Old shadow of the Republic of China 87

It was late, and as it got into the night, Lin Dehai went out of the yard and walked away step by step with his neck shrinking.r>

Lin's mother stood in the yard. Although she couldn't see Lin Dehai's back clearly, she still stood stubbornly. Although she hated him and hated him in her heart, as long as there was a child between the two, she would never become a stranger.

That night, Lin's mother did not fall asleep. When it was dawn, she sold the braised meat from her house step by step to the young man who had been waiting in the restaurant outside. At this time, it was getting bright, so she closed the door, left the yard, avoided the main road, and set foot on the small road leading to the city.

When she arrived in the city, it was getting late. She went straight to a remote medicine shop. She looked at the white banners with the words "medicine" waving in the wind, and her heart suddenly became chaotic. She rubbed the old purse in her hand, and for a moment, her feet were nailed to the spot like a nail. Do you really have to go to this point? She closed her eyes, it was easy to think, but it was difficult to do.

Just when she didn't know whether to move forward or backward, she suddenly heard a "Bah" and then her face became wet. She subconsciously looked at her, and saw an eleven or 2-year-old boy staring at her fiercely. He knew this child, his mother was bullied by Chen Jiren, and the woman couldn't think of it and jumped into the well. Only such a child was left, with two younger brothers and sisters. Suddenly, she seemed to have seen Huaizi from many years ago. She didn't raise her hand to wipe the spit on her face, but suddenly her heart became swelling and painful. Over the years, she was so confused that she was so indifferent to seeing the beast doing so many dirty things? Now, this child spits on her face, and one day she will spit on Huaizi and the others.

After realizing, the child had already walked away. She then raised her hand and wiped her face clean with her sleeve, then covered her face with a cloth towel, then opened the curtain and entered the medicine shop. But this time she was more determined.

Lin Dehai saw all of this in the breakfast shop opposite the pharmacy, and then he felt relieved to break the fried dough into pieces and throw it into soy milk, and started eating it. Thinking of the boy who was full of ruthless eyes just now, his heart couldn't help but feel soft. Widow Liu always felt that she had no children and had no support, but he thought this boy was good. When this matter was over, he would take the child to harvest the adopted son. If he had a bite of his own, he would be indispensable. I think Widow Liu had nothing to do with him. When he had thought about it, he kept asking the shopkeeper at the shop in a calm manner.

But when Lin's mother entered the pharmacy, the young man quickly greeted him: "Are you going to see a doctor or get medicine?"

Lin's mother walked up, opened the old purse, took out a yellowed prescription from it and handed it over, "Get the medicine, just follow this."

The young man responded, took the prescription in his hand and looked at it, then frowned and said, "Auntie, what disease did your prescription cure? Why can't I understand?" He has been apprenticing for several years, and he probably has a clear understanding of what the disease of this medicine is. But this prescription seems to be a little toxic. If you are mixed with it, what kind of medicine is it? Who knows. He kindly advised, "Where did you get this folk remedy? I told you, auntie, sometimes this folk remedy is unreliable..."

Lin's mother reached out to get the prescription back, "I just said if you have this medicine, right?"

The guy choked, and his kindness was taken as a donkey's liver and lungs. "Yes, but you..."

"Catch it if you have it." Lin's mother put the money on the table, "Come on."

The young man coughed and laughed, "There is a medicine inside, I'll take it in." As he said that, he took the prescription and lifted the curtain to the back hall.

In less than two minutes, an old doctor came out from it, "Old sister-in-law, is this prescription yours?"

Lin's mother nodded: "Can't you catch it?"

The old doctor smiled, "Yes! You can catch it. But after this, don't say that the prescription was taken from us."

"I understand the rules." Lin's mother responded quickly.

The old doctor returned the prescription to Lin's mother, "Please hold it. I'll get the medicine for you now."

The young man saw that the master had accurately caught all the medicine without looking at the prescription, and then wrapped it up and handed it over, "You have never been here, and I have never seen it."

Lin's mother took the medicine bag, nodded, turned around and went out immediately.

After the person left, the young man asked the old doctor: "Master, what is the use of this prescription?"

The old doctor glared and said, "Don't inquire. This old prescription has not been seen much in the past few decades. I am so old with you, and I have seen it when I was a medicine boy with my master. It was all used by wealthy families..." As he said that, he warned his little apprentice, "Don't experiment blindly, this thing is not a good thing."

The young man was curious, but he still suppressed this curiosity. His master said that if a doctor wants to be a Taiping doctor, he should know what duty is.

The old doctor looked at the door and sighed, "If the business was not easy to do now, I wouldn't have sold this medicine..."

The young man then hung his head, yes! If he had no money to eat, who would still see a doctor? He would not come to the doctor if he was dying. But if he couldn't stand it, most of the people who came to the pharmacy shop were on credit. If he didn't give medicine, he would just refuse to save him. But if he gave medicine, he could not do this business. Now, it is difficult for this small shop to support their master and apprentice.

In this world, no business is easy to do, not just a pharmacy.

The small breakfast shop opposite didn't sell five kilograms of fried dough sticks in the morning, and only half of the guests came to ask for hot water. At this time, the poor child who was ruined by a traitor was talking about the devastating family. Lin Dehai wrote down what he heard, until he saw Lin's mother coming out of the opposite medicine shop, and then got up to pay the bill and followed her out of the city from afar.

Lin's mother was still walking on the path. No one walked on this path. She didn't want to meet anyone. Quickly enter the village, she hid the medicine in her arms and pressed it with her hands. This prescription was given by her mother when she got married. The mistress of a wealthy family would hold some shameful prescriptions in her hands, which were to cure the concubines and servants in the family. She hadn't had the chance to use this prescription, and the family was defeated and there were no slaves who sold themselves. Killing slaves was not allowed. Besides, there were no servants in the family. She kept this thing as a thought, but she didn't expect it to be used in the end.

When I arrived at the door, I put the medicine bag behind the stone pier beside the gate, grabbed a handful of straw to cover it first. Then I went inside, and before I could enter the door, I heard Chen Jiren's voice, "Where have you been going all day? Why did you come back? You want to starve me to death."

Lin's mother paused, then she opened the curtain and walked in, "I went to buy materials. I didn't expect that the butcher Hu didn't kill pigs today. I walked away a little and wanted to ask. I didn't expect that there were a few stores. Some people didn't sell them to us, and some people sold them out at all. They ran for a day in vain."

Chen Jiren muttered, then said, "Cook the kang quickly and freeze me to death. I didn't buy meat, what should I eat tonight?"

Lin's mother responded in a vague way, "There are two pig's trotters, I'll stew it for you tonight."

As she spoke, she looked outside and it was already half a day, and this person should have arrived.

The pig's trotters in the pot were stewed with milky white soup, and there were cornmeal cakes on the edge of the pot. Lin's mother was about to go out to serve the rice when she heard a knock on the door outside. Her hand holding the spoon trembled and someone came.

"Why are you standing there?" Chen Jiren glanced out, "Go and see who is here?"

"Who else can it be?" A soft female voice responded outside, "You asked someone to invite me, but now I don't know if I really don't know. If I really don't know, I will leave."

Chen Jiren was shocked and jumped up from the kang, "It's Xiaotao! Why are you..." He wanted to ask why you came, but he thought that she said she had invited her over. He knew that if someone had paid for him, the woman would have listened to the wrong way, but she would not take advantage of the bastard, and she was not so stupid as to push people out. He immediately changed his words, "Why did you come? You have been waiting for you for a long time."

Lin's mother's eyelids drooped and she threw the spoon into the pot.

The woman named Xiao Tao lifted the curtain and couldn't get in. She glanced at Chen Jiren with a smile on her face and said frivolously: "There are people in this family, why do you ask me to come here?"

Chen Jiren looked at Lin's mother awkwardly, and saw Lin's mother standing next to the pot with her head down, without saying a word. She didn't know how to say it, but Xiao Tao said, "Don't say that this is your old mother, right? Yes! Even if you, Mr. Chen, is in a downturn, you have some foundation. It's not surprising to have a servant."

"Hahaha..." Chen Jiren smiled, "You are still so good at talking."

Lin's mother followed and snorted, looking anxious, "Aren't I just an old mom?" As she said that, she lifted the curtain and walked out.

Chen Jiren was about to chase after him, but Xiaotao grabbed him, "What's wrong? Are you going to chase him?"

"Of course not." Chen Jiren pointed to the gate of the courtyard, "I just closed the door. Come into the house quickly. The kang is getting hot."

Xiaotao smiled and raised the curtain and went in. Then she used a spoon to scoop the soup in the pot and tasted it, nodding repeatedly, "It tastes pretty good, but it's a little salty, haha! It's not expensive to eat salt!" As she said that, she put the pig's trotters in the pot into a clean basin placed beside the pot, then brought it to the kang table, and sat cross-legged on it.

Chen Jiren saw the situation inside clearly from the gap in the door curtain. Seeing that she was interested in food, she hurriedly chased out and saw Lin's mother standing at the door. He went over to turn Lin's mother's shoulders, "Girl! This little Tao is not an ordinary woman, and behind her is Captain Feng of the Detective Team. I am like this, now I am so old. What do you think people like me? This time I come here for 80% of the business. I am passing the message for Captain Feng. It's hard to say something in front of you, or..." He tentatively said, "Or who you can squeeze in for a night tonight. Maybe Captain Feng and the others will come again in the middle of the night..."

With such a bad reputation, who is willing to take in himself?

This winter is in the twelfth month, I want to freeze myself to death. Although this woman was plotted by Lin Dehai, I still felt chilling when I heard this.

She tried to make her voice normal, "What you said is true?"

"What am I lie to you?" Chen Jiren immediately continued, "I am not a thing anymore. For my son's sake, I can't bring people home..." In fact, he really never thought so. There is still some respect. Isn't this stupid woman coming here by herself? Give her some sweetness, she may not have been able to connect with him and Captain Feng. This is true. He really has plans for this. Although he has nothing now, doesn't he still have a recipe for braised pork at home? Xiao Tao is not young anymore and wants to be a good person. But what do you rely on to make a living after becoming a good person? She has the capital in her hand, and she can definitely support people. I don't believe that she will not work hard with this. He has been thinking about this all day long since last night to today. So speaking, this is really not a lie to Lin's mother.

"Since it's a serious matter..." Lin's mother took a deep breath, "Since it's a serious matter, then this time will not be an example."

As soon as she finished speaking, she headed towards the village.

Lin Dehai looked at her back and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. It was the woman who gave birth to a child for him. He gritted his teeth and whispered: "Don't worry, when I make a comeback, you will be the empress at home, and I will provide for you."

Unfortunately, Lin’s mother couldn’t hear this. Even if she heard it, she was afraid that she would just smile. People would not always be fools and be deceived.

Walking through the village, there was a dilapidated temple two miles away from the village. When she ran to the deserted place at night, she was not afraid. When she arrived at the temple gate, she looked inside through the dilapidated door, as if there was a little fire.

Lin Dehai added firewood to the fire and sang: "Come in. No one except me."

Lin’s mother’s heart fell to the ground. She gently pushed the door in and saw Lin Dehai on the side of the fire, and someone was lying further away. Her heart raked again, “Where did you get the dead person?”

"When will no one die in this capital?" Lin Dehai looked over there, "He usually begs for food in the city and settles in the temple at night. I don't know if he starved to death or freeze to death. It's been several days. I heard from several beggars. Go and see him, from now on, he will be Yang Zi's biological father."

Lin's mother bravely went over and glanced at the person who had been dead for a long time. He was so thin that he had lost his appearance and could not see clearly. "Is it OK?"

"Okay! If not, you have to." Lin Dehai shrank his shoulders and added another handful of firewood, "No one can tell this except us."

Of course, Lin's mother understood that if one person knows, she would have more risks, which would be bad for the child's future. Being caught is not a trivial matter, "I've caught the medicine, are you going to bear it now?"

"Boil!" Lin Dehai handed over the jar that had been prepared early, "make some snow and turn it into water, boil it with snow water. I'll do the rest after boiling it."

Chen Jiren was in the gentle village at this time, so how could he know that someone was plotting against him?

Xiaotao smiled and poured a glass of wine over, "Drink the last glass. Let's take a break after drinking."

Chen Jiren had been drunk for a long time, "Okay, drink this drink again. Why do you think you are so cute?"

Xiao Tao smiled, a forty-year-old man, but he was shy only as young as a girl. "What's the best? Everyone says I'm good, but no one is willing. I don't know who I rely on for the rest of my life?"

Chen Jiren smiled and said, "Who is it? Of course it depends on me. If I eat it in one bite, you will be indispensable..."

"Lie." Xiao Tao gave him a blank look, "There is no truth on his mouth."

Chen Jiren kissed her, "I'm a puppy. As long as you do my business smoothly, don't worry, your benefits are bound to be... Men are unreliable, but if it's a secret recipe..."

Secret recipe?

Xiao Tao was shocked. She came here this time, but no one asked her to come at all. She came here by herself. It was because she heard someone talking about Chen Jiren. He said that he, a traitor, has made a lot of things over the years. Although he sent all the money to buy his life, the real valuables are all in his hands. She didn't know whether it was true or not, but at her age, she had no room for picking her. She grabbed a life-saving straw and could hold it tightly. Then she took the initiative to come to the door with a wine, saying that someone called her. The bastard did not push her out. She originally planned to wait for her drunk and asked carefully, but she didn't expect that he, Xinye, was still thinking about doing an errand, but she revealed her words.

She felt more attentive and became more attentive. It seemed that she would have to find Captain Feng tomorrow. She couldn't get this matter by herself. Not to mention whether he had any other prescriptions in his hand, just this braised pork recipe would be of great use. Of course, this little fight would not make money. But what if she set up a big restaurant? It was opened opposite the police station of the Detective Team. Just those who took care of the business would make a lot of money this month.

One of them was intentional and the other was intentional. After moving the table away, they got up.

After the medicine was boiled, Lin's mother poured the medicine into the jar next to it, then poured all the residue into the fire, and burned it all.

Lin Dehai lifted the jar and said, "Okay, you can stay here. When it's dawn, someone will come to you. If you have cleaned up the fire, you can find a place to cat. When it's dawn, you will go back. If someone interrogates you, what should you say, do you know what to say?"

Lin's mother nodded, "Don't worry." Seeing that Lin Dehai seemed to hesitate, she looked at the dead, "Living people are more terrible than dead. You go, I'll walk alone."

Lin Dehai then turned around and hunched his body into the village with a can.

The village is quiet and there is no barking of dogs. Nowadays, people have no food to eat, so they can raise dogs. Even if there are wild dogs, they have been beaten and killed, and they have been stewed into a pot of good meat.

When he got older, he didn't leave quickly. But he was not in a hurry. He muttered: "This old dog is doing good things after drinking. It's time to wait until someone dies of sleep."

Xiaotao was not sleeping soundly. She changed to a strange place. The man beside her was a man who could not trust her. Her heart was not that big. The wind outside the window was whistling, and she heard a noise in the yard. She suddenly woke up. Even if the broken door was closed, the wall of the yard was collapsed several times, and she couldn't stop anyone. She was a little scared, don't meet any strong people. Then she thought, who will come to this broken yard?

As soon as he put down his thoughts, he heard the broken small window being knocked, "Master Chen...Master Chen..."

The voice was low and dumb, and I couldn't tell my age. Xiao Tao opened her eyes and shook Chen Jiren who had died of sleep beside her. The other party only turned over, but the snoring stopped, and he ummed a few vaguely.

The people outside probably thought Chen Jiren woke up and started talking.

"Mr. Chen... We have finished your work and the person is dead... We have agreed to use this doctor's secret recipe to open a medicine shop, and we have to take up the dry shares... Don't keep your word... 20% of the promised one, I will sue you... Don't forget that your woman is the real Chen Jiren's good friend... This woman is stupid, but his son is not stupid... You hold this woman in your hand and force Chen Jiren... This matter is known... You don't think about it..."

Xiaotao was frightened when he heard it inside. Who is this person? What do these words mean?

After finishing your life? What kind of life? It is said that people died, is it a murder? I really didn’t expect that the old dog around me would be such a character in secret.
To be continued...