When the cannon fodder gets the golden finger [Transmigration Book]

In the afternoon, Zhao Xi took Ah Tian to West Street. The West Street was deserted, and the shops and stores were sparsely populated. At three or four in the afternoon, the businesses on other streets started to open. Walking on the empty street, there was no one shouting at the shops on both sides. Say hello, look inside, the guys are all dozing inside.

From a distance, I saw a family with their doors closed, with a big "Dian" character pasted on the door, and two white lanterns hanging under the eaves.

It was a yard on the side of the street, connected to a row of houses around it, separated by a wall.The family that held the funeral should be the Liu family, and the neighbors around them also closed their doors.

Zhao Xi stood in front of the door, which seemed to be unlocked, but was closed from the inside.A gap big enough for Ah Tian to get in revealed the scene inside.The empty yard was open to their main room, with coffins parked and soul-calling streamers hanging on both sides. The inside was all plain white, as if two children were playing in it.

There seemed to be no adults around, so Zhao Xi felt a little hesitant when he knocked on the door.Er Gou stared at him with wide eyes, dazed.

Suddenly the child inside ran out, stumbled on the steps and fell down. The three or four-year-old doll sat up, looked left and right, seemed to be in pain from the fall, and burst into tears.His brother came out, crying too.

For a while, the loud cries of the two children continued to rise, and Zhao Xi, who was standing outside the door, was inexplicably guilty.Push open the door and go in.

There seemed to be no adults in the room, and the two children cried for a long time but no one came out.Zhao Xi walked over quickly, knelt down and picked up the fallen child.

It seems to be a little girl, with two little bundles tied together, her arms and legs are like lotus roots. "Stop crying, stop crying—" Zhao Xi gently patted her arm to coax her.

The two children seemed to be very shy, and cried more fiercely. The older boy stopped crying and looked at him with his mouth curled up.

Zhao Xi patted lightly, although the effect was minimal.Entering the yard, the empty and desolate scene combined with the plain white color makes people very depressing. The two children are only four or five years old, and the young one seems to be unable to walk steadily. Their father is parked in the main room. remains, they are still playing here unconsciously.Everything that came in made him feel bad.

There was the sound of footsteps, and an old woman staggered over, muttering: "What's wrong, what's wrong, brother Feng, brother Yu! Huh—who are you?"

The old woman was very old, with white hair all over her head, and she was wearing a bunt. She hurried over and was startled when she saw two strangers.

The older child ran up behind the woman, hugged her leg and looked at them with half of his face exposed.

"I passed by here and heard a child crying outside for a long time. I have already heard about the situation of this house, so don't worry about going in to have a look." Zhao Xi got up and pulled the child up, and moved aside.

He thought it was the child's grandmother, but he heard him claiming to be a neighbor.

"My little brother is also kind. The owner of this house is not at home and was just called away by the yamen." The old woman picked up the child, and he immediately stopped crying, sobbing with his mouth curled up in tears.While weighing the child, she said: "I live next door, and I often come over to help take care of one or two. Hey, you know about this family. God is sorry. Such a big event depends on Mrs. Pei alone to support this family. We Those next door who can help will help."

Zhao Xi tucked his hands into his sleeves and stood uneasy, "Oh..."

"It's strange, the two elderly people in this family are sick, they should still be at home, why haven't they seen anything for a long time?" Thinking of it, the old woman said strangely.

Zhao Xi looked around, there were only three rooms here, he took a fancy to Ah Tian: "Ah Tian, ​​go and have a look."

Ah Tian is a child, he won't make people defensive, so it's just right to let him go.

Under the guidance of the old woman, he pushed open a door next to him and went in, and ran out after a while with a strange expression on his face.

"Brother, something is wrong."

With a sudden heartbeat, Zhao Xi stepped forward quickly.

The old woman followed up with the baby in her arms: "What's the matter?" Ah Tian gave him a seat to let him in. The lighting inside was not good, and the room was a little dark, but it was quite cool.There is a body odor unique to the old man permeating the room.The room is very small, just a cabinet and a bed.The bed curtains were opened to both sides, with straw as the bottom and a bamboo mat on top.There were two old men lying on it.

The unpleasant smell was really strong, Zhao Xi frowned and held his breath to look closer, but saw that the two old men didn't seem to have any ups and downs of breathing.He felt bad in his heart, and when he took a closer look, there were corpse spots under the old man's neck.

Ah Tian looked at him worriedly, saw Zhao Xi turned around and waved at them, "Let's go—"

The old woman held the child at the end, and when she left the house, she lamented: "You made a crime—"

It was almost after escaping from that oppressive and gloomy room, and standing under the bright sun, Zhao Xi realized that his body was filled with coldness at some point.At this time, the crying of the child and the voice of the old woman's thoughts disturbed him.

"Let's go, let's go—" Seeing that Zhao Xi's face turned pale, the old woman next door was calmer than him after all, "Come and sit in my room."

Her house was next door, and the layout was exactly the same as Liu's house. Zhao Xi sat on the threshold before entering the house.Basking in the hot sun makes me feel a little more at ease.

Ah Tian sat beside him, next to him.

It seemed that she was the only one in the old woman's house. After putting down the two children, she made Zhao Xi a cup of sugar water and brought it over.

"Little brother, drink some sugar water to calm down the shock. It's a coincidence that such a thing happened to you, hey."

Ah Tian took it and wanted to feed him, but Zhao Xi took it.

Zhao Xi looked at the black stains of unknown sediment on the bottom of the porcelain cup, took a small sip from the water, and held it in his hand.

"Which street does my little brother live in?" The old woman fed the two children sugar water while chatting with him.

"My family lives in the east of the city," Zhao Xishen said, hesitating for a while and unfastened the purse from his waist.Turning to look at her, "I won't hide it from you, I actually didn't pass by here. My brother is an official in the court, and he has always cared about the people. Hearing what happened to the Liu family, he felt sympathetic and wanted to help him or her. But There is no shortage of servants in the mansion, and it doesn’t make sense to support a family, so I just want to bring some money to help.”

"Our people are blessed to have a parent officer like Brother Ling!" The old woman was very moved, and hurriedly dragged him to sit in the house: "Please sit for a while, Mrs. Pei must be back soon. The situation of the Liu family today It's really difficult, you are saving lives—please sit in the house."

Zhao Xi refused, and handed the money bag to her: "I won't go in, it's 20 taels of silver, please pass it on to Mrs Pei for me, I have something to do at home, I'll go first."

Zhao Xi handed over the money and walked out, A Tian hurriedly followed.

"Hey, my little brother has a very good name, but I can leave a place to thank you later—" He walked quickly, and the old woman called after him after two steps.

"You don't need to thank me." Zhao Xi didn't even look back, and left here like an escape route.

Zhao Xi heaved a sigh of relief until he disappeared out of sight on this street.He glanced at the road ahead from the corner of his eye, and estimated that he would never set foot here again in the future.

"Brother, aren't you afraid that the old woman will become greedy?" A Tian raised his head and squinted his eyes as the sun was too bright beside him and asked.

Zhao Xi shook his head absentmindedly: "No, she doesn't dare. And I believe she is a really good person."

Ah Tian lowered his head, pouted indifferently.

Zhao Xi fell into his own emotions and never paid much attention to A Tian's reaction.Until he returned to the mansion, when there was no one around him, the child said something nonsensical.

"Why did my brother go to Liu's house to give money? Is it because of guilt?"

[The author has something to say: The title is really simple and clear, let's simplify the whole article! 】