Bai Xiaofu and Qian Sanjin found the two older women who were sticking to this fragile home in name only, these two women had obviously been hungry for a long time, and one of the women who had been fat before was hungry and thin, and the skin on her body that was fatter than her current body had not had time to shrink, and it hung loosely on the prominent skeleton, but the two saw that Bai Xiaofu and Qian Sanjin were still trying to stand up, bowed deeply to the two people in front of them, and thanked them with a weak and persistent expression, When I bowed, my feet couldn't support my current body, and I trembled. Bai Xiaofu and Qian Sanjin saw that the two of them were about to bow, so they hurriedly stepped forward and hugged the two of them, and when they held the woman's hand, Bai Xiaofu actually felt that the hand bones seemed to break out of the skin, and Bai Xiaofu even felt that these hands were awkward.

From the mouths of the two, Bai Xiaofu learned that their family was a local grain merchant, because the grain business in the frontier had been wrong, and the family's life was also impressive, but no matter how good the war in the frontier was, they couldn't live a good life together, when they first started to recruit soldiers, their family spent money to keep their own men, and then in just one month, they conscripted several times, and finally the people of the government took away the men of this family mercilessly even if they took the silver. Also because their family disobeyed the conscription before and took away their family's food, and then their city continued to pour into a lot of homeless people, which made the young daughter-in-law and the people in the family panicked, when a granddaughter-in-law stole the family's silver and fled, the housewife of the family gathered all the daughters of the family, the old lady sent a message to let them want to leave the descendants each received five taels of silver, and the female dependents of the family each received fifty taels of silver and left, Even if you take your own children with you, you can give an extra ten taels of silver with one more child, but even so, there are still many children abandoned by their mothers in this endless dark place. Both of them have been in this house for half their lives, they don't want to leave this house, they can't bear their husbands and sons, they want to guard here, whether their men and sons are dead or alive, they have to guard for them, guard this home, and keep it until the day they come back. After hearing this, Bai Xiaofu couldn't help but respect the family.

This is Qian Sanjin asked: "Madam, we want to ask you who is the most authoritative person in this city?" Is there such a person? ”

Among the two ladies, the skinny one is the eldest lady of the big house, and the one who was originally fat but hungry and thin is the second lady of the second house, and then the eldest lady of the family said: "The old lady Li of the Li family is a person who speaks more weightily in this city, and there are people in this city who will ask this old lady Li for his opinion on everything at home." It's just that this old lady Li is now over the age of old, and I'm afraid it's not good to experience this scene. ”

Qian Sanjin still had his usual kind expression and continued: "That lady may take us to meet this old lady Li." ”

The lady in the second room said, "That's not a problem. As he spoke, he stood up, but his trembling body was not flexible.

This was the five-year-old boy in Bai Xiaofu's house who was standing on the side and brought Bai Xiaofu to the side, so he said worriedly to the woman who stood up: "Grandma, I know Mrs. Li's grandfather's house, and said that I will take them there, grandma, you can rest." As he spoke, he helped his grandmother to sit back on the soft couch.

The child's nickname was Tie Zhu, and his sister and the old lady in front of him gave him as much ration as possible, and he was the most energetic of them at this time.

Qian Sanjin and Bai Xiaofu followed Tiezhu to a large courtyard with three entrances, and Bai Xiaofu asked Tiezhu, "What does this old lady Li's house do?" ”

Tie Zhu was still just a child after all, frowning his little brow, thinking about it seriously, but he didn't expect anything good and shook his head.

Bai Xiaofu also felt that he couldn't ask a stinky child and couldn't ask anything, so he stopped asking, but Bai Xiaofu, who walked through the lobby and entered the courtyard, felt that the atmosphere was very weird, this house felt unpopular, which was different from the kind of lack of popularity when Bai Xiaofu just entered the city, the lack of popularity of this house made Bai Xiaofu have an illusion that this house had not been inhabited, which made Bai Xiaofu feel very uncomfortable, but he couldn't point out where the discomfort came from.

In the quiet courtyard, only the crisp children's voice of the iron pillar echoed: "Where are you, Grandpa Li?" Someone is looking for you. ”

There were a few unclear coughs in a small side room in the courtyard, and several people gave up the rooms that had not been checked one by one and entered this side room, this room was different from the room they had checked before, and there were traces of people living in it at a glance, and the old lady Li they were looking for was lying calmly on the bed, his eyes were closed, Bai Xiaofu took the kettle he carried with him and helped the old man's upper body and poured the still warm sugar water into the old man's mouth, and the old man had not eaten for a long time, This is the water that tasted the slight sweetness and swallowed it unconsciously, and fed the water to the old man, Bai Xiaofu flattened the body of the old lady Li again, Bai Xiaofu and Qian Sanjin were not in a hurry, just waiting for the old lady Li to wake up, and the old lady Li didn't let the two of them wait too long, and after a while, he opened his tired eyes, and said in a somewhat sharp and hoarse voice: "I'm still alive?!" ”

When Tie Zhu saw Mrs. Li who opened his eyes, he ran to the bedside, his eyes were a little red, and he said to Mrs. Li: "Grandpa, are you okay, I am Tie Zhu." ”

Old Lady Li turned her head to look at the iron pillar, stiffly pulled the corners of her wrinkled lips, and her voice was as thin as a mosquito sound: "It's an iron pillar." I wanted to reach out and touch the head of the little iron pillar, but I raised my hand upwards but couldn't do it, so I had to give up.

Xiao Tiezhu, who had been chatting with Mrs. Li for a while, remembered the matter this time, and said to Mrs. Li: "Grandpa, I brought these two people here, and they said that they had something to do with Grandpa Tai." ”

At this time, Mrs. Li noticed the two people standing behind the iron pillar, one fat and one thin, one tall and one short, one old and one young, one male and one female, looked at Bai Xiaofu and Qian Sanjin, and said calmly: "Who are the two of you?" Is there anything you want to do with me, old man? ”

Bai Xiaofu looked at Tie Zhu, smiled softly and said to Tie Zhu: "Tie Zhu, we have to talk to your grandfather alone, can you wait for us at the door first." After speaking, he lovingly touched the little head of the iron pillar.

Tie Zhu nodded obediently, and then opened the door and went out.

After Xiao Tiezhu went out, Bai Xiaofu and Qian Sanjin also planned to discuss the matter with Mrs. Li as it was.

Qian Sanjin said: "Don't hide it from Old Lady Li, we really have one thing to come to disturb Old Lady Li this time, and I hope that Old Lady Li will come forward to help." Saying that, Qian Sanjin and Bai Xiaofu gave Mrs. Li a salute.

Although Old Lady Li couldn't move his hungry hands anymore, his eyes had always remained clear, and when he saw Bai Xiaofu and Qian Sanjin saluting him, he just said lightly: "I'm just a bad old man who has half a foot in the loess and is about to die, and there is nothing that can help the two of you." After speaking, he gently pulled the corners of his mouth. The gentle expression of the strong support is a real refusal.

Qian Sanjin and Bai Xiaofu will not give up because of Old Lady Li's words. Qian Sanjin continued: "Old lady Li, we don't want to do anything bad. "In the face of an old man who may step into the coffin at any time and there is no threat, Qian Sanjin dared to give it all up.

"I won't tell you, presumably the old lady Li also knew about the loss of grain and grass two months ago, and we can only tell you now that this batch of grain and grass is now in our hands, which is also a mistake and coincidence for us, we now want to distribute these grains and grass to the homeless people who can't eat now, but this batch of grain and grass to our hands is not what we want, and we want to do this good thing now without exposing ourselves. So we need you, who is more dignified in everyone's hearts, to help us. ”

When Old Lady Li heard Qian Sanjin's words, her eyes lit up, and she frowned and said, "Can you take the liberty of asking, who are you doing things for?" ”

Hearing Mrs. Li's words, Qian Sanjin's face sank, "This is not willing to do anything with Mrs. Li." Old lady Li better not ask so much, so as not to get into trouble. ”

Old Lady Li just smiled a little self-deprecatingly, and then promised, "Okay, I promise to help you." ”

After that, Bai Xiaofu explained to him his future plans.

Bai Xiaofu took a step forward and smiled at Old Lady Li and said, "I forgot to introduce us just now." Pointing to Qian Sanjin and saying, "This is our shopkeeper's Qian Sanjin." And I'm just a small account room, my name is Bai Tingzhi. After speaking, he arched his hand to Old Lady Li, Old Lady Li nodded slightly, and Bai Xiaofu continued: "We plan to gather people from several other cities to Guan Khan City, and then distribute food together, we just want to ask Old Lady Li to help us stabilize people's hearts, and people from other cities will also arrange for them to stay, and we also want Old Lady Li to help us manage this aspect." After speaking, he smiled very politely at Mrs. Li.

After that, Bai Xiaofu and Qian Sanjin sought the consent of the family they live in now, and took Mrs. Li to the village, and Mrs. Li is also seventy years old, and now she has been starving for nearly two months, and it is impossible to recover quickly, and now they have only taken out some food for the family to nourish their bodies, fortunately, the Wu family they borrowed this time is also quite prestigious in Guanhan City, so with their help, things will be easier to deal with later.