What's so hard about asking for someone? Hua'er knelt on the ground with her legs bent, and was sad: "What do you think is good about the minion?" Just take it. ”

"Soft bones." Bai Qiling laughed at her, knocked her knees with her toes, Hua'er thought she wanted her to get up, but she heard him: "Kneel straighter!" ”

The eagle said to Hua'er on the side: "Second Master Bai has two things to hand over to you right now, if you do it well, you don't have to worry about the matter called Huazi, Second Master Bai will solve your trouble." This is not difficult, there is a river outside the city, and there is a hut by the river..."

When the flowers heard the hut, they suddenly remembered the man they had saved. The eagle continued: "The hut has been haunted for the past two days, so you should go and see it." If it's really haunted, someone will set fire to save you. After speaking, he stretched out three fingers: "This trip is thirty wen." ”

Thirty wen runs an leg, enough flowers to play a few days.

That's interesting. Hua'er tilted his head and looked at Bai Qiling, how did he know about the hut? The thatched hut is just a dilapidated house, and even people passing by to rest their feet think it leaks wind and rain, so where does the haunting start? Why don't you send someone else to see it, but tell her to see it? Also, on this day, she couldn't hear anyone following her behind her. What about people?

"What about the second thing?" Flowers asked.

"I'll talk about the second one in a few days." The eagle replied, "No hurry. ”

"Fifty wen. It was freezing cold, and I didn't even have any decent clothes. It was windy outside the city, and it was colder than in the city. I have to buy some clothes, or I will become a frozen ghost before anyone arrives. ”

"There are clothes in the house. Take off your old paper coat and choose your cloak and jacket. The eagle said: "Thirty Wen." ”

Whether the courage of the flower is big or small depends on whether the silver is given more or less. Thirty Wen made her heart move, and because she really wanted to know what medicine was sold in the Baiqiling gourd, she agreed to it.

Hua'er got up and patted her knees, and then looked at Bai Qiling, the man was reclining on the square collapse, half-closed eyes and didn't know what bad idea he was making. The eagle ordered someone to take a few clothes out for her to choose, and she picked the thickest one and left happily.

Seeing that she was so easy to dismiss, the eagle asked Bai Qiling: "Second master, is it too much?" Bai Qiling didn't make a sound, he didn't expect that the flower would not go out of the city in new clothes. Her life is hard to freeze to death, and the new clothes are to be taken to honor the elderly.

After Hua'er left the White Mansion, she caught up with Zhaoye and the others, and after thinking about it again and again, she asked: "Brother Zhaoye, has you died in the city these days?" ”

"It's called Hanako?" The official in front of him turned around: "How do you know?" Several people named Hanako died, and they all died of foaming at the mouth. It seems to have been poisoned. The magistrate is investigating, saying that one day someone threw a food box on the street. Those who called Hanako ate the contents and were poisoned. ”

Hua'er was shocked into a cold sweat, Bai Qiling didn't coax her in this matter, it was really true.

Fei Nu asked her in a low voice: Why did you go to Baifu repeatedly?

The flowers did not hide it, and told the general situation to the flying slaves. Fei Nu wanted to speak several times and stopped, but fortunately, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and the flowers did not pay attention. When he came back to Baifu Front Street in the next circle, Fei Nu gave the wild cat half a dried fish as usual. He was reluctant to eat the dried fish himself, so he used it to feed the cat.

The wild cat treated the flying slave better than the previous day, and even rubbed his head against the back of his hand. Feinu patted it on the head: "I'll come back tomorrow." ”

Everyone had never seen the flying slave use such thoughts on any animal, and they all felt strange. Ah Yu guessed that Xu Fei Nu wanted to go to Baifu on an errand because he wanted to start with this wild cat.

"I can't." Hua'er frowned: "If you really want to ask for an errand from the Bai family, Brother Feinu will come to me directly." ”

"He won't beg you." Teriya said frankly: "The flying slave will beg anyone, but not you." ”

"Why? He doesn't believe me? ”

Zhaoye smiled: "You'll understand when you're older." "In the middle of the night, it's very cold. Seeing that at the end of the year, debt collectors began to besiege Wicker Alley. Only at night can you find a moment of peace. Grandma still owes someone a lot of money, and she can't sleep at night because of this. The debt collector is not easy to deal with, and she wants to take the flowers away to deal with it herself.

After Hua'er entered the door, she changed her clothes for her grandmother so that she would not wake up from freezing at night. He took out ten cents and gave her another ten cents, and said, "Ming'er is here to collect debts, and you let them come back the day after tomorrow." The day after tomorrow, give them thirty words. ”

"Where are you from?"

"Second Master Bai is kind enough to reward you."

Hua'er was afraid that her grandmother would worry, and she praised Bai Qiling as a good person with a clear conscience. Grandma refused to believe it and said, "Your great benevolent man almost froze the shopkeeper Song to death." Beware of what you seek from him. Grandma choked up as she spoke, she was old now, and she didn't have the strength she had in previous years. On this day, I embroidered a few handkerchiefs with the cicada, the stitches were crooked, and I pricked my hands a few times. Once upon a time, the old man said that he would come back for the New Year, but now there is no trace.

Hua'er coaxed her grandmother and hugged her: "Grandma, how about you make dumplings for me on Chinese New Year's Eve?" I still have some meat cut yesterday, so I'll try to get some noodles. Let's have a good New Year. ”

Finally coaxed my grandmother to go out to get firewood and make a fire, and went out of the city alone early the next morning.

The New Year is approaching, and the city gate is strictly checked. And because the mountain bandits smashed it outside the day before, not a single fly can fly in now. Counting nine in the cold winter, there was a long queue, and the officials couldn't wait to strip off the people and search them, and the people behind them were frozen into ice cubes.

Hua'er walked out along the river, wondering why Bai Qiling handed over this errand to her as she went, and what was her purpose? I suddenly remembered the man on horseback that day when they were digging fish. The man's face was covered, but his eyes looked like they were about to eat people.

The further you walked, the more inhabited it became, and only a few officials walked back with fishing nets and wooden barrels, thinking that they were digging fish on the river surface of the official mansion.

Even the birds don't bother to fly by in this broken weather. There are several lines of footprints on the snow on the riverbed. The flowers looked back, and there was no one behind them. The eagle did not arrange for someone to follow as promised.

She was a little scared in her heart, but she thought that those thirty essays could make her grandmother suffer a few less insults for debt collection, so she had the courage to continue walking. A person is really lonely, and the sun is hanging and there is no warmth. She tucked her hands into her sleeves, and the farther she walked forward, the colder it became. People are going to freeze through.

Fortunately, there was no other thing to delay, and I finally walked to the hut where I saved people that day. The eagle said that the hut was haunted, but she was not afraid of the blue sky and the daylight. He told her to wait until evening, and then send a carriage to pick her up, so as not to delay her watch. The flowers went to find dead branches and lit a fire, and people sat by the fire and roasted them, and gradually they became warmer.

There was the sound of snow outside, she pricked up her ears to listen, the footsteps were very unusual, a heart suddenly hung up, stood up and climbed out of the low window, the man and cat did not dare to move under the wall.

The footsteps entered the house, paced around the house, and then walked away. When Hua'er looked up, she saw a large knife hanging above her head. A man with a cheeky face looked at her.

Hua'er suddenly knelt on the ground and shouted: "The hero spares his life, the hero spares his life!" The little ones pass by here and come in to make a fire. ”

The reckless man didn't speak, and the big knife was compared to the back of her neck, and the cold edge was pressed against her skin, and with a little more force it could cut a bloody streak. Hua'er was really scared to death, and when the reckless man raised his big knife and slashed down, she instantly fell to the ground. The man was stupefied, and his hand reached out of his waist for the small dagger, and when the man slashed her a second time, he plunged it into his leg.

The man snorted, and she pulled her legs and ran. For the sake of thirty Wen, my life is going to be lost here!

Hua'er laughed in her heart for doing this loss-making business, the madman Bai Qiling didn't say anything, obviously he looked at her life and asked her to come here to lure the snake out of the hole. He must have known that they had saved someone that day, and that he had something to do with that person, so he lured her in with money as bait to see who was haunted here.

The man caught up, and she ran as desperately as she could, and when she saw that she was about to catch up with her, she suddenly ran to the surface of the river.

The river was surrounded by the government, and no one dared to go up it. If the officials and men of Yanzhuo City want to eat fresh fish in winter, they will send someone to dig it every other day. When she came, she saw them carrying the bucket back, and bet that there would be thin ice where they had chiseled at the moment.

I ran to see the light reflected by the thin ice, and my eyes were full of tears: the sky will not stop me, the sky will not stop me! Suddenly, he fell to the ground and crawled over the ice, and then got up and ran again. The reckless man behind him caught up, and there was a crack in the thin ice with his foot. He didn't think much of it, ran two more steps, and suddenly fell into the ice hole.

The flowers stood from a distance and watched, and the ice cave was struggling, and a huge splash of water rippled outward. The man's hand gripped the edge of the ice, trying to climb up.

She resisted her fear and stepped forward, and asked him in a trembling voice, "Why did you kill me?" ”

The man's face was so cold that he couldn't speak, and there was a rare caravan coming in the distance, so she couldn't delay any longer, and turned and ran.

Hua'er ran wildly all the way, and when she was about to enter the city, a carriage came to her, and the eagle who was driving the car shouted to her: "Come up!" ”

She got into the car and saw Bai Qiling sitting there comfortably, and when she got angry, she stepped forward to punch and kick him, and scolded in her mouth: "Beast! What is human life in your eyes? What is it? Brute! Dog offal! You might as well kill me now!" ”

Because she was afraid, people trembled so much, scolded and scolded herself and cried, and she didn't even notice it. Bai Qiling let her beat her, and only patted the ash on her clothes when she was exhausted. Those scary eyes looked at her embarrassed for a long time, and actually smiled.