"Second brother, second brother, are you at home? , I have an urgent matter for you. Li Tingyuan stood outside the courtyard and shouted.

"Who?" A somewhat muffled voice came from the room, mixed with the sound of footsteps walking.

"Second brother, it's me, Li Tingyuan."

Hearing the answer, the people inside hurriedly opened the door, "Big brother, you are here, come into the house and sit down." "It was Li Zhongshun who opened the door, with some sunken cheekbones on his face protruding, and wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and forehead, probably because of his long-term work and farming, he will be younger than Li Tingyuan next year, and he looks older than Li Tingyuan, and the two brothers are similar in figure.

"Second brother, I don't have time to sit at your house today, I'm here to beg you to lend me some money, the niece of the eldest daughter-in-law was abducted and sold, and she needs five taels of silver to ransom people, our family can raise enough two taels of silver, and there are still three taels left, I want to ask the second brother how much can you borrow from me?" I'll pay you back as soon as I can. ”

"Big brother, you see the outside, you can pay it back whenever you want, we are two brothers, you often take care of me and send me food, but the younger brother is shy in his pocket, so he can only raise you a tael of silver, and you don't want to go out to borrow some big brother, big brother, you wait, I'll go get you money." After Li Zhongshun finished speaking, he ran back to the house, took out the money jar and found out a tael of silver, which was originally intended to be saved for his son to marry his daughter-in-law in the future.

Li Zhongshun hurriedly came out with the money and handed over the two pieces of silver to Li Tingyuan, Li Tingyuan took the thanks, turned around and ran towards the entrance of the village, the village chief's family lived near the entrance of the village, and Li Tingyuan was ready to borrow money from the village chief.

The village chief's full name is Li Zhaoquan, and his family conditions are one of the best in the village, and he should be able to borrow three taels of silver.

This house is the only earthen wall tile house in the village, there are six tile houses in the wide courtyard, see the village chief is lying comfortably on the bamboo deck chair asleep, the old man is dressed in sackcloth and feet on the cloth shoes, the hair is neatly combed, a pair of round eyes on the round face, the face looks younger than his peers, it looks very kind and blessed.

Li Tingyuan walked up to him, bent down and whispered, "Village Chief Li, wake up, brother, I have something urgent to find you." ”

When Village Chief Li heard the voice, his eyelids raised, he opened his eyes, and when he saw that it was Li Tingyuan, he sat up straight, "Brother Tingyuan, please sit down, seeing that your face is anxious, what is the matter with me?" ”

Li Tingyuan sat on the stool next to him, "Village Chief Li, my eldest daughter-in-law's niece was abducted and sold, and she needs five taels of silver to ransom people, my family doesn't have enough money, can I borrow three taels of silver from you?" Brother, I will definitely pay you back as soon as possible. ”

"That little baby will suffer, this is an important matter, I will go and get you money, and pay me back when you have money, don't worry." Village Chief Li also understood the urgency of the matter, and quickly got up and went into the back room to look for money, and handed over three taels of silver to Li Tingyuan in a moment.

Li Tingyuan took the silver, and his anxious mood eased a little, "Thank you, Village Chief Li, I will definitely remember your help, brother, and I'll leave first." ”

"Go ahead! Saving lives matters. Village Chief Li waved his hand.

Originally, it was enough to borrow two taels, but Li Tingyuan, in order to maintain the cost of the stall at home just in case, specially borrowed one or two more from Village Chief Li, and carried enough silver in his arms, and the stone in Old Man Li's heart also fell to the ground.

Besides, the Li family in the town who was still waiting for the arrival of Mr. Li, their hearts were like ants on a hot pot, slowly tormented, Li Yangming took three hundred and fifty wen from the stall at home, Li Wenshi heard about his niece being sold, and followed him uneasily, looking at Wen Shui, whose hands were still tied, he could only be anxious, he could only look at the door, and prayed that Old Man Li would come as soon as possible.

"Bang bang bang ......." A few knocks on the door sounded, and everyone in the Li family hurriedly turned their heads to the door, looking forward to it, and when they opened the door and saw that it was Old Man Li, everyone's entangled hearts were also relaxed.

"Master Liu, I've kept you waiting, the money has been brought." Old Man Li hurriedly took out the silver in his arms, took out five taels and handed it to Liu Ye.

Liu Ye took it and looked at it, threw it into the hand of the monkey next to him, and handed the contract in the monkey's hand to Old Man Li, "The silver and goods are two, you can take them away!" The human tooth man stepped forward to untie the rope on Wen Shui's hand and pushed the man over.

Li Wenshi hurriedly stepped forward and hugged Wen Shui, Wen Shan also ran quickly to his sister, the three of them hugged each other, crying together, and the Li family comforted the three of them on the side.

"Sister-in-law, don't cry, it's a good thing to be reunited, go back, let's go back and talk slowly, this place is not suitable." Li Yangming stepped forward to remind.

The three of them listened, Li Wenshi took out a handkerchief and wiped the eyes of the two brothers and sisters, and grabbed the two of them tightly with both hands.

Li Yangqing looked at Liu Ye who got up and was about to leave, there were one and there were two, Li Yangqing once again had the courage to step forward and interrupt, "Liu Ye, please stay, the little girl has something to ask Liu Ye, dare to ask if the person who sent Wenshui to you today is an old man who rode a donkey?" ”

Liu Ye stopped and turned to look at Li Yangqing, "Eh, seeing that you are young and very smart and clever, let me tell you!" It was indeed sent by an old man, and with my eyesight, I don't think the old man was necessarily the real one. After saying that, he left without looking back.

Li Yangqing heard the news he wanted, and understood that someone might have deliberately disguised himself as an old man to confuse the public, and Old Man Li also heard Liu Ye's words, and everyone left this house that separated countless families and was heartbroken, hoping that they would never have the opportunity to set foot here again.

"Big brother, are you waiting for us here, have you finished the stall?" Li Yangde had two heavy backpacks at his feet, and he had been wandering anxiously back and forth outside the door.

Hearing Li Yangqing's voice, he raised his eyes to look at the Li family, and walked towards everyone with his feet raised, "Little sister, we're done with the stall, let's go back together!" Wenshui and Wenshan, blame your uncle for not taking care of you, I'm sorry for your father. Li Yangde touched the heads of his two nieces and nephews, very guilty.

"No, uncle, you didn't feel sorry for us, you only blame the bad guy who has been doing bad things behind your back, and thank you to the grandparents of the Li family for saving my sister and causing you another trouble." Wenshan was grateful to the Li family.

"Let's go, let's go home, go back and talk about today's things slowly, and have a precaution in the future." Old Man Li took the lead and walked forward, and everyone followed.

"Grandpa, it's good that you're back, cousin." Li Wenqiu saw that the Li family had found the person back, stepped forward and grabbed Wen Shui's hand, and held Wen Shui for a long time.

"Well, there is finally no danger today, let's go, let's go into the house and tell me what happened." Old Man Li spoke, and everyone in the Li family entered the hall with the Wenshan brothers and sisters and sat down.

"Wen Shui, tell me how you were abducted today?"

"Back to Grandpa Li, this morning my brother went into the mountains to chop wood, I didn't go out after my brother left, about half an hour later, an old man knocked on the door of my house, I didn't know him after I opened the door, he said that my brother was injured in the mountains, he was hunting in the mountains and saw my brother, came to bring me a letter, and described my brother's appearance in detail, I believed, he said he was thirsty and asked me to bring him a bowl of water to drink, he followed me into the courtyard, I turned around and was knocked out by him, and I didn't know later."

"It seems that this must be an acquaintance who committed the crime, and I know the address and personnel at home." Old Man Li analyzed.

"According to the clues we collected in Wenjia Village, there was a child playing alone at the entrance of the village in Wenjia Village, and I saw an old man passing by with a tightly covered child on his back, and that person must have deceived Wenshui.

"The third brother is right, I just asked Liu Ye about the person who sells Wenshui is an old man riding a donkey, Liu Ye also reminded me that it is a person dressed as an old man, I guess it is to confuse the public, so that we can't figure out who it is, even if an acquaintance takes off his disguise and stands in front of us, now we don't know each other, the landlord Wang is the only person who has entanglements with our two families and knows us, so his suspicion is the greatest, but we have no evidence, and it is the best result if people can be saved, hey!" Li Yangqing waited for Li Yangming to finish speaking, and continued to express his opinions, and the more he talked, the more he felt that this matter was an unsolvable case, so he could only sigh.

"That little sister, why are you covering my mouth and not letting me bargain with Master Liu?" Li Yangwu has always had some doubts about Li Yangqing's approach in the town, and now there is an opportunity for Li Yangqing to solve his doubts.

"Second brother, the reason why I agreed to buy back Wenshui for five taels of silver is because we can't afford to offend people like Liu Ye, people who do population business are more ruthless than Wang landlords, and he has seen a lot of life and death, not that we ask him a few words and he will sympathize with us, businessmen only recognize money, if we buy other unrelated people, he will not quote such a high price, because we want to buy relatives, he caught us must buy, and it is the psychology of begging him to buy, so he sits on the ground and starts the price, after feeling our minds, he has the confidence to raise the price with us, No matter how high we are, we have to admit it, what if we annoy him and don't sell it to us, he has the contract of Wenshui in his hand. ”

"Fortunately, I didn't have the impulse to bargain with Liu Ye, thank you, little sister, for holding my action in time just now." Li Yangwu patted his chest, thinking of his recklessness just now, he was also afraid for a while, if he didn't buy Wenshui successfully, he would become a sinner.

"Second child, you have to think twice about doing things in the future! This is also the reason why I didn't object after I saw that Yang Qing agreed to five taels, and I will learn more from your sister in the future. ”

Li Yangwu nodded obediently, "Yes, yes, the little sister is the smartest sister in the world, hehe!" Li Yangwu took the opportunity to shoot Li Yangqing's rainbow fart.

"Wenshan, this is Wenshui's contract, you continue." Old Man Li took out the contract in his arms and handed it to Wenshan on the side.

After Wen Shan took the bamboo piece full of Wenshui's selling information, he vented his anger on this thin bamboo piece, broke it into several pieces, gritted his teeth and said: "I want to destroy this thing, this thing kills people, and I will never let my sister fall into the hands of other bad people." ”

"I bought Wenshui today, because the money was not enough, I borrowed one tael from my second brother, three taels from the village chief, plus one or two halves of silver at home, and there were five hundred wen left, Yang Ming took three hundred and fifty wen from the stall, except for the boat fare for me to go back and forth alone and everyone went home just now, there are only eight hundred and twenty-three wen left at home, to maintain the operation of the stall, and the foreign debt is four taels of silver."

Hearing that the Li family had owed a large amount of foreign debts for his sister, Wen Shan's heart was full of apologies, and he hurriedly pulled Wen Shui to get up, "Dong" knelt on the ground at once, and kowtowed to everyone in the Li family, Li Yangwu saw this and wanted to help the two brothers and sisters get up, but this time Wen Shan was indeed a little stubborn, kneeling straight on the ground, his eyes were already moist, "Uncle Yangwu, don't pull us up first, your father's and mother's affairs made you bother to paste three taels, and now my sister's affairs let you post five taels, I ...... It's our brothers and sisters who drag you down. ”