Chapter 221: The Ninth
Xiao Yu'er still has to urge his cousin to finish his homework before he can go out to play, but downstairs there is already the sound of Jiao's mother shouting black charcoal and gray ball to go home for breakfast.
Su Musha ran to the balcony along the windowsill, and after meeting with the black charcoal, he went home.
After breakfast, because Xiao Yuzi and Jiao Yuan hadn't finished their fun yesterday, Old Man Gu took them to dig earthworms again, and prepared to continue fishing for shrimp in the afternoon.
Xiao Yu'er's cousin probably has finally finished his homework and can go out to play with Xiao Yu'er. As soon as Xiao Yu'er left the house, she ran to Gu's house and asked if she could shout "gray ball" to play together.
Su Musha had no interest in digging earthworms, and wanted to follow Xiao Yu'er to see what was fun, so he ran away with Xiao Yu'er amid Xiao Yuzi's advice.
Xiao Yu'er's cousin took Xiao Yu'er around the village first, and talked about his "great achievements" in his mouth. This kid learned the little skill of making traps with Xiao Yu'er's grandfather, and he didn't have a place to play, after all, adults didn't let children like them go up to the mountains and forests alone, so this kid actually set up a lot of traps in the village.
There are some traps that people in the village have really fallen into, but this kid can only steal fun, if he tells it to the adults, he is afraid that the adults will not be beaten up.
Now that Xiao Yu'er is here, it is just a chance to show him off, and after Xiao Yu'er swears that he will never betray him, he takes Xiao Yu'er to see the traps he has set all over the village.
The two children were wandering around the village with a Su Musha, and Su Musha saw a little girl walking towards him, dressed in tatters, and when he got closer, he could see that the child had a lot of marks on his body that looked like a stick had been drawn.
Isn't this the little girl who fished for shrimp yesterday?
Seeing this girl, Xiao Yu'er's cousin twitched in the face, pulled Xiao Yu'er in the direction of a turn, and walked towards another road.
Xiao Yu'er was pulled by his cousin, and looked back at the girl who was about the same age as him curiously: "Didn't you say that the people in this village are very rich?" Why is this girl dressed so worn? Does she have a stepmother at home? ”
Xiao Yu'er's cousin pursed her lips, "What stepmother, she is not from our village, she is from the next village." His father was a gambler and wanted to have sons, so he gave birth to nine daughters. The family was so poor that his father sold his daughter when he ran out of money, and went to gamble after paying back the money! ”
Looking back at the girl's back, Xiao Yu'er's cousin told Xiao Yu'er again: "This is Lao Jiu, you will see her far away in the future, this woman is fierce to death, and even the strong son in the village can't beat her." ”
Xiao Yu'er's mind is obviously not on the matter of fighting: "Can you still sell your daughter?" Isn't this a human trafficker? Why didn't anyone call the police! ”
Xiao Yu'er's cousin shook his head: "What kind of police, people are willing to do it, he said that he couldn't afford it for others to adopt, so he took some nutrition money from others, and it sounded good, but it was not sold." But it's a family affair, and the rest of the village can't take care of it. ”
Although Xiao Yu'er's cousin is only a little older than Xiao Yu'er, he still has a head to talk about it, and he probably heard it from adults.
Xiao Yu'er opened his mouth wide, as if he heard the Arabian Nights, he had only heard of children being stolen and sold in the city, but this was the first time he had heard of being sold by his own parents.
Suddenly, Xiao Yu'er's cousin pulled Xiao Yu'er and hid in the back of a room.
Xiao Yu'er was startled, "What are you doing?" ”
His cousin quietly pointed to a group of people walking on the road, "See, it's this guy who came to buy people, and they've been here several times." The leader, I heard them call him 'the head of the snake'! ”
Xiao Yu'er secretly stretched out his head to take a closer look, and his cousin on the side was still nagging, "You will see this group of people hiding away in the future, although they don't dare to steal the children in the village, they just buy from some poor families, but you are from outside, what if they see that you have fine skin and tender meat, and have bad intentions and steal it?" ”
Su Mu listened to the side and nodded, although Xiao Yu'er's cousin usually looks unreliable, he is still full of concern for his cousin.
After walking around the village, it was almost lunch time, and the two of them went back to their respective homes for lunch.
In the afternoon, when Xiao Yu'er came over again, he heard that Jiao Yuan and Xiao Yuzi were going to go shrimp fishing, so they also went with him, and his cousin disliked that it was a child's play, so he didn't want to go, so he went to play on his own.
So, this afternoon, Old Man Gu took the three children to go shrimp fishing, and Hei Tan and Su Musha naturally followed.
After fishing shrimp with the three children for a while, the black charcoal couldn't squat anymore and was ready to run for a walk. Su Musha went with him, and in view of Su Musha's performance yesterday, Xiao Yuzi took special care of him and remembered to look at the sun and come back early!
After the black charcoal left the sight of the little grapefruit, he ran to the place where he met the little girl yesterday, Su Musha was too lazy to walk by himself, and there was inevitably some mud on the shore of the wild pond, so he simply let the black charcoal carry it.
Running over there, the little girl was not there, and Black Tan was about to leave, when he found the girl coming from a distance, carrying yesterday's broken bucket in her hand and a broken scythe on her shoulder on the other side.
Walking in, Su Musha found that the scars on the girl's body were more serious than what he had seen at a glance in the morning, and it was a little difficult to even walk.
The girl saw yesterday's black cat, and there was a mouse that looked quite fat, and her face showed a surprised and strange look, but she didn't have yesterday's killing intent and anger.
After a pause, the girl continued to walk forward to the place where she was yesterday, took out a pole and tied an earthworm to start fishing for shrimp.
Black Tan was a little strange about the girl's attitude, and didn't continue to get closer.
Su Mu didn't care about this, jumped off the back of the black charcoal, and ran to see the girl's canned food first, there were more earthworms in it, it seemed that the girl went to dig earthworms when she met her in the morning.
Then he crouched down on the pole in the middle and watched the pole move.
The girl glanced at Su Musha strangely, and found that the fat mouse was just looking at the surface of the water, and was not ready to move her pole, so she didn't care.
She had already heard last night that the black cat and the fat mouse were pets raised by the children from the Gu family's city, because these two were only in the countryside and belonged to the "can't be raised and won't be raised" things, so some big-mouthed aunts also gossiped, saying that the likes of people in the city are really strange and so on.
Black Tan squatted on the spot and looked at the third pole, the pole moved a little, he looked around, bent his paws to scoop up a small clod of dirt, and threw it at the girl.
The girl was still thinking about the "old rats that the city people have fed up", when she noticed a little movement, and turned her head to see the strange black cat looking towards the third pole, and she got up and walked that way.
When he passed the second pole, the fat mouse did not turn his head and still looked intently at the water, but the black cat took a few steps back.
Looking at the pole for a few seconds, lifting a small shrimp, and putting down the pole again, the little girl looked at the black cat with a complicated expression.
"Click", and there was another sound on the side.
As soon as the little girl turned her head, the fat mouse stretched out a paw and pointed at the pole in front of him.
Walking over, there was also a shrimp approaching the earthworm hanging under the pole, and after waiting for a few seconds, the shrimp caught the earthworm, and the little girl lifted the pole and lifted a shrimp.
Throwing the shrimp into the broken bucket and putting the pole back in place, the little girl walked back to her pole with a somewhat complicated face, and looked intently at the pole in front of her.
It's a bit strange that the people in the city raise things, and these two are just helping themselves catch shrimp?