Chapter 12
(23) Big Cricket Big Plan
The young marquis and I followed the carriage in silence and aimlessly, moving forward.
"I can't bear to see you go, woo woo woo." I wiped my tears and said to the young marquis, "I even caught a big cricket and wanted to continue playing with you."
As soon as the young marquis saw my big cricket, he started crying too.
"I don't want to leave either, but the emperor asked me to go, wuwu."
The young marquis whimpered for a while, then asked me, "Can you give me your cricket as a parting gift?"
I glanced at the young marquis sadly.
"Of course not. I finally caught one this big. You are dreaming, woooo." I cried and covered my bamboo cage that contained crickets.
"Hmph, stingy guy, woo woo."
The young marquis and I walked and cried for a while, each crying.
"Thirteen, don't see me off. It's getting dark and this place is too far from your home. You should go home." The young marquis looked at me reluctantly and said.
I noticed the look in the young marquis's eyes and asked him, "Young marquis, are you reluctant to leave me?"
The young marquis was silent for a while before he slowly said, "I really want to..."
As he spoke, he sobbed.
My heart skipped a beat.
"I really want your cricket." The young marquis said this to me while crying loudly.
At this time, Yunniang jumped out from the reeds nearby for some reason.
"Well, I'll give you a compromise." Yunniang, wearing a black nightgown, said with a serious expression.
Before the young marquis and I could ask why Yunniang was here, Yunniang had already told us her compromise.
"If the young marquis gives me 100 taels of silver, I will give you the big cricket and Shang Shisan as a gift for the big cricket."
I glanced at Yunniang and said, "Isn't that the wrong way around? The big cricket should be my gift to the young marquis."
Yunniang suddenly changed her expression towards me and said, "Shut up!"
I was frightened by Yunniang's ferocious face and fell silent instantly.
The young marquis thought about it and nodded.
"Great, Thirteen is so capable. Once we get to the new home, he can help me catch all kinds of new big crickets."
Yunniang pinched her waist with one hand and said to the young marquis, "Stop talking nonsense and give me money!"
I looked at Yunniang crying again, "But I don't want to leave you, Yunniang."
Yunniang finally revealed a miserable expression this time, "Ah, a girl can't be kept at home when she grows up... Let's go."
Yunniang left me behind and prepared to follow the young marquis to get the banknotes.
Before we parted, I reluctantly held Yunniang's hand and said to her, "Yunniang... woo woo woo, I promise that when you die, I will build you a magnificent tomb. I will work hard to save money, and I will wait for you to build your tomb."
Yunniang's eyes suddenly turned red.
"You don't have to wait until I die. You can send it to me when you have some money. You can give me more money while I'm alive. When I die, you don't have to worry about me. Just bury me wherever you want."
Yunniang paused and added, "Besides, we don't know who will die first..."
I wiped my tears and cried to Yunniang, "I will definitely live longer than you. Woo woo woo, Yunniang, I can't bear to leave you."
Yunniang counted the banknotes, and after making sure there was no problem, she quietly put them in her pocket.
Then she cried and said to me, "You must remember, when you go to the young marquis's house, you must work hard to take care of him, remember to get more money from him, and remember to send me some regularly."
I cried even harder after hearing that. "I can't do that. I can only make trouble, wuwuwu."
(24) Big Cricket Big Plan
When Yunniang heard what I said, she showed a bitter smile.
"If you apply the same motivation you used to catch crickets to learning how to get money from the young marquis, you'll definitely be able to get it."
I cried even harder, "I don't want to learn. Otherwise, let's go together, Yunniang."
Yunniang probably saw how miserable I was crying, so she hugged me and gently comforted me, saying, "Silly boy, I still have a house and land in the city. I can't bear to leave. I'm not like you, a fool who can only catch crickets. I want to be a millionaire."
In the end, Yunniang and I had to part ways.
I cried loudly and held Yunniang's hand and refused to let go.
"I will save money to build a grave for you, Yunniang." I solemnly promised Yunniang.
Yunniang also burst into tears, "I've told you many times, while I'm alive, I'll be very happy if you send me more money, but if I die, just leave me alone."
Finally, Yunniang said to me as she chased the galloping carriage: "If you're unhappy in the young marquis's mansion, remember to take some of his property and come back to me. If you come back without his property, I won't want you."
The young marquis seemed to have heard it as well.
He asked me with some confusion: "Who is this guy that Yunniang is talking about?"
I wiped my tears and watched Yunniang's gradually shrinking figure. I turned back to the young marquis in a daze and said, "It, you mean my big cricket, right?"
The young marquis scratched his head a few times in confusion.
"Yeah?"
I nodded affirmatively, "Yes."
For a long time afterwards, the young marquis and I didn't speak any more.
The main reason is that the sudden separation between Yunniang and I caused me a great mental shock.
Although I can follow the young marquis, I have lost my Yunniang.
The young marquis probably saw that I was unhappy, so he teased me by saying, "When we get to the inn, we can have a competition to see whose cricket is more powerful. My cricket with four legs is not necessarily worse than yours."
I get angry when I hear the name "Xie Si Ji".
I couldn't help but pick up my new Four Legs and cheer it up: "New Four Legs, you must remember how your brother died tragically at the hands of the brutal Four Legs. You must avenge him."
"When did you give it a new name?" the young marquis asked me.
"Well, it's called New Four Legs, which means the new generation of four legs." I paused before saying, "Its main mission is to avenge his brother and remove the four legs of the four legs."
The young marquis also laughed when he heard it.
"If my "Xie Si Jiao" wins again this time, I'll have to change my name to "Xie Xin Si Jiao."
Just as we were arguing with the young marquis, a silent servant suddenly interrupted and said, "Shang Shisan, Yunniang asked me to make a bet with you and the young marquis during a cricket fight."
The young marquis and I stopped arguing and looked at the servant in confusion.
"Yunniang said that every time you fight crickets, if you win, you will ask the young marquis to send money to Yunniang. If you lose, you will win again next time."
Seeing that I was still a little stunned, the servant continued, "Yunniang said she knew you weren't good at making money, so she asked me to supervise you two. As long as the cricket fighting counts, the money you get will be 70% for me and 30% for Yunniang."
I asked in a daze, "What about me? Why don't I have any money?"
The servant said expressionlessly, "You already have a young marquis, what else do you want?"
The young marquis asked again, "What about me?"
"You're a sucker."
The next moment, the servant changed his tone, "If the young marquis loses, you can take Thirteen's cricket for yourself. Let Thirteen go out and find a new big cricket to fight you."
"Isn't this a perpetual motion device?" The next moment, I was amazed at Yunniang's extraordinary talent.
"If I lose, the cricket dies and I have to find a new one. If I win, the cricket is taken by the young marquis and I have to find a new one. If I lose, Yunniang has no money. If I win, you two will get 73 cents."
I was a little angry and patted the carriage. "So I have to keep moving around looking for crickets forever."
"I'll just sit there and do nothing," the servant said calmly. "Your mother wants you to get married, and you already have a young marquis. All you have left is to be a wealthy idler and find crickets to kill time."
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