"Damn, what are you going to do?" Rong Yuanhang hurriedly climbed the tree clumsily, but the treetop added a person's weight to the constantly, always swaying, and almost fell into the water several times. Even the woman with the hanging neck was anxious for him.

When he finally climbed up, he lay on the treetops and stretched out his hands to untie it, but this strip of cloth was actually a dead knot, and he wanted to tear the strip of cloth with his hands, but he didn't want the strip of cloth to be unexpectedly tough, with his current strength of more than 400 catties, he kept pulling it!

The woman struggled violently, rolling her eyes and softening her hands and feet. Rong Yuanhang was in a hurry to pull her up, but suddenly his feet slipped, and he fell into the stream with a "poof". Fortunately, the water in the creek is shallow. He stood up, his hands just below the woman's knees. So he held her and lifted her up as much as possible, so that the woman could breathe a sigh of relief and not suffocate.

"How are you?" Rong Yuanhang was so anxious that he was sweating, but at this time, the woman's eyes were already closed. He wanted to let go of his hand but didn't dare, he couldn't help but be in a hurry, tore his throat and shouted: "Come on, come on!" ……”

His voice came from afar, it was not far from the old mansion, and after a while, the first person to come over was Zhou Chuanxin, who had gone out to buy and returned, followed by Huang Guanmei, and then there were people coming one after another......

"Brother Rong...... Yes! When Zhou Chuanxin saw this scene, he didn't want to jump up more than five meters high, and a series of kicks in the air - "click", the thick treetop of the bowl broke in response, and the hanging woman also fell down, just in Rong Yuanhang's arms.

After a while, the Cheng brothers, Zhu Shuisheng, Yan Dahua, Juan and other friends all rushed over. Rong Yuanhang carried the woman ashore and put her on the ground. I saw that she was also about twenty years old, her skin was not as white as Huang Guanmei's, but her facial features were also very good-looking, her closed eyes, her eyelashes were very long, her willow eyebrows looked very delicate, and her small mouth was a little purple.

Huang Guanmei tried her snort and said in a panic: "Ah, is she out of breath?" ”

"What to do? I'm going to call my sister over! Zhou Chuanxin immediately thought of his sister Zhou Peipei, who knew how to heal.

"Wait, it's more than a dozen miles, it's too late to call her." Rong Yuanhang leaned on the woman's chest, leaning his ears to listen to her heartbeat, but the woman's chest was probably too full, but he couldn't hear it. I held her wrist again and tried to pulse it, but I couldn't try to make it beat.

"I'll go to the village and call the doctor!" Yan Dahua put down the next sentence and turned around and ran. Rong Yuanhang didn't believe that the woman died just now, it wasn't a long time, and there should be salvation, so he instinctively thought of giving the woman artificial respiration.

"Auntie, get out of the way." Rong Yuanhang waved to let the onlookers disperse so that the air could circulate more, and he pressed the woman's chest with his palms folded.

However, this move made everyone's eyes widen, and they all thought: What is Brother Rong going to do? Everyone else is like this, and he ......

What's more, he actually started kissing women! At this time, even Zhou Chuanxin couldn't stand it anymore, he hesitated to stop it: "Brother Rong, you, you ......"

Rong Yuanhang continued to be busy......

Huang Guanmei also looked at him with strange eyes, and pursed and pursed her sexy little mouth, as if Rong Yuanhang was kissing herself.

"Why are you all looking at me like that? Am I saving people? When Rong Yuanhang pressed the woman's chest again, he found that all of his faces were wrong.

"Oh, is it to save people?" Huang Guanmei muttered quietly.

"She was suffocated, I helped her breathe, alas, you don't understand it...... Rong Yuanhang began to do artificial respiration and chest compression again.

"Ahem, ahem...... ahem" At this time, the woman who had not responded suddenly coughed, and she slowly opened her dark eyes, looking dazed.

"She's awake, she's really awake!"

"Yes, it turns out that Brother Rong is really saving people!"

"Yes, yes, that's it, I don't believe it all the time......"

From the boy's tone was noticeably cheerful. Rong Yuanhang couldn't cry or laugh, thinking that they had always thought that they had left a chance to insult this woman.

"This sister, how are you?" Huang Guanmei squatted down and hugged her and sat up. Unexpectedly, the woman looked at the onlookers, and suddenly covered her face with her hands: "Wow" and cried. Several teenagers looked at each other, and Rong Yuanhang thought to himself that she probably had something sad, otherwise she would not have committed suicide by hanging her neck.

This crying did not stop, Huang Guanmei glanced at Rong Yuanhang helplessly, and subconsciously took him as the main backbone.

"Help her back to the yard, let her drink and calm down." Rong Yuanhang suggested. Huang Guanmei nodded and said softly: "This sister, go and sit at home, ah?" ”

The woman just cried and stood up with the help of Huang Guanmei.

The group hugged the woman all the way into the courtyard. At this time, there was an ox cart at the gate, pulling a cart full of goods. Zhou Chuanxin Jiao explained that he had just bought something from the street at this time. And he commanded the charioteer to help carry the goods into the yard.

When the woman came in, even the two craftsmen came to make a scene, and at this time, someone went to move the stool out, Huang Guanmei helped her to sit down, and the boy Juan had already brought over with a large bowl of water in both hands.

The woman grunted and swallowed most of the bowl. wiped the water stains on his mouth before whispering, "Thank you." She glanced at Rong Yuanhang, lowered her head, and her face gradually turned red. When Rong Yuanhang gave her artificial respiration just now, she could feel it.

"Sister, what's the matter with you, how did you think of hanging yourself? That's stupid! Huang Guanmei said with a little reproach. But the woman bowed her head silently and remained silent.

Rong Yuanhang raised his head and said to the onlookers: "Go play, let this girl rest, don't watch here." ”

"Let's go, let's go, get on with the work!" Zhou Chuanxin took the lead in leaving with his partners.

"What's your name, girl?" Rong Yuanhang knocked on the side. The woman glanced at him quickly again and continued to look down......

Rong Yuanhang was depressed. made a look and asked Huang Guanmei to coax her, looking at her blushing appearance, she felt that this woman was probably shy or embarrassed, so she had to leave by herself.

It didn't take long for Huang Guanmei to come over. Rong Yuanhang asked with concern, "How is it, did she speak?" Tell her that if there is any difficulty, I can help her figure it out. ”

Huang Guanmei said: "I said, that sister's name is Xu Lan. Her family is very poor......"

It turned out that Xu Lan's husband was an unscrupulous gambler, with a short temper, and he treated her badly, always beating and scolding. There is also a thirteen-year-old sister-in-law at home, who is an elder brother because of gambling, and the family is also very poor. It was also because of gambling that I owed other people's debts, and I had to buy my sister-in-law as a concubine to pay off the debt. Xu Lan couldn't bear to let her sister-in-law fall into the fire pit and marry a bad old man who was as good as her life. She thought about it, but she really had no choice but to go back to her parents' house for help.

But her mother's family is also very poor, but there is a pig that has been raised for more than two years at home. After begging hard, her mother agreed to lend the pig to her daughter first to pay off her son-in-law's gambling debts. So Xu Lan drove the big pig to the market this morning to sell, because the weight of the pig was hundreds of catties, so he sold it for a good price and got five taels of silver.

When Xu Lan took five taels of silver home, she thought to herself halfway through to buy a few more feet of flower cloth and go back, and there was still some silver left. So when she bought the cloth, she found out the problem - the owner of the cloth village told her that the silver was fake! Xu Lan was like a bolt from the blue, and asked several companies with the silver, and finally determined that the silver was fake, a kind of bleached silver, that is, tin rather than silver.

Desperate, Xu Lan thought of the situation at home, felt that she was sorry for her sister-in-law, sorry for her mother-in-law, and thought that her husband might beat her to death in anger. So on the way back, he couldn't think about it for a while, so he untied his belt and hung himself on a tree! In fact, Xu Lan regretted it the moment she hanged herself, so she struggled violently, fortunately she met Rong Yuanhang in time, otherwise she would really be dead.

"Just hang yourself for five taels of fake silver?" Rong Yuanhang felt a little incredible.

Huang Guanmei sighed lightly and said: "What can be done, a person is desperate, but he can do anything." ”

"Let's go meet her." Rong Yuanhang got up and left. Entering the hall with Huang Guanmei, I saw Xu Lanwu crying silently there.

"Ahh When Xu Lan saw someone coming, she exclaimed in surprise and quickly stood up.

Rong Yuanhang said with a pleasant face: "You sit, you sit." He found a chair and sat down.

"Sister Xu, this is Rong Yuanhang Rong Gongzi." Huang Guanmei introduced her. Xu Lan stood up again, and half-bent his knees at Rong Yuanhang and said a blessing: "I have seen Rong Gongzi, concubine, thank you Gongzi for saving his life just now...... Concubine Xu Lan...... There is no retribution. ”

Her voice was low. Rong Yuanhang waved his hand and said, "You don't have to take it to heart. This, Xu ...... Girl, I've heard my aunt talk about you, and I'm here to ...... By the way, auntie, has the silver been redeemed? ”

"Ah, here it is." Huang Guanmei hurriedly took out the incense from her sleeve and handed him a roll of silver tickets inside. He said, "Yuanhang, your silver is two hundred and one hundred and fifteen taels and three coins." Just now, the comprador on the street bought vegetables and meat, and spent two or four silver and six cents of silver. This is a silver ticket of two hundred and one cents, and I have two taels and six cents of broken silver......"

"Okay," Rong Yuanhang saw that she read smoothly, and couldn't help laughing, and said, "You don't need to take out the broken silver." Take the fifty taels and buy some delicious food for the two little ones at home. ”

"Ah, how can this be done!" Huang Guanmei exclaimed, refused with her hands in a mess, and said, "How can I ask for your money, no, no." ”

"Auntie, you can take it, it's not for you, it's for my two young brothers to buy food."

"But, that's too much." Huang Guanmei couldn't help but swallow her saliva, and said weakly: "It's good to have a few cents of silver." ”

"You take it, don't say it." Rong Yuanhang held her and forced her over. Huang Guanmei couldn't help but blush, holding the silver dart and speechless. Rong Yuanhang knew that she would be embarrassed, and then said to Xu Lan: "Miss Xu, give you these fifty taels, go back and deal with the affairs of the family, remember that human life is always more precious than silver." ”

Xu Lan stood up in a panic: "Childe, how can Xu Lan ask for your money for no reason, Childe has no way to repay Xu Lan for saving his life, no, I can't ask for it!" ”

"I don't want you to repay anything! You take it,...... Auntie, you help you persuade her. Rong Yuanhang had a headache, and couldn't understand why the money was very important to her, and she even committed suicide, but she still had to refuse?

Huang Guanmei understood Xu Lan's mentality, she took the silver ticket, and then put it in Xu Lan's hand, and said, "Sister, you just take it, you can't watch your sister-in-law let her brother buy it and fall into the fire pit, right?" What do you say, if you still feel sorry for it, you can repay Rong Gongzi as a long-term worker or something, anyway, there is a shortage of people in this house, so if you don't dislike it, come over. Voyage, don't you say? ”

"yes, yes." Rong Yuanhang Fu and Dao, he really lacks a few servants. For example, laundry, cooking, grocery shopping, and running errands must be done by someone. But he wasn't sure if Xu Lan was willing to come, so in order to avoid the risk of coercion, he didn't open a persuasion.

Xu Lan raised her head, and finally saw the light of hope on her face, and she said softly, "That...... If the son doesn't dislike it, Xu Lan will be a maid in your house, right? With these fifty taels of silver, the poor man in my family must be willing to sell me. If the son agrees, the concubine can go back and ask him to write a letter of resignation, and then come and sign this contract of sale with the son? ”

Rong Yuanhang's eyes widened when he heard this, and he was stunned and said, "It's not that serious, I don't want to sell you as a person, what kind of body do you sell." I welcome you to come and work, I can ...... every month" He looked at Huang Guanmei, and he didn't know how much it was suitable. Huang Guanmei was also clever, secretly stretched out her two fingers, and made a Y-shaped gesture.

“…… You will be paid twenty taels a month. Rong Yuanhang added.

Twenty taels? Huang Guanmei almost fainted, her gesture was two hundred dollars a month! It is more than three pieces of silver, and generally the monthly rate of servants is paid annually, and it is good to have four taels of silver a year. Because they are different from ordinary people, but the master's family spent money to buy it, which is equivalent to their own private property, and even those who don't pay a penny are there.

Huang Guanmei clenched her fists tightly and shouted in her heart: Twenty taels of the month, why don't I be it, I'll sell the whole person to you!!

Xu Lan was even more dumbfounded, thinking that he was talking about the year, but this was too much.

"How?" Rong Yuanhang was also thinking at this time, is this twenty taels a little more? He doesn't care, but when there are many people hired in the future, isn't it a bit unreasonable for everyone to follow this standard? But since he opened his mouth, he disdains to regret it.

"This ...... Childe, I'm ...... I'm not. Xu Lan didn't hesitate for a while, she paused and finally cleared her thoughts, and said: "Childe, even if you don't give a penny of silver a month, the concubine has also agreed to as long as there is food and shelter." …… The concubine went back to my husband and asked him to write a letter of divorce! ”