"Why is Widow's Lane called such a name, widow is really ugly," Xia Xian said with a disgusted face.
"Widow's Alley, because there are so many widows living in the alley."
Xiao You replied, and Qiu Mei squirted out a sip of tea, "Why are widows still getting together, by the way, your aunt is not wrong, she is also a widow." ” "It's all like me and A-Niang, earn a day's money to eat a day's food, that alley, say it's an alley, in fact, there is only one yard in it, a family, the yard is very big, there are big and small in the house, there is really no money, and others squeeze a room, when I and A-Niang just moved over, it was squeezed into a room with the other two, and there were three small beds in the house, and there was no room for a foothold, and then A-Niang made money, so we rented a small room by ourselves, and then moved out."
Xiaoyou said that A-Niang, her tone was full of sadness and nostalgia.
"Let's take a look in a while" Qiu Mei and Xia Xian listened sadly, Qiu Mei cheered up and suggested with a smile.
"I don't want to see anything to see at all, have another cup of tea, let's go, see now, I don't have any idea at all."
Xiaoyou refused, Qiu Mei heard her mention that she had no idea, and immediately cried and lost her face, "If I don't have an idea today, I won't go back" Xia Xian pursed her lips and glanced at her, Qiu Mei met Xia Xian's disdainful gaze, and immediately changed her mouth, "I mean, go back first and come back." ” "Alright, let's go."
Xiao You took a picture of the tea money, and the three of them walked out of the tea house, and then walked forward.
After walking a few steps, they arrived at the widow's alley that Xiao You said, and the three of them couldn't help but slow down, Qiu Mei and Xia Qian picked up their toes and looked curiously into the alley that looked very dark.
At the mouth of the alley, a very dirty female beggar who couldn't see her age shrank back, shrunk again, and shrank into the corner of the wall one by one.
Xiao You looked at the beggar strangely, Qiu Mei looked into the alley several times, but saw nothing, retracted her gaze in disappointment, and followed Xiao You's gaze to the female beggar.
"Hey" Qiumei's strengths, in addition to sleeping lightly, the other is the ability to recognize people and remember people, the beggar in front of him, how to look at how familiar.
Qiu Mei took a few steps forward and bent down to see the female beggar, who covered her face with her hands, climbed into the widow's alley, and fled into the alley with her hands on the wall.
"Hey" Qiu Mei's eyes widened, pointing at the female beggar and screaming hey, and suddenly chased in with her skirt.
Xiao You and Xia Xian were inexplicable, following Qiu Mei, chasing and shouting, "What's going on, do you know?"
As Xiao You said, the widow's alley is very short, Qiu Mei chased into the yard in a few steps, looked left and right, and went straight to the female beggar who was cowering in a kennel-like shack in the corner with her back to the courtyard gate.
"You are Yumo" Qiu Mei bent down and looked at the female beggar with her head buried between her legs, and the whole person was curled up in a ball.
"What" Xia Xian exclaimed, isn't Yumo Gu Niangzi's girl, why did she become like this, oh my God Yumo's head was buried tighter, and his whole body was shaking, and from that mess of filth, he vaguely denied it, "No, no" "You're Yumo, I'm sure I won't admit it."
Qiu Mei squatted down, pushed Yumo's shoulders hard, and pushed Yumo's head up between her legs, "Why are you here?"
Qiu Mei looked at the thin and formless, her mouth was full of blood scabs, and Yumo, who was three points of people and seven points of ghosts, was sad and speechless, she didn't like Yumo, from the beginning to the present, she didn't like this person, just like she didn't like Aunt Gu, but when she saw such Yumo in front of her, she was still sad and kept shedding tears.
"Look at you, how did you become like this, you're sick, you" Qiu Mei was sad and didn't know what to say.
Xiao You squatted down, from the bottom to the bottom, picking up the torn clothes on Yumo's body that could barely cover his body, looking at Yumo's festering feet and legs, arms and hands, and sighed, "This is the frostbite of winter, why is it so rotten like this, the head is so hot, and it has been burning for a few days."
Yumo's head hung low, not moving, and he didn't speak.
"It's not that you're like Aunt Gu, and you're also an aunt" Xia Xian bent down to look at Yumo and asked, but Yumo didn't move and didn't answer.
"It's not that you" Qiu Mei knew more, asked half a sentence, and then didn't ask any further, the second master said at the time that if she was smart, she should escape from the capital, the farther away the better, but it is so easy to escape from the capital.
"How long have you been sick Yumo, you say something, I'm Qiu Mei, you must still remember me, we both quarreled, this is Xia Xian, this is Sister Xiaoyou, you all know each other, they are all acquaintances, we all know about you, although we have quarreled in the past, alas, don't talk about this, how did you get to this point?"
Xiao You gently pulled Qiu Mei, who kept talking, "Don't say it, Yumo, this is a silver ticket of five taels, this is the two of you who still have money on you."
Xiao You said halfway, turned around and asked Qiu Mei and Xia Xian, Qiu Mei and Xia Xian didn't have many copper coins, they all took out and handed them to Xiao You, Xiao You stuffed all the copper coins, together with the five taels of silver tickets, into Yumo's arms.
"There are dozens of copper coins here, you take it, remember, first go to Perfume Lane to take a bath, buy clean clothes to wear, and then take the silver ticket to Yinzhuang to exchange copper coins, exchange the money, go to a doctor to see, your legs, as well as this hand, this arm, if you drag it again, it will be crippled."
Xiao You explained very carefully, Yumo raised his head and looked at Xiao You, tears rolling in his eyes.
"Let's go, in a few days, Qiu Mei and I, and Xia Xian will come to see you again, don't worry, the three of us won't mention seeing you with anyone.
Let's go. ” After Xiao You finished speaking, she motioned to Qiu Mei and Xia Xian to go, Qiu Mei walked to the gate of the courtyard, looked back at the silver and copper coins that were tightly clutched, looked straight at their jade ink, turned around with a hard heart, followed Xiao You who strode to stay in the stars, and went out of the alley, none of the three of them wanted to talk, and stood in the alley for a long time, Qiu Mei sighed, "I'm sad, don't go shopping, go back." ” Xiao You snorted, and the three of them went back listlessly in the direction of Li Mansion.
As soon as the night fell, Ning Yuan turned sideways, slipped in through the corner gate, and slipped along the shade of the corner tree towards Li Tong's courtyard.
Familiar with the way over the daughter wall, into the moon cave door, Ning Yuan stopped, raised his hand to straighten his head, and then straightened his clothes from top to bottom, coughed lightly, took a step, hurriedly paused, took out the folding fan from his arms, shook it open and closed, and then moved forward, jumped a few steps briskly, and went to the verandah
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