Chapter 40: The Broken Temple

Li Xin touched his pocket and secretly screamed that it was not good, and there was only eight cents left.

"Boss, I only have eight cents on me. You also know my ninth uncle, if you don't owe Erwen, wait for him to give it to you. ”

Li Xin had no choice but to persuade Li Mango to let him pay on credit, otherwise how could the wine be sent back.

"No, children, small business, no credit." Speaking of this, Li Mango pointed to the eight big characters on the earthen wall, "Cash and silver are clear, no credit", and then continued: "To be honest, all the people who come here are from the villagers, but this opening can't be opened, today you owe two wen, tomorrow he owes three wen, if this continues, my small shop will not be able to continue." You say, don't you? ”

Li Mango spoke out about his difficulties.

This Li Xin can also understand that many community businesses have been killed in this way. A lot of people start to talk and come early. Later, after a long time, I got used to it, and slowly accumulated more and more, making the small store unable to make ends meet, and many times, it became a bad debt and could not be recovered.

"I have a kind of corn (corn) wine here, which is only six cents a pound. Do you think about it? Li Mango saw Li Xin's difficulty, so he gave him a trick.

"Look, if you change to Baogu wine, you only need six Wen, and the remaining two Wen can buy two more steamed buns and eat them while walking on the road. My steamed buns are big and sweet. That's great, isn't it? ”

Li Mango saw that Li Xin was thinking and hesitating, and continued to help him analyze.

Li Xin began to feel that Li Mango was reasonable, turned his head and thought about it again, and felt that it was unreliable to change to Baogu wine, so he said to Li Mango: "Forget it, boss, now I only have eight Wen, since you can't take credit here, then I'll play Bawen wine, okay?" ”

Li Mango said: "Of course you can." I can call as much as I want here. Children, you may not know that for ordinary people who drink alcohol, no alcohol matters, as long as there is alcohol to drink. Cui Jiu also often drinks Baogu wine. If you take back less than two pennies of wine now, will he be angry? It is better to switch to baogu wine, so that the amount will not be less. ”

Li Mango persuaded Li Xin once in the end, but seeing that Li Xin continued to shake his head, he could only give up.

The man poured some wine back, and then handed the bamboo tube containing the wine of eight cents to Li Xin.

Deep down, Li Xin actually wanted to exchange sorghum wine for Baogu wine, and he could bring Su Qi a steamed bun back with the remaining two pennies, but thinking of Cui Jiu's unassuming character, he still gave up this idea.

Under the shade of the tree, the old woman and the little girl did not know when they had gone.

On the way back, Li Xin said secretly: "A simple drinking task has failed like this, I wonder if Uncle Nine can open the net?" Hey, if it doesn't work, if you have to ask Su Qi to come forward, Uncle Nine should give her face. "I turned my head and thought again, this little test was not completed successfully, it was really a failure.

Thinking of the old woman and the little girl taking the steamed buns, the grateful gaze was also worth it.

The scorching sun made Li Xin sweat profusely and his mouth dry. I found a spring on the side of the road, drank it happily, and the cold water made him feel a lot more comfortable.

Facing the sun, I walked for a few miles and saw a ruined temple more than a dozen zhang away. As far as the eye can see, the walls are mottled, the roof is broken, some of the wood has been broken, and the straw on it is long gone.

Suddenly, "Ahh A scream came, which was short and abrupt.

"Help!" Immediately afterwards, a childish female voice pierced the hot and stuffy atmosphere. I heard another "oops", and there was silence again.

The sound came from the ruined temple.

Li Xin was taken aback and said secretly: Something happened. He hid the sorghum wine in a bush on the side of the road. tiptoe to the back of the ruined temple and look inside through the cracks in the broken walls.

The bodhisattvas enshrined in the temple are broken, and their bodies are mutilated and dirty. In the middle of the hall there was a man lying face down on the ground, the blood had stained the ground beneath her, and the clothes were the same old woman as before.

"Run, you're running...... How many days did Lao Tzu get tired of chasing so far? Finally got you today, haha...... Run again. ”

A fierce male voice was heard. The visual surface of the gap is limited, and Li Xin cannot see the perpetrator, but can only hear his voice.

"Woo...... Woo woo woo ......" a little girl's voice choked.

"Haha...... You shout, shout! See who can save you. The man laughed, and the dust in the room fell in all directions.

Li Xin frowned, only to hear the man continue: "I also have to obey you, I actually ran here from Kaizhou, you think that there are many mountains and rivers here, so it will be safe." To tell you honestly, the one that sold to our 'Huayu Building' has not run away from the beginning of the building. Unless you die, you're bound to be caught. ”

"You killed my mother-in-law, you killed my mother-in-law." The little girl muttered, her voice slurred.

"Hmph, if you don't kill her, I only hate her in my heart. If it weren't for her, you could have run so far? How many sins did Lao Tzu suffer? How much suffering was suffered. If you don't still use it, Lao Tzu can't wait to give you a knife. The man snorted evilly.

Li Xin quietly changed his position outside the temple, and the person and the little girl could just be seen in the new gap.

The little girl had her hands and feet tied, sat on the ground and cried, and there was a red palm print on her face, which should have been beaten when she just shouted for help.

A big man was holding a waist knife, which was white under the reflection of the sun, and a touch of blood was particularly dazzling in the blade. He walked around the little girl, babbling and talking. It's all about the same thing. He endured a lot of hardships in order to chase them, and ran into this mountain to suffer. As if he didn't nag out, he felt uncomfortable in his heart.

Li Xin wanted to save the little girl, but he also knew that he couldn't compare to a finger of the big man. Seeing the blood on the knife, I felt a little panicked. After all, I have never faced such a fierce person alone.

The last time Cui Jiu shot in Miao Village, he stood far away, Cui Jiu didn't use a knife, and he didn't play, he just watched a lively scene, so he didn't feel anything at the time.

This time he faced a villain who had just killed someone, and the anger he exuded made Li Xin outside the wall tremble and sweat. In the high temperature, Li Xin only felt cold soles under his feet, and broke out in a cold sweat.

He wanted to leave, but he couldn't bear it. I was at war in my heart, and in the end, I couldn't bear to abandon a little girl, so I decided to save people.

But how can you save it on your own?

Li Xin thought of Wei Xiaobao's stunt and led him out to use lime, but where to find lime? I want to dig a trap at the door again, this one is even more......

Just as he was thinking about it, the big man seemed to be tired of nagging, found a piece of wood and sat down, leaned against the shade by the wall, took out a baked cake and ate it, and took out the wine jug he was carrying and drank it several times. After eating the baked cakes, I drank half a pot of wine, stretched my waist for a long time, and looked like I was full of wine and food.

Under the little girl's frightened gaze, he got up and checked the rope on the little girl's body, and pulled another sleeve of the little girl's coat, crumpled it into a ball, and stuffed it into her mouth. I thought it was okay, so I sat back and began to close my eyes and recuperate.

The little girl's eyes were full of despair and anger, and her whimpering was inaudible.

Li Xin said secretly: "It seems that this big man has caught someone, and he is not in a hurry." Now that the sun is big, it is inconvenient to walk; You may also be afraid that going out and meeting locals, tying a little girl by your side will cause unnecessary trouble. Looks like he's waiting for dark. ”

Thinking of this, Li Xin continued to think about how to rescue the little girl.

The time of a stick of incense passed, and the scorching sun roasted the earth like a cutting board, and the people on the cutting board were drowsy, which was also testing Li Xin's patience.

The big man in the temple snored, and Li Xin said secretly: "The opportunity has come." ”