Chapter 7 (1/2)
Thousand Autumns – Chapter 7
Translator: MoMoePom
Editor: Draygan
Quality Check: Kai
First published on Ainushi+
Translator’s Ra:
Sorry I’ve been busy recently IRL, hopefully I’ll be able to catch up with the progress in the next couple weeks…;w; We’re all waiting for Yan to show up…
Chapter 7
Synopsis: Do you want to be blind like me?
Chen Gong stood in a daze for quite so these back?”
Shen Qiao nodded ”Didn't you ask ers?”
Chen Gong noticed that the clothes the other person had been wearing was now replaced by a brand new blue robe The grey one he had originally as now spread underneath as a bedding The ht have taken a bath and tidied himself up somewhere
”Where did you get theasked suspiciously
Shen Qiao laughed, ”Through moral means, of course Just take a look at my condition Do you think I'd be able to steal or rob?”
Chen Gong grunted, ”Who knows?”
Nevertheless, he still picked up a burger It felt warm and soft as hetouched it, obviously fresh out of the oven He opened the paper wrap and readily took a bite The burger was baked to a golden crisp; the gravy inside dripped out as the bun was bitten into, diffusing the surroundings with aaroma [1]
Chen Gong’s craving was so greatly aroused that he ate two of the one, he didn't want to finish so soon and, after a , decided to save it for breakfast to to work
He turned his head to look at Shen Qiao The latter was still sitting there cross-legged, holding the bahtly closed Chen Gong was not sure whether he was just resting with his eyes shut or actually thinking about so
”Hey, where are you from?”
Shen Qiao shook his head: ”I don't know I tu the trip and injured s that I can't remember”
”If you don't want to talk about it, then don't! Why bother co up with excuses! You think it's that easy to tricklost interest in the conversation and laid straight down
However, perhaps it was because he had eaten tootossed and turned but just could not fall asleepHe failed to hold back froain, ”Hey! Seriously, where have you been during the day? How did you e to make money?”
A soft voice ca by bones”
Chen Gong sat up towards him with a thump: ”You kno to tell fortunes by bones?”
Shen Qiao was still sitting there, with his legs crossed, as he laughed, ”I wouldn't call it 'tell' really Whether a person is rich or poor, there are always soet by”
Chen Gong became interested, ”Then why don't you take a look at mine to see whether I'll be rich in the future?”
Shen Qiao replied, ”Let me touch your hands”
Chen Gong gave hih the heavy objects, so you should have a teht?”
”What else?” Chen Gong was not stupid He knew that there were thick calluses on his hands and the other person must have made an assumption based on that
”You are stubborn, with an unyielding disposition that won't easily admit defeat Yet, you are also somewhat skeptical; you e, and it's likely that you have a stepmother or a stepfather back at home”
Chen Gong's eyes widened in spite of hi more?”
Shen Qiao smiled, ”In troubled times like now, there are indeed many opportunities With your tereat accomplishments in the future”
Chen Gong asked, ”How did you figure out all of this?”
Shen Qiao explained, ”You have a local accent, therefore it's iee who fled here from other places because of the fa happened to your fa your temperament, it's more likely the situation that I've just said, that you fell out with your family But even if you have fallen out with your faical father or mother is still around, it's unlikely that they will just sit by and watch you stranded outside in wind and rain Therefore, it should be the case that either your father married a harsh stepmother or both of your parents have passed ahen you were young”
Chen Gong was finally so Shen Qiao patiently account for his reasonings one by one
He asked again, ”Then how do you know that I canin the army?”
Shen Qiao said, ”You don't want to be bullied by your stepmom, so you left home out of resentgars for a donkey ht It's clear that you are someone who is ruthless to others as well as to yourself With a temper like this, you should be able to adapt well to the military environment”
Chen Gong harrumphed, ”So, you simply look down on people like me after all, don't you? Someone like me who can't even fill their own sto in such a roundabout way only to make fun of me!”
Shen Qiao laughed, ”Having experienced misfortunes like this myself, how could I make fun of other people? Didn't you askyou as an exah you can't h for a meal”
Chen Gong said, ”Since you , then why are you still so down-and-out? Did you get robbed by bandits somewhere on the way?”
Shen Qiao replied, ”I guess you could say that, since I can't remember it myself Sometimes my brain works just fine, while other tiue memories Fortunately you let me stay here, otherwise I really don't knohere to spend these nights In fact, I still have to thank you very much for it!”
After such flattery, Chen Gong felt ers that he had received seemed like a matter of course to him, as if he had really defended Shen Qiao
”Well then, three burgers for toet aith it just by chatting with !”
”Alright”
When Chen Gong returned to the shabby teers in the same place as before On the other side, Shen Qiao also had one in his hand He was eating it in such a co soer
'What an affectation!' It was hard for Chen Gong, as in his rebellious years, to not make a humph in his mind, as he turned his head to open the paper wrap, then took a bite ferociously
The next evening when Chen Gong caers just as before Even though Shen Qiao answered every question Chen Gong asked and was extre siether, and their conversations were disagreeable to hiible to hi were ineffective on Shen Qiao Like punching a pile of cotton, even though he was the one showing off his power, in the end, the sullen one was also himself