Chapter 405

It was getting dark. Ye Xiaoxian stayed alone in the yard, feeling lonely and afraid.

Thinking of the man at the entrance of the alley and the possibility that someone might be watching her secretly, she checked the door several times.

The gate of the yard is fenced and not high. It's easy to climb in.

She built some broken wood in front of the courtyard door. If someone came in through the wall, she could hear it inside.

After that, she found another piece of rough wood and strengthened the room door from the inside.

Although she also knows that if someone really wants to attack her, this work can't play a particularly good role, it's always good to prevent in advance. At least she can die and understand in the end, or have time to call for help.

After that, she lay down.

It's cold at night and there's no cover in the house. I have to go out and buy a quilt tomorrow morning.

She curled up in bed, thought about xiaobaoshan, imagined that she was still in his arms, thought about his warm arms, and then fell asleep.

……

It was a breathtaking night.

When I woke up, it was daybreak, chickens crowed outside the house, and people living nearby were talking loudly.

Hearing people's voices is like returning to the world and returning to a normal life.

Ye Xiaoxian was not so afraid. She got up, hung a bucket of water in the yard, simply washed it, and then began to bake pancakes.

She now makes the equivalent of Southern pancake fruit, with some dried beef grains inside. The middle pancake is fried very crispy, and sprinkled with a little sauce outside.

Yesterday, she prepared in a hurry. Some ingredients were not available, but with her skill, the pancake was baked very well.

Because it was the first day, she didn't do much. She only made about 50. After that, she moved to the alley outside with the small table at home to set up a stall.

There are not many people in this street outside. From time to time, one or two people pass by. When they see someone selling pancakes, they will stop to have a look, but they don't really say they want to buy them.

Ye Xiaoxian really has no bottom in her heart.

If no one buys it again, the pancake will be cold.

After waiting for another quarter of an hour, another small figure came in front of the stall, the little boy of yesterday.

The little boy looked at the pancakes on her stall. She thought, anyway, there is no one to buy them now. It's better to give the little boy one. She even had a cabbage last night.

"Here you are!" Ye Xiaoxian said.

The little boy took it, but he didn't eat it immediately. Instead, he ran home.

After a while, he led his grandmother out again.

Ye Xiaoxian doesn't understand. Why does the little boy have to move his grandmother out every time he gives something to the little boy?

After the little boy's grandmother came out, she saw Ye Xiaoxian set up a stall here alone. As she walked, she said, "girl, why are you selling cakes here alone?"

"Yes, it's near here," said Ye Xiaoxian again, "grandma, did you have breakfast? Let's have one."

The grandmother didn't want it, and then said, "there are few people here. Why don't you go to the street to sell it? There may be more people on the street."

Ye Xiaoxian pointed to the east direction: "is it over there?"

"Yes, there are many shops over there. Although there are few people now, there will be more people when the sun rises." Grandma said, "let the wood help you move things."

"This......" Ye Xiaoxian looked at the boy named wood in front of her.

"Don't see him grow small, he has great strength." The old woman said.

Ye Xiaoxian cleaned up. She took pancakes and wood and moved the small table.

Sure enough, the wood looked small, and it was effortless to lift the small table. Moreover, he walked very fast, and soon came in front of Ye Xiaoxian.

The old lady said to the wood again, "wood, remember to shout for your aunt. No one will buy it if you don't shout."

The wood said, "I see!"

……

Ye Xiaoxian and Mu soon set up a stall in the direction of the street. Mu was really obedient. His grandmother asked him to shout, and he really opened his voice:

"Sell cakes, sell cakes!"

When ye Xiaoxian set up a stall alone, she only felt lonely and helpless. Now there was another wood. She suddenly felt that she had a lot of confidence, as if she had almost integrated into the capital.

Granny Mu was right. Setting up a stall on the street was really much better. Coupled with the cry of wood, someone soon bought her pancakes.

Fifty pancakes sold out in an hour.

A pancake sold for 5 Wen, a total of 150 Wen. Excluding the cost, she made some money.

These 150 words were less than a hairpin on her head for her in the past. However, for her now, she can make a living.

After selling things, she took her small table and said to the wood, "wood, aunt is going to buy something. Do you want to follow me?"

Wood hesitated. He didn't know if he was embarrassed. He quickly ran back and ignored Ye Xiaoxian.

Ye Xiaoxian: "

Just go yourself.

Ye Xiaoxian went to buy a 50 Wen quilt and some ingredients for pancakes tomorrow. Then she went home.

She thought that she should try to make more pancakes tomorrow. It's best to fry and sell them now, otherwise the time after noon will be wasted.

……

Go to the capital and the palace.

Empress Dowager Xiao is reading a memorial about the barracks.

These memorials are about the original remnant army of Mobei. There are about 500 surviving soldiers in Mobei barracks, which should be incorporated into other barracks now.

Empress Dowager Xiao only felt headache when she saw these.

Fortunately, xiaobaoshan didn't continue to go north, otherwise they couldn't afford so many wars in Beiqing.

Empress Dowager Xiao also heard that before Jing Feng died, she told Xiao Baoshan that his wife was dead, so Xiao Baoshan didn't come to ask for someone.

On that day, there was a general meeting of officials. Empress dowager Xiao also ordered the officials to rot Mrs. Xiao's affairs in the capital and not go out to tell people.

Therefore, those who pray should not know that Mrs. Xiao is still alive.

Thinking of this, Empress Dowager Xiao declared Qin Ming into the palace.

Qin Ming used to pretend to be a beggar in Mobei City, but after returning to Beiqing, he has returned to their secret Pavilion in Beiqing and continued to work as a spy. His official position has also been promoted by two grades. Now he doesn't look like a beggar at all.

"Met the Empress Dowager!" Qin Ming saluted.

Empress Dowager Xiao put down what she had in hand and looked at Qin Ming: "what's the matter with Mrs. Xiao now? Let her live and die?"

Qin Ming said, "indeed."

"Did you help her?"

"When I returned to the empress dowager, I just gave her a dress of our Beiqing woman. There was nothing else."

Empress Dowager Xiao smiled and said, "Oh? How many days has she lived alone?"

"It has been five or six days since I returned to the Empress Dowager."

"Five or six days?" Empress Dowager Xiao thought, Then he smiled again: "After five or six days, she must be starving to death now? It's also the AI family's carelessness and didn't explain it carefully. Although the AI family said to let her live and die, people can't starve to death. If necessary, you can feed her some bread and steamed bread. Didn't you used to be a beggar in Mobei? Give you a chance. You can give her as much as she gave you at that time."

"This......" Qin Ming has some tangles that he doesn't know where to start.

"What's the matter?" Empress Dowager Xiao asked, "do you have a good feeling for her and don't have the heart to do these things to her?"

Qin Ming said: "it's not, but... Mrs. Xiao doesn't need our charity at all. She can rely on herself. She can not only maintain food and clothing, but also make life better."

"Oh?" Empress Dowager Xiao was curious: "how did she make a good life without money?"

Qin Ming explained the clues he had mastered one by one, including how ye Xiaoxian pawned her gold hairpin, how to buy flour back, how to sell pancakes, and how to make up for the living things one by one.

Empress Dowager Xiao was more and more shocked.

It's said that the official family members of Da Qi don't go out one by one, and the two don't step. They only know how to embroider at home and take care of children. Mrs. Xiao has such skills. It can be seen that she is not a spoiled person.

But think again, after all, she is the wife of a military general and stays in Mobei. Naturally, she has an instinct to survive.

No wonder Xiao Baoshan killed them in a barracks in Beiqing for her sake.

Empress Dowager Xiao became interested in Ye Xiaoxian, but it was inconvenient to see her, so she said to Qin Ming, "then keep staring at her. Maybe the AI family wants to see her one day."

Qin Ming takes orders.

It's not difficult for him to stare at a person. As long as he makes arrangements, he can know every trace of her.

……

After many days, ye Xiaoxian's Pancake stand business is getting better and better.

She bought a small cart and pulled firewood, pots and ingredients to fry and sell. Sometimes the wood would come to help cry, and sometimes it was only her own.

When you are alone, there will always be some fear, but you can only bite your teeth and stick to it.

She thought she was sending porridge at the gate of Mobei City, and insisted on the same thing day after day, a meaningful thing.

After all, she has no dependence, no source of income, and I don't know how long she will be trapped here, so she has no way back and can only stick to it.

She is only firm: in any case, she should make her life better.

When she first set up the stall, she only set it up until more than 10 a.m. now her stall still has intermittent business near noon.

So, except on rainy days, she usually doesn't go home until noon.

She eats pancakes in the morning, goes back to cook some noodles or rice at noon, and cooks some porridge and fry some pickles in the evening. That's how life goes.

Wood often came to help her. She gave wood pancakes and beef cubes.

Grandma Mu thought she was nice, so she often sent her some vegetables grown in her yard.

That evening, grandma Mu came to deliver vegetables to Ye Xiaoxian.

Ye Xiaoxian took it, and then asked grandma Mu if she would like to have porridge together. She cooked a little more tonight.