32 Dark Shadows
Mu Tan came back from eating at An Chuxia's house and took out a letter from the desk drawer by the window of the room.
After reading it, the originally light face became dark, "Ha! Urge me to go back, what do you want from me?! ”
Mu Tan raised his head and looked into the gloomy courtyard, only to see a black shadow climbing over the courtyard wall next door.
He hurriedly wanted to go out and call someone, but he didn't know what to think, and suddenly stopped.
Then he curled the corners of his lips and shook his head.
An Chuxia took a breath and quickly ran to Jingwangzhuang, four or five miles away, and climbed into a large rural family living in a courtyard with two entrances.
After entering, I took a look at the location where the house was built, and went straight to the west main house.
The east main room must be a room for the older owners of the family, and the west main room is the room for the children of the family.
It is said that Wang Fugui's sister and sister are all married.
He is the only one who lives in the west main house now.
There are seven or eight houses in the second row, and when An Chuxia was in the west second room, he heard the sound of someone sleeping and snoring inside.
A servant does not live in a row of houses with his master, and he doesn't have to think about the house to know who lives in it.
An Chuxia took out the self-defense dagger she had bought at the ironsmith shop and easily opened the wooden door bolt.
Her steps were as agile as a cat, and she quietly walked to the bed, and pressed the acupuncture points on the neck of the sleeping Wang Fugui.
Wang Fugui, who was asleep, stopped snoring and fainted.
Thanks to the original owner's natural strength, An Chuxia easily carried a person of more than 200 catties, came to the courtyard wall and threw the person over first, and climbed over the wall by himself.
As for whether Wang Fugui will be injured after being thrown out of the wall, it is no longer within the scope of An Chuxia's consideration.
An Chuxia carried Wang Fugui to a wood, and then threw it to the ground.
Kicked a few times with his foot on several acupuncture points on his body.
Wang Fugui snorted a few times and slowly woke up, on a summer night, even if there is no moon, he will not say that he can't see his fingers in the dark.
When he opened his eyes and saw a dark figure standing in front of him, he was so frightened that he groaned, and his fat body rolled around a few times and sat up.
A trembling voice: "You... What are you... What East... West!
Still... Still is... Person! ”
The sound of the night breeze rustling the leaves adds to the ghostly color.
Dressed in black, with his head and face wrapped in a cloth towel of the same color, An Chuxia stood there without saying a word.
Wang Fugui was even more frightened, knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, crying bitterly and begging to spare his life.
"Silver, I have a lot of silver in my family, as long as you are willing to let me go, I am willing to give you whatever you want."
An Chuxia looked at this son of the landlord who had thousands of acres of fertile land at home, who was usually arrogant and domineering, and could not be a lifetime.
Now Wang Fugui, who has snot and tears on his face, can't help but feel bored for a while when he is like this!
Thinking of my brother being dragged off the ox cart, a layer of skin was peeled off his back.
Brother Runsheng was beaten and there were scars everywhere, An Chuxia's eyes narrowed, and Wang Fugui, who knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
Unhurriedly, he walked up to Wang Fugui like a ghost in the night, kicked him in the chest, and kicked him over.
Then a foot stepped on his calf bone, and the only click that was heard broke and the sound of killing pigs broke through the grove.
"If you bully innocent people in the future, it's not as simple as breaking a leg." A rugged and hoarse male voice warned.
When someone in Jingwangzhuang heard the sound, they took torches and went into the grove to find out.
I saw a fat and round man, curled up and holding his legs, humming in pain.
An Chuxia quickly withdrew from the grove after warning Wang Fugui, and her figure disappeared into the hazy night.
Mu Tan sat at the stone table in his courtyard, close to the oil cover lamp on the stone table, looking at the medical book in his hand.
An Chuxia climbed over the wall of her own courtyard, and naturally looked towards the light next door, looking at each other, she nodded towards Mu Tan, and jumped into her yard with a calm expression.
Mu Tan showed a shallow smile and returned to the house with the oil cover lamp.
Within two days, the son of the landlord of the king was carried out in the dark and broke his leg, and the news spread all over the four villages and eight neighbors.
The villagers who had been persecuted and treated by his family couldn't help but secretly scream in their hearts.
Mu Tan also knew what someone had done that night.
On this day, An's second grandmother learned that An Jinchen was injured and came to visit with a basket of eggs, and heard that An Chuxia was going to Fucheng to prepare for the exam the next day.
Because An Jinchen and Runsheng were both injured, An Chuxia said that he was unwilling to let the two of them go together.
So I slapped my thigh What is there to be embarrassed about, the An family is not only your An Jinchen, a brother surnamed An.
So he immediately ran home and called his third son, who was twenty-five or sixteen years old and already had two children, to accompany his niece to the entrance examination.
"Xiao Xia! Your third cousin in our family read books for a few days when he was a child and knew a few words.
People are quite clever, let him follow you and help you get something and run errands! ”
An Chuxia scratched her head, in fact, she wanted to say that she could go to Fucheng to take the exam alone.
But in ancient times, as long as it was not a single family, like someone in the family who went to take the imperial examination, someone accompanied him to take care of and help run errands.
After all, in ancient times, the same clan and the same virtue were still very important.
And if she refuses like this, the enthusiastic and kind Grandma An will definitely feel uncomfortable.
An Chuxia looked at the sturdy man standing behind Grandma An, and called out politely, "Third cousin!" ”
An Shouyu said heartily: "Usually I always do odd jobs outside, but I didn't expect Xiao Xia to grow so big."
Now we are going to take the imperial examination and glorify the lintel for our old family. ”
"The third cousin has won the award, I don't know if I can pass the government exam this time!"
"Don't say anything frustrating, you will definitely be able to pass the test, I believe in Xiao Xia!" Grandma An is old and a little superstitious, so they are not allowed to say these unfavorable things before the exam.
Although An Jinchen was already able to get up and do some work within his ability, after all, the woman who was drugged was a little ruthless, and there was a wound on his back, and his face was still a little pale.
Originally, he didn't worry about his sister going to Fucheng to take the exam alone, but now he was accompanied by the third cousin of the second grandmother's family, so he was relieved.
An's second grandfather and grandmother's family have good character, and when their brothers and sisters were kicked out, they didn't help them less.
Just because they have many families, and the rural families are not rich, they can give a bowl of gruel to drink and half a cake to eat when they are hungry, then they are considered good-hearted people.
Before dawn the next day, An Chuxia and An Shouyu were asked to take leave to take care of their younger brother Runsong at home, and they were sent to the door of Gu's house in Qingshi Town in an ox cart.
When An arrived in the early summer, the carriage teacher Gu Tongsheng had already hired and waited there.
This time I went to Nanlin Mansion, but my wife Gu didn't go with me, because the space of a carriage was limited, and it couldn't do so many people at all.
An Shouyu sat on the carriage frame in front of him and chatted with the groom who was driving the carriage.
An Chuxia, Gu Fangmiao, and Gu Tongsheng sat in the carriage, and after the people arrived, the coachman drove the carriage away gradually.
Gu and Runsong stood there watching them leave.