The woman is also in her twenties, her appearance is quite upright, there is a sand in the center of her eyebrows, but her clothes are as shabby as the child, she doesn't seem to like to clean up, and her hair is also tied in a knot at will, and she actually inserts half of the chopsticks, her face is languishing, and she looks very unenergetic.

As soon as the woman saw that it was Meng Tianchu and them, her face changed, she walked quickly to the door, and pulled the child behind her to close the door. As soon as Zhu Hao blocked the door, the woman couldn't help but take a step back, hugged the child in her arms in horror, and said in a trembling voice: "What are you going to do?" We didn't do anything, don't come in! ”

Meng Tianchu ignored it and walked straight into the courtyard, and the woman said loudly: "Whoever wants you to come in, you let me out, if you don't go out, I will call someone." After saying that, he grabbed a stick from a corner of the yard and brought it to his hand, and the other hand tightly protected his child, for fear of being robbed by others.

Meng Tianchu said: "This eldest sister, we are just passing by and are thirsty, and we want to ask you for a bowl of water to drink, we will give you money, what do you mean by this?" ”

The woman said with some suspicion, "Drink water? You came to my house just to drink water? ”

"yes? So what else does the eldest sister think we have to do? ”

The woman breathed a sigh of relief, put the stick in her hand under a plum tree, put her hand behind her ear to smooth the scattered hair, and said, "You just said that you asked me to buy water to drink, how much money are you going to give me?" ”

Meng Tianchu smiled and said, "How much does the eldest sister think is appropriate?" ”

The woman thought for a moment and bit her lip. A slap was reached.

Meng Tianchu said: "Five cents? ”

The woman shook her head and said, "No, fifty wen." ”

The child next to him said in surprise: "Mother, fifty wen?" So much money, can we let Uncle Zhu buy us the sweet candy man last time in the city? ”

The woman's face suddenly turned pale, and she quickly covered the child's mouth.

Meng Tianchu pretended not to hear: "Okay, it's only fifty Wen, but we have to drink hot water." Instead of well water. ”

The woman saw that Meng Tianchu did not ask the root of the child. So I put my mind at ease. smiled and said: "That's natural, you go and boil water for you right away, you wait." ”

Meng Tianchu found that this woman actually had a pair of dimples when she laughed, and when she smiled, she looked much better than not laughing, and said, "Sister, there are chickens and ducks in the yard, and there are too many mosquitoes. Can we go into the house and sit down? ”

The woman turned around, a greedy smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and said, "Yes, but it will add another ten cents." ”

Meng Tianchu smiled and said, "There is no problem. ”

The woman smiled even more happily, pointed to the door with the bamboo curtain, and said, "Go in and sit, I'll go to the kitchen and boil water for you." After saying that, he twisted his ass and walked away.

Murong Yuxue took a piece of peach cake from the city's "Ten Flavor Zhai" from her arms and handed it to Lamei, and said with a smile: "Little sister." Eat this. It's delicious. ”

Lamei took it, took half of it in one bite, and devoured it. Murong Yuxue took her hand. A few people entered the room with the embroidered curtains.

The room was in a mess, on the bed, on the table, on the floor, there were clothes and embroidered needlework everywhere.

Murong Yuxue put those things on the bed and gave Meng Tianchu a place to sit.

Lamei finished eating it in two bites, and carefully added the slag from the corner of her mouth into her mouth with her tongue, and then looked at Murong Yuxue longingly.

Murong Yuxue was a little embarrassed, and said, "Sister will bring you some next time, okay?" I don't have it in me. ”

Disappointed, Lamei stepped aside and sat down on a pile of dirty clothes.

Zhu Hao said: "I have it here, do you want to eat it?" But it's not a peach cake, it's a snack, do you want it? ”

Lamei was overjoyed, and immediately stood up and walked in front of Zhu Hao with a flattering smile on her face.

Zhu Hao pointed at Meng Tianchu: "I can give it to you, but you have to answer our young master's question." ”

Lamei swallowed her saliva and said to Meng Tianchu eagerly: "Then you ask, I haven't eaten for two meals." ”

Meng Tianchu felt a chill in his heart, and reluctantly smiled: "Lamei, where is your father?" ”

Lamei looked outside the door, walked to Meng Tianchu's side and whispered: "My father doesn't want my mother and me anymore, so I went to the county seat to find another goblin to marry." ”

It seems that Lamei's mother said this to her, otherwise how could there be a word like "goblin" popping out of a child's mouth.

Meng Tianchu continued: "Then is your Uncle Zhu good to you and your mother?" ”

Lamei nodded again and again and said, "My uncle Zhu is good to me and my mother, and every time I come back from the county seat, he will bring me delicious food." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Did your Uncle Zhu come yesterday?" ”

Lamei shook her head, pursed her lips and said, "No, I haven't been here for several days, and my mother is in a bad mood, saying that my Uncle Zhu doesn't want us anymore." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Then you don't know why your Uncle Zhu didn't come?" ”

Lamei looked outside the door again, leaned into Meng Tianchu's ear and said: "My mother said that Uncle Zhu still has that little goblin named Yulan in his heart, so he refused to marry my mother, or my mother would have taken me to marry her, and Uncle Zhuzi can eat meat every day with me!" ”

At this time, the woman outside the door was shouting, "Lamei, where did you die?" ”

Lamei immediately agreed: "Mother! I'm in the house. ”

"When the water is boiled, come and bring me water."

"Okay, mother, I'm here." After speaking, he walked to Zhu Hao's side and stretched out a pair of dirty little hands, Zhu Hao took out a piece of pastry from his arms and handed it to Lamei, Lamei stuffed it into her mouth, chewed desperately and swallowed, and her eyes rolled white.

Zhu Hao hurriedly patted him on the back: "Don't worry, eat slowly!" He took a glass of water and handed it to her.

Lamei drank most of the glass of water, and then she relieved herself, and then ran out.

Meng Tianchu asked Zhu Hao with a smile: "Why do you have these snacks on you?" ”

Zhu Hao pointed to the monkey sitting on the table and said, "Didn't you see that Wan'er was in a hurry just now?" That's what it is. ”

Meng Tianchu took a look. Sure enough, the monkey looked at the door with bony eyes, and looked angry, everyone

Zhu laughed.

Coming out of the woman's house, Zhu Hao gave the woman sixty yuan, and the woman was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth.

Lamei walked up to Murong Zhenxue and said, "Sister, you promised to bring me that delicious place, don't forget it." ”

Murong Yuxue nodded with a smile and said, "Yes." My sister will definitely bring you more water next time she comes to your house to drink water. ”

The woman heard that she was coming. Then he said happily, "Good land." Come on. ”

Meng Tianchu and a few people came out of the woman's house, and Wang Yi said with emotion: "This woman is really ruthless, one person and one bowl of water, and she will ask us for sixty wen." ”

Zhu Hao said: "If I were a man, I wouldn't want such a sloppy woman, the house would be really dirty." ”

Murong Xue said: "What a good child, she actually looks the same as her mother. In order to eat a little, it is actually such a flattering expression. ”

Meng Tianchu said with a smile: "If you are poor, you will think about change!" ”

When everyone heard it, they all thought that what Meng Tianchu said was very good.

Meng Tianchu said: "Not all children are as competitive as Miao Jue. ”

Murong Xue said: "That's true, but I think I also like that tiger just now." ”

Meng Tianchu said with a smile: "I like you to give birth to one, you are so beautiful, the child must be more cute than Huzi." ”

Murong Yuxue blushed and lowered her head.

Meng Tianchu felt that her words were a bit light, after all, she hadn't passed the door yet. Hurriedly smiled in disguise. Of course, Wang Yi and Zhu Hao pretended not to hear.

Back where they were resting before, an old man came over with a bowl of water and said to Meng Tianchu, "Master, I want to give Zhuzi a bowl of water to drink." The weather is so hot, he has been in the sun for so long, you can see that his mouth is dry, I wanted to give him a drink just now, but other officials disagreed. ”

Meng Tianchu looked at the pillar, his lips were indeed very dry, he nodded to the old man, the old man thanked him gratefully, hurriedly walked to the pillar, and handed him the water.

The pillar took the bowl and drank it in one gulp, and the old man quickly patted the pillar on the back.

The pillar said, "Uncle Zhao, thank you." ”

The old man sighed and said, "Pillar, if you really didn't do it, you can tell the eldest master, I don't think this master is a fool, but... Alas, if you do it, you're really confused. ”

Zhuzi handed the bowl to the old man and said, "Uncle Zhao, I'm leaving, if I can still come back, I'll bring you your granddaughter's treasure next time." ”

The old man nodded crying, walked to Meng Tianchu's side and said, "Big master, Zhuzi is a good doll, don't beat him, if he really killed Yulan, I think he had no choice but to do so." After saying that, he turned around and left abruptly.

Meng Tianchu asked Zhuzi: "What do you bring to Uncle Zhao's granddaughter?" ”

Zhuzi said: "The uncle and granddaughter have asthma, and they must insist on eating it, and I often go to the county seat to sell meat anyway, so I will bring it to their family all the time." ”

After Meng Tianchu heard this, he nodded and did not speak again. Commanded to move on.

When I was about to arrive at the entrance of the village, I passed by a pond, and the lotus flowers in the pond bloomed just right, and you could smell the fragrance of lotus flowers from afar.

But the pillar was as if he had seen a ghost, and he didn't look at it, but stepped up his pace, and hurried through it without being able to take three steps and make one step.

Meng Tianchu saw that the pillar was walking so fast, and asked, "Pillar, what are you doing walking so fast?" ”

The pillar didn't answer, just buried his head and left, and soon distanced himself from everyone.

Murong Zhenxue's heart moved, and she walked quickly to Meng Tianchu's side, and said in a low voice: "Master Meng, remember those pollen-like things we found on the deceased when the corpse was examined that day?" ”

Meng Tianchu pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "There is something wrong with this pillar!" After a pause, he continued, "If this pillar is to show his heart to the woman just now, showing that he has only one woman in his heart, then he also has a motive to kill Magnolia, but this motive doesn't seem to be very convincing. ”

Murong Xue said: "If he really loves such a woman, and Yulan has been avoiding him like a plague, and he still says some hurtful words in his mouth, then he can completely kill the killer and kill Yulan, and probably he can also die for this woman." ”

Meng Tianchu sighed and said, "Who knows? I hope he won't kill his old love for a new love. ”

Murong Yuxue smiled faintly: "That's better than some men who have to hold them in their arms when they see one and love the other." ”

Meng Tianchu was stunned, how could this sentence seem to be talking about himself.

Everyone took a carriage to the county seat, and after entering the city gate, Meng Tianchu said to the pillar: "Now tell me, where have you lived in the past three days, is it east or west?" ”

The pillar bowed his head and did not speak.

Wang Yi said loudly: "We don't have time to spend with you, if you still want to go back today, then you can hurry up, or you will live in the Yamen prison and think slowly." ”

The pillar hesitated for a moment, sighed, and said, "I'll tell you the truth, I'm actually... In fact... Have been living in... in the kiln. ”

Meng Tianchu was surprised and said, "Don't you have a woman?" Why do you still live in a kiln? ”

Zhu Zi looked at Meng Tianchu in surprise and said, "I said, Yulan and I really don't have anything. ”

Meng Tianchu said: "I didn't say Yulan, I said Lamei's mother." ”

"What? You... Do you know Lamei's mother? ”

"If you don't want people to know, you can't do it unless you do!"

The pillar looked dazed and said, "What... What chickens don't feed, ducks don't eat? ”

Meng Tianchu smiled bitterly and said, "I mean as long as you do it, we will be able to know." ”

Zhuzi nodded: "Now that you know, then I admit it, that's right, I got along with Chrysanthemum, and the things you saw before were also bought for Chrysanthemum." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Then since you have already gotten along with Chrysanthemum, why do you still go to the kiln?" ”