Chapter 19: Seeking
The carriage kept moving aimlessly, and Emperor Wuding suddenly felt a little thirsty, and there was a family on the side of the road, he motioned to the coachman to stop the carriage, and Xiao Gezi jumped out of the carriage and came to the family on the side of the road to ask for a drink.
He walked to the gate, his face pale with fright, and he stumbled back.
"Little Ge! What happened to you? Emperor Wuding asked.
"I ...... I see ghosts! The little lattice looked frightened.
"Nonsense! What the hell is broad daylight? Emperor Wuding rebuked angrily, "Let you be scared like this!" Emperor Wuding got out of the carriage, he walked in, and as soon as he walked to the door, he was also stunned, isn't this the man who knelt on the side of the road just now and begged for a harvest slave? Look at him and a woman next to him are talking to me and me, and I am serving her vegetables! I thought she would go back to deal with his wife's aftermath after she got Bei.
When the man raised his eyes, he found a person standing at the door, and when he looked closely, wasn't this the person who had just given him alms? His chewing mouth immediately stopped, and he stood up, knowing that he was exposed, and lowered his head a little embarrassed. The woman asked Emperor Wuding, "May I ask who you are?" Are you here to see my husband? Then her eyes looked at the man sitting next to her. Emperor Wuding was a little angry and didn't answer her, "Husband, do you know each other?" The woman asked the man again, but the man still kept his head down and did not make a sound, and Wu Ding did not say a word, turned around and left.
"Coachman, hurry!" Emperor Wuding jumped into the carriage and said.
"What's wrong with you, King? said that he was going to beg for saliva to drink, why was he so angry? The woman asked curiously.
"Don't mention it! As you said, I've run into a liar. It turned out that the wife of the man who was kneeling on the side of the road just now was not dead, but was sitting with the man eating, talking and laughing! ”
"Look, I said it earlier! There are many scammers outside the palace, so you don't trust others. The woman said, and Qiu Yue sat on the side and laughed.
"What are you laughing at?" The woman asked.
"I didn't laugh at anything, I just felt that the king, who had always been resourceful, had been deceived, which was a bit incredible." Qiu Yue replied, and Emperor Wuding was a little embarrassed when he heard this.
The carriage continued to move forward, not long after the journey, the sky suddenly changed, it rained heavily, the road became muddy, seeing that the rain did not become smaller, Emperor Wuding saw that there was a thatched house not far away, so he wanted to go in and borrow a foothold, and wait for the rain to stop before setting off. Little Grid said that the thatched house looked dilapidated and relatively small, but continued to hurry forward in the rain, and stopped when he came across an inn. As he was talking, the carriage creaked, and it couldn't move, and it was broken when it was moving on the rainy road.
They had to get out of the car, and the woman helped Emperor Wuding to run into the thatched house to avoid the rain, and the coachman led the horse to the side eaves of the thatched house, and Qiuyue and Xiaolattice pushed hard behind the carriage and pushed it to the side of the road. The owner of the house was an elderly man, and when he saw a few young people coming in, he knew that they were here to take shelter from the rain and let them sit.
"Uncle, do you have tea here?" The woman asked, she knew that Emperor Wuding had been thirsty for some time.
"Yes." The old man replied, and hurriedly brought a pot of tea from the back room, and poured a cup for each of them.
"The weather is bad, where are you going?" The old man asked.
"We're going to an inn to stay." Emperor Wuding replied, "It's a pity that the carriage on the road suddenly broke down, and it rained so heavily in the sky. ”
"You've got the right person, I was a young man who specialized in repairing carriages. I used to work in a carriage factory. Maybe you bought this carriage from the shop where I worked. As he spoke, the old man went into the back room and the fellow, put on a raincoat, went to the broken carriage parked on the side of the road, and began to clean the mud from the wheels, find out what was wrong, and begin to repair it carefully. After a while, the carriage was repaired and restored as before, and Emperor Wuding showed a happy look and asked Xiao Gezi to give him some shells. They sat for a while, the rain gradually became lighter and lighter, and just as they got up to say goodbye, suddenly a woman in a raincoat walked in in a panic and shouted at the old man: "Second uncle! There was a hole in our sheepfold, and the sheep ran out! Emperor Wuding raised his eyes and saw that although this girl was panting, she looked delicate and light, and compared with those women in the palace, she had more pure taste, and he had seen more rouge pink in the palace, and he unconsciously had more thoughts about this simple woman.
"Really? How could such a thing happen? Is there a robber? The old man muttered and the guy to go to the sheepfold, and Emperor Wuding asked Xiao Gezi to help him go and see, the sheepfold was dozens of meters away from the place where he lived, and when they arrived, not a single sheep in the sheepfold was gone. The old man suddenly began to cry: "Oh my God! The sheep are all gone, how are we going to spend our days this year? ”
"Uncle, how many sheep do you have in total?" Little Grid asked.
"It's not much, it's only five, that's all my belongings." The old man replied.
"You see, the hole is so big, it doesn't look like it was damaged by nature, it looks like it was dug by man. There were still some grass leaves at the entrance of the cave, and it was clear that the sheep had been lured out. Second uncle, eighty percent of our sheep were taken away by robbers. The woman followed them, and after a moment of observation, she said, "When I passed by, the sheep were gone. ”
"There's only one way to do ......," said the little grid.
"What's the solution?" The old man asked.
"Report to the officer." Xiao Gezi said seriously.
"What's the use of reporting to the officer? Now the people are gone, and the sheep are gone. The old man sighed and said, then turned his head and asked the woman, "Yiyi, have you ever seen any suspicious people when you passed by here before?" Tang Yi squinted her eyes and recalled carefully, she hadn't seen any strangers passing by, she shook her head blankly, and said, "No." ”
When they returned to the thatched hut with a disappointed face, Emperor Wuding asked about the end of the matter. Xiao Gezi said that the old man's five sheep were taken away by the robbers, and it is estimated that it was last night, otherwise the robbers would not be so bold and dare to commit crimes in broad daylight, after all, there is still the government. The old man sat there with a sad face, nodded and said, "That's right, maybe it was last night, there are not many green vegetable leaves hoarded at home, oops, I was busy today and forgot about it, and I haven't gone over to see it." ”
"Uncle, if you feed sheep like this, hungry and full, doesn't that sheep look skinny?" Qiu Yue asked.
"Well, the sheep we feed are much thinner than other people's." Yiyi told the truth.
"Tang Yi, what do you think of this, I just forget it occasionally, where is there a saying that our sheep are not as fat as other people's sheep? Your parents are gone, I raised you, and I haven't heard that you look worse than other girls. The second uncle blew his beard and glared, and when he heard Yiyi say this, he was angry, and Yiyi lowered his head.
"I can't support this girl, I have to find someone to marry her quickly." The old man looked at them and said. Emperor Wuding saw that this girl was smart and upright, so he said that he was willing to take her away, and gave the old man a piece of fine jade and shellfish, enough for him to live the rest of his life. The old man held these treasures and was grateful.
"Don't hurry up Xie Longen, he is the son of today - Emperor Wuding." Xiao Gezi said that the girl he raised had to tell him who took it away. When the old man heard this, he cried with joy and tears. Tang Yi's parents died when she was a child, and now she has a good home when she grows up, and it can be regarded as God's eyes, fate wants to repay her something, so that she can live a life of fine clothes and food from now on.