Sunset Ancient City, the peaceful town became no longer peaceful due to the arrival of a third-rank official from the imperial court. Officers and soldiers were stationed in the city and patrolled on time every day.
After a few days, the people in the city gradually became accustomed to it from being nervous at the beginning. No matter the time, the people's adaptability was beyond ordinary. As long as they were not forced to survive, they could accept the situation.
In the east corner of the city, in front of a dilapidated house, a delicate-looking woman put the little money left in the family into the hands of the young man in front of her. With a stern look on her slightly pale face, she said, "Xiao Wen, you must know how to make progress when you study abroad. You are not allowed to come back before you have achieved fame, otherwise, your mother will not recognize you."
"Mother"
Xiao Wen's eyes were filled with tears. Five years later, he had grown from the little boy he was back then to a young man, but there was still a greenish look between his eyebrows.
On the side, Ning Chen stepped forward and put the prepared money into the young man's hand. He said with a gentle expression, "Listen to your mother and work hard. This money is given to you by your husband. I will wait for you Golden Scroll to sign your name and come back to let your mother live a good life."
"Sir"
Xiao Wen held the silver, hesitation flashed across his face, not knowing whether to take it or not.
Xin Yu stepped forward and said softly, "Xiao Wen, it's better to go out than at home. Bring more money for emergencies. As long as you study hard, Golden Scroll will be named in the future, and your husband's face will be bright."
"Thank you, Madam, thank you, Mr."
Xiao Wen accepted the money with tears in his eyes, bowed to the two of them respectively, and expressed gratitude.
"It's getting late, hurry up and get on your way," the woman urged with determination.
Xiao Wen looked at his mother in front of him, his eyes full of reluctance.
"Let's go, remember to work hard and don't let mother down," the woman said with tears in her eyes.
Xiao Wen wiped away the tears in his eyes, nodded vigorously, knelt down and kowtowed a few times, then suppressed the sadness in his heart, turned around and left.
Looking at the retreating figure, the tears in the woman's eyes finally couldn't be suppressed anymore, and they fell down drop by drop.
"Thank you Mr. Ning, thank you Mrs. Ning," the woman said, turning around and saluting the two of them.
Xin Yu stepped forward to support the woman and said softly, "No need to thank us, but don't you regret doing this?"
"As long as Xiao Wen can live well, that's enough."
The woman responded with difficulty, and immediately her face became sickly flushed and she coughed violently.
The dazzling red overflowed from the fingertips, falling drop by drop. The sick body suppressed by the medicine finally broke out no longer able to hold on.
"I'll help you into the house to take your medicine."
Xin Yu sighed softly, supported the woman, and walked towards the house.
Ning Chen stood outside the house, looking at the dilapidated ancient city, with emotion in his eyes. Partings between life and death are always quite sad.
Ordinary, there is ordinary happiness, but there is also ordinary helplessness.
Not long after, Xin Yu walked out of the house, took the hand of the person in front of him, and walked towards home.
"Husband, Xiao Wen's mother doesn't have many days left," Xin Yu said with a sad look on his face.
"You did your best"
Ning Chen held the former's hand and said.
"If my medical skills were better, I might be able to let Xiao Wen's mother live a little longer," Xin Yu said with a rather self-blaming look on his face.
"Birth, old age, illness and death, as long as they are natural, there is no need to regret too much. You are already the best doctor in the world. Otherwise, Xiao Wen's mother would not be able to survive today." Ning Chen comforted softly.
"Husband" Xin Yu called softly.
"Huh?" Ning Chen responded.
"Do you regret marrying me?" Xin Yu raised his head and asked.
"No regrets"
Ning Chen stretched out his hand, caressed the face of the woman in front of him, with a gentle smile on his face, and said, "I have never regretted it for a moment."
Xin Yu's eyes overflowed with tears, and then he smiled brightly and said, "I don't regret it either."
She knew that the person he liked was the woman in Huangcheng or the little princess Barbarian Dynasty, but she still couldn't help but want to be with him, even if it was only twenty years.
She won't hold him back for too long, twenty years is enough, and after twenty years, she will return him to them.
"Silly girl"
Ning Chen gently took the former into his arms and said softly, "You are my wife now, in the future, and forever. I marry you just because I want to marry you, not for any other reason."
"Yeah" Xin Yu nodded slightly.
Ning Chen raised his hand to wipe away the tears from the eyes of the person in front of him, and said with a chuckle, "We Ninth Princess are the most beautiful women in the world. There are countless rich and powerful children asking for marriage. I finally married her and it's too late for you to regret it."
Hearing the former's teasing, Xin Yu broke down in tears and laughed. He stretched out his hand and lightly hit the person in front of him, saying, "I want you to treat me well. If you treat me badly, I will return Princess's Residence and not have any relationship with you."
Ning Chen smiled softly and said, "That's right, how dare I treat our Ninth Princess badly?"
After returning home, Xin Yu went to the east kitchen to prepare dinner. Ning Chen walked to the desk, took out the rice paper, added water to grind it, and drew the figure in the painting bit by bit.
Not long after, Xin Yu came over with food. Seeing the figure in front of the desk, he asked in confusion, "What are you writing?"
"Nothing"
Ning Chen smiled, covered the scroll, and stepped forward and said, "It's been a long time since I saw you on the street buying rouge, gouache, or anything like that. I don't have to go to school tomorrow. I'll take advantage of this day to go shopping with you."
"You dislike me, a yellow-faced woman? Can't you stand it without applying rouge and gouache?" Xin Yu rolled his eyes at the former and said.
"Heh"
Ning Chen chuckled and said, "If you were a yellow-faced woman, wouldn't all the women in the world be able to look at you? I just feel that I haven't gone out with you for a long time, and I want to make up for it."
"Since what you said is quite sincere, I agreed," Xin Yu said with a smile.
The next day, when the morning light was shining, Xin Yu was dressing up in front of the bronze mirror in the room. Her stunning face, even without any decoration, was as perfect as the person in the painting.
Ning Chen has long been prepared to wait, waiting patiently. It is natural for women to love beauty, whether they are women or little girls, so women never dress up too quickly. He has fully learned this lesson.
After an unknown amount of time, Xin Yu stood up, looked at the figure waiting boredly in front of the door, slightly curved the corners of his mouth, and said, "Are you tired of waiting?"
Ning Chen heard this, quickly cheered up, shook his head and said, "How could it be? It is natural for a husband to wait for his wife, how could I be impatient?"
"That's good"
Xin Yu then nodded with satisfaction and said, "Let's go."
The two of them walked side by side towards the outside. Pedestrians were coming and going on the main street of the city. It was not too lively, but it was not deserted either.
Xin Yu stopped in front of a rouge stall, opened it, smelled it, looked at the woman behind the stall, and asked, "How do you sell this rouge?"
"Twenty articles"
Looking at the painting-like woman in front of her, the woman responded hurriedly.
"This is twenty coins, please take it."
Xin Yu took out twenty coins and put it in the hands of the woman in front of him. He immediately gave the rouge to the person next to him and said, "Take it, don't lose it."
Ning Chen nodded and took the rouge.
Xin Yu stopped in front of a gouache shop, picked for a while, ordered two boxes of gouache, and then continued walking forward.
Ning Chen took the packaged gouache from the shopkeeper and followed Dian Dian.
Cloth store, Xin Yu looked at the pieces of cloth in the store, selected them for a long time, took out a piece of cloth, looked at the people around him, and asked, "Does it look good?"
"It looks good." Ning Chen nodded quickly.
Xin Yu put down the cloth in his hand suspiciously, picked up another piece of cloth, and asked, "Where is this one?"
"It looks good too," Ning Chen said honestly.
Xin Yu put the cloth down again, picked up a piece of cloth with the worst quality, and asked again, "This?"
Ning Chen looked at it and didn't feel any difference. He nodded and said, "It looks good."
On the side, the proprietress of the cloth shop just wanted to laugh, but she held it back.
Xin Yu rolled his eyes at the person next to him angrily and said, "It's really useless for you to choose. Do you think all the cloth here looks good?"
Ning Chen glanced at the cloth in the store, and really didn't see much difference. However, his ingenuity in conquering the world told him that if he said yes now, he would definitely be looking for trouble.
"Of course not"
Ning Chen shook his head, picked up a piece of cloth at random, and said seriously, "I don't think this looks good."
"Giggle"
When the cloth store proprietress saw this, she couldn't help it any longer and burst out laughing.
Xin Yu was also very angry and wanted to slap him away.
"Sir, the piece of cloth you took is Yueyang Silk. It is made of the best silk and dyed with the best materials. My small shop can only buy a few pieces at a time. If you think it doesn't look good, there really is no good-looking satin in the world," the cloth shop proprietress said with a sweet smile.
The expression on Ning Chen's face froze, it was a slap in the face, the ship capsized in the gutter, how could he understand this? In the past, Ruoxi helped take care of it, but now Xin Yu has it, and he had never bought this thing by himself.
"Boss Boss, you don't need to pay attention to him. He is just an old man. He doesn't care about anything at home."
Xin Yu said angrily and continued, "How much silver does this Yueyang Silk cost?"
"Twenty taels," the cloth shop proprietress said, holding back her laughter.
Xin Yu nodded, the boss lady didn't ask for more, it was indeed the price.
"Wrap it up for me, we want this piece of cloth," Xin Yu responded.
"Okay, I'll wrap it up for the girl right away."
The cloth shop owner's face showed joy. Although the cloth was precious, it was not easy to sell. Today, she met a big customer.
"Lady Boss"
At this moment, outside the cloth shop, a young man holding a paper fan walked in and said, "I want all your cloth. I'll pack it up and send it to the City Lord's Mansion."
The proprietress of the cloth shop looked stunned and looked at the young man outside the shop in disbelief. Is it true or false?
This was the first time she had seen someone asking for something like this. She didn't even look at it and just wanted it all?
After a while, the cloth shop proprietress came to her senses and responded quickly, "Sir, please wait a moment. I will help this girl wrap the cloth and deliver the goods to him."
"Don't you understand what I'm saying? What I'm saying is, I want all your cloth," the young man said with a cold expression.
In the cloth shop, Ning Chen looked at the young man outside the shop, a faint smile flashed in his eyes, and whispered, "Xin Yu, let's make a bet, this person must be a woman."
Xin Yu was slightly surprised and glanced over, how could this be seen?
"How can you be so sure?" Xin Yu asked puzzled.
"Guess"
Ning Chen The corners of his mouth curled up and he responded.