Chapter 31: Defection to the Xiao Mansion
"Boom!" With a bang, the thatched hut, which had been bent by the snow, was finally overwhelmed and collapsed with a bang.
Xiao Liuzi, looking at the collapsed house in front of him, I can't remember clearly, this is the first few houses in Yangzhou to collapse since the heavy snowstorm.
But these have nothing to do with him, as a recruit of the city defense battalion, what he needs to do now is to move the frozen corpse out of the city as soon as possible, so as to minimize the panic in the city.
Just after Xiao Liuzi, who struggled to put the corpse of a seventy-year-old man into the broken carriage, he didn't have time to rest, and he was kicked in the back.
"Liuzi, you should move quickly, it's a cold day, close the team quickly, and go back to warm up, otherwise sooner or later we will have to be like these people in the car, all frozen into popsicles."
It was a tall, dark and thin soldier who spoke with a cigarette pouch and pot in his mouth, and his mouth crackled and said very happily, but he stood there without even putting his hand on it.
Xiao Liuzi said to him again and again, but he secretly hated this old in his heart, and he only moved his mouth and didn't use his hands, but who made the family a veteran, he, a rookie egg, had to pinch his nose and admit it when he was called.
After moving five or six corpses into the car, Xiao Liuzi took a look and saw that the piece he was responsible for should have been disposed of.
Just as he was about to push the cart away, suddenly next to the alley on the right, in a standing broken jar, half of his legs wearing embroidered shoes were exposed, and he was stared at with sharp eyes.
Shaking his head, Liuzi resigned himself to his fate, pulled out the snow in the tank, and a young girl's pale face was revealed, about eleven or twelve years old, with a delicate appearance, melon seed face, and really good-looking.
Liuzi sighed: "It's a pity", then stretched out his hand, and dragged the frozen woman out of the broken tank, grabbed an arm, and dragged it to the carriage.
It seemed that because his movements were too rude and the dragging was too painful, the girl, who was originally frozen, frowned, slowly opened her eyes, and then said weakly: "Don't, don't take me away, I'm not dead yet." ”
Although she was frozen and couldn't move, her consciousness was still awake, and she naturally knew what these officers and soldiers were doing.
When she opened her mouth, she frightened Xiao Liuzi, thinking that she had encountered a corpse, "Mom" screamed, lost the girl, and took ten steps back, which was considered to be a steady foothold.
Standing aside, looking at Xiao Liuzi's nest of thin and tall veterans, he snorted disdainfully, and said commonplacely: "I'm afraid of a ball, this girl is just not frozen, so she quickly dragged it to the carriage, and when she reached the corpse slope, she would be dead." ”
Xiao Liuzi's eyes glared at the boss, and he couldn't bear to say: "Brother Heizi, but she is still alive, can this work." ”
After hearing this, the veteran named Heizi said nonchalantly: "How many people have died in this snow disaster, you see that she can't stand today, it's better to carry it together, and the province will have to collect her body tomorrow, wouldn't it be troublesome." ”
Xiao Liuzi wanted to say something, but as soon as Kuroko glared, he immediately didn't dare to speak, stepped forward a few steps, grabbed the woman's shoulder, ignored the other party's pleas, and was about to get her into the carriage.
But at this moment, a young man suddenly ran over, stopped Xiao Liuzi, and said with a smile: "Official, don't be, this is my sister-in-law, separated from me, you spare her life, I will take her away, and promise not to cause trouble to you." ”
The young man who spoke, only thirteen or fourteen years old, wore a tattered felt hat, a cotton jacket on his body, a patch on the east and a notch on the west, a pair of cotton straw sandals, and the thumb of his left foot was exposed, as if he were a little beggar.
But don't look at his clothes are quite shabby, but Zhang is very beautiful, although he is a man, but he has long double willow eyebrows, red eyes, thin and red mouth, and a fair and ruddy face.
If it weren't for his voice, he would be a man when he heard it, and I was afraid that whoever saw it would treat him as a woman at first sight.
But the only thing that makes people feel awkward is that the young man's temples are white before he gets old, and the eyebrows are as white as snow.
was already reluctant, and the little six who loaded the living person into the car immediately let go when he heard the words, but the sunspot on the side stopped doing it.
Holding a cigarette pouch and pot in his mouth, he walked over, crossed his eyes and said, "She's your sister?" You look like a bear, you can't live for a few days, don't make trouble for me, what should I do, this girl is no good, I have to carry her away. ”
When the young man heard this, a pair of beautiful phoenix eyes turned twice, and said with a smile on his face: "Two officials, she is really my sister, I know that I have caused trouble to the two of you, I still have two pancakes, if you two don't dislike it, take it, all of them should be filial piety." ”
As soon as Heizi heard this, the expression on his face showed a little smile, and he smiled and said: "You kid is very good, in this case, take your sister and get out, this is the time to see that there is still half a moon for the New Year, live well, don't freeze to death and make trouble for your master." ”
After speaking, he handed over the two cakes handed by the young man, all into his arms, to catch up with the snowstorm, all the rice shops in the city are either closed, or the price of food has skyrocketed, now this grain is very expensive, with these two cakes, the wife and children at home, can survive for two days.
As soon as the young man heard that Kuroko let him go, he was busy with a thousand flattering words, and then pulled up the girl and hurriedly left.
After he took the girl and turned left and walked into an abandoned house, he hit the ground with his butt and said, "Why are you so careless, you were targeted by these urging Hades, fortunately I saw it, otherwise you would have been transported out of the city with those corpses." ”
These soldiers guarding the city camp, since the arrival of the heavy snowstorm, have been moving dead bodies out of the city every day, at first only moving the dead, and then as long as they are frozen, they also move, so people behind their backs, they all call them urging Hades, which means that they are targeted, regardless of whether they are dead or alive, they have to go to Hades to report.
The girl was frightened by this, and was dragged to run for a long time, her hands and feet were not so stiff, and she saw her wiping her tears, and whispered: "It's all because of me, I'm sorry that you lost two cakes." ”
When the young man heard this, he sighed, and said very distressedly: "Yes, it was from my aunt's house, I finally begged for it, I originally wanted to take it home and give it to my mother to eat, but now it's no fun." ”
Hearing this, the girl cried even more fiercely, feeling that it was all her own fault, and she had caused others to be affected.
When the young man saw himself, he made the girl cry, and hurriedly said: "Don't cry, in fact, two pieces of bread can save your life, if my mother knew, she would let me do it, not to mention that without bread, I still have this, you see." ”
When the girl heard this, she raised a pair of teary eyes and looked at the young man.
I saw that the other party opened the rag pocket around his waist, and then took out two nest heads.
Then the boy thought for a moment, and put one of them back into the cloth bag, and handed the other to the girl.
"I'm hungry, I'll leave one for my mother, you can eat this."
The girl looked at the nest and swallowed two mouthfuls of saliva, she was really hungry, but she was too embarrassed to take it, so she lowered her head slowly and cried quietly again.
Seeing this, the young man smiled, directly stuffed the nest head into the other party's hand, and then said cheerfully: "Eat quickly, by the way, my name is Xiao Wenxin, I don't know what your name is." ”
The girl held the head of the nest and said in a voice smaller than a mosquito: "My name is Zhang Baishu." ”
After saying that, she silently gnawed on the nest head, she hadn't eaten well for four days, and now this nest head was not much softer than a stone, and it was the most delicious thing she had ever eaten.
Xiao Wenxin recited the other party's name twice, and then asked, "Why are you living on the streets, what about your family, so where do you live?" ”
When Baizhu heard this, the tears that had just stopped flowed down again, "My father froze to death due to the snow disaster, and I have no relatives, in fact, I fled from Meishan and wanted to go to Xiaofu to join a noble person there." ”
As soon as he heard this, Xiao Wenxin immediately came to his senses and said curiously: "Which Xiao Mansion are you talking about, the Xiao family is a big family in Yangzhou, you see that I am also surnamed Xiao, maybe this noble person in your mouth is still some relative of mine." ”
Bai Shu glanced twice, Xiao Wenxin, who was in rags, still couldn't bear to say the blow, but said softly: "I'm talking about the Xiao family, the envoy of Yangzhou Festival, and I want to find Miss Xiao Si in the house." ”
When Xiao Wenxin heard this, he said in surprise: "What you said is actually this family, don't say it, I am really a distant relative of his family, or I will take you there, I know where his family is." ”
Baizhu felt that he had really met a noble person today, and he couldn't take care of it, so he hurriedly said: "Wen Xin, thank you, then let's go quickly, I'm worried that I can't find a place." ”
Wen Xin was also happy, stood up and led the way in front, and after half a pillar of incense, when the two of them felt that their legs were frozen and filled with lead, Xiao Mansion could be regarded as arriving.
Seeing that it was difficult for Bai Zhuliang to walk, Xiao Wenxin gritted his teeth and walked a few steps quickly, came to the door of Xiao's mansion, and knocked on the door vigorously.
It didn't take much effort for the door to open, and a family member shrank back, poked his head out and asked, "Who are you looking for, if you want food, go elsewhere, let's give porridge in Xiao Mansion every day, come early tomorrow." ”
Xiao Wenxin rolled his eyes, knowing that he was wearing too worn, which was regarded as asking for food, and he was depressed for a long time before he said: "Little brother, I am here to find the fourth lady in your house, please let me know." ”
The family who was originally going to close the door was happy when he heard this, and looked Xiao Wenxin up and down several times before he said sarcastically: "Go and go, the fourth lady is also the one you want to eat, and she is messing around, I can ask someone to drive you away." ”
Now up and down the Xiao Mansion, who doesn't know that the Xiao family has already changed, and the most powerful person is not the eldest lady Ning, but the fourth lady.
Now the whole Xiao Mansion is taken care of by the fourth lady, if it weren't for the fourth miss's order, these refugees can't be embarrassed, and this Ding would not have been so polite for a long time.
Just when Jiading ignored Xiao Wenxin, who was still explaining, and was about to close the door, a golden hairpin appeared in front of him.
Then, I saw Baizhu's voice said weakly: "This is given to me by the fourth lady when she left Meizhuang, and said that if there is something, you can come to her with this hairpin, if you don't believe it, you can take this hairpin and ask, we will wait outside the door if we don't go in." ”
Although this Ding is a doorkeeper in Xiao Mansion, he still has some eyesight, and seeing that this golden hairpin is well made, he also believed a little in his heart, and let the two of them wait, he closed the door and immediately trotted towards Xiao Jinxuan's Wanxiang Pavilion.