In the afternoon.

Zheng House.

In the midst of the ruins, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy was wandering around the house.

He's been wandering from morning to now.

As soon as it was a little bright, he began to get up from under a tree outside the house and walk into the house.

Searching all the corners and removing every tile that had fallen from the burning roof, he tried to find his parents and brother, but in the end he found nothing.

Not finding them made him a little lucky.

Because it means that they may still be alive.

And because this hope had always existed, every once in a while, he would return from the house to the door and stand to see if his parents and brother would suddenly return.

However, every time it was a disappointment.

As time passed, the hope in his heart also disappeared little by little.

At last, tired, hungry and sad, he curled up in a corner and did not move.

.

When it was almost half of the afternoon, Qingzhi suddenly remembered that Zheng Hangpei had said that he had been waiting for his parents and brother to return by his house last night.

There was some worry in his heart, maybe he hadn't even eaten, and he had been guarding there.

Besides, it's time to change the medicine on his arm.

So he took the medicine box, went to the stable, led the horse out of the house, bought some food on the street, and rushed to Zheng's house.

When I arrived near Zheng's house, it was already sunset.

In the distance, I saw a burned and dilapidated house.

When she arrived at the door, she dismounted with the medicine box, and saw that there was no one at the broken courtyard gate, so she walked inside, and saw Zheng Hangpei sitting helplessly in a corner.

"They didn't come back to me, they haven't ......," he said in a low voice as she approached.

"I heard them say they ......" and she felt that what she was about to say would upset him, so she didn't take it.

"What's wrong with them? What did you hear? He asked, looking up, hopefully. It was as if what she was about to say was that they still had a glimmer of hope.

"I've heard that your brother is still alive." She said after a moment of contemplation.

"What about my father and mother?" He asked.

"They...... I heard that I was dragged away by your brother......"

"What? Pulled away? He took them to the doctor, didn't he? ”

"No, they can't see a doctor." I don't want him to live in an imaginary life, waiting here all the time, she said.

"What do you mean by that?" Listening to the sound of her words, he said in disbelief.

Qingzhi didn't know whether to say whether his brother burned his parents, but after thinking about it, everything was just Lu Shikang's speculation, what if the speculation was wrong.

Besides, if he asked how he knew about it, she couldn't say that Lu Shikang had sent someone to pretend to be a farmer near his house to spy on them.

So, she can't tell the truth.

So she didn't answer him.

From her words, he sensed that his parents must be more than lucky, and then he remembered that even if they were burned, as long as they had a breath, they would definitely let others come to him.

Realizing that he had lost his parents forever, his face suddenly became extremely sad and tears began to fall.

Tears dripped into the blackened sawdust beneath his feet.

She could not disturb his grief, so she watched him weep and remained silent.

It took a long time for him to stop his tears.

Seeing this, Qingzhi cautiously said, "You haven't eaten all this time, have you?" I've got something to eat for you. ”

"No, I don't want to eat it right now." He said.

"So what are you going to do in the future? You need to find a place to go. She said.

"Looking for a place to go? I don't have anywhere to go. He said blankly.

Since he was a child, he has never been out of the house, and he has no relatives to contact, and now his family has suffered an accident, and he has become homeless.

"You can go to Jiangbei City and find a job to do." Qingzhi Road.

Only then can he live.

But thinking that he had been almost isolated from the world for more than ten years, he was afraid that he would not be able to do anything, and it was extremely difficult to say whether he could find a job, so he said: You can go to my hospital to help, I have few people there. ”

"You just said my brother is still alive? Then I'll go to him and ask him what happened yesterday. ”

Qingzhi said in his heart, if he found his brother, he was afraid that he would not return, so he persuaded him: "Didn't you say that he was not easy to approach? Your parents are gone, so you and him will go our separate ways......"

"No, he's my brother anyway, the only relative I have in the world, and I must find him. I'm going to ask him if it's my mother's house burned by the former subordinates......"

As he spoke, he stood up, "Since my parents have been taken away by her, whether they are dead or alive, I will find them and see them for the last time." ”

He had not eaten all day, and because he was already weak, he felt dizzy as soon as he stood up.

He stretched out his hand and held on to the wall beside him, so that he would not fall.

Qingzhi gave him the food again and said, "If you go to them, you must eat something first." ”

This time he no longer refused, but took it in his hand and ate it without knowing the taste.

After eating, he stood up and said, "You said that you heard that my brother left with my parents, but have you heard where they are going?" ”

"I heard it's going north."

Obviously it was to the east, but she had to say that it was to the north, because she was worried that his brother Zheng Hangsu would not let him go when he saw him.

"Thank you, Doctor Qing." He said he was leaving.

Qingzhi hurriedly said: "Wait a minute, the wound on your arm has not been changed yet." I'll help you change the medicine and you'll go. ”

He stopped and asked her to change his dressing.

After changing the medicine, Qingzhi stuffed more than a dozen packets of medicine in the medicine box into him and said, "You can take these on the road, if it is inconvenient for you to change them, find someone to help." ”

He took the medicine and said, "Thank you, doctor, how much are these medicines?" ”

Aoeda was stunned, she didn't think about charging him.

He went to her pharmacy last night, and she didn't mention the cost of the medicine, and he forgot because he was sad.

"No need, these pills aren't worth much." Knowing that he would inevitably need a lot of silver taels when he was out alone, and that he was a person who had no ability to make money, she said.

He didn't understand what kind of people were sophisticated, and when he heard her say that she wasn't worth anything, he thought it was really worthless, so he said, "There will be a period later." ”

As he spoke, he walked to the door.

Qingzhi followed and walked towards the door.

When she reached the door, she saw that he had already beaten his horse and left.

By this time the sun had set and night was about to fall.

Looking at his unskilled sitting, she knew that he had just learned to ride a horse.

Thinking that he lived a gloomy life of isolation in the house in the first ten years, and that the days to come will be a wandering homelessness, when looking at his back, I unconsciously rose a sense of compassion.

At the age of fourteen or fifteen, he is just a child, but he has to endure hardships that ordinary people can't bear.

Perhaps, this is probably his fate.