On the day of Laba, Kyoto is very lively inside and outside the city, and there are many people who go out of the city early in the morning.

The mothers of several flower buildings sent someone to cook Laba porridge, they don't have to worship their ancestors, but this person who opens the door to do business also has to sacrifice to the God of Wealth during the New Year's Festival, and then send Laba porridge to other flower buildings in this Hundred Flowers Lane.

There were three carriages prepared outside the building, and the coachman was busy for half an hour, and the servants who came out loaded a few boxes into the back of the carriage.

After half a ring, Chu Chu took the two little girls and got into the back two carriages with the other two flower girls in Xiaoyaolou, and the three elderly mothers and a few little girls sat in front.

Like Xiaoyao Building, the Chunyan Pavilion next door and the hundred flowers and fireworks inside have flower girls come out, on the snowy road, the sky is not yet completely bright, and the unique shape of the carriage in Baihua Lane is particularly colorful.

After preparing all the latter group of people marched towards the city gate, the soldiers at the city gate stopped them, and the old woman in the first carriage hurriedly took out the passage book, so many flower girls in Baihua Lane went out of the city, and it was still in the 27th mourning period, the soldiers counted the number of people and looked at the carriage again, and confirmed the seal of the Zhao family in Pucheng before letting them out.

An hour later, Chu Chu, who was asleep in the carriage, woke up quietly, saw the little girl looking out the window, and lazily stood up and asked her, "Is it Yuyang official road?" ”

"Is it Yuyang official road, or miss, you thoughtfully persuaded my mother, just after passing the fork in the road, I knew that Yamato Road was an avalanche in the middle of the night last night, and now the road is still sealed, if we go there, it will definitely be blocked." The cold wind poured in, the little girl shrunk her neck, quickly looked outside, and hurriedly put down the curtain, turned her head to look at Chu Chu, "Miss, do you want to sleep for a while, it's still early to the post station." ”

Chu Chu nodded, but sat up again not long after leaning down, signaled the girl to open the curtain, and looked at the white snow outside, unable to sleep under the heavy heart.

The carriage was running on the official road in Yuyang, and it would take more than an hour to reach the vicinity of Longfu Temple. At this time, outside Longfu Temple, it was even more lively than in previous years.

Because of the heavy snow in the early part of this year, and experienced a cold wave, the common people on the incense and pray for blessings are more pious than before, praying for the blessing of the Buddha, to be able to spend the year peacefully and without illness and disaster, so they came to the temple early, some came yesterday, and the temple is a scene of incense flourishing at dawn.

There is a shed outside Longfu Temple, and there are monks in the temple here to give rice porridge before dawn, and there are cotton clothes and quilts next to it, which are donated to the temple by some people inside and outside the city, and distributed to those poor people.

Ji Zihe helped Mrs. Ji out of the small door, and several servants in the back were still carrying rice bags in their hands, and the two monks in front of them hurriedly stepped forward to help after seeing it: "Mrs. Ji, you can rest, we are here." ”

"It's just a small effort, how dare I bother a few masters, there are so many people waiting outside, how can I bear to see them starving and cold." Mrs. Ji walked outside, and the shed set up was full of people waiting, and she cheered up and walked behind Mrs. Fan and handed her the cotton clothes.

The two exchanged looks, Mrs. Fan changed places with her, Mrs. Ji distributed porridge to the people lined up outside, and Mrs. Fan took out the cotton clothes she brought and distributed them to the people.

Not long after, the Wang family came out with Qi Minshu, and when he saw Mrs. Ji there, he said out of concern: "Mrs. Ji, I heard that you are not feeling well, why don't you rest more." ”

"Thank you Mrs. Qi for your concern, it's just a gust of wind, it's not a big deal." Before the words fell, Mrs. Ji coughed with a handkerchief to cover her mouth, her cheeks were red, no matter how she looked at it, it didn't look like it was because it was too hot in the shed, Mrs. Qi stood not far away, and came over to try the temperature on her forehead, Mrs. Fan took a step earlier, raised her hand and put it on Mrs. Ji's forehead, and helped her sit down, "Fortunately, there is no fever, you sit for a while." ”

After finishing speaking, Mrs. Fan looked at Wang with a smile and said: "Mrs. Qi has accompanied us on this trip, thanks to you, otherwise so many people will come over, it is really difficult to arrange in Longfu Temple, we are not familiar with the place, even if we want to do our best, we have to put more effort into it." ”

"Even if I don't accompany you, the Qi family will also go to the temple at this time of year." Mrs. Qi gently pulled her daughter and said very piously, "You all from Zhuzhou must do your part for the people here, I, ah, must come, Shu'er, you go and help Mrs. Fan divide the rice." ”

These days in Kyoto, Fan and this Mrs. Qi have met twice, one is to accompany them to visit the garden, one is to visit Fan's house a few days ago, if it is not for these things, Wang gives the impression that he is still shrewd and capable of getting along, Fan has followed her husband to do business for so many years, and she is shrewd and happy to deal with smart people, but this is not the case now.

So she smiled and refused: "No need, I have someone here to help, don't cold the child if it's cold, let Miss Qi go in and rest." ”

Qi Minshu raised her foot and wanted to step back, Mrs. Qi grabbed her arm and walked her towards Shi Mi's place, Mrs. Fan couldn't say anything when she saw this, she glanced at Mrs. Ji and stood on the side of the porridge.

said that it was to help them, but in fact, it was for surveillance, everyone knew it, and no one said anything, but Qi Minshu's face didn't look very good, especially when she walked up to an old man in rags, Qi Minshu didn't even look at her, and directly scooped up the rice and poured it into her bag.

Before the old man could hand over the bag, half of the bowl of rice had leaked. The rice was spilled on the steps, and the old man hurriedly squatted down to pick it up, trembling with both hands to pick up the rice that had been scattered everywhere, and carrying the dust into the rice bag, not caring at all that he was kneeling on the ground and his knees were sinking into the pit in the snow.

Seeing this, a touch of disgust flashed in Qi Minshu's eyes, and it was obvious that her face was not revealed, Mrs. Fan saw her reaction in her eyes, and ordered the accompanying servants to go down to help the old man pick up the rice, and scooped porridge for the old man with a smile: "It's so cold, you better go there to avoid the snow for a while." ”

The old man thanked him repeatedly, but he didn't dare to look at Qi Minshu, and soon the people in the back came up to get the rice, Qi Minshu raised her hand and was about to scoop the rice over, one hand gently pressed her, and raised her head to Mrs. Fan with a smile on her face: "This snow won't stop for a while, Miss Qi, why don't you help me send those cotton clothes out." ”

"Okay." Qi Minshu let go of her hand, smiled and stepped back, and the two maids behind her had already carried the bamboo basket.

Immediately after walking out of the shed, a maid came to play an umbrella, watching her go down the steps, Mrs. Fan retracted her gaze, turned her head to face the Wang family, and the two of them looked at each other and smiled, looking very harmonious.

It didn't take long for this to happen, and suddenly there was a scream from the eaves on the right side of the shed, and Wang's face changed slightly.

A ragged boy cowered in the corner, his body wrapped in a tattered cotton coat, his hair disheveled there, his dirty face did not look carefully at all, and a torn bowl was thrown in the snow in front of him, and half of the bowl of porridge was spilled.

The scream came from Qi Minshu, who stood a few steps away from the young man, her hands hidden in her cloak, the look on her face was ashamed and angry, but compared to the young man's cowering and fear, it seemed that she couldn't figure out what was going on.

Wang hurried over: "What's going on?" ”

"Mother, he... How dare he! Qi Minshu stomped her feet, unable to speak angrily, pointed at the young man, and quickly wiped her hands vigorously, and her eyes gradually fogged.

"What's going on?" Mrs. Fan walked over, saw the situation and said with concern, "Did they rob something?" ”

It happened suddenly, and others also took care to get the porridge, but there were many onlookers but they didn't know what happened.

If it was to snatch the cotton clothes in the maid's hand, Qi Minshu would not have such a reaction, but she was difficult to speak, her eyes were red and she was about to cry, Wang saw a clue, seeing that there were many people here, and he was afraid that it would not be good to say too much, so after ordering someone to stay, he apologized to Mrs. Fan: "I'm a little frightened, I'll take her in to rest for a while." ”

Mrs. Fan nodded: "Go quickly, we are here." ”

The mother and daughter walked back to the temple, and when they arrived at the courtyard, they threw themselves directly into Wang's arms and cried, as if they had been greatly wronged. This crying Wang is even more worried, her daughter's temperament follows herself, she can deal with anything calmly, even if she is bullied outside, she will not let herself suffer, but it is very rare to cry like this: "What's wrong?" ”

"Mother, that person, that person dared to belittle me, and said..."Qi Minshu was embarrassed and indignant, raised her head and her eyes were full of tears, "I ...... if you say something like that to me."

That's what Qi Minshu can't say as a girl's family, she has never been humiliated like this in her life, let alone being belittled, but now she is humiliated by such a lowly person, she still feels uncomfortable, especially her hands, which have been grabbed by such a dirty person.

Wang's expression was grim, but his tone was gentle and comforted her: "Okay, it's okay, did anyone else see it just now?" ”

"I don't know." Qi Minshu suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly grabbed Wang's hand, breathing a little short, "Mother, what if someone else sees it and reaches the ears of the Cao family, what if they let them know...... What would someone like the Cao family think? ”

Other people's Wang family is not worried, but if this kind of thing reaches the ears of the Cao family, it is not necessarily, the old lady of the Cao family is a stereotypical and old-fashioned person, and the Cao family is such a big family, and the rules are many famous, and there are a set of rules for those who have already set their relatives and have not yet married into the door, if they know that Min Shu was humiliated and despised by a beggar-like person at the gate of Longfu Temple, and when she marries, they don't know how they will treat her differently.

The Qi family has finally climbed into such a family business, and they will never let it be any worse at this time.

"Panic what." Wang grabbed her hand to comfort her, and at this moment, a report came from outside the door, "Madam, Mrs. Ji suddenly fainted, and Mrs. Fan accompanied her back to the wing room to rest." ”

"Have you asked for a doctor?"

"I've already sent someone to invite it."

"Tell someone to go and keep watch outside the wing." Wang got up and ordered, "You take two people outside and find the person who collided with the Seventh Girl." 166 Reading Network