Underworld messenger

I searched the whole street, but I couldn't find Liu Ji Candied Stir-Fried Chestnuts.

Rong Jing simply dragged him to a tea shed to sit down, asked Xiao Er to make a pot of tea, and poured it for Ru Ye himself.

Ru also took the tea, said thank you, and drank it all in one gulp. At this time, he remembered the time when he was a ghost, and the underworld was so cold that it would not be hot.

Rong Jing looked at the little beads of sweat on the tip of his nose and felt very distressed, and was about to raise his hand to wipe it off for him, when he heard a grunt.

Ru Ye's face turned red in an instant. She was hungry in Sanxi Village before, but she didn't expect to be hungry again when she came to Xiangnan Town.

Rong Jing was stunned for a moment, then reacted and asked him, "Are you hungry?"

Ru also wished to find a crack in the ground to sneak in, it was too hopeless, and his voice was as thin as a mosquito, "Well...it doesn't matter, let's find Liu Ji first..."

Rong Jing was a little unhappy, "What can I do, eat when you're hungry, and find it when you're full."

Ru Ye opened his mouth but didn't make a sound, he had already stayed in Yangjian for half an hour, he didn't know if it would be too late for a meal.

Before he could think clearly, Rong Jing had already pulled him up, "Go, what do you want to eat?"

Ru Ye was very vague about what happened before he was alive, and he didn't even remember what he liked to eat. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly recalled a taste, and said blankly, "Steamed buns...I want to eat buns..."

"Buns?" Rong Jing dragged him to a bun stand, where a cage as tall as one person was filled with big white and tender buns, and the scent was wafting, so you could tell they were just out of the pot.

The peddler asked with a smile, "What do you two order?"

Rong Jing saw that he was in a daze, raised his hand and rubbed his head, "What do you want to eat?"

The taste in my memory is very vague, but the steamed stuffed bun in front of me is very fragrant, as if I can remember it after eating it, Ruya said, "I want two pork stuffed ones."

"Okay——" the hawker quickly wrapped two pork buns for him, Rong Jing said, "I want pork stuffing too."

The peddler helped him wrap two more pork stuffing, and handed the buns to Ru Ye, and Rong Jing took out money from his wallet and handed it to the peddler.

Ru also opened the paper bag, and picked up the bun while whistling. The delicious smell made people salivate. He took a bite carefully, and it was really soft.

Rong Jing looked at him tenderly from the side, but Ru Ye's expression suddenly changed.

Ru also chewed the steamed bun in his mouth and was a little disappointed. The steamed stuffed bun was delicious but not the taste in his memory. A voice came from beside him, "Isn't it delicious?"

Ru Ye just remembered that this was someone else's treat, and quickly shook his head, "It's delicious..."

Rong Jing frowned, he didn't want to see Ru being unhappy at all, he took the bun away, "If it doesn't taste good, then don't eat it, let's eat something else."

"Don't—" Ru Ye snatched the bun back again, "It's not that it's not delicious... It's just that there is always a bun in my memory that tastes very special, but I can't remember it. I only know that this bun doesn't taste like... "

Rong Jing reached out to hug him, but remembered that his current condition had not recovered, so he could only ask, "Then where did you eat the buns in your memory?"

Ru also smiled wryly, "I can't remember clearly for a long time, I only vaguely remember eating it when I was a child."

Rong Jing secretly made a note, and when Ru Ye finished eating, the two continued to search.

An hour was about to arrive, Ru also was afraid that Rong Jing would find him disappearing suddenly, and was trying to find an excuse to drive him away, when he suddenly saw an old woman struggling to push a small wooden cart.

He hurried forward, "Grandma, let me help you."

The old lady smiled kindly with a wrinkled face, "Thank you, young man."

Rong Jing also came up to help, and pushed it into an alley according to the old woman's instructions. The old woman thanked her and took out a somewhat dilapidated signboard from below—Liu Ji Candied Roasted Chestnuts.

There was really nowhere to look for, so Ru also hurriedly bought a portion of sugar-fried chestnuts from the old woman.

Probably this was the first business deal of the day, the old lady opened the fire, but she refused to take the money, and wanted to give it to Ru Ye for nothing.

But Ruya insisted on giving the money, and when the old woman wrapped the chestnuts, he took out the small box again, "Old woman, here is something, someone asked me to give it to you."

The old lady took the small box, and opened it to find a chestnut, which was well preserved and even had a faint chestnut fragrance. She went up to smell it, and looked at Ruya kindly, "So it's him..."

The old lady raised her hand as if she wanted to touch Ru Ye, and he quickly lowered his body to make it easier for the old man.

The old woman touched his head and said with emotion, "Is he as old as you..."

Ru also realized that he was talking about that boy, but unfortunately the boy is already a ghost and will never grow up, but now he can only tell the old woman, "Yeah, it's about the same as me."

The old woman suddenly choked up, "Will his stepmother still beat him?"

Ru also froze for a moment, "It shouldn't be possible now..."

The old woman nodded and said in a low voice, "That's good, that's good..."

Ru also saw that she wanted to sit down, so she quickly helped her to sit on the stone steps. The old woman looked at the small box and said, "His stepmother always beats him, often scarring him, and his dead father doesn't care. He ran to me with injuries all over his body, and even though it was difficult for him to move, he wanted to help me push the cart."

Rong Jing also sat down to listen together, and the old lady continued, "Although I feel sorry for him, I can't save him. I can only peel sugar and stir-fry chestnuts for him. He didn't know what it was when he ate it for the first time. I told this It is the elixir of Taishang Laojun, and it will not hurt if you eat one."

There seemed to be tears in the old woman's eyes, "He ate one and said it was delicious and it really didn't hurt... Later I wanted to fight with his dead father to save the poor child, but I never saw him again To him... I often think of him these years..."

If he also opened his mouth but felt his throat choked up, then the boy might have already...

The old woman patted his hand, "Do you think his stepmother will still beat him? He should be doing well now, right?"

Ru also blinked, he gently held the old woman's hand, and said softly, "He's fine now, no one will beat him again..."

The old lady nodded, "That's good, that's good..."