The next day, Xi Zhuquan and his wife went to the stall to start work early in the morning. Xi Rou finished breakfast, got some sweet potatoes and fed the chickens and ducks, and then went out for a walk.

Today her goal is very clear, which is to continue looking for a suitable courtyard house.

It was already the autumn of 1992, and she had to get it quickly. In her previous life, she learned from newspapers that housing prices in China would soar in the future, and the sooner she bought a house, the better.

When she put it back yesterday, she noticed that the property originally posted on the telephone pole was only 1000 yuan per square meter the week before, but this week the price had changed, and it directly became 1200 yuan per square meter.

In just one week, it can increase by 200 yuan, which is really exaggerated.

So, she wandered around another alley again.

I walked for 2-3 hours and visited a lot of alleys, but I didn't see anyone putting up a sign for sale.

Seeing that it was noon, Xirou could no longer walk, so she bought some big buns and sat under the big tree at the entrance of the alley to eat them.

While eating, I was thinking about buying a house and didn't pay attention to the surrounding situation at all.

After she finished eating a bun, she reached out and touched the bag on the stone next to her. She touched it several times but couldn't find it.

When I looked back, I saw that the bag of buns that I had just put on the stone was gone. I stood up in confusion and turned around, but there was nothing.

At this moment, I heard a rush of running sounds. Looking in the direction of the sound, I saw a child running quickly into the alley with a bag of buns in his hand.

"Fuck, isn't that my steamed bun? It's too abominable. I haven't eaten enough yet, and they stole my steamed bun without even saying hello."

Xirou picked up her backpack and quickly chased after him.

"Don't run, stop right here."

The child looked back and saw Xirou chasing after him, and was so frightened that he ran faster.

"Damn it, the more you scream, the more you run away. Do you think I'm easy to bully?"

Xirou gathered her strength and chased after him at the speed of a 100-meter sprint.

Just as he was about to catch up, the little guy turned a corner. When Xi Rou caught up, he had disappeared.

After searching around, she couldn't find it. Xirou was so angry that she stamped her feet.

It's so abominable. He even stole the buns. No, this was robbery. Are children in this big city so abominable?

Xirou felt indignant and walked around unwillingly. Either you can't bear to part with those buns, or you just feel uncomfortable being robbed in the street, especially by a little kid. Don't tell people to laugh to death?

After passing several dilapidated houses, Xirou suddenly heard voices, then stopped and hid in the corner.

"Mom, steamed buns, eat them quickly." A child's voice sounded.

"Dongzi, where did these buns come from?" A woman's voice sounded. Her voice was a little weak, and she sounded like she was seriously ill.

Xirou walked over quietly and looked inside through the broken window. She saw a 30-year-old woman lying on a broken bed, and a 6-7-year-old boy squatting next to her.

The little boy was very thin, his clothes were in tatters, his hair was long, and his face was dirty. He looked like a little beggar.

"Mom, I picked this up." The little boy lowered his head and said hesitantly.

The woman knew that he was lying at a glance, and immediately became angry: "Dongzi, how many times has mom told you not to steal other people's things, and you, you actually lied! Cough cough cough..."

"Mom, I was wrong, I was wrong. I won't dare to do it again next time. Don't be angry." The little boy was about to cry and patted his mother on the back with his little hands.

After a while, the woman finally stopped coughing. Her face was pale and her expression was painful. She touched the little boy's face lovingly and said, "Dongzi, don't blame mom for being angry. Mom is afraid that you will go astray. We are poor, but we don’t steal or rob, and we have to behave upright, you know?”

The little boy regretted it so much that he cried and said, "Mom, I know, I will never steal other people's things again. But you haven't eaten for two days, and I, I'm afraid you will die. Woo woo woo, Dongzi is so scared, afraid that if you leave too, Dongzi will become an orphan."

The woman hugged her son distressedly and couldn't help crying.

My husband went to Nanyang with his friends, saying that he would make a lot of money and then come back and buy a big house for his wife.

But as soon as I left, there was no news. It has been three years, and I don’t know whether he is dead or alive.

She waited alone at home with her son, but she was an orphan and had no one in her family to rely on.

There was a brother on the husband's side, but the sister-in-law was not easy to get along with. Knowing that her man was away, she immediately drove them to live in these two shabby rooms in the old house.

She originally lived alone with her son, selling vegetables and doing some small business, and could barely support her son. But a year ago, for some reason, her health suddenly became worse. In the end, she was so weak that she couldn't even go out. No.

At the beginning, the family still had some food to eat, but after half a year, all the money was spent, and the family was so poor that they had no rice to cook with.

She had no choice but to ask her son to ask the child's uncle. At first, the uncle would help her secretly, but as time went by, her sister-in-law had objections and said that he would give them food from home again, so she followed him. He is divorced.

For the sake of his own family, the uncle did not dare to help them anymore.

Neighbors would send some food over from time to time when they saw how miserable the two of them were, but not every day.

In this way, her mother and her mother had not eaten for two days, and her body was getting weaker and weaker. Her son also felt sorry for her, so he went to steal food.

Knowing her son's thoughts, the woman is almost in pain. Oh my God, why do you treat them like this?

The child’s father, where are you? My child and I can't hold on any longer. If you don't come back, we will all starve to death.

Xi Rou listened outside and couldn't help but burst into tears. Mom, it's so tragic, it's simply a human tragedy!

After a while, she wiped away her tears, took a deep breath, adjusted her mood, and then took out bags of sweet potatoes from the space.

They planted this when they were in Jing'an Village, and there were thousands of kilograms of sweet potatoes in the space. Now their family all eats rice, but the sweet potatoes have not been touched, and they are not valuable things. They would not give them to the mother and son. I would be embarrassed to accept it.

With a creak, Xirou pushed the door open and walked in.

The two people in the room heard the sound and looked towards her.

When the little boy saw Xi Rou, his expression changed drastically and he hurriedly hid the bag of buns behind his back.

The woman knew immediately that this must be the owner of the bun.

She was very sorry and said with an embarrassed face: "Girl, I'm sorry, this child is ignorant and stole your buns. Dongzi, please return the stuff to me quickly."

"I'm sorry, sister, I was wrong. Return the bun to you." Dongzi hurriedly handed over the bun.

Xirou smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm full, I'll leave this for you. By the way, I'm from out of town, and I brought a lot of sweet potatoes from home. We can't finish them all, so I'll give you a bag to eat." "

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