In the pouring rain, Xiang Qianhuan hugged his shoulders and ran quickly to the pharmacy at the corner of the street.

"Boss! Boss! Please give me some medicine on credit! My brother has hemoptysis again! Please......"

The thin shallow slapped the door panel with a snapping sound, and ...... for a while, "Let's go!" I told you a long time ago that your brother has tuberculosis and can't be cured, so you don't have to pay back the previous medicine money, so let's go. ”

Xiang Qian leaned weakly against the wall, and his face couldn't tell whether it was rain or tears.

My younger brother Xiang Zhen has been sick for more than two years, and he has been to the hospital in Liangcheng, but he just shook his head and said that he couldn't be cured.

A few years ago, my mother ran away with the only two silver dollars left in the family. My father drank and gambled all day long, and sold everything he could sell in the family.

even sold Xiang Qian to a brothel, if it weren't for Xiang Zhen's life, at this time, Xiang Qian was already a woman in the Qinglou.

Since then, Xiang Qian ran out with Xiang Zhen, and after wandering on the street for a few nights, he was picked up by Li's mother and placed in her own side house.

Li's mother was widowed in her thirties, and her only son died of smallpox when he was three years old.

After taking in the two sisters, they were raised as their own children, and the old people often chattered that they would not ask for anything else, and when they died, they could add some soil to their graves, even if they were not raised in vain.

"Kid! Let's go back! Xiang Zhen is clamoring to see you! ”

As she spoke, Mama Li helped Xiang Qian, who was sitting in the heavy rain.

"Mama Li, no one is willing to give me the medicine on credit...... They all said that it couldn't be cured, it was a lively person, how could it not be cured! ”

Li's mother felt like a pinprick in her heart, and tears flowed like "Silly child, hurry, go home with Mama Li, don't catch the cold!" Xiang Zhen can't live without you! ”

Xiang Qian nodded and washed his face with the standing water on the side of the road. I'm afraid that Xiang Zhen will see that he has cried.

"Let's go, Mama Li. Let's go home. ”

Mama Li's house is in a small alley on the edge of Liangcheng City. Two men helped them through the door.

"Really, hungry, aren't you? Sister will cook for you. ”

Xiang Zhen originally had a pair of big eyes, and at a young age, he attracted countless little girls to follow behind his ass and rush to be his daughter-in-law, and the little guy always pouted, stuck his waist and said, "You are not as good-looking as my sister!" I will not marry you. Xiang Qian often said that when Xiang Zhen grew up, he didn't know how many girls and children he would break.

A few years of tuberculosis made Xiang really thin like a paper man laid out of a coffin, so everyone who saw him said that he would not live long.

Only Xiang shallow, firmly believe that Xiang Zhen will recover.

Xiang Zhen on the fire kang heard his sister's voice, and tried to open his eyes, the long eyelashes that were originally fanned suddenly became a burden at the moment, and he just glanced at it and closed it back.

Xiang Qian hurriedly stepped forward and put his hand under the quilt to cover the heat, before touching Xiang Zhen's little face.

"Gee, it's nice to have a brother who can help me warm my hands. Shall I cook you dumplings and noodles for you? ”

Xiang Zhen had just vomited a lot of blood in the morning, and he was weak at this time, Xiang Qian helped him tuck the quilt, washed his hands, and made the three taels of coarse noodles that he had bought yesterday into dough, added some vegetable leaves, and put down two large bowls of dumpling noodles.

"Mama Li, eat it while it's hot, I was cold just now, don't get rheumatism."

When Mama Li was young, she washed clothes for others, threshed and did most of her life, and she was tired and suffered from rheumatism.

Now that I'm old, I rely on Xiang Qian's care.

"Shallow, you eat, Mama Li is not hungry, there are still vegetable balls in the morning, I'll just eat that, it's easy to digest."

"Mother Li, you can eat this, I love to eat vegetable dumplings, don't rob me."

Mother Li choked up and nodded, not knowing in her heart that Xiang Qian was reluctant to eat.

Xiang shallow helped Xiang Zhen up, and took the spoon to feed little by little. At first, Xiang Zhen could still cooperate with the swallowing, but after eating a few bites, he didn't even have the ability to swallow. The soup that had just been fed ran down the corner of his mouth.

Mama Li was stunned when she saw Xiang Qian, and hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks and walked over.

"Shallow...... I'm really afraid it'......"

Xiang Qian wiped the soup with his cuffs and hugged Xiang Zhen tightly in his arms.

"Really, my sister has been able to hold on until now for you. I want to watch you grow up and watch you marry a daughter-in-law.

Really...... You've got to survive......"

Before the words fell, tears flowed down his thin cheeks.

Ticking fell on Xiang Zhen's shriveled little face.

"Shallow! What a real eye-open! Look! ”

Xiang Qian looked down, and Xiang Zhen in his arms actually opened his eyes and was trying to say something.

Mama Li hurriedly took the bowl of dumpling noodles, "Do you want to eat?" ”

I moved my eyelashes up and down. Xiang Qian took the spoon, scooped a little noodle soup and sent it in.

Seeing Xiang Zhen smoke a little bit of noodle soup, Xiang Qian sneered and laughed, "I know, you must be fine!" Eat! After eating and sleeping, my sister will buy you medicine, who said that my brother is not better! ”

Just fed a small half bowl of noodle soup, Xiang Zhen was tired and snuggled up in his sister's arms and fell asleep.

Xiang Qian gently put his younger brother into the quilt and stroked his forehead, "Mother Li, I went out to buy medicine." ”

Mama Li sighed, "You wait. ”

As he spoke, he took out a cloth bag from the kang hole and opened it lightly. took out the two silver dollars inside and handed them to Xiang Qian.

"Shallow, you take it to buy medicine for Zhenzhen,"

"I don't want it, Mama Li, I can't ask for this money......"

Mother Li patted Xiang Qian's shoulder, "Silly boy, I treat you as my own." How can you look like you really have no money to treat? ”

Xiang Qian pushed back Li's mother's hand, turned around and ran out of the door, "I don't want this money!" No! ”

Xiang Qian knew in his heart that it was Mama Li's coffin book, and it could never be used.

At the beginning of the shower, Xiang Qian only wore a coarse cloth shirt with patches. As soon as the cold wind blew, I shivered.

Liangcheng is not small, but there is too little work that can be done by yourself. The wharf is unloaded, and the granary is loaded with grain, and women are not recruited. Sewing clothes is attractive, but a piece of clothing is only a copper plate, and you can earn six or seven if you die all day long. Barely satisfied, the words of treatment are simply fantastic.

Xiang Qian was walking aimlessly like a geist, when suddenly a classic car sped by, almost hitting her.

"You're looking for death, aren't you? You don't have to walk with a brain! ”

The occupants of the car poked their heads out and cursed twice to show their anger.

Xiang Qian watched as the car stopped in front of the Metropolis.

The metropolis is the largest place of communication in Liangcheng. Since the great warlord Qin Xiaofeng took over Liangcheng, he closed all the brothels on the grounds of righteousness, turned around and opened this metropolis, not only recruiting some young and beautiful people, but also finding several foreign girls.

Everyone understands that this is a change of soup and not of medicine, and a change of shotgun for a cannon.

Xiang Qian looked at the metropolis with bright lights and singing and dancing, and had a plan in his heart......

"Where did you come from? Get out of the way, don't die! As soon as Xiang Qian went up a flight of steps, he was kicked out by the security guard at the door.

"Are you recruiting?"

The security guard at the door immediately changed his face, with a joking face, "Yo, don't say it, it's really a bit of a posture when you look closely, Li Er, look at these big eyes, it's smart, it's better to follow me when you come to work, call my brother to listen~"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, and was just about to touch it when he was slapped by Xiang Qian, "Take away your dirty hands!" ”

Because it is the industry of the great warlord Qin Fang, the security guards here are also arrogant, and they were stunned when they were suddenly slapped in the face. On the sidelines, watching the lively Li Er holding his stomach and laughing, leaned back and closed,

"Haha, let's get away with it now, I didn't expect it to be a little wild cat~ Haha, I said no, forget it, there are so many girls waiting with their chests open, I have to tease this little girl, it's the same before and after, what's so fun."

The security guard couldn't hold his face, and he stretched out his hand to fight. Seeing that the thick hand was about to touch the thin shallow one.

"Ahh Brother Chen, Brother Chen, it hurts, spare me, Brother Chen! ”

Squinting his eyes, a big black man stood in front of him and grabbed the security guard's arm with one hand.

"Don't you guys want to do it? The visitor is a guest, and no one told you on the day of work? Act like a snob! ”

"Brother Chen, she's not a guest, she's here to be a prostitute, a woman..."

The man who was called Brother Chen turned around, "Girl, I see that you are a female doll from an ordinary family, this is not a good place, you can go." ”

Xiang Qian nodded with some trepidation, "Thank you.."

The man bowed slightly, and entered the door. Xiang Qian was just about to raise his legs, but his stomach screamed twice, and he looked up at the bun shop not far away. Xiang Qian swallowed his saliva.

"Little girl~ hungry, right? Come, come with me, my mother will buy you two meat buns to eat, his buns have thin skin and big filling, and they are the best to eat. ”

Xiang Qian hadn't eaten meat for a long time, and the last time he ate it was when he was in the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Uncle Fang, who sold meat next door, gave him two pieces of bloody neck meat that couldn't be sold. Xiang Qian recognized the identity of this "mother" at a glance.

In normal times, it will never follow the past, but today......

I'm afraid that Xiang Zhen's illness won't last long, he needs money too much, and the metropolis is the only chance.

"Please invite your mother to eat, I ......"

As soon as the bustard heard it, he knew that there was a play, and enthusiastically hugged Xiang Qian's shoulder, "Let's go, go into the house with my mother and get you something to eat!" ”

As he spoke, he led to the shallow entrance from the back yard of the metropolis into the door, and the backyard was no better than the front door.

The clothes lines in the yard were full of women's underwear, some as thin as cicada wings, some as small as patches.

As soon as Xiang Qian entered the door, he lowered his head, and he didn't even dare to go out.

"Come on, girl, this roast duck, roast chicken can be eaten as you like~ There are enough big white flour steamed buns!"

Xiang Qian looked at a table of delicacies and swallowed a mouthful of saliva fiercely.

"I ...... Can I take it home? ”

The old bustard snorted and laughed, "Of course you can, but yes, you have to sign this note first~"

Xiang is a good book that can be written with shallow literacy, which I learned from an old grandfather who commented on books when I was a child.

Xiang Qian glanced at it, "I can wash and wash and pour tea and water, but I don't sell my body." ”

The old bustard looked at it with his peripheral eyes