"It's so late, who could it be?" Wu Gui shook his head, more than half sober, stood up and stopped Qing Wen, "Don't go, I'll open the door."

After a while, he led a young man in.Qingwen stood up in surprise.

"Brother, you are..."

Wu Gui slapped his forehead, and said with a naive smile: "Look at my memory, I can forget everything after a few cups of horse urine. This person is Han Qi, and you have seen it before. I think it is weird for him to spend the holidays alone. Poor thing, I invited him together. It was agreed before that he would come over after he finished his work at the pier."

After finishing speaking, Wu Gui scratched the back of his head embarrassingly.

Qingwen raised her eyes and looked at the young man. It's no wonder she didn't recognize him. I haven't seen him for two years. This young man has a lot of twitches. If it weren't for his rough and scarred hands, he wouldn't look like a hard laborer on the docks to make a living.

Han Qi blushed a little from Qingwen's look, rubbed his hands together embarrassedly, and whispered, "Did I bother you?" He got off work, took a shower, and cleaned himself up Only dare to come to the door, but I wasted time if I didn't want to.

"Where will it be, let's sit down together. We are just getting ready to start the banquet," Qingwen said with a smile, "but my brother has already drunk several glasses of wine. You came just in time, let's have a few drinks with him."

Wu Gui pressed him on the seat, patted Han Qi's shoulder hard, and said impatiently: "Your elder brother, I was suffocated to death by drinking alone, you must accompany me to drink enough."

Before the words fell to the ground, Wu Gui took the wine glass and forced it into Han Qi's hand, and filled him with wine again.Han Qi had no choice but to drink a cup, his face was a ball of pain, his mouth was so hot that he wanted to stick out his tongue, and he was afraid that Qingwen would see him as indecent.He tried his best to swallow the breath of alcohol, but a red cloud suddenly appeared on his face.Seeing his embarrassed appearance, Wu Gui burst out laughing.

Qingwen smiled, got up and went to the kitchen to get a pair of bowls and chopsticks, and put them in front of Han Qi.Han Qi was so shy that he didn't dare to raise his head, and muttered, "I made the girl laugh."

"Don't look outside, you can call me Qingwen just like my brother." Qingwen chuckled.

Han Qi just wanted to say something, but his mouth was stupid, but he couldn't get it out of his mouth, so Wu Gui snatched him over and insisted on drinking with him.Qingwen smiled and said nothing, and ate the food by herself.The dishes on this table are rare to have a few big meat dishes, which I didn't even dare to think about when fleeing in previous years. It's not good to waste them.Qingwen didn't pay much attention, she forked a red and greasy pig's knuckle with bamboo chopsticks, and gnawed on it without any scruples.

The softly stewed pork knuckle has a rare tenderness in the fat, which is very soothing to the stomach.Qingwen quickly ate a pig's knuckle, wiped her hands clean, and stretched her chopsticks to another plate to pick up a piece of braised pork and put it in Wu Gui's bowl.

Han Qi's eyeballs moved slightly following her movements, showing an unusual expression on his face.Qingwen thought a little, whether this child also wants to eat braised pork.Thinking of this, she quickly changed the place of the braised pork dish and placed it in front of him.

Han Qi looked even more embarrassed, waved his hands again and again, and his forehead was sweating in anxiety.Qingwen tilted her head and looked at him a little confused.Han Qi finally calmed down by himself, took the initiative to pick up a piece of meat and put it in his bowl, and then smiled gratefully at Qingwen.

What's wrong with this child, I haven't seen him for two years, how come he has become so awkward and restrained, with a very reserved look.Qingwen put the thought behind her in an instant, and took advantage of the rare leisure to taste the delicious food contentedly.

Human beings in the future world will basically live on nutritional supplements every day.Many people are unwilling to waste time on cooking and eating. Even people who pay attention to their appetites will at most just let home robots cook for them.As for the level of the robot, it is conceivable that every process is rigorous and in line with the procedures. The food produced is naturally a standard assembly line product. While the standard is delicious, it actually lacks a lot of fun and surprises.

Because the labor cost is very expensive, people in the future must go to a specific restaurant if they want to taste delicious food, and this kind of restaurant is naturally expensive.For Qingwen's family background at that time, naturally there was no need to worry about this, but at that time her whole body's organ functions were deteriorating, and people who had been suffering from illnesses all year round had long since lost their appetite for food.

Qingwen spooned a piece of mapo tofu onto the white rice, stirred it, and when it tasted mellow and rich in her mouth, she sighed contentedly.If there is anything she can be happy about now, it is this healthy body.For this benefit, even if she was asked to give up everything, to give up her personal freedom and become a slave, she was willing to do so.

Han Qi quietly took a look at Qingwen who lowered her head to pick up the food, seeing that she was eating so contentedly, a smile appeared on her face.This Mid-Autumn Festival is different from previous years, which is enough for him to slowly reminisce for a lifetime.

Under the moonlight, all the darkness is temporarily hidden, and everything is hazy, with a different kind of beauty.Han Qi felt that he was the same as Wu Gui, he was dizzy from strong alcohol, and just wanted to sleep.

In the next second, there was a bang, and Han Qi had already fallen asleep peacefully lying on the edge of the table.Qingwen and Wu Gui were taken aback for a moment, looked at each other and smiled.

"Brother, why don't you eat a la carte." Qingwen said angrily.

"Han Qi's drinking capacity is really bad, that's not okay. I have to teach him well in the future. He can't marry a wife after three drinks." Wu Gui smiled meaningfully.

No one was drinking with him, so Wu Gui and Qingwen ate food. In the middle, Qingwen couldn't bear his request, so she ate a few more glasses of wine with him.Fortunately, Qingwen's alcohol capacity is not bad, so she pours it if she doesn't have a glass.

Han Qi only felt that he was in a daze, and there were noises in his ears all the time, but he didn't feel noisy at all, instead, there was a faint joy in his heart, and he sighed secretly how lively it was.He seemed to have never felt this sultry smoke for a long time.He can never forget that when he was young, in the winter morning, he was nestled on the kang and couldn’t get up. There was a sound of cooking breakfast outside the house, bang bang, his mother called him to eat, and he hid in the warm blanket, acting like a baby. He refused to get up, but his father stretched out two big cold hands to dig him out. He screamed angrily, but it only caused his father to laugh out loud.

In a daze, Han Qi felt as if he had returned to his childhood, hiding under the warm blanket.I really hope this dream can last a little longer.

Wu Guichao Qingwen laughed softly: "This kid is really a deep sleeper, he can fall asleep even if we make such a fuss."

"Brother, you can carry him into the house first, and let him sleep in the same room with you tonight." Qingwen said to him.

"Okay," Wu Gui nodded nonchalantly, picked up Han Qi with two big arms, and walked into the back room, "This kid looks thin, and he's not light."

He said to Qingwen again: "Sit down first, don't clean up the bowls and chopsticks. After I settle Han Qi down, we will eat mooncakes together."

Looking at the messy cups and plates on the table, Qingwen thought for a while and stacked up a few plates to make room for a clean plate, and deliberately cut a few mooncakes and put them inside.Although the stomach is already full, it is necessary to eat some mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

While sitting and waiting for Wu Gui to return, Qingwen raised her head to admire the clean and bright moonlight. Just when she was full of wine and food, someone knocked on the gate of the yard again.

At this time the moon was high and it was getting late, Qingwen was a little surprised, wondering if the guests invited by Wu Gui were late again.Seeing that Wu Gui had come out of the house, she hurriedly said, "Brother, there is a knock on the door, go and have a look."

Wu Gui rubbed the back of his head: "Strange, I didn't invite anyone else."

"Then be careful, and open the door after asking clearly." Qingwen was a little worried.

"I can save it." Wu Gui had already raised his foot to open the door.

"Squeak -" the heavy sound of opening the door.

Qingwen hid behind Wu Gui and looked out, and saw a thin figure holding a lantern. Obviously that person was in a hurry, and the lantern was still shaking violently.

"Sister Pomegranate, why are you here?" Wu Gui approached the person holding a lamp, Qingwen saw her face clearly, she was startled and yelled out, calling out her name in one word.

Shiliu opened her red and swollen eyes, looked at Qingwen, and sobbed.Seeing that her expression was abnormal, Qingwen looked down and saw that Shiliu was still wearing indoor soft shoes, and the brocade uppers were all stained at the moment, so she hurriedly welcomed her in: "Sister Shiliu, let's go into the yard first. Brother, you lock the door. good."

Qingwen took the lantern that Pomegranate was holding tightly and stuffed it into Wu Gui's hand, and helped the almost untenable Pomegranate into the back room.

Qingwen held her hand, and the two sat down on the kang in the back room. As soon as Shiliu raised her face, two lines of tears fell down.

"What's wrong with you?" Qingwen became anxious, could it be some accident?

Shiliu choked up and couldn't speak, and before the tears stopped, she hiccupped again, out of breath, and her pink face turned red.Seeing that it was not the time to ask questions, Qingwen hurriedly fetched water, cleaned her face again, and poured a glass of warm water for her to drink.

After all this tossing, Shiliu sobbed a few times, finally calmed down, and said in a hoarse voice, "Sister, thank you very much. Without you, I don't know where this would be going."

There was suspicion on Qingwen's face: "Didn't you go home for the Mid-Autumn Festival? I heard from Lai's mother that she asked all the maids who had family members in the capital to go back for the festival. The old lady in our house even praised her for her mercy." heart."

"It's not because of the festival, it's because of the festival that I can't have a home," Shiliu said quietly, "I should have figured it out a long time ago, after my mother passed away, there is no place for me in that family."

Qingwen asked her: "Then you ran away from home? Are they worried about you, or I will ask my brother to go to your house and tell you to stay with me tonight."

Pomegranate wiped away her tears, her heart was ashes, like a candle that was about to burn out its wick: "Forget it, they don't care about my life, what they value most is whether I can be exchanged for some silver. "

Qingwen probably figured out what happened. Shiliu is getting older, and her family has been looking after her for the past few years. Could it be that they want to book her into a miserable family?

"You are the maid in front of Lai's mother. If your family can be your master, they will marry you out casually? You go and beg Lai Lai, so that your family will not dare to think about you again." Qing Wen said.

"With Mo Ju's example, they all know that Lai's mother is not a master who embarrasses the maid. My sister-in-law only cares about money, and she is only looking for someone who is willing to pay a big price. Don't you think they are selling their daughter? I have already I was sold once, and I have been a slave for more than ten years. Now I have to be sold again? Qingwen, do you think I did some evil things in my previous life, so God wants me to be a slave in this life? Can't live in peace!" Pomegranate grieved in her heart, lying on Qingwen's body, crying loudly, crying hoarsely, crying blood.

Qingwen patted her on the back and understood somewhat in her heart that she was not afraid that she would be trapped in a wolf's den and be married off casually, but that she was severely hurt by her family who had always pinned her hopes on her.

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