The little beggar who slept in the Zhang family next door, at this moment was also sleeping sweetly, in March, fleeing, drowsed, living in fear and hunger every day, and now he was finally able to eat and clothe himself, he only felt that there was no better place in the world than this. The hot and strange "earthen bed" under him made his dreams look like spring, full of flowers everywhere, and he was running and jumping happily...

Da Zhuang woke up from being kicked in his sleep, reached out to help him cover the quilt in a daze, and turned over to sleep...

Early in the morning of the second day, before the sky was bright, Zhang Dahe pushed open the wooden door, stepped on the half-foot snow that fell last night all the way into the courtyard of the Zhao family, first swept the road out with a big broom, and then entered the stove, and pushed up the grinding plate with a bang.

Rui Xue heard the movement in the house, so she also got up, put on cotton clothes, opened the door to see the appearance of the yard, and said with a smile when she entered the stove, "Brother Zhang, I've made you tired again, in the future, you just need to help make tofu, and don't do chores, otherwise I will always feel that I have treated you and my sister-in-law badly." ”

Zhang Dahe smiled innocently, and added half a scoop of beans and water to his eyes, "Don't say that, big sister, it's all small work, just do it." ”

Rui Xue scooped water and washed rice, remembered the little beggar, and asked, "That kid didn't make trouble last night, right?" ”

Zhang Dahe shook his head, "It's not troublesome, I just don't want to pay attention to people, Da Zhuang and Erzhuang shouldn't talk to him, but I sleep very soundly." ”

"That's good, wait for him to raise it for a few days, and let him do some chores."

Zhang Dahe wanted to say that the child looked delicate and delicate, not like a person who could do work, but the person was picked up by Ruixue, so naturally Ruixue had the final say, so he didn't say much.

After a while, the tofu was ready, pressed on the bluestone slab to control the water, Zhang Dahe went home to eat, Ruixue also filled the rice porridge and small pickles into the house, waited left and right but did not see the little beggar come back, so he found the Zhang family, and saw that he was facing Da Zhuang, staring at each other, the Zhang family and his wife stood aside with some embarrassment, and there was a crying three girls hiding behind the two, no need to think about it, I know, this is what happened.

Rui Xue also ignored the little beggar who was a little apprehensive because of her arrival, and said with a smile to the Zhang family couple, "Sister-in-law has cooked?" I also just brought it to the table, and I didn't see this kid go back, so I came to take a look. With that, she reached out and pulled out the three girls, held them in her arms, scratched her little nose and said, "What's the matter, Shiniang's good girl, her eyes are not beautiful when she cries and swollen, tell Shiniang, who bullied you, Shiniang will give you anger." ”

Sister-in-law Zhang stepped forward and pulled Rui Xue to sit on the chair, and said with a smile, "It's nothing, children are just playing together." ”

Yaya heard that her mother seemed to be partial to outsiders, and said aggrievedly loudly, "No, it was the little brother who bullied Yaya, Yaya said that he was more beautiful than the lotus sister in the front yard, so he pushed Yaya, Yaya's hand hurt so much." As she spoke, she raised her little hand that was a little scratched to show Rui Xue, her little face was wrinkled, and her big black grape-like eyes were full of tears, and she was as aggrieved as she wanted.

Rui Xue took a closer look, the child's skin was tender, the palms were slightly red and swollen, and there were even blood oozing out in a few places, so it didn't look like she had hurt her muscles and bones, so she blew a few breaths for her distressedly, and coaxed, "Yaya is really a strong and good child, my sister likes Yaya the most, I will make a good meal for Yaya as a reward today, and let your mother bring it back at night, okay?" ”

As soon as the little girl heard that there was good food, the tears in her big eyes were instantly retracted, and the grievances on her face were immediately replaced by longing, and she responded crisply, "Okay." ”

Sister-in-law Zhang was amused, stepped forward and pretended to be angry, "This greedy child is happy when he hears that there is good food." ”

Rui Xue smiled, "Children, how can there be people who don't like snacks, you eat first, I'll take the child back first, sister-in-law finished cleaning up, call me." ”

"Okay." Sister-in-law Zhang responded.

Rui Xue glanced at the little beggar and said lightly, "Let's go." ”

The little beggar's delicate face became more complicated, and he turned around to look at the girl who was stretching out her injured little hand, but she was smiling, and the annoyed Da Zhuang and Er Zhuang, lowered her eyes, and followed Rui Xue.

Zhao Fengnian had already finished washing and was waiting at the table, when he looked up and saw the two of them entering the door one after the other, their faces were a little bad, and they raised their eyebrows suspiciously, but they didn't ask.

"Shopkeeper, you can eat first." Rui Xue threw down a sentence, went into the back room, turned out a pen and paper, brushed and wrote most of the words, and then took it out together with pen and ink, pointed to the little beggar, and asked, "When I rescued you yesterday, I said that I wanted you to be a little servant, haven't you forgotten?" ”

The little beggar heard the word "little girl", and the hand hanging down at his side immediately clenched into a fist, and refused to make a sound.

Rui Xue sneered, "Why, I think I'm alive now, I want to admit it, that's okay, take off your new cotton clothes, put back your set of torn clothes, I don't want you to pay for the two bowls of custard last night, you can go." ”

The little beggar immediately raised his head and stared at Ruixue, as if he couldn't believe why the person who took care of him so much yesterday suddenly turned his face?

Rui Xue stretched out her hand and filled two bowls of porridge, handed one to Zhao Fengnian, and then ignored the little beggar, and drank it slowly, until half a bowl of japonica rice porridge was in her stomach, then she turned her head and said, "I don't care what your identity is, what kind of life you lived before, why you ended up here, I only know that our family's food is exchanged for hard work, and it is impossible to raise a person in vain." If you want to be fed, if you want to be warm, the first thing you have to do is to work. After speaking, she pointed to the note on the side of the table, "This is a three-year deed of sale, you sign it, press the handprint, you can sit down to eat, if you don't sign it, quickly take off your clothes and leave." ”

The little beggar's little face was as white as jade, as if it was about to drip blood, even if he was wandering around the city, starving to death, he had never begged from passers-by, he had never heard such cold words, and now he just felt saved, but he didn't expect to be insulted by a woman like this, it was really a tiger falling Pingyang was bullied by dogs, if he had put it in the past, he could have cut her into pieces of meat with a word, but it's a pity...

"Okay, I'll sign it." Three words, with indescribable resentment, spat out the mouth of the little beggar, he strode forward, took the brush to sign the name, and pressed the handprint.

Rui Xue picked up the note and looked at it, dried the ink and folded it, got up and put it in the house, and when she came out, she took a one-foot-long, two-finger-wide, polished ring ruler in her hand.

The little beggar was sitting at the table with resentment, waiting for dinner, but suddenly Rui Xue grabbed his right hand and knocked it twice.

The pain made him jump up all of a sudden, and the hatred in his heart couldn't hold back anymore, so he was about to step forward to beat Rui Xue, but Rui Xue didn't have the slightest fear on her face, and said calmly, "What, do you want to commit the next crime, and then be a fugitive slave and be chased by the government?" ”

Feudal official? The little beggar heard these two words, and stopped miraculously, those people must not believe that he is dead, he must be tracking his whereabouts everywhere, he can't expose his whereabouts, he hasn't found the general yet, he doesn't have the strength to take revenge, he must be patient and wait...

Seeing that he was stunned, Rui Xue smiled coldly, filled a large bowl of hot porridge, and stuffed it into his red and swollen right hand, which made the little beggar tremble in pain, almost knocking over the rice bowl, and also made him stare at her as resentful as if he wanted to eat people.

"You are wearing a new cotton coat made for your eldest son and ready to wear for the New Year, sleeping on someone's hot kang and covering it with someone's quilt, but because of an unintentional word, you reached out and pushed someone's three-year-old girl's hands to break, and your conscience was eaten by a dog? You can do such an ungrateful thing? Your hand is swollen, you know it hurts, Yaya's hand is bleeding, isn't it more painful than you? ”

Rui Xue questioned one by one, and the resentment in the eyes of the little beggar who smashed slowly weakened, but there was still a trace of stubbornness in the depths of his eyes.

Rui Xue pinched the ring ruler and tried her best to endure the idea of hitting you twice, "Even if people don't show you kindness, you, a twelve-year-old man, shouldn't just do it to a three-year-old girl, this is bullying the weak, not a man." Today is the first day you entered the Zhao family, and these two precepts are also the first lesson I taught you. ”

Zhao Fengnian saw that Rui Xue's dismount was almost done, coughed lightly, put down the bowl slowly, and said, "Okay, let's eat first, when his body is well, it's not too late to teach." ”

Rui Xue turned her head and glared at Zhao Fengnian with the little beggar on her back, Zhao Fengnian was amused in her heart, knowing that she was angry and ran out to pretend to be a good person, so she smiled faintly, got up and went into the house to pick up things, put on a scarf and gloves, and went out to the school.

Rui Xue sent him out of the gate, and then fished out two boiled eggs from the small pot on the kang in the west, and put them in front of the little beggar who bowed his head and drank porridge, "Eat the eggs, raise them at home for the past two days, and then go to the school in the morning to study, and work in the afternoon." ”

The little beggar refused to say anything, and Rui Xue didn't care, and continued to drink porridge with a bowl, when Zhang's sister-in-law shouted outside the courtyard, "Sister, let's go?" ”

Rui Xue quickly finished the rice porridge in a few bites, picked up the basket picked up by the door, and explained to the little beggar, "Pick up the table, clean the dishes and chopsticks, and put lunch in the pot. ”

After speaking, he opened the door, but suddenly remembered something, turned around and asked, "What's your name?" ”

No matter how angry the little beggar is, no matter how deep his hatred is, he can't help but raise his head and say when he hears Rui Xue ask, "Isn't it signed on the note?" ”

"Ah, I didn't see it clearly just now, your words are too sloppy, you have to practice more in the future."

The little beggar's beautiful little face instantly turned black like the bottom of a pot, and his words were praised even by the most famous climbing scholar in Wuguo, "like a swimming dragon, like a flying phoenix", but I didn't expect to be belittled by a peasant woman like this.

"Wu Yu, Wu Xuande."

"Why does that sound so weird." Ruixue raised her eyebrows, muttering that she finally got out of the courtyard gate, and soon disappeared behind the courtyard wall. Wu Yu breathed a long sigh of relief, the corner of his eye swept over the two eggs on the edge of the bowl, and he held his swollen and painful right hand, and his heart was indistinguishable from joy and anger for a while...