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

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

At 7:30 in the morning, the entire imperial capital was covered with snow. The snow that fell last night added a poetic feeling to the imperial capital, and the atmosphere of the New Year became heavier and heavier.

The back yard is covered with a room, the house of the deaf old lady.

The old man slept lightly and woke up early. After the deaf old lady woke up in the morning, she kept busying herself, not knowing what she was busy with.

She pulled out a large box from the bottom of the bed and opened it, but there were a stack of food coupons and daily necessities tickets.

The old lady took out all the tickets inside and counted them carefully. There were about 60 kilograms of grain coupons, and more than ten tickets such as towels, toothbrushes, toothpaste, kerosene, etc., which the old lady saved for almost a year.

Putting these tickets in hand and putting on clothes, the old lady walked out with a cane.

Today is the weekend, it is a cold weather and the wind is blowing. The residents in the yard are unwilling to get up early, and they are huddled in the bed and sleeping in. The whole courtyard is quiet.

I looked up at the sky. Now the snow had stopped and the sun had come out. The weather was pretty good. I nodded and didn't alarm anyone. The old lady walked out slowly with her crutches.

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

It took half an hour to stroll to Jiaodaokou East Street. When I arrived at the place, the old lady continued walking for a few minutes and turned into an inconspicuous alley.

At this time, there were seven or eight people in the alley, some of whom were holding a piece of cloth and setting up stalls on the ground, and some were holding tickets to bargain with people. Yes, this alley was a small pigeon market, and there were still people at the door to let go.

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

In order to communicate with each other and meet the needs of life, many pigeon markets are spontaneously formed. Although it is not allowed on the surface, as long as a large number of materials are not resold, the public often turn a blind eye. After all, such things cannot be banned.

The old lady walked up to a middle-aged woman with a familiarity, took out a stack of tickets from her pocket, and said to the woman: "How do you collect food coupons now?"

“Local or national?”

“Local.”

"How many kilograms?"

"60 jin."

"Local food coupons are 2 cents per catty."

"Two cents per cent?" Hearing the woman's offer, the old lady frowned and said, "The first two months were 2 cents per cent. Now the food is so tight, haven't the local food coupons increased to 23 cents per pound?"

"Oh, old lady, that's the price of 20 cents. I'm collecting it. You can't let me work in vain."

After hearing what the woman said, the old lady nodded and handed over the food coupons and daily necessities tickets in her hand: "You are suffering, calculate the price."

The woman took the stack of tickets, counted them one by one in front of the old lady, counted them twice, and then said: "The old lady, 60 kilograms of food coupons, a total of 126 cents, a total of 159 cents, a total of 159 cents."

After hearing the price, the old lady waved her hand and said, "Fifteen yuan is not good, not good. Just sixteen yuan, I will give you all sixteen yuan."

"This is not OK, old lady, it's not easy for us to make some money."

"Just sixteen yuan! If you agree, I'll ask someone else for it."

"Uh, okay, old lady, you are really good at doing business." The middle-aged woman finally nodded in agreement.

The old lady took the stack of money handed over by the middle-aged woman, counted it carefully, and confirmed that there was no problem. She cleared the money tickets before putting them in the lower pocket of the coat.

When the two of them lowered their heads to trade, they didn't know that someone had already set their sights on this side.

A short man in his twenties wore a dog-skin hat on his head and a scarf with a face. He couldn't see his appearance clearly. He pretended to be watching something on a street stall, but his eyes were aimed at the old lady from time to time.

After the transaction was over, the old lady didn't wait long and walked back slowly without a cane on the pillar.

After walking for a hundred or two meters, he was already away from the alley. Suddenly, a man bumped into the back of the old lady's side.

"Oh."

The old lady was knocked down immediately.

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

The man pretended to accidentally knocked down the person, quickly reached out to help the old lady up, helped to pat the dust on her body, and then said, "Sorry, old lady, I have something urgent to go on the road, but I didn't see you, are you okay?"

After the old lady was helped up, she moved her hands and feet, and found that nothing was wrong, so she didn't care about the man: "You can watch it when you walk, but you're in a hurry, but fortunately nothing is wrong."

"Hey... I'm sorry, old lady. It's cold, so hurry up, I'll leave first." As he said that, the young man apologized to the old lady and then left quickly.

Watching the man leave, the old lady shook her head, didn't take it seriously, and continued to walk back.

After walking for dozens of meters, the old lady suddenly felt something was wrong, so she stopped and thought for a while.

Suddenly, the old lady seemed to remember something.

broken!

I quickly reached into the underside of the coat, but I didn't touch anything after touching it.

The sixteen dollars in my pocket are gone.

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

I saved up tickets for almost a year and was about to take them out 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 I would be taken away in the blink of an eye.

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

.........

Nine o'clock in the morning.

Siheyuan, gate.

The deaf old lady came back from outside with a cane alone, sweating profusely, panting, and stepped onto the doorstep step by step.

"Oh... Old lady, have you gone out for a walk by yourself?" The three aunts who were cleaning the door with a broom at the door greeted him with a smile when they saw the old lady coming back.

"Hey...yeah." The old lady replied reluctantly with a smile.

"Old lady, what's wrong with you? Why do you feel something is wrong today?" The three aunts said caringly when they saw that the old lady's complexion was not right.

This time the old lady looked so inappropriate, her face was pale and her steps were staggering, and anyone with discerning eyes could tell that it was wrong.

"Oh...it's okay."

The old lady shook her head, said nothing more, and walked across the steps with a crutch.

Just as I was trying to cross the yard gate, I didn't expect that I was not going well in one breath, my hands and feet became weak, and my whole body shaking and fell to the ground.

"Oh... Old lady, what's wrong with you?"

Seeing the old lady falling to the ground, the three aunts suddenly exclaimed, and they didn't care about anything else. They threw the broom and rushed over to help the old lady up.

"Old lady, are you okay? How are you?"

The three aunts held the old lady with both hands and wanted to help her up, but they tried several times but failed.

The old lady's face turned pale at this moment, she was dying and she was unable to get up at all.

This scared the three aunts and quickly shouted into the yard: "Come here...Come here...The old lady fell...Come here...Come here...Come here.Come here.Come here.Come here. Help..."
Chapter completed!