Chapter 103: Cause and Effect
Liang'er asked: "Mu Gongzi, our wife doesn't like to cry, but the slave and maid have a lot of tears, what if the lady doesn't cry and the slave and maid cry?" ”
Mu Fei smiled: "That's losing!" As long as someone cries, I don't care about your family's idle business. He pointed at Xia Ruixi: "Just by gambling with her, I can't bear my money." This kind of person, without tears, will not cry when the sky falls. ”
Ou Qing said proudly: "How do you know that she has no tears? Her tears only flowed to me! Xia Ruixi doesn't like to cry, but she will cry at him and be coquettish to him.
Mu Fei squeezed his eyes: "Yes, it can be seen how you treated her." She didn't shed a single tear when she encountered that kind of thing in the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, and when she turned around to marry you, you beat her to tears. It's not a good man who beats his wife. ”
"You just beat your wife!" Xia Ruixi threatened Mu Fei: "Be careful, I made up my mind not to cry." If you can't come up with the money, I'll take you down as a nurse!" She asked Ou Qingjin: "How much does the best nursing home on the market pay a month?" ”
Ou Qing pretended to say: "About two taels of silver is the highest price." He is Da'er's godfather, so he will give him five taels, and he will also take care of food, clothing, housing and transportation. ”
Liang'er folded his fingers and calculated: "Sixty taels a year, Mu Gongzi, you have to be more than sixteen years old, are you sure you want to gamble?" ”
The three of them sang and squeezed Mu Fei in harmony, just to know what kind of medicine he was selling in the gourd. Mu Fei was not fooled, squinted his eyes and smiled: "I will definitely win!" And it's guaranteed that you'll cry as soon as you get to the gate! ”
Mu Fei came back this time, and his personality was a lot more cheerful, and he didn't know what good things had happened. Xia Ruixi had a lot of fun and patted the car couch: "You bet we will cry as soon as we arrive at the gate, right?" Well, that's a deal! No repentance! ”
Liang'er said proudly: "Mu Gongzi, you are doomed, we have to cry and we have to enter the gate to cry!" ”
Mu Fei shook his head and sighed: "Only women and villains are difficult to raise!" Your master and servant are so good that the fourth master Ou is having a hard time. ”
Ou Qing punched him: "you!" Don't worry about it. Tell me, what the hell is going on? ”
"Don't say it!" Mu Fei gritted his teeth: "The gate is the gate!" I was aroused by these two women, and I have to bet to win! I'll have to make arrangements first! After finishing speaking, he was about to leave, Xia Ruixi gave Ou Qing a look, Ou Qing rushed over to catch him, who knew that he slipped away very fast, only grabbed half of the corner of his clothes and heard the sound of his robe being torn.
"My new clothes! Ou Qing, I'm not done with you! Mu Fei screamed and ran away.
Xia Ruixi and Liang'er laughed together, and they were faintly uneasy in their hearts, and they didn't know what surprises Mu Fei had arranged to wait for them.
The car drove into the entrance of Yuanjie and stopped. Hua Laohu's hesitant voice came in: "Pure. . . Pure child. ”
Then a soft female voice came from far and near: "Brother Hua, you don't know me anymore?" ”
Hearing this, Xia Ruixi and Liang'er were stunned for a moment, and their eyes were full of disbelief. Ou Qingjin reacted the fastest, took the lead in lifting the curtain and poked his head out, and only after a moment did he shout in a low voice: "Chun'er? ”
Xia Ruixi and Liang'er rushed to the car window, only to see a young woman outside the car wearing an apricot red satin jacket, a bamboo blue cotton skirt, her hair in a meticulous bun, and a delicate face, carrying a white gauze lantern, looking at them quietly, her eyes were already rippling with tears!
It's true, which one is not a pure child? Liang'er screamed out of disarray, and then cried. Xia Ruixi's eyes were red, he didn't care about getting out of the car, leaned out of the car window, reached out to grab Chun'er, and his voice was hoarse: "Chun'er, we thought you were ......" said a big tear and smashed into the dust.
Chun'er threw the lantern and clasped Xia Ruixi's hand with both hands before shouting: "Young grandma!" It's me, I'm not dead, I'm back......" was already choked up and speechless.
Liang'er was crying and laughing, and even the flower tiger was silly. Ou Qingjin turned around and picked up Da'er, who was awakened by fright, and coaxed softly, seeing that when the three of them didn't stop, there was a car coming in the distance, so he said: "It's such a cold weather, Chun'er come in, let's go back first and talk slowly." ”
Xia Ruixi hurriedly let go of Chun'er's hand and wiped her tears: "Come up." ”
"I can see clearly, both of them are crying! It's outside the gate, right? Mu Fei came and went like the wind, and stood in front of the car again in an instant, grabbed Xia Ruixi and Liang'er, and smiled proudly.
"See clearly, I'll give it to you when I go back! Greedy! Chun'er, you called here to stand, right? It's such a cold weather, let her stand here and be cold, just for your silver! Xia Ruixi grabbed Ou Qingjin's sleeve and complained while wiping her tears.
Mu Fei smiled, tilted to the side and stopped talking, just looking at the three women in the carriage holding hands with each other, crying and laughing, making a lot of trouble.
Chun'er saw Da'er in Ou Qingjin's arms, and raised a smile: "This is the little young master?" Really handsome. I wasn't born when I left, and I'm over a year old now. ”
Xia Ruixi hugged Da'er and showed her: "He is stained with your light, if it weren't for you, I don't know what it would look like." It's just bitter for you. ”
Liang'er cried again: "Chun'er, you scared me to death at that time, I thought you didn't escape." I've been waiting for you not to come back, and I'm scared to death. I went to see them the next day, and I heard that they had burned people, and I ......"
Speaking of this, she couldn't go on anymore, and complained instead: "You haven't heard from you at all, so I almost didn't cry to death, and I didn't let people say a word for so long." A few days ago, my wife and I held an anniversary festival for you! And your mother and younger siblings, crying like tears, you have no conscience. ”
Chun'er burst into tears and said, "I don't want to either." I miss them too, but I don't have a chance. The war is in chaos, and I can't come back even if I want to.
If I hadn't happened to meet Mu Gongzi, I don't know how long it would have been since I came back. ”
Xia Ruixi stopped, and was saddened by the two of them, and hurriedly said: "It's best to be alive." This is a great joy, and no one is allowed to cry. Then he asked, "Why haven't you arrived home yet?" ”
Liang'er lifted the curtain and took a look, and said in surprise: "Hey, why is it getting farther and farther away from home?" ”
Ou Qingjin smiled: "Don't cry? If you don't cry, we'll go back. He just saw the tearful appearance of a few people, and he felt that he couldn't go back immediately, but he was afraid that the other servants in the family would see it and spread it to the old mansion, and Xia Ruixi would be disciplined - crying like this during the New Year, no matter how cheerful people were, they would feel unlucky. So he simply asked Hua Laohu to drive the car around two more times, and only waited for a few people to calm down before going back.
Xia Ruixi naturally knew what was going on, and couldn't help but look at Ou Qingjin and smile gently. Ou Qingjin put the broken hair behind her ear and said goodbye.
Mu Fei looked at the eyebrows of the two of them, covered his mouth and said, "Ah, my teeth are so sore......"
Xia Ruixi's face was a little hot, and he glanced at him: "If it's not sour enough, there is still a big jar of sauerkraut in the kitchen!" ”
The carriage drove into the house on Wenyuan Street, and Wang Zhou and Jin Xia were already waiting at the door, leading a few people into the main house.
Xia Ruixi asked Jin Xia to inform the kitchen to prepare two tables of wine and food, one table for Ou Qingjin and Mu Fei, who had been reunited for a long time, to go leisurely, and one table for her, Liang'er and Chun'er, and listen carefully to Chun'er about her original experience while eating.
Speaking of Chun'er, although it is inseparable from her own wit, another reason is luck.
At that time, she and Liang'er agreed to set fire to escape separately, and before, everything went according to her plan. But at the last moment when she was about to leave, she was discovered by a guarded mother-in-law, who clung to her feet and shouted desperately.
In desperation, she had to pick up a flower pot next to her and smash the woman, but the woman was not a vegetarian either, so she let go and fought back. In the end, although the mother-in-law was strangled to death by her, she herself was also injured in the leg.
When she limped out of the house, she was met by the firefighters who rushed to the scene. There was no way to do it, although the house was semi-deserted, but there were always people around, and she had been delayed for too long.
She had inconvenient legs and feet, and her clothes were unusual, so she had to give up meeting Liang'er for fear of being discovered, and instead walked another more remote alley, hiding in the firewood of a family, just to avoid a burst of limelight, and make plans later.
She made up her mind at that time, even if she died, she would die far away, and she was determined not to let this matter be exposed. She didn't expect that she chose the most dangerous place, which happened to be the firewood and grass pile of the gambler's house.
A group of people gambled all night, and some people went hungry to make supper, smoking firewood and grass to make a fire, and she was unfortunately discovered. The person who found her was a crazy gambler who lost miserably and refused to leave, wanted to turn over the book, wanted to eat something to get hot and changed his luck and then went back to gamble.
Such a person is red-eyed in gambling, even if it is his own mother, as long as someone asks for it, he dares to use it as gambling money. Suddenly found an injured young woman who was dressed extraordinarily and delicately, and did not dare to shout loudly, subconsciously thought that it was a young lady who eloped or a concubine from a rich family, so she was naturally reluctant to let go.
Chun'er was stripped of her jewelry by him and tied up as collateral for another gambler in his forties. The gambler was not from Xijing, and he took her out of Xijing City, not knowing where he was going.
Although the man did not do anything to her, she felt that this man looked gloomy and was by no means a good person. After all kinds of inquiries, she learned that there was an idiot son in this family, and she just wanted her to be his idiot son's wife.
After the leg injury was a little better, she was thinking about getting out. She couldn't escape on her own, the man was very strict, and she had to find another way.
The opportunity was finally given to her, and when she was eating and sharpening in a small shop, she met a young man who was really treating his wounds, so she begged the gambler to ask him to show her the injured leg. The gambler also felt annoyed when he saw that her leg injury had dragged on for more than half a month and had not improved. So he went to ask the price, and when Lang Zhong saw that she was pitiful, he actually said that he didn't want money, so the gambler agreed.
Chun'er saw that Na Lang was kind, so she took advantage of the gambler's time to order food, and made up a set of rhetoric to beg Na Lang Zhong to treat her. Na Langzhong ignored her, cleaned her wound without saying a word, prescribed medicine and walked away.
She thought that everything was hopeless, so she had to continue on the road with the gambler, and walked for another seven days, and as the road progressed, the mountain grew bigger and bigger, and the gambler's expression became more and more happy, and she guessed that he must be almost at his house. At that time, her leg injury had healed a lot, and she deliberately pretended to be bad all the time to paralyze the gambler and wait for an opportunity to escape.
That night, the gambler took her to stay in the deserted temple for the night, she took the opportunity to escape, who knew that the gambler was as careful as a hair, and then chased after her, caught her, and decided to give her a hard meal, completely ruined her legs, anyway, he was almost at his house, the big deal was that he carried her back, and his legs were lame so that he could be his son as a wife.
Chun'er thought she was finished, but it wasn't her, but the gambler. He was hit with a stick on the head, and the one who stood by stupidly with the stick was the young man who had not treated her for any injuries, but refused to help her.
Later, she learned that Na Langzhong had always been afraid that she and the gambler were in the same group, and they collaborated to deceive him and calculate him. But he didn't think she was that kind of person, so he secretly followed them for seven days, until he saw that the gambler was trying to harm her, and then he made up his mind to come out and help her.
At this time, the chaos has begun, she is far away from Xijing City, a single woman, still lame, thousands of miles away, penniless, in this troubled world wants to go home, it has become an unattainable dream. So she listened to the advice of the young man, and after recovering from the leg injury, she disguised herself as a man and followed the young man to heal and survive, just waiting for the world to be peaceful, and then returning to her hometown. For the sake of safety, they tried to avoid war-torn places and went to remote, relatively stable places, but as a result, they went farther and farther, and returning to Xijing seemed to have become an unattainable dream.
Who would have thought that she would meet Mu Fei in a small market town thousands of miles away? So there was her trip to Xijing.
Liang'er looked at Chun'er with glowing eyes: "Where is your savior?" I want to thank him. She felt that the person who could save Chun'er must be heroic.
Chun'er knew what he was thinking at a glance, bit her lip and said, "He's embarrassed to follow me to live here, so he went to the guest house." ”
Liang'er asked with bad intentions: "Why is he embarrassed?" ”
Chun'er was a little annoyed and quietly glanced at Xia Ruixi.
Xia Ruixi saw some clues: "The wine and food are cold, and it's late, so let's rest." He also warned Liang'er: "Chun'er just rushed back, and tomorrow I have to go to see her mother and younger siblings early in the morning, and you are not allowed to bother her anymore." ”
Liang'er smiled and said, "The slave maid asks another question, how did Mu Gongzi get rich?" ”
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