Li Chunhai opened it at a glance and found himself lying on the wooden bed in the back room. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 At this time, the white light of a bright moon outside was shining on her thin body through the paper window.

"I didn't expect this body to be so weak that I actually fell asleep unconsciously while sitting on a chair, this should be Wu Sanniang who carried me to the bed." Li Chunhai shook her head, sobered up her head, and felt thirsty, so she quickly climbed off the bed and walked to the door, but heard the sound of a stumbling conversation between men and women in the main room.

"Sanniang, I know that you are kind enough to take her in, but you also know the situation of our family, and you can't afford to raise another child!" Li Chunhai, a middle-aged man, whispered to Wu Sanniang.

"But Chunhai's kid is really pitiful." Wu Sanniang had coaxed her child to sleep in her arms at the moment, so she didn't speak loudly, but her emotions were very excited, "Didn't you see her pitiful appearance when she first came today." Now that her family has been swept away by the flood and is helpless by the river, how can we see death and not save her? ”

"Alas~" The middle-aged man also sighed, "Chunhai, this girl has a hard life, but you also have to think about it for Xiaoshi." This bucket of rice in the family is divided between two people, and something will definitely happen in the end. ”

"So what do you say?" Wu Sanniang looked at the child in her arms, ""

"Alas, this upstream flood is too fierce, and the city is full of women selling women, otherwise you can help Chunhai find a big family to be a maid in the city, and you can support yourself."

After listening to the conversation between the man and Wu Sanniang, Li Chunhai estimated that this man should be Wu Sanniang's husband, and he also learned from the conversation that it was unlikely that he would stay.

Although Li Chunhai has the mind and knowledge level of modern people, with her current young body and poor background, what can she do except be a maid?

So just when the middle-aged man and Wu Sanniang were pondering about Li Chunhai's whereabouts, Li Chunhai pushed open the wooden door and walked out.

Wu Sanniang saw Li Chunhai walking out, and hurriedly stood up holding the child, and said, "Chunhai, are you awake?" Are you hungry, Sanniang will give you a bowl of noodles. ”

"Sanniang, I'm not hungry." After Li Chunhai finished speaking, he looked at the man. Seeing this, Wu Sanniang introduced: "This is my grandson, Zhang Aming." ”

Li Chunhai nodded politely to Zhang Aming and said "Hello", but found that although this Zhang Aming was dark and dressed as a peasant, his eyes were spinning around on him, and he didn't know what he was planning.

"You are Li Chunhai?" After Zhang Aming looked at Li Chunhai, he said, "Although you are still a child and your body is a little lighter, this appearance is really good, better than those girls in the city." ”

As soon as Zhang Aming's words came out, Li Chunhai became alert, and when she looked at Zhang Aming's expression again, she already showed the appearance of a businessman's valuation, obviously having some tricks against herself in her heart. Li Chunhai is not the ignorant girl, although she usually seems to be rough, but she is very scheming, otherwise she would not have been admitted to the major XX university in City A. She thought to herself that if she proposed to go to the city as a maid, this Zhang Amin would definitely offer to take her with her, and maybe she would be sold into the kiln by this person when she entered the city.

But Wu Sanniang didn't notice the problem in her husband's words, but said to Li Chunhai with a smile, "Chunmei is really cute, and it is estimated that she must have been a young lady from a good family before the disaster." ”

Li Chunmei hurriedly shook her head, and hurriedly lied: "Sanniang, you are wrong, my family is a farmer who lives by the river, and if it is too close to the river, it will not be ruined by this sudden flood." She pretended to sob.

Wu Sanniang relented, hurriedly took out a clean handkerchief and handed it to Li Chunhai, and said, "Good boy, don't cry, you will treat this place as your home in the future." ”

Li Chunhai whimpered a few times, and then said, "Sanniang, I thank you very much. But I have just heard what you have said, and I know that you are living a difficult life. In that case, I'd better go to the city to see if I can be a maid and support myself. ”

"This..."When Wu Sanniang heard this, she was a little speechless. But Zhang Amin hurriedly answered: "Chunhai, it's not that our husband and wife don't want to treat you, you have also seen that our family is so broken, it is really impossible to support one more person." Since you are willing to go to the city to be a maid, then I will take someone into the city tomorrow and find a few big families to try. ”

As soon as Li Chunhai heard Zhang Amin's words, as he expected, he nodded to Zhang Aming quietly, and said in his mouth: "Then it's troublesome Uncle Zhang," but he had a plan in his heart.

Wu Sanniang saw that her husband and Li Chunhai said so, so she had to agree with Li Chunhai's idea of becoming a maid. That night, the kind-hearted Wu Sanniang let her husband lay on the floor, while she took her children and Li Chunhai to squeeze in the same bed for a night.

The next morning, Wu Sanniang got up early again and cooked a pot of porridge for her husband and Li Chunhai for breakfast. When Li Chunhai woke up, she even took out her silver hairpin, secretly handed it over to Li Chunhai, and whispered: "Chunhai, if you bring this silver hairpin, dress up beautifully, and it will be easy to be looked at by those big families." ”

Li Chunhai actually had a plan, so he stuffed the silver hairpin back into Wu Sanniang's hands, "Sanniang, don't worry about me, I have my own way." You should keep this hairpin. ”

Wu Sanniang couldn't resist Li Chunhai, so she had to take back the hairpin, and seeing that Li Chunhai was so well-behaved and sensible, she couldn't help but feel a little more pity for her. At this time, Zhang Ah Ming woke up, and Wu Sanniang pushed him and said, "You must take good care of Chunhai, if something happens to her, I have to ask." ”

"Don't worry." Zhang Aming rolled his eyes and said, "I will definitely send Chunhai to a good family." ”

Then the three of them finished breakfast, and Zhang Aming took Li Chunhai out of the door. Wu Sanniang sent them to the intersection before reluctantly waving goodbye to Li Chunhai.

Li Chunhai walked forward, and when he turned around, he saw that Wu Sanniang was still standing in place, looking at himself with blank eyes, and he couldn't help but be extremely moved, and said that if he developed himself in the future, he would definitely take good care of this kind lady.

Zhang Aming took Li Chunhai for more than two hours and passed through two villages. Along the way, Li Chunhai saw many people who were wandering and begging along the streets. According to Zhang Aming, these people are all upstream affected people, and after their homes were destroyed by the floods, they had to go downstream to rely on begging for a living. Hearing this, Li Chunhai also shuddered, thinking that she was lucky to meet Wu Sanniang, otherwise she would be like these people now, she can only live by begging.

Finally, the two came to the gate of the city tower in Xiangyang, Li Chunhai saw that the gate of the city tower was magnificent, but the gate of the city was full of ragged people, which formed a sharp contrast with the grandeur of the city gate. Li Chunhai knew that these people were also victims of the disaster upstream, but he wondered why they gathered here. That Zhang Amin seemed to see Li Chunhai's question, so he said: "Thousands of victims have poured into the city before. Now that the city is already overcrowded, the prefect of Xiangyang is afraid that too many people in the city will cause a plague, so they are forbidden to enter. But the prefect was merciful and gave porridge outside the city every day, which is why these victims gathered here. ”

"This prefect of Xiangyang City is a good person." Li Chunhai couldn't help but think of this after hearing this. At this time, Zhang Aming grabbed Li Chunhai's right arm, pulled her to the city gate quickly, and then took out a sign made of stone to the soldiers guarding, with the word "Shang" engraved on it. The soldier glanced at the sign in Zhang Asheng's hand and let them into the city.

After entering the city, Zhang Aming did not still hold on to Li Chunhai's right arm, and pulled her to the direction of the market. Seeing this, Li Chunhai punched Zhang Aming's elbow with his left hand. As soon as Zhang Aming was in pain, he let go of Li Chunhai's arm. Li Chunhai took the opportunity to jump back and retreated to a position five or six meters away from Zhang Aming.

"Chunhai, what are you doing here?" Zhang Aming looked at Li Chunhai with a surprised expression.

"Hehe," Li Chunhai smiled lightly and said, "Uncle Zhang, you are in such a hurry, you don't want to sell me into the kiln, right?" ”