"Twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six...... Forty-nine, fifty. ”

In a flat and empty clearing, the cheerful, crisp counting of children sounded like silver bells. More than a dozen eleven or twelve-year-old girls gathered in a circle, looking at the little girl in a red shirt in the middle who was focused on maintaining balance, kicking and landing.

They're kicking shuttlecocks.

"Sixty-eight, sixty-nine, yes!"

"It's a pity, it's almost seventy. ”

"Even so, Sister Green is the one who kicks the most. ”

Midori picked up the small shuttlecock on the ground made of duck tail feathers and asked, "Does anyone else dare to compare with me?"

The little girls shook their heads, and one of the little girls said, "Who doesn't know that Sister Little Green's shuttlecock kicks the best, so we won't play with you." Let's go. ”

After she finished speaking, she turned and left, and the other little girls followed.

Xiao Lu was angry, "Alas, you have to compare with me, and you don't admit it if you lose." Hmph, coward. ”

The girls were all gone, and Midori sat sullenly on a wooden pier in the clearing, pouting and unhappy. Everyone doesn't finish with her. The noonday sun slanted on her red plain shirt, like the bright cuckoo blooming at this time, fiery red and dazzling.

This open space is used for people to dry the rice after harvesting, but it is not the autumn harvest, so it is free.

Yun Tianhua walked over, sat down next to her, and asked, "Why don't you go play with them?"

Xiao Lu raised her head, saw that it was her, and said, "It's Sister Yun." None of them can beat me, so they don't want to play with me. ”

It's been almost half a month since I came to this village, and I have a general understanding of the situation.

This village is called Ping'an Village. The village is not big or small, and there are more than 30 families. Most of the people in the village are children and widows, or the elderly, who are no longer able to move, and the young and middle-aged who have grown up have left the village to make a living.

Yun Qianhua once wondered why the women in the village were all widows and their husbands?

The little green in front of him is a close neighbor to Aunt Cui, and the two families often get together for dinner on weekdays.

"Then you don't play so well next time. Yun Qianhua persuaded.

"Why?" said Midori, "I played better than them." ”

Yun Tianhua said patiently: "As for people, they all like to play with people who have similar interests and abilities. If you win against them every time, they will naturally be unhappy, and they will not play with you if they are unhappy. Wouldn't it be nice if you let them go a little bit, let them be proud, and everyone will be happy?"

"But I want to be number one. ”

"You got the first, but you lost your friends, then aren't you also very lonely and boring to be the first? Win or lose in your heart, are you the first, you know in your own heart? Why tell everyone that you hurt your feelings, don't you say?"

Xiao Lu blinked two big black and bright black and simple and clean eyes, looked at Yun Tianhua for a while, thought for a while, and finally nodded slightly, "What my sister said also makes sense." ”

Yun Qinghua smiled and touched her head, "That's right, Xiao Lu is a powerful and well-behaved child." ”

"Huh. "The little ones were complimented and of course very happy. "Sister, you're from the city, isn't the city beautiful and lively!"

Children in the countryside describe the city as beautiful and lively. is not only the heart of children, but also sees that they have not seen much of the world, with the rustic atmosphere of the earth.

But this kind of atmosphere, Yun Tinghua likes it very much.

There are mountains, rivers, grass and trees here, and I feel comfortable when I smell it.

"The city is not only beautiful, not only lively, but also very tall buildings, wide streets, and high and thick gates. There are those who sell fabrics, pastries, pearls, singers, jugglers, teahouses, and restaurants...... All in all, bustling. ”

Yun Tianhua was afraid that she wouldn't understand what prosperity meant, so she said in layman's terms: "It's just that you have everything to eat and play." However, "

"But what?" asked Midori, who could hear it intently.

"However, everything costs money. It costs money to drink tea, and it costs money to have fun. ”

"Oh! "But I still want to go and see it, I've never been there since I've grown so big. ”

Every time, the family went into the city to buy things, went in an ox cart, and came back the same day. She also asked her mother what the city was like, but her mother said that it was not the same as in the village.

The city described by Sister Yun was completely different from what they had heard.

"If the city is so good, why does my sister come to live with us?"

Yun Tianhua smiled bitterly, "Because it's simple and calm here!"

Where is this she herself willing to come, is she arrested or not.

But, regardless of the way she came here, she really thinks it's a good place. Don't pay attention to the deceit, gossip, and things in the capital.

This is a small village near the capital, less than ten miles away from the capital. has long been far away from the place where she was arrested, and it is estimated that the people looking for her are still stupidly searching in the same place!

You can't go. Don't look at this village is very ordinary, but the people who secretly monitor her and defend her don't know how much they can go, and the two women can't even tell where they can go.

Not far away, Guo Bao ran over and gasped: "Sister Yun, the meal is here, go back quickly!"

"Good. Yun Qianhua responded and patted Xiao Lu's head, "Let's go back to dinner!"

***

Yun Tianhua is also strange, she lives in Aunt Cui's house, and she can cook by herself, but someone sends her every day. said that she was afraid that she would not be used to eating things from the countryside, so she specially sent them from the city.

Three meals a day, one back and forth, is enough for them to run.

Since they were all delivered, it was not good to just give them to her, so they were sent along with Aunt Cui's three meals.

Entering the courtyard, Aunt Cui and Mother Liu were setting up a meal. The food was brought from the city, and it was already cold, so it was heated before eating. Yun Tianhua saw that there were chickens, ducks and fish, which were very exquisite.

It's just that the person who came to deliver the food today was not the person from before.

The man had a large beard and a scar on his left eye. When he saw Yun Tianhua, he smiled with a thief's face, and took a bite of "Miss Yun sitting", "Miss Yun eating", "How does Miss Yun think of today's meal"......

Yun Tianhua smiled and said, "Guo Bao has been running a lot of people in the past few days, of course this meal is good." "I took my chopsticks and started eating.

After more than ten days, Yun Tianhua was already very sure that these people robbed her, and they definitely didn't want her to do anything to suppress Mrs. Zhai. Otherwise, so long has passed, and the king of the mountain has never even seen a face.

Leaving them here, with good food and drink, and invisible guards by their side, doesn't look like a robber would do.

So what is the purpose of arresting them?

Who was she arrested?

"By the way, what about the person who delivered the food before?" asked Yun Tianhua.

The bearded man replied, "Oh, he's sick and has to lie down for a few days, and he can't come." ”

The Mountain King said that those of them who went to invite this Miss Yun not only failed to protect the good people, but also hurt people, which was simply hateful. One by one, they are taking turns to accept the king's punishment! For more than ten days, no one wants to go down to the ground.