Chapter 1253: Meet You Again When Flowers Fall (Extra 2)
Chapter 1253: Meet You Again When Flowers Fall (Extra 2)
The bond of this life has its own reason (Part 2)
A man and a woman nearby nodded repeatedly, but no one spoke. The girl even covered her mouth, fearing that she would say something wrong again.
"Let's go! Are you going into the city?" Du Ruoheng stretched out her hand to Huo Xiaoye who was looking at her. "I don't know where you're from, but if you stay here like this, you'll easily be scammed and sold."
After holding it in for a long time, Huo Xiaoye finally spoke: "No one wants to buy someone like me. I've traveled all the way from my hometown and passed through many places, but no one wants to buy me."
Du Ruoheng was slightly stunned for a moment before saying, "Every place has different customs. Here, Xianbei slaves are still very popular."
"Yeah! We'll bear witness." Hongdou echoed from the side, "If my brother and I didn't look like people from the Central Plains, we wouldn't have ended up in the Taoist temple. We would have been sold long ago."
Huo Xiaoye tilted his head and looked at Du Ruoheng for a long time before saying, "Are you going to buy me? My parents are dead, and I can make my own decision. If you want, I will sell myself to you."
"Whether to buy it or not, we'll talk about it later. Just follow me into the city first." There was no disgust in Du Ruoheng's expression as she let Huo Xiaoye sit in her carriage.
But Huo Xiaoye had seen many disgusted looks along the way, so even after getting into the carriage, he still curled up in the corner, fearing that he would dirty the carriage.
The group soon arrived at an inn.
Du Ruoheng asked Qingyan to take Huo Xiaoye downstairs to take a shower and change clothes, and to get some food for him.
"Miss, this child, are you planning to..." Hongdou said hesitantly, "He looks younger."
Du Ruoheng poked Hongdou's forehead and said, "I plan to make him my younger brother. What do you think?"
"Aren't you looking for a son-in-law? Why is it your younger brother again?" Hongdou was even more surprised. "Miss, when we returned to our hometown to worship our ancestors, didn't the master say that he would never marry again or take concubines, and that he would find you a live-in son-in-law?"
"The Wei family is interested in forming a marriage alliance with the Du family, and I'm the only candidate of the right age." Du Ruoheng sighed, "Father should have received General Wei's letter, so the idea of marrying into the family is probably out of the question.
The Du family's eldest branch is now a piece of fat meat, and everyone wants to take a bite. In order to intimidate my father, they even deliberately took him to see the fate of the sisters in the clan who took in their wives when they returned home. My father told me about this before he left.
"Miss!" Hongdou held Du Ruoheng's hand with some heartache. Although she and her brother grew up in a Taoist temple, everyone was very friendly. Although they would fight occasionally, they really had no ulterior motives.
"No need to be like this, I'm not afraid of them." Du Ruoheng raised her little face slightly, her eyes full of pride, "They asked Dad to go back to Huanzhou first and kept me here for this period of time, just to let me recognize a younger brother,
Thanks to Master sending you here to support me, I was able to leave the Du family's territory smoothly. Didn't they want me to recognize a younger brother? This is perfect, and it can also fulfill your wish to help your fellow tribesmen, which is killing two birds with one stone. "
As he was speaking, Huo Xiaoye had already arrived outside the door and vaguely heard the word "son-in-law".
Even though the child was precocious, her face flushed. Aren't Han Chinese girls said to be reserved? But she didn't look like that. She was only six.
Qingyan didn't care about that and directly pulled Huo Xiaoye into the room: "Miss, I have already sorted the people!"
Du Ruoheng turned to look at Huo Xiaoye and found that the child was very handsome. She couldn't help but pinch his cheek.
The red color, which had already gone down, now came up again.
"Have you eaten?" Du Ruoheng felt that the food felt good, so she pinched it again.
Of course, there was something that made her unhappy, that was Huo Xiaoye's uneven hair. She sighed softly, "What kind of person is this! They shaved a child's hair like this, long and short."
Although Qingyan usually tied his hair up himself, he only knew how to do a Taoist bun. Therefore, when Huo Xiaoye came over, his hair was basically "disheveled" except that it was half-dried.
Taking the comb from Hongdou, Du Ruoheng began to tidy up Huo Xiaoye's hair - after tidying up the hair that had grown a little longer, she braided it into a braid, then carefully combed other parts of the hair, and finally fixed it with a jade buckle.
It seemed that Huo Xiaoye looked much more energetic, and with the gentleman's attire he had just put on, he looked like a young master from a wealthy family.
When Du Ruoheng was combing his hair just now, Huo Xiaoye couldn't help but shudder. After all, he had suffered a lot with his hair and those people had hurt him before.
But when he felt that the other person's technique was very gentle, he finally couldn't help but feel a little sour in his nose. No one had treated him so gently since his mother passed away.
So
Sniffing, Huo Xiaoye seemed to have made some kind of decision: "Well, I am willing to be your son-in-law when I grow up!"
Du Ruoheng: (°ー°〃)
"What are you thinking, little brat!" After fixing his hair, Du Ruoheng smoothed Huo Xiaoye's braid and said, "If you want to repay me, I can consider accepting you as my younger brother. If I don't want to get married in the future, you will be responsible for supporting me."
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