Chapter 30: Midnight Terror
For a long time after Li Xiaomei left, the mother and daughter did not speak, until the charcoal in the brazier was about to burn out, and the cold air around them gradually came up again, and Lu slowly came back to his senses, but seeing that Yiyu looked worried, on the child's face, it actually made people feel more ridiculous than worried.
Lu Shi slowly spoke: "Yu'er, this is a burden on you." ”
Yi Yu hurriedly continued: "What did my mother say, how did it affect me." ”
Lu Shi sighed and said, "If it weren't for my excesses that day, I guess I wouldn't have attracted the resentment of the two Wang families, how could that Wang matchmaker want to frame me, a living person?" ”
Yi Yu shook his head and said frankly: "Mother, if you send you well that day, people won't trouble us, I think those two people are small-bellied chicken intestines, and the Wang family didn't want to see our family from the beginning, no matter how good you are afraid of her, it won't help, isn't Li Xiaomei like this, we are also benevolent to her, but she will still take revenge." ”
Lu Shi listened to her idioms one by one, and spoke in a clear manner, and it was not surprising that her little daughter was smart and she didn't know it on the first day, in this case, her two sons were not around, and she was the party to this disaster, and she was a fan of the authorities, so she couldn't think of a way to deal with it now, so she asked: "Yu'er, you say, what do we want now, my mother doesn't have the slightest idea, alas." ”
Yiyu was asked by her, and remembered her previous strategies, but after listening to Li Xiaomei's words, these ideas were rejected by her, that Wang matchmaker is indeed shrewd, according to what she said, once Mayor Zhang knows the truth, he will rob the Lu family to enter the door, not for anything else, just in the matter of Lu Zhi, if he lets go, when Lu Zhizhen is successful and comes back, it will inevitably be embarrassing to him, on the contrary, if he marries the Lu family, he will no longer have any worries, but will have more capable sons come out, so that anyone who has a brain knows how to choose, It must be a shrewd person for the mayor to be able to mix up with the current situation, and with the matchmaker Wang making a stumbling block, if you want to be good, it is not a difficult word, but it is impossible at all.
Seeing that Yu Yu didn't answer, Lu Shi also knew that things were difficult, and secretly said that he was in a panic and threw this problem to his little daughter, who was not yet nine years old.
"Yu'er, don't frown anymore, don't think about it if you can't think of it." Lu Shi stretched out his hand and gently stopped the jade sitting on the edge of the bed in his arms.
Yi Yu buried her head in Lu's chest, sniffed the faint heating on her body, and only raised her head again for a long time, met Lu's eyes looking at her, and said, "Mother, you won't marry that Mayor Zhang, will you?" ”
Lu nodded, "My mother will not remarry even if she dies, but now she can't help us." ”
Yi Yu took a deep breath, withdrew from Lu's embrace, pressed the back of Lu's hand on the quilt with a pair of small hands, and said, "Mother, let's go!" ”
"Let's go?" Lu Shi didn't understand the meaning of her words for a while, and asked rhetorically.
Yi Yu nodded and said, "Yes, let's go, get out of here, they can't find us, so naturally it's fine." ”
A look of surprise appeared on Lu's face, "You mean, we escaped?" Seeing that Yiyu nodded again, she shook her head and said: "Where to escape, there are still fields and properties at home, and we can't take these things with us when we leave." ”
"Mother, do you still take care of these at this time, but they said that they would come to pick up people at the beginning of spring, and it's only been a few days, let's quietly dispose of everything that can be sold, and then leave, otherwise are you really waiting to marry that person." Yi Yu's thoughts are not like those of this era, always sticking to the house and the land to survive, but leaving the hometown is a last resort, just like the Lu family ran away from home back then, but also forced to helpless, and she has some special skills, and she is naturally not afraid of not being able to survive in a different environment. Moreover, it is difficult to ride a tiger at the moment, and only by avoiding its edge can we escape, and leaving is the only way.
After hearing what she said, the Lu family did not answer, and the Yu Yu did not persecute her, knowing that she was reluctant to give up these properties for a while, thinking that when the Lu family first arrived, she must have suffered a little to have the stability when the Yu Yu came later.
"Mother, mother really doesn't want to marry that person." Lu Shi said this, but she felt extremely guilty in her heart, she now also knows that if she insists on not marrying, she can only take her daughter to leave her hometown, and she doesn't know how long she will have to live a hard life, she has endured hardships, but she feels sorry for her young daughter, and she can't make up her mind for a while.
"Mother, if you don't want to marry, then don't marry, let's leave, okay, Xiaoyu doesn't want to stay here anymore," Seeing that Lu's expression was relaxed, she said again: "Mother, do you remember the brother of the concubine's family, based on this alone, that Mayor Zhang is not a good match, if you really marry in the past, and the brothers are not at home, you and your daughter may not suffer any crime." This is a half-truth, if Lu Zhizhen returns to his hometown after becoming famous, who would dare to bully their mother and daughter, but Lu Shi was confused for a while and didn't think deeply, just hearing the fear and worry of Yu Yu, and thinking that these things outside the body are indeed not as important as the safety of the mother and daughter, his heart twisted, so he nodded and agreed.
"Alright, let's leave. It's just that in this way, the family's land and houses can't be moved, and if they are noticed, they can't go, so we need to sell some light ones, buy the travel expenses, and go to Kyoto-" When the word "Kyoto" was spoken, Lu Shi paused slightly, as if he hesitated, and then received it again, "First find a village near Kyoto to live in, and then go to your eldest brother and them." After speaking, she seemed to be afraid that the jade would not be known, and added: "Your eldest brother is about to take the exam, let's not go to block him, he will stay in Kyoto for a while after the exam, let's go to find him later, okay?" ”
"Done." The two of them didn't even think about what to do if Lu Zhi couldn't get into Chunqiu and returned home early, fortunately, Lu Zhi was a competitive person, and he was really recognized.
After the mother and daughter made a plan, Lu Shi only felt relieved, and the feeling of tightness in his chest had faded by half, and he immediately started his family with Yiyu.
The two only said that they would get up early tomorrow morning and go to the county seat to find a pawnshop to sell some money, and they could leave the day after tomorrow when they were ready, but they didn't know that a dark shadow squatted under the window outside their house and listened to their conversation seventy percent.
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Xu is heart to solve, although the two did not have a good night's sleep, when they got up in the morning, they were refreshed, they didn't eat breakfast and only brought some dry food and water, while the whole village was not awake, when the Oriental fish belly was not revealed, the mother and daughter drove the ox cart out of the village quietly.
It was not until noon that they returned properly, and when they passed by the village road, they were inevitably pointed out, because they wanted to leave, they didn't care much about the eyes of others, and when they returned to Lu's house, they locked the door tightly, and the Yu went to boil water, and Lu began to pack his bags.
"Xiaoyu, can you take all the winter clothes? This futon also brought two with it, and-" Yiyu was burning the fire, but saw Lu Shi lift the curtain of the stove room and walk in, looking at his face Although his eyes were slightly blue, he was no longer as pale as yesterday.
"Mother, look at the belt, we are not walking, as long as the ox cart can be pulled, then you can take it."
Lu Shi slapped his forehead lightly and said, "Look at my brain." With that, she turned and went out.
After the two of them finished lunch, they began to prepare dry food for the road, and Lu Shi directly made eight pancakes with large pot lids, which were mixed with most of the dandelion grass in the courtyard, which tasted very good, and put the boiling water to cool and filled five bamboo tubes, and wrapped them into the bag.
It was all ready in the evening, and only waited for the two to leave quietly in the second half of the night, Lu was afraid that Yu Yu would be sleepy when he was in a hurry at night, so he supported her to go to bed for a nap, and he looked at the sky outside the window, waiting for night to fall.
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Yu Yu was woken up by a quick knock on the door, and as soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Lu Shi sitting at the head of the bed and was about to get up, and called her in a low voice.
Lu Shi turned his head to see her wake up, and after answering, he said softly: "You get up and change your clothes first, and my mother will go and see who it is." ”
The knock on the door became louder and louder, and it seemed to be mixed with the voices of some people talking, and a few fires could still be faintly discerned through the cracks in the window, and Lu Shi had just lifted the curtain and walked out of the bedroom.
Yi Yu, who had already woken up from sleep, instantly felt the strange atmosphere of the night, the uneasiness flowing in the air made her anxious, and when she saw Lu Shi walk out, she didn't even have time to put on her shoes, so she rolled out of bed, jumped behind her in a few steps, and grabbed her.
"What's wrong?" Lu Shi asked in a low voice, and her heart began to feel faintly uneasy because of the increasing movement outside.
Yi Yu didn't answer, her little body twisted forward past her mother, stood behind the door of the hall, looked out through the crack in the door, and the next moment, she covered her mouth and took two steps back, Lu Shi stepped forward suspiciously and looked at the crack in the door.
I saw a few clusters of firelight outside, in front of the door was the old face of the matchmaker Wang, standing next to the Wang family, the two knocked on the door of the Lu family together, from their side, two men stood in the small courtyard with torches in their hands, and among the three empty-handed people stood a short man wearing a blue dark coat and an orange forging jacket, who was holding his lips with one hand and looking at the door.
Suddenly, Mrs. Wang put her face close to the crack in the door, and the frightened Lu family took a few steps back in a panic and almost hit Yi Yu, when she heard a conversation in a low voice from outside the door.
"Guixiang, won't they have already escaped?"
"No way, the cow is still in the yard, I heard them say last night that they will leave the ox cart after the fourth watch tonight."
"Then knock again, knock hard."
After that, the two of them banged on the door again, and the two people of Yiyu had never experienced such a scene in person, so they could only suppress the shock with their excellent psychological quality, and in a moment they understood that the conversation between their two mothers must have been overheard last night, and after secretly saying bad luck, they were pulled back to the house lightly by the Lu family, who came back to their senses.
"Mother, they actually blocked us." Fortunately, Yu Yu was a little calm, and after entering the house, he whispered to the Lu family.
Lu Shi was also flustered, and in this black rumbling room, she could only vaguely discern a little embarrassed on her face, but she didn't listen to her for a long time, until a man's shout sounded in the courtyard, and then she hurriedly jumped to the bed, and whispered to Yu Yu: "Quick, take the package, let's jump out of the window behind the stove." ”
Who would have thought that as soon as she touched the side of the bed in her hand, the door outside was slammed open, and then she couldn't react, the Wang family had already lifted the curtain and walked in, followed by a young man holding a torch.
"Yo, where are you going with your bags and packages?" Wang's sour voice sounded, and his eyes swept over the bedside full of several sorted packages and bags.
At this point, the Lu family couldn't care about fear anymore, reached out and pulled the jade behind his back, and said in a loud voice: "I want to ask you, what are you doing at my house in the middle of the night." ”
"Erniang, you are a noble person, don't you say that you will be welcomed back to Zhangzhen in a few days, Master Zhang is afraid that you will be in a hurry, so don't you order us to pick you up in advance." Mrs. Wang walked out from behind Wang, but what she said was a big nonsense, how could someone break into a house in the middle of the night to pick up the new daughter-in-law.
"You black-hearted mother-in-law, you are the one who designed to harm me so far!" The enemy was very red when he saw him, Lu learned from Li Xiaomei last night that he was framed so far that it was all the evil plan of the person in front of him, if it weren't for the fact that there was a relic jade behind her, she really wanted to pounce on her and bite her twice to relieve her hatred.
"Look at what you said, didn't you suck me, but now I keep saying that I hurt you, alas, it's not easy to be a matchmaker these days, I'm afraid of meeting someone like you who turns his face again, but fortunately, our Master Zhang is a man with a face, how can I let you fool." After speaking, she pulled Wang to the side, and Yu Yu bit her lip and poked her head out from behind Lu's back, and at a glance saw the man who walked in with the curtain lifted.
It was the little beard she saw standing in the middle of the courtyard before, but judging from his age, he was more than thirty, not Mayor Zhang, who was over fifty years old that year.
"What nonsense here, my brother-in-law married her to give her face, what she promised before, but now she wants to find death and can't survive, some dead mothers-in-law, take them away!" This person is the brother of the mayor's concubine, the ruffian hooligan named Zheng Li, but when I see it today, he looks like a dog.
As soon as the words fell, two gray-clothed men rushed in, and when they saw the Lu mother and daughter, they pounced.
"Don't come here!" Lu Shi screamed and suppressed the remnant jade behind him, and stiffened his body to prevent her from getting out, and the remnant jade was pressed by her to death, and he couldn't break it at all, and in his heart, he shouted: "You dare!" Aren't you afraid that my eldest brother will come back and want you to look good! ”
The two family members hesitated and didn't know whether to continue to step forward, Zheng Li noticed the little girl hiding behind the Lu family, raised her short eyebrows, and sneered: "What you said is that the 'lifter' master of your family can't succeed?" Ha, when your mother crosses the door of Zhang's house, I'm afraid that he will shout at my uncle when he sees me! ”
This person has been accustomed to growing up like crazy in recent years, and his sister is extremely favored by Mayor Zhang, and the main house has been killed and I don't see the old man Zhang getting angry, so he naturally has developed a temperament that is not afraid of heaven and earth, and when he was a ruffian, he relied on a ruthless spirit, where would he see the threat of the little girl Yuyu in his eyes. In his heart, even if Lu Zhi came back after the exam, he was only on the same level as his brother-in-law, and he was still a head shorter than himself in terms of seniority, and he resented that this Lu family had robbed his sister of the position that he had not been able to get, and knew that Mayor Zhang's marriage to the Lu family was just to keep an incense, how could he have a good face with her mother.
"What are you still doing in a daze, you don't want the money this month, take it away!"
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Thank you for the pink ticket that is not afraid of the rain, and the PK ranking of the fruit is not too miserable, and the 4000-word chapter is presented. By the way, cheekily ask for PP.
People who don't like to rob the people and girls bear with it.,The next chapter will start to turn.,Well,Probably there's an important role in the next chapter or the next chapter.,Ha.。