Chapter X
"Hit... Rob! ”
I frowned and looked at the ragged young man in front of me, who had not been combed for many days, and whose hair was knotted in strands, and whose face was deliberately smeared with mud to make it impossible to see what it was.
He wielded a short blade and cornered me into the alley.
It was also my negligence, and I came to the east of the city to buy rice paper when it was late.
He handed over his two bags of silver and said softly: "That's all I have, can I take the money and let me go?" ”
The man didn't talk nonsense, snatched it, tore the knots that were wrapped around it, and let go of me.
"Okay, count your little girl acquaintance."
I stared at his hand as he gradually moved away from the short blade to my neck.
Quickly shortened, turned his head and ran towards the alley.
"Stinky girl!" Somehow, as if he had repented, the man grabbed me by the cuff and dragged me down.
It fell to the ground like, and the smell of dirt filled my mouth and nose, and I was very embarrassed.
The rice paper in my arms was scattered all over the ground, but I didn't bother to pick it up.
What is he going to do... What else is he going to do?
Fear crept up on me like a snake.
"This hairpin is good, I'll take it, master."
The man stepped on my back and removed the plum hairpin from my bun.
My heart was pounding, and I didn't know what he was going to do next.
"This hairpin is in good condition, why do you only have this little silver tael in your bag," the robber seemed to suddenly open his mind, kicked me in the waist, and scolded: "Are you hiding your heart with me!" ”
The kick made my eyes look straight in front of me, but he was still angry, pulling the hair scattered on my forehead and forcing me to raise my head high.
"It's okay, it can be sold for a few bucks."
Then he kicked me twice, and the pain was so severe that I curled up and was unable to resist.
Seeing that I was no longer resisting, he put me on his shoulder.
I have a bad thought in my heart, he won't be selling me into the flower building, right?
Although it hurts to gasp, I feel a spasm in my abdomen when I exert a little force.
I still tried my best, screaming at my throat for help.
The robber was happy, holding a dog's tail grass in his mouth, and said: "Scream, no one will save you even if you break your throat, this street is my master's world." ”
The sadness in my heart spread little by little, my hands and feet fluttered desperately, my fingers stiffened, and I cried and mourned.
There were no pedestrians on the road, but they all looked at us with strange eyes.
The robber explained: "This is my lady, there is a quarrel, it is not in the way, it is not in the way." ”
Passers-by thought it was a family matter, and no matter how much I begged and cried for an explanation, I hid far away and no one rescued me.
At this moment, I was disheveled, dirty, and wailing.
"Hey, what are you doing!"
A thick male voice sounded, and the drunken tone sounded like a savior to my ears.
"Help me, save me! I don't know him, please save me! ”
A pair of hands clutched in the air, the hair hanging down in front of my forehead, I couldn't see the voice owner at all, but instinctively called for help.
"Oh, this is my mother-in-law, we had a little quarrel, it's awkward, don't worry about it." The robber who was carrying me tried to send this man away with the same words.
"No!! I don't know him, I'm a teaching assistant at the Guozi School of Accounting, please don't let him take me away! ”
"Your mother-in-law?" The man laughed and scolded: "You can find your mother-in-law like this, I'm afraid you're not joking." ”
"How are you talking, get out of the way, don't get in the way!"
"Hey, I'm going to be standing here today, what's the matter? You said that she was your mother-in-law, she was your mother-in-law, I looked at this girl as if you robbed the people's daughter, and Si Swen and your reckless husband and wife have nothing to do with each other. ”
I burst into tears, and finally someone with a discerning eye can see right and wrong, it is simply Bao Zheng who is like a god in the world!
"I don't think you're happy today." The robbers who were carrying me threw me off my shoulders and threw me to the ground without mercy.
The pain in my lower back and back had not yet gone away, and I could barely breathe from the pain from the heavy blow.
"Tut, look at you like this, if it's really your mother-in-law, are you willing to throw it on the ground like this? Why, I pierced the anger and revealed the original form? ”
This man was very poor, and although I almost fainted in pain, I knew very well that he was my only lifeline.
"Be careful, he has a knife!"
The two in front of him didn't know how to entangle, and the man was very skilled, but he trampled the robber under his feet in a few back and forth.
But the robber was very cunning, and seeing that he could not beat the man, he picked up a stone from the ground and threw it in the direction where I fell to the ground.
Seeing that there was no way to avoid it, I sighed in my heart: "My life is over." ”
I don't know how long it took, my eyelids seemed to be glued together with colloid, and the moment I returned to consciousness, I only felt like my whole body was falling apart.
It hurts, it hurts.
"Are you awake?"
The deep voice of my memory sounded, and a warm liquid poured into my throat, soaking my parched throat.
When I opened my eyes, I had a strange face.
"The son of Piqi is as beautiful as jade." This sentence in the Book of Songs, I suddenly realized it deeply.
Sword eyebrows and starry eyes, sideburns like a knife, but under a pair of sword eyebrows is a pair of amorous peach blossom eyes, the bridge of the nose is high, and the lips are like grease.
The man, however, seemed accustomed to the way others looked at him, and only glanced at me faintly.
Are good-looking people used to being amazed like this, I blushed a little.
"Girl." Fu Zhiliang opened the door curtain, held a bowl of steaming decoction in his hand, and walked in quickly.
"Fu Lao..."I struggled to stand up: "Where am I?" ”
"This is the wing of the humble house, you scared my girl."
Fu Zhiliang seems to have aged a lot all of a sudden, his hair is meticulously combed on weekdays, but now he looks frizzy, and even the cuffs of his clothes are yellow somewhere.
The young man saw that I was okay and got up to say goodbye to Fu Zhiliang, I was anxious to ask the name of the benefactor, but the man walked quickly, and floated away like a gust of wind.
"What's the matter, does your head still hurt?" Fu Zhiliang sent the man back, and handed me an extra washed hand towel in his hand.
Reaching out and unconsciously touching his head, only touching the tactile sensation of the thick wound gauze.
"The inside-in-one went to catch the medicine for you, I was supposed to go, it was more convenient for her to take care of you, but just now the government sent someone to make a record, and it was not convenient for her to be a woman." Fu Zhiliang stood in front of my bed and explained.
"Fu Lao..."I realized that Fu Zhiliang was afraid that I would think too much, so I hurriedly opened my mouth: "I am a teacher for one day and a father for life, and Fu Lao is my kindness to my parents, and he is my only relative and reliance in the capital. ”
Fu Zhiliang sighed heavily and looked at me distressedly: "Blame me, I shouldn't have left you in the ministry by yourself, it coincided with the New Year's Festival, and the law and order were a little chaotic." ”
"That's right... Who is the boy who saved me? ”
"That's Yan Jieming, the director of the Ministry of Works, it's fortunate that the girl met him, otherwise I wouldn't dare to think about what would happen..." Fu Zhiliang's cloudy eyes were a little red, and his always calm and capable tone was a little choked.
"I should have come to the door to thank Yan Gongzi," I leaned towards the head of the bed a little tiredly: "I just didn't expect that such a thing would happen in the capital." ”
As he was talking, a male voice was heard in the front yard.
Fu Zhiliang wiped the tears from his eyes, got up and walked out.
But in a moment, Fu Zhiliang walked in with two men dressed in yamen costumes.
"These are the two arresters of the capital mansion Yin, and they want to make a confession."
I propped myself up, the futon on my chest slipping off, revealing the bright red undershirt underneath.
Catch Kuaiyi frowned slightly, and the look of disgust flashed in his eyes, and that look was so fast, so fast that I almost thought it was wrong.
But as soon as he spoke, I knew that discrimination and impatience were real.
"What did you do in the east of the city yesterday?"
"Buy rice paper," I replied honestly, "just in the east corner of the city, the shopkeeper can testify." ”
"This government will naturally go to verify, so you don't need to say more."
Yu Guang saw Fu Zhiliang frowning.
"Is it just you?" While recording, the catcher asked emotionlessly: "At that late hour, your girl's family went to buy rice paper by herself, doesn't it make sense?" ”
"Besides, you're still dressed like this?" The man glanced at me quickly, a little sarcastically.
Fu Zhiliang couldn't help it.
"So, what do you want to say?" Fu Zhiliang got up suddenly, his thin figure blocked in front of my bed, and said unceremoniously: "Are you implying that Yazi was attacking to ask for trouble?" ”
Fu Zhiliang suddenly asked, provoking the two arresters to react for a while.
Fu Zhiliang was furious: "I am Fu Zhiliang, a doctor of the Guozi Supervision Department, and the girl who was attacked is Fu Yazi, the assistant teacher of our department, today you two have such an attitude, I want to come to the door to meet your Mansion Yin in person, to see if he is not strict with his majesty, or if the Beijing Mansion Yamen is handling the case like this!" ”
Fu Zhiliang rarely gets angry, at least I've never seen him get so angry.
Seeing him sweep the two catchers out of the house with a broom, he closed the door with a "clang", and then slammed the deadbolt on the door.
And I, my mind is still stuck in the question that I just caught and asked me.
"Why do you go out alone at night, why do you wear bright clothes, why do you expose your money?"
Xu is too trusting of the security of the capital, thinking that this is the national capital, how can there be street robberies, bullies, and forced abductions?
And A-Niang taught me since I was a child that women should be careful in everything, dress conservatively, behave carefully, and know how to avoid dangerous times and dangerous people.
But if women don't do this, the problem lies with people who don't know how to avoid it?
Whenever I go out and what I'm wearing, is that why I'm being attacked?
My aunt only taught my women how to escape, but the abuser's aunt did not teach them that they should not be like this, so how can I escape?
When Fu Zhiliang returned to the house, he saw that I looked stunned and panicked, thinking that I was quickly questioned by the arrester and shook my sense of right and wrong.
"Girl," Fu Zhiliang said anxiously: "It's not your fault, there are too many bad people in this world, it's those people's problems, it's definitely not your problem." ”
I smiled.
This society seems to have changed a lot, but inside it, this society has not changed at all.