The Lord of Rebirth is sick

Su Liuzhang still remembered what those people said, and carefully asked her: "They said you have a family, is it true?"

The little beggar looked at her hurriedly, his eyes flustered, but he didn't know what to say, so he nodded dejectedly, and then shook his head again.

"They kicked you out?" Su Liuzhang asked her in a low voice with pity in his eyes.

The little beggar was silent for a while before replying to her in a low voice: "No, my father and mother said that the family is too poor to support me, so let me go out and find something to eat by myself."

"No matter how poor you are, they don't even give you more clothes? Since they can't support you, how can they survive?" Su Liuzhang felt very angry. Even if he couldn't support him, he couldn't let this child come out to beg in such a cold weather.East Street is clearly distributing clothes and rice porridge, don't you know to come and get some?

The little beggar didn't answer Su Liushang's words, and buried his head without saying a word.

Su Liushang also didn't speak for a long time, and then she remembered something, and her eyes showed a gleam of joy: "I know how to help you." As she spoke, she took out a purse containing scattered silver, and stuffed it with steamed buns. Gave it to the little beggar.

"There are about 20 taels of silver here, and I'll give you all of it. Dad said I can't spend money recklessly, so I can only give you this broken silver. I don't know how much it can help you, but I will calculate..." She frowned and snapped her fingers. After doing some calculations, she said solemnly, "Even if you have to eat two cages of steamed buns at a time, you can still eat them for a year."

The little beggar held the money bag, her eyes straightened. She had never seen so much silver. Every day she could get a few copper coins to satisfy them. What would happen to them with so much silver?

Su Liuzhang looked at her, frowned and shook his head again, and said, "However, you can't use all of them to buy steamed buns. Dad said, you must never sit and eat, let your family use some of it as capital, and you should be able to earn some, so that you don't need it in the future." Starving and freezing."

The little beggar's eyes lit up, and then disappeared again. He shook his head and returned the purse to her: "It's too much, I...I can't take it."

Su Liuzhang frowned, and then pushed the money back: "I don't want to give it to you for nothing. Dad said he wanted to find me a companion to read, so I'll give you the money first. When I go back, Dad doesn't have to look for it. You give it to me as a pawn." Accompanying reading, this is equivalent to your wages, okay?"

The little beggar was a little dumbfounded, and then waved his hands in a panic: "I can't read, I can't do it... I can't do it with reading." But his eyes were full of loss and despair.

Su Liushang paused for a moment: "Accompanying reading is to accompany me to read and practice calligraphy. If you want to know how to read, can you still study with me?"

The little beggar was a little puzzled: "But I heard people say that companions must be smart and able to read and write."

"They said it wrong! Tell me, am I being unreasonable? The companion is not a master, so how can you know how to read and write?"

The little beggar thought for a while, then nodded quite seriously, and said with some trepidation, "Is it really possible? I... I'm just... just a beggar."

"Then are you willing to be a beggar?"

The little beggar's big eyes were darkened, and he shook his head severely: "I don't want to."

"Then it's settled. You go back and talk to your family, and I'll go back and talk to my father. I'll wait for you at the porridge place tomorrow, okay?"

The little beggar nodded emphatically, and for the first time, a very bright smile appeared on his little face, and the shining eyes were shining like glass, which was extremely beautiful.

Seeing her smile, Su Liushang couldn't help but also laughed. On the cold long street, there were two children, one tall and one short, smiling brightly and cheerfully, which was extremely warming on the street after the New Year.Although no one knew what they said, it was just this moment that left an indelible mark on someone's heart.

The little beggar knew that Su Liushang didn't know the way, so he sent her to the porridge place on the East Street.

Wen Bingqiu was looking around anxiously, when he saw Su Liushang, he immediately shouted: "Little Shang!"

Seeing that she was in a hurry, Su Liushang ran over quickly, but was about to admit her mistake but was hugged by Wen Bingqiu.

"How can you run around by yourself! What if you lose it, what if you are abducted by human traffickers, ah?!" Wen Bingqiu shouted with panic in her voice.

Su Liuzhang knew that he had frightened his mother, so he quickly patted Wen Bingqiu on the back, and said softly: "I know I was wrong, it's my fault, I shouldn't have run out alone, mother, don't be angry. But I I won't be abducted, I know how to get back, and I even asked someone to bring a message to my mother?"

Wen Bingqiu glared at her reproachfully: "You know how to send a message, otherwise you would drive me crazy." God knows how she felt when she found out that Su Liushang ran after a little beggar by himself.Although her child is smart, she has never come out alone. If she meets a bad person, she will kill her.

"Mother, I met a friend today, I want her to be my reading companion?"

"Friend, where is it? Could it be that little beggar?"

Su Liuzhang turned around, only to find that the man on the street corner had already left, feeling a little annoyed.But thinking about seeing her tomorrow, he was relieved.

"She's gone, mother, she has beautiful eyes." Su Liuzhang pulled Wen Bingqiu and told her everything that happened.

Wen Bingqiu took her back home, listening to Su Liushang talking along the way, her face was doting and helpless, and she was faintly proud of her child's intelligence, kindness and kindness.

"Xiao Shang'er is so powerful, she has learned to solve problems by herself. But when encountering this in the future, I have to tell my mother not to run around alone, you understand?"

"Well, I remember. Then mother, can she be my reading companion?"

Wen Bingqiu smiled, "If that little girl is really what you said, and she's not a bad child, then of course it's fine."

And after they left, that little child turned out from the corner of the street and looked at the carriage for a long time until he could no longer see it.

She turned around slowly, walked through several remote alleys, her steps were quick and sometimes slow, carefully avoiding pedestrians and came to a small street with a very simple layout.Compared with the prosperity on Yuzhou Long Street, this place is much dilapidated. The old houses are low and vicissitudes, the wooden gates are not painted, and there are insect holes on them.About a dozen families are crowded in this remote small street, and many children in coarse cotton-padded clothes are playing in the open space.

The little beggar pursed his lips, touched his clothes, and then slowly hid behind a dilapidated old house.

Time goes by little by little, the warm winter sun slowly falls, and the dim light is attached to this land, but it still leaves helplessly when the smoke from each house rises.

The coldness of the night was getting worse, the little beggar tightened his clothes, stomped his feet, looked at the steamed buns in his hand, hesitated for a while, took out one, and stuffed it into his mouth.The cold steamed buns were hard and lost the delicious taste when they were hot, but she still enjoyed eating them.

Estimating that no one would see her, she stood up and walked towards a shimmering hut. Halfway there, she thought about putting the steamed bun under the firewood pile at the door.

Pushing the door open, a couple of men and women in cotton padded clothes were having dinner with a five or six-year-old boy.On the table were two dishes and a small basket of steaming sweet potatoes.

Hearing the sound of the door, the woman with her back turned impatiently said: "I haven't closed the door yet, I didn't notice that the cold wind is coming in! You came back so late, where did you die?"

As she said that, she turned her head and saw the silent little beggar, and she was stunned.The man turned his head to see her at this moment.The little boy who was eating happily was also startled, and then shouted in surprise: "Your clothes are so beautiful, where did you come from!"

The woman also came back to her senses at this time, a flash of ecstasy flashed in her eyes, she quickly put down her chopsticks, and pulled the little beggar: "Damn girl, where did you get such exquisite clothes, did you steal it or beg for it?"

As he said that, he stretched out his hand to carefully touch the brocade clothes embroidered with many embossed dark patterns, and praised again and again: "It's really a good material, even more beautiful than the excellent purple cloud brocade in Jinxiu Xuan."

The little beggar pursed his lips tightly, but didn't say a word.

"Damn girl, where are you lucky to wear such good clothes, don't get them dirty, quickly change them for me, if they are broken, you won't be able to buy them back if you sell them!"

The little beggar took two steps back abruptly, pinching the front of his shirt and looking stubbornly at the woman across from him.

The little boy on the side shouted loudly: "I have never worn such a beautiful dress, mother, I want to wear it, you let her take it off for me."

The man has been eating in silence, just glanced at the little beggar, and then did not respond.

The woman's eyes were wide open, and her eyes were fierce: "Damn girl, you still dare to hide, it's against you. How much money did you get today? Do you want to keep the clothes you got?" She said and picked up the bamboo stick next to her. I was about to smoke, but when I thought of the clothes, I hurriedly stopped.

"Take it off for me, or I'll sell you tomorrow! It's a waste of food for me to raise you as a money-loser, and now I'm asking you to take the clothes you got for it, and you still refuse?!"

The man who had been silent for a long time spoke up: "If you want clothes, you should also find her a set of clothes. What are you talking about?"

The woman spat vulgarly, found a set of worn clothes and threw them over: "The clothes are thick and tight, they won't freeze you to death, change them quickly!"

The little beggar's eyes were full of indifference, he tightened his clothes and went straight back to the dilapidated woodshed where he stayed.She took off the warm clothes and looked at them blankly. After hearing the scolding outside, she lowered her head and stuffed the money bag behind a broken brick, and walked out with the clothes in her arms.

The woman pulled her clothes off and glanced at her in disgust: "Didn't you get any money today?"

The little beggar shook his head and said nothing, and the woman said: "Hurry up and cut the firewood for tomorrow, don't hinder the old lady from eating."

She still didn't say a word, and went outside to chop wood, but the trace of hope hidden deep in her eyes was completely silent and annihilated in the winter night.

When she finished cutting the firewood for tomorrow, there was a sweet potato no bigger than two fingers left on the dining table in the house, lying alone under the dim light, which was very ironic.

The little beggar drank a basin of cold water, endured the cold, washed her hands and face, and nestled into the quilt with only an old quilt. She huddled tightly, still eating the steamed buns she brought back, thinking about today That little fairy-like child finally sank into the darkness.