The young guard Zhao Xiong looked at Chongzhen with a blank expression, he didn't understand why His Majesty was angry with him. However, in his entire life education, he cultivated a sense of awe for the superiors, so that he immediately reflexively knelt down to ask the emperor for his guilt.

* Eyesight quickly grabbed Zhao Xiong's arm and didn't let him kneel. And interrupted his plea in a loud voice, "Are you crazy, there are dragons and snakes mixed here, do you want to attract the attention of others?" ”

Zhu Youzhen also quickly understood, whether it was Zhao Xiong or others, they didn't think that Zhao Xiong had done anything wrong by pushing the beggar away. On the contrary, if this little beggar touched his body, it was their real sin.

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and asked Zhao Xiong to put away his posture of pleading. He bypassed Zhao Xiong, walked to the beggar who fell to the ground, bent down to her and asked, "Are you okay?" Did you fall somewhere? ”

Walking in front of this beggar, Zhu Youzhen realized that the child was short, and seemed to be smaller than he had just guessed, about seven or eight years old.

Zhang Qiniang looked at the young master squatting in front of her in horror, this young master's appearance looked similar to the young master of the Xu family in the village where she lived, the young master of the Xu family commanded the slaves to drive their family out of the village, and that fierce appearance still makes her unforgettable. Therefore, after Zhu Youzhen, who was very similar to the young master of the Xu family, appeared in front of her, she was so scared that she couldn't even speak.

Looking at the frightened tears of the child in front of him, Zhu Youzhen also scratched his head a little, he had no experience in coaxing children.

Zhu Youzhen looked up and looked around, and found that there was a wonton bun shop diagonally opposite. He straightened up and said, "Go and ask for a bowl of chaos on the other side, and ask for a few more buns." ”

* Hurriedly walked over after agreeing, Zhu Youzhen lowered his head again, stretched out his hand to the child and said gently: "Come, as long as you don't cry, will the big brother invite you to eat?" ”

Zhang Yiniang blinked her eyes and held back her tears, she looked at the strange young master in front of her, and didn't understand what he wanted to do. The young master of the Xu family in the village often tempted his fellow villagers with his own food, and when the companions in the village were fooled, he would turn his face and throw the food on the ground and stomp on it with his feet, and then force those companions to eat the food covered with dust.

This kind of game seems to make the young master of the Xu family happy for a day, and he will come to play for a while every three or five days. And the companions in the village don't seem to have any memory, and they will be bullied by the young master of the Xu family every time.

Zhang Yiniang once asked her brother why, but the brother who had read for a few days just blackened his face and didn't speak. Zhang Qiniang thought, "Does this young master in the capital also want to play this game?" Otherwise, she would have begged the young master to leave two buns and not to step on them, so that she could take them back for her brother to eat, who hadn't eaten for more than a day. ”

Zhu Youzhen didn't know what the child in front of him was thinking. Watching the little kid tremble and stretch out his hand, he thought about taking it back. Zhu Youzhen grabbed her hand a little impatiently and wanted to pull her up from the ground.

But he quickly stopped moving, when the child just fell, his hand was cut by a broken porcelain piece, seeing that she still wanted to rub her hand on the loess on the ground, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but say: "Don't move, the wound will be infected." ”

Before Zhang Yiniang could understand what the young master meant by the infection, suddenly her whole body was pulled up from the ground. Under Zhu Youzhen's hand, he walked towards the wonton bun shop opposite.

Zhu Youzhen found a table and sat down under the pergola outside the shop, and then ordered the guards around him to fetch a bucket of water, carefully cleaned the wounds for Zhang Miniang, and then tied her with a handkerchief.

At this time, the boss also sent Chaos and Buns up, and seeing that a few of his people occupied a table in the bun shop, Zhu Youzhen also felt a little embarrassed.

"Boss, 5 more bowls of wontons and 10 meat buns." Zhu Youzhen shouted, but saw that the boss did not agree, but was a little overwhelmed there.

Wang Chengen reminded Zhu Youzhen in a whisper: "Son, it's the shopkeeper." Immediately, Wang Chengen re-ordered the boss of the bun shop, and then saw the boss nod and agree to go to the wontons.

Zhu Youzhen smiled awkwardly at Wang Chengen and said, "Slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue for a while." Looking at the steaming wontons and buns in front of her, Zhang Qiniang's saliva was about to flow down, but she didn't dare to do it.

"Why don't you eat it? Is it too hot? Zhu Youzhen tested the temperature of the wonton bowl with his hand, and then pushed it towards Zhang Yiniang.

"Can I really eat it?" Zhang Qiniang bit her fingers and asked cautiously. Zhu Youzhen touched her head and said, "Eat, be careful, don't burn it." Hearing this crisp voice, Zhu Youzhen realized that this beggar was actually a girl.

Wang Chengen was silent on the surface, but he was surprised in his heart, and he didn't know why Chongzhen was so good to a beggar. And the three brocade guards who sat opposite Chongzhen were like sitting on pins and needles, eating at the same table with the emperor, which made them tremble, lest there be any rude actions.

Rao is that the weather is so cool today, even slightly cold. The three brocade guards were sweating profusely, as if they had taken a sauna.

The wonton skin of the Ming Dynasty is thick and filling, the boss's craftsmanship is not very good, and the seasoning is only salt water and aged vinegar, "It would be nice if there was some chili oil." Zhu Youzhen tasted a wonton and stopped, thinking secretly in his heart.

Wang Chengen and the three brocade guards were all eaten, which made Zhu Youzhen admire the good appetite of these people. But he didn't know that these people were also eaten raw. Because it is calculated, this is equivalent to Chongzhen's food.

Zhu Youzhen lowered his head and found that Zhang Yiniang had actually finished eating the wontons in her bowl, and her eyes were looking straight at the chaos she had eaten.

Zhu Youzhen pushed his bowl over and said to Zhang Qiniang: "It's not enough, just eat mine." ”

Zhang Qiniang held the blue flower bowl tightly with both hands. Jumping down from the stool carefully, "Can I bring it back to my brother?" He hadn't eaten in over a day. ”

"Brother? How about him? Zhu Youzhen couldn't help asking.

"It rained the night before yesterday and I slept there yesterday and couldn't get up. Today I called him, and he ignored me. Zhang Qiniang said and tears flowed down.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, "If you sleep and don't respond, it won't be dead." In this era of lack of medical treatment, there are many people who fall ill and die from the rain. Even the emperor's brother Apocalypse only fell into the water once, and he caught a cold, and even the emperor could die because of a small cold, let alone ordinary civilians. ”

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while and said, "Big brother will accompany you to see your brother, okay?" ”

"Okay." At this time, Zhang Yiniang showed the lively nature of a child. looked at Zhang Qiniang holding the wontons in her hand, and then looked at the leftover buns on the table, showing a dilemma.

Zhu Youzhen instructed Wang Chengen: "Let the store take something, pack up the buns and take them away." ”

At this time, the shopkeeper saw the sea bowl in Zhang Miniang's arms, and couldn't help but say in embarrassment: "A few guest officers, this bowl can't be taken away, the small shop is a small business." ”

Wang Chengen stopped him, threw out a piece of broken silver on the table, and said, "Including the bowl, it should be enough, right?" ”

The owner of the bun shop looked at the silver that was eight or nine cents, and immediately took the silver away with his hand, and said with a smile: "Enough, enough." The guest officer is good to go, come back next time. ”

Wang Chengen was about to leave, looking at the back of Chongzhen, who was walking into the alley with the beggar, he suddenly turned back and asked the owner of the bun shop: "What kind of foot was that beggar just now, do you know?" ”

The boss nodded and replied, "Oh, that's a pair of fugitive brothers and sisters from Shanxi. It is said that because of his mother's illness, his father pawned the family's fields, but the people were not cured, and they encountered a drought, and the fields were not harvested, and finally the creditor took over the house, so he had to come to the capital to join an aunt who married far away.

However, the family had a bad year, and his father also fell ill and died on the road, leaving only the brother and sister to finally get to the capital, but they didn't find the aunt who married in the capital. I see that his brother hasn't come out for two days, and I'm afraid it's also a lot of bad luck..."

When Wang Chengen was asking the boss for news, Zhu Youzhen and Zhang Yuniang had already walked outside the door of a backyard in Hengxiang. Looking at a piece of dead vine sticking out of the gap in the courtyard door, it was obvious that the door had not been opened for a long time.

Zhu Youzhen was puzzled, Zhang Miniang's brother was at that time, but he found that Zhang Miniang carefully removed a wooden board on the side of the courtyard gate, and then a big hole was exposed, and Zhang Miniang got into the hole.

After Zhang Qiniang entered, she also showed her head and said to Zhu Youzhen: "Big brother, you can come in from here." ”

"Okay, I see, you go in first." Zhu Youzhen waved his hand at her and said. After watching Zhang Yiniang disappear into the hole, Zhao Xiong easily climbed over the wall and opened the locked courtyard door from the inside.

After entering the courtyard gate, I saw a deserted garden overgrown with weeds, and it seemed that this should be the other business of some family that had been abandoned.

There was only one relatively complete building in the garden, and Zhu Youzhen and the others walked into the building along the path that was stepped out by Zhang Qiniang's brothers and sisters.

The exterior of the building looks fairly intact, but when you walk in, you find that the roof in the east half has disappeared, and only the west side barely covers a corner of the roof.

Zhang Qiniang, who had just run in, was kneeling on the edge of the west corner, and in front of her lay a young man, estimated to be about the same age as Zhu Youzhen.

There was some hay under him, and under the shaking of Zhang Miniang, he didn't make any sound, Zhu Youzhen's first impression was that this person was probably dead.

But when he walked in, he found that the boy had not lost his breath. However, his face was flushed, and it was obvious that he was in a bad condition.

Zhu Youzhen was about to get closer, but he stopped in front of him and whispered, "Childe, please don't get closer, I'm afraid you'll be sick." ”