The wind stopped and the snow stopped, and a faint warm light from the sky shone on the snow-capped mountains in the distance.
Jing Ziruo got up in a bad mood and opened the door angrily.
As soon as the door was opened, something fell from above and hit him on the head.
"Ah~~"
The thing was like a bag of stones. It always hurt when it was hit on the head. Jing Ziruo covered her head and wanted to kick the thing away when she was angry.
But when his eyes glanced over, he was stunned.
Isn't this your own purse?
When I picked it up and looked at it, I saw that not only was the money bag back, but there was also a lot of money in it. Jing Ziruo was a little confused, wondering what was going on...
...
On the way to the north, a blind man rode a donkey backwards. From time to time he took off the gourd from his waist and took a sip of wine, which was very leisurely.
There is a rope tied around the blind man's waist, and the other end of the rope is tied to the hands of a child wearing an adult's coarse cotton coat.
The child was dirty all over, and many traces of frostbite could be seen on his exposed face, hands, etc.
The shoes on my feet have long since rotted away. Now they are just wrapped in cloth with a rope wrapped around them. Whether they can be considered shoes is a question.
The child with his hands tied was walking behind the donkey. The snow overnight had accumulated a thick layer on the ground. Even though the feet on the ground were separated by a layer of linen, they had already lost consciousness from the cold. Now they were just leaning on the donkey. He just held on with his own willpower.
The person riding the donkey backwards was naturally Ye Ming. Looking at the child who was swaying as he walked, Ye Ming smiled and said:
"As long as you promise to let me eat one of your fingers, I'll let you ride on the donkey instead of walking by yourself, how about that?"
"snort!"
The child snorted and continued to move forward stubbornly.
"It turns out you can talk, I thought you were mute!"
Ye Ming smiled and joked,
"The little girl who can talk must taste good."
Hearing Ye Ming call him little girl, the child immediately glared:
"I'm a boy!"
"boy?"
The night light seems to be smiling but not smiling,
"If it were a boy, I would use your little penis to stir-fry a plate of vegetables."
The child didn't understand what Ye Ming meant, but he didn't ask. He just turned his head and didn't look at him.
Seeing that she was still insisting, Ye Ming didn't say anything and just rode on the donkey backwards and continued walking.
Lei Ling, who was lying on the donkey's back, was speechless at the old devil's evil intentions and didn't bother to pay attention.
After walking for a while, the child finally couldn't hold it any longer and fell headlong into the snow.
Seeing this, Ye Ming slapped Lei Ling off the donkey's back.
"Meow!"
Lei Ling shouted in dissatisfaction,
"what are you doing?"
"If you don't get out of the way, how can I put her on the donkey's back?"
Ye Ming is confident and confident,
"Quick, put her on the donkey's back."
"I'm going to die, don't you know, you have to do it!"
Lei Ling was very dissatisfied and turned into a human form, picked up the child and put it on the donkey's back.
Seeing that the space on the donkey's back was full, he took a step forward, turned into a cat again, jumped directly on Ye Ming's face, and held Ye Ming's head with his four paws.
"I don't care, I'm not walking anyway!"
After following Ye Ming for a long time, Lei Ling became lazy unknowingly. She would never walk on her own if she could not walk.
Ye Ming lifted the back of Lei Ling's neck, making her feet hang in the air, and said with a smile:
"Such a good cat pillow, now is the time to put it to use."
Put Lei Ling into the arms of the unconscious child.
"Help her keep warm and keep out the cold."
"Son of a bitch!"
Seeing Ye Ming using herself as a warm pillow, Lei Ling cursed.
Ye Ming ignored this and continued to move forward on the back of his donkey.
The child was shivering in the cold, and when he woke up from the cold, he felt that there was something furry and warm in his arms, and he hugged him tighter.
After feeling the warmth, the child's consciousness recovered a lot. After sensing that he was being carried forward by something, he slowly opened his eyes and found that he was placed on the back of a donkey and fixed, and the "big evil man" was also riding on it. He was holding the donkey with his back facing him.
Seeing that the evil man had his back turned to him, the child seemed not to notice that he had woken up. He moved his frozen little feet and kicked the evil man on the back.
He missed the kick, but was grabbed by the villain's ankle.
Ye Ming held the child's frostbitten feet, looked at the red and swollen feet, smashed them and said:
"Yes, he is a grateful person. He gave me a foot to eat as soon as he woke up. I am very satisfied."
The child struggled and tried to retract his feet, but he couldn't break free from Ye Ming's hand.
"Seeing that you are such a good character, you won't eat it bit by bit. When you get to town, you will cook it whole and have a good meal."
Ye Ming let go of the child's feet and did not drive her off the donkey's back.
The child curled up and hugged Lei Ling. This was the only source of heat and her only psychological comfort.
The most important thing is that it is really comfortable to hold.
Lei Ling didn't like being hugged at first. As a wild cat, she naturally resisted such a posture of relaxing her defenses.
But after following Ye Ming for a long time, she felt that her defensive posture was about to collapse, and now she was no longer so vigilant even if she was held in someone's arms.
This made Lei Ling very worried about her own safety. The beast that lost its vigilance would be in a very dangerous situation.
However, being held by someone is really comfortable...
Except for that big devil!
We walked nearly ten miles without seeing anyone, and it wasn't until the afternoon that we saw a market town.
The town is not big, with only one inn.
Ye Ming took out a piece of silver from his bulging purse, handed it to the waiter, opened the best room, and asked for a large wooden bucket for bathing.
Then come hot water, a bowl of salt, white radish, ginger, vinegar, old loofah, chicken fat, yellow wax, schizonepeta, perilla leaves, cinnamon twigs, pepper, etc.
First hang the child on the beam, wait for the hot water to arrive, pour it into the bucket, pour a bowl of salt into the water, and then start adding the above series of ingredients.
When the child saw Ye Ming's actions, fear flashed in his eyes, thinking that Ye Ming was planning to cook him and eat him.
Although I was scared to death, I still had an unyielding expression on my face, trying hard to shake my body and try to break free.
But this was obviously in vain. After Ye Ming had mixed the soup, he put the child down and took off all his clothes in three strokes.
Grab the child's hands with one hand and lift the child up.
"I don't even have a penis, so I still have the nerve to say I'm a boy!"
Ye Ming sneered. Seeing that the little girl had frostbite in many places, and there were obvious signs of necrosis in some places, he stopped talking and forced the little girl into the tub.
As soon as the little girl entered the bathtub, she started to squirm, making water splash everywhere.
Ye Ming directly turned the table upside down on the barrel, "shut" the little girl in the barrel, and pressed a few chairs onto it.
The little girl had no strength, so she was trapped in the tub and made a "bang bang" sound, but she couldn't get out.
Ye Ming trapped the little girl and no longer cared about her, and asked the waiter to run and buy a bunch of fabrics, needlework, etc.
After getting the fabric and needle and thread, Ye Ming began to cut the fabric and sew clothes.
Seeing this, Lei Ling's eyes widened.
"You can also be a female celebrity?"
I never expected that this old devil would actually have this skill.
In fact, Ye Ming doesn't know how to be a female celebrity. It's just that after seeing Miss Wen and Lu Yi doing it a lot, her eyes learned how to do it, so she felt that she was fine...
Facts have proved that eye learning and hand learning are two different concepts.
Following Miss Chinese's technique, Ye Ming successfully sewed a "crooked" coat with cuffs of different lengths and thicknesses.
After looking at his masterpiece, Ye Ming called the waiter again, gave him the measurements, and asked him to take the fabric to an aunt in the town who was very skilled in sewing.
The waiter was naturally happy to have some free money to earn, and happily accepted the task.
"After doing this for a long time, I thought you were really good at being a female celebrity?"
Lei Ling said mockingly.
Ye Ming picked it up with one hand:
"It's not like you are incompetent to be a maid, why don't you let your young master become a female celebrity yourself!
Look at you, besides eating and sleeping, what else can you do? "
Lei Ling suddenly felt aggrieved:
"Sir, I'm just a cat. Why are you demanding so much?"
"The weather is so cold now. Since you are useless, it would be good to skin you and make a pair of plush gloves."
"No, Young Master, Lei Ling admires Young Master the most. You are perfect, unique in ten thousand..."
Lei Ling turned on the flattery mode.
Ye Ming was very pleased with this and put down Lei Ling with satisfaction.
The little girl struggled in the tub for a while. After struggling for a while, she simply gave up and soaked quietly in the tub.
Anyway, the water temperature couldn't cook her well, and as it continued to cook, it made her more and more comfortable.
The frostbite on my body seemed to be getting better, the burning feeling was disappearing, and the unconscious parts of my body were beginning to recover.
The longer she stayed in the tub, the more comfortable she became. However, as time went by, the water temperature dropped a bit, and the little girl felt a little cold.
Suddenly, the little girl felt that the water temperature was increasing and getting higher and higher.
The little girl panicked. Could it be that the evil man started to intensify his anger?
It's just that when the water temperature rises to a certain level, it no longer increases, and the temperature is very comfortable.
The little girl felt that she had never had such a comfortable bath before, and fell asleep in the tub.
Outside, Lei Ling held a candle and blew out a gust of demonic wind from time to time, blowing out the flame of the candle to heat the bathtub and ensure that the water temperature was maintained at a suitable temperature.
Ye Ming sat leisurely watching the show.
At dusk, the waiter brought back the clothes Ye Ming requested. Ye Ming gave him a reward and asked him to prepare a table of food and then go to town to buy some children's books.
For such a generous master, the waiter was so enthusiastic that everything was done beautifully and satisfactorily.
When it was dinner time, Ye Ming signaled to Lei Ling that it was time to finish, and took the little girl out of the tub.
He threw the naked little girl on the bed and saw that the frostbite on her body was basically healed. He pointed to the clothes sewn according to her figure and asked her to put them on.
The little girl is very self-reliant and did not need any help at all. She was dressed in just a few steps, but her hair was still hanging loose.
Ye Ming looked at Ling with tears in her eyes:
"Help her tidy up her hair."
For a monster like Lei Ling who loves beauty, tidying up her hair is naturally something she can do easily.
Just as he was about to step forward to help the little girl fix her hair, he saw the little girl grabbing the ashes from the brazier and wiping it on her face, making her hair a mess. Such a cute little girl immediately turned into a skinny tomboy.
After turning herself into a "boy", the little girl stared at Ye Ming warily.
Ye Ming didn't take it seriously and said with a smile:
"time to eat."
Pointing to the food on the table.
The little girl had already seen the food on the table. If it weren't for the food, she would have run away as soon as she got out of the bathtub.
When Ye Ming said "eat", the little girl, who had been hungry since the morning, didn't care about the dust on her hands and reached out to grab a steamed bun on the plate.
But before his hand touched the plate, Ye Ming blocked it with a bamboo stick.
"handwashing."
The little girl knew that she couldn't afford to offend this evil man, so she quickly ran to the tub nearby, washed her hands casually, and wanted to eat.
But he was stopped by Ye Ming again.
A children's book "The Three Character Classic of Xian Ming" appeared in Ye Ming's hand:
"Learn a word and give it a steamed bun."
Soon, Ye Ming discovered that he had made a mistake.
This little girl actually knows some words, and can even memorize the first chapter of the "Three Character Classic of Xian Ming" in its entirety.
Seeing the little girl stuffing steamed buns into her new clothes after eating and drinking, Ye Ming asked curiously:
"You're literate, so your background shouldn't be bad."
These days, a girl who can read must be the daughter of a wealthy family. No poor family will support their daughter to learn to read.
The little girl packed the steamed buns and sat on the chair without answering Ye Ming's question.
If it weren't for the fact that she could eat enough by following this guy, she would definitely find a chance to escape.
Ye Ming smiled and said: "Answer a question and take care of a meal."
The little girl's eyes lit up:
"You ask."
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