Chapter 13

On the twentieth day of Huang Ama's disappearance, the eldest brother Yinchu, who followed Huang Ama's southern tour, had ordered to search the place where Huang Ama had fallen into the water before and along the upper and lower streams, but he still did not find Huang Ama's body.

Live to see people, death to see corpses, how can neither see people nor find the body, eighteen-year-old Yinchu in the first few days, in a panic and panic, afraid that something happened to Huang Ama, immediately mobilized a lot of people to salvage to find Huang Ama, after the first few days, Yinchu felt that Huang Ama was more auspicious.

Huang Ama is the king of a country, if others know that Huang Ama is missing, it is likely that he has died in Huangquan, the court will be in turmoil, and the enemy army will take the opportunity to make trouble, and the entire Qing Dynasty will suffer from disaster.

It was the first time for Yinchu to encounter such a big thing, and he was relatively at a loss, but fortunately, the people accompanying him on this tour included Suo Etu and Uncle Fuquan, and they assisted him in handling this matter.

The disappearance of Huang Ama has not yet been announced to the public, and only when Huang Amma's body is found can they take further steps, otherwise they will have to keep searching.

People who are experienced in the water say that after falling into the water, people may sink to the bottom of the water, and may not float up, but the Yellow River is deep and wide, even people who know the water dare not really dive down, and the river has a fork, and the river flows in all directions, passing large and small places.

They have searched everywhere they can, and after looking for so many days, my uncle out of helplessness asked the major officials to post notices on the localities, not specifying that it was Huang Ama, but in the name of arresting wanted criminals, let the people everywhere see if there were any unknown people around them, and let them report it.

They hoped that Huang Ama would be rescued by someone else after falling into the water and live somewhere, but Yinchu knew that this hope was very slim, and he preferred that Huang Ama was still hidden in the water and would take time to come to light.

However, after so many days, the news of Huang Ama's disappearance can no longer be hidden, and I heard that someone in the capital has received the news.

As the eldest son of the emperor, Yinfu can only warn himself over and over again that he can't panic, can't be in a hurry, and must find Huang Ama's body, otherwise they can't tell the world that Huang Ama is dead.

The eldest brother is like an ant on a hot pot every day, but he doesn't know that his emperor Ama's life in Luwei Town is peaceful every day.

Wang Xiuhua went to fetch water, Fugui wanted to follow, wherever she went, he had to follow, just like she had a tail behind her, but in the eyes of others, they were inseparable.

Luwei Town is still relatively conservative, gradually, there are more and more rumors about them in the village, saying that her marriage has been delayed until now, because she knew Fugui before, and the two had an accident when they cheated at night, and said that she wanted to find a man to relieve her desires when she was not married, and the amnesiac wealth was just right, the two had already secretly Chen Cang, a lonely man and a widow lived together, how could nothing happen, maybe they had already hooked up together, and her innocent body was gone.

Aunt Feng couldn't help but frown when she saw her, saying that if she stayed in her house again, her reputation would be really ruined, and no one would dare to marry her in the future.

Wang Xiuhua felt that after so many days, her reputation was almost ruined, no one dared to marry her, she just didn't have to marry, so she just let them say, and her eldest sister and second sister also took turns to persuade her, let her drive people away, people have recovered, there is no need to continue to stay in her house.

Wang Xiuhua actually wants to drive people away, but people can't drive them away, so they can only do it first.

In fact, since her father and mother left, her two sisters married to the next village, separated by ten miles, and it takes an hour to come over on weekdays, and it takes half an hour to take a mule cart faster, which is equivalent to her an orphan girl in Luwei Town, and there are always some people who want to take advantage of it, see that you have no family support for a girl, easy to bully, there are always two or three people who buy buns but don't want to pay, take them and leave, she rushes up every time to grab them and let them give silver, they are noisy and refuse to give, and the trouble is terrible, after someone looks at the pointer, They reluctantly gave the money.

After Fugui lived in her house, she let Fugui sit at the door, and some people didn't pay, so she asked Fugui to stop them and ask them to give money, probably because there was a man there, and they all paid honestly.

If you want to say that Fugui's body is board, his strength is not necessarily greater than her, but inexplicably, there is always a strong and ruthless force in his eyes, and everyone dare not provoke him, and it may be that some people look down on women in their bones and have inexplicable unreasonable respect for men.

In this world, after all, women have a more difficult life.

She is twenty-two years old, in fact, she has also reached the age of marriage, this matchmaker in a radius of hundreds of miles has not been a matchmaker for her, sometimes the matchmaker will bring the man to come to see her, but she refused, either she looks crooked melons and cracked dates, or she is poorer than her, and the family that is richer than her said that she wants to be a concubine and have to give birth to several sons.

Wang Xiuhua is unwilling to marry into someone else's house to be a cow and a horse for others, serving a large family, and her heart is a little repulsive about marrying, and people who want to be a matchmaker for her have been rejected by her, saying that she wants to keep filial piety, at least for five years, she made an oath in front of the Buddha and cannot be violated, so as to dissuade the person who said goodbye to her.

But there are always some people who don't take her words seriously and still want to kiss her.

Today, Aunt Jiang, the matchmaker in the village, came over again, her steamed buns were sold out, and she was about to make a fire and fry a few vegetables for lunch.

Fugui collected firewood in the courtyard and piled it up in one of the chore rooms so that it would not get wet on rainy days.

She listened to Aunt Jiang while choosing vegetables.

"Xiuhua, this is a big family, very rich, you are a fatherless and motherless person to marry is a blessing, or an official, we Luwei Town except for the village head, but there is no official, how powerful the official, the county lord is thin, what about the nine officials, people have passed the imperial examination, after the spring examination, the age is about the same as you, although it is a second marriage, but his wife died of illness, you think about the people who can take the imperial examination are not poor at all, to say that this kind of good thing is not your turn, after all, you are not young, But the county lord Bo said that he wanted to find someone who could read, there are not many literate people in our Luwei Town, I only remember that you are literate, so I found you, I said Xiuhua, don't pick and choose, you are twenty-two years old, your parents are dead, your two sisters can't help you, such a good family, don't dislike it, get married quickly. ”

Aunt Jiang is almost forty years old, there are traces of time on her face, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes are very obvious in her excited persuasion, she said that she was a little thirsty, she looked around, took a clean white porcelain bowl in the kitchen, picked up the kettle and poured water for herself, drank two sips to moisten her throat, and continued: "Xiuhua, don't say that auntie said you, you picked up that man, he lives with you again, and he is inseparable from you, what do people outside say about you, you are afraid you don't know, this girl's reputation and reputation are the most important, I know you're a kind-hearted person, but if you continue like this, you really won't be able to get married. ”

"Since the county lord Bo is married for the second time, does he have any children?"

Aunt Jiang hesitated for a moment before replying: "There are two children, but you don't have to worry, his parents are alive, those two children are taken by his parents, you don't have to raise two children when you get married, besides, their family has money, and they can afford to raise as many children as they want." ”

"Sister......

When they were talking, there was a person standing at the door of the kitchen, Fugui blocked the light outside, the kitchen was dark, Wang Xiuhua looked over and asked him what was wrong.

"I've set up the firewood."

"Okay, you can sweep the broken wood in the yard with a broom."

"Come and have a look."

Wang Xiuhua has been with Fugui for more than ten days, he clearly wants her to praise him, he wants her to praise him every time he finishes something, he behaves a bit like a five or six-year-old child, seeing that he is still standing there, staring at her tightly, she just takes a look, he estimates that he will always stand there, she had to get up from the low pier, go out to take a look, and see the firewood in the utility room that is a little messy, he didn't stack it neatly, just stacked the firewood together, okay, she didn't have high expectations for this person to work, Anyway, she put it in, and as soon as the door of this room was closed, she couldn't see it, anyway, she couldn't see it and she didn't bother.

She praised him perfunctorily, saying that he had done a really good job.

"Sister, look at my hands."

When her hand reached out to her, Wang Xiuhua only saw that it was a little dirty, so she asked suspiciously what was wrong with her hand.

"It's hurt, look at it again, there's a thorn in it, it hurts, I'm very uncomfortable, sister, take a closer look and help me."

Wang Xiuhua felt that he was a little hypocritical, the little wooden thorn was stabbed in, just pull it out, what did he say as if he was seriously injured, this would not be dealt with, but thinking that the other party's brain may only be five or six years old, she put away the expression that she felt he was inexplicable, stared at his palm a few times, and after finding the little wooden thorn he said, she tried to pull out the wooden thorn, which was a little deep, and her nails were a little out of reach.

"You've got to pick it with a needle."

"My sister helped me choose, I can't pick it alone."

"You go and get the needle bag first, do you know where the needle bag is?"

Fugui nodded, saying that he knew where the needle bag was, two days ago when his sister sewed clothes for him, he saw where his sister put the needle bag, and turned around to find the needle bag as he spoke, and when he turned around, his originally soft and coquettish gaze suddenly became ruthless, and he glanced at Aunt Jiang coldly.

Aunt Jiang on the side saw the other party's gaze, only felt a chill on her back, as if she had been stung by a poisonous bee, and thought to herself how Xiuhua and this drowning man were like taking a child, but the posture of the two did look a little intimate.