"Staying doesn't mean dying." Du Baozhu said lightly: "What's more, I'm here to buy tea trees, how can I go home empty-handed?" ”

"You ......" at this time, still thinking about business, is it stupid or bold? The little girl was confused by the confidence in Du Baozhu's eyes, her little mouth opened and closed, and she didn't know what to say for a long time.

After a while, she learned from Du Baozhu's appearance, sat down in the shed, and asked angrily: "Since you know everything, what are you still waiting for me to do here?" ”

The appearance of this little girl here shows that she is a good person who knows how to repay her kindness. Du Baozhu teased, pretended to be a philistine, and said: "Since you have eaten my eggplant cake, you should repay the favor." I'm here, of course, waiting for you to find a way to save me. ”

The little girl looked 'sure enough,' but instead of getting angry, she lowered her eyelashes and thought for a moment.

When he looked up again, there was only a firm glint in his clear eyes: "I can help you, but you have to promise me one thing!" ”

Du Baozhu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "How can you help me?" ”

The little girl's white teeth left a deep mark on her lower lip, and after a while she said, "I can pretend to be you and stay in the house as a hostage." They want money, and as long as you leave the empty boxes and pretend to be, you can find an excuse to leave the village. ”

"What about you? How do you get out after we're gone? ”

"It's nothing, it's just a big deal to be killed." The little girl's face was gloomy: "I don't want to live for a long time, if it weren't for Ah Chang......"

She swallowed the second half of the words back into her stomach, turned the tip of her tongue, and said, "I'll help you leave, you have to take Ah Chang away, the farther away the better!" ”

Ah Chang should be the gray child he saw before.

Lu Ming said that Ah Chang's sister and brother live in a nice mud brick house. The place to live is good, but the face is yellow and thin, needless to say, I also know that there are some hidden secrets.

Du Baozhu guessed that the little girl might come to try for help, but she didn't expect that she actually wanted to exchange her life for her younger brother for a way out.

I didn't want to think about it, so I refused: "Your brother is so young, even if I take him out of here, how can he live alone?" If I were a bad guy and I took the opportunity to sell him to work in the mines or at sea as a coolie, you would have become a ghost by then, and you would still be able to seek revenge on me? ”

The little girl was dark and thin, but she was very tall. When talking to Du Baozhu, his back was straight, and he looked very resolute: "You are not that kind of person. ”

"Wrong, I am." Du Baozhu hooked his lips and smiled, and his originally immature and clean little face suddenly had a touch of evil spirit: "I said before that I am not a good person." Your brother is so young, he can't survive alone anyway, so you might as well let me exchange it for a few broken silver flowers. ”

The little girl had never seen such a shameless person, and it was rare to show a helpless look: "Why are you ......?"

Du Baozhu's face turned cold, and he said indifferently: "Don't pin your hopes on others, especially those you just met." ”

This is the experience she has accumulated over the years. At all times, you must leave yourself a way out, and you must never give your back to others.

Even if she knew the trend of history, she didn't think about being a good person who helped the world in the past, and she pursued such a principle.

The light in the little girl's eyes dimmed little by little, and she bit her lip and turned to leave.

Du Baozhu slowly poured out two pieces of broken silver, held them in the palm of his hand, and said, "Since you want to take your brother away, how can you do it without silver?" As long as you answer me honestly and answer a few questions, the money will be yours. ”

The little girl's eyes flashed, as if Du Baozhu had said something on her mind. After a slight hesitation, he turned around and sat in front of Du Baozhu: "What do you want to ask?" ”

"Do you know a guy who doesn't look tall and is a bit naïve?" Du Baozhu wanted to ask the man who sold tea seedlings before.

When A-Niang and Old Man Yang were bargaining, she looked at it coldly from the sidelines, feeling that this person didn't want to look so naïve on his face, but was very shrewd.

If it weren't for his plan to preemptively call Old Man Yang first, he was afraid that these thousand tea saplings would be secretly eaten by Old Man Yang's family. How can it be like now, where each household can get a few hundred cents?

The little girl frowned and thought carefully for a while before she said Du Baozhu to the person: "What did you ask...... It should be Yang Nianzi, right? He lived in the west end of the village, and was relatively well-off earlier, but when he fell ill, no one cared about him, so he stole the money and gambled it all...... What does he do, you ask? ”

Du Baozhu smiled and said nothing, and asked about Yang Nianzi's usual deeds. When she heard that Yang Nianzi often mixed with a few ruffians in the village, but had nothing to do with him when things happened, she knew that she had found the right person.

Seeing off the little girl Ah Xuan, Du Baozhu walked out of the pergola.

By this time the sun had sunk behind the mountains, and the heavens and the earth were dyed a warm gold. The distant mountains, the sunset, the tired birds, and the smoke of the cooking constitute a quiet picture, slowly unfolding, and even Du Baozhu couldn't help but look at it twice.

Lu Ming had already finished drinking with the two honest heads, and quietly walked over: "Little lady, these people saw that we had a lot of luggage, and they had the intention of robbing money, and they will do it tomorrow morning......"

No matter how tight the two honest heads are, where can they beat Lu Ming, who was born as a spy? After drinking a meal, although he didn't say when and how, it made Lu Ming guess about it.

After listening to Lu Ming's analysis, Du Baozhu nodded, and there was no trace of panic on his palm-sized face. Even with it, Lu Ming also calmed down: "Now there are people watching everywhere in the village, and you can't leave if you want to, what should we do?" ”

"Wait."

Du Baozhu gently spit out a word, and then took the lead to walk down the mountain.

Lu Ming's stomach was full of doubts and could not be answered, so that he scratched his ears and cheeks like a wild monkey with lice. The people who were waiting on the side were happy to see it, and their hearts were finally much more comfortable: when I asked you before, I pretended to be mysterious. In front of our little lady, isn't she just as stupid?

The more she thought about it, the happier she became, and she cocked her nose to keep up with Du Baozhu's footsteps, leaving Lu Ming alone in place.

At the foot of the mountain, Old Man Yang has already publicized the sale of tea trees. At this time, after the sun went down, everyone carried hoes and went up the mountain to dig tea trees.

Du Baozhu put on an innocent appearance of not knowing anything, and watched with great interest as the villagers dug up the tea trees by the roots and stacked them neatly on the cart. On a whim, he asked everyone to tie some straw ropes to the roots of trees and clods of dirt to prevent the dirt from scattering.

Everyone has long regarded Du Baozhu and his party as two-legged sheep, and when they saw Du Baozhu pointing fingers, their faces couldn't help showing a trace of impatience.

Du Baozhu didn't seem to see it, and still paced around to inspect.

Under her supervision, the villagers, who originally just wanted to pretend to stabilize the two-legged sheep, unknowingly gathered a thousand tea trees and piled up more than 20 board carts.

The tea trees were all sent outside the village chief's yard and lined up in long rows along the road. After the red sound was counted, Cui Shi gave the remaining silver money to Old Man Yang.

After getting the real silver, the villagers who were eager to pick up their knives and chop Du Baozhu immediately finally put away their faces and wanted to leave happily.

Du Baozhu suddenly stopped them again: "There is another small thing I want to ask you to help with." ”

"Anything else, just say it." For the sake of money, it was rare for everyone to be more patient, and looked at Du Baozhu with a smile.

If Du Baozhu hadn't known about these people's plans, he was afraid that he would treat them as a group of simple and honest villagers.

The expression on her face remained unchanged, and she said with a smile: "These tea trees are placed here like this, and it is inevitable that they will be spoiled by cats and dogs." I'd like to hire two guards to guard some of my ...... What is the salary, 100 wen a night, give it now! ”

This little girl really doesn't understand the market. There are no thieves and dogs in this village, what is there to guard? said that he was a guard, but in fact, he could get a hundred yuan for nothing after a sleep!

The villagers couldn't help but be moved and recommended themselves.

Du Baozhu pretended to be arrogant and picked out two strong men from the crowd: "It's just the two of you, these tea trees were bought at a great price, take care of them for me!" ”

Among the people she picked, there happened to be that Yang Nianzi. The others were not convinced, but they couldn't force her to pick again, but fortunately, the big money from selling the tea trees had already arrived, so they scolded and left.

Du Baozhu asked Yang Lianzi and another guard to stand at both ends of the long line of the cart, and waited until midnight before putting on a dark cloak to find Yang Lianzi.

"Little lady." That Yang Lianzi really read her intentions, and did not fall asleep like another guard, but waited for Du Baozhu in the dark.

It's far easier to deal with smart people than with fools. Seeing that he was so clever, Du Baozhu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, didn't go around in circles, and said straight to the point: "Since you are waiting for me here, you should know what I am here for." ”

Yang Nianzi smiled: "I know that I know, but I can't think of how you plan to convince me." ”

"Is this hard?" Du Baozhu sighed and said, "I came specifically to purchase tea trees this time, and I brought a total of two hundred taels of silver. I bought a hundred and fifty taels of tea tree flowers, and on the way here, I spent twenty taels, and there were thirty taels of silver left. Thirty-two points were given to a hundred or so people, and one of them received three hundred pieces of money. ”

"But if you escort me out of the village, you can get five taels of silver alone, which is more cost-effective, do you still need to think about it?"

Yang Nianzi's eyes rolled wildly, staring at Du Baozhu, as if thinking about the truth of her words.

Du Baozhu calmly let him watch. Most of what she said was true, and the reason why she was in a hurry to buy tea trees was to give the money away. Now that the majority has been divided among the villagers, the remaining money is not enough.

Even if five taels of silver are divided among five people, it is more profitable than three hundred dollars. Since Yang Lianzi is smart, it is easy to figure out which one is more advantageous.

Sure enough, Yang Nianzi laughed and took his gaze back: "I still want to live here, let you go, what should I do if I go back and Yang Lao Chai stick to trouble me?" What's more, you are moving so much, how can you escape quietly? ”