Perhaps because it had rained for several days and the road was muddy, the carriage traveled all the way from Xitang to Hangzhou without encountering other passers-by.

With the last experience, Li Xinran and the others were a little worried, for fear of encountering any bandits again, but this trip was unexpectedly smooth, perhaps because the road was not easy to walk, and even the bandits were too lazy to come out.

When Li Xinran and the others entered Hangzhou City, it was drizzling again, but fortunately, there was not much water in the city, so they would be able to wet their shoes.

The carriage slowly walked towards the house in the alley, and Koharu and Koaki lifted the curtain and looked out, feeling that everything was fresh.

The carriage stopped outside the house, and Koharu couldn't wait to jump out of the carriage and asked, "Miss, is this it?" Are we in our new home? ”

Li Xinran nodded, "Yes!" It's home. After saying that, without waiting for Koharu to help her, she jumped out of the carriage by herself, tiptoed, carefully avoiding the puddle in front of the door and walked towards the door.

"Sister Nianqiao! I'm back! ”

As soon as he finished shouting, Xiaochun immediately came over, "Miss, this kind of living slave can come, where do you need to call someone personally!" ”

After speaking, he shouted a few times at the top of his voice, "Sister Nianqiao!" ”

After a while, the door opened, Li Nianqiao stood at the door, looked at Li Xinran outside the door, and the three carriages behind her, and exclaimed: "Miss is back, is this to stay here for a long time?" ”

With that, he quickly opened the door wide and removed the threshold so that the carriages could enter.

The carriage drove in an orderly manner, Li Xinran pointed to his bedroom at Xiaochun and Xiaoqiu, and Xiaochun and Xiaoqiu were busy putting things away.

Li Nianqiao was about to step forward to help, but Li Xinran grabbed him, pointed to Li Ziming who was standing at the door, and said, "Sister Nianqiao, look at him, who is he?" ”

Looking at Li Ziming, who was standing tall, Li Nianqiao didn't recognize it for a while, but Li Ziming opened his mouth first, "Cousin Nianqiao!" ”

Li Nianqiao called out in surprise with uncertainty: "Cousin? ”

"Hmmm! Cousin suffered! ”

As soon as Li Ziming's words came out, Li Nianqiao suddenly burst into tears, and only called out again, "Cousin!" He choked up and couldn't say another word.

The few dart masters who came with them in the dart game were the ones who sent Li Xinran and them back to Xitang last time, and they knew from the beginning that Li Ziming came to Xitang to pick up his cousin.

At this time, I saw Li Nianqiao standing by the door crying silently, helping to unload the things on the carriage and move them inside, while peeking curiously at this side.

Li Xinran picked up Li Nianqiao and said, "Sister Nianqiao, let's go to your room and talk, there are a lot of people here." ”

Li Nianqiao quickly wiped her tears and nodded: "Yes!" Right! Right! When he went inside, he said, "Look at me, I was so happy that I forgot to call my cousin in and talk." ”

Li Xinran accompanied the two to Li Nianqiao's hut and sat for a while, and from time to time Xiaochun came from the yard, "Where to put this?" "How's that going?" Li Nianqiao's wing room is facing the place where people come and go, Li Xinran said: "Then I'll go to the house first, and your cousins and sisters will talk first!" ”

Li Ziming also found that Li Nianqiao's hut was very transparent, they were sitting here, and everyone outside could see it clearly, and they couldn't talk about lonely men and widows living in the same room, so they nodded and agreed.

He had a lot to ask his cousin, so he nodded in agreement.

As soon as Li Xinran left, Li Ziming asked, "Cousin Nianqiao!" How did I hear the second lady say, you changed your name to Li Nianqiao, what happened? ”

Li Nianqiao wiped her tears, and tearfully told Li Ziming what happened to her, "Fortunately, Miss Li and the others came to the rescue, otherwise I would have fallen into the fire pit now." ”

Li Ziming looked at Li Nianqiao distressedly, "Uncle became addicted to smoking, sold his little cousins, and beat his aunt every day, how can you bear not to tell us about such a big thing?" ”

"My mother didn't think about telling my uncle at first, but during that time, my father beat us if he didn't understand, and sold his two younger sisters one after another, and my mother herself was caught off guard, and soon fell ill, and it was too late to ask someone to report the news, not to mention, our two families were so far away. In the days that followed, my mother was sick all the time, and my father also watched us closely, if it wasn't for my mother desperately trying to let me escape, I am afraid that I would have been sold by my father. When I escaped, I swore that I would never be a member of the king's house when I left the king's door. ”

"Hey!" Li Ziming exhaled deeply, "Cousin Nianqiao, since I have found you, you can go home with me, and I will not shorten you if Xue'er has it in the future." ”

Li Nianqiao didn't agree immediately, but asked: "When I went to look for you, I heard from the people in the village that my uncle and aunt had passed away one after another, and you sold the little land in your family and left the village. ”

Li Ziming nodded, "The dart bureau has vacated a small courtyard for our brothers and sisters, and we are now living in the dart bureau." ”

"Cousin, I'm very happy that you can find me, but I can also support myself now by helping Miss guard this house, Cousin Xue'er is still young, Cousin Ziliang is not big now, and he can't do much work, the two younger brothers and sisters are dependent on you to support each other, it is not easy for you, if I go to Xitang with you now, I can't find a suitable job for a while, wouldn't it add to your burden in vain? So it's good that we can recognize each other. ”

Li Ziming hesitated, looked around the courtyard again, and said: "Okay, it's really not too convenient for me to go over now, you come with me, I'm afraid I can't even give you such a separate hut, but, later, let's see if the second miss needs you here, if you are not needed here, let's not make trouble for the second miss, I have found you, you are not homeless, when the time comes, it is better to go to the dart game with me, if you can't find a job, just look for it slowly." ”

Who knows, Li Ziming's words happened to be heard by Li Xinran, who turned back, and Li Xinran joked: "Okay, you big brother Ming, Sister Nianqiao has done a good job with me, and as soon as you come, you will ask her not to do it here with me?" If she goes back to Xitang with you this time, we won't even be able to eat now, do you expect my two maids to cook? I'm thankful they didn't order the kitchen for me. ”

Of course, Li Ziming heard the meaning of Li Xinran's joke, but he was still a little embarrassed when he was caught red-handed, and scratched the back of his head, "Second Miss, I didn't mean that!" ”

"Okay, no need to explain, your cousins and sisters just recognize each other, Sister Nianqiao is doing a good job with me, don't take her away, I still want to learn kung fu from Sister Xue'er, this time I'm back here, only my sister can learn from her."

"Second Miss is serious about learning kung fu?"