There is still a remnant of last night's hustle and bustle in the streets of Beijing, and the confetti left over from the children's play is scattered all over the ground.

There is a rough man who paints candy people, his appearance is not good, he is sloppy, carrying the burden of supporting his family, listless.

One day, the vendor who had just cleaned up the pots and pans filled the pot with water and mutton bones, and boiled a new soup.

Some shops removed the door panels, revealing their sleepy faces, looking at the deserted streets, thinking about whether to go back to sleep.

There were two brown-clothed servants, drowsy, hooking their shoulders and backs, patrolling the streets step by step, and there was a strange laugh that all men understand, thinking that it was a few more times last night.

There is an old bustard who tirelessly hopes to make a lot of money during the New Year's Festival, and he is still conscientious and conscientious at the door to solicit business.

There are also beaters dressed in coarse cloth and tattered clothes, holding large brooms made of withered bamboo leaves, cleaning up the streets that are not cluttered.

Everyone has their own things, and they are not busy, but they are still bustling.

The rough man who painted the sugar man walked all the way, looking at the streets that were definitely not as lively as at night, and sighed.

The boss who added water to boil the pot and boiled the mutton soup next to him had already trained a pair of fiery eyes for many years, looking at this man who boiled sugar to make a living, and also to solicit business, he asked very familiarly: "What's the matter, big brother, the business is scarce?" ”

It seems that the innate smile of the trader makes the man who is also a candy painter frown, "What are you talking about in the morning, Lao Tzu has just come out of the stall." ”

Just that this person was busy all night preparing to close the stall, the boss of the sheep soup hurriedly made up for it: "Ouch, I think about it, I think about it, look at my mouth, come and come, or come to my brother's place to drink a bowl of hot sheep soup, and warm up your body in the morning, just treat it as my brother and invite you." ”

Originally, it was just a politeness of the boss of the mutton soup, but the man who painted the candy man who didn't want to carry the burden really put the burden aside, unceremoniously picked up a seat nearby, sighed in his hand, and was not hypocritical, rubbing his hands very neatly and said: "Then listen to the old brother, come to a bowl of mutton, don't put a little offal, put more coriander and onion rice, and drink a bowl of hot work." ”

The boss of the sheep soup who was looking for no interest was dumbfounded, and the sea of people he had seen in the past few years of trading had gone, and he was so cheeky that he had really seen it for the first time, but the words were all said, running to the small business and operating in good faith, a spit and a nail, the boss of the sheep soup suddenly lacked spirit, and he thought that he would not be sleepy, and said casually: "The new soup just boiled, the big brother waited patiently." ”

Happy to have a breakfast without money, the man who painted the candy man curled up in a ball and leaned towards the stove where the cakes were baked, "Don't worry, you can wait." ”

The boss of the mutton soup had a thought in his mouth, but he was all suppressed by the sound of the boiling and gurgling mutton soup in the fire, but the movement of the hand was obviously stronger.

Boiling mutton soup is a fine job, even if there is an old soup as the base, the oil from the high fire and the fragrance from the small fire are reused to collect the thick soup, even if the old soup is a hundred years of inheritance, if you want to boil out the rich fragrance without smell, the heat is naturally the top priority, and then it is time, not only to boil the soup but also to boil people.

The man who painted the candy man was quite patient, and he also picked up a few cane sugars from the flat basket and handed them to the boss of the sheep soup, as well as the proprietress who had been stuffy and pressed the dough.

The boss who was annoyed because he gave out a bowl of mutton soup in vain in the morning said "don't eat" angrily, even if he heard it, he didn't take it seriously, and threw it into his mouth with a smile, and then spread his hands and sent it to the proprietress, but the latter first carefully looked at his own family, and saw that he didn't pay attention to this, and was concentrating on adding those secret herbs to the soup pot, so he grabbed one and threw it into his mouth. A cheek that has been handsome in the past because of the vicissitudes of life has climbed up with an intriguing joy.

Seeing that the soup was rich and milky white, the boss threw the long soup spoon in his hand, lay down on the chair next to him, lifted a small black quilt that had obviously followed him for many years, and said "Give him a bowl in half an hour" and his eyes closed, dreaming of Zhou Gong.

I don't know if it's because of the hospitality attitude that makes me apologize more, or if it's sincerely in order to attract the diners of this candy seller, the proprietress who can see that she was also a little beautiful when she was young looked at her husband who was snoring slightly, and said in a suppressed voice: "What's wrong with the sigh just now, big brother, what troubles did you encounter?" ”

The man who sells candy is not like the proprietress who puts all the cane sugar that can be sweet to the heart in his mouth, but puts it in the palm of his hand and licks it, and he can warm his hands while eating sugar, the best of both worlds.

This is also a weather-beaten man leaning on the case of the boss lady and the face, curling up, trying to make the warmth that his body has finally accumulated not to spread quickly, spreading his hands but looking at the sky, "It's a troublesome thing, it's not a troublesome thing, I have a nephew in my own big brother's family - just think it's a nephew, although people don't look down on us - got into trouble, I want to help, my big brother won't let it, don't you think it's weird?" ”

Regarding this man's upside-down words, the proprietress who half understood and half confused also persuaded from her own experience, "Is it that your eldest brother doesn't want you to worry, for fear of causing you trouble." ”

The candy seller's man threw the cane sugar into his mouth and chewed it crunchyly, "Alas, the devil knows what he was thinking." ”

Looking at the proprietress skillfully pasting cakes into the stove, the man paused, and said: "You say that my eldest brother is too, we have known each other for 30 years, these 30 years I have gone from nothing to now having a business, all relying on him Zhang Luo, my father and mother left early, if he hadn't pulled a hand, it was also this weather back then, it is estimated that I would have to freeze to death on the street, until now, you said that if it weren't for him, who knows who I am, but there is something going on in his family, never let me interfere, if I secretly do a favor, you don't know, scold me." ”

opened the chatterbox, but the man chattered a little, "A few years ago, my eldest brother went to the south to do a big deal, I was looking for help, not that I wanted to make some money with him, but I wanted to help him, and I didn't want to be scolded by him." Two days ago, his family kicked out the child because of the child's marriage, I thought about it and said to him, you said that marrying a daughter-in-law and marrying a daughter is the child's own business, and the adults follow what to worry about, and they don't think about it, and the door of the house is not allowed to enter, and they scolded me through the door, saying that I eat radishes and worry about it. ”

The man sighed, "In the past two days, that nephew has encountered something unpleasant, and I haven't said anything yet, so he scolded me again, saying that it was a warning to me not to worry about it, do you think he is sick?" ”

The proprietress who heard the cloud mountain fog cover naturally couldn't answer directly, so she could only echo a sentence, "It's quite weird." ”

The man began to sigh again, muttering to himself, "I don't know what happened to that bear child." ”

The proprietress suddenly remembered something and said, "The day before yesterday, I also met a strange person, a half-year-old, twenty years old, who watched a shadow puppet show over there for a whole night, and gave the silver piece by piece." When I came to drink a bowl of mutton soup, I thought that I was an old lady who chattered and talked a lot, and I didn't say it directly, and I said that I spit on Xingzi and fell into his bowl, so that the soup was salty, if I didn't see that he gave more silver, I wouldn't let him. ”

The man who picked up a piece of cane candy and threw it in his mouth teased: "Then don't talk when my sister-in-law scoops the soup, I can't eat salty." ”

"Go to the side."

The proprietress was about to beat with a rolling pin, but the man who sold the candy hurriedly asked for mercy.

Trivial, there is always no shortage of these bits and pieces in the streets and alleys.

The proprietress read the sweetness in her mouth, but she generously cut more mutton, and the coriander and onion rice were just right, no more, no less, and she also gave a roast cake for nothing, so that the man thanked him repeatedly.

The proprietress is a talkative person, her mouth is idle, she is busy working under the table, and she does not delay her speech.

"If you want me to say, you can do whatever you want, that's your eldest brother, he is so good to you, and his nephew is also your nephew, and the family can't write two surnames, why do you care if he scolds you or not? If you want to do it, what can you do? If you regret it in the future, won't you hate yourself even more for staring at nothing at this time? You say yes, big brother. ”

The man didn't look up at all, just gobbled up the baked cakes, drank the last mouthful of soup, and didn't look at the proprietress, and suddenly said, "Why don't you say my eldest brother won't let me take care of it?" ”

Put the fragrant and hot baked cakes neatly, and the proprietress smiled: "It's not nice to say, when you are the eldest brother, the eldest brother is the father, how can anyone who is willing to let his son worry about it, isn't it all quietly done by himself, saving the child to worry." ”

The man pouted, got up and left with his burden.

The proprietress put on the baked cakes to clean up, put this piece of broken silver on the side of the bowl, and she looked up again, how could there be a man who carried the burden?

The streets are still deserted, the watchmen sweep the streets, the servants and foxes are fake tigers, and the bustards are showing off their amorousness.

The man who sold the candy went out of the city humming a small tune, rented a carriage in the city gatehouse, there was no carriage, it was an ordinary row of cars for pulling goods, and drove the horses along the city wall all the way to the south, all the way to Montenegro.

On the hill, all that remained was the mess after the fight, and the young men he knew and knew fainted one by one, and he sighed again.

"I can't help myself."

One by one, he carried the five people into the car one by one, quite relaxed, and couldn't stop chattering.

"Alas, ask around the rivers and lakes, let me Zhu Yu send you home, it's too fucking face-saving."

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Liquanfang, the capital city, the eldest princess's house.

Bai Jiao, who was sitting on the stove, looked at the gray sky, and an indescribable weird smile hung on his slightly ruddy face, which was meaningful and meaningful.

"It's going to change the sky."

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In the city of Beijing, there are no more people in the Su family's house.

Dressed in a sloppy and slightly unkempt night, the third pushed the door in.

I couldn't feel at ease all night.

"How's Miss Su?"

Without waiting for Ye Yao to speak, Ye San shook the herbal medicine bag in his hand, "I went to Baicao Garden halfway, and I came back a little late, so I will fry a pair and feed her later." ”

Ye Yaoer stepped forward to look at his brother carefully, and there was worry in his eyes that could not be concealed.

"It's okay, I can't die."

Ye San was even more dismissive.

"Just a few of them, how can they beat me, I'm very good, right?"

In the end, he didn't suppress it, and a mouthful of terrifying blood foam gushed out with the words.

Just staggered against the wall, and slowly sat down on the ground as if he had been evacuated.

Gasping for air, Ye San looked at the tears that came out of his sister's eyes, but he also blamed: "What are you crying about, I'm just tired, take a rest first." ”

Ye Yaoer held her sleeve and wiped the blood stains on the corner of Ye Sangeng's mouth, it was the first time she saw her brother being so seriously injured, how could she not panic?

"Sister, don't forget to wait until Miss Su wakes up and tells her that I took a breath for her, don't blame me for being drunk and out of shape, okay?"

"Also, I really don't want to see her, I'm embarrassed."

"Sister, I'm sleepy, I'll sleep for a while."