Shrouding the Sky: The Empress Against the Immortals

Chapter 2 Ling Su and Ling Song

In Nannan's memory, she no longer remembers how long she has been wandering.

She only remembered that when her father and mother disappeared, the weather was still very cold.

At that time, she still had a very warm little jacket, but that little jacket was snatched away later.

She has eaten rotten vegetable leaves, as well as leftover overnight rotten vegetables in restaurants, and she is often chased, beaten and bullied by other children, because those people think that she has no parents at such a young age, so she must be a bastard.

No matter how she explains it, people don't like her.

Even the owner of the steamed stuffed bun shop, when he gave her a few steamed stuffed buns when he saw her being pitiful, there was disgust in his eyes, and he would mutter a few words occasionally.

Only this boy, not only didn't dislike her, and gave her buns to eat, he was also extraordinarily gentle.

So she wants to follow the boy.

She knew that this big brother was a good man.

However, Nanan, who had not waited for the boy to answer for a long time, saw the hesitation in the boy's eyes.

She also understood that she was being abrupt.

Can't help lowering his head slowly, his eyes became lost.

"I got it, I'm bothering big brother." She turned around, very sad, and wanted to leave.

"Why are you always so impatient?"

The boy suddenly grabbed her small arm, "I haven't even spoken yet, you are leaving, how do you know that I don't want you to follow?"

"Then..." Nannan suddenly raised her head, turning from sadness to joy.

"I'm just worried that if you follow me, you may not have a good life, maybe it will be very hard." The boy sighed.

"My daughter is not afraid of suffering!" she said hastily.

"Well, you have no relatives, and neither do I, but God let us all survive, and we will be relatives from now on. I am an elder brother, and you are a younger sister, okay?" The young man put his hands on her shoulders and smiled. said.

"Brother... brother?" Nannan was startled.

"Well, let's go, I'll take you to find a place to wash it, your face is like a little cat." The boy scratched her little nose with his fingers, and there was a bit of teasing in his gentle eyes.

Nannan let the boy hold her hand and walked forward, only what the boy said just now and that warm smile kept playing back in her mind.

She felt that the sky was much brighter.

……

Silent night.

In the firewood room in the backyard of a blacksmith workshop in the east of the city, the daughter was wearing a large coarse linen dress and sitting on a mat. She stretched out her hand from the sleeve to smell it, and then touched her small face, with a happy smile on her lips.

After being brought back by her elder brother in the afternoon, she was settled here.

The big brother helped her take a bath first, and then helped her wash her hair. It was clean and fresh after a long time, and the fragrance of mulberries made her feel familiar.

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the boy coming back from cooling his clothes outside the door, and she quickly moved to the corner of the bed inside to make room for her elder brother.

"Ninny, aren't you sleepy?" The boy took off the towel and wiped his hands, and when he turned his head and saw her clear eyes and full of energy, he couldn't help asking with a smile.

"I'll sleep together after my brother finishes his work." Nannan's voice was crisp.

The young man was dumbfounded, quickly cleaned up, took off his shoes and sat by the bed.

Nannan immediately stuck to him, her hands tightly grasping the boy's sleeves.Such behavior fell into the eyes of the boy, as if he was afraid that he would run away.

"Okay, go to bed. I'm going to work in the blacksmith's shop in front tomorrow. You can play here by yourself during the day. Don't go out casually. If you have something to do, you can find me in the shop in front of you."

When the girl heard this, she lay down obediently, and when the boy covered her with the quilt, she couldn't help but blinked and asked, "Can I go to work with my brother?"

"Haha, the blacksmith shop is full of hard work, how can you do it as a girl?"

"But I want to help my brother." Nannan grabbed the corner of the quilt with both hands, shrank her small body, only her eyes were exposed, and her voice was muffled.

"You're still too young. When you grow up, I'll ask Aunt Zhang to teach you how to sew clothes and embroider. Then you can earn a wage." The young man patted her little hand, telling her to sleep peacefully and not to think too much.

"Okay, I must grow up quickly." Nannan said with firm eyes.

At this time, the firewood room suddenly became dark.

It turned out that the boy had already blown out the oil lamp.

The brother and sister were lying side by side on the pillow, Nannan couldn't help but quietly turned her head to look at the brother who had only known each other for less than a day.

After a long time of contact, she already knew that her brother's name was Ling Su, and he was an apprentice and helper in the blacksmith shop.

Like her, she has no relatives.

But the difference is that Ling Su was born delicate and thin, but born with great strength.

The boss of the blacksmith's shop was able to recruit a ten-year-old boy like him because he liked his brute strength that was not inferior to a grown man.Given time, maybe he alone can forge as much as two or three people.

Nominally, the shop is in charge of food and housing, with a salary of [-] Wen a month, but in fact it only cares about two meals in the morning and evening, and they live in this woodshed in the backyard.

But this is already a rare condition for an orphan like Ling Su.

Most teenagers like him, without parents and relatives to help, would simply become street beggars.

The work in the blacksmith's shop was very busy and tiring. It was basically physical work. Ling Su had to go out to buy food by herself when she was hungry at noon every day.

That's why I can meet my daughter during the day.

……

"Ninny, shall I give you a name?" Ling Su suddenly asked in the darkness.

Nannan froze for a moment: "I have a name, my name is Nannan."

Ling Su was dumbfounded, this little girl took other people's pronouns for her as her own name.

He didn't explain much, just said: "My name is Ling Su. The owner of the blacksmith gave me this name. What he said... Corn is good for people. Let me remember who gave it to me. Don't forget this kindness.

You are my younger sister, so I will give you a name for your food. What is your favorite food? "

"I...I like meat buns." Nannan thought for a while and replied.

The main reason is that the best food she can remember is meat buns.

Ling Su couldn't help laughing after hearing this: "That won't work, I can't call you Ling Baozi, can I? Change one another."

"My daughter only remembers meat buns..."

She was a little downcast, and really couldn't think of anything to eat.

She had picked up some leftovers outside the restaurant before, and they seemed to taste good, but she didn't know what those were.

"Do you like meat so much? That's why I call you Ling Song. No matter what kind of meat you eat, you can cook it with chicken soup, goose, pork, or dog, and it tastes delicious."

"Really?" Nannie's eyes lit up, she couldn't help swallowing, feeling a little greedy.

Obviously, she didn't care about her name at all, she only heard all kinds of meat in the second half of the sentence.

"Then it's settled. From now on, your name will be Ling Song, and your nickname will be Nannan. In winter, when I have saved enough money, I will definitely take you to eat stewed meat once."

"All right!"

Nannan... Oh no, it's Ling Song now, she huddled under the blanket and nodded vigorously, full of anticipation.

The two brothers and sisters were under the moonlight, chatting one after another, gradually, their voices became quiet and peaceful, and they fell asleep one after another.

This night, Ling Song slept very peacefully.

The next day.

Ling Song opened his eyes in a daze, and his divergent eyes gradually converged on the thatched roof of the firewood house, and then he stared blankly for a while.

"elder brother!"

Suddenly, as if remembering something, she sat up immediately, but she couldn't find Ling Su's figure when she looked left and right, her little face was filled with panic.

She hurriedly jumped off the hay bed covered with a mat, pushed open the door and ran out without even thinking about putting on her shoes, and was only relieved when she saw Ling Su washing her face in the yard.

But then she pursed her mouth again, and walked behind Ling Su with her bare feet, rubbing her eyes while pulling Ling Su's skirt, aggrieved: "Brother, why didn't you call me when you woke up? Both father and mother are gone."

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