I left Shuanghe Town after buying a bunch of things. After that, I didn’t stop any more on the way, and didn’t stop until I reached Jingmen City.
Then I heard Chou Chou say that the magpie who went to the capital to deliver a message was back.
The magpie flew back to the place where it left before, but it was so anxious that it couldn't find them. It kept flying back and forth there, but Chou Chou recognized it only when he saw the bamboo tubes on its feet.
Chou Chou had been staring at it before, but later because of the incident at Seven Stars Temple, it diverted its attention and almost missed it.
Chou Chou directly brought it over with his spiritual consciousness and asked Jin Yang to put it into the space first. They are now eating snacks on the crowded street and will read the letter after returning to the inn.
This is the south of the city. They booked an inn and went out for a walk. This time they did not book an inn in the east city, but in the south city. There is a huge market here that cannot be visited in one day.
The place where they are now sells snacks. There are all kinds of snacks. They want to try them all and plan to use them for lunch.
After eating, they packed up a lot, and finally split up and packed up all the leftover food from the stalls they liked.
Because there were so many of them, and they went to pack food in between, no one else knew they were together, so those who didn’t eat at the back didn’t say anything.
Of course, even if you say it, they won't care.
The food here is more suitable for Qingyan's taste. She still prefers to eat something with a stronger taste. She can't eat anything that is too bland. The taste here is obviously much heavier, and the oil is a bit salty and spicy.
The spiciness here is made from dogwood, which is better than pepper, but not as spicy as pepper, so Qingyan planned to save more.
Anyway, Chou Chou's space can keep it fresh, so they can have it at any time after they leave here.
It's just that she's not used to the rice here. The rice here is dry and soft and tastes bad.
She heard that it was two-crop rice. She had heard from her father before that rice here could even be grown in three seasons and four seasons in future generations, so the rice here was much less oily than the rice in the north.
If there is too little oil in the side dishes, they will not be able to eat it at all, and it will taste like brown rice, so they did not buy any more food after coming here.
Fortunately, they had stocked up a lot before, enough to last them a year and a half, and they also planted a lot in the space. Now they have grown three or four inches tall. The space is spring-like all year round and blessed with spiritual energy, which is better than the ones outside. It grows faster, and if they can grow rice containing spiritual energy, they will no longer be prepared to eat food bought from outside.
Of course, that will have to wait until at least two or three months later.
After finishing their meal and packing their things, they found a place to stow away their belongings and prepared to take a leisurely stroll back to eat.
Anyway, the inn I booked is not very far from here, only two to three hundred meters away.
As a result, the wind picked up halfway through, and the sky quickly became overcast. As expected, the weather here kept changing at will.
The three of them had to speed up their pace and jogged all the way back to the inn. They also got wet before entering the inn. Fortunately, it didn't rain so hard when it first started.
As soon as they entered the inn, the rain outside became heavier. It looked like it was at least moderate rain.
If you get wet in this season, you will get sick. After all, it is winter rain. In ancient times, wind and cold can kill people, so there will be no people on the street soon.
As soon as I entered the lobby of the inn and found a place to sit down, I heard a loud cry outside.
Qingyan and the others all used their spiritual sense to explore out. Since they had their spiritual sense, they never moved forward to watch the excitement. It was safe and they could see the whole picture.
They had found a table in the corner to sit down and asked the waiter to serve a pot of hot ginger tea. Even though they only got a little wet, they still needed to warm themselves up.
The tea should have been boiling, and it was served almost immediately. While drinking the tea, I "looked" outside.
It turned out that a carriage hit someone. Maybe because of the rain, the visibility was not good, and it hit an old lady. At this time, the old lady was lying on the ground rolling and crying.
It rained so heavily that the ground quickly became wet, and the old lady was soon covered in mud and water.
The driver on the carriage did not get out of the carriage, but reported inside the carriage.
The owner of the carriage quickly got out of the carriage under an oil-paper umbrella, and the coachman turned around and drove the carriage to the backyard of the inn.
Before the carriage owner could speak. The waiter at the door greeted the guests, called the owner, and said to the old lady who was still rolling on the ground: "You old lady, I'm at the door. The carriage didn't hit you at all. Don't be there." If you are blackmailing people here, get up quickly, you don’t have to worry about the wind and cold in this heavy rainy day.”
It turned out to be the owner of this inn. The old lady didn't know if she heard the owner's voice, and the crying sound became louder.
Qingyan raised her eyebrows. It seemed that the old lady obviously wanted to hit the porcelain. Although she didn't see whether she had hit her before or how serious the hit was, the old lady's rolling flexibility should be enough. No bones were injured, otherwise the pain would be so severe that I wouldn't be able to get up.
The boss was quite gentle. He raised his hand to stop the waiter from continuing and asked the old lady directly if he wanted to take her to a hospital.
The old lady still screamed and didn't answer.
The innkeeper didn't mind, and obviously knew what the old lady was thinking. He asked the waiter to go over and whisper a few words. The waiter came into the inn and asked for a tael of silver from the shopkeeper.
After he went out, he directly handed the money to the old lady, "Here, then, get up quickly, that is to say, our boss is kind-hearted, otherwise I will beat you away with a big stick."
As a result, the old lady didn't answer at all and continued to roll on the ground. Seeing that the rain was getting heavier, there was a lot of water on the ground.
The old lady's clothes were not thick, but rather thin, with just a few layers of patched singlets. Qingyan had to lament that the old lady had gone to great lengths just for some money.
The boss had a look of helplessness on his face, and asked the waiter to come in and take out one tael of silver. This was quite a lot, equivalent to more than two thousand yuan in future generations. If there were no injuries, two thousand yuan would be fine if he kept it privately. .
The old lady also recognized the situation, took the two taels of silver and left. After walking a few steps, she turned back and said thank you.
Qingyan raised her eyebrows, thinking she would push her further and make trouble, but she didn't expect to leave so happily.
I heard the waiter muttering behind the innkeeper: "Master, you just spoil her. This is the first time. She will definitely come more frequently in the future, and she will have to come here every two days to extort money."
To put it mildly, she should be sent to the government to be beaten and locked up for a few days. Then the old woman would be honest.
The innkeeper shook his head at him with a look of disapproval and said: "It's not easy for Aunt Feng. Both of her sons are dead, leaving only a little grandson who is still very sick and unable to go out to work. As long as it doesn't go too far, forget it. , just think of it as doing a good deed.”
This was said when he entered the inn. The shopkeeper and another waiter sighed at the same time, obviously they also knew about these situations.
Qingyan and others looked at each other. The innkeeper's voice was not loud, so they only heard it because of their good ears.
It turned out that the other party knew the old lady, but that old lady was a bit unreasonable. She was just trying to trick a good person.
But listening to what the boss said, he is really a good person. If only he could do it once or twice, such a big inn, even if it is located in Nancheng, should make a lot of money, but that is what he earns himself, and it is not the wind. It's really annoying if it comes every two days.
And looking at this, the boss will definitely not give less every time, at least one tael of silver, which shows that the boss is a very kind-hearted person, and he will say it again and again, and it is still not three. This is true that he is willing to help the other party.
Thinking of this, Qingyan's consciousness reached out and saw the old lady not far away.
They saw that the old lady took the money and did not go home. Instead, she went directly to the medical clinic four shops across from the inn.
After entering, I gave the money directly to the doctor sitting there. The old lady was obviously a regular customer. The old doctor didn't ask about her illness or prescribe any medicine, and just went to get the medicine.
Qingyan thought that what the boss said about Aunt Feng's family difficulties must be true, but she had no choice but to come here to extort money.
It's also possible that he knew that the boss was kind-hearted and wanted to help her, but he couldn't afford to pay her back if he borrowed the money. Once or twice would be fine, but over time it wouldn't be a problem, so he made such a stupid move.
The old lady took the medicine and left the hospital. Because it was raining outside, the old lady took out a small piece of oilcloth from her arms before leaving the door of the hospital, carefully wrapped the medicine, and then put it in her arms. He hunched over and ran forward quickly.
Qingyan's consciousness kept following her, and she saw the old lady walking into a somewhat dilapidated courtyard a street behind.
It is said to be dilapidated because it has been in disrepair for a long time. Not much of the wall covering has fallen off. Except for the three main rooms, the other roofs are leaking, but the house and yard are very clean. Obviously, this The old lady is also a hard-working person.
After the old lady returned, she was already soaked to the skin, and with the mud rolling on the ground, she was shivering from the cold.
I thought she would change her clothes immediately when she got home, but she didn't. Instead, she went directly to the kitchen and took out a ceramic pot with a small hole missing to boil the medicine.
While brewing the medicine, I shivered and warmed myself by the fire, and looked worriedly at the house on the right from time to time.
Then Qingyan heard intermittent coughing coming from the room next to her, and a voice calling her grandma, which sounded like a teenager's.
The old lady quickly replied, "Grandma is back, Hao'er, wait, grandma will boil the medicine and cook."
He added a piece of wood under the medicine pot, got up and went to the stove, scooped out a ladle of water and washed the pot, put some rice in and started making porridge.
Qingyan looked at the bottomed rice vat and the empty kitchen, frowned, and then put her consciousness into the room next to her.
I saw an almost skinny boy lying on the bed. He was too thin to tell his exact age. The little boy was lying on the bed, feeling like he was panting with all his strength.
Qingyan felt a little compassionate and sent a message to Chou Chou to see if she could help the grandfather and grandson.
Of course, it's not just giving money. Looking at the child's appearance, it's obvious that he can't be saved by giving money.
Chou Chou used his spiritual sense to look over and look at it, and then said back to Qingyan: "The child should have a weak disease in the womb. Drinking some spiritual spring water should be fine. If you take good care of him, he will be fine."
Qingyan: "Then let's put some spiritual spring water directly into the water tanks at the grandparents' homes?"
Chou Chou nodded, "The effect will be slower and less obvious this way. She happened to take a few pairs of medicines and should be able to take them for a while. They will just think that they have taken the medicine."
After saying that, he put almost a large bowl of spiritual spring water into the water tank at the grandson's house, which was regarded as a good deed without leaving any name.
After finishing their good deeds and drinking a pot of tea, Qingyan and the others went upstairs, entered the room, locked the door and entered the space.
The first thing Qingyan did was to ask Jin Yang to summon the magpie, take off the letter from its foot and read it.
It was Zhao Rixin's handwritten reply. The words were small but contained a lot of content. He first told her how much he, his mother, and Aunt Xue missed her, and then told her to be careful in everything and put her own safety first.
Later, he and King Jin will come together. If there is a chance, they will meet again and bring her something.
Qingyan had said before that she would continue on her way and not stop there, but now that the other party said so, she thought about it and wrote back another letter.
She said that she had found out about her parents' whereabouts and had already changed her route, so she couldn't wait where she was this time for fear that her parents would run away again.
Then let Jin Yang ask the magpie if he is willing to follow Zhao Rixin and be his messenger. If he is willing, just stay there. If not, forget it.
Magpies are resident birds and generally do not migrate around, so it is not easy for people to think that they can deliver messages. Moreover, after drinking the water of the spiritual spring, there should be no problem in living for twenty or thirty years.
When Jin Yang heard this, he asked Magpie again. Magpie tilted his head and thought for a moment, then nodded.
Qingyan said in surprise: "It has become intelligent now?"
Jin Yang nodded, "After drinking the spiritual spring water, it has a tendency to become wiser. It should be successful now. It agreed, but it wants to drink the spiritual spring water for two more days, saying that it can fly farther."
Of course, Qingyan would not refuse. She had already taken advantage of others, so she had to give them some benefits.
Then I added this message at the end of the letter, telling Zhao Rixin where to send the letter directly to it. It can also recognize the portrait and determine who it is specifically sent to through the portrait.
In this way, they stayed in Jingmen City for two days before leaving. After leaving the city, they found a deserted place and released the magpies.
Zhao Rixin had not set off when Magpie came back, but he might have already been on the way, so Qingyan told Magpie to be careful on the way to the capital, as he might encounter him.
The magpie nodded to show that he understood. That was its future owner, and its happy life depended on him. Of course, he couldn't miss it.
