Chapter 49: To save or not to save
In the morning, the sun had just risen, Yan'er's family had breakfast, and when they saw that it was very good outside, Yan'er said that they wanted to go to the morning market on Suzaku Street to see the cage birds.
Because of the problem of intelligence, the old father has always loved his son, and has always said what is it, trying to satisfy and make up for it.
The morning market on Suzaku Street is very lively, and many children of rich families come here early in the morning to fight cocks and compare birds.
"Dad, Dad, Yan'er wants to see it."
Yan's father pushed the wheelchair and walked towards the place Yan'er pointed to.
In fact, Yan'er's leg didn't have any problems, but Yan's father was afraid that he would run around and have an accident, so he simply tied his leg to the wheelchair and pushed him like this every time he went out.
Yan'er looked down at a golden bird in the cage, the beautiful posture of the golden bird, coupled with its pleasant call, made people think of it as a beautiful woman trapped in the cage.
Yan'er likes birds very much, he likes to sit in the yard and watch the birds that fall on the edge of the eaves, and he will unconsciously raise his arms when he sees the birds fluttering their wings and flying high.
Before he was a year old, he had a serious illness, burned for five days, burned out his brain, and then he became like this, a child who did not grow up.
He also knew that he was different from other children, who could always run on the streets, but he couldn't leave his father half a step.
Before the bird seller met, the man looked at their canary intently, but without asking the price, he said in a fierce tone: "Don't look at it, don't look at it, if you really like it, you can buy it back and look at it slowly." ”
Yan'er was frightened by the hawker's tone, and her mouth twitched.
Father Yan looked at the vendor and hugged his son and said, "What if the child likes to look at it a few more times, how can you sell things like this?" ”
The peddler scoffed at him with a look of disdain: "Child? Your child has to stand taller than me. ”
Yan'er pouted and finally shed tears.
As soon as they met, the man cried like a child, and the peddler called out to the people around him to come and see: "Come, come, come and see, what a person, and after a few words, he began to cry." ”
Father Yan had always not allowed others to insult his son with words, so he angrily stepped forward and stretched out his hand to push the hawker vigorously, and the force was so great that he directly pushed the hawker backwards from the horse.
The peddler fell and squatted, he quickly stood up and pointed at Daddy Yan's nose and scolded: "Okay, you are an old immortal, you actually pushed Lao Tzu." ”
Father Yan fought with the hawker, and the passers-by next to him stepped forward to persuade him.
Yan'er lowered his head and wiped his tears and cried, a pair of big hands held the handle of the wheelchair, he looked at the chaos in front of him, and then stepped forward and walked in front of Yan'er and squatted down.
Yan'er noticed the person in front of him, he stopped crying and asked vigilantly, "Who are you?" ”
The man took out a paper bag and put it on Yan'er's lap, then opened it.
Yan'er's eyes were attracted by the things on his legs, and when he saw the contents of the paper bag, he was pleasantly surprised: "It's candied fruit, candied fruit." ”
The man nodded while untying the rope that bound Yan'er's legs: "Seeing that you are crying so sadly, I want to give you candied fruit to eat." ”
Yan'er's face was beaming, and his long eyelashes still had tears from the tears he had just cried.
"Really! Can I eat it? ”
The man nodded, Yan'er picked up a piece and put it directly into his mouth, he squinted and smiled as he chewed.
The man looked back and saw that the pedestrians had pulled the two people away from the fight just now.
He turned his head and asked, "What's your name?" ”
Yan'er had a candied fruit in one hand, and smiled happily: "My name is Hu Muyan, my father usually calls me Yan'er, and when I see you give me candied fruit, I can also let you call me Yan'er." ”
The man stood up and touched Yan'er's head: "Yan'er is so good, is the candied fruit delicious?" ”
Yan'er stuffed the candied fruit in his hand into his mouth and nodded, he looked at the empty paper bag on his lap: "But... But... It's too little, Yan'er has finished eating, is there anything else? ”
When he raised his head to see, the person standing in front of him just now was long gone, and Yan'er looked left and right to see that he still couldn't find it, and he touched his head suspiciously.
The man didn't look back, strode into an alley, he touched his lower bones with his hands, and then as if he was grabbing something, he pulled a piece of dough off his face.
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Mai Jiu looked at Yan'er, Yan'er's eyes were like the gaze of a goshawk in the sky looking for prey, and this scene frightened her to retract her head.
Curled up under the platform, she hugged her thighs.
"Let's protect ourselves."
Yan's father couldn't stand up for a while after being fallen, and he said while trying to support his body to stand up: "Yan'er, don't do stupid things, Yan'er." ”
The person in front of him shook the kitchen knife in his hand and strode forward.
A group of guards with bayonets in their hands ran from the front, and they stood in a row with their swords outstretched and pointed at Yan'er.
Yan'er was not moving forward, just staring at the row of people with long swords in front of him.
Father Yan stepped forward and hugged Yan'er's thigh, so that he couldn't step forward anymore, Yan'er turned his head mechanically, and the kitchen knife in his hand was raised high and he was about to chop it down without hesitation.
"Don't!"
Seeing that there was no sound or movement, Mai Jiu poked out her head and wanted to take a look, but she saw Yan'er holding a kitchen knife in her hand and looking at her father with her eyes shining, and she subconsciously stopped it.
Hearing this, the kitchen knife in Yan'er's hand stopped a few centimeters away from Yan's father's head.
Yan'er looked for the sound and turned her head to look, and Mai Jiu quickly crawled back.
Yan'er kicked her father away, and then walked in the direction of Mai Jiu with a wicked smile.
Father Yan quickly got up, he looked at the stall behind him, picked up a sharp knife on the table, strode forward, and stabbed Yan'er in the back.
Yan'er stopped, and the knife was plunged deep into Yan'er's back, blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.
Father Yan looked incredulous, he opened his mouth and left the handle of the knife with trembling hands.
Yan'er threw the kitchen knife on the ground, and he turned to look at Yan's father.
This turn, Daddy Yan saw...
The knife pierced through Yan'er's body, and the tip of the blood-stained knife leaked from Yan'er's chest.
Father Yan was so frightened that he opened his mouth wide and retreated again and again.
"Daddy... Yan'er hurts..."After saying this sentence again, Yan'er fell to the right and fell to the ground.
Seeing that the man with the knife had fallen, the guards with bayonets in their hands rushed up one by one and surrounded Yan'er who had fallen to the ground.
Father Yan was isolated outside, and when he couldn't see Yan'er, Father Yan reacted, he stepped forward and cried: "Yan'er, Yan'er!" I'm talking! ”
Seeing that Yan'er had been subdued, the pedestrians who had been hiding just now stood up one after another, came over to abuse and accuse.
The Lang Zhong people on Suzaku Street also rushed over to deal with the passers-by who were cut by Yan'er.
The little girl who was hacked to death by Yan'er was lying in a pool of blood, and her mother was sitting on the ground and holding her body and crying to the sky.
Mai Jiu poked her head out, she saw Yan'er, and Yan'er also saw her.
Yan'er stretched out her palm to Mai Jiu from the gap between the guards and the guards and shouted, "Yan'er hurts so much, save Yan'er." ”
Mai Jiuyi got up and vigorously pulled away the guards surrounding Yan'er, and she squatted down and looked at Yan'er's chest.
The amount of blood lost was not much, and the knife was not pulled out, so it should be too late to rescue in time.
Mai Jiu looked at the crowd and shouted, "Send him to the hospital!" ”
Everyone just stared at her with no reaction.
Father Yan sat down, Yan'er turned his head and said, "Dad, is Yan'er going to die?" ”
Father Yan shook his head and said emotionally, "No, no." ”
"Kill him."
Someone in the crowd said this, and immediately after that, several more voices rang out.
"Murderer, forget it when you're dead."
"Kill him quickly, and keep the scourge of Da'an."
"Kill him! Kill him! A short man at the front shouted as he raised his hands above his head.
Father Yan knelt on the ground and kowtowed to everyone: "No, Yan'er is not like this, no." ”
Yan'er's chest ached for a while, and he instinctively held Mai Jiu's hand and held it tightly.
Mai Jiu looked at Yan'er's painful expression, and she shouted loudly: "I will give twenty taels of silver, as long as I save him, I will give twenty taels!" ”
When a man heard this, he quickly turned his head to look, and the muslin cloth in his hand stopped above the patient's wound and did not let it go.
The injured woman cried, "Doctor, can you hurry up?" I hurt. ”
Lang Zhong turned his head and replied, "Eh, this is a bandage for you." ”
The crowd began to turn the finger at Mai Jiu, and everyone began to persuade.
"Girl, why did you save him..."
"It also costs twenty taels, and twenty taels is enough for a small family to eat and dress for a year."
Mai Jiu ignored it, still looking for Lang Zhong's figure left and right.
Slowly, the people turned from persuasion to verbal abuse.
"The two of them must be in a group, and they look like evil spirits."
"It's witchcraft, it's witchcraft! The two men were cursed. ”
"Kill them both!"
One even began to instigate the guards to directly stab Mai Jiu and Yan'er to death to eliminate harm for the people.
Yan'er couldn't help but faint in pain, and after seeing it, Yan's father couldn't breathe and fainted.
At this time, another voice came from the crowd, and a woman said in a strange manner: "There is such a son who deserves to die, phew." ”
Liu Shaoqing of Dali Temple heard the commotion and rushed over, and after he glanced at the body of the girl who was hacked to death, he hurried towards the crowd.
Seeing this, the guards separated the crowd and made a way.
Liu Shaoqing saw Mai Jiu first, and he exclaimed: "Princess Jin? Why are you here? ”
He has been working with the princess for many years, and he has seen the princess a few times, and he looked at Yan'er, who was stabbed in the back, and his heart was even more puzzled.
As soon as they heard the words "Princess Jin", the crowd began to talk again, but not as loudly as just now, but in whispers.
Mai Jiu seemed to see hope, and hurriedly said, "Quick! Take him to the hospital. ”
The princess said so, Liu Shaoqing naturally didn't dare to disobey, he turned his head to look at the guards who followed and said, "Quick, send the two of them to the hospital." ”
The woman who was holding the little girl not far away heard this, and she threw the girl down and crawled to her feet and ran towards the crowd.
Seeing that the guard was about to lift the unconscious Yan'er up, she vigorously pushed away and cried, "She killed my daughter!" You're trying to save a murderer! ”
The guard was pushed away, and Yan'er, who had just been raised, fell to the ground.
Mai Jiu looked at the person in front of him, his hair was messy, his clothes and hands were all bloodstained, his face was also full of tears, and his eyes were already red and swollen from crying.
The woman looked at Mai Jiu, stepped over Yan'er and directly stretched out her hand to give Mai Jiu a slap, which made Mai Jiu directly look away from her face and stumble.