The boatman bought two fish and made braised meat, because he was afraid of being cold at night, Ping'er also specially helped the mother-in-law of the kitchen to cook, and cooked a large pot of chicken soup and served it, and the other was a boiled cabbage and a fried bacon. We also brought some things out of the house, but bird's nest snacks and the like can't be eaten as a meal after all. I peeled off the fish meat without small spines on the belly of the fish and gave it to Sister Qiao, and Ping'er hurriedly said, "Grandma eat, I'll come." ”

"Don't call grandma," I always felt that this title had to call people old: "You still have to say it a few times." ”

Ping'er smiled: "I can't change the taste for a while, Qiao girl eats it, the food is not delicious when it is cold." ”

Sister Qiao pointed to the soup pot: "I want to drink that." ”

I was about to stretch out my hand, but Wenxiu had already picked up a large soup spoon and scooped a bowl of soup for her. Sister Qiao smiled sweetly: "Thank you, Aunt Wenxiu." ”

"You can't call aunt, you have to call uncle. I gave her a blank look: "You just can't remember what you said all afternoon." ”

"Didn't you call Sister Wenxiu just now," Sister Qiao glanced at me proudly: "Mother, you can't remember it yourself, and you still came to me." ”

I smiled awkwardly, this kid is really ...... Who is it? Such sharp and unforgiving.

Well, it seems like the answer is obvious...... Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and sons born to mice make holes.

Sister Qiao is so good at speaking, and Sister Feng's genetic factors are definitely closely related.

I smiled and didn't get to know a little girl. Wen Xiu also pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "It's okay, anyway, just don't say anything wrong in front of others." ”

As soon as he came out of Jiafu, it seemed that he had unloaded the burden of ten thousand catties, and no one paid attention to dogmas such as food and silence. Sister Qiao's meal volume has also obviously improved, and the four of them ate the food cleanly, and the soup was drunk to the bottom.

Ping'er came over with two cups of tea and said that she would take Sister Qiao back to the room. I took her hand: "Don't go yet." I'm going to discuss something with Wenxiu, and you can sit down and listen. ”

Sister Qiao sat on the side, her eyes turned around flexibly, looking at me and then at Wenxiu, and finally bowed her head to play with the embroidered handkerchief in her hand.

"It's not easy to get out of there, sometimes I'm really bored, I don't want to deal with those people and those things, but now I'm finally getting rid of it. I whispered, "But it's not like everything will be fine after you come out, and the road ahead is still long, and it's not easy to walk." How to live, let's discuss together. ”

Wenxiu nodded, and before she could say anything, Ping'er whispered: "We don't have any hope, it's good to be able to live the rest of our lives peacefully." But Miss Qiao is different, her future ...... You'll have to think about it. You have to choose a decent family to marry. It's just that since we have left there, in the future, in what name will Miss Qiao marry in the future?"

To be honest, although it is said that it is to discuss the future, but after Ping'er, it is too far away all of a sudden, right? How old is Sister Qiao now, so this is considering the question of who she will marry in the future...... Ping'er is really worried about the world.

It may be that my concept has not yet reached agreement with the ancients, at least I don't think that a woman must marry someone for the rest of her life, and the only important and necessary thing is to marry.

How many good men are worth marrying now? What position should this standard be set appropriately? Don't beat your wife? Don't be lustful? Can you support your family?

"It's too early to think about this now...... I smiled and touched Sister Qiao's head: "Let's take care of the present, when we arrive in Jinling, we still have to get the old mansion to settle down first, and at the same time look for other places to live." Wenxiu has never been to the south, and so have I. So when we got there, we all had to adapt to the place as soon as possible, then find a place to live, and finally leave the Jia family completely. ”

"Break away from ......" Sister Qiao looked at me suspiciously: "What is it?"

"You'll know when you're older. "I don't want to explain this to her right now, and even if she did, she wouldn't understand.

We discussed together for a while, mainly because I was saying, Ping'er helped, and Wenxiu occasionally replied with a sentence or two, but after all, none of the three of us had ever lived in Jinling, so no matter how we discussed it now, it was just talk on paper, and there were no practical constructive opinions to put forward.

Usually Sister Qiao is used to going to bed early, although Ping'er sometimes needs to work, but she never sleeps too late. Today is a rush and a boat, and everyone is tired. I said it's better to disperse, anyway, we have time all the way to slowly plan for the future, don't rush tonight, don't boil everyone down. Ping'er said that she took Sister Qiao to sleep, so our cabin arrangement was me in the middle, with Ping'er and Sister Qiao's room on the left, and Wenxiu on the right.

The bed on the boat was covered with a bunk that I had brought out of the house, and I freshened up and took off my clothes. Although there is also a charcoal basin in the cabin, and the burnt is also high-quality silver charcoal, but the warmth on the ship is not as good as in the serious room, and it still feels cool. I was also lazy and didn't meditate, so I just stopped. After lying down, I was still a little unaccustomed to it. I feel the smell in the cabin, I am not used to the movement, I can hear the sound of the waves on the river outside, the boat is still shaking gently, although the shaking is very slight, but it will still make people feel unaccustomed and a little uneasy.

I tossed and turned on the bed, always feeling that the quilt was not warm, and then I seemed to have just closed my eyes in a daze, and suddenly I was shaken vigorously: "Sister Feng!

I was startled, and when I opened my eyes, I saw Wenxiu standing in front of my bed.

"What's wrong?

"The boat is leaking! We need to get ashore quickly. ”

"What?"

I almost thought I was dreaming, how could the boat leak when I was well anchored on the shore?

"It's already in deep water down there, and the boatman has just found out. I also called Sister Ping'er Qiao, hurry up and go ashore, it's very fast on the water!"

"However, the car and other things are all in the lower part of the cabin......"

"I'll collect it! You go ashore first!"

I calmed down, hurriedly pulled over the skirt and hurriedly dressed, Ping'er had already hugged Sister Qiao, looking anxious and frightened. I comforted her not to panic, in fact, I was panicking to death myself. Ping'er's hair was not tied up, Sister Qiao's eyes widened in fright, and when she saw me, she leaned over and hugged my neck tightly. I hugged her and whispered, "It's okay, it's okay, let's go ashore, the water won't flood us." But while comforting her, I felt that I actually needed someone to comfort me.

In the middle of the night, he was lifted from the hot bed, wrapped in cold clothes roughly, and then disembarked in a panic. Although it warms up during the day, it is still extremely cold at night. The river was very empty, the wind was very strong, and the people who were blowing were about to be unable to open their eyes, but they felt that the clothes on their bodies seemed to have no effect on the cold, and the wind directly blew people through, and the cold invaded to the bones. I wrapped Sister Qiao tightly in my arms with a fur cloak, and Wenxiu pushed all kinds of luggage we packed out of the cabin and pushed them to the shore. The water rose very quickly, and the car was too late to be dragged out, because the carriage was stored in the cabin, of course, the horse could not be saved, and in order to fix the car on the boat, a wooden pole or something was used to pin the wheels, Wenxiu had absolutely no time to rescue the car, the water had already flooded to the outside board, and I stopped Wenxiu when she wanted to enter the cabin again to pull the car.

"Forget it, the car will still be there, don't go in again, the water is already flooding. ”

Wen Xiu glanced back, her hair was also a little messy, and the clothes on her body were thin. But because she's still dressed as a man, it doesn't look too bad. I stood there with Ping'er, shielding Sister Qiao from the wind with my body. Overwhelmed by this sudden change, the boatmen called out to the sinking ship, which was a means of transportation for us, but for them it was their home. Now, there is no home.

My hands and feet were wooden, and the rough girl and mother-in-law who came with us also stood aside, shrinking their heads, looking like they didn't know what was going on.

"Alright, don't stand here all the time. I rubbed my face twice: "Everyone standing here has to freeze into popsicles, we have to find a shelter from the wind." ”

But there were no lights around, and it was dark and cold. Someone in the house not far from the shore was disturbed by the movement here, but it was none of his business, and he looked around for a while and went back to the house, the door closed tightly.

I wanted to pick up Sister Qiao, Wenxiu had already picked her up first, and Yahuan and her mother-in-law picked up the baggage we had piled up in the ground - not all of them were rescued, and some of them were probably left in the carriage. Although they were all unimportant clothes, we were now desolate and desolate, and we didn't know which direction to go in this cold night.

"What's wrong with the people over there, what are you tossing around in the middle of the night?" The captain's voice was crying: "Our ship is sinking—"

"Ahh

"Yes, yes, are you Steward Liu?" sounds like someone you know.

"It's me, what else should I do, I was about to sleep after eating a little more wine, when I heard movement on your side. Are you all right?"

"People are there. ”

The man had already walked up to him, followed by two men, one carrying a lantern and the other standing a little farther away from him. The man, wrapped in a sauce-colored leather robe and with two motifs, said, "It's good that you're all right, but it's so dark and the wind is cold, where are you going?"

The ship's boss's frozen teeth trembled, and he said in a word: "Find, find a sheltered place...... Wait until dawn. What a wicked door, how could a good boat have a big hole in the bottom of the ship......"

The man hesitated, then turned to look at the few people standing on our side: "Okay...... You still have women and children, it's not a matter of freezing so cold, so let's get on our ship first, we have a few empty rooms, and then we will do it when it is dawn, this lady, what do you think of this?"