Chapter 254 Happy New Year!
Brother and sister?
Xu Jingxi and Shen Ningning looked at each other.
Do they look alike?
"Thank you, shopkeeper," Shen Ningning stood up and wiped her chubby face with the back of her hand: "We are not picking up rags, but our clothes are just dirty, so we won't go in for tea."
The shopkeeper turned around and looked at the little guy, and wanted to soften his heart even more.
This little person is very cute.
But her white face has black dust on her nose and cheeks.
She is wearing better clothes, but she looks gray.
The shopkeeper sighed: "How pitiful, you wait here, I'll get you something."
He walked back to the store, and soon came out quickly, holding two large fur coats made of deerskin in his hands.
"This was originally for my brother's own use."
"But a while ago, he followed the trend and bought a lot of cold-proof equipment and exchanged it for bear skins. This one is no longer needed. You can take it."
Shen Ningning blinked her big eyes, looking happy.
She was about to stretch out her little hand to take it.
But Xu Jingxi pulled her behind him like a brother.
He said in a calm voice: "How much silver do you want?"
The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "No money, I'll give it to you."
"The world has just gotten better, and I don't know if you two have family."
"But this deerskin is enough for you to spend the winter. You are a brother, you must protect your sister. She is so young, she can't stand the cold."
Shen Ningning poked her little head out from behind Xu Jingxi.
She smiled sweetly at the shopkeeper: "Thank you, shopkeeper uncle."
"Oh, you are so good, come, take it quickly." The shopkeeper put the two deerskins into the straw basket.
After confirming that no silver was needed, Xu Jingxi was willing to accept it.
The two returned with a full load, but unfortunately, Shen Ningning couldn't carry her straw basket.
So, Xu Jingxi took the initiative to put all the things with him and let him carry them.
On the way back to the National Academy, he looked unhappy.
"Xu classmate, why don't you smile?"
"What are you laughing at?"
"We picked up two deerskins for free, isn't that good?"
Looking at Shen Ningning's round and innocent big eyes.
Xu Jingxi pursed his lips and said, "In my life, there is nothing free."
"Even if it's free now, there may be a huge price behind it, so I'm worried about a trap."
Shen Ningning was surprised.
"Two deerskins, there shouldn't be any traps? That shopkeeper uncle looks very good."
Xu Jingxi said nothing.
The little girl looked at his clear profile and was a little puzzled.
Xu Jingxi certainly knew that she wouldn't understand.
In his life, he had encountered kindness in disguise.
When the skin was peeled off and those people revealed their true intentions, he found that the word "evil" had long been like a knife, hanging over his head.
That's why he was so vigilant.
Xu Jingxi didn't believe there was a free lunch in the world.
Perhaps seeing that he didn't look very good, Shen Ningning changed the subject.
"Well, that's right, everyone said that what I said was a rumor, why are you willing to believe it and come out with me to pick up clothes?"
"Because I need it." Xu Jingxi didn't deny it.
His voice was like frost: "Even if there is no snowstorm, my house will be crushed once a year as long as it snows."
Because the place where he lives is really too simple.
"My grandparents are old, with these cotton clothes and quilts, even if the heavy snow collapses the house, they won't be cold for the time being."
"I will repair the roof in the shortest time."
Hearing this, Shen Ningning's eyes widened.
The little girl felt that her life was hard enough before.
Unexpectedly, Xu Jingxi was even harder than her.
Shen Ningning thought for a moment and raised her dark eyes.
"It doesn't matter. I have many houses. If you can't hold on, come to Xiangyun Village to find me."
Xu Jingxi didn't answer.
He would rely on himself for everything and never expected to rely on others.
Naturally, he didn't take Shen Ningning's words to heart.
At this time, Han Fuzi's shouting came from afar-
"Hey~" Han Fuzi pressed the hood on his head and hurried over: "Are there any things left after picking up? I want two too."
Shen Ningning chuckled and looked at Han Fuzi who was panting.
"Master, why do you want to pick up!"
"Don't refuse in vain. You said this. Others don't believe you. Master must stand on your side. You must take two back anyway."
Han Fuzi said, picking and choosing in the straw basket on Xu Jingxi's back.
"Okay, I'll take this one." He took a cotton coat.
Looking at the gray faces of Shen Ningning and Xu Jingxi, he couldn't help laughing.
"Let's go, Master, I'll treat you two to some hot wontons."
Xu Jingxi said calmly, "I won't go, wait a minute..."
Before he finished speaking, Shen Ningning and Master Han grabbed his sleeves from the left and right.
"Let's go! Eat a bowl, it's still in time." The little guy said softly.
Master Han also said, "That's right, why are you being polite to me."
After half an incense stick of time, the teacher and the students sat at a small table on the roadside, with a bowl of fragrant wontons in front of each of them.
Shen Ningning ate heartily.
But Xu Jingxi hesitated to move the spoon.
He always felt bad for taking other people's food for free.
Master Han saw what he was thinking and said, "Jingxi, come to my house on the morning of New Year's Eve to help me."
Xu Jingxi agreed without thinking, "Okay."
Only then would he be willing to move the spoon.
The fact that Shen Ningning and Xu Jingxi went to the streets to "pick up rags" soon became a laughing stock in the Chinese Academy of Chinese Studies by Ye Changyi.
No one dared to tease Shen Ningning in person, but they could not avoid ridiculing Xu Jingxi.
Master Han came to Xu Jingxi's rescue several times, but found that he had an extremely calm temperament.
When others provoke him to the extreme, he doesn't even raise an eyebrow.
Nothing seemed to make him angry.
However, this situation did not last long.
Soon, the prince Mo Lingwei in the palace heard about this and issued an edict.
He ordered everyone to sell him unsold cotton-padded clothes, quilts and various cold-proof props.
Zichen Palace accepted everything according to the order, and the price was still the normal market price.
Mo Lingwei even said boldly: "I don't care what the Imperial Master says. I only believe what Shen Ningning says."
As a result, everyone immediately understood that the prince would not hesitate to spend a lot of money to support Princess Funing.
Mo Lingwei donated all the things he bought to Shen Ningning.
Not only that, the Xie family quietly occupied two spacious granaries.
Used to store purchased firewood.
Xie Suzhi kept everything Shen Ningning wanted in mind.
Early on New Year's Eve.
Shen Ningning wore a cheerful brocade red cotton jacket and carried a bag of New Year's candy, and went to the village with the Black Wolf King.
Several rounds of firecrackers have already been set off, and the New Year is just around the corner, and the faces of the villagers are filled with joy.
"Uncles and aunts, happy New Year!" Along the way, the little guy saw many acquaintances.
She generously grabbed a handful of New Year's candy and handed it over.
It happened that Chen Ye came back and greeted: "Miss, I just went to see you. Uncle Zhong and Aunt Yun have already greeted everyone and celebrated the New Year together, so you don't have to worry."
"He also said that after the second grade of junior high school, he would come to the village to pay New Year's greetings to the young lady."
Shen Ningning nodded in agreement. At this moment, the sound of a carriage was heard at the entrance of the village.
The villagers looked back and said with a smile: "Ning Ning, look who's back!"