Chapter 408: A Sachet

In the end, Chen Chao bought two candy figures. His one was shaped like a little tiger, and the one for the little girl was shaped like a rabbit. After receiving the candy figure handed over by Chen Chao, the little girl took two steps back and said solemnly. He bowed down and said, "Thank you, sir."

This style of painting made Chen Chao even more convinced that the little girl in front of him was really from a famous family, no matter how bad she was, she was from a scholarly family.

Then the two of them, one and one, ate the candy canes and started wandering around the city. An hour was too long and waiting was boring. They might as well walk around and take a look. The little girl didn't hold Chen Chao's hand, but she was very He was careful to only stay half a step away from Chen Chao, not daring to go too far. In such an unfamiliar place, it would be very troublesome if he got lost with Chen Chao.

The two of them unknowingly came to a long and crowded street. There were many vendors on both sides selling goods, and there were many pedestrians in the middle. Although Chen Chao looked thin, his body under the black shirt was as fine as steel. , where these ordinary people can bump into, but the little girl is not so lucky. Before, she was still following Chen Chao, but as the number of people increased, Chen Chao quickly disappeared. When the girl was a little panicked, a hand suddenly stretched out from the crowd and picked up the little girl's waist. Before the little girl could scream, she was outside the crowd. Next to her was the young man in black shirt with a knife. .

Chen Chao rubbed his cheek and said, "Let's change places."

The little girl nodded silently, but after following Chen Chao for a few steps, the conversation started. She asked in a low voice, "Are you very powerful?"

Chen Chao listened to such an interesting question for no reason, thought for a moment and asked, "What do you think is great?"

The little girl shook her head and said, "You must be better than Fu Bo."

Chen Chao laughed dumbly. The old martial artist who was already old and frail was really nothing. But thinking that the little girl had never seen a more powerful person, he was relieved. However, Chen Chao did not answer this question. , just continued to move forward slowly, constantly looking at the surrounding scenery.

The little girl whispered, "My father is also very powerful."

Chen Chao became interested after hearing this, but before he could ask, the little girl said sadly, "But he doesn't want me."

Chen Chao was startled, and then he didn't know what to say. He originally thought about some reasons why the mother and daughter went south, but he never thought about it. It turned out to be a story about a heartless man abandoning his wife and daughter?

Looking at the little girl's eyes that were gradually turning red, Chen Chao rubbed her little head and comforted her, "You still have a mother."

The little girl whispered, "It's just my mother."

Chen Chao sighed and hesitated, whether to ask the little girl about her family background carefully, but after thinking about it for a while, she gave up. Since some scars already existed, then

Revealing it over and over again actually seems a bit cruel.

After that, the little girl's mood became obviously very low, and Chen Chao did not walk around anymore. The two of them quickly returned to the city gate. At this moment, there was still about a quarter of an hour before the one-hour appointment.

The two of them stood in front of the city gate and watched people coming and going.

Soon, a quarter of an hour passed, but Chen Chao didn't see the figure of the woman or the old man, and he couldn't help but frown slightly.

The little girl also began to look around. To her, she only had her mother as a relative now. If she could not see her mother again, it would probably be the same as after the sky fell.

Fortunately, half an hour later, the little girl's mother and the old man arrived belatedly.

Arriving in front of Chen Chao, the woman was full of apologies, "It took some time, sir, don't blame me."

Chen Chao shook his head and said he didn't care.

The little girl threw herself into the woman's arms and began to quietly wipe her tears.

The woman patted the little girl's back gently and comforted her softly, "Mom is here, baby, don't cry."

Chen Chao was speechless.

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After that, the four of them walked together for a few days. The little girl and Chen Chao talked a lot more. The two became friends. However, the little girl grew up at home and never went out much. Now this is her first time traveling far away. , although she knew that this was the path she had to take, but compared to her mother, the little girl was actually not that sad. Besides, the child's face was famously like the one that changes in June. Change, so sadness is extremely short-lived, but the woman's face became increasingly ugly as she was about to leave the border of Changping Prefecture.

The real day of separation was on the river at the border of Changping Prefecture. Chen Chao wanted to cross the river and go to Huanglong Prefecture, while the mother and daughter wanted to go south along the river to Bailu Prefecture.

Standing by the river, the woman thanked Chen Chao and said, "Thank you very much for your protection, sir. Can you leave your name behind, so that I can repay you if I have the opportunity in the future?"

Chen Chao shook his head, "It's just a chance meeting. We're just traveling together. I can't say I'm helping, so why bother saying thank you."

Although the woman did not agree with Chen Chao's statement, since Chen Chao did not want to leave his name, she did not force it and just thanked him again.

Chen Chao turned around to leave, but the little girl ran over again, came to Chen Chao, spread out her hands, and found a small but exquisitely embroidered sachet in her palm.

She raised her head and said, "Brother, this is for you."

Chen Chao reached out and picked up the sachet, looked at it carefully, and then said with a smile, "I don't have anything to give you in return."

The little girl shook her head and said with a smile, "You treated me to a candy man!"

Chen Chao smiled and said nothing. He just pulled out a piece of wild grass on the shore and kept turning it over in his hands. After a while, a green grasshopper appeared.

"Give it to you."

Chen Chao rubbed her head, and his eyes suddenly became reluctant.

It was actually very dangerous for the mother and daughter to go south again. Maybe this would be the last time he saw her.

He looked at the woman and opened his mouth, wanting to say something.

But the woman quickly shook her head, "I have been bothering you for a long time. I feel guilty for asking you to change your route again."

Chen Chao thought for a while and said, "I am not in a hurry, even if it is a detour..."

Before she finished speaking, the woman shook her head again.

Chen Chao had to give up.

The woman came over and took the little girl's hand, turned around and left, and the old servant also bowed deeply to Chen Chao.

Chen Chao looked at the backs of the three people, silent for a long time, and finally turned around and walked towards the ferry in front.

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The chance meeting with the little girl and her mother, although there was no friendship in the end, Chen Chao rubbed his head and was still a little dazed. In the early days, although he was the garrison commander of Tianqing County and went into the mountains to kill monsters every now and then, he was actually more for the money of heaven. He didn't have much feeling for the four words of protecting the land and the people. In the first half of his life, he mostly lived by the eight words of repaying kindness with kindness and revenge with hatred. To others, he seemed gentle, but he was still a little indifferent in his bones. I don't know if it was because he had experienced too much in the capital of gods, or because of something else, so he was a little unsure whether he was doing the right thing or the wrong thing.

In a daze, Chen Chao came to the ferry, and a ferry just came from a distance.

There were not many people at the ferry. In this day and age, if there was no reason to go out, most people would not choose to leave home.

When the ferry docked, Chen Chao boarded the ferry, which was neither too big nor too small, and gave a few gold coins. Although the boat could still accommodate several people, seeing that there were no other travelers at the ferry, the boatman began to row the boat and sail the ferry to the other side.

Chen Chao stood at the bow, his mind full of the appearance of the little girl.

After traveling together for a long time, he didn't even ask the little girl's name.

Taking out the sachet, Chen Chao looked at it for a few times

and then noticed that at the bottom of the sachet, there was a small word "Xie" embroidered with gold thread.

The little girl's surname was also Xie?

Chen Chao was in a trance.

The boatman was a talkative man. Seeing Chen Chao standing at the bow and looking at the sachet in his hand absent-mindedly, he took the initiative to ask, "Are you thinking about your sweetheart?"

Chen Chao came back to his senses and shook his head slowly.

The boatman didn't say it right, so he just smiled awkwardly and quickly changed the subject, "From your accent, you don't seem to be a local?"

Chen Chao asked curiously, "Can you tell from this?"

Chen Chao has been in Shendu for a long time. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. He has heard a lot, and his accent is actually very close to the official language in Changping Prefecture.

The boatman smiled and said, "You must have stayed in the local area for a while. Under the influence of what he sees and hears, his accent is naturally close to the local official language, but it seems that it is not. There seems to be some flavor of Weizhou in your accent. I don't know if it is right."

Chen Chao did not answer immediately, but when it comes to where he is from, even he doesn't know how to say it. After all, although he was born in Shendu, he grew up in Weizhou. Now it is hard to say where his hometown is.

"I am from Weizhou."

Chen Chao thought about it and finally gave this answer.

The boatman sighed, "Speaking of Weizhou, the flood two or three years ago killed a lot of people. Were you affected?"

The Weizhou flood in the 13th year of Tianjian was the most famous event in Daliang Dynasty in recent years.

Chen Chao smiled and said, "My home is by the Wei River. The flood washed it away, but I am still alive."

The boatman looked at Chen Chao with some sympathy, but then comforted him, "Being alive is the best thing. Other things are not important."

Chen Chao nodded and smiled, "That's right."

The river was not too wide, so it took more than half an hour to reach the other side. The boatman stopped the boat, and then people began to get off the boat slowly. Chen Chao walked at the end, and the boatman sat on the boat, waiting for the next wave of business.

Chen Chao went ashore, put away the sachet, and slowly headed towards Huanglongzhou.

The Jianqi Mountain is located in the heart of Huanglongzhou and belongs to Jiangzuo County, but it hardly bothers the people. The swordsmiths there probably only think about one thing every day, that is, how to forge a peerless flying sword.

And for this goal, the swordsmiths of Jianqi Mountain in all generations have devoted their entire lives to the word "sword forging".

But this time, if they knew that Chen Chao came to ask them to repair a broken sword, I don't know what they would think.