Chapter 467: Foreshadowing
The girl named Sun Yun'er had just reached Lu, three years younger than Wei Guangzu, and she was a girl who looked very strong.
Because she still had a wound on her forehead, Wei Guangzu, out of kindness, took her to another pharmacy across the street to bandage her, and offered to send Sun Yun'er home.
Sun Yun'er hesitated for a moment and nodded timidly.
Seeing this, Wei Guangzu became more and more loving, afraid that he would scare her, so he tried his best to make himself look kind and kind.
Sun Yun'er's home is in a narrow alley, one of the dilapidated courtyards.
The weather was hot, and there was an indescribable smell of rancid smell in the courtyard, and a few women were washing clothes in the courtyard with loud noises, and a few children were running around the yard with their bare butts.
Wei Guangzu had never been to such a place, and he couldn't believe that there was such a dirty and simple residence in the dignified imperial capital.
When the washerwomen saw an outsider coming in, they looked at them with the eyes of a thief, probably because Wei Guangzu was dressed richly, so they didn't dare to speak.
Sun Yun'er lowered her head in a panic, as if she was very afraid.
Wei Guangzu automatically understood such an expression as the difficulty of a young girl living in a group of wolf-like long-tongued women.
On the way, through conversation, Wei Guangzu knew that Sun Yun'er had no parents at a young age, and had been relying on her grandmother to wash clothes and do needlework to support her, and her grandmother was sick again years ago, and Sun Yun'er had to run around for both her livelihood and her grandmother's illness, and after learning about these, Wei Guangzu felt more and more pitiful for her.
The Sun family lived in a room smaller than a firewood house at the end of the courtyard, and when they raised the dilapidated door curtain, a long-lasting smell of bitter medicine rushed to their faces, causing Wei Guangzu to take half a step back.
Sun Yun'er's eyes turned red, she was a little embarrassed, a little ashamed, bit her lip, blessed, and whispered:
"It's Yun'er's bad, Yun'er's house is dirty, you shouldn't invite your son in, you should not go in. Thank you Gongzi for saving me today, Yun'er will definitely find a way to repay the money owed to Gongzi, and Gongzi's great kindness and great virtue Yun'er will probably not be able to repay it in this life, I just want to be able to repay Gongzi as a cow and a horse in the next life. ”
embarrassed the poor girl, Wei Guangzu couldn't bear it, and was a little ashamed, so he hurriedly put on a straight face and pretended to be angry:
"What did the girl say, the reason why I came here was that I was worried that the girl would be injured, and I was afraid that the girl would not be able to return home safely. Second, I am also worried about the girl's grandmother, and it is a fate to meet the girl at the door of the pharmacy today, so I should come over to see Grandmother Ling and see how her old man's illness is. ”
When his voice fell, Sun Yun'er's eyes turned even redder: "Grandma, she has been asleep for a few days, and she wakes up occasionally, delirious, and she doesn't know anyone at all, and she doesn't even recognize me." ”
Wei Guangzu's heart sank, he didn't expect that what he said would make the girl even more sad, and he didn't know how to comfort him, Sun Yun'er had already opened the curtain and walked in, and Wei Guangzu hurriedly followed her in.
The house is a simple one that Wei Guangzu has never seen, his firewood houses are more spacious than here, a square hut, a few steps to the end, on the left is an earthen kang, on which a dying old man sleeps, covered with a cloth sheet. Other than that, there was only a dilapidated dining table with a leg missing in the corner, and two benches. Many parts of the house are dilapidated, leaking wind on sunny days, rain in summer, and in winter, such a house is impossible to live in, and people will definitely freeze to death.
Fortunately, although the room was shabby, it was very clean, except for the smell of medicine, there was no peculiar smell at all, much better than the yard I had just passed.
As Wei Guangzu imagined, this is a hard-working girl.
Sun Yun'er bent down and wiped the clean bench with a handkerchief. Wei Guangzu was standing at the door, casually glancing over, but he was attracted by the graceful undulating lines from her neck to her chest when she bent over, and his heart slammed, his throat tightened, and he hurriedly looked away. At this time, Sun Yun'er had already raised her head and shyly asked Wei Guangzu to sit down.
Wei Guangzu was still an untrained young man, a little flustered, a little embarrassed, smiling wryly, and instead of approaching her to sit down, he walked to the earthen kang to visit Sun Yun'er's grandmother.
The old woman, with a gray face, skin like dry bark, and old age markings, looked like an overworked old man. Her eyes were closed, she had only breath out but not in, and she was very sick.
Wei Guangzu frowned, even if he was a layman, he could feel that even if this old man took medicine, he probably relied on medicine to hang his life, and he wouldn't live long. But he didn't dare to say it, for fear that Sun Yun'er would be sad. The ancestors and grandchildren who have always relied on each other, this old man should be the support in Sun Yun'er's heart, no matter how sick he is.
Thinking of this, he felt even more distressed.
The cloth sheet on the old man's body was clean, and the clothes he was wearing were clean, although patched.
Wei Guangzu sighed in his heart.
"Son, sit, Yun'er will boil medicine for grandma first." Sun Yun'er said hello, picked up the small stove in the corner and went out.
Wei Guangzu's eyes fell on a small worn-out basket by the kang, took out the unfinished embroidery work from it, and looked at it carefully, although it was not exquisite, but it was very chic, which was probably the source of the family's livelihood.
He turned around, opened the curtain and walked out, Sun Yun'er was squatting in the yard, fanning the stove with a broken fan, and the smoke from the fan choked her with tears, but she didn't dodge, focusing on boiling the medicine.
Wei Guangzu looked at her for a while and thought to himself, this is really a rare good girl.
He took a step towards her, and at that moment there was a sudden shrill laughter from another courtyard, presumably separated by a wall, accompanied by a greasy sentence that gave goosebumps to him:
"Lord Wang, I hate it! No! ”
"Little beauty, look where you're going!" The voice of the man with the urn was rough and hoarse, and the accent was not a local when he heard it, as if it was not the accent of Cangqiu Country.
Immediately after, there was another round of teasing.
This is a flirt between a man and a woman who is not serious.
Wei Guangzu frowned.
"Who's living next door?" He couldn't help but ask Sun Yun'er, who was still concentrating on boiling medicine.
Sun Yun'er shook her head blankly: "Yun'er doesn't know, Yun'er and grandma moved here a month ago, and it's cheaper than the original house." Because of her grandmother's illness, Yun'er still can't recognize all the neighbors, only knowing that there is a family of three living next door. Sometimes Yun'er can meet her mother when she goes out, and her mother is kind, but there are always people in and out of her house, especially when it is dark, there are always people visiting the door and often making noise. But the mother is very kind and not a bad person. ”
Wei Guangzu listened to the description in her words, and probably guessed what the family did, but he couldn't say this to a girl.
When leaving Sun's house, Wei Guangzu went out from the back door very close to Sun Yun'er's house, and went around the alley to the front street, and sure enough, he saw the family Sun Yun'er said, and there were two flower lanterns hanging at the door.
Wei Guangzu frowned.