"Really? Lost here? You should take the main road, go down the mountain and out of the village, and take the main road to Annai County. ”

The middle-aged uncle looked at the two girls suspiciously and explained to them.

"Thank you, uncle." Ding Ningmo didn't say that he would go to Chancheng just now, Chancheng is a long way away, and he has to buy a horse or carriage to go home.

There was a voice in her heart, Ji Yunxiao must still be in Annai County, as long as she insists, she will definitely be able to see him.

"You're welcome, girl, I saw that the village down the hill was the village of the old man's family."

"Oh, then please lead the way."

"Hehe, okay."

They followed the uncle down the mountain path and came to a village with very dilapidated houses, and there were probably only a few dozen families at the bottom of the mountain.

Maybe there is more land, and the yard of each house is relatively large, and the house is surrounded by mud bricks.

"Girl, the road over there is to go out of the village, and it is quite far from here to Annai County, I heard that there are bandits in the mountain ahead, and yesterday I heard the sound of weapons.

Your girl's family is in danger like this! There were no carriages. And if you don't have horses, you may walk like this until it gets dark. ”

"Ah, what about Miss?" The maid walked down the mountain and fell a few times, feeling that her hands and feet were very painful, imagining walking for an afternoon, and maybe she met a thief again and returned to her nest?

Ding Ningmo was silent for a moment, feeling that it was impossible to walk, and he had to rent transportation.

In such a poor village, she didn't expect to have a luxury carriage, maybe she didn't even have a horse, she couldn't ask too much, as long as she could send this village back to Annai County,

"Uncle, do you have an ox cart or a donkey cart or anything like that in your village?"

"Are the girls rich? If you have money, you can still hire an ox cart, this ox is expensive in our village, and the people who use it to make ox carts are expensive to buy and sell. ”

"How expensive can it be?" The maid muttered quietly, they used to ride in a luxury carriage.

Ding Ningmo stopped the maid from saying, it was before, but this time they encountered a catastrophe and almost escaped death.

When they came out, they were in a hurry, and they only brought a little clothes, and when they were caught, all the silver coins and jewelry on their bodies were collected.

Later, when they were asked to come out, they were only given ordinary gold hairpins and silver hairpins as jewelry on their heads.

At this moment, they have no silver on their bodies, so what kind of luxury can they talk about? Later, I will see one step at a time, hoping to meet people from my hometown, borrow a little silver tael, or help send letters to my family.

If it is better to hitchhike, it is to meet a nobleman.

Ding Ningmo took off a silver hairpin from his head and said to the uncle: "Uncle, please ask the ox cart to know if this silver hairpin is enough?" We have no money on us. ”

"Enough, enough, please ask for an ox cart, it's only a tael of silver, this silver hairpin is a lot."

The uncle had saved a silver tael for a long time, and it cost two taels of silver to buy a hairpin, and the silver hairpin did not have the beautiful weight of the hairpin in the girl's hand.

"Uncle Trouble"

"Don't bother, don't bother, let's do good deeds and accumulate virtue, the two girls are waiting here, waiting for the old man to put the firewood and the rabbit in his hand at home, and ask the girl to ask for an ox cart."

"Hmm"

Ding Ningmo and the maid stood in place, they didn't dare to enter other people's houses, they were not embarrassed, they always felt that every place was not safe.

"Miss, you gave the silver hairpin, and we don't have silver taels on us, what should we do in the future?"

There were also two silver hairpins on the maid's head, and she was reluctant to take them out just now.

"Money is just something outside the body, as long as we can reach Annai County safely, we will find a way."

"But Miss, when we go to that county, we are still not familiar with the place, so it is better to ask the car to take us to Chancheng."

"This is not appropriate, it is a long way to go back, it is already past noon at the moment, and I can't go back to Chancheng, where are we going to live in the dark?"

"That's right, it's not okay, that's not good, it's really unlucky."

……

The uncle brought the firewood to the house and said to the family with a smile: "Haha, I was lucky today and picked up a rabbit in the trap." ”

The family only eats two meals a day, and it is the first meal at noon, and the family is waiting for him to eat.

He has a son and two daughters, the son is sixteen or seventeen years old and has not yet married a wife, and the two daughters are a little younger, and they will be old enough to marry in a year or two.

"Daddy, it's really good, our family hasn't eaten meat for a long time, and tonight we slaughtered this rabbit to eat."

The uncle's lady was a little reluctant to say, "What are you slaughtering?" Now it's not long before the New Year, and you can keep it for the holidays, and you can sell it to make some money. ”

The two daughters of her family, the girls have no right to speak, they smile and don't speak, usually they do some embroidery, but also to get some family.

"Okay, listen to my mother." The uncle's son could only wipe his saliva and happily give some grass to the rabbit to eat.

"Eat first! I'm going to help someone find an ox cart. ”

When his wife heard this, she couldn't help but feel strange.

"Husband, who are you helping? It's noon now, and everyone is back, so it's time for the ox carts to rest, right? ”

"Hehe, there are two girls passing by outside, do them a favor."

The uncle explained to the lady and the family who looked at him.

"A girl passing by? How can there be a passing girl here? ”

"I don't know, just now in the middle of the mountain, these two girls said that they were lost, and said that they went to Annai County to visit relatives."

"Is there such a thing?"

"Don't talk about it, people are waiting outside."

The uncle walked out of the courtyard of his house, and there was a figure who walked faster than him, and the son of his family, when he reached the age of marrying a wife, was the time to think about it, and when he heard that there was a girl, he didn't care about etiquette, and ran out of the door to take a look.

The kid froze and saw a fairy-like beauty.

Ding Ningmo and the maid were waiting outside, and it was not an uncle who was waiting, but a sixteen or seventeen-year-old man, dressed in coarse cloth clothes and wearing cloth shoes on his feet.

Ding Ningmo saw this stunned and looked at her blankly, at this moment in such a strange place, she couldn't shyly scold people, she was in trouble at the moment, and she asked for help.

The maid pouted and snorted softly and turned her face away, such a crop man, don't say that her young lady doesn't look down on her, let alone her.

The maid has always thought that Miss will marry into a big family, and she can be a concubine next to Miss.

This kind of farmer's wife must have to work before dawn, 365 days a year, so she doesn't want it.

When the uncle went out of the door and saw his son's appearance, he couldn't help sighing, they are in a poor place, and the girls from good families outside are unwilling to marry in, and the girls can easily marry out.

He was also worried, but he looked at the two girls in front of him, not like a girl from the countryside, and he didn't have that guts.

"Two girls, uncle, I'm going to ask you for an ox cart."

"Hmm" Ding Ningmo nodded, she could feel that this uncle had no malicious intent.

The boy had been standing at the door and watching, and his mother and two sisters also walked out.

When I saw the two women at the door, I couldn't help but admire, they were really fairy-like people.

(End of chapter)