was also given to me by my mistress in the past. I have made it since I was a child.
His maid can't do anything else. Now I'm helpless and have nowhere to go. Big brother, since I met you, it's fate. Please kindly take me in, big brother! I don't know how.
I asked you to take me in for nothing, and I will repay you in the future!"
"this……"
Qin Zheng seemed to be hesitant. He took a step back and looked at the pitiful Chao Yan with embarrassment. He thought to himself: The girl looks generous and behaves like a girl from a small family, but she doesn't look like a lady from a common lady.
She must really be a maid who was kicked out, right? Well, seeing as she is a girl alone outside, it is not safe, so I should agree to her first.
In the end, he had no choice but to nod his head and say: "Okay, I don't want to repay you. From now on, we will be brothers and sisters."
"Ah! Brother! I knew you were a good person!" Chaoyan gratefully fell into his arms before he could finish his words, expressing his gratitude excitedly.
She was originally a female fairy who grew up in the fairy world. She rarely had any contact with men, and she didn't understand the taboos in the human world about men and women not being intimate with each other, so she thought she could get along with the female fairies in the heaven just like she did and that she could have contact without any scruples.
Qin Zheng paused at first, but then he just smiled, pushed her away gently, and said gently and calmly: "Little girl, you should be more stable."
"Hey? What do you mean?" Chaoyan tilted her head and looked at Qin Zheng strangely, but the other party just patted her head gently as if to comfort her, "It's getting late, let's go together."
"Brother, you said you came out to play? Then where are we going to play?"
Along the way, Chaoyan chattered like a little sparrow, asking curious questions, "Do all people who don't have to wait on others live so leisurely all day long, playing everywhere?"
"Chaoyan, are you raised in your master's house and never leave the house?" Qin Zheng looked at her with a strange look, "You seem to know nothing about the outside world. After all, you only play occasionally.
Only those who have time and leisure will do it. I can’t keep traveling around! Now my trip is over and I’m about to go back home.”
"Ah, it's true that I have never been out. I have been raised by my mistress. So I am rash and do not understand many things. Please forgive me." Chaoyan knew he had made a mistake, stuck out his tongue, and said apologetically: "Do you want to go home?
?Is it because I am a burden?"
"No, don't think too much." Qin Zheng saw that she seemed to feel a little guilty, so he comforted her: "Even if I didn't meet you, I should go back after being away for too long. Well, look at the river in front of you, take a boat
One night's walk upstream is the Imperial Capital. My home is in the Imperial Capital. Come with me."
Qin Zheng took her and approached the endless river in front of him. There was no one on the river at this time. In the quiet and sultry afternoon, only the cicadas on the trees kept chirping. Not far away, a awning boat
Stopped alone by the river, a hunchbacked boatman squatted on the bank, wearing a bamboo hat on his head, and his face could not be seen clearly.
"Are the two guests going to take a boat?"
The hunchbacked boatman was quite perceptive. Hearing the sound of footsteps approaching, he stood up. He raised his head and looked at Qin Zheng and Chao Yan carefully back and forth with his pair of dripping mouse eyes, and asked with a polite smile on his face.
"Yes, we are going to the Imperial Capital." Qin Zheng also looked at the other party carefully and replied with a smile.
"Always copper coins." After hearing this, the man immediately stretched out a hand and said simply.
Qin Zheng didn't say much. He took out a piece of silver from his wallet, threw it over and said cheerfully: "Then, don't look for the extra ones."
"Hey! Okay! The guest is really generous!" The hunchback took the money and bit it with his teeth. When he knew it was true, he immediately turned back and shouted into the cabin: "Madam! Come out quickly to greet the guest. We are going to the Imperial Capital."
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"Coming~!"
I could only hear a woman whining in the cabin, dragging out a long sound with nine twists and turns, and then I saw a middle-aged woman wearing a red skirt and a purple shawl twisting her waist and shaking her head.
He walked out with a white round fan.
"Oh! What a handsome official!" When the woman saw Qin Zheng standing under the boat, her eyes lit up like a fly seeing blood. Then she stepped off the boat and said with a charming smile:
"Do you want to go to the Imperial Capital? Come on, come on, I'll take you on the fast boat."
As soon as she came out, there was a strong fragrance, so strong that it was nauseating.
"You're welcome, Madam Boatman." Qin Zheng smiled and calmly avoided the hand she stretched out to pull him, and instead gently patted Chaoyan, who was looking dumbfounded, "Little sister, let's get on the boat.
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"Huh? Okay..." Chaoyan hid on the other side of Qin Zheng, clutching his sleeves tightly as if to avoid the plague, and asked in a low voice: "Brother, can we switch to another ship?"
"Oh, such a cute little girl is the daughter of a guest officer? No wonder she is born with such a standard!" Unexpectedly, before Qin Zheng could answer, the woman seemed to have heard it, and walked around Qin Zheng and bent towards the court with a smile.
Yan said: "Little girl, don't think about other boat owners. This generation is often haunted by boat bandits, so no one dares to do this river business. That is, my husband and I rely on our little courage and good luck.
, in order to make a living, you have no choice but to go into the water to start a small business here. You are lucky to have met us. If you don’t believe it, you can go around and ask if there is another business on the river that dares to do this kind of business on the river!"
"Scared?" Chaoyan was frightened by her awkward smile. She felt that the woman was smiling but not smiling at all. When she glared at her, her small black eyes and white eyes looked very scary.
She opened her mouth, but couldn't speak for a moment.
Qin Zheng on the side pulled Chao Yan in front of him, separated the woman, and said with a smile: "The little girl is not sensible, why should the shopkeeper care about me like my little sister?"
"Ouch! This official is joking, how could I care so much about such a trivial matter? It's just a joke. Come on, come on, please come on board!"
As soon as the woman saw Qin Zheng, she beamed with joy and enthusiastically let them board the boat.
"Brother..." Sitting at the wooden table in the cabin, after the woman went out to sail with the boatman, Chao Yan lowered his voice and said to Qin Zheng, who was sitting opposite him: "I always feel that these couple are not alike.
It seems like good people, we, shouldn’t be on their ship.”
"Oh?" Qin Zheng was holding the hot tea that the woman had brought just now, lowering his head and blowing it carelessly. He was not surprised at all when he heard Chao Yan's words. He just asked casually without caring, "How can you see it?"
"That hunchback just now has a pair of evil eyes, and his eyes are erratic, staring straight at your purse like a hook, and it makes me very uncomfortable." Chao Yan looked outside, the woman and the hunchback
They are all busy sailing the boat and packing something, so they won't come in for a while. "And that woman, she has a soft smile, high cheekbones, and a white eye. She is definitely not a good person.
His face, so I'm afraid..."
"Don't be afraid, little sister, brother knows what he knows." Qin Zheng put down the teacup, patted her shoulder with relief, and said in a warm and gentle voice, "Besides, don't judge people by their appearance. Don't worry, there are so many bad people.
You think too much..."
"No, brother, I think those two people are..." Before Chaoyan finished speaking, Qin Zheng took out a cake from his bag and stuffed it into her mouth, while smiling: "Eat something, little idiot, don't mess around.
I said it. You! Since you are so sensitive, why don’t you doubt me who you have never met?”
"It's different!" Chaoyan took a bite of the cake and took the rest in his hand, "Brother, you are different from these people!"
"Oh? What's different?" Qin Zheng opened his eyes strangely and frowned in confusion.
"Brother, your eyes are bright, giving people a very upright feeling, and you are very sincere when you look at people, so I know at a glance that you must be a good person. How can those two people with wretched looks compare to you."
Chaoyan pouted her mouth unhappily and excitedly stated her reasons.
"You little fool..."
Qin Zheng was stunned for a moment after hearing this, then he patted her little head gently, leaned down and whispered in her ear: "Then don't eat all the food they gave you, just throw it away secretly. I'm hungry."
Just eat the bread I give you."
"Well, that's it." Chaoyan understood. It turned out that Qin Zheng knew what was going on, so she smiled happily. But she soon became worried: "Now that the ship has sailed, what should we do?"
"Don't worry, little fool, you'll be in peace as soon as you come. Don't say anything, big brother is here!"
Qin Zheng smiled mysteriously at her calmly and signaled her to calm down.
The awning boat sailed up the river until evening.
The woman cooked a stewed carp, stir-fried two side dishes, and a pot of wine, and brought them over for dinner. Chao Yan smelled the pungent smell of fish filling the cabin, and really had no appetite. Plus Qin Zheng had explained it in advance.
, so after taking two symbolic bites, he did not hide his nausea, ran to the bow of the ship and vomited. When he came back, he lay down on the small bed pointed to him and fell asleep.