Refa is King

Chapter 9 Helpless
"Who are you?" the little girl asked.

"I'm my elder brother." Looking at the little girl's dirty face, Bao Bushu felt a little uncomfortable, even though he said that Bao Bushu came here in the same way.

Bao Bushu entered the yard and came to the door, and saw the second sister tied up with a rope, her whole body was dirty and covered in mud.

Bao Bushu sighed in his heart, he was tied up like this when he was a child, but Bao Bushu naturally knew that he liked to be clean when he was a child, but no matter how clean he was, the dirt land was so clean.

"Brother?" Bao Ermei obviously didn't have any impression of her brother, so she took a few steps back and leaned against the wall. There was some straw on the ground, and the child was sleeping on it.

The whole house is still not as it is in the memory, the house is very low, the ground is muddy, the light in the room is also very dark, and the furniture inside is very dilapidated.

In fact, people in ancient times were like this. There were basically only one or two thatched houses, and they were not high. Even in the city, it looks like a tiled house, but the frame of the house is made of wood, and many of the walls are made of bamboo or vines, and then a layer of mud is pasted on it.

In the past, it was very labor-intensive to burn green bricks with the local method. The mud had to be made into mud first, and then printed out one by one in a wooden box, dried in the shade, and then burned day and night in an earthen kiln, counting as one green brick. The price is high.

The thatched house is much cheaper, and a layer of thatch is added every year. Over the past ten years, the thatch on the roof has become more than one foot thick, and some are more than two feet thick. This thatched house is very suitable for the poor. It is warm in winter and cool in summer. Just afraid of fire.

"Second Sister, look, what is this?" Bao Bushu took out a piece of candy. Candy is considered a luxury in this society. There is only one piece of candy for a penny, and it is very cloudy. You can buy two catties of rice for a penny. Two taels of salt.

Obviously, Bao Ermei didn't know that it was candy, and Bao Bushu's heart sank a little. You must know that she used to have candy for her father.

"Gamble!" Bao Bushu thought of his father's preferences, and felt a little unspeakable anger in his heart. Before and after, he would give hundreds of coins to Bao Lao every year, but he didn't expect it to be like this.

"Come on, second sister, brother hug." Bao Bushu saw that his sister had no clothes at all, layers of black, and he didn't know how long he hadn't bathed.

Bao Bushu looked at the place where the rice was cooked. In fact, it was a place like a fire pit. There were three stones. A black pot was suspended above the stones. The rice and water were all boiled on it.

There is still water in the water tank, and some straws are used for cooking. Although there are many trees in this world, they all have their own owners. If you get them that are not yours, you will be beaten. Being despised, even if you are beaten, the government will not treat you, but will punish you. In this era, there is a name called enlightenment.

If the crime rate rises within the range that you, an official, manages for a year, or if some major case occurs, then the chief official of this place will be unlucky. On the contrary, if the crime rate is low, or if there are a few scholars, it will be bad luck. Enlightened meritorious service.

Therefore, when it comes to crimes, the chief officer also tends to kill one less than one.

Only specialized woodcutters go to those remote mountainous areas where there are no people to cut firewood, and then come to sell it.

That's why Bao Bushu's family doesn't have much income a year. Everything needs money. Farming needs to pay rent, irrigation needs to pay water fees, and ditches need to be worked hard. Oil and salt cost money, soy sauce, vinegar, etc. They are not eaten by ordinary poor people.

When cooking, just rub a piece of fat oil in the pot with the hot pot for a while, and then pour the vegetables into it to cook. When you are not busy, you put less salt, and you need money for farm tools and renting cattle.

Therefore, the rent from the tenant farmers to the landlord does not seem to be much, but the sum of other miscellaneous things, including seeds, etc., is nothing left.

"Come on, Second Sister, take a bath." Bao Bushu walked over and hugged his younger sister, although the younger sister was a little skeptical, but how could a three-year-old child hide from being tied up.

"Come on, let's eat." Bao Bushu bathed the second younger sister, and then stuffed the candy into the younger sister's mouth.

The second sister put the candy in her mouth, her cheeks puffed up, she bought new clothes for her sister, and put them on. These are old clothes remade, and they cost two sets of ten cents.

Bao Bushu took out another red-headed rope and tied up her sister's hair. Looking at her sister, Bao Bushu thought of his daughter in his previous life.But my daughter is living a heavenly life in comparison.

Bao Bushu saw that it was getting dark, so he started cooking. When Bao Bushu came back this time, the Yang family gave him some food and salt.

Grab a few handfuls of millet, mince the meat, put some salt in it, and then add some pumpkin or something, and a pot of meat porridge is ready.

The younger sister has been following Bao Bushu, but she still doesn't know how to call, but the meal is ready, and the younger sister is drooling next to the pot.

"Who?" Just as the meal was ready, a woman's voice came from outside.

"Mother!" Bao Bushu took a look, it wasn't who his old mother was, and he didn't feel uncomfortable at all. Although he was born in two lives, he was raised on milk after all.

"Little book?" This woman is carrying a bundle of grass. This grass is used to light the fire. The poor will not return empty-handed when they go out. They will bring back some wild vegetables and weeds. Sometimes they work with the landlord. They will hide things in the ground. If you are lazy, you can’t find the things inside. Humph, they are all food. When weeding is busy, some landlords will hide wine, meat and eggs in the ground. Yes, it is easy for such a master to find helpers, and of course there are some stingy ones.

"Mother." Bao Bushu looked at his old mother's bent waist and patched clothes, and almost cried.

"Xiaoshu, you, why are you back? Are you from the Yang family..." The old lady who couldn't wrap the book then realized that the servants are not of age, that is, they are not allowed to leave the house until they are 13 years old, so they left the grass, asked.

"The master allowed me to come back, mother, come in and talk about it." Bao Bushu saw that there was no sign of Bao Bao, and his heart became more and more dissatisfied, but before the matter was clarified, Bao Bushu would not say anything. What.

"Mother, I will follow the young master to Qingyun Academy in a few days, and I won't be able to come back to see you often. This time, the master asked me to come back and brought you something." Bao Bushu explained.

"Okay, okay, my son's life is good." Bao Bushu's old lady is a farmer's wife, kind-hearted, but Bao's father is a bit hateful, there is nothing in the house, and he will go to gamble, Bao Bushu's old lady wiped her tears , while speaking.

"Mother, did Dad go to gamble again? I have paid hundreds of Wen every year for the past two years, and I haven't bought anything at home. Also, I gave a bag of potatoes a few days ago, why didn't I have any? "Bao Bushu asked.

"Your father didn't say anything." The old lady who couldn't write a book was stunned when she heard this. Hundreds of Wen, this is a huge sum of money.

"Let's eat." Hearing these words, Bao Bushu was heartbroken. In this world, Bao Bushu had no interest in gambling, no matter in his previous life or in this life, because a classmate of Bao Bushu's school in his previous life, Because of gambling, I jumped off the building in the end, and the usury was hundreds of thousands, all of which were passed on. My classmate’s father was an ordinary migrant worker. He heard that the loan shark owed hundreds of thousands, and the weekly interest was an astronomical figure. I jumped off the building first, my classmate Maybe it was because of coercion, maybe it was because of other reasons. After going home to bury his father, he also jumped off the tallest building in the city where the school is located, but just like that, there is nothing wrong with those group of loan sharks, let alone those underground casinos up.

Bao Ermei's belly was rolling, and she fell asleep in Bao Bushu's arms. Looking at her younger sister's thin body, Bao Bushu became even more angry.

"The meal is ready... no book?" Father Bao shouted in the courtyard, and when he entered the door, he found Bao Bushu looking at him, a little surprised.

Bao Bushu didn't say anything, when his father finished his meal, Bao Bushu said: "Father, I'm going to Qingyun Academy next month, and mother and second sister will go to Yang's compound every month. To receive fifty Wen, the mother and the second younger sister are one short, and the compound will not give a single."

"Bastard..." Father Bao stood up and shouted when he heard this.

"I'm a member of the Yang family now. You sold it to the Yang family. I don't care if I give it to you or not." Bao Bushu looked at Father Bao and said.

"Son..." Bao Bushu's mother said weakly when she saw this scene.

"Mother, don't talk. Take the money I give you in the future, and you should take care of it yourself. The second sister is so thin, so don't give the money to dad. He's been a gambler all his life. He's nothing. Don't count on him." No book is said face to face.

"You bastard..." Father Bao cursed loudly when he heard this.

"Father, I'm a bastard, and you are a bastard. Don't expect to get money from me in the future. I have given you no less than a thousand yuan in the past few years. There are still things. Look at home, mother's clothes, sister's Clothes, you don’t want to be successful in this life, and you better not stare at me, I am a member of the Yang family now, I just hit you, try hitting me?” As an adult, Bao Bushu didn’t give up at all. Don't be afraid of Father Bao's vicious look, what Bao Bushu said is right, Bao Bushu is registered in the government as a member of the Yang family, the reason why he returned home is because of filial piety, if Bao Bushu is not filial, there is no What, of course the Yang family can't stop Bao Bushu from going home to visit his parents, that would violate filial piety and be accused by others.

Father Bao snorted, then slammed the door and walked out, Bao Bushu looked at his father like this, and sighed inwardly.

"Son, he is your father after all, you..." the old woman who couldn't write a book persuaded her in a low voice.

　PS: I have recommended tickets, but I have collected them, where did I go?

　　


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