Chapter 254 Happy New Year!
Brother and sister?
Xu Jingxi and Shen Ningning looked at each other.
Do they look alike?
"Thank you, uncle shopkeeper." Shen Ningning stood up and wiped her chubby little face with the back of her hand: "We are not picking up rags, but our clothes have just been stained, so we won't go in to drink tea."
The shopkeeper turned around and looked Looking at the little guy, I want to be soft-hearted.
This little person is very cute and juicy.
However, he has a fair little face with black dust on his nose and cheeks.
He was obviously wearing better clothes, but he looked gray.
The shopkeeper sighed: "How pitiful, you just wait here, I will get you something."
He walked back to the shop, and after a while, he came out quickly, holding two large deerskin furs in his hands.
"This was originally for my brother's personal use."
"But a while ago, he followed the trend and bought a lot of cold-proof equipment and replaced it with bear skins. This is no longer needed. You can take it away."
Shen Ningning blinked her big eyes, with a look on her face . happy.
She was about to reach out her little hand and take it.
Xu Jingxi, however, pulled her behind him like an elder brother.
His voice was calm: "How much silver do you want?"
The shopkeeper was stunned, and laughed: "No money, just give it to you."
"The world is just getting better, and I don't know if you two brothers and sisters have any family members."
"But, this deerskin. "It's enough for you to survive the winter. As a brother, you have to protect your sister. She is so young and cannot bear the cold."
Shen Ningning poked her little head out from behind Xu Jingxi.
She smiled sweetly at the shopkeeper: "Thank you, uncle shopkeeper."
"Oh, you are so good. Come on, take it." The shopkeeper put the two deer skins into the grass basket.
Only after confirming that the money was not needed, Xu Jingxi was willing to accept it.
The two returned home with a full load, but unfortunately, Shen Ningning couldn't carry her straw basket.
So, Xu Jingxi took the initiative to put all the things at his place and let him carry them.
On the way back to the university, he looked unhappy.
"Classmate Xu, why aren't you smiling?"
"What are you laughing at?"
"We picked up two deer skins for nothing, isn't that good?"
Looking at Shen Ningning's round and innocent eyes.
Xu Jingxi pursed her lips and said, "In my life, nothing is free."
"Even if it is free now, there may be a huge price hidden behind it, so I'm worried about a trap."
Shen Ningning was surprised.
"Two deerskins, there shouldn't be any traps, right? The shopkeeper's uncle looks very good."
Xu Jingxi said nothing.
The little guy looked at his clear profile and was a little puzzled.
Of course Xu Jingxi also knew that she wouldn't understand.
In his life, he had encountered good intentions disguised as skin.
When the skin was opened and those people revealed their true intentions, they discovered that the word evil had already been hung over his head like a knife.
That's why he is so vigilant.
Xu Jingxi does not believe that there is a free lunch in the world.
Probably because he didn't look good, Shen Ningning changed the topic.
"Well, that's right. Everyone said what I said was a rumor. Why do you want to believe it and come with me to pick up clothes?"
"Because I need it." Xu Jingxi did not deny it.
His voice sounded like frost: "Even if there is no snow disaster, my house will be crushed once every year when it snows."
Because the place where he lives is so simple.
"My grandparents are old. With these cotton-padded clothes and quilts, even if the heavy snow collapses the house, they won't be able to freeze for the time being."
"I will repair the roof as soon as possible."
After hearing this, Shen Ningning His eyes widened.
The little guy felt that the life he had lived before was hard enough.
Unexpectedly, Xu Jingxi worked harder than her.
Shen Ningning thought for a moment and raised her dark, watery eyes. "It doesn't matter. I have a lot of houses. If you can't hold on anymore, come to Xiangyun Village to find me."
Xu Jingxi did not answer.
He relies on himself for everything and never expects to rely on others.
Naturally, he didn't take Shen Ningning's words to heart.
At this time, Master Han's shout came from a distance -
"Hey~" Master Han pressed the hood on his head and ran over in a hurry: "Are there any leftover things you picked up? I want two too."
Shen Ningning He chuckled and looked at the panting Master Han.
"Master, you have to pick it up no matter what!"
"Don't give it up for free. It's you who said this. No one else believes you. Master must be on your side. No matter what, I have to take two pieces back."
Han The master said, picking through the straw basket on Xu Jingxi's back.
"Okay, I'll take this one." He took away a cotton coat.
Looking at the gray faces of Shen Ningning and Xu Jingxi, he couldn't help laughing.
"Come on, Master, I'll treat you two to hot wontons."
Xu Jingxi said calmly: "I won't go. Wait a minute..."
Before he could finish his words, Shen Ningning and Master Han grabbed him from left to right. sleeves.
"Let's go! It's too late to have a bowl." The little guy said Nunuo.
Master Han also said, "That's right, why are you being polite to me?"
After half a stick of incense, the teacher and student sat at a small table by the roadside, with a bowl of fragrant wontons in front of each of them.
Shen Ningning ate happily.
But Xu Jingxi didn't move the spoon.
He always feels bad about taking other people's things for nothing.
Master Han saw what he was thinking and said: "Jingxi, on the morning of New Year's Eve, you come to my house to help me."
Xu Jingxi agreed without thinking, "Okay."
Only then did he agree to use the spoon.
The fact that Shen Ningning and Xu Jingxi went to the streets to "pick up rags" soon became a laughing stock in the Chinese Academy of Chinese Studies by Ye Changyi.
No one dared to tease Shen Ningning in person, but they could not avoid ridiculing Xu Jingxi.
Master Han came to Xu Jingxi's rescue several times, but found that he had an extremely calm temperament.
When others provoke him to the extreme, he doesn't even raise an eyebrow.
Nothing seemed to make him angry.
However, this situation did not last long.
Soon, the prince Mo Lingwei in the palace heard about this and issued an edict.
He ordered everyone to sell him unsold cotton-padded clothes, quilts and various cold-proof props.
Zichen Palace accepted everything according to the order, and the price was still the normal market price.
Mo Lingwei even said boldly: "I don't care what the imperial master said. I only believe what Shen Ningning said."
With this, everyone suddenly understood that the prince would not hesitate to spend a lot of money to support Princess Funing.
Mo Lingwei donated all the things he bought to Shen Ningning.
Not only that, the Xie family quietly occupied two spacious granaries.
Used to store purchased firewood.
Xie Suzhi kept everything Shen Ningning wanted in mind.
Early on New Year's Eve.
Shen Ningning wore a cheerful brocade red cotton-padded jacket, carried a bag of New Year's candy, and went to the village with the Black Wolf King.
Several rounds of firecrackers have already been set off, and the New Year is just around the corner, and the faces of the villagers are filled with joy.
"Uncles and aunts, happy New Year!" Along the way, the little guy saw many acquaintances.
She generously grabbed a handful of New Year candies and handed them over.
It happened that Chen Ye came back and greeted: "Miss, I just went to see you. Uncle Zhong and Aunt Yun have already greeted everyone to celebrate the New Year together, so you don't have to worry." "They
also said that after the second grade of junior high school, Come to the village to pay New Year's greetings to the young lady."
Shen Ningning nodded in agreement. At this moment, the sound of a carriage was heard at the entrance of the village.
The villagers looked back and said with a smile: "Ning Ning, look who's back!"