Chapter 144: Change of Guard

After running around like this for a day, Li Hua'er didn't eat anything except a little dry food. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, she had long forgotten that she was hungry, and when she was tired, she lay down on the small table and fell asleep.

The bow and arrow were placed at her side.

A peaceful night.

The next morning, Li Hua'er continued as usual, washing, fetching water, lighting a fire, and cooking.

Now, her skills in lighting fire are much better, and she is more good at watching fire.

It's just that the things that are made are still not very tasty.

In her previous life, when she cooked, she followed seven or eight people every time, lighting a fire to watch the fire, cutting vegetables and preparing ingredients.

Li Hua'er simply ate, then returned to the courtyard, looked at the rising sun in the sky, and began to carve pillows.

Now that she has done everything she can, all that remains is to wait quietly and wait for news from the county.

But for the next few days, she was in a pretty good mood.

With the word "princess" in her talisman, the villagers have been flattering her a little these days.

Adults are like this, but children are the same.

Zhang Yuer and Sun Xiaoxiao both asked noisily what Princess Li Hua'er looked like.

Li Hua'er pondered and told them what she could say.

The admiration and yearning of the two little girls on their faces.

From time to time, someone from the Li family will come to see her movements, such as the Liu family, and inquire about the news in the county.

Li Hua'er was too lazy to them.

Another time, when Young Master Tao and his friends went to Qingshui River to fish, they passed by the door of Li Huaer's house.

Young Master Tao looked at Li Hua'er in the courtyard with complicated eyes, and his little friends didn't dare to speak.

Li Hua'er was even more lazy with them.

The Sun family still cares about her very much, especially Sun Sanxian, who worries about her every day and has to find a way to deal with the money shopkeeper.

"The princess is gone, are they still going to make trouble?" Sun Sanxian asked Li Huaer in a low voice.

This kid can see but understand.

It's just that I can see clearly, and my ideas are not reliable.

In the end, I even had the idea of putting the money shopkeeper in a cloth bag and beating him.

Li Hua'er hurriedly stopped him.

"If you come up with this idea again, I'll tell Second Aunt Sun and let her teach you a lesson." She threatened.

Sun Sanxian grimaced and threw a few pieces of candy to her.

However, it was rare for Meng Shi not to be cold to Li Hua'er in the past few days, and asked her a few words with concern.

Li Hua'er put down the work in her hand and talked to her.

But while they were talking, Widow Wen on the other side came out of the house.

She was going to the river to wash clothes, but when she passed by the gate of Li Huaer's yard, she spat viciously at the door of her yard.

Then, walk away.

Li Hua'er and Meng Shi were both inexplicable.

"Is this widow crazy?" Meng Shi glanced at Widow Wen's back and said in a high voice.

Although Li Huaer ignored it, she also felt strange in her heart.

Widow Wen's attitude towards her in the past few days has been unprecedentedly bad.

……

On the fourth day, Li Hua'er finished the police pillow, then carried a bow and arrows, and planned to enter the city.

As soon as he got out of the courtyard gate, Qi ran over in a hurry.

"You're going to the shop today?"

In the past few days, he has to come over and walk around if he has nothing to do, because he saw that Li Hua'er carved it almost yesterday, so he came over again early this morning.

Li Hua'er nodded, and hugged the police pillow to Qi Guy: "It's carved, send it to the shop." ”

When the guys look at it, it's really a ...... Lumps of logs.

On it, in regular script, a few sentences from the Analects of the Analects were engraved.

"With this on your pillow, don't you have to study hard?" Qi guy laughed, and then said, "It just so happens that I have to go back to the county today, let's go together, I will drive the ox cart." ”

Li Hua'er understood what Qi meant.

From here to the county, the twelve-mile road, although it is said to be an "official road", is just a dirt road with a width of more than a zhang.

Qi guys are afraid that someone will be on the road and do something bad.

Li Hua'er admitted: "Okay, just together." ”

……

However, when their ox cart arrived at the county seat, they found that the sergeants at the city gate had changed a group of people.

Not only did they change people, but they also strengthened their vigilance and strictly checked passers-by.

The one who searched for Li Huaer and Qi was a guard in his twenties, and he was a small colonel looking at his clothes.

He looked vigilantly at the bamboo bow and bamboo arrows that Li Hua'er was carrying.

"You're Orion?" He asked.

Li Hua'er said respectfully: "Sometimes I go to the mountains to hunt. ”

"What is this?" The little colonel pointed to the police pillow that Li Hua'er was holding.

"Lord Hui," Qi said with a smile on his face, "The small one is the guy from the north and south grocery stores in the county, this is something sent to the north and south grocery stores, and it is a pillow." ”

As if he had never heard of the North and South grocery stores, the little school still interrogated them for a long time before letting them in.

After passing the city gate and staying far away, Li Hua'er asked in a low voice:

"What's going on?"

Guy Qi also whispered: "We change the guard here every spring, but this year is really weird." ”

In previous years, the guards were changed, and the soldiers under the jurisdiction of the governor of Pingshui Prefecture were also replaced.

Since you don't go out of the boundaries of Pingshui Prefecture, you naturally know the grocery stores in the north and south.

But it is clear that the sergeant did not know.

Could it be that he was transferred from somewhere else?

Qi thought to himself, the ox cart had already arrived in front of the grocery store.

Shopkeeper Ke was sitting at the door of the shop with a sad face, not knowing what to think.

Seeing her come in with a lump of log, his round face was slightly happy.

"The eldest niece is here?" He didn't bother to look at the wood, but looked at Li Hua'er with a worried face, "How are these days?" ”

Li Hua'er smiled very happily: "Thank you uncle for your concern, it's okay." ”

As she spoke, she handed the police pillow to Shopkeeper Ke.

"I've made the police pillow, and when the bed is ready, you can give it to the guest together."

Shopkeeper Ke saw that she was still thinking about these things, and he admired it in his heart.

This little girl still has some meaning of not being surprised.

"Hua'er, will the princess bring Guo'er to Beijing in the future?" Shopkeeper Ke took the police pillow, put it aside, and asked.

He said this out of genuine concern for the two sisters of the Li family, and also for his own business.

And if Li Guoer really goes to the capital, if he can't do his business, he can go to the capital.

But even if he can't enter Beijing, he doesn't want to be taken advantage of Li Huaer's craftsmanship by the surname Qian.

Li Hua'er laughed: "How is it possible? It's just a matter of talking, and I'll have to go home in a while. ”

Seeing that she was firm, Shopkeeper Ke hurriedly asked, "Where is the money shopkeeper ......?"

He couldn't finish his words.

Li Hua'er shook her head: "It will be solved." ”

Now that Shen Heng's side is undecided, she doesn't want to say too much, so she diverts the topic.

"Uncle, I look at the city gate, is it a change of guard?"

Shopkeeper Ke nodded, and began to worry again.

"It's not just a change of guard." He sighed.

Li Hua'er wondered: "What's wrong?" ”

The shopkeeper sighed again: "It is said that there is a case of embezzlement of military salaries." ”

Li Hua'er snorted.

This moment? (To be continued.) )