Chapter 1423

The so-called defense of others is indispensable.

Honghui has been in danger many times, but he still doesn't understand the true meaning of this sentence.

There are good people in this world who don't ask for retribution, but there are also villains with good faces and black hearts, a small village in the middle of a barren mountain, a group of old and young people gather under the treetops at the root of the wall to talk and joke, but they don't even see a child running and jumping, obviously something is wrong, but Honghui didn't notice it at all, and followed one of the old men back to the house with a 'silly white sweet' look.

"Old woman, don't sit here and be idle, hurry up and clean up the two empty rooms in our Westinghouse, so that this little brother can have a place to rest!"

Honghui looked up at the old man, and then at the old woman who got up and was about to go out, and said with a smile: "Excuse me!"

"It's not easy for you to go out, my husband can't help you with anything else, it's not a problem to leave you at home, eat a full meal, and get a good night's sleep!"

It's just that he looks at the hearty and kind old man on his face, but he has another plan in his heart.

In fact, it is also strange that Honghui is unlucky, he walked along the path, all the way to here, he thought it was an ordinary village, but he didn't expect that this is a den of thieves, different from the ordinary thieves who live by robbing houses and other thieves to get together, here are all living by human trafficking scammers, when they go out in twos and threes, that is to cooperate with tacit understanding, experienced accomplices, but when staying in the nest, that is an authentic farmer.

Because they have never committed crimes in the county town villages near the old nest, even the people in the nearby villages do not know this secret.

In fact, when the old man brought Honghui back, he never hit Honghui's head with the idea, thinking that he should be a child who ran out to play in a nearby county and town, and he got lost and crashed into it for a while, and he didn't know how to find it, so he kindly left him for a meal, and then sent him to the official road where people came and went, and pointed out the way, that is, there was no need to cause trouble at all, and maybe he could receive a thank you gift afterwards.

However, when he heard Honghui's accent with an obvious Beijing accent, and heard Honghui say that he was a meat ticket that was captured by bandits while doing business abroad, and the accompanying servants and buddies were all dead, his mind changed.

The old man felt that if he didn't want to make this deal, he felt that he was pushing the God of Wealth who was sent to the door out!

Because of this, he suddenly asked his wife to clean up the room for Honghui to live in, and planned to leave Honghui at home for two days, and then find a good home and sell Honghui at a good price.

Honghui didn't know that he had just come out of the wolf's den, so he got into the tiger's den!

He looked at the old man gratefully, bowed his hand again and again, and said a lot of kind words, and then picked up the dishes and chopsticks again.

The old man smiled and watched him eat well, led him to the West House, which had not yet been cleaned up, pointed to the slightly old and clean bedding on the kang, and introduced softly: "This is my child's room, you can stay here for two days first, don't look at these bedding are not new, but they have all been newly dismantled and washed by my wife and son." ”

"It's rare for the old man to take him in, it's too late for the kid to be grateful, where will he be picky about these. Honghui smiled and said politely.

He wants to lie down and rest at this moment, where can he still take care of being picky and hypocritical, and besides, he is not a fool, he also knows that the conditions of such a farmer are limited, and it is impossible to prepare a silk satin cover for him.

When the old man heard this, he showed a sincere smile on his face, nodded, and beckoned the old woman to leave.

After Honghui sent the old man and the old woman out with a smile, he turned around and returned to the house, yawned and fell into the bed, snoring and falling asleep.

After tossing and turning all night, he was also tired.

Just when Honghui was asleep, the old man and the old woman met head to head together, and they had to discuss how to sell this meat ticket at a higher and better price.

The old woman's idea is simpler.

She wants to sell Honghui directly to the most powerful thief in the village, after all, the village has the widest way to count the thief's head, the greatest courage, and the highest means, selling it to the thief head, they are worry-free and effort-saving, and they can collect money directly, so that even if Honghui escapes halfway, they don't have any loss, but the only drawback is that they can't sell it at a too high price.

And the old man wants to make a lot of money.

After many years of marriage, although they gave birth to three sons and five daughters, none of them could survive, either they had turned into blood before they gave birth, or they died early due to illness, and they also spent a lot of money to see a doctor for this, so that they were at this age, but they had no savings.

The old man thinks that they are all at this age, and they can toss for a few years, so it is better to take the opportunity to get out of it.

The two of them had their own reasoning, and they discussed it all day, but no one could convince anyone, and they were afraid that Honghui would notice something was wrong and didn't dare to delay more, but in the end the old man still agreed with the old woman's idea.

After all, the old man also felt that the old woman's worries were somewhat justified.

They are all at this age, it is really difficult to control a strong young man like Honghui, in case this fat sheep succeeds in escaping halfway, they will be beaten with chickens and eggs.

Rather than taking risks and finding buyers on your own, it's better to be on the safe side and make less money.

After the old man made up his mind, he left the old woman to keep an eye on Honghui at home, and then took the cigarette pouch and walked to the most spacious and elaborate courtyard in the village, which was the residence of the thief in the village.

He also heard from people who often did business with the thief head that the thief had already bought a property in the city.

When the old man thought of the enviable rich life of the thief in the village, he couldn't help but want to sigh, he led the thief into the industry back then, but everyone had already bought a house and land, and he still looked like a downfall, it was really more human than human, angry to death!

He suppressed the messy thoughts in his heart, and knocked on the closed door of the thief's house with a cigarette pouch and pot.

"Old man Qi, you have come to discuss a good deal with our master!" After a while, the closed courtyard door was opened by a mean-looking woman, she smiled and looked at the old man who took the initiative to come to the door, and joked softly that the old man Qi picked up the fat sheep at the entrance of the village has been spread all over the village.

The old man who was called Old Man Qi blinked his eyes, nodded, and said in a muffled voice, "What are your plans?"

"We are good people in charge, we have left a message early, just waiting for you Old Man Qi to come over, even the silver is ready, it is all silver ingots, enough to make a coffin book for you old couple!" The mean woman gave way to the door, beckoned the old man Qi to the house to talk, and said as she walked, but the words that came out were not too good, and it made people feel disgusted when they listened.

However, Old Man Qi had long been attracted by the three words 'silver ingot', where did he care about what the mean woman said, and he also knew that this woman was mean, obviously it was a good thing to send money to their family, but he wanted to say it as if others were taking advantage.

And then there is the one who was talked about by the mean woman, who was nesting in the cellar and counting the heads.

He listened to the movement outside, hurriedly counted the number of people, threw down a basket of black steamed buns, and viciously threw a few whips on the two little girls who cried the most, scaring the other fat sheep who were whimpering and crying, and hurried back to the courtyard, and welcomed the old man Qi to the house with a smile.

"Uncle, you came to give the boy a deal, the boy is happy!" he said loudly as he sat on the armrest chair with a heroic and righteous appearance, but the fierce light and malice flashing in his eyes revealed his true identity as a bad person.

The old man looked at him, and he didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "We are all villagers in the village, and you also know that the old man is lucky to pick up a big fat sheep in the village today, so you can tell me how much silver you can make, if the price is right, the old man will send someone to you, but you also know that this kind of goods are not common!"

After speaking, the old man stretched out two hands to him, indicating that he would charge a benefit fee of one hundred taels.

Seeing this, the thief Huo Wu frowned slightly, this price is not too high, but if he recognizes this price, he will have to raise the price when he receives the goods from these thieves and thieves in the village in the future, otherwise others will have opinions, they are all from the villagers, why favor one over the other......

But before he could speak, Qi Laohan continued: "Don't look at the fat sheep, it's quite embarrassing, but it's a good skin, as delicate as a girl, if you send it to those good places in the city, you can make a lot of money by changing hands, this kind of good deal, you are a smart person, you can't miss it!" After speaking, he took the cigarette pouch in his mouth and smoked it, he was not in a hurry, because he knew that Huo Wu would not let go of this kind of good deal.

Sure enough, Huo Wu was silent for a moment with his eyebrows furrowed, and then asked his mother-in-law to fetch the silver.

Honghui staggered down the path and finally found a place to stay.

Under the cover of night, a building that has long been unable to see its original color, two broken doors that have fallen crookedly at the door, and the windows that have even broken the window paper, May Day does not show the desolation and dilapidation of this place.

If it were placed in ordinary times, a character like Honghui would never set foot in such a place.

But at this time, he was already exhausted, he didn't care about the ruin and desolation here, and even the crumbling cobwebs on his head, so he sat down against the wall with his legs weak, he didn't know how long he had walked, he didn't know how far he had run away, only that his two legs didn't seem to be his own, and he couldn't lift them anymore.

"That damn Bei Jiawen, when the little master returns to Beijing, you will be good-looking. He held his arm, looked at the red sun that had already shown a trace of red in the sky with a hideous face, and scolded through gritted teeth, he didn't know that Gege had already been killed by Sun De, and he didn't know that Gege and he were generally victims, just as the person who caused him to end up like this, he couldn't he peel Gege and cramp......

Honghui, who was too tired, looked at the faint glow in the sky, cursed Gege for a moment, and couldn't hold on any longer, but he was afraid of being discovered, so he staggered to the depths of the broken temple, and finally shrank under the dusty incense case of the broken temple, holding the musty futon, and fell asleep in a daze.

I don't know how long it has been, but there is a slight noise outside.

Honghui, who was already sleeping very unsteadily, was woken up, and he got out of the incense case with difficulty like an octogenarian old man, dusted off the grass thorns, dust and other stains on his body indiscriminately, rubbed his dull painful head, and came to the door.

Outside, it was already daylight.

He blocked the sun with one hand, looked at a building in the sun from a distance, slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity, and the heart that had been raised in his throat finally fell to the ground temporarily.

People can't live alone without crowds, even if they like to be alone.

Last night, Honghui walked on the empty road all night, his heart was indescribably sad and fragile, but he ignored the physical exhaustion and hardship, and rested all night, that is, he had found this land temple near the village town, but there was still an indescribable feeling of loneliness in his heart, but now, he was finally relieved.

Because he saw a fairly orderly building in the distance.

Because no matter where it is a village or a grange, it is still a place where people live.

Honghui tidied up the clothes and pants that had long been so dirty that he couldn't see the original color, pulled the messy braids on the back of his head, pounded his legs that were numb to pain, rubbed his rumbling stomach, and walked towards the village in high spirits.

I have to say, maybe God is really helping him, he met a village with simple folk customs.

When he appeared in front of the man in a state of embarrassment, before he could ask for help, an old man who seemed to be very kind came to him on crutches.

After the old man learned that he was robbed by the thief, he took him back to his own house very happily, not only urging his wife to bring food for Honghui, but also finding suitable clothes for Honghui to wear, so that he could freshen up.

At the dinner table, the old man looked at Honghui, who had changed his clothes, with a rather strange smile on his face.

He stroked his gray beard under his chin and asked with a smile, "Young man, I listen to your accent, it seems that you are not from our neighborhood?"

"Yes, I came from the capital, originally came here to do business with the housekeeper, but I met a bandit on the road, and the belongings I carried with me were looted, and even the accompanying servants and men were killed. Honghui put down the dishes and chopsticks, touched his head a little embarrassedly, and nodded in reply.

"Life is better than anything else, and when you have eaten and drunk enough to rest, send a letter to the family, and save the family from thinking about you. When the old man heard this, the smile on his face became a little thicker, and he casually took the cigarette pouch that his wife had packed for himself, took two puffs, and said with a smile.

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