HLnovel Chapter 893: Golden Spoon and Grass Clapper
Chapter 893: Golden Spoon and Grass Clapper
What's there to regret?
Shen Zheng raised her hand and pointed at the sun. "What you want to exchange is the rations for the dam. We will have to eat in an hour. The rations are in short supply, so we must go to get more to avoid missing the meal."
In fact, she wanted to use the hairpin to buy some meat and add some fishy flavor to everyone.
In just half a cup of tea, the contract was written on the yellow and white straw paper.
And after the word "shiren", a name was also written - Xu Yin.
Shen Zheng took it and looked at it, her eyebrows slightly raised: "Your name is Xu Yin?"
Xu Mansion?
There aren't many high-ranking families with the surname Xu in Beijing...
And the character "音"... happened to be the maiden name of the eldest daughter of the Cui family.
How could such a coincidence happen in this world?
Shen Zheng guessed that the little girl in front of her was either Cui Jinyin from the Cui Mansion or Xu Zhijie's daughter.
The little girl's eyes dodged for a moment, then she raised her head and said, "It's me."
Shen Zheng nodded, took the pen from her hand, and wrote her name on it.
Seeing this, Xu Yin curled her lips and whispered, "Your handwriting doesn't look like a woman's..."
Shen Zheng ignored him, pressed the tip of the pen on the tip of her thumb, and then made a fingerprint on the deed.
She handed over the pen and said, "You press it too."
Xu Yin took a half step back, her face full of disgust: "I won't!"
Shen Zheng nodded and pretended to tear up the contract, "Then I won't sell it anymore."
"I'll press it!" Xu Yin snatched the straw paper angrily, closed her eyes, touched the ink to her thumb, and pressed it casually on the paper.
Shen Zheng nodded in satisfaction, put the deed into her bag, raised her hand and said, "This cart of food is yours."
Then she told the driver: "Help Miss Xu move it down, and give her the straw mat on the cart as well."
Xu Yin showed a hint of joy when she heard that. She turned to the dirty little girl next to her and said, "What's your name? I'll give you all these."
The dirty little girl was stunned for a moment, "I don't have a name, Miss, you can call me Ah Wu."
"Ah?" Xu Yin crossed her arms and looked at her for a while. "I thought you were from a poor family, but I didn't expect you to be a beggar. You don't even have a name."
Ah Wu smiled at her and said, "I am a beggar. Thank you for the reward, young lady."
Shen Zheng was slightly surprised when she saw this.
She had felt that the little girl was precocious that day, and seeing her today, she was indeed a person of extraordinary character.
If she were to be the person involved...
When Shen Zheng put herself in their shoes, she felt as if the sky was falling.
A little beggar met a rich girl, who threw gold to buy food for her. Instead of being grateful, she might even complain - why were others born with a silver spoon in their mouths, while she could only suck on a straw clapper?
At Ah Wu's age, his self-esteem is strong, and if he gets angry, he might even have some dark thoughts.
But at this moment, Shen Zheng did not see any humiliation on Ah Wu's face, only joy.
After a while, all the vegetables were unloaded from the carriage. Shen Zheng handed the gold hairpin to the canteen and asked him to run to the city, pawn the gold hairpin and buy more meat.
Xu Yin had been secretly watching her every move, and until she heard that she was really going to exchange the gold hairpin for flesh, she couldn't help but twitch her lips.
After the chef, the coachman and others left, Zeng Tongshi called Shen Zheng back to the dam.
Xu Yin rolled her eyes and said, holding her stomach, "I'm so hungry..."
The maid understood what he meant, and stepped forward and bowed, asking, "My two lords, my daughter suffers from stomach disease. If she is hungry and doesn't eat, her upper abdomen will be very painful. I wonder if there is any food on the dam..."
Shen Zheng glanced around and asked, "Did your young lady walk to the outskirts of Beijing?"
The maid was panicked for a moment and looked at Xu Yin for help.
Xu Yin covered her stomach and said, "I came here with my sister. My sister suddenly felt unwell, so she returned to Beijing."
Shen Zheng chuckled, "You two sisters have a lot of misfortunes."
After that, she stopped looking at Xu Yin and asked Ah Wu who was tying vegetables on the ground: "Ah Wu, how are you going to take these vegetables back?"
Ah Wu seemed a little afraid of her, and paused with his hand holding the vegetables. "My...my sister knows I'm here, and she'll come over in a while. When she comes, I'll ask her to go home and call someone to bring the vegetables."
Xu Yin straightened up after hearing this and asked curiously, "Aren't you a beggar? You have a sister and a home?"
"..."
Shen Zheng was speechless when she heard this.
Miss, you don't master the art of language at all.
Ah Wu also paused and smiled, "She is not my biological sister, but we were raised together by grandma since we were young."
"Oh..." After getting the answer, Xu Yin realized that her stomach must still be hurting, "Ouch... Mr. Shen, Mr. Shen, I bought meat for all of you. Can we stay on the dam and have a meal?"
She was such a beautiful girl, she just didn't believe that Shen Zheng didn't feel sorry for her at all!
Baba's eyes received a cold reply: "No, there are too many people and things to do on the dam, you should go back home quickly."
Shen Zheng didn't know why Xu Yin was so persistent in wanting to stay on the dam, but she felt that Xu Yin was coming for her.
But it can’t be a conspiracy of the Cui or Xu families, right?
Just send such a stupid guy?
"No, no?" Xu Yin was incredulous and used the same trick again, "I'll give you another hairpin, and you can take care of me... and give Ah Wu a meal!"
Ah Wu looked up in surprise.
Shen Zheng still shook her head, "The court is doing construction work, and everyone entering has to have their identity verified, and outsiders are not allowed to enter. But..."
"But what?"
"But if you really want to eat for free, I can have someone bring you three bowls and you can eat here."
"Me?" Xu Yin pointed at herself.
"Here?" He pointed at the muddy ground under his feet, "Eat? Impossible!"
Are you kidding! This will definitely make you eat a mouthful of mud.
Shen Zheng said as a matter of course, "Of course, you are not allowed to enter, so just forget about eating. Ah Wu, where is your home? When I come back from shopping for a carriage, I will help you bring the food back."
Ah Wu was slightly shocked, looked at the mountain of vegetables in front of him, and hesitated for a moment.
"Is it okay? No, let's not do that..."
The other party is an official, would he be so kind?
Both her grandmother and the manager of Jiahepu told her to run away if she saw an official, so as to avoid having her legs broken.
Grandma also said that although officials may look handsome, what they think in their hearts will never show on their faces.
Such as in front of me.
It was easy to guess what that pampered young lady was thinking. The other party must be targeting the female official.
But what that female official was thinking...she had no idea, so she was afraid.
Seeing her reaction, Shen Zheng stopped forcing her to help. "Then you wait here for your sister. If she doesn't come by noon, I will have someone bring you a bowl of food."
After saying that, she and Zeng Tongshi walked towards the dam.
“Hey——” Xu Yin stomped her feet upon seeing this, and stopped pretending to have a stomachache, kicking the mud angrily.
"Miss..." The maid Tao Tao took out some cakes from her arms and said distressedly, "Miss, please take some food. If you haven't returned home by noon, Miss Sisi will definitely send someone to look for you."