Chapter 85: One gold in prosperous times, one meter in troubled times
I saw several wild cats surrounding a fish, scratching and grunting, and in a short time they ate the whole fish clean.
Ding Xiaoyi couldn't help but look at the woman who had walked into the alley.
For a moment, my heart was touched.
I can't put it into words, I always feel that this woman is different from those I have seen.
This difference has nothing to do with appearance or gender.
Step forward and follow into the alley.
I heard bursts of pipa music coming from deep in the alley.
"When I was born, I did nothing. After I was born, the Han Dynasty declined. Heaven was unkind and brought Chaos and Li, and earth was unkind and brought me to this time..."
The woman's singing voice is gentle and melodious, like the orchid in the empty valley.
However, I couldn't understand the songs the women sang.
What does "Later Han" mean, what does "Xi Jiang Luan Li" mean? I don't understand what it means.
It's just that the desolate and angry emotions in the song are like magic in the ears and penetrate into the chest, making it sound very sad.
For a moment, I stood following the sound, stood in front of the door, and listened quietly.
"The beacon fire at the top of the city has never been extinguished. When will the battle on the battlefield stop? The murderous spirit rushes towards the gate..."
The song became faster and faster, and it no longer sounded sad, but more of a sound of resentment.
A pipa clanked, and the sound was like a golden sword and an iron horse.
Until the song ends, the sadness and anger turns into a long-lasting lament.
"My bitterness and resentment are as vast as the sky. Although my body is wide, I cannot tolerate it..."
"hiss!"
Standing outside the door, he couldn't help but take a deep breath. He was so entranced that he felt a sense of sadness in his heart.
The singing gradually faded, but the emotions were so agitated that they could not calm down for a long time.
It took a while before the emotions in my heart gradually calmed down.
Looking at the closed door in front of him, Ding Xiaoyi stretched out his hand to knock on the door.
But after raising his palms in the air, he couldn't think of what to say.
Ordinarily, in this case, according to the union's standards, as a non-staff member, I can leave here and make a phone call to report.
In this way, you will also receive a valuable bonus.
In fact, they are just spiritual-level psychic creatures, even without the help of the power of the meat ball.
It's easy enough to handle alone.
Just when he was struggling, "ta da da..." a burst of rapid footsteps came from the alley.
Ding Xiaoyi took a step back, and his figure was temporarily hidden in the air.
"Bang bang bang! Sister Tao, hurry up, hurry up and save people!"
A middle-aged woman knocked desperately on the door, and soon the door opened.
There are still water stains on the woman's face. It seems that she has just washed her face and hasn't had time to wipe off the water drops.
"Sister Juan, what's wrong? Speak slowly!"
"It's too late, it's too late. Those people from Caowang suddenly came to collect rent today. If our family can't pay it for a while, they will use my daughter to pay off the debt!"
"Isn't it the day to collect rent today? Why are you here to collect rent today?"
"No, I'm so anxious. Sister Tao, please lend me some money. I will pay you back at the end of the month!"
"etc!"
The woman went back to the room and took out a purse with about six or seven silver dollars in it.
Looking at the money in the wallet, he hesitated for a while and then handed the wallet to the woman in front of him.
"Thank you, I will pay you back at the end of the month!"
As she spoke, the woman took her purse and ran outside.
"Why!!"
The woman put her hand on her belly, sighed, and walked back to the room.
Just as she was about to close the door, the woman suddenly seemed to notice something and glanced at the corner where Ding Xiaoyi was standing.
"strangeness!!"
When she saw that there was nothing in the corner, the woman pouted and lazily closed the door again.
About three or four days passed like this.
Ding Xiaoyi couldn't calculate the specific number of days because time here is very unstable.
Sometimes in less than five or six minutes, the sky changes from night to day, and then from day to night very quickly.
During this period, the Shanghai Song and Dance Hall was actually closed.
In fact, thinking about it, this is also my fault. If I send a bunch of corpses back, I guess the owner of the dance hall would be very upset.
If I were myself, I would stop working for a while and observe the situation.
It’s just that without the source of livelihood, women’s lives are even more difficult.
As for the woman who borrowed the money, there has been no news for a long time.
Let's start with the two fish we owed before.
But when the fish is gone, the woman has no choice but to sell some of her jewelry.
From the beginning to the end, Ding Xiaoyi stood aside and remained a silent spectator.
Until night, a man quietly walked to the woman's door and knocked on the door.
Then he glanced around with a stern look.
Ding Xiaoyi took a closer look. Isn't this the old guy who sold vegetables before?
You are so old, why would you touch it in the middle of the night?
"What are you doing here!"
When the woman opened the door and took a look, she saw the old guy grinning and taking out half a bag of millet from his arms.
"You've run out of food! Is there anything valuable at home? I see that you haven't gone out in the past two days. I'm afraid you don't have anything to eat. What's the point of just drinking cold water? I gave it to you!"
The woman stared blankly at the half-bag of millet in the old man's hand, and her stomach began to growl unsatisfactorily.
"Take it!"
The old man looked at the woman with gleaming eyes, put the millet in his hand into her arms, and wanted to hug her.
At this time, Ding Xiaoyi finally couldn't stand it anymore.
He stretched out his hand and pressed the old man's shoulder. Without waiting for the old man to react, he pushed him away hard.
"You! Who are you!"
Seeing Ding Xiaoyi walking out of nowhere, the old man's expression changed, and he was a little angry and wanted to get up and argue with Ding Xiaoyi.
Ding Xiaoyi ignored him and put his hand into the rice bag.
When I grabbed it with my fingers, I saw that underneath the rice bag, there were actually sand and stones underneath.
It turns out that the so-called half bag of millet is just a thin layer on top, which can probably make a bowl of gruel.
Seeing that his plan was exposed, the old man's face suddenly turned bright and dark.
Pointing in anger, Ding Xiaoyi said: "You! OK, you are really good, just wait!"
Saying that, he got up from the ground and left.
Before leaving, I seemed to suddenly remember something.
He turned around timidly, walked up to the woman, and snatched the bag of rice mixed with sand.
Looking at the pale woman, he smiled coldly.
"Hmph, you don't want this rice today, and tomorrow you won't even get a piece of cake. You are not selling it to anyone who has been with your neighbors for a few years. You are a phoenix with no feathers, and you are no better than a chicken!!"
As he said that, the old man turned around and left.
The woman stretched out her hand, but the old man had already walked away, so she could only put it down again feebly and looked back at Ding Xiaoyi.
Take a step back and put two steps away from Ding Xiaoyi.
"These past few days, you have been downstairs for so long. I don't know what you are trying to do, but if you have nothing else to do, please come back!"
"You know I'm downstairs at your house?"
Ding Xiaoyi was startled. There was no way that his invisibility could be hidden from an ordinary woman. How did she know about him?
The woman shook her head: "Although you are hiding, I feel like someone is following me whenever I go out these days, especially when I sing. Your eyes tell me that you are right outside the door, but I can't see you."
"
Ding Xiaoyi suddenly realized that there was no problem with his invisibility. It was just that he had been staring at the other person's eyes inadvertently that made the other person aware of her.
It seems that this woman is more perceptive than she thought.
Ding Xiaoyi nodded and strode into the room regardless of whether the woman was blocking him.
"In fact, you don't have to lend money to others!"
When you walk into the room, there are basically no unnecessary furnishings.
If the only thing that is relatively valuable to me is the wooden dressing table.
At this time, a wooden pipa appeared in his sight.
After awakening the spiritual energy and gathering it in his eyes, a ray of fluorescence appeared in the pupils.
As he glanced over, he saw that there were wisps of spiritual light on the wooden pipa.
"That's right, it's this pipa!"
Ding Xiaoyi has already determined in his heart that the parasite is this Pipa.
And the psychic creature created by Pipa is probably the woman in front of me.
"What can we do if we don't borrow it? The girl in their family is still studying in a public school.
If you are dragged away to pay a debt, you will be sold into a brothel and your life will be ruined.
You can’t be like me, knowing nothing and being unable to do anything except singing and playing the piano.”
Seeing that Ding Xiaoyi didn't intend to leave, the woman didn't urge him to leave. She leaned against the threshold and said feebly.
"But they're not here to pay you back, are they?"
"If I don't have money to pay back, I can't be like those people in Caowang and sell other girls into a brothel!"
The woman said, sitting in front of Ding Xiaoyi:
"Master, if you want to have fun, you can give me food to eat and you can play whatever you want.
If you want to persuade people to be good and find someone to chat with, why don't you leave!"
After listening to the woman's words, Ding Xiaoyi frowned for a moment: "If I didn't show up just now, would you sell that little rice?"
"Sell it, why don't you sell it? If you sell it, I can still have something to eat. If you don't sell it, are you still going to support me?"
Ding Xiaoyi was speechless for a moment, even though he was a veteran in love and had contact with all kinds of women.
But never before has it been so intuitive.
"Haha, young master, a woman in prosperous times is worth a dou of gold, and a woman in troubled times is worth a dou of rice. Now I don't even have a dou of rice. I just want to live. If I don't sell, will I starve to death!"
The woman's voice was soft, but her words were so sharp.
He is just an ordinary person, and his family will never treat him badly.
He has a lot of time to devote his energy to fun.
Although I like to modify machinery, it is a skill after all.
In addition, in my own era, no matter how poor you are, as long as you are willing to endure hardships, you will not starve to death.
Even if you are a beggar and kneel on the ground for a day, you can still earn a lot of money.
As for women who have fallen into prostitution...
Is there any?
have.
It can even be said that there are many people there.
However, they only do it for money and happiness.
But here, as the woman said, if you don't sell it, you will starve to death.
But it got to this point, and this woman actually lent the money to others.
Living in troubled times, these four words are just four words in textbooks.
But what kind of troubled times this troubled world is is not written in the book, but today, he saw it.
For a moment, Ding Xiaoyi felt mixed emotions in his heart. He stood up silently, reached into his pocket, took out a piece of bread, and put it on the table.
"excuse me!"
As he spoke, he ignored the woman's surprised look and walked out of the room.
He walked very fast, and his mind couldn't help but think of the time when he had just entered this supernatural space.
The little girl with her bare feet.
A rich and splendid dance hall.
Those thugs dressed in black who regard human life as nothing.
This made him even more fed up with this era.
Suddenly, Ding Xiaoyi's ears twitched and he glanced sideways. Behind the door in front of him, he heard the old man's voice.
The sound was not loud, but I could hear it clearly.
The old man just said they were neighbors, but he never thought that they only lived a few doors away from each other.
"Sister Juan, please be careful. If that little girl comes to find you during this period, you will be too desperate to return the money to her!"
Ding Xiaoyi was startled, why did the title of Sister Juan sound so familiar?
Isn't she the middle-aged woman who went to borrow money?
Thinking of this, he simply stopped and listened carefully.
Sure enough, I heard Sister Juan's voice: "This...Old Wu, this has been delayed for so long, and if it continues to be delayed, lives will be lost...I can't afford it."
"What are you afraid of? I'm here. This matter won't go wrong. It's not that you are not allowed to pay her back. You can't do it later!"
The old man said, then turned to the two drinking beggars beside him and said: "You guys, start singing to me on the street from tomorrow on. Just make up the words as you like. How can you be so mean!!"
"Don't worry, Mr. Wu, we are very clean about pickling in the lowly streets and alleys.
It is composed and sung right now, even a young girl can arrange it for you to become the top star in the hair salon."
The two beggars were enjoying themselves while eating and drinking, and they patted their chests and promised.
However, the old man's face straightened up and he said coldly:
"Go away, I didn't ask you to come to her door to recruit business. If you want to arrange it, just say that he steals men, mainly for the old ladies in the neighborhood to hear, do you understand?"
"Yes Yes Yes……"
When the old man saw this, he sneered and sang at the top of his voice: "You are that Monkey King, but you can't escape from the palm of my hand!"
Stand outside the door.
The look on Ding Xiaoyi's face flickered, and he couldn't help but feel his scalp numb.
How could this person be so evil and hateful!
His eyes darkened for a moment, and a cold light suddenly appeared in his eyes, and he slowly took off his gloves...