Brocade tears

Nearly three o'clock, Meng Qing came out of the bathroom and went back to the room exhausted.She sniffed her body carefully, and after washing for a while, she always felt that the stench still remained.

In the north room of the main hall, mother and father could be heard depressing and fierce quarreling. They were arguing about the girl that father had just brought back.Meng Qing stood in the yard for a while before pushing open the door of the Westinghouse worriedly.

Meng Yan was lying on the head of the bed, staring at the motionless girl lying on the couch with a pair of big eyes.Seeing his sister coming in, the little guy straightened up and said:

"Sister, this little sister looks so strange."

Meng Qing smiled and said: "This young lady should be from a different race, so her appearance is not quite the same as ours."

Meng Qing spent nearly an hour cleaning the body of the girl brought back by her father.At first, her mother helped her wash for a while, but she couldn't bear it any longer and her strength was exhausted, so Meng Qing asked her mother to rest and clean up by herself.The girl entered the water for the first time, and the water was black. After going through the water three times in a row, I don’t know how much soap locust powder was applied to her upper body. After scrubbing over and over again, the skin on her body showed its original color, pure like the white snow in that winter. bright.The long hair full of stains gradually revealed a unique dark brown color.The muddy and dusty face, after being cleaned, has a slightly high nose and deep eyes. The face is well-defined and very beautiful.

Meng Qing was very surprised at the time. After a while, she thought of the contents of a geographical chronicle of the Western Regions that her second brother had read to her. They have high noses, deep eyes, yellow hair and blue eyes. This is the appearance of the most western aliens. In the west, people's faces, clothes and hair colors are constantly getting lighter and lighter, which is amazing.Meng Qing knew that the Mongols who once ruled the Central Plains had now split into Tatars and Oirats, but their appearance did not seem to be much different from the Han Chinese in the Central Plains, except that their bodies were stronger and their faces were bigger. Both have black hair, black eyes and yellow skin.At that time, it was difficult for her to imagine the appearance of the foreigners in the west, but now she finally has a concept.

"What is a foreigner?" Meng Yan didn't understand, and blinked at Meng Qing.

Meng Qing approached, put her arms around her shoulders and said, "We are Han Chinese. Han Chinese all have black hair, yellow skin and dark eyes, but not all people of other races are like this."

"Oh, just like this little lady?"

"Correct."

"Is the color of my little sister's eyes different from ours?" Meng Yan was very curious.

"I don't know, my sister has never seen her eyes." The girl was in a coma when she was delivered, and she has not woken up until now, and she is unconscious no matter how much she manipulates.

"Little Miss is sleeping really soundly. Shall we sleep with her tonight?"

"Yeah, that's all right, you small talker, go to bed, it's too late to rest. Sex!" Meng Qing grabbed Meng Ai's armpit, and put her on the couch forcefully, Meng Ai giggled twice Sound, she likes the feeling of Elder Sister holding her up into the air.The little girl lay obediently beside her little sister, staring at the little sister intently, as if fascinated by this kind of beauty she had never seen before.

"Ai'er, you've really gained weight, sister can't even lie down." Meng Qing lay on the outermost side, sandwiched Meng Ai between her and the unconscious woman, and covered Meng Ai and the woman with a smile. Quilt.

"No, sister, you are talking nonsense. It's because our couch is too narrow, and the three of us are crowded together." The little girl argued seriously, she still couldn't understand sister's joke well.Their bed is a babu bed left by the owner. The wood and carvings used are relatively ordinary, and it is also old. Two people can make a living, and three people are really crowded.

Meng Qing coaxed Meng Yan to sleep as usual, humming a ditty softly.It was late at night, and Meng Yan went to bed late today, and was also tired, and soon fell asleep with eyelids fighting.Meng Qing herself gradually faded away and fell asleep.

After an unknown amount of time, Meng Qing was suddenly awakened by a scream. She opened her eyes abruptly, her brain suddenly became dizzy, her heart shrank suddenly, and she almost couldn't catch her breath.

"What's wrong?!" She asked in surprise, sat up and took a closer look. It turned out that the strange woman brought back by her father woke up, and she seemed to be frightened. At this time, she had curled up at the end of the bed, her eyes fixed on her eyes. She was trembling all over, like a wounded little animal, frightened and frightened.Meng Yan was also awakened, and the dazed look on her little face gradually turned into fear, she subconsciously shrank into Ajie's arms, whimpering, the little girl was also frightened.

At this time, it was just dawn, the sky was dimly bright, and there was a blue-white gleam shining into the house through the window lattice.Meng Qing has very good eyesight and can already see the woman clearly.The woman's eyes were really extraordinary, but they were not blue eyes as she had guessed, but honey-colored, similar to the color of the candy figurines sold by the old uncle of the Li family at the entrance of the alley.Coupled with her timid and helpless look of curling up with her knees hugged at this time, she is really full of beauty, showing a different kind of charming and charming feeling.

Meng Qing stared blankly, unable to utter a word for a while, her tongue seemed to be tied.

"Sister..." After a while, seeing that her sister didn't respond for a long time, Meng Yan tugged at her clothes in fear.Only then did Meng Qing come back to her senses, soothe her sister's little head, and she moved her body slowly to approach the woman.The woman suddenly became more nervous, biting her lower lip and tensing her whole body. Meng Qing suspected that if she got closer, she would rush over and push her away to escape.

"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you." She hurriedly said, then sat down cross-legged in her original position, and smiled at the woman, "What's your name?"

The woman looked at her, hesitating and not answering.Meng Qing introduced with a smile:

"My name is Meng Qing, and this is my little sister, Meng Ai. Come here, Ai'er." She held the little guy in her arms, made her face the woman, and said, "You say hello to my little sister. .”

"Little sister... did you have a nightmare?" Meng Yan asked aggrievedly.

Perhaps it was Meng Qing's kind attitude and Meng Ai's harmless and cute appearance that softened the woman's vigilance. She finally relaxed, and Meng Qing asked again:

"What's your name?"

"... Sui Er, Li Sui Er." The woman replied softly, her voice was a little hoarse.Seeing this, Meng Qing hurriedly got on the bed, walked to the table in the distance, took a teapot and poured a cup of cold water for her.

"Drink some, soothe your throat." She smiled.

Sui'er took the teacup, this time without hesitation, she drank it quickly in one gulp, and then licked her lips, as if she still couldn't finish it.Meng Qing brought the whole pot of water over again, and she drank it in several sips, finally quenching her thirst.

"Where is this?" Sui Er asked.

"This is my house, the room of my son and I." Meng Qing explained.

"Why am I here?"

"Don't you remember? It was my father who pulled you back in a donkey cart. You are really smelly and dirty. It took me a long time to wash you up." Meng Qing said.

"Your father... is the Jin Yiwei from the Imperial Prison?"

"He is Jinyiwei, but he is not the Jinyiwei of the Imperial Prison." Meng Qing wondered why she would ask such a question.

Sui'er stared at her in a daze, and didn't answer for a while, Meng Qing felt that although her pair of beautiful eyes were looking at her, she didn't seem to be looking at her, and she was in a daze.After a while, she lowered her head, lowered her eyes, and said in a distant voice:

"Thank you."

"Where did you come from? How did you make such a mess?" Meng Qing asked, and Meng Ai, who was nestled in her arms, listened to her sister's question in a daze, her big eyes still falling on Sui'er for a moment.

"I'll come here wherever your father..." After a moment of silence, Sui'er replied, and after she finished speaking, she hugged her knees again and shrunk herself into a ball.

Prison? !Meng Qing was very surprised, she really didn't expect that this girl came from the prison, she thought it was a clay baby that her father picked up by the side of the road.In recent years, there have been more and more refugees in the capital, most of whom have suffered disasters in their hometowns and can no longer survive. They hope to go to Beijing to ask for food, so it is commonplace.Meng Qing knew exactly where the prison was, so she would never have thought that such a young and beautiful girl would be arrested and sent to the prison.Could it be the family of the felon?

She suddenly remembered the Zhang Juzheng case that had caused a great uproar in the past six months, and it was already known to women and children in the streets and alleys.Recently, a group of criminal women from the Zhang family were escorted to Beijing from Jingzhou, which was the mission of my father a few days ago.She suddenly panicked, her brows twitched, she kept silent, and didn't ask any further questions.

In the unbearable silence, the ignorant Meng Yan's eyelids started to fight again, and he murmured, "Sister, I'm sleepy."

"Then you sleep a little longer, go to sleep." Meng Qing comforted the little girl to lie down, and covered her with a quilt.She glanced at Sui'er again, hesitated for a moment, and said clumsily:

"You can also sleep for a while, I... I should get up too, and I will call you to get up and eat in a while."

Sui'er looked at her without saying a word.Under her gaze, Meng Qing grabbed the hem of the clothes awkwardly, then put on a coat, opened the door and went out.

She went to the kitchen first, heated up the stove, boiled water, washed first, stacked white noodle cakes in a drawer, steamed them in the pan, cooked another pot of porridge, squatted at the kitchen door, and ate With a yawn, he suddenly became dazed.At this scene, it is estimated that the fifth watch has just passed, and the family has not yet woken up.

Meng Qing was thinking about something.Dad brought home a death row prisoner, but why did he do this for no reason? If outsiders knew about it, it would be a serious crime of beheading, which would affect the whole family.After thinking about it again, it's possible that father is not ignorant of the danger involved. He must have a reason for doing so. You have to trust father's judgment. In short, when he gets up, he will go ask.

What Meng Qing didn't expect was that the door of the east room opened at this time, and her father Meng Yi came out from the east room, followed by her second brother Meng Kuang.Meng Kuang seemed a little excited, and followed behind his father and shouted in a low voice:

"Father, this is a big taboo, we can't bear this crime."

"Kuang'er, don't worry, I will send her away in a day or two. This matter is kept secret and no one will know about it."

"There are eyeliners everywhere in Beijing, how can we ensure that no one knows?"

"Kuang'er... Don't forget, your father and I are the eyeliner." After the father finished speaking, he turned around and was about to go back to the north room, when he suddenly saw Meng Qing squatting in front of the kitchen door, he was startled, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked:

"Qing'er, why did you wake up so early? What about the girl?"

"She woke up from a nightmare just now, and woke me and Wen'er up. I comforted them and fell asleep again. Thinking that I should wake up at this time on weekdays, I came to the stove to cook the morning food." Meng Qing stood Get up and explain.

Meng Yi heaved a sigh of relief, and told Meng Qing, "Stop running out all the time these days, and take care of the girl at home, don't let her go out, and be careful not to let outsiders see her, do you understand?"

"Father... Is that girl... the former Chief Assistant's family?" Meng Qing asked hesitantly.

"Hush!" Meng Yi motioned her to be silent, Meng Qing pursed her lips, and for a moment she was sure of what she was thinking.

"Remember, this girl will be sent away in a few days. You don't need to know who she is, and don't bother her. Dad knows it well, do you understand?"

Meng Qing and Meng Kuang didn't dare to say any more and nodded.Meng Yi eased his tone and said:

"I'll use the morning food for a while, then I'll go out to do something, and I'll return in the evening. You are at home today, so be sure to guard the door."

"Yes, Father." The two replied.

Meng Yi went back to the north room to change clothes and wash. Meng Qing walked up to his second elder brother Meng Kuang and asked in a low voice:

"What did Dad tell you?"

Meng Kuang shook his head and sighed: "Father keeps his mouth shut, and I can't ask. But this matter must not be the idea of ​​Father alone. I guess it must have something to do with the youngest Li who is in prison."

"Li Laosan and daddy got out the death row prisoners and hid them at home together? This is too weird. I have never heard of them coming out of the prison. Li Laosan is a cannibal, let alone him. Saved the person." Meng Qing was puzzled.

Meng Kuang just sighed, and he was also extremely puzzled.

"Qing'er, this is not a good omen, I hope it won't cause trouble for the family." Meng Kuang finally said.