Chapter 28
In the south of the Yangtze River, after summer, the cicadas sing all day and night, and whether the noise is annoying or not depends on the person.

The rickety carriage stopped, and Shang Luo struggled twice before barely opening her eyes. From a corner of the curtain, she could vaguely see the night sky outside, only scattered stars hanging in the sky. It's not a good night.

She opened the curtain, and there were two people sitting on the ground by the fire not far away, beside the carriage, Lu Hanjiang stood with his hands behind his back, as if he was waiting for her.

"Girl has been sleeping for a long time, let's eat something." After speaking, Lu Hanjiang handed over a small cloth bag. After Shang Luo opened it, there were bread and some dried meat inside, which was not bad for road dry food.

"Thanks."

Shang Luo took a bite of the bread and chewed it. She hit her chest and swallowed it with some difficulty.

"Drink some water." Lu Hanjiang thoughtfully handed over another water bag, Shang Luo took it without saying a word, pulled out the stopper and poured it into her mouth.

"Huh, come back to life."

Shang Luo wiped off the water stains around her mouth with her sleeve, returned the water bag to Lu Hanjiang, stretched herself, and asked, "Where are we going?"

"The capital." Lu Hanjiang leaned on the shaft of the carriage, looked at the long official road, and said, "Your father is very capable, and entrusted you to a nobleman."

As he spoke, he handed the jade pendant that Li Gui handed to him to Shang Luo. It was a piece of fine jade with a dragon pattern on one side and the word "Luo" written on the other side.

Luo, the royal surname.

"Luo..." Shangluo doesn't like reading, but she still understands this when she spends her days in teahouses and streets. She looked at the jade pendant for a long time and said, "Could it be that my father is not a gangster, but a big shot in the imperial court? .My father is a prince?"

"Boldly guess, maybe your father is the emperor." Lu Hanjiang laughed.

"Emperor..." people in Jianghu have no awe for the royal family, so Shang Luo quickly imagined a picture of a woman with a beer belly chasing a group of poorly dressed women in a big room.

She flattened her mouth and muttered, "Then you might as well be a bastard."

"Pfft—cough cough cough!"

Not far away, Liu spit out a mouthful of wine with one hand, choked his throat, and coughed non-stop. Ying Wushang who was beside him quickly came over and patted him on the back, and pulled him away by the way: "Brother Liu, the younger brother is drunk. Let's go to the air outlet to sober up, you must be drunk too."

"Cough cough cough, together, cough cough, let's go together." The two went together and fled.

Shang Luo watched the two walk away, stuck out her tongue: "Coward."

"You are quite courageous." Lu Hanjiang said with a smile.

Shang Luo giggled, and slowly, she restrained her smile, and asked softly: "My father, what happened afterwards."

"Dead," Lu Hanjiang paused, and said, "The corpse found a neighbor for you to help bury it. If you have a chance to go back to Jiangnan in the future, go and worship."

"It's good to have a tomb, I thought he was torn up by the Huangfu's family and thrown into the river." Shang Luo looked up at the stars, her voice was hollow, and it sounded a little less angry.

"The grievances of death are gone, the Huangfu family is a dignified family, and there is no reason to have trouble with a corpse."

Lu Hanjiang said melancholy, and took out a piece of written receipt to Shang Luo: "The cemetery and the funeral, one piece is worth seven taels, and the odds are given away. Let's count it as seven taels."

"You buried my father in front of Huangfu's house! Robbing money!"

Shang Luo's small face was wrinkled into a bun shape, and she might even get so much money by selling her. She looked at the jade pendant in her hand: "This thing should be worth a few dozen taels."

"Don't, don't, don't, this time I counted it as a charity to donate money." Lu Hanjiang was speechless, Shang Luo could really do this, if the royal jade pendant was pawned by her, it would be a lot of fun.

"Yeah, Xiao Qiao, you're pretty nice." Shang Luo squeezed over, bumped Lu Hanjiang with his shoulder, and said with a smile.

"I remember something I haven't told you yet," Lu Hanjiang cleared his throat, and said with a smile, "Actually, my surname is Lu, and my name is Hanjiang. In case your biological father is a big shot, you have to remember, how many times will you be in front of him?" Praise me."

"Lu Xing, what are you praising you for, that you almost shot my dad into a hedgehog?"

"Hey, isn't that your fake father, let's forget about it."

"The fake father is also my father!" Shang Luo waved her arms and bared her teeth.

"That's up to you." Lu Hanjiang shrugged.

"Okay, then if you give me another three taels of silver, I don't care about you." Shang Luo stretched out her hand towards Lu Hanjiang happily.

Lu Hanjiang rolled his eyes: "Your father is worth three taels of silver, cough, why do you want money?"

"Expenses on the road, you guys are in such a hurry, just throw me in the car and it's over. I didn't tidy up at home after I saluted, so I don't have to re-arrange some." Shang Luo said naturally.

"You don't think I can earn a lot in a month with a thousand households, do you?" Lu Hanjiang took out a purse from his arms, weighed it, and looked at the sky speechlessly. This month may be wasted again.

Shang Luo took three taels from it, and returned the deflated purse to Lu Hanjiang: "Thank you."

goo~
An untimely sound came from Shangluo's stomach, her pretty face flushed slightly, she took out the dry food and gnawed it silently.

Lu Hanjiang glanced at her, and said: "The dry food is prepared by Deputy Liu Qianhu, and the imperial court reimburses it. The bread is not worth much, so let's eat jerky."

Shang Luo thought that it made sense, so she put down the bread, picked up the jerky and tore it up. She didn't know where Lao Liu bought it, but the jerky was surprisingly hard. After a long time, she couldn't tear off a piece of it. , hit the head directly with teeth.

Lu Hanjiang really didn't see it, so he took out a small knife from the baggage of the carriage and gave it to Shang Luo: "Use this, it's more convenient."

"Hmm."

Shang Luo removed the jerky from under her teeth, picked up the knife and was about to strike, but suddenly froze for a moment, regained her senses and used the knife to force the jerky a few times, but the blade was only embedded in the jerky, and could not move for a second .

Shang Luo was expressionless, and smashed the jerky on the shaft of the cart a few times, but she couldn't pull out the knife. She stared at the knife, and suddenly felt nauseated. The nearby woods flew away.

Lu Hanjiang silently collected the dry food, took the blanket in the carriage, and followed.

Shang Luo rushed all the way, her feet were stumbled by stones inadvertently, she fell down and rolled several times, the wound on her leg began to hurt faintly, she curled her body together, buried her head between her knees, and sobbed slowly intermittently. It spread slowly and gradually turned into wailing.

When Lu Hanjiang walked over, Shang Luo cried loudly and didn't notice anyone approaching at all. He covered the little girl with a blanket and didn't say a word, listening to her cry for half the night.

Xu was exhausted, Shang Luo stretched out an arm from under the blanket, groped around for something, and said hoarsely: "Throat hurts, is there any water?"

After a while, without getting a response, Shang Luo stuck her head out of the blanket, only to find that Lu Hanjiang was already asleep.

Shang Luo, who was not in a hurry, punched Lu Hanjiang's legs indiscriminately.

"Huh? Is it dawn?" Lu Hanjiang opened his eyes in a daze.

"I'm thirsty, I want to drink water!" Shang Luo covered her head with a blanket again.

"Here." Lu Hanjiang yawned and put the water bag in her hand.

The hand holding the water bag retracted under the blanket, and soon, the blanket was wet. Shang Luo coughed for a while, and then said: "When I get to the capital, I will try to earn enough money before returning it to you."

"Forget it, just think of me as helping those in need."

"I said I'll pay it back!" Shang Luo threw off the blanket abruptly, staring into a pair of rabbit red eyes, at this moment she was stubborn and unreasonable.

"All right, all right, you have the final say."

(End of this chapter)

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