"…" Why was he still worried about Spring Mother?
Others picked up a few beggars, adopted a few children, and trained them to be a killer's assassin spy. All of these went without a hitch.
She just wanted to open up a route to the northwest, why was it so difficult? Moreover, the main force that would be used to open up the route would not be these young boys. She was only trying to be kind and be a great benefactor.
Why do you have to go through all the twists and turns?
"Get in." The first thing Chen Huo noticed was that Ning Yan was not in a good mood.
He picked up a youth with one hand and threw him into the carriage. The bowl that Le Er and Le Er were holding fell to the ground.
"My meat."
"Are you afraid you won't get anything to eat after going to the courtyard?"
Chen Huo did not care too much about this. Elder Lady Ning had already bought a place to stay.
"I'll be leaving first. You have to take care of the shop." Ning Yan said, lifting up the carriage's curtain and entering.
Le Shiyi sat in the horse carriage, looking at the fruit plate that was placed on the horse carriage, his eyes shining.
The moment Ning Yan entered, Le Shiyi hid behind Le Er and did not even bother to look at the fruit plates and pastries.
"Eat." Ning Yan pushed the tea on the small table towards Le Shiyi's eyes.
Le Shiyi looked at Le Er with an inquiring gaze.
Le Er swallowed his saliva and nodded his head hesitantly.
If Shopkeeper Ning really didn't have good intentions, then he would only have the strength to escape after eating his fill, right?
As for whether there would be any poison in the food or something like that, Le Er had never considered it before.
To Le Er, food was something so precious, how could he use it?
The carriage passed through the streets and they quickly returned to the courtyard house.
The house was empty; not a single person was inside.
Ning Yan told Chen Huo to go out and buy some food while she brought the two little beggars along to pluck the grass.
Although the courtyard was in the outskirts of the city, it was not cheap. For concealment, Ning Yan used a high wall door to buy it.
It was impossible for ordinary people to sneak in and steal a peek.
Plucking the grass by hand was a difficult task, neither Le Er nor Le Shiyi complained, but maybe to them, it was not a difficult task.
Thinking about the Wu Yuvniang at home, Ning Yan felt that it would be better to raise a child rashly after comparing them.
Chen Huo quickly returned.
In his hand was a roasted chicken, a few buns, and two tubes of soup.
"Go and eat." After Ning Yan finished speaking, the two beggars jumped up from the ground.
After tearing the roasted chicken apart, the two of them took a bite of the chicken and a bite of the steamed bun.
Their hands were still covered in mud. The two of them didn't care and ate the mud along with the meat.
Regarding this, Ning Yan did not say anything.
Although she still felt sick from the mouth, the food should be as clean as possible.
However, this was also relative. If they paid attention to the conditions of not being able to fill their stomach, then it wouldn't be about being particular but pretentious.
Le Er and Le Shiyi stopped after eating for a while. There were still two chicken legs and two and a half buns left in the paper bag.
The child who had been starving for so long should have been able to finish the entire chicken.
However, as far as beggars were concerned, they would not stop eating. They would try to save up as much food as they could, in case there was a day when they didn't have anything to eat, they could still respond to emergencies.
As for mildew, he could eat the mildewed part if he tore it off.
"Second Brother, let's leave the rest of the steamed buns for Brother Fugui and the others."
"With your kind heart, if you want to give the items to the rich, you have to be able to leave." When Le Er was plucking the grass, he had already looked around the courtyard but he did not even see a dog hole.
Climb Wall... The wall was so high that without a ladder, it would have been impossible to climb it, and it would have been difficult to slip away.
"…" Did she say they couldn't go out?
The corner of Ning Yan's mouth twitched. It wasn't like she was training a killer's secret service or a human trafficker who was embarrassed.
"Come and pluck the grass. If you can pull up all the grass in the yard one day, I'll let you go out for a stroll." Ning Yan said as she pushed open the door of an inverted room. There was a bed and a table inside, but no blanket or clothes.
He had to take responsibility for bringing the child here.
Ning Yan threw Chen Huo in the courtyard. She went to the grocery store and bought a few sets of clothes, a blanket, and some soap.
After returning, he placed the clothes on the bedside and waved at Le Er.
There's a well in the yard, so you should be carrying water. Wash yourself clean before you go to bed tonight, this room belongs to you two. I'll bring breakfast over tomorrow.
While Le Er was still in a daze, Ning Yan had already left the courtyard with Chen Huo.
"They left?" Le Shiyi pushed at Le Er's sleeves.
Seeing that Le Er was still in a daze, he ran out with his leg like a reed.
He watched as the carriage moved along the road and finally disappeared into the horizon.
He turned around and ran back to Le Er's side, extended his chicken claw-like hand, and pulled on Le Er's arm again: "Second Brother, they really left."
"He left? It's not even closed, are you not afraid of us running away? "
"Second Brother, do you want us to bring the rich older brother and the others over?"
"Not yet. Let's see what Manager Ning is up to." Le Er rejected Le Shiyi's suggestion without hesitation.
If Shopkeeper Ning was really a good person, then they, rich and powerful people, would take it … Something didn't seem right.
The courtyard belonged to Shopkeeper Ning, so he shouldn't have decided to leave.
However, if Manager Ning had any bad intentions. For example, asking them to accompany those old landlords in death made it even more impossible for them to bring the wealth over.
Thinking of what Shopkeeper Ning had said, as long as the grass on the ground was plucked clean, they could leave for a while. That way, they could share the food that they had yet to eat with their rich brothers.
He suddenly had the motivation to do so and waved at Le Shiyi: "Come here, let's pull the grass together."
"Oh." Le Shiyi followed Le Er and squatted on the ground.
She grabbed with her small hand, and with another tug, the grass on the ground was pulled out.
Fortunately, it had rained the day before yesterday. Otherwise, if the ground had dried up, pulling weeds would have been a very difficult task.
The two of them squatted on the ground. Even after the moon had risen, they were still squatting on the ground.
Only when the dew came and the night turned cold did the two of them pile up the grass they had pulled out.
"Second Brother, I'm so tired. Can I not take a bath?"
"No." As Le Er was speaking, he looked towards the house. There was a clean blanket inside. If he didn't bathe at night, he wouldn't be able to sleep with the blanket over him. If that happened, he really wouldn't be able to benefit from it.
Crouching on the kitchen to boil a pot of water, the two of them ruthlessly rubbed themselves with the melon pulp a few times.
His neck was covered in red blood, but he only managed to use a tiny bit of strength.
The water in the wooden basin became pitch black. He poured another basin over and continued to clean it.
When the water in the wooden basin didn't change color, the two of them went back to their room naked.
After laying down on the bed, he said, "Second Brother, the blanket is new."
"Yes, new." Le Er said as he wrapped himself with a blanket and rolled on the bed: "The feeling of bed is so good."