fake prince

Chapter 330
early morning
The breeze blows the green willows, and the morning dew moistens the spring flowers. It is located in a poor area in the outskirts of the capital.

A bullock cart was parked by the side of the road, and some people looked at the two people who were getting off the cart. When they saw the young man, many people subconsciously froze and thought to themselves: "Where did the young master come to a place like ours? "

The young master shouldn't have appeared in the slums full of garbage and sewage, but no matter how curious he was, he had to restrain his eyes and hurried past when the middle-aged man glanced at him.

It was obvious that he brought his servants with him, but he couldn't afford to offend him.

"My lord, go through the alley in front, and you will find the innermost one." Ye Daoist whispered to Su Ziji.

His eyes fell on a puddle on the left and a dirt road in a depression on the right. Even a wild Taoist who had been down and out for many years and had to hang out with the gangs in the county couldn't help but frowned slightly.

= The smell in the air is really not good. In fact, before I received the news that I came here, I couldn't believe that Qian Zhidong's woman and children ended up in this place.

But the fact is like this, after Qian Zhidong's accident, a woman who had been taken care of even though she was not a group of servants, could only bring a little maid, and a newborn baby, to live here.

It wasn't even the wild Taoist who found them first, fearing that the nearby ruffians who had harassed them had succeeded by now.

Taking a peek at the lord with a face as heavy as water, the wild Taoist was a little worried that the lord would feel bad.

Although Su Ziji was silent for a moment, he said lightly, "Go, go and have a look."

"Yes."

When we got to the gate of the courtyard that the wild Taoist said, the harsh environment here was still somewhat beyond Su Ziji's expectation.

Back then, when Su Ziji had never left Linhua County and recovered his past life memories, the area he lived in was poor and his neighbors were poor, but compared to the even more dilapidated and dirty environment at the foot of the emperor, it was still much better.

There were even feces of children and dogs on the ground, and no one cleaned them up.

Su Ziji glanced away and looked inside from the dilapidated wooden door that couldn't stop people.

It was such a coincidence that I happened to see a young woman with a baby on her back, sitting in front of a basin, washing the child's clothes.

Although it was already March, it was not a warm spring after all. This woman had not been out of confinement for a long time at most, but she still had to do the laundry by herself, which showed that she was in a difficult situation.

Although the clothes on her body are thick, they are half-worn clothes, just a thorn hairpin cloth skirt, which cannot conceal her beauty, but in this situation, the more beautiful she is, the more likely she will live in uneasy life.

Beside her was an eleven or twelve-year-old girl who was chopping firewood with a clumsy iron ax.

Apart from these three people, there was no one else in the dilapidated courtyard.

Ye Taoist explained in a low voice at the side: "Originally, it was okay. Qian Zhidong sent her back and arranged for her to be in charge. There are only five or six maids and women. Although they are not considered rich, they are not worry-free. But since Qian Zhidong was escorted back to Beijing, the news spread, and the steward took his money and left."

"Some of the remaining maidservants were sold by the steward, and some fled with him. The most interesting thing is that one woman wanted to sell all the maids who were born with the mistress to the brothel. "

"There is only one little maid who is personally serving this woman, and this woman who was found to be wrong took her and hid together, and she was not harmed."

"Now, their master and servant are living together with Qian Zhidong's newborn daughter. When I found her, she had just moved again, and the jewelry was basically sold out, so she could only live here."

As for the fact that the ruffian saw her beautiful and wanted to do something, and almost succeeded, the savage Taoist thought about it, but he didn't mention it.

Su Ziji listened quietly, and sighed slightly when he thought of the yard in Peach Blossom Lane that had not yet been auctioned.

When he was prominent, there were many properties in the capital alone, but in the face of disaster, even the loyal servants who could be trusted once fell into trouble. It is no wonder that Qian Zhidong can only ask for his own enemy in the end.

At least he didn't intend to slip up, and even came to see this woman in advance.

Seeing it now, Su Ziji didn't know what it was like, and after a moment of silence, he said to the wild Taoist, "Go and call the door."

The wild Taoist let out a hey, and went to knock on the door. As a result, the door was probably broken by those harassing ruffians. He knocked lightly and hard twice, then pushed it casually, and with a "boom", it opened. Not only did it open, but the door also leaned crookedly against the wall, very miserable.

Ye Taoist: "..."

"Who are you?" The movement at the door directly startled two women, one big and one young, in the yard. One of them got up in a hurry to grab the wooden stick, and the other held an iron ax in both hands, tremblingly looking at the gate. The little face was pale, and she was afraid that she would cry out if she was frightened again.

The one who questioned was the young woman.

Su Ziji glanced at Ye Daoist speechlessly, and cupped his hands at this tired and vigilant young woman: "I came here because of Qian Zhidong."

It can be seen with the naked eye that as soon as these words come out, the eyes of this pretty woman who is not wearing makeup at the moment and her tired face are shining.

"It's him, he sent it? I knew it, I knew he wouldn't leave me and my daughter alone..."

These days are not long, but the bad news came one by one. Many people said that Qian Zhidong was on death row. Some people also said that all the members of the Qian family were arrested and ransacked their homes and beheaded together. Some people said that it was not that serious. But exile is indispensable.

Women always don't believe it, they always feel that a great general, when he is in trouble, doesn't have an old friend, relatives and friends to help him?

Now that it was finally time, she threw the wooden stick to the ground, covering her face and sobbing.

And when she cried, it was like a switch, and the baby she was carrying, together with the little maid, also started to cry.

One was crying like a cat meowing, one had red eye circles, and was crying from joy.

Surrounded by different cries, Su Ziji's expression became a little stiff.

You don't need to look at Ye Taoist to know that this person's current situation is not much better than him.

Two big men, even wild people who used to be able to trick people into selling their ancestral graves for profit, faced two weak women who had nothing to do with them, together with the cry of a newborn baby, I can't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

But after all, he was older and had seen more miserable things, and the wild Taoist quickly woke up from this slight emotion.

He looked at Su Ziji, and found that the lord had already arrived in front of the woman.

"I don't want Qian Shuai to end up here in despair."

"These two banknotes are 200 taels in total, and these pieces of silver are just for you to keep." Su Ziji thought for a while, then took out the banknotes he had prepared earlier from his bosom, and glanced at her and the little maid's plain and thin clothes. , and took another five or six taels of silver and handed it over together.

(End of this chapter)