The little beggar continued to stand at the door for a long time, his face pale and colorless, his hands cold and stiff, and his ears were always echoing the words that the male beggar had just said.

He wanted to rush in and question her why he had fallen to such a point, but when he thought that the male beggars had said that she was doing this to support herself, the anger in his heart was like a wax wick that had been extinguished by water, and it made a 'poof' sound, and it quietly dissipated.

He wanted to cry, but when he thought that the person who should really cry at this moment was her, he didn't dare to shed tears anymore.

No one knows better than him what a noble and peerless person his sister used to be, dragging on the ground in a gorgeous dress and long skirt, looking back and smiling, the kapok in the entire Yecheng is not as good as the light smile on her lips.

But such a person, when one day his legs were broken and his family was ruined, in order to protect his only brother, he was willing to commit himself to these dirty and ugly men, just to exchange ten copper plates for him to live.

The little beggar clenched his teeth fiercely, because the force was too great, and his whole face was distorted.

He gasped hard, trying to suppress the grief in his heart, he patted his heart hard, wanting to numb that one, not to hurt anymore.

The little beggar stood outside the door for a long time, and when he finally quietly covered up the pain in his heart, and could squeeze a bright smile from the muscles on his face, then he took a step and walked into the land temple as if nothing happened.

At this moment, in the Land Temple, because the night had fallen, the oil lamp had been lit, and a thin woman in a navy blue cloth shirt leaned helplessly on the cold wall behind her, a pair of big and beautiful eyes stared at the lights jumping in the air, and her legs were like ornaments, straight on the straw stalks under her.

Hearing the movement coming from the door, the woman seemed to come back to her senses, and her eyes gradually appeared bright, and she looked towards the door.

Seeing that it was the little beggar who came back, a faint smile appeared on the woman's pale face, and it was this smile that made her already excellent appearance even more amazing.

"Rui Yuan is back, why did he come back so late today? In the future, I will have to come back as soon as it gets dark, and it will be dangerous outside. ”

Hearing the woman's Yin Yin's advice, the little beggar who was called Rui Yuan pulled out a faint smile from the corner of his mouth, approached the woman's side, and gently took her hand, but with his hand-holding action, the sleeves covering the woman's wrists were opened, revealing a circle of bruises that seemed to have been pinched.

Although Xiao Ruiyuan is not very old, as a man, he knows very well what kind of circumstances such bruises will come from.

In an instant, the black eyes immediately shrank and shrank, noticing the change in Xiao Ruiyuan's expression, the woman quickly pulled up her sleeves to cover her wrists, smiled embarrassedly, and wanted to cover up and said: "After you left today, I suddenly felt a little thirsty, so I crawled out to find water to drink, but I didn't expect that the water was not found, but I knocked several times; Ruiyuan, it's okay, this injury doesn't hurt at all. ”

Looking at the pretended relaxed smile on his sister's face, Xiao Ruiyuan also deliberately pretended to be a fool, but when he held the woman's hand, his hand strength deepened unconsciously.

"It's all my fault, I didn't leave enough water for you, and I won't be in the future."

As he spoke, the little beggar took a deep breath, took out a bag of silver and carefully wrapped beef from his arms and sent it to the woman, like a child eager to be praised by his parents, and said lively, "Sister, look, I have earned money, these are all the silver I earned, and this bag of beef is also what I bought back for my sister to eat." ”

The woman didn't expect her brother, who was not yet ten years old, to earn so much money in one day, and subconsciously thought that the money might not come from the right way.

In front of Xiao Ruiyuan, he threw away the beef wrapped in lotus leaves, and shouted at him with a white face, "Ruiyuan, how can you degenerate into this, and learn to steal people's money from those who steal chickens and dogs?" What do you think of your father's teachings? What do you think of the family motto of the ancestors of the Xiao family? If my father and mother knew that one day you would be a thief for these yellow and white things, they would be underground, how sad it would be. ”

Xiao Ruiyuan listened to his sister's heart-wrenching cry, and then looked at the beef that was thrown on the ground and stained with a layer of dust, and suddenly, I don't know which of her words stabbed the most painful place in his heart.

The young man, who had endured his grief to the extreme, suddenly stood up abruptly and looked at the woman who was sitting on the ground and needed to lean against the wall to support her to sit up.

He asked in a cold voice, "Sister, compared to what I did, a hundred years later, the one who has no face to face the ancestors and ancestors and parents should be you." ”

When the woman heard this, she was immediately stunned as if she had been pointed.

Xiao Ruiyuan knew that he should stop, but he was really in too much pain, thinking back to what he had experienced in the past six months, his family was destroyed, his parents died, and his sister and brother fled; The expressions of the beggars who came out of the temple replayed over and over again in my mind, and the disgusting words they had said kept ringing in my ears.

He needed a vent, and if he didn't, he felt like he was going crazy.

The black eyes stared at the snow-white woman, and continued to speak coldly.

"Do you really think I don't know what you're doing? Xiao Ruxue, do you know what your own identity is, do you know what you see yourself as when you do these things; If your parents are still around, they don't have to be framed to death by gangsters, just these things you do can make them angry to death; Therefore, don't be in front of my parents, mention the ancestors and ancestors, that is, our Xiao family is too upright, too follow the words passed down from the ancestors, so they will end up with a full family of punished, if the ancestors of the Xiao family can really appear in the world, I really want to ask them, if they know that one day the Xiao family will fall into a broken family, will they still swear allegiance to their king, will they swear a heavy oath to the damn royal family, loyal from generation to generation, and will never betray. ”

The woman looked at her young brother who was full of indignation, her eyes fell on his expression of forbearance and disgust, and after a long time, she seemed to find her voice back, and said slowly, "You, you know? ”

When Xiao Ruiyuan heard these words, his reason seemed to be slowly pulled back.

Seeing that his only relative in this world was so hurt by his words, Xiao Ruiyuan immediately regretted it, regretted his irrationality, and regretted that he shouldn't have said these words to his sister who was already scarred.

As if he was afraid of something, Xiao Ruiyuan immediately squatted down and tightly grasped the woman's skinny little hand.

There was a faint tremor in the childish voice, and he said: "Sister, in fact, I have a way to support myself now, you see that I have earned all this money, I can swear to you, I didn't steal this money and I didn't rob it, I really earned it from a scholar in my own way; Please trust me, okay? ”

The woman looked at Xiao Ruiyuan's honest and bright black eyes, and finally showed a smile on her snow-white face, stretched out her thin hand, and gently stroked her younger brother's immature face; Who would have thought that half a year ago, they were still the envied people of gold, but they didn't expect that their family would change dramatically overnight, and then looking back, they would become the most humble and pitiful people.

Looking at her younger brother's face, which was very similar to her father's, the woman's face showed her longing for her relatives, and she said gently, "It's my sister who misunderstood you, Ruiyuan, my sister shouldn't treat you as just a child, in fact, you have learned to take care of yourself and learn to survive in this cruel world; Sister believes you, you earn all this money yourself, and my younger brother is really capable, and he can earn money to buy beef for his sister to eat. ”

Hearing his sister say this, Xiao Ruiyuan's tears that he had been holding back finally couldn't hold back anymore, and one by one they fell out of his eye sockets the size of beans.

"Sister, I will protect you in the future, don't ...... again, in short, I will protect my sister, just like when my sister was crushed under the wheels in order to protect me, just to save me, sister, you have become what you are now."

The woman also shed tears, obviously her heart was already bitter to the extreme, the pain was to the limit, but she still wiped her tears for her brother in distress.

"Fool, my sister is willing to protect you, and you should never have psychological pressure; Rui Yuan, you are the only male of the Xiao family, and you are the greatest hope of the Xiao family, as long as you live, there will be the Xiao family, you know? ”

Listening to his sister's earnest entrustment, Xiao Ruiyuan nodded heavily.

Then, in tears, he picked up the beef that had been thrown aside, rinsed it with clean well water, tore off one by one, carefully and seriously fed it to the woman's mouth, watched her eat it in a big gulp, and asked with a smile, "Sister, is it delicious?" ”

"It's delicious, this is the best thing my sister has ever eaten in her life."

Hearing the woman's answer, the smile on Xiao Ruiyuan's face became thicker and thicker.

"My sister likes to eat, I'll buy it for you tomorrow."

In this way, under the dim light like a bean, the sister and brother relied on each other, relying on a few pieces of beef, and ate the most delicious good night in more than half a year.

At night, looking at Xiao Ruiyuan's sleeping face, the woman sleeping beside Xiao Ruiyuan slowly opened her eyes, those beautiful eyes were stubborn, hiding tears, and after taking a final look at Xiao Ruiyuan, she used her hands to crawl out carefully little by little.

When she crossed the threshold, climbed down the steps, and came to the edge of a well in the backyard of the Land Temple, as if to take one last look at the world that had left her full of despair and pain, a resolute smile appeared on the corner of her beautiful mouth.

The children of the Xiao family would rather die standing than live in the world.

At the beginning, she practiced herself like that, just to support her younger brother, but now that her younger brother has grown up and can take care of himself and earn money, at this time, she has become a burden.

She couldn't let herself become a drag on her younger brother, and even more a shame for the Xiao family, so she had to die to make her will, go to the underworld, and then kowtow to her parents to admit her mistakes.

Thinking of this, a relieved smile appeared on the woman's beautiful face.

I only heard a splash of water, and a wisp of incense, in such a dark night, in such a decisive way, sent himself away, and also drew an unsatisfactory end to his torn life.