Zhurou

Chapter 88 Indifference
"It's very trustworthy, it's only my family's private matter, so I don't want to talk about it." Li Xun bowed slightly, "I'm going along the way, and I really don't have the energy to take care of others. If Chen's family is urgent, you might as well write a letter. When I arrive at Jingzhao Mansion, I will be a Send a message."

His words were rejected without any room for turning back.

Mrs. Chen couldn't help showing a look of disappointment.

But she didn't answer, first looked at Li Xun, and accidentally glanced at Zhao Mingzhi aside, looked at her appearance for a moment, and then slowly said: "In that case, I will go back and write that letter."

Then he turned around and greeted his granddaughter, "Zhihui, come with me."

The girl was still sitting slumped on the ground, she looked up in a daze for a while, and was about to get up, but she staggered before she could stand still.

Zhao Mingzhi was only half an arm away from the other party. Seeing her fall, he subconsciously stretched out his right hand, but only reached halfway. He suddenly remembered that he was still holding a sharp weapon in his hand, so he quickly changed the knife to his left hand, freeing up space to support her. .

But as soon as she couldn't hold it steady, the girl slipped and hurriedly grabbed Zhao Mingzhi's arms to stand still.

Originally, her pupils were lifeless, and she was still in a daze. She was startled by the fall, but she was somewhat awake.

On the opposite side, Mrs. Chen frowned and shouted again: "Zhihui!"

Stern tone.

Hearing the voice, the girl raised her head and saw her grandmother's expression, she quickly straightened up and walked over.

At this moment, the fire at the back door had subsided, Mrs. Chen grabbed her granddaughter's hand and walked towards the backyard.

After the grandfather and grandson left, Li Xun immediately turned to look at Zhao Mingzhi.

He didn't have anything else to say, but he went straight forward, stood a few steps away from Zhao Mingzhi, bowed slightly, reached out to take the dagger in her left hand, and said, "Let go."

Zhao Mingzhi loosened his palm according to his words, and the dagger fell into Li Xun's hands immediately.

He put the knife on the wooden table beside him, stood up straight, looked down at her, hesitated for three or four breaths, and then said: "This thing is very heavy, the injury on your shoulder has not healed yet, have you forgotten?"

Zhao Mingzhi struggled for half a day. In the morning, his shoulders and arms were only aching. When he was carrying the wine tank in the backyard, he had already tried his best. Just now, he was unintentionally pressed again without thinking about it. The pain could not be ignored. forget.

After she let go of the short knife, she heard Li Xun's words, and immediately took her right hand and touched her left shoulder. As soon as her fingertips touched her, she almost gasped for pain, so she forced a smile and said, "I'm in a hurry at the moment. ..."

Li Xun saw that she reacted to her movements, stepped forward half a step, and asked: "The pain is so severe, did you use all your strength just now?"

Zhao Mingzhi subconsciously looked towards the backyard.

Li Xun followed her gaze and saw several tanks of wine on the mule cart. Suddenly, he realized something. He frowned at first, but then slowed down his tone and said, "You take off your clothes, I..."

However, after only saying these few words, he suddenly stopped, but hesitated inexplicably, and paused for a while before saying: "When you reach the resting place at night, you will take off your clothes and take a closer look at the wound. Come and call me."

Then he took out a small oilcloth bag from his bosom, opened it, revealed a few pills in it and handed it to Zhao Mingzhi, saying: "If the pain is severe, rub the medicine and rub it away now, how many pills are in it."

After finishing speaking, he stood up, looked around, walked to the gate, rolled up his sleeves and removed the stacked wooden tables one by one, and started working on his own.

To act like this is clearly to avoid suspicion.

At the beginning of their acquaintance, in order to heal Zhao Mingzhi's left shoulder injury, he stretched out his hand to untie her robe without hesitation. At that time, his hand was fast and steady.

Now people are familiar with each other, and the friendship is far from what it was in the past. It is the same as looking at the wound, but he immediately avoids it.

And for some reason, Zhao Mingzhi stretched out his hand to take the small oilcloth bag, and after seeing Li Xun voluntarily walked away, he felt a faint sigh of relief in his heart.

She has never avoided others in her actions, and she is also very generous. Now that she is in the arena, everything is done urgently, and she does not care about trivial matters.

It's just that after talking with Li Xun just now, and accepting his kindness again, and being so close, he really feels guilty.

If it is unintentional, it is naturally innocent.

However, the hatchback has intentions, and they can only bind their hands and feet when getting along.

It's just that the hands and feet are tied together, which is nothing at all, but there is some inexplicable atmosphere between them.

She turned her back, and first unbuttoned her skirt to look at the wound on her left shoulder, it was indeed more swollen than in the morning.

His own body knew it, because there were many miscellaneous things piled up in this sloppy place, Zhao Mingzhi didn't talk much, just took the pill and squeezed the wax shell.

There are many ointment-like substances in the wax pills, the smell is cool and refreshing, and it is in the same vein as the previous sugar pills, presumably it is also homemade by the Li family.

Although the shoulder hurts, it is bearable to close the eyes and rub some medicine. Zhao Mingzhi gritted his teeth and kneaded the grease plaster. He didn't know if the weather was too cold, but he couldn't slide the plaster off after half a day, so he had to slowly cover it with the warmth of his palm.

Just at this time, there was a sound of footsteps coming from behind.

She immediately used her hands to pull the clothes, and then turned her head back, while Li Xun turned around immediately, stepped forward quickly, and stood in front of her a few steps away.

The two moved almost simultaneously, one stopped and the other hid, but when they looked up again, they saw that there was no one else at the door of the backyard, only a young girl.

It was Chen Zhihui who was called away by Mrs. Chen just now.

But after a short while, she changed into a different look. She changed into a well-tailored orange long dress with a narrow shirt and a white flower-bottomed shawl. Even her face was cleaned up again, painted with rouge and powder, combed with a double bun, and dressed in a bun. The special hairpin swayed, and when walking, the red coral and gold tassels fell and fell, very delicate.

He was described as embarrassed before, but now he has a new look, showing a face with a very good foundation. Although it is a bit wooden, it has at least six or seven points of appearance.

She was carrying a pot in one hand and a large food box in the other. She was about to enter the door, but she was taken aback when she saw the two people in front of the table move.

After a short pause, she walked in bravely and said, "Grandmother asked me to bring tea to Engong."

As she said that, Chen Zhihui didn't get too close, she just found a table not too far away, took out an empty cup from the food box, and poured a cup of warm tea indiscriminately.

Her movements were very unfamiliar, obviously she was not good at this way before, she waited for the tea to be poured, took two steps forward with a cup in her hands, she had already walked in front of Li Xun, but she didn't dare to look at him, hesitated for a moment, and walked away from him Half an arc later, Zhao Mingzhi came first, put the teacup on the table next to her, and asked in a low voice, "I don't know the girl's name?"

She was a young girl, and she had suffered such a catastrophe just now, so Zhao Mingzhi naturally felt more sympathetic towards her, so she softened her voice and replied, "My name is Guo, and my surname is Zhao."

Chen Zhihui was quite timid, she took a peek at Li Xun behind her, and said again: "Thank you, Miss Zhao, for saving me just now. Grandma asked me to bring tea to you... some food..."

Then he said to Li Xun, "Thank you, too, for this benefactor."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to the food box on the table not far away, and said: "There are some snacks in it, please help yourself."

After finishing speaking, he was blessed and left in such a hurry.

She came in an inexplicable way, and she left in a strange way, but even with the words and deeds of Mrs. Chen just now, everyone can see that this time she was originally trying to trick a beauty.

The beauty trap is a clever trick, it only depends on whether the person is hooked or not.

With Chen Zhihui's appearance, it's normal to do it, but seeing her behave like this, it seems that she doesn't have the same heart with her grandmother.

Zhao Mingzhi only felt it was strange, but Li Xun couldn't do anything about it, and when they left, he opened the lid of the tea that Chen Zhihui had just brought on the table, splashed it through the window, put it back in the empty teacup, and stretched out his hand again, He took the water bag from the back of the horse standing outside, put it in front of Zhao Mingzhi, and said: "Don't touch the things given by outsiders. If you are thirsty, drink your own first."

He said again: "This water bag was newly replaced in the morning, and I have never used it before."

Zhao Mingzhi responded, holding the water bag in his arms, but asked: "Second Brother, shall we wait here for someone to pick it up?"

He said again: "Just now the thief said that there is no one blocking the way ahead, so I don't know if it is true or not—maybe it is false?"

Li Xun nodded his head and explained specifically: "Only counting the guards of the Chen family that I just pointed out, there are at least thirty or forty of them, all of them are young and strong. Looking at their hands and feet, they must have learned a little boxing kung fu." , and ended up being hacked like that."

"Even if it's an ambush halfway, there are only twenty or so in this inn, how can we catch the thirty or forty ones at once? We came from the back, and we haven't seen them on the way, most of them went to the front."

Zhao Mingzhi trembled in his heart, and said, "Then he told us to go first..."

Li Xun said: "It is assumed that there are people guarding the front, and I want to send them away first, to see if I can save my life."

He said again: "When I met those soft-hearted people, I was persuaded. Maybe I really took him with me and prepared to go to the front to report to the officials. At that time, I happened to run into an ambush again - such behavior is used by thieves and bandits, and it is useless to deal with it." The trick, as long as the heart is hard enough and the hands are cold enough."

Zhao Mingzhi felt startled, and said: "If it were me, although I might not take him with me, I might imprison him here first, and take him to the next place to report to the officials."

Then he said: "I still can't turn my head fast enough, I always think that I have avoided it, but I didn't expect that there is a trap ahead."

But Li Xun looked at her and said: "There are so many traps in the world, how can we avoid them all? If you can dodge them all, you don't have to do other things all day long. This is a side door, but it's not the right way."

Then he said softly: "Those who do great things don't care about small things, like you, as long as there are people under your command who can use them, you don't have to be afraid. Besides, if you understand everything, you want me...you want us who run the escort agency, come on." for what?"

Zhao Mingzhi always felt that the phrase "those who do great things don't care about small things" is not suitable to be used here. He also felt that although his words were reasonable, they were not suitable for the current scene, but the latter sentence was really bad To answer the call again, I had no choice but to agree, and honestly went to drink the water in the water bag.

And Li Xun said again: "Your shoulder and arm... just endure the pain, you don't have to wait too long, someone is coming up ahead, you still need to ask the doctor to have a careful examination at that time, so as not to leave the root cause of the disease."

The two were sitting and talking here, but they didn't know that Chen Zhihui retreated in a hurry, but stood by the door for a while, and didn't dare to stand again when she heard Li Xun's so-called "heart is cruel enough, hands are cold enough". He hurried into the backyard and got into the big carriage.

She opened the door, stepped on the pedals several times and slipped, and was able to get up by holding on to the frame of the car for the last time.

Before he could stand still, he saw the face of the opposite person was ugly, he flinched for a while, and shouted: "Grandmother..."

Mrs. Chen raised her hand high, she was so angry that she almost slapped her down, but she stopped halfway, took a deep breath, and asked, "I asked you to pour tea for that benefactor. Where is it?!"

Chen Zhihui scratched her head and said, "Grandmother, I really gave it away, I also gave it tea, and I also gave it fruit tea..."

"Who did you send it to? Do you think I'm blind?"

Mrs. Chen swept her sleeves away, there was a lot of rouge and gouache on the table in front of her, but she rolled them to the ground and rolled out of the carriage, making a clanking sound.

As she spoke, she opened the window at the back of the carriage, pulled her granddaughter over, poked her index finger straight in front, and said, "Do you think I'm blind?!"

Chen Zhihui took a closer look, only to find that the car window was facing the rear window of the wine shop in front, and the rear window had already been opened wide on both sides due to Li Xun's previous actions. See half of Zhao Mingzhi.

She immediately turned pale with fright, and quickly lowered her head with her arms folded, but tears were already falling, and she cried, "It's not right for my granddaughter, but grandma's trip is right? I have also learned how to raise women, how can I dress up like this, and think so hard, to deliver tea and water to a foreigner whom I met for the first time?"

He said again: "I also know what grandma means, but it's just that we are left with only two grandparents, helpless, and we are afraid of encountering bandits halfway. We want to find someone to entrust, but we can't be just one person , send me back and forth like a cargo?"

Hearing her granddaughter's reaction, Mrs. Chen finally let out a long sigh. Since she had nowhere to look for a handkerchief, she wiped her granddaughter's face with her sleeve, and said, "Which one am I for? I'm an old one. How many years do you have to live? But for the sake of your sons and grandchildren—this time you have encountered such a big event, you are young and have little experience, so naturally you can't think of that much at the moment, but I have to take a step further."

"Walking together all the way, the family is gone, only you and I are alive, once we arrive at Jingzhao Mansion, what will the two families think?"

"Especially when your fifth sister is gone, your cousin is also...you are not hurt, even if your uncle doesn't care, what will your aunt think? She only has a pair of children..."

"Now it's not like before. When I was in the capital, I could have the final say. Now I'm going to Jingzhao Mansion, and I'm going to join my son. The property in my hand has become waste paper. Even if I want to pawn, there is no one. I would like to accept it, I have no money or rice in my hands, I don’t speak loudly, and your father...doesn’t your future marriage and dowry all depend on your uncle and aunt?”

Chen Zhihui had already listened to it, and her tears were shed. Thinking of the future, she felt that the future was bleak, but she murmured: "But I see that Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Zhao are clearly a couple... how can I get in?" go in?"

　Thank you b? Useeye, Ni Zao, Song Song Song Song Song Song, siennachan, Coke Cha five relatives gave me the peace symbol =3=
　　Thank you Shucheng ゆ, bad angel Yiyi for giving me the rose~
　　
　
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