Chapter 355: Mutton Soup
In a small thatched house, Granny Tao shivered with cold and drank slowly with a bowl of hot water. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Where she sat casually was a broken and black straw mat, and the white porcelain bowl with a rare bowl of hot water was also a broken bowl with four or five gaps in size, but she didn't mind.
She felt that on this windy, snowy, and extremely cold winter night, it was God's favor for her to drink a bowl of hot water after nibbling on the dry and hard vegetarian buns like a stone.
She had to persevere, insist on going to Yanjing to visit her poor granddaughter.
Zhan Yan is a person she can trust, and he asked someone to bring her the letter, which she received and read.
The words on the letter are indeed Zhanyan, and in the past, Zhanyan and Huazi came to her house for dinner, and they would always write and draw when they analyzed the case with Seventeen in the hall.
Afterwards, she went to clean up, and there were always three people's handwriting on the slightly yellow rice paper, and she recognized her granddaughter's handwriting.
Seventeen pointed to the other two handwritings and told her in detail, which one was the one that showed her face and which one came from the flower.
She had a miserable life, but when she was young, she was fortunate enough to study in a private school for two years.
Words are recognized, and words are recognized.
The words on the letter were face-lifting, and she recognized them.
The things in the letter must be true, and the things that Seventeen was wrongfully murdered must be true.
Isn't this a blatant wronging?
She couldn't understand her seventeen well, she was a kind girl who couldn't rub half a grain of sand in her eyes, how could she kill someone?
The cold wind was howling and the snow was vast along the way, and the thickest shirt and pants she brought couldn't cover the cold of the frozen land.
When she shivered with cold, she trotted with all her might.
When she couldn't catch her breath at a trot, she walked briskly, that is, she hurried and warmed up her old body for a long time.
She couldn't give up, even if it took three or five days to walk through a small county, which was just a small county next to Hongsha County.
The seventeen people were worried about her, and since they arrived in Yanjing, they asked the Yin family to come to Hongsha County to take care of her and treat her as an ancestor.
She knew that this was Seventeen's filial piety, even if she didn't want to be favored for no reason, but when she thought of her little Seventeen, she couldn't bear the care of her family.
This is a piece of filial piety of Seventeen, and it is also the only way to make Seventeen settle down and stop worrying about her as an old woman, she thinks about Seventeen and accepts it.
However, this time, she listened to the sender's explanation and concealed the Yin family who took care of her.
The person who sent the letter was also clever, and the Yin family was stunned to hand over the letter to her, and they didn't let the Yin family know about it.
It turned out that she didn't understand, why Zhanyan sent her a letter but couldn't let the Yin family know?
Later, after reading the letter, she understood.
Let the Yin family who stayed in Hongsha County to take care of her know that she wanted to go to Beijing, and the Yin family who was far away in Yanjing would definitely know soon that they would definitely not agree to her going to Beijing.
And her Seventeen is in trouble, and they probably won't let Seventeen know about it.
Zhan Yan was right in the letter, since they wouldn't let her seventeen know about it, then she couldn't let them know that she wanted to go to Beijing.
So on a snowy night, she quietly carried a small burden and left.
It's also that she is very cooperative on weekdays, and she doesn't want to leave home and go to Beijing at all.
On the night she left, there were not half of the Yin family in the 12 alleys of Changsheng Street, and they did not expect that she, an old woman who never wanted to leave home, would quietly leave Beijing in the middle of the night, and all of them fell asleep peacefully.
As for the yin boy who was guarding her house, if she had the chance, she could only say sorry to him in person.
She quietly put in his supper an herbal juice that would make him sleep soundly, not much, probably enough to make him sleep until noon the next day.
She also left a letter in the hall of her home, stating that she did not disappear, but left home to go to Beijing.
They should panic for a while, and then they'll be fine.
Anyway, she went to Beijing to find her granddaughter, and it wasn't something she couldn't do.
The family that took in Granny Tao to live in a small thatched hut for one night was also a very poor peasant family.
In the small courtyard with sparse fences, there are only three thatched huts, two large and one small.
One of the two large thatched huts was for people, one was a place for cooking and eating in the kitchen, and the hall was a place for guests to sit and sit, and the one for living was a large family of six or seven people, and the other room was crowded to the point that there was no empty space, and the two large ones really had no place for her to sleep.
Eventually, she moved into the little thatched hut.
This small thatched hut used to be a place to put some miscellaneous items, and a small open space was slightly cleared to clean it, and then a small broken straw mat was spread, and there was a quilt of moderate thickness that could not withstand the cold wind of this cold night.
This farmer is also a good person, she listened to Zhanyan's not to take the official road, to take a slightly remote path shortcut, this can meet such a kind family, see her an old woman to find her granddaughter to go to Beijing alone, it is really touching and not easy, so she kindly left her to squeeze in and sleep for a night to avoid the wind and snow.
She was grateful.
Even though she was covered with a quilt, she was still shivering with cold, even if she ate a bun as hard as a stone and did not fill her stomach, even if the bowl of hot water quickly turned cold and no longer warm, she was full of gratitude.
Thinking that if she came back here one day, she would have to ask Seventeen to repay her for taking her in for one night, so that she would not be left on the streets, and that she would not be frozen to death on the streets on this shockingly cold night.
At the same time, several fast horses galloped through the official road near the small county in Hongsha County, and went straight to the next small county.
In the tightly wrapped cloak led by the horse, the Yin family was full of anxiety, and even the sound of a low shout and a quick step off the horse was full of trembling.
One is afraid that something will happen to Granny Tao, as the principal who is stationed in Hongsha County to take care of Granny Tao, he is afraid that he will have to sacrifice his head in the end to atone for the crime of negligence and neglect; The second is that he was frozen by this wind and snow, but when he thought that Granny Tao was so old and was also alone under such a celestial phenomenon, I didn't know if there would be a place to shelter the snow and wind tonight?
He knew that Granny Tao did not have any savings, and they gave her money, but she refused to accept it.
always said that even if her granddaughter gave it, she couldn't accept it, bothering them to live in the little Hongsha County to take care of an old woman like her, she was already too wronged by them, how could she collect the money again?
What's more, she can still collect medicine to see a doctor, although the doctor doesn't earn much, but it is enough to live a small life.
The more he thought about it, the more anxious he became, even if it wasn't his own grandmother.
The other Yin clansmen who followed closely after the suffix saw that the head of the head waved the whip a little more fiercely, the horse neighed, the front hooves rose up, and then ran with all their might, and in the silent night only heard the sound of the horse's hooves tuk tuk.
The horses were running faster and faster, facing the wind and snow, almost like a lightning bolt in the night.
Several of them were just changed fast horses in the small county, and the last few fast horses were disabled by them who kept running day and night, and when they arrived at the small county to replenish, the horses could not stand up, their legs were severely frostbitten, and most of the horses were tired.
But they can also understand that their heads are so anxious because before the sun and dusk of the day, news came from the capital, and the young lady of their Yin family knew that Granny Tao's face changed greatly after leaving a book and going to Beijing alone, so she had to rush out of the capital and rush to Hongsha County alone, and came to find Granny Tao in person.
This time, Shou lost Granny Tao and gave them a head-on blow.
In the past, they were the Yin family in the capital, and they were all transferred from their uncle.
Not to mention that all of them are elite, but their heads alone are one of the most powerful leaders under their uncle, which shows that the status of Granny Tao in the minds of their young lady is the status in the minds of their uncle.
Granny Tao is lost, probably a few of them are not the most uncomfortable, their heads should be the most uncomfortable and self-reproachful.
I'm afraid that if I find Granny Tao and return to Beijing this time, their heads will be punished by the uncle, and they will be punished.
If Granny Tao can't be found as soon as possible this time, or when Granny Tao is found, Granny Tao has already encountered an accident, then their heads, together with them, probably don't have to go back to Beijing, and they will directly cut themselves off outside Beijing, in order to thank Uncle Tao for his kindness over the years.
In the morning, a group of several people walked down from the second floor of an inn, all dressed in simple and light clothes, all of them were sturdy young men, and only the leader was slightly older.
Even if these people cheered up, they couldn't hide the bloodshot in their eyes.
A few people sat down in the lobby of the inn, ate breakfast and left.
A few horses were really in good spirits, and at night they were all horses that the shopkeeper had instructed to raise with the best horse material, and after a night of rest, the original tired horses had recovered their mental strength.
One of the young men smiled wryly: "This horse is better rested than us!" ”
"Not really!" Another young man answered, sighed again, and asked the leader: "Head, you said that the fifth master asked us to come out to find an old woman, the portrait has been seen more than a thousand times, even if you close your eyes, you can recognize it!" But it's been more than half a month, how can you recognize it if people don't show up! ”
"How?" The leader glared, "That's the adoptive grandmother of Miss Yin, the old man who even the fifth master has to take to heart, how can you just talk nonsense?" Try it again with nonsense, and see how Lao Tzu cleans you up! ”
The sighing young man was stupid, didn't he just say an old woman, just don't say it.
The young man with a wry smile also said, "That's it! Miss Yin, what kind of character is that? That's the person our fifth master put on the tip of his heart! You are so open-mouthed, that is, the head is kind, you dare to say a word to the old woman in front of the fifth master! ”
Where dare the sighing young man, if he really said half a sentence in front of their fifth master, he probably didn't need the fifth master to give an order, and the mountains around the fifth master would have to teach him a lesson that he couldn't tell the difference between southeast and west!
The leader turned on his horse, looked at the lively street, and turned his horse in the direction of the city gate:
"Well, no more nonsense. I have passed through several states and counties along the way, and I haven't seen Granny Tao at all, and according to her old man's footsteps, it shouldn't be so fast. Then the only possibility is that the route we took diverged from her old man's house. ”
The sighing young man was anxious: "What should I do then?" Head! ”
"What should I do?" The leader glared again, "You ask me, who am I going to ask?" Do you want me to ask the fifth master? ”
What else can I do?
Find it!
What else can they do but change the route and continue to search!
On the night he came back from the official road fork in the suburbs of Beijing, Yin Seventeen fell ill unexpectedly.
Fever, fear of cold, even sneezing, and occasionally coughing a few times, it was really tormenting that she was uneasy, and even the four big girls around her were not restless.
Ou's mother was even more anxious: "How can this be good?" The young lady is kind-hearted, and she is the same as the wife back then! It was the adoptive grandmother who had saved the young lady for five years, and the young lady must have been very anxious......"
He turned his head and trained the four big girls who were waiting in the room: "You are the big girls next to Miss, my body is useless, are you also so useless?" Miss willfully went to the outskirts of Beijing to suffer from the cold, and you won't persuade you? ”
After the training, Ou's mother covered her mouth and coughed violently.
The sound was unpleasant to hear, as if it was going to cough up the whole lung.
Qinglian has always been used to taking care of Ou's mother, and she took two steps forward to help Ou's mother pat her back and said softly:
"Mom, don't worry, Mom knows that Miss is filial, if Miss is well, seeing that Mom was aggravated by a few of our unspeakable maids, how sad should Miss be? The slaves and maids don't have the face to wait around the young lady anymore. ”
That is, they admitted that they waited for Yin Seventeen to be inattentive, and they also used Yin Seventeen to press a pressure on the mother.
Otherwise, she is really afraid that Ou's mother will finally get better and her heart disease will be committed again, and the world is really chaotic inside and out, and she can't take care of it anywhere.
As soon as the green curtain spoke, Hongyu also stepped forward, took the tea that Blue Fat Ma had poured from the teapot on the table and handed it to Ou's mother's mouth:
"Mom rest assured, and drink a cup of tea to moisten her throat first. The doctor said that Miss was hot from the cold, and Miss was in good shape, and as soon as the heat came out, it would be fine when Ming'er retreated. ”
Ou's mother took the teacup and took a sip, swallowed that her throat was not so uncomfortable and itchy and wanted to cough, and then she let out a long sigh:
"You have served the young lady with all your heart, and I know it. I blame you like this, I will be confused, you don't blame me, a useless old woman, but also for the sake of the young lady...... I heard that Uncle was also present today? ”
Ruby and Green leaned at each other, they were there, but could they speak?
I'm afraid that if I say it, according to the uncle's filial piety to the district mother, the district mother may be able to find Junyuan immediately and train the uncle like them.
In fact, there is no need for the district mother to train, the uncle has been punished by the master to kneel in the ancestral hall, so he knelt in front of the tablets of the ancestors and wives of the Yin family, without saying a word, without moving, and kneeling all the time.
They haven't told their mother about this yet, and they don't dare to say it.
At this time, when asked like this, they were all quiet, like saw-billed gourds that couldn't say a word.
Ou's mother saw it and asked, "Is it there?" If so, you can't hide it from me! ”
Finally, the green curtain who knew a little about the mother in the district nodded: "Yes, the uncle was punished by the master and went to the ancestral hall." ”
Ou's mother was slightly stunned when she heard this, and then said with red eyes:
"The! It's also the right thing to be punished! ”
After sitting for a while, Ou's mother got up and told the four of them to take care of Yin Seventeen, saying that she was going to the small kitchen to cook a bowl of mutton soup.
The red jade, green leaning, and blue fat are unknown, but the green curtain knows:
"In winter, my uncle's favorite drink is the mutton soup made by my mother......"