Chapter 109 What a real woman!
After dinner, Ye Qiongying rested for a while, then took out a spear from the weapon rack in the room and invited Uncle Ye to play a game of swords.
Even during the fight, the sandbags tied to his body were never removed.
The movements were indeed not as light and convenient as before, but the sense of power was completely different from before. Every move seemed to finally hit the real point, and there was finally no more that light and powerless feeling.
Uncle Ye also noticed her progress. As soon as the game was over, he laughed and congratulated Ye Qiongying.
An Yu, who was a spectator, watched with sparkling eyes, just like a child watching an opera, but with a little more yearning.
Ye Qiongying was amused by him:
"Do you want to learn martial arts, Anyu? Then you should exercise well and keep running every day. When you get better, I will teach you martial arts in person, how about that?"
"Okay!" An Yu clenched his fists, "An Yu will work hard!"
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With this as motivation, Ye Qiongying had no problem telling An Yu to exercise at home when she went out in the afternoon.
Leaving An Yu at home, Ye Qiongying and Uncle Ye went out of the yard and deliberately walked around outside for a few times before they found the shop that served as the Ye family's contact point.
This is also a pawnshop. The plaque hanging outside is the same as the one in Beijing, with four large characters "Chun Ye Pawnshop" inscribed on it. Next to it is a crescent-shaped leaf, the shape of which is exactly the same as the crescent-shaped jade talisman that Ye Qiongying got from Uncle Niu in the pawnshop in Beijing.
The two men walked into the pawnshop one after the other.
There was quite a lot of space inside. Behind the tall counter, only a dark back of the head was visible. The owner of the back of the head was sleeping soundly on the counter. The snoring seemed to make the countertop vibrate slightly.
Uncle Ye walked forward and knocked on the counter twice.
The man inside suddenly became alert, and the snoring sound instantly stopped. The man lying on his stomach also looked up, and then he jumped up as if he was bitten by a flea, clenched his fist and looked outside:
"Who?!"
But she is a tall and strong... woman?
That's right.
This woman's height is not only among women, but also among men, there are few who are taller than her. She is a middle-aged woman with her hair in a bun.
He has a very ordinary appearance. Apart from his exaggerated height, he does not have any other personal features. He is the type that would be forgotten at first sight in a crowd.
She stared at Uncle Ye for a long time before she said hesitantly:
"Ye...you are, Ye Jing'an?"
Hearing Uncle Ye's name, Ye Qiongying turned around and looked at Uncle Ye.
Uncle Ye nodded, stroked his beard and smiled:
"Sister Hong, don't you recognize me?"
"Oh my god!" Sister Hong leaned over the counter and looked out, almost half of her body sticking out, looking at Uncle Ye in shock, "It's really you, Ye Jing'an. No...how did you become like this! Didn't you mention this to me when Lao Niu wrote to me last time? What's wrong with your white hair? You still call me sister. Brother, I think I'm going to call you uncle!"
This tone, this style...
Ye Qiongying instantly thought of Uncle Niu in Beijing.
Sure enough, Uncle Ye turned around and said to Ye Qiongying:
"This is Daniu's wife, Hong Xiu. You can just call her Aunt Hong. She is the contact point in Pingwu City."
Hong Xiu's attention was originally on Uncle Ye's white hair. After hearing what he said, he finally noticed the little girl next to him.
When he first saw Ye Qiongying, he wanted to joke whether Uncle Ye had secretly married and had a daughter, such a beautiful little girl. But when he took a closer look at Ye Qiongying's appearance and heard Ye Jingan call her that, his eyes widened immediately.
This time, she really couldn't hold her temper anymore. She didn't care about the women's clothes she was wearing. She lifted the hem of her clothes and flipped over from behind the counter.
The counter was almost half as tall as Ye Qiongying.
She flipped over with great ease and landed steadily on the ground without raising any dust. It was obvious at a glance that she was an extraordinary skilled person.
After standing in front of him, Ye Qiongying could even more feel the height difference between her and him.
They really are a couple. Uncle Niu and his wife Aunt Hong are both tall. The door of their house must be made higher to make it easier to get in and out, right?
Aunt Hong hurriedly took two steps forward and was about to kneel down:
"Hong Xiu has met the elder girl!"
Before he could kneel down, Ye Qiongying quickly held him up:
"Auntie Hong, please get up quickly."
Uncle Ye also laughed and said:
"Sister Hong, please get up. The young lady will be uncomfortable later. When we were in the capital, Lao Niu was not as polite as you."
Hong Xiu rolled his eyes:
"What does that stupid cow know?"
After he finished his disdain, he said to Ye Qiongying respectfully:
"Miss, I am Hong Xiu. You can tell me what to do next. I was wrong for not recognizing you in time."
Ye Qiongying said hurriedly:
"Aunt Hong, you don't have to be so polite. You are all old friends of my parents, and you are half my elders. I call you aunt, so how can I ask you to kneel like this? We will have many dealings in the future. Being so polite will not only make communication inconvenient, but also easily arouse suspicion.
Just think of it as cooperating with me, and don't kneel again."
Only then did Hong Xiu finally agree.
She hung a sign saying "Closed business", led Ye Qiongying and Uncle Ye to the inner room, and then asked:
"Miss, when did you arrive? Daniu didn't even send me a message in advance.
I went out for a while ago, and when I came back, the guy in the shop told me that someone from the master's family came to bring two people. I thought it was someone who came to Pingwu City, but now I think that the old man who came to ask for people that day was you, Ye Jing'an?
Did the eldest girl also arrive at that time?"
Uncle Ye answered for Ye Qiongying:
“I just arrived a month ago, and this trip is not easy to publicize, so I asked the big shot to keep it secret and not spread it outside.
The eldest girl has been in the military camp for the past month and only had time to come here today because she is on leave.
I have been here several times, but I never saw you, Sister Hong. I thought you went to Beijing to meet Daniu."
"Puh, puh, puh, who's going to see him!" Hong Xiulian pouted a few times, not caring about her image in front of Uncle Ye. "I'm doing business, what does it have to do with him? I just got back today and was planning to take a nap, but I didn't expect you to come. By the way... Miss, have you entered the military camp?"
Hong Xiu frowned.
She looked Ye Qiongying up and down for a few times before she breathed a sigh of relief:
"Did the young lady suffer any loss in the military camp? The Pingwu City army today is quite different from the Ye family army three years ago.
Yuan Wu... humph."
"Yuan Wu?" Uncle Ye knew that Ye Qiongying was very concerned about these things. Seeing that Hong Xiu seemed to know something, he hurriedly asked, "Isn't his reputation very good? But Chen Xiong has become a drunkard and has learned to blackmail passing merchants at the city gate. It's really not decent."
Hong Xiu laughed:
"Ye Jing'an, sometimes, you can't just rely on your eyes. People who look good may not be good, and people who look bad may not be really bad."