Chapter 60: The Thoughts of the Shopkeeper Cao

Yu Xiaoxiu cried enough, before he stopped, grabbed Yu Shu and refused to let go, Yu Shu knew that he left without a sound for two days, it scared him, so he dragged him, straightened his hair, and asked:

"Haven't you eaten breakfast yet?"

Yu Xiaoxiu shook his head, "I'm not hungry." ”

Yu Shu looked at Cao Zixin, Cao Zixin got up and said, "I'll go find something to eat." ”

After taking Cao Zixin away, Yu Shu moved to Yu Xiaoxiu's side, and said softly: "Xiaoxiu, I have been kicked out by the Ji family now, don't be stupid, go back honestly later, go to school when you should go, eat and drink, don't commit their taboos again, don't be kicked out like me, do you know the way?" ”

Yu Xiaoxiu shook his head and said resolutely: "I want to be with you, you have been driven away, what am I doing in their house, I am not from their family." ”

"Don't be willful, where are you going when you leave the Ji family?" Yu Shu reprimanded, "I'm embarrassed to live in someone's house now, if you come out again, where are you going to be like me, causing trouble to others?" ”

Yu Xiaoxiu's face was clearly a little hesitant, but he still said stiffly: "I can go out to work and work for others to make money." ”

Yu Shu sneered: "Are you good to make money, carrying sandbags for people at the mouth of the river, and only ten copper coins a day are taken when you are tired and tired, just your three or two bones, the sandbags are heavier than you, what can you do when you go out?" ”

"I, I"

While he was speechless, Yu Shu softened his voice and coaxed: "Didn't we say okay, we will open the Yi Pavilion in the future and live a good life, where do you go to learn Yi without the Ji family, you will first endure in the Ji family and learn more things, in the future, our sister and brother will also have a good plan, we just don't live together, and it's not that we can't see each other, but if you really run out with me, the days will be sad, Xiao Xiu, my sister doesn't want to be separated from you, but isn't there no way, do you think I'm willing to let you stay in their house?" ”

As she spoke, her eyes darkened, with some crying, and she reached out to hide her face, and Yu Xiaoxiu panicked:

"Sister, don't cry, I'll listen to you."

"Really?"

"Really."

Yu Shu put his hand down, changed his smile again, turned his face like a book, Yu Xiaoxiu knew that he was fooled, but he didn't regret it, so he had to pout stupidly.

After the sisters and brothers finished speaking, Cao Zixin came in from outside, holding a bowl of rice, which was leftover river cakes from the morning, and a bowl of egg soup with hot water, and said to the sisters and brothers embarrassedly:

"I'm not going to do anything else."

The sister and brother don't think there's anything, the gentleman is far away from cooking, if he can cook, it will be strange. Yu Xiaoxiu was hungry for two nights, and he was not picky at all, not to mention egg soup, so he thanked Cao Zixin and started eating.

After the meal, Yu Shu explained some things to Yu Xiaoxiu, so he asked Cao Zixin to send him away, took the bowl and brushed it himself, and went back to the bed to lie down.

Cao Zixin sent Yu Xiaoxiu out of the door, and when he saw that his face was sullen, he had the heart to coax this little dd, so he said:

"Seeing your sister, aren't you worried, what are you unhappy about?"

Yu Xiaoxiu kicked the stones on the side of the road and said, "You don't know what to do, it's not good to blame me, if it weren't for me, my sister wouldn't have been beaten and kicked out." ”

Cao Zixin was puzzled, "It's not that she was caught stealing fish, what does it have to do with you?" ”

Yu Xiaoxiu had something to say in his heart, but he couldn't say it to Yu Shu, and now that someone asked him, he couldn't help but confide:

"We are in the Ji family, very unpopular, I am often bullied, last month, the Ji family cousin young master led people to bully me, tied me to a tree to beat, was bumped into by my sister, she was angry and fought with them, the most stubborn hurt the cousin young master, to the old lady, the old lady indiscriminately, fined my sister twenty rattans, all on the arm."

Cao Zixin furrowed his brows, his impression of the Ji family was a little worse in his heart, he saw Yu Shu lively and cheerful all day long, and he didn't want to live in such an environment.

"My sister was beaten, and she was not convinced, and she didn't eat well in those days, so she got up in the middle of the night to steal the carp in Mrs. Ji's yard, and came back to stew soup for me. Yu Xiaoxiu said sourly.

Children's hearts are much more sensitive than adults, Yu Xiaoxiu is young and old, Yu Shu has been good to him these days, he has all taken it with his heart, Yu Shu treated him badly before, but now he is good to him, these kindnesses will inevitably be magnified a lot, and each one is more carefully.

"The night before yesterday," Yu Xiaoxiu's voice was low, "the two of us came back from outside, and we didn't have money to eat, so I said I wanted to drink fish soup, so she started the idea of those carps again, and took me to steal fish in the middle of the night, who knew that I happened to meet a thief, which affected us, and my sister was caught, and she only said that she did it alone."

Yu Xiaoxiu finished speaking intermittently, turned his head and glanced at Cao Zixin in frustration, and said:

"Brother Cao, my sister was kicked out because of me, she is very good, don't look down on her because of this."

Cao Zixin heard this inside story, and couldn't help but be silent, the Yu Shu he came into contact with was mostly her clever and active side, and now listening to Yu Xiaoxiu talk about her stories that he didn't know, he knew that she had another side.

This feeling is very wonderful, when he decided what a person is like, he thought he had seen through her, but later he found that she was much richer than he thought, and the image of this person suddenly became profound in his heart, and he was no longer simply a person whose character he admired, this feeling caught people off guard.

After the silence, Cao Zixin raised his hand and patted Yu Xiaoxiu's head, and said:

"It's not right to steal things, but your sister has no malice, strictly speaking, she didn't hurt anyone, how can I look down on her, she is a good sister, but you have to remember that stealing is not appropriate, no matter what you steal, whether it is to get angry or not, you can't do it again next time."

Yu Xiaoxiu was touched by someone other than his mother and Yu Shu for the first time, and he was uncomfortable, and he originally wanted to dodge, but when he thought that Yu Shu still had to rely on him to take care of him, he stiffened and endured, and listened to his words make sense, so he nodded and said:

"I know."

Sending Yu Xiaoxiu to Changmen Pulu, Cao Zixin originally wanted to buy him some food, but Yu Xiaoxiu declined, thanked him again, and left alone.

Cao Zixin didn't go back to the store, so he walked around the street for half a circle, bought some dim sum flower cakes and the like, the little girl's favorite food, turned back to the house, took out a set of paper and pencils, and stood at the door of Zhao Hui's house and knocked on the door.

After a while, Yu Shu dragged his feet to answer the door.

"Brother Cao, why are you back again?" Yu Shu tilted his head to look at Cao Zixin outside the door, he had just slept and woke up, his hair was loose, and there was a handful of upturned, his face was red, and he looked confused and well-behaved.

Cao Zixin took his eyes off her face, ignored the strangeness in his heart, and handed her the things in his hand:

"It's inconvenient for you to go out in the past two days, if you're bored, practice your words at home, this is a copybook, I bought some snacks, you taste it to your appetite, don't eat too much, Sister Zhao will come back to cook for you at noon."

"Oh," Yu Shu took the thing, saw a little bit of food, subconsciously licked his lips, looked up and smiled at him sluggishly, his mouth with a small wound was red:

"Thank you."

Cao Zixin turned his head and coughed, "You are wearing less, go back to the house, I'm leaving." ”

Cao Zixin turned around and left, Yu Shu closed the door, went back to the house with his things and put them down, opened the snack bag, broke a piece and stuffed it into his mouth, smashed the taste, took off his shoes and lay down on the bed, thinking about where he dreamed just now, and continued to sleep.

Yu Shu lay on the bed for four days, and when the wounds on her back were all hard shells, no matter what Zhao Hui said, she insisted that she would no longer stay at home.

The reflection of the past few days is enough for her to sort out her mood and move towards her goal again, just lying in bed, eating and drinking other people's, which makes her sleep, who has always advocated self-reliance, unsteady.

So Yu Shu got busy again, she helped with accounting and chores in Cao Zixin's shop during the day, read and read in her spare time, and gave her a hand at Zhao Hui's wonton stall at noon and at night.

Yu Xiaoxiu would come to her every day after school, several times in succession, and brought her out the clothes she put in the miscellaneous yard, and some change, and the most important thing was that Yu Shu remembered many Feng Shui booklets, because they were written in simplified charcoal, Yu Xiaoxiu didn't understand what it was, but she copied it from the book, and didn't ask much.

Cao Zixin originally wanted to pay Yu Shu as usual, but she politely refused, Yu Shu asked Zhao Hui, Cao Zixin asked her to find a doctor to see a doctor and take medicine that day, it is estimated that it cost no less than twenty taels of silver, and if she asks her to take a penny from him, she will be soft.

She loves money, but there is a principle, she will never take money with her conscience again, she will not ask for less than what she deserves, and she will not be greedy if she does not deserve hers.

In this way, another three or four days passed, Yu Shu was suffering from no one to teach, so he could only pinch a rule for calculating the weather and try his best to remind Zhao Hui of the stall, so that she could close the stall early on rainy days, and prepare herbal tea in sunny weather to attract more guests.

But she didn't have more ability to implement the original plan, and just when she was about to lose her breath and ask Yu Xiaoxiu to find Qingzheng Daoren, the old man found her first.

"Let's have a bowl of three fresh wonton noodles."

At noon, Yu Shu was squatting on the edge of the bucket to help Zhao Hui wash the dishes, when he heard this voice, he turned his head and saw Qing Zheng, who he hadn't seen for a long time, sitting on the edge of the desk opposite, with a withered face and a wrinkled ugly face, which provoked passers-by to force them to retreat.

Because Zhao Hui was on the side, she didn't see that scary face, and while burying her head in making wontons, she responded: "Okay, you wait a minute." ”

Yu Shu saw Qing Zheng here, it can be said that he was very surprised, so he pinched a rag, stepped forward to wipe the table, and took the opportunity to whisper to Qing Zheng:

"Master, how did you find me?"

Qing Zheng just raised his eyelids and glanced at her, then lowered his head again to ponder the patterns on the low table, completely unfamiliar, as if he didn't know her.

Yu Shu wondered, and said a few more words, but the old man didn't even look at her.

Yu Shu muttered in his heart, look at this, why does it seem to be angry? She should really be angry, and she is also angry when she is beaten and angry, right, what is this old man making awkward?

"Xiaoyu, come and serve noodles to the guests." Zhao Hui shouted.

Yu Shu dropped the rag, went over and put the bowl in front of Qing Zheng, and saw that he still ignored himself, so he had to pick up the rag and go back to continue to brush the dishes, I don't know how long it was, when she heard a cold snort, she quickly looked up, and saw that Qing Zheng, who had been treating her as air just now, glared at her vigorously, put down the money on the table, and turned around and walked towards the opposite alley.

Yu Shu crooked the corners of his mouth, pressed the rag into the bucket, got up and said to Zhao Hui:

"Aunt Hui, I'll go to the thatched house."

After that, he ran after Qing Zheng.