Chapter 12 Qin Siyang's Thoughts
As soon as they walked through the city gate, and turned the block connected to the city gate, the two children noticed that on the side of every house on the corner of the street, wherever there was a place where they could squat, there were groups of ragged, yellow-faced, hungry, and homeless people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
These people are so emaciated, they look at it and they can close their eyes at any moment and fall down and die.
The two children were sighing to themselves, when they saw a thin old man fall to the ground and die under the wall.
The people around the old man immediately knelt down beside him and wept in a low voice.
The two children looked uncomfortable in their hearts, and couldn't bear to look any more, so they hurriedly turned around and left.
But as soon as they turned a corner, and had not gone a few steps into another alley, they saw another poor man lying under the corner of the wall in front of them.
The poor man looked at a young woman in her early twenties, who died desolately, guarded by a middle-aged woman of about forty, who was also homeless. At this time, the middle-aged woman was holding a broken comb, combing the dead young woman's loose and withered hair in the end.
The middle-aged woman had just combed the dead young woman's hair when she saw several servants shouting and pushing away the crowd and approaching, cursing without knowing what to curse, and rudely and rudely stepped forward, pushed the middle-aged woman away, and then roughly rolled up the dead young woman with a large oilcloth and left.
When the middle-aged woman saw it, she immediately cried and rushed forward to grab the servant.
"His grandmother is a bear, what are you going to do!" The official who was pulled scolded loudly, "The county lord is kind and ordered our brothers to collect the corpses for you poor ghosts, and all the funeral expenses will be paid by the government, and you are still crying! ”
Hearing this, the crying woman withdrew her withered hand, and while crying in a low voice, she turned around and picked up the child who had been calling her mother at the side, and looked at the child, who was only three or four years old.
Liu Shuangli took Qin Siyang's hand and looked at this scene in the alley blankly, not moving for a long time.
It wasn't until Qin Siyang tugged at the corners of her clothes that Liu Shuangli came back to her senses, and then let go of Qin Siyang's hand, and in the boy's surprised gaze, she stepped forward and squatted in front of the woman who was still crying in a low voice.
The weeping woman wiped her tears and looked strangely at Liu Shuangli, who suddenly squatted in front of her.
Liu Shuangli squeezed out a smile, whispered hello to the woman, then took off the package on his body, and reached out to find a few scallion pancakes from the bag.
The pancakes, which still smell of scallion oil, immediately attracted the child in the woman's arms.
"Little brother, do you want to eat it?" Liu Shuangli asked softly as he handed the pancakes to the child.
The child in the woman's arms nodded vigorously, stretched out a pair of dirty little hands, and wanted to grab the pancakes.
When Liu Shuangli saw it, he hurriedly took out a hand towel from his bag, wiped the child's little hands clean, and then handed the pancakes to the child's hands.
"Child, you—" The woman who was crying in a low voice, looking at Liu Shuangli with tearful eyes, said in a trembling voice.
"Auntie, I still have some food here, you-" Liu Shuangli said, and took out some more food from his bag. But as soon as she was about to hand the food to the woman, she saw a group of poor people in ragged clothes suddenly rushing forward like hungry wolves in front of the alley.
The person who rushed to the scene saw that Liu Shuangli had no food in his hand, so he reached out to grab the package in her arms.
Liu Shuangli was robbed by this rush, and instinctively hugged the package and retreated, but before she could withdraw a few steps, a few poor people who were also hungry rushed up behind her, and they couldn't help but stretch out their hands to grab her package.
The woman holding the child was also surrounded by this group of hungry people, and she was already weak and could not rob these people at all, so she could only hold the child tightly, trying not to let the rushing crowd wash her and the child down.
None of the hungry poor people snatched the pancakes from the child's hand in the woman's arms, they all rushed to the neatly dressed Liu Shuang and left to grab it.
"Don't rob it, don't rob it anymore, I don't have anything to eat on me!" Facing this group of hungry and red-eyed people, Liu Shuangli screamed in horror, holding the package and hurriedly drilling towards the gap in the crowd. But there were too many people who came to rob her, and she was so thin that she couldn't break through this siege for a while.
Not far away, Qin Siyang was also stunned by this sudden incident, and it wasn't until he saw Liu Shuangli desperately trying to squeeze out of the crowd that he came back to his senses, and rushed forward to pull Liu Shuangli with all his might.
Although both of them are still half-grown children, fortunately, they are both people with martial arts foundations, and they can easily deal with one or two adults when they fight them. Although there are many people around them at the moment, they are all people who don't know martial arts, and secondly, they are so hungry that they don't have much strength, and their focus is all on food. The two children relied on their flexible skills, and although they were extremely embarrassed, they finally broke out of the encirclement together.
As soon as he ran to a place where there was no one, Qin Siyang bent over, supported his knees with his hands, and complained to Liu Shuangli while panting: "You-what are you making trouble, messing up-what kind intentions are you making-getting it-?"
"Oh my God—oh my God—" Liu Shuangli leaned against the wall, gasping for breath, "How—how could it be—so serious?"
"Don't you - don't you know it's going to become- it's going to be like this?" Qin Siyang gasped and glared at Liu Shuang and left, "That is, it's just a group of chaotic people who don't abide by the law and discipline and violate the law. ”
"Y-what did you say?" Liu Shuang suddenly opened his eyes wide, looking at the boy in disbelief.
"What did I say?"
"You just said they were rebels?" Liu Shuangli raised his voice, "Are they rebels?"
"Yes, is there anything wrong?" Qin Siyang was a little puzzled by Liu Shuangli's fierce reaction.
"They-they're all poor people, how can they be rioters?" Liu Shuangli looked at the boy in front of him in a daze, as if he had just met him now.
"Pitiful? robbing people's finances in broad daylight, is it pitiful?" Qin Siyang looked at Liu Shuangli directly, as if he couldn't understand her.
Liu Shuangli was stunned.
She couldn't understand the boy, or why he looked at these poor homeless people like that.
"Siyang, listen well, they are not rioters. After a while, Liu Shuangli said to the boy cautiously.
"Why not?" Qin Siyang said in surprise, "They just robbed you of something." ”
"Yes, I was robbed by them, so what? ”
"In broad daylight, robbing people and property, this is not a chaotic people, what is it?" Qin Siyang asked.
"They're like this, it's just...... Just to fill your stomach, you don't know how uncomfortable it is to be hungry. ”
"When you're hungry, you can grab other people's food? If you don't work, you'll just rob it, and you're a chaotic people?"
"You-" Liu Shuangli was a little weak, she didn't know how to explain these things to the boy for a while.
I saw that the boy still had a reasonable face: "I don't understand, what do you think, you actually speak for the person who just snatched your own things!"
"Because ......," Liu Shuangli twitched from her lips, and paused for a long time before saying what was in her heart, "because I can understand them." ”
"Can you understand?" Qin Siyang looked at Liu Shuangli with a puzzled expression, "You said you can understand these chaotic people?"
"Yes, I understand. Liu Shuangli also looked at the boy, and said, "Also, as I said just now, they are not chaotic people. ”
Qin Siyang was stunned for a moment, looking at Liu Shuangli's overly formal face and tone, he wondered even more. After a moment's pause, he looked at her again with an almost scrutinizing look. I don't understand why this girl, who has saved her life and has been protecting and taking care of herself for nearly two months, suddenly faces him so seriously with a face full of indifference.
"You're defending them?"
"Defense?" Liu Shuangli didn't understand for a while, what the word meant.
"Isn't it?"
Liu Shuangli still couldn't figure out what the boy was asking. But looking at the boy's lofty look, there was a faint look of indespisibility. She suddenly felt a chill.
Liu Shuangli didn't answer, because she knew that it was useless to talk about this matter now.
The boy still had a questioning look on his face.
Liu Shuangli turned around and slowly sat down against the wall, looking up at the sky filled with thick clouds.
The boy wanted to ask again, but seeing Liu Shuangli's suddenly dim expression, he couldn't help but speak, silently stepped forward, and stood next to Liu Shuangli against the wall.
The alley was cleaner than elsewhere, and there was not a single poor person in sight. Looking ahead, there were two stone lions squatting in the depths of the alley, with two pole steps, obviously it was a family with some status.
The two children were silent for a long time, squatting or leaning.
Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps not far away, and he was walking towards this, Liu Shuangli hurriedly stood up, stepped forward and pulled the boy, and hurriedly left this clean alley.
Along the way, I kept seeing homeless poor people by the corner wall, all of them were haggard, crying or stunned, either kneeling there and asking for food, or sitting still waiting for death.
Liu Shuangli looked at these people, his heart fluttered, and he didn't know what it was like.
It was only at this time that Liu Shuangli noticed that Qin Siyang, who had been held by her all the time, was projected with contempt and extreme disdain in his eyes when he saw those poor people. In the eyes of the boy, there was not the slightest pity for these miserable people.