After arranging the injured, Zhan Qi hurried to find Zhan Li, who had returned from the disappearance. Outside the closed door, only Du Xiaomeng and Ah Shu stood there, waiting anxiously.

Ah Shu tugged at Du Xiaomeng's sleeve in a panic, and asked with tears in his eyes: "Sister, will my mother be okay?" Abbot, can they cure my mother? His thin body trembled with fear.

Du Xiaomeng pressed his thin shoulders with both hands, stabilized his trembling body, and comforted: "Ah Shu, you don't have to worry, Aunt Jiang will definitely be auspicious and safe." ”

"It's all my fault." Ah Shu lowered his head sadly, "If it weren't for me, Ah Niang wouldn't have made it like this." ”

Hearing him say this, Du Xiaomeng, who felt strange when she saw their mother and son just now, couldn't help but ask, "What is this all about?" Can you tell me? ”

Ah Shu hesitated for a moment, wiped a handful of tears, and said: "Ah Niang said that I am the only male in the family, she doesn't want me to be like her, I don't know a single big character, she wants me to go to the school to read and read." However, when I went to several schools, they all said that I was the son of a leper and could not let me enter the school. Ah Niang knelt and begged for several days, and finally a school was willing to accept me in, but we were required to pay three taels of silver before I could go to school. How can we have so much money in our family? In order for me to enter the school, Ah Niang went to the mountains to pick herbs and sell them to pharmacies to make money. The rarer the herb, the better the price, A-Niang found a rare herb growing on the edge of the cliff today, and she fell off the cliff in order to pick the herb. ”

The life of the poor is like dust on the ground, so lowly and so worthless, and it is the same in any era.

Three taels of silver may not be enough for a rich person to eat a decent meal, but for a poor family, three taels of silver is enough to exchange for a fresh life, enough to buy a person's only dignity, and enough to make a family fall into a situation from which they will never recover.

The taste of poverty, Du Xiaomeng suffered. She looked at the young man in front of her and couldn't help but feel sour, this child was already twelve years old, but he still looked like a child of seven or eight years old, his height was barely up to her shoulders, and his body was so thin that it could be blown by a gust of wind. She stretched out her sympathetic hands, hugged Ah Shu and patted his tense back and said, "It's not your fault, don't blame yourself." Aunt Jiang will definitely get better, you have to have confidence in your mother. ”

Ah Shu couldn't help but cry "wow", and happily vented the fear and pain suppressed in his heart. Twelve years old, if his life is good, he should still be a carefree and innocent age to hide in the arms of his parents and be spoiled, but his life is not good.

Du Xiaomeng didn't stop Ah Shu's crying, and let him cry wantonly in his arms. It's better to cry out than to bear it silently in your heart.

When Zhan Qi came back, he saw a big and a small hugging and crying there, and when he got closer, he realized that it was just the child crying, and Du Xiaomeng just provided a warm embrace for others to cry.

Seeing Du Xiaomeng so generously hugging others to open it, Zhan Qi's heart was a little unhappy. Really, do you know what it means to be intimate? Although it was a child who didn't have any hair, no matter how young he grew up, he was a man, and besides, he was not so young as to hold a baby!

Why is this woman not conscious at all?

"What's going on?" Zhan Qi resisted the urge to take Ah Shu out of Du Xiaomeng's arms and throw it aside, and tried his best to ask calmly.

Du Xiaomeng looked up at him and replied, "Ah Shu, he's worried about Aunt Jiang." ”

Zhan Qi glanced at Ah Shu, who was still crying, and said unhappily: "The manly husband is crying like a girl, like what?" ”

Ah Shu's shoulders shook, and he quickly stopped crying and raised his head, looking at Zhan Qi with a pair of red eyes that were red from crying.

Du Xiaomeng glared at Zhan Qi dissatisfied, and said, "People are worried about their own mothers, so it's not okay to cry?" People love to cry or not, can you take care of it? ”

Zhan Qi said with some annoyance: "You think I want to take care of it? If it weren't for ......," he remembered something, and abruptly stopped.

Du Xiaomeng looked directly at his face and asked, "If it wasn't for what?" ”

"Nothing." Zhan Qi resolutely shut up. What he wanted to say was that if it weren't for Yu Tianzheng's relationship, he wouldn't have bothered to care whether she would hug or hug other men. However, at the moment when the words were about to be spoken, he thought that every time he talked to her about Yu Tianzheng, there would always be a quarrel, and in the end they broke up unhappily. The name Yu Tianzheng seems to have become the fuse between the two, if you don't want to quarrel for no reason, it's better not to mention this taboo.

Zhan Qi's appearance of wanting to speak up made Du Xiaomeng not doubt it. She let go of Ah Shu, took a step closer to Zhan Qi, and continued to ask reluctantly: "Let me be clear, it is not the work of a manly husband to say that half of the remaining half is not the work of a manly husband." ”

"Are you bothered? I said that it was nothing, and I still have to ask! Zhan Qi turned his head to look in the other direction, closed his mouth tightly, made it clear that he didn't want to speak anymore, and then pretended to be concentrating on the scenery.

Du Xiaomeng didn't plan to let him go like this, but at this time, the closed door behind him opened, and the young monk walked out of it.

The three of them looked back at the young monk together, and then hurriedly surrounded him and asked, "Little Master, what is the condition of the injured inside?" ”

The young monk folded his palms together and replied, "The female benefactor has many fractures on her body, and her internal organs are also damaged. However, her condition is fine, the abbot has given her medicine to treat her internal injuries, and now he and his uncle are inside to connect her broken bones. The abbot asked the little monk to come out and inform the donors, so that you could feel at ease. ”

Du Xiaomeng and Ah Shu thanked the young monk repeatedly, and the young monk smiled at everyone, and after reciting the sentence "Amitabha", he returned to the room and closed the door again.

Knowing that his mother could survive, Ah Shu was so excited that he didn't know where to put his hands and feet, he suddenly knelt in front of Zhan Qi and Du Xiaomeng, kowtowed to the two of them and said, "Brother, sister, thank you for saving Auntie!" Thank you! ”

He said thank you while kowtowing vigorously, and before Zhan Qi and Du Xiaomeng could react, he had already kowtowed three times in one breath with rapid movements.

Zhan Qi pulled him up and said, "Don't knock, save some strength to take care of your mother." ”

He glanced at Du Xiaomeng and said, "You've been busy for most of the day, you should be hungry too, right?" Go get something to eat and come back here and wait. ”

Ah Shu glanced at the closed door uneasily, and said hesitantly, "But ......"

"There's an abbot taking care of it, you don't have to worry." Zhan Qi interrupted Ah Shu's words, "If there is any situation, the abbot will also send someone to inform us." ”

Ah Shu lowered his head and bit his lip and whispered, "I, I'm not hungry." ”

Du Xiaomeng grabbed his arm and said to Zhan Qi, "Where is there food?" I've been out there for most of the day, and I'm almost hungry! After that, he urged Zhan Qi to lead the way, and dragged Ah Shu forward. She knew that Ah Shu was embarrassed to eat the food given to him by others for nothing before saying that she was not hungry, Aunt Jiang was Lin Xinru's benefactor, how could she let Ah Shu be hungry?