Chi Xia let out a sigh, and saw that the people waiting outside were all hula and rushed up. before returning to his seat.

Bafujin didn't react at first, but when he came back to his senses, he could only promise with a smile on his face that he would open all day tomorrow to ensure that everyone could buy it, so that he could squeeze out the crowd.

Yinxiang reminded her: "But the eighth sister-in-law's memory is amazingly good, you had better appear in front of her less in the future." ”

"I don't go out in Yuhua Pavilion every day, even if it's a palace banquet...... I, I," Chi Xia was stuck halfway through her speech, she remembered her Mid-Autumn Palace banquet skills, and said helplessly: "I'm not going to make up." ”

The double eyelids are attached to the false eyelashes and the false nose bridge a little, and she is far away, and she doesn't believe that Bafujin can recognize it.

Even if she really felt familiar, she had no proof.

Yinxiang was also infected by her vitality, his mood was a little brighter, and he gave her a thumbs up: "The front is just your Zhuangzi." ”

Chi Xia said "oh": "Hurry back to the palace, the emperor has sent you urgently for eight hundred miles, and I don't have time to see Zhuangzi." ”

Yinxiang pointed to a little girl on the side of the road: "It's not for you to go to see Zhuangzi, I'm for you to see that person, like the little girl who gave you candy last time, what is Erya's name." ”

The sun was about to go down, and there were quite a lot of people in this part of Nancheng, and the child was dragged by a middle-aged man into the alley.

She kept struggling, but the man ignored her, slapped her to the ground, and continued to pick her up.

Chi Xia couldn't see the little girl being beaten like this, so Yinxiang asked people to go up and negotiate.

After a while, the guard led Erya back: "Lord Wang, that person is from Hualou, saying that this little girl was bought back to the building by him a few days earlier, and there is also a deed of sale, but this little girl is too strong, and she ran away and was caught by him, this time it was the second time she ran away, and he finally chased after her." I don't want it anymore. His subordinates bought it from him, and he added some money to sell it. ”

Chi Xia was stunned, this little girl looked like she was only seven or eight years old at most, and she was sold into the Qinglou? Are her parents crazy?

When Erya was brought by the guards, she kicked and beaten, and when she saw the "aunt" she had seen, her tears burst into tears: "Auntie, aunt, I want to go home!" Please save me! ”

Summer clothes were thin, Chi Xia caught her, and when she saw that she was disheveled, she found that she had no injuries all over her body except for her face, and everything else was bruised.

The most outrageous thing is that she didn't even wear a bottom, the clothes on her body were ridiculously big, and they didn't fit at all, I don't know who she picked up.

Chi Xia was shocked, as if he picked her up inadvertently, and before he could touch her underneath, she screamed in pain, and blood stains were printed from the hem of her clothes.

Yinxiang opened his eyes.

Chi Xia gritted her teeth, found a piece of clothing and wrapped her in another layer, and the chill rushed to the top of her head: "Your father and mother sold you into the Qinglou?" ”

Erya shook her head: "Daddy asked me to follow my grandmother and go to a big family to be a girl, I, I didn't want to leave them, so I ran away secretly." Mama beat me, saying that I was disobedient and could not be a good girl, and wanted to sell me again. ”

Chi Xia frowned.

Er Ya is very good at reading people's faces, and he doesn't know what happened to him.

Seeing that she was displeased, she timidly pulled her sleeve: "My father and mother are not bad people, they have no way to sell me, it's me who is not good, I shouldn't have run away without listening to my grandmother." ”

Yinxiang looked at her expression: "There are still two hours to go to the palace gate, and I have time to go to Zhuangzi." Hurry. ”

"We, we don't live in Zhuangzi, my mother and my aunt are sick, my aunt is dead, and they say that this disease may be passed on, so they won't let us rent land, and give us a house as compensation for us."

Erya pointed to the small bungalow not far away aggrievedly: "There." ”

Chi Xia nodded, hugged her directly to the place, pushed open the door and went in.

A pungent smell of medicine choked her on and coughed.

The old woman who was guarding the medicine jar and boiling the medicine was the grandmother they had seen before, peeling broad beans in the yard.

When the old woman saw Erya, she rubbed her eyes in disbelief: "Erya? ”

Erya also pounced: "Grandma, where is my mother?" What about my brother? ”

The old woman wiped a handful of tears: "Your mother still can't get up, your father went to find work, and Da Mao took Xiao Mao to dig wild vegetables." How did you get back? ”

Erya cried out with a "wow": "I, I ran out, my aunt saved me." Grandma, don't sell me, I can go to work, or I can dig wild vegetables. ”

The old woman's eyes couldn't see clearly, and when she heard her, she saw the vague figure of the person following behind, and she didn't know who the "aunt" the child was talking about, so she only knelt down and kowtowed with the child: "Miss is a living bodhisattva, please take this child with you, give her food, and let her be a girl." ”

Chi Xia shook her head: "She just wants to stay with her parents." ”

Erya also kept shaking her head: "Grandma, I eat very little, I'm not hungry, really." ”

This child can't see the innocent and cute bun face of a few months ago, his face is yellow and thin, his round eyes are bigger, and tears are falling down.

Chi Xia touched her face with mixed feelings.

"Is there a shortage of food at home?" She remembered that the male and female owners of the family were very cautious, and they were afraid that the yield of new rice would not be enough, and they would not be able to cope with the possible drought, so there should be food in stock.

The old woman put her arms around Erya: "Her mother is sick, someone came to collect grain a few days ago, and the price was high, and her father thought that the new grain was coming up soon, so he sold the excess." ”

Needless to say.

New wheat is coming up, but the price is ridiculously expensive.

Erya's mother probably heard the movement outside in bed, struggled to get out of bed, and walked to the door but did not dare to come out, for fear of infecting other people in the family.

Covering half of her face, she shouted to her daughter: "Erya, is it you?" ”

Erya limped but ran fast, ran in front of her and hugged her and cried: "Mother, don't sell me, I won't leave if I starve to death, I want to be with you." ”

"You child, it's better to be a girl than to starve," the woman cried, "Are you going to force your father to death?" ”

Chi Xia didn't know what she would do when she found out about her daughter's sin.

She couldn't stand it anymore, went back to the car and moved all the dry food, and asked Yinxiang in a low voice: "Your Highness...... Can you lend me some money? ”

It didn't seem like anyone's fault, but it bent everyone down.

Chi Xia's eyes were red, restrained and restrained, so that he didn't shed tears, but his voice was already crying.

Yinxiang clenched his hands and asked the guards to leave all the dry food and broken silver they had with them: "Get in the car and go back to the palace!" ”

In front of the palace gate, Prince Yi's car drove into the Forbidden City.

Yongzheng was already waiting at the door.