Seeing that their expressions were wrong, Shantu also realized that he might have said something wrong, so he said in a nasty voice, "Why, haven't you seen someone who elopes?"

... I have seen it before, but I have never seen such a horizontal...

The shopkeeper coughed lightly, opened the box and said, "Then let me give you an estimate."

As soon as he opened it, he was stunned by the empty contents inside, thinking that what you have inside is worth less than the box, right?

However, before he could speak, he was shocked again when he saw the craftsmanship of those ornaments.

Shantu lay on the counter and asked him, "How much is it worth? Can you tell where it is from?"

The shopkeeper smiled slightly, closed the box again, pushed forward in Shantu's suspicious eyes, and said, "We can't do your business, why don't you go to another place to have a look?"

Shantu was taken aback, "What can't be called?"

The shopkeeper laughed and said, "Your business is too big for our small shop to handle."

Shantu hesitated for a moment, then looked back at Ximen Chuuxue: What's going on in this situation?

Ximen Chuuxue shook his head slightly, stepped forward and put an ingot of gold on the counter, and then put the sword on it.

The shopkeeper's expression froze, and then he smiled wryly: "Don't blame the two of you, you two are obviously not here to pawn, why bother to play the little old man?"

"Hey? Can you see it?" Shantu pouted at the back of her head, "I thought I was pretending to be pretty..." She pushed Jin Jin forward, "Don't be afraid, we'll just ask you a few questions , not to delay your business!"

The shopkeeper frowned and thought for a moment, sighed, put the gold into his sleeve, and asked, "What do you two want to ask?"

Shantu stretched out his chin and pointed to the small box, "Can you tell where it is? The more detailed the better."

The shopkeeper guessed that they were also asking this question, so he opened the box again, and took out the earring under Shantu's expectant eyes, "Uh... I don't know about that."

The mountain rabbit was discouraged.

"However, this little old man knows a little bit." The shopkeeper stroked his beard and said.

Seeing him holding the child's bracelet, Shantu asked, "Is this very common, can you recognize it?"

"Hey, this is not ordinary." The shopkeeper turned the bracelet over for her to look inside, and saw some characters-like patterns inside, "This is not an ordinary bracelet, this is called a lock-yin bracelet."

"Why do you give something that a child wears such a horrible name?"

"This is not for children." The shopkeeper shook his head, "This is for dead people...or, it is for dead children."

"Huh? Children wear gold bracelets when they die? Life is good!" Shantu was tired from tiptoeing, so she simply leaned into Ximen Chuuxue's arms and listened with her ears.

The shopkeeper looked at Shantu, then at Ximen Fuxue who was inexplicably gentle, and said with a smile, "A young girl who is not yet married is pure..."

Seeing that the mountain rabbit was not happy, he explained: "Wearing other gold ornaments on the dead child may be to express regret, but wearing a lock-yin bracelet is not... It is a curse."

"It is said that children who die prematurely have great grievances and tend to become grievances. Especially when they see their parents having other children, they will disturb the whole family. It means that their souls are locked in their bodies so that they cannot come out to do mischief."

"What kind of parents are so cruel!" Shantu frowned, "Isn't it impossible to reincarnate?" Probably because of his love with Ximen Chuuxue, the little rabbit is now very sensitive to news about reincarnation and longevity.

"How can a dead child be as precious as a living child?" The shopkeeper spread his hands, "What's more, there is the whole family! Even if the parents don't let them wear it, there are other elders who insist on the child wearing it!"

After he finished speaking, he pushed the box forward, "The rest of the little old men really don't know, please ask another master!"

Shantu hugged the box and thought about it, but was still a little annoyed, "Is there such a custom in all places?"

"Oh, that's not true." The shopkeeper said, "Only in Yinan, this custom is more prevalent, and we don't have it locally."

Shantu felt better, so he followed Ximen Chuuxue out.

On the way, Shantu held Ximen Chuuxue's hand and was still unhappy.

After a long while, the clearly indifferent but unabashedly caring voice came from above his head, "Disappointed?"

Shantu was silent for a while, neither nodded nor shook his head, looked up at Ximen Chuuxue, and said in a low voice: "I know a monster, he looks like a human child. Once, he went to a human village Play, was adopted as an orphan by a woman."

"That woman was very kind to him, she cared about him and loved him, protected him when danger came, and didn't abandon him even though she knew he was a monster...Later, after that woman died, he almost did something irreparable."

Shantu's big eyes were puzzled and sad, "I thought human mothers and fathers were like this..." She was already puzzled when she heard that someone would bury a newborn baby girl alive. Now I know this again...

Ximen Chuuxue sighed, raised his hand to caress the eyes that were about to cry, "...don't cry." He was really afraid of the little rabbit's tears, and when he saw the other party nodded obediently, he held her hand and turned to side.

Shantu followed Ximen Chuuxue's gaze and saw that they were a father and daughter.

The father looked like he was 40 or [-] years old, and the little girl looked like she was only five or six years old.It is estimated that the family background of the two is not very good. Although the clothes are clean, they have many patches.The little girl was even thinner, as if she hadn't eaten enough since she was born.

Next to it was a seller of candied haws. From time to time, children would get money from their parents and would come and buy one, laughing and running away.The little girl kept looking at the children adding candied haws, and she didn't even react when her father pulled her.

Her father followed her gaze, then smiled and said, "My niece wants to eat candied haws? Daddy will buy you one?" He began to grope for money all over his body.

The girl looked at her father with hope in her eyes.

However, after the father took out a copper plate, he couldn't find another copper plate.A candied haws cost two pennies, but he happened to be short of one penny.Looking at her daughter's expectant gaze, she couldn't say no to it, so she could only search everywhere in vain.

The girl seemed to have guessed something, and pulled her father's hand sensiblely, "Daddy, I don't want to eat candied haws anymore, we still have to save money to buy medicine for mother!" Haystacks of candied haws.

The man burst into tears for some reason, hugging his daughter and being speechless...

Shantu watched this scene, but for some reason his heart gradually calmed down.She raised her head and asked Ximen Chuuxue with a smile: "Ximen, there are good people and bad people in this world, so there are good parents and bad parents, right?"

Ximen Chuuxue looked at her and nodded.

Shantu smiled, took out a piece of silver from his sleeve pocket very smoothly, and then walked towards the peddler selling candied haws.

Ximen Chuuxue stood where he was, looking at her bouncing back, with a trace of gentleness in his eyes.

The girl couldn't figure out why Daddy suddenly hugged her and cried, but Daddy cried so much that she wanted to cry too... But just when her eye circles were about to turn red, a nice voice rang out above her head: "Daughter, you are a good boy!" , my sister invites you to eat candied haws!"

The girl raised her head, and saw a beautiful sister who looked like a virgin next to the Goddess of Mercy, smiling at her with two bunches of candied haws.

When the man heard someone talking, he quickly raised his head. When he saw Shantu's appearance, he could probably guess that it was a kind person, so he quickly pushed the girl, "Thank you, sister!"

Nannan said thank you ignorantly.

Shantu smiled and handed her a bunch of candied haws, "Sister and you each get a bunch."

"Yeah!!!" Nannan happily took the candied haws, took a mouthful carefully, and her eyes were so beautiful that they curled up.

Shantu felt much relieved, and returned to Ximen Chuuxue while gnawing candied haws.

"Does Ximen eat?"

Ximen Chuuxue shook his head, seeing that she was in a much better mood, he slightly relieved and said, "Can you still go to the pawn shop?"

Shantu shook her head, she didn't want to go to the pawn shop in a short time... The little rabbit looked at the bustling street, and suddenly remembered a wish that had been hidden for a long time, and shook Ximen Chuuxue's hand excitedly, "Ximen, let's go to a brothel !"

Ximen Fuxue stiffened instantly...

Shantu didn't notice the difference, and continued to yearn: "I heard that there are many beautiful girls in the brothel..."

Ximen Chuuxue: "..." Who said that?There are so many girls, why do you yearn so much?

Shantu sensed that Ximen Chuuxue was not happy, looked at him with pouted lips, and said coquettishly, "Doesn't Ximen want to go? But I really want to go... go, go, go..."

"Uh... where is the girl going?" Someone behind asked cautiously.

Shantu looked back and saw that it was the mouse Wang Hao who was shopping by Chunniang's hand.Chunniang was probably afraid of scaring people, so she tied a blue brocade over her eyes, her complexion was much prettier than before, and she was more cheerful and lively.

Shantu looked at the hands held together by the two, "... Ouch? Are you on good terms..."

The mouse's face turned red, but he still held his hand tightly.

On the other hand, Chunniang smiled brightly, and flaunted the hands of the two interlocking fingers, "Girl, we are together~~"

Shantu laughed, "That's great, I'll give you a gift some other day to celebrate!"

"Yeah!" Chun Niang nodded, and then asked curiously: "Where is the girl going? Is the owner not letting you go?"

She has better hearing and can hear more than mice.

"I'm going to a brothel!" Shantu replied clearly, "But Ximen doesn't want to go!"

As soon as she finished speaking, there was a moment of silence around her.

The little rabbit's voice was already bright, but he didn't lower it at the moment. Within ten steps around him, he heard everything he should have heard and what he shouldn't have heard.

In an instant, Ximen Chuuxue's body was full of sympathy, admiration or envy...

Shantu didn't notice it, and continued to shake his sleeves and act coquettishly, "Ximen, go to a brothel, go to a brothel, go to a brothel..."

Ximen Fuxue: "...OK."

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