Chapter 1715: Another Encounter
Xia Xin no longer knew how he got back to the hotel and how he lay down to sleep.
He doesn't know anything anymore.
I felt like I was surrounded by a white expanse, and I felt like I was in a world full of ice and snow, and there was nothing but snow, endless snow, and falling snowflakes, drowning the whole world.
The endless snowflakes drowned out the images of his parents, all the scenes around him, and his entire world......
Xia Xin's comprehension is actually very high.
After he understood Xia Chaozong's words, he had gradually let go of his parents' hands and abandoned the world that his parents had built for him.
Even if his body and mind are blank, even if he is at a loss in front of him, he gradually moves forward.
Destruction is the beginning of a new life, and it is only after the destruction that his world can be reborn.
Then, it was Xia Xin who looked at the whole world with his own will.
It's painful, it's painful!
It's like a child who has just learned to walk, who has to break away from his mother's gentle and warm embrace, and has to face the pain of a cold world.
It's like just learning to ride, and my father let go of his hand holding the back of the car, falling again and again, and hitting the ground with his immature body.
The next day, Xia Xin asked himself with a blank face, "What are you going to do next", and replied lightly, "Let's take a look at the video first, maybe you can find some evidence, there is no possibility of turning the tables without evidence." ”
"Hmm."
Shadow agreed without the slightest hesitation.
Xia Xin felt that she believed her words deeply.
But now the problem is that even Xia Xin himself doubts his words.
He was confused.
It's like standing in a snowy world, looking around, not knowing how to move forward and where to go.
Xia Chaozong's words broke up his worldview and destroyed his world.
Xia Xin needed an opportunity, an opportunity to reconstruct his own world.
He told everyone not to follow him, and then walked alone in a trench coat to the intersection where he was hit by a car yesterday.
He sat alone on the stairs of the road and sidewalk next to him, wearing a trench coat and hat, letting the snow accumulate on his hat and shoulders, quietly watching the cars in front of him and the pedestrians hurrying.
Occasionally, passers-by would stop and look at him a few more times, and they would only think that he was a homeless man, who didn't go home on a snowy day, and sat on the side of the road to enjoy the shade.
Even if you go to hide under the eaves next to you, you can't be a fool, right?
Xia Xin sat at this intersection for three days in a row.
He didn't do anything for three days, and he sat here from morning to night.
He also often asks himself, in the end, ...... What do you want to see?
Look at all living beings?
Seeing everyone busy in this world?
They can follow, they can go along with the world, they can be mediocre, but they can't, they are different from them, they should have their own beliefs to support their own world.
Xia Xin vaguely felt that he was looking for a fulcrum to support him, but he couldn't say what it was.
Until, in the evening three days later, he looked at the other side with a blank face.
Because it's evening, most of the people have gone home to cook, and there are no people on the road now.
Only an old woman who was passing by in a hurry on crutches accidentally tripped over the bulge of the ground when she stepped on the snowy road and fell to the ground.
The basket covered with towels also fell to the ground, and more than a dozen apples fell to the ground, and a few more rolled onto the road.
Xia Xin was stunned, quickly stood up, and walked towards the old woman opposite.
Years of habit made him subconsciously want to go up and help.
It's just that Xia Xin, who just walked to the opposite side and just wanted to speak, looked at the old grandmother who was kneeling on the ground and picking up apples one by one, and was stunned.
He suddenly remembered that being kind to others, being kind to himself, and being gentle with the world were all taught to him by his mother.
It's the worldview that mom gives herself.
I can't go down the same path as before.
I only know that if I follow my parents' thoughts, I will let myself die miserably in the next battle.
You must have your own independence, supported by strong beliefs, and have your own unique perception of the world.
Your own path!
A world of its own!
And what you're doing now is really what you want to do?
Xia Xin didn't know, he was still very confused.
He's almost stunned by himself.
I always feel like things are so complicated.
Why do you have to think so much about doing one thing?
Seeing the old grandmother stretching out her red old hand, struggling to search for apples by the snow, Xia Xin hurriedly squatted down and said, "Grandma, I'll help you." ”
Xia Xin's sharp gaze found all the apples in a few clicks and stuffed them into the old grandmother's basket.
The old lady also said thank you to Xia Xin repeatedly, "You are such a kind person." ”
"You're welcome."
Xia Xin was about to leave, when he found that the old grandmother stood up, stumbled and almost fell, and hurriedly reached out to support the other party.
The old lady smiled dryly, "I'm sorry, this person is old, and his legs and feet are inconvenient." ”
The old man looked to be in her seventies, and Xia Xin was a little worried about whether she would be able to get home safely.
"Where is your home, I'll help you go back."
"No, no, I'm sorry to trouble you."
The old man hurriedly waved his hand.
"I'm sitting there anyway."
"My house is still ahead, a little far away."
"It's okay, I'll give it to you."
Although the old man repeatedly refused, Xia Xin still insisted.
The old man couldn't help it, and thanked Xia Xin again and again, which was very polite.
Xia Xin helped the old grandmother, and the old grandmother walked forward step by step with a cane, chatting with Xia Xin casually at the same time.
The elderly are always accustomed to asking others, where they live, who is in the family, where they work and study, whether they are married or not, etc., and Xia Xin is also used to it.
He just had a somewhat blank expression, answering the old lady's questions one after another.
Because he is so confused now, he even has doubts about what he is doing.
Then, he found that the old grandmother was very nagging.
He got a lot of information that he didn't want to know at all, for example, his grandmother's wife had inconvenient legs and feet, and she couldn't walk in a wheelchair, for example, her wife used to like to eat apples the most, but now she has lost more teeth and can't eat apples, so she can only eat the apple juice she squeezed.
He also knew that freshly squeezed apple juice was the best, and it had to be the apples of the middle of North Street, which were homegrown, fresh, pesticide residue-free, and very healthy.
Actually, Xia Xin didn't want to know about this at all, and he wasn't listening, but the old lady was very happy, and she couldn't stop talking about it.
He was embarrassed to disturb the other party's Yaxing.
Until sending the old grandmother home, the old grandmother still held Xia Xin's hand very enthusiastically and said, "Thank you, young man, this apple is given to you, thank you so much today." ”
"Thank you."
Xia Xin was not polite, and accepted it directly, he was afraid that if he was polite, the old grandmother would be nagging again.
"Eh, you are also a Chinese person, you Chinese people, your heart is so good, before, it was also a Chinese girl who sent me back, those eyes and nose, really good-looking, so good-looking, really beautiful people."
These words made Xia Xin pause and plan to leave quickly, and asked suspiciously, "Huaxia, woman?" She...... What does it look like? ”
"What does it look like? It was really a very elegant, very temperamental lady, who had read a lot of books, very beautiful, and had a good heart. ”
Xia Xin's eyes suddenly lit up, and he just wanted to ask.
The old grandmother shook her head and said, "It's just that her life is not good, it's really hard, although she doesn't talk about her own business, but looking at her clothes, she should be working in the water room of the palace, alas, this cold day, see her hands are frozen." ”
Xia Xin paused, and felt that this was definitely not Yisha.
The water room is responsible for washing people's clothes, washing quilts, washing bed sheets and whatever, and it belongs to a very low-level place in the palace, no, or it should be said that it is the lowest place, and its status is lower than that of a maid.
To put it bluntly, it's just a cleaner, but a cleaner for the royal family.
No matter how down-and-out Sasha is, if she finds a random school to teach, she will have a high salary.
Besides, with her talent, talent, and evaluation by the white fox, she is the only one who does not lose to her mother, and she is definitely a talent that major institutions and colleges are rushing to want.
Xia Xin guessed that she was most likely in a secret research institute, so she couldn't find it.
He also asked Bi Fang to explore those places as much as possible.
However, Xia Xin was still aimless, wandering all the way to North Street boringly.
He didn't know what he was doing, what he wanted to do, what he had to do.
Xia Xin felt that he was similar to a ghost now.
He walked around North Street, and all he saw was rows of shops and sparse crowds.
None of them have been known by themselves.
Then, Xia Xin's gaze fell on the towering clock tower in the distance, which is also the largest palace in Britain, Windsor Castle!
It is one of the Queen's palaces.
There are many palaces of the Queen, and the residence is uncertain, and occasionally she comes to live here, and occasionally she does not.
According to the news of Yi Xiaxin's inquiry, the Queen is currently in the Platinum Palace.
Xia Xin looked at the clock tower, and then walked towards Windsor Castle.
There was a soldier handle in front of the castle, but the two guards glanced at Xia Xin's medal, and without any action, they let Xia Xin in.
Xia Xin also asked by the way, "Where is the water room?" ”
One of the soldiers saluted, "The water house is not in the palace, you can see it if you go up the Thames until you come to the back of the palace." ”
Xia Xin was a little puzzled, "Why, it's not included in the palace?" ”
"Because the bishop thinks that if they wash the filth every day, they must also have filth on their bodies, and they are filthy people, so that they do not enter and leave the palace by going in and out of the palace, so the water room is lined up at the back of the palace, and they cannot enter or leave the palace without permission."
"Oh."
Xia Xin nodded lightly.
He went in first, and casually looked at the palace, which was more tightly guarded, he didn't choose to go deeper, and went out after a few glances.
Then along the Thames River next to it, to the back of the palace, you can see from a distance, by the river, under a canopy, all kinds of bed sheets, bedding.
Some aunts in plain burlap shirts, or bloated young women, were nearby, either with basins with sheets of laundry, or with piles of dirty laundry with freshly washed sheets, and went in and out, drying clothes and washing sheets.
Xia Xin looked at it in a daze, and then walked over with a boring visit.
Walked to the side of those who were called lowly and filthy women.
The people here seem to have become numb to life, and they rarely talk to people.
Xia Xin didn't even hear anyone speak.
Maybe it's because talking privately is to be disciplined.
Because a very fat woman with a leather whip stood by and stared over.
The other party wanted to yell at Xia Xin, but after seeing Xia Xin's medal, he resolutely shut up and went to take care of the other women.
She thought the knight was here to make a patrol, and she didn't want to get into trouble.
Xia Xin walked into the water room all the way.
There are also a dozen or so women washing things inside, and there are also women with leather whips watching them to prevent people from being lazy.
It seems that the people here are all called by cattle and horses, and they are not allowed to rest at all.
They are both despised and spurned.
Four or five women stood in a row by the water platform, scrubbing the quilt back and forth, while four or five women sat on small benches and sat in a row, scrubbing clothes in the large round basin that resembled a footbath.
As long as someone is lazy, he will be scolded by the woman who oversees the work, and in some serious cases, he may be whipped.
It seems that the religion, the people, and the general opinion here are that only filthy women will come to do this kind of work of cleansing filth.
Xia Xin's gaze slowly moved over the women who were standing, then over the overseers, and finally to the women who were sitting.
From beginning to end, he had a numb expression on his face.
Until, on a woman who moved to the small stool on the far right, Xia Xin's eyes suddenly widened when he saw the back of the other party.
He locked his gaze on the other party in disbelief, and even his breath stopped......
Looking at the other party's red, slightly frostbitten hands, still on the washboard, scrubbing clothes back and forth, Xia Xin couldn't even believe the facts he saw in front of him......
"This ...... How...... Possible...... Is it Sasha? ”