The old man nodded: "I'm old, I can't eat much, these are enough." ”

But what Ran Qiunian was shocked was not how much the old man ate, but that the potatoes in this box were small and dirty, and many of them were green and sprouted.

As for the well water in the old man's mouth, Ran Qiunian ran out to take a look, and an open urn in the open air was in the courtyard, and there was indeed a layer of water in it, which looked muddy, and there were silt and insects floating on it.

Ran Qiunian was a little distressed, these things were the only food for this old man for several days, although this open urn was clearly said to be well water, but this direction and the dirty water inside clearly told Ran Qiunian that in the days when there was no well water, this urn also received rain and night dew.

Living on these things all day long, no wonder the old man's body is so weak.

Xiao Yin also followed Ran Qiunian out, and was silent after seeing this. Ran Qiunian pulled Xiao Yin's sleeve, looked up and said to him:

"Big brother, shall we do something? Since he saw it, he couldn't just assume that nothing had happened, how should the old man's livelihood be arranged before he found the king's shopkeeper? ”

Ran Qiu Nian said that, she had already made a decision in her heart, and Xiao Yin would leave it all up to her.

After saying goodbye to the old man, Ran Qiunian found the next-door neighbor, gave her a piece of silver, and told her to take care of it more on weekdays, at least so that the old man had clean water to drink and hot meals to eat.

After taking the silver, the neighbor is naturally full of willingness, and it doesn't take much effort to take care of an old woman, but it is just a bowl of rice and a bowl of water, but you can earn a silver ingot, is there a more cost-effective deal in the world?

"Don't worry, this old lady's food is just wrapped around me, as long as we have a bite to eat, we will never let this old lady go hungry."

"Then thank you very much, I will come to see the old man again in a few days, what she lacks every day, you just go and buy it, if the silver is not enough, see you next time, I will give it to you again, don't be afraid to spend silver."

Ran Qiunian was afraid that this woman would be greedy for silver and would not take care of the old man wholeheartedly, so she said this so that she would know that as long as she took good care of the old man, she could get more silver.

When the woman heard this, she immediately smiled and agreed.

After arranging the life of the old man, Ran Qiunian and Xiao Yin left here in a carriage, and it was not too early, and it was time to go home.

Not long after Ran Qiunian and Xiao Yin left, the old man's door was knocked again, and she sat up with vigilant eyes and did not speak to the door.

"Old lady Wang, are you in the house? The girl asked me to bring you food, and if you do, let me know, I haven't eaten it at home! ”

It turned out to be the voice of the neighbor's woman, the vigilance in Mrs. Wang's eyes subsided a lot, and when she heard the words, she also felt the rumbling in her stomach, she answered the voice, held on to the edge of the bed, stood up slowly, groped for her crutches, and moved towards the door little by little.

"So you're at home, I thought you were out again."

The neighbor's woman was holding a bowl of multigrain rice in her hand, covered with a handful of green vegetables, and a small slice of meat, and in the other hand she was holding a bowl of hot wild vegetable soup, and smiled warmly at Mrs. Wang.

"All for me?"

Mrs. Wang looked at the hot meal and soup suspiciously, she didn't know how many times she hadn't eaten a hot meal, smelling the fragrance, her mouth had already begun to swallow saliva.

"I don't have any money, not a penny."

Old Lady Wang swallowed her saliva, and although her eyes were about to stick to the meal, she still said the hardest.

"Don't worry, I won't take you silver, that kind girl has already given me silver, you just eat, I will prepare and send you three meals a day in the future, you just need to remember to return the dishes and chopsticks to me."

The neighbor's woman said happily, sweeping away the impatient attitude of the old lady Wang, and looking at her like looking at a chicken that can lay golden eggs.

"Did the girl really give you money and tell you to bring me hot meals?"

Mrs. Wang was a little incredulous, but looking at the hot meal in the dream in front of her, she couldn't help but not believe it, could it be that the girl was really not sent by those executioners?

In any case, it is better to be able to eat a hot meal than anything else, and the old lady Wang didn't bother to think about it, licked her lips, took the bowl in the neighbor's woman's hand, lowered her head and ate a big bite.

Swallowing the hot meal in her mouth, Mrs. Wang couldn't help but reddened her eyes, and her originally cold and hard heart slowly melted some.

Since that day, every few days, Ran Qiunian would take time to go to the outskirts of the city to see Mrs. Wang, and would bring her the pastries she had made herself to talk to her.

The two gradually became acquainted, and Mrs. Wang would also begin to miss Ran Qiunian in the days when she didn't come, and finally after Ran Qiunian came to visit her for the last time and left, Mrs. Wang made up her mind about the hot meal on the table.

She packed a package, carefully poured the hot food on the table into a cloth bag, the hot soup was not easy to take, she drank it herself, and after cleaning it up, she left the house quietly while there was no one around.

She walked all the way to the forest in the back mountain, although her legs and feet were inconvenient, she was very familiar with the terrain of the back mountain, knew many easy but hidden routes, and found the cave where the king's shopkeeper was hiding all the way.

"Who?"

The shopkeeper asked nervously, but he heard a hoarse voice coming from a low voice: "It's me, son, don't be afraid, my mother will bring you something to eat." ”

"Mother, why are you here? Didn't I say that there is nothing big about it, don't come here? If you come to me and be seen, not only me, but also you, will be killed. ”

The shopkeeper came up with a nervous face, and his face was full of beard, unkempt hair, and ragged clothes, and if he didn't know him well enough, he was afraid that he would think that there was a wild man living in this cave.

"Don't worry, no one is following, I avoided people coming, come and eat, it's still hot, my mother specially packed it for you."

Although there are many things to say to the shopkeeper Wang, the old lady Wang is most concerned about his body, and hurriedly took out the cloth bag hidden in her arms, she covered it with her body all the way, and it is still hot.

"Mother, how did this come about?"

The shopkeeper Wang spread out the cloth bag, and when he saw the hot meal with some oil and water in it, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and while asking, he grabbed it with his hands, and after a while, he ate it all completely.

"It's a kind girl who asked a neighbor to do it for me, son, my mother came here this time for this matter."

Mrs. Wang looked at the gobbling shopkeeper Wang distressedly, touched his hair, and talked about her acquaintance with Ran Qiunian.

"I don't think that girl is a bad person, if she really has a plan, how can she be so concerned about my old woman who walked into the coffin on one half leg, my mother thinks she really wants to help you, this time I came here to persuade you to go to that girl and tell her everything about you."

Mrs. Wang said this, when the shopkeeper Wang heard that in the days when he was away, his wife relied on Ran Qiunian to have hot meals and hot dishes, and couldn't help but burst into tears, choked up:

"Okay, listen to my mother, I've had enough of this savage's life, even if it's a trap, since that girl can be so good to you, I'm willing to give her this life and gamble on it."

The mother and son hugged their heads and cried, and Mrs. Wang got up to pack up her things and quietly returned the same way.

After Mrs. Wang turned around and left, and walked all the way down the mountain, a figure flashed not far away, and the woman in the neighborhood looked thoughtfully at the back of Mrs. Wang going down the mountain, and had an idea in her heart.

When Ran Qiunian left before, she heard the old lady Wang tell her to come again tomorrow and give her something. Although she didn't know what it was, Ran Qiunian's intuition was an extremely important thing, so she told Xiao Yin her guess.

"In that case, I will go with you tomorrow."

Xiao Yin also felt that Ran Qiunian was good to the old lady Wang these days, and maybe he could impress the old lady and inform the whereabouts of the shopkeeper Wang.

If tomorrow is really for this matter, Xiao Yin naturally can't be absent.

"Okay, but the old man only needs me to go alone, and if the eldest brother is also there, I'm afraid she won't tell the truth. So let's go together tomorrow, and when I enter the house, my eldest brother will be waiting for me at the foot of the hill behind the house, and the two places are not far apart, and if anything really happens, you can come in time. ”

After Ran Qiunian discussed it with Xiao Yin, he waited for tomorrow to find out.

Although Ran Qiunian didn't have the intention of taking advantage of Mrs. Wang's kindness at the beginning, if she really got the whereabouts of the shopkeeper Wang by mistake, it would be an unexpected joy.

The next day passed in a flash, and early in the morning, Ran Qiunian got up and got into the carriage with Xiao Yin, and drove all the way to the countryside.

When he arrived at the old man's residence, he found that the fence was wide open and there was no one in the house, Ran Qiunian's face changed, and he hurriedly came out of the house and called Xiao Yin.

"Big brother, the person is gone, an old man, her legs and feet are still inconvenient, early in the morning, where can she go?"

Ran Qiunian's face was anxious, and she was really a little worried.

"Don't worry, this village is not big, what happened to each family, there are few people who know, just go and ask others first, maybe just go out to pick some wild vegetables, this is also a common thing."

Xiao Yin comforted Ran Qiunian, turned around and saw the neighbor's woman who was probing her brain next to the house, her eyes changed, and she stepped forward to stop the woman who wanted to escape.

"Why are you stopping me? Okay, what does this do? ”

The neighbor's woman shouted weakly, turned around and wanted to run, Ran Qiunian also reacted, and hurriedly chased after the person and pulled the person back: "Auntie, you must know what happened, right?" Please don't hide it and tell us what happened to the old man. ”

After speaking, Ran Qiunian took out a piece of silver from his arms and sent it to the neighbor's woman.

After taking the silver, her attitude changed, and she immediately smiled, licked her lips, and gestured greedily to Ran Qiunian.

"Just this money, you want me to risk my life to send you a letter, how can there be such a good thing in the world?"

"Okay, as long as you tell me what's going on, it's all yours."

Ran Qiunian was anxious, and she didn't want to talk more to the woman who took advantage of the fire to rob, so she took out all the silver from her arms and threw it in her hands.

This bold gesture naturally touched the woman's heart, and she turned the silver and smiled.