The Rugged Boy's Road Chapter 6: Miss Jin San
The reason why Shifang Town is called Shifang Town is because it is located in the traffic artery, leading to Shifang, close to Fenglin Mountain Range in the northwest, next to the Fen River in the south, the land is fertile, the materials are abundant, and the merchants are in an endless stream, and many merchants exchange materials here for convenience.
Therefore, although Shifang Town is a town, but people bring wealth, there are many rich people in the town, among which the richest Jin family also relies on this to make a fortune, nearly half of the land in the town is the Jin family, and the shop faΓ§ade is close to the Jin family.
Jin Yingui, the head of the Jin family, felt that he couldn't hide his money, so he had to show it for everyone to see, so he built a mansion that was unforgettable at a glance to prove how rich he was.
The color of the Golden Mansion is mainly gold, and the magnificence of the repair is impressive, and even the carriage used in the palace is golden. Three golden carriages lined up outside the gate of the Golden Mansion, and the golden sunlight shone on the golden carriage, and the golden light emitted made people feel even more magnificent, at least Jin Gui himself thought so.
Sitting in the three carriages were Huang Jingui and his wife Xu and his third daughter, Jin Qiao, who had just returned from a farm outside the town. Huang Jingui eats with a fat brain, a round head and a round brain, but judging from his actions when he gets out of the car, his skills are very agile.
After he got out of the car, he took out a few copper plates and threw them to the driver who was in a hurry, nodded to his daughter, who had already gotten out of the car and was waiting for him on the side, and said, "Well, this kid's car is quite stable, it's no problem to be your coachman." β
Jin Qiao replied with a bright smile after hearing this: "Thank you, Dad." Then he turned to the coachman and said, "Su Hang, you go back today, and you will come to work tomorrow." β
"Okay, Third Miss. Then I'll go back first. Su Hang politely bowed to Jin Qiao and the others, and then walked towards home.
Huang Jingui looked at Su Hang's distant back, and said to Jin Qiao: "Qiao'er, although this child is young, his temperament is very calm, if he is cultivated, he will definitely be more than just a groom." β
Jin Qiao is sixteen this year, well-behaved, smart and clever. The appearance is even more different from her father's gold and expensive, melon seed face, willow moon eyebrows, cherry mouth, and flower and moon appearance, she is a famous little beauty in Shifang Town, and it is even more rare that she also has a bodhisattva heart, and often sends money and food to help the poor.
An hour later, on the mountain forest on the west side of Shifang Town, a young boy and a young girl sat in a clearing in the mountain forest and looked at the tombstone in front of them in a daze.
Time is like flowing water, day and night, two years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the boy who was only six years old has become a young teenager. Thinking back to the winter when his ex-father and mother just passed away, Su Hang didn't know how he survived.
In the months after the incident, Soho kept crying and trying to find her father. Su Hang just accompanied him silently, but fortunately, Guangyi came over that time and left a jar of rice for Su Hang, which allowed Su Hang to get through that difficult time.
As time passed, two months later, Soho gradually accepted the reality, and gradually stopped being noisy and began to be sensible, so Su Hang had spare time and began to look for a way to make a living.
After that, Su Hang searched for small and big shops in the town everywhere, but all places disliked him for his young age, thin body and refused to take him in, watching the horizontal line of the rice jar at home slowly decline, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
Even though Su Hang went to the mountains by the stream every day to find some small fish and shrimp, and the mountain delicacies and wild fruits to supplement the shortage of food, the food at home was finally exhausted in late autumn and early winter.
Su Hang's place of residence is on the periphery of the slum area in Shifang Town, and the nearest neighbors are also more than ten zhang away, and they are all poor families, and no one will take into account Su Hang's difficulties.
Su Hang looked at the empty bottom of the tank and couldn't help but feel a little desperate, he couldn't climb the mountain, he had no choice, he had to wait by the stream all day long, touch some fish and shrimp to barely survive, half a month later, Su Hang, who was already malnourished, was already skinny, covered with skin and bones, as if he could fall down at any time.
In the past half month, Su and Hangzhou have tried their best to devote themselves to fishing, if they can improve the efficiency of fishing, they may be able to persevere, which is already the last glimmer of hope for Suzhou and Hangzhou.
The hard work paid off, Su Hang finally found some ways under racking his brains, learned some skills, made some small traps, and the efficiency of fishing increased greatly, and the fish and shrimp caught every day were enough for him and Su Ho to fill their stomachs, and even had a surplus for a few days.
He took the fish and shrimp to a nearby home in exchange for some rice and noodles, and his life was back on track for the next month or so, but only for a little more than a month.
More than a month later, the cold winter came as scheduled, and in addition to the Fenshui River, which was rushing endlessly, the surface of the rest of the streams had condensed into ice, and all the small traps in Suzhou and Hangzhou had failed in the face of the ice, and they had returned to the original situation.
It is a matter of survival, and in no other way, he began to try to break the ice to get fish, but he found nothing in Suzhou and Hangzhou for three days, and the rice and noodles exchanged for fish a few days ago will be used up again.
In the early morning of the fourth day, Su Hang boiled the last bit of brown rice into a bowl of gruel and brought it to Su Ho, who looked at the porridge in the bowl and divided it into half of the other bowl and said to Su Hang: "Brother, let's take one and a half." β
Su Hang's heart warmed and took the bowl and drank two sips of soup, the warm soup warmed Su Hang's body and mind, and the cold in the air seemed to recede a little, and then Su Hang handed the rice porridge at the bottom of the bowl to Su He and said: "Brother is full, you can eat the rest." β
Su Hang said that he cleaned up slightly and planned to go out, before leaving, he smiled and said to Su Ho: "Brother will definitely be able to catch fish back today, you can wait at home to drink fish soup." β
Soho has been well-behaved since she was a child, and she and Su Hang have been dependent on each other for half a year since her parents left, and she has grown a lot during this time.
Looking at the rice porridge at the bottom of the bowl, she understood Su Hang's thoughts in her heart, and looked at Su Hang, who was about to go out, she rushed forward and hugged the thin body tightly, and said with a little crying: "Brother." β
Su Hang also grabbed Su He's little hand tightly with both hands, and then gently broke free of Su He's little hand, and said softly again before leaving: "Don't worry, Xiaohe, my brother will definitely catch a fish today." β
As he had done a few days ago, he walked to the stream in the bitter cold, took off the torn straw sandals under his feet, and walked barefoot onto the frozen stream, under the biting cold he had to grit his teeth to overcome it.
Stepping into the ice, the feet were bitterly cold, the ice surface was smooth, Su Hang, who had not entered for more than ten hours, was unstable under his feet for a while, slid to the ground, and hit his head on the ice when he fell to the ground.
Maybe Su Hang's life should not be extinguished, but in Su Hang's own words, it should be that God's teasing of him is not enough, so he can't let him die.
On that day, Jin Qiao, the third lady of the Jin family, took a maid and two guards to swim here, and saw Su Hang who fell on the ice, after confirming that Su Hang was not dead, but fainted under a high fever, she ordered two guards to rescue Su Hang and bring it back to Jin Mansion for treatment, and Su Hang woke up in the evening under the treatment of the doctor.
After Su Hang woke up, Jin Qiao learned about Su Hang's life experience, and since then he has taken good care of Su Hang and Su Ho brothers and sisters, and after Su Hang's body recovered, Su Hang was unwilling to accept Jin Qiao's charity for no reason.
Jin Qiao admired Su Hang's backbone very much, and in the following days, Jin Qiao often invited Su Hang to come to Jin Mansion to do some short-term work, in order to help Su Hang, but Su Hang did not disappoint her, no matter what she did, she was serious and rigorous, and perfect.
At the same time, Jin Qiao often went to Su Hang's house to visit Su Hang and Su Ho, told them stories, and taught them to read and write.
In this way, more than a year passed, in this more than a year, Su Hang got enough nutrition, and his body has returned to the normal appearance of an eight-year-old child, Jin Qiao introduced him to Jin Yingui in order to make his life more stable, and prepared to let him be a groom, so there was the previous scene.
Seeing that Su Hang was immersed in the past, Su He also obediently sat quietly on the side, and as it grew dusk, she spoke: "Brother, let's go back when it's getting dark, you have to go to work early tomorrow morning." β
Hearing Soho's words, Su Hang replied with a smile: "Hmm."
Then he lit the last stack of dead paper on the ground and said to the tombstone, "Dad, mother." It's been two years, and now Xiaohe and I have grown a lot taller, and we are both able to take care of ourselves. From tomorrow onwards, I also have a formal job, and you can rest assured in the Heavenly Spirit. β
Soho also said on the side: "Dad, mother." Brother, he is amazing, now he is the groom of the Golden Mansion, and many people envy his brother!"
Unconsciously, Su Hang has been a groom for three months, this is a relatively easy job, when he doesn't use the car, Su Hang will learn Jin Qiao to teach him poetry and articles in the house, and his life is also fulfilling.
'Tianxingjian, a gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement. β
Today, Su Hang as usual at the gate of the Golden Mansion with a branch on the ground with a tree branch on the ground seriously gestured to his favorite words, suddenly a rush of footsteps came, he turned around and saw that it was the Wang Butler in the house, in Su Hang's impression that the Wang Steward has always been a calm person, how could it be so abnormal today Su Hang was a little surprised, only to see the Wang Steward run to the door and said to a few of their grooms: "Hurry up, you go and invite the best doctors in the town." β
Seeing that Steward Wang was so flustered, someone asked, "Steward Wang, is there someone in the house who has an accident?"
Steward Wang waved his hand and said angrily: "Don't give me too much trouble, hurry up and invite all the best doctors in the town." β
When everyone saw him angry, they didn't ask much and drove separately to the pharmacy and medical hall they knew, and half an hour later, Su Hang rushed back to the Jin Mansion with two doctors, and as soon as he got out of the carriage, there was a special person who followed the two doctors into the house, and then several horsemen also returned to the Jin Mansion with the doctors.
After seeing the doctors enter, everyone discussed in front of the door, some people speculated that it must be the second lady who had an accident, usually she is the meanest, and some people said that the eldest prince had an accident, just because he missed the hour a few days ago because he was too slow to catch the car, and the eldest prince was whipped a few times, and there were different opinions, only Su Hang sat on the side, frowned slightly and was silent.
Everyone has long been accustomed to Su Hang's silence, the grooms and guards here are adults, only Su Hang is still young and they don't have much to say, everyone often laughed at Su Hang at the beginning, but Su Hang smiled lightly and did not respond, and everyone did not say much for a long time.
Of course, there were people who wanted to bully and bully this child at first, but Su Hang was extremely ruthless when he started to do it, and that person never flattered him, and finally after being known by the third lady Jin Qiao, he was beaten and driven out of the Jin Mansion, and no one dared to bully him again.
And among all the people here, except for Su Hang, Li Yi is the youngest, he has just turned seventeen years old today, and he is the one who has the most contact with Su Hang among the people, at this moment he looked at Su Hang with a slight frown and asked: "Xiao Hangzi, do you know something?"
Su Hang glanced at him, shook his head, and said, "I don't know anything like you. β
Li Yi didn't seem to be satisfied with Su Hang's answer, and asked again: "No, you're not like this usual." Seeing that your brow is furrowed to heaven, you must know something. β
Everyone didn't pay attention, but it was really true when Li Yi said this. Then you asked Su Hang: "Xiao Hangzi, don't hide what you know." β
"yes, don't be so stingy, you know anything and tell the big guys. β
Su Hang still shook his head and said, "We have been staying outside all the time, how can we know about the affairs in the mansion." β
When everyone heard this, they ignored Su Hang, and gathered to the side to make a fool of themselves.