Before entering the store, the scalper deliberately took a look at the guests sitting in the north room, but it was not a moment at this time, but it was still eating, but there were only seven guests sitting.

On closer inspection, five of the seven people were coolies in short shirts, each of whom had a sea bowl of noodles in front of him and was munching, and the remaining two were scholars wearing half-worn straight shirts, with a plate of haggis and a pot of soju in front of them. There is also a person dressed as a Taoist priest, with a lotus crown tied to his head, a robe of Ge color, and a pair of bast shoes with cloud ears. He carried a Songwen sword at least four feet long on his shoulder, a bulging Zhaowen bag hanging from his waist, and on his table was a pot of wine, a plate of haggis, and a bowl of noodles.

When the three members of the Huang family entered the door, they asked the scalper to notice that the Taoist priest was also squinting, and his expression seemed to be puzzled.

"Brother Niu, how are you doing a good job lately?" Old man Huang crossed his hands first, greeted a lean old man sitting behind the counter, glanced at it again, and asked, "But I didn't see my sister-in-law." ”

The lean old man's name is called Niu Laoshi, and he is also a native of this Huangzhou city, when he learned that the Huang family wanted to give up the foot shop, because the family and the Huang family also had a reason, so he took it, and promised that if the Huang family wanted to redeem it in the future, he would not shirk it.

Seeing that it was Huang Laoqi who came in, Niu Laoshi also got up and said, "Oops! How did the old man bring his younger brother and sister and boy with him, your sister-in-law has had a heart attack these days and is lying in the back room. ”

"Naturally, it's good news for my brother!" Huang Laoqi pulled the scalper and said with a smile: "Brother doesn't know, Xiao'er has been accepted as a closed disciple by Zhang Sizhi of the Hongwen Museum, and he has sold the face of my mother and uncle, and will hold an apprenticeship banquet in Mingxiu Building on the sixth day of the next month." In total, these neighbors have a lot of help in the past, so they naturally want to drink water and think about the source, but they can't forget their roots, so they want to borrow the treasure of the old brother, and also put wine to thank you, how about it? ”

"Oops! That's a good thing! Wedding! Niu honestly clapped his hands, looked at the scalper and said, "Okay!" I said a long time ago that the little cow is a reading seed, so naturally I can't be wrong. ”

But he turned his face to the old man and said: "As for this wine-setting matter, I'm afraid that I'm a brother who has no heart!" ”

The old man immediately put on a look of concern and asked, "What?" But what's the difficulty? ”

Niu Laoshi immediately stretched out his hand and said, "Alas! It's hard to say, but sit down and say. ”

Just when Niu Laoshi was about to let a family of three into the store to talk, a covered ox cart stopped outside the store, and a man wearing a linen shirt and a hat on his head raised his voice and said: "Niu is honest, and he will drink two corners." ”

After speaking, he threw the wine gourd in his hand to the scalper standing at the door, and the scalper didn't dare to let the gourd fall, so he hurriedly reached out to catch it, and there was a string of copper coins hanging on the gourd.

Niu honestly agreed, hurriedly walked over and took the gourd from the scalper, and after entering the store and making a good drink, he handed the gourd to the scalper and said, "Come!" The calf helped me deliver the gourd. ”

The scalper had to take the gourd out of the store and give it to the man who drove the cart, but the man didn't even look at the scalper, took the gourd and poured it, then shook the reins and drove the ox cart away.

Just when the ox cart passed in front of the ox, he heard a slight dingdong, and the ox found that there was an extra silver hairpin at his feet. This sterling silver hairpin is about four inches long, the hairpin head is engraved with plum blossoms, and there is a small red jade bead embedded on the top of the branch, but it is a finely crafted pearl hairpin.

After thinking about it, this was clearly the one that Wan Chunnu tore off his head that night and used it to commit suicide.

I can't remember anything else, I won't say it, I can't be mistaken, when I think of Wan Chunnu, the scalper can't help but recall the little pepper milk that jumped out of the bandeau like white jade, and the trembling red beans on the mountain peak.

Looking at the ox cart that had gone away, and then looked back at the old man, Erniang and Niu Laoshi who were already sitting and chatting nonsense, the scalper gritted his teeth and followed, wanting to see if Wan Chunnu was tied up by a kidnapper again.

As soon as the scalper left, the Taoist priest with the sword in the store smiled secretly at the direction he was going, and then left dozens of big sons and followed.

It was only said that the man who drove the car drove the car to the city pass, and the soldiers guarding the pass passed without any danger, and after leaving the city, he went to the water market along the main road. The ox walked slowly, it looked as if he was going to the water market, he didn't go far but saw the ox cart stop in the middle of the road, the driver got off the car and walked to the side of the road, picked up his clothes and put the water, the ox followed behind but fifty or sixty steps, naturally did not dare to stop, and continued to walk.

Who knew that the man who drove the cart also had too much water in his stomach, and the scalper looked normal all the way over, and when he approached the ox cart, he listened attentively, but he didn't hear any sound on the cart.

When the ox surpassed the ox cart for about 20 steps, he heard the old cow pulling the cart raise his voice, and dragged the ox cart creaking and creaking. ”

Hearing this, the scalper turned his head and replied, "Exactly! My dad asked me to buy some live fish. ”

The man who drove the car smiled and said, "Your father is the old man Huang who drives the mule cart, right?" Come up, I'll give you a ride! ”

The scalper didn't postpone it, he jumped on the ox cart with a promise, and said loudly with a roll of his eyes: "Uncle's car looks very heavy, I don't know what kind of goods are pulling?" ”

The driver took a sip of the wine gourd and said with a smile: "It's nothing, it's just some miscellaneous ......."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a sudden "woo" sound from the shed behind the car, and the man who drove the car hurriedly explained: "There are still a few piglets." ”

After he finished speaking, he whined a few times, and then it seemed that the ox cart shook a little, and the whining stopped abruptly, and the scalper looked at the face of the man who drove the cart, and asked inadvertently: "How can the pig be so screaming?" ”

As soon as the words fell, the scalper felt numb in the back of his neck, and lost consciousness as soon as his eyes went black.

When he opened his eyes again, he found that it was dark, and he was actually sitting in a cloth bag, with his feet and hands tied, and there seemed to be a mass of stuff in his mouth.

I tried to move, and found that the hands were actually tied to my chest, and although the rope was around my neck, it did not hinder the slight movement, so the scalper hurriedly reached out and pulled out the linen stuffed in his mouth, and grabbed the cloth bag and gently pulled out a small opening, and when I looked out, I found that it was also dark all around outside, but there were a few gaps on the top that showed light.