After the defeat of the devil, there is an extra child

As the sun went down, the villagers in the field began to go home one after another. Boss Pei was chatting with his uncle in the same village. Pei Si carried a hoe in one hand and the rice basket sent by Mrs. Pei Li in the other. Walk.

"How is your Xiao Wu? I heard that the monthly money is quite a lot."

"That's it." Boss Pei waved his hand, "It's useless."

"Hey, your little Wu knows how to read and break characters and can settle accounts, so he can't be called a success?" Someone laughed and said: "I heard from the grandson of the third mother in the village that when Xiao Wu was studying, he often took the top exams. After two years, he might be able to supply a scholar!"

"Hey, how much money will you get for a scholar, you are going to exhaust our elder brother to death!" Someone laughed.

Old Pei said: "It's enough to keep him from digging in the field."

"Speaking of which, the fourth child in your family is smart even when he was young. I see that there are not many children who can compare with him. If you send him to study, he will be the number one in the exam!"

"He's so clever." Boss Pei glanced at Pei Si who was walking in front of him, as if he was about to say something, and sighed again.

Pei Si just pretended that he couldn't hear.

When a group of people walked to the entrance of the village, they heard crying in front of them.

"Boss, it seems to be your house?" someone said.

Boss Pei's complexion changed, he quickened his pace, and Pei Si hurriedly followed.

Turning around the intersection, the crying became more and more clear. From a distance, he saw a few strong men in the clothes of restaurant thugs blocking the door of his house. Pei Li's wailing sound fell into everyone's ears:

"...Our little five will never do such a sneaky thing! You——how could you break my son's leg!"

Boss Pei pushed those strong men away, and Pei Si hurriedly followed, only to see Pei Wu lying dying on the threshold in front of the courtyard, his legs and clothes were covered with blood, he looked at the crowd with a pale face, his eyes were red, dumb He said in a low voice: "Father, mother, fourth brother, I really didn't steal money from the restaurant."

"You didn't steal if you said you didn't steal it?" A thug in a restaurant sneered, "He got all the stolen goods. He was caught by our young boss. Even if he went to the county government, there would be witnesses, if it wasn't for the shopkeeper Good hearted, you are already in jail now!"

He took out a deed paper from his sleeve and threw it on the ground casually, "The money you stole plus the compensation for not completing your apprenticeship years add up to 670 taels. Go to prison! Let's go!"

Mrs. Pei Li was so frightened that she didn't dare to cry anymore. She looked at the deed with a pale face. Boss Pei was bumped by several thugs. Si took two steps forward, reached out and picked up the deed paper on the ground and stuffed it into his sleeve.

"Father, mother, let's take Xiao Wu into the house first."

After speaking, he squatted down and carried Pei Wu on his back.

The courtyard door was closed, cutting off the discussions of the villagers outside.

After entering the room, Boss Pei regained his composure, and looked at Pei Wu with anger and disbelief, "Are you stealing money?"

"I didn't!" Pei Wu said stubbornly: "Father, you and mother have always taught us to be innocent, if I stole their silver, I will be struck by lightning and die!"

Pei Li looked at Pei Wu's legs crying, and hurriedly looked for money at home, "What time is this and you are talking nonsense! Hurry up and call a doctor!"

"I'll go." Pei Si took the money and ran out the door without looking back.

-

The invited doctor frowned after checking Pei Wu's situation, and the boss Pei and Mrs. Pei Li looked at him nervously, "Doctor, is it all right? Can he, he still stand up?"

The doctor took the medicine box out of the wing room, and said to Boss Pei and Mrs. Pei Li: "It's not important whether you can stand up. It took too long, and the wound is rotten. I'll try some medicine...Let's see him." Can you make it through tonight?"

Pei Li's eyes suddenly went dark, and he fell on Boss Pei.

Pei Si took care of Pei Wu in the house.

Pei Wu grabbed his hand and said in a hoarse voice: "Brother, I really didn't steal anything... It was the young boss who planted the blame, and the boss shielded his son for fear that it would ruin his son's reputation, I really didn't steal it! "

"Fourth brother, do you believe me?" Pei Wu asked.

Pei Si nodded, "You're not that kind of person."

Pei Wu was only a year younger than him, and his originally dark complexion had been whitened a lot in the past few months, but it was still much darker than Pei Si's cold and fair complexion. He followed Pei Boss's appearance, with sharp and rough features. He looked stubborn and resentful, but he was a child of fourteen or five years old, and he was crying at Pei Si while gnashing his teeth.

Pei Si wiped his tears with his hand, "Don't think about it, take a good rest."

Pei Wu was probably also relying on the anger in his heart to hold on, his lips were bloodless, and he said with some annoyance: "I originally... wanted to save money, so I would take you and your parents to the county, bro You are so smart, it's a pity that you don't study, dad is just stubborn, I—"

"Okay, close your eyes and shut your mouth." Pei Si said in a deep voice.

Pei Wu closed his mouth reluctantly, and couldn't help but speak after a while, and said with a gloomy expression: "Fourth brother, did mother ask you about the third girl from the Li family in the next village? When will you get married?"

"Nonsense." Pei Si frowned, "Who did you listen to?"

"Don't worry about who I listened to, I know everything about you in the village." Pei Wudao: "I heard that you also saved an immortal, who has been in our house for more than three months? If I don't have time to come back, I'm sure -"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Pei Si's face was a bit ugly.

"What's wrong, brother?" Seeing that his expression was not right, Pei Wu closed his mouth decisively, frowned and said, "Did that person bully you!?"

As he said that, he wanted to sit up from the bed, but Pei Si pressed his shoulders tightly, only to hear Pei Si say coldly: "No one bullies me, if you talk again, I will throw you out."

Pei Wu closed his mouth immediately, and closed his eyes heavily after a while, sweating profusely all over his body.

"Little Five? Little Five?" Pei Si called him a little uneasy, and then he heard Pei Li's suppressed crying from outside.

He opened the curtain and went out, only to see Boss Pei kneeling in front of the doctor, "Doctor, please, please save my son! We are willing to pay any amount!"

Pei Si took all the broken silver and copper coins at home, and followed the doctor to get the medicine.

"Fry three sets tonight, one set will be divided into three bowls, and one bowl will be poured for him in half an hour..." The doctor told him, "If he survives tomorrow morning, come and get another three sets."

Pei Si grabbed the medicine tightly in one hand, and nodded while holding the only three remaining copper coins in the other.

After tossing and working all night, Mrs. Pei Li cried and passed out three times, Boss Pei kowtowed anxiously in the yard, Pei Si fed medicine all night, and the drowsy Pei Wu finally opened his eyes in a daze .

"Brother..." Pei Wu moved his lips.

Pei Si hurried forward to listen.

"Bitter in the mouth." Pei Wu frowned, "Last night... I dreamed of being choked and fed poison, but when I saw it was you... I drank it all."

Pei Si breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he was still talking poorly, and was squeezed behind by the anxious Pei Li.

Boss Pei handed him a heavy bag of silver, and said in a hoarse voice, "That fairy... left it to you. Your mother and I planned to save it for you to marry a wife, but your brother—"

Pei Si looked down at the bag of money in a daze.

"For the sake of your mother and I raising you for 16 years, Daddy begs you... to save your younger brother." Boss Pei, who had always been strong and unambiguous, began to beg him.

Pei Si couldn't tell what was going on in his heart, and he tightly held the bag in his hand, "Father, I've always treated Xiao Wu as my own brother."

Boss Pei seemed to have aged ten years overnight, turning his head and coughing vigorously.

Pei Si took the medicine for another month. He stood in front of the courtyard and put the money bag embroidered with nine-leaf lotus into his sleeve.

However, when he opened the door, he saw a mess in the yard. Pei Wu, who had finally turned a little bloody, was lying on the threshold in grief and anger, and blood was stained on his clothes.

Pei Si hurried forward to help him up, "What's wrong?"

"People from the restaurant came to ask for money." Pei Wu gritted his teeth and said, "Father injured one of them, and those people insisted on sending him to the official! My mother and the village chief went after them."

Pei Si carried him into the back room, and changed the medicine on his leg, "I'll go to the county to have a look."

Pei Wu grabbed his arm, and asked him with red eyes: "Fourth brother, tell me the truth, is my leg useless?"

Pei Si paused, "Don't think about it, the doctor said, you can stand up after taking the medicine."

"You are just like your parents! You lied to me!" Pei Wu said angrily, "How can I stand up when my bones are rotten!?"

With his back turned to him, Pei Si froze in place.

"It's all because of me that our family became like this! Why do you still let me live!" Pei Wu broke down and said, "I deserve to die!"

Snapped!

Pei Si slapped him without even thinking about it, and said sharply, "Can you be promising? Isn't it just your legs? I will support you from now on!"

Pei Wu stared at him blankly for a while, and his voice turned into tears, "I know our family has no money, brother, I will admit that I stole it! I will go to jail! I am greedy for my boss's money, and I am obsessed with ghosts! Tell them to let our father go, and I'll come back in exchange for my father..."

Pei Si stretched out his hand and pressed his shoulder, "Xiao Wu, we can sit upright, you just need to take good care of your injuries and don't worry your parents. Leave this matter to me, and I will definitely bring our father back."

Pei Wu hugged his waist, crying aggrieved and angry.

"With brother here, don't be afraid of anything."

-

The owner of the pawnshop looked at the jade in his hand and exclaimed. After a while, he pretended to be casual and carefully placed the jade pendant on the table, "Little brother, your jade is a good jade, but there is a corner missing here. Obviously, the heat is not enough, but the value of this jade has been depreciated, how about I give you 100 taels, will it work?"

Pei Si lowered his eyes to stare at the beautiful nine-leaf lotus carved on the jade pendant. He repaired the gap in the upper right corner carefully, but it still couldn't be restored as new.

He raised his head, and said neither humble nor overbearing: "This jade material is rare even in the capital. I went to three pawnshops, and the lowest price was 600 taels. It's fine if you don't know the goods."

He picked up the jade pendant and turned to leave.

"Hey—wait!" The boss gritted his teeth: "Your gap is really a big flaw, 300 taels, no more!"

Pei Si didn't stop walking.

"500 taels! Really! 500 taels! I'll give you a job! Otherwise, you can leave!" The boss poked his head out of the window and shouted.

Pei Si stopped, and calmly glanced at the jade pendant in his hand.

He sighed happily and sadly.