Poor children

Chapter 183 After going through the ups and downs, I ran into Xiaodunzi in the street market
一
There is no news from Northwest for some days, but the poor boy lives calmly, drinking tea and reading all day, and not asking about anything
It's just that the prince has been dismissed from all his posts. Now he is just idle at home. He is not seen coming out of the study all day long. He seems to be busy with something...

It was a boring day, so the poor boy went to Fang Shaoqin's house to see his aunt, and came back after lunch. The market was bustling with people along the way.

The poor boy lifted the curtain on the carriage and looked out, thinking about the time in his mind, presumably there must be good news from the northwest in another ten and a half months

"You're such a beggar, you actually robbed me of my steamed buns in broad daylight..." The poor man's attention was attracted by the shouting and scolding outside the car. He saw a disheveled beggar covered in mud and water outside the car, holding a steamed bun in one hand. The steamed bun was stuffing into his mouth desperately, completely ignoring the punches and kicks from the steamed bun seller.

"Stop!" Paoer shouted upon seeing this.
The carriage stopped directly next to the two fighting men.

"Stop, don't fight," the poor boy said as he got off the taxi.

When the steamed bun seller saw the poor boy well-dressed, he said politely, "Noble man, please stop meddling in other people's business. This slut is trying to steal my steamed buns, and he can't get the money back. I have to beat him a few times to relieve my anger."

"It's just a few steamed buns money. Don't hit him. I'll give him the money." Pao'er motioned to Qiutao to give him the money.

The poor man's attention was all on the steamed bun owner, but he didn't see that the beggar had thrown away the steamed buns in his hand. His face was full of tears, and he rushed to kneel down in front of the poor man with just one step.
Upon seeing this, Pao'er hurriedly said, "Get up quickly, a few steamed buns won't hurt..."

I just heard the man crying and shouting, "Your Highness... Your Highness..."

When the pauper heard her being called like this, she lowered her head and took a closer look. Although her face was full of mud, her appearance and voice made her recognize her immediately, "Little Dunzi!"

"Your Highness...I have found you!" Xiao Dunzi cried.

"You're alive, that's great! Get up!" Pao'er was very happy to see him and hurriedly stretched out his hand to pull him up.

"Your Highness...!" Xiao Dunzi cried so hard and was so weak from hunger that he fainted in excitement.
two

At ten o'clock in the sunset, Xiao Dunzi woke up leisurely and saw himself lying on the kang of a small house. The poor boy was sitting on a chair by the table in the house, reading a book by the light of an oil lamp.
"Your Majesty... Your Highness..." Xiaodunzi struggled to sit up.
When the pauper saw him, he ran over to help him, "Xiao Dunzi, you've finally woken up."

"Your Highness, where is this?" Xiao Dunzi looked around.
"This is the place where I have lived since I was a child. You will live here for now." Pao'er said to the outside again, "Qiu Huai, is the porridge ready? Bring it in quickly..."

Qiu Huai agreed and hurriedly ran in with a bowl of porridge, "Girl, the porridge has been warming in the casserole outside, just waiting for Xiao Dunzi to wake up and drink it."

The pauper stretched out his hand, intending to take the porridge bowl and feed Xiaodunzi the porridge himself. Qiu Huai saw this and stepped back, "Girl, I'd better do it, he's... dirty..."

Upon hearing this, Xiaodunzi hurriedly stepped back to the side.
The pauper hurriedly said, "It's okay, bring it to me quickly."

"Girl, let me do it..." Qiu Huai insisted on carrying the porridge bowl over and put the porridge into Xiao Dunzi's mouth one by one.

"Thank you, sister." While drinking the porridge, Xiao Dunzi kept his mouth open and kept saying thanks.
Qiuhuai started to cry unconsciously while feeding her.

When the pauper saw her crying, he asked, "Why are you crying?"

"Girl, before I entered the palace, I took my younger brother to beg for food on the street. Later, I was caught by someone, and then I was sold to the palace. I finally endured many days and received a few months of money. I hurried out to find my younger brother, but he had already starved to death..."

They are all hard-working people. When the poor girl heard this, she felt really sad for her.

"Girl..." Qiutao walked into the room and said, "The bath water has been boiled and placed in the west room. Ask Xiaodunzi to go over and wash it..."

Xiao Dunzi hurriedly agreed and got up and walked to the west room. It was originally occupied by the two women who washed clothes. It became vacant after they were kicked out.
"I'll put the clean clothes next to you. You can just change into them after washing..." Qiu Tao warned.
Seeing that there were already many big lice crawling on the quilt where Xiao Dunzi slept, Qiu Huai quickly folded up the quilt, threw it outside, and replaced it with a new set.
After a long time, Xiaodunzi came out clean
When Qiu Tao saw it, he took a comb, asked Xiao Dunzi to sit down, and helped him comb the lice on his head, and then helped him comb his hair.

"Look, look, you can't see anything from what was dirty just now. Now that it's cleaned, you look pretty handsome," Qiutao said.

"Sister is joking," Xiao Dunzi said in a hurry
"Xiao Dunzi..." Pao'er said to him, "It's getting late today, so you can rest easy. I have told the kitchen that the mistress will deliver three meals a day to you every day. I will come to see you tomorrow."

"Yes, Master, you should also have a good rest..." Xiao Dunzi quickly got up and sent the poor boy out.

four

After meeting Xiao Dunzi, the scene of fighting and killing in the palace that day emerged again. The old general was gone, Mrs. Gan died tragically, and Muzi committed suicide for herself...

Now Hong Yue doesn’t know where he is, and what happened to Chan Yu and Lai Bao. Seeing Xiao Dunzi suffering so much, I’m afraid they won’t have a good life either...

We still don't know how the war in the northwest will turn out, but Pao'er's heart is a little confused at this moment. Unlike in the past, there are more people worried about him, and he can no longer be as free and easy as before.
When I returned to the yard, I saw that the lights in the second lady's room had been turned off, and I realized that it was already very late.
"Girl, you've been busy for a while and you haven't had dinner yet. I'll go to the kitchen and ask them to make you something to eat." Qiu Huai took off the pauper's cloak and asked.
"It's late at night, don't call them. Just eat whatever is in the snack box..." The pauper sat tiredly at the table and poured himself a cup of tea.
Qiu Tao went to make a bed for the poor child, and Qiu Huai went to bring a box of snacks.

"You two haven't had dinner either. It's late at night, so there's no need to set any rules. Come and sit down and eat together," Pao'er said.

After hearing this, Qiuhuai and Qiutao happily sat around the table, opened the snack box, each took a piece of pastry and was about to eat it, but was stopped by the poor boy

"When I left in the morning, I remembered that I wanted to bring some red bean and yam cakes made by myself to my aunt. I had touched the snacks in this box. The osmanthus cake was not arranged like this, and the chestnut cake seemed to have been moved..." Poor I looked at the snacks in the box carefully.
"After I took the red bean and yam cake, did either of you touch this box?" Pao'er asked.

"No...no..." the two of them replied

"Go get a silver needle..." said the pauper

Qiu Huai hurriedly went to the cabinet to get some money and handed it over to the poor boy.

The poor boy took the silver needle and pierced it into a chestnut cake. After a moment, he took it out and saw that the whole silver needle turned black.

"Ah! It's poisonous," Qiutao shouted in shock.

"Don't scream..." Paoer hurriedly stopped him, "Don't make this matter public. Except for the three of us, no one else is allowed to know..."

"But, girl, who wants to harm us?" Qiu Huai turned pale with shock.
"I'll see if I try it tomorrow..."

(End of this chapter)