The funeral of the owner of the rice shop was not lively, and most of the people who went were old people, and the young people only remembered that he had helped the bandits sell rice in the past two years, and did not want to see him.

On the second day of the funeral, some ignorant children ran to the funeral door, laughing and saying, 'Good death!' ’。 Two months after the funeral, someone opened another rice shop here, but after that, the rice was expensive for a long time, and no one knew what was going on.

When Zeng Sheng returned, the owner of the rice shop had already buried himself in the ground, erected a monument, and even the remaining property that had not been burned was cleanly divided. The father and daughter, one carrying wine and the other chicken, went to the cemetery outside the city.

The new grave has not yet grown grass, and the stone tablet is also a new carved trace, but the ashes of the paper money on the side of the grave have been washed away by the rain, Zeng Sheng squatted down, touched the words on the stone tablet, and said, "I heard that when you left, God saw you off, and it was not in vain." ”

"You are an unblessed person in this life, you have been greedy for black rice shops since the early years, but your son drowned and died, and the white-haired people sent the black-haired people. Later, I finally succeeded one and didn't raise it, and the child didn't follow you, I'm afraid that I will suffer. I haven't enjoyed a good day, I'm always scared, the rice soup back then, I thank you for my wife and children. ”

After that, the two went to the rice shop to take a look, and the house behind the shop was still in good condition, and the shop in front of it didn't know whether it was burned or how, it was all in tatters. The worst room with rice was almost reduced to ashes.

The two were about to go back, but they heard movement in the east wing. Zeng Sheng frowned, thinking to himself, he came to pick up dead people's things in broad daylight, and today I want to see who is so shameless.

Zeng Sheng pushed the door of the wing room open, but what he saw was a child curled up on the bed, with bare feet, loose hair, and clothes that barely covered his body.

Zeng Ling was distressed when she saw it, and stepped forward and said to the child, "Why did you come here." ”

The child looked at Zeng Ling, opened his dry lips and said, "I'm waiting here for my uncle to come back, and he said he would come back to pick me up."

"Where's your mom and dad in the country?"

The child was still talking normally, but when he heard Zeng Ling talk about 'Daddy and Mom in the countryside', his eyes widened, he looked at Zeng Ling with a frightened face, almost screamed, and yelled, "I won't go back, don't send me back again." ”

After a while, he came over again and begged, "Sister Ling, you tell my uncle, I will listen to him, whether it is Brother Qiao or who, I am willing to call, you let him pick me up, I really know that it is wrong." "Poor boy, there is nothing wrong with this, and he still remembers the last little thing.

Zeng Ling wondered, opened the child's sleeves, and there were new scars, did they get beaten when they went back in the past few days, the wounds that had been raised before were obviously no longer obvious, and the conscience of this group of people was really eaten by dogs.

I rummaged through the cupboard in my room, found two clothes that were still wearable, and handed them to the child. The child thought he was going to see his uncle, so he immediately went to change behind the screen, came out and took Zeng Ling's hand, and asked, "Will Uncle really come to pick me up?" Will you go to the puppet show together, it doesn't matter if you don't go? ”

Zeng Ling was speechless for a while, covering her mouth and not speaking.

Zeng Sheng went over and hugged the child on his arm and said, "Let's go, let's go to Uncle Zeng's house for dinner first." ”

After the child went down to the ground, he groped under the pillow for a while, took out a brocade bag, and then went over to take Zeng Ling's hand and said, "Sister Ling, let's go." ”

But the child's life was not easy, and soon after lunch, a country woman came to the door, knocked on the door of Zeng's house, and began to scold, "What a domineering family! Coming to snatch children in broad daylight, abducting other people's sons if they don't have a son, and letting the big guys judge and judge, what is the matter, just like robbers. I said where did you hide the people, and if you don't hand them over, I'm going to sue the officials. ”

When the good neighbor heard that someone was making noise, he also came out to look, and for a while, there were many people at the door.

When the woman saw that there was someone behind her, she became more and more presumptuous, and opened her mouth to scold, "What's the matter? I have the face to do it, but I don't have the face to admit it, I tell you, but someone saw it. If you are interested, hurry up and hand over the child. ”

Zeng Ling was in the house and wanted to go out to reason with her, but was stopped by Zeng Sheng, "This kind of thing is at least yours, you don't want to cause trouble." ”

"Then let her scold? You can bear it as a good person, but I can't bear it, I have to go up and tear her mouth. Zeng Ling was not convinced, but still wanted to go out.

Grandma Zeng knocked on the cane and went out of the door, saying, "What kind of face do you show and take care of the children, let my wife go and see." ”

"It's all neighbors, the sister-in-law of the Zhou family has a few meanings, what can I sit down and say, it's a lot of trouble..." It's quite tough in the house, and she has always been a very kind grandma Zeng when she goes out, and she has been neighbors for decades, and her reputation outside is not something that can come out in a moment.

"Neighbor, I don't dare to climb a neighbor like you, hurry up and hand over Zhou Kun, otherwise I will go to sue the official." When the woman saw someone come out, she became more and more proud.

Grandma Zeng rested for a while, changed her face, and said, "Zhou Kun is Zhou Shen's son, he didn't come, what are you doing?" ”

"What are you doing with a dead man?" The woman was a little panicked, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in Grandma Zeng's gourd.

Grandma Zeng lifted the hem of her skirt and said, "He put the child here with me, what do you say I mentioned him for?" And I don't know where this kid went to play around, and when he came back, he was full of wounds, and he wanted to let the dead man know, and I don't know if he would go to the family's door at night. ”

"You..." The woman couldn't make sense for a while, so she began to be arrogant, pointing to Grandma Zeng's nose and saying, "Hand over Zhou Kun, and the money bag in his hand, do you want to swallow it!" ”

"It turned out that I had taken a fancy to my nephew's money! If you want to grab it, you should ask Zhou Shen first and send off guests. After Grandma Zeng finished speaking, she turned around and called Quan Gui'er in the concierge to come out and close the door to see off the guests.

The woman had no intention of taking people back, the children born by this ex-wife, it was best not to go back for the rest of her life, otherwise she would have to spend a sum of money to send them out when she grew up, but she was reluctant to see the neighbors by chance, the bag of money that might contain silver, so she came to force it, anyway, it was not difficult for this person to be driven out again, but the Zeng family was quite famous in the city, and they didn't dare to offend too much, so they immediately withdrew.

When it was almost evening, the woman came again, and when Quan Gui'er opened the door, she saw that it was the woman, and was about to close it back, but she heard the woman change her pitiful appearance and said, "Let me see Aunt Zeng." ”

Without waiting for Quan Gui'er to react, Grandma Zeng inside had already spoken and said, "Let her in." ”

The woman then stumbled through the door and called out, "Aunt Zeng." ”

"Tell me, what are you here for?"

The woman was a little squirming, begged Grandma Zeng in a good voice, and said, "Aunt Zeng, don't worry about the afternoon, I am also anxious when I see the child is gone, you let Zhou Kun go back with me, otherwise my husband will come back, and I won't be able to pay the errand." ”

"Then let his father pick him up, I want to see how ruthless this father can be."

was pinched by seven inches, and the woman became more and more vulnerable, and whispered, "No matter what, I'm not it, and it's the same if you let me take it back." ”

Siming, who had been in a daze in the side room for a long time, suddenly went to the house and pulled the child out, threw it to the woman and said, "Hurry up and take it back, don't eat white rice here." ”

When the woman saw the child, she was a little pleased, and immediately went up and caught it, and touched it up and down for a while, but she did not see the money bag, and immediately shouted, "Where is the silver?" ”

The child was very fond of Siming, but he was a little stunned when he took it out, and when he heard the woman yelling at him, he immediately cried, "I want Uncle." ”

Grandma Zeng also knocked Siming on the back with a cane and said, "Wang Qiao! You're putting your head in a daze, aren't you, who allowed you to push the child out, I didn't speak, what are you going to do. ”

The woman had come for money, but when she didn't see it, she got a hot potato, so she immediately pulled down her face and pinched the child with her hand.

Siming frowned, half-squinted, hung the money bag in the air, and said to the woman, "What are you looking for?" ”

"That's right! That's it. "That's the goal! The woman was very happy to see this, and stretched out her hand to take it. But he was blocked by Siming, threw a piece of paper in front of the woman, and said, "You sign your name here, and this will be yours." ”

The woman was a little embarrassed and illiterate, and said, "I can't read or write here." ”

Siming pointed the end of the brush at her and said, "Then you draw a charge." ”

The woman writhed and asked, "What is written on it, can you read it to me?" ”

Siming shook the money bag, the silver in it hit each other, made a somewhat dull sound, and said, "There should be a lot of this, but it's a pity." As he spoke, he took the brush back.

The woman immediately pinched the brush, took the paper, pressed the handprint, snatched the silver bag, opened it, and went away happily, not even the child.

The corners of Siming's mouth twitched, laughed at himself, shrugged his shoulders, and went back to sleep. It's just that the kid regarded Siming as the god who saved him, and every time he had dinner in the next few days, he would always pack a separate dish and bring it to Siming's room for him to eat, which made the other three people cry and laugh.

On the fifth day, Siming finally got a little annoyed and yelled at the child, "Your mother doesn't want you, so you don't hate her?" ”

The child licked the remaining fructose in his hand and said with a smile, "She's not my mother." ”

"It's like a mother and son." After speaking, Siming covered his eyes again and said, "I'm not even as good as a child." ”

Zeng Ling, who entered the door, heard this, so she led Zhou Kun out and said, "Don't teach bad children." ”