Songzipo is not far away, just three miles east of Ganlin Town.

Hua Bushi and Yang Jiangyi led the little girl along the road, and before they reached Songzi Slope, they Yujian Xiao Ningning's parents.

As soon as they left the town, a middle-aged couple hurried over, their faces full of anxiety, and Xiao Ningning shouted "Daddy Mommy" as soon as she saw them, and rushed over.

The woman stretched out her hand and hugged Ning Ning, and said with disgust in her mouth: "Where have you been! Just now, my mother heard someone say on the side of the road that there are bad people in Ganlin Town who want to kill people, but my mother is frightened! You must be obedient, and you are not allowed to run around again!"

Hua Bushi saw that the man in the couple was about forty years old, with a long black beard and slightly unkempt hair, and his appearance was very unkempt, and the woman was only thirty-six or seventeen years old, and her face was vaguely similar to Xiao Ningning. Although the clothes they wore were very shabby, their faces were very white, and there were no calluses on their palms, and they were obviously not the farmer who was accustomed to farm work.

The man stepped forward and arched his hand: "Under Huang Boru, dare to ask the names of the two nobles?"

Hua Bushi returned the courtesy: "Xiao Ke Shixiao, this is my sister Shi Xue, we were eating in the restaurant in Ganlin Town, and it happened that Yujian Ling Ai sent her back." ”

That Huang Boru said: "Thank you Shi Gongzi for this! Hey, this little girl is too disobedient, running around all day long, we can't do anything about her, if there is no son to send her back, we will definitely die!"

Hua Bushi smiled and said, "It's just a gesture, Mr. Huang doesn't have to be polite." ”

Xiao Ning Ning leaned out of her mother's arms and said loudly: "Ning Ning didn't run around, Ning Ning is going to make money!" she said as she took out the small ingots weighing five taels from her arms.

Huang Boru saw the ingot, but his face changed, and said: "You don't know anything, how can you make money? Where did you get this ingot, to be honest, but it was stolen?"

Xiao Ningning said: "It's not stolen, it's what he gave." She said as she pointed her little finger at Hua Bushi.

Huang Boru said with a heavy face: "Shi Gongzi sent you back, you still take other people's money, how can you talk about it!

Xiao Ningning pouted, but hid the silver ingot back in her arms and refused to return it.

Hua Bushi said: "Mr. Huang, don't be surprised, Ling Ai sings in the restaurant, this ingot of silver was rewarded to her by my son." ”

"How could this girl do that kind of thing?" Huang Boru frowned, and only sighed after a while and said: "Alas, it's all because we have no ability to be a father and mother, so that the child fell to this point!"

It turned out that Xiao Ningning went to Linjiang Building to sing, but her parents didn't know.

Hua Bushi felt sorry and asked, "I don't know where Mr. Huang's hometown is, why did he come here?"

Huang Boru sighed again and said, "This is a long story. We all came from Gangneung, and we have lived there for hundreds of years since our ancestors, but now we have to flee the wilderness. ”

Hua Bushi and Huang Boru talked for a while, and they already understood the situation of their family.

Huang Boru's ancestral home is Yiling Town, Jingzhou Prefecture, which is also a rich place in Hubei. His ancestors were all scholars, and his father had been lifted, but he failed to pass the Beijing exam, so he did not become an official.

In Yiling Town, the Huang family is also considered a wealthy family, there are many people in the family, and there are dozens of acres of land ancestral property hired people to cultivate, and life is good. However, the natural disasters for four consecutive years made the farmers in the entire Yiling area have no way to live, and they had to go out to escape the famine, Yiling became a lonely town, and Huang Boru had to abandon his ancestral business and migrate north with everyone in his family.

The Huang family still had some property, and they only hoped to find a place where they could live in peace, and then buy an industry to settle down, but all the way to the north, the entire Hubei border was affected by drought, and the fields were barren, where could there be a place to settle?

And natural disasters are also accompanied by man-made disasters, to the official road in the Yicheng area, on the way to the underworld strongman robbery, all the Huang family's silver and assets were looted, fortunately the gang of strongmen did not kill, leaving the lives of more than 100 people of the Huang family.

sued the government, but the Yamen of Yicheng County did not accept it. Just because according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the exile is illegal, and now there are bandits everywhere, even if the government wants to manage such looting, it can't control it. The government yamen not only failed to recover the robbed silver taels for the Huang family, but also ordered them to return to their hometowns and not be allowed to go out to escape the famine.

If staying in Yiling can have a way out, why does the Huang family need to come out? Going back at this time is even more a dead end. There was no way, the Huang family had to continue to travel north, walked for more than ten days, and when they came to this Ganlin Town, they were exhausted, they had no money on their bodies, and all their rations were eaten, so they had to sleep on the pine seed slope with other homeless people.

The situation of Huang Boru's family is indeed miserable, but in today's troubled times, encounters like this are actually very common, and among the countless homeless and hungry people in various realms, I don't know how much has happened.

After listening to Huang Boru's story, Hua Bushi asked, "But I don't know what Mr. Huang's plans are now?"

Huang Boru said: "Alas, what else can I do when I reach this point? I only heard that Yujing has not been affected, and our family originally wanted to go over there and find a place to live in peace, but now that we have lost our entanglement, we have no choice but to take one step at a time!"

Hua Bushi nodded, took out a silver ticket from his arms, and said: "Ling Ai Bingxue is cute, and it is quite fate for our sister and brother to meet her in the restaurant." This one hundred taels of silver tickets Mr. Huang can take, it must be enough for your family to go to Yujing. ”

Huang Boru hurriedly waved his hand and said: "We met in Pingshui, the first time we met, how could Huang Boru take Shi Gongzi's so many silver taels, this is absolutely impossible!"

One hundred taels of silver is not worth mentioning for the Jianghu sect that dominates one side, but it is a lot of wealth for ordinary people. After all, this Mr. Huang is a scholar, and he has settled down to this point, but he still retains some of his backbone, and he refuses to accept money from others in vain.

Hua Bushi said: "It's not a secret, my son has lived in Wuyang City in Xiangjing for a long time, and his family does some business transactions, and he has a lot of money. In this way, even if Shi Xiao temporarily lent this hundred taels of silver to Mr. Huang, how about returning the money to me when your family finds a suitable place to settle down in Yujing, and earns the money in the future?"

"Borrowing money" and "charity" are just different titles, Hua Bushi lent the silver, and did not really want the other party to return it, but it made Huang Boruo have an acceptable reason, and he had a good impression of this son, Shi Xiao. After asking the address of this Shi Gongzi's residence so that he could return it in the future, Huang Boru also reached out and took the silver ticket.

In fact, the current situation of the Huang family also makes him have no more choices.

The dusty official road was not a suitable place to talk, and when a silver ticket was given, Hua Bushi gave his hand and said goodbye.

However, he was just about to turn around, but Mrs. Huang suddenly said, "Shi Gongzi, go slowly!"

Hua Bushi looked at her, and this Mrs. Huang showed some hesitation on her face, but she still spoke: "Shi Gongzi, the concubine has a reluctant request, I wonder if Gongzi can agree?"

Hua Bushi said: "Madam, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

Mrs. Huang said: "The little girl Ning Ning is nine years old this year, although she is usually a little naughty, but she is still well-behaved, and the concubine wants her to follow Shi Gongzi's side, either as a scholar or as a maid, but I don't know if the son is willing to be contained?"

As soon as these words came out, Huang Boru's face changed, and he grabbed his wife and reprimanded: "What are you talking nonsense! No matter how poor we are, we can't give Ning Ning to others!"

Mrs. Huang was already in tears, and choked up: "The concubine heard that there are many bandits on the official road ahead, specializing in robbing people who are fleeing to the north...... The concubine is nothing, Ning Ning has already suffered a lot, and in order to make money, she still goes to the restaurant to sing, how can I bear to let her take danger again? This Shi Gongzi is a kind-hearted person, let Ning Ning follow him, it will definitely be better than following us......"

No parent in the world is willing to be separated from their own flesh and blood, and if it were not for the last resort, Mrs. Huang would not want to give such a lovely little daughter to others. Huang Boru knew that what his wife said was true, and his heart was full of bitterness for a while, his body trembled slightly, and he couldn't speak.

"Don't! I don't want to be a girl!"

The delicate voice sounded, but it was Xiao Ningning, who was leaning on Mrs. Huang's arms, and protested loudly. Her little face was flushed, her eyes were already red, and she saw that tears were about to fall.

Hua Bushi coughed lightly and said: "Mrs. Huang, this son is not short of scholars and maids, he really can't accept Ning Ning, please forgive me!"

He pondered for a moment, and then said: "My son's cargo team is now in Ganlin Town, and in two days it will leave for the north to Yujing, if you want, you can go all the way with us." ”

Hearing Hua Bushi say that Xiao Ningning could not be contained, Mrs. Huang's face showed a look of disappointment, but when she heard the last sentence he said, she suddenly turned from worry to joy.

In the troubled times, bandits were rampant, and the Huang family had encountered an underworld robbery when they came out of their hometown in Yiling, and they would fall into such a poor situation now.

In Mrs. Huang's mind, as long as she can reach Yujing safely, the whole family can start a new life, and there is no need to be separated from her little daughter, how can this not make her overjoyed?

Although the Huang couple were happy, Hua Bushi was quite hesitant to make this decision. Just because he had heard Huang Boru say before, the entire Huang family escaped from Yiling, there were a total of more than 100 people, including many frail old and weak women and children, and it was really a big burden to take them with them on the way to Yujing, which was much more troublesome than giving 100 taels of silver.

However, seeing Xiao Ningning's cute and pitiful appearance, as well as the situation of Huang Boru and his wife, the eldest young master was still moved by compassion after all, and even if there was some trouble, he admitted it.