The early morning sky is like a child who has just woken up.

Most of the people who get up early are the hardest working people in the city.

The girls in the Chu Waist Pavilion are all sleeping soundly, there is no way, they have reversed day and night all year round, not to mention that there are no guests who visit the brothel early in the morning.

A young woodcutter came to the back door of the Chu Waist Pavilion with two loads of firewood, and waited quietly for a long time after knocking lightly, before the door was opened, and the mother-in-law who opened the door yawned and said: "I said don't come too early, our realm is different from other places." ”

However, he still asked the woodcutter to bring the firewood in, and gave him a few copper plates in return.

The woodcutter thanked him, and hesitated as he walked out.

The mother-in-law hadn't woken up yet, and wanted to go back to sleep again, so she rushed to the woodcutter and said, "Don't be sluggish, I'll wait for the door to close." ”

The woodcutter did not dare to delay and stepped out of the door. There were several patches on his clothes, and a few of them were open, revealing flesh and skin.

"Yun Qing!" A summons called him back again.

There was a person lying on his stomach in the back window of the second floor of the Chu Waist Pavilion, looking at the young woodcutter with a smile.

"Hachiro!" Yun Qing was as happy as a person who had been groping for a long time in the dark night and saw the rising sun: "You got up so early today." ”

"I haven't gotten up yet! It's just that something is looking for you. Su smiled and said, "You wait for me, I'll put on a coat and come down." ”

After saying that, he disappeared from the window, and after a while, the back door creaked open, and Su Haoyi came out with a green cloth package.

"What is this?" Yun Qing asked.

"Sit down, sit down." Su Haoyi pulled him to sit on the stone steps, and there was a narrow granite road at the back door of the Chu Waist Pavilion, next to the Chunchou River.

The two sat down, facing the river, and watched the boatmen who had risen early in the morning lighting a fire on the opposite bank to cook.

"You eat this first," Su took out a plate of pastries from under the package and handed it to Yun Qing as if he was juggling: "Pad your stomach." ”

Su Haoyi often takes food from the Chu Waist Pavilion to Yun Qing, and it has been several years.

"I'll wash my hands." Yun Qing got up and went to the river to wash his hands.

At first, he was very restrained, although his stomach was so hungry that he couldn't pull his face down to eat the food that Su kindly gave him.

But when the two of them slowly got acquainted, he didn't refuse.

Yun Qing's family is very poor, and her mother died early, so she is a complete bitter gourd egg.

His father studied all his life, but he didn't even pass the exam. And he can't do anything else except study, so his family is getting poorer and poorer.

Yunqing also has a stepmother, not ordinary mean.

Su kindly handed Yun Qing a piece of snack, and he also took a piece and ate it slowly.

This is what makes Yun Qing the most grateful, every time Su kindly gives him food, he has to accompany him to eat a little. Although it was only a piece and a half, it was like this, which made Yun Qing feel that she was not giving to herself, but treating herself as a friend.

In fact, at the beginning, Su Haoyi would also ask Yun Qing to bring back the dim sum . Later, I found out that Yun Qing couldn't eat a bite of dim sum in this way. Because his stepmother Qiu would take away all the dim sum, and then drive Yun Qing out of the door to work, and eat it behind closed doors, even Yun Qing and his father didn't want to get half of it.

"How's your dad doing?" Su asked kindly: "Isn't his illness cured yet?" ”

"A few days ago, I grabbed a side of grass and ate it," Yun Qing sighed: "I still have abdominal pain and bloating." ”

"Your stepmother ......" Su Haoyi choked on the dim sum and coughed twice before saying, "Didn't you say that she was making trouble to leave last few days?" ”

"She's just scaring my dad, where else can she go but here?" Yun Qing said helplessly: "Although this family is poor, there are still two dilapidated houses to live in, and I collect firewood to support the family." She doesn't have to do anything, she sleeps when she is tired of scolding, and she is happy. ”

Qiu is short-tempered and ugly, and the most important thing is that he can't have children yet.

"Why don't I get you some silver......" Su said kindly.

"Don't," Yun Qing flatly refused: "There is a reason for everything, and I shouldn't ask for money from outsiders." My father was sick and looked down on Lang Zhong, because my family was poor, not because others harmed me. You help me once, you can't help me forever. What's more, once my stepmother knows, she will come to you every day to cry poor, she is a leech reincarnated, and she will never know how to be satisfied. ”

Su Haoyi knew that Yun Qing was not unfilial, he was just calmer than ordinary people. So there was silence.

The boat lady on the other side cooked her meal and began to call for the children to get up and eat.

In a short time, several unkempt children came out of the cabin, squatted barefoot by the pot, and began to eat in small bites.

There are many poor people in Tiandu, far more than the rich.

For example, these boatmen, they don't even have a shelter to live in, so they can only live on the boat all year round.

After eating the dim sum, Su Haoyi clapped his hands and put the green cloth package on Yun Qing's hand: "You must like this." ”

"What is this?" Yun Qing asked as she reached out and unwrapped the package.

There are pen, ink, paper, inkstones, and two new books. The faint scent of ink stopped his breath, something he had always dreamed of.

"This thing was left by a guest two days ago, I told my mother, this thing is useless to put here with us, so I simply gave it away." Su said kindly.

"This ...... It's a little too expensive. Yun Qing was very frightened: "In case the guests come back to find ......"

"He won't ask for it anymore," Su waved his hand and smiled, "I'll tell you the truth!" This is the thing of the young owner of Tiansheng Jewelry Company, this kid lied to his father that he went to Hengyang Academy to study, but in fact, he took a large amount of money from the family to the south to squander. Do you think he really wants to read? With just his lard heart and two squinting eyes, can it still be a reading seed? When he was leaving, he came to us to drink flower wine, and he thought it was in the way, so he left it with us. ”

"Then ......" Yun Qing was still very hesitant, but she really loved this thing.

"So what?! You can take what I give you, and don't think about anything. Su Haoyi made the final decision: "Okay, it's time for me to go back and make up for sleep." ”

After speaking, he stood up, patted his ass and left, without a single superfluous word.

Yun Qing solemnly rewrapped the package and carefully held it in her arms.

He had to hide it and never take it home.

Yun Qing also loves to read, which has become his favorite thing when his stepmother is angry.

"A nest of fluffy black eagles still wants to fly on the branches to be a phoenix! If you were a scholar, wouldn't you have become a young master earlier?! In my opinion, honestly chopping a few more bundles of firewood every day is the right way! Your family's ancestral grave is buried in the pit of the elm tree, and the elm head has been produced from generation to generation! Qiu scolded like this, and he must open the doors and windows so that the neighbors can hear clearly.

But the more vicious she scolded, the more determined Yun Qing's heart to study became.

He must gain fame and fame, and he must get out of those muddy days.