Chapter 366: Overnight
There are so many people......
For the first time, Miss Hong San felt that there were too many unmarried girls in her family.
She was silent for a long time before she said lightly: "Forget it, let's go back first." As he spoke, he nodded to Zhu'er, "Go back and don't talk nonsense." ā
Zhu Er nodded and said secretly, "Third Miss, don't sit and wait." Good things are all to be fought for by yourself......"
Miss Hong San didn't speak, but she was deeply convinced by Zhu Er's words.
The two returned to Hongjia Village in a carriage, and saw the mule cart that had blocked their way before.
Zhu Er snorted and said to Miss Hong San: "Third Miss, look at it, this is really at our doorstep!" ā
With the status of the Hong family in Hongjia Village, if this ugly girl driving a mule cart goes against them again, she really doesn't know how to die.
Yingsleeve parked the mule cart at the entrance of Hongjia Village and did not go in, because she did not see any sign of a large army stationed here.
The village was not very large, and the 50,000 right troops were certainly not stationed here.
Although Yingsleeve didn't want to enter the village, he still had to ask the people here, after all, it was a hundred miles away, and this place was a relatively large-scale village, and other places were considered wilderness.
He hesitated for a long time, until he saw the carriage that had argued with her on the road also coming, and he was slightly moved.
The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and the round-faced maid snorted at her, looked at the person with her nostrils, and went on her toes.
Ying Sleeve didn't care at all, and only looked at the entrance of the village.
A couple of small children in patched clothes ran out of the village, slingshots. Shooting at each other is like playing a game of war.
Yingsleeve looked at it with a smile for a while, and then beckoned: "Hey! Excuse me. Is this Hongjia Village? ā
The children turned their heads to look at her, and hurriedly ran over and asked very simply, "Yes, this is Hongjia Village, where are you from?" ā
They all tilted their heads to look at her, and their very simple faces were much stronger than the maid with their nostrils facing the sky just now.
Ying Sleeve smiled and took out a handful of peanut candy and handed them to them one by one. He said softly: "I came from elsewhere, and I heard that the heavenly soldiers of the capital were fighting here, and they were going to fight." Is it true? ā
The children ate the peanut candy given to them by Yingsleeve, smiled one by one, and nodded violently: "Yes, yes!" It's the Heavenly Soldier who came! We've all seen it! ā
"Oh? Is it really coming? I thought it was a lie. Yingsleeve smiled and asked them again, "Then where did they go?" The village is so small. Can it accommodate so many people? ā
A few children who had seen the excitement that day enthusiastically said to Yingsleeve: "I can live!" The richest man in our village, Mr. Hong, gave up their house on the mountain. The marshal and the general have gone to live in the mountains! As he spoke, he pointed back to the hill not far away to show Yingsleeve.
"Master Hong? How many rich people are there in your village? Why did you let this Master Hong take the lead? Ying Sleeve asked with deliberate curiosity.
The child said: "There is only one master Hong in our village, his family is rich, and half of the land in the village belongs to his family, and others can't compare." ā
Yingsleeve nodded, raised his eyes and saw that there seemed to be a wisp of cooking smoke floating out of the mountainside, thinking that it should be there. She touched the head of the child who had just spoken and gave him another piece of candy. "It's getting late today, and I can't travel with a sick mother-in-law, can I stay at your house for the night today? -- I paid for the room and food. ā
That kid was the best dressed of the naughty boys, but he was limited to fewer patches and a little cleaner, which was not comparable to the maid just now.
If Ying Sleeve didn't guess wrong, the maid and the young lady just now should be the only rich family of the old man Hong, thinking that they provided Xie Dongli with a place to live, Ying Sleeve felt a little grateful to the Hong family, and didn't care about the rude maid and young lady.
The child was a little hesitant, but when he heard that he was still paying, he hurriedly said, "Okay, you come with me!" ā
Yingsleeve let the boy sit with her on the mule cart and go to the village.
The child's family lived in the east of the village, and it was one of the few families with tiled houses, although there were only three tiled houses with one light and two dark, compared with the thatched houses next to them, they were considered to have some family background.
Of course, these families together can't be compared with the long string of white-walled and black-tiled seven-entry mansions south of the village chief's son.
The line between rich and poor is so stark in this small village.
What Yingsleeve wants now is not to be obtrusive, there is no need to make a big deal with the Hong family, or live quietly in the village.
She also had to go to Xie Dongli.
The boy led the sleeves into his house.
As soon as he entered the courtyard, he shouted, "Daddy! Mother! There's a passing sister who wants to stay at my house for the night! ā
The door squeaked open, and a young woman in her early twenties came out of the room and said, "Dog, are you naughty again?" ā
"No, no!" The child's nickname was left, very lively and naughty, and when he saw his mother come out, he ran away as soon as he slipped away.
Yingsleeve drove the mule cart into the courtyard and stopped at the foot of the steps.
She jumped down from the mule cart and saluted the young woman, "Big sister is bothering." I came from other places to look for relatives, and my mother-in-law suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, and I couldn't leave for the time being, and I wanted to spend the night with you. After a pause, he said: "I will pay you for the room and food, and I will not eat and live in vain." ā
The young woman's face turned red, and she hurriedly waved her hand and said, "No, no! It's just two pairs of chopsticks, and you don't have to pay for it. Who doesn't have an inconvenient time when they are away from home? "Resolutely refuse to collect the silver handed by the sleeve.
Ying Sleeve was grateful, thinking that she would sneak out at night to hunt a few hares and come back, and give this family a tooth sacrifice, and then leave the silver quietly when she left, so when she thought about it, she didn't insist any longer, she smiled and retracted her hand, "It's really troublesome." What is the eldest sister's surname? ā
"Don't be expensive, my husband's surname is Hong, he is a person from this village, and my mother's family is in Gejia Village, fifty miles away."
"It turned out to be Sister-in-law Hong." Yingsleeve said busily, while going to the mule cart to help the sleeping queen Qi Xueyun down.
"Call me Qi Niang." Ge Qi Niang hurriedly helped Ying Sleeve to support the sleeping mother-in-law, and said curiously: "She is your subordinate?" ā
Yingsleeve nodded. "I'm an unmarried girl, so it's not good for me to go out alone. My mother asked her to stay with me. ā
"You're so nice to your family." Ge Qiniang smiled and said, "Take care of her when she is sick." ā
"Although it is a subordinate. It's also a human life, and you can't just throw her away. Yingsleeve said quietly, followed Ge Qiniang, and helped Queen Qi Xueyun to sleep in the wing.
Ge Qiniang tied her hands, led Yingsleeve around the room, pointed to the location of the bed, table, and chair, and said, "You can live here." I'm going to make dinner. It will be eaten right away. ā
Yingsleeve was busy with a blessing, "Thank you Qi Niang." She remembered that there were a few candy pancakes she bought on the road in her baggage, so she simply took them out. said: "You can help me heat these cakes, let's eat them together." ā
Ge Qiniang saw that the oil cake was made of fine white flour, and there was a sandwich in it, maybe it was sugar. Where can people like them afford to eat? He was even more polite to Yingsleeve, and said busily: "Then I'll go and steam?" ā
Yingsleeve knew that this oil cake should be fried in oil to be more delicious, but Ge Qi Niang's family definitely did not have extra oil to fry the oil cake, and it was already very good to steam it, so she nodded and said, "It's bothering." ā
Ge Qiniang took the bag of oil cakes and went to the kitchen to cook.
Yingsleeve checked the pulse of Queen Qi Xueyun's pulse, and saw that she was indeed still in a coma, and her body was not seriously damaged. I was relieved and stuffed another pill into her mouth.
She didn't want to feed Queen Qi Xueyun too much. If you eat too much, you will be prone to trouble, and if she is hungry, she will not be able to run far.
It was getting dark outside, and the boy came over and called Yingsleeve to eat.
Ying Sleeve followed him to the hall and saw only a dim oil lamp lit.
A big man with a full face and beard sat at the table, and when he saw Yingsleeve coming in, he hurriedly stood up and nodded to her, "Is it a guest from afar?" ā
Ying Sleeve blessed him and asked, "Are you Hong Qiye?" ā
"I can't deserve the word 'master', just call me Hong Qi." The big man said heartily, turned his head and saw Ge Qiniang walking in with a big plate, the big man hurriedly went over to help her take the plate, and took the four bowls of dishes on the plate and placed them on the dining table.
In the middle of the plate, there is a sugar heart oil cake for Ge Qi Niang, and around the oil cake is a bowl of fried bacon with garlic sprouts, a bowl of scrambled eggs with wild vegetables, a bowl of milky fish soup, and a bowl of fried spicy pickles.
The boy was hungry at the steaming pancake in the middle of the table, and he stared at the pancake with his fingers, and couldn't take his eyes off it.
Yingsleeve smiled and sandwiched two sugar heart oil cakes for him, "Eat, it's very sweet." ā
The child looked at his father and mother, and he looked very educated.
Ge Qiniang looked at her husband, and her eyes were full of begging.
Yingsleeve was very embarrassed, and hurriedly said to the big man Hong Qi: "You just let the dog eat leftovers, they are all leftovers, and they are not a good thing." ā
Hong Qi originally wanted to teach his son not to be greedy, but when he saw that his son's saliva was about to drip onto the table, and his son had never eaten such a good oil cake since he was a child, his heart softened, and he nodded, "I can only eat one piece." ā
"Thank you, Dad!" The dog left a cheer, and hurriedly took a bite of the oil cake that Yingsleeve had just clamped for him, the fragrant fragrance of the oil, and the sweet sugar heart, it couldn't be more beautiful, he sighed, his whole face was wrinkled, full of pleasure in enjoying the food.
"Thank you for what Lao Tzu is doing? Don't thank you for this sister yet? Hong Qi scolded with a smile, but stretched out his rough hand and wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth.
Gou Yu hurriedly said to Ying Sleeve vaguely: "Thank you, sister!" ā
Ge Qiniang sandwiched a chopstick bacon on Yingsleeve and said, "This is a wild boar meat marinated, steamed several times, it is very soft, can you taste it?" ā
Ying Sleeve had eaten wild boar meat in her last life, but it was fresh wild boar, and she knew that although the wild boar was fragrant, it was very hard, and it was impossible to eat fried meat at all, and only stewed wild boar or steamed wild boar meat could be eaten.
She carefully took the garlic seedlings fried wild boar that Ge Qiniang sandwiched for her, it should be steamed and then fried, similar to the back pot meat, but it is chewy and more fragrant than the back pot meat, and it is very glutinous, with the refreshing taste of garlic sprouts, and the red dried chili peppers, which are very appetizing.
She actually ate a small bowl of millet rice, drank a bowl of fish soup, and ate several chopsticks and garlic sprouts fried wild boar.
And that plate of sugar heart oil cakes all went into the dog's leftover belly, and he was so satisfied that he smiled, and his little belly was round.
After dinner, Ge Qiniang boiled hot water for Yingshou, sent it into the room where she lived, and told her: "Go to bed early at night." Here is a mountain, and wild beasts will come out at night. There is also Daxing City not far from here, which is occupied by the Wu family of Nan Zhengguo, and everyone is very careful. But my man is here, you don't have to be afraid of anything. ā
Yingsleeve asked curiously, "What does your husband do?" ā
Ge Qiniang said proudly: "My man is a hunter, and he is the best hunter in this hundred miles!" ā
Yingsleeve nodded, took Ge Qi Niang's hand, and quipped: "Seeing that he can marry Qi Niang, I know that he must be the best hunter." ā
Ge Qiniang blushed and said with a smile: "The girl is really good at talking, and I am blessed to marry him." Speaking of her own man, Ge Qiniang gushed endlessly.
āā¦ā¦ His parents died, and he has been dependent on a bowl of rice and a piece of clothing from the people in the village to take care of him. Later, when he was old enough to get married, no one wanted to marry his daughter to him. I am from the next village, once I went up the mountain to chop wood, and I met a wolf, and he saved me......" Ge Qi Niang's eyes and eyebrows were smiling, "Later, my father and mother agreed to marry me to him." ā
Yingsleeve was very emotional, and said: "Qi Niang is really blessed. This Hong Qi is very capable, right? ā
From an orphan who has nothing, he can now build three tiled houses, and can feed and clothe his wife and children, which is really good for a hunter.
Ge Qiniang nodded, "My sisters all envy me." ā
After the two finished talking, Ge Qiniang left.
Yingsleeve waited for the lights in the house to go out, and then she secretly went out of the door of the house, called Xie Yin out first, and instructed him: "You are here to help me guard Qi Xueyun, you must be careful, you can't let her run away." ā
Xie Yin knew the severity, and also knew that the fifth lady was taught kung fu by the fifth master himself, although it was not the top, but it was more than enough to deal with the average master, so there was no dispute, and he only said: "The fifth master is not far away, you have to be careful, there is a military powerhouse." ā
Yingsleeve let out an "um" and ran to the hill not far away.
She knew that Xie Dongli and the others lived in a house on this mountain, and wanted to see if they could sneak over and meet Xie Donglian.
But the hill was very well guarded.
Ying Sleeve turned around and found that every road was heavily guarded.
She tried to make her way through the forest, but as soon as she entered, she met two big green eyes. - It's a wolf!
Yingchou buckled the stone in his hand and was about to kill the wolf.
Whew! Whew! Whew!
The wolf actually raised his head and barked, calling out to his companions.
Soon, there was a green light all over the mountains.
Yingsleeve hurriedly flew back, and complained in his heart: How many wolves are there on this mountain!
No wonder Ge Qi Niang can meet wolves when she goes up the mountain to chop firewood!
She had no choice but to retreat to the bottom of the mountain.
The commotion of the wolves woke up the little beasts in the mountains, and they ran in all directions without a clue, and many of them went into the stomachs of the wolves.
Yingsleeve easily caught two fat hares and took them back to Hongqi's house.
She threw the hare into the kitchen of Hong Qi's house, and went back to sleep with her clothes together.
When she woke up the next day, she heard the sound of sharpening knives in the yard.
When I got up and pushed the door, I saw that it was Hong Qi sharpening his knife in the yard, and there was a simple bow, a box of arrows, and a big iron fork beside him.
"Hong Qi, what are you going to do here?" Yingsleeve asked curiously.
Hong Qi didn't raise his head, and said: "The people of Nan Zhengguo occupy our city, and I want to go to the army to fight!" ā
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There should be a plus change in the evening. O(ā©_ā©)Oć
Strive for three watches tomorrow. Boom! ā¦ā¦ (To be continued......)
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