Chentan's Memories

No.14 Returning to Huaqianjin Night Lane Chivalry Chen Qier came to repay his kindness

It was mentioned last time: Shopkeeper Lin Da, who is very afraid of heights, tried his best to climb on the roof to cut bacon, but accidentally stumbled and fell from the eaves; Tang Yushu wanted to rescue him, but unexpectedly missed him.In the blink of an eye, a passing boy in black picked up the fallen Lin Lang.

Through the black veil on the bamboo hat, one could see that the young man looked somewhat familiar.

Asked him, he hemmed and hawed to report his family name: "Small man... small man from Yantang, surnamed Chen Mingni."

After hearing the name, Lin Lang matched it with the figure of the dirty little beggar in his memory.

Let's talk about Lin Lang taking Chen Ni back to the restaurant: "What are you doing here?"

There was no expression on the young man's face, only a bit of hale and hearty eyes, looking at Lin Lang: "Come back to find you."

"What are you looking for?" Lin Lang didn't like this guy in his heart, after all, he once stole his money bag.It's just that he was rescued by him just now, so he had to bite the bullet and entertain him with a cup of tea.

Chen Ni took off the bamboo hat and made a bow: "I stole... ah, I lent you three taels of silver to bury my mother, and now I will pay for it."

Hearing Chen Ni's unnatural change of words when he narrated the past, Lin Lang laughed: "You saved me just now, now we've canceled each other...you can go."

After being ordered to evict guests, Chen Ni's eyes dimmed a bit.It could be seen that he was actually unwilling to leave, but the young man didn't make a fight, he just said "OK..." and then said: "Then... where is the other young master, villain, go and say goodbye."

The request was reasonable, so Lin Lang had no choice but to agree, and was going to take him to the back kitchen to meet Tang Yushu.

Just as he was about to go, there were guests in the yard at this moment.Lin Lang stepped forward to greet him for a while, and Chen Ni stood silently on one side and watched without saying a word.After Lin Lang arranged for the guests to sit down, he obediently followed Lin Lang to the back kitchen.

But Tang Yushu was nowhere to be seen.

Now Lin Lang was a little anxious: "The guests are here, where did this guy go?" muttering in his mouth, he brought Chen Ni to the West Wing Room, pushed open the door, and saw Tang Yushu sitting on the ground leaning against the edge of the bed , grinning and taking off the sock on his right foot.

Lin Lang stepped forward and said: "There are already guests, are you here to pick your feet?"

Tang Yushu looked up at the visitor, propped himself up on the edge of the bed and stood up slowly.

It was only at this time that Lin Lang noticed that Tang Yushu's ankle was very swollen, and the whole piece of purple and blue made people gasp: "...this...how did this happen?"

"..." Tang Yushu refused to speak.

"Why are you so careless?" The instigator has not yet figured out the cause and effect relationship, so he only frowned and complained anxiously.

"..." Tang Yushu still didn't respond.

Saying "Let me see..." As he approached, Chen Ni, who was originally standing behind him, suddenly took a step forward and ran to Tang Yushu before Lin Lang: "Sit down first—I know some medicine."

After a while of palpation, Chen Ni raised his head and reported to Lin Lang: "This is a sprain..."

"is it serious?"

"It's not serious..." The three words made Lin Lang feel relieved, but then Chen Ni denied his diagnosis just now: "Wait—it's a little serious."

"What's the situation?" Lin Lang felt that his brows were almost crumpled.

After pressing a few acupuncture points with all his strength, Chen Ni asked Tang Yushu in disbelief, "Is there... any old injury here?"

"Yes." Tang Yushu nodded.

"I just said that ordinary sprains are not so serious... What kind of injuries have you suffered here?"

"It was pierced by two-inch arrowheads and dug out with a knife."

"...Arrow?" Chen Ni stared wide-eyed: "Have you ever fought in a war?"

"Yes." Tang Yushu nodded, "Chengdu."

"Oh——I know!" The kid obviously digressed: "You are amazing!...Have you ever ridden a horse?"

"Rided."

"Can you teach me?"

"sure."

Lin Lang finally couldn't listen anymore, and patted the table: "Don't talk about those useless things, what should I do if I get hurt?"

"Oh yes—" Chen Ni shook his head helplessly: "The villain only has a superficial understanding of medical skills, so I still need to ask a serious doctor to look at it..." After reporting to Lin Lang, he turned back and told Tang Yushu: " Don't move your muscles and bones, if you can't cure it, your feet will be useless, and you won't be able to ride a horse in the future..."

"It's nothing." Tang Yushu shook his head: "What's this kind of minor injury?"

"Small injury...then have you ever been cut by a knife?" The little hairy boy obviously digressed again, his face was full of excitement.

And Tang Yushu didn't seem to be a smart person either, so he just raised his face in embarrassment: "Of course I chopped it off! I was hit on the head with a mace!"

Lin Lang finally couldn't listen anymore, and patted the table again: "I see your head was caught by the door!"

After the roar, the room fell into silence, and the inexplicable sense of oppression emanating from Lin Lang's body made Chen Ni dare not even breathe.I saw him turn around and go out, leaving a sentence: "You look at him, I will go to the doctor!"

Then he slammed the door hard.

A guest complained in a leisurely tone from the yard: "Oh... how long have you been waiting, why haven't you..."

In exchange for Lin Lang's irrational "like to eat or not!"

The guest whispered: "I'm sorry..."

Tang Yushu and Chen Ni were left looking at each other.

After looking at each other for a while, Tang Yushu asked, "Eh? Brother, who are you?"

Jinling City is full of fireworks at night.

He attended the banquet with his father, and because he was tired of pushing and changing glasses during the banquet, he said he was ill and left the banquet to return home.

Qinhuai is famous for his "communicative skills", and it is natural for Hua Liangxu to deal with the scenes of drinking and drinking; but sincerely, she has always disliked these scenes.

When he left the meeting, his father was still busy chatting and laughing with people, and he didn't even say "be careful on the road".

Turning out of the restaurant with carved beams and paintings, Hua Liangxu restrained his smile and rubbed his sore cheeks. When he walked a few steps to an intersection, he heard a faint noise of children.

At first Hua Liangxu didn't think much about it, he just thought it was children from ordinary families playing around.But when I stood still and listened carefully, I realized that the laughter was too loud, and there was a faint cry and begging for mercy.

Hua Liangxu changed the direction of her walk and turned to that alley.

——"It's not a bastard who is a Liuying, how can he put rouge on his face?"

—— "Where's your mother? Call her to save you!"

——"I'll sell you out later!"

Every sentence is extremely ugly.

With the lights on, Hua Liangxu saw a group of seventeen or eighteen-year-old men surrounding a boy sitting on the ground. Trembling.

"What are you doing?" Hua Liangxu stepped forward.

The group of people was startled by the visitor, seeing that the visitor was dressed luxuriously, they must be from a wealthy family and could not be offended; so they exchanged glances and quickly swarmed in another direction.

Only one boy was left sitting in the muddy water, looking timidly at the approacher, his face was painted with bright red rouge, and it was also covered with tears.

Hua Liangxu hadn't spoken yet, but the young man recognized her first: "...Young...young mistress?"

"Pfft..." Hua Liangxu blushed when he was called so. While taking off the scarlet Guanyin pocket for heating and putting it on the young man, he pretended to reprimand: "What nonsense are you talking about? Who is your young mistress?"

The boy was still trembling while hiding in the warm Guanyin pocket, but he stretched out his hand and brushed the hair on Hua Liangxu's forehead by the light, and looked at it for a long time: "Isn't it! Isn't it my young mistress?"

Hua Liangxu only thought that the child might be a fool, and did not argue.

I only heard the young man say: "I - don't you know me? I'm Shun'er! My young master is Lin Lang!"

Hua Liangxu then remembered: "It's you?"

Besides, since Lin Lang left, Na Shun'er has been like a lost soul all day long, not thinking about eating and drinking every day.

Today the housekeeper asked him to go out to buy some things. At night, he was in a daze with the dark lights on. He saw the wrong person, and grabbed a man in a red brocade robe and called him "Young Master". They dragged and refused to let go, insisting on humiliating for fun; Joke Shun'er, with rouge on his face, must be a young lady who escaped from Huajie and Liuxiang, and threatened to sell Jinling City.

"Stay away from these people from now on...your young master is not in Jinling, don't admit your mistake." Hua Liangxu warned: "Also—don't call me young mistress in the future, I am not married to your young master!"

"Do you know where my young master is?" Shun'er caught the clue behind Hua Liangxu's words.

Hua Liangxu was slow to speak for a while, and then he was sloppy for a while: "How would I know?"

Shun'er raised his hand mysteriously: "Let me tell you: I know—would you go to him?"

Hua Liangxu was a little curious about this guy's little thoughts, so he asked tentatively, "Why didn't you tell your master to go?"

"Tell the master, the master will bring him back..." Shun'er shook his head: "That's not acceptable! The reason why the young master ran out of the Lin Mansion is to avoid being forced by the master to become an official!"

"...Huh?" Hua Liangxu said with a smile, "He's quite promising."

Hearing that his young master was praised, Shun'er was also extremely proud: "Of course!"

When Lin Lang brought the doctor... or dragged the doctor back, he felt as if his throat had been torn, it was painful and nauseating, and even the sound of his breathing turned into a snoring-like wheezing.Holding on to the door panel, he took a breath, then continued to drag the doctor and ran to the west wing, almost bumping into a guest's house who came to eat and chasing the children who were running around.

"You're back." Chen Ni came out of the back kitchen steadily with seven or eight plates in his hands.

"Eh...?" Lin Lang realized the strangeness at this moment—even though he was not there, Tang Yushu sprained his foot again, but all the ten tables in the courtyard were full of customers, and there were still a bunch of people under the eaves who seemed to be waiting in line. people.

But Lin Lang didn't have time to think about the weirdness: "Where's Tang Yushu?"

"...in the back kitchen."

Lin Lang's eyes widened: "Didn't you say you can't move?"

Chen Ni was afraid of being scolded, so he explained in a low voice: "...he insists on going, so I will help him there...it should be fine."

Lin Lang glared at Chen Ni fiercely, and ran to the back kitchen.

Tang Yushu was washing the dishes, when he saw Lin Lang coming in, he raised his head and glanced at Lin Lang, then quickly looked away.

The doctor was still out of breath, checking Tang Yushu's injuries while patting his chest to give himself some relief.After a while, two medicines were prescribed: "Internal...internal application and external application...it will be fine in three days...but...but remember..."

Halfway through the conversation, the guests in the courtyard urged: "Why hasn't the wine I ordered been served yet..."

In exchange for Lin Lang's irrational "Take it yourself!"

The guest whispered: "Okay..."

The doctor continued: "Remember not to sprain again... just lie down for a few days..."

When he got up and was about to leave, he couldn't breathe, and pointed at Lin Lang: "This time... this visit... I will charge...you double the money!"

Putting Tang Yushu back in the West Wing, Lin Lang and Chen Ni were busy until half an hour before finishing their work.

Tang Yushu was lying motionless on the bed when he brought the decocted medicine to the west wing.

"Drink the medicine." Lin Lang put the medicine on the bedside cabinet and lit the lamp: "I thought you would fall asleep."

"..." Tang Yushu picked up the medicine and drank it one gulp at a time, but remained silent.

Lin Lang laughed with a "hum": "Are you angry with me? - Arrogant and stubborn. Always causing a lot of trouble, and I can't handle it by myself, and it will eventually hurt you."

"...No." Tang Yushu put down the bowl: "I don't know who I'm angry with...but it's definitely not you."

"Eh?"

"I'm stupid, and I can't figure out many things...but I'm afraid." Tang Yushu put down the medicine bowl, reached out and used his thumb and forefinger to knock out the lamp that Lin Lang had just lit: "I'm afraid, if it wasn't for Chen Ni in time Come, you will break..."

Sitting in the dark, Lin Lang didn't know how to answer the conversation for a moment.

Just listening to Tang Yushu talking to himself: "I've always been like this - thinking that if I become stronger, I can protect the people around me..."

"But things don't always look like this... I always lose important people because I'm not good enough."

"It's not that I don't want to talk to you."

"I dare not..."

"I'm really scared because I'm not good enough... One day I'll be alone again."

"You don't need to be so powerful..." Lin Lang tried to jokingly defuse the heavy atmosphere: "Sometimes, maybe it's enough for your partner not to be so stupid."

Tang Yushu really laughed.

But when he heard his rapid and suppressed breathing, Lin Lang understood Tang Yushu's motive for snuffing out the candle.

——He still couldn't tolerate himself, and exposed the slightest helplessness and fear in front of him.