Lu Baichuan nodded and said, "Yes, but they went to the east, and they met on the road before." ”

Qian Xiao gasped, and suddenly realized that he had been deceived, and his anger suddenly came up: "You kid fooled this palace!" ”

"Believe it or not," Lu Baichuan took two steps back and continued, "By the way, my wife is a doctor, and when she saw that you were weak, she said that she could help you with treatment, as long as she could afford the treatment fee, she would help you recover." ”

"! Where are the charlatans! What a bad luck! ”

Qian Xiao was so angry that he drove people away, he thought that Lu Baichuan could say something important, and he did not hesitate to offend the Lin family, but the result was that he was fooled, and he was really angry.

He had just dealt with this matter in court, and it was no longer easy to retry it, and the traces were too obvious and easy to be investigated.

In other words, he could only suffer this stuffy loss, and he had to go to Master Lin to explain and apologize afterwards, which caused him a big trouble for some reason.

Jiang Jiuniang and Gou'er left with the Miao family, and at this time, the Miao family was grateful to her and wanted to invite them to live at home, but Jiang Jiuniang refused, saying that she still liked to live in the inn.

"Sister Jiang, what did Brother Lu say to the prefect just now, I see that his attitude has changed in an instant, will this cause you any trouble?"

Miao Lanlan is a smart person, she noticed the change in the prefect, she was worried that Lu Baichuan would threaten the prefect with something, and it would not be good to be retaliated against afterwards.

Jiang Jiuniang waved her hand and said: "It's not a big deal, I just saw that the prefect was not in good health, so I asked my husband to tell him that he was willing to help him see a doctor, and he naturally had a choice." ”

Of course, Jiang Jiuniang knew that Lu Baichuan would not just talk about curing diseases, but that was all the Miao family could know.

"Is the prefect sick?"

Miao Lanlan was very curious, they just glanced at it from a distance, Jiang Jiuniang could see that the prefect was sick, this is too powerful!

"Of course there is, you see that he doesn't even have the strength to speak, that's a degree of weakness, if he doesn't treat it, it is estimated that he won't be alive for a few years."

"So serious!"

The Miao family was shocked, Jiang Jiuniang nodded, this is the end of being young and not knowing how to converge.

Everyone returned to the Miao family's stall, Miao Shan scratched his head and said, "Daddy, I'm going to continue to set up a stall, I'm still busy at this time." ”

From start to finish, his mood swings are not very large, he is a person with a lot of self-control.

But there are no mood swings, it doesn't mean that he won't be sad in his heart, after all, he is the wife he chose, and he has lived together for so many years, and he has two sons.

In the future, without a wife, he will have to take care of the two children alone, and he will have to watch this small stall, and life will become very difficult, but he will not regret today's decision.

The daughter-in-law's problem is too big, and it has directly affected the two children, both of whom are seven or eight years old, but they never help at the stall, because the daughter-in-law said that the son is the treasure of the family, and she can't follow them to do these menial work.

In the past, their daughter-in-law was in charge of their small family, and he would do whatever the daughter-in-law said, but now that there is no daughter-in-law, he has to educate the children according to his own ideas.

Just like his father and mother taught him when he was a child, the children of the poor are in charge of the family early, and they have the ability to settle down and make a living, and they will not be sad when they grow up in the future.

The Miao family's parents wanted to comfort him, but they didn't know what to say, so they could only nod and let him get busy first.

After Miao Shan left, they said to Miao Lanlan again: "Your eldest brother has hit him hard this time, you can help him more in the future, and the Liu family will definitely come back to make trouble in the future, you have a lot of eyes, don't tell her the recipe of the soup base." ”

She has long known that Liu is unreliable, so she has never told Liu the recipe of the soup base for so many years.

The son listened to Liu's in other places, but he also knew the importance of the formula in his heart, and he didn't say anything about it, so they weren't afraid that Liu's family would take the Liu family to rob their business after he left.

"I know my mother, don't worry."

Miao Lanlan nodded, and instead pulled Jiang Jiuniang to sit down at the table.

As a result, as soon as I sat down, I heard Miao's mother scolding again, and after listening carefully, I realized that when they were not there, all the food in the stall was stolen, and then it was sloppy, and the stall was completely destroyed.

Miao's father comforted beside him: "Forget it, I can only consider myself unlucky when I encounter this kind of thing, since I can't go out of the stall, go back, there are still distinguished guests tonight!" ”

Jiang Jiuniang was a little curious: "Why don't you check who stole it?" ”

It feels like they're just scolding and scolding, but they don't intend to catch the thief, which seems to be the norm.

Miao Lanlan explained: "It's useless, it's the children around who did it." ”

As she spoke, she casually pointed to a group of dirty children on the corner of the street.

They were black from head to toe, their hair was messy, and they looked very thin, the oldest one was eight or nine years old, and the youngest was only three or four years old.

"Are these all little beggars?"

Miao Lanlan shook her head: "It's not a beggar, but it's more of a headache than a beggar." ”

Seeing that Jiang Jiuniang was really curious, Miao Lanlan simply helped her parents clean up the stall while telling Jiang Jiuniang about these children in the city.

These children are not beggars, but children of the people of the city, and they are so young and pitiful on the streets, but they do it on purpose.

Because the whole family, young and old, depends on them for their sustenance.

The roads in this place are rugged, the land is small, but the population is very large, each family is allocated very little land, and the family population is large, and it is impossible to survive farming.

There are coal mines in the mountains, which are outsourced by the government to the wealthy merchants in the city to be responsible for mining, and the government is paid taxes and coal on time.

The merchants were heavy on profits, and they were unwilling to pay their wages, so they let their slaves go to the mines, and they only needed to provide food.

The people had no chance to make money, so they thought of other ways, giving birth to babies, letting children go to the mountains to steal coal, and stealing money and food on the street was enough to feed the whole family.

The child is very young, even if he is caught stealing, the other party will not be ruthless, at most he will scold a few words, and it will not delay them to continue stealing next time.

This has led to children becoming more and more rampant, and they dare to steal like this in the daytime.

Jiang Jiuniang was surprised: "Does the government care?" ”

Miao Lanlan shook her head: "There's no way to take care of it, even the government acquiesces, because the coal and food stolen by those children are not from the government." If they are not allowed to steal, they will need help from the government if they cannot survive, and the government will turn a blind eye to these things in order not to take responsibility. ”

Speaking of this, Miao Lanlan sighed and continued: "It's okay in the early years, the gap between the rich and the poor is not very big, there are many people who are willing to spend money to eat powder, and we can also make money, but now the rich are getting richer and richer, but the poor are getting poorer and poorer, and there are fewer and fewer people eating powder." ”