Thanks for the invitation: In ancient times, people shared children

Chapter 250

[Yesterday, Yundou and I had a fight and we made up before going to bed. We ate the rice cakes that Eunuch Chen gave us. They were salty, and the taste of the snack seemed a bit strange.

But Yundou liked it very much, so I gave it all to her.

This morning she helped me get a piece of sweet red date steamed cake, it was a big piece and I was very full after eating it.

When washing clothes with her using the water fetched yesterday, I thought of the two taels of silver that I had lost and the unlucky boy.

I hope he won't come again so I don't have to pay.

But I was also afraid that he would come and run to the door to ask for it, and then Eunuch Chen would know about the trouble I had caused...

Alas, I shouldn’t have done it if I had known.

—October 20, the ninth year of Tianji

The child was absent-minded all day, and from time to time he would go to the back of the barn and look out.

Yundou felt that her worry was unnecessary, but she still passed by the front door from time to time.

In the afternoon, the boy appeared again, much later than yesterday, and arrived when it was almost dark.

He was still groping in the creek and didn't seem to have any intention of asking for money.

The child wanted to send the money over to put her mind at ease. Yundou laughed at her for being stupid, but still went with her.

"It's a good opportunity to ask him what he's looking for. If he really has a treasure, you can make your money back."

The child had no hope: "Even if he really existed, he wouldn't tell us. I pushed him into the water yesterday."

"You gave him so much money. If I could get three taels of silver just by being pressed, I would be happy to be pressed every day."

What Kidney Bean said makes sense.

The child would also like such things, but unfortunately she has never encountered such a thing. Next time, she will try her best to be the one who gets beaten.

After expressing their regret together, the child ran over with Waiya, carrying a bag of loose copper coins.

The young gatekeeper seemed to be in a bad mood today. He glared at them and said, "How much laundry do you have to do?"

"We love to be clean and want to wash every day. Please, let us out!"

Children and kidney beans are very resilient.

"Okay, okay, go quickly and come back soon."

He waved his hand impatiently, and the older man's face looked unhappy too.

Kidney Bean and the child said thank you.

After leaving, he muttered indignantly: "They don't act like this when others go out! Why are their noses not noses and their eyes not eyes?"

It would have been fine if they hadn't noticed it the past two days, but today they saw it clearly. Many people were disobedient. They were told not to go out, but many of them went to the town under the pretext of shopping. When they came back, they didn't see them buying anything.

Some people are simply buying things for themselves.

Many people would sit by the water and chat for most of the day under the pretext of doing laundry, and they were all very friendly.

Why are they so fierce when they get to the party?

They bully them because they are young, or because they think their status is not high enough. To put it bluntly, guards and maids are all servants.

What a stinky airs you're putting on.

Why are you so fierce when guarding the door?

Children and kidney beans get angry quickly and get rid of it quickly.

After a few words, the anger subsided. When we got to the water's edge, we still called the boy in a gentle voice - "Hey, that guy."

"We're here to send you some money. We still owe you a little from yesterday."

The child held up the purse and showed it to him sincerely.

The boy turned around and revealed a bruised face.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?"

"what happens?"

He didn't say anything, but walked over slowly and asked for money.

Only then did the child and Yundou notice that his clothes were even more torn and dirty than yesterday.

At least it was clean yesterday, with delicate patches on it. Although he was skinny, he looked very energetic.

He looked listless today and didn't even repair the hole. He just took the money and squatted on the ground, counting each penny.

The child and Rongdou looked at each other and squatted down as well.

The child said, "No need to count. It's three hundred coins in total. I gave you more than two taels, almost three taels of silver yesterday. Add this and it's not less than that. If you don't believe me, just weigh the silver and you'll know."

The child has already promised to give him money, so he won't be shortchanged.

"The money is gone..." The boy who was squatting there with his head down finally uttered a word.

His words were slurred as something dripped down his face and hit the ground.

Are they tears?

The child couldn't see clearly because it was mixed in the soil.

Yundou asked, "How did the money I just gave you disappear? Were you robbed?"

He didn't answer, and said vaguely again: "The silver is gone..."

"The silver is gone."

"The silver is gone!"

"Tongue……"

He raised his head and opened his mouth, revealing a dark hole. Blood mixed with saliva flowed down his chin. His eyes were empty as he said, "The tongue... the tongue is gone... just... gone... just..."

He stretched out his hand as if to grab the child.

That's too much, so scary.

"Don't mess with me!"

The child leaned back in surprise.

"Huh? What are you yelling about? You scared me."

Yundou rubbed his eyes dazedly, raised his body on the bed and asked her,

"Did you have a nightmare?"

The child sitting at the table with his chin in his hand said in shock:

"Don't mention it, I had a very real dream."

"Oh, dream...what did you dream about?" Yundou asked sleepily as he fell back.

The child swallowed, looked at the bright sun outside the window, calmed himself down, and spoke the most important things.

"I dreamed that we went to give money to that boy, but he had no silver and no tongue. He spoke to us from a black mouth. I was so scared that I woke up. He seemed to want to say something..."

It's gone?

Do you still want to say this?

The child recalled his lip shape, but all he remembered was a dark hole, bottomless, as if the entire tongue was gone.

Yundou interrupted her recollection: "My dear mother, even if you are reluctant to spend money, you wouldn't have such a dream."

“Who is reluctant to spend money?”

The child was indeed reluctant to leave, but he wouldn't hope that anything would happen to the person. After hearing her say that, he immediately turned around angrily.

Worn and dirty clothes came into view.

The child looked up along the clothes and opened his mouth again: "The money is gone..."

"Tongue...tongue is gone..."

"Just... it's gone... just..."

He repeated those words, his saliva and blood mixed together, flowing down his chin in a sticky stream. He was so close that the stuff was almost flowing onto the child's head. She subconsciously raised her hand to block it, but the lingering feeling was disgusting...

The child tilted his head and looked behind him, but there were no kidney beans on the bed.

It’s still a dream.

That’s right, the two of them have been living in the carriage, so there is no bed.

The child woke up again in the dark carriage. It was already evening.

Yundou was not there, and her diary was spread out on a large box.

The inkstone was pressed to one side, with a big ink spot on it.

She remembered that she had been waiting for the boy, but still hadn't seen him, so she got into the carriage and wanted to write this down.

After grinding the ink but being too lazy to write, she took out her travel notes and read them. However, the travel notes were really boring, so she fell asleep while reading them.

I fell asleep as soon as I picked up the pen, and had a confusing dream.