MTL - Little Cardamom-Chapter 78

Little Shitou was stunned, and for a while, many thoughts ran through his mind: run away? Pretending not to understand? Or continue to sell poor?

But he and Jiang Xu looked at each other for a long while, and finally chose to take off the disguise, and said calmly: "You know everything? What do you want?"

Jiang Xu just looked at him quietly, walked forward slowly, and stopped suddenly when he was less than half a foot away from him.

Little Shitou pursed his lips, pretending to be calm, not letting himself take half a step back, but a thin layer of uncontrollable sweat had already formed on his back.

He couldn't help regretting in his heart, he could see that this man was not simple during the day, if he had known earlier, he wouldn't have gone with those idiots of them, and caused trouble for nothing.

Thinking about it, it will be very difficult to get out tonight, but he is still a little unwilling: "How do you know?"

"They listen to you too much." Jiang Xu wrote lightly.

Of course, there is more than this one, maybe it can be said to be an instinctive intuition, the first moment he saw the child, he knew that trouble was coming, so he found a ruined temple to rest at night, a ruined temple in the wilderness, to solve the problem. It rises cleanly without alarming others.

Little Shitou paused for a while, and realized something later. He only cared about winning the woman's sympathy and trust, but forgot to care about the performance of his companions behind him. They were all stupid, but they were not as good at pretending as he was.

"People die for money, and birds die for food. Now, I have nothing to say, you can kill or cut up as you like. But other people are innocent, they don't understand anything, I hope you can let them go. "

"Man dies for wealth, and bird dies for food." Jiang Xu looked at the child in front of him who was facing an enemy, pretending to be a dignified adult, and suddenly asked, "Have you ever studied?"

Hearing this, Xiao Shitou turned his head, not wanting to speak.

This man looks smart, but he is also stupid. How can someone who is capable of studying come out to do these sneaky things!

In the final analysis, Tonggang is too poor. Parents are so poor that they don’t hesitate to send their children to Chen Wu and the others to learn how to be beggars and be deceived. The family also earned a few bites to eat.

Of course, he was different. He had no father or mother since he was a child, and he grew up rolling in the mud. One person was full and the whole family was not hungry.

In fact, when they were in the ruined temple before, Xiao Shitou was not completely lying. They were indeed going to Hehua Town. By selling miserables and begging.

It's just that they are different from those children, they are all voluntary, and everyone in the family knows that they have a cooperative relationship with Chen Wu, Li Si and Wang Sanmazi.

During the day, he also saw Ming Tan's bulging baggage, so he took the initiative to go to Ming Tan to beg.

In fact, he was satisfied with a bag of pastries and a piece of silver, but Chen Wu and the others saw the money and saw that there were only two people and one horse. They discussed excitedly and insisted on making a vote before going to Hehua Town.

He also said that the women in the inn were loose and old, and they asked for five copper coins once, which was not worth the price. This little girl from a foreign country is very juicy, with thin skin and tender flesh. The buddies can still enjoy it for a while, and then take it to Hehua Town to sell it, and it can be sold at a good price.

He didn't want to go at first, but they won't go to Hehua Town to talk about things if they can't finish the ticket. The other children are very embarrassed, and don't know who to listen to. How to beat and scold them.

He didn't want anything to happen to his companion, so after thinking about it, he went with him, but halfway he found an opportunity to quietly tell his companion that if something went wrong and something happened, he would blame Chen Wu and the others, saying that it was Chen Wu. Five kidnapped them, they were children, adults would believe them.

Sure enough, that man was difficult to deal with, and something happened before he entered the ruined temple.

Later, things developed as he expected, and they also escaped smoothly, but unexpectedly, in the end, they missed a move.

"If you want to kill, kill it, don't talk too much!"

If you do something wrong, admit it.

Little Shitou has never studied, but there used to be people in the town who told stories. He sneaked in and listened to them a few times. He remembered that the heroes in those stories had to close their eyes and hold their necks high when they died, so he closed his eyes too. He held his neck forward, as if he was going to die generously.

"..."

Jiang Xu paused.

After a while, Xiaoshi didn't wait for the cold sharp knife on his neck, nor the cold arrow that pierced his chest, but only a question.

"What do you think of the person who sent you back just now?"

Xiao Shitou's eyelids trembled uncomfortably, and he asked back with little confidence: "What do you want to do!"

"I asked you a question, and you answered yes." His tone was undeniable.

Xiao Shitou hesitated, and involuntarily recalled in his mind the man who sent them back just now. It was also the same man who broke into the ruined temple earlier. With one dodge and two movements, he beat Li Si and Wang San pockmarked to death.

"He, his martial arts are very strong, very powerful."

"Then do you want to become as powerful as him?"

Little Stone suddenly opened his eyes.

"What did you say!"

"I'll give you a chance." Jiang Xu looked at him, "It's just that whether you can become like him is all up to you."

Little Stone was stunned.

He, can he also become so powerful? He was a little hesitant, this...couldn't be some scarier liar, right?

But after thinking about it, no matter how bad it is, it's nothing more than death, even his life, so there's nothing to be afraid of.

His clenched fist loosened and tightened, tightened and loosened again, after a while, he made up his mind and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you! But I have one condition."

"You are not qualified to negotiate terms with me."

Without thinking, Jiang Xu stopped back, turned around and walked back.

Little Shitou didn't give up, and took a small step forward to chase: "Then other people, can we..."

"cannot."

The qualifications are too poor.

Jinyunwei is not a shelter.

But after walking for a while, Jiang Xu suddenly stopped: "Ignorant righteousness is useless and cheap. You can't help them. The one who can help them is either yourself, or Tonggang, which is no longer poor in time."

In time, Tonggang is no longer poor.

Xiaoshi stayed for a while, and found it hard to believe that there would be that "time".

Jiang Xu continued to walk forward, Xiao Shitou caught up suddenly, stretched out his small hand, stopped in front of him, raised his head and said seriously: "I don't want to become as powerful as him."

Jiang Xu looked down at him.

"I want to be as good as you."

The hidden guard not far away: "..."

Dare to think.

Jiang Xu didn't laugh at him, but just looked at him and wrote lightly: "You can look forward to that day."

"I certainly will!"

Dark Guard: "..."

No you won't.

You know nothing about the prince.

The dark guard was rarely distracted when the person behind him suddenly poked him with a hairpin and said in a low voice, "Let's go."

The dark guard came back to his senses, bowed his head and took orders.

Ming Tan followed behind the hidden guard, stooped through the alley, took a shortcut and walked back to the ruined temple, all the way he did not forget to warn in a low voice: "When you go back, you are not allowed to tell the prince that I have come out, just treat it as something Nothing happened.

"It's not a big deal at first, there's no need to tell the lord, and you disobeyed the order to bring me here, and you won't be able to tell the lord, so don't say anything, nothing happened, remember?"

Dark Guard: "..."

No, we did not disobey the order, you are overthinking.

If the lord hadn't said that if the concubine woke up and insisted on coming out, he would bring her here, even if they knocked people unconscious, they wouldn't be easily threatened by her.

The concubine underestimated that Jin Yunwei was well-trained, and not everyone would follow the concubine's way like Yunyi, who dared to contradict the lord with just a few words.

"Ah Choo!"

Yun Yi, who was far away on the way back to Beijing, couldn't sleep well, and sneezed in the middle of the night.

After returning to the ruined temple, Ming Tan was full of thoughts and couldn't calm down no matter what.

She had barely fallen asleep leaning against Jiang Xu's arms, but suddenly she left his arms, the straw mat was not very warm, and she woke up quickly.

When she woke up and saw that Jiang Xu was not there, her heart skipped a beat, and many thoughts ran through her mind, and she also remembered what was wrong before.

At the moment, she was affected by the emotions provoked by the little stone, and her thoughts were completely affected by sympathy, but after sleeping and waking up to think about it, she always felt that many things were not quite right.

As an abducted child, Xiao Shitou knew that his hands and feet might be cut off after being transferred to the town?

Chen Wu and the others brought their abducted children to rob, wouldn't they be afraid of being rebellious, turn to them for help, and fight against themselves with them?

Also, although he was dirty and sallow and thin, there were no visible scars on his body, and so did the other children.

Thinking of this, Ming Tan couldn't sit still.

Because it was a shortcut, after the dark guard led Ming Tan back to the ruined temple, about half a quarter later, Jiang Xu came back slowly.

Ming Tan felt that he might not be good at pretending to be asleep, and his heartbeat hadn't calmed down at the moment, so he could tell it by touching it.

She simply turned over sleepily, pretending to be waking up, yawned and said lazily: "Husband? Where have you been? Have you gone out?"

"..."

In all fairness, the little princess's acting skills are not bad, her hair is messy like a deep sleep, and her voice is as if she has been hoarse from sleep, and she can really be blinded by her without knowing it.

Jiang Xu wanted to cooperate with her, but when he walked in front of her, he found that he still couldn't cooperate.

"Stop pretending."

"..."

Ming Tan's yawning was in the middle, and he stopped abruptly, looking at him in a daze, tears were forced out of the corners of his eyes.

She subconsciously thought it was a small report from the hidden guards outside, but Jiang Xu sat down, lit a handful of hay with a fire pocket, put it into the burnt fire, and said: "It's none of their business, if this king even If no one knows what's coming nearby, and let others overhear the conversation, then the king has died at least a hundred times."

He glanced at Ming Tan: "Do you think this king is you?"

...?

Why did it connotate her for no reason?

Had she been overheard in the conversation without knowing it?

No, "I've confirmed with the dark guard clearly, it won't be discovered after such a long distance." Ming Tan doubted.

"That's their distance, not this king's distance."

Ming Tan was choked, and after a long while, he hugged his knees and boasted dryly: "Oh, that husband is really powerful, no wonder Xiaoshi wants to become as powerful as you."

"You don't have to take it seriously when you coax a child."

Seeing him skillfully lighting the fire, Ming Tan understood his meaning with his expression of not paying attention at all——

Want to be as powerful as this king? I'm dreaming, don't think about it, it's impossible.