Chapter 54: Old Treasure
"Auntie, have you seen Sister Ewha?"
"Pear blossom! Didn't see it! ”
"Grandpa, did you see Sister Ewhata?"
"What do you say? I can't hear clearly! The old man is old, and his ears are not good! You say louder. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"Li Lihua! Grandpa, did you see that? ”
"Rika that Nizi, I didn't see the old man."
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Xia Cao and Xia Maihe asked the villagers of Taoli Village over and over again, asking where the pear blossoms were. I was busy for half an hour, but I didn't get any accurate news.
The folk customs of Taoli Village are simple, the villagers are honest, and when they heard that Li Lihua's big girl was gone, many people spontaneously helped to find it.
The place where the village lives is so big, they searched every part of the village inside and out, and still found no trace of Li Lihua.
"Second brother, Sister Lihua should not be in the village anymore." Xia Cao pounded her sore calves while walking, and said to Xia Maihe.
Xia Maihe helped her sister to sit down on the big stone on the side of the road to rest, and thoughtfully helped her sister beat her legs, massage, and relieve fatigue.
"Second brother, in addition to Crescent Creek in our Taoli Village, there are other places that are more hidden, like cliffs and the like." Xia Cao raised her head and asked the second brother.
Xia Cao thought to herself, the current Sister Pear Blossom had just heard the bad news. I can't accept it for a while, so I may find a hidden place and stay quietly for a while. After a while, I'll figure it out and go home. If Sister Pear Blossom really can't figure it out and wants to commit suicide, they will go to those suicide holy places to look for it, and if they can't find it, they will be relieved, at least to prove that she is okay.
"Sister, not far from our village, there is a cliff, and that cliff is quite steep, separating these villages near us." Xia Maihe recalled the terrain near Taoli Village and said.
After a pause, he stopped what he was doing, thought about it seriously and said, "Sister, I have been to that cliff with my father, and it is difficult to climb with stones, and it takes too much physical strength to climb to the top. There's no way Sister Ewha is going to run there. ”
This woman who has lost her mind, where does she still care so much, panicked, running around, and it is not impossible to run to the top of the cliff at once with the depression and grievances in her heart.
"Let's go find my mother first, maybe my mother will find it?" Natsukusa said. After resting for a while, her calves were not so sore, and Xia Cao stood up and continued to search.
At this time, there were already more than a dozen or twenty people gathered in Crescent Creek, and the old man with a white beard was gathered in the crowd.
"Mu Han's family, how is it? Did you find the pear blossoms? The old man asked, his tone a little anxious and concerned.
"Village chief, we haven't found it yet. I've been looking for a long time in Crescent Creek, but I haven't seen anyone. Rika probably didn't come here. Su replied.
"The girls are gone, why didn't you see Li Dashan and his wife." The whitebeard village chief glanced at the crowd, and the two of them said angrily.
"Dashan and my husband went to the town on errands and haven't come back yet. As for Sister Li, she should have gone to Yangjia Village after receiving the seeds, and she didn't come back for a while. Let's go look for it again, but we can't let Pear Blossom have an accident. Su continued.
The village chief's name is Li Gensheng, who has been plowing the land in Taoli Village all his life, and just celebrated his 60th birthday last year. Because he has been working in the fields all year round, his body is quite strong.
Of course, it is impossible for an old man in the countryside to get that kind of high blood pressure and high blood lipids, but there is still some rheumatism and lumbar spine pain. After all, the village chief of this era has not been as greedy for ink as he was in the 21st century, and put any state subsidies and land subsidies in his own pockets. The village chiefs on this side of the Great Qi Dynasty were all succeeded by respected elders.
Today, the old village chief Li Gensheng has been busy all morning, and he has just distributed the grain to every household. After lunch, I just wanted to lie down in the rocking chair and take a break to loosen his old bones.
Before this person's ass touched the chair, Xia Qiaomu ran in in a panic, and shouted in his mouth: "Oh no! Sister Ewha is missing! ”
Qiao Mu, this kid, Li Gensheng knows it. has a steady temperament, there is nothing to do, he will not spread rumors, it seems that this Li Lihua is really in trouble.
Li Gensheng called some strong men in the village, young and nimble, to help find people.
"Grandpa, you see that the village chief and they are all there, let's hurry up and ask about the situation, have you found my sister?" Li Yongkai pointed to an old man and pointed to the crowd standing on the edge of the crescent creek not far away.
"Then let's hurry up!" The old man said, and there were two people behind him, namely Li Yongkai's eldest uncle and second uncle.
The old man's name is Li Genmu, and he usually lives with his eldest son. As for the youngest son Li Dashan, he has been married to the Li family since he insisted on going his own way. His wife and son are all kinds of unpleasant and prickly in front of the Li family all day long.
He is for the peace and quiet of his home. Separated Li Dashan early and let them live alone. Of course, when the family was separated, he was happy for the old woman and didn't come to make trouble. On the surface, only a few acres of land and land were given, and the houses that had lived in the past for decades were allocated, plus some tools, and the rest was gone. He also secretly stuffed five taels of silver.
Li Genmu was also depressed, and he just put people home this morning. At noon, Li Yongkai ran back again and said that her sister was missing. Li Genmu is also anxious, although this Li Lihua did not grow up under his knees, but it is also the granddaughter of his Li family, this person is gone, so he hurriedly called his two sons out to look for someone.
"Village Chief! Chief! Did you find my granddaughter? Li Genmu shouted anxiously from afar.
got a negative answer, Li Genmu also drew circles back and forth in a hurry, and searched all over the village. This pear blossom can run but where to go!
Just when everyone was at a loss, a voice sounded with a hint of uncertainty: "I seem to see Pear Blossom running towards the top of the Devil's Cliff, I don't see the face clearly, wearing light yellow clothes, I don't know if it's her." ”
"Pear Blossom is also wearing a light yellow dress today, it must be her, village chief, let's go to the Devil's Cliff to find it." As soon as he heard the direction of the clue, Li Genmu urged the village chief loudly.
The Devil's Cliff is also the cliff mentioned by Xia Maihe before, where the cliff is steep and the road is thorny, and it is particularly tiring to climb up.
"Do you women and children go home first and wait to see the pear blossoms come back? Send someone to inform us if you come back. Li Gensheng said to Su Shi.
He turned to Li Genmu and said, "There are two directions from our village to the Devil's Cliff, so you and I will each lead a team of people to go down the same road." ”
The people of the older generation who wrote to the village chief about the Devil's Cliff are more familiar with them, and they have fled for their lives on the Devil's Cliff to avoid the soldiers, and they are familiar with the terrain there. An old man in the family is also a treasure. After all, age is not white, and beard is not white.
It's really not easy to be a village official in the Great Qi Dynasty, Li Gensheng is getting older, and he still has to worry about everything in the village, and a little girl who ran away from home has to overcome obstacles to find it back.