Xie Ming

Chapter 550: The Scurvy Grapes

The unlucky Gu Changting was beaten for complaining. He wanted to change the lead horse, but he encountered a stubborn beast doing bad things.

Yue Xiu was stunned and couldn't stop the car. He rolled over and fell through the carport and onto the ground behind the car, with his mouth full of sand.

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A gust of northwest wind blew across the earth slope in front, stirring up sand.

In front of the dead tree stump, the three brothers Xiao, Gu and Yue, in distress, with dishevelled hair and dirty faces, were speechless in the wind.
Next to it, the frame of the vehicle was completely destroyed, and the shed was broken in half, with the head and tail separated.

There was only one stubborn horse left, with half a carriage frame hanging on its body. It was heartless and was still digging the ground with its front hooves, probably trying to dig up some grass roots to chew.

for a while
"Okay, this is completely solid."

"Wherever we go, that's where we'll go."

"We've been running for quite a while, come here and take a rest."

Xiao Jingchuan's hair was disheveled by the strong wind and it looked like he had just gotten out of the car and was shaken pretty hard.

At the moment, he was feeling tired and had no energy to speak. He said this without saying anything more and moved towards a bare tree nearby.

When he got under the tree, he brushed off the sand on his body in vain. He felt so humiliated that he just sat down against the tree again.

He reached back and took out the water bag from his waist, took a few gulps, and only stopped when he choked on the water.

At the same time, Chang Ting and Yue Xiu, both looking miserable and embarrassed, also followed silently to the bald tree with their bodies hunched.

The wasteland was covered with sand and soil. Looking around, there was no grass at all, let alone shaped trees.

Looking around, all you can see is this old willow tree with no leaves and a half-dead, crooked neck.

Of course, there is a single dry pile half a person's height in front.

"Ugh"

"I say, the more you practice, the more you use your eyeballs to breathe?!"

"Look around. It's hard to find another dry stump like this within a few miles!"

"You have a pretty good aim! Huh?!"

"Tell me, was it intentional?"

Gu Changting was so disappointed with Yue Xiu that he wanted to find fault with him even though the situation had just been resolved.

But before he could finish his words, Xiao Lang interrupted him and cut him off from complaining.

"stop!"

"Don't fucking say that."

"If anyone brings this up again, I'll get mad at them!"

These two people were stunned by his words. Xiao Zi raised his eyes and glanced at the two guys. They both looked sad and their morale was not high.

Then, with a low sigh, he patted the trees on both sides with his hands, motioning for them to sit down and rest for a while.

"Come on, two masters!"

"We've been running for most of the day, let's take a break here."

"Drink some water, you'll have a long way to go later."

Xiao took a deep breath, gathered the two of them to both sides, handed the water bag to them, and gave it to Chang Ting first.

After finishing, he bared his teeth and stretched his muscles.

Xiao Lang stretched out his body lazily, then suddenly thought of something. He quickly stopped and searched in the bag at hand again.

After a while, I touched three or two scratchy yellow-orange fruits in the shape of jujubes.

"hehe."

"Look, look at them all."

"You two are out here in this wild mountain. I can't let you two starve to death, can I?!"

"This kind of fruit is rare in the north."

"Come on, Changting, Yuexiu, share the food."

As he spoke, Xiao Lang threw one into each of their arms with his left and right hands.

"Hey, Changting, you don't know what this thing is, right?"

"Eat it with the skin on. It's delicious. Try it!"

While talking, Xiao played a naughty trick and poked Yue Xiu secretly with his elbow, telling him not to say anything and to go and pick up the things, ready to tease Chang Ting.

But unexpectedly, Changting took it in his arms with a look of disdain.

"cut"

"General, you are just trying to bluff me."

"Isn't this thing a golden bell?"

"Oh, well, it's just a bunch of rotten grapes."

"The scabby skin on the outside is inedible, but the flesh inside tastes okay." "You just know how to make fun of me!" Chang Ting said, quite indignantly.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Jingchuan's eyes widened in surprise.

"Eh? No, it's not."

"How do you know this stuff so clearly?"

"It's not surprising that he is practicing the local southern techniques."

"But we don't have this kind of fruit in the north."

"You are not from Beijing, so how do you know it?!" Xiao was very puzzled and kept asking.

Looking back, Changting was helpless and spread his hands.

"General, I never told you that I am from the capital!"

"You must have remembered it wrongly." Changting argued, but he did not explain it clearly.

"Hey, your home is in East City. During the first two years of joining the army, I went home with you."

"Your mother's cooking is really delicious. I still miss it now."

"You, you didn't grow up under the imperial city?" Xiao Fu recalled the past and asked again.

"Oh, I was in the army, how old was that?"

"My family is from the south, and later moved to the capital."

"It was mainly because I followed my father to Beijing to seek a job."

Changting responded casually, without taking it seriously.

After he finished speaking, he twisted his hands, and the orange-yellow skin of the grapes split open in the middle, revealing the deep red and sticky flesh inside.

It can be seen that the speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional.

Xiao Jingchuan paused, thinking, this fruit is a specialty of Jiangnan, and the man surnamed Gu
Considering this point, Xiao Lang's eyes flashed with a complex look, then he restrained it, and then took another step forward to continue the conversation.

"So, your ancestral home is Yangzhou?"

The reason why Xiao asked this question was that he suddenly remembered what Yu'e had said not long ago.

The Yangzhou Gu family, especially the third young master Gu, were the ones who caused Yuzhen and Xiao'e to suffer such a fate.

If he happened to be a relative of Changting, then this time he went to Yangzhou, this past might be
"Huh? No."

"My ancestors are from Shaoxing."

Changting still didn't take it seriously.

He replied casually without turning his head to look, but just buried his face and started eating the golden bells in big mouthfuls.

"Shaoxing. Hey, Changting was born with fair complexion."

"That place is full of talented people and beautiful scenery!"

Looking for an opportunity to add something to the conversation, Yue Xiu on the other side took the opportunity to interject.

"Oh! What's the matter with that?"

"I left home with my parents when I was young and never went back."

"I have no idea if there are still people in my hometown now."

"General, how come I don't know where you bought this fruit?!"

Chang Ting answered with a somewhat lonely look on his face. It was hard to tell whether the family affairs here might cause some other sorrows.

Afterwards, she chewed the fruit pulp with her mouth full, and quickly changed the topic to Xiao Lang.

When Xiao heard and saw this, he didn't say much for the moment, so he just said vaguely that he bought these at the Yangtze River ferry when he saw the old woman selling them.

"Then it makes sense for Changting to know."

"I just didn't expect that the Duke also knew about this thing."

"A big shot is a big shot. He has seen and tasted it all, and he thinks he is better than us!"

Yue Xiu was just making small talk and added this sentence.

After saying this, Xiao Jingchuan actually felt sad and depressed.

After a while, he took a few more bites and didn't rush to reply.

A gust of sandstorm passed by.

Unexpectedly, to the north of the Yangtze River, separated by a river, in the Huaibei area, there is such a desolate place.

"Hi"

"At that time, Xiao'e loved to eat at home. Of course, she liked to eat a lot of things."

"The main thing is that Uncle Jiao also took it for me once."

"On the contrary, he himself was reluctant to try it and never knew what it tasted like."

(End of this chapter)