He has the pride not to accept his fate

The white cat slept soundly, because he was in Baimin Alley, where there were noisy cries every day, and he was so relaxed that he didn't hear the footsteps approaching him at all.

When his body was pressed and grabbed, he finally reacted, meowed, and frantically broke away with his teeth and claws.

How could Shen Jingyuan let it escape? This was ten taels of silver! How many meat buns!

The white cat was completely caught. Shen Jingyuan and Li Shang looked at each other and smiled. They were so happy that they couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Shen Jingyuan said quickly: "That vicious dog might come back soon, let's run away first!"

Just like that, the two of them rushed to the door of Xuezheng's house, holding the white cat in their arms.

The salary of an eighth-grade scholar was just like that. He couldn't afford a mansion in Kyoto and was not qualified to be granted a mansion by the emperor. Therefore, Tang Ziwei and his family bought a courtyard in the east of the city and settled there.

Tang Ziwei's wife was called Chun, the daughter of his mentor, and the white cat was named Ling Dang'er. Tang Ziwei asked a friend to buy it from a merchant in the Western Regions for his wife's entertainment.

But as luck would have it, the previous month Chun went out with all the noble ladies to burn incense, and Ling Ding'er suddenly jumped out of the window and ran away, disappearing without a trace.

Chun was sentimental and cried several times when she came home. Tang Ziwei had no choice but to post a reward to coax his wife to see if anyone could find the bell.

This post is from January, and gradually, I feel like I can’t get it back.

Mrs. Chun was just about to go to bed tonight when she heard the woman outside the door coming to report.

"Madam, there are two beggars outside the door who say they have found a bell."

Chun was overjoyed and stood up quickly.

Li Shang and Shen Jingyuan stood at the door of the Tang family. It was a cold night. They were holding the white cat and shivering, looking expectantly at the person from the Tang family who went to report.

The door opened.

A fat woman wearing gold and silver was helped out by her mother-in-law and maid. Looking at the white cat in their arms, her eyes lit up and she was overjoyed.

"Bell! It's really my bell!"

The maid next to the woman quickly picked up the white cat and handed it to the woman.

Mrs. Chun held Ling Ding'er in her arms, feeling extremely happy. She could only focus on the joy of regaining what was lost, and completely forgot about the two people standing outside the door. She only looked over after her joy calmed down.

Looking up and down, one was wearing patches and the other was wearing linen. Among them, the hemp shoes on the boy's feet were torn, and his toes were vaguely exposed. They stood thin in the cold wind, as if they could be blown away by the wind, their faces Although they all look pretty, their hair is really dry and frizzy, like weeds.

A trace of disgust and disgust flashed through Chun's eyes, and she grabbed a handful of copper coins from the mother-in-law's hand and threw them away: "Your reward."

Shen Jingyuan lowered her head and looked at the dozens of copper coins on the ground. She stepped forward and grabbed the corner of the woman's clothes: "Madam, the reward stated in the reward order is ten taels."

But Chun was startled as if she had been touched by something dirty. She screamed and couldn't help but kicked Shen Jingyuan: "Ah! Don't touch me!"

Shen Jingyuan was kicked down and felt a burning pain in the palm of his hand. When he raised his hand, he saw that his white and tender palm was indeed scratched by the small pebbles on the ground.

The young man next to her stepped forward and helped her up quickly. When he saw the bloodshot eyes coming out of his palms, he stared at Chun with a pair of black eyes. He stepped forward and pushed her to the ground: "What are you doing!"

Chun was frightened and shouted: "Bold!"

She was about to order her servants to arrest the man and beat him, but when she looked at the young man's abyss-like black eyes, she felt frightened.

She was pampered and cherished by her father and husband since she was born. She grew up soaked in honey until she got married. She was never treated like this by a pariah.

Mrs. Chun is conscious of her magnanimity. Her husband is a scholar of the Imperial Academy. She should be more open-minded and generous and not get angry with them.

"You common people, it is a great honor to serve an official. The reward has been paid. Don't be greedy. Ten taels? Who knows if you secretly kept my bells after seeing them? Will you return them? Now come to my Tang Mansion. , I must have been moved after seeing the reward of ten taels."

Li Shang looked at her gloomily and suddenly smiled: "It's a great honor to serve an official?"

Mrs. Chun raised her head and almost looked at the person with her nose: "It's a great honor for a pariah like you to do something for us. Who wouldn't envy you for doing something for the government? Just be content."

Mrs. Chun felt that talking to lower-class people would lower her status, so she didn't want to say anything. She hummed softly and was turned around by several slaves.

The door of the Tang family closed, and Li Shang turned to look at Shen Jingyuan: "Jinjin, now do you know why I want to be an official and have power."

Shen Jingyuan raised his head and looked at the young man. He was standing alone in rags under the dim light. Even though he was so poor, he still had to stand upright.

He is a philistine, he is a thief, he is a dandy, he is greedy and selfish, Shen Jingyuan has seen all these.

But this proud look of not accepting fate was the first time she saw it tonight.

Shen Jingyuan picked up the copper coins on the ground one by one. There were forty-three coins in total. She tugged at the corner of Li Shang's clothes and said with a smile: "Let's go. I've been very tired from running around these days. Let's go have a nice meal." Right."

She pulled him away, but Li Shang stopped and looked back at the Tang family.

Shen Jingyuan pulled him: "Oh, don't look at it. Why bother with this kind of person?"

Although they didn't get ten taels of silver, having forty-three copper coins was a bit of a reward. The two of them went to the noodle stall and ordered two portions of Yangchun noodles extravagantly, adding chopped green onion and an egg. Of course, the egg made the stall owner very happy. Divide it into two and add it to two bowls respectively

The checkout totaled twenty-two cents.

This time, each person had a full bowl. Shen Jingyuan touched his belly with satisfaction and pulled Li Shang back to the dead end.

On the way, Shen Jingyuan thought of the ups and downs along the way and sighed: "Give me the money, and in the next world, you can arrange a better destiny for me in the next world. It's best to use the money to eat, drink, and have fun until you die." ."

Lai Qian also knew that Shen Jingyuan had suffered a lot, so he replied: "Don't worry, the next world will definitely make you happy until you die."

So cool? Not bad, not bad.

With the promise of money, Shen Jingyuan felt much better. When he returned to the dead end, it was Xu Shi, and there was still a long time before the Zishi curfew. However, after the two of them had eaten, they were swept away by the feeling of being trapped, and they fell into a trance while leaning against the corner. I slept until the second day.

It was a bit cold last night, and Shen Jingyuan couldn't sleep well intermittently. It wasn't until the sun came out and brought warmth that he finally fell asleep, shrouded in sunlight in a dead-end street.

It was almost noon when she woke up, but Li Shang was not around.

She didn't dare to walk around. Kyoto was so big that it was hard to tell whether there were human traffickers. She was still a road addict, so she could only find a nearby food stall and buy a steamed bun to hold in her arms and gnaw.

It's cold in early autumn.

Her throat felt itchy again, Shen Jingyuan sighed, she was indeed infected with the cold again.

Fortunately this time it was not serious, just a slight cough.

She took a bite of the white-flour steamed bun and looked at the passers-by, when she suddenly heard the passers-by whispering.

"It's really scary. The vicious dog in Baimin Lane is so ferocious that even my husband doesn't dare to get close to it, but the young man tried to catch it with his bare hands."
Chapter completed!