The Fiery Era of Siheyuan

Chapter 82, fainting

Time flies, and a month has passed in a blink of an eye.

December, the end of the year, has already entered the cold winter at this time.

At 07:30 in the morning, the entire Imperial Capital was covered with a blanket of white snow. The snowfall last night added a poetic touch to the Imperial Capital, and the New Year atmosphere became more and more intense.

A house with a back cover in the backyard, a house for a deaf old lady.

The old man was a light sleeper and woke up early. The deaf old lady was busy with work after getting up in the morning. I don't know what she was busy with.

She pulled out a large box from under the bed and opened it, but inside was a stack of food stamps and daily necessities tickets.

The old lady took out all the vouchers inside and counted them carefully. There were 60 catties of food stamps, and a dozen receipts for towels, toothbrushes, toothpaste, kerosene, etc., which the old lady saved for almost a year.

Putting on these tickets and getting dressed, the old lady walked outside on crutches.

Today is the weekend, it is very cold, and the wind is blowing. The residents in the courtyard are not willing to get up early, and they are all curled up in bed to sleep late. The whole courtyard is quiet.

Looking up at the sky, the snow has stopped and the sun has come out. The weather is not bad. She nodded and didn't disturb anyone. The old lady went out slowly with a cane on her own.

After leaving the courtyard gate, the old lady walked towards Jiaodaokou East Street.

It took half an hour to stroll slowly to Jiaodaokou East Street. At the end of the field, the old lady continued walking for a few minutes and turned into an inconspicuous alley.

There were seven or eight people in the alley at this time, some holding a piece of cloth and squatting on the ground to set up stalls, and some holding tickets and bargaining with others. Yes, this alley is a small pigeon market, and there are still people at the door. Let's have some fun.

There are many pigeon markets like this, big and small, and the number cannot be counted. It may be a pigeon market in any street or alley.

In order to communicate with each other and meet the needs of life, many pigeon markets are formed spontaneously. Although it is not allowed on the surface, as long as there is not a large amount of goods being bought and sold, the public will often turn a blind eye. Things can't be banned.

The old lady walked up to a middle-aged woman with ease, took out a stack of tickets from her pocket, and said to the woman, "How are the food stamps collected now?"

"Local or national?"

"local."

"How many pounds?"

"60 pounds."

"Local food stamps are [-] cents per catty."

"Twenty cents?" Hearing the woman's quotation, the old lady frowned and said, "It was two cents for the first two months, but now that food is so scarce, the local food stamps have increased to twenty-three cents a catty, haven't they?"

"Hey, old lady, the selling price is [-] cents. I'm taking it. You can't let me work in vain."

Hearing what the woman said, the old lady nodded, and handed over the food stamps and daily necessities tickets in her hand: "You are troubled, let me calculate the price."

The woman took the stack of coupons and counted them one by one in front of the old lady. After counting them twice, she said: "Old lady, 60 kilograms of food stamps, a total of 12 yuan and 15 cents, daily necessities coupons." , three yuan and thirty cents, a total of fifteen yuan and nine cents."

After hearing the price, the old lady waved her hands and said, "15 yuan and nine don't sound good, it doesn't sound good. 16 yuan, I'll give you all 16 yuan."

"No, old lady, it's not easy for us to earn some money in this cold weather."

"Just 16 yuan! If you agree, I will give it to you. If you don't agree, I will ask someone else."

"Uh, okay, old lady, you really know how to do business." Unable to resist the old lady, the middle-aged woman finally nodded in agreement.

The old lady took the wad of money from the middle-aged woman, counted it carefully, and put it into the lower pocket of her coat after making sure that there was no problem and that the bills and bills were cleared.

When the two lowered their heads to deal, they didn't know that someone was already eyeing this side.

A short man in his 20s, with a dog fur hat on his head and a scarf on his face, couldn't see his face clearly. He pretended to be looking at a stall, but his eyes looked at the old lady from time to time.

After the transaction was over, the old lady didn't stay long, put on her crutches, and walked back slowly.

After walking for 200 meters, I was already far away from this alley, when suddenly, a person bumped into the old lady from behind.

"Hey."

The old lady was knocked down immediately.

"Hey, old lady, are you okay, I'll help you up."

The man pretended to knock someone down accidentally, and quickly reached out to help the old lady up, helped to pat the dust off her body, and then said: "Sorry, old lady, I was in a hurry and I didn't see you, are you okay? "

After being helped up, the old lady moved her hands and feet and found that nothing happened, so she didn't care about the person: "You should watch your steps carefully. Seeing how anxious you are, luckily nothing happened."

"Hey, I'm sorry, old lady. It's such a cold weather, so please take your time, I'll leave first." With that said, the young man apologized to the old lady, and then left quickly.

Watching the man leave, the old lady shook her head, not paying attention, and continued to walk back.

After walking for tens of meters, the old lady suddenly felt something was wrong, so she stopped and thought about it.

Suddenly, the old lady seemed to remember something.

broken!

He hurriedly reached into the lower pocket of his coat, but when he touched it, he found nothing.

The 16 yuan in my pocket is gone.

The old lady is like a bolt from the blue at this moment.

I have saved tickets for almost a year, and I plan to exchange them for money at the end of the year. I bought some New Year’s goods during the Chinese New Year, but I didn’t expect that someone would take them away in the blink of an eye.

The old lady suddenly felt dizzy and weak in her hands and feet.

nine in the morning.

Siheyuan, the gate.

The deaf old lady leaned on crutches by herself, came back from the outside sweating profusely, panting, and stepped up the steps of the door step by step.

"Hey old lady, did you go out for a walk by yourself?" The third mother who was cleaning the door with a broom greeted the old lady with a smile when she saw her come back.

"Oh yes." The old lady replied with a forced smile.

"What's the matter with you, old lady? Why do you feel that something is wrong with you today?" The third mother asked concerned when she saw that the old lady's expression was not right.

The old lady's complexion was too strange this time around, her face was pale, and she was walking staggeringly, anyone with a discerning eye could see that something was wrong.

"Oh, it's okay."

The old lady shook her head, said nothing more, walked tremblingly on the steps with a cane.

Just as he was about to lift his foot to step over the courtyard gate, his breath was not smooth, his hands and feet softened, his whole body staggered, and he fell headfirst to the ground.

"Hey, old lady, what's wrong with you?"

Seeing the old lady fall to the ground, the third aunt suddenly exclaimed. She didn't care about anything else. She threw away the broom and hurried over to help the old lady up.

"Old lady, are you all right? How is it?"

The third mother supported the old lady with both hands, trying to lift her up, but failed after several attempts.

The old lady's face was pale now, her breath was dying, and she couldn't stand up at all.

This time, the third mother was terrified, and hurriedly shouted into the courtyard: "Come on, come on, come on, the old lady fell, come on to help!"

(End of this chapter)