Chongwen didn't care about nosy, and continued to walk on a horse; Chongwu rode high on the horse, looked at the middle of the crowd, and found Yue'er's figure with sharp eyes, so he shouted: "Brother, look at it, it's yesterday's little girl." ”

Chongwen couldn't help but stop, rode his horse and turned around, and before he could take a closer look, he saw that Chongwu had already dismounted and drilled into the center of the crowd. In the middle of the crowd was Yue'er. In addition to Yue'er, there was another man, about thirty years old, born with horizontal eyebrows and a straight mouth, holding a crutch in his left hand, looking at his size and actions, he was actually a lame man.

"What are you seeing?! Her father and mother took my money last night and sold her to me as a little daughter-in-law, what do you think?! What's so weird?! Scattered, scattered, scattered for me! Otherwise, don't blame me for being unsympathetic with the crutches in my hand! The lame man yelled at the crowd of onlookers in a thick voice, and chased people away with his stick.

"What? She was so young, she sold you as a daughter-in-law? It is the crisp children's voice of Chongwu that reverberates throughout the Yangchang slope. Chongwen couldn't stop it, so he had to turn over and dismount and gradually approach.

Yue'er was lying on the ground, her hands were tied behind her back, her feet were tied by corroded and rusty chains, and she saw her hair messy and her small body kept crawling forward. A body of loess, a body of holes, and one end of the rope that bound her hands was impressively on the lame hand. She didn't pay attention to the crowd of onlookers, nor did she look at the person who spoke, just stubbornly faced, buried her head and crawled forward, she desperately told herself: After this pass, as long as she escaped, everything would be fine.

After a while, someone couldn't bear to look at it anymore and shook his head and left. The crowd of onlookers gradually retreated, but the onlookers were still talking and sighing.

When the lame man saw someone jumping out to speak, he was still a child, and his voice became louder. "Her father and mother accepted my money, and the deed of sale and the marriage contract are still in my hands!" He put the rope in his hand and put it in his hand holding the crutch, took out two pieces of paper into his arms with his free hand, shook it at Chongwu Yaowu, and signaled him to retreat quickly.

The yellowed and crumpled dot ink paper had tadpole-like handwriting, and with the movement of his hand, a clear flush was clearly visible at the end of the paragraph.

"She's not my mother, she's not my mother......" Yue'er screamed like crazy, ripped off the rusty chain and got up and ran forward, the lame man pulled the rope hard, she was like a lead kite blown away by the wind, the lame man only moved his hand, and planted her straight back to the ground.

What the little daughter-in-law means, she knows, she understands. But what does it mean to be a lame daughter-in-law who is many years older than herself, she knows, she understands better! But this cognition seems to be the same as a memory hidden in the mind, and when you think about it, it is blank but also a kind of torture. She only knew that she couldn't be this person's daughter-in-law, she could endure the beating and scolding of her father and mother at home, and she could endure the bullying of her younger brother. She can even wander alone and endure starvation, but she can't bear to be the old lame little daughter-in-law who pulls the rope.

The thought of her becoming this man's daughter-in-law made her feel like an endless torment, and a kind of horror that she couldn't even think of.

"Brother, brother, let's save her!" Chongwu ran to Chongwen in three steps and two steps, panting because of anger and excitement, and his face was strangely red.

Chongwen had a smile on his face, luxurious and elegant, his slender white jade hand went steadily towards his back, his eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, he glanced at the lame man, reached out and took out a golden ingots from his arms, handed it to him, but his eyes moved to Yue'er, and said lightly: "Since you bought your daughter-in-law, why don't you sell it to me now!" ”

Yue'er finally glanced sideways at him, and her stubborn upper teeth bit her lower lip fiercely, and at the moment when her upper teeth were loosened, there were deep tooth marks left on her lower lip. Even when she ran away, screamed, or fell, there was no sign of tears in her eyes. At this moment, she cried, and the tears that hung on her cheeks trickled like a mountain stream between the thick earthy ravines. The mud on his face was instantly blurred.

But his body was still dirty, and it was still the same tattered clothes from yesterday, but at this time he was disheveled and embarrassed.

The lame man looked at a golden ingot, stunned for a long time, and before he came to his senses, his hands instinctively loosened the rope, and he was stunned for a while, the sun was spicy at noon, the golden light became more and more dazzling, and a golden light pierced into the lame's cloudy eyes, and he woke up for a while, and happily exchanged the gold ingots with the deed of sale and the marriage contract.

The little girl he had bought with his usual money early this morning was still borrowed from a relative. Although he is a little expensive, he has not married a wife in his forties, and people within a radius of several miles and even adjacent villages, where is anyone who knows that he is thin and pleasing to the eye is willing to marry him a poor and lame man? That is, the stepmother of Yue'er's family was greedy for money, so she entangled her biological father and agreed to come down.

Now that a gold ingot is in front of him, the golden one is full of ten taels, and it is within reach, what is he to hesitate about? I can't get along with anything, and I can't get along with this gold ingot! Besides, with this deposit ingot, it is enough for him to buy dozens of daughters-in-law with better appearance, and he pays back the money to his relatives, and the remaining silver is enough for his family to live a good life for half of his life.

The crowd of onlookers sighed, and the focus fell on Chongwen for a moment.

Chongwu hurriedly ran over to untie the rope on Yue'er's wrist. The rope was tied very tightly, and it was a dead knot, Chongwu didn't untie it for a long time, Chongwen shook his head, and simply took out the dagger on his waist and cut it with a knife.

The rope fell to the ground, and the dark red color was clearly the blood stain on Yue'er's wrist. The scar on the wrist is as deep and distressing as a ravine.

Chongwen took three steps closer to Yue'er, looking at the strangulation marks on Yue'er's small wrists like ravines, his expression did not change, and he seemed to be close but there was a touch of alienation, Ruosi was stunned, and smiled slowly and faintly: "Send you home, or do you go back by yourself?" ”

Yue'er's body trembled unconsciously, her face struggled to maintain calm, she looked up at Chongwen, and suddenly knelt down. She knew that if she went back, she would only face another sale.

"Brother, brother......" Chongwu stretched out his hand and pulled Chongwen's sleeve, and said dissatisfiedly, "Brother, let her go back, she will still be sold." Let's take him away, shall we? ”

"Chongwu...... But ......"

"I'm not going back!" Yue'er still knelt down, just raised her head to look at Chongwen, and shook her head desperately at him, with childish strength and stubbornness on her face in vain.

"We have something to do along the way, and it's inconvenient to take you with us." When he flatly refuses people, he often has a smile on his face, and he stands behind a person with his back, and he is alone there in the wind of the jade tree, elegant and kind.

Yue'er's body collapsed, she sat down on the ground, biting her lip and shaking her head at Chongwen. Tears finally couldn't help but slide down, blurring her vision, Chongwu lost his words for a while, time was quiet, and the air suddenly condensed into frost. And Yue'er cried more and more fiercely on the ground.

"After all, she is just a girl, and now she doesn't even want her relatives, if we don't take her away, she is helpless, fatherless, motherless, alone, how do you want her to live? Besides, brother, you originally bought her with gold ingots. ”

He only knew the purpose of his trip, as well as the perception and benefits of traveling. He came out to sharpen himself, not to be generous and gracious.

Chongwen looked at Yue'er, who was crying but didn't cry, and watched her small body slumped on the ground, dirty and messy from beginning to end.

Thinking of the scene when I first saw her yesterday, the calmness on her face and the chilling anger, and now combined with her stubbornness, combined with the narration of outsiders, she can be regarded as calm about her misfortune, and there is nothing out of the ordinary.

Suddenly, at this moment, he clearly felt that she was just hiding all her emotions in the deepest part of her heart, real and coexisting, but she was really suppressed.

It was the first time he had seen so many contradictions in an eight-year-old. He thought that according to Yue'er's temperament, he wouldn't be able to cry. In fact, Yue'er didn't cry either, she just couldn't help but shed the tears that had been accumulated in her eyes for a long time.

Chongwen's heart suddenly overflowed with compassion, and he couldn't bear it. The portrait on the wall of the temple suddenly came to mind, the voice "I won't go back!" "It came to my ears, and the pain was in the sky. He smiled slightly, bent down, ignored the dirty smell on her body, hugged Yue'er, got on the horse, and before leaving, half-hugged her, and said, "From now on, you have to listen to me." If you can't do it, or want to go home halfway, you can get off the horse immediately whenever you want. ”

Yue'er shook her head, her small body sat on the back of a horse, hunched over and leaning on Chongwen's warm chest, sometimes knocked away, dangerous, and a little scared.

has walked out of Yangchang Village Wuli Road, Yue'er still poked her head out from time to time to look behind. "What? Regretted it? Even so, there is no point in going home to say goodbye. Even if you ...... right now No matter how reluctant we are, we still have to move forward, and we won't stop for half a point because you escaped halfway and pretended to be pitiful. Chongwen grabbed the reins with one hand, clamped the horse's belly between his legs, and galloped the horse away.

Chongwu rode his horse with joy and followed. Although he has been studying with Chongwen for several months, it is the first time that he has encountered such things as those encountered yesterday and today. In an instant, he felt as if he had done a good deed, and he had returned to justice, and the taste of heroic righteousness made him complacent, and his little face was suddenly covered with the pride of the spring breeze.

After all, the three of them are still young, Yue'er is eight years old, her body is not fully developed, and she is thin and small, where can people have a sense of men and women, and ride a horse all the way, which saves a lot of embarrassment.

Chongwu seems to be unconventional as Yue'er's life-saving benefactor, and along the way, he is shushing Yue'er and asking for warmth, and he is asking long and short questions, and he cares about it all the time.