Everything is on track in the village. Now Huazizhuang really wants to have wealth and wealth, and to have people. There is a lot of money, Zhuang Xiaochu is thinking about what to invest in, what to invest in? Business, now that trade in Yancheng is developed, it is not easy to get in and get a piece of the pie, not to mention that there are no such business talents in Zhuangli for the time being. Then buy a house, buy land and buy land, but the house price and land price in Yancheng are not cheap, and there is no house to buy, so you have to wait. Zhuang Xiaochu has always wanted to buy some houses and land, there is a house and land, and he is not panicked, if the brothers don't want to be beggars one day, can they still farm land?

A few more happy events have been added to the village. Three more newlyweds moved into the small room. Half a catty and eight taels were also imported, half a catty got a son, and eight taels got a girl. The two of them are too good to be baby. The village gave a full moon wine. The owner added a golden lock and a gold circle to the child. One day after the full moon wine, an old couple came to the village.

The old couple is in their fifties, and although they are kind and kind, their faces are haggard and haggard, and they look as if they are more than ten years older. They took seven or eight families and went straight to Huazizhuang. At the beginning, the people of Huazizhuang thought that they came from other places to make a wish, but as soon as the couple came to Laozizhuang, they asked to see the owner of the village and half a catty, saying that there was a major matter to discuss. The owner of the village sent someone to drive a carriage to take half a catty and eight taels home.

The people at the bottom invited the old couple to the living room. Before the old lady could speak, she burst into tears. They said they were half-hearted parents.

The old couple's surname is Wu and they are from Meishan City. The family is also a wealthy family in the local area. Fifteen years ago, a group of bandits targeted his house, climbed over the wall in the middle of the night, and took advantage of the fact that dozens of people up and down were asleep, robbed the twin sons, who were only more than four years old at the time, and left a letter, in which he said that a week later, he would bring 1,000 taels of silver and 20 gold ingots to Meishan to exchange, hand over the money and the other hand, and when it was outdated, he directly tore up the ticket and threw the child into the river to feed the fish.

The Wu family and his wife only had such a pair of twin sons in their thirties, and they naturally loved each other like treasures. Preparations for the ransom began immediately. After the ransom was raised, he invited the child's uncle to hire a boat with the housekeeper and two entourages to load the ransom and set off, and went to Meishan to take a boat for a day, but he waited left and right at home, waited for four days, and did not come back.

If the bandits repented and felt that the ransom was small, they should bring a letter again, even if they sold their houses, land, pots, and iron, they had to make up the ransom again to ransom the child. But there was no news, and now the old couple panicked, and found a boat to go up the mountain to find it in person, but the mountain was empty, and there was nothing.

The old lady said with red and swollen eyes: "I passed out after looking for me, and on the boat back, if it weren't for so many people watching me and guarding me and stopping me, I would have jumped into the river." I thought of my children, my brother must have been killed and thrown into the river, and I wanted to jump into the river and be reunited with them. ”

This became a secret of the year. No one knows what's going on. The bandits were never heard from again. The Wu family and his wife have never had children again, and they can't think about how they have come over the years. Maybe these pains are like scars that never heal, and they hurt even more when you feel them. But they didn't dare to commit suicide, and there was always a trace of faith to support them: what if the sons came back? In this way, the Wu family and his wife suffered year after year.

Fifteen years later, just a few months ago, things suddenly took a turn for the better. After the Wu family and his wife finished speaking, they invited an old man and said you can say it, the old man opened his mouth, and the first sentence shocked everyone, he said: "I am a bandit who was kidnapped back then." ”

It turned out that this was one of the bandits back then, his family was poor and had no way to live, so he followed others as bandits, and he was the last to join, and he was usually responsible for cooking and taking care of meat tickets. After kidnapping the children that year, the result has not been seen Wu family to send ransom, the bandits waited for two more days, still no one came, the bandits wondered if the Wu family and his wife reported to the official and were ready to tear up the ticket and leave, a group of people drank in the bow of the boat, so they sent him to throw the two children into the river.

The two children were innocent, the old bandit had been taking care of the children and had some feelings, plus his conscience was not clear, so he couldn't do it, so he asked the two children not to make a sound, quietly hid the two children in the basket, and threw two big winter melons into the river to make a difference. It is also the two children who are well-behaved and know the danger and do not say anything.

It's not a problem to keep hiding children, sooner or later they will be discovered by other bandits. If the two children are discovered, they will be killed, but I am afraid that they will not be able to escape. So when the boat arrived at the Zhangzhou wharf, the old bandit carried a basket and used the excuse of getting off the boat to buy grain and oil, quietly sent the child ashore and released it, and gave the two children a little silver when they left, praying in their hearts that the child would be blessed and live by himself. I was afraid that the other bandits would suspect me, so I hurriedly bought grain and oil, returned to the ship, and the group went to other places. As for how the two children came to Yancheng in the end, I don't know.

Two years ago, the bandit gang was attacked by the government, and those who were caught were caught and those who were injured were disbanded. The old bandit was lucky that he was not caught, but the old bandit had nowhere to go. The silver taels in his hands were gradually spent. I thought of this incident fifteen years ago, and thought that I had saved two lives, one was to send a letter to the Wu family and his wife, and the other was to see if there was a place to take him in.

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but sigh. They all guessed that the child's uncle and the housekeeper did not pick up the child, and the boat must have had an accident on the river, and they may have encountered a whirlpool, and they were all killed.

The Wu family and his wife took the old bandit to look for the child. The old couple told the old bandit, as long as you find my child, you will be the hero of our family, and we will be responsible for your birth, old age, sickness and death in the future.

Zhangzhou searched for a long time, but I didn't find it. In fact, half a catty and eight taels are twins, which are easier to find, and there is a special place on one face, and there is a red mole behind the tail of his eye, and the mole is a little raised. There is a black birthmark on the back of one butt. The group didn't find them in Zhangzhou, so they took Zhangzhou as the center and began to look for the surrounding cities. Searching around, someone finally said that they seemed to have seen such a pair of twins when they were drinking wedding wine in Yancheng, singing congratulatory songs. It seems to be the red beggar of Yancheng. So the group rushed to Yancheng Huazizhuang.

Half a catty and eight taels back, the characteristics are on one by one. Relatives recognized each other, tears flowed down two lines. The brothers of Huazizhuang also shed tears. Half a catty and eight taels led his daughter-in-law and children to meet his father. Only then did the Wu family and his wife know that their child had become a family in the beggar gang, gave birth to a baby, and became a team leader. Seeing twin sons, two more daughters-in-law, and a baby grandson and a baby granddaughter, the ecstasy in the hearts of the old couple of the Wu family cannot be expressed in many words.