After redemption, he took away the luck of the future queen

The house that Cheng Linwen gave to Pianheng was a two-entry house with a high-walled courtyard. The second-entry courtyard was quite spacious. It was located in the east of the county seat in a wealthy area, and the surrounding environment was quiet.

As soon as you enter the courtyard, there are four reverse-seat rooms. After entering the hanging flower gate, you come to the main courtyard on the second entrance.

In the main courtyard, there are three main rooms, one for the main room, one for the east wing and one for the west. The three main rooms are not only divided into left and right wing rooms, but also have left and right wing rooms outside. In this way, the main courtyard has There are six main rooms and six side rooms. There are only three of them in the house, which is enough for them.

Pianhuan lived in the west wing, Huaiye lived in the east wing, and Mr. Huang lived in the main room.

After entering the second courtyard, there is the kitchen and firewood shed on the left, and a small flower hall on the right. The flower hall is deserted. Beyond that, there is a backyard covering an area of ​​two acres, covered with waist-high weeds. It can be seen endlessly at a glance. It has been vacant for several years.

There is a livestock shed at the back corner gate, and there is a flat brick road outside the gate that is exclusive to the house. The courtyard wall is not shared by the two families. There is an aisle in the middle, commonly known as the alley. Cars and horses can enter and exit the back corner gate from here. It is very convenient. No need to Entering from the front door, the alley leads directly to the main road outside the door, with excellent supporting facilities.

Huaiye learned that he had a separate room and no longer slept in the same room with his mother. He ran around the yard excitedly. After running for a while, he found that Dahei didn't follow him. He walked wilfully to Pianhang's side, appearing to be Weak.

The house was full of cold pots and stoves, and there was no time to clean the house. Pian He took Huang and Huaiye out for lunch. Huaiye finally felt better after hearing that he was going to eat braised pork.

The three of them chose an ordinary restaurant. A bowl of rice cost two cents, a plate of tofu cost ten cents, a plate of scrambled eggs with chives costed twenty cents, and a plate of braised pork costed one hundred cents. There was no braised pork in the whole plate. The few pieces of meat were so solid that Huang was surprised.

If this happened in the past, it would be a complete profiteer.

But now, due to the influx of a large number of refugees in Yushan County, although the refugees have been divided into various villages, prices in the county have still been driven up. The price of rice has doubled, and the price of meat has more than doubled.

A plate of braised pork priced at 100 yuan is no longer so unusual.

Mrs. Huang said that if she didn’t go out to eat in the future, it would be more economical to cook at home. After eating, she would go shopping.

After the three of them had finished eating, they left the food shop. Pian He planned to take Huang to the dental shop to see if there was a female steward who could read and do math. By the way, he also wanted to see if there was a suitable shop selling fish oil. Huang was married, and she happened to have to stay in the county to take care of Huaiye.

As the three of them walked, they looked at the shops on both sides of the road. Before they reached Yahang, Huang's eyes were attracted by a boy kneeling on the roadside.

The boy knelt in front of a corpse with a sad face. His face was covered with dirt, and his whole body was dirty. His clothes were full of holes, with small holes stacked on top of big holes. There was a straw stuck in the top of his unkempt hair. A straw indicates that he is going to sell himself.

Several people had gathered around the boy and the body, and they were holding their noses and looking at the boy kneeling on the ground.

"Sell yourself to bury your mother?" an old man asked the boy.

The boy just nodded and said nothing, which could easily lead to the misunderstanding that he was mute.

The people on the side kindly reminded the agitated old man.

"Are you really going to buy this boy? The cost of burying a boy's mother is not cheap. The key is that it takes a lot of effort. A coffin costs five taels of silver, and inviting someone to mourn will cost another two taels. It costs three to four taels of silver to buy a cemetery. You have to dig the grave and seal the soil yourself. Are you tired? I think you can go to Yaxing and have a look. Yaxing is right in front. For a child of his age, it doesn’t cost more than ten taels of silver. You can buy it.”

"That makes sense." The old man was shaken, looked at the boy with some reluctance, then turned and left.

After he left, several more people gathered around and filled the space vacated by that man.

The onlookers were pointing and pointing. After listening to the discussion of several people, Huang turned around and asked her daughter: "Pian He, I plan to buy him back and serve him as a book boy for Huai Ye, do you agree?"

Pian He also saw the boy who sold his body to bury his mother on the roadside. She cast a questioning look at Huang. She had never encountered this kind of situation before, but she had encountered many porcelain lovers. She couldn't say anything. Let Mr. Huang make up his own mind.

"Pianheng, this boy must be very filial. I have only heard of women selling their bodies to bury their fathers and mothers, but I have never seen men selling their bodies to bury their mothers."

Huang's voice was neither too loud nor too quiet, and the boy kneeling in front of the body just heard it. He raised his head, walked on his knees to Huaiye instead of Huang, and kowtowed fiercely to Huaiye, who was only six years old. His forehead touched the ground and turned red within a few moments.

Huaiye was dumbfounded and froze on the spot. When Huang saw this, he was even more satisfied with the boy's behavior of recognizing his son as his master, and insisted on buying the boy.

Pian He:? ? ?

Several onlookers saw that Huang was sincere in wanting to buy the boy, and one of them stepped forward to kindly remind him.

"Sister-in-law, what are you talking about? There is a murder shop ten steps away. Go there to buy a coffin. If you don't bury him, the dead person will stink."

"Yes, he should be laid to rest as soon as possible. He looks very pitiful."

The man who had just persuaded the old man who wanted to buy the boy stopped talking and looked at Mr. Huang as if he were a fool.

"Mom, Huaiye and I will go ahead and ask. You can think about it again."

After saying that, Pian He pulled Huaiye, who was still in a daze, and walked towards the fierce place in front.

Entering the sinister chamber, what he saw was a row of six dark coffins, and a sense of depression hit his face. Pianheng did not look at the coffins, but turned to ask Huaiye: "Do you really want that boy to be your book boy?"

Huai Ye was always calm and collected, with a pair of big clear eyes and a childish look on his face. He thought for a while and nodded calmly.

At this time, the boss of Jisi came over and asked the two children who entered the shop suspiciously: "Are you here to buy a coffin?"

Pian He looked serious and hesitated. After thinking for a while, he nodded, and then asked: "Boss, in addition to selling coffins, do you sell cemeteries here? Do you have a full set of funeral services?"

The boss saw that the two children in front of him were not dressed like they came from poor families. They should have money to buy coffins. I wonder if their father passed away? Or is their mother dead?

But looking at whether the two of them were wearing mourning clothes, the boss felt confident.

"This little friend, who of your family has passed away? There are funeral services. Do you want to invite someone to mourn? Ask someone to bury you?" All of these are available, but it depends on whether the other party is willing to spend money.

Pian He was stopped by the boss. After thinking for a moment, he asked again: "From encoffining to burial, everything needed in the middle is included, such as coffins and cemetery tombstones. How much does it cost to do it according to the most common specifications?"

After listening to Pian He's words, the fierce boss thought about it for a moment and figured out that the kid in front of him must have had a kind heart and collected the corpses of the dead on the roadside for burial, right?

Thinking of this, the boss couldn't help but ask: "Little friends, there is a boy who sold his body to bury his mother. Have you bought him?"

Huaiye nodded firmly towards the boss. The fierce boss hissed, the expression on his face changed, and his brows furrowed tightly.

After thinking for a while, he said: "This matter is easy to handle. Fifteen taels of silver are all covered. You don't need to do anything."

The boss quoted a moderate price, otherwise he would not take over if he could make some money.

Pian He was stunned, fifteen taels?

The poor really can’t afford to die!

No wonder the boy on the roadside sold himself to bury his mother.

Pian He and Huai Ye left a message to their boss, saying that they would go back and ask their elders for a reply, and then left Jisi.

After Pianhuan told Ms. Huang the required expenses, Ms. Huang was a little hesitant, but after looking at Huaiye, who would be studying in the county town in a short time, she realized that no scholar would be looked down upon by his classmates, so she became heartbroken. He nodded in agreement.