Winter is long, but it's gone in a blink of an eye.

During the Chinese New Year, the Chunfeng Pavilion opposite is much more noisy than usual, some rich sons and gentlemen call friends and relatives, spend all day and wine, and hold a banquet from morning to night.

Du Ruo didn't go out much after listening to Aunt Ding's words, for fear that there would be too many drunkards on the road to provoke right and wrong, so he asked Xiaoguan to come to the house for the New Year.

When Xiao Guan faced a table of wine and food, he cried a lot, crying and eating at the same time.

Du Ruo felt that she was a little sad in her heart, but she didn't expect that people still had to be compared, and there was someone who was even worse than herself, so she immediately forgot about her unhappiness and comforted him with kind words.

"What are you crying about, isn't the food I cooked delicious?" She gave him the vegetables.

"It's delicious, it's delicious......

"Then you're still crying, is it because you're drinking spicy?"

"No Woo ......"

"Your sister must not have time to take care of you in the Spring Breeze Pavilion, she didn't spend the New Year with you, are you sad?"

"It's not ...... Woowoo woo ......"

"So what the hell is wrong with you?"

"I miss my mom and dad...... But my father and mother are dead......"

Du Ruo sighed, "It's pitiful, then you and your sister are left to rely on each other, don't cry, eat more, if you want to come here to eat in the future, just follow me to work, it just so happens that I am ready to recruit people next year." ”

"Thank you, Sister Du!" Xiao Guan wiped his nose and tears, and then gnawed on the chicken leg in his hand.

"You and your sister...... Since you two relatives depend on each other, why is she not good to you? and always scolds you. Du Ruo was puzzled, Guan Shuangshuang seemed to have never cared about her younger brother.

Xiaoguan choked for a long time before calming down, put the chicken bones aside, thought about it and said to her: "When my father and mother were alive, the family was also very poor, and then I couldn't go on, so my father and mother sold my sister, and the silver sold lasted for more than half a year, my mother was sick, my father was also sick, and I didn't get through, and the two of them called me to find my sister before they died, and my sister refused to pay attention to me......"

"......", Du Ruo was surprised.

The parents were so ruthless that they sold their own daughter into the Qinglou, and they sold their daughters but not their children, if it was themselves, they probably wouldn't have bothered with him......

No wonder Shuangshuang's disgusted attitude towards him.

"So you've been begging for a living?" Du Ruo asked him.

"My sister ignores me, and I don't know what to do...... In fact, when I was a child, I had a very good relationship with my sister, and she probably hated my father and mother, and she hated me too...... I want to redeem my sister from the Spring Breeze Pavilion, and I don't know when I will be able to save enough money......"

"Have you ever seen a beggar become rich?" Du Ruo was speechless again.

Xiao Guan stopped talking and stared at a table of food in a daze.

Du Ruo hurriedly said: "Don't think about it so much, you haven't eaten much on weekdays, let's eat first, I'll live here after eating, I can't watch you live on the streets during the New Year." ”

"Thank you, Sister Du! You treat me better than my own sister! He devoured it again.

Du Ruo: "......"

Although there are few people in the family, it is also full of New Year's flavor, the street is bustling during the day, and the Chunfeng Pavilion opposite is even more orchestral.

Du Ruo should have opened up all the rules. also sent some melons and fruits and fried pasta to the Ding family and the Liu family, after all, there are not many people she knows in this city.

On the second day of the new year, she found a carriage out of the city and went to Gunan Town to burn paper money for the deceased people of the Meng family.

After the fire, Yunshui Xiuzhuang was ruined, full of desolation, after the government closed the case, there should be no idlers here, after all, so many people were burned.

She stood in the dust and muttered for a long time before getting into the carriage and leaving.

During the Chinese New Year, Su Mingyang and his mother went home, and when they entered the city next year, he also brought some sauce meat and fruits to her.

"A few days after going home for the New Year, you seem to have gained some weight!" Du Ruo said to him.

"My mother cooks a lot of food every day, fills a table, and always urges people to eat......" Su Mingyang smiled embarrassedly, and remembered that he shouldn't have said these words in front of Du Ruo, so he stopped talking.

"I don't know how you're doing alone?" After a while, Su Mingyang asked with concern.

"I spent the New Year with Xiaoguan, and I went to Houtouding's house and Liu's house for a meal, and it was very lively!"

She turned her head to glance at the small tube that brought a basin of water to wipe the table, he had been running to work for her lately.

Su Mingyang nodded, "That's fine, I'm afraid that sister, you will feel miserable and miserable alone, and you want to come two days early, but my father and mother don't allow it, and there are many relatives in the family, so I have to greet you every day." ”

Du Ruo smiled, "You are an adult now, and your father and mother are proud of you, so they naturally want you to stay at home for a few more days." ”

He said seriously: "I went to the school today, and my husband said that this year's homework is busier than last year, and maybe I will come to my sister less often in the future, and if my sister has anything, she will go to the school to find me." ”

"Okay, I'll have time to go to the school to see you."

"Sister, once you pick up a pen and draw, you don't remember to eat, you still have to pay attention to your body. I know you're working hard, but I can't help you now, you can take the little money I saved, and I can't use it for food and at home. ”

"Mingyang, you're too polite, you really don't need to, you have helped me a lot." Du Ruo hurriedly pushed out the silver he handed over, "Although Ercheng is a bastard and ignorant, he hasn't made you a friend in vain, and you always come to see me after entering the city." Presumably, he should come to me in a few days, and then I will call you, and the three of us will have a good meal. ”

"Good......" he bowed his head and put the silver away.

The early spring was warm and cold, but the weather was getting warmer a little bit.

I heard Aunt Ding say that Liu Yujiao's condition suddenly worsened again, and she couldn't even speak while lying in bed, let alone eat; I thought that she survived last winter, and her body gradually improved this year, but now it seems that she will not last long.

Du Ruo went to Liu's house many times in the winter before last year, talked and laughed with Yujiao, sometimes did needlework together, and specially painted a portrait for her. She also thought that Yujiao could be better, and when she heard that her condition was worsening, she bought some body supplements and sent them over to see.

Liu Changmao is getting older, his gray hair is even thinner, and he sits on the edge of the bed with his body bent, looking at his daughter who is dying on the bed, sad and sad.

Sending a white-haired person to a black-haired person is the saddest thing in the world, and no parent can bear to let their children leave them first.

The chill subsided and the wind warmed up. The willow tree sprouted, and the peach tree also bloomed, and Du Ruo specially picked it and sent it to her.

Aunt Ding has always been holding a silk in the corner of her eyes these days, she can't see the Liu family like that, but she runs every day to help cook and clean. Seeing Du Ruo crying as he spoke, he was very distressed.

"If Yujiao has a good one, what can her father do! When you're old, your body can't stand it! Aunt Ding said with red eyes.

The little tube leaned against the door, with a scarf around his waist, and looked at the occasional passer-by outside.

After the New Year, he almost became Du Ruo's buddy, and coming to Du Ruo was like entering his own home. The gas pipes didn't come over much.

Du Ruo saw that although he was lazy, he didn't shirk anything, so he let him stay.

"There is always an old man and a small one on the street holding a bamboo pole in their hands, the small one is holding the old one, the blind one is holding the blind one, asking for food everywhere, it is better for me and Uncle Liu to go to the street to beg when the time comes, others may be more pitiful when they see us like this, and they will give more money!" Xiaoguan turned his head and said to Aunt Ding.

Aunt Ding took a bite of him, "With us neighbors, he can't ask for food!" You little beggar has a bad heart! ”

"Does the Liu family have any relatives? is closer, maybe I can take Uncle Liu away to take care of him. Du Ruo thought for a while.

"None of his relatives are in the local area, but I have seen one of his nephews come to see him before, and I am happy to go to them." Aunt Ding said.

After a pause, Aunt Ding complained again: "I don't know what kind of evil I have created!" There was a flood outside the city, and the river rose so fast that the crops in the vicinity were flooded, and a village was flooded! It is said that a few people died, and the county government didn't care! ”

Du Ruo sighed.

Natural and man-made disasters are irresistible to manpower. Now the county magistrate Wu Dajiang is just waiting to be promoted and make a fortune, these may be just trivial matters in his eyes, and they will pass by covering it up.

After Aunt Ding went home, she rubbed her temples and sat on the chair for a long time without moving.

Xiao Guan began to wipe the table with a rag again, as if he was doing what Du Ruo seemed.

She's been preparing to open a ready-to-wear shop for a while, and now that it's warm, it's time.

Feng Ning was skillful, when she was in the embroidery village, Du Ruo told her that if she lived her life in the future, he would call her. There are also Ah Ying and Bao Die, they don't know what they are doing now, if they are willing, they will also call over, it may be a little hard at first.

Although everything was thought about, there was one more thing pressing on Du Ruo's heart.

She was worried that if the shop was opened in time, the relationship between her and the Song family would not be as clear as it was broken, and the Song family scoundrels, especially Song Jinhua, knew that she was not so miserable in the city, in case she came to fight or smash or rob, how should she deal with it?

Won't she have nothing left then?

There is also the matter of her household registration, which has been dragged, and there is far less money in her hand to solve this matter, and it is inconvenient to be restricted everywhere.

Du Ruo sighed for a long time, and Xiao Guan leaned on the table and sighed for a long time, and asked cautiously: "Sister Du, do you think I'm in the way?" ”

"What's wrong?"

"I'm afraid you'll bother me, I haven't done much work, I can't help but eat three meals a day, or I'll go and ask for food......"

"I'm idle, and sometimes it's like this, and I don't have much work for a day. But I do have something for you to do, you can help me make a wooden shelf, for hanging embroidery thread, I bought too much embroidery thread, several baskets are piled up, I am afraid of touching the hair. ”

"Okay!"

On the second day, Du Ruo went to Liu's house to visit Liu Yujiao, Liu Yujiao was lying there groggily, and Lang Zhong said that people could not stand for two days.

Aunt Ding couldn't cry, but Liu Changmao couldn't cry anymore when she was sad, holding her daughter's hand and calling her nickname all the time.