The two walked to a shade of a locust tree, and the elder lieutenant said, "What do you have to say?" Jing Mingyi said: "Brother Zhong has just left the house, he is naïve, and he knows little about the world's experience, and his brother needs to carry him from time to time. The lieutenant nodded and said, "Needless to say, my brother will take care of it." Jing Mingyi said in a low voice: "The cold house is from the east, and there is a willow tree in the space of seven or eight zhang. The brother took a hoe and dug a few feet deep under the willows, and there was a wooden box underneath, and there was some money in the box, and the brother took half of it, and gave the rest to the brothers. ”

The lieutenant was taken aback and said, "I don't want to give it up, it's better to give it all to the brothers." Jing Mingyi smiled and said: "Brother Zhong gave me money, I knew that his family had a big business, so I accepted it." Brother, you still have an old mother in your family, how can I accept your golden leaf in vain? He also said: "I still have other things in that box, my brother and Brother Zhong Lingxiu should refer to it carefully, and they must not take others lightly." Remember! At the moment, the two of them said goodbye, and Jing Mingyi didn't mention it.

Besides, Gu Yu'er was ashamed and ashamed, abandoned a group of senior brothers, and ran back alone. The red horse she rode was a thousand-mile horse, and in the blink of an eye she had run for many miles. But she was new to the rivers and lakes, unfamiliar with the path, and only cared about running before, and she had already taken a fork in the road in a short time.

Nearly in the evening, Gu Yu'er rode his horse to a wild place, only to see that there were wild grasses everywhere, no trees, no human tracks, gloomy atmosphere, very weird, occasionally one or two crows flew by, making a few quacks, and the red horse occasionally made one or two uneasy chirps.

Gu Yu'er tightened her sleeves, didn't dare to stop, and waved her horse away. After walking for six or seven miles, the scenery has not changed, and Gu Yu'er felt a chill for no reason. After walking for another two miles, I suddenly saw dozens of thatched huts under the hillside in the distance, beside the stream, and a wine curtain was picked out from the willow tree. Gu Yu'er was very happy in her heart and galloped away.

The tavern was close in front of him, but Gu Yu'er had been walking for half an hour, and he still couldn't reach the edge. Gu Yu'er was depressed, seeing that there was a rough man carrying firewood on the mountain, she dismounted and pulled the rope, walked to the woodcutter, and asked, "Big brother, how many miles is there in front of the tavern?" The woodcutter looked at her and said with a smile: "You little girl also knows etiquette, isn't that close in front of you?" Gu Yu'er raised her eyes and looked, the tavern was really close in front of her, and she also grinned: "It's the little sister who is dizzy, the big brother is not strange." The woodcutter waved his hand and walked downhill.

Gu Yu'er led the horses and was about to walk to the tavern. But the red horse wandered in place, refusing to come near. Gu Yu'er didn't dare to pull the reins of the horse, for fear of breaking the horse. She stroked the horse's sideburns and said softly, "Aren't you tired?" But I am a mortal body, not as tall as you, let's rest and then go." The red horse seemed to understand what the master was saying, and let Gu Yu'er pull it, but he couldn't stop snorting.

Gu Yu'er walked to the tavern, and saw a big tree in the head, with withered vines on it, and a room behind the tree, a woman flashed out on the threshold in front of the house, wearing green gauze clothes and a golden hairpin on her head, when she saw Gu Yu'er, she was taken aback first, and said, "How did you come here?" Gu Yu'er smiled and said: "The eldest sister talks and laughs, can't I come?"

The woman saw that she was calm and calm, and said with a smile: "I am dedicated to entertaining negative men, and the yellow flower girl should not be." Gu Yu'er said: "This is not a place for fireworks?" The woman said: "This is not." Gu Yu'er said: "Then sister, let me rest for a while, and I'll leave tomorrow." The woman hesitated, and then said, "All right." ”

Gu Yu'er led the horse in front of the door, tied the reins, and followed the woman through the third and fifth rooms, turned an intersection, and saw a shopkeeper who was preparing vegetables, and felt hungry.

The woman on the other side cried out, "Stay here." Gu Yu'er entered the house, and when she saw that the house was clean and tidy, she liked it first. He said to the woman: "Eldest sister, if you have any vegetables and fruits, come up and I will eat, and I will have a lot of money with you." The woman said, "I have a few catties of beef and a few catties of steamed buns." Gu Yu'er said: "I am a fetal vegetarian, I don't eat beef, and I have a few steamed buns." ”

The woman smiled and said, "The little girl is not worried. Then he walked out of the house and beckoned to the man. Gu Yuer made her own bed. Not long after, a guy came in, carrying a tray with a few steamed buns on the plate, Gu Yu'er saw this and said, "Big brother put it over there." The man whispered yes and put the plate on the table. Gu Yu'er looked up at the guy, and seeing that he was thin and small, she couldn't help but feel pity, took a steamed bun to him, and said, "Big brother, let's eat one too." ”

When the guy heard this, he raised his head suddenly, and Gu Yu'er was startled first. I saw this guy with a miserable white face, black eyes, rare whites, and a strange smile on his face. Gu Yu'er gnawed and said, "Big brother...... Are you alright...... I'll see you......" The man grimaced, turned and walked out the door.

Gu Yu'er was timid, and saw that the guy had his back to the moonlight, but there was no shadow, and he walked procrastinatingly, but he didn't hear the footsteps, and suddenly disappeared. Gu Yu'er said in her heart: "This big brother is so powerful. ”

She picked up the steamed bun and was about to eat it, but she didn't feel hungry again. Take the silk, wrap the steamed bun, and put it in the luggage. I opened the bed and fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, Gu Yu'er felt a chill and woke up, it turned out that the quilt was slanted. I was about to fall asleep, and I heard a whisper in a daze, saying something like "has it fallen" or "is about to be slaughtered", and I woke up in an instant.

Gu Yu'er lay at the head of the bed and thought secretly: "I'm afraid that they will slaughter the cow." And he felt uneasy in his heart, and he discerned carefully. I heard the guy say: "Those steamed buns are really gone, I think the girl has already eaten them." The woman said, "You need to discern carefully." The fellow said, "I must have eaten it." The woman said, "If the girl doesn't come, she won't listen, she deserves to be hurt by herself, and tonight she won't understand." ”

Gu Yu'er was horrified in her heart and was about to run away, but she found that her body was stiff, her body was cold, and she couldn't move. I couldn't help but cry, thinking, "I can't see my dad again." ”

At this moment, the sound of a cart rattling outside the house was heard. I heard the guy say, "It's the master who has returned." After a while, I heard a man's voice, it turned out to be the man who cut wood that Gu Yu'er saw before, and he said, "That little girl in the afternoon, I don't know if it's there?" The woman said: "There is a little daughter-in-law in a red shirt, who is lying in the back room." Gu Yu'er said in her heart: "Who is the little daughter-in-law? You stun me and talk nonsense, you are really not ashamed." "I don't feel scared anymore.

The man said: "Little Four, go away, I have a few words to separate from your master." After a while, I heard the man say, "I just thought about it, and I feel that this kid is familiar." If he is the son of an old man, do not harm him. The woman sneered and said, "The son of the old man, which old man, how are you here, and don't you have anything to do with your old man?" The man sighed: "I'm afraid that this old man has a great favor to me, and although my old ghost said that he wants to break off the old feelings, it is difficult to say." We'll talk about it tomorrow. He sighed again. Then there was a sound of rustling, and there was silence outside.