In the wax moon of this year, there was no snow in Chunxi Town, the road was very dry, men and women were on the road with their children, there was a post station ten miles away from Chunxi Town, where the officers and soldiers of the imperial court changed horses and sent letters, and there were also people who set up a tea stall to sell some rough wine and steamed buns and side dishes to make a living.

The man took the girl baby, planning to spend a few pennies to buy a bowl of hot tea to warm his body, holding the girl on the side of the avenue, before he walked to the tea stall, he was faced with a few fast horses dragging a long neighing stop on the side of the road, the man on the horse pulled the reins violently, the horse's front hooves rose high and fell, splashing dust in this winter.

Immediately down a few officers and soldiers, tall and burly, walked to the tea stall and sat down, ordered wine and food, although it is not a wilderness, after all, it is not a serious place, coarse tea and light wine have no taste, let alone food.

In the absence of war, the people are naturally grateful, so although they dare not approach these officials, they are not afraid to the point of escaping.

The man sat down at the table next to the girl with his arms, beckoned Xiao Er to ask for a bowl of hot tea, took out the dry food and broke it and fed it to the girl, the girl sat obediently to accept the feeding, and the man blew hot tea and fed a few mouthfuls.

The officers and soldiers at the next table were eating light wine and food, and suddenly they smelled the smell of meat, and when they looked back, there were several paper bags on the man's table, and the fragrance of braised meat wafted out faintly from inside, causing the gluttonous insects to move, driving dozens of miles, and bumping all the way on the horse, at this time there was nothing better than this.

An officer and soldier got up, threw a piece of broken silver on the man's table, grabbed the paper bag containing the braised pork, and said:

"The silver will buy you meat, and this will give you a few drinks."

It was the meat that I bought after driving dozens of miles, and I went back to give the child's grandfather wine and gave the family a tooth sacrifice, but now I can't go back ten miles to buy it, otherwise I won't be able to go home in time.

The man smiled and said:

"Official, look, ten miles ahead is the town, you can have a good rest and a meal when you get there, I bought it back for the elderly and children at home to eat for the New Year..."

"What kind of, the silver that the official gave you is enough for you to buy a few catties of meat, you can buy it again, how many people are waiting for the wine, if we don't sacrifice our lives to guard, can you drink tea and eat meat here?"

The man is speechless... When the officers and soldiers saw that they were about to leave with the meat, the man hurriedly stretched out his hand and grabbed him:

"Official, the people know that you are hard, you see, you have a fast horse, and you will arrive in a few moments, but if the small one walks back on his feet, he has to go back and rush back to his home dozens of miles away, and it is really unbearable to go back and forth, you can do it well."

All the good things that should be said were said, and the shopkeeper didn't dare to make a sound, so he turned around and ran into the shed, and there was no one outside the shed.

It is true that they must have to eat this meat, but the other officers and soldiers at the next table are still watching, and some of them dare not speak out when they feel that it is inappropriate, and the officers and soldiers who insist on buying meat can't hold their faces, their faces are flushed, and they shake off the man's hand, thinking that they want to forcibly take the meat away.

The man wanted to step forward to stop him, but he accidentally swept the tea bowl onto the armor of the officers and soldiers.

In this cold winter, after a delay for half a day, the tea has already cooled, and the armor can't wet the clothes, but this gives the officers and soldiers a reason to get angry.

The burly officer and soldier threw away the meat in his hand and kicked the man down, and the female baby on the side was so frightened that she cried loudly, but no one paid attention to it, and no one dared to pay attention to it.

The officers and soldiers kicked and beat the man, but their red faces were still not relieved, they walked to the stake where the horse was tethered, took a rope from the saddle and tied the person up with a few movements, dragged it in their hands and got on the horse with a kick, and whipped it on the horse's belly, the horse was frightened and galloped wildly, and several officers and soldiers dropped the tea money and hurriedly stepped on the horse to chase after it.

The girl cried and chased on the road, the sugar ball in her hand was scattered all the way, sobbing and looking at the sugar ball bag in her hand, she threw it on the ground with a snap, and continued to chase and shout with her little hand:

"Daddy, Daddy.."

After chasing less than half a mile, only the girl was left on the empty road, the people and horses had already run away, the girl stood in the middle of the road and cried, the sugar residue on her hands was pasted on her face, mixed with tears, and was quickly dried by the cold wind, and her face was black and mushy.

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On the road into Chunxi Town, a few carriages came from afar, and on the turning road, the coachman in front found a child standing on the road, and immediately pulled the reins, and several carriages behind also stopped suddenly, Bai Rong lifted the curtain and asked:

"What's wrong?" The groom came down and ran to the back to report:

"My lord, there's a baby standing on the road." Bai Rong got out of the carriage, walked to the girl, and looked at the girl with a dirty face:

"Why is your girl standing on the road alone, how dangerous it is for the car to run over the horse, what about your father?"

The girl cried, holding a purse in one hand and pointing in the direction where the horse disappeared:

"Daddy, daddy, hit... Whining... Horses and horses... Daddy's gone... Woo woo woo" The female baby cried and convulsed, out of breath, and the words were not good, but after speaking, she cried again.

Bai Rong only felt a headache, the two sons in the family, no daughters, and no hugging and coaxing, some of them didn't know where to start;

Bai Rong squatted down and tried to hold the girl in his arms, patted her back gently, and took out a handkerchief from her arms to wipe her face, but the sugar stuck to her face and couldn't wipe it.

I had to pick up the girl and coax: "Don't cry, did Daddy go to town?" Shall I take you to Daddy? ”

The girl nodded with tears in her eyes. Bai Rong hugged the dirty-faced girl and got into the luxurious carriage.

The next handsome man looked at the girl's tearful face and the old man's bright white silk shirt, the corners of his eyes twitched, and he grinned: You are usually exquisite, why don't you dislike it now?

But he didn't dare to talk much, and waited for Master Bai to get into the car. Several carriages galloped down the road again, crushing the dust all the way to the town of Spring Creek.

The carriage approached the town a mile away, turned into a small road at the northeast entrance, walked for a while, and stopped outside a house with two large characters engraved on the plaque above the gate.

got off at the gate, carried the girl and entered the hospital, and Mrs. Bai came out with her subordinates

"On this cold day, you don't know if you put on a cloak, if you get cold...", before the words were finished, I raised my eyes and saw a girl in my father-in-law's arms.

Mrs. Bai stood in place... Is this born out there? Picked up? Stole? I'm rare and want a girl, I can't give birth to myself, and you can't go outside and get one for me? Why don't I just say a few more words about the girl, which one is this singing?

After several possibilities floated in Mrs. Bai's head and an expression on her face, Bai Rong stepped forward with the girl in her arms and put it down and said lightly:

"I picked it up on the road, I kept crying, maybe I was separated from the adults, and I sent someone to the town to ask in a while to see if anyone in the yamen reported to the official."

Hearing this, Mrs. Bai was stunned, glared and asked, "Didn't you give birth outside?" ”

Master Bai glanced at her: "I have been running errands outside the house all year round, and I have never left anyone around me, where will I go to live?" ”

Mrs. Bai choked and muttered in a low voice:

"Actually, if you give birth to me, I won't be angry, if you want to bring it back, I will raise you well, who makes me unable to give birth to a girl?"

That being said, if Bai Rong really wants to give her a girl outside, this house may be reduced to ashes.

Bai Rong really wanted to get into his wife's mind and see what she was thinking all day long!

Ignoring his wife's delusion, he turned his head and ordered, "Prepare water and clothes for me." "Juncai is busy taking orders to get busy.

Then he turned back to his wife and said:

"What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and take this baby to wash and change clothes."

As he spoke, he walked through the courtyard to the room, thought about it and turned back to advise:

"Remember to send someone to town, it's almost dinner, and it's getting dark, and the adults can't find the child." After saying that, Mrs. Blaze muttered and went straight back to the room.

Mrs. Bai picked up the girl and invited the girl to go to the bathroom together. The purse in her hand was still holding on tightly, and Mrs. Bai coaxed her to take it and see, there was a small packet of medicine in it, thinking that it was hanging with her to prevent diseases and repel insects, and there was nothing else.

It's just that this purse doesn't feel like cloth, but like it's sewn with silk threads, but if there is no cloth as a support, there is no way to embroider, if you can really be so skillful, it is not something ordinary people can do.

But looking at the doll dressed, it didn't look like a child from a big family, so I had to shake my head and hand it to the girl on the side, there was a small cloth bag in the clothes I changed, and I wrapped a wooden hairpin in it.

"Daddy, mother...", Mrs. Bai coaxed her:

"Auntie put it away for you, and take it home when Daddy comes to pick you up, okay?"

In this way, the girl will not be caught, and sit down obediently in the bath. The girl also grew up in Baifu since she was a child, looking at the purse and hairpin in her hand, this hairpin is not a rare thing, but this purse knows at a glance that it is not something that ordinary people can use, although she is curious about how this girl can have such a thing, but she dare not say more.

The washed female baby is white and tender, but Mrs. Bai is rare. The girl turned her eyes curiously and looked around, and Mrs. Bai pinched her little face and asked:

"What's your name, boy? Where's your mom and daddy? "It's okay not to ask, but when I asked, it seemed to touch the mechanism, and the girl cried out again

"Mother... Families... Woo woo... Daddy. Daddy... Horses and horses go... Woo woo woo .. Let's go..."

Mrs. Bai hurriedly patted and coaxed: "Don't cry obediently, your aunt will wash you up, take you to dinner, and let someone go to find your father, okay?" ”

"Woo... Well..."

After waiting for a long time, the girl came in with a suit of clothes and said, "Madam, there are no clothes for the little girl at home, these are what the second young master wore when he was a child, and he can only use this in front of him." ”

Mrs. Bai looked at the men's clothes in the maid's hand: "Okay, let's wear this today, and when I let Erhu go to the town to inquire later, I will go to the ready-to-wear store to buy ready-made ones." ”

"Yes". The maid changed the clothes of the girl who was still sobbing: "It fits well, this baby is handsome, I don't look at what she wears."

Mrs. Bai also thinks that it is, with big eyes and a small round face, it is pleasing to look at.

I was looking at the baby and liked it very much, but I didn't notice that as soon as the girl reached out and grabbed the purse that the maid put on the table, she pulled it into the bathtub.

The maid hurriedly picked it up, afraid that she would not be scolded, and was about to open it for fear that the contents would be wet and damaged, but she accidentally found something terrible, and exclaimed: "Madam, this purse is not soaked in water!" ”