Chapter 5 The Devil's Heart
Just when Yang Twenty thought that he was going to be arrested by the bad guys today, and he might have to be involved in the good Samaritan who saved him, suddenly a big man's voice shouted outside: "Uncles, what kind of person are you looking for, we are all honest people, don't you dare to harbor the criminals!"
I heard someone say coldly: "Find a child in his early tens, if you find you hiding, be careful that the dog's life is not guaranteed." ”
Then I heard the big man say: "Old woman, quickly take out the rice wine brewed the year before last, it is just sweet and delicious, and quench the thirst of the uncles." ”
The man who was searching for Yang Twenty in the house, when he happened to walk to the bed, he also heard the shouting outside the door, swallowed hard, and after looking at the neat bed, he walked out quickly.
Since the night Yang Twenty Shunshui escaped, this group of people has been looking for him along the river, all the way to some mountains and villages, they have not had a good meal for four or five days, they have long been exhausted, at this time heard that there is wine, the man on horseback who took the lead, looked up at the unusually hot sun in the past few days, and also said: "Okay, then taste your family's wine." ”
Listening to the sound of porcelain bowls colliding outside, the group drank two large jars of wine before leaving.
Yang Twenty waited for the group to walk away, and gradually lost the sound of horses' hooves before coming out from under the bed.
As soon as she got up, she saw the village woman hurriedly walking in, and when she saw Yang Twenty Hou standing beside the bed, her face was surprised, and she came over and asked, "Child, where did you hide just now?"
Yang Twenty was shocked and pointed to the bottom of the bed.
The woman patted her chest and exhaled, but still frowned, and asked, "Isn't that group of people looking for you just now?" ”
Yang Twenty originally planned to leave today, thinking that there was no need to make any more trouble for this well-wisher, so he shook his head and said, "I don't know, I heard that they were looking for a child in his early tens, so I hid it." ”
The middle-aged woman nodded suspiciously.
At this time, a big man wearing a hat walked in, about the same age as this woman, Yang Twenty estimated that it was this uncle who saved him from the river at that time, and he must have been the one who talked to the group of wicked people outside just now, so he said: "Uncle and aunt, thank you for saving me, I will leave now, so as not to cause you more trouble." ”
The man took off his hat and put it aside, it was an ordinary country man with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, looked Yang Twenty carefully up and down, and grinned: "Child, where is your home? You must be fine if you want to leave now, but you also heard the group of people just now, but they are all murderous bandits, there are their men and horses everywhere along the way, and they haven't gone far, in case they are looking for you, you go out now, aren't you caught by them!"
Yang Twenty is a child after all, since he was a child, except for going up the mountain to chop wood, he has hardly walked out of the village, and he suddenly has some difficulties.
The woman said empathetically at this time: "Don't worry, child, your uncle is back now, if you really want to leave, let your uncle send you back tomorrow, it is estimated that tomorrow the group of Jianghu people will go away." ”
Seeing that Yang Twenty was still hesitant, the woman said again: "You see that since we have saved you, we will definitely not harm you, let your uncle send you back tomorrow, and there will be a good response on the way." ”
As she spoke, the woman had already come over, helped Yang Twenty to sit on the bed, and continued to comfort: "Even if you want to leave, you have to eat a full stomach before you can go on the road, knowing that you are hungry, Auntie will go cook now." ”
After saying that, the middle-aged couple walked out of the house together.
The woman also seemed to be frightened by the group of Jianghu people just now, her face was always suspicious, and she just went out and said: "Master, fortunately you came back in time, most of these imposing Jianghu people are looking for this child, if you come back a little later, I am afraid that I will be killed by them." ”
The middle-aged man is not very talkative, but he just mumbled.
At this time, the woman turned her head to look around behind her, and asked in a low voice, "Is the price of the county town high for the goods this time?" ”
The man always thought about something, and only said, "Go back to the house and talk about it." ”
After Yang Twenty left the middle-aged couple, he was still there alone, and after being in a daze for a while, he remembered that his mother was here, and he also remembered what his mother taught him: As a man, he must have backbone, and no matter what difficulties he encounters, he must rely on himself to be strong.
Yang Twenty may not have understood the meaning of this sentence at the time, but now he seems to have understood it all at once, although he felt that his strength was still insufficient, he clenched his fists and said to himself: "Yang Twenty, your mother is still fighting with the bad guys, but you are hiding here and don't dare to go back, what kind of man, your mother won't let you go back, don't you really dare to go back!"
After the middle-aged couple returned to a side room, they closed the door, and the man said directly: "This time the goods still failed to sell at a good price." ”
The woman was surprised, "The girl hasn't sold it for a good price?"
The man nodded and replied: "The landlord thought that the girl was too young, and said that not only could she not work, but she also had to eat his family's grain for several years before she could sell it to Qinglou again, and only gave two taels of silver." ”
The woman said angrily: "The landlord in this city doesn't have a good thing, before he said that the male baby is useless, and now he says that the female baby is too young, can the older one let us abduct it?"
The man changed his clothes, took out two pieces of broken silver from his body, put them on the table, and said, "Put away the silver first, anyway, we don't have much to do." Then he looked at the woman and asked, "This time this time this is not young, he is the biggest, I hope to sell it for a good price, has he figured out the situation over there?"
The woman put away the silver and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I have heard of what the child said is from Qingquan Village under the mountain, it is definitely not ours, and I have put drugs in the herbs he has drunk in the past few days, he himself is confused, there must be no problem, I can't clean up a mountain child!"
The man nodded thoughtfully: "Today, this group of Jianghu people seems to be looking for this child, but what are they looking for a village child to do." ”
The woman chimed in, "It's also true, a rustic country child, what can they do if they are caught, won't it be the same ...... as us."
The man interrupted the woman, "No matter what, the goods in hand must not let him run away, I really can't wait to put more drugs in his bowl, I will leave tonight and take him to the city to sell, I hope to sell it at a good price this time, and we will not do this business." ”
The woman hurriedly nodded and said, "Yes, if we can sell it for five taels of silver this time, we will save enough for thirty taels, and then call our son to come home, don't be that thief, let's also go to the city to buy a piece of land, marry a daughter-in-law for our son, and live a stable life." ”
At this moment, they suddenly heard something knocked over outside the door, and the middle-aged couple hurriedly ran out of the door, only to see the child standing outside the door with an angry face.
After Yang Twenty decided in the house just now, he came here to say thank you to his pair of life-saving benefactors, and then went home by himself, but he didn't expect to hear the aunt say that he had given him a drug and would sell him to the city, and their son was still a bandit.
Yang Twenty-one hurriedly moved a step to the side, but he didn't expect to step on a wine jar where the group of bad guys had finished drinking.
Looking at the indignant Yang Twenty outside the door, the woman took the lead and said, "Don't get me wrong, child, I was telling a story to your uncle just now, don't be afraid, after eating, let your uncle send you back." ”
Yang Twenty snorted fiercely, pointed at the couple and said, "You two wicked people, I have heard everything, don't want to sell me." ”
The middle-aged man didn't speak, staring at Yang Twenty and taking a step forward.
Yang Twenty turned around and ran.
Who knew that after just running a few steps, he was not caught up by the man and his wife, but his feet were unstable, and he stumbled and fell to the ground.
The limbs that were already drugged were weak, and he hadn't eaten for most of the day, how could Yang Twenty run out of this small courtyard.
Yang Twenty, who was just about to get up, only felt that a black shadow in front of him was hit by something in the neck, and then he fainted, unconscious.