Hua'er shook his head and sat back slumped. She realized that she said a lot of things she shouldn't have said because she was worried about Fei Nu. She was out of control. She was so sad. Xiao Laosan was lost and the cat in Baiqiling died. On this day of Xiaonian, all the joy of this year was gone.
She sat there and felt the sun gradually getting higher, and the room gradually felt warm. She didn't know what else to say, but she didn't speak, and Bai Qiling also sat there without speaking. The two men experienced a silent confrontation.
Bai Qiling was not very good at sensing other people's emotions, but the person in front of him today was uncharacteristically uncharacteristic. It was as if the bones in his body had been taken away, and his fighting spirit was completely gone. Isn't she used to acting? Doesn't she know how to be submissive and act arrogantly? Why does she look like she's dead?
Bai Qiling stepped forward and kicked her, but it wasn't really a kick. He lightly tapped her leg with his toe, and with a little force, she moved and raised her eyes to look at him. He kicked again and she was still like this.
"Dead?" Bai Qiling asked her.
She shook her head, held her mouth shut, and said with a despairing look, "It's my third brother who is missing, and my mother is crazy."
"How did you lose it?"
"I don't know. We had a great time after drinking wine last night. We were all drunk and couldn't hear anything going on outside. When we woke up in the middle of the night, we lost it. Ah Hu chased us all the way to the outside of the city and saw two people. There were two men, one holding a knife and the other holding something like a child. He started fighting with them. But they actually responded. Ah Hui was knocked unconscious. I don’t know why they didn’t kill him. But when he opened his eyes, Xiao San My brother is gone, completely gone." Hua'er stretched out her arms: "My third brother is so old..."
She started talking nonsense: "They all say that Mr. Bai is in the secret business. Does Mr. Bai recognize those people who steal children? In the past, some people said that they stole children and took out the bones to make soup for the officials. , a child can be sold for a lot of money...Does Mr. Bai know them? I will work for Mr. Bai for no money from now on, Mr. Bai can help me, okay...ok?"
Hua'er grabbed his trouser leg and put her head on it: "If Aunt Wang stutters, she will give it to me. She can hardly produce milk herself. She goes to work as a helper, and she will give me half of the steamed buns that others give her. Woolen cloth…"
Bai Qiling didn't speak. He knelt down, grabbed her collar and asked her to look at him. He asked softly, "Do you know why Ah Hui didn't die?"
Hua'er shook her head in confusion.
Bai Qiling shouted: "Hmph General!"
General Heng walked in and opened his sleeves. A lot of blood oozed from the cloth wrapped around his left arm. General Heng was also nosy, and when something happened suddenly, he ran away with Ah Hui before he had time to reply. I ran out of the city and saw Ah Hui fighting with someone. At first he looked like he could win, but suddenly there were a few more people on the other side. Ah Hui was knocked to the ground, and the general said, "Not good!" He went out to save people with his face covered. He was very good at martial arts, and although he suffered a loss, he still saved Ah Hui.
"Who are they?" Hua'er asked Bai Qiling: "Who are they?"
"It doesn't matter who it is, as long as you know, I can't help you with this. I am not a person with eyes and hands. In this troubled world, people step on others, and there are people above them. If you steal a child and there are so many people to take care of it, it's not something I can do. and."
Bai Qiling waved his hand for Heng to go down, and continued: "Whoever kills my cat will definitely die. You can see it with your own eyes later."
"Does the Yamen not care..."
Bai Qiling's mouth moved, wanting to laugh at her naivety. He picked her up and walked a few steps and opened the door. A man was tied up in a kung fu frame outside at some point. His head was covered with a black cloth and his body was covered with bruises. The bloodstained flowers on the sleeves looked familiar, and then he looked at the figure. Hua'er panicked and grabbed Bai Qiling: "Second Master Bai, I beg you, Second Master Bai..."
Bai Qiling ignored her begging for mercy and ordered Haoying: "Do it."
When the hawk's short knife pierced the man's neck, Hua'er's screams came out at the same time. She cried and crawled to the kung fu stand. She stood up and pressed the man's bleeding neck, crying: "Fei Nu... Fei Nu... "The man is dead and there is no more sound. Hua'er looked back at Bai Qiling: "Save him...save him...I beg you..."
Haoying pulled off the man's mask, it was not Fei Nu. Hua'er was stunned there, even forgetting to breathe, and fell to the ground.
"Bring her in."
"yes."
The eagle took the flowers in, put them on the collapse, and took care of them. He didn't ask Bai Qiling why he wanted to scare her. He could probably guess that knocking on the mountain would frighten the tiger. Although it was not a tiger, it was just a pawn of a trafficker. He finally let Fei Nu go. Bai Qiling does not kill innocent people. Yesterday Mao'er was killed quietly, and he only suspected Fei Nu. The fei slave was caught by the cat, and was scratched by the cat and was not allowed to enter the Bai Mansion. He was full of resentment from the beginning to the end. He is the most suspicious.
When Hua'er woke up again, she realized that the room was very warm. She was covered with a thin quilt and lying on a soft place. Is it the underworld? The underworld is so good. she thinks. The underworld is so nice, but does it have a table of food and wine and good clothes? Is there that moving little tune singing?
"Get up when you wake up." Bai Qiling, who was sitting in front of the desk and flipping through books, said this when he saw her writhing on the floor.
His voice brought Hua'er back to her senses, and she sat up and looked at him blankly.
"Mr. Bai, do you have anything else to do with your servant today?" Hua'er asked.
"No."
"Just flowers to see how you kill people?"
Bai Qiling remained silent and asked Haoying to send her away. Bai Qiling's heart was too hard. Hua'er knew that there were not many good people among the officials and businessmen in Yanzhuo City, but she saw someone like Bai Qiling who killed people without blinking an eye and didn't take the Yamen seriously at all. She saw him again.
The man's blood was very hot, and her paper coat was covered with blood. At this moment, she could smell the blood on her body. Her stomach was churning, she hurriedly covered her mouth, and hurriedly opened the door to get some air. The cold wind blew against her, and large flakes of snow fell on her head. At that time, everything was empty, and the huge courtyard was filled with white snow, as if the killing just now had never happened.
Hua'er was very scared, holding the pillar with both hands, not knowing what to do for a moment.
"Go back and celebrate the New Year." Haoying reminded from the side.
"Oh." She said, but did not move.
She was frightened.
Can't come back to my senses.
On her first night as a watchman, she heard a faint cry, and the next day she heard her neck being wiped. At that time, she was still thinking about how to die by wiping the neck, but she saw it today. She realized that Bai Qiling didn't kill her because she was a useful "thing", and he didn't kill Feinu probably because Feinu was useful to him. But he wants to scare Fei Nu and tell him that you are not allowed to touch things in Bai Qiling. Sooner or later, if you do, you will be killed one day.
Hua'er's mind was in confusion, and her messy hair fell down when she lowered her head. She walked into the wind and snow and looked back at Bai Qiling. He stood under the verandah and met her gaze.
People are knives and servants, and I am fish and meat.
Everyone has a knife and a knife, everyone has fish and meat.
Hua'er understood today how to stand in this troubled world. The outright good guys live on their knees, while the ruthless villains have the final say.
Haoying accompanied her out of the White Mansion, following behind her.
On this day of the Lunar New Year, the streets and alleys of Sixteenth Street are really lively, and every house smells of meat in the evening. Red lanterns were hung from the beginning of the alley to the end of the alley, and the Sun Mansion also invited opera singers, whose melodious operatic voices could reach two miles away. She listened for a while and even heard laughter inside the wall. The corner door creaked open, and a woman in a cloak walked out, holding a basket on her right arm. She kept walking in the long alley, and when she passed by Hua'er, she felt that the face seemed familiar, but because of the chaos of the day, she really couldn't remember who it was.
The girl stood in front of her and spoke in a really powerful tone: "Isn't this the girl who came to Sun's house to serve the dishes that day? The one with frivolous hands and feet!"
Hua'er finally remembered that this was the big girl named Lingdang. Before she could speak, Lingdang continued: "Hurry home and change clothes! Why are you running outside on New Year's Eve?" After saying that, he covered his nose and looked at the blood on her body: "With this blood, even wild dogs will chase you." Here!" After saying that, he took out two white steamed buns from the bamboo basket and stuffed them into her: "Let's go, let's go!"
Without waiting for Hua'er's answer, she turned and left.
Only then did she remember that her grandmother was waiting for her at home. She looked down at the blood on her body and, fearing to scare her, took off her coat and put it on in the ice and snow. Fei Nu came to look for her. She saw him from a distance and was frightened. He turned to Hae Ying and said, "Hae Ying, don't send me away. Go back and celebrate the New Year."
Haoying glanced at Feinu, turned around and left.
Hua'er ran towards Fei Nu, grabbed his sleeve and started running. While running, Fei Nu asked her: "Hua'er, why are you so panicked?"
Hua'er ran to a deserted place, panting heavily, and said sternly: "Brother Fei Nu, let me ask you, did you kill the wild cat in Bai Mansion?"
Fei Nu's face was full of confusion: "Why should I kill a wild cat?"
"You came back last night and your sleeves were covered in blood!"
"It fell on the dock. If you don't believe me, ask Fang Er!"
Hua'er refused to believe it, so Fei Nu pulled her and said, "Let's go and ask now." Then he saw that her clothes were on inside out and there was blood on her collar. He asked Hua'er what happened, but Hua'er refused to tell him and just said to him: "You swear to me, you didn't kill the wild cat in Bai Mansion!"
"No!" Fei Nu said anxiously: "What will the wild cat do to me if it dies?"
The breath that Hua'er was holding in her heart finally slowly came out, and she squatted on the ground slumped. She thought: Fortunately, Fang Er can testify, and fortunately Fei Nu did not do such stupid things.
Before entering the house, she stood outside the door to calm down for a long time, then she pretended to be happy and shouted: "Grandma, I'm back!" When she rushed into the house, Grandma Sun answered her, and she ran to grab a new coat and ran inside to change her clothes. Then he threw away the tattered paper fur, and then he finally went on with the work and had New Year's Eve dinner with Grandma Sun.
After dinner, she lay on Grandma Sun's lap and listened to her read about her grandfather. Whenever this happened, Hua'er felt happy. After a whole day of chaos and chaos, her heart was finally at peace. She secretly shed a tear and wiped it away. Then she opened her mouth and said, "Grandpa is really thoughtful!"
After grandma went to bed, she went to see Xian Chan.
Poor Xianchan was sitting at the door of her house wiping her tears after watching the crazy Aunt Wang all day. Hua'er comforted her and asked her what her next plan was. Xianchan shook her head: "I don't know. The doctor came again today and said that my mother wanted to drink seven prescriptions and that she could not leave her." All this. Money is needed, but Hua'er understands. She still has twenty coins and the basket of things that Bai Qiling rewarded her with.
Xian Chan refused to take it because she still had Sun Po to support, so the two refused for a while and finally gave up. Later, Zhao came out of work in the snow at night. Xianchan refused to pay attention to him. He put down a money bag and stood there for a long time before leaving.
The next day, Xianchan went to the Mo workshop early and pulled Master Mo to a place where no one was around. As if he had made a strong determination, he twisted the fabric with his fingers and bit his lips until they bled.
Master Mo asked her, "Have you thought about it?"
Xian Chan nodded: "Think about it."
"Even at the risk of being beheaded?"
"yes."
Master Mo sighed and said: "There is no right or wrong in the world, just winning or losing. To settle down and settle down, right and wrong are all based on one's ability. If you bet on the right bet, the pot will overflow, if you bet on the wrong bet, the bet will be full of losses. From now on, you are on your way. "
Xian Chan lowered his head, slowly touched the words on it with his trembling fingertips, and let out a soft cry.
