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The housekeeper was happy, "You are stronger than your brother? I don't think so, you thin arms and legs, you haven't grown a beard yet, okay, don't make a fuss, the old man will take you in when he sees you well, you don't think about the salary, it is better to serve the old lady well than anything else." Oh yes, you live in ......."

"Butler, in fact, she is ......" Yin Shitong interrupted the housekeeper again, and I interrupted Yin Shitong again, "Actually, I'm not for the salary, it's just that we have a younger brother to support outside the city." But since you have said so, it is better to serve the old lady well than anything else, and I will not mention the increase in wages anymore. Butler, tell me, where are we staying? After arranging for us, you can go to other things, we don't have to worry about it here. ”

"Well, that's right. You live in the little room next to the kitchen, where there was a little servant, and I will have someone carry you two planks to put together, and then make a mattress, and live for two days, and then I will ask my wife to nail two beds for you. ”

Yin Shitong was still talking, and I sent the housekeeper away first.

As soon as the housekeeper left, Yin Shitong immediately asked me: "Why are you stopping me? I want to explain to him that you are a daughter, you see ......?"

"Why explain?"

"If you don't mean that you are a daughter, they will arrange for you to live with the men in the house, you see that this is the case, what should I do?"

"Oh, I see. "I really didn't think of that," ...... What now?"

"I went to the butler and told him about it. He took two steps, stopped again, turned around and said, "No, if I tell him, he may think that you deliberately disguised yourself as a man to sneak into Zhang's mansion, no, you can't say." Then he asked me, "Did you keep stopping me from saying it?"

I smiled wryly and said, "No, I thought you were going to say that we are not brothers, I'm afraid that Master Zhang will find out and kick us out, didn't he take us in because I respect my brother?"

Yin Shitong smiled, "It's better to be a brother than a brother, and Master Zhang won't drive us away." Brother, oh no, Shaohua, I will never forget your last meal. ”

"Brother," I said, putting my arm on his shoulder, following the example of a street peddler's pawn, "but a few sweet potatoes, do you want to remember them for a lifetime?"

Yin Shitong took my arm down and taught me a lesson: "Shaohua, you are a woman, looking at the behavior and behavior of you and your master, I think you were also a rich scholar before I came. Although you are down, you must also remember the etiquette and rules, so that you don't have to hook up with men anymore. Speaking of which, I think I must go and tell the housekeeper that you are a woman, and that you must not be allowed to live with a man. ”

I said, "What's that, when the bed board is ready, you can sleep in the same bed with the little guy in the same room, and I can sleep in one by myself." ”

"No, that's not in line with etiquette. So saying, he went to the butler.

I hugged him and said, "Aren't we sleeping on the floor together before we get to Zhang's house?" "Most of the refugees in the capital who have no place to live live in an abandoned courtyard in the city, and those who can't get a bed sleep on the floor.

Yin Shitong said: "How is this the same! Okay, you don't care, I'll go myself." ”

I still grabbed him, "Don't go, I don't live with you, I have a place to live." "Actually, I have an idea, I want to give the three meals that the Zhang family gives me every day when it is dark, and give them to those refugees who can't eat, so I may not be able to sleep at night. But if I tell Yin Shitong about this intention, he will surely ask me how to get out of the city, and how shall I explain it then?

He asked, "Where did you come from to live?"

"Oh, you don't care, I said yes!" My patience ran out, and my tone was very stiff, "If you ask me again, I'll ...... I won't eat!"

When Yin Shitong heard that I was threatening him with 'not eating', he was so angry that he glared at him, but he was afraid that I would really not eat if I was in a hurry, so he didn't mention this matter anymore, but silently went to the ear room to clean up his things, and I went back to the room at night to see, there were two beds in the house, one in the east and one in the west, and there was a room in the middle.

In this way, we lived in Zhang's house for more than a month. Mr. Zhang has three sons and no daughters. The youngest of the three sons is also fifteen years old. Mr. Zhang has been looking for a scholar for his youngest son these days, but he is too busy to find it.

I thought this was an opportunity, so I asked Yin Shitong to give it a try, Yin Shitong shook his head and said: "I'm also a showman, and I'm qualified to be a teacher for the young master, how can I be a scholar who grinds and listens?"

This was heard by the little guy in the same room, and the little guy didn't expect that there was a scholar living in the crowd, so he chatted with us out of curiosity. The housekeeper happened to go to the kitchen to find food, and when he heard the word "Xiucai" when he passed by, he stopped and listened to a few more words, and then he knew that there was a Xiucai in the house. He lifted the curtain and entered the house, and as soon as he came in, he held Yin Shitong's hand and called "Little Brother Yin, Little Brother Yin", and the little girl who lived with him was sitting on the edge of the bed, and when he saw this situation, he quickly stood up and brought water to the housekeeper.

Originally, the poor Xiucai had nothing to stutter about, but the young master Zhang's scholar couldn't find it for a long time, Mrs. Zhang asked the housekeeper, the housekeeper was worried about this matter, and just happened to meet a ready-made scholar, who was still a showman, and his own master was kind enough to take him in, which is very suitable. It was good to say that he persuaded Yin Shitong to be aggrieved and accompany the young master to study, but Yin Shitong couldn't grind him, so he agreed, so the housekeeper went to tell Master Zhang to ask for a reward.

Master Zhang is benevolent and righteous, and said that he didn't want Yin Shitong to be a scholar, and gave him another desk in the study, and he studied with the little master on weekdays, and when he took the exam next year, Master Zhang sent him back to his hometown for the exam.

Yin Shitong listened to the housekeeper's relay, and was so moved that he almost knelt down to thank him, and from then on, as long as Young Master Zhang didn't understand anything when he was studying in the study, Yin Shitong hated to teach him.

The days pass so fast, in a blink of an eye, it is like the wax moon, the red plum blossoms of Zhangfu have bloomed, the plum blossoms are good, the red is translucent, the old lady likes it very much, and people serve it three times a day.

On the night of December 14, I lit Yin Shitong's sleeping hole as usual, and jumped out of the city wall in the dark with a burden on my back.

Because Zhang's mansion opened the head of soup kitchen, many good and wealthy families in Beijing began to spontaneously help refugees, and there were many fewer refugees outside the capital, leaving only those women, children, old and sick, living in windy sheds to fight against the cold wind all day long.

As usual, I went back to Master's shed first, and as soon as I entered, I realized that something was wrong, and there was no anger in this shed at all.

"Master?" I shouted softly, but I didn't hear a response.

I put the baggage on the shelf and lit the fire pit in the shed. The refugees here dig a pit in their sheds to keep warm by imitating dry firewood.

By the light of the fire, I saw a piece of paper on the hay bed, and when I walked over to see it, it was a letter from Master.

Master said in the letter that he had taken Yin Yao back to Yunrong Mountain, and told me to go back after enough fun, and not to run away without permission.

"Why didn't Master say goodbye to me in person before leaving?" I muttered to myself.

I meditated in the shed until dawn, and when I heard movement outside, I went out with my baggage. I gave the hard nest I had saved in the past two days to a few old people, and gave last month's salary to a seriously ill uncle, he had been sick for a few months, if he hadn't been sick, he would have gone elsewhere to make a living, I was talking to the uncle, and I heard the footsteps of "Xi Xi Suosuo" in the shed not far away, I didn't care too much, but inadvertently smelled a smell of aura on the human monk, I quickly said goodbye to the uncle, and hid in the shed.

I peeked out through the curtain, and in a moment I saw three monks dressed in strong clothes, with their hair tied high and their arms tied around their waists, coming out of the shed. All three were in their twenties. After getting up, he washed his face in the small river not far away, and then he built firewood and made a fire, and built a total of three pots, and each of them grabbed six or seven handfuls of rice from their bags and threw them into the pot, which was to boil porridge.

When the porridge was boiled, one of the monks went into the shed and dragged out a sack, while the other two monks pulled out the short dagger from their waists, pulled out two pheasants from the sack, and began to peel the chicken with the fur on it, and took out the entrails and threw them aside.

I pouted, and at first glance I knew that I had never cooked before, so did I handle chickens like this?

When the aunt who passed by saw them spoiling the meat like this, she stomped her feet in a hurry, put the things in her hand on the ground, and said, "Damn, you throw chicken in front of us people, do you see how well we eat?"

The aunt's shout called all the people around here, and everyone pointed around the three monks, the three monks have probably practiced in the mountain gate since they were children, and they have never seen this formation, and they were stunned for a while, looking at each other.

At this time, three more elderly monks came out of the shed, who looked like fairy wind bones, and at a glance, I estimated that they had almost seventy years of cultivation.

The elder monk explained to everyone, it turned out that they were cultivating in the mountains, and they didn't know anything outside the mountain, but they just happened to hear about the suffering of the people under the mountain, and they realized that as ordinary people, they couldn't just care about their own cultivation and turn a blind eye to the suffering of others, so they came down to the mountain and did some modest help for the people. These three young monks are young disciples of the sect, and they boil porridge and kill chickens here to prepare breakfast for everyone here.

When everyone heard this, they apologized and thanked each other, which made the three young monks blush.

I lowered the curtain, rolled up the empty baggage, and left without anyone noticing.

While it was still early, I sneaked into the city again and wandered around the morning market in the east of the city.

I love to go to the market, especially every festival, fifteenth, there will be a lantern festival in the capital, the government has lifted the curfew, this Kyoto is called lively. The lights of the people of Kyoto are bright, the colorful light of the lanterns is reflected on the heads of the crowd, the candy sellers and fat powder sellers are singing and shouting in different tunes, the children are wearing masks and playing in the flow of people, and the girls hidden in the boudoir are also swaying out of the house, first going to visit the lanterns, and then going to the teahouse to drink tea and listen to books, as long as you go home before the child, no one will care.

When it comes to listening to books, I like it too. I especially like the storyteller to talk about the key sultry point and "snap" the waking wood, that slap not only the strength of the wrist should be mastered just right, but the eyes should also change in time, just like he is the protagonist in the book.