worthless [rebirth]

Jiang Chi bought a catty of five-spice melon seeds, half a catty of peanuts, and half a catty of sesame candy for Chen Ling, and wrapped them separately in oiled paper.Jiang Chi took out the broken silver and handed it to the stall owner, while instructing Chen Ling, "Eat less melon seeds for a while, or your tongue will hurt."

Chen Ling hugged the three oiled paper bags in front of his chest, his neck was itchy from the heat when Jiang Chi leaned over to speak, he shrank his head and let out a muffled "hmm".Although he agreed, he still hugged his snack very protectively.

Jiang Chi couldn't help laughing, and shook his head helplessly.

Their current location was not too far from the Family Carnival Troupe, only one street away, and it was rare for them to come out for a walk. Neither Jiang Chi nor Chen Ling planned to take a carriage, so they walked there together.

That street is more lively, there are many buyers of rice dumplings, and many grandmas set up stalls selling red bellybands embroidered with five poisons.It was the first time Chen Ling saw that the whole street was selling zongzi, bellybands, sachets filled with realgar, etc., so everything felt very novel.

I saw a gray-haired grandmother selling bellybands. The centipedes, toads, etc. on them were embroidered vividly, and the colors were bright and beautiful.Chen Ling's mother, daughter, and daughter are among the best in Liguo. When she was drafted into the palace, she touched the heart of Chen Ling's father with a picture of mandarin ducks playing in water. Since then, the two have been loving each other for more than [-] years. Don't change your original intention.Now that he saw the same excellent embroidery work, Chen Ling couldn't help but walk over to have a look.

The bellybands that grandma sold were very small, which could only be used by children a few months old. Chen Ling picked up the bellyband with one hand, looked at the exquisite five poisons on it, and couldn't help showing his longing for the queen mother in his expression.

"My lord, do you want to buy a bellyband?" Seeing that Chen Ling seemed to like these bellybands, Grandma couldn't help asking.

Withdrawing his mind, Chen Ling put down his bellyband, smiled and shook his head: "This is only for children, I just saw that my mother-in-law embroidered very well."

"That's it..." Grandma's dry voice sounded, she lowered her head with a disappointed expression.With trembling hands, he put back the apron that was messed up by Chen Ling, and said, "I thought... the Dragon Boat Festival is coming today, and the apron embroidered with five poisons would sell well..."

Chen Ling and Jiang Chi were about to leave. Hearing Grandma's sigh, Jiang Chi paused, turned around, and said calmly, "Why, are you in a hurry to sell these things?"

"Ah?" Grandma didn't expect her helpless sigh to be heard. Thinking that she didn't sell a single apron today, she said sadly, "I'm dissatisfied with the two young masters, my only child joined the army a year ago and went to war with the saint Leaving the country, ended up dying on the battlefield, leaving me and my sick old man behind."

"..." Hearing Grandma mentioned the words "going out to leave the country", Chen Ling thought of the war with unequal forces a year ago and Jiang Chi's forcing him to come to Jiang country, so his expression changed It's a little ugly.

Jiang Chi turned his head and glanced at Chen Ling. Seeing that he was absent-minded, he guessed that he was thinking of those unpleasant things.Jiang Chi knew that Jiang Guo was more or less cruel to Chen Ling when he forced Chen Ling to come, but he always thought that as long as he was always nice to Chen Ling, as long as Chen Ling was still by his side, no matter how cold-hearted the other party was, he would believe it. I can warm myself up.Calmly pulling Chen Ling's right hand hanging by his side, Jiang Chi gently squeezed his palm.

"..." Chen Ling was stunned for a moment, and when he looked up, he saw Jiang Chi's concerned eyes, and his heart shrank a little. Ren Jiang Chi pulled him, and he lowered his eyes and said softly, "I'm fine."

Jiang Chi didn't ask any further questions, and said to his grandmother, "Soldiers who die in battle won't receive a pension of 100 taels? If this money is enough for you to live for five years, why do you still set up a stall here?"

"100 taels?!" Grandma was obviously surprised. She looked at Jiang Chi and said, "How is that possible? The adults in charge of sending pensions said that there were only two taels of silver, and the remaining three taels of silver were because they looked at our old couple. Poor, I got it together. And the five liang of silver has been bought for my old man for a long time. Now he has asthma and has no money to buy medicine. There is no way... I have to embroider some aprons and sell them... But I am old , my eyes are almost blind, even if I sell my bellyband for money, it won't last long..."

Listening to Grandma's narration, Jiang Chi's complexion sank a little bit, thinking, these corrupt officials must have corrupted all the pensions he gave to the families of the soldiers who died in the country, a good 100 taels, but when they arrived at the place, they changed. It became five taels!With such a big difference, if he hadn't met this grandma today, how long would he have to be kept a secret?Using force with his hands, even hurt Chen Ling, Jiang Chi said sharply: "These stupid officials, death is not a pity!"

"..." Chen Ling naturally guessed why the money Grandma got was different from Jiang Chi's regulations. Seeing that Jiang Chi was angry, Chen Ling was worried that he would reveal his identity by saying something agitated, so he gently pulled him down. hand, and said in a low voice, "Ah Chi..."

"I know how to measure." Jiang Chi said, exhaling slowly to calm himself down, he said to Grandma: "What's your son's name?"

"Wang Dazhuang." Grandma said.

Jiang Chi nodded, took out an ingot of broken silver and handed it to Granny, saying: "Take the money to buy medicine first, your son will not die in vain, and someone will give him justice in a few days."

"Thank you son! Thank you two sons for your kindness!" Granny got the money, tearing up with gratitude, and choked up: "Your son, you are a good person, and good people are rewarded."

"In our Jiang country, at the feet of the emperor, I believe the current emperor will not allow this kind of thing to happen." Jiang Chi said calmly, and then pulled Chen Ling away from the stall.

After walking a long way, Chen Ling was still thinking about what happened just now, thinking that Grandma kept saying that Jiang Chi was a good person, and that good people were rewarded with good rewards, Chen Ling couldn't help laughing, thinking that it was the other party's fault. I've seen Jiang Chi's animal side, but the opponent's animal seems to be only treating him.

Seeing Chen Ling laughing for no reason, Jiang Chi said, "What are you laughing about this time? Did you remember something interesting again?"

"Huh?" Chen Ling raised his head suspiciously, seeing Jiang Chi looking at him, blurted out: "It's not because of this, but I just suddenly realized that you don't seem to be in a coma..." Chen Ling was stunned, and almost fell asleep If you want to say the word "faint king", I don't know if Jiang Chi will be so angry that he will kill himself when he hears it.

"What's the matter?" Jiang Chi raised his eyebrows, but he wasn't annoyed.

Chen Ling twitched the corners of his mouth and laughed stiffly, "Uh...hehe, can you pretend I didn't say anything?"

"I know, what you wanted to say just now was the word 'faint gentleman'." Jiang Chi smiled lightly, and rubbed Chen Ling's head.

"..." Chen Ling didn't speak.

Jiang Chi smiled, seemingly helpless, and said, "You don't understand. Sitting in my position, you have to turn a blind eye to some things, but there must be a bottom line for some things. The well-being of the people, That's my bottom line."

"..." Chen Ling looked up at Jiang Chi, as if getting to know him again.Indeed, the title of Chen Ling's prince is just a false title, and he has no experience in governing the court, so he doesn't understand many things in the court.But today he discovered that Jiang Chi might not be a "good man" to him, but he was a good emperor to the common people.

"Zi Ling?" Seeing Chen Ling staring at him, Jiang Chi called out.

Chen Ling gave a soft "um" and realized that he had felt a little "sympathy" for Jiang Chi just now. He hurriedly looked away and changed the subject, "Aren't you going to the theater? Let's go to the play."

"Well, I just thought you were comforting me." Jiang Chi said with a smile.

Chen Ling pursed her mouth silently, secretly slandering the other party for his thick skin.

Walking through this street, Chen Ling saw a tall courtyard from a distance, with tarpaulins with faces painted on it hanging in front of the door, guessing that it should be the theater troupe "Family Carnival" that Jiang Chi was talking about.

Upon closer inspection, as expected, there was a mahogany plaque hanging on the purple-red gate, with three lacquered gold characters "Family Carnival" written on it.There are many theater lovers who love to listen to operas coming in and out from the door, and each of them holds a palm-sized colorful theater ticket in their hands.

What Chen Ling was holding was snacks and snacks. He didn't have any theater tickets, so he took Jiang Chi's elbow with his arm and asked tentatively, "What do you think those people are holding?"

"Do you still want this kind of thing?" Jiang Chi frowned, as if he didn't know the rules for the first time.

In fact, Jiang Chi had learned that the family carnival had to be entered with a ticket, but in order to give Chen Ling the illusion of a "temporary decision" to go to the show, he didn't buy a ticket in advance.

"Wait." Jiang Chi patted Chen Ling on the shoulder to reassure him, and walked towards the two men who were discussing the content of the opera by the door.

"Brother Li, do you know what to sing today?"

"It seems to be "An Arrow of Vengeance". It's a good show."

"You two, a piece of silver, how about reselling your theater tickets to me?" Jiang Chi said.

The two of them were chatting lively, when suddenly Jiang Chi went over and couldn't react.

Jiang Chi didn't wait for the other party to reply, he directly snatched the theater tickets from the two and stuffed ten taels of silver into each of them.

"This…"

"Ten taels of silver are enough to buy ten sheets. Let's go and come back next time."

"..." Chen Ling witnessed the whole process of how Jiang Chi "snatched" the ticket, and opened his mouth slightly, not knowing what to say about him.

Jiang Chi didn't think there was anything wrong with his move, he waved the ticket in front of Chen Ling, and even raised his eyebrows at him proudly, saying, "Look, we have it now, let's go in."

Chen Ling was speechless again, but the corner of his mouth curled up the moment he lowered his head, revealing a faint smile.

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