Chapter 49: Two-Way Redemption
After leaving Xuan Ce Mansion, Ah Dian was unwilling to get on the carriage that Cui Jing had prepared for him, and instead insisted on riding with Chang Suining.
Chang Sui'an was in a dilemma. Just as he was about to persuade her, he heard his sister say, "It's okay. Come up."
After getting the permission from the carriage owner, Adian happily went in with his bag.
He was tall and suddenly entered the carriage, seeming to fill up half of it. The originally spacious interior suddenly became crowded.
Xier and Azhi looked up at him in a daze.
Feeling the carriage sinking, Xier was even a little worried... Could the carriage be pulled by just two horses?
Fortunately, the horses of the General's Mansion never admit defeat.
The carriage continued to move forward steadily, just a little slower than when it came.
"Do you want to eat?" Inside the car, Chang Suining pointed at the snacks on the small table and asked.
Ah Dian looked down and nodded with shining eyes.
"Take it."
Adian then reached out and used both hands to pick up a piece of lotus cake in each hand and put them into his mouth.
"How sweet!" He showed a happy, satisfied and chubby smile.
Seeing that his expression was as innocent and pure as a child, and not as moody as they had heard before, Xier and Azhi gradually relaxed.
While eating, Ah Dian looked outside the car, extremely excited: "...there are magicians there!"
"Little A Li, I saw the sugar figurine. I want a rabbit. What do you like? I have money. I can buy one for you too!"
"Look, what is that?"
Chang Suining looked at him and asked softly, "Have you not been out for a long time?"
"Well, they don't allow me to come out." At this point, Adian felt a little aggrieved.
"Are they bad guys?" Chang Suining asked.
"Yes!" Adian nodded heavily.
Chang Suining looked at him.
“Not really…” He lowered his shoulders in frustration: “They are not bad people either.”
Chang Suining nodded and asked, "Are they enemies?"
Ah Dian shook his head, his voice a little depressed: "We usually compete together and play together... They are my friends. His Highness told me that everyone in Xuan Ce's mansion is my friend."
Chang Suining: "Your knife is very sharp, can you point it at your friends?"
Ah Dian quietly looked at the machete beside him, his guilty conscience written all over his face: "I... I didn't want to fight with them. I discussed it with them and begged them for a long time, but they just wouldn't agree. I tried to sneak out, but they kept trying to stop me..."
After he finished speaking, he didn't hear Chang Suining's voice for a long time, so he secretly looked up at her.
She didn't say anything, just looked at him quietly, without any blame in her eyes.
Seeing this, Ah Dian's eyebrows drooped: "I know I was wrong."
"Your Highness told me to practice martial arts and swordplay... to protect myself and my friends." As he spoke, his mouth pursed and his eyes watered. "I didn't listen to Your Highness. You will definitely be angry."
"But I really miss His Highness..." He looked at Chang Suining aggrievedly: "Little A Li, you don't know how long I haven't seen His Highness!"
He stretched out his two hands, with his fingers spread wide apart, as if he wanted to express that all ten fingers had been used up and it had been a very long time.
"Uncle Chang said that His Highness now lives in Gongling Mausoleum in Jingshan. I went there many times, but I couldn't find His Highness..." He said, wiping away tears with his big hands: "Later I overheard them saying that His Highness passed away. Little A Li, do you know what passed away means?"
Facing his tearful eyes filled with innocent longing, Chang Suining exhaled softly, suppressed the tears, and said as calmly as possible: "He died. He just went to a place a little far away."
Ah Dian looked at her without blinking: "Can you come back?"
"Yes." Chang Suining nodded: "As long as there is someone you are worried about, you will definitely come back, even if you have to go a long way, you will come back."
She looked at Adian and said, "It may just change its appearance and become different from before."
Xier's eyes turned red for no apparent reason - the girl must be talking about reincarnation after death.
"It's okay!" Ah Dian's eyes lit up again, full of expectation: "No matter what Your Highness looks like, I can recognize him!"
Chang Suining stared at him.
"Little A Li, why are you looking at me like that?"
Chang Suining blinked: "I don't believe it."
"Do you think I'm bragging?" Adian said seriously, "I'm serious. I can smell the scent on your highness!"
Chang Suining subconsciously sniffed himself secretly——
“…What’s that smell?”
The bloody smell brought back from the battlefield, the stinky smell of sweat from the training ground?
"The smell of the sun!" Adian said, "The smell of the moon!"
He added: "There are also many flowers and plants that smell the best in the world!"
Chang Suining laughed in surprise: "What are those smells?"
"Anyway, I can definitely smell it!" Ah Dian said proudly, "This is a secret code between me and His Highness."
Chang Suining smiled and said, "Then when you get the code and meet the person, can you tell me secretly?"
"Sure!" Ah Dian said generously, "Your Highness must be thinking of you."
He added: "But Your Highness must miss me more."
After all, he was a child at heart, and after hearing the answer "Your Highness will come back", he became happy again, picked up a piece of dessert, and turned around to look at the bustling street market.
Looking at his sparkling eyes, Chang Suining opened the other side of the carriage curtain and asked Chang Sui'an outside the carriage: "Brother, if you are not in a hurry to go back, how about going to the West Market?"
"Don't worry!" Chang Sui'an immediately smiled and ordered, "Go to the West Market!"
It was rare for his sister to want to go to a crowded place, so even if he had something very important to do, he would have to wait in the back - besides, there really wasn't anything.
"Uncle, where is West Market?" A Che asked the driver in a low voice while sitting on the shaft.
The driver smiled and said, "West Market, that's the busiest place in the entire capital. In West Market, there's nothing you can't buy, except what you don't want to buy!"
A Che's eyes were full of anticipation.
At this moment, he could never have imagined that the biggest thing his girl bought on this trip would be an "old friend" of his.
…
In Xuan Ce's mansion, Yuan Xiang had just asked someone to send Ms. Ming and her entourage out, then he hurried to find his own commander-in-chief.
"Commander-in-chief... let me tell you, that young man really does look very similar to the lady from the Chang family. Even General Adian mistook them for the same person!"
He sighed again, "But that young man is really smart and thoughtful. In order to appease General Adian, he didn't even explain."
Cui Jing stood in front of the bookshelf, wiping the bow in his hand with a clean cotton towel. He did not look back, but said, "Turn left after leaving Xuan Ce Mansion and go to Kangping Street—"
Yuan Xiang immediately said in a serious tone, "Commander-in-chief, what's next?"
Are they going to arrest someone or investigate something secretly? Cui Jing: "There is a clinic at the end of the street, called Huichun Hall, and the doctor there is good at treating brain diseases."
Yuan Xiang was stunned, and subconsciously took a step forward and asked in a low voice: "Governor...are you feeling unwell?"
"..." Cui Jing turned his head to look at his hopeless subordinate, his eyes fell on his right hand: "If you dare to behave disrespectfully towards the Chang family's wife again, you will be punished by military law."
Yuan Xiang subconsciously looked at his hands, his mind working rapidly, sparks of wisdom bursting out -
His eyes suddenly widened.
"Commander-in-chief...you...you are saying that the young man is the wife of the Chang family?!"
Seeing that his own governor remained silent and only looked at him with a look that said "you should reflect on yourself", Yuan Xiang slapped his forehead and said, "I am really short-sighted!"
"It's all because I've read too many military books recently..." He reflected deeply on himself, his expression somewhat regretful and solemn: "It's clearly the simplest matter, but I thought about it in a complicated way... It's all because I was too thoughtful!"
Maybe this is the case of being too clever.
Cui Jing stared at him for a moment.
"…You should go to the Rejuvenation Hall."
…
"Girl, it's so lively here!"
On Xishi Street, Ache was stunned by the lively scene before him.
At this moment, a Persian merchant passed by him, which made him open his eyes wide in shock.
"Don't make such a fuss." Ah Dian whispered to him, "If you keep staring at people like this, people will laugh at you!"
A Che nodded quickly.
However, the next moment, he saw two tall dark-skinned servants following the merchant in front of him, and his eyes widened uncontrollably again.
"Ningning, what do you want to buy?" Chang Sui'an pointed to a shop in front and said, "Do you want to go and look at the spices?"
Chang Suining was attracted by the hawking voice of a vendor in front of him.
"... can travel a thousand miles a day! He is truly a red rabbit among donkeys!"
"Traveling a thousand miles a day? It looks like an ordinary green donkey..."
"...I also bought this donkey from a group of escorts for a large sum of money ten days ago by chance! I have been doing the horse business in the West Market for many years. How can I be an exaggerator?"
Someone looked at it with envy, and asked with his sleeves tucked in, "If it's really that magical, then if we cook it into a donkey meat pot and eat it, can we live forever? Otherwise, how about donkey meat BBQ?"
“…”
Chang Suining walked over and looked at the donkey that was eating grass with its head down. He couldn't help but ask A Che, "Does it look familiar to you?"
Ache nodded with a complicated expression, perhaps this was the unfinished destiny.
Chang Suining also has this feeling.
"Brother, buy it."
Looking in the direction of his sister's finger, Chang Sui'an: "?"
Even when he returned to the mansion, Chang Sui'an was still puzzled as he watched the donkey led by the sword boy, swinging its tail leisurely.
Did my sister really believe what the horse dealer said and think that this donkey could travel a thousand miles a day?
Or did his sister also want to eat donkey meat hotpot, and the donkey meat was on fire? So he simply asked: "Ningning, should this donkey be sent to the stable or the kitchen?"
"Of course it's the stable." Chang Suining walked in front of him and said, "I recognize this donkey."
She simply told Chang Sui'an how they "met".
Chang Sui'an was stunned.
Was it this donkey that carried my sister away from the human traffickers' den?
“Then…” He couldn’t help but say, “Then doesn’t it mean it’s my sister’s life-saving donkey?!”
Chang Suining: “…”
"No... If my sister hadn't brought it out, it would have been confiscated by the government, and it might have been killed by the sword now." Chang Sui'an analyzed seriously: "So, it was my sister who saved it."
"And my sister redeemed it from the horse dealer this time..." Finally, he concluded as if he had suddenly realized something: "So, my sister and it can be considered a mutual redemption!"
He felt that his words were insightful, and considering his sister's love of literary expressions, he asked as if to take credit: "Ningning, am I right?"
"..." Chang Suining forced a smile.
It’s great that she and a donkey were able to achieve mutual redemption in her lifetime.
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Today's update is late, but there are more words, so please forgive me... I will try to write another update tonight! (I am really hardworking (End of this chapter)
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