Two muddy tile houses, covered with thatch, leaned against the foot of the hill to the west, and this was the house of the widow of the king.

Xu has not been repaired for many years, and the walls are a little peeling, and the old yellow mud is overflowing.

The widow sat in the open space in front of the door washing clothes, rubbing them on the washboard, and in the cold winter weather, her sleeves reached her elbows, and she was still sweating profusely.

The two-year-old child next to him squatted on the ground and played by himself, taking a short dead branch and not knowing what to poke on the ground.

"Gui Zhi, Gui Zhi, you don't necessarily have to send me a glass of water for most of the day, where did you die, you want to die of thirst for my old wife." There was an old and weak cry from the house, and finally he began to cry and grab the ground, "You are a young man, I just think the old woman is dragging you down, delaying you to find your next home......"

The widow put up with it, threw away the clothes in her hand and ran into the house, and soon the old woman came out in the midst of scolding, and just took a breath, she heard a shocking cry from the child.

Widow Wang hurriedly ran over to help the child up, looking at the blood flowing from the broken skin on the child's hands, her eyes were also red, leaving two lines of tears, holding the child and crying sadly.

Lu Anran and Yunqi were standing outside the fence wall, and it was not good to choose this time to go in.

The two of them saw the scene just now, and Yun Qi said: "A woman has to support her family and take care of her work at home and abroad, with a paralyzed mother-in-law who does not distinguish between right and wrong, and a two-year-old child who is waiting to be fed, and life is difficult." ”

At this time, the widow Wang probably had enough venting, wiped her son's tears and snot, found an old wooden toy and threw it to him, and sat down to do the laundry.

Yunqi held the hand of the fan and pointed to the widow Wang, "How old is she this year?" ”

Lu Anran said: "It has not passed the double decade. ”

Yun Qi turned the soles of his feet and took half a step forward, "A woman like her, not to mention how the royal capital is, even if she is a rich daughter of Mengdu's age, she is still in the spring/love of small feelings, she doesn't know firewood and rice, she only reads Fengyue." ”

But the widow has already taken up the responsibility of the whole family with her weak shoulders, and even if she occasionally breaks down and suffers from it, after wiping away her tears, she still lives such a difficult life day after day.

Lu Anran lowered her eyes, she knew that the world was difficult, and it was even more difficult as a woman, her long eyelashes covered the emotions in her eyes, but the words she said were: "Life is like this, there is no fairness at all." ”

When the widow regained her composure, the two walked in as if nothing happened, and the widow was full of surprise.

"This ...... It was windy outside, and the house was sitting. Widow Wang stood up, wiped the water on her body, and hurriedly said: "My family is not comparable to the village chief's house, the house is simple, lest I snub Yun Gongzi and Miss Lu." ”

Lu Anran's indifferent eyes fell on Widow Wang's face, the corners of her eyes were still slightly red, and her voice was thick, trying her best to hide her helplessness.

Lu Anran said in a consistent tone: "Your mother-in-law is not feeling well, and it is inconvenient for us to bother, so let's say a few words here." ”

Widow Wang remembered that Yun Gongzi, a foreign man, was there, and his mother-in-law was paralyzed and lying on the bed, so it was really not good to lead her to the house, so she wrung her hands and smiled uncomfortably: "Yes, yes, we countrymen don't understand these rules, but we have to be reminded by the girl." ”

Yun Qi smiled: "It's okay, it's us who bother you." ”

Widow Wang found a chair made of rattan and moved it to a sheltered place under the eaves, and specially took a clean cloth and carefully wiped it on the chair that was already dustless, and then pulled the corner of her clothes and said crampedly: "Yun Gongzi, Miss Lu, sit here and talk." ”

Seeing that the widow Wang was busy and was about to hurry to find something, Yunqi stretched out his hand and blocked her way with a fan, "We just walked here, come in and take a look, if you are busy going back and forth, it seems that we should not come." ”

Only then did she stop the widow's chaos, she moved the small bench to wash clothes and sat opposite the two, with an embarrassed smile on her face: "I was going to thank the son and the girl for the incident that night before, but I never found the opportunity, and I couldn't entertain them well when I came to my house, so I always felt uneasy in my heart." ”

Lu Anran asked very clearly: "Thank you for what we are doing?" ”

"I've heard that." Widow Wang's face turned pale, "Su Su ran out alone at night, called the ghost fell off the cliff, if I hadn't met two of them that night, maybe ...... Maybe it's a ghost. ”

Since he said this, it just saved Yunqi and Lu Anran from picking up the conversation, and Yunqi took the opportunity to say: "But how did I hear that it was the Jin family who turned into a ghost and harmed people, and the people who died were all the family members of Village Chief Yin, it has nothing to do with you." ”

The cold wind is like a yin wind, and when a gust of wind comes, Widow Wang shuddered, "Both of the Jin family are good people, and I don't believe it if I want to say that she harms others, but I can't say that she is resentful after being a ghost, and it is not necessary to lose her nature." ”

Lu Anran pinched his cold fingers, only to find that the stove had long been out of temperature, and at this moment there was cold air in his bones, and his body shrank slightly.

Yun Qi glanced at it and snorted lightly: "Squeamish." As he spoke, he felt something and shoved it into her hand.

Lu Anran frowned, what is wrong with this Yun Shizi, he likes to stuff people at every turn.

Merely......

Well?

This is warm, warm after holding.

In Lu Anran's puzzled gaze, Yun Qi said angrily: "I don't know the goods, Kunlun nephrite." ”

Lu Anran has only seen in ancient books that Kunlun nephrite jade is produced in the Tianshan Mountains, and it is very rare to wear a small piece to make it cool in summer and warm in winter.

"By the way, where did you just go?" Yunqi interrupted Lu Anran's plan to come back, and looked at Widow Wang, "Yin Tianming is pitiful, he lost his wife first, and now he lost his mother and daughter at the same time, and the worst thing in the world has hit him." ”

Widow Wang just saw the drama of 'Lang Qing and concubine' in her eyes, and she didn't know what to think of and felt a little lost and hurt, so she retracted her gaze at this time, her eyebrows showed a trace of indescribable looks, and she said for a moment: "He is very pitiful, such a good person has suffered repeatedly." ”

The jade in Lu Anran's hand was full of pure warmth, spreading outward along the lines of the palm, as if it had dispelled the coldness of her body in an instant, she lowered her eyelids and did not speak, but she seemed to accept this kindness from Yunqi by default.

When she came back to her senses, Widow Wang was talking about Yin Tianming, "When Tieqiu died, our orphans and widows took out their whole family belongings and barely managed to put together a thin coffin. But the helper doesn't talk about compensation, and even the last month's salary is lost.

I went to the county government to complain, but I was beaten and thrown on the street, and when I was desperate, I happened to meet Yin Tianming, who lent me a little money and helped me find a lawyer to write a pleading, and it took several twists and turns to get the salary I received. ”

Lu Anran: "So you looked for Yin Tianming in private, and Sister-in-law Tian would say that." ”

Widow Wang smiled bitterly: "A woman who has died of her husband is like a eunuch who takes off her pants after cutting off her offspring's roots, and she will cause discussion of right and wrong wherever she goes, let alone seeing other people's men alone." ”

She explained: "The so-called closing the door that day whispered, but I planned to pay back some of the money first, and by the way, I sent some sweet potatoes to show my gratitude. ”

After speaking, Widow Wang sighed: "With Yin Tianming's help, our family finally survived, but I didn't expect it to bring him trouble. ”

Lu Anran and Yunqi glanced at each other, Widow Wang and Wei had their own words, but they were pointing to different things, and said lightly: "Since you are innocent, you don't have to take care of yourself." ”

At this time, the widow Wang's child ran over with a little short leg, was tripped and almost fell at the feet of Yunqi, fortunately he reacted quickly and grabbed the child's back collar with one hand, and the child did not cry and actually opened his mouth and smiled, not afraid of life at all.

"Hey, tiger baby, you carefully collided with the nobleman." Widow Wang hurriedly pulled the child over and patted the snow on the child's body.

The tiger baby lined his name, with a round head and a tiger head, and his nose was red and snot, and he snorted, and he had fun with himself.

Lu Anran looked at the snot flowing out with an expressionless face, and after inhaling it three times, he took out a piece of sugar cake and gave it to the tiger baby.

Yunqi covered his lips with a fan and chuckled: "I don't see it, you are such a big person, you love to eat children's things." ”

Lu Anran finally didn't have to see the tiger baby eating snot, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and turned his head and said seriously: "Before going out, Chunmiao has to stuff me." ”

Yunqi didn't debunk the fact that she almost wiped out the plum blossom trees in people's homes for a few plum blossom cakes, and actually nodded and said, "Well, I can see that Chunmiao is indeed a greedy girl." ”

Lu Anran heard the connotation of Yunqi's words, and his face tightened, revealing a bit of unknown shame.

The tiger baby shrunk into the arms of the widow Wang and ate the sugar cake quietly, and the widow said with a smile: "The relationship between the two is really good." ”

Lu Anran's mouth opened, Yun Qi was one step faster than her, and said: "Speaking of which, I see that Yin Tianxiang and the Wei family are really in deep love, in the past two days, the Wei family has become ill because of longing, and they can't get up and collapse, and they are very pitiful." ”

Lu Anran glanced at Yunqi disagreeingly, this person made up nonsense when he opened his mouth, and there was no truth in it, but she knew Yunqi's intentions, so she didn't interrupt.

Sure enough, when Widow Wang heard Yin Tianxiang and Wei, her eyebrows gathered together, and her eyes were full of disgust, "Some people are used to doing some dough kung fu. ”

Yunqi faked a fake oh, as if he suddenly remembered that appearance, "Sister-in-law Tian said that the Wei family had a holiday with you, I don't know if it's true or not." ”

"Childe thinks I'm arranging her behind her back?" Widow Wang's hand stroking the tiger baby's head stopped, and said angrily: "Although I have no evidence, but that day, the village chief Yin's family was not allowed to secretly close the door, and it was the Wei family who deliberately wronged me and Yin Tianming. ”

"There's no reason for her to do that, right?"

"Wei and Jin are not compatible, as long as they can block Jin, Wei is very happy."

One person has one mouth, and what he says is very different.

Lu Anran asked the Buddha statue in Mrs. Yin's room again, and Widow Wang said that she did know that the Buddha statue was equipped with a mechanism at the base, and basically the whole village went to watch it at that time.

"On the night of Su Su's accident, everyone went to look for her, did you go with you?"

"I, I, and the two of you have also seen it, and I can't live without people in my house." Widow Wang's face was slightly unnatural, and her eyes avoided the two of them, "Mother-in-law needs to call when she is paralyzed in bed, and children can't do without it." ”

After all the questions were asked, the two got up and said goodbye.

The winter sun was above, and the warmth was weak, and a ray of light shone in the corner of the courtyard, refracting a bright light and falling into Lu Anran's eyes.

As soon as the footsteps stopped, Lu Anran pointed his finger and asked the widow Wang, "What is that?" ”