Everyone looked at the cold boy in amazement, first burst into tears, and then laughed loudly, and then stood up again and said: "What good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil, all of them are deceitful nonsense! One day three years ago, a group of people from the rivers and lakes came to ask for accommodation. My father wanted to come and respect the people who came and went, so he left them at home for a few days, treated them as guests, and set up a banquet to entertain them. But the group of people took revenge, and the night before they were about to leave my house, they robbed my family of many belongings, and my father went to stop them, and desperately tore off their face coverings to know their true faces. They wounded my father and fled, and the next day my father sent someone to report to the police. But the government traced it for a long time and had no whereabouts, my father was wounded, he was ill for a long time, and finally died of depression......"

"After the death of my father, my mother washed her face with tears day and night, and finally ...... In the end, I also went with my father......" Pei Jingnian smiled bitterly, tears crisscrossed, his eyes were slightly closed, and he choked, "After my father and mother died, I scattered the only remaining family wealth and buried the two of them." Worship at four o'clock. But since I was a child, I wanted to participate in the imperial examination, read poetry and books, and knew nothing about business. After my father and mother left, I couldn't support the huge family business, and our Leng family finally lost to this. The servants and maids did not want to endure hardship, so they scattered. As the saying goes, the tree falls and scatters, probably like that......"

Shen Cuttlefish and the others were quite moved when they heard this, especially Shen Cuttlefish, their eyes couldn't help but be hazy, tears flashed, thinking of their own life experience, and remembering the fire that rushed to the sky that night in Anhuai Mansion. Pei Jingnian also sighed and asked, "But even so, why is Leng Gongzi like this?" Bai Xingxian also hurriedly asked: "Yes, haven't you thought of finding an enemy to avenge your father?"

Leng Qizhu smiled bitterly when he heard this, shook his head helplessly and replied, "It's not that I haven't thought about it...... In order to worship my father and mother on time, I owed a lot of silver, and those creditors came to ask for it, but I couldn't pay it back, so they robbed the family of antiques and jade to pay off the debts, and this is a good house, and it became like this. ”

"I am a poor scholar who has no money, no power, no power, and I don't know the people in the rivers and lakes. can't avenge the discovery of the enemy's father and mother, can't protect the ancestral inheritance, and in the end can't even keep himself. There was no money to buy food, and the food at home became less and less, and in the end there was nothing left, but to drink water to satisfy hunger...... I already, I haven't eaten for three days......" Leng Qizhu's sunken eyes glistened with tears, and his belly screamed out of place. Leng Qizhu's cheeks flushed, and he said ashamedly: "Let you see it." ”

Only then did everyone understand why this cold boy spoke intermittently, weak, with yellow muscles and thin bones. Ming Jue hurriedly unloaded the package he was carrying, took out two baked cakes, handed them to the cold abandoned beads, and said, "Leng Gongzi, I still have some dry food here, you can eat it quickly." Leng Qizhu's eyes were fixed on the roasted cake, and he quietly left two lines of tears, fluttering, tears gushing out, as if he had seen a relative, hurriedly snatched the baked cake into his hand, and chewed it with a big gulp.

The four of them stared at him with different expressions, and swallowed the palm-sized baked cake in one gulp, it really seemed that they had been hungry for a long time and had not eaten, if they didn't come tonight, maybe this cold boy would starve to death. Seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on him, Leng Qizhu was also a little shy, wiped the residue on his mouth and said: "Let you see and laugh, I haven't put tea for you for a long time, it's really unseemly, you guys wait a minute, I'll come when I go." With that, he walked quickly out of the main hall.

Bai Xing suddenly asked, "Do you think this kid's words are credible?" Shen Cuttlefish listened to Leng Qizhu's story, and felt the same way, as if he was a fallen person at the end of the world, and immediately responded: "I believe he is true." As soon as these words came out, Bai Xing burst into tears and rolled his eyes, not to refute him, but to be full of contempt for his attitude of talking but not braining.

Mingjue also said: "I look at the tone of the Leng Gongzi's expression, it doesn't look like he's lying. Bai Xingxian nodded slightly, his eyes fell on Pei Jingnian again, and asked sincerely: "Miss Pei was originally the head catcher of the Anhuai Mansion, and she should be handy at interrogating and torturing criminals, according to what Miss Pei saw, is this person credible?" Pei Jingnian pondered for a moment, and finally nodded and said, "I also believe him." Shen cuttlefish glared at Bai Xing with tears, as if he had won half of the victory, and said proudly: "How is it?"

Bai Xing snorted disdainfully, crossed his arms and said, "I didn't say I didn't believe him. It's just that when you go out, the rivers and lakes are sinister, and you have to guard against it. Have you forgotten Liu Lao Wu and Yan Shunan of the Whale Shark Gang so quickly?" Pei Jingnian also relieved her: "The white girl's worries are not unreasonable, it is always right to be cautious. It's just that this cold boy's life experience is really too pitiful. ”

As he was talking, Leng Qizhu slammed open the door of the house, staggered into it with a big wooden barrel, put the wooden barrel in the center of the main hall, counted nine in the middle of winter, sweating profusely, steaming all over his body, he didn't have time to rest and took out a broken scoop, filled some water, and sent it to the four of them with a smile, and took out another scoop and drank four or five scoops of water, the clear water poured into his mouth, Leng Qizhu swallowed it with a big mouth, and the water stayed along the corner of his mouth, seeping into the collar, and wetting most of his shirt, but he didn't care.

Everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them again, and when Leng Qizhu put down the scoop and patted his bulging belly with satisfaction, he wiped his mouth embarrassedly when he saw that the four of them were looking at him and said, "Get used to it, you don't want to laugh." If it was usual, I would just lie down at the well and drink water. After eating some dry food and drinking some water, Leng Qizhu's voice was obviously much more confident, not as weak as before.

"Drink and drink. There is really no tea at home, and there is nothing to entertain you. Only the water in this ancient well is extremely sweet and refreshing. Under Leng Qizhu's hospitality, everyone was not easy to refuse, so they had to raise their scoops and laugh twice and said, "Thank you." And they took a sip of each. When the well water entered, all four of them turned pale and shivered.

Bai Xing Tears squirted out all the water in one gulp, looking at the puzzled face of Leng Qizhu, Bai Xing Tears asked with a wry smile: "Big brother, we have no grudge against you, why do you want to torture us with this ice water in this midwinter?" It turned out that the bucket of water was directly drawn from the ancient well in the courtyard by Leng Qizhu, and it was directly given to everyone to drink without boiling. In the eyes of Leng Qizhu, who was already used to it, this matter was normal, but in the eyes of everyone, the cold and biting well water was like a knife, raging in the mouth, stinging the throat, and drinking it into the stomach was even more cold all over the body. Moreover, this house is dilapidated, and the cracks everywhere are full of cold winds, cold water enters the stomach, and when the cold wind blows, the four of them will not want to get up tomorrow.

Seeing that the other three people were also as ugly as Bai Xing's tears, but it was not easy to say clearly, Leng Qizhu realized that he had messed up one more thing, so he had to say apologetically: "Everyone, I am here to make amends to you." He sighed lightly and said, "I haven't dealt with outsiders for a long time, and I don't have anything at home. ”

Ming Jue comforted him and said: "This is a bad word, if it weren't for Leng Gongzi's willingness to take me in, we would have to sleep overnight in the wilderness." Pei Jingnian also chimed in: "This statement is reasonable. If it weren't for Leng Gongzi's willingness to let us in, we would have had to blow the cold wind outside all night. We just want a place to rest, no need to be luxurious, we are all people in the rivers and lakes, and we don't need to care about these little things. ”

Bai Xingxian and Shen Cuttlefish also nodded on the side, and Shen Cuttlefish asked with a smile: "Leng Gongzi, I don't know ...... this reward?" "What is the reward?" Leng Qizhu was confused and puzzled. Shen cuttlefish saw that he had no intention of asking for compensation, so he became excited, and pretended to be calm, but he couldn't hide the joy on his face: "So, we live in your house temporarily, and you don't receive any payment?"

As soon as these words came out, Bai Xing's tearful face changed drastically, and he threw away his arm and slapped the back of the head of the Shen cuttlefish, which made him grin in pain, covered his head and scolded: "Little orange, what are you doing!" Bai Xingtear turned his head and pretended that nothing had happened. And Leng Qizhu finally understood Shen Cuttlefish's thoughts, and replied with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, anyway, I'm not an inn in the Yanzhou Mansion here, if you don't dislike it, even if I live for ten years or eight years, I don't care." ”

Leng Qizhu thought that if he could keep Shen Cuttlefish and the others by his side, he would not only allow them to teach him some martial arts, but also stop worrying about his livelihood. But Pei Jingnian said: "That's not necessary, we just take a few days off, and after doing something in Yanzhou Mansion, we will resign to Leng Gongzi." Leng Qizhu still didn't want to give up, and finally waited for these four young heroes to come, but he couldn't abandon them.

"It doesn't matter, you just do as you like. As Miss Pei said before, they are all people in the rivers and lakes, and they don't need to care about these subsections. Leng Qizhu said with a smile. Shen Cuttlefish was a little curious when he heard this, so he asked, "What's the matter?"

Leng Qizhu shook his head and smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Where am I from the rivers and lakes, I'm just a waste scholar." I'm half tired from carrying this bucket of water, let alone dancing with a gun and a knife. I want to be the happy man in the rivers and lakes, but unfortunately I can't do anything but study. It's useless to be a scholar. It seems to be self-deprecation, but Leng Qizhu's eyes clearly hide some regrets and expectations.

"Then why did Leng Gongzi stay here and not try to go out and wander around?" Shen Cuttlefish was quite curious, as a former son of a rich family, he didn't want to go out and see all the time.