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Seeing that he agreed readily, Chen Gong was suspicious: "Didn't you say you have no money on you? Where can I get the money to buy donkey meat cakes?"
Chen Qiao: "If you don't have money, you can go out to earn!"
Chen Gong sneered: "Just you? I heard that scholars can write letters from home as accountants, but you can't even see your eyes. How do you write them? You can't carry rice bags like me? I can tell you that three donkey meat cakes can't be missing, don't think you can be stolen. If you go out and ask, I, Chen Dalang, have nothing else, but when you fight, you're afraid of the two cowards. I saw that there weren't those two cowards just now? If you can't take out three cakes tomorrow, go out to eat the wind!"
Chen Qiao had a good temper. He was not angry when he heard this tone. He even smiled and agreed.
Although the dilapidated temple is very broken, with air leakage on all sides and not even a perfect window on one side, it is because there are many pillars. It can also block the wind by erecting several gods. There are also some haystacks and firewood piled up by Chen Gong himself. The former blocks the wind as a quilt cover, and the latter burns it for heating. However, he only uses these by himself. Now, for Shen Qiao is willing to "give offerings", Chen Gong reluctantly gives him some haystacks and firewood.
Seeing that Chen Qiao was actually well prepared and carrying a thick old clothes as a cover in his bag, Chen Gong couldn't help but snorted coldly.
The two beggars never came back. They probably found a new place to live. Chen Gong took the clothes they had originally used as quilts without hesitation. After smelling the sour smell, he had to sniff his lips and throw them away and move their bodies closer to the fire.
He originally wanted to snatch Chen Qiao's clothes, but then he thought that it would not be too late for him to attack again when the other party could not produce the "offer" tomorrow.
With this idea, he fell asleep unknowingly.
Early the next morning, Chen Gong got up, and as usual, he was going to work at the rice shop.
Looking around, Chen Qiao was gone, leaving only the hay piles with marks and a pile of burnt black and gray.
Chen Gong didn't care either. If he often went to the rice shop to work, he would never believe that Chen Qiao could really bring back three cakes today, because if he really had any extra money, there would be no need to live in the dilapidated temple where ghosts couldn't live. But the other party didn't have the strength to be a blind man again, so how could he make money?
Don’t go back empty-handedly, I will definitely beat you so hard that you can’t even recognize your mother!
In the evening, Chen Gong walked towards the dilapidated temple, thinking secretly.
Before he stepped into the door, he smelled a familiar scent.
The sound of his footsteps seemed to attract Chen Qiao's attention, and the latter raised his head and smiled at him: "You are back."
"Donkey meat..." Chen Gong stopped just after saying two words with a gloomy face.
Because he saw three paper bags containing donkey meat cakes, neatly placed on the haystack where he was sleeping.
Chapter 7
Chen Gong was stunned for a while before he realized: "Is this what you brought back?"
Chen Qiao nodded: "Didn't you ask me to bring back three donkey meat cakes?"
Chen Gong noticed that the other party's clothes were changed into a new blue robe. It turned out that the gray robe was removed by him and was spread under his body as a bedding. The person was still so clean and tidy, maybe he had bathed and cleaned it up somewhere.
"Where did you earn the money?" Chen Gong was suspicious.
Chen Qiao smiled and said, "Of course it's the right way. Look at me like this, can I still steal and rob?"
Chen Gong snorted: "Who knows!"
Having said that, he still picked up a cake with warm and soft tentacles, which showed that it was just out of the oven. He opened the paper bag and bit it down. The cake was baked golden. The gravy inside flowed out as the cake crust was bitten off, and the burnt fragrance was everywhere.
Chen Gong was so greedy that he ate two in one breath, but the remaining one was not willing to eat. After thinking about it, he planned to keep it for breakfast tomorrow. After finishing his meal, he happened to go to work.
He turned his head to look at Chen Qiao, who was still sitting cross-legged, holding the bamboo stick in his hand, his eyes slightly closed, and he didn't know whether he was closing his eyes to rest or thinking about things.
"Hey, where are you from?"
Chen Qiao shook his head: "I don't know. I fell down on the road, my head fell through, and I forgot a lot of things."
"If you don't say it, don't say it. Why are you making up an excuse? Do you think I'm easy to cheat?" Chen Gong disagreed and immediately lost interest in talking and lay down.
As a result, I don’t know if I’m overeating and tossing and turning, but I can’t sleep. Chen Gong couldn’t help but open up again: “Hey, what did you do during the day and how did you make money?”
A light voice came from the other end: "Bone-touching fortune telling."
Chen Gongteng sat up and looked at him: "You can tell fortunes with bones and bones?"
Chen Qiao was still sitting cross-legged and smiled, "Actually, it's not a big deal. A person is poor or rich. You can always see some clues from his palms, which can be regarded as a trick to make a living."
Chen Gong was interested: "Then show me too, will I have a wealthy life in the future?"
Chen Qiao: "I'll take a look at your hand."
Chen Gong stretched out his hand and Chen Qiao rubbed it on his hands for a moment: "You are used to carrying heavy objects on weekdays, so you should be working in a short-term worker at a rice shop or a dock?"
"What else?" Chen Gong was not stupid. He knew that there were thick calluses on his hands, so the other party must have judged them from the calluses.
"You are stubborn, strong by nature and unyielding, and a little suspicious. You must have had a quarrel with your family at a young age, and you should have a stepfather or stepmother at home."
Chen Gong couldn't help but widen his eyes: "What else?"
Chen Qiao smiled and said, "In today's chaotic times, there is something to do. With your nature, you will join the army and you will have some achievements in the future."
Chen Gong: "How do you see these?"
Chen Qiao: "Your accent is local accent, so it is impossible for you to escape from famine. Locals usually have houses, unless something happens in your family. Combined with your temperament, it is more like what I said, and you have a quarrel with your family. But even if you have a quarrel with your family, if you have a real father and a real mother, you will not sit around and watch you get out of the wind and rain. So it should be that your real father married a harsh stepmother, or your parents died early in the family."
Chen Gong was finally convinced by this one by one.
Chen Gong: "Then why do you know that I will make a fortune when I join the army?"
Chen Qiao: "You don't want to be angry with your stepmother, so you left home in anger and would rather live here. Last night, you fought with a beggar for the donkey meat and cakes. It can be seen that you are a person who is cruel to others and willing to be cruel to yourself. Such a person should be able to adapt to the military environment."
Chen Gong snorted coldly: "After all, you look down on someone like me. You can't even have a full meal. You have to rob your things. You go around a lot, just to mock me!"
Chen Qiao smiled and said, "I am so depressed that I am so depressed. How can I laugh at others? Didn't you ask me how I can tell fortunes? I'm just using you as an example to explain it to you. Isn't it quite accurate? Although I can't make a lot of money, it's still OK to make a meal."
Chen Gong: "Since you say it so nicely and seem to understand everything, why are you still so down and out? Could it be that you were robbed by bandits on the way?"
Chen Qiao: "That's right, I don't remember it myself. My mind was awesome, but not awesome, and many things were vague. Thank you for your willingness to let me stay. Otherwise, I really don't know where to spend the night in the past two days. I have to thank you!"
Chen Gong felt much more comfortable when he put on this high hat. He also took the three donkey meat cakes for granted, as if he had taken it seriously to protect Chen Qiao.
"Then what, tomorrow will be three cakes. Don't think that you can get away with it by saying so much!"
"good."
When Chen Gong returned to the ruined temple the next evening, there were still three donkey meat cakes placed in his place. Chen Qiao was also holding one in his hand and was eating it slowly. It was not like eating donkey meat cakes, but it seemed like he was eating some delicacies.
Pretending to behave! Chen Gong, who was at the age of rebellion, couldn't help but snorted again, turned his head and opened the paper bag, and bit it hard.
When Chen Gong came back the next evening, he still put three cakes there. He was not polite and took them up and ate them. Although Chen Qiao answered questions and had a good temper, Chen Gong always felt that he was out of place and did not speak out. He could not understand the other party's words, and his fierceness and domineeringness did not work for Chen Qiao. He punched the cotton. He was obviously the one who showed his might, but in the end he was the one who was frustrated.
He intuition that Chen Qiao is not simple, not only because the other party always keeps his clothes clean and clean, and his weak appearance as a scholar, but also has an indescribable feeling.
Everyone was going to live in this dilapidated temple, but they were still as inferior in front of him.
Chen Gong doesn't like this feeling, so he doesn't like Chen Qiao either.
It was airtight everywhere, and it was so cold at night. Apart from the two living people, there were probably only the most rats. The shoes were broken and the toes seemed to be bitten. Chen Gong owed her roar, but she didn't want to get up and irritate her mouse, so she curled her body tighter.
In addition to the whistling wind, there seemed to be footsteps coming from outside.
But in this damn strong windy day, who would come to such a broken place?
Chapter completed!