Misty Rain of the Old Times

Chapter 125 Weird
Not to mention, even if Gao Jingyu hadn't mentioned it, Chen Xuan wouldn't have noticed that Leng Bing's current attire was quite simple. She had no accessories on her body, and the fabric of her clothes was relatively rough, and had turned white from washing, with frayed edges in some places. Although it wasn't to the point of needing mending, as a guard of the Gao family, with a monthly salary of fifteen taels of silver, this quality of life was seriously inconsistent, and she was alone and didn't need to spend money to support her family.

Recalling how she was dressed when I first met her, it was clear that she had fallen into a state of shabby state.

However, she is still as beautiful as before, even more mature than before.

Chen Xuan is still young, and his days are filled with martial arts training and study. He usually doesn't pay special attention to these details. Besides, Leng Bing didn't change suddenly in a day or two. It was a gradual change over a long period of time, so Chen Xuan naturally didn't notice so much.

After Gao Jingyu's reminder, I recalled when she started to become like this. It seemed to have started from that year when I found her sneaking out in the middle of the night.

In this situation, Chen Xuan suspected that she had given everything she had to others, which led to a decline in her quality of life. He even suspected that she had been cheated, but without evidence, it was not easy to make random guesses.

But then again, it seems that Leng Bing and Miss Gao have a really good relationship, and Gao Jingming never mentioned anything about this. He was still young at the time and probably didn't know the details.

Miss Gao said that her uterine blood was still there and she had not suffered the greatest loss. Some money and material possessions were not a big problem. Leng Bing was not someone who valued money more than life. If she were a poor family, money would be life.

Chen Xuan knew about Shougongsha. The teacher had said in class that it was a sign of a girl's chastity and was a matter of etiquette. Chen Xuan even knew a little bit about it as the teacher had taught him specifically.

This thing requires feeding a small animal called a palace gecko with several special medicines, among which cinnabar is the main ingredient. The so-called palace gecko is a kind of gecko. After feeding it to a certain extent, take the gecko's blood and apply it to the corresponding meridian acupoints on the girl's arm according to the girl's age and the time of the solar term. Once applied, it is stronger than a tattoo and cannot be rubbed off. However, it will fall off by itself once the girl loses her virginity through sexual intercourse.

In short, this thing is very popular here. As one of the most powerful evidences of a girl's innocence, in Chen Xuan's opinion, this thing still has a certain scientific basis. Let's regard the toad sand as a tattoo with special pigments. Once the virginity is lost, the human body produces a certain hormone, which causes it to fall off under the action of this hormone. This is the transformation process from a girl to a young woman.

However, the toad blood is usually only obtained by women with a certain amount of wealth, because it costs money. It is not easy to raise a gecko, and ordinary people are not willing to spend the money.

Normally, he was cold and unaffected, but under Miss Gao's questioning and comfort, his grievances suddenly burst out. He seemed very painful, his voice choked with sobs and was miserable, and it was difficult for him to speak.

"It's okay, Sister Leng. There are no outsiders here. Just tell me if you have any grievances. I will take care of it for you. After all these years of separation, don't you treat me as a sister anymore? We know everything and there are no secrets between us." Gao Jingyu patted Leng Bing's back like coaxing a child.

It can be heard that the relationship between them is extraordinary.

At this moment, Chen Xuan was also a little curious about what Leng Bing had experienced in the past few years, but he didn't know if she would tell him since he and Gao Jingming were here.

Perhaps he was forced into a corner, or perhaps he needed to vent years of grievances, or perhaps the sudden concern was the most likely to make people collapse. In short, under Gao Jingyu's repeated questioning and comfort, Leng Bing simply gave up and told the whole story in a halting manner, crying as he spoke, feeling aggrieved like a helpless child.

Just as Chen Xuan guessed, she had indeed fallen in love with a man in the past few years, but the process was not as romantic as he had imagined.

This story has to start from three years ago. Strictly speaking, it was the summer when Chen Xuan and Gao Jingming formally practiced martial arts in Mr. Yushan's courtyard. Because Chen Xuan and Gao Jingming were almost always with Mr. Yushan during that period, she, as a guard, had more free time.

One day during that summer, when Leng Bing had some free time, he went to a remote mountain stream behind Yushan Mountain to bathe. In summer, not only boys like to soak in the water, but girls do too.

Just that time, when she was bathing, the martial artist's senses detected someone not far away. Thinking that she was being peeped at, she immediately went ashore, put on her clothes, and went to check. As it concerned the girl's innocence, she was furious. If she was really peeped at, she initially wanted to kill the person, thinking that it was too much and would cause trouble, but at least she would blind the person's eyes, so that she would be in the right if she took the matter to the government.

But the result was not what she expected. There was indeed someone not far away, but he was not intending to peep. Instead, he went into the mountains to collect herbs and accidentally fell, breaking his leg and unable to move, let alone run to peek at her taking a bath.

After understanding the whole story, his cold anger disappeared, and he felt ashamed for having wronged others.

The man who was picking herbs was a young man, about the same age as her. He looked like a scholar and was quite handsome, but his clothes were rather simple.

Because her young master was studying in Yushan, the misunderstanding was cleared. Leng Bing saw that he had broken his leg and felt sympathy as a martial artist. She was also half a woman of the martial arts world, so she didn't care about trivial matters and helped him adjust the bone and bandage it.

During the communication, they learned that the other party was actually a teacher from Yushan, a scholar named Yang Xin, who had just arrived. Leng Bing and the others could not enter the school normally, and had no chance to meet the teachers in the school, so they did not know him.

After learning of his identity, Leng Bing was no longer on guard. After all, his young master might be his student, so he understood why the other party came to the back of Yushan Mountain to collect herbs. As a teacher in the school, he had heard that there were abundant wild herbs in the back mountain. His family was really struggling financially, so he took advantage of the holiday to come here to try his luck and collect some herbs to sell to supplement the family income.

Yang Xin had no martial arts skills and was not very strong, but he was also a weak scholar. He fell and broke his leg accidentally.

In the wild mountains and wilderness, although Leng Bing looks cold, she is kind-hearted. In the spirit of helping others to the end, and when she is free, she sends him home. Both sides are polite and use a wooden stick as a guide. The strength of her martial arts training can move Yang Xin. There is no physical contact, and Yang Xin can barely walk.

During the process, Leng Bing and the others occasionally communicated with each other and learned that Yang Xin's family was not rich, but he was ambitious and planned to take the imperial examinations or even the imperial examinations in the future. However, because his family was poor and it was difficult to make ends meet, he came to Yushan to find a job as a teacher, so that he could earn an income while studying.

Yang Xin was sent to his home in Jiming Town. His family situation was indeed true. They had two tiled houses and lived in poverty. Neighbors said that Yang Xin would go to the town to help people write letters and sell calligraphy and paintings. He was so motivated that Leng Bing secretly left a few taels of silver for him when he left.

Originally, the matter ended here, but Yang Xin was the teacher of the school after all, and because of this incident, Leng Bing would occasionally pay attention to him when she escorted Gao Jingming and others to the school. Yang Xin also saw her. After all, he was her savior, and the two of them became familiar with each other. Gradually, Leng Bing found that Yang Xin had good character, knew etiquette and knew the limits, never overstepped the boundaries, and was open and honest. He had no improper thoughts about her appearance. After all, many children would take a second look at her appearance, and she was also hardworking and motivated. So gradually, Leng Bing paid more attention to him.

Perhaps it was because she was already quite old, and she had come into contact with a single man of the same age who had good character, was hardworking and motivated, good-looking, and had achieved success. After many occasional encounters with him, and with the "life-saving grace" in front of her, he spoke elegantly and was not as vulgar as the Gao family guards that Leng Bing usually came into contact with, she fell in love with him unknowingly.

For a man like this, who is a guard of the Gao family, it would be a good destination for Leng Bing to marry him.

But she has always been polite and respectful to Leng Bing, and doesn't seem to have any thoughts in that regard. Girls, especially girls of this era, are prone to become crazy when they feel emotional, and Leng Bing is no exception. As a martial artist, she once plucked up the courage to ask Yang Xin if he was interested in her. If not, she would give up the idea, but she got a positive answer, and the other party also had a good impression of her.

At this point, Leng Bing was too reserved as a girl to take the initiative to take the next step, but when Yang Xin said he had a good impression of her, she thought that he liked her and that she had met her true love.

Later, in this era of "husband is the head of the wife", Leng Bing, with a preconceived mindset, saw that Yang Xin's family was in financial difficulty, so she wanted to help as much as possible. Since Yang Xin was ambitious and wanted to continue taking the imperial examinations, she also wanted a better future for herself. Gradually, she made herself poor.

That is, she would occasionally sneak out in the middle of the night, actually to give money to Yang Xin, which could be considered a date between a man and a woman.

When they heard her say this, both Gao Jingyu and Chen Xuan felt that if they could succeed, it would be a good match.

But the development of things was unexpected.

After several years of hard work, Leng Bing has fallen into it. She is not young either, even older than Gao Jingyu. She is 27 years old. If she doesn't get married, she will become an old woman.

So she also took the initiative to mention that she wanted to get married with Yang Xin. If Yang Xin agreed, she would inform Mrs. Gao to resign from her position as a guard and marry him so that she could concentrate on taking care of the family.

But Yang Xin was making excuses and his reasons were very legitimate. He still had to pass the imperial examinations and didn't want to get married for the time being. In this case, Leng Bing couldn't force him too much.

But dragging it on for too long is not a good idea. Although Leng Bing acknowledges his legitimate reasons, it is also a fact that he is getting older day by day.

So damn, when a woman falls in love and goes crazy, she can really do astonishing things. Because she saw no hope, she was depressed. One time, Leng Bing drank some wine, which made her braver and more courageous. She took advantage of the alcohol and ran to Yang Xin in the middle of the night, saying that since she didn't want to get married for the time being, but she was not young anymore, she might as well have a baby in advance, otherwise it would be difficult to have children when she was old. She could give her a legitimate status when Yang Xin became successful.

To be honest, if a girl can do this, she has already decided on this person. Otherwise, how could she take the initiative to make such efforts?

However, the fucking thing is, Leng Bing offered herself to him under the influence of alcohol, but Yang Xin flatly refused, saying righteously that since they were not married, how could he ruin her reputation.

Anyway, Leng Bing failed to sacrifice herself, and she became even more foolish when she thought about it afterwards. Where can she find such an upright man who is not greedy for women and is not lustful?
Later, in order to support Yang Xin's studies, she even sold the sword that Miss Gao had given her to help her lover.

Until now there is still no clear result, and it is still hanging in the balance. Leng Bing is broke, but the other side still doesn't give her a clear answer.

You can imagine how wronged Leng Bing felt.

After hearing the whole story, Chen Xuan was stunned. Is there such a man in the world? He won't eat anything that's right in front of him?

The most incredible thing is that according to Leng Bing, during all the years they were together in private, they had never even held hands!

What is this?
If you say Yang Xin is a scumbag, he is a man of courtesy and does not do anything improper; if you say he is an upright person, he does not refuse Leng Bing's help.

Anyway, it was weird, and even Chen Xuan and Gao Jingyu were at a loss after hearing it.

In short, Leng Bing was the one who suffered the loss. Although she was still innocent and her fingers had not been touched except for the normal contact at the beginning of bone correction, she lost her money.

The key point is that he lost all his money and couldn’t even hold the hand of the man he loved. What’s going on?
What a huge loss.

Well, that's not the case. After all, girls in this era are not like Chen Xuan in his previous life. You can cheat me of my feelings and even my body but you can't cheat me of my money. A girl's body is the most important thing here.

But the problem is that Leng Bing is so infatuated that she can't even give her body away.

Who can I talk to to explain this?

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(End of this chapter)