Chapter 4 Thanksgiving
Nanshui Village is near the sea, the heat is approaching, the days are very long, even if the sun sets, it is still hot and unbearable, Uncle Duan carried the cold noodles prepared with Liu Qingshao, and came to a stone bridge that the workers must pass through to get off work, as expected, the cold noodles quickly had a market, and five or six copies were sold out in about half an hour.
Liu Qingshao watched quietly in the alley, and had a small calculation in her heart.
There are still more than half a jar of flour in her kitchen, and a cold noodle sells for six wen, if it is pieced together for three days, it should be able to make up three taels of silver.
If you go to court with Aunt Lin at that time, you will also have some confidence.
With the more than 100 yuan earned from selling noodles, Liu Qingshao finally felt a little comforted in her heart, thinking that the three coffins that were stopped at home were not so afraid.
She calmly pulled out the crack in the door and burrowed into the courtyard, carelessly noticing that a pair of eyes behind her were quietly watching all this, and when she closed the door, the peeping man in black turned and disappeared into the night.
Liu Qing Peony prepared dinner for herself, and remembered that there was a little beggar outside the door, so the ninja made a bowl of bacon fried noodles for him.
But in just a few dozen hours, she actually trusted a little beggar so much that she even took her stutter to heart, and this fate was really wonderful.
Why? Because he helped himself hold on to the ladder and saved a small life?
"Eat, eatโeh, what about people?" Liu Qingshao held the noodle bowl, looking at the empty mat under the wall in astonishment, the moon is in the sky, it is late at night, where has this child gone?
The steaming bacon fried noodles were shiny and fragrant, Liu Qingshao squatted down and put the noodle bowl on the mat, sighed and turned back, who knew that as soon as the door was closed, a black shadow "swished" out from under the eaves, Liu Qingshao's heart was tight, and she didn't even have time to call for help, so she was covered by a hand in her mouth!
"Hmm! Hmm-"
"It's me!" A slightly childish voice sounded from behind her, Liu Qingshao was stunned, in that case it sounded like a little beggar?
"Don't be afraid, it's me." Xiao Hanyin patted her on the shoulder and walked around to Liu Qingshao, revealing her muddy face in the moonlight.
Liu Qingshao breathed a long sigh of relief, and suddenly found that this thin child was quite tall, and the strength of his hand was so great, that Liu Qingshao thought that there were some strong gangsters in the family.
"What the hell are you doing there? Where did you go in the afternoon? โ
Xiao Hanyin reached into his arms and groped, and carefully handed a piece of paper to Liu Qingshao, who was surprised when he took it and looked at it, there were two big words on it.
"Where did this come from? You went to the Lin family? Liu Qingshao swept the IOU line by line, and sure enough, there were two handprints at the bottom, which were clearly written, the Liu couple borrowed three taels of silver from the Lin family, and it was clearly not three hundred taels!
Xiao Han said nonchalantly: "This is the reward, I won't eat your bowl of cold noodles for nothing." โ
"Did you really steal it? Just your little body, you-"
"I'm not a brother, put away your curiosity!" Although his face was covered with mud, Liu Qingshao could see a hint of redness from anger on Xiao Hanyin's face, his narrow eyes narrowed together, and his cold and sharp gaze did not look like a child in his early tens.
The next moment, Liu Qingshao hesitated again, "Although I do need this IOU, but-"
As soon as the words fell, a crisp beat came from outside the door.
It was an ordinary voice, Xiao Hanyin didn't know what she heard, her face changed greatly, and she couldn't help but pull up Liu Qingshao and run towards the courtyard, Liu Qingshao was extremely puzzled, she never expected Xiao Hanyin's strength to be so great, clamping her arm and not letting go, she suddenly stumbled under her feet, and actually threw herself into Xiao Hanyin's arms.
The hard bones hit her all over the place, and before she could come back to her senses, Xiao Hanyin actually carried her and climbed onto the courtyard wall, and then jumped lightly, and the two of them deftly disappeared into the night.
It was also at this moment that Aunt Lin kicked open the door of the Liu family with the official errand.
"Master Guan, you can judge for me, her Liu family deceived people too much, and said that she would mortgage the thatched hut to me, but now-" Aunt Lin prepared a full stomach of words, originally planning to catch Liu Qingshao squarely, but now she was stupid in the face of the empty courtyard.
The bodies of the Liu couple have been parked in the house for two days, and the smell of rotting corpses wafts all over the yard.
"My family saw her come in with their own eyes, how could it be?" Aunt Lin was so anxious that she stomped her feet, and at this moment, a leisurely voice sounded from behind her.
"You guys in the middle of the night, why are you so busy searching my house?"
Everyone looked back when they heard the sound, and between Liu Qingshao and Xiao Hanyin sat next to each other on the big mat, and between the two was a bowl of fried noodles, and they were about to share food, with innocent faces.
"You, you, you, how did you get out?" Aunt Lin ran over with her waist crossed, and she clearly asked the family to watch the turtle in the urn at the courtyard gate, "You slut!" โ
Liu Qingshao's face turned cold, she snapped and dropped her chopsticks, took out an IOU from her arms and handed it to the official, explaining: "My father and mother do owe you three taels of silver to the Lin family, and now that my parents are dead, I should bear this debt, but don't deceive people too much!" โ
Aunt Lin's eyes fell on the IOU, and her face immediately changed, and her momentum weakened a lot.
The official checked by the firelight, nodded and said, "It is true that his Liu family owes the Lin family three taels of silver, but where did these three hundred taels come from?" โ
Aunt Lin secretly clenched her fists, she couldn't figure out how this girl got the IOU, that thing was clearly pressed under her pillow and watched!
Thinking of this, Aunt Lin San smiled and said, "Naturally, it's three hundred taels, becauseโโ"
"No one said three hundred taels?" Liu Qingshao grabbed a lock of green silk and played with it around her fingertips, and her apricot eyes quickly filled with a layer of water, "I never thought about repaying the debt, I knew that it would take some time to raise three taels of silver, so I mortgaged the bodies of my parents and the ancestral house to Aunt Lin, and my father and fellow villagers can testify to this!" โ
Hearing that the official and Aunt Lin were both discolored, the official was surprised, and Aunt Lin was really eager to tear Liu Qingshao's eloquent mouth to pieces!