The cook is very busy

Chapter 9
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Just when Ziqing got up, the old and the young not far away caught her attention.

I saw an old man walking slowly with the help of a young man, and sat in a shady place avoiding the sun.The two are ragged, unkempt, and they are also beggars.

The old man settled the man down, got up and looked around by himself, and then walked to the inn behind him.Xu Shi, the owner of the inn, took into account the old man's age, and gave him a bowl of water and two steamed buns made of white flour.

The old man bowed to thank him, and hurriedly handed water and steamed buns to the man, but the man was indifferent, and the old man could only sit alone and sighed and shook his head, very desolate.

The old man and the young man should be a father and son, if not, the man would not say anything, how could the old man be so upset.

Ziqing sighed secretly, feeling sorry for the parents of the world. In the early years, her parents broke their hearts because of her.

She looked at the old man and counted out twenty or so copper coins from the purse, thinking of doing something modest.Her mother had given her a hundred coins before, and if she gave them all away, I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain it at that time, and the twenty copper coins will be enough to just eat cornbread within a few days.Putting away the purse, Ziqing was about to go there, but saw three or four old women who had already stepped forward, holding a few coins in their hands and saying that they would hand them to the old man.

But the old man moved his hands and looked back at his son, but he still didn't respond, he just turned his body towards the wall.

Seeing this, the old man had no choice but to smile wryly and politely declined the kindness of the two wives.

Ziqing immediately became angry, and stared at the man, you said that you are so messed up, you can't even care about your own father, and you want his mother's dignity, this kind of person is really starving to death!
Angrily, she clutched the copper coin in her hand and wanted to leave, but her feet didn't listen to her orders, and she just stood there.After several tries, she had to give up.

Sigh, forget it, just treat the money as being for the old man, and let her go there after those aunts leave.

At this time, beside the main street, in a Gaoyu tea house, a man in white was standing by the window.With picturesque eyebrows and excellent appearance, he looked at the beggar father and son in the distance with a leisurely posture.

"My lord, please have some tea."

A servant girl came forward with a cup of fragrant tea, and smiled with red lips, touching the mole on her lips, making her more and more beautiful.

The man responded lightly, looked away, but inadvertently saw the thin figure on the street.

Huaiyang at noon, how could someone stand under the scorching sun, not hiding or turning back?
A man has never been a focused person, and when he encounters something exciting, he will do it casually. This woman on the street is strange, and his eyes have always fallen on her.

In the end, I realized that the woman was also looking at the father and son. Seeing that there were a lot of people there, there was clear hesitation on her face, and she wanted to go forward but hesitated.

The servant girl saw that the man was still and did not move, so she urged her, "My lord, the tea is getting cold."

If the man hadn't heard of it, he tapped on the window sill with his slender fingers.

After a while, he curled his lips into a smile, turned around and took the fragrant tea from the servant girl's hand, took off the jade pendant from his waist and gave it to her, and whispered something in his ear.

The man's approach made the servant girl a little shy and at a loss. After hearing it clearly, she looked at the woman on the street suspiciously, and finally took the order.

Ziqing suddenly trembled and shuddered for some reason. She looked around, and all the passers-by without exception looked back at her with puzzled looks.

That's right, she was still under the sun in the hot weather, but she was just recovering from a serious illness, and her body was still a little weak, so she didn't feel much discomfort facing the sun, on the contrary, she felt warm all over her body.

"Oh, what a crime, my father and I fled to our town, but our relatives were not found, and there was no place to stay."

"Hey, in my opinion, the main reason is that the two of you are poor, and people don't want to see them. Who would add two free mouths to the house if they have nothing to do?"

"It's not a big deal. It is said that the old man is a nice person, but his son can't even eat enough, and he is coaxing."

"That's right, we were kind enough to give you two money, and we still act like we don't care about it!"

"Hey, both of you are educated people, you can't save face..."

Three or four women walked past Ziqing chattering. She listened to this and thought about grabbing a few more coins from the purse.

But at this moment, an old woman walked by, and the maid beside her walked hurriedly to avoid the sun, bumped into her, and the copper plate in her hand fell to the ground.

Ziqing didn't care about what to say, squatted down to pick it up, moved his body to the side, suddenly his feet slipped and almost fell to the ground.

Steady feet looked down, and saw a round jade pendant lying on the ground.

She stuffed the copper plate into her bosom, picked up the jade pendant and shook the soil.

The red ears on the pendant are swinging alluringly, paired with the verdant jade pendant, it is really alluring.

Anyone with a discerning eye will know that this jade pendant is very valuable, but the passing God of Wealth cannot keep it.

Although Ziqing didn't think anything wrong, but when he saw the old woman and her maid who passed by earlier looking for them, he still couldn't help muttering this sentence.

As soon as the old woman saw the pendant in Ziqing's hand, her eyes lit up, and she rushed over nagging, saying why she didn't pay attention, why the pendant was so expensive, and it hurt her How easy to find.

And the maid also thanked her with a blessing, at this point in the drama, Ziqing should return to Zhao after all, she laughed and put the pendant in the old woman's hand.

The old lady looked at the whole jade pendant before she breathed a sigh of relief.

Then the old woman carefully put the jade pendant into her bosom, raised her hand, and said, "Give this girl a tael of silver."

The servant girl took the order, took out a handkerchief from her bosom, picked up a piece of silver the size of a fingernail from among a dozen or so copper plates, and handed it over.

Now Zi Qing couldn't laugh anymore, and said in embarrassment, "Old, old madam, I, this is just a matter of convenience..."

Seeing that Ziqing didn't accept it, the old woman said to the maid again, "Come on, give her the money you have."

The servant girl looked very angry, her lips were tightly pursed, and she couldn't even see the mole on her lips.

She hesitated for a while, took out half a tael of silver from her waist, looked at it, and stuffed it together with the tael of silver handkerchief into Ziqing's hand.

"Take it, this is a reward from my old lady, if it's too little, I don't have that much money anymore!"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Ziqing's reaction, the servant girl stepped forward to support the old woman, and said, "Old lady, I found the pendant, we should go back, so that the young master won't worry."

The old madam replied indifferently, she couldn't help but cast her eyes somewhere, and walked aside with the maid.

Ziqing took the money he got for free, and it was not right to stay where he was, or to chase after it.If she rushes to return the money to the master and servant, maybe the maid will say that she doesn't have enough money, and she doesn't know what to do, but she keeps it in her heart, especially since the money was "rewarded" by others!

(End of this chapter)