Chapter 38: Banditry
The weather was a little gloomy on the day the Meiberry family moved, but fortunately, the sun was shining a few days ago, and their house was already dry and sunburned, so now is the best time to move back.
Her father was still muttering that after this spring rain, the cucumber seedlings that their family had previously obtained from the system could also be planted in the vegetable field.
When the rain had passed, he repaired the fence wall in the yard, and dotted the corners with beans and winter melons, and they all came to life.
Mei Youqian couldn't wait to carry the most luggage in front of her, and discussed with her wife who was holding some small things along the way about moving home.
And Plum Berry naturally followed last, holding the mule cub in her hand and the fat tiger in her arms, and suddenly felt that she was the only one in their family who really dragged the family.
"Catch Ming'er and I'll go to the town again, I heard the third child say that it is time to get the first breeding of seedlings, didn't he buy a piece of land before, planning to plant some soybeans and mung beans, he reminded me like this, our vegetable fence is waiting for me to tie up, do you want to order some beans too?
I made an appointment with him to go to the town before dawn tomorrow morning, and there will be a market tomorrow, and it is estimated that there will be a lot of things to sell, and then I will buy some things to come to the house, by the way, are the duck eggs at home finished? Shall I buy some more eggs and come back? ”
"Well, buy some and come back, and see if there are any chicks or ducklings for sale. After raising some raw eggs, you don't have to buy other people's eggs every day.
Yesterday, the boy in Widow Chen's house in the village was a little hot these days, and he needed to make soup with some wild vegetables and duck eggs that had been removed from the fire, so I took the last two duck eggs and exchanged them for three eggs. Hey, their little hen has just opened the nest, and the eggs are very small, ......."
Mei Youqian and Wei Meili walked in front and talked non-stop.
Mei Berry also remembered about the old hen, this chicken is still squatting in the system, and she will have to talk to her parents later.
When the time comes, she took advantage of her father's reason to buy something, and then called "Ming Lu"~
Plum Berry can see it clearly, every time Mei You sees the mule cub's indescribable expression these days.
The clear path of the system is really dark enough.
"Berry Treasure, Berry Treasure?"
Mei Berry was distracted, and when she heard her father calling herself, she looked up at her father, and heard Mei Youqian ask, "Will you go to town with me tomorrow?" ”
"Go."
Plum berries are still very interested in shopping on the street.
This Jinshui Village walked from the head of the village to the end of the village, even if it was so slow and leisurely, their family walked in a quarter of an hour.
When they returned to the home that belonged to their family of three, even standing in the yard, Meiberry felt relieved.
It's finally back!
Mei Berry put down the fat tiger and entered the hall, where the weeds that had grown on the ground were pulled out and the ground was leveled again.
Although there is no furniture in the room at the moment, there will definitely be one in the future.
Next door to the hall is the bedroom, a bedroom, a "across the north and south" of the big kang to see the plum berry that is called a comfortable.
There are also small tables and small partitions made of bamboo on the ground, which are the handwriting of my father.
Although the house is not big, the family sleeps together, but the small partition can be regarded as an alternative to make a private space for Meiberry.
The windows were also repaired by her father, and considering that the earthen house was low and the room was not bright in the first place, her father enlarged the windows on the front and back walls a lot.
A few days ago, because of the need for exposure to the sun and ventilation, the window is open at the moment, and the wind is blowing back and forth, and the plum berries can think that this house is definitely not hot in summer.
It's just that this window still has shortcomings, there is no screen, and if you want to ventilate it in summer, the mosquitoes will definitely not be able to run.
I have to find a way to get some gauze and make some interior windows.
Realizing this, Meiberry hurried out and planned to tell her father about it, but as soon as she went out, she found that her parents were not at home!
"What about people?"
Mei Berry stood in the yard and could see the whole house at a glance, including no one in the yard.
The whole family, except for herself, was also a mule cub and a fat tiger.
Fat Tiger and Mule Cub heard Plum Berry's voice and each cried.
"Huh? Just came back and went out? ”
After learning about her parents' whereabouts from Fat Tiger and the mule cub, Plum Berry was not in a hurry and sat down on the stone bench in the yard to rest for a while.
After waiting for a long time, she looked at the couple who came back with buckets.
"Dad, you're all going to fetch water?"
Not every household in the village has a well in their yard, and most of the families drink water from a well under an old ginkgo tree in the center of the village.
"I'm going to fetch water, and your mother just went to say hello to the neighbor at the door and came back."
Hearing that her mother had just gone to chat with her neighbors, Meiberry also curiously asked her mother what she had been talking about.
From the moment Wei Meili entered the courtyard just now, it seemed that she had something to say, and when Mei Berry asked, Wei Meili immediately opened her mouth-
"Wait, I'll pour water into the tank and take me a piece!"
As soon as Mei Youqian heard that the two of them had something to say, he immediately became anxious to listen to his own ears, and poured the water he brought back into the kitchen tank two points faster.
"Virtue~" Glancing at Mei Youqian's unsteady appearance, Wei Meili dusted off the coarse cloth skirt on her body and said, "Okay, let's go to the house, boil water, and talk slowly." ”
Boil a pot of boiling boiling water, Wei Meili scooped up the boiling water and poured it on the eggs that had been beaten in the bowl in the morning, and there was a piece of brown sugar at the bottom of each bowl.
The boiling water was quickly washed down, and soon, three bowls of brown sugar egg drop sand soup were ready.
"When I came back today, I saw two more men chopping wood in Aunt Wang's yard, and then I heard Aunt Wang say that her two sons had returned."
After sharing a bowl of sand soup, Wei Meili started talking about the topic she had talked about with her neighbors before.
When she was boiling the water just now, her mother talked a lot about the things she heard outside.
It's nothing more than chickens flying and dogs jumping in the village, and occasionally some gossip news from the next village.
However, the matter of Aunt Wang's family was put by her mother at the end, which shows how important it is.
"Her son, I remember that a few days ago, Aunt Wang said that she wasn't working on the dock? How did this come back? It is a good season for spring flowers to bloom and transport from south to north, and the wharf is naturally lively, and there is a lot of work. ”
Mei Youqian also remembered that a few days ago, Aunt Wang said that his son went to work, and he had heard Mei Laosan say it before.
In the past, their family would sometimes go to the dock to work part-time, thinking that the aunts and sons of the Wang family often worked there, and they had a way to see it.
I heard Wei Meimei's words today, and when the two of them came back at this time, something must have happened.
"I heard Aunt Wang say that there was a bandit trouble in the upper reaches of the Jinlan River, and a few days ago, many boats going north were robbed, not to mention, and the dart masters and merchants who accompanied the boats also died a lot, and they were thrown into the water and floated down the Jinlan River...... Bodies have been found near several docks along the coast, causing panic! ”
"Ah, those water bandits kill people and oversell goods!"
Mei Berry swallowed the soup, this kind of major criminal case seemed to be so close to them for the first time in two lifetimes.
"Yes, and this water bandit has come and gone without a trace, and I don't know where it is active.
Now it is said that it is the upstream side of our Lihu Town. So the piers to the north of this Lihu Lake have been closed recently, and it is said that they are going to search along the river! No, Aunt Wang's son also came back because there was no work on the dock. ”
"What's going on?"
Plum berry held the bowl and racked her brains to pull the content she had seen, this kind of thing will not be mentioned in the original text, but Mei Berry is really not very impressed!
Thinking of the problem of not reading the novel carefully, Mei Berry couldn't wait to go back and pull her collar and shout, "You give me a closer look!" ”
"Shhh
Suddenly, Plum Berry put down her bowl and stood up suddenly.
"What's wrong?" The husband and wife looked at their daughter in surprise and hurriedly asked.
"Ah, it's okay, it's okay."
Plum Berry came back to his senses and realized that he seemed to be too excited, so he sat down silently again, and drank the sand soup with his head down.
She just remembered that when the original male and female protagonists met for the first time, was it because the male protagonist seemed to have suffered some catastrophe and was seriously injured and was saved by the female protagonist?
Is this the place?