Chapter 4 Peach Blossom Lane

Chen Chao, who retracted his hand and turned around to lean against the door, raised his eyebrows and looked at the man holding a big bowl and taking rice into his mouth, "What, you're envious? There's nothing you can do about envy. , Who told me to be handsome!"

The man had just swallowed the last mouthful of rice in the big bowl, and swallowed the cabbage leaves at the corner of his mouth with a slurp, "What's the point of looking good? How can I feel safe with my wife weighing more than two hundred pounds?!"

Putting the big bowl in his hand on the threshold, he wiped a handful of the soup from the corner of his mouth. The man with yellowish teeth grinned and said, "Boss Chen, listen to the advice of me, a person who has come before, you can't handle a beautiful little wife. You, a small-time person, don’t have that fate!”

"I said that girl, who is she from? Why did you blindly fall in love with this poor boy?"

The man's eyes looked back and forth on Xie Nandu, but he just skipped the places that should be skipped, and he also glanced at the places that should be stopped without leaving any trace, doing it quite covertly.

Xie Nandu held the steaming food that was not finished yet, and glanced at the man. There was no disgust in his eyes, but he looked curiously at this sloppy man who was destined not to be seen at home.

"Get out of here!" Chen Chao cursed and raised his middle finger towards the man. In the past, he would have sat down and had a good time with this old boy, but today he didn't know what happened. Because of his size, he lost interest.

Chen Chao thinks that his mouth is not bad, but he doesn't know why he always falls behind when he quarrels with the middle-aged man in front of him. This old boy seems to know what he is thinking, and he can say the exact words every time. To death, the two of them lived across the street from each other, so they often met each other, and when they met, they would inevitably have a quarrel. 🄲

Still not enough effort.

Chen Chao gritted his teeth and shouted towards the gate over there, "Auntie, your man said he wants to marry Widow Li as a concubine. I want to ask you what you think!"

After hearing these words, the man who originally raised his head and pointed his nostrils at Chen Chao's face changed slightly, and his aura suddenly weakened. He lowered his voice and said, "You bitch, you are so unkind. Be careful not to find a wife." …”

Before he finished speaking, an extremely loud voice sounded from inside the door, "Zhou Gouqi, get out of here!"

Xie Nandu looked towards the man and could vaguely see a strong woman in the courtyard, holding a rolling pin in her hand.

As soon as this voice sounded, the alley burst into laughter, and the atmosphere suddenly became very cheerful.

Hearing the sound from inside the door, the man sitting on the threshold with his legs crossed looked at Chen Chao fiercely, but still raised his voice and said indifferently, "Why do you want to marry Widow Li? I also like Princess Daliang, it's different. Holding my nose and living with a bitch like you?

Forget it if he doesn't become the consort, why don't I think about it? "

The man said this with great force, but it was obvious that the neighbors present were not outsiders. They had already heard such words and had calluses on their ears, so they were just waiting to see the show.

Suddenly the wind picked up, and a rolling pin flew out of the yard, hitting the man on the back of the head. The man let out an ouch, fell from the threshold, sat on the ground in a state of embarrassment, and yelled, "You fat bitch, I'm waiting for you." I’ll hang you up and beat you up soon!”

At the moment when these words were said, a tall woman with an ordinary face but a strong figure had already arrived at the door with a dark face. Without saying a word, she grabbed the man by the collar and dragged him into the door.

It doesn't look like it's the first time.

There was some laughter in the alley again.

"Boy Chen, wait for me..."

The man who reluctantly entered the door snorted coldly and disappeared from Chen Chao's sight.

Chen Chao looked at this scene and grinned, feeling comfortable!

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"It's all gone, it's all gone."

Chen Chao waved, regardless of whether the neighbors were really going to disperse, he just turned around, quickly opened the door, and walked into the small courtyard.

The layout of the yard is simple. Apart from a stone table, there is only a moss-covered water tank. There is a thin layer of snowflakes on the edge of the water tank. The ground is covered with snow. There are some in the gaps between the stone bricks near the eaves. The withered weeds are dormant, and it seems that after this winter, they will grow tenaciously.

"Leave far away!"

Chen Chao grabbed a ball of snow and hit it accurately at a black wild cat under the eaves. The wild cat meowed, climbed to the roof through the pillars, turned to look at Chen Chao, and disappeared into the heavy snow. .

The girl behind him followed quietly, neither fast nor slow, always keeping a distance of about ten feet from Chen Chao.

After watching Chen Chao finish all this, the two of them came to the main room.

The entire yard is quite old. The paint on the wooden pillars and other items has fallen off a lot, and the exposed parts have even been eaten by insects.

Chen Chao dragged out an old wooden chair and a bench from the hall, scratched his head, and when he was about to speak, Chen Chao looked at Xie Nandu in front of him and walked straight towards the wooden chair, and then sat down.

"Conscious enough." Chen

Chao muttered, originally planning to let Xie Nandu sit on that bench.

But at this moment, he could only sit on the bench by himself and twist his butt. It was really uncomfortable.

She was looking at this boy who was completely different from the one in the ruined temple.

In the ruined temple, this young man was decisive and calm, but here, he seemed like a gangster, and his whole body was full of gangster energy.

This change made the girl feel very strange.

Chen Chao leaned against a pillar nearby, using his hand to scrape off a piece of paint that was about to fall off, looking somewhat bored.

While talking, Chen Chao's palm kept rubbing back and forth on the handle of the broken knife.

The calluses on the palms were enough to explain something.

It was easy to say that he could kill the blood demon with one blow, but if it weren't for the hard practice in daily life, there would be no such result. .🅆.

"Still thinking about those things?"

Chen Chao saw the sadness in the girl's eyes, which had not dissipated until now.

Xie Nandu said, "They have been escorting me north, starting from Bailu and all the way here, and Uncle Song has taught me a lot."

"People can't be resurrected after death, think more open-mindedly, people are eaten by monsters, such things happen every day in Daliang Dynasty."

It's better in Tianqing County. In other remote places in Daliang Dynasty, even in the county, I'm afraid it's not safe.

Xie Nandu shook her head. She naturally knew about such things.

Sitting on the chair, she was a little absent-minded. She knew that there was no other way except to write a letter to Bai Lu in the capital of gods and ask her family to give more compensation to the families of these people.

There was silence between the two for a long time, and they didn't speak.

But Chen Chao didn't care. He had lived alone for a long time. He ignored her. He just leaned against the pillar with serious paint peeling, thinking about something absent-mindedly.

Xie Nandu glanced at the heavy snow outside, then retracted his gaze and said seriously, "You saved my life, maybe I can give you a better future."

"If you want me to send you to the capital, I advise you to give up this idea as soon as possible." Chen Chao reached out to catch some snowflakes, then pressed them on his forehead, and said tiredly, "Some things, you know, I can guess some, but it's meaningless to say it out."

"Besides, I don't want to leave here."

Hearing this, Xie Nandu's face became more serious. He looked at the black-clothed boy in front of him. He wanted to speak several times, and finally just asked

"Where do I live?"

"There are two rooms in total. The one on the east side has not been occupied for a long time. There is an old quilt, which is not guaranteed to be warm. If you don't like it, bring the money and I will buy it for you later, but it's agreed that you can't take this thing away when the time comes."

Chen Chao rubbed his red nose, and there was a cunning meaning in his eyes.

A quilt doesn't cost much, but now every Tianjin Gold coin is extremely important to Chen Chao, and he is unwilling to spend a penny on it.

"Also, how many days do you want to stay? No matter how many days, anyway, ten Tianjin Gold coins a day will be your daily expenses."

"You seem a little greedy. Ten Tianjin Gold coins can at least last for several months here."

The girl was born in those wealthy families, but it doesn't mean that she is the kind of woman who asks why not eat meat.

Tianjin Gold is the currency in circulation in Daliang Dynasty, but this kind of currency is more likely to circulate among those wealthy families and practitioners. The people living at the bottom of Daliang Dynasty use copper coins engraved with the four characters Daliang Tongbao for daily use.

One Tianjin Gold coin is enough to exchange for a hundred Daliang Tongbao coins.

"Small family, don't you want to earn a little bit?"

Chen Chao smiled with a smile on his face, just like a commoner.

Hearing the words "small family", Xie Nandu suddenly recalled the conversation between Chen Chao and the man at the door.

If those words were heard by the scholars who taught her the sages, they would be angry and say vulgar, but she, who had never heard of these things, did not feel disgusted, but she did not like them either.

"I don't mind. As for daily expenses, one gold coin."

She herself did not realize that she and this young man seemed to have a closer relationship.

"You are too good at bargaining, right? No one bargains like you. Five coins, okay? Three at the very least!"

"Just one."

Xie Nandu looked at him and said nothing more.

Chen Chao rubbed his messy hair and said, "One is one."

He muttered a few words, but he didn't think there was anything wrong. He had always asked for a high price, and it was reasonable that he failed to do so at this moment.

It was getting dark.

Xie Nandu walked towards the house in the east, while Chen Chao looked at her under the eaves.

Not long after, Xie Nandu came back and threw a purse far away.

"Go buy a quilt, here's the money."