The two sisters-in-law of the eighth wife and the sister-in-law of Niu took over the business of collecting mountain goods in the village, and they were busy collecting mountain goods every day.

These days are the season when the peaches are ripe, and the people in the village see that no one wants peaches in previous years, but some people pay to collect them this year, although they are cheap, but they can also earn a pocket money, right? Everyone got together and took advantage of the slack to pick in the mountains, and then sent it to the two of them to exchange for silver, paying the money with one hand and delivering the goods with the other.

Early this morning, Niu's sister-in-law's family set up a stall under the big locust tree in the village to collect mountain goods, Niu Dan asked Yu'er to go to see the stall, Lan Yi told Yu'er to take care of her brother, and let them out.

She was tidying up the chores at home, and since the summer, Lan Yi had thrown the crushed wheat straw into the roll pit to make manure, and had cleared it out four times, all of which were pulled to the bottom of the hillside to make manure. At the same time, the oil residue in the oil mill also pulled back several cars, according to the method said by Zhao Huajiang fertilizer, this autumn peony fertilization will be more than last year, next year's peony can bloom bright flowers, more seeds.

After tidying up the things at home, Lan Yi put the basket on her back and led the donkey and goat to the hillside. The two goats in the family were pregnant with cubs again, and it looked like they would have cubs in another month, Lan Yi was worried every time she looked at their big bellies, and Yu'er and the two guessed that they would give birth to a few lambs this time.

Passing by the village under the big locust tree, the eight mothers and two sisters-in-law and the Niu sister-in-law were all smiling, Niu Wentian, the eldest son of the Niu sister-in-law, Niu Xiuyao and the eight women and two sisters-in-law's men were all sweating on Tuesday to check the fruits sent by the villagers over the scales.

Yu'er and the baby are sitting on the stones under the tree eating snacks, helping to take care of the piles of mountain peaches, which are transported to the mountain goods store in the county town in the afternoon, and turned into the Qingshan fruit workshop behind the mountain goods store, processed into canned food and stored.

Sister-in-law Niu and Sister-in-law are busy weighing the peaches, the peaches are smaller than the peaches at home, they ripen later, and they are a lot more sour, and the people in the village don't like to eat them, but Lan Yi has tried it, and it tastes very good when canned.

"Mother." When the two children saw Lan Yi coming, they hurried to catch up.

Lan Yi tidied up their clothes and handed them a bamboo tube of warm water, they sweated a lot in the hot weather, and it was not okay not to replenish water.

The eighth wife and the second sister-in-law saw Lan Yi leading a donkey, followed by three goats, so she smiled and said, "Brother and sister, look at this goat's belly, tsk!" ”

"Two sisters-in-law, business is good." Lan Yi said with a smile, Niu Wentian and Niu Xiuyao also grinned at her, Tuesday was all an honest man, and he only knew how to work with his head bored.

Sister-in-law Niu just settled the account, paid the copper plate and said, "It's not about making hard money." ”

Familiar people in the village also came to say hello, and Lan Yi responded one by one before saying to the two children: "Are you playing here, or are you going to the hillside with your mother?" ”

Yu'er looked back at Niu Dan: "Mother, I want to guard the peaches for Niu Dan, I can't go." ”

The baby pulled Lan Yi's sleeve: "Pick up eggs." ”

Lan Yi nodded, pulled the baby and said, "Yu'er, don't follow people you don't know, have fun here, you know?" ”

Yu'er nodded, Lan Yi took the baby to the hillside, and the peony seedlings on the hillside were almost sold in the past two days. There was no one on the hillside, so Lan Yi took the baby and put the donkey and goat into the bamboo pen to feed the ducks.

Ducks can be eaten on the hillside, Lan Yi put some rice bran sundries in the small bamboo hut by the pond, and fed the ducks every day, plus the grass on the hillside, the ducks are all full, and there is a pond to bathe, naturally they all look white and clean, and live very freely.

A few days ago, when the peony corners were harvested, the ducks of Lan Yi and Second Uncle Wang's family were enclosed on the edge of the pond and were not put into the peony garden. One is because the circle is good for feeding, and the other reason is that Zhao Huajiang found that although there are advantages and disadvantages to raising ducks in the peony garden, when the duck manure is not dry, it also has some impact on the peony tree.

After seeing the symptoms of bad skin on the branches of several peonies, Zhao Huajiang hurriedly smeared it with stone sulfur mixture, and cleaned up the duck manure in the garden.

Fortunately, the hillside area is large, the peonies are not planted, and there is a large area of grass to graze ducks.

"Mother, less." The baby only found two or three duck eggs, and said unhappily with a small mouth.

Lan Yi smiled, it's only morning, ducks lay eggs in the middle of now, it's naturally early now: "Baby, go, go with your mother to the side to pick some peppers and go back, dry them and grind them into powder, and my mother will give you pancakes to eat." ”

When the baby heard the food, he quickly took his mother's hand and walked up, and then the hillside went east in addition to the trench dug, Lan Yi transplanted a lot of fruit tree saplings in the spring.

These fruit trees include hazelnuts, chestnuts, pecans, hawthorns, peppers, etc., and this year they all have a few sparse fruits. This year, the village began to collect mountain goods, and it was impossible for Lan Yi to pick many fruits in the mountains, and these few trees could be regarded as reserved for the family's tooth sacrifice.

The baby squatted under the tree to pick wild chrysanthemums to play, and Lan Yi tiptoed to the pepper tree to pick the pepper and put it in the basket next to her. At this time, the mountain breeze is very comfortable, since the peony seedlings on the mountain are almost sold, the Liu family also returned the big dog back to his parents' house, and the hillside has returned to the calm of the past.

The sound of brushing grass came, Lan Yi felt a strong sense of crisis, and hurriedly turned back to look for the baby, but saw a tall and thin man holding a cloth towel in his hand to cover her mouth, and it was too late to hide.

Covered by a cloth towel, Lan Yi struggled hard, but there was a comatose drug in the cloth, and she saw that the baby was unconscious and was held in the arms of another short man.

A wave of dizziness hit, Lan Yi knew that she was about to die, her heart was cold, and she only had time to take off the bracelet she was wearing and throw it in the grass, and then fainted.

The two men stunned the mother and son, looked left and right at no one, threw the baskets on the ground into the trench and covered them with grass, picked them up and quickly climbed over the hillside, and put them into the carriage hidden in the woods at the bottom of the slope.

Then, the tall and thin man drove the carriage swaggering through the path through Beigou Village, and went straight to the outside of the village.

At ten o'clock in the afternoon, Yu'er and Niu Dan separated and rushed home. When he saw that the door of the house was locked, he ran to the hillside to look for his mother and younger brother, but he didn't notice that the two of them ran to the slope south of the village to look around. In the end, he went to the second grandfather's house strangely, but he didn't find it, and when he turned home and saw that the door was still locked, he panicked and ran into Zhou Weiji's house crying.

Zhou Weiji was washing clothes at home, and when he saw Yu'er crying and came in, he hurriedly greeted him and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Yu'er pulled Zhou Weiji's arm and cried: "Second uncle, it's not good, my mother and brother are gone." ”

Zhou Weiji frowned, he still heard Lan Yi's voice in the morning, how could it be gone: "Didn't you go to the hillside?" ”

Yu'er shook her head and sobbed and said, "No, Yu'er has looked for it, but there is no, neither the second grandfather's house nor the third uncle's house." ”

Zhou Weiji felt bad when he heard it, he knew that Lan Yi rarely visited the door: "Where did your mother say she went in the end?" ”

The mother led the donkey and the three bleating to the hillside, and they were all there, but the mother and the younger brother were gone. Wow...... Second uncle, my mother will not leave Yu'er alone, she must have been caught by a tiger in the mountains. ”

Zhou Weiji patted Yu'er's little arm: "I'll go to the hillside to have a look." Yu'er, you go to the house of the second grandfather and Grandpa Lizheng, and tell them to help find it, quickly! ”

With that, he dodged out of the courtyard and ran quickly to the hillside to the east of the village.

Zhou Weiji knocked on Zhao Shangjing's door first, he was not at home at this time. He turned and stood on a high place, shouting, "Brother and sister, baby, are you there?" ”

The mountain breeze was blowing, the ducks were croaking, the goats and the donkeys were resting quietly in the shade of the grass, and there were shadows of two people.

Zhou Wei stared at the round tiger's eyes, searched quickly on the hillside, and soon found a clump of grass in the trench that was about to wither, found a bamboo basket, and found Lan Yi's silver bracelet in the grass.

He picked up the bracelet and held it tightly in his hand, and the cool table calmed him down and carefully explored the marks on the ground.

Soon, he spotted the departing footprints on the edge of the trench and chased him to the side of the cart in the woods. The car left the forest and entered the village, and Zhou Weiji could no longer track the imprint of the car.

Zhao Lizheng came over with a few people, and when he saw Zhou Weiji, he immediately asked, "How is it?" ”

Zhou Weiji shook his head: "Something happened." There were only baskets on the hillside, and I found my brother and sister's bracelets, and two rows of footprints were on the side of the carriage parked in the forest behind the hillside. ”

Zhao Lizheng hurriedly ordered the people around him: "Quick, ring the bell and gather." ”

The hurried bell rang, and the second uncle Wang, who went to the south of the village to look for it, also ran back, and everyone gathered in the village, Yu'er stood under the old locust tree and was held in Chen's arms crying.

"This one who killed a thousand knives must have a bad heart and kidnapped his sister-in-law and child to ransom the silver." Liu gritted his teeth and said, Lin Yuan was not at home at this time, and she was panicked when her sister-in-law was gone, and she was not afraid to ask for silver, she was afraid that her sister-in-law and the child would have a good relationship.

"That's it, what can I do, my brother and sister are such good people, how can these people do it!"

Another person shouted in confusion: "It's not that she was kidnapped by the bandits, Lin Shan's daughter-in-law is white, and it's over if you catch it!" ”

"I'm afraid it's a kidnapper, otherwise why would I even catch the child together. Oh, where did my big mountain go? No, I'll have to look for it. ”

Zhao Lizheng saw that everyone was in a mess, and struck the bell again: "Shut up for me, what a mess." Wei Ji, you say! ”

Zhou Weiji had already gone home at this time and led the horse over, stood in the crowd and told the story, and asked, "Did you see a horse pulling a cart out?" The coachman should be an adult man, and the carriage must have a shed, and it is on the path north of the village. ”

The people in the village looked at each other, and a woman shouted: "I saw one, a yellow horse, a blue shed, and the driver was a man in his fifties, and his clothes were quite bright." ”

When Zhou Weiji heard this, he took a step to the woman and frightened her to take a step back.

"When did it pass, and what other features did the carriage have?"

The woman breathed, "It's going to be two hours, and the dew hasn't cleared yet, so I'll go to the back of the house and pour water." ”

Someone shouted again: "I also saw the car, the man who drove the car came a few days ago, and asked me about the peony seedlings of the second uncle's house." ”

"What does that man look like?" When Zhou Weiji heard that these people had actually explored the road in advance, he felt even more uncomfortable.

"About fifty-four or five years old, tall and thin, with a long face, a dark face, and a blue-green silk dress."

Zhou Weiji nodded, and shouted around again: "Who else has seen it?" ”

The villagers put forward a few clues, but they only knew that the carriage left the village and no one knew where it went.

Lei Tianze got the news and rushed over from Yixue, listened to everyone's words, turned around and instructed Qianmo: "Go, bring my chasing wind and saber." ”

Qianmo nodded and hurriedly ran back.

Lei Tianze walked into the crowd: "The matter is clear, my sister-in-law and child were taken away by this carriage, Brother Zhou, do you have an idea?" ”

Zhou Weiji nodded: "Uncle Zhao, Second Uncle Wang, you arrange for people to chase along the road out of the village, and when you see the carriage, you must stop it, if you can't stop it, follow closely and send someone back to deliver the letter; Send a few more men to guard the village to see if anyone sends a message back to ask for silver; I rode along the road to chase after me, and went to the county seat to mobilize the yamen to hunt and search everywhere. As soon as there is news, it will be sent to the yamen, Uncle Zhao, without further ado, I will set off immediately. ”

Zhao Lizheng nodded, and Second Uncle Wang anxiously pulled Zhou Weiji's arm and said, "Weiji, it's up to you this time." ”

Qianmo led the chasing wind over, Lei Tianze took the saber and straddled his waist, turned over and got on the horse: "Brother Zhou, you go north, I go south, everyone in the village goes west, let's chase separately." ”

To the north is the county seat, and Zhou Wei is very good at arranging manpower; Two villages to the south are deep in the mountains, and Lei Tianze must explore; To the west are many villages, and the villagers are looking for them.

After that, Lei Tianze pulled the reins, chasing the wind as fast as lightning and rushed out, at this time he was like a sword out of the sheath, sharp and sharp, where is still the gentle scholar on weekdays. R1152