Chapter 339: The Past
Looking at Zheng Jingru's appearance, Lu Li remembered how he had just started begging when he was a child.
At that time, when she was recovering from a serious illness, her grandfather, who was begging with her, discovered a Lu character embroidered on his clothes and named her Lu Li.
She didn't know a single big word, let alone any memory of the past, she didn't even know what a beggar was, she only remembered that she was wearing tattered clothes and accompanied another beggar grandfather to sit in a ragged temple every day, and there were often domineering bad beggars who drove them into the corner and went to sleep on their own comfortable straw mats.
At that time, only the beggar grandfather was willing to take her, a weak little girl, out to beg, and they sat in the most lively place on the street in the guise of grandparents, and she had been acting since she was a child, and if she passed a brightly dressed and graceful person in front of her, she would have to grin and cry twice.
When the sons and girls who often came and went saw her as a weak little girl, begging with their elderly grandfather, they knew that it was not easy for their grandchildren. Occasionally, they would give some broken silver or steamed buns.
Originally, they thought that this kind of life was still good, but their bodies were dirty, their shoes smelled a little, they were hotter in summer and colder in winter, and they had to fight for places to sleep with mice from time to time.
However, the most desperate thing was the day when the old man died.
She remembered that the winter in Yingzhou was extremely cold that year, and they curled up all night in the ruined temple, and the begging quilts were tightly covered by the grandparents and grandchildren, but they still kept shaking.
Lu Li saw the night outside the window through the tattered wooden window, and in the night, the heavy snow fell, quietly, and soon covered the ground.
A gust of cold wind blew the snow outside the window into the ruined temple, and the ground under the window of the ruined temple became wet.
She had never seen snow like that, and the next morning, when she opened the door of the ruined temple, she saw a blanket of snow.
The scenery was so beautiful, although she was sleepy, hungry and cold, but she still felt that such a beautiful scenery was rare, and he was a little surprised to turn around and pull his grandfather's hand only to find that his grandfather was hot.
Grandpa is old, and his health is naturally a little worse, and his perennial begging body is not stronger than ordinary people, and the heavy snow overnight has almost exhausted all his experience, and he is infected with wind chill in this vast snow.
"Grandpa, are you alright?" Lu Li didn't know that people were hot at that time, but he could also see that his grandfather's face was slightly red. Confused, he opened his eyes and shook Lu Li's hand.
"Girl, grandpa is a little sleepy today, so he won't go with you to beg, you still follow our previous habit to go to the street and come back in half a day. Remember to only beg on the streets, and don't go beyond the scope of our begging, otherwise those beggars will find out, and they will definitely surround you and beat you. ”
Grandpa was afraid that she would suffer a loss when she was young and fight with those beggars, so he told her not to provoke them.
Lu Li nodded, wrapped the quilt in his grandfather, and left the broken temple in a hurry.
The snow was too heavy on this day, the streets were deserted, the cold wind blew in bursts, blowing on the thin body in the road, she felt the biting cold, so she curled up on the corner of the street and squatted, but this day was too cold, there was no one on the street, she begged for most of the day, and never got the silver.
In the end, a kind girl passing by left her two taels of silver and two hot pies, and she happily carried the pies in her arms to keep them warm, and ran back to the broken temple to find her grandfather.
However, grandpa was dying at this time, wrapped in a quilt and fell to the ground, she knew that her grandfather was very sick and needed to see a doctor to take medicine.
She handed the pie to her grandfather, and boiled hot water in a crockpot with weeds next to her, and after eating a pie, his complexion became much better and his spirit was somewhat restored.
She supported her grandfather, walked all the way from the broken temple to the hospital at the corner of the street, and took the two taels of silver to the doctor to see a doctor.
At that time, she was also a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, and she really thought that two taels of silver was a big amount, and her dirty little hands carefully held the two taels of silver. There is still some cowardice in his eyes.
The doctor in the hospital knew that they were beggars and had no money in their hands, but fortunately, grandpa was also a beggar with a familiar face in this area. The doctor also remembered that everyone was a fellow villager, so he checked the pulse of his grandfather.
Grandpa is old, colds and flu are naturally common, the doctor accepted the two taels of silver, prescribed medicine to grandpa, and asked the apprentices around him to go to the back to fry a bowl and give grandpa a drink.
But how can a bowl of medicine cure a good grandfather's wind cold? She had no money in her hands, and she had no money in her hands, so she could only grab medicine for her grandfather like a stray kitten, and after getting a little food here, she cheekily came to ask for it again.
Even if the doctor was kind, he would not help them again and again, and soon the doctor lost patience and kicked her out of the hospital.
She begged everywhere, begging for her grandfather's money for treatment, and later her grandfather's money for treatment became more and more spent, and begging could not satisfy their medicine money at all, so Lu Li learned to steal.
So she has been undisciplined since she was a child, but her grandfather also warned her not to move people's money at will.
She didn't dare to steal from those small street vendors, because she also knew that everyone was out to do business, and there was not much money in the first place, and many rich families who came and went had helped them, so naturally she should not stretch out her hand to them.
After going back and forth, Lu Li found an excellent place to start, the gambling house.
It's crowded and chaotic, and people here only notice how many points are on the countertop. She didn't notice how much money was missing in her wallet, she was clever and clever, and she stole a lot of money from the rich young master one after another.
She used the money to treat her grandfather, but his health still did not improve.
Grandpa didn't survive that winter in the end, but the most regrettable thing was that she didn't have time to rush back to see grandpa for the last time.
That day, her luck was very bad, as soon as she put her hand into the pocket of a rich young master, the rich young master reached over and grabbed the money bag, and the two of them grabbed their hands squarely, and the rich young master grabbed her hand and was about to send her to the official.
She cleverly broke free from the rich young master's hand and ran away, but she was still blocked by the people in his house at the entrance of the alley and beaten violently.
She clutched the stolen silver in her hand, and although it hurt a lot, she was very happy in her heart.
Great, grandpa finally has the money to get medicine again, and when he takes these medicines, grandpa's illness will definitely be cured.