Bai Ke's roast chicken was bought from Yuxiang Building four or five streets away. It was full of color and fragrance, and the meat was wrapped in oil paper, but the smell could not bear it and filled the place of the two of them. In a small courtyard.Li Shi used to feel that she was too old for her age, and she had never seen such glory and wealth with the Hou Mansion. When it came to food, she ran on the ground, not to mention flying in the sky, but the chicken, duck and fish were really boring to her, but Right now, she has only been away from the house for half a month, and lived a hard life with her son for half a month. Every day, when the green vegetables and rice porridge came out, and seeing the fragrant chicken in front of her, she couldn't help thinking that this could be regarded as a delicacy in the world up.

After the mother and son finished eating a whole chicken, Li Shi couldn't help feeling disgusted that her fingers were covered with oil stains, so she wanted to call her close servants to fetch water and clean her hands according to her temper.But before she opened her mouth, she looked left and right, and Bai Ke was the only one in the room cleaning up the leftovers that the two of them had eaten.

Mrs. Li has been pampered and pampered for so many years, so naturally she doesn't have the thought of reaching out to help.But she also felt sorry for her son, and she didn't want to ask Bai Ke to fetch water for herself, so she complained for a long time, and then scolded Mrs. He and Uncle Changping seven or eighty times in her heart. Sadly, he got up and went to the yard, fetching water to wash his hands.

There was no one in the house for a day, and the water in the tank had bottomed out. Mrs. Li tied a knot on the rope for lifting the water, and threw the bucket into the well unskillfully. After waiting for a while, she turned the wooden wheel next to her, slowly Twist up hard.

But where did Mrs. Li do this kind of rough work? After twisting half of the rope, she leaned against the well to rest panting.

At this moment, a sneaky head suddenly appeared on the top of the courtyard wall. The other person was climbing on the tiles on the courtyard wall, with a sly smile on his face: "Oh, Aunt Li is eating tonight." Meat chicken? This taste is really delicious!"

After all, he wiped his mouth, and the smile on his face became more greasy.

It is said that Shengjing is prosperous, and Li Shi used to think that all the places in Beijing should be rich and noble, but the place where Bai Ke took her to rent temporarily broke Li Shi's impression of Beijing.

Poor, messy, dirty.

Just take the kid on the wall, he's just ignorant, he always likes to lie on the wall of her house when he has nothing to do, and when he smells the food, he will show an expression of enjoyment, I don't know what the hell it is fault.

When Li Shi saw this boy, he felt panicked. Bai Ke vaguely heard the movement in the room, walked out with his sleeves rolled up and frowning, and quickly drove the people on the wall off.

"Don't be afraid, Auntie."

Bai Ke brought up the water for Li Shi, watched Li Shi wash his hands well, then brought him back to the house, and lit the white wax.

But Li Shi felt uncomfortable when he thought about the kid's smile on the edge of the yard.

She sat unsteadily on the stool, got up suddenly and took Bai Yuwei's silver package, and said with a sad face: "Mother is really a little disturbed, look at what is next to our yard People, either porters who are too poor to marry a wife, or some bastards in the market, are not good things! Ke'er, it happens to have this hundred and ten taels of silver right now, listen to your mother, why don't we just use this A sum of money for a change of residence..."

Bai Ke frowned and remained silent.

"If you think that you will owe your sister favors, then mother will take care of it for you. Right now we will use her 100 taels, and then we will pay her back 1000 taels someday. You don't have to respond to anything else." Li's voice softened. Said, "Besides, this year's scientific examination is coming soon, so it's not a problem for you and mother to live here all the time... Mother remembers that the academy you study in is not in the suburbs of Beijing? When you go back to study, mother is in a cottage near the academy Borrowing is also possible.”

Bai Ke raised his face, his eyes felt a little uncomfortable, he opened his mouth, looked at Li Shi's expectant gaze, but could only say bitterly: "Auntie doesn't know..."

"I don't know what's going on?" Seeing Bai Ke's expression, Shi Li suddenly panicked.

Bai Ke looked at the candle that had been burning for a while, closed his eyes and said: "After I escaped from the uncle's mansion with my aunt, I went back to the academy once, but before I entered the academy, I saw the servant of the uncle's mansion and Mr. Academy, I also heard by coincidence that Mrs. He, Mrs. Uncle, asked the head of the Academy to remove the boy's name in the class of emperors on the grounds that the boy failed to steal the jade seal of the uncle's mansion, fled the uncle's mansion with his aunt, and had misbehavior."

"I can't go back to the academy." Bai Ke smiled wryly.

Li's eyes were almost red with anger: "That bitch will die, and the sky will be struck by lightning!"

Bai Ke shook his head, comforting Li and said, "Fortunately, it's just that I can't go to the academy. It's only a few months away from the scientific examination. It's the same wherever I study."

"Then how can it be the same?" Li mourned, hugged Bai Ke and cried, "My poor son!"

The situation of Bai Ke's mother and son is not good, and Li's teeth itch with hatred when he thinks of the uncle's house. Fortunately, Bai Ke is a competitive person, and he is copying books for others to make money while studying hard. After paying the rent, in order to better avoid the uncle's pursuit of them, they took Mrs. Li to live in a village on the outskirts of Beijing.

It was also fortunate that the two of them left early. On the second day after moving out of that remote courtyard, people under He's subordinates came to find them, and it was the young bastard who liked to climb the wall to guide them.

"Where's the person?" He's subordinates watched him go to Yuankong's residence and questioned the bastard.

The bastard called his aunt into the house twice, but seeing no one answered, he panicked, and faltered and said, "Well, the mother and son in this courtyard were still there yesterday, yesterday!"

The subordinates of the He family were furious: "I asked you where is your man! Where is that man now?!"

"Grandpa, please don't be angry." The bastard's legs trembled, "I'll go and find out for you now, maybe the two of you here just went out."

The rest of He's subordinates have searched the house at this time, and the big things are still there, but they can't find any gold and silver things in the house: "Is it possible that someone leaked the news in advance, Let the girls run away early."

When the bastard heard this, he saw the people wearing the clothes of the servants of the uncle's family looking at him together. He was so frightened that he cried and wiped his tears. Such a hassle.

It's a pity that it's too late for him to regret it now. The world under He's men couldn't catch Li's mother and son today, and couldn't do business for the master. Feeling depressed, a group of talents went to find the next place where Li's mother and son might be hiding.

The bastard was beaten half to death, lying in the dilapidated yard for a day and a night, no one came to rescue him, and died in the yard the next day. It wasn't until more than ten days later that the owner of the house brought the new tenant to visit the house and found out The bastard's already stiff and smelly body.

Bai Ke and Mrs. Li didn't know about these things. Ever since their wives moved to a new residence, Mrs. Li stayed in the small rented yard and learned to do housework honestly.

Speaking of Li Shi when he was young, he was born in a flower building and suffered a lot when he was young, but his luck was very good. When he first came out of the building and was innocent, he followed the Marquis of Changping, and later entered the Hou Mansion. Li Shi always played with others. The scheming struggle of the mind, if she is asked to distinguish the experience and principles of those competing for favor, she can still talk non-stop for three days and three nights, but if she is asked about the livelihood and family affairs of the two of her family, she will be alone. I can't speak the words.

To put it bluntly, the delicate and noble concubine whose ten fingers do not touch the spring water falls into the dust and has to live a life of ordinary people.

Li Shi has resentment in her heart, but she bears it for Bai Ke.

In order to let Bai Ke rest assured to study in the house, she even learned to cook with a smiling face from the woman in the farmer's house where she was staying. face, in the small kitchen, holding a leaking spoon and frying the vegetables in the iron pan, enduring the oil splashes from the iron pan from time to time, with mixed feelings in his heart.

Mrs. Li is not a gentle and kind person. She has done few good things, but often interferes with bad things in the backyard. Bai Ke is familiar with the books of sages and sages, so she understands Mrs. Li's mistakes, but as his biological mother, she Never had anything bad to say about him.

Bai Ke stood quietly not far away and looked at Mrs. Li, who was busy in the stove, with a fresh expression on his expression that he had never seen in the uncle's mansion, and suddenly felt that fleeing the uncle's mansion was actually not a bad thing.

The two of them have been planting roots in the suburbs for several months, and Mrs. He never thought that Mrs. Li would really be willing to lower her profile and become a farmer's wife for a few months. Upside down.

It is conceivable that He Shi naturally failed to find Li Shi and Bai Ke.And as the weather got hotter and hotter at that time, Mrs. He was already immersed in the pain of losing her son and couldn't get out. There was no Mrs. Li in the mansion to vent her anger, and those concubines who had no names and no distinctions in the backyard had long been abandoned by her. Taking the opportunity to demote her to be a servant, there was only one Zhao Ji left that could not be dealt with.

As for why it couldn't be cleaned up, He became even more angry when he thought about the reason.

Then Zhao Ji did not know what method she used to become a righteous brother and sister with Wei Xizhou, and the Wei family now holds half of the military power and sits in the capital, even those first-class families with deep foundations dare not oppose her.The He family is no more than the mistress of the Yibo's mansion, and even has a long history of quarrels with the Wei family. I'm sorry for the previous Mrs. Wei's Marquis, so for a while, she tried to mistreat Zhao Ji, but she had no choice but to have the support of the Wei family behind her. other side.

Unable to handle Zhao Ji, the only person in the mansion who can vent He's anger, looking around, is only Uncle Changping left.

When Uncle Changping was able to move and speak, He naturally couldn't touch him, but now that Uncle Changping has suffered a stroke and is bedridden, unable to move his body or speak, the head of the family who used to be a glorious family has long since become a pitiful piece of fish on the chopping board, who can be ignored by others. Slaughtering, how can He's not be moved?

Calling back the servants serving in Uncle Changping's room, the big maid beside He's lowered her eyes, tremblingly came in with a basin of water and stood firm.There is a stack of thin rice paper on the table next to the maid, carefully look at the handwriting on it, the obscene words and profanity are all the "calligraphy" that Uncle Chang Ping left in Hualou at some time.

"Does it look familiar?" Mrs. He sat beside Uncle Changping's bed, holding up a piece of rice paper, with a happy expression on his face.

The scorching summer was probably due to the lack of care of his servants. Uncle Chang Ping exuded a clearly audible sour smell. His eyes were flickering with frightened anger. Even without looking at the color, one could guess that his body was probably covered with bedsores.

At this time, He seems to be like a person who has lost his sense of taste. He just stared at the verses on the rice paper, and after reading it with a smile, he put the rice paper in the copper basin at hand and soaked it in water. , and finally slowly stuck it on Uncle Changping's frightened face.

He Shi: "Didn't Uncle say that he loves this loose ink?"

"So, my concubine let you smell enough today?"

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