23. Hides
Lin Dayu Xu turned over, causing the firewood and grass to crumble, and he smiled: "Presumably, your future father-in-law is the only scholar in your village." โ
Zhenshu wrapped his clothes tightly and said, "He is the only prisoner in our village. A scholar spontaneously got up, from a child to a Xiucai to a prisoner, to a tribute, until he finally went to the palace to take the big exam, and he was also considered to have suffered a lot. If we don't study, how can we insult them? โ
Lin Dayu said: "I'd rather be free in the mountains and forests than be confined to a small square inch and read those fly-headed small letters." โ
Zhenshu said in his heart: So you can only do a long job, or occasionally be a hunter.
For two whole days she was frightened, struggling to crawl back from the brink of death, exhausted and bitter, and though she wanted to open her mouth to say something, sleep pulled her into an endless swamp of darkness that was thicker and deeper, and she could not climb out.
Lin Dayu lay on his side on the bed, following the steady and long breathing, measuring Zhenshu's position at this time in the dark. She was cowering in the corner on the other side, her hands clenched tightly in her draped shirt and curled up in front of her chest, her brows may be furrowed, but she also slept peacefully.
He rolled over and sat up, so light that he barely stirred a piece of hay. He got out of bed, still as light as a ghost, stretched his waist and leaned over to Zhenshu, looking down at the sleeping Zhenshu, although he couldn't see anything.
He stretched out his hand to carry her to the side of the skirt, but he was afraid that such a big movement would wake her up. After thinking for a while, he simply draped the skirt she had laid out for herself and the gown she had covered herself, and then gently pushed the door out of the house. The moon was still as silver as silver tonight, he stretched his waist in the darkness with his upper body โกโก, broke all his muscles and flattened his arms, stretched his muscles and bones, jumped up and ran along the river, but in a moment, he disappeared into the silver moonlight.
Back to yesterday, it is still on the official road in Wuling Mountain. Su Shi screamed and urged the coachman: "Run! Come on! They came after them. โ
The coachman drove the car fast, and Zhenyuan and Zhenyi couldn't get up from the back of the car. After a while, Zhenxiu also pressed over, and for a while, there were cries and screams in the car.
Zhen Yuan waited for Su Shi to stop talking, and then asked Zhen Xiu: "Did Fang Cai Zhenshu fall?" โ
Zhenxiu said: "She can't catch it herself, so she calls a car to go upside down, I'm afraid it will ......"
Zhenyuan climbed to the front and shouted to the coachman, "Coachman, coachman, my sister is lost, go back to her." โ
The coachman reined in the horses and turned back and asked, "Madam, is this really the case?" The sin and the sin were so urgent that I didn't even realize it. โ
In fact, it was they crying and screaming so loudly in the car that the noisy coachman's brain was so distended that he didn't notice it.
Su Shi covered his chest with a handkerchief for a long time, waved his hand, and said, "Go forward." โ
Zhen Yuan said angrily: "Mother, are you scared, let's go back to find Zhenshu." โ
Su Shi shook his head slowly, tears falling like raindrops: "Go forward, she has already lost it, I can't send a few of you to the tiger's mouth." โ
The coachman was incredulous, so he turned around with a horsewhip and lifted the curtain and asked Su Shi, "Madam, I can put you here first, and I will pick her up by myself." โ
Su Shi shook his head and said: "There are about twenty or thirty bandits there, if you leave us here, not only will you not be able to save Zhenshu, you have to take your life, we will be caught by them in this mountain sooner or later, what should we do then?" โ
The coachman drove in front, and he did not see the true face of the bandits, but only heard their cries behind the sky. And the only one who saw the bandits in the window was Su. Since she said this, the coachman couldn't refute it anymore, so he got up and drove the lane: "Zhao He just forked in the road, presumably he still has to return to the official road, and maybe he will meet the third girl at that time." He has kung fu on him, and he may be able to bring the three girls back. โ
Su Shi fell on Zhenyuan and cried: "Why is my life so bitter, marrying your father, a young lady in Beijing was sent to such a bitter cold place, it is already extremely bitter." My mother-in-law doesn't like it, and she can't get her a blue eye if she is low, and it's even more bitter, and now even my most powerful daughter is going to be taken away by God. โ
Zhenyuan and Zhenyi also cried, but Zhenxiu was the only one who nested behind the car and stared out of the car window with a solemn face. Just now she kicked Zhenshu, so that Zhenshu fell, at this time, no one was investigated, that is, Su and Zhenyuan did not see it, even so, presumably no one will accuse themselves.
It's just that Zhenshu is too cowardly, she has always had rough skin and thick flesh and a flexible body, how can she really fall down as soon as she kicks?
Deserve. Zhenxiu gritted her teeth and slandered: There are four girls in this family, she loves to beat me alone, how much I have suffered from her since I was a child, how much pain I have suffered from her, what if I kill her at this time?
Zhenxiu thought like this, thinking that the Su family was too noisy, so she simply covered her face with a handkerchief and fell asleep in a daze.
When they drove to the town of Hanjiahe on the other side, it was already dark. When I went to the inn to stay, Zhenyuan and Zhenyi were still crying, and Su Shi said sharply: "Cheer me up, why are you crying?" No one can tell you about this, otherwise your reputation will be gone. โ
Zhenyuan also knew that Su was not doing the right thing, but she had never been good at arguing, so she threw up her sleeves and went back to her room.
Su sat alone until midnight, only to see Zhao He, who was covered in dew, walking in from outside. As soon as he came in, he bowed his head and said, "I just listened to the coachman......
Su Shi covered his mouth and nodded, tears falling like rain: "There are too many bandits, I have to take care of these little feet in the car." โ
Zhao He said: "I asked someone to diverge in the way, and it took a long time to return to the official road, and I also passed from Fang Cai, and I didn't see the third girl." โ
Su Shi clutched his chest and choked: "It must have been taken away." โ
Zhao He stood a little farther away, frowned, and said, "Those black-clothed people in the mountains are not bandits. They are the family members of the old man Liu of Hanjiahe, chasing after a long-term worker who has escaped. โ
Su Shi was shocked when he heard this: "You mean those people are not robbers?" โ
Zhao He said: "Exactly, I met them halfway, or they showed me the way, so I had to get out of the mountains and forests." โ
Su Shi was puzzled: "If they hadn't caught Zhenshu, then where did my Zhenshu go?" โ
She pushed Zhao He's shoulder and said, "You hurry up and go to find it again, maybe Zhenshu is quietly hiding in the mountain nest and waiting for you to save her." โ
Zhao He dodged lightly and said: "I came all the way from the official land, if she is really in the same place or nearby, she will definitely come out to meet me." From what I have observed along the road, there is no one hiding on the side of the road. It's just that the long-term worker who was hunted down by the old man Liu's family had martial arts and excellent light skills, and he must have been in that place at the time, so he ......"
Su Shi said: "You mean she asked the long worker to be robbed?" โ
Zhao He nodded and said: "That Changgong has escaped in the mountains for a few days, and is familiar with the layout of the mountains, if you want to find the third girl, I am afraid that we will have to go home to tell the second master, and let the second master come to ask Master Liu, and borrow the family members of Master Liu's family to search for us." โ
Su Shi sat down slowly, nodded and said: "That is the case, let's quietly suppress the matter and go home first, you also tell the coachman, don't leak the news when you are free, just say that the third girl is to ask the grandmother of the capital to stay." If not, I am afraid that it will affect the reputation of these daughters in the family. โ
Zhao He nodded helplessly, and Shi Li retreated.
In Wuling Mountain, Zhenshu slept well until the bees and butterflies danced outside, and then woke up. She turned her head to see that Lin Dayu was still asleep on one side, but the clothes she covered for him at night were on herself, afraid that he would get cold and the wound would become inflamed, so she got up again and covered him with all the clothes.
She got out of bed and went outside the house, and suddenly saw a bright orange coat in the high place, thinking that there was another tiger, and she was so frightened that she almost cried out. If you look closely, you can see that it is a tiger skin that is hanging on a high place. She turned around and entered the house, shook Lin Dayu's shoulder and asked, "You went out last night?" โ
Lin Dayu hummed and said, "I'll go get my knife." โ
Zhenshu said: "That tiger skin? โ
Lin Dayu got up and stretched out his arm and said, "Such a complete tiger skin is very valuable, I will peel it and keep it, and sell it for a good price in the future." โ
When Zhenshu saw that he got out of bed, he raised his neck and saw that the wound on his back had not yet shown signs of bleeding, and that he did not have a fever, so he must have been completely fine, and said, "Since you are already well, send me to the official road, and I will wait for passers-by or chariots to accompany me across the mountain." โ
Lin Dayu stood stunned for a long time, then turned around and asked, "You want to leave?" โ
Zhenshu nodded: "I have to go home after all." โ
Lin Dayu said: "But your mother has lost you, what are you going to do when you go back?" โ
Zhenshu asked rhetorically, "If I don't go home, where can I go?" โ
Lin Dayu didn't say a word, went to the river, washed his face and walked back, sat on a horizontal tree outside the house for a long time and said, "Let's eat first, and then leave, okay?" โ
Zhenshu thought about it, so he got up and found a pot and rice to make a fire to cook, and boiled porridge again. She ate a meal of porridge yesterday, and now her stomach is very empty, and she is afraid that a bowl of porridge will not fill her belly, so she called Lin Dayu and pointed to the small river: "Aren't you a hunter?" Catch a fish and I'll steam it for you to eat. โ
Lin Dayu shook his head and said, "I never catch fish." I'm a big fish, and it's boring to eat fish every day. โ
Zhenshu looked at what he said and made him laugh.
Lin Dayu looked at Zhen Shu and smiled vividly, her cheeks were hooked with a beautiful and moving arc, but her soft lips were faintly crimson, full and fresh, which made his heart beat more than once.
Zhenshu asked, "Why are you called Big Fish?" โ
Lin Dayu said: "On the day I was born, my father caught a big fish. โ
Zhenshu couldn't help but laugh and said, "It's really a good thing in pairs." โ
In order to hide the evil thoughts in his heart, Lin Dayu also pretended to laugh, but he laughed too hard, breaking the wound on his back and oozing blood. Zhenshu threw away the clothes he had mended and said, "I don't wear anything for you, so that you are vulnerable to the wind and cold if you are bare-chested." โ
Lin Dayu put it on as he said, and the two sat on the tree pole and slowly ate porridge bowl by pot.
After eating the porridge and putting the bowl down, Lin Dayu said wiltedly: "I'm a little dizzy, I have to go in and lie down for a while, and I'll send you out later, okay?" โ
Zhenshu did as he said, took the dishes and washed them, and sat outside to wash and dry his coats before entering the house and said, "I washed my clothes and kept them for you to cover at night, pots and bowls......"