Chapter 233 Looking for a Yard
Song Yuntang did not enter the carriage, but sat on the other side of the mule cart. Looking at Xu Qingye's tense expression, she did not say much.
The mule cart went to the farm first.
Mu Dong and Song Jinsheng, who were already waiting at the gate of the courtyard, hurriedly moved the prepared goods onto the mule cart.
Taoxia Pavilion is nearby, so I have to deliver the goods from Taoxia Pavilion first, and then come back to pick up the goods from Wan Qingsi.
Song Yuntang jumped off the mule cart and stopped Song Jinsheng.
"Second brother, Mu Dong and Tu Shi are enough to do these jobs. You can't do heavy work yet."
Song Jinsheng had no choice but to watch Tu Shi and Mu Dong load the things onto the mule cart one by one. Then he climbed onto the mule cart and delivered the goods to Taoxia Pavilion with Mu Dong.
After coming back, I loaded up with Wan Qingsi’s goods.
Fortunately, after Wan Qingsi's goods were loaded, there was still some empty space on the mule cart. Song Yuntang and Xu Qingye took advantage of the narrow space in the mule cart and went all the way to the county town.
Song Yuntang thought the mule cart was too crowded, so he pulled Xu Qingye off as soon as they reached the city gate.
"You just arrived in the county, do you want to say hello to your teacher first?"
Xu Qingye looked at the boxes, medicine boxes, baskets and two chickens in the two people's hands, shook his head and said, "Don't worry, we have so many things in our hands, let's find a place to stay and put them first."
Before, when we were in Taoxia Pavilion, Wang Hongxuan once said that if we came to the county town and wanted to find a place to live, we could contact him and he would help arrange it.
Now that the two of them are carrying so many things, it would be troublesome to carry all the bags if they were to move together.
Song Yuntang and Xu Qingye walked towards the city while saying, "Let's find an inn to put our things first. This way it will be easier to find a yard."
Xu Qingye thought about it and decided that this was the only way. He couldn't ask the little girl to carry her things and go with him to find a yard.
"good."
The two found an inn that was not very big and booked the simplest room. The owner asked for eighty cents a night.
Song Yuntang thought that he would only stay for one night, so he gritted his teeth and agreed.
They left their clothes, books and eggs in the house and gave the two chickens to the shopkeeper, asking him to put them in the backyard and scatter a handful of food.
This request was not excessive, so the shopkeeper naturally agreed.
After the two came out of the inn, they asked for directions and went to the nearest dental clinic.
Then, the two of them, led by the servant, visited three courtyards in the suburbs of Anyang County.
The first yard was located in a downtown area, but Song Yuntang rejected it because he thought it was too noisy.
The second yard was in a slum area, where there were many people and densely packed houses. It was dinner time when they went there, and they could smell cigarette smoke from several nearby homes in the yard.
Song Yuntang thought the place was too crowded and polluted, and would not be good for Xu Qingye's health, so he rejected the application again.
The third yard was only separated from the brothel in the county town by an alley, and Xu Qingye was rejected without even entering the yard.
Seeing that the two had a low budget but many requirements, the servant said goodbye and went home to eat as it was time for dinner.
After walking around like this, Song Yuntang and Xu Qingye felt hungry, so they found a noodle stall on the street.
"I don't know if that servant was targeting us on purpose. He actually took us to a courtyard next to Piaoxiang Pavilion." Song Yuntang said after sitting down.
Xu Qingye took two pairs of chopsticks and handed one to her.
"A scholar died in that courtyard before. I thought it was unlucky, so I didn't go in."
Song Yuntang took the chopsticks and asked curiously.
"How did he die?"
"Overindulgence with the girl from Piaoxiang Pavilion..." Xu Qingye whispered this and started eating noodles.
Song Yuntang's scalp tingled. She shouldn't have asked.
How can one die in a dignified way next to Piaoxiang Pavilion?
After eating the noodles, the two wanted to go back to the inn to rest for a while. When they walked around the alley where the noodle stall was, they smelled the faint fragrance of osmanthus.
"This osmanthus smells so good. I wonder whose house it belongs to." Song Yuntang looked around as he walked.
At this moment, a wooden door of a house in front of us creaked, and a woman ran out of the door holding a three or four-year-old girl crying, shouting as she ran, "Is there anyone who can save my child? Who can save my child?"
The child in her arms might have been choked by something. His little face was swollen and red, his whole body was shrinking, and his eyes had begun to turn white.
The situation was urgent, and Song Yuntang didn't even bother to look for the osmanthus tree, and hurried forward.
"I'm a doctor, give me the child."
The woman was so anxious that she didn't care whether the person in front of her was a real doctor or not, and immediately gave the child to her.
Song Yuntang held the child in his arms, let the child lean against him, put his hands on the child's stomach, and squeezed it again and again.
After a moment, a date fell out of the child's mouth.
The frightened child burst into tears.
When the woman saw the food coming out of the child's mouth, her legs softened and she knelt down towards Song Yuntang, "Thank you, young lady, for saving my child."
Song Yuntang placed the child in front of her.
"The child is still young, so don't let him eat things like dates from now on."
The woman held the child and nodded while crying.
Just then, a woman in her forties or fifties leaned against the door, eating dates and giving the woman a nonchalant look.
"What's the fuss? Isn't it all right?"
She's just a little girl, so if she dies, it's no big deal.
Song Yuntang, who was about to leave, turned his head and looked at the woman.
"If the rescue hadn't been timely, the child would have died by now."
Seeing this, the woman pointed at her with wide eyes and said, "Don't be so alarmist here. I think you just want to use this opportunity to make my daughter-in-law repay you."
Song Yuntang was so angry that he laughed.
"So the person I just saved was your granddaughter? I thought she was an unrelated outsider."
The woman spat out the red date pit in her mouth and went forward to grab Song Yuntang, "Who are you? What do you care about our family affairs? Why are you talking nonsense here?"
While the woman was speaking, Xu Qingye had already come to Song Yuntang's side.
The woman holding the child saw that her mother-in-law was about to hit the person who saved her child, so she quickly stood up and pushed her.
"Old hag! You almost killed my daughter, and you still want to do something to my benefactor. What is your intention?"
The woman was pushed back a few steps by the woman, then tripped by the door frame and fell backwards, sitting on the ground.
"Oh my! Everyone come and see. My son is dead and my daughter-in-law has started to bully an old woman like me. How can I live?"
He then pointed at the woman viciously.
"Jiang, you are so heartless to treat your elders like this, you will be struck by lightning!"
A lot of people gathered around to watch the fun, and some who didn't know the situation at the house began to point and talk.
No matter how Qian made trouble before, Jiang turned a blind eye for the sake of her husband's face. But now, only half a year after her husband passed away, this mother-in-law wanted to collude with her sister-in-law to seize her property, and even wanted to kill her child and sell her. Even a clay man would be angry.
"Before I married your son, I was at least a girl from a merchant family. I wasn't rich, but I had enough food and clothing."
"When I married your son, you concealed the fact that he was ill, and the whole family could not have a full meal. In the past five or six years, I washed your clothes and cooked for you, served you tea and water, and took care of your seriously ill father-in-law and your terminally ill husband. I worked hard without complaint. From the yard to the rice in the house, I bought everything."
"Not only do you not care about my kindness, but now you want to kill my child. You also conspired with my sister-in-law to sell me to a brothel and force me into prostitution, and then seize my dowry. I think you are the one who should be struck by lightning for being so heartless!"
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