Chapter 13: Shopping 100 Years Ago

Meng Xiaoshuai walked out of the inspector's side room and looked back, and the young policeman followed her.

Meng Xiaoshuai said, "Oh, thank you." ”

The young policeman asked in a low voice, "Miss, are you not entangled?" ”

Meng Xiaoshuai was waiting for this sentence, she immediately stopped and nodded: "Well, they were all robbed." ”

The young policeman took out a banknote from his pocket and stuffed it into Meng Xiaoshuai's hand. Meng Xiaoshuai looked at it, and the words "Bank of Communications" and "Five Yuan" were written on the banknotes, and the patterns were very simple.

The young policeman said, "It's a guest here, take it, I just paid it." ”

She looked at him, her eyes were full of gratitude, but she immediately changed to a charming expression: "Little brother, I'm really embarrassed......"

The young policeman said, "Where are you going next?" ”

Meng Xiaoshuai said: "I'll go to Xi'an." ”

The young policeman said: "The road is still far away, you girl's family must be careful, hurry up in the morning, try to take the official road." ”

Meng Xiaoshuai said: "Got it, thank you, thank you......"

Then, step by step, she turned around and left the police station.

She found that despite the change in language, she listened to the other person's speech with pimples, and there was generally no problem, and she could communicate with these people. Moreover, these police officers of the Republic of China are not as bad as she thinks, but they are very friendly.

Meng Xiaoshuai walked around this ancient town.

Several children, large and small, followed her, smiling and watching the excitement, the boys were all bare and braided, and the girls had mustaches. Their clothes are shabby.

Passing by a steaming stall, Meng Xiaoshuai tried to buy a drawer of steamed buns with money, but it only cost five cents. Through this "shopping", she probably knew that the "five yuan" banknote is equivalent to the current 500 yuan to 1,000 yuan.

She ate a few buns and her mouth was full of fragrant. She took the rest in her hands and prepared to bring it to Wu Min.

As I walked, there was a sudden buzz in front of me, and a crowd of people rushed over, filling the street. She didn't know what was going on, so she hid on the side of the road and observed, the group of men and women, who were shouting angrily and couldn't hear what was being said. A strong man pushes a cart with a wooden cage in which a girl stands, cloaked and disheveled, as if she were a prisoner.

The group of people walked very slowly, and Meng Xiaoshuai guessed that they were parading the streets.

Next to her was an old woman who sold needlework, and Meng Xiaoshuai asked her, "What's wrong with that woman?" ”

The old grandmother's dialect was heavier, and Meng Xiaoshuai took a lot of effort to understand, this woman's name is Mu Mu, she is a bandit, and her man is the horse boy of the female bandit leader on the mountain.

Meng Xiaoshuai secretly thought, it's really unreasonable! What does it have to do with her being a thief? I couldn't help but feel sympathy for this girl.

The group was getting closer.

Meng Xiaoshuai gradually saw that the girl was wearing a dark blue wide-sleeved gown, black wide-legged pants, and a pair of red embroidered shoes were faintly revealed.

Most of the spectators gathered around the prison cart were poor people, their shirtless trousers pulled up, their muscles bruised and their emotions were excited, and some of them were hoarse. The women were wearing coarse cloth clothes, cursing and crying, and Meng Xiaoshuai also saw a sharp-faced woman put her hand into the wooden cage and pinched the thigh of the woman named Mumu.

There were too many people, Meng Xiaoshuai couldn't hear what they were shouting, only heard some intermittent words-

"Sassy woman! ……”

"A thousand cuts!"

"Get out of the pan! ……”

"A life is worth a life! ……”

"Sell ×! ……”

When the prisoner cart walked past Meng Xiaoshuai, her eyes passed through the unkempt hair of the woman in the prisoner cart, and when she glanced at her face, Meng Xiaoshuai's head "boomed" and became big - isn't that slurry!

The other party didn't see Meng Xiaoshuai. At this time, in her eyes, there were only countless angry faces, each one blurred and distorted.

Meng Xiaoshuai was stunned, and the prisoner car had already rolled over with a "squeak".

The crowd also walked over.

Meng Xiaoshuai panicked.

She asked the old woman, "What are they going to do with this wood?" ”

The old woman said: After swimming in the street, they will perform a godly ceremony, then tie a stone to her and fall into the river.

Meng Xiaoshuai chased after the prisoner car, urgently thinking about what to do.

The procession passed by the entrance of the police station, and it seemed that the police station could not handle these things. So what to do?

She followed the prisoner van from afar through the streets, and the number of onlookers did not decrease, but increased. No one paid attention to her, only the hapless woman in the prison car.

Finally, the prisoner van slowly walked along a remote street and slowly walked out of town.

Meng Xiaoshuai heard some children shouting: "Let's start!" Murder! ”

Meng Xiaoshuai stopped little by little, she really didn't want to see a big living person drowned in the river.

She began to wonder, is this woman a pulp?

Perhaps, when she left the lake, she did not go to the humanoids, but went to the Sun Tomb, got into the passage engraved with "stuffy", and came to Jingzhen......

However, she could not have met a bandit and married him in such a short period of time!

Meng Xiaoshuai was thinking wildly, when suddenly there was a chaotic sound of horses' hooves and strange shouts in the distance. Then, there was another gunshot, like one of those big firecrackers exploding, and the voice was dull: "Tom! - "Tom tom! ——”

She looked ahead, and the crowd of people scattered in all directions, screaming and fleeing. One or two people fell, and they were immediately trampled under the feet of the crowd.

She saw dozens of people rushing from the dirt road on fast horses, and the loess covered the sky and the sun. There is no doubt that those people are bandits in the mountains. The crowd quickly vanished, leaving only a few corpses.

Meng Xiaoshuai hurriedly hid behind the stone lion of a nearby family and secretly observed.

The group of bandits rushed to the prisoner cart, and several people jumped off their horses, brandished large knives, and smashed the prisoner cart in a few strokes. The woman, Mu Mu, lay limply on the cart and seemed to faint. A man took her by the hand, put her on the horse's back, and stepped on, and the horse chirped and raised its hooves high.

Dozens of bandits did not leave the same way, they rushed into the town.

Meng Xiaoshuai hurriedly pushed the door panel of the house next to him and latched it to death.

In the blink of an eye, the bandits had rushed over.

Meng Xiaoshuai sat tremblingly next to the stone lion, not daring to move.

The group of bandits ran past Meng Xiaoshuai, and occasionally someone fired a shot into the sky, and the sound of the gun was deafening.

After a few minutes, the sound of their horses' hooves finally got farther and farther away.

Meng Xiaoshuai was still sitting, his whole body weak.

When the surroundings were quiet, after a long time, the door panel next to her "squeaked", she looked back, the door panel was opened a crack, revealing the bare head of a thin man, he looked around, muttered: "He was the first ......" and then retracted.

Meng Xiaoshuai finally stood up and walked forward in despair.

It seems that poor Mumu was rescued by her man. Meng Xiaoshuai breathed a sigh of relief. That's when she realized that her bun had been lost somewhere.

She wanted to buy another drawer for Wu Min, so she walked to the main street.

Walking out of this remote street, she saw the inspector running over from a distance with a few black-clad policemen, followed by a few people wearing knots and carrying spears, which should be members of the security team. The bandits were long gone.

It was four or five o'clock in the afternoon, probably the bandits had just arrived, and there were almost no people on the streets, and it was quiet. The doors of the shops on both sides were tightly closed.

Meng Xiaoshuai walked out of the road, suddenly stopped, and looked back to see that the little boy selling cigarettes was following him.

When he saw Meng Xiaoshuai stop, he also stopped.

Meng Xiaoshuai asked, "Is there something wrong with you?" ”

The little boy didn't speak.

Meng Xiaoshuai walked towards him, and he ran away and got into a nearby alley.

Meng Xiaoshuai continued to walk, and finally, she saw a stall selling steamed buns, next to which two luhua hens were foraging. Meng Xiaoshuai walked over, spent five cents, bought another drawer of buns, asked the stall owner to fill it for her, carried it in her hand, and was about to leave, when she saw the little boy selling cigarettes again, this time, he stood far away and looked at Meng Xiaoshuai curiously.

Meng Xiaoshuai no longer paid attention to him, she looked around, discerning the direction back to the cave.

You should walk back out of town.

She walked back.

When the little boy saw her coming, he ran away again.

It's so cute.

Just as Meng Xiaoshuai was about to walk out of the town, there was a chaotic sound of running from behind.

She looked back, and the inspector came running with two policemen, about a few dozen meters away from her, and the inspector raised a very heavy pistol, the barrel of which was thick and long, and he shouted: "Don't move! ”

Meng Xiaoshuai said: "What are you doing! ”

The Inspector then shouted, "Raise your hands obediently!" ”

Two other policemen also raised their spears and pointed them at her. Didn't see the young policeman.

Meng Xiaoshuai had no choice but to throw down the bun and raise his two hands.

One of the policemen took a bundle of rope from his waist and approached her very carefully.

Meng Xiaoshuai said: "What did I do! ”

The policeman didn't speak, came over and tied her up, and then said in a low voice: "Less nonsense!" Walk! ”

A policeman led her like an animal, with the Inspector and another following behind.

Meng Xiaoshuai followed them and returned to the police station in a daze.

Three policemen escorted her around, and in the end, she was put in a big prison!

After the inspector locked the cell door, he quietly looked at Meng Xiaoshuai and said, "I know who you are." ”

Meng Xiaoshuai said: "Do you know who I am? ”

The Inspector waved his hand, and the little boy selling cigarettes ran out and stood next to the Inspector.

The inspector said, "He has seen you." ”

Meng Xiaoshuai said: "I've seen him too!" What's wrong? ”

The inspector said, "He saw you when you led people down the mountain to rob." ”

Meng Xiaoshuai's eyes widened: "I robbed?" ”

The inspector said, "You are a scarf." ”