Without waiting for Lin Xiao to answer, Qu Shiyun slowly got up, paced to the back window with his hands, and said in a sad voice:

"When the autumn wind rises, the water of Wujiang is full of perch fat, three thousand miles...... I haven't returned home, and hatred is rare...... Look up to the sky......"

Before the last word was finished, it turned out to be old tears, and I couldn't cry......

Qu Xuanpin heard the movement, hurriedly ran in and gently supported him, and said in a low voice: "Father, you are tired, can you go into the house and rest for a while?" ”

At that moment, while helping his father into the bedroom, he gave Lin Xiao a look, and Lin Xiao hurriedly got up and said goodbye.

Qu Xuanpin sent it out of the door, and said apologetically: "Lord Lin, forgive me, my father has been away from home for a long time, and he has drunk a few more glasses, so that he ......."

Lin Xiao arched his hand again and again: "I understand...... Got it. ”

After speaking, he led the red horse and turned around and left.

He didn't want Qu Xuanpin to see it, but in fact, his tears were already rolling in his eyes, and they erupted as soon as he turned around......

……

After saying goodbye to Qu Xuanpin, Lin Xiao hit his horse and returned to the camp, silently chewing Qu Shiyun's words along the way, and the homesickness aroused by it made him look in a trance.

I pondered all the way and walked all the way, and when I saw that I was about to reach the city gate, I somehow took the wrong road and arrived at a market.

On the side of the street of the market, a large grass hut was erected in a clearing between the city walls and the black pressure of the hungry people in rags, and the voices of people were noisy, interspersed with the cries of babies and the soft coaxing of mothers, and the occasional scolding of men and the cries of women could be heard in the distance.

There were also many hungry people who could not squeeze into the straw huts, men, women and children, sitting on the ground outside the straw huts, occupying half of the street, and even sitting directly in front of the shops across the street, looking at passers-by with blank expressions.

Seeing this, Lin Xiao hurriedly dismounted, and led the Chiji horse carefully and slowly walked through the street.

There is a street corner in front of you, and when you turn the corner, you will go out of the market, and the high city gate building is not far away.

As soon as I turned the corner, I suddenly heard a young female voice with a trill:

"Sir, please do well, give me more! Three hundred is not enough......"

"You slut, you are so ignorant, if it weren't for the kindness of my master, who would come to buy you?" Lin Xiao tiptoed over when he heard this, and saw a group of people in tattered clothes not far away in a circle, and a middle-aged man wearing a new cotton coat and a bowl-top cotton hat stood in the middle.

"Master, please be merciful again, three hundred wen is really not enough for my father to be buried, please add a little more......"

“…… As long as Daddy can be buried, you will be the reborn parents of the slave, and the slave will repay ......you as a cow or a horse," the woman said with a clear cry of plea.

"Yes, Master Hu, you can do it, give more money, so that this girl can bury her father."

Refugees watching from the sidelines were also pleading with sad faces.

"You guy, it's easy to say, these years there is a shortage of soldiers, three hundred wen is too little? If you have money, you will buy it, and if you don't have money, you will be verbose! The middle-aged man screamed.

Lin Xiao tied the horse's reins to a wooden stake on the side of the road, squeezed through the crowd and approached, only to see a little girl in the circle kneeling on her knees, wearing only a shabby single dress, but with a straw mark on her head, and a corpse wrapped in grass was lying beside her.

It was a skinny girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, with a pale face that was slightly dirty, her skin bubbles and swollen face, and her eyes were already swollen from crying.

The middle-aged man standing in front of her was thin and thin, with a long face and thin eyes, and the new clothes he was wearing looked particularly eye-catching among the ragged and hungry people around him, but the entourage behind him looked five big and three thick, with a horizontal face and a big face, but the facial features on the big face looked very strange, obviously crowded together, at first glance it looked like a meat dumpling.

I saw the long-faced man say arrogantly: "I can't add a penny, do you sell it or not?" If you don't sell the master, I'll leave, starve you to death, you slut. ”

Seeing his arrogant words and deeds, the hungry people around him glared angrily, pointing and poking, but they dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and no one dared to open their mouths again.

"This girl, dare to ask how much money is needed to bury your father?"

Lin Xiao couldn't help but step forward and asked.

The girl saw that although Lin Xiao was wearing a single dress, it was also new, a bright color flashed in her eyes, and she snorted: "Five hundred ......."

Seeing this, a thin-faced old man in the crowd next to him stepped forward and answered:

"This son, it is said that it will not cost a few pennies to call a few people to dig a pit and bury people indiscriminately, but it will be enough for thirty or fifty yuan...... But this girl's heart is very high, and she would rather sell herself than buy a thin-skinned coffin for her father, and then buy some incense, candles, and white paper...... If you are interested in buying it, give a few more ...... Ay! It is also iniquity. ”

"How much does it cost to buy a coffin?"

"The worst willow coffin also costs four or five hundred wen, how can three hundred wen be enough?"

There was a shouting around.

"Yes, this Master Hu is too dark, even if human life is not worth much these days, how can you have to pay two or three times to buy a maid, isn't it bullying other people's lonely women?"

When I saw someone on the head, some people around me became angry.

"Humph!"

The long-faced man snorted coldly, glared at the man fiercely, the threat was extremely obvious, turned his head and glanced at his follower, the meat dumpling saw this and immediately rushed up, shook his hand and gave the man a big mouth, and scolded and said:

"You're a poor man, carrying a sedan chair, aren't you? Lao Tzu remembers you, tomorrow you don't want to drink porridge! ”

The man was dressed in tattered clothes, and when he saw the meat dumplings, he covered his face and shrank back, not daring to answer again.

The long-faced man's face was hideous, and he gritted his teeth and said to the girl, "Okay! Master, I will accumulate a yin virtue today, give you 300 Wen, and then follow me to get a pound of white rice, let's go? ”

The girl who knelt on the ground looked at Lin Xiao with a pleading look when she heard this, and she stopped talking, looking hesitant.

"Slow!"

Lin Xiao couldn't hold back any longer and shouted.

Then he stretched out his hand to pick up his clothes, touched his waist for a long time, and pulled out a small ingot of silver for the buckle rope, and grinned: "This is five taels of silver, all the uncles and brothers should do a favor and help this girl bury the deceased." ”

Since the last time he received the order, he had no money to deal with the eunuchs, He Shouxin put two small ingots in the pistol magazine bag for Lin Xiao, five taels each, and took them out when he needed them.

"Boom!" Everyone exclaimed in unison! They all looked at this young man with a sven appearance and a fair face with a look of surprise.

Five taels of silver is equivalent to five copper coins, five thousand Wen!

This, this, 5,000 and 300 PK? Isn't that incredible?

This is clearly a big wronged man falling from the sky!

Lin Xiao didn't know the value of five taels of silver, this was a month's salary for the soldiers under his command, but what could he do? He didn't have a copper plate on him except silver.

This guy is so poor that he has only silver left!

The girl's eyes flashed, and she hurriedly kowtowed, and just wanted to get up and take the silver.

"Yohe, you're cutting off your beard, didn't you see that my master has already bought it? Could it be ...... Do you want to get along with my master? ”

Seeing this, the meat dumplings hurriedly shook their shoulders and arrogantly blocked in front of Lin Xiao, "Do you know who my master is?" Uncle, I've never seen someone so unknown, so don't get out of here! ”

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