(3)
The next morning, before sunrise, the innkeeper and his wife had already gone out. Although there were not many customers in their shop, in order to fulfill the lie they told Bai Feng last night, they had to pretend that the guest rooms were already full. He looked like he was going out to buy ingredients in a hurry, and then came back to prepare meals for the guests to enjoy.
Bai Feng took this opportunity to sneak into the innkeeper's room and search, and found a shelf as high as the wall, roughly in the shape of a tic, filled with porcelain, calligraphy and paintings. He didn't have time to think about how a couple who ran an inn could save a huge amount of money to maintain this kind of elegance, so he rummaged around in the room and finally found the "letter" the couple mentioned in the conversation last night.
"My beloved daughter Yu Ke..." He roughly read a few lines and confirmed that they were correct. Then he turned back to the display rack of porcelain, calligraphy and paintings, and said to himself: "How much money did you spend to have such a wall?" 'ah?"
He picked up a pear-shaped celadon and continued to sigh: "The money that was supposed to be given to Akko turned into these things? Suddenly I can understand why the 'Rogue' Su Qing robbed the rich and gave to the poor. I felt really sad. happy!"
Before he finished speaking, there was just a clang, and the celadon broke into several pieces and was no longer shaped. Not long after, there were several more sounds of porcelain falling to the ground and breaking, and it was very lively.
The eldest daughter and the youngest daughter of the shop owner heard the sound and came over. They saw Bai Feng tearing up the scrolls and kicking the porcelain. But in a moment, the whole shelf was overturned by him. She cried in horror: "What are you doing!"
"Ah?" Bai Feng pretended not to hear, still a little drunk, and continued to smash, while replying: "I was hitting flies, you didn't see, such a big fly, I won't kill it if I don't hit it." , I can’t sleep!”
After hearing this, the two girls cried even louder: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Dad, Mom, there are bad people..."
When she stopped crying, the owner of the inn finally came back. He had a long face and narrow shoulders. When they met, he made a fuss louder than his own children, and said heartbreakingly: "My baby!"
Bai Feng originally thought that he was feeling sorry for her daughter, but when she took a closer look, she found that he was kneeling in front of the porcelain fragments on the ground, wailing, and his daughter was not in his eyes at all. She couldn't help but angrily yelled: "What are you doing holding these dead flies?"
"You guy!" The innkeeper knew he was outmatched, so he immediately retreated to the door and called his wife to come and look at the child. "I'm going to sue the officials right now. If you have the guts, don't leave!"
"Humph, you fool wouldn't leave!" Bai Feng unsheathed his sword and replied: "Do you believe I can take your life within three steps? Now, you have already taken two steps."
After hearing this, the innkeeper saw his legs weakened and he fell to his knees. He immediately lost his intention to leave.
"Mom, please tell your child to stop crying, can you?"
The innkeeper's wife said: "Okay, okay, okay..."
"Isn't it just a pot made of a few broken tiles? How can it be so troublesome?"
The innkeeper said: "These are all treasures!"
"What about Yu Ke? I'm a rough person, I don't understand these things."
The listeners were all speechless.
"Follow me. If anyone dares to take more than three steps away from me, you will know the consequences yourself."
After finishing speaking, everyone walked back to the lobby. It was time for Akko to clean up. She slept peacefully last night, but when she woke up, the winter chill quickly paralyzed her body again, making her unable to notice what was happening elsewhere. She could only focus on what she had to accomplish every day. to avoid punishment.
"Ake, go get the charcoal stove."
"What happened?" Akko looked at Bai Feng and the other three people with surprise on his face.
"Go, go, do you want to kill our whole family?"
After listening to his uncle and aunt's complaints, Akko brought the charcoal stove, and then naturally hid far away, not daring to get close to the strange warmth.
Seeing this, Bai Feng shook her head helplessly, and then said gently to A Ke: "Little sister, come here and let them pass..."
The owner of the inn and his family reluctantly walked over, which happened to be adjacent to the door of the inn, and a cold wind would blow from time to time.
"I have a letter here, written by Yu Ke's mother." Bai Feng raised the letter and asked A Ke, "Little sister, is this your mother's handwriting?"
After Ake read it, he responded repeatedly: "Yes, it was written by my mother! She finally sent a letter..."
"Last night I accidentally bumped into those two people discussing in the house. I said I didn't want you to see this letter, and of course the money your mother sent you." Bai Feng handed the letter to the innkeeper. He threatened: "Want to know what's written in it?"
"I think about it, I think about it so much!" Tears welled up in the corners of Akko's eyes. The nostalgia and expectation that still existed in her heart were all for her mother's letter...
Bai Feng then raised his sword and signaled the other party to read out the contents of the letter: "My beloved daughter Yu Ke... More than half a year has passed since the previous letter. Seeing that the weather has turned colder, I thought that you will not be short of food and clothing as you grow, so I sent you I am sending you a lot of money to support your family. Please forgive my mother for being incompetent and not being able to accompany you."
"As expected, mother is still thinking about me." A Ke was very moved when she heard that she was so emotional.
The innkeeper suddenly stopped and asked, "My hero, don't you need to read the rest?"
"you dare?"
"I read, I read!" I saw his hands holding the letter began to tremble involuntarily, "Every time I think of A'ke, I always think that he is still a baby. Fortunately, I saw what my eldest sister said in the reply and learned that A'ke is already a tall man. , I feel very relieved, and hope that Akko will cultivate his moral character and live up to the kindness of his elder sister in raising him."
After hearing this, Akko was extremely surprised. After thinking about it, she suddenly burst into tears. No matter how tired she was and how much suffering she suffered, she had never been as weak as she is today.
"Are you still...still reading?" the innkeeper asked.
Bai Feng walked to A Ke and replied: "If you continue reading, I will cut out your tongue."
"Why, why..." Akko murmured, and couldn't help but fall on Bai Feng and burst into tears: "Mother, she... thought I was living a good life, but I wasn't living a good life at all... … She would be very sad if she found out.”
"You are such a stupid child." Bai Feng touched the messy back of her head: "It's already this time and you're still blaming yourself?"
"me?"
Bai Feng continued to ask: "Ake, do you know where your mother is?"
"I remember it was in Jinyang."
"The capital of Da Qi? Maybe this is fate..." Bai Feng said: "It seems that our destination is exactly the same."
The innkeeper asked puzzledly: "What do you want to do?"
"A'ke, do you have the guts to come with me?" Bai Feng ignored the others and only said to A'ke, "Let's go find your mother together."
"Yes!" Akko nodded, and then returned to his "little dark room" to pack his luggage. Although it was a luggage, only half a round jade pendant was left.
"This is the only thing left by my mother." She sobbed: "Let's go."
Bai Feng took out a few coins and threw them on the ground. He said goodbye to the innkeeper and said, "This money is my compensation to you. From now on, we will have no grievances. If you still want to pursue the case, don't blame me for being ruthless."
After saying this, he led the horse to pick up A'ke, put the fur cloak sent by Su Qing on her body to protect her from the cold, and the two of them disappeared in the cold wind.
