Chapter 65 The Kite Flutters

There is a lot of drizzle in late spring, but it is cool. Many passers-by put on more clothes and like to walk in the rain with oil-paper umbrellas.

The weather is a little better today.

The dark girl was sitting on the high adobe wall, her feet were dangling and unclean, and there were many calluses on her feet. With her hands on the wall, she watched a group of children playing and playing on the grass in the distance.

After not watching for long, the dark-skinned girl snorted and turned over from the wall. She rummaged through the messy clothes and took out the last penny she earned two days ago. She was reluctant to use it and wanted to return it to the Chen's.

The little girl usually begs, and when someone throws her two taels of money, she kowtows to that person, and even if the debts are settled, she doesn't owe anyone, and she doesn't feel hostile.

But she didn't kowtow to the one surnamed Chen, and the one surnamed Chen was not her father, so the money had to be paid back.

As for stealing things, I'm going to starve to death, and I don't care about these hammers. At worst, I'll just return the money I make in the future.

As long as you don't die, you can pay back.

The little girl carefully looked at the money in her hand, and there was a rare smile on her face, which was also a rare savings for her.

This money is really nice, save a little today, and save a little more tomorrow, and it won't take long before the little money owed to Chen can be paid off.

But when she thought that this coin did not belong to her after all, the little girl's face collapsed again, she sat down on the ground, counted her fingers, and muttered something.

"Give it back to Chen, don't pay it back, pay it back, don't pay it back..."

A head wearing a bamboo hat suddenly appeared behind the dark girl, and said with a smile, "Why don't you learn arithmetic here?"

The little girl glanced at him, put down her finger, and said angrily, "You look like a thief."

Chen Jiu smiled, "It's just a resemblance."

He took out two sesame seed cakes he bought in his arms and handed one to the little girl.

The little girl shook her head and folded her hands on her chest, "I can't eat it. I will pay back the money I owe you. If I eat this cake, I will have to save it for a long time."

Chen Jiu then accepted the two biscuits, smiled at the little girl and asked, "Are we friends?"

The little girl shook her head again, "It doesn't count."

Although the surname Chen has been changing ways to bring her some food these days, and he has nothing to say, but according to the standards of a little girl, she has only been friends for a few days, and she hasn't been with her for as long as the puppy, how can she? Friends?

Can't, can't.

Besides, she doesn't need hammer friends.

Not all the time.

The young Taoist sat next to the little girl again, and said with a smile, "Didn't you make money today?"

Facing Chen Jiu now, the swarthy girl talked too much, humming: "Money is hard to earn, shit is hard to eat, and it's not something you can earn every day."

She was silent for a while, then slowly handed the money in front of Chen Jiu, staring at him, and said angrily: "Repay some first, and pay back the rest after you earn money."

Chen Jiu didn't dislike it either, took the money, stood up, smiled at the little girl and said, "Xiao Pinger, let's go shopping together?"

The swarthy girl gave him a blank look, "No, I'm going to make money."

The little girl got up and went to the place where she used to beg.

The young man watched the little girl's thin back gradually disappear, and then he climbed up the high adobe wall where the little girl was sitting on, propped his head up, and watched the group of children playing in the distance.

The dark girl didn't actually go begging, she found a quiet alley to sit silently, maybe it was too boring, so she braided her hair by herself, after she was done, she found a pool of water and took a picture.

The little girl's complexion froze suddenly, she put down her braid silently, sat by the pool, suddenly smiled, as if she was looking at the pool and asked, "Why am I so ugly?"

No one answered.

She sniffed and sat in silence until dusk and evening before she stood up and wanted to find a place with many people and bright lights to spend the night.

The little girl grumbled a few times, she was very hungry, she looked down at her withered stomach, and said disdainfully: "Pretentious."

If you are hungry, you will be hungry, call it a hammer, and you will not die of hunger.

I'm used to being hungry.

She walked to a night market full of pedestrians, went to a dark alley, and sat silently.

In this way, she can fall asleep looking at the bright lights outside.

Not long after the dark girl looked at her, the annoying guy surnamed Chen came again, touched the little girl with a mysterious face, gave the little girl a supercilious look, and then said angrily: "Speak if you have something to say. Let the fart go."

Sitting next to her, Chen Jiu looked at her with a smile, and took out two candied haws from his bosom, accompanied by the sound of "Dang Dang".

The little girl gave him another look, "I won't eat."

The young Taoist smiled at the girl and said, "Take it as a loan to you, and return it to me when you have money."

The swarthy girl didn't make a sound, she lowered her head, remained silent for a while, and then suddenly said, "I won't have any money in the future."

Chen Jiu peeled off the candied haws and handed them to the little girl, "Who will decide what will happen in the future, everyone is unique, and no one is worse than the other."

He smiled at the little girl and asked, "Right?"

The swarthy girl sniffled, took the bunch of candied haws, and said angrily, "I will pay you back when I make money."

Chen Jiu peeled off another bunch of candied haws, stretched it out to the little girl, and said with a smile, "Cheers."

The little girl snorted, but she also came over and lightly touched Chen Jiu's candied haws.

The young man narrowed his eyes with a smile, and lightly bit off a candied haws in the moonlight.

Mmm, sweet!

In the next few days, the swarthy girl never went to beg again, because Chen Jiu asked her to dig herbs outside the mountain to sell.

In fact, neither of them knew herbs, but every time Chen Jiu called the little girl, he would buy some, and then when he returned to the city after digging, he would take out the herbs and put them in the pile that the little girl dug. Tell the little girl, "I'm sure I can make some money today."

The little girl hugged her chest, half-believing, not knowing how much these weeds that she dug casually could be sold for.

In the end, the two of them sold it at the pharmacy, darling, dozens of dollars, it was incredible, the little girl was smiling, but she still hugged her chest, pretending to be calm, like a small scene.

Chen Jiu frowned, not wanting to understand.

I bought medicinal herbs for a few silver coins in another shop, but why are there only dozens of copper coins left in this shop?

Grandma has one leg.

Seeing the little girl happy, he didn't want to ask, so he took a few tens of pennies and said to the little girl, "You dig more herbs, how about we?"

The swarthy girl shook her head, and gave Chen Jiu a white look, "You are so grown up, why can't you use your brain well, it must be five or five points, I still need some money from you, you can take it all this time, when I pay you back."

Chen Jiu looked at the little girl and said with a smile: "Success, it's just that we have made such a big deal this time, why should we celebrate?"

The swarthy girl spread her hands and said angrily, "No money."

Chen Jiu smiled and said, "I'll lend you."

The little girl nodded, "Success."

So the two of them went into a restaurant in the city. It wasn't too big, but it was well-dressed, and the people who sat and ate there were mostly decent people, not the tall and thick guys.

After the little girl entered the store, she kept her head hooked, looking at her rotten shoes with big holes, and followed the tall figure of the young man in front of her to find a table and chairs.

The two sat on a bench.

The waiter in the store saw the Taoist coming, so he didn't dare to neglect, so he hurried over and asked Chen Jiu, "What does the Taoist want to eat?"

Chen Jiu looked at the little girl, who lowered her head and said nothing.

Chen Jiu then ordered two bowls of beef noodles, which were not too expensive, so Xiao Er hurriedly told him to make them.

He took two pairs of chopsticks and handed a pair to the dark-skinned girl.

The little girl took the chopsticks and didn't know where to put them, she was at a loss, her face was slightly red, and she lowered her head.

Xiao Er quickly brought up two bowls of noodles, put them on the face, said goodbye, and went to greet other guests.

The guests sitting around looked at this little girl who looked like a beggar, and frowned frequently, feeling that the restaurant was losing face.

The shopkeeper also felt bitter, but Daoist is sitting there, what can he do?

Could it be that he still dared to chase the Taoist master away, if he was hated by the Taoist master, he would forget about going to the restaurant.

The status of a Taoist in the city is extremely high, of course he must be a "Taoist" with real ability, if he has no ability at all, he can eat and drink for free, but if he dares to cause trouble, he really can't even think about living.

There are examples of fake Taoist priests being beheaded in public in the city.

The little girl lowered her head and ate the beef noodles in small bites, not daring to make too much noise. She scraped the beef aside and didn't eat a bit.

Chen Jiu left all the beef in his bowl, and gave it to the little girl, and said with a smile in her puzzled eyes: "Tomorrow, continue to make money."

The little girl gave him a blank look, and whispered, "Success."

From today onwards, Chen Jiu started to learn pharmacology at night, mainly to recognize the appearance of some medicinal herbs and their prices. The next day, he went up the mountain with the little girl to collect medicinal herbs, and taught the little girl to recognize them together.

The dark-skinned girl often hugged her chest, listened carefully to what the young man said, and at the same time hummed disdainfully: "Tch."

The little girl learned very quickly, but her feet were always inflexible, and she almost fell down several times while collecting herbs. Fortunately, Chen Jiu followed and supported the little girl.

After the two of them sold the medicinal herbs, they would buy two steamed buns to eat. The swarthy girl was reluctant to eat expensive food, so she kept the money and carried it on her body.

When Chen Jiu saw it, he went to buy a small purse for the little girl, which was colorful and pretty.

The swarthy girl gave him a white look, accepted the purse, and after asking how much it was, carefully took out the coins she had saved, counted them carefully, and handed them to Chen Jiu.

Chen Jiu accepted it with a smile, and asked the dark girl to buy a string of candied haws together. The two of them would sit on the side of the street, eat the candied haws in their hands, look at the crooked moon in the sky, and sometimes lean against the side of the alley and fall asleep together. .

The two of them didn't go to pick herbs every day. Sometimes Chen Jiu would take the little girl to catch fish by the river and hunt birds from the trees.

If they caught them, they would set fire to them. If they didn't catch them, the little girl would curse at them, saying that the fish and birds really have no eyesight, and they wouldn't do such a great merit.

Chen Jiu would nod in agreement, indeed, he learned Li Xian's unique skills.

When the little girl was alone, she would sit on the high adobe wall and watch the children play.

The wind was strong today, those children set up their kites and swayed with the wind, the kites flew high in the sky, and the children shouted loudly on the ground.

Those children would compare the size of their kites together and quarrel non-stop.

"My father bought this kite for me. It's colorful and big!"

"Hmph, the one my father bought for me is not bad. It's very expensive. According to my father, it's worth seven or eight candied haws."

"..."

The dark girl in the distance frowned when she heard this.

How expensive are seven or eight candied haws?

It's not worth it either.

The little girl kept staring at the kite in the sky.

When I went to collect the medicine the next day, the dark girl hugged her chest and kicked a stone on the ground without looking at Chen Jiu, pretending to be careless.

"Chen, can you take me to buy a kite?"

Chen Jiu was taken aback for a moment, then smiled at the little girl under the warm sunshine.

"OK."