The next day, Xia Nian took Xu Zheng to find the Xiahou family's weapons shop. Yesterday, Xiao Xian told her that she could come here to find him if she needed anything.

Originally, the two thought it would take some time to search, but they didn't expect that the Xiahou family's business was so famous that they found the answer by just asking a few people on the road.

The two soon arrived at the door of the store. There was a wooden sign with a big word written on it: Dark.

Xia Nian was thoughtful. What is the meaning of this word "an"?

The two walked in and immediately attracted the attention of the clerk.

Generally speaking, those who come to buy these weapons are big men, and it is very rare to see two women coming here.

"Excuse me, who are you two?" an older man stepped forward and asked.

Xia Nian said, "Excuse me, is Master Xiao Xian here? We have something to discuss with him."

"Lord Xiao?" The eldest brother looked at her and Xu Zheng suspiciously, and seeing that they were both pretty and good-tempered, he asked them to sit down first.

After a while, Xiao Xian ran down from above.

"Miss Xia!" Hearing that Xia Nian was looking for him, he was a little excited and came down immediately.

Xia Nian stood up and said, "Mr. Xiao, I'm sorry to come to you so early."

Xiao Xian waved his hand quickly: "It's okay, it's okay, Miss Xia, is there anything I can help you with?"

Xia Nian pursed her lips and nodded: "Yes, we want to find a shop outside, preferably one with several floors, but we are new here and are afraid of being cheated, so we have to ask Master Xiao for help."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Xiao Xian expectantly.

Xiao Xian nodded and said readily: "No problem, there happens to be a vacant one that you can use."

After listening to Xia Nianyi's words, he immediately remembered the several shops they left behind when they dealt with that man.

Xia Nian and Xu Zheng looked at each other and said with a smile, "Should we buy or rent?"

"You two can just use them. You don't have to buy or rent them. Those shops are just there anyway." A clear voice came from upstairs. The three looked up and saw that it was Xiahou Yu who spoke.

"Master Xiahou." Xia Nian called him.

"How is Miss Xia's foot injury?" he walked down and asked.

Xia Nian smiled and said, "It will be fine in the future. Thank you for your concern, Master Xiahou."

She was dressed in white, with her black hair tied into a braid and placed obediently on her chest, which suddenly reminded Xiahou Yu of the night on the boat when she was holding a dagger and tears were streaming down her face.

Xiahou Yu lowered his eyes and said, "Xiao Xian, take you two to have a look at those shops."

"Yes." Xiao Xian nodded and looked at Xiahou Yu's expression.

It was the first time he saw Xiahou Yu caring so much about a girl.

On the way, Xia Nian took fifty taels of silver and asked Xu Zheng to buy other things first, and she followed Xiao Xian to look at the shop.

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On the other side, Tao Tao and Meng Yin went to the market together to buy things they needed to open a shop.

Since Xia Nian's leg had not yet healed, they decided to let Meng Yin paint for them for free as an excuse to get them to buy homemade snacks, skewers, and other things.

Use Meng Yin's camera to take pictures of them, and then let Meng Yin draw the pictures. You can come and pick them up in a few days.

When they came to the market today, the two bought a lot of raw materials at low prices. They found that there were good seasoning raw materials here, but people here did not put these things in their dishes.

This actually provides them with opportunities.

The two of them walked down the street, laughing and joking, and felt curious about everything around them.

As they passed the alley, they heard a cry.

"It sounds like a child crying." Meng Yin looked at Tao Tao and said.

"Let's go in and take a look." She took Tao Tao's hand and walked in.

There were only some broken bamboo baskets in the alley. The two walked in and saw a group of children surrounding a little boy crying.

The little boy's face was flushed, he was covered with dirty and torn clothes, his eyes were closed and his brows were twisted in pain.

A little child noticed someone coming. He wiped his tears and saw that they were two kind-looking sisters. He immediately rushed over and knelt on the ground.

"Sister, sister, please save him!" he cried, with tears and snot mixed on his dirty face.

The two looked at each other, Tao Tao walked forward, looked into the boy's eyes, and then reached out and touched his forehead.

"You have a fever. If you don't take medicine, your brain will probably be damaged. It's also possible that..." Tao Tao raised her head and looked at Meng Yin with a frown.

"Or... take it back first?" Meng Yin said. She understood Tao Tao's feelings, and she felt the same way.

Tao Tao nodded. As a medical student, she couldn't just sit there and watch.

"Lift him up and come with us." Meng Yin said loudly.

The four children looked at each other and quickly lifted the boy up.

Tao Tao had an excellent memory and could remember the route she had walked after walking through it once. It didn’t take long for them to reach Huayueju.

Tao Tao pointed to her room and said, "Put him on the bed." Then she ran to get her medicine box.

Fortunately, Xu Zheng took their luggage last time. She always carries some medicine with her when she goes out.

Meng Yin fetched a few pots of water and asked the children, "Can you make a fire?"

A boy ran up and said, "I can!"

"Okay, boil the water and call me later," she said.

"Okay!" The boy sat down and started to boil water seriously.

Meng Yin put the things she and Tao Tao bought in her room and locked it up. To be honest, she was worried that these kids might do something. After all, there were only two girls at home and they had to be on guard.

After the water was boiled, Meng Yin fetched water to wash the boy's face, and Tao Tao poured the antipyretic medicine down and fed it to him mouthful by mouthful.

While feeding the medicine, the boy vaguely saw two graceful figures in front of him and thought he had arrived in paradise.

The other children sat obediently in the yard, without making any noise or noise.

Meng Yin came out and looked at them.

"Where are your families?" she asked.

The boy who begged them to save him stood up and said weakly: "We don't know where our families are. We are beggars..."

"Beggars?" Meng Yin was stunned. These children had regular facial features, were all boys, and had no wounds on their bodies, yet they were beggars.

The boy lowered his head: "I'm not begging... I'm here to tell them the news..."

Meng Yin understood: "Is that so? No wonder. What are your names?"

"My name is Xiaohe, the one inside is called Ashan, his name is Erdan, his name is Sanyang, his name is Wugou..." He paused, tears slid down his dirty face, leaving a tear mark, "Originally there was another one, but he was beaten to death by those people..."

"What! Beat him to death?" Meng Yin covered her mouth and exclaimed, "Is there no one to take care of it?"

Xiao He shook his head: "They won't care about beggars like us..."

Meng Yin's eyes widened. "That's unreasonable." After saying that, she saw that the children were skinny and asked, "Are you hungry?"

The thin boy named Erdan said, "We haven't eaten rice for three days..."

Tao Tao walked out and couldn't help but feel distressed: "How pitiful! I didn't expect that there are so many children in this world who can't get enough food."

Meng Yin lowered her eyes. This was just what they had encountered. There must be more in the dark.

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