Chapter 141: Gone and Returned
"Don't make a move, if you alarm Lu Xiaoxiao, you will be in trouble." Qu Xiaobai didn't know how many shadow guards were following her, but every time she spoke, it didn't seem to be a person.
The carriage walked towards the sedan chair procession, getting closer and closer, Qu Xiaobai saw a fork in the road next to the road, and ordered: "Turn on the side road and avoid them." ”
As soon as the old man raised his whip, the carriage turned to the path, who knew that the trail was unpedestrian all the year round, there was a deep pit on the road, as soon as the carriage got on the path, it turned over, not only the old man fell off the car, Qu Xiaobai also threw out of the carriage and fell into the deep ditch on the side of the road.
The old man got up and shouted in fright: "Little lady, little lady, are you okay?" Where are you? ”
The deep ditch where Qu Xiaobai fell was full of lush grass plants, her petite body was covered tightly, and she had checked herself, but she was only injured by a little friction, and her bones were fine, so she whispered: "Old man, don't be public, just treat me as if there is no me." I can't see Fang Weiwu. ”
The old man didn't know what was going on, but there were twenty taels of silver and prison beckoning in front of him, so he naturally wanted to choose twenty taels of silver.
Fang Weiwu's palanquin procession soon arrived at the scene, and the attendant reported to him: "My lord, there is a carriage on the side road that has overturned. ”
"Just overturned the carriage and kept walking."
"Yes, sir."
Lu Xiaoxiao in the small sedan chair behind was opening a little gap, looking at the scenery outside the city, and just saw the overturned carriage on the side of the road, and the old man still lying in the grass, Lu Xiaoxiao didn't care, and put down the curtain.
The group walked forward more than ten steps, and the old man saw that they had walked out for a distance, so he hurriedly came to the edge of the ditch and asked, "Little lady, little lady, are you okay?" Come on, they're gone. ”
Qu Xiaobai was just about to climb up, but the old man saw that the sedan chair team stopped again, and Lu Xiaoxiao in the red sedan chair walked down, and the old man hurriedly said: "Little lady, they stopped again, and a woman came this way." ”
"It's over, it's Lu Xiaoxiao. Don't let her find me. If you find me, your money will be useless. ”
While speaking, Lu Xiaoxiao had already stepped closer, "Hey, what are you doing?" ”
"Girl, girl help me, I sent guests outside the city, but when I came back, the car overturned, and the girl helped me."
The old man looked pitiful, Qu Xiaobai listened at the bottom of the ditch, and looked at the sky above the grass speechlessly. This old man is so good at acting, even better than her professional!
Lu Xiaoxiao looked at the old man again and again, and there was a cool air in his beautiful big eyes, which made the old man excited, and he didn't dare to say anything more.
Lu Xiaoxiao glanced coldly, "If you can still move, you can get up and go back by yourself." ”
As soon as she turned around, she got on the road again, and the attendants accompanied her to the sedan chair and went forward.
This time, the old man waited until they walked without a shadow before greeting Qu Xiaobai: "This time it's really gone, come up quickly." ”
Qu Xiaobai struggled to get up, after all, there were some abrasions on her body, the ditch was deep, she climbed several times, but she couldn't climb up, the old man said: "Little lady, you wait, I'll go find a branch to pull you up." ”
The old man looked around, saw a crooked-necked tree not far away, limped over, and with great effort, he broke a branch down, returned to the ditch, and stretched the branch down, "How is it, little lady, have you caught it?" ”
Qu Xiaobai crawled towards the branches, gripped the branches with great effort, and shouted weakly: "Catch it." ”
The old man struggled to pull up, she used her strength to climb up, and finally climbed up, and both of them were so tired that they collapsed.
Qu Xiaobai took a few breaths and said, "I don't know who your surname is, if you want to go to the capital with me in the future, I can't always call you an old man, right?" ”
"My surname is Hu, just call me Hu. Anyway, little lady, I'm not yet forty, it's okay for you to call me uncle, isn't it too old to call me an old man? ”
"I'll you, you look like an old man. Alas, time is a knife to kill pigs. He sighed and said, "My husband's surname is Yang, and you can call me Mrs. Yang in the future." ”
"Madame Yang." Lao Hu got up from the ground, patted the mud and grass on his body, and prepared to clean up the carriage and horses.
Lao Hu knelt on the ground and cried a handful of snot and tears, "Oh, how is this good!" The car is gone, the only guy in the family who eats is gone, how can he live in the future! ”
Qu Xiaobai sat up slowly, looked at the car, it was already scattered, sighed, impatient: "Don't cry, okay?" Can I compensate you for the car? ”
"Okay." The crying stopped abruptly, afraid that Qu Xiaobai would change his hexagram, and immediately responded.
Qu Xiaobai couldn't cry or laugh, "I've saved the essence of the play." Yes, let's get acquainted, help people to the end, I will compensate you for the car, and I will pay for the money, as long as you are, don't go the wrong way again. That, Lao Hu, if you are not seriously injured, put the big board on the car flat and help me to sit, the injury on my body is just right, and there will be another one. Alas, after eight lifetimes of blood mold, it has not been good in this world. ”
Old Hu Yiyan went to move out the board of the car base, put it on the flat ground, and came over to help Qu Xiaobai.
Qu Xiaobai borrowed his arm, staggered and stood up, walked to the plank, sat down, patted the soil on his body, looked at Lao Hu, and said sincerely: "Thank you just now, help me hide it." ”
"I didn't ...... It's nothing, I'm not just trying to earn something to eat. By the way, did you commit something? Why are you so afraid of that Lord Fang? Who is the woman who followed Lord Fang? ”
Qu Xiaobai glanced at him: "Are you afraid that all of his people are criminals?" Do you think that all the people who are afraid of him are because of your crimes? ”
"No, it's not."
Lao Hu lowered his head in shame. Think about it, who in Dongshu County is not afraid of the might of others?
After a while, Lao Hu raised his head again: "Mrs. Yang, this ...... How are we going back? It's still a few miles from the city gate, can you go? ”
Qu Xiaobai looked at the sky, the sun had moved slightly westward, it was past noon, and he didn't know when Yang Chun would come back, he estimated his injuries, and it was not impossible to walk back. The most important thing is that Fang Weiwu and Lu Xiaoxiao are out of the city, and they don't know when they will return to the city, and if they bump into each other again, it's hard to say.
After thinking about it, he said, "Let's wait here." My companion will return to the city in the evening, passing by here, and let him give us a ride. ”
"Oh." Lao Hu has no opinion.
Qu Xiaobai rested for a while, and her body was less painful, so she walked to the ruins and found her package.
After thinking about it, he still felt that it was inappropriate, so he took out a piece of silver from it and threw it to Lao Hu, "You are stronger than me now, go back to the city and rent another carriage." Let's go back to the city first. ”
Lao Hu took the silver, it was ten taels of silver for an ingot, he had never seen so much silver, his eyes were shining, Qu Xiaobai glanced at him, half threatening and half serious: "If you hit the idea of this silver, this silver is only ten taels, and even your family will not have enough food for a year." Follow me, you can have food to eat every year, how cost-effective, you can decide for yourself. Of course, if you still want to rob me now, I don't have the ability to resist, but my husband, I will find you all over the world, kill your whole family and avenge me. ”
"No, don't dare, Mrs. Yang, the old man will go."
Hu Laohan held the silver, his legs were not lame, and his body walked towards the road vigorously. Qu Xiaobai instructed: "Hurry up, I feel pain." ”
"Yes, Mrs. Yang, don't worry."
"You're a dramatist. In the future, I will call you Hu Xi actuarial. Qu Xiaobai stared at his distant back and couldn't help but laugh.
Honest people are good people, she is willing to hire honest people, but she also needs shrewd people, make the best use of their talents, and use them in their own suitable positions.
She got up, searched for another piece of felt cloth from the car, went back to the plank, lay down, covered herself with the felt cloth, and lay down in the sun.
About half an hour, I heard the sound of horses' hooves, Qu Xiaobai sat up, looked in the direction of the city gate, only to see a carriage galloping, when the carriage was near, you could vaguely see that the person on the car was the opera spirit Lao Hu, Qu Xiaobai got up and walked on the road.
Lao Hu arrived soon, stopped in front of her, jumped out of the car, and said, "Mrs. Yang, the carriage has been rented back, and the silver is used as a deposit, and I can't come back until I return the car." ”
"Hu Xijing, you are quite popular, you can lend the car for ten taels of silver, shouldn't it be strong again?" Qu Xiaobai stared at him.
"This ...... How dare this? The car was my neighbor's car. ”
"Hmm. Let's go, go back to the city. ”
Lao Hu took off the footstool from the car, helped Qu Xiaobai to get into the car, turned the head of the car, and went to lead his horse again, and slowly drove towards the city.
"Let's go to the Autumn Moon Inn in the city." Qu Xiaobai commanded.
The carriage drove smoothly all the way, and soon arrived at the Qiuyue Inn where she used to live, as soon as Qu Xiaobai entered the inn, the shopkeeper greeted her, "This lady, you left the store money, and the little one thought you were gone." ”
"I still have some things, I need to wait for someone here, let's still open my room, I'll give you a day's room fee."
"No, no, you can use it."
Qu Xiaobai glanced at him and laughed: "I'm not Fang Weiwu, you don't have to be afraid, I can still afford this store money." ”
As he spoke, he walked upstairs, and Lao Hu followed her upstairs from behind.
After entering the house, Qu Xiaobai said: "You go and return the car first, come back and still come here to find me, let's go buy a new carriage together." ”
"Ah, yes, Mrs. Yang." Lao Hu said "whoosh", went out of the room, and closed the door for her.
The shopkeeper brought hot water with great discernment, "Madam, you have got so much dust on your body, wash it quickly." ”
Qu Xiaobai thanked the shopkeeper, waited for the shopkeeper to go out, took off the dirty clothes on her body, hurriedly took a hot bath, and after soaking, she checked her body again, only slight abrasions and some bruises, the pain was painful, but it was not too serious, she took out the medicine powder left by Yang Ling, put on the medicine, put on her clothes, and sat in front of the dressing mirror.