After leaving Jiajiayi, Jia Qiang was not in a hurry to go home, but walked all the way south.

After walking for more than an hour, seeing all the scenery along the way, I came to the famous Beijing vegetable market, and it was even more crowded, rubbing shoulders and rubbing shoulders, and the voices of people were boiling.

This is the largest vegetable market in Shenjing City, and at the north intersection of Caishi Street, it is the place where death row prisoners are beheaded after autumn on the eve of the winter solstice every year.

However, Jia Qiang's destination was not here, but from there, she crossed Chang'an Avenue and arrived in Nancheng, where she entered an alley called Madao Hutong.

Even in this Shenjing, the best place in the world, there are still many poor places, such as this Madao Hutong.

The road in the narrow alley is full of potholes, and there is a lot of garbage and feces in the eye, and the smell is touching......

Entering the first house in the east of Madao Hutong, a house that was far inferior to Jia Qiang's house, Jia Qiang gently pinched the wings of her nose, as if she wanted to block the pungent smell from her nose.

But it was in vain......

The dilapidated wooden door is mostly greasy and dirty, with a few notches that can be seen through the gaps.

Jia Qiang didn't pause for too long, took a light breath, and pushed the door in.

This is a large miscellaneous courtyard, just one entry, but with the addition of the privately built firewood shack, there are seven or eight rooms, it looks like three families live, crowded to the brim......

When Jia Qiang came in, there were two gray-clothed old ladies sitting on the broken stone pier arguing, and two drooping children squatted in front of their heels.

Another young woman was carrying a baby on her back, picking out the pebbles of corn in her pocket.

A dirty old cat was lying by the well, lazily basking in the sun......

However, with the arrival of Jia Qiang, the old man stopped bickering and scolding, the drooping child also raised his head, the young woman blushed and lowered her eyes, and couldn't help but raise her eyes and glance at the handsome young man......

"Who are you looking for?"

A bold urchin stood up and asked aloud.

Jia Qiang smiled and said, "I'm looking for Liu Shi." ”

The naughty boy shook his head and said, "We don't have a name for Liu Shi, you are wrong." ”

As soon as the words fell, another naughty boy shouted: "Ah Mao, you are so stupid, Liu Shi is Liu Laoshi!" ”

The naughty boy was unconvinced: "Liu Shi is Liu Shishi, he is an honest person, Liu Shi is Liu Shi, not necessarily an honest person, how can he be a person?" ”

An old woman drank two naughty children: "Go and go, go to the side to play tricks, if you don't have a yolk, you will chew maggots." After scolding, after squinting at Jia Qiang, he shouted to the innermost room: "Liu Daniu, someone is looking for your father!" ”

Before long, a pale but tall young woman with a very good appearance walked out, and as soon as she went out, she saw Jia Qiang first.

She was confused for a moment at first, and then her apricot eyes suddenly widened, and she exclaimed in surprise: "Qiang'er!" ”

Jia Qiang nodded, then bowed and saluted gently, "Please cousin." ”

This style made the old woman and young woman and a few naughty children who didn't know what suspicion they had when they saw the excitement be slightly stunned, and then they took on a sneer and continued to watch silently.

Even the people at the feet of the Son of Heaven were in awe of the etiquette of the scholars.

Liu Daniu stepped forward a few steps, grabbed Jia Qiang's arm excitedly, and said, "Qiang'er, why are you here?" As he spoke, his face changed again, and he gritted his teeth faintly and said, "Do you still recognize the door at home?" ”

Jia Qiang just smiled and didn't say anything, but Liu Daniu was still excited: "Daddy always cares about you, but you live in that Gaomen mansion, and you can't recognize our poor relatives." He came to the door several times, but you only asked the little guy to take a few taels of silver out to send it away. Daddy is so angry that he doesn't want the silver to be yours, so he'll leave. Last year, when I got married, I deliberately sent someone to tell you without telling my father, but I didn't expect you to send only ten taels of silver out, and no one was seen. How do you recognize the door today? ”

Although the words were strange, there were tears in his eyes.

Jia Qiang said softly, "Come and see your uncle, aunt and cousin." ”

Liu Daniu glared at him, and saw that the people around him were watching the excitement, so she pulled Jia Qiang and said: "Sit at home first, your nephew Xiaoshi is still sitting inside, and now Bacheng will climb out of the basket and drill on the ground." ”

Jia Qiang followed Liu Daniu into the dim room, and he secretly looked at this cousin, and his appearance when he was a child in his memory has changed a lot.

It seems that the genes of the maternal family are indeed good, he himself is handsome and good-looking, and this cousin is also quite good-looking, but his complexion is very bad, and he is only three or four years older than him, and he will be less than twenty, but he looks old.

If nothing had happened, she would probably be like most women in this world, and she would have become an old woman at the age of thirty, and she would have to rely on the destiny of heaven to live until she was forty years old, and then die early......

In the dim hall, Liu Daniu first picked up a little boy who had just climbed out of the basket, beat it lightly on the buttocks, put it back into the basket, and covered it with a "snap......

Then she beckoned Jia Qiang to sit down, and she was going to prepare tea.

Jia Qiang persuaded and said, "Cousin doesn't need Zhang Luo, I'm not thirsty." In his own home, there is no need for outsiders. ”

Liu Daniu was persuaded by the words "in her own home", stared at Jia Qiang, and then found something different, although the family was poor, but after all, she was born in the imperial city, and she still had some knowledge, hesitated, and asked: "Qiang'er, are you no longer in the Guogong Mansion now?" ”

Jia Qiang smiled and nodded, Liu Daniu didn't want a reason, and asked in a low voice, "But what difficulties did you suffer?" Isn't it short of money? ”

Jia Qiang's heart moved, and she nodded lightly and said, "Yes." ”

When Liu Daniu heard this, she stood up as soon as she heard this, but her body shook slightly, as if she was a little dizzy, but before Jia Qiang could say anything, she walked to the head of a bed with a dark tent inside, groped for a while, got up and turned around, although her face was ugly, she still gritted her teeth and handed her hand to Jia Qiang, and said, "You take it, let's save it when we go back, and you can come back in a few days." ”

Jia Qiang stretched out her hand and took five or six pieces of broken silver from Liu Daniu's hand, which were not much bigger than soybeans, and the total was probably less than two taels......

Liu Daniu also seemed to feel that it was less, blushed, and said, "Qiang'er, the silver you gave was originally not used." But my father was sick a few years ago, and the family really didn't have any savings, so I ...... Later, I had a small stone, and I fell into the root of the disease, and I kept taking medicine, and it took a lot of money, you see......"

Jia Qiang put the silver on the table next to her, looked at Liu Dayu and smiled: "Cousin, the ten taels of silver are my share of money, and I only had that much on hand at that time, otherwise I could have given more." I didn't borrow money, but now I come to the door to ask for a debt, why do you do this? ”

As he spoke, he took out his purse from his sleeve pocket, took out an ingot of silver weighing about five taels, and put it on the table, saying, "Although I am short of silver, I am not yet here." Cousin, you are in poor health, if you don't buy some good medicine, you will take care of your body, and it will only get worse and worse in the future. ”

Liu Daniu waved her hand again and again, and was about to say something to refuse, when she suddenly heard a harsh old woman's voice from the courtyard: "Honest, his Aunt Chun and Tie Niu, your family has a guest, he is a handsome Langjun, your eldest girl just pulled him into the house, and this son doesn't know what to do!" ”

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