Chapter 9: Reluctance to admit punishment

Suddenly there was a heavy snowfall, followed by a dazzling flash of light that seemed to pierce the night sky, and soon there were several loud rumbling noises, and the downpour began as expected. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info Nan Qingxi was tired and tired, frightened and scared, there seemed to be no place to hide, so she could only let the rain and snow fall on her body.

The snow has hardly stopped since the beginning of winter last year, so much so that the houses and houses in several villages outside the city of Nizhou have been crushed by the snow. Refugees flocked to the city, but were blocked by officers and soldiers.

The hairpin house of the minister of Nizhou was ordered to build porridge sheds in various places outside the city, but there were many people who hid from the sky and crossed the sea, and they were clearly living with porridge soup, but in fact, they used moldy rice to harm people.

Many refugees fell ill after drinking porridge made from moldy rice. In this kind of weather, if it freezes a little, many people will not survive. Since then, some people have spread the news of moldy rice porridge, and those refugees do not dare to go to the porridge shed to drink porridge anymore, and they all threatened, "I would rather starve to death in vain than be poisoned in a daze, and owe people a favor in vain!" ā€

After Nan Qingxi heard about this, she was very indignant and wanted to find out, so she did everything possible to pry off her brother Nan Xunwei, who was so upset. After several hard talks, Nan Xunwei really couldn't bear the persuasion of the little girl, so she responded, and took her out of the inner courtyard the next day.

At that time, it was a busy time at home, so Nan Qingxi took advantage of the elders' unpreparedness to pretend to be a little maid and followed his brother Nan Xunwei to leave home and go outside the city together. Because she has always been weak, as soon as the winter comes, the elders in the family feel sorry for her, and they all exempt her from morning and dusk, so she let her personal maid Jasper pretend to be her own embroidery in the room, and instructed that if someone visits, just let the pothos and red paper be sent away, so that it is easy to hide from the world.

As soon as Nan Xunwei and Nan Qingxi arrived outside the city, they went straight to the nearby village, how could the brother and sister have never seen such a miserable and desolate village in their lives. Seeing the appearance of the refugees, they couldn't bear it, so when the two of them saw one, they scattered some money, more or less without paying attention, and they didn't know that the money was empty.

These days, the two have not been out of the house, Su Ri has someone to take care of the clothes, where do you know that the weather outside the city is different from the city, the two just arrived outside the city, the heavy snow kept falling, plus a few heavy snows in the past, the river also froze, the brother and sister were blocked outside the city.

Nan Qingxi was weak and gave the cloak to the frozen child not long ago, and now he was shivering with cold, Nan Xunwei saw the situation and knew that most of the people today would not be able to cross the ferry, so he hurried to find the inn, who knew that the tourists who came and went were endless, and those inns were either full a few days ago, or there were no empty rooms, and there were still many travelers who had nowhere to stay.

When the two were worried about their residence, they saw that many pedestrians on the street were hurrying in one direction, and Nan Xunwei pulled one person to ask, only to know that they were rushing to the largest temple in the town to avoid the snow, the temple is called "Moon Old Temple", which enshrines the old man under the moon.

The house of the Yuelao Temple is large and uninhabited, and the people who usually clean the Yuelao Temple are nearby residents. Now the merchants and merchants who can't find the inn are all pouring in, even if the Yuelao Temple is big enough, the many people who come are crowded.

There was already a large pile of firewood in the hall, and the sparks were clattering and jumping in the air, and because there were too many people to care about anything, everyone sat around the fire.

The sound of the north wind howling outside came in from time to time, and someone went to close the door of the Yuelao Temple, because there were still people who kept pushing the door in, so even if the door was closed for a while, it still couldn't stop the cold wind and sleet from hitting the hall.

The cold wind blew the fire from dark to bright, and everyone in the hall was worried when they saw this.

Nan Xunwei and Nan Qingxi, two brothers and sisters, followed a group of travelers and merchants into the Yuelao Temple, and everyone felt a sense of pity for each other because they were "the same people who have fallen from the end of the world", and they did not hesitate to move some places for the new people to sit down.

Nan Xun saw the appearance of everyone and guessed that they had been delayed here for a long time. Seeing that everyone was hungry and cold, they were just about to take some silver taels and invite everyone to drink to keep out the cold, and they took out their purses and found that the silver taels on their bodies were empty when they didn't know when, so they quietly pulled Nan Qingxi's sleeve and asked her, "Ninth sister, do you still have silver taels on you?" ā€

Nan Qingxi turned her head to look at her brother suspiciously, and replied softly: "Aren't the silver two on the seventh brother!" How? Could it be that Chengdu is finished? ā€

Nan Xunwei just sighed and nodded, Nan Qingxi bit her lip and asked a little helplessly, "What can I do about this?" ā€

Although the two brothers and sisters were born in troubled times, but now the state of Chu is still peaceful, and the family of the two has been the family of Zhong Ming Ding food for generations, the family of poetry and books hairpins, and on weekdays, in addition to rewarding people at home, they can't make a few silver coins, and when they go out and see the refugees homeless, they will inevitably spend money as soon as they overflow, and they will soon spend all the money they brought out.

The two of them felt pity for the children who were frozen on the street, and they both untied their cloaks and gave them away, which was a rare time for the two to be frozen and starving.

Nan Xunwei hesitated for a moment, and said softly to Nan Qingxi: "As soon as the river thaws, we have to rush home immediately even if we find someone to borrow silver, the night is long and dreamy, if you know about going out, we will be in big trouble!" ā€

Nan Qingxi pursed her lips and whispered a little timidly: "I don't know when this river will thaw, if it drags on for four or five days, even if we go home, my mother may not know how to punish us!" ā€

Nan Xunwei was anxious, but he teased his sister, "Oh, my family's old nine who are not afraid of heaven and earth are afraid of the earth this time!" ā€

Nan Qingxi raised her head and said with a smile: "I'm not afraid, I'm afraid of injuring you, Seventh Brother!" ā€

The brother and sister talked and laughed for a while, and finally thought of the current situation and just looked at each other.

Nan Qingxi felt bored, so he swept the hall of everyone, and accidentally caught a glimpse of his cousin Nan Xunyuan was also in the hall of the old ancestral hall of this month, so he smiled and smashed Nan Xunwei's arm to signal to him, Nan Xunwei followed his sister's gaze, and saw that it was his cousin Nan Xunyuan, so he turned his face and said to Nan Qingxi with a smile: "Sister, the third brother must have silver taels on his body, I think he is a two-pound person on weekdays, and today I have to teach him to feel distressed." ā€

When Nan Qingxi heard this, she clapped her hands with a smile and whispered, "I want to see how distressed he looks!" It's just that his mouth is the most broken among the children of the Nan family, if he sees me, he will inevitably say that I am not in front of his grandmother and mother, he still has the ability to tell my affairs to the fourth sister, I don't want to provoke him. ā€

Nan Xunwei laughed when she heard this, patted her on the shoulder, and said, "The third brother dares to bully our little ninth sister, look at me and don't let him feel very distressed today." With that, he quietly got up and slipped out, "Wait and see!" ā€

When Nan Xunwei came back, there was a shopkeeper with four or five shopkeepers who sent a lot of food, he walked to Nan Xunyuan's side with a smile, patted him on the shoulder and said loudly: "The weather is cold, everyone here is hindered by the wind and snow, it is fate, today my third brother is the east, please invite all uncles and brothers to drink and eat meat, get rid of the cold, you don't have to be polite to him, just eat and drink with confidence!" ā€

As soon as Nan Xunyuan heard this, he pulled Nan Xunwei's sleeve hard, hesitated for a long time, and said with a guilty face: "Seventh brother, I ...... I'm stretched thin, but I don't have any money to spare. ā€

Nan Xunwei originally thought that it would be easy to send the wine and food first, and then knock Nan Xunyuan in front of everyone, but who expected that he would not be able to get off the stage.