This winter has been exceptionally cold.

Gu Ning carried his bags and came to the slums of Mao County, and found an old beggar to exchange a tael of silver for a place to live, so that he didn't have much money on him. The small box left by my father couldn't hold too many silver ingots, and I counted dozens of taels of broken silver, and the most valuable one was a red pill, which nourished bones and produced blood, and was sold for four hundred taels of silver outside.

The surroundings were clean, Gu Ning put down his belongings, and looked at the four-walled residence, probably, he would have to live here for a long time in the future.

The most important thing is to recover from his injuries, the old beggar went out to eat and drink with the silver, and he was the only one left in the broken house, so he dared to take out the pill with confidence.

After taking the pill, a warmth gradually rose from the abdomen, and the hot wounds on his body didn't seem to be so painful, and after that, Gu Ning bought some ointment with broken silver and applied it to his body little by little.

The group of bastard officers and soldiers whipped him more than a dozen times, the leather whip was barbed, and every stroke cut the bloody hole, Gu Ning twitched in pain when he applied the ointment, and couldn't help but think to himself, if he changed to a son of another plane, he didn't blink his eyelids at this little injury, right?

"In the future, I will be myself, and the hard days will be far away." After applying the ointment, Gu Ning lay on the hard bed board and thought.

The roof of the broken house is missing a few tiles, and the beams are also dark and very old, as if they will collapse at any time, Gu Ning thought: Can this house survive the winter?

Some people say that this year is the coldest in the past ten years in Mao County.

Sure enough.

The old beggar died.

That night, Gu Ning was curled up in the quilt, covered with clothes, coats, straw and something, and the lack of tiles above his head was blocked with wooden boards, but even so, he still couldn't stop the howling cold wind. The paper window was broken, the cold wind raged like a beast, and after a while, Gu Ning's face was numb from the cold, and his body shrank in the quilt and shivered.

At this time, his injuries were not yet healed, and the old injuries were plus the frostbite from weekdays. There were basically not a few pieces of cotton in Gu Ning's cotton jacket, and the rags and some dried straw that were stuffed were stuffed, and the ability to keep warm was limited. Lying on the bed, Gu Ning couldn't sleep coldly, tossed and turned, and suddenly heard a moan, and sighed in his heart, it is estimated that the old beggar drank too much.

didn't want to get out of bed, and was reluctant to light candles when it was dark, Gu Ning didn't care. When he opened his eyes the next morning, the old beggar was gone, and when he went out of the house, he saw the other man lying next to an old jujube tree, and his trousers had not yet been lifted. Eighty percent of them peed and fell in the cold wind, and they didn't have the strength to get up after drinking too much wine.

Gu Ning squatted on the ground and looked at the old beggar, thinking that it was so simple for people to die.

The old beggar is in his fifties this year, and he has not communicated much with each other these days, only knowing that the other party is crazy, and his biggest hobby is alcohol.

It's not distressing to die, but I'll have to live alone in a broken house in the future.

"I didn't snort, I didn't feel very strong." Gu Ning muttered and buried the old beggar in the ground.

The days that followed did not get any lighter.

The medicinal effect of the Bone Nourishing and Blood Pill is gone, and the injuries on Gu Ning's body are already very serious, and it is no problem to recuperate after taking the pill, but this day is too cold, not to mention a lot of chilblains, he has not eaten hot food for two months. Gu Ning once bought the roast chicken he bought with a lot of bleeding, but he was snatched away by the fart boy in the slum halfway, leaving him with only a chicken butt.

With no source power and injuries in his body, Gu Ning could only watch the roast chicken fly away, and since then, he has only bought steamed buns and pickles. It would be really unreasonable for someone to grab these things again.

Tianli was really hurt.

Fortunately, there was no famine this year, the number of robberies was limited, and in general it was barely enough to fill the stomach, the problem was that the silver in his hand was getting less and less, this night, Gu Ning was lying on the bed, thinking that it was not a way to sit and eat empty, he had to make money.

Wrapped in a quilt in the cold wind, pondering over and over: one of the necessary routines for traversers, selling soap, fine salt, and fertilizer.

"To make soap, you need..."

Gu Ning was dumbfounded, he didn't remember at all. Why don't you listen to your teachers when you go to school?

I gave up all of this, and I could only work honestly.

In ancient times, the work was very limited, and it was basically based on farming, or going to a big family to be the head of the house, and carrying grain in the rice warehouse. These are all manual work, and Gu Ning is usually fine, but at this moment, the body has to rest for half a day to carry a bucket of water.

The silver decreased little by little, and his body deteriorated, and in the third month of this winter, Gu Ning used up all the silver.

Most bought herbs, ointments.

The doctor said, you are sick, you can't take medicine, you have to take pills.

Gu Ning's head is as big as a bucket, the pill is refined by the Dan Master, and the cheapest one has to be one or two silver, where did he get so much money. In this way, he was so hungry and dizzy that he was lying on the bed, he got up at the head of the bed and drank a bowl of cold water, his stomach hurt and he staggered when he walked.

"It seems that we can't survive this winter."

Gu Ning lay back on the bed, a little disheartened. After a while, I heard a crisp female voice outside:

"Old man, do you know where Young Master Gu lives?"

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and someone walked in, it should have stopped at the door for a long time without moving, and then, a crying voice sounded: "Young master, the master asked me to come to see you!" ”

Gu Ning felt familiar, looked sideways, and was a little surprised: "Die'er, why are you here." ”

In front of her was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, with a delicate face, a pair of big eyes with mist, pink lips pursed, and a look of tears.

"Master, he persuaded the Great Elder, and Die'er dared to come out to accompany you."

The girl named Die'er said: "Young master, don't blame the master, the old man has had a hard time these days, he was grounded by the great elder, I served by the master's side, I saw him sighing every day, thinking about you all the time." ”

"Father..."Gu Ning muttered, grinning, "How could I blame my father." ”

looked at Die'er, she was a maid in Gu's mansion, and she had been by Gu Ning's side since she was very young. I remember that the original owner bought it from a farmer's family, who couldn't stand the famine and didn't give Die'er food, so he sold her later.

The original owner was very good to Die'er, but Gu Ning liked to be calm and sent a few maids away, but he didn't expect that Die'er was willing to accompany him at this moment.

Die'er was very kind to Gu Ning, and as soon as she opened her mouth, her eyes turned red at the end: "Little Green and Little Red They are too bad, the master asked the three of us to come over, but they were unwilling, and they went to the Great Elder to complain, and in the end I had to come by myself." ”

Gu Ning smiled bitterly: "They definitely don't want to." I am a thorn in the side of the great elders, and it is not their sin to serve me well? ”

"I don't care, anyway, Die'er must raise the young master to be fat!" Die'er wanted to cry again when she said this, and looked at Gu Ning's thin arm: "Young master, how much suffering you have suffered." Butterfly couldn't accompany you..."

After saying that, she took out a cloth bag from her arms as if offering a treasure, and Die'er excitedly poked out the things inside: "Young master, there are three taels of silver here, the great elder said that he was not allowed to bring the silver over, and he searched his body, but fortunately, the money that Die'er had saved over the years was buried in the ground, and he dug it out and brought it over." ”

Die'er grinned, looking like she was waiting for Gu Ning's praise.

Gu Ning's nose was a little sour, three taels of silver was a lot for ordinary people, and it was estimated that Die'er had saved all the money she had saved by working in the Gu family until now.

"Why bother, if I were you, I would take the silver and fly away. To come to me is to oppose the Great Elder. Gu Ning shook his head.

Die'er pretended not to hear, took out a new padded jacket from her bag, and put it on for him. When she lifted the quilt and saw Gu Ning covered in chilblains and pus-stained whip marks, Die'er was stunned for a moment.

"They're so ruthless!" Die'er was angry and annoyed, and she was about to cry.

Gu Ning smiled somehow, "I haven't cried yet, why are you crying." You seem to have been crying since you were a child. ”

"No! Because it was the young master that you were beaten, I didn't cry if someone else's words. Butterfly rubbed her red and swollen eyes.

After that, Gu Ning put on a new cotton jacket, pure cotton, very warm. Next to it is Die'er cooking on the fire, the cold hut gradually became a little angry, Gu Ning sat next to the stove to roast the fire, only to see Die'er's busy little face flushed, Gu Ning thought:

After the old beggar died, the hut had never been so lively, and he could only listen to his own footsteps, and when he walked a few steps, the sound would sound several times, not much at all, no less.

Gu Ning had a strange feeling, and lowered his head and buried it in his knees.

A little sand in his eyes.

At this point, Gu Ning has more confidence in life and is more motivated. He has two relatives in another world, and the only way to calm himself and those around him is to become stronger.

"I've got to recover quickly." Gu Ning's eyes reflected the light of the fire in the stove, flickering and flickering.