Lin Chaobei didn't want to make things difficult for Erhu, because he had never actually eaten at the same table with their family. But he was also worried about Erhu going out alone; what if he got bullied by some unsuspecting person?
After thinking for a moment, he picked up his bowl and gestured for Erhu to do the same, then drank the mung bean soup in his bowl clean.
After Erhu finished his mung bean soup, Lin Chaobei gave Erhu two meat buns, and took one for himself, one in each hand, and said to Yue Jiuyue:
"Mom, I'll go check at the door."
The only one who probably didn't notice their little interaction was Xiaoman'er. She didn't ask why, nor did she stop them. She simply nodded in agreement and gave them one last instruction:
"Don't run around."
"Yeah, we'll just stand at the door and take a look."
Although it wasn't his first time in the county town, he always had something to do before. This time, however, he was there to buy a horse-drawn carriage and could enjoy himself to the fullest. He hadn't really explored the county town properly yet, so he was happy to just look around in front of the steamed bun shop, since he didn't care what others thought.
To be honest, in this respect, he really does have some of Yue Jiuyue's skills.
The two squatted outside the door, munching on steamed buns while watching the passersby on the street. Occasionally, they would whisper a few words about how naive they had never seen the world, and they were quite content.
until……
"Young man, I'm telling you, your forehead is dark, you might be in for some bloodshed soon..."
An old man with a long gray beard held a spirit banner in one hand and stroked his gray beard with the other, looking quite like a sage, which surprised Lin Chaobei and Erhu.
"Mother! Mother! Come quickly!"
Lin Chaobei instinctively called out for his mother. He felt so weak that he couldn't stand up, as if the end of his life was just around the corner.
"What's wrong?"
This was the first time Yue Jiuyue had heard the fourth brother call her that, giving her the feeling that a child had been bullied outside and was now calling for their parents.
"Mother, he... he said I'm in for a bloody disaster!"
The phrase "bloodshed" doesn't sound like a good thing; it's as if he's about to die, which is why Lin Chaobei felt afraid.
"Um?"
Yue Jiuyue looked in the direction Lin Chaobei was pointing, raised an eyebrow, and was surprised to find that it was someone she knew.
"Oh! So the old man's scam of faking accidents failed, and he's back to his old ways!"
Yue Jiuyue's tone was extremely sarcastic. She reached out to pull Lin Chaobei up, but the child was like a lump of rotten meat, and she couldn't move him. So she simply let him sit on the ground. Anyway, she didn't have to wash his dirty clothes.
"Cough! Cough!"
The old man was so shocked that he choked, coughed incessantly, and couldn't speak.
Huang Banxian never expected his luck to be so bad. He ran into the old woman who had sent him to jail for half a day again. Just thinking about the rats and fleas in the jail made him feel goosebumps all over his body. He felt incredibly itchy and could almost hear the rats grinding their teeth.
"That's a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding!"
Huang Banxian finally stopped coughing and hurriedly explained, afraid that if he explained too slowly, the old woman would send him to the county government again, and he didn't want to lose face again.
"Misunderstanding? What does Master Huang mean by that? The day before yesterday he said I would suffer a bloody disaster, and today he says my son will suffer a bloody disaster. What, is my whole family going to be wiped out?"
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