Ling'er took Xu Banxian to pick up some sparsely populated paths and slowly went to the direction of Wangjia Village, digging wild vegetables and looking for herbs on the road by the way. With Xu Banxian's guidance, Ling'er not only knew a lot of wild vegetables, but also recognized a few herbs that were necessary in Daddy's prescription.

When she arrived near the village, Ling'er changed directions, went up the back mountain from the mountain road on the side of the village, turned the sinkhole, and finally arrived at the abandoned courtyard mentioned earlier. Ling'er just saw it from a distance before, and casually asked her mother, it looked like a house from a distance, and when she got closer, she found that this courtyard was really dilapidated, worse than the previous broken temple!

The yard looks quite large, and there are many houses, but the wall is originally made of yellow mud, and the life span is not more than ten years, and the yard has been uninhabited for a long time and has not been maintained, and now it is basically all collapsed. Look for it, not to mention the one with a roof, even if you can barely block the wind, you can't find one!

The two stayed in the courtyard for a long time, and when they heard Xu Banxian sigh, Ling'er said embarrassedly: "Doctor Xu, that... I only saw a yard here, and it seemed to be good from a distance, so I thought I could sort it out, but I didn't expect it...... Why don't you come to my house for a few days, and then you move in when I find someone to help build the two cottages? ”

"No, let's talk before we come, my old man is one, he won't live for a few days, and he can't trouble you anymore!"

"It's not troublesome, my house is just like that, just a few broken houses, but there is finally a roof, which can block the wind or something!"

Ling'er persuaded for a long time, but the old man still disagreed, so Ling'er had no choice but to help him sort out a corner of the wall that was barely more than one person high, build two wooden planks on it, and lay some thatch to deal with it.

Before leaving, Dr. Xu called Ling'er and asked her to take out the "Hundred Herbs" last time, and turned a few pages to tell her which herbs were needed in Daddy Yang's prescription, how to use them, where they were easy to pick, etc., so that Ling'er could pay attention to them when she went back. Ling'er thanked her, said goodbye to Dr. Xu, and hurried home with a basket of things on her back.

When Ling'er arrived near her house, she heard the voice of a young woman talking in the courtyard from a distance, and when she got closer, she looked over the low bamboo fence in the courtyard and could see a woman sitting in the middle of the courtyard with Erlang's legs crossed, smiling and talking to her father and mother while eating melon seeds. Look carefully, who is Yan Erniang who is not looking for fault when she goes out in the morning?

Ling'er squatted down and slowly moved under the bamboo fence, wanting to hear what this woman was talking about.

Yan Erniang knocked on the melon seeds and said, "Oh, Aunt Yang, your family Ling'er is so smart and capable, what are you busy with?" Sit down and take a break! ”

Mrs. Yang said with a smile: "No matter how capable Ling'er is, she is still a child, this is the work of adults, if I don't do it, no one will do it!" ”

"Tsk, Aunt Yang, a child you picked up, can you feel so sorry for her? In the past, she was stupid and couldn't understand the words, but now isn't she enlightened? You shouldn't be used to her! What about children? Which family in the village is born with the ability to do anything? Isn't it okay for you to teach her slowly?

Alas, even if you are so kind to her, if you change to someone else, let alone raise her, as soon as you know that she is a fool, you will definitely throw her back into the river immediately! ”

Mrs. Yang was stunned, her face was a little ugly, she opened her mouth to say something, but suddenly heard a cough next to her, and the old woman hurriedly threw something and ran over: "His father, his father, what's wrong with you?" ”

Old man Yang covered his chest and coughed for a while before he eased up, and Mrs. Yang comforted him while caressing him and sat down, and then hurriedly went to fill the medicine and feed him!

Yan Erniang kept looking at Erlang's legs with slanted eyes, and saw that his father was coughing badly and didn't say a good word, but gloated about eating melon seeds, Ling'er hated it so much!

Yan Erniang saw that Father Yang was relieved, so she quickly accepted the melon seeds, and pretended to be concerned: "Uncle Yang, are you okay?" Hey, this Ling'er is really, I saw her go out to buy medicine early in the morning, it's not too late, why haven't you come back? Oh, didn't you meet some kind of human trafficker and get caught, right? ”

The old father who was drinking the medicine choked, and there was another cough, the old lady was a little angry, and while helping the father stroke his back, she reproached slightly: "Second daughter-in-law Yan, don't talk nonsense, when did our family Ling'er be arrested by human traffickers?" ”

Yan Erniang smiled and said, "Oh, Aunt Yang, what is there to hide from me?" The last time Ling'er was lost in the town, it was two or three days, and I heard that on the day she got lost, there happened to be a group of traffickers wandering around the town, and she left the town after that day, and she also carried a big carriage covered with black cloth!

It's strange to say, those traffickers are not good at stubble, and a few days after Ling'er came back, I heard that those guys all died in the broken temple halfway up Lincheng Mountain! Tsk, died so miserably, it's scary to hear! ……”

Ling'er, who was lying outside eavesdropping, listened more and more, the more his heart sank, what was going on? Yan Erniang, an ordinary woman who rarely goes out of the village, how did she know about this? What does she mean when she comes here? Could it be that the accomplices of the traffickers have traced themselves? Even suspect that their deaths have something to do with themselves! …… Ling'er felt a chill all over her body when she thought about it.

"Second daughter-in-law Yan, that trafficker is doing all the things that lack morality, sooner or later there will be a day, what does it matter to us whether they die or not?"

Yan's second daughter-in-law was stunned, and said with a smile: "Hehe, too, Aunt Yang is not angry, I just think that the day Ling'er went missing happened to be the day when the traffickers came to our town, and I wondered if Ling'er would see it......"

"Nope! My Ling'er was kind enough to send a little girl home, and they gave her good food and clothing and a reward for silver, how can traffickers be so good to her? ”

Yan Erniang's eyes lit up when she heard this: "Oh? Is it? Aunt Yang, I think Ling'er wears that set of clothes is really good, it's like a tailor-made one, that ...... People give a lot of money, right? ”

Old Mrs. Yang paused, bowed her head and said, "It's not much, it's only a few hundred yuan, I used it to pay off the debt, and the rest was used to buy medicine for the old man, and there are few pennies left!" Alas, our winter coats and quilts haven't landed yet! ”

"Hehe, Aunt Yang, don't worry, I heard that a few days ago, it was your family Ling'er who took the lead in robbing the money, and she must have robbed a lot, at least enough to buy winter clothes! Aunt Yang, didn't Ling'er tell you? ”

Old Mrs. Yang stopped her movements and looked at Yan Erniang suspiciously, Yan Erniang said with a surprised face: "Aunt Yang, you don't really know, do you?" Such a big thing, the old staff and the old village chief came, Hu Ziniang and Sister-in-law Feng quarreled so much that their faces were red and their necks were thick, and in the end, the old staff was kind-hearted, and instead of pursuing it, they gave cotton clothes, quilts and food to every household in the village!

Tsk, the old man is really a good person! It stands to reason that Ling'er is not young, why does she have to get along with that rich kid? The old man usually takes care of us so much, even if his grandson is sometimes naughty, everyone can endure it.

There are so many children in the village, and everyone gets along well with the rich boys, how come they come to Ling'er, every time they either quarrel or fight! Alas, Ling'er is still a girl, how can she find her in-laws in such a wild field!

Aunt Yang, don't blame me for speaking straight, you worked hard to raise the child Da Ling'er, and in the future, you will point to her to find a good family for you to support the elderly! But it can't go on like this, which family dares to ask for her bad reputation? I really think it's time for you to discipline your family well! ”