Chapter 33: Hope
Mrs. Fan, who has lived alone for a long time, heard that others said that she wanted to intervene in her life, and her first reaction was, of course, to refuse.
But looking at the other party's sincere eyes, she was a little hesitant, but who knows if this is luring the wolf into the room?
"This ...... Let me think about it again, after all, we don't know each other. ”
"If you don't trust us, so be it, I see that you came back with a lot of cloth bags in your hands, if you guess correctly, there should be some seeds in it, my brother and I will help you sow seeds, and we won't charge you a penny, just need you to give you something to eat, okay?" If you are worried, we bully you, you can ask the neighbors to come and see it and prove it. The two of us are only half-grown children, and of course we wouldn't dare to deceive you. ”
Li Jicai has fulfilled the spirit of contract that modern people generally have in this place.
"You also left your homeland and came here?"
"Yes, my hometown was hit by a disaster, my parents died, and I came to Kyoto to join my distant relatives, but I didn't find my distant relatives, and we have no one to go to again, so we are alone now."
Li Jicai's face was a little bit of sadness, she admitted that she had some pretending elements in it, and to put it bluntly, she was pretending to be pitiful.
But if he hadn't pretended to be pitiful in front of her, how could he win sympathy and get the old lady to agree to take them in.
This is a bit of a careful calculation.
"In order to survive, I even asked my younger brother to disguise himself as a monk and beg for it. This dog has been with us since we fled, and has never abandoned us, and the two of us have survived to this day. ”
The old lady who said this was also slightly moved, to be honest, it was indeed not easy for the two sisters and brothers.
But years of life experience have made her understand that she can't be too gullible about outsiders.
But, by this moment, she had already believed most of them.
"So be it, you come over tomorrow just in time for me to have a batch of seeds to be planted." An open space has been set aside in the yard for planting new crops.
"In that case, then we'll bother tomorrow." Li Jicai's eyes were very excited, he didn't expect that he had really succeeded in persuading the old lady to agree to try it first according to their ideas.
She would use their sincerity to prove that they really wanted to join the old lady.
With the old lady's promise, at least they will be able to eat a full meal.
Now that you have the opportunity to make a living, you need to solve the problem of accommodation first, and then think about how to make money.
In the past, they also looked for many shops, but Li Jiye was reluctant to go, and Li Jicai's family was not willing to ask for it.
So it was delayed after coming and going.
But this does not mean that they can always wander like this, there must be a way out.
Let the old lady accept them first, and then the old lady is better than going to those big families. If the old lady could promise to give them a room, they would be willing to pay as much as they could, of course, within their means.
With such an agreement, Li Jicai and Li Jiye were very excited, and they felt happy to sleep on the side of the road at night.
We chatted excitedly all night, and I fell asleep at dawn.
Because they spoke so loudly that the family at the base of the wall where they lived thought that there was a burglar in their house.
I was scared all night.
Early the next morning, Li Jiye and Li Jicai and Zhao Li went to beg in the streets and alleys.
If you have some leftovers or something, you can still eat it if it doesn't go bad, and you'll just make up for it.
In the morning, he wandered around outside, and finally saw that the time was almost the time to make an appointment with the old lady, so Li Jicai was busy and pulled Li Jiye with him.
The bustling Nancheng district is full of cars and pedestrians, but none of this has anything to do with them.
The bluestone road has been stepped on by countless people, and it is still so solid.
The water in the waterway was surging and enduring, rowing countless boats, washing countless clothes, and getting many children's laughter.
No matter how long it has been, Yingdu, the capital of Chu State, has always been a place that many people yearn to linger in. A place where you dream of being able to get a piece of land.
Because it's too luxurious, because it's too dazzling, because it's full of temptation.
Still lifes or animals are changing, or none are changing. Yingdu is under the baptism of wind and rain, and naturally it is immovable.
Everything is still, everything is jumping.
The crowd was crowded together, and it was impossible to distinguish between men and women, black and white, and there were too many things.
Hidden behind the prosperity and beauty is always a cruel and dark truth.
In the huge capital, Li Jicai and the two of them are just two small grains of dust, which are nothing and nothing.
It won't attract the slightest attention from others, because the two of them are just two little tramps, and they are still little tramps from outside.
It is said that human life is like an ant like a mustard, but for Li Jicai, no matter how small she is, she will always feel that she is one of the stars in the sky, has her own place, and has always been there.
No one knows what path they will take in the future, and no one knows who they will meet in the future.
If you knew, what would the world be like?
If some things are unavoidable in fate, then for Li Jicai, retreating and avoiding will never be a choice she will make, whether in the future or in the future, she will follow her heart and cherish everything she has.
Fan Ming watched Li Jicai's sister and brother work hard in her small vegetable patch.
The expression on his face was unclear.
Li Jicai worked so hard for the old lady just to let the old lady keep them.
It's just like when she asked the owner of the black Internet café to keep her as a network administrator.
The old lady was old and needed personal care around her, and they could take care of her after they moved into the old lady's house, and they also gave her money.
It's the same as renting a house in modern times, but I don't know if the ancient people accepted it.
"Over there, some water over there." Mrs. Fan pointed to the corner of the small vegetable patch with a finger and motioned for them to water it.
Li Jicai answered loudly, and then Ma Yoyo ran over to water it.
After all the work was done, Li Jicai ran to the old lady's side, and he couldn't do it.
But the old lady just gave her a cold look, then turned around and went back to the house, without even giving her a back.
Crisp and crisp, completely ignored.
Li Jicai touched a nail that was neither soft nor hard, and the smile on his face was slightly stiff.
Li Jiye stood not far away and watched, and Li Jicai could feel his contempt from afar.
But what is there to despise about this? Li Jicai snorted at him, then lowered his head to clean up the tools he had just used to sow seeds, washed them and put them neatly together.
Then he tidied up the old lady's yard a little and left.
She also had to go out into the streets to beg.
It's kind of funny, but you can't eat enough at the old lady's house, if you don't beg outside.
It is inconvenient for Li Jiye to go out to make a fortune with Xiao Erhei, and it is also inconvenient for Xiao Erhei to go out to beg with Li Jicai, he will always scare others, and it is not good to have a dog leash.
Xiao Erhei is very close to the old lady, so Li Jicai simply tied it to the gate of the yard, and it should be given to the old lady's hometown.
In the evening they came back from begging, and they could bring him some food, and at night they slept outside the old lady's door.
None of the ruffians have anything like them.
Because Li Jicai could see that the old lady was not particularly resistant to them, if there was really no room for accommodation, she would not lick her face and beg the old lady.
is not right for people, mainly to find a place to stay......
Twilight came and went, and everything passed like a white horse, suddenly
The midsummer time glides by like flowing water, looking back. It has been almost half a year since Li Jicai came to this ancient time.
However, she did not fully settle in the capital, at least in her opinion, she already had a house of her own.
Old Mrs. Fan had already relented, and finally let them into her small courtyard under the premise that the two of them had worked hard and diligently for her.
Just like what was said before, Li Jicai followed the old lady of the Fan family to the official mansion to report.
The gist is to the effect that the old lady's existing house property is all reported to the government, because Mrs. Fan has no children and no daughters, so after her death, if there are no relatives who can inherit her property, it will be confiscated and become the property of the public family, if the old lady has any accident in the process of Li Jicai's temporary residence in her house, it is the responsibility of Li Jicai's two sisters and brothers, if Li Jicai is willing, then their sisters and brothers can live in Mrs. Fan's house. Mrs. Fan is the widow of a soldier who gave her life for the country, so everything about her is recorded.
Mrs. Fan thought of Li Jicai's sister and brother from beginning to end, sincerely doing those trivial and complicated little things, and never became impatient or loud to her, which made her very satisfied, and she also had an extra income, because Li Jicai would do some handicraft work in the future, and if she made money, she would also give her some money every month. After going to the government to report, the old lady's safety can also be guaranteed, because the people in the government have never been in contact with this kind of similar rental housing, so it feels very fresh to deal with, but I still readily agreed, because it is very likely that the old lady's house will be confiscated in the future, and the confiscation does not mean that the house will not be given to the public in the future? It's nothing more than to be fair, set up a note, and help is helped.
After working hard for so long, Li Jicai, Li Jiye, and Xiao Erhei were finally able to have a place to settle down in the capital.
But Mrs. Fan's house has a total of two rooms and a living room. Li Jiye and Li Jicai are so old, how can it be that the two sisters and brothers are still living in the same room.
As an older sister, it is natural to let the younger brother say so, but the two themselves are unrelated and have no reason, and now they are disguised as sisters and brothers in the capital, so they have reached a consensus on who lives in the room and who sleeps outside.
Take turns sleeping in the house.