Da Niu looked at Lin Xiaozhu, but he didn't care much, and followed Liu Erye to set up the old man left and right.

"Two uncles, please come with me." Lin Xiaozhu gratefully led the way.

Following Lin Xiaozhu through the two alleys and walking to the big banyan tree, the expression on Da Niu's face became more and more surprised, and he asked, "Little girl, where do you live?" ”

"It's not." Lin Xiaozhu said what he had said to Second Master Liu again.

Da Niu had a strange look on his face. looked at Lin Xiaozhu carefully, and then looked at the old man he was supporting, his eyes flashed, and he didn't speak. When Lin Xiaozhu walked to the front of the courtyard and pushed the door in, he finally couldn't help it, and asked again, "Is this your relative's house?" ”

"yes!" Lin Xiaozhu saw the strangeness of Da Niu, and remembered that the last time he came, he heard the old woman say that her son Da Niu had gone to the market, and he understood a little. After she answered, she looked back at the door with some trepidation, and began to hesitate and be unsure, "It should be." My grandfather said that there was a big banyan tree on the left side of the gate and a small river on the right. I guess that's right. ”

"It's been uninhabited for eight years." Da Niu pointed in the direction of the banyan tree and explained, "Our family lives over there. I heard from my father that there used to be a rich family living here. But later, the government came to search, saying that they had committed a big crime, and the whole family was arrested and put in prison, and they were all beheaded in the autumn of that year. ”

"Huh?" Lin Xiaozhu screamed. Seeing that Da Niu and Second Master Liu both turned their heads to look at her, she quickly reached out to cover her mouth, revealing her big panicked eyes, "I...... My grandfather said that the one who lives here is my grandmother's distant cousin...... "The relationship is far away, no one comes to arrest him and go to the Zhulian Nine Clans, right?"

Da Niu looked at the nervous Lin Xiaozhu, laughed, and said, "It's okay." Eight years ago, we have changed several county orders here. You're just a distant relative of this family, it's okay, it's okay. If we don't talk about it, no one knows. ”

At this time, the three of them had already walked through the courtyard and walked to the wing, Lin Xiaozhu hesitated for a moment and pushed open the door. The two men looked at the bare bed board inside, stunned for a moment, but still helped the old man to the bed and let him lie down. Fortunately, Lin Xiaozhu wiped the bed, table, and bench before leaving, otherwise he wouldn't be able to lie down at all.

Da Niu looked around the house and said with emotion: "At that time, the government wanted to sell it here, so I cleaned up all the things in the house, and only kept this little thing." As a result, everyone was unlucky, no one bought it, and the yard has been so deserted. ”

"Where's your grandfather?" Second Master Liu asked Lin Xiaozhu in a deep voice.

"Dead." Lin Xiaozhu lowered his eyes.

"And what are you going to do in the future?"

"I ......," Lin Xiaozhu thought for a while, "I also have a distant cousin, and I want to find her." Stay here for a few days and I'll go. "This place, she certainly can't come often. Ask her what she wanted to know, and she wouldn't be able to show up here.

"It's fine. With this old man here, you won't be afraid. Second Master Liu nodded, "I still have some spare bedding at home, I'll ask someone to bring it to you later." ”

"Thank you, Second Master Liu." Lin Xiaozhu said gratefully. In this world, there are still many good people.

The two men stopped talking, stretched out their heads to look at the courtyard they entered, saw the barrenness of the courtyard, sighed, and followed each other out of the courtyard gate.

Lin Xiaozhu looked at the old man on the bed, saw that he was sleeping fragrantly, and looked at his face with affection. After a while, he went out the door and looked at the well in the courtyard. When the old man wakes up after a while, he will definitely be thirsty, and the water in this well has been left for a long time, and it is estimated that he will not be able to drink it.

She found the kitchen, pushed the door open and looked inside, but there was nothing but a stove and a table. She sighed, touched the copper coin in her arms, and wondered if she should buy two bowls, go to the neighbor's house to get water, and buy some food for the old man.

Time is of the essence and cannot be delayed. She was about to go out, and she met Liu Erye with two servants, holding a bunch of things in her hands, and was coming this way. She hurried up to help with her things.

After entering the room, Liu Erye sent two servants to make the bed and settle the old man, and he put the things in his hand on the table, opened it and said, "You don't have any pots or bowls here, I brought you something to eat." But it was two bowls of rice, a bowl of vegetables, two pairs of chopsticks, and a clay pot of water.

"Second Master Liu, I really don't know how to thank you." Lin Xiaozhu looked at these things and was greatly moved. When we meet in Pingshui, this Second Master Liu can help people like this, he is really a good person with a good heart.

Second Master Liu waved his hand: "If you meet it, if you have the ability, you can help it." After saying that, he arched his hand, "Then we'll go." ”

Sending Second Master Liu out of the door, Lin Xiaozhu buttoned the food with a bowl and put it next to the bed with the kettle, and didn't dare to delay any longer, took his clothes, ran to another room to set them up, and quickly went down from the dry well. Back at the villa, it was time for dinner. When Su Xiaoshu saw her, she complained for a while. Lin Xiaozhu made a reason and prevaricated.

In these two times, the people in the villa did not move, as if they did not know. Lin Xiaozhu's heart was much more settled. Worried about the old man, he went to the yard again the next day.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I heard a murmuring voice in the outer courtyard: "Here and here, here and here, you have to wipe it here." If you are pumping water, move a little faster. It was the old man's voice. And in the outer courtyard, there seem to be many people busy.

Lin Xiaozhu was stunned for a moment, looked at the half-collapsed wall, lifted his skirt and flipped out, and slowly went around the root of the wall to the main entrance. The gate was wide open, and there were two men cleaning the yard. Seeing Lin Xiaozhu coming in, the two only looked up, and then they were busy there without even asking.

Lin Xiaozhu looked at the two men for a while, and then went directly into the hall, only to see the old man standing in the middle of the room, commanding the two people in the room with a red face, and kept shouting: "...... here and here" Seeing Lin Xiaozhu in a blink of an eye, he looked her up and down, and laughed: "You are the little girl who picked me up?" ”

Is this a Shenma situation? Lin Xiaozhu blinked his eyes and nodded subconsciously. The old man's unbridled personality did not resemble her gentle, temperamental grandfather.

Seeing Lin Xiaozhu nodding, the old man was extremely happy, pulled her sleeve and said, "Come on, come on, take a look, look at it, how did I clean up our home?" ”

Lin Xiaozhu followed him to the second courtyard, and the corners of his mouth twitched. The doors and windows were spotlessly clean, and the weeds in the yard were cleaned. At the well in the courtyard, there were two men drawing water from the well.

But...... Looking at the two men who ignored them just now, and the way these people dressed and behaved, they didn't look like subordinates, but like those who worked as short-term workers in the town. Lin Xiaozhu turned his head and looked the old man up and down, seeing that the gray robe he wore yesterday was gone, and he was only wearing a set of cyan shirts, and couldn't help asking, "What about the clothes on your body?" ”

The old man waved his hand nonchalantly: "It's done." ”

Lin Xiaozhu choked, and he didn't care about being polite or impolite, he pointed to the yard with a trembling finger and shouted: "When you get the money, you hire someone to clean up the yard?" ”

"yes!" The old man was very dissatisfied and said, "My robe, those little rabbit cubs lied to me, saying that it cost five thousand taels of silver. As a result, Lao Tzu took it to the pawnshop, and it was only a hundred taels. Grandma's, I'm going to have to clean up after them when I go back. ”

"......" Lin Xiaozhu was speechless. It seems that this old man has no idea about the suffering of the people. He didn't know the pawnshop trick of "rats eat insects and bite, and the bare board has no hair". Moreover, what kind of clothes are worth 5,000 taels? When she saw the robe yesterday, there was not even any embroidery, and it was not much different from the silk and satin material she had seen in her previous life.

"You paid back the money in the tavern?" Lin Xiaozhu asked again.

"Well, that is. Uncle, if I cheat and cheat, I have to be laughed at. Not only did I pay it back, but I also had another meal in that tavern in the morning. The old man waved his hand heroically.

"And how much silver do you have left?" Lin Xiaozhu asked suspiciously.

The old man took out a few pieces of broken silver in his arms, squinted his eyes and looked at it: "This...... It seems that there are twenty taels left. ”

Lin Xiaozhu looked at the sky speechlessly. She sold her whole life in exchange for two hundred and fifty copper coins. But this master, with only half a day's effort, can spend eighty taels of silver on two meals and a few part-time workers to clean the house!

What kind of world is this?

Forget it, no matter. She couldn't handle it either. This lord is definitely a rich and powerful lord. Looking at it like this, it may be better than Yuan Tianye.

Hey, that's not right! She turned her head and looked at the old man: "What are you cleaning the house for?" You're going to stay here for a long time? ”