Chapter 52

But Tang Xiaoshi and Chu Ming were still one step late.

When they rushed into the room, the old woman was slamming her head against the wall, just one step away, just one step away from Tang Xiaoshi being able to pull the old woman back.

The old woman fell in front of Tang Xiaoshi, and the last two words in her mouth were: "Raise ...... Big ......" and then there was no response.

Tang Xiaoshi understood what the old woman meant, she didn't care if the old woman could hear it or not, she kept saying: "I will raise the child, I will definitely raise the child, let him grow up healthy and healthy, I will raise the child, I will definitely raise him, let him give you incense......"

Tang Xiaoshi hopes that her mother-in-law can hear it, and she hopes that this poor mother-in-law can go with peace of mind, but there are too many worries......

A woman, first a daughter, then a wife, and then a mother, but her father, husband, and son, who were supposed to shelter her from the wind and rain, left her one by one, and the old woman was too bitter in this life.

The old woman was gone, and she took her son with her.

Tang Xiaoshi saw that the old woman's son did not die of illness, but suffocation...... This must have been a difficult decision for the old woman, she must not want to see her son suffer from hydrophobia again, and she did not want him to struggle for the last bit of life.

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Tang Xiaoshi came to Yicui Building again, she took advantage of Bi'er, so she wanted to make up for this dusty woman.

Tang Huaiyi had an accident, but this would not affect Yicuilou's business at all, because in addition to Tang Huaiyi, there are many rich people in Yangzhou City. Tang Huaiyi's dog bite was just a little talk about the prostitutes' after-dinner meal, and these colluded people discussed more about whether Tang Huaiyi's thing was eaten by a dog.

As for Bi'er, the old bustard carefully checked it, and there was no flower willow disease at all, it was just a misunderstanding, Bi'er was still the old bustard's cash cow, or the top card of Yicui Building, and the daily benefactors were still full.

Tang Xiaoshi dressed as a man and waited for Bi'er's arrival in the room.

Bi'er came, but she didn't get happy when she saw Tang Xiaoshi again, Bi'er didn't sit down by Tang Xiaoshi, but was far away. Redeem yourself and marry into a wealthy family? Bi'er is no longer greedy, she is now afraid of the showy boy in front of her.

"Does he have anything to do with me?"

This is Bi'er's first question, she is very clever to use "he" instead of "Master Tang".

Tang Xiaoshi replied: "You are a smart person, you didn't say things that shouldn't be said to the public, and you shouldn't ask things that shouldn't be asked, you have the right to take this matter and have nothing to do with you or me." ”

Bi'er is a person who understands, this thing can't be said, everything is evidenced, and someone has to believe what she says, this son did things cleanly, but he didn't leave evidence. Besides, if Tang Xiaoshi is convicted, she will not be able to get out of it, she is all grasshoppers on a rope.

This can only be the case.

Bi'er asked again, "Then why did you come here today?" To threaten me? Don't worry, I don't know anything about this. ”

Tang Xiaoshi shook her head and said, "I promised you to help you redeem yourself." With that, she pushed a small wooden box to the other end of the table, and continued: "The gold in the box is enough for you to redeem yourself, and you have two choices. ”

"First, Li Qilang, who is your childhood sweetheart, is downstairs now, you can redeem yourself now, go downstairs and go home with him, and live the life of an ordinary man and a woman. I asked Li Qilang, he doesn't dislike you, he has been waiting for you, and he has even been raising money to redeem you all these years. Tang Xiaoshi said.

Bi'er immediately rushed to the window, opened a crack slightly, and quietly looked down, and sure enough, next to the corner downstairs in Yicui, there was a familiar figure waiting anxiously there.

Maybe it's because he's done too much hard work, Li Qilang is no longer as upright as he remembers, his skin is dark and swarthy, and he wears a linen dress with a few patches, no different from the coolies who come and go on the street.

Bi'er couldn't connect the vicissitudes of life below with the Li Qilang in her memory.

The Li Qilang in her memory is tall and straight, the jade tree is in the wind, the Li Qilang in her memory is the man who held her in his arms in the reeds by the river, and the man who gently said in her ear that he would take care of her for the rest of his life.

Even if she was later forced to buy herself into the Qinglou for the sake of her family's livelihood, she never doubted Li Qilang's future, she only felt that she was sorry for Li Qilang.

But now she sees Li Qilang, but it is completely different from what she imagined, only two or three years later, his spirit is gone, he still follows the old path of his father's generation, relying on his strength to eat.

Bi'er only saw the hardships of life on his face.

Bi'er closed the window, returned to her place, and asked expressionlessly, "What about the second option?" ”

The moment Bi'er spoke, Tang Xiaoshi already knew her choice, Tang Xiaoshi said: "The second choice, you can choose not to redeem yourself, half of the gold in this box is yours, you can spend it as you like." ”

If Bi'er chooses the second condition, maybe she will never be able to leave Yicuilou again, although she can get a sum of gold, but this money is not enough to redeem her.

"I choose the latter." Bi'er said decisively that between Li Qilang and Jinzi, she still chose gold after all.

If Li Qilang was still as high-spirited as she was back then, if she was still the girl she was at the beginning, maybe she would choose Li Qilang without hesitation, but now, it's different, Li Qilang is different, and she is different.

Tang Xiaoshi said: "You think clearly, there is only one opportunity in front of you, if you miss Li Qilang, your whole life may be wasted under the crotch of all kinds of men." ”

Tang Xiaoshi said it very bluntly.

Bi'er shook her head and said, "Don't think about it, I've made up my mind." Let me follow Li Qilang back, can he afford to support me? Not to mention jewelry or beautiful clothes, just a small box of rouge, can he buy it for me? What do I do when I go back with him? Holding the child to the field every day, weaving cloth at night, still can't eat a few full meals a year, and the child has no money to treat when he is sick, do you know this kind of life? Let me live this life again, I can't do it. ”

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.

Tang Xiaoshi still tried her last effort and persuaded: "But choose the former, you can sleep in your man's arms at night, you can have someone who speaks to your heart, you don't have to go to great lengths to please others, you don't have to grieve your body, and children will call you mother, there will be grandchildren who will call you grandmother, and when you are old, someone will send you to the end...... Don't you want such a life? ”

Bi'er smiled disdainfully and said: "The full man doesn't know that the hungry man is hungry, the kind of life you are talking about is a life without firewood, rice, oil and salt, once you have firewood, rice, oil and salt, it will change its taste." Maybe the husband will think that you are just a broken shoe, the child will think that his mother was too lowly, relatives will talk behind his back, and there will not be a day of peace...... As for the retirement of the elderly, in the final analysis, can silver and gold be called? What more children do you need with gold? ”

"Well, the gold is yours, I'm leaving."

Tang Xiaoshi no longer persuades, Bi'er is not wrong, Li Qilang is not wrong, Tang Xiaoshi has no need to tie Bi'er to the framework of morality, Bi'er has suffered so she knows what she wants.

Li Qilang is infatuated, and the infatuation is only Bi'er in the cardamom years, if he sees Bi'er now, maybe the taste has changed, maybe his heart will not be as open as he promised.

Tang Xiaoshi tried to pull this red line, but she now understands that this red line is destined to be broken.

Tang Xiaoshi left half a box of gold to Bi'er, turned around and wanted to leave, Bi'er suddenly said, "Wait." ”

Tang Xiaoshi turned her head, only to hear Bi'er say: "Childe help me pass a message to Li Qilang, let him find a daughter from a good family to marry, don't be stupid, it's impossible for me to talk to him." ”

Tang Xiaoshi nodded.