Chapter Twenty-Four: Bitter Sugar
The ox cart stopped, Yun Zheng sat up in confusion, his scattered eyes were not fixed, a huge fist smashed over with the sound of the wind, "Bah", this heavy punch hit Yun Zheng's mouth and nose, blood burst out for a while, and his nose was crooked in half, but it seemed to open an oil sauce shop, salty, sour, and spicy hair rolled out, and his body was also beaten and fell off the ox cart.
Lying on the ground, my brain is blank, and I can only blink my eyes and look at the clouds in the sky stupidly! It happened so suddenly, no matter how high your wisdom is, it can't match a thick fist.
A lean young man stepped on his chest and spoke to himself, but in his ears it seemed that a whole hall of water and land had opened a dojo, chimes, cymbals, and cymbals rang together, and he couldn't hear what he said at all, only saw a pig-headed boy with a bloody face next to him clenching his fists and smiling at himself.
"Ah Niu, this is the road, let's drag this kid to a hidden place and ask again, you drag people, I'll drive the ox cart, hurry up, don't let others see it."
Han Niu agreed, and dragged Yun Zheng's feet into the grass, not caring that Yun Zheng's head slammed on the stones on the side of the road, and the monkey led the ox cart to turn a big bend and enter the valley along the small river ditch.
Yun Zheng shook his head hard, trying to clear his mind, but the sharp pain from his nose made his efforts in vain every time, he stretched out his hand in the bump, touched his nose, and broke it hard, a sharp sharp pain drilled straight into his brain, and he could almost hear the cartilage on his nose rubbing against each other.
But fortunately, after the severe pain, it finally didn't hurt too much, such pain was still within the range of his tolerance, he was very sure that he had encountered a robber, and now he was dragged by people to slide on the grass, look at the surrounding scenery, this should be into the small river bay, and then not far away to the edge of the waterfall, you can imagine it, these two guys will kill themselves, and then throw the body of the waterfall, zuihou far away, this is not good, how to save your life first.
He took out a small silver ingot of two taels from his bosom and held it in his hand to let the sun shine, and sure enough, the robber who was dragging him stopped, stepped on his wrist, and as soon as his hand was released, the small silver ingot was exposed to broad daylight.
The fat robber picked up the silver and shouted happily to the thin robber who was driving the ox cart: "Monkey, monkey, look, this guy has silver on him, what a big ingot, two taels in it, we have sent it!" ”
The monkey came over in three or two steps, took the silver ingot in Han Niu's hand, looked at it and put it in his mouth to bite, looked at the two clear embossing, hugged Han Niu and said happily: "It's true, it's real silver, let's ask Haode, there is one ingot, there are two ingots, this guy must be the young master of a big family, you look at his fine skin and tender meat, he must be rich." ”
After hearing this, Han Niu immediately changed his fierce face and shouted at Yun Zheng at his feet: "Boy, take out all the money on your body, and grandpa will spare your life, otherwise I will send you to eat bandao noodles." ”
The monkey slapped Han Niu and said, "Isn't his money our money?" What nonsense, there is a small beach in front, drag this kid over, where to ask. ”
After finishing speaking, he went to drive the ox cart, and Han Niu continued to drag Yun Zheng's feet to the small beach, Yun Zheng's hanging heart finally landed, as long as he gave himself a little time, sooner or later there would be a moment to turn over.
When he arrived at the small beach, Yun Zheng was lying on the beach on all fours, the blood in his nose was still flowing to his heart's content, the thin robber called the monkey was afraid that he would bleed to death, and he didn't know where to find a little dirty linen, rolled it into a roll and stuffed it into his nostrils, very rough, and accidentally touched Yun Zheng's injury, and he almost fainted in pain.
This bastard, when he was bleeding from the nose, blocked his nostrils, the blood would flow out of his mouth, and after a while, Yun Zheng's mouth was full of blood, with the greatest hatred, Yun Zheng swallowed the blood, salty and salty is not delicious at all.
The whole body was searched all over again, the chubby Han Niu squatted on the side and smiled at the copper plate, very satisfied with his harvest today, the monkey took a big mouthful of water in his mouth, and the sound of "poof" sprayed on Yun Zheng's face, Yun Zheng was shivered by the cold mountain spring water, and his brain was clear.
The monkey sat down beside him and lowered his head and asked, "Boy, what's your last name and what is your name?" Who is your father? How many people are in the family, how many acres of land, how many cows? ”
"My name is Zhang Dahu, my father's name is Zhang Dahu, there are 20 people in the family, more than 1,000 acres of land, and more than a dozen cows." Yun Zheng replied word by word with blood foaming in his mouth.
The joy in the monkey's eyes flashed, and the kind dirty hand wiped the snow foam from the corner of Yun Zheng's mouth and asked, "How many brothers do you have?" Does your father love you? ”
"I have more than a dozen aunts, and my father is the only one who loves me. Usually there are families who come out, but this time I sneaked out. “
The monkey laughed and quacked, and tried to pretend to be kind and said to Yun Zheng: "Seeing that you are a scholar, I will not treat you badly, as long as you write a letter home and ask your father to bring money to redeem you, we will let you go after receiving the money, what do you think?" “
Yun Zheng nodded with difficulty, looked at his ox cart and said to the monkey: "There are all kinds of food I bought in the car, so I will honor the two kings, can you give me that clean linen again, my nose is broken, and I need to wrap it." ”
"Yes, you can, you don't want to run! I'll kill you if I catch it," the monkey found a mountain vine and tied it to Yun Zheng's feet and neck, and grabbed the other one in his hand, Han Niu moved the things on the ox cart one by one, and the monkey slowly inspected it, and from time to time he glanced back at Yun Zheng who was squatting on the edge of the stream and slowly washing his face.
The food was piled up on the ground, roasted tofu, snacks, dried fruits, candied fruit, and some lotus seeds including Yun Ye's small packet of oleander powder, the monkey and the Han Niu looked at the food and swallowed their saliva vigorously, but refused to taste it, what kind of conspiracy and trickery in Yuanshan have been seen, the monkey clearly knows a truth, strangers' food cannot be eaten casually, unless it is stolen by themselves, or robbed, they will eat it with confidence, and now seeing that the fortune is imminent, the monkey is not willing to take any risks.
"Zhang Dahu, come here!" The monkey shouted at Yun Zheng, and Yun Zheng obediently came to them.
"Take a bite of these tofu!" The monkey casually took a piece of tofu from the tofu pile and asked Yun Zheng to eat it.
Yun Zheng immediately ate a piece of tofu, and simply tasted all the dim sum and fruit preserves, explaining while eating, which made Han Niu's saliva a foot long, Zuihou pointed to oleander powder and said to the monkey: "You must not have eaten this thing, it is food transported from Kaifeng Bianliang City, it is called bitter and bitter sugar, and what you haven't eaten are soil buns." ”
Han Niu jumped up and grabbed a handful of bitter candy to eat, but was stopped by the monkey, he still wanted Yun Zheng to eat first, Yun Zheng carefully picked up a small pinch of bitter candy with his middle finger, and then took his index finger in his mouth and tasted it carefully, with a look of intoxication.