Chapter 75 Sorrow

Hearing this sound, the woman seemed to be shocked. She trembling all over and stood up in a daze. After a long time, she slowly turned around and stared at the beghuazi, who slowly stood up and said, "Zhen, Mei?"

The woman's nose was sore, her eyes were moist, and two big tears rolled out in an instant, "Li, Li Ren... You, are you still alive?" Her lips trembled, and her voice trembled like fallen leaves in the wind.

Looking at each other, I don't know where to start, and I don't know what to say to say to each other after this sudden change. Li Ren looked at Zhen Mei, with high temples and beads in the past, and Zhen Mei, who was gorgeous and swayed with fragrant clothes, is no different from ordinary women, and I don't know where the glory of the past has faded. The dim sallow face shows that it is difficult for Zhen Mei to sleep these days.

There was a pain in Li Ren's heart, not only for himself but also for Zhen Mei, but he quickly realized that this was not the place to speak. He instinctively regained his dull face. At the same time, he secretly looked around with the afterglow of the corners of his eyes, "Is there a suitable place for you to talk, madam?"

Seeing this, Zhen Mei quickly wiped away her tears, nodded and whispered, "Come with me!"

"You go first, and I'll follow!" Among the bets, Li Ren was very clear that Lou Xun had many ears and eyes, and was searching for them, the descendants of the royal family who had escaped the disaster. Because of this, he chose to ask for food in the slums, because Lou Xun's minions would never expect that the former princes would fall into the place where the untouchables lived to beg for food.

So the two of them, one after the other, Zhen Mei took Li Ren around the narrow street, and got into an alley where the two eaves were almost adjacent to each other and could only accommodate one person. The alley was full of uneven sewage pits, as well as all kinds of garbage soaked in the sewage. Even Li Ren couldn't help wrinkle. He frowned and held his breath, but Zhen Mei seemed to be used to it. He calmly avoided the puddles and came to the end of the alley.

Opening the broken board door, Zhen Mei took the lead in entering the room and waiting for Li Ren. "I'm sorry, the room is too dirty and broken, but I can only avoid it here for the time being!" Zhen Mei saw that Li Ren's head almost hit the low beam and said sorry.

Li Ren looked around the room. In the dark and gray room, there was only a broken wooden table and a few wooden chairs. There was a cabinet that looked equally old against the right wall. Next to the cabinet was a bed, and there was a door in the diagonal corner on the left. There was a gray curtain hanging on the door. It was estimated that there was a compartment inside. I saw Zhen Mei living like this. In the broken house, Li Ren really wanted to cry.

"Li Ren, sit down quickly. Although it is simple, it is at least a place to live. It's just a day. Who knows what will happen tomorrow?" Zhen Mei hurriedly greeted Li Ren and wiped one of the wooden chairs with his sleeves.

"It doesn't matter, Zhen Mei!" Li Ren walked over and grabbed Zhen Mei and motioned her not to be busy. "I have become a poor begler. How can I be so particular about it?"

"Li Ren! Cousin Li Ren!" Zhen Mei finally couldn't help covering his face and sobbing, "We, what should we do? The Empress Dowager passed away, and the emperor disappeared. We have nothing. How can we live in the future!"

Li Ren's eyes turned red. He gently hugged Zhen Mei into his arms. "Don't cry, Mei'er. I thought I would never see you again. It's the greatest miracle God has given me to me to meet you again!"

"You know, Mei'er!" Li Ren continued, "My heart actually hurts more than you. On the day my parents sent me to hide in the dark room of Li's house, I didn't know that this was my farewell to my parents. A few days after I escaped, I found out the news that they were indeed dead. The most hateful thing is Lou Xun. He didn't let them go when they were dead, so that they both exposed their bodies were in Li's house. In the back garden, no one can collect the corpses. In desperation, I have to burn Li's house, which is finally equivalent to burying bones for them. If I have nothing, I thought so before, but after meeting you, I suddenly didn't think so. Living is everything!"

"But, I can't live any longer!" Zhen Mei cried in Li Ren's arms and said, "In the past few days, I don't know how I survived. That day, there was chaos in the palace. My maidservant and I were among the palace people who were fleeing around, and I didn't know where to escape. I ran. My maid suddenly shouted, and she fell down. I looked back. It turned out that a pair of people caught up with us from behind. Someone stabbed us straight at us with a new gun. The maid ran behind me, so she was shot in the heart, and I was only a little short! I panicked, my hands and feet were weak, and I fell to the ground at once. Just as I thought I was going to die, a few armors suddenly rushed out of my side, pulled out the guns on the dead bodies one after another, and tossss them back at the people chasing us, killing a lot of horses, and someone pulled me up again, dragging and roaring and making me run quickly. After running for a while, Seeing a corner of the palace wall collapsed, the man humpated me and threw me out of the wall, but when I looked back, he had been shot and spit blood and let me run quickly, but I didn't expect that there were also dead bodies outside. Where did I go? In a hurry, I had to wipe my face of blood and hide under a few corpses until At night, I secretly escaped before the rebels could clean up the battlefield. Later, I had nowhere to live. I happened to meet an old woman when I was a child. Her husband died and her son also died. Now my family is in a dilapidating place and I live alone. She hid me here!"

Zhen Mei chattered a lot. It can be seen that the shock brought to her by the palace chaos that day was far from calming down. "Li Ren, you said, you have also seen my current situation. On such a day, I think it's better to die!"

"Don't say that, Mei'er!" Li Ren pushed Zhen Mei away in pain and wiped her tears tremblingly. "Someone has to avenge our Li family and Lou Xun. Otherwise, won't my parents and the Empress Dowager die in vain? They did the last fight for us to live. How can we abandon ourselves? I don't believe that God will make him so arrogant all the time. Meier, believe me, there will always be another day when we survive!"

"Is there really more?" Zhen Mei shook his head doubtfully, "No, Li Ren, please be sober. Even the emperor has disappeared. No matter who competes for the world, it has nothing to do with us!"

"I'm not interested in competing for the world!" Li Renchen said, "I have never thought of fighting for the world. It is my greatest wish to be a general who leads the three armies under the protection of my aunt. Now that my aunt is gone, I don't have any general to be. I have a serious illness under the bridge hole where Huazi lives. During the illness, I thought in a daze. Is this hatred? If God asks me to survive, I will do my best to avenge the Li family. Once I get revenge, no matter who sits in the world, I am not interested in it. At worst, I will live in seclusion in the countryside and spend my life happily.

"Well, that can't be regarded as a way out?" Zhen Mei said and tears gushed out again, "We can't go back to our previous life, can we?"

Li Ren did not answer, but his eyes had definitely told Zhen Mei the answer.

Zhen Mei was helpless and wiped his tears with his sleeves and said, "Look at me. I've been complaining to you all the time, and I haven't brought you a glass of water. In fact, you are as difficult as me!"

"It doesn't matter, Meier, since we have found each other, the future is still long!"

Zhen Mei nodded and asked as if he remembered something, "Cousin Li Ren, haven't you eaten yet? There is still some cold rice in my stove. I'll heat it up for you, but there are no dishes. I just cooked it with water and added some salt.

"It's already good. Cold food is fine. I'm used to it!" Li Ren smiled bitterly, "I haven't had dinner for two days. Don't be hot. Can you give me a bowl of cushion first!"

Seeing that Li Ren wolfed up the wind and rolled up the remnants of the clouds, Zhen Mei cried again in embarrassment, "Cousin Li Ren, I only have this little leftovers. Why don't you put up with it, and I'll make it for you!"

Li Ren also knew that it was enough to embarrass Zhen Mei, so he said, "Let me help you. Will you make a fire?"

"Will you?" Zhen Mei looked at Li Ren with distrustful eyes, and Li Ren smiled shyly and shook his head.

"It's not as good as me!" Zhen Mei despised that the delicateness returned to her again. Only when she was full of this proud little beauty did Li Ren see Zhen Mei in the past.

"Mah, she taught me a lot of things, but in order to avoid suspicion, she doesn't dare to come here often, especially now that the wind is so tight, she can only secretly send me some rice noodles or something. The money for buying rice is still taken from me, but she still remembers the old feelings and is willing to hide me here. It's not easy. What else can I talk to her about?" After saying that, Zhen Mei picked up the sleeves and was ready to cook again.

"Do you still have money?" Li Ren followed Zhen Mei and said, "Is it enough?"

"Alas!" Zhen Mei sighed, "At that time, I changed the costume of the palace people. I originally wrapped a small bag of jewelry and brought it with me. Unexpectedly, in the chaos, I didn't know where to go for a long time. It took advantage of those thieves. However, when I escaped, I found that I forgot to take off the string of beads, and I had no choice but to split the beads into pieces. It's a point to ask Mama to take it for a point. The beads are a reward from the Empress Dowager, and she can't keep them. Fortunately, the beads are more valuable. They have only been changed so far. It should be enough for me to maintain my life for a period of time.

"That's good!" Li Ren nod and said, "But in the recent period, try not to go to the pawnshop to change it. Lou Xun's minions are not vegetarian. The things brought out of the palace can be recognized at a glance. If someone sees the object of your pawn, or the people in the pawn shop go to inform, they will definitely find your trace, and it's thanks to you. It's to tear down the beads, or I'm afraid something will happen to your Mother!"

"Oh, my God!" Zhen Mei shivered, "You mean I escaped again?"

"In a word, everything should be careful in the future. When I find a suitable place, I will change another place for you. Although the slum is easy to hide, there are many people. It is inevitable that you, a strange woman, will be noticed when you go in and out, so it is the best way to leave the capital for the time being, but it is easy to say and difficult to do. It is in the whole city every day. Banned, how easy is it to go out of the city? Fortunately, the capital is so big. At worst, we will change places to live every now and then. Let's get through this most difficult period. Lou Xun can't always close the city and turn Kyoto into an isolated city, right?

"Uh-huh!" Zhen Mei thought for a moment and said, "Why don't cousin Ren, you move in with me for the time being? Although the room is a little shabby, you can still put an extra bed. Although there is less food, it's better for two people to find a way together, isn't it? What's more, every night, I stay alone in this empty and dilapidated room, and I can't sleep with fear. As soon as I close my eyes, I see the dead empress dowager, maidservants, and those corpses..."