early morning

The breeze blows the green willows, the morning dew runs the spring flowers, located in the slums on the outskirts of the capital, as early as the dawn of the day, there are many people who get up to be busy for the day's livelihood.

An ox cart was parked on the side of the road, and some people looked at the two people who were getting out of the car, and when they saw the young man, many people were subconsciously sluggish, and secretly thought: "Where did the son come from, and he came to a place like ours?"

Childe shouldn't have appeared in a slum full of garbage and sewage, but no matter how curious he was, he was glanced at by the middle-aged man, so he had to retract his gaze and hurriedly walked by.

It is obvious that he has brought a domestic servant like this, but he can't afford to provoke it.

"My lord, go through the alley in front of you, and you will find the innermost place. The wild Taoist whispered to Su Ziji.

His eyes fell on the dirt road with a puddle on the left and a depression on the right, Rao was a wild road man who had to follow the gangs in the county for many years, and he couldn't help frowning slightly.

= The smell in the air is really not good, in fact, before receiving the news that I came here, I couldn't believe that Qian Zhidong's women and children had ended up in this place.

But this is the case, after Qian Zhidong's accident, although he can't talk about the women who have been taken care of by a group of slaves and maids, he can only bring a little maid and a baby who has only been born for a long time.

It wasn't even the wild people who found them first, for fear that the ruffians who had harassed them nearby had already succeeded at this time.

Sneaking a glance at the lord whose face was sinking like water, the wild Dao people were a little worried that the lord was uncomfortable.

Although Su Ziji was silent for a moment, he just faintly: "Let's go, go over and take a look." ”

"Yes. ”

When they arrived at the gate of the courtyard that the Yedao people said, the harsh environment here was still a little beyond Su Ziji's expectations.

When Su Ziji never left Linhua County and never recovered the memories of his previous life, the area where he lived was also poor, but compared with this more down-and-out and dirty environment at the feet of the Son of Heaven, it was still much better.

There was even child and dog feces on the ground, and no one cleaned it up.

Su Ziji looked away at a glance, and looked inside from the dilapidated wooden door that couldn't stop people at all.

It was so coincidental that I happened to see a young woman with a baby on her back, sitting in front of a basin of water, washing the child's clothes.

At this time, although it is already March, it is not a warm spring in the end, and this woman has not been out of confinement for a long time at most, but she still has to wash her own clothes, which shows that she is in a difficult situation.

Although the clothes on her body are still thick, they are half-used clothes, just a jinghai cloth skirt, which can hardly hide her beauty, but when she falls into this situation, the more outstanding her appearance is, the more likely she is to live an uneasy life.

There was also an eleven or twelve-year-old girl on the side, holding a clumsy iron axe, chopping firewood again and again.

Except for these three people, there is no one in the dilapidated courtyard.

Ye Daoren explained in a low voice on the side: "Originally, it was okay, Qian Zhidong sent her back and arranged for the steward, there are only five or six maids and wives, although they are not rich, but they are also worry-free." But since Qian Zhidong was escorted back to Beijing, the news spread, and the steward took the money and left. ”

"The rest of the maids-in-law, some were sold by the steward, and some fled with them, the most interesting thing is that a mother-in-law also wants to sell the housemother and the young lady who was born to the Qinglou. ”

"There was only one little maid left who was close to this woman, and the woman who was found to be wrong took her and hid together, and was not harmed. ”

"Now, the master and servant are living together with Qian Zhidong's newborn daughter, and when I found her, she had just moved again, and her jewelry was basically sold, so she had to live here. ”

As for the fact that the ruffian saw her beauty and wanted to do something, and almost succeeded, the wild Taoist thought about it, but he didn't mention it.

Su Ziji listened quietly, thinking of the courtyard of Peach Blossom Lane, which had not yet been auctioned, and sighed slightly.

When he was prominent, there were many industries in the capital alone, but he suffered, but even the loyal servants who could be trusted were all ruined, and it is no wonder that Qian Zhidong could only ask for his own enemy in the end.

At least he didn't intend to lose his word, and even came to see this woman in advance.

Seeing it at this moment, Su Ziji didn't know what it was like, and after a moment of silence, he said to the wild Taoist: "Go and call the door." ”

The wild road man sighed, and went to knock on the door, but the door was probably damaged by the ruffians who came to harass him, and he knocked on it twice without a light or heavy blow, and pushed it casually, "boom", and opened, not only opened, but the door was also crooked and fell directly against the wall, so it was not miserable.

Wild Daoren: "......"

"Who are you?" The movement at the door directly startled two women in the courtyard, one of them hurriedly got up with the child on his back and went to grab the wooden stick, and the other held the iron axe in both hands, trembling and looking at the gate, his little face was pale, and he was afraid that he would be frightened again, and he was about to cry.

It was the young woman who questioned her.

Su Ziji glanced at the wild Taoist speechlessly, and arched his hand at the tired and vigilant young woman: "I came because of Qian Zhidong." ”

It can be seen with the naked eye that with these words, the eyes of this woman with a pretty face but a tired face without powder at the moment are bright.

"Is it him, is he the one who sent it? I knew it, I knew he wouldn't leave me and my daughter alone......"

These days are not long, but bad news came one by one, many people said that Qian Zhidong was on death row, some people also said that the people of the Qian family were arrested, and the house was beheaded together, and some people said that it was not so serious, but exile was indispensable.

Women always don't believe it, they always feel that they are a great general, and when they are in trouble, can they not help a friend or relative?

Now that it was finally time, she threw the stick on the ground and covered her face and whimpered.

And her crying seemed to be a switch, and the baby she was carrying, along with the little maid, also cried.

One was crying like a cat, and the other was reddened with joy.

Su Ziji's expression was a little stiff under the different cries.

You don't need to look at the wild road people to know that this person is not much better off than him now.

The two big men, even if they were people like Yedaoren, who had been able to coax people to sell their ancestral graves for the sake of profit, couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable in their hearts in the face of two weak women who had no interest in them, along with the cry of a baby who had just been born for a short time.

But in the end, he was older and had seen more tragic things, and the wild people quickly woke up from this slight emotion.

He looked at Su Ziji and found that the lord had arrived in front of the woman at this time.

"I don't want Qian Shuai to be down here. ”

"These two silver tickets are two hundred taels in total, and these broken silvers, you can keep them. Su Ziji thought about it, took out the silver ticket he had prepared earlier from his arms, glanced at the simple and thin clothes of her and the little maid, and took five or six taels of silver and handed it over.