Old man Li nodded gratefully, and stood confidently three steps away from the sack, carefully distinguishing the difference between the sacks, his eyes were not instantaneous, for fear that he would miss a certain detail in the blink of an eye.

Chai Qi obviously took this into account, the sacks are swapped with each other, the ones with blood are not necessarily injured, and the ones with the fragrance are not necessarily women, for fear of making a sound, even the chicken's mouth is entangled, and even the sound can't come out.

What's more, the sacks look similar in size on the outside, and the gaps inside are filled with firewood and grass, and it is impossible to tell whether it is a four-legged animal or a living person inside.

Mingyue and Old Man Li were both at a loss, and after thinking for a long time, suddenly their eyes rolled, they stood in front of the sack, and shouted crisply: "Song'er!! ”

All the people held their breath and waited to choose the bag and open the bag, and Mingyue's shout was like a thunder on the ground, startling everyone, and one of the sacks was obviously alarmed twice.

Mingyue and Old Man Li looked at each other and smiled, and chose this sack in unison.

The sack was gently untied, and everyone seemed to have forgotten to breathe, especially Mingyue, for fear that they would miss the opportunity to recognize their brother in the blink of an eye.

The sack was untied, and a black skull chrysalis moved out, with two big fluffy ears on top of it, big round eyes flickering, looking at Mingyue with infinite grievances, and there was still a whip mark on his thigh, gurgling with blood.

Mingyue and Old Man Li met, like a deflated leather ball and a frosted eggplant, where is Song'er, but the little black donkey that Chai Qi opened at the beginning, cute and cute, only as tall as Mingyue's thighs.

Old man Li smiled bitterly, this donkey was injured by Xu Er before, and he had no spirit, after a toss, he finally fell asleep, and was woken up by Mingyue's scream, Mingyue thought it was Song'er's natural reaction to hear it.

Mingyue sighed, untied the red handkerchief wrapped around her tiger's mouth, and rewrapped it on the little donkey's injured leg. Old man Li was very annoyed and handed three taels of silver to Mingyue and said, "Miss Yin, I'm really sorry, you better take this silver back, the old man can't do things that trick people." ”

Mingyue handed the silver back to Old Man Li, took off the muzzle of the little black donkey, and stroked the little donkey's fluffy head. ”

Old man Li gratefully took the silver again, now is not the time for the two to be hypocritical, hurriedly began to open the sack, I don't know whether the old man Li took bad luck or Chai Qi took the good luck, the more the bag was opened, the old man Li's hands trembled, and finally shook like chaff, and tears flowed down.

In the other six sacks, there are three hens, a sheep, two piglets, and even more, there is a litter of rats.

Old man Li collapsed directly to the ground, a person in his fifties, experienced the return from the rich to the poor, experienced the separation of relatives, and the old man who did not shed a single tear at that moment finally cried like a milk baby.

The woman who had just bought Liu's looked at it, her heart was sour, and she pushed Liu's in front of Old Man Li and said: "Don't be sad, it's a waste of food for me to bring this sister home, it's better to exchange chickens, sheep, and pigs with you, fatten for money, and you can be regarded as finding a relative." ”

Old man Li thanked him gratefully, and the Liu family ran to the old man like the rest of his life, his eyes were as red as rabbits, he knelt on the ground with a plop, and cried out sadly: "Thank you, brother-in-law." ”

Xu Er's mother broke free from the people who took care of her, hugged and cried with the Liu family, and the relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was much closer than that of her son Xu Er.

Mingyue frowned, and asked with a bow to Chai Qishen: "Chai Ye, are the only son of the Xu family, Song'er and Tong Daughter-in-law, really among these three sacks?" ”

Chai Qi's eyes were as wide as bull's eyes, and he was so annoyed that he said, "Poor boy, do you dare to question Uncle Ben and me?" I said that I was there, but since the rest is hard-headed goods, you can't have two taels of silver for one, twenty taels of silver, and all three for you!! ”

Chai Qi spread his hands, a picture of the scoundrel nature of what you can do to me.

Now Mingyue is wearing wide men's clothes, tattered, at first glance, he is a poor boy in the countryside, not to mention twenty taels, two taels of silver are enough for him to chew for half a year.

Mingyue spread her hands like Chai Qi, shook her head and said, "I don't have any silver." ”

Chai Qi snorted with disdain in his nose, turned his head and shouted to everyone to sell the only three bags left, the crowd could be heard falling on the clock, and no one took a stubble, obviously how big the shadow of the nest of rats just now was in everyone's hearts, besides, these twenty taels are not ordinary people can take them out casually.

Mingyue whispered to Old Man Li, who was still paralyzed on the ground: "Uncle, you delay time, I'll go get the silver." ”

Old man Li's bright tears flashed, and he jumped up with excitement, like an elderly person, holding Mingyue's hand tightly, and said in a trembling voice: "Good girl, you have helped me a lot, if you can't save the old Xu family, my family Hedong Lion won't even let me sleep for a while." Go and get the money, and I'll sell the house and pay it back to you." ”

Old man Li was in a hurry, and completely forgot that Mingyue told him last time she bought soybeans that she was a peasant girl from Xiangyang Village, not to mention that there were no twenty taels of silver, even if there were, I am afraid it would be too late to come and go.

Mingyue was anxious, but her face was calm and relaxed, pacing the steps of the boy in the city to walk towards the street, but the little black donkey seemed to rely on her, following her closely, Mingyue had to lead it, fortunately, its wound seemed to be much better after sleeping, turning the place where Chai Qi couldn't see, one person and one donkey walked faster and faster, and hurriedly went to Zhou's house.

When he arrived at the door of Zhou's house, he handed the remaining twenty yuan to the driver who drove the car last time, and the driver went into the backyard with a happy face to inform Zhou Zhengren that he had gone.

At this time, Zhou Zhengren was bored in the house doing his husband's homework, and when he heard that the moon was coming, he was very surprised, afraid that his mother would be verbose, so he didn't invite Mingyue into the hospital, and came to the door of the house to see Mingyue.

Seeing that Mingyue was dressed as a tattered young man, holding a little donkey who was only a few months old by her side, she covered her nose with disgust and said, "What are you looking for Young Master Ben?" Young Master Ben is reading poetry and books in the study, and he has no time to talk to you. ”

Mingyue spread her hands disapprovingly, and said lightly: "You don't need to explain, from the first day I saw you, I knew that you were 'hard' to read poetry and books every day, and you were so depressed that you couldn't do it, I came to ask for an account, and you should give me two and a half of the silver you owed me last time, right?" ”

Zhou Zhengren's second monk who was asked was puzzled, and after thinking for a long time, he suddenly realized that he was extremely angry and said: "Yin Mingyue!! If you don't come to me to settle the score, I want to go to you to settle the score, and my father went to the banquet and said the poems I made, and the people who knew poetry became a laughing stock, and they didn't even dare to go out of the door......"

Mingyue shook her finger disapprovingly, and said calmly: "What are they laughing at, are they saying that this poem is not neat or the rhyme is not in order?" Or is it not worthy of being called poetry? ”

Zhou Zhengren's arrogance came down at that time, and everyone praised this "beautiful poem" for doing a wonderful job, and they all laughed at Zhou Zhengren's son Zhou Zhengren as a "white-headed pear blossom old man", overpowering the "red-makeup begonia concubine", and there were even rumors in the market that Zhou Zhengren dared to be "selfless in his heart" and "righteous to destroy his relatives", especially Xie Zhichun, who was first-class in Yajuyuan.

Yaju Garden, a teahouse, specializes in receiving literati and ink writers; Xie Zhichun, the proprietress of Yajuxiu, has first-class literary style and first-class demeanor, and was appreciated by Xie Zhichun, which Zhou Zhengren couldn't even imagine.

Zhou Zhengren tightly covered the purse hanging from his waist and said nervously: "I haven't come down with the monthly silver, I'll give it in ten days." ”

Mingyue rudely ripped off Zhou Zhengren's wrist, easily snatched Zhou Zhengren's purse, and said smugly while opening it: "Honesty in business, you haven't paid it back for a few days, and you have to ask for twenty taels of silver with interest." ”

Zhou Zhengren rolled his eyes, where is the donkey rolling, it is clearly the elephant rolling, and it has to roll to the edge of the sky, roll into the sun and roast to death. In his eyes, Yin Mingyue was crazy about silver, and he reached out to snatch back his purse.

As soon as her hand touched the purse, Mingyue had already roared, and the force under her fingers made Zhou Zhengren scream and beg for mercy.

Mingyue's eyes had already stood up, and she poured the purse upside down and poured it out, where was the silver poured out, there was only a handful of copper plates, and there were only nineteen pieces in the count, which was one less than the reward copper plate she reported to the coachman!! How could she not be annoyed.

Mingyue's eyes swept towards Zhou Zhengren like a knife, Zhou Zhengren broke away from Mingyue's hand, shook his painful wrist, and muttered in his mouth, he hadn't seen him for a few days, and his hand strength was greater than that of a dead man's hand, as soon as Mingyue raised his hand, Zhou Zhengren took a step back in a flash, and said aggrievedly: "I don't blame me for this, I gave you all the monthly examples when I bought poems last time, and I secretly asked my mother for these copper plates." ”

Mingyue pointed to the copper plate, and said word by word: "Your mother can't just give you dozens of copper plates, what about silver?" ”

Zhou Zhengren's little eyes were rolling around, how could he tell Mingyue that all his silver was spent on Yaju Yuan to taste tea editorials and meet "friends" with poetry, but in fact, he went to peek at Xie Zhichun?

Zhou Zhengren's lips pursed, and he couldn't stop shaking his head, he had the heroic spirit of not saying anything about death.

Mingyue saw that Zhou Zhengren didn't seem to be a fake, and there was really no oil and water to squeeze, so she pulled Zhou Zhengren's sleeve affectionately, put on a flattering expression, blinked her eyes and said smartly: "Cousin, do you still want to be a great poet?" Five-word poems, seven-word poems, word cards? Tunes are fine, too! Do you choose one? The price is negotiable! Use your valuable antiques or jade pendants! You just can't take credit. ”

Zhou Zhengren looked at the strange Mingyue curiously, but he was really interested. His eyes rolled and he said, "Yin Mingyue, how about I buy all your poems in the future?" Although I don't have silver now, I can find a place to sell it. ”

Zhou Zhengren really remembered one person, that is, Luo Gongzi who went to Yajuyuan to drink the day before yesterday, Luo Gongzi was a frequent visitor to the Qinglou, because the prostitute Red Peony could write a few big characters, and he pretended to follow Xie Zhichun of Yajuxiu, playing the trick of martial arts and ink, Luo Gongzi was quite annoyed. After Zhou Zhengren, who was known by others, he wanted to ask for a glamorous poem to impress Red Peony.