Chapter 1: Framing
Little Peach turned ten years old today, and she wrapped up her loose cotton clothes tightly and stamped her feet, most of her large cotton shoes full of patches were stained by the wet mud in the pit.
"It's so cold!" She rubbed her hands that were red from the cold, today is the Laba Festival, and the shopkeeper Lin of the cloth workshop is going to hold a banquet today to invite the long-term workers to eat wine, and the pig will definitely be slaughtered at that time.
She was going to pick up the pig in the water and make a delicious meal, she hadn't touched the oily fish for a long time, so she got up on the fifth watch today.
Little Peach has no parents, it was picked up by the begging Uncle Li, and the two have been dependent on each other for nine years, but the grandfather died before he survived last year's Laba.
Little Peach plans to bring the two pieces of steamed buns she begged yesterday to worship her grandfather, she has never seen her relatives, and in her heart her grandfather is her only relative.
The wind was blowing stronger and the snow was about to fall, so Little Peach couldn't help but speed up.
It was already dawn, and there were more and more pedestrians on the street, so she hurried across the street to the alley.
"Yo! Little monkey, where are you going in a hurry on a cold day? ”
Little Peach looked at it and it turned out to be a black tiger! Black Tiger is a well-known scoundrel in the beggar circle nearby, named Black Tiger but with a sharp beak and monkey gills, he does some things like chickens and dogs all day long.
I heard that he went into Li Dazhuang's house in West Hutong a few days ago and peeked at his daughter-in-law taking a bath and was beaten half to death, but I didn't expect him to come back to life so quickly, and it was really Xiaoqiang who couldn't be beaten.
"It turned out to be Big Brother Black Tiger! I'm going to pick up some straw and come back and lay it out at night!"
Little Peach complained in her heart that she didn't dare to say that, who knows if this guy will touch her own house and serve her house, although she only has a quilt full of patches and some tattered furniture, but that is all her net worth.
"Oh? I was picking up straw! Do you think that little monkey wants to come and steal business with my brother and me? ”
Bah! Also brother!
"How so!"
Little Peach ignored him anymore, walked quickly through the alley with her head down, turned a corner, and looked back, there was no one! She climbed up the low wall with her hands and feet, and climbed over.
After walking for about a quarter of an hour, I came to the back kitchen of Shopkeeper Lin's house, and several servant women were busy before and after, and there were several large frames under the eaves.
Taking advantage of their inattention, Little Peach quietly touched over and rummaged through the swill bucket under the eaves, and there were actually a few crumpled steamed buns and a lump of fat intestines stained with rotten vegetable leaves.
She quickly took off the cloth bag on her body, stuffed the steamed buns into the cloth bag, and scooped up the fat intestines and strung them with rope.
"Hey! Little beggar, what are you doing?"
Little Peach was startled, and when he turned his head, he saw a little chubby dun looking at himself with his waist crossed, and Little Peach saw that he was dressed luxuriously, and he still wore this longevity lock around his neck, and he looked like a commanding man, it was estimated that he was the little young master of the Lin family.
"I'll pick up something to eat, I'll ......"
"Go, go, go! Where did the little beggar come from, how did he get here?"
A servant woman came up and shouted. He turned his head to the little fat dun and said flatteringly: "The little master is here like this, if the kitchen is messy, if you stain your clothes, can you be so good?" If you ...... "don't leave now, wait for when."
"Oops! She ran away, you go and catch her, dare to steal to Young Master Ben's house!" ”
This fat mound! She's just picking up trash, okay! Little Peach scolded in her heart, but she slipped fast under her feet, and when she reached the corner, she didn't notice it for a while, and fell to the ground after hitting two soft and unknown objects.
"Oops! Are you a little ghost going to reincarnate in a hurry? The servant woman she hit clutched her chest and screamed.
Little Peach got up with his hands and feet, apologized vigorously in his mouth, hugged the cloth bag in his arms tightly, and hurried away regardless of the pain in his buttocks.
The sky was getting darker and darker, and a small hand suddenly stretched out from the low wall, and then a small figure jumped out one by one.
Ignoring the surprised eyes of passers-by, he ran all the way to the alley, leaned against the wall and panted, touched his little buttocks, fortunately he didn't break it, and quickly opened the cloth bag, and was relieved to see that her rations were safe and sound.
However, at this time, a sudden change occurred! A heavy money bag smashed on his cloth bag, startling the little peach, looking up, a figure jumped off the wall, and quickly disappeared into the alley, the little peach opened the satin bag and was almost dazzled by the silver flash of white flowers.
"Catch the thief, quick! Hurry up and catch her! ”
There was the sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping from behind, and she had a bad feeling, and she didn't care about throwing one of the bullshit bags and ran away.
She turned around and saw a group of people with sticks in their hands, staring at her viciously, it was the person who was the shopkeeper of Lin.
Oh, my God! She was definitely framed, what a disaster fell from the sky! That thief! It must have been the thief who stole something and happened to touch her and blamed her, how could she be so unlucky.
Little Peach yells as she runs, "I'm not a thief, I didn't steal, you got the wrong person!" ”
However, after all, the little peach is only ten years old, and she has been malnourished for a long time, and she looks like bean sprouts.
"It's her, she was sneaking around at the back door just now, she must have stolen it." An aunt said.
"Yes, yes! She ran away in a hurry and hit me," said another lady.
It's really more wronged than Dou E! Seeing that the two sides were getting closer and closer, "what to do, what should she do" She couldn't help but gasp for breath, and the cold north wind poured into her chest and stirred a faint pain in her chest. The snowflakes fell on her body, I don't know how long she ran, she was getting more and more tired, only her feet were running numbly, and she couldn't go on like this! She must not be caught, there is only one way! Turn a corner and run straight towards the lake.
The winter lake had already lost its vitality, and the turquoise surface of the lake was only sparsely drooping with a few dry lotus leaf stems, she glanced back at the families who were close at hand, took a deep breath, and jumped into the lake with a plop.
When the family caught up, they saw the water splashing high, and the person disappeared.
"Fuck! She ran away! A fat guy smacked hard
"It's really looking for death, and it's still lifeable to jump in this weather?" Another thin man said, and then several ladies chased after him,
"What about people?"
"Diving into the water!" Thin family Ding Dao
"Then why don't you go down and look for it?" Before the thin family could speak, Ge Chun in the kitchen stopped doing it, pinched his waist and pointed at Aunt Liu and said:
"I said, Aunt Liu, why don't you let these people go down? My family is as tired as a dog when he is busy in Buzhuang, hum! It's time for me to say, you should let your Li Dong go down with fat in his belly like this! As he spoke, he also scratched Aunt Liu fiercely.
"I don't like to hear you say this, didn't we work hard for the Lin Mansion? According to me, it must be your mother-in-law who is sour and mean, and keeps all the delicious food for herself to make your man thin like this, otherwise you are as fat as a pig? Seeing that the more he spoke, the more unpleasant it became, a middle-sized family member hurriedly came out to be a peacemaker.
"Okay, okay, the two sisters-in-law don't quarrel, let's think about what to do now, right? Do you think that girl will die?"
"This ....." each glanced at each other, how bad it would be if this New Year's Day caused a lot of trouble!
"Why don't we go to the police first, and we won't be blamed for what happened at that time!"
"Yes, yes! I'll go now, and you'll be here to watch!" ”