Chapter Eighteen: Leave After Dinner
Her cry immediately frightened even Xiang Ye. Judging from her expression, Chi Xue'e definitely didn't seem to be faking it. If she was really faking it, if she had been born two thousand years later, she would definitely have won an Oscar.
The award for crying people, the level of crying is much better than those who put eye drops and wipe saliva.
The waiter was not intimidated by Chi Xue'e's tears. He held his chin and pondered for a moment and asked the two of them: "You don't even have any money for food, right?"
Chi Xue'e stretched out her hand and groped for a while, and finally raised her head helplessly to look at Xiang Ye sitting opposite and said with a bitter face: "I lost all my money. Didn't I give you fifty copper coins yesterday?"
? Take it out, we can’t eat and live in other people’s homes for nothing.”
Xiang Ye was stunned for a moment and looked at Chi Xue'e stupidly. He couldn't remember when she gave him money. But soon he saw the clue in Chi Xue'e's eyes and quickly reached out to touch her arms.
Originally, he wanted to imitate Chi Xue'e and rummage around before telling the waiter that the money was lost, but when he put his hand into his arms, he actually touched a bunch of copper coins tied with a hemp rope, and he was shocked.
Eyes widened.
The waiter frowned as he looked at the copper coins placed on the table and said to the two of them: "You two, this little money is not enough for accommodation and meals."
After saying that, he bent down and picked up the copper tripod on the table. He also put the wine jar he had brought earlier into his arms and said with a displeased look on his face: "The wine is gone, so half of the tripod has to be removed!"
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When Xiang Ye saw the waiter moving things away, he wanted to stand up and argue with him, but Chi Xue'e, who was sitting opposite him, winked at him and he sat down again.
Soon after the waiter brought the tripod back to the back hall, he also brought a plate of meat and a pottery basin with some green vegetable leaves floating in it.
Xiang Ye looked at Chi Xue'e and saw that Chi Xue'e picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks and stuffed it into her mouth and chewed it carefully. Then he picked up the chopsticks and picked up the green vegetable leaves in the soup basin.
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The green vegetable leaves were slippery in the mouth, and he felt that the taste was familiar. After sipping for a while, he suddenly slapped his forehead and shouted: "I said it was sunflower, but it turned out to be amaranth! I thought it was the leaves of sunflower before!"
His strange cry startled Chi Xue'e, who was sitting opposite. She quickly raised her head and looked at him, and asked with confusion on her face: "What is amaranth? What is sunflower?"
It wasn't until Chi Xue'e asked that Xiang Ye patted his forehead in embarrassment and said with a smile: "Nothing, nothing, I just thought of two plants from my hometown."
"Oh!" Chi Xue'e said, lowered her head and picked up a sunflower leaf, and brought it to her mouth. She suddenly raised her head and asked Xiang Ye: "I see that you seem to know many things that everyone knows.
I don’t even know, so I’m a little confused, where is your hometown? Why do you call sunflower amaranth there?”
Xiang Ye smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "I don't know, I forgot where my hometown is."
When it comes to his hometown, he is helpless. Everyone living in the world has a hometown, but Xiang Ye doesn't know where to find his hometown.
Spanning two thousand years, even after finding the land where he was born and raised, is it still the familiar hometown in his memory?
Chi Xue'e saw Xiang Ye's inner distress and stopped asking about his hometown. She silently lowered her head and ate the food on the table.
When the waiter brought the rice again, the cauldron containing the rice was smaller than before. He put the tripod on the table with a smile on his face, instead of standing aside and watching them eat with a smile on his face like before.
, turned around and left.
"Tsk!" Xiang Ye curled his lips disdainfully at the waiter's back and muttered in a low voice: "What a dog-eye. He knew we had no money and acted like a fool. When we first entered the store, he stood by like a grandson.
superior."
"The worse his attitude is, the more peaceful I feel about eating this meal." Xiang Ye's face was full of anger, but Chi Xue'e, who was sitting opposite him, was sipping the dishes on the table with peace of mind, waiting for her to finish chewing a piece.
After the meat, he continued: "Let's leave here after dinner. I'm afraid we won't be able to stay in Suiyang City."
Xiang Ye glanced at Chi Xue'e, didn't ask why, lowered his head and started to eat hungrily.
After not sleeping all night, he really wanted to stay in the library and have a good sleep, but since Chi Xue'e said she would leave after eating, she must have her reasons.
After the two hurriedly finished their meal, they simply packed up and left the building.
When the waiter saw them leaving, he curled his lips and snorted, but did not stop them and allowed them to walk out of the door.
"Let's go buy some medicine." After leaving the library, Chi Xue'e seemed to be relieved, wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and said to Xiang Ye: "From now on, when you enter the library, you should look at my eyes and act, and you must not act willfully.
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"When did I act willfully?" Xiang Ye gave Chi Xue'e a very depressed look, and then asked: "Speaking of which, why were you always so nervous just now? Is it possible to eat people in a hotel in the city?
Is it done?"
"Do you think they won't eat people?" Chi Xue'e said as she walked forward: "Today is a troubled time, and it is not as good as in the past. In order to grow stronger, all forces need to make money. Some forces simply choose to rob merchants, like me.
In this way, if outsiders don’t have a clear mind, they may have already fallen into other people’s traps.”
"Uh!" Xiang Ye nodded. What Chi Xue'e said does make sense. A beautiful woman like her who is walking around and carrying a huge amount of wealth can easily fall into the trap of someone who is thoughtful if she is not careful.
, but there was one thing that he still didn’t quite understand. Xiang Ye, who was leading the donkey in his left hand and the mule in his right hand, took two steps forward and walked side by side with Chi Xue’e and asked: “How did you tell that there was something wrong with the waiter in the building?
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Chi Xue'e's gaze stayed on a small house with several dustpans outside the door not far ahead. She seemed to have not heard Xiang Ye's question at all and said to him: "There is a pharmacy in front, let's go and buy some."
Get some medicine for your injuries, and then leave Suiyang quickly."
As she spoke, she quickened her pace.
The two bought some wound medicine prepared by the drug store. Chi Xue'e stuffed the bottles of medicine into her arms, turned over and mounted the mule and said to Xiang Ye, "This time you ride the donkey and I will ride the mule."
Xiang Ye responded and got on the donkey. But the donkey seemed reluctant to let him ride. After he got on the donkey's back, the donkey raised its neck and howled twice, spinning around in circles a few times.
, it looked like he wanted to throw him off his back.
"You flat-haired beast!" From the first time Xiang Ye took the donkey, the donkey had been fighting against him as if it didn't like him. Now it finally made him angry. He rode on the donkey's back.
He punched the donkey's butt hard and cursed: "You are so obedient when a beauty rides on your back, but why do you kick the donkey when I ride on it? Is it possible that the beauty's butt is softer than my own?"
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As soon as he finished speaking, Chi Xue'e turned around and glared at him, and he quickly shrank his neck and stopped scolding the little donkey on his crotch.
Strange to say, after he punched the donkey, the little donkey became docile and walked obediently behind the mule rode by Chi Xue'e towards the outside of the city.
The two left the city and walked for several hours before they found a town and settled down.
Xiang Ye had a lot of questions in his heart. Although the waiters in the library showed a bit more influence in Suiyang City, he didn't find anything wrong with them. Moreover, when did Chi Xue'e stuff in fifty copper coins without anyone noticing?
He didn't know what was in his arms.
Although these questions bothered him, after staying up for nearly a day and night without sleeping, he finally fell into a deep dream.
More than twenty days later, two people wearing pure white clothes appeared outside Xingyang City. They rode two strong horses and walked slowly towards the city gate.
The two men appeared at the gate of the city. The Qin army guarding the city just took one look at them and let them into the city without any questioning.
These two people were none other than Xiang Ye and Chi Xue'e. On the road, Chi Xue'e felt that the donkey and mule were walking too slowly, so she added some money and exchanged them for two horses, and bought new clothes to keep the blood on her body.
After changing his clothes, he rushed to Xingyang.
After entering the city, Chi Xue'e rode her horse straight towards the west of the city without asking anyone for directions.
On the way here, Xiang Ye heard from Chi Xue'e how prosperous Xingyang was, but after entering the city, he found that there were very few people in the city. The few people walking in the market were listless, as if they were seriously ill.
This time he did not ask Chi Xue'e for the reason. He had seen records about Xingyang in the late Qin Dynasty in history books.
After the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in Dazexiang, the rebel army marched westward and was invincible wherever it went. However, in the end, their hundreds of thousands of troops were trapped in the battle to attack Xingyang and could not extricate themselves, and they finally recovered.
The Qin army was wiped out in one fell swoop.
In the Battle of Xingyang, Li You, the governor of Sanchuan County, played with great authority, and his name was forever engraved in history and respected by generations of descendants.
The person Chi Xue'e wanted to take Xiang Ye to meet was Li You who was commanding the Battle of Xingyang. On the way to the governor's house, Xiang Ye had been imagining what Li You should be like.
According to historical records, Li You is the eldest son of Qin Prime Minister Li Si, and he should be a civil servant. However, in the Battle of Xingyang, he led the Qin army guarding the city and the people in the city to resist Zhang Chu's army, which was several times their size.
Without his bravery and unyielding integrity, a mere civil servant would never be able to do this.
"Sister, can you tell me what kind of person Li You is? What does he look like? Is he bad-tempered?" Xiang Ye rode his horse to catch up with Chi Xue'e and turned to look at her and asked.
During the days when the two of them got along, the relationship between Xiang Ye and Chi Xue'e became increasingly close. I don't know since when, he had changed his name to Sister Chi Xue'e; and Chi Xue'e seemed to have forgotten what she had done to him.
He promised to repay the favor with his own life, taking care of Xiang Ye like a big sister.
In terms of age, Chi Xue'e is more than two thousand years older than Xiang Ye. In terms of the number of years she has lived in the world, she is one year older than him, and has much more experience walking in the world than him. Xiang Ye naturally became
Chapter completed!