Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 25 Want to
The sun is like fire.

With a bang, the door to the home was pushed open again.

But this time it was one of its owners who pushed it away.

"Brother! Where did you go and why did you come back! The food is going to be cold!"

Guili's yelling could be heard, and Ying Baoyue, who was sitting at the dining table drinking porridge, raised his head and looked at the young man who hurried back with a paper bag outside the door.

"You're back."

"Yeah," Gui Chen stood at the door, panting while wiping his sweat.

"Where did you go in the middle of the day, come in quickly," Mu Shi came out of the kitchen, holding a bowl of porridge in his hand.

"The rice at home is all cooked, and there is still the last bowl of porridge left. You should drink it quickly. Remember to measure the rice in the afternoon."

"The price of rice at the market has increased again. Tomorrow I will go to a village farther away to buy it. Tonight I will try my best to hunt for game and come back." Gui Chen frowned and replied with clenched fists.

Life is really a butcher's knife.

He forced a son of a family to become a village boy alive.

Ying Baoyue thought silently while holding the chipped bowl.

The mother and son are really extraordinary people, she wondered if Chu Ji wanted to starve the three of them to death.

After all, the son of a young lady of an aristocratic family who doesn't work hard and doesn't distinguish between five grains, has no monthly rules and no servants, and if he doesn't do anything for three months, he might die.

Unexpectedly, the mother and son have lived like this for seven years.

In this way, the half-abandoned survived in this village.

Ying Baoyue looked at the rough palm of the boy at the door, he must have experienced a lot, and it was really not easy to be only 15 years old.

If possible, she...

"Put this on, we'll go up the mountain in the afternoon."

Before she could think of anything, Gui Chen stepped into the door, stuffed the things in her hands into her arms, then turned around as if nothing happened, picked up the porridge bowl in Mu's hand and swallowed it.

"Brother, what is this?" Gui Li leaned over, frowned at the paper bag in Ying Baoyue's arms, and was about to open it.

"Hey, don't..." Gui Chen regretted why he didn't wait to return to the room before handing it to her, but before he could regret it, the paper bag was torn open.

"Brother...you..." Gui Li saw something exposed in the paper bag, his eyes widened in astonishment.

"This is……"

Looking at the soft fabric inside the paper bag, Ying Baoyue was slightly taken aback.

This is a brand new dress, the texture and pattern are not luxurious, even a little too plain, but it is exactly the style worn by young women.

Earlier, she was dragged home by Gui Chen for no reason, and this man left the house in a hurry after saying "I'm going out for a while".

She thought it was because the young man was in a hurry, but she didn't expect...

He... so he went out to buy clothes for her?

Ying Baoyue raised her head, and large beads of sweat flowed down her neck from the young man's forehead.

Drop by drop, seeping into the rough ground.

but……

"Brother! Are you going to buy clothes for her? Where did the family get the spare money!" Gui Li was stunned for a while and suddenly stood up and looked at Gui Chen in disbelief.

Ah, sure enough.

Ying Baoyue clenched the cloth in her hands tightly. She had already fully understood how difficult the life of the mother and son was in this other courtyard through three meals a day.

"Don't make noise." Gui Chen put down the bowl in his hand, frowned and looked at his sister, "I didn't use the rice money, I bought it with the money I exchanged for my cotton padded jacket."

"What?" Gui Li looked at his elder brother with more and more stunned eyes, "Then what do you wear in winter?"

Fortunately, she and her mother said that her brother's winter clothes had long been pawned and only the last one was left!

He actually took the last piece of clothes that belonged to him...to change clothes for this woman?

"Winter is still far away, let's talk about it later," Gui Chen said with a nonchalant expression.

However, looking at the young girl who was silently watching the new clothes in her hand, the boy's eyes flashed with tension.

Noticing his gaze, Ying Baoyue looked at him and smiled.

"Thank you, Guichen."

"You..." Gui Chen clenched his fists at the side, then looked at the angrily Gui Li aside, turned his head away and spoke expressionlessly.

"Don't think too much, you saved my sister's clothes, and I'll just give you one back."

The boy's voice was flat.

"Saved Li'er a piece of clothing?" Mu Shi, who had been stunned all this time, finally came back to his senses.

Gui Li was startled when he heard the words, then remembered something and clenched his fists and didn't speak again.

Guichen explained to Mu that Ying Baoyue pulled Guili away from the dirty water yesterday.

"That's it," Mu Shi pressed his chest with lingering fear, and looked at Guili, "Then your elder brother is right, if you are really splashed with your clothes from yesterday, you can't ask for them anymore, so don't make trouble anymore."

Gui Li took a deep breath and turned his head away, it was obvious that he was holding back enough.

"Okay, go and change it quickly," Gui Chen frowned slightly as he looked at Ying Baoyue who was holding the clothes still, feeling suddenly uneasy.

"You... don't you like it?" He still couldn't help asking.

Isn't it said that women like new clothes?
Or... the one he bought didn't look good?
Looking at Ying Baoyue who was quietly staring at the new clothes in his hand, Gui Chen was a little bit regretful, he would have taken her with him if he had known...

"No," Ying Baoyue raised his head under Gui Li's murderous gaze, "I like it very much."

It's just that she feels a little sorry, and for her, she actually has more urgent needs than clothes...

"Could it be...do you have anything else you want?"

Gui Chen looked at the girl's thoughtful eyes and noticed something.

It was also because of his carelessness, a woman should need a lot of things, Gui Li would pester him for this and that every time she went to the market, not to mention that she didn't have anything in the first place.

Compared to clothes, rouge, gouache, and hair accessories are said to be necessities for women...

"Brother!" Gui Li couldn't bear it any longer, staring at the woman in front of her with hatred, "Don't..."

"I do have something more I want." Ying Baoyue raised her head and said.

"You really..." Gui Li was going to die of anger, this man really opened his mouth like a lion, is he trying to coax his brother into buying jewelry or something?

"Well, if it's not too expensive." For some reason, Gui Chen was a little happy when the woman asked for it.

She has always looked like she has no desires, which makes him feel that it is very new for this woman to ask for needs.

Guichen made up his mind, as long as it wasn't too expensive for his daughter's house, if she really wanted it, whether it was rouge or jewelry, he worked hard, and it's not like he couldn't buy it for her...

"What do you want?" Gui Chen looked at her and asked.

Mu Shi and Guili were also a little nervous for a while.

Gui Li made up his mind that if this woman tried to trick his brother into buying her jewelry, she would scold this ignorant...

"I want a sword."

Ying Baoyue looked up at Gui Chendao, fearing that he might misunderstand and make further additions.

"The kind that can kill."

……

……

The home courtyard fell into a dead silence.

Gui Li's prepared curse words choked in her throat.

The spoon in Mu's hand fell to the table with a snap.

(End of this chapter)