Song Yi

Chapter 290 Big Neck Woman

Du Wenhao smiled and nodded to him, signaling that he could go. Old man Gan trembling, holding the pile of money, kneeled down and kowtowed to Du Wenhao a few times, walked over, held the money in both hands and handed it to Du Wenhao.

Du Wenhao knew what he meant, took a small piece of broken silver from it, put it on the pad, and said: "If you need anything, just come to me!"

The old man Gan was taken aback for a moment, and then he understood that Du Wenhao's words were to clean up his future troubles. He was grateful and agreed repeatedly.

Du Wenhao returned to the back hall, and asked the shopkeeper Na Luo to inquire about the purchase situation in detail. He didn't teach the shopkeeper Luo a few words until he was confident, and walked away.

The next day, Du Wenhao didn't sleep well all night. He was always harassed by the gnawing noise of mice in the attic in the middle of the night, and only took a short nap in the second half of the night. Hungry in my stomach, as if there was a concert in my stomach, I had to get up, get dressed and get out of bed, and go to the kitchen downstairs to find something to eat.

Unexpectedly, the cook and the wife of the inn were doing good things in the room, and the bed creaked against the wall, which was more tormenting than the rats in the attic. Du Wenhao reached out and was about to knock on the door. The mother-in-law in the scene was very promiscuous, kissing her brother and yelling endlessly, Du Wenhao swallowed alive, thinking, he has not been close to a woman for many days, although he can kiss Lin Qingdai's little mouth from time to time, But there is still a gap between that and the reality, and there will naturally be differences if there is a gap. At critical times, you still can't think about it carefully, and you can't control yourself when you think about it.

Thinking of this, Du Wenhao was worried that someone passing by would see him and thought he was peeping, and the Du family would lose all face if people saw this kind of thing, so he quickly tiptoed out of the yard, because the sky was not bright yet, and it was coming soon. At the door, he mentioned a fat cat at the door that left his post without going to catch mice and just slept.

There was only a scream, and someone in the concierge asked, "Who is it?"

Du Wenhao had no choice but to say in a low voice: "The guests upstairs."

There was no more sound from the concierge, Du Wenhao opened the door and walked out, the sky began to drizzle,

After leaving the inn, it was still early, and there were already early-rising shepherd boys grazing and restaurants not far away.

Du Wenhao walked to a restaurant, and saw several cages placed at the door, emitting bursts of fragrance. Du Wenhao couldn't help but swallowed secretly when he smelled this smell after his stomach was empty, and he simply stopped in his tracks.

At this time, a woman in her 20s was wearing orchid clothes, neatly dressed, with an apron of the same color around her waist, and was sweeping the floor with a broom. He came up to greet him: "Guest officer, do you want something to eat? There are steamed buns and vegetable porridge just out of the cage. We have sauerkraut in our own shop. It's delicious."

Du Wenhao swallowed loudly, lifted his robe and walked in the door, found a table by the window and sat down, the woman hurriedly found a handkerchief and wiped the table neatly, stood beside Du Wenhao and laughed. looking at him.

Du Wenhao saw that although this woman was dressed plainly, her appearance was decent, but her eyes were somewhat inverted triangles. In the words of the ancients, this kind of woman is good at calculating and has high cheekbones. This kind of woman is Kefu.But Du Wenhao thought that he was not here for a blind date, but to eat buns, so he smiled and said, "Give me six buns, a plate of sauerkraut, and a bowl of porridge."

"Okay, a total of seventy Wen." The woman was still smiling, but did not move.

Du Wenhao was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself, usually you eat first and then pay, and these things only cost ten cents, so why is it so expensive here? Could it be that this shop is a black shop?

Seeing Du Wenhao's suspicious expression, the woman quickly explained with a smile: "The guest officer must not be from our place. We didn't pay this price in the past, but now everything is expensive, and we have nothing to do. If you want to support your family, what do you say?" No? Besides, there are many refugees who can’t pay for food, and we are not a big family, so we can’t afford to help these individuals, so please forgive me.”

He was so eloquent, Du Wenhao thought about it, anyway, he had to give money, so he couldn't give her the money, so he took a bunch of copper coins from the money bag and handed them to the woman.The woman collected the money, and quickly brought the food with a smile on her face.

Du Wenhao leisurely ate steamed stuffed buns and drank porridge. The taste of the food was quite delicious, especially the porridge was well cooked. Du Wenhao's mouth had already become a tasteless mouth that Pang Yuqin and Lin Qingdai spoiled. Satisfied him, but today the porridge is really good, Du Wenhao ordered another bowl and finished it deliciously.

The woman was delighted to see it, and said: "The guest officer likes to eat, so I won't charge you for this bowl of porridge."

Just as he was talking, he saw a child's head popping out from the back room. He was about five or six years old. He was a boy, dressed in thin clothes. He walked up to the woman and stared at Du Wenhao's bowl of porridge. Came out and licked his lips.

"Mom, I'm hungry." The boy said pitifully.

The woman looked at Du Wenhao with some embarrassment, and quickly coaxed the child: "Be good, Bao'er, let Dad get you something to eat, Mom is busy here."

The child tugged at the skirt of the woman's clothes, still didn't take his eyes off the porridge bowl, and murmured, "You always say that, I didn't eat anything last night."

The woman hurriedly shouted to the back room: "Father, get some food for the child, I have a busy guest here."

No one spoke in the back room, the woman was anxious, she pulled the child's hand away, and turned to serve Du Wenhao porridge.

Seeing the woman ignoring him, the child pursed his lips and kept silent, tears streaming down his face.

Seeing this, Du Wenhao handed him a steamed stuffed bun. The child was taken aback for a moment, looked at Du Wenhao, saw that Du Wenhao was looking at him with a smile, grabbed the steamed stuffed bun and ate it hungrily.

The woman came over with porridge, and when she saw her child eating the guest's buns, she hurried forward to stop it.

"Bao'er, why are you so ignorant, how can you eat the guests' food, put it down quickly!" He said, going to grab the bun.

"Sister-in-law, I can't eat anyway. You take the money and bring a bowl of porridge to the child." Du Wenhao blocked the woman's hand and said.

The woman blushed, and in a hurry, her words were not as clever as before: "Guest officer, this... how can this be done, this... can't be done."

Du Wenhao smiled, seeing that the child had already eaten a bun, and rolled his eyes because he choked on eating too quickly, so he patted him on the back lightly twice: "It's okay, hurry up Just go and bring it."

The woman nodded gratefully to Du Wenhao, put the porridge in front of Du Wenhao, and went to scoop up a bowl of porridge for her child. The child drank it without hesitation, which made Du Wenhao feel very sad .

"Sister-in-law, how is your business?" Du Wenhao simply gave the remaining three buns to the child, and asked himself while drinking the porridge.

Seeing that there were no guests coming, the woman sat opposite to Du Wenhao, and said with a smile: "It's okay, some passing merchants are here to take care of the business, and life is okay."

"No one in your family is farming?"

"No, farming used to be able to barely survive, but now the government taxes are too heavy, and all the harvest for the year is given away... Hehe, let's not talk about it, anyway, our shop can still survive."

Du Wenhao patted the child's head. The child was working hard, regardless of what the adults said.Just keep your belly full.

"No matter how hard it is in the future, I still have to feed the child. He is growing up, but he can't lose the child."

The woman nodded again and again, and said shamefully: "There is an old mother in the family who is not in good health, and the family relies on this income, so..., hehe, it won't happen in the future, it won't happen."

Du Wenhao finished his porridge, and the child had also finished all the food on the table. He burped contentedly and smiled at Du Wenhao. Only then did Du Wenhao realize that the little guy was changing his teeth. None, it's so cute.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and Du Wenhao thought that Song Shenzong and the others should also get up, so he got up and said goodbye.

The woman held the child's hand and watched Du Wenhao disappear on the horizon. At this time, the child raised his head and said to the woman: "Mother, why do you always call my daddy in the back room? Isn't my daddy at my two-year-old?" Is it already dead?"

The woman smiled miserably, squatted down, and said: "Bao'er, you are still young, and you don't know many things. Mother alone takes you and your grandma. Life is really not easy. Every time I let you see your clothes The good guest officer came out and asked my mother what she wanted to eat, but in fact, she just wanted to save a meal for your grandma."

The child still shook his head, with a dazed look on his face, and said, "How does that mother know that those who are well-dressed will definitely feed Bao'er?"

The woman smiled, touched the child's forehead, and kissed it affectionately: "I don't know, I just want to try my luck. After all, there are still many good people in this world. Besides, these rich people are I don’t care about the money for a bun or two.”

"Anyway, Bao'er can't understand what mother is saying. As long as he can be like this person today, it would be best if someone feeds Bao'er buns every day. The buns made by mother are the best."

The woman held the child in her arms distressedly, kissed his shiny forehead again, stood up, and said, "Okay, let's go get grandma breakfast."

The child smiled and touched his swollen belly, took the woman's hand, and followed the woman back to the shop.

Du Wenhao walked back to the inn slowly along the way, the rain was still falling, but it was very light, sporadically hitting Du Wenhao's head and body, itching and not feeling cold.

Walking to the entrance of the inn, Du Wenhao saw a woman sitting under the eaves at the entrance of the inn. She was about the same age as the woman who sold the buns just now, and she was only in her 20s, but she was not as neat as the woman who sold the buns. , with disheveled hair, worn clothes, and only one shoe on her feet, the other one was thrown away somewhere, and there was a swaddling baby in her arms. This woman was sitting there crying.

Du Wenhao stepped forward and was about to speak when the woman raised her head when she heard footsteps. Du Wenhao realized that the woman looked pretty, but there was a huge tumor on her neck, which was as big as a grapefruit. The whole face was pulled out of shape, it looked really creepy.

Du Wenhao was about to ask, when he saw the inn door opened, and a girl came out from the door, wearing a pink shirt and white trousers with two pigtails draped over her shoulders, and holding a willow branch in her hand, the pigtails looked very pretty with each step she flicked.

"Shopkeeper Du, you got up so early, I thought I was the only one who got up early."

This person is Yu Ge'er.

Yu Ge'er didn't pay attention to the woman before, because when Du Wenhao walked to the woman, the woman suddenly stopped crying, but there were tears in the corners of her eyes.

Yu Ge'er passed by the woman, and turned her head inadvertently, probably because she was startled by the thing on the woman's neck, her face changed, and the woman immediately lowered her head and sobbed when she saw Yu Ge'er's expression.

Yu Ge'er hurried to Du Wenhao's side and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong with her? What's wrong with her neck...?"

Du Wenhao hurriedly motioned her not to continue, but pointed her to the woman. Yu Ge'er understood, stepped forward and asked softly, "Sister, why are you sitting here?" Then she poked her head to look Swaddled baby, found a sleeping child lying inside, and then said: "It's so cold outside, be careful that your child catches a cold."

Yu Ge'er looked at the baby in the swaddle, who was probably held tightly by the woman all the time, as if he didn't feel the coolness, and was still asleep and never woke up.

The woman shook her head, cried and said: "I don't want to live anymore, but the child is still young, so I stay in this inn to see who is willing to take my child in."

Du Wenhao and Yu Ge'er were startled when they heard this, Yu Ge'er was annoyed immediately, stepped forward and sat beside the woman, pointed at the baby in the swaddle, and said: "How are you a mother, the child is so young, You just want to give the child away, is it because of the harmful young crop method that you have no way out, tell me, and I will make the decision for you."

When Du Wenhao heard this, he held back his laughter. This Yu Ge'er always said what he thought, but now that he sees someone who is having a bad life, he always brings out the young crop method first. You decide?Then who are you Yu Ge'er calling the shots?

When Du Wenhao stepped forward, the woman instinctively leaned back, deliberately keeping a distance from the man in front of her.

"What are you hiding? His wife is much prettier than you. Oh, I didn't mean anything else. I just wanted to say that he already has two wives, and besides, I'm still here." Yu Geer consciously slipped his tongue and hurried Added a sentence.

Du Wenhao thought to himself that you just listened to Lin Qingdai, how do you know your own situation.

"Does your man know you're coming out?" Du Wenhao asked.

When the woman heard what Du Wenhao said, she simply covered her face and wept loudly.Yu Ge'er was in a hurry, and hurriedly said: "Keep your voice down, be careful not to disturb the child."

When the woman heard what Yu Ge'er said, her voice immediately dropped: "My name is Xiao Lian, and I live in Li Village on the outskirts of Dongming County. I ran away because I couldn't bear the beating and scolding from the men at home."

"It's too much to dare to beat someone when there is no kingly law." Yu Ge'er was annoyed.

Seeing the woman's pale face and pale lips, Du Wenhao must have been sitting at the door of this inn for a long time, so he said, "Let's go in and have a cup of hot tea and something to eat."

The woman shook her head repeatedly when she heard this, and said: "Guest officer, if you are kind, you can take my poor child in. His father will definitely marry again, and the stepmother will definitely raise him badly. I really can't bear it, so I beg Please." As he spoke, he knelt down in front of Du Wenhao.

Du Wenhao quickly signaled Yu Ge'er to help the woman up, and Yu Ge'er said in a good voice: "What do you have to say after eating, we will go with you to find that bastard man after eating, if he dares to fight again You, we will drag him to the officer."

The woman let out a long sigh, looked at the baby in the swaddle, and said: "You can't blame him, if it wasn't for my harmful disease, he wouldn't treat me like this."

"Are you still talking for that bastard?" Yu Ge'er said angrily.

"Yu Ge'er, take this sister-in-law in to eat something first, and see a doctor if she is sick, don't just say she's dead."

"That's right, our Shopkeeper Du is a miracle doctor. If you meet us, you will be saved. Let's go."

Hearing what Yu Ge'er said, the woman couldn't help but take a good look at the handsome young man in front of her who was about the same age as her. She blushed and lowered her head, and said in a low voice, "Aren't all genius doctors gray-haired?"

Yu Ge'er laughed loudly: "Our shopkeeper Du is younger, but he is still a miracle doctor."

Du Wenhao really had nothing to do with this little girl Yu Ge'er, she always had something to say, and it didn't matter whether it should be said or not, or whether it could be said.

Yu Ge'er helped the woman into the door, and walked towards Wang Anshi.

"Morning shopkeeper Wang." Yu Ge'er said with a smile.

Wang Anshi had always kept Yu Ge'er at arm's length. If it wasn't for Song Shenzong's master attendant, this stubborn old man would not have bothered to talk to him, but for Song Shenzong's sake, he nodded symbolically.

Wang Anshi looked at the woman next to Yu Ge'er again, and said, "Who is this?"

The woman lowered her head timidly, and Yu Ge'er said: "She was sick, and the men at home beat her, so she wanted to come out and seek death. Shopkeeper Du and I met and persuaded her to come in for something to eat. You don't know what her child looks like?" But be good, how can she have the heart to leave the child behind?"

Yu Ge'er chattered a lot, Wang Anshi frowned slightly, and muttered: "We still have so many things to do, how can we still have the mood to meddle in other people's business, really!" Said He walked past Yu Ge'er.

"The old and the old and the old, the young and the young and the young, what do you think, shopkeeper Wang?"

Wang Anshi didn't expect Yu Ge'er to reply to him. He was a little embarrassed, his face was slightly hot, and he pretended to cough twice and left with his hands behind his back.

Du Wenhao came forward and secretly gave Yu Ge'er a thumbs up, Yu Ge'er smiled triumphantly.

"This old master is full of benevolence, righteousness and morality all day long. When it's critical, he not only just sits idly by and doesn't speak, but also makes sarcastic remarks. It's impossible not to stab him." Yu Ge'er said in a low voice.

Du Wenhao couldn't help admiring this little girl.

Yu Ge'er led the woman to her room, and asked the inn clerk to cook a bowl of hot noodles for her to eat. After eating, my mood calmed down a lot, and I started to tell Du Wenhao and Yu Ge'er about myself.

"I married to Li Village when I was 17 years old. The man's name is Li Zhong. In fact, he was very kind to me when I was married. Because my mother-in-law died early at home, my father-in-law is also an easy-going person. I don't need to look at the face of the old man. , he also did heavy and tiring work—one by one he wouldn’t let me do it. Those years were the best years of my life. Later, not long after the baby was born, I found a lump on my neck. I didn’t pay attention to it at first because it didn’t hurt. Itching, we peasants work too much a day, so we don’t care about it. Who would have thought that this thing would grow bigger and bigger, and it would grow to the size of a pear in less than half a year. Since then, men have treated me more and more badly. To criticize, not because he disliked the poor cooking, so he said that my work was not good, and later he stopped working in the field, and I did all the work in the field, so he went to the county town to gamble and play with women with a bunch of rascals from the village , I still beat and scolded when I came back, I just couldn’t go on, that’s why..."

"Then he doesn't like you so much, why doesn't he simply divorce you?" Yu Ge'er said.

It's too late for Du Wenhao to stop it. The ancient times are different from the modern times. Yu Ge'er is not married, so naturally he doesn't understand this truth. It's still Wang Gui, divorce is the most embarrassing thing, not only the face of that woman, but also the face of that woman's whole family and even the entire clan.

Sure enough, the woman's face changed, and Du Wenhao quickly explained: "Yu Ge'er means that he should treat you better. Since he married you, he shouldn't treat you like this."

The woman's face became better after hearing this, and she said: "He dare not, because he knows that I did not make a mistake, and my father-in-law is also my servant, so he has no reason to divorce me. If he divorces me, I will hit him to death On top of the ancestral hall of his Li family."

Unexpectedly, she was still such a virtuous woman, Yu Ge'er jokingly said: "You are going to die now, why do you need to wait until the day he divorces you? Your death, on the contrary, responded to his thoughts and just happened to remarry The newcomer is coming in."

Although Yu Ge'er's words were not pleasant, the woman named Xiao Lian understood what Yu Ge'er meant and became sad again.

Yu Ge'er said: "Okay, don't cry anymore, if you cry again, all the noodle soup you drank just now will flow out."

Du Wenhao couldn't help but chuckle, and Xiao Lian laughed through her tears in embarrassment.

Seeing Xiaolian smile, Yu Ge'er pointed to Du Wenhao and said, "Let our Shopkeeper Du show you, and then I'll go to Master Wu." After speaking, he got up and wanted to leave.

Du Wenhao: "Why are you looking for Master Wu?"

Yu Ge'er smiled strangely, and said, "Tell Fifth Master to let Xiao Lian stay temporarily, so as not to let her go after a while, what if she gets sad and wants to die again?"

Du Wenhao smiled and said: "Then don't rush to leave, she is a little afraid of me and leaves me alone, how dare she let me see a doctor for her?"

Yu Ge'er laughed, but Xiao Lian was even more embarrassed, her little face blushed, and she buried her face deep in her swaddling clothes.

(End of this chapter)