Ruan Jiao returned to the house after eating, and her aunt Gu Xiaofeng was lying on the kang measuring the fabric, as if she was going to make new clothes, when she saw her come in, she pointed to the fabric piled up on the pit and smiled: "Miss Ruan, come over and measure it together, and make a new set of clothes." ”

Ruan Jiao hurriedly excused herself, packed up the few clothes she had just changed, and by the way, piled up a sheet and two clothes that Gu Xiaofeng had changed, and took them to the stream to wash.

"Ah, you put it away, I don't need you, when I finish measuring my clothes, I'll go wash them." Gu Xiaofeng came over to snatch the copper basin in her hand, but there was still joy between her eyebrows.

"Auntie, this person who makes new clothes and shoes is a happy event?" Ruan Jiao hid the copper basin behind her and asked her with a smile.

Gu Xiaofeng stretched out his finger and poked her forehead, and said with a smile: "You are a ghost, you can't hide it anymore, Liang's mother who lives next door said that his nephew is newly mourned and wants to remarry, so be a matchmaker for me in two days to see if it is suitable." ”

"Congratulations to Grandma, Congratulations to Grandma." Ruan Jiao bent down to congratulate her.

Gu Xiaofeng's expression was slightly sad, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, but he sighed again: "It is good not to stay at my mother's house to eat dead food, and it is good to look at the white eyes of my brother and sister-in-law, but I don't know what this person is like, Miss Ruan, you are reading and hyphenated, and you are knowledgeable, I don't politely say some cliché words to you, I just want to take you with me when the time comes, you give me a palm, and see if that man is a serious person?" ”

Ruan Jiao hid her face and smiled. My aunt's request is laughing to death, how can she, a big girl who has not come out of the cabinet, know what kind of man is serious.

But if she wanted to say no, Ruan Jiao couldn't say it, so she had to nod her head and agree, and then she would talk about it.

Ruan Jiao chatted with Gu Xiaofeng for a while, and then came out of the copper basin to the stream to wash clothes, washing and drying, and when the washing was finished, it was almost dry.

She was squatting and washing her clothes, when she suddenly heard a burst of shouting from the forest path next to her, and turned her head to look, only to see a group of people dressed as officials, carrying steel knives, shouting in their mouths coming this way, as if they were going to arrest someone.

She heard Aunt Liu say that there have been thieves in the town recently, and the government searches for people on the street every day.

After washing the sheets, wring out the water, getting up and taking it to the high rock to dry, as soon as the person walked to the high place, he saw a handsome little descendant hiding in the gap of the rock under his feet, with blood flowing on his arm, pale face, and a pair of good-looking Danfeng eyes staring at Ruan Jiao tightly.

Ruan Jiao was stunned in her heart, her face was a little shocked, but she only pretended not to see it, shaking the sheets to dry.

Unexpectedly, the official who had already run away shouted and turned back! Ruan Jiao, who was the first to see the stream, brandished a steel knife in her hand, and shouted at her from afar: "This girl, have you seen a thief with an injured arm running over?" ”

Ruan Jiao looked at the afterlife in the gap, and the afterlife showed despair and closed his eyes.

"Back to the official's words, the maiden lowered her head to wash her clothes just now, and she didn't see anyone passing by." Ruan Jiao shook the sheet in her hand fiercely, and the sheet spread out, covering the latter inside.

"It's really a hell of a thing, I obviously saw him running this way, and he couldn't fly with his wings?" The official said angrily, and ordered everyone to disperse and search carefully, anyway, people can't run out of this forest!

The officials gave the order, holding steel knives and pulling the grass to find someone.

Ruan Jiao looked at the situation here while doing laundry, and when she saw that the official had gone away, she got up, wiped the water stains on her hands, lifted a women's dress that had not yet been wet, uncovered the sheets, and said to the queen: "Hurry up and put on this skirt, and I will take you out of here." ”

"Thank you girl for saving your life!" The later life gave her a salute in a crepe.

Ruan Jiao frowned: "When is it, you are polite, hurry up." With that, he turned around, took a few clothes and pretended to be dry, and looked around.

After changing his clothes, Ruan Jiao ordered him to untie the headscarf, walked over, and took out the makeup utensils from his sleeves, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, and painted them on his face, and it took a while, and then he changed his appearance, and became a big girl with towering temples and a beautiful face.

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Let's say that the clothes in Ruan Jiao's basin are almost finished, and the officials are coming this way after checking the forest on the side of the road.

The first one approached, looked at her, and smiled fiercely: "Big girl, don't that thief hide under your skirt?" ”

Ruan Jiao pointed to the sheets drying on the rocks and smiled: "Master Huiguan, the maiden hid him under the sheets!" ”

An official looked at the sheet and exclaimed, "Boss, there really is someone under the list!" ”

said it was late, it was fast, I saw the head jump over in one step, stretched out the steel knife in his hand and picked the sheet open, and the descendant who was lying under the sheet screamed, and sat up with his arms crossed.

When the officials saw that it was a big girl who sat up, they immediately laughed.

"Master Guan, this is my distant cousin, I have come to visit relatives today, I have lived in the city since I was a child, I have never seen anyone washing clothes by the stream, I have to come with me, and I don't help me work, just hide under the sheets and sleep lazy. Let the official master smile. Ruan Jiao walked over and said with a smile.

"Hurry up and leave after washing, there are thieves coming this way, it's not safe." The official instructed them to say two words, and searched for a while, but they couldn't find anyone, so they went away.

Later, when he saw that the official was far away, Fang wrote a compilation of thanks: "Thank you girl for saving me, please ask the girl's name, and I will repay her in the future." ”

Ruan Jiao said with a smile: "What is not reported, I just hope that I did not save the wrong person, if you are really a thief, from now on to reform yourself, if you are wronged, quickly find someone to go to the government to shout grievances, I can only help you get here, and I hope that the future is solemn!" ”

Hou Sheng went down to her for a long time, opened the woman's clothes outside, untied a jade pendant from her waist, and presented it to Ruan Jiao with both hands: "If the girl doesn't dislike it, she still wants to smile and accept it, and talk about it in the next little heart." ”

Ruan Jiao was afraid that if the officials came back, it would be bad, and it would be inconvenient to entangle with him again, so she had to take his jade pendant, hold it in her hand, and said with a smile: "You are wearing this women's clothes, it doesn't hurt to go out, go quickly, if you show your feet, it will not be beautiful." ”

The latter nodded, arched his hand at her, and strode away.

"Hey, you're wearing women's clothes now, and you're a little reserved when you walk." Ruan Jiao covered her mouth behind him and chuckled softly.

The latter turned around, grinned, and slowed down.

Ruan Jiao stood on the rock, stretched her neck, and watched him walk out of the woods safely, and when she arrived at the official road in front, she put her mind at ease, continued to wash her clothes, and washed them twice, but she was shocked, she gave her aunt's clothes to the future life, it was the only silk dress for her aunt, and she was counting on it when she went out to be a guest, if it was gone, she would be sad!

"Forget it, a piece of clothing for a human life is worth it." Ruan Jiaowu sighed to herself, washed her clothes vigorously, until three o'clock in the morning, and then finished washing, wiped the hot sweat on her forehead, sat and rested in a cool place for a while, collected the clothes that had been dried and walked home.

When I got home, I met Gu Xiaofeng chatting with a woman next door at the door of the street, and when I saw her, I hurriedly stepped forward to grab the copper basin in her hand, and shouted: "Ah, my good girl, where can you wash it, go into the house and rest, I'll just hang it." ”

Ruan Jiao saw that a neighbor was there, and it was inconvenient to tell her about losing her clothes, so she only held a copper basin and refused to let her help, and brought it into the yard to dry by herself.

Gu Xiaofeng chatted with her neighbors for a few words, entered the yard, looked at the clothes hanging on the rope, her face changed, and her frightened eyes stared at Ruan Jiao in the corner: "Miss Ruan, where is my satin gown with floral flowers and gold edges?" ”

Ruan Jiao looked at her pale face and was shocked, but she was afraid that telling the truth would be bad for that descendant, so she didn't know how to deal with it for a while.

"Did you forget to collect it when you hung it on the stone, why don't you go to the stream to find it! Really, it's killing me! Gu Xiaofeng stomped his feet and said.

Ruan Jiao should run out of the door, wondering how to deal with this matter, whether it is for the eldest young master to borrow a few money to buy her a new piece of satin, and her aunt and grandmother will be sad when she goes out of the house, and she will blame herself for a while, and she will take one and wear it for the next child, but in the end, she is sorry for the kind care that her aunt has always taken care of her.

She went to the brook for a turn, and walked back, thinking that she only told her aunt that her clothes were gone, probably because they had been washed away by the stream, and that her aunt was a good person, and she would not do anything to her, and when she finished making the plate of rouge paste in her hand, she sold it in a hurry, and then went to buy a new piece of satin and return it to her.

Ruan Jiao walked into the courtyard, the courtyard was silent, and her aunt didn't know where to run. Ruan Jiao looked inside, and saw that in the living room over there, there were aunts and old ladies.

She raised her feet and ran to the kitchen, and as soon as she ran into the kitchen, she saw that the guest was a kind-looking old man, with a sharp voice, like a woman, who was making a compilation to the aunt who had sent her out, and asked her to go back.

Gu Xiaofeng was polite, sent him out of the door, and came back.

Ruan Jiao hurriedly walked out, blocked her aunt's way, and said timidly: "Grandma, I didn't find your skirt, I'm afraid it was washed away by the water." ”

"Waiting for you? Eating steamed buns can't catch up with the heat. Gu Xiaofeng glanced at her: "Did you see the old man just now?" He passed by the stream and picked it up, and now he has sent it back, these days, there are few good people like this. ”

Ruan Jiao was shocked: "How does he know that it is our family's clothes?" ”

"You think everyone is as careless as you are? The lining of my clothes is embroidered with Gu characters! In this town, the only person surnamed Gu can afford to wear a silk dress is our family, so it's hard to find? Gu Xiaofeng glanced at her again and walked into the living room.

"Then I really want to thank this old man for saving my life." Ruan Jiao muttered in her mouth and went into the kitchen to help Aunt Liu cook.

Aunt Liu was boiling soup in the pot, and when she saw her come in, she sighed and shook her head: "You kid, you don't have half a blessing, how good is this, if you live a little more, you can get the benefit of two taels of silver." ”