Losing both parents at the age of ten?

Yebei was stunned.

"When you were ten years old, you were still young, how did you survive?" Ye Beicheng couldn't imagine that ten-year-old Lin Shuang'er couldn't lift his hands and couldn't resist his shoulders, how to survive in this poor and remote country.

Lin Shuang'er shrugged her shoulders and smiled faintly: "What else can I do?" There was no food at home, so my brother went to the neighbor's house to borrow it, and Brother Qi often hid from his mother to help us, and he received a lot of scolding. ”

"Brother Tie Niu's family is also very poor, but he will give us a bite to eat every time."

"In the year of the famine, no one had much food, so my brother took me to the streets a little farther away to beg, but there were also bad people among the beggars, who would rob us of food and take away all the copper plates we had so hard to get......

Ye Beicheng frowned, and his heart was tightly clenched.

In my mind, I unconsciously appeared that thin figure, kneeling in the snow and begging, bruised from the cold, and the originally translucent eyes were gloomy and desperate......

"So what to do?" There was an imperceptible tremor in Ye Beicheng's voice.

Lin Shuang'er knelt in front of the grave, twisted the corners of her sleeves and wiped the dust on the tombstone.

Actually, it is better to say that it is a tombstone than three corrupted wooden stakes.

Lin Shuang'er's family was poor, and when she was buried, she didn't have the money to ask someone to carve a tombstone, so Wang Tieniu was righteous and cut a few pieces of solid and corrosion-resistant wood to carve a few inscriptions for her.

Ye Beicheng squatted down and burned paper money into the copper basin with her.

Lin Shuang'er's voice was very weak, as if she was telling someone else's story: "What else can I do?" Begging was not enough, so my brother took me up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, but in the year of the famine, the weeds in the back mountain were also dug up, so we dug up the grass roots and cut the bark, and finally survived. ”

"Later, the famine passed, and life gradually improved, and my brother was stronger than me, so he went to the town to work as a long man, who knows, the outsider is also a bad person, he saw that my brother was helpless, so he threatened my brother to sell me to him as a little wife, my brother did not follow, after all, I was only eleven years old that year."

Ye Beicheng's fingers tightened inch by inch.

Lin Shuang'er chattered and said: "Later, the member deliberately made a stumbling block for my brother and deducted my brother's wages, so my brother went on strike and stopped working, and then you also know that he traveled thousands of miles to the Yong'an Hou Mansion, sold himself as a slave, and became a miscellaneous servant in the Hou Mansion. ”

"In the early summer of that year, my brother came back with the money he sold, and on the way home, he encountered a flash flood...... "Speaking of this, her eyes finally turned red: "Everyone in the village went to plan, and only one of my brother's clothes was found in one day and one night." ”

"I sewed that dress for him with my own hands."

Yebei said: "It's just a piece of clothing, maybe, is the person still alive?" ”

Lin Shuang'er said: "How can you live, the torrent is menacing, as long as people encounter it, they can't escape, once they are involved, they will be crushed and their bones will be broken, and there will be no bones......"

She stroked the wooden tablet engraved with "Lin Shuang" and said, "So, there is not even my brother's body here, and what is buried is just a coat of my brother." ”

Ye Beicheng stared at her closely, and his eyes were full of emotion: "What about later?" ”

"Later, I was unaccompanied, and I thought about killing myself."

Yebei Cheng's heart ached for no reason, and then he heard Lin Shuang'er continue: "It was Brother Qi who was by my side, taking care of me day and night, and accompanying me, I gradually came out of the haze, and I no longer had the idea of suicide." ”

Ye Beicheng suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

But gradually, a strange feeling surged in my heart.

When his Shuang'er was most frustrated, it was not him who was by her side, but Qi Ming......

Therefore, Qi Ming imprisoned her and tortured her that day, but she still stood on Qi Ming's side to fight against him without hesitation......

If, give her another chance to choose.

Will she still choose herself? Or will you choose Qi Ming without hesitation?

Ye Beicheng didn't dare to ask, because of this answer, he seemed to have an answer in his heart.

He hid his emotions and asked lightly, "So, have you been together for a long time?" ”

Lin Shuang'er said: "It's not very long, calculate the time, it should be a month, and later, because he was going to study in a private school, his mother took him to the imperial city of Kyoto, and we never saw each other again." ”

Hearing this, Ye Beicheng was a little angry again. Look at the book

She is still young and helpless, how can Qi Ming leave her alone and go to some private school!

It seems that in Qi Ming's eyes, fame is still important.

Ye Beicheng asked again: "He left you alone, so what should you do?" ”

Lin Shuang'er explained: "Brother Qi didn't leave me alone, he said that it was to give me a home as soon as possible, let me wait patiently for him for two years, and when he returned from his studies, he would marry me." ”

Yebei Cheng snorted coldly: "But it's all a high-sounding excuse!" If he really wants to give you a home, why doesn't he take you with him to Kyoto? Instead, I will leave you young in this poor country! ”

Lin Shuang'er explained: "Husband misunderstood, Brother Qi has read sage books, so he naturally knows how to avoid suspicion, I am still young, so naturally I can't live with him, so even if I take care of me day and night for a month, Brother Qi also abides by etiquette and does not cross the rules." ”

Ye Beicheng said disdainfully: "Stick to the rules, no wonder you can only read!" ”

However, there is one thing that can be agreed, that is, he abides by his duty and does not have any thoughts about her.

Yebei admitted: "Isn't he afraid, you can't protect yourself when you're young, and you can't wait for him for two years?" ”

Lin Shuang'er said: "Before leaving, he sent me to my aunt's house, and paid a sum of money to my aunt, entrusted my aunt to take care of me, and arranged me properly before leaving with confidence." ”

Yebei said: "Since someone has adopted, why did you come to the Hou Mansion?" ”

Lin Shuang'er pursed her lips, as if she had thought of some bad memories, and said after a while: "But my aunt doesn't like me, saying that I am a money-loser, in my aunt's house, I have never eaten enough, and even almost sold me to Renyazi." I couldn't accept it, so I sneaked out. ”

Yebei pursed his lips and took a deep breath.

"Then do you hate her?" He asked, his voice a little dry.

Lin Shuang'er said: "Don't hate." ”

"Why don't you hate?" Ye Beicheng didn't understand.

Lin Shuang'er said: "Because she has no obligation to raise me, even if she can't eat enough, she didn't let me starve to death, she didn't beat me, the family couldn't open the pot in the first place, and she added a mouth for nothing, who will be happy." ”

"It's just that she wants to sell me to Renyazi, which I can't accept. So, I don't hate her, I just don't like her, and I won't like her in the future. Lin Shuang'er continued to throw paper money into the copper basin, and the firelight reflected on her face, plain and quiet.

Ye Beicheng looked at her with complicated eyes.

"You know the rest of the story." Lin Shuang'er turned her head to look at him and said with a smile: "Later, in order to survive, I impersonated my brother's identity and entered the Hou Mansion as a miscellaneous servant, and then I met my husband......