God's Gift

As soon as the voice stopped, another male voice sounded next to him, and then said, "There's more than that."

The man lowered his voice and pretended to be mysterious: "Do you know? Ning Du is not only a beggar, he also steals. He was a notorious thief in Tiema Alley a hundred years ago."

"He would just walk around the streets, or pretend to be a beggar, and steal a lot of valuables."

As this man spoke, a young actor on stage, wearing ragged clothes, was begging in the alley scenery.

All the diners in the audience focused their attention on the stage, looking at the poor begging boy, and retorted in disbelief: "You are just bragging, how could the general of the city be such a person?"

The man was refuted by the crowd and lost face. He added anxiously: "Don't disbelieve me. My grandfather lived in Tiema Lane when he was a child. He saw Ning Du being severely beaten many times after being caught stealing."

"Really?" When the other diners heard that his grandfather had seen it with his own eyes, they couldn't help but believe it a little and asked with interest: "How could Ning Du become a general in the future?"

"Why not?" Seeing the diners' curious eyes, the man straightened his back and said:

"As the saying goes, a hero's origin is not important. Although he was a thief when he was young, he had great ambitions. Back then, the barbarians from the northern border invaded the Central Plains and destroyed our country and cities. Ning Du was only sixteen at that time. After hearing about this, he immediately joined the army and went all the way north to fight on the battlefield for four years. He quelled the rebellion in the north and made great contributions."

While he was talking, the play on the stage also played the part where Ning Du joined the army. The diners were impressed and all quieted down, watching the play attentively.

Yu Youyou was holding a plate in her hand and using a pair of chopsticks to push the shrimps on the plate into her mouth. She took the time to glance at the stage.

"Wow..."

While the diners were watching the show attentively, a yellow dog head appeared from the door edge of the restaurant. Its black eyes looked around, saw Yu Youyou sitting on the east side, and whimpered.

The other dogs behind it kept sniffing around, and found the outside of the restaurant. They crowded around Xiao Huang, and all poked their heads out to look at Yu Youyou.

"Here we are!" Yu Youyou saw a few dogs outside the door, waved, and said to them, "Come in."

As soon as the dogs received the order, they rushed in, surrounded Yu Youyou's legs, sat obediently, and looked at Yu Youyou eagerly.

As soon as the waiter arrived, he saw a group of wild dogs surrounding Yu Youyou. Fearing that they might offend this distinguished guest, he shouted, "Where did these wild dogs come from? Get out!"

The dogs were yelled at by the waiter and looked at him with bared teeth. The sharpness of their mouths scared the waiter so much that his heart jumped. Then he saw a few more dogs coming and he quickly took a step back.

After scaring the waiter, the dogs put away their teeth and looked at Yu Youyou pitifully. Xiao Huang was the most clever. He scratched Yu Youyou's legs with his claws and whimpered a few times.

Yu Youyou looked at the shop assistant's trembling appearance and comforted him, "Don't be afraid, they are my little brothers. We will leave after we finish eating."

"Little brother?" Upon hearing this, the waiter realized who the great man in front of him was. Wasn't she the cousin of General Ning's mansion in the play on the stage?

Although she came from another place, I heard from people in the city that the young lady's family was extremely wealthy. When she arrived in Gusu City, she gathered a group of wild dogs to serve her. She was a genius.

The waiter looked at Yu Youyou and stopped paying attention to her dog. He immediately said, "It's you, Miss. Please do as you please."

Yu Youyou distributed the dishes on the table to her little dog brother. After her little dog brother had eaten and drunk his fill and the show on the stage was over, Xiao Huang burped and lay on Yu Youyou's feet.

After watching the play, a diner thought of Ning Du's grandson Ning Yue and sighed: "Ning Du is indeed a great hero, but it's a pity that his descendant does nothing all day, is unruly and unruly, how can he be worthy of the position of general."

"Ning Yue wears fancy clothes and puts on makeup all day long, but he doesn't look like a man at all. It would be better if he didn't go around making trouble."

While they were chatting and laughing, another actor came out from behind the screen on the stage. He was wearing a bright red costume. The costume was gorgeous in texture, rich in color, embroidered with flowers, and the helmet on his head was decorated with pearl flowers and pheasant tails. It was so exquisite that one might mistakenly think that a famous actor from somewhere had come to this restaurant.

Everyone looked at the actor and immediately became interested. They asked, "Which troupe invited this actor? Come on, sing a song for us."

The actor did not answer, but smiled with pursed lips, pinched his orchid fingers, and sang in a soft voice:

"Young men and beautiful women are in love, and they love each other all night long..."

As soon as these words came out, the diners who were welcoming the audience with smiles changed their expressions and looked at the dissolute actors and actresses on the stage in astonishment.

Yu Youyou looked at the actor and felt that he looked more and more familiar. She asked in confusion, "Ning Yue?"

Ning Yue seemed not to notice the expressions of the people below the stage at all, and continued to sing: "The excited soul came to the hotel without knowing it, and the crazy soul seemed to have entered the fairy boat. The blush on the face was stained with rouge and sweat, and the white face was stained with powder and rouge oil...

"How outrageous!" An old man at the table couldn't bear to hear such disgusting things. He shouted angrily, turned around and left with his face covered.

In broad daylight, in front of so many people, this actor actually sang this kind of song openly. His eyes were as clear as spring water, and his every frown and smile made several young men and women who were not well-versed in the world blush immediately and feel very uncomfortable in the audience.

“I toss and turn, unable to sleep, the cocks crow in the fifth watch of autumn.” The song ended here. Ning Yue looked at the diners with colorful faces in the audience and laughed out loud, holding his stomach, “Hahahahahaha…”

Hearing this laughter, the people in the audience who had seen Ning Yue before recognized that the person on the stage was Ning Yue, and shouted in surprise: "Ning Yue!"