"Yes, if I hadn't forced him to study when I was a child, thinking that he would have become famous and get ahead, how would this kid have become like this."

The eldest lady's stiff smile made the wrinkles on her face a little deeper.

"Why would you raise such a bad gambler by studying for talent?" Lin Xixue couldn't guess what the connection between the two was.

"Heh," the eldest lady smiled sadly, "This child is precocious, and Mr. says that he is a good seedling, who would have expected that after ten years of cold windows, he couldn't even pass the exam." ”

"Isn't there another hidden story in this?"

"Hehehehe," the eldest lady smiled obviously, but the voice squeezed out of her throat was clearly sobbing, "It's just missing the examiner's money for a bowl of tea and a bag of cigarettes." ”

When Lin Xixue heard this, she couldn't help but tremble, and the eldest lady put down the iron cone in her hand, wiped her tears, and continued to tell.

"This kid is honest, and I don't have much knowledge, and it was only in the fourth year of the exam that he learned about the 'throat moistening fee' from his classmates."

"I took shoes day and night, and finally scraped together enough for him to pay for these two throat moistenings, but this kid had a tendon, felt that he was very talented, and refused to listen to me, so he handed these two dollars to the examiner."

"But there was no throat moistening fee, so people didn't bother to look at his test papers, so they threw them directly into the stove."

"After two more years of exams, he still failed to pass, so I persuaded him to learn a trade to make a living, which is okay if he didn't take the exam, but the boy asked me why he was asked to study earlier if he wanted him to learn a trade now."

"I can't answer, girl, I can't answer."

"They all say that reading can get ahead, so I let him read, but I really don't have much knowledge, I really don't know so many ways."

"Girl, is it really wrong for a child from a poor family to study and seek fame?"

The eldest lady lifted her apron and blindfolded her eyes, crying silently, and the merchants and pedestrians who came and went around just stopped and looked at it, and then continued with the work in her hands.

Heaven and earth are big, all living beings are happy, who cares about the cry of a dying lady under the willow tree?

Lin Xixue lowered the corners of her eyes, bit her lower lip, and shook her head, but she couldn't think of any words to comfort this eldest lady, so she had to secretly curse this dog emperor in her heart.

The next time I enter the palace, I'll settle accounts with him.

"Auntie, after that, why did he get involved in gambling?"

"Every year to get fame, every year to fail, this person, you have to have a little hope, right?"

"At first, he played small, and even made a small amount of money unexpectedly, and then he played bigger and bigger, and not only lost all the money he had won before, but also owed a lot of money."

Lin Xixue thought that this routine was not uncommon in her previous life, at first she used some small profits to lure people into the game, and once people completely fell, she began to harvest it on a large scale.

"I paid off the gambling debts for him, I thought he would stop there, but he still didn't repent, and the family's title deeds were pawned."

Lin Xixue felt that gambling on dogs was certainly not worthy of sympathy, but if he could really gain fame under fair competition, would he become a gambler again?

She didn't know, and she couldn't know, but in any case, people were dead, and these assumptions naturally made no sense.

"The debt collector came to the door, he went out to hide the debt, what did he say to me a few days ago, he met Miss Yan by chance, and he could help him introduce him, but he disappeared again in the past two days."

Lin Xixue didn't know how to react, and suddenly felt that this person was a little pitiful, maybe he knew this Miss Yan Mansion at the beginning, and he really saw hope for the future.

It's a pity that he ended up in a complete tragedy, and it's no wonder that he didn't care about the world at that time.

Since he was a child, he has lived in the exquisite lies that have been woven one after another, and when these lies are shattered again and again, he still loses hope after all.

"Hi said so much, it really made the girl smile, don't you look at my shoes, they are all thousands of layers of soles that I personally accept, durable!"

The eldest lady forcibly restrained her sad look, a smile that was more ugly than crying was raised at the corner of her mouth, and she raised her two shoes and knocked them on each other to show that they were strong and durable.

Lin Xixue was a little hesitant whether to tell this lady about his son's death.

Tell her that she is old and doesn't know if she can afford to lose her son. But if you don't tell her, wouldn't it be tantamount to weaving a delicate lie for this lady too.

is a lie, and there will be a day when it will be shattered, and when the time comes, the eldest mother will only face deeper despair.

After thinking about it, she still slowly spoke: "Auntie. Your son is dead. ”

The eldest lady was stunned for a moment, her neck was like a zombie, she raised it stiffly and mechanically, her eyes stared at Lin Xixue with no eyes, and she said hoarsely: "You say. He's dead. ”

"Yes, dead."

"This way, this way" The eldest lady didn't cry, just put down the embroidered shoes in her hand sluggishly, and then slowly sat down on the somewhat dilapidated bench behind her.

"Girl, was he beaten to death by a debt collector?"

"No, the man who killed him has no name or surname."

"Then he, when he left, did it hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt, it's killing with a knife, and it's going fast."

"That's good, that's good" Although the eldest lady said yes, she sighed weakly as if she had been drained of all her strength.

She looked down at Lin Xixue's feet, and then trembled and handed over a pair of embroidered shoes, and said, "Girl, thank you for telling me, thank you. These shoes are for you. ”

Lin Xixue did not refuse, accepted the embroidered shoes, and said: "Auntie, before your son died, he asked me to relay a message to you.

"He asked me to tell you that he was recommended by someone to go to a far away place to be an official, and everything is fine, so don't worry about it."

"Heh, this stupid boy, before he died, I still felt that I really wanted him to gain a fame." The eldest lady shook her head sadly.

Lin Xixue took out the vial containing the ashes and handed it to the eldest mother: "This is the ashes left by your son. Lady's Day mourning. ”

"Originally, he asked me to sprinkle this ash under the tree behind you, but after thinking about it, it is better to hand it over to you, auntie."

The eldest lady took the vial, and when she looked up again, she found that the girl who had spoken to her before was gone, and there was an extra piece of broken gold on the table.

Lin Xixue, who left, and Feng Buyou walked side by side, but Feng Buyou's face was obviously a little puzzled, and said, "This is the scene you want to show me?" ”

"Oh, that's not it, I came to find this lady just by the way, and I'm going to take you somewhere else."

"So how did this eldest lady's son die?"

"I killed it." Lin Xixue has nothing to shy away from.

"Then why did you kill him?" Feng Buyou didn't believe that Lin Xixue would do something to an innocent person.

"Hearing the story of this son, don't you think that in fact, his heart has already died?"

"He was assimilated into a slug, more than half of his body was deformed, and he was powerless to return to heaven, so I gave him a pleasure according to his wishes."

"And the place I'm going to take you next is where I killed him."