The head beggar led them to the dilapidated mansion.
True to his word, it was mealtime and most of the beggars had gone out to beg for food, with only a few sitting on the straw inside the house, eating the leftovers that they had asked for.
“Go and get the rest of the men back.”
The old man did not enter the house, but stood in the courtyard and ordered.
A few beggars smiled and immediately put down the food in their hands and ran out to shout at the others, but in a moment, most of the beggars were shouted back.
“Today the Zhang family threw something out, did any of you see it?”
The street where the Zhang family is located is very busy, there are quite a few beggars gathered over there, and before his words fell, a few beggars came out.
“Where are the things?”
“We saw that there was nothing of value, so, so we threw it away again.”
It was all dead people’s stuff, and they felt bad about it, so they went through it and threw it away again.
The head beggar was so angry, “Go and find out who picked up the stuff.”
The beggars quickly out of the courtyard, scattered to inquire, but a quarter of an hour, then inquired back.
“Master, I found out, it was a family named Huang who picked it up.”
The head beggar looked at Qi Wu, “Qi Da Dangjia, what do you think?”
Song Wangyue handed the broken silver to him, “Let them take us there.”
Seeing that she was true to her word and really gave these scraps of silver, the head beggar looked deeply at her for a few moments, took the silver and instructed the beggar who had reported earlier to take them over.
The beggar took them outside the house of the Huang family and pointed to the pile of things scattered in the courtyard, “Those are the ones.”
The family looked quite well-off, with three sturdy northern houses, a large courtyard, which was cleaned up and did not look like a family specialising in rag-picking.
Afraid of scaring the people of this house, Song Wan Yue asked Qi Wu and Qi Ying to hide in a secluded place to the side, and walked to the front of the courtyard and raised her voice, “Anyone?”
The house was silent, and only after a while did a confused woman’s voice come out, “Who is it?”
The woman must have been taking a nap and her tone was unhappy to have been woken up.
“I’d like to ask for a glass of water.”
It was a while before the woman’s impatient voice came back into the room, “Wait.”
It took another moment before the door was opened and a woman came out sleepily, “What kind of person comes to the door in the middle of the day to ask for a drink of water, don’t you know it’s all at lunch, ……”
The woman’s voice stopped abruptly and her eyes widened for a moment, “How is it you?”
Song Wan Yue also did not expect it to be Song Lian’s home, she narrowed her eyes.
“What are you doing?”
Song Lian retreated to the doorway and looked at her warily. She couldn’t afford to mess with the Song family’s side, nor did she want to.
“Asking for a drink of water.”
Song Wangyue replied with a normal expression.
Song Lian didn’t believe her, the market was far away from her house, even if Song Wan Yue was really thirsty, she wouldn’t come here to ask for water, she must be here to get herself into trouble!
Thinking of this, she was so frightened that her voice even changed, “I, I, I haven’t, I haven’t been back to my mother, my mother’s house for a long time.”
Meaning she hadn’t touched Daya and Erma again.
“What’s wrong?”
Another man’s impatient voice came from inside the house.
“Yes, yes, yes ……”
“You’ve seen the devil, you can’t even speak properly.”
The man’s impatient voice came again.
“No, it’s, it’s, it’s ……”
Footsteps came from inside the house, followed by a man appearing in the doorway, tall and dark, looking even stronger than Song Lin.
He was naked and looked out with an impatient face, and when he saw a young girl standing at the courtyard door, he was unimpressed and reprimanded Song Lian, “Look at you, even a maid can scare you.”
“No, she, she is ……”
“I’m her mother’s niece.”
The man snapped and looked over again, ecstasy bursting out of his eyes unabashedly, “Daya?”
He had followed Song Lian back to her mother’s house a few times during those years and had seen Daya before, but at that time, Daya was still small and dark and thin, but he had never imagined that after a few years, she would have become such a beautiful little girl?
“She’s not Daya.”
“Not Daya?”
The man was puzzled, then grinned again, “Whether she is Daya or not, she is your niece all the same, invite her in.”
Song Lian couldn’t move her legs, she knew what her family had in mind, if they dared to sell Song Wan Yue, the Song family could skin them alive!
She said sharply, “She is the granddaughter of my eldest mother’s family.”
“The eldest mother’s side ……”
Song Lian nodded hastily.
The man narrowed his eyes, “Song San Xiao’s niece?”
Song Lian nodded again.
The man suddenly laughed, “Isn’t that just the thing! I still have nowhere to go to settle the score with him for the dozens of silver taels he cheated me with last time.”
“Dangjia’s ……”
Song Lian still wanted to persuade her, but the man had already lifted his feet towards the courtyard door and greeted her warmly, “Come, come, come, big niece, come in.”
Hearing the unkindness in his voice, Qi Ying raised her foot and just followed him over, but was stopped by Qi Wu, “Wait a moment first.”
The man pulled open the barred door and Song Wangyue lifted her foot to enter.
Song Lian hurriedly went to the kitchen and got a bowl, bent down and scooped a bowl of water out of the tank and handed it to Song Wan Yue, “Here, drink up and go.”
The bowl of water was intercepted by the man, “This is my eldest niece, how can I give her cold water? Go, boil some hot water.”
Song Lian was so anxious that her nose was sweating, so she snatched the bowl from the man’s hand and shoved it into Song Wan Yue’s, “How can country people be so pretentious? Drink up and go, I’m still sleepy.”
The man’s expression, which had just been smiling, instantly became somewhat fierce.
Song Wangyue splashed the water on the ground, “Since we’re family, I’ll tell you the truth, I’m here for those things.”
Seeing her pointing at the pile of rags she had picked up on the ground, the man and Song Lian both froze.
Then the man laughed, “My daughter-in-law said that her eldest uncle’s family was doing well, but it turns out that what she said was a lie, you guys are even picking up these rags back.”
“Each other, each other.”
Song Wangyue didn’t phase out.
The man laughed loudly, “I’m not like you guys either, I picked these up to ……”
“Dangjia.”
Song Lian hurriedly interrupted him.
The man was unimpressed, “What are you afraid of, look at this great niece of yours dressed in decent clothes too, it turns out that she is a donkey dung egg surface light, similar to your family, all want these rags.”
Song Lian’s face was embarrassed, today she passed by that street, saw the bedding and other things thrown away were not bad, so she picked them up, thinking that one day back to her mother’s family to bring back, so also save money to buy things.
“Can I have it?”
“Naturally-”
The man deliberately stretched out his tone and looked at Song Wangyue smugly, “It can’t be.”
The last time he and Song Ming joined forces to trap Song Sanxiao, they were not trapped by that boy, and he was reprimanded by the manager of the gambling house, and ordered to pay back the silver that Song Sanxiao had trapped within a certain period of time.
