a pillow in autumn

Early morning is always the busiest time of the day in Haiping Town. On the Qingshi Road in the center of the town, a few big men are rushing to the market with fresh fish and live shrimps that have just been caught. Chen Yunqi is walking quickly with two boxes of fat fish. Thinking about what my daughter-in-law said last night, a figure suddenly bumped out and fell on Chen Yunqi's body. Before Chen Yunqi could react, the two frames of fish fell to the ground together.

"roll roll roll!"

Chen Yunqi frowned and looked up. He was passing by the gate of the county government office. Two government officials pointed at an old man lying next to him with sticks of water and fire in their hands: "Get lost! The county magistrate is something you can see whenever you want! "

Chen Yunqi also wanted to argue with the person who bumped into him, but seeing that the old man on the ground was covered in mud and probably had no money, he could only consider himself unlucky.He got up and thought for a while, before reaching out to help the old man who hit him earlier, at this moment an eight or nine-year-old boy ran over and asked while helping him by the old man, "Brother Qi, what are you doing?" Already?" Chen Yunqi saw that it was a child next door, so he helped the old man to sit on the side steps together with him: "Oh, this old man just now..." He glanced at the old man as he spoke, and suddenly found that this person was not Very old, not more than forty years old, only muddy and too haggard to look old, so he changed his words: "This uncle was thrown out by the yamen servants, just happened to bump into me, and turned over two baskets of fish " He said with a sigh: "Look at my clothes are soaked. Why didn't you go to collect firewood today?"

The little boy had already run over to pick up the fish all over the ground back into the box, but after a long delay, the water cloth inside the box was already shallow, and the fish seemed to be dying.Chen Yunqi had a frowning face, and the child who helped him pick up fish said cleverly: "I came back from chopping firewood early in the morning, just as Mrs. Chen came out from the back door of Linyuan Building. She said that someone in Linyuan Building just came to hold a banquet, and everything was in short supply. Let me pick the firewood quickly, and let me go to the morning market to let you send the fish." Chen Yunqi's sister-in-law is naturally Chen Yunqi's daughter-in-law, and she works as a helper in the Linyuan building. Just leaving, the little boy clapped his hands and was about to leave. He looked up and saw the person sitting on the stairs, and walked over again: "Uncle, where do you live, I will take you back."

The man glanced at the county government office next to him, and shook his head: "I'm living here, and I can't find my family for a while." The little boy thought for a while and said, "Why don't you come to my house first. Anyway, I don't have any family. You stay at my house and go back when you find your family." As he spoke, he picked up the man and walked to the outskirts of the town. The man nodded and followed him without saying anything.

After turning two streets, the man was out of breath. The little boy was small and weak, and both of them walked hard with him. Fortunately, the town was not big. The branches tied the door and walked inside and said: "This is my home. My name is Xiaobai. You can rest here for a while, and I will come as soon as I go."

The man sat on an old bamboo chair in the main room, stroked his chest and panted slowly, and only after his breath calmed down did he look at the thatched cottage. It was a row of three dilapidated rooms. There was almost no furniture in the main room. A table and three old bamboo chairs are facing the small courtyard outside. Outside the courtyard is the so-called "door" that was broken when you walked in.

Just looking at it, Xiaobai came in with a basin of water: "Uncle, wash your face first." Putting the wooden basin on the table, Xiaobai whispered as if remembering something: "I'm sorry, I don't have towels at home. Cloth." The man was stunned for a moment, and then smiled gently: "This is already very good, thank you Xiaobai." He picked up the water in the wooden basin with his hands, and was slightly startled in his heart. warm.Holding the water in his hand, he looked at Xiao Bai, such a careful child.

After the man washed his face, Xiaobai found a set of old clothes in the left wing and handed them to him: "Uncle, these are my father's clothes. If you don't mind, please change out of this wet clothes."

"My surname is Qin, I should be older than your parents, so you can call me Uncle Qin." Qin Wenyu took the clothes and asked him, "Where are your parents?"

"They all passed away." Xiaobai lowered his head, his voice muffled: "When I was six years old, my father fell ill, and the family had no money for treatment, so he left. My mother also left last year."

"How old are you now? What do you do for a living?" Qin Wenyu frowned slightly, although he was covered in dirt, he did not look downcast and sad: "Listen to your conversation, have you ever read a book?"

"After autumn, I will be ten years old. I go up to the mountain to cut firewood every day. This is near the sea, and everyone depends on the sea for a living. The mountain road is far away, and few people are willing to go. I go out before dawn and walk more than ten miles to the mountain to cut firewood. The dry firewood came back and exchanged for copper coins to buy food." Xiaobai grinned, and he was open and brilliant at such a young age: "My father is a scholar, and he taught me to read and write when I was young."

"Ten years old." Qin Wenyu patted Xiaobai's head: "Then your head is so thin because you don't have enough food and clothing."

Xiaobai scratched his hair embarrassingly: "My mother didn't trust me. Before she died, she entrusted Mrs. Lin's family next door to take care of me. She treated me very well. I have grown taller this year. This dress is made of Mr. Lin's clothes to make me look younger." of."

Qin Wenyu nodded, Xiaobai urged him to change his wet clothes, turned around and went out again.Qin Wenyu took the clothes and walked into the left wing room. There was only a bed and a cabinet in the wing room. The strange thing was that all the old clothes were placed beside the bed, but there were several bases of books neatly arranged in the cabinet.

When Xiaobai came back, Qin Wenyu was lying down with all his clothes on and fell asleep.Xiaobai didn't bother him, went to the firewood room to light a fire, checked that it was noon, then went to the left wing room to call him.Qin Wenyu slowly opened his eyes and was very confused for a while.Xiaobai helped him up, there was a plate of steamed buns on the cabinet, and there were two eggs next to the steamed buns, which must have been specially replaced by Xiaobai.Qin Wenyu took an egg and patted Xiaobai's head, the charcoal in the snow was a gift from a child, holding it in his hand was worth a thousand gold.

After simply eating lunch, Qin Wenyu asked Xiaobai: "The books in the cabinet belong to your father?"

"Yeah." Xiaobai licked his lips: "I'm afraid it will be damaged by the wind, so I put them all in the cabinet."

"Do you still remember what books you read?" Qin Wenyu opened the cabinet and looked.

Xiaobai answered one by one, looking at the cabinet with a proud tone: "Daddy said that I was enlightened at the age of three, and I already had a thousand words in my chest at the age of six. It's just that after my father passed away, no one taught me to read. I read it myself. I don’t understand many characters in Daddy’s book, and even if I do, I don’t know its meaning.” He lowered his head again as he spoke.Qin Wenyu was about to say something but coughed loudly, Xiaobai patted his back, Qin Wenyu knew he felt the cold, waved his hands and couldn't speak.Xiaobai didn't know what to do when he saw his face flushed from coughing.

In the afternoon, Chen Yunqi came over with a fish and said that it was sent to the Linyuan Building. He had already rolled his eyes, but the Linyuan Building would not accept it. He heard from the neighbors that Xiaobai took in the people he met today, so he gave the fish to them.Xiaobai was very happy, thanked Chen Yunqi for going to clean up on the stove in the firewood room, there were really no ingredients at home, so he just stewed it with clear water, added some raw salt, and put it in the main room.

The sky gradually darkened, Xiaobai thought that Qin Wenyu just fell asleep from exhaustion, but he waited until the moon was still silent, Xiaobai went to the left wing room to call a few times, but he still didn't wake up, even touching his forehead. I didn't feel it was hot, but I still didn't wake up for some reason, Xiaobai pushed him again, but there was still no response, so he hurriedly ran to the doctor against the moonlight.

The doctor in the town is also familiar with him. He brought the medicine box and came over for diagnosis and treatment. After calling for a long time, Xiao Bai was anxious, but he didn't dare to make a sound. "He is suffering from extreme cold and extreme heat. The extreme cold hurts the meridians, and the extreme heat hurts the collaterals, and it has been delayed for several days. I'm afraid..." He shook his head.Xiaobai seemed to understand, but he only knew that Uncle Qin was seriously ill. He touched the old clothes and found the last few copper coins. The doctor waved his hand: "My prescription is just doing my best. It's just," the doctor looked at Xiaobai: "You are not related to him, how can you help him like this?"

Xiaobai blinked his eyes: "My father taught me to be righteous in everything and ask my heart in everything. My mother also said that the neighbors and villagers have helped us a lot. If I meet someone who needs help, I will do my best to help."

The doctor looked at him approvingly: "Since that's the case, you don't need to get medicine anymore. Do you know the Pei Mansion more than ten miles away?" Xiaobai asked, "That beautiful mansion?" The doctor nodded and continued. Said: "Mr. Pei was originally an imperial physician in the imperial court. He returned to his hometown after resigning from his old age. It may have been your luck to return. It is said that this old imperial physician is the most compassionate. You should find a way to send him there tomorrow morning."

The author has something to say: It is the first time to write an ancient essay after six years, and it took a lot of thought. I hope you will like it.

I really tried my best for the official positions, buildings, clothing and so on.If anyone finds a bug, please don't tell me... Hehe!