"What's going on?" Du Huaibing was tired for a day, sat down to eat dinner, and was about to sip a sip of soju to relieve fatigue, but he didn't think about it, as soon as the wine was poured, he was stunned by the fire and dragged to Du Mei's house.

"Patriarch, you have to be my master, my apricot was forced to death by her!" When Xie saw Du Huaibing coming, he howled more and more, as if someone in the family was really dead.

"The third family, it's not easy to talk nonsense." Xu's most can't listen to death or life, she was so frightened that her face turned pale.

"Sanjin family, what do you say?" The second monk Du Huai Bingzhang was puzzled, he did see the two girls quarreling in the afternoon, but he stopped it on the spot. Living in a village, it is common for children to be noisy, where to start with death?

"Apricot hasn't come home yet, we've found everything we can find." Xie's eyes were weeping, so pitiful.

"Then you can't come to my house to make trouble." Xu looked helpless.

"Du Mei slapped my Du Xing in front of so many aunts and sisters-in-law in the village, Xing'er she is a strong one, I'm afraid I can't think about it......" Xie cried and burst into tears.

"Don't talk nonsense, curse your own children!" Du Huaibing interrupted her words with a cold face.

"It was Du Xing who overturned my potato basket and I hit her. It's really crooked on the top beam and crooked on the bottom, no wonder she is so arrogant! Du Mei couldn't bear it anymore and retorted.

"Dumay!" Xu's words stopped, no matter how bad Xie's is, it's also an aunt.

"You girl, you are so ruthless, you hurt my apricot, and insulted the elders, the old lady is no longer alive, and she will fight with you with this life!" Xie made a gesture and slammed into the wall of the second room.

Du Huaibing stood beside her, grabbed her clothes, and shouted to the crowd of onlookers: "Come to the two girls, look at her!" ”

The fat aunt and Aunt Zhang leaned against Xie under the elm tree next to each other, Xie cried and sobbed, and the two cousins had to persuade each other with good words.

"Everyone, don't gather around, each of them has a torch, and go and help find it." Du Huaibing stood on a high place and waved his arms.

It's a human life, not a cat or a dog, and if you die, you will die, and if you lose it, you will lose it. Although the people in the village don't like Du Xing, it's not good to stand idly by. So every family came out with a laborer, lit torches, and shouted in groups of three or five, and shouted everywhere.

Ma Rong ran from the third room house to the field, as if angry, without taking a breath, he dug out all the potatoes in the field and put them in a basket.

After doing this, he didn't dare to go home, for fear that Xie's mother and daughter were still quarreling, and he was caught in the middle, what was the matter. Even if they don't quarrel, how awkward it will be for the three of them to meet. So he sat in a daze until the night swallowed him up.

After a busy day, Ma Rong was hungry, and it was not a problem to stay outside all the time, so he had to bite the bullet and pick up the burden of potatoes and go home. On the way, I met many villagers, holding torches and hurrying out.

"Little brother, what's going on?" Ma Rong grabbed a young man in a hurry and asked.

"Your owner's daughter is missing, and the people in the village are helping to find it." The young man said as he walked.

When Ma Rong suddenly heard this, his heart was flustered, his knees were weak, and he almost fell. He steadied himself, walked on his legs as if they were filled with lead, and moved back to the three-room house step by step.

The courtyard door was wide open, and the room was pitch black, and he rested his potato burden in the corner and sat down on the ground.

"This girl won't be scolded by her mother, can't you think about it?" When Ma Rong thought of this, he felt as if his whole body was being peeled and cramped, and he trembled.

"No, no, no, who is that girl who is willing to suffer? Mo is not leaving

Running away from home to scare and scare adults? Another voice in Ma Rong's heart said.

Ma Rong and the heavens are fighting, and the strong laborers of the whole village outside have come to help find Du Xing.

In the fields, by the water's edge, in the threshing floors full of wheat stacks, there were shadowy people everywhere, and the sporadic fires were accompanied by long and short shouts. This night, Dujiagou was destined to be restless.

Du Mei's family was too small, and it was all female dependents, which was really inconvenient, so Fang invited Du Huaibing to sit at her house. An hour later, all those who had been sent out to search for it came back and answered, but found nothing.

Xie Shi didn't have the strength to cry, so he just kept cursing Du Mei. Du Huaibing didn't bother to talk about her when he saw her temples scattered and her eyes were swollen.

"It's not too early today, let's all disperse." Du Huaibing saw that the people who came back were tired, and spoke.

"How's that going to work! Apricot hasn't been found yet. Xie Shi heard that he was not looking for it, and immediately screamed.

"No news, that's good news." Du Huaibing said in a deep voice.

"Your girl may not know where to play, but she sold the silk handkerchief for 700 wen today." An aunt said.

"Seven hundred wen? How could she sell that much? As soon as Xie heard the silver money, he instantly came to his senses.

"There is a new embroidery collector today, and the price is high." The other woman spoke.

"Really? Ming'er, is that person still coming? A sister-in-law who missed it said with some regret.

"Who knows." The woman spreads her hands.

The patriarch spoke, and the helpers went back to their homes one after another. The women chattered all the way and said all the way, in order to sell more money, they were looking forward to the return of the shopkeeper Lu.

Xie cried and cried, and made trouble, except for sending someone to help find Du Xing, the patriarch didn't do anything to Du Mei.

"Patriarch, my apricots are all caused by Du Mei's stinky girl, you can't be partial." Xie Shi was still unwilling to nag in front of Du Huaibing.

"I'm very busy, but I don't have time to mess around with you!" Du Mei comforted her mother and sister and sat alone at Fang's house.

"Sanjin's family, children are often troubled, if you do something foolish for this little thing, then this child is also a fool. You go home and see, maybe you come back. Du Huaibing persuaded.

After listening to Du Huaibing's words, Xie also had a little hope, and she was still thinking about the 700 Wen that Du Xing sold, so she hurriedly went home.

In the three-room courtyard, it was pitch black, and it was obvious that there was no one at home. Xie was walking in a hurry, and suddenly she tripped under her feet, and she fell forward.

"Ahh She exclaimed involuntarily, and just as she was afraid of falling in the face, her body was wrapped around a broad chest.

"Who?!" Xie Shi was startled and asked in a trembling voice.

"It's me." Xie Shi, who had just experienced the elasticity of male muscles~, was immediately pushed away from the warm embrace.

"You're at home, why don't you light the lights?" Xie Shi groped in the dark and squeezed Ma Rong's hand.

"Don't." Ma Rong hurriedly withdrew his hand as if he was touching a fire.

"Mother's ......" Du Jie's anxious voice suddenly sounded at the door.

"Hey, you wait for me to light the lamp, there are potatoes on the ground, beware of slipping." The two quickly separated, Xie went to the house to light the lamp, and Ma Rong went back to his room.

A light lit up in the house, and a dim glow shone into the courtyard, and potatoes were scattered all over the ground.

"Where's your father?" Xie Shi looked behind Du Jie.

"Dad went to the patriarch's house and begged him to help him find it tomorrow

Du Jie said with a gloomy face.

"I don't know what I did to give birth to such a debt collector." Xie wiped his eyes.

"Sister, it's going to be fine." Du Jie stroked Xie's back.

"Xiuxiu, I'm back." Sanjin came in with a haggard face.

"Let's eat." Xie Shi served porridge on the stove, served steamed buns, and brought out the dried radish that was fried yesterday.

The three of them ate in silence, and Xie seemed to have forgotten to call Ma Rong.

"Xiuxiu, let's go to the apricot house and take a look to see if there's anything left." Sanjin was worried about his daughter, but he didn't have much appetite, so he only ate a bowl of porridge and half a steamed bun.

"Whoa." Xie put down the bowl.

In the room, the quilt on the bed was neatly folded, a pair of unfinished silk handkerchiefs were still stretched on the embroidered bandage, and the threads of the needlework were scattered, all of which were common, as if its owner had just gone out to play and would come back in a moment.

Xie Shi went into the house and rummaged around, and the corners were all turned over, where was the shadow of 700 Wen?

"Hey, where's Apricot's clothes?" In the early spring, everyone in the family made a new dress, and the patterns on Du Xing's clothes were still picked by three golds, so he remembered it very clearly.

"How so?" Xie Shi inspected Du Xing's clothes, and sure enough, there were several pieces missing, and even the furoshiki was gone.

"This ruthless girl, why didn't she make a noise and leave?" Sanjin's tears overflowed, and he raised his hand to wipe more and more.

"Let her go, white-eyed wolf, she can't raise a family." Xie said hatefully.

"Where can she go to a girl's house?" Sanjin looked at Xie Shi with blank eyes.

"She has suffered and has nowhere to go, so she will naturally come back." Xie Shi gritted his teeth and said.

On the second day, the news that Du Xing, a third-room family, ran away from home spread, and everyone in the village was shocked. But afraid of Xie's sharp mouth, no one dared to ask more, and the village was surprisingly quiet, as if this strange thing had never happened.

"Owner, the rice in the field has been planted, and the potatoes in the field have been harvested, so there is no important farm work in the future. I'm going to quit my job and go back to my hometown. Ma Rongsi pondered all night, he thought of the situation of Xie and Du Xing scolding, and couldn't help but be frightened, he didn't want to be buried in the hands of an old woman.

He looked at Sanjin and Du Ming, and hesitated in front of Xie. He had been in the house for a long time, and he knew that the hostess was the one in charge.

"You signed a five-year long-term contract with me, why do you want to regret it before you have worked for a year?" Xie Shi was doing his laundry and glanced up at him.

"You can take care of your family's fields on weekdays, and you can hire a short-term worker when you are busy, and you don't have to waste the money for long-term work." Ma Rong whispered.

"What, you think it's too idle? Don't have enough work to do? Is there anyone as cheap as you? Xie shook the foam on his hand and scolded.

"You can scold me however you want, I just can't do it here." Ma Rong was at the age of strong blood, he gritted his teeth, and endured Xie's evil words.

"If you want to leave, you can break the contract and give it to me, and we will settle it." Xie Shi pinched Ma Rong's weakness with one hand.

"This ......" Ma Rong's face turned red, if he was rich, would he still suffer from this bird's anger?

"No, just do it! When you've saved up enough money, come and tell me again. Xie picked up the basin and went to the river to wash it.

"Damn it!" Ma Rong waited for Xie to come out of the courtyard, clenched his fists, and muttered angrily. 2k reading web