It had just snowed heavily the day before yesterday, and the snow was very thick in other places, but this vegetable market was full of people, and the people who came and went made the snow muddy, and I saw a man, gorgeously dressed, and at first glance he was a rich man, sitting on the ground like a child, and the howl like killing pigs was sent by him, and many people gathered around him, and it seemed that it was his entourage, kneeling or standing, and they were talking something.

To Lin Yuan's surprise, in front of this man, there was a young woman kneeling, she was wearing a single dress with patches and patches, kneeling in the muddy water, kowtowing to the man vigorously, her forehead was covered with muddy water, and it flowed down her cheeks, and the woman didn't care about wiping it, behind the woman, hiding a four or five-year-old child, trembling with fright, holding the woman's clothes with both hands.

Lin Yuan felt strange, so he walked closer, the strange thing is that it stands to reason that such a scene, there must be people around to watch the excitement, but at this time, everyone is watching from afar, so Lin Yuan came to the man's side without difficulty, and only then did he hear what the man shouted.

The man turned out to be facing a dozen pieces of purple sand and a large piece of vermilion sand on the ground in front of him, and cried out desperately: "My heart and liver! Why did you leave your brother behind? ”

The attendants said, "My lord, get up quickly, it's cold on the ground, be careful of freezing your body." ”

The woman kowtowed like a chicken pecking at broken rice, and kept saying, "My lord, spare the slaves." ”

Lin Yuan didn't hear it for a long time, and he didn't know what the purple sand fragments and vermilion sand in the road were, so he pulled an entourage and asked, "This old brother, dare to ask what's wrong?" ”

Unexpectedly, the man's ear was still quite smart, he heard Lin Yuan's question, turned around and said angrily: "What's wrong?" My baby is dead! You see, it's all like this. As he spoke, he stretched out his hand in front of Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan looked at his hand, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly, in his hand, there was a dead cricket, and then the attendant said: "This is our family Yutai, our family loves a cricket, so today I made an appointment with Lu Shilang of the Ministry of Industry to divide the male and female, our family has won the victory, and is happy, but who wants to come here," he said, pointing to the child hiding behind the woman, and said: "This reckless little minion smashed the cricket jar and killed the cricket." ”

Lin Yuan had already understood that this woman must be the child's mother, and because she was afraid of being punished, she knelt in the muddy water and kowtowed to Yutai.

Yutai heard this in his cry, turned his head and said angrily: "What cricket, people have names!" ”

Lin Yuan laughed secretly in his heart when he heard this, this Lord Yutai also named the cricket, he pointed to the vermilion gravel on the ground and asked, "What are these?" ”

The attendant said: "These are cinnabar, the kind of things used for stamping on official documents of the yamen, this thing is ground into fine powder, spread under the jar, and the best way to feed the crickets." ”

When Lin Yuan nodded, he saw a tall entourage kneeling on one knee and said to Yutai: "Master! Don't be sad, let's let this little minion pay for my baby's life, right? ”

Lin Yuan's heart moved, and he thought: "It's too bullying, let people pay for their lives for the sake of a bug." ”

Lin Yuan was just about to speak, when he saw Yutai stretch out his hand and slap the attendant on the head, crying: "You bastard minion, how can you make a difference for a plaything!" ”

When Lin Yuan heard this, he thought that this Yutai was quite reasonable, so Yutai stood up from the ground, wiped his tears, and said: "Put my baby away, go to Jingxi to buy a good cemetery, and bury it properly." ”

After speaking, ignoring the woman and the child, he led the person away, looking at his back, Lin Yuan suddenly thought: "Yutai, this name is so familiar, isn't he the commander of the Shenji Battalion, can you find a breakthrough from this trivial matter and get the guns of their Shenji Battalion!" ”

At this moment, the child's weak voice came from the side: "Mom, I'm hungry." ”

The woman wiped away two handfuls of tears and said softly, "When Mother sells these vegetables, let's go buy some rice, and remember, make porridge for Grandma to eat first." ”

As she spoke, she turned around, but suddenly exclaimed, "Where's my dish?" The tears that had just been wiped out welled up again, and Lin Yuan had already understood at this time that someone had stolen her dishes while she was kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy.

The crowd around is bustling, where to find her food!

Lin Yuan walked over, took out a piece of silver, and gave it to the woman, and the woman left with a thousand thanks, Lin Yuan thought helplessly: "I can help her, but in the whole of China, I don't know how many such women there are?" ”

When Lin Yuan returned home, he began to write the song, in the north in winter, it was dark very early, so Lin Yuan lit the oil lamp, and the dim light made him very uncomfortable.

At this time, the curtain of the door was raised, and Guan'er walked in and asked, "Aren't you leaving tonight?" ”

Lin Yuan nodded and replied, "I want to write a copy of the recital and hand it in tomorrow." ”

Wan'er leaned over curiously and asked, "What are you writing about?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "This is a setback, I want to unite the various industrial and mining enterprises and military enterprises in the Qing Dynasty, so that we will have more weapons." ”

Wan'er nodded as if she didn't understand, Lin Yuan saw that Wan'er was wearing a big fur coat and a scarf wrapped in fox skin, and knew that she was going to go out, and when she saw that it was already dark, she couldn't help asking: "It's dark this day, where are you going?" ”

Wan'er said happily: "Lafayette asked me to go to bed." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Are you so happy to ask you to serve others?" ”

Wan'er smiled: "Of course I'm happy, others want to serve Lafayette but can't serve it." After saying that, Guan'er turned around and left.

Lin Yuan worked hard for half the night, and finally finished writing, and then sent someone to the palace.

Ten years ago, Ding Richang, the governor of Fujian, wrote a letter to the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and the Fujian Shipbuilding Bureau, but the imperial court did not agree, not to mention that now he wants to unite twenty or thirty factories and mines together.

While Lin Yuan was waiting for news at home, he called the housekeeper and asked, "Do you know that Yutai?" ”

The housekeeper hurriedly said, "How can you not know the way?" That's the commander of the Divine Machine Battalion, didn't he invite you last time? I dismissed him, and he was not happy. ”

Lin Yuan asked again: "Then does this Yutai have any preferences?" ”

The housekeeper was happy when he heard it, and said: "Almost the entire capital knows that this Yutai has two preferences, one is to play cricket, and the other is to absorb Fushou ointment. ”

Just as Lin Yuan was about to ask carefully, he saw an old mother running from outside, ignoring that Lin Yuan was talking to the housekeeper. Lin Yuanzhi said that this old mother was usually the most kind and stable person, and when she saw that she was so panicked, she couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?" ”

The old mother glanced at the housekeeper, and the housekeeper didn't understand anything! hurriedly said that something was avoided, and the old mother said: "My lord, you can go and take a look, Miss Wan'er, you have been beaten." ”