Zhang's appearance, coupled with the toss just now, this business can't be done today.

Xu Lan took the stall, let Zhang sit on the ox cart, and spent ten copper plates to ask someone to pull the ox cart all the way back to the village.

And when Xu Hui saw that the situation was wrong, she had already slipped away in the crowd.

"Mother, bear with me, we'll be home soon." Xu Lan was anxious.

Just now, she used ordinary medicine for Zhang's injury, which could only stop the bleeding and relieve some pain. There are many people outside, and there are only two of them, if they take out the best wound medicine, I am afraid that they will be targeted by people with a heart.

When they arrived in the village, the porter who pulled the cart helped pull the ox cart into the courtyard of the Xu family.

Xu Lan slowly moved into the house with Zhang's arms.

She first asked Zhang to lean on the bed, then went to fetch a basin of hot water, and carefully took off Zhang's shoes and socks. At this glance, in addition to the knee and elbow, Zhang's left ankle was also swollen.

"Mother, I'll help you scrub the side of the wound first." Xu Lan lightly helped the Zhang family clean up.

Zhang looked at her with red eyes, and felt warm in his heart.

Having such a girl is really a blessing from God.

"Lan'er, why were you taken away by those officials?" It was not easy for the Zhang family to ask outside, but now there were only the two of them in the room, so they asked.

"It was a misunderstanding." Xu Lan didn't want to worry about Zhang, so she dealt with the past vaguely, "Mother, don't you worry, don't you think I'm doing well now?" If I had really done anything bad, the yamen would not have released me so quickly. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Lan suddenly remembered again.

How the hell did her mother know about this?

"Mother, who told you?"

"It's your cousin." Zhang told Xu Lan what Xu Hui said, "At that time, as soon as I heard that you were going to be beheaded, I felt so uncomfortable in my heart as if I had been cut by a knife, and in a hurry, I bumped into the aunt's stall." ”

Xu Hui!

It turned out that Xu Hui made a ghost in this matter!

Xu Lan frowned tightly.

She was just taken away by the officials for interrogation, and she was not even convicted. This Xu Hui ran to Zhang's to cheer and add vinegar, insisting that she had killed someone, and shouting nonsense that she was "going to be beheaded".

If Xu Hui didn't mean it, Xu Lan didn't believe it at all!

"Mother, don't believe Xu Hui's words easily in the future." Xu Lan felt that she had to talk to her mother and said, "She and I don't deal with each other, I'm obviously fine, she deliberately talked nonsense in front of you, this is uneasy and kind." ”

Zhang's flurry was stunned, and after thinking about it, he also came back to the taste.

She slapped her head, shook her head and sighed: "I also watched this child grow up, but I didn't expect her to dare to lie to her elders." ”

After applying the medicine to Zhang's again, Xu Lan stayed by Zhang's side until she felt better before leaving.

The more she thought about what Xu Hui had done today, the more angry she became.

Xu Lan went out of her house to find Xu Hui.

As soon as she went out, Xu Lan noticed that something was wrong. She turned around and found that the big wooden bucket that had been placed on the ox cart to hold the silver pill water was gone!

In the past, when she returned home from the stall, the barrel would be carried into the house by her.

Today, she was busy supporting Zhang, and for a while she forgot about it, so she put the barrel on the ox cart.

Xu Lan knew that it would not be taken by the porter, the barrel was heavy, and even if it was sold, it would not be worth much. The porter was just running errands in the county town, so there was no need to ruin his reputation for a barrel.

Who took it?

Xu Lan looked at the ox cart and suddenly her eyes lit up.

It had been drizzling this morning, and the ground outside hadn't completely dried.

A trail of footprints was left beside the ox cart, stretching in the direction of the river. The footprints were of a woman's, one foot deep and one foot shallow, obviously carrying something heavy in her hand.

Xu Lan had a plan in her heart, found a branch from the side of the road, held it in her hand, and chased it all the way in the direction of the footprints.

After walking for a while, she saw a figure in the distance.

That person is Xu Hui!

I saw Xu Hui struggling to carry the big wooden barrel and moving towards the river. Seeing her like that, she wanted to throw the barrel into the river!

The river is so fast that if the barrels are dropped, they will surely drift with the river all the way to the villages downstream. If someone picks it up, Xu Lan won't come back.

"Xu Hui! What are you doing thief! Xu Lan quickened her pace, rushed behind Xu Hui, and shouted violently.

Xu Hui was startled, the barrel fell to the ground, but she almost fell on her heels.

"How dare you steal from my house!" Xu Lan was really angry when she saw her, and raised the branch in her hand and hit Xu Hui's leg, "Thief! ”

"You dare to hit me?" Xu Hui is a few years older than Xu Lan, and she eats much better than Xu Lan on weekdays.

She jumped up from the ground suddenly, grabbed Xu Lan's wrist, and was about to kick Xu Lan.

"The thief also beats people, you long-tongued woman is really annoying." Xu Lan was not willing to suffer, and immediately took a few steps back, dodging her hand.

Xu Hui crossed her waist and pointed at Xu Lan's nose and scolded, "Who is the long-tongued woman?" If you stinky girl say another word, I'll tear your mouth apart today. ”

"Are you talking nonsense in front of my mother today?" Xu Lan asked directly, "You are not very old, why are you so bad-hearted?" You and I are relatives in the end, how dare you curse me to be beheaded in front of my mother! ”

Xu Hui's eyes rolled, this matter was her fault, she thought that she would not be discovered by Xu Lan, but she didn't expect Zhang to say it.

"Next time you dare to say something that you don't have, and you're angry with my mother, don't blame me for being unkind to you." Xu Lan's voice cooled down, "Telling right and wrong, I also hurt my mother, and now I even stole my family's wooden barrel!" If you let the people in the village know what kind of virtue you are, you are afraid that you will not be able to marry at home. ”

Can't get married?

These words hit Xu Hui's death hole.

She has always been interested in Chen Ruoran, but Chen Ruoran was entangled with Xu Lan, a little girl, so that Xu Hui secretly didn't know how many holes she had bitten in the coarse cloth cloth.

Now hearing Xu Hui's words, it aroused Xu Hui's anger again.

"It's better to not get married than to hook up!" Xu Hui said in a weird manner, "Who doesn't know that you, under the pretext of selling medicine to cure diseases, hooked up with men outside!" ”

"You were obviously taken away by the officials, how could you be released so quickly?"

"Maybe even if you trade your own body! You still dare to say that I can't get married, I think you are a shameless broken shoe, and in the future, you can only marry an old man as a little wife, and you are beaten every day like your useless mother and dare not speak! ”