The setting sun is dyeing the sky with a bright golden color. On the small street www.biquge.info Pen, Fun and Pavilion, a small green cloth sedan chair carried by two people swayed out of the corner.

The two sedan chair drivers are strong men in their early thirties, and their pace is not slow or hurried, and behind the sedan chair is a middle-aged servant with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes.

Seeing this scene, the accustomed neighbors gave way one after another, and some people greeted them warmly.

This green cloth sedan chair has been here every three or five times, and it has been several years, and they gradually know that the old man in the sedan chair is the old school teacher invited by a certain family in the city, but the students are naughty, and the peers often stumble, so when they are not happy, they let the sedan chair man carry it, and bring a servant out to hang around like this.

Yan Er, who was at the back of the sedan chair, smiled and coped with the gossip greetings, but he was very helpless about his errand.

If you want to relax, there are many places in the capital, but this one has to come out and hang out in a green cloth sedan chair!

In the heightened car, which is slightly more spacious than the ordinary two-person sedan car, an old man dressed in a blue cloth is sulking.

Behind him stood a thin man, but the two palanquin bearers outside did not feel the slightest sense of difficulty in carrying one more person.

With the pace of the sedan chair outside, the sedan chair rose and fell, but the old man supported his chin with his elbows, wandering out of the world.

To be precise, he was in a daze.

In order to prevent others from making a big fuss about his habit, he never got off the sedan chair on the road, and the sedan chair driver and attendant all selected fresh faces from the family who rarely went out. After all, he is distracted, and he is not a private visit.

And today, he was in the worst mood since so many distractions.

The young son, who has always been perverse, was dissatisfied with the marriage that was about to be decided, ran away from home, and said that he would definitely let him see his ability, and those colleagues who fell into the well seized this point to attack him for teaching his son no way, and he made a disobedient son.

I think how likable it was when that evil obstacle was young, who knew that he would be such a bastard when he grew up!

It's all to blame that he has been an official wholeheartedly over the years, and after the death of his wife, he picked a daughter-in-law for his first three sons, and never paid attention to housework again! Those bastards in the family are selfish, otherwise such a big thing as running away from home will make trouble to the point where there is no turning back?

Thinking about it, the old man gradually narrowed, but just when he was almost asleep, he suddenly heard a loud shouting from outside, and then the sedan chair stopped after that. His brow furrowed, and the next moment, the sound of chaotic footsteps, shouting, and the clashing of various instruments...... The various sounds converge into a chaotic tune.

The old man immediately opened his eyes and opened the curtain of the door. At this sight, his eyes immediately widened, and he saw a house not far away with fire, and it was suddenly out of the water!

Yan Er had already caught up with the front, and hurriedly said, "Old lady, the front is all in the rescue, and it's in chaos, let's change the route?" ”

The old man was already in a bad mood, but now he met the house halfway through the water, and the first reaction of the subordinate was to change the route, and he couldn't help but shout angrily: "The sedan chair stops, you go to the yamen to call someone, hurry up and get on the water wheel, what if it burns into pieces?" ”

When Yan Er woke up from a dream, he ran away, and the old man motioned for the sedan chair to stop and wait. Seeing that many yamen gradually arrived, and the neighbors hurriedly put out the fire with water trucks, and the fire was gradually under control, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He was also poor, so why didn't he know what it was like to burn down this house?

But at this moment, the sharp-eyed man heard someone shouting loudly in the compartment, followed by a loud baby cry in the wind. His heart moved, and when Yan Er rushed back sweating profusely, he immediately ordered: "Look like a child rescued from the fire?" Quick, go check it out! ”

Yan Er complained bitterly in his heart, but he knew the old man's stubborn temper, so he could only tell the two sedan chair drivers to get up again and move forward. As he approached the crowd in front of him, he finally heard the chatter.

"This woman actually fought her last breath and escaped from the fire with her child!"

"The person is from a foreign country, and he has only rented a house here for a few days, and even the owner of the house only knows the woman's surname Ding."

"This kid cries quite loudly, whoever does good deeds and adopts him to eat, and it is not in vain that woman desperately saves her!"

"Something to eat? It's so easy to raise a child! Look at his face, the palm is big, the person is not as long as my elbow, at first glance, it is congenital deficiency, even if he passes this hurdle, I don't know how long he can live. ”

The old man in the sedan chair vaguely heard these discussions, and he didn't know where the impulse came from, so he suddenly commanded: "Yan Er, bring that child to me to see." ”

Yan Er agreed, pushed left and right, and the crowd squeezed to the front. Then he saw a man taking a mat of reeds and putting it over a woman who was upright on the ground.

The woman's face was burned by the smoke and fire, and her clothes were almost burned, and her exposed skin was charred and blackened by the fire. He hurriedly looked away, only to find that there was still a soaked cotton jacket on the ground, and the baby who made a loud cry was lying in the hands of a man who was five big and three thick.

As the man said, the child's head was lying on his palm, his feet were not yet up to his elbows, he looked no more than four or five pounds, extremely thin, and he did not know how long he had been born.

Thinking of the master's instructions, Yan Er immediately took two steps forward, cleared his throat and said, "The master of my family heard that there was water here, and someone desperately saved a child and wanted to see the child. ”

He was also a frequent visitor to this small street, and the man was no stranger to him. He was already embarrassed because he saw that the child was weak and difficult to feed, so he hurriedly handed the child over.

I didn't even hug my own kid, Yan Er didn't care about his head for a while, he hurriedly took it, turned around and hurriedly walked back after thanking him, but he didn't notice that the child who was crying just now was gradually silent. When he arrived at the edge of the sedan chair, he asked the sedan chair driver to open the sedan curtain a slit, hold his head with one hand, hold the child's buttocks with the other, and carefully lean it over.

"Old lady, this is this child, as small as a monkey, so no one in the neighborhood wants to adopt him."

The little child seemed to be angry because he was said to be like a monkey, and he kicked his legs coldly and kicked heavily on the sedan curtain.

His dark eyes unexpectedly met the old man's eyes, and then he looked at the man behind the old man.

As if startled by the middle-aged man's stereotypical face, the child suddenly reached out and grabbed the old man's beard.

Seeing this, Yan Er hurriedly hugged the child and wanted to retreat, but the old man in the sedan suddenly reached out to take the child and held it directly in his arms.

For a moment, there was a rare warm smile on the old man's face.

"Go and fetch them some silver, and say, "I'll take this child home and raise it." Let them buy a coffin, and you will come back and bury this woman properly. ”

The old lady is not joking, is he?

Yan Er almost thought that his ears were hallucinating, but seeing that the old man had changed his posture of holding the child a little unnaturally, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and finally smiled yes, and then hurriedly put down the sedan curtain and turned around.

Sure enough, when he said the old man's instructions, everyone in the carriage over there praised in unison, and the man grabbed the silver handed over by Yan Er first, clutched it tightly, and said with a smile on his face: "The old gentleman is so kind, let's do this favor and take care of the people." It is also a blessing that the child can be taken in by a good family like the old gentleman. ”

Yan Er arranged everything, and then came back in a hurry. He didn't dare to open the sedan curtain at will, but replied in a respectful whisper: "Old lady, everything is settled." ”

"Let's go!"

As the sedan chair was lifted again, swaying and walking, the old man looked at the child who had quieted down in his arms and smiled.

"Saving someone's life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, I never believe this kind of Buddhist. If it happened at another time, I would have done my best to help a few taels of silver, but who let you run into me today? My rebellious son ran away from home, and he didn't even want his father, so I had the right to lose a son, and then pick up a grandson to raise at home, so that I could leave a person for the stinky boy to go to the grave in the future. Xiaoying, don't you say? ”

The middle-aged man behind the old man squirmed his lips and said with a pity: "Yes." ”

Seeing that the child in his arms frowned as if he understood, the old man couldn't help but smile and tapped his finger at the center of his eyebrows.

"The woman who saved you doesn't know if it's your mother, I heard that her surname is Ding, where you and her are from, what is their name, I will ask people to check, but most of them have no results. I'll give you another name. Today you live and she dies, but you meet me, which is bizarre enough, so you will be called Qianqiu. ”

The old man gently grabbed the child's finger and shook it, showing a trace of confusion on his face: "These are the two words that my teacher often used to hang on his lips back then. Life is also a thousand years, death is also a thousand years, and it is a long time. It's a pity that in this world, life and death are common, but not for a long time. ”