Chapter 701: Curious Child, Curious Woman
Situ Hong took a step forward, looked at the children in front of him with a smile on his face, and asked softly: "A few of us are just passing by here, and our stomachs are a little hungry, so we will come here to find something to eat, we are not bad people!" ”
Several children listened to Situ Hong's words, and couldn't help blinking their eyes, the original grievances disappeared in an instant, one of the children looked at Situ Hong, and said crisply: "Big sister, where are you from?" ”
"We're from the capital!" Situ Hong continued to reply softly.
"And where are you going?" The boy asked again.
Without waiting for Situ Hong to speak, the princess climbed down from Situ Qing's back, walked up to a few children, and said with a smile: "We are here to do something." ”
"What to do?" The child looked at the princess and asked.
"Do the things of adults." The princess looked at the child in front of her and replied patiently.
"What do you do as an adult?" The child tilted his head to look at the princess with a cute look and continued to ask.
"Do the ...... of adults." The princess opened her mouth and continued to answer.
Without waiting for her to answer, Situ Qing couldn't help but shout behind her: "Why is this kid so verbose? Don't ask them, we'll figure it out ourselves! ”
"Wow......!" As soon as Situ Qing's words fell, the child who asked the question immediately began to cry, and as soon as the child cried, the children behind him all cried one after another, and suddenly several children in the entire threshing floor cried together.
A few of our older men looked at the children in front of us and cried, and suddenly became at a loss. Several girls couldn't help frowning slightly, we are all men and women without dolls, and none of us can coax children!
"Oh, why are you all crying?" As we froze, a voice rang out beside us, and then we saw a woman dressed in a coarse cloth gown and a head wrapped in a cloth, and judging by the costume, this woman was an ordinary villager, and her cheeks were almost bronzed by the scorching sun.
The woman walked over to the children, reached out and pulled over one. Half-crouched down and looked at the child and asked, "Why are you crying again?" Who bullied whom? ”
"Auntie......!" I looked at the children in front of me and cried. Situ Hong stepped forward and whispered to the woman.
When the woman heard Situ Hong's voice, she raised her head and looked over, her eyes suddenly became a little more vigilant, and she hugged the child who had pulled her in her arms and protected her. Situ Hong looked at her. With an apologetic smile, he said softly, "Auntie." A few of us were passing through the village and wanted to come and beg for food, so we were supposed to ask the children. But I didn't expect them to admit their lives, so they all started crying. ”
"You're passing by?" The woman looked at Situ Hong, and then at the rest of us.
"Yes, yes, we're on the way." Seeing this, all of us nodded.
The woman looked us up and down and asked again, "Are you really passing?" ”
"Yes, yes, we're really passing by!" A few of us were busy and nodded again.
Several children who were crying also stopped crying at this time, looked at us with curiosity on their lips, and listened to us with a serious expression.
"Since you are passing by, why do you have a sharp sword on your back?" The woman looked carefully and asked.
"Uh...... Self-defense, yes, self-defense. I was slightly stunned, and hurriedly opened my mouth and said: "Auntie, you see, we are from the capital, and we have to go far away to run errands, and we will inevitably encounter some trouble along the way, so we will carry a sharp sword, and besides, auntie, you don't look like bad people!" ”
"Yes, yes, we're not bad people." Situ Hong and the princess listened to my words and nodded busily in agreement.
"Hmm." The woman nodded her head while looking at us for a while, and said, "These girls don't look like bad people, but you don't look like good people, especially him!" The woman raised her hand as she spoke, and several of us followed her finger to look at her, and she was referring to Han Sheng.
I smiled in my heart, hey, this woman's eyes are sharp, no one points at Han Sheng, whoever is really good at kung fu is pointing at whom!
"Auntie, you misunderstood, we are really not bad people." The princess smiled softly, looked at the woman and said delicately: "We really came from the capital, just passing through this village, he is not a bad person, just a family member, it was my father who let us take him for our safety on the way, otherwise we wouldn't have taken him!" ”
"Family?" When the woman listened to the princess's words, she couldn't help but look at her again, and seeing what she said, the princess was now dressed in coarse cloth, and said that she was on the road with her family, and I didn't believe it when she told me!
Seeing that she was puzzled, the princess couldn't help but say again: "Auntie, he is really a family member!" ”
The woman looked at Han Sheng again in a blink of an eye, shook her head slightly, and then nodded, seeing that she meant that she was still doubting the identity of the princess!
Situ Qing beside him couldn't help but speak: "Auntie, a few of us came to the village to beg for food, can't we give silver?" ”
"Oh, then you come with me!" The woman listened to Situ Qing's words and stopped looking at it, let go of the child, turned around and led us towards the village.
Looking at the back of her leading the way, I suddenly sweated profusely, I went out, who said that the people in the village are simple and kind? Who said that everyone in the village is a living Lei Feng without pay? Who said that the people in the village are honest? Who said that...... What the hell? Take a look at ......, you all come and see, the aunt in front of you is the standard money-looking master.
The few of us stopped talking, and followed the woman towards the village, and in a short time we came to the door of a peasant house, through which we could see the chickens, ducks and geese roaming freely in the yard, and some grain was drying in the yard.
"The ...... of the housekeeper is a guest!" Before she could enter the courtyard, the woman shouted into the house in a loud voice.
As soon as the woman's words fell, a swarthy man in a coarse undershirt came out of the room, and he was slightly stunned when he saw us.
"The head of the house, these people are passing by, and they came to our house to beg for food." As soon as the woman pushed the door open, she went into the courtyard, and several of us followed her.
The man couldn't help frowning slightly when he heard the woman's words, and said in a low voice, "Where do we have anything to eat?" ”
"Don't worry, they give silver!" The woman smiled faintly and turned her head to look at Situ Qing who was following behind her.
Situ Qing met her gaze, reached out and took out a small piece of broken silver from his arms and handed it over, the woman was not polite, reached out and took it, and threw the broken silver to the man with a wave of his hand, "You go to the east of the village to buy some meat and come back, I'll cook for them!" ”
"That'...... Yes! The man seemed to have doubts, but he nodded and whispered, and walked out of the courtyard with his feet raised.
Looking at his distant back, I don't know why I suddenly remembered the black shop opened by Sun Erniang, I'll go, this won't be a black village, right?!
The woman saw her man rushing out of the house, and hurriedly beckoned everyone to sit down casually, and we were not polite, but all sat down in the courtyard.
I watched the woman move in and out of the busy figure, and leaned towards Han Sheng, and asked in a low voice, "Brother Han, does this woman look strange?" ”
"Strange?" Han Sheng looked at me incomprehensibly.
I nodded and continued: "Yes, at first she was wary of us, and then she took us home without asking, Brother Han, you said she wouldn't want to eat black, right?" ”
"Black eats black?" Han Sheng continued to look at me incomprehensibly.
"Uh...... I mean, could this woman poison her food?! I casually explained.
"Don't worry, she won't." Han Sheng said lightly.
"For what?" I was a little surprised.
Han Sheng raised his eyes to look at the woman's figure and whispered, "This woman is calm and unhurried, and she is not afraid to look at us at the slightest, she is definitely not a poisoner. ”
"Brother Han, are you too arbitrary?" I muttered.
"If Bi Gongzi doesn't believe it, you can give it a try!" Han Sheng said, took out a slender silver needle from his pocket and handed it to my eyes, I reached out and took the silver needle, and looked carefully, the silver needle was slender and shiny, and it showed a little cold light under the sun, I completely understood what Han Sheng meant, he wanted me to try whether the food made by the woman was poisonous.
…… (To be continued......)