At night, Lin Yuxiu stayed in the post station in the city. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, Lin Yuxiu wanted to live in Zhuangzi with Dade and others, but there were too many people in Zhuangzi and couldn't live there, so Lin Yuxiu had no choice but to go into the city and arrive at the post station accompanied by his master.

Lin Yuxiu left early in the morning of the second day, but what she didn't expect was that just as she took the two Pear Blossom sisters out of the city gate, she met Zhou Qiang and others arranged by Jin Yan to protect her.

Zhou Qiang and others chased Lin Yuxiu until they reached Zhuangzi, but the people in Zhuangzi said that Miss Lin had arrived at the post station in the county seat.

Zhou Qiang and the others were afraid that if they stayed in Zhuangzi and missed the time for Lin Yuxiu's departure, it would not be good, so they chased directly to the county seat. Who knows, when I arrived at the gate of the county seat, I found that Yunxian actually closed the city gate at night.

At this time, when I returned to Zhuangzi, it was estimated that the people on Zhuangzi who wanted to disturb could not sleep peacefully, and it was too troublesome to enter the city.

Although the current weather is not like the cold winter wax moon, it is also very cold, but fortunately, the three of them have practiced, and they immediately carried a bed of dog skin mattresses with them, so they barely survived the cold winter.

"You guys were out there freezing all night?" Seeing that the noses of these people were frozen blue, it was not difficult for Lin Yuxiu to guess that they had been outside the city all night last night.

Zhou Qiang smiled innocently, but didn't say much.

Seeing that they didn't speak, Lin Yuxiu didn't say much, but said: "When I passed by, I saw a breakfast shop at the gate of the city, it is estimated that there is hot food, you go in and drink a bowl and we will leave." Pear Blossom, you ask the store to hurry up and boil a bowl of ginger soup for them, don't be afraid to spend money, it's really not possible, it's okay to give food. ”

The wind and cold outside are heavy, and even the iron man can't stand it. I really don't take my body seriously, now that I'm young, it naturally doesn't matter, and when I'm old, I'll know it's powerful.

Pear Blossom saw these people frozen like this, and she was also a little distressed, so she went to get busy.

There was nothing delicious in the restaurant, only a small half pot of boiled multigrain porridge, although the clear soup was watery, but it was finally steaming, Zhou Qiang and the others drank two bowls of hot dry food with their own dry food, and finally drove away some of the cold on their bodies.

At this time, Rika was gossiping with the owner of the restaurant in the back.

The owners of the restaurant are an old couple, the old man surnamed Wang, the old woman surnamed Ding, the two have only one son, and they went to war in their early years.

After losing their son, their daughter-in-law also remarried and left, leaving the two elders in the family to live alone. In the past few decades, relying on his own house at the gate of the city, the second elder set up a stall and opened a restaurant to earn two scraps of money to live.

When the year was good before, life was still okay. But from last year to now, the year is not good, food is getting less and less, and it is getting more and more expensive, and the life of the two of them has become difficult. Fortunately, because it was a restaurant before, there was still some food in stock, so it barely passed for a while.

Fortunately, the imperial court later stipulated that as long as there was a person with household registration, everyone could receive two taels of grain per day. After the second elder received the food, he took out one person's ration every day and boiled a few bowls of porridge to exchange it for a few dollars to live here.

It's just that the year is not good, there are few people who can have breakfast outside, and their porridge really doesn't have a few grains, so the situation is very bad.

Yesterday the imperial court had issued a notice, saying that from the end of this month, only those who participated in labor could exchange for food, and a strong laborer could exchange four taels of grain and five cents a day, and if it was a person who did not work, the court would no longer bear two taels of grain a day.

Cut off the only source of food, they couldn't hold on, and they originally planned to close the store after today, so they were very enthusiastic about these last few guests.

Ginger soup is easy to make, it doesn't take much effort, and it will be ready quickly.

The three well-fed people looked at the steaming ginger soup, and they were really moved, what kind of person is the girl, and she can actually think about them so far.

"Uncle, this is money for you." Pear Blossom took out a string of money from her purse, about 100 wen, and wanted to give it to the second elder.

After the restaurant closed, the two of them didn't know how they would live in the future.

Although Rika felt sorry for what happened to the two, she couldn't help too much, so she could only do her best to leave a few more money.

The old man was busy and excused himself: "Girl, there are not so many usables. ”

A few bowls of porridge are only ten cents at most, but this girl took so much money out, how could he ask for it?

"Auntie, even if I am filial to you, it's just that I don't have much money myself, you can take this money first, and then if I pass by Yunxian County in the future, I will come to see you." Rika put down the money in her hand and thought about it, ran outside again, took a small bag in, left it on the table, and left in a hurry.

Although Zhou Qiang was curious about why Pear Blossom suddenly wanted to give the two elders more money and return the food, he knew that Pear Blossom was not a person who would be kind at will, and since she did this, it must be that these two elders had some kind of suffering that others didn't know.

At that moment, Zhou Qiang and the other two glanced at each other, untied the grain bag he was carrying and put it on the table, and then got up to say goodbye and leave.

There is not a lot of grain in the grain bag, only seven or eight catties, which can be regarded as a little bit of their thoughts. If it was just two old men, plus the bag of about a dozen catties of grain that Lihua put down before, it would be enough for them to live for a while.

The two old men just watched the only table of guests leave, still immersed in disbelief.

After a long time, when the two old men were cleaning up the dishes, they found that there was actually a grain bag on the table.

"Old woman, we have met a good person." The old man held the string of money in one hand and two grain bags in the other hand with tears in his eyes.

Their restaurants will not be able to sustain themselves in the future. But who knows, on this last day, they can actually meet good people, with this little food and money, although it is not enough for them to live until the food comes down, but they can persist until the wild vegetables grow.

The life of a hard-working person is easy to feed, and he is not afraid if he has no food, as long as the wild vegetables and weeds outside grow, he can survive. The second elder is also a diligent person, even if he can't do other work, as long as he can dig up some wild vegetables and the like, he can make a living.

"Old man, we can survive." The old woman also wept with joy.

No one knew that these two old men had already prepared to die together this morning.