Nightfall

Chapter 5: No Moon Thoughts

There is a small ditch on the south side of Wei City that can’t be counted on the creek. There is a small soil slope next to the small ditch. There is a fence under the small soil slope that can’t be counted as a small courtyard. There is a straw house at Stony Ground. The rain clouds are scattered early in the night, and the extra bright starlight is sprinkled on the ditch, the slopes, the grass houses, and it is coated with a very beautiful silver halo.

Ning Que squatted and walked slowly under starlight, watching the straw house that had lived with Sang Sang for a long time, and the speed became slower. But as long as you are away, no matter how slow, there will always be the day you arrive at your destination. He pushed the fence wall that could only prevent the dog from being guarded. Before the oil light leaking from the door, the rape hand blocked his lips and coughed twice. He said, “What if you go to the capital?”

The grass house door was pushed open, and the screaming bang pierced the quiet side of the city at night.

The little maid Sang Sang squatted down at the door. The thin silhouette was pulled very long by the oil. She pressed her finger to the side of the wooden door and replied, “Don’t you always want to go to Chang An? For Ning Que, you When did you go to the firearms camp and steal some oil back? This door has been ringing for several months, and the sound is really hard to hear.”

“Who is still using those hard-to-play fires, if it’s just oil, I will go to the camp again tomorrow to ask…” Ning Que responded with a voice, then suddenly wanted to understand one thing, “Hey! I want It seems that this is not the case with you. If you really want to leave, what else does this break?”

Sang Sang stood up with her knees up, and the thin body was extraordinarily thin in the cool spring night. She looked at Ning Que and said in a serious voice without any other emotions: “Even if we left, But the house will still have people to live, they will still open the door.”

After the two of them left, is this someone who is far away from the square and the lonely grass house really want to come to live? Ning Que silently thought, somehow, suddenly there was some emotion that was reluctant to come out. He sighed softly and squeezed sideways from Sang Sang and whispered, “Clean up your luggage at night.”

Sang Sang casually gathered the yellowish hair of the horns and looked at his back and asked, “Ning Que, I never understood why you were so interested in that thing.”

“No one can refuse to make themselves more powerful temptations. And those things are really interesting for me.”

Ning Que knows that the little maid has guessed her mind, raising one’s head and looking at Sang Sang’s dark face, raising her eyebrows and saying, “And we can’t stay in Wei City for a lifetime, World is so big, there are many in addition to the Empire. Country, we have to go and see, even if we are small, just to make more money, the promotion is faster, and Chang An is much stronger than Wei City, so I must test this time. Into the Academy.”

Sang Sang’s face showed a thoughtful mood. Because the age is still small, the little maid’s eyebrows are not long-haired, and because of the relationship between the wind and sand in the border town, the small face is dark and rough, and the yellowish hair caused by the malnutrition of childhood is really not good-looking, even the delicate And pretty can’t say it.

But she has a pair of willow-like eyes, slender and slender, the scorpion is bright like a hail, and there is very little expression that is too obvious, so it’s not like a bitter one that will be eleven or two years old. The little maid is like a mature woman who knows everything and sees through the world. This extreme contrast between her true age and her eyes makes her look extraordinarily cold and fluent.

Ning Que knows that these are all illusions. In his opinion, the little maid Sang Sang is a typical gimmick. The two have been living together for so many years. Because she is used to thinking about things, she is too lazy to think about things because she is too lazy to think. Things, so they become more and more stupid, and in order to cover up clumsy, she said that every word used less and less words, so it became more and more silent and indifferent and weird.

“Not stupid, it should be awkward.” He thought about something and silently corrected it in his heart.

After a long silence, Sang Sang suddenly looked up and bit his lip, revealing a rare fearfulness. He said: “I heard that Chang An is very big and there are many people.”

“The capital is bustling. I heard that Tianqi’s population has exceeded one million in three years. The cost of living is extremely expensive. Chang An lives, it’s not easy…”

Ning Que sighed and saw the nervous look of the little maid. He smiled and said: “There are no fears for many people. You can treat Chang An as a big Wei City. When I am going to deal with outsiders. As you always do the things at home, I am afraid that you will rarely go out.”

“How much does it cost to buy meat and rice in a month in the capital?”

Sang Sang’s willow-like eyes are extremely round, and two small hands cling to the hem of the sarong, nervously asked: “Will it be more than four or two silver coins? That can be doubled than Wei City.”

“If you really enter the Academy, you have to give me some good cloth to make some clothes, plus the family may come to the guests, such as the classmates, in case any gentleman looks at your young Master, I may come home. Do it, so you have to do at least a new set of clothes. I roughly figured out how to get a silver coin.”

Ning Que replied with a brow. In fact, he only said very seriously that he is not very clear. The silver coin for the students in the Academy may be the price of a table at the Tianxiangfang Restaurant. – Just like the famous joke of Hexi Road: the peasant woman who works in the field is busy, always thinking of the Donggong maiden in the meat patties, the Xigong maiden is peeling the green onions, the meat patties are like the sea, and the green onions are like mountains.

However, even the wrong answer of this apparent shrinkage far exceeds the psychological bottom line of the little maid, she frowns seriously looking at him suggested: “It’s too expensive… Ning Que, we don’t go to Chang An, you don’t want to test the Academy. good or not?”

“I don’t know anything.” Ning Que scolded: “When you enter the Academy, you can definitely be an official. When you and I spend ten or two silver coins a month, I can’t make a seventy-eighty two silver in the door.” Coin is coming back? What is wrong with Chang An? Chen Jinji’s rouge powder is not too much.”

The word “Rouge gouache” seems to be the key to the little maid. She licks her lips and is obviously caught in a fierce psychological struggle. After a long time, she replied with a mosquito-like voice: “But what do you do when you read Academy?” My female red is generally, Chang An people must have high eyelids and may not be able to sell them.”

“This is really troublesome. I heard that there is no hunting around Chang An City. Those mountain forests are emperors… How much do we have?”

The master and the servant looked at each other and then walked to the two large wooden boxes with great tacit understanding. Open the box and find a tightly wrapped wooden box from the deepest inside.

In the wooden box, there is a broken silver coin. The nail-sized silver horn has obvious scratches on the hinge. There is only one big silver plaque in the middle. At first glance, it is known that it is normally stored, but the quantity is not too much.

Looking at the loose silver in the wooden box, there are no two people. Sang Sang whispered: “The old rules are counted once every five days, just before the night, seventy-six and three dollars.”

“It seems that after going to Chang An, I have to earn more money.” Ning Que said seriously.

“Well, I will try to improve my female red level.” Sang Sang replied earnestly.

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At night, Sang Sang smashed the bedding on the raft, and the thin, thin knees moved quickly, and the action was quick and quick. The small palm slammed the pillow in the middle of the pillow, which is the most comfortable Ning Que sleep. Then she picked up her quilt and jumped to the cold, and went to the big wooden box at the corner of the house to start laying her own bed.

When the light went out, Ning Que put the water bowl on the window sill, drilled into the bed by starlight, put his hands on the edge, and yawned a big yawn, then gave a very satisfying sigh, closed his eyes, and after a while I heard the sound of @@ heard from the corner of the house for several years.

This is a night that seems to be no different from the past years. They will sleep with the starlight of the Empire Frontier. However, the real situation is that the master and the servant in the grass house are not asleep, or because they are about to step. The excitement of entering the new World, or because of the bustling and faint wealth of the capital Chang An, as well as the balsamic powder that exudes a charming taste, the two breathing sounds in the corner of the window have not been calm.

I don’t know how long it took, Ning Que opened his eyes and looked at the faint silver halo on the window paper. He said: “I heard that the girl in Chang An City is not afraid of cold, the clothes are very thin, the neckline It’s very big, it’s very white, and I don’t know if it’s true… I was too young to remember.

He rolled over and looked at the dark corner of the house and asked, “Sang Sang, have you been ill recently? Will it be cold?”

The little maid in the dark seemed to shake her head, and she could see her tightly squatting at the corner, her eyes closed, and a very rare smile on her lips, whispering in a low voice: “I heard in Chang An City.” The girls are really pretty white. They use so good gouache every day. Can they not be white?”

Ning Que smiled and looked at her and said, “Don’t worry, after the Young Master has money, Chen Jinji’s rouge powder can be bought at random.”

Sang Sang suddenly opened his eyes, and the bright starlight was reflected in the slender eyelids like a willow. Seriously said: “Ning Que, this is what you promised.”

“I just said that after going to Chang An, you have to remember to call me Young Master, so that you will respect.”

At that time, Ning Que pulled out of the cold little Sang Sang from the dead side of the road, and then moved to Wei City, which has been seven or eight years. Although Sang Sang is a prostitute in her family registration and she is also a prostitute, she never yelled at his Young Master. This does not mean anything else. It only represents a habit.

Today, the little maid Sang Sang was forced to throw away this habit.

“Ning Que…Young Master…you have to remember to buy me a piece of Chen Jinji.”

Ning Que responded with a gaze, and his eyes fell on the frosty starlight on the ground. The heart was not tight. The feeling of emptyness came back many years ago. Turned round to look out the window of the deep azure night sky. Starlight, and then began to bow down to miss my hometown, muttered: “There is no moon today…”

Sang Sang on the black lacquered enamel cabinet, squatting in the cool quilt like a little mouse, she reached out to the waist and pulled it, blocking the cool air outside, and let the seams between the two cabinets It looked less sultry, listening to the slang from the window, thinking of Ning Que… Young Master began to say this nonsense again.