Chapter 9: Kidnappers Encountered Outside the City

Who doesn't like or love such an innocent and intelligent child? But some people regard Liu Xiuying as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The landlord's wife, who couldn't beat the autumn breeze and was ridiculed so much that she didn't dare to go out, naturally had no chance to spy on the Liu family's intelligence, she hated Liu Xiuying so much that her teeth itched, and when she mentioned Liu Xiuying, she wrung the silk handkerchief in her hand, and she couldn't wait for Liu Xiuying to tear and twist it.

Landlord Liu, who couldn't catch his cousin's handle, became more and more depressed day by day, and whenever he heard that his cousin had added new things for Liu Xiuying or spent a lot of money to hire a master, his heart would throb, as if his own money had been spent by outsiders. So much so that Liu Dashan's family spent once, and the landlord Liu fell seriously ill, and after a few years, the original fat body actually lost weight into a wheat stalk.

The more he tossed like this, the more determined Landlord Liu was to seize his cousin's wealth. If the light doesn't work, the dark will come, and he racked his brains and finally came up with a vicious method.

Approaching the end of the year, Ma Zhang Luo bought new clothes for her husband and daughter, and deliberately took Liu Xiuying to the shop to pick fabrics after a good weather. Because he wanted to make clothes for three people, Ma picked several horses with different colors. Originally, I was going to let the guy send it to Liu's house, but there were a lot of people buying fabrics today, and the guy was so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground. Ma couldn't wait, so he simply asked the maid who followed to bring the fabric back first, and led Liu Xiuying to the jewelry shop next door to pick out jewelry.

Liu Xiuying didn't like to hang jewelry on her body, she couldn't stand Ma's liking, so she patiently accompanied Ma to pick out a few pieces of gilt jewelry, and she was also inserted with a vermilion hairpin on her head, so she left the jewelry shop in Ma's satisfied gaze.

After walking a few steps, I saw the landlord's wife coming head-on, and glanced at the box in Liu Xiuying's arms jealously, and beckoned: "Brother and sister come to buy jewelry, do you have a favorite?"

"Well, I picked a few new styles to get a new look at the New Year. Liu Mashi responded shyly.

"You can't just jewelry, you have to make new clothes, right?"

"I've already bought a few horses of material and are going to make clothes for the two of them. ”

The landlord's wife clapped her hands and smiled: "It's a coincidence, I also want to make a few clothes for the baby's father, I heard that there is a weaver girl from outside the city, who used to make robes for the nobles in the capital, let's go and see the style she makes, and turn around to make a decent robe for your cousin." ”

"Mother, dad is waiting for us at home. Liu Xiuying immediately pursed her lips and interrupted the landlord's wife. She was uncomfortable when she saw the hypocritical smiling face of the landlord's wife, and she had nothing to do, and she might be playing some ghost idea.

"What's the hurry, it's not enough to eat. The landlord's mother-in-law glared at Liu Xiuying, and continued to persuade Ma, "Brother and sister, it's not my sister-in-law who nags, I see that my cousin doesn't have a few decent robes." I heard that the weaver girl is going to leave in two days, you don't go to study, I'll go by myself. ”

Ma was quite moved, and seeing that it was still early, he agreed to follow.

Liu Xiuying didn't believe the landlord's mother-in-law's nonsense at all, "Mother, let's still carry things, I heard my father say that there are homeless beggars outside the city, what is there to see, let's not go." Besides, why doesn't the weaver girl have the ability to open a shop in the city, so she has to be outside the city?"

"What kind of shop in the city doesn't cost money, the weaver girl just passed by Su County for a few days and left, why waste silver?" The landlord's wife couldn't help but say, and took Liu Xiuying's jewelry box and walked out of the city. "What are you afraid of, there are so many guards on duty at the city gate, and those homeless beggars are very honest. I'll hold this box for you, and see who dares to snatch it. ”

The box was taken away by the landlord's wife, and if you don't go, you have to go. Liu Xiuying followed Ma sullenly, and persuaded Ma not to go outside the city several times, but was diverted by the landlord's wife. She didn't understand why Ma would simply believe the words of the landlord's wife, who were full of loopholes? Perhaps she would not be able to understand until she became a wife and mother in the future that a woman was willing to do anything in order to please her husband and children.

When they reached the outside of the city, they were surrounded by beggars in ragged clothes and yellow muscles, looking at them greedily and begging bitterly.

"Sister-in-law, I won't study anymore, let's go back to the city. Ma was so frightened that he shuddered. She had a good fate, met Liu Dashan when she was down, and was lucky to marry Liu Dashan, so that she had never seen a person who was really hungry and did not choose to eat, but there was no difference between a beast and a beast. Even an adult man would be creepy to be stared at by a pair of green wolf eyes!

"It's weird, I heard that the weaver girl is here, why didn't you see it? Is it over there? Let's take two more steps and take a look. The landlord's wife pretended not to hear Ma's words, and half-pulled and half-dragged her to a more remote place.

"Mother, go home!" At this time, even though Liu Xiuying was not clear about the mother-in-law's plans, she also knew that the situation was not favorable to them, so she immediately called Ma Shi.

Suddenly, an unkempt man rushed out of the homeless beggars, covered Liu Xiuying's mouth, picked him up and ran.

"Xiuying!" Ma let out a heart-rending scream, subconsciously reaching out to grab it.

"What's going on?ah, brother and sister, I'll help you!" Seeing that Ma was about to catch the man, the landlord's wife pounced at this time and pressed on Ma's body. She must not let Ma do bad things, the so-called help is actually to prevent Ma from pounce on the man. She discussed with the landlord Liu for a long time before she came up with this solution, find a foreigner to sell Liu Xiuying, the cousin's family will only have stepchildren in the future, and when the son succeeds in the past, the cousin's family will not be allowed to let them handle it, maybe the cousin will die of heartbreak and die faster, and the family wealth can be obtained earlier.

In a flash of lightning, the man had already run away.

"Save my child!" Ma didn't care about crying out in pain, pushed away the landlord's wife and got up to chase after her, but where could her small-footed woman compare to the man's long legs, and she was thrown away after a while, and when others heard Ma's cry clearly, the man ran away without a trace.

", how can someone snatch a child in broad daylight. Brother and sister, let's go back to my uncle. The landlord's wife wiped her eyes while scolding, and there was not half a tear on her hand, and the jewelry box was still well sandwiched under her armpit.

"It's you, it's you who hurt my Xiuying, you compensate me Xiuying!" Ma frantically tore the landlord's wife, as if he could get Liu Xiuying back. She regretted it immensely, if she had followed her daughter's advice, such a thing would not have happened, and it was the woman in front of her who instigated her to leave the city.

"Help, my brother and sister are crazy!" the landlord's wife dodged and ran towards the city gate.

The guards at the city gate heard the commotion and came to inquire about the reason, and when they heard that a child had been robbed, they immediately reported it to the yamen. The county magistrate sent several people out of the city to search. But everyone knows that the barren mountains and mountains outside the city extend in all directions, and the child will definitely not be able to find it back.

As soon as she saw a flower, Liu Xiuying suddenly felt that she was flying through the clouds, and before she could react, she was smoked by a sour smell, and when she heard Ma's cry from afar, she knew that she had been kidnapped, and immediately struggled, waving her fist and beating the man hard.

The man's feet didn't stop, and he slapped Liu Xiuying on the back mercilessly, threatening viciously, "Be honest, I will kill you again." ”

This slap made Liu Xiuying's bones seem to be broken, and she gasped in pain. She was afraid that the other party would be really ruthless, so she endured the pain in her heart and didn't dare to move.

When the man saw that she was honest, he didn't speak, but walked into the wilderness, and after a while, he ran into the mountains, and when he saw that no one was chasing after her, he found a big rock to rest.

"Uncle, you let me down, I promise not to run around, I will give you the jewelry, and the purse that my mother gave me will also be given to you. Liu Xiuying took off the Zhu Hai on her head and begged. She didn't know why the man kidnapped her, but she knew that she had to stabilize the kidnapper's emotions before she had a chance to escape.

The man is really tired, and when he sees that there is no one left and right, he puts down Liu Xiuying, a little girl who is four or five years old, and he is confident that it is still easy to clean up.

Liu Xiuying put Zhu Hai and the purse at the man's feet, sat down within the man's line of sight, covered her eyes and secretly looked at the man and the surrounding environment.

The smell of the body and the torn cotton jacket indicate that the man is either a homeless or a beggar, but unfortunately he can't see the specific appearance clearly with his unkempt face, and he is a middle-aged man who listens to the voice. There are not a few trees in sight on the mountain, there is loess everywhere, the wind pours into the collar like an ice shuttle, and Liu Xiuying huddles her small jacket into a ball. The closest to Su County was Fengyang Mountain, and she guessed that the man should take her to hide in this mountain.

Liu Xiuying of Fengyang Mountain has never been here, but she heard her father say that it is a barren mountain and inaccessible. This made Liu Xiuying worried, she originally wanted to relax the man's vigilance first, and then find someone for help at the right time, but now it seems that she can only rely on herself to get out of trouble. She thought for a while and asked in an innocent tone: "Uncle, why did you take me to the mountains to play, my mother will definitely be anxious if she can't see me, you send me home, and I will ask my father to give you a lot of silver." ”

The man glanced at Liu Xiuying complicatedly and didn't say anything. His family was devastated, and a whole room of people starved to death, and he was the only one who survived and begged to Su County. A few days ago, a mother-in-law found him, saying that his man raised a woman outside behind her back and gave birth to a girl, and asked him to take the girl away and sell it to a distant place, as long as he agreed, he would give him a benefit fee, and let him get the money from selling the girl. But anyone who has tasted hunger knows how important money is, and the man agrees with a ruthless heart, anyway, he will not come back if he sells the girl to a distant place, and he is not afraid that the bitter lord will find his head.

Today, the mother-in-law took a woman and a girl out of the city and looked at him, and he knew that the girl was the target of his attack. I wanted to wait for less people to do it, but when he saw that the woman and the girl were going to turn around and go back to the city, he didn't think much about it, so he grabbed the girl and ran away. This will think that I am really a little afraid of robbing people in broad daylight, but the matter has been done, it is useless to be afraid, and when I get the benefits of my mother-in-law, I will quickly take the girl and escape away. As for the girl's suggestion, although he was very moved, he had to keep his word, since he promised his mother-in-law first, he would only be sorry for the girl.

Liu Xiuying waited for a while and didn't see the man speak, very disappointed, it seems that the man will not let him go home. It can be seen that this man kidnapped himself for another reason, and he has no grievances with him, so why did he do this? Liu Xiuying thought that the landlord's wife deliberately took them out of the city, could it be that the landlord's wife did it? The more she thought about it, the more likely it became, otherwise the landlord's wife would have deceived people out of the city?