Chapter 57: I Want to Go Home

"Thirty lashes, blast out."

Mrs. Ji indifferently gave instructions in person, Yu Shu was pressed to kneel at the door, she forced herself to think of a way calmly, but she swept inside and outside the house, and faced a pair of eyes that were either indifferent or bored, and she suddenly realized-

She's in a terrible situation right now.

Originally, she thought that if she was caught stealing fish, she would be punished at most, and because she ate two fish, the family would kill her, she did things, not recklessly, but just used to taking risks, if the risk probability was not enough, she would do it as she pleased, and would never be afraid of it.

But now it seems that the plot of stealing fish is even more serious than she imagined, and this family is probably angry with her because the thief who broke into the inner courtyard last night was not caught, and he is just a thing that can make Mrs. Ji extinguish the fire now.

The Ji family, who is angry, will not listen to her quibbles, rhetoric will no longer work, move rescue soldiers? She knew a Qingzheng Taoist, but the old man warned her not to reveal their relationship, and as soon as this idea started, she was suppressed by Yu Shu.

And the only thing she can do now is to beg for mercy, and the other party will not necessarily be soft-hearted.

She has no blood relationship with them, and if she beats her, they won't feel distressed, and no one will gossip about her.

Yu Shu clutched her sweaty palms, and gradually became flustered and suspicious, did she naively mistake this sudden ancient life from beginning to end, and imagined herself too relaxed and beautiful?

"Old lady Qi, the whip has been taken."

"Hit."

The chief manager with the whip shook the whip in the air and tried the strength, the small sound of breaking the air made Yu Shu shudder, recalling the rattan that fell on her arm not long ago, the kind of prickly pain did not make her afraid, but she hated it very much, but when the whip suddenly whipped on her back, she realized that the rattan was really far behind-

"Ahh

She heard a scream, and then realized that it was her own voice, and subconsciously pinched her shoulder, and a cold sweat fell, she tried to dodge, but was firmly grasped and couldn't move.

"Smack"

"Smack"

This is a whip, not a rattan, a thumb-thick cow tendon whip, the sound of pumping on the back through the clothes, is still loud, when it comes to the third whip, Yu Shu still wants to endure it, but after three more whips, she is already in this bone trembling pain, distracted thinking about how to win the sympathy of this family.

She has a lot of self-esteem, but she knows more about the truth that heroes don't suffer losses in front of them, these thirty whips are really finished, she is afraid that she will go to half her life, and then be thrown out of the city, no one cares, and it is a problem whether she can live or not.

Fingers grabbed the door frame, Yu Shu held his breath and said in a hoarse voice:

"Old, old lady, I know that the way is wrong, I ask the old lady for forgiveness-ah"

"Smack"

This whip came down, it was extremely hot, she bit the skin of her mouth in pain, tasted the salty patina, she could imagine that the clothes on her back had been torn, clenched her teeth and gasped, not letting the anger show on her face, and continued to mourn and beg for mercy:

"Please old lady, forgiveness, forgiveness, I know my mistakes-ah"

Mrs. Ji sat on the Taishi chair without moving, dressed in a finely embroidered silk flower gown, with a pair of small toes exposed under the calyx green pleated skirt, she held tea in her hand, and looked coldly at Yu Shu who was kneeling outside the door begging for mercy, the anger on her face subsided a little, but she didn't have the slightest intention of shouting to stop, but seeing that Yu Shu's back jacket was torn, revealing bloodshots, she only frowned slightly, and turned her head to talk to Ji Xiaogu:

"Xiaogu, it's not for my mother to say you, you are less than forty, it's time to renew the string, otherwise those women in your yard will be uncontrolled all day long, and the family will be in a mess, and one will not defeat our Ji family's style, and when your father returns to his hometown, what face do you call Weiniang to him."

"The son knows his mistake and makes the mother worry." Ji Xiaogu immediately lifted the hem of his clothes, knelt down from his seat, and kowtowed to Old Taijun Ji, but did not mention the continuation.

Old Taijun Ji looked at him, and Yu Shu shouted weakly in her ears, and she finally sighed, in the end, it was her own son, how could she be reluctant to blame, and waved her hand to let him get up:

"You'll talk about it when your father comes back this time."

"Yes, Mother." Ji Xiaogu stood up, stood aside, and did not sit down.

And outside the door, Yu Shu was almost twenty whips, and she was about to faint in pain, if someone hadn't grabbed her shoulders from behind, she would have fallen to the ground, in a trance, and her mind was full of pain, sweat was like rain, sticky sweat flowed from her eyebrows to her eyes, instead of tears that refused to fall, and she was dizzy.

This feeling suddenly reminded her that when she was rebellious many years ago, when she was beaten by her father, the feeling of the belt on her back was very similar to that of a whip, almost the same pain, the difference was that her mother and younger brother were defending her at that time, and even her father who beat her was actually distressed by her.

And now, the people who feel sorry for her are gone, and here, no one cares about her.

Yu Shu suddenly wanted to cry, she couldn't remember how many years ago she had last shed tears, she cried not because she was in pain, but because she missed her family, and she knew that she would never see them again.

She has always been a person who wants to die or be strong, and since she came to this world, she has always hinted that she wants to live happily, forcing herself not to miss her family, but she is afraid that she will be weak when she thinks of them, and she will be afraid to face this strange and unknown world.

"Okay," Mrs. Ji saw that Yu Shu's eyes were dilated, and she no longer shouted for mercy, so she put down the tea, and when there were still five whips left, she shouted to stop.

It's not that I'm soft-hearted, I just don't want to really make a fuss.

"Send her back to medicate her, change her clothes, and get out of the way."

As soon as Mrs. Ji's golden mouth opened, Yu Shu was dragged down, and she was kicked out of the house when her own mother didn't know what to do.

However, presumably Aunt Cui knows the way, and she may not dare to plead in the anger of the old lady and Ji Xiaogu.

At noon, Yu Shu was crookedly wearing the blue cloth shirt that Aunt Liu had made for her not long ago, her hair was unkempt, and she was not even allowed to take a bag in her hand, so she was pushed out of the back door.

With a "bang", the guard who was arranged to guard the door glanced at her curiously.

She stumbled forward a few steps before she stopped, turned, hunched over, staggered to a tree across the street, held on to the trunk, and slowly sat down on a stone, staring at the closed door, her face pale, only the skin of her lips bitten and very red.

She sat until dusk, and for three hours, she did not move.

During this period, a few people came in and out of the back door, and those who noticed her couldn't help but turn their heads to look at it a few more times, pointing and pointing, but none of them came forward to talk.

"Squeak", the door opened again, and a little maid ran out, looking left and right, seeing Yu Shu, said two good words to the guard, ran over, stood three or four steps in front of Yu Shu, and whispered:

"Girl, don't squat here, the little boy is clamoring to come out to find you, and he was scolded by his aunt and locked in the house, and the aunt said to let you go elsewhere, don't go around the house, beware of being seen"

The rest of the words, Yu Shu didn't listen, stood up with the tree, staggered away, the maid shouted a few times and didn't see her answer, stomped her feet, turned around and entered through the back door, on the way, I remembered that I forgot to hand over the silver money that my aunt confessed to Yu Shu, and hurriedly ran out of the house, but the person was long gone, so I had to pick up the two silver particles and go back.

When it got dark, Yu Shu unconsciously walked to Changmenpu Street, passed by Mian Zhai, stopped, looked at the closed door panel in front of him, lowered his head and turned around, and accidentally bumped into someone several times.

"I don't have eyes."

Yu Shu ignored the abuse behind her, walked in the direction of the river bank in the east of the city, absent-mindedly she didn't notice it, not far away, a figure wearing a veil hat noticed the movement here, turned around, the eyebrows under the hat moved, turned around and followed, walking behind her not far away, separated by some pedestrians.

As soon as Yu Shu walked to the small bridge at the entrance of West Street, it rained in the sky, and the pedestrians on the street began to run, and it was big in a blink of an eye, she stood at the head of the bridge for a while, the rain hit her neck, and the cold made her shrink, and she walked off the bridge.

On the edge of the ditch under the bridge, there were two beggars sheltering from the rain, standing for most of the place, unkempt with bowls, gnawing on half-moldy steamed buns, Yu Shu squatted down slowly beside them, with their hair scattered, as if they were all the way with them.

The two beggars looked at Yu Shu who came to their territory, and took the initiative to talk:

"What street are you, why haven't you seen it before?"

Yu Shu was silent.

The two of them were bored, so they turned their heads to look at the passers-by under the bridge, and said with emotion:

"On a rainy day, everyone is rushing home, only those of us who are homeless, just looking for a person who can squeeze in, hehe."

Yu Shu bent her legs, trembling and buried her head in her knees, the wind was strong, the rain swept under the bridge, blowing down on her, water droplets dripped from her hair, she murmured, scattered in the wind and rain, no one heard.

"I want to go home, Dad, Mom, Xiao Lei"

The person who had been following Yu Shu stood on the opposite side of the bridge, looking at Yu Shu curled up under the bridge, she didn't know how to avoid when she saw the rain sweeping over, her brows under the hat slowly wrinkled, and she was about to go up the bridge in the rain, but there was an oil-paper umbrella, which grabbed him.

"Ah Shu?"

Cao Zixin walked under the bridge, inadvertently glanced at the bottom of the bridge, saw the people squatting there, only felt familiar, took a closer look, and felt that the figure looked like the child he knew, but the other party was wearing loose hair, he couldn't see the face clearly, and half of his body was in the rain again, so he quickly held an umbrella and squatted down to cover it.

"Ah Shu? Is that you? ”

Seeing that the other party did not react, he hesitantly stretched out his hand, lightly put it on the thin shoulder, shook it, and the next moment he felt that the person under the palm of his hand trembled, and his head was raised, but it was a pale and weak face, the tears in the eyes that were naughty and smiling in both directions at the moment, and the blank and helpless eyes, which made his heart tense in shock.

"Shopkeeper."

(I saw that I asked, so I said, if you are easy, you don't write about Xianxia, it's not fantasy, it's just ancient text, but it involves the indispensable golden finger, and the fruit has its own divergent thinking.) This is a dynasty that has taken over history, the Da'an Dynasty after the Song Dynasty, succeeded the Yuan and Ming dynasties, it has a history of more than 300 years, it is a dynasty with a foundation formed, Yixue was carried forward in this dynasty, not limited to the monotonous framework, and now following the heroine is only a corner. ）。