Travel through the small peasant girl and go farming with the trading system

Chapter 127 Strange Woman
Su Juan and Su Mo also cast admiring glances at Du Chenyu. Du Chenyu smiled, put down a silver coin, and led them out of the teahouse.

Thinking about what he said in the teahouse this time, someone will definitely exaggerate it unabashedly. After all, Du Chenyu's words are reasonable, and every word can stand scrutiny. People are not stupid. Ten years later, they can still distinguish clearly.

Leaving Lianhua County, Du Chenyu took them to a small road. Although the small road was more difficult to walk, it was the shortest way, and it would save nearly two days compared to walking around the main road.

Because they were in a hurry to take a small road, they missed the inn and restaurant, and they could only find a quiet place to rest in the carriage when it was dark.

It's midsummer now, and sometimes it's very stuffy to stay in the carriage, and it's better to have a cool breeze at night.

Du Chenyu and Su Mo are men, so naturally they wouldn't squeeze into the carriage with them, but sat not far from the carriage, set fire to barbecue, cooked some food for them, and finally found a clean, cool place with few mosquitoes to rest Take a rest.

Rest enough and then catch up on the journey.

They drove like this for two days, during which they passed several villages.

The people in the village don't know much about the major events that have happened in recent days, but they are especially wary of strangers who come here for no reason.

On this day, when they passed by a village near Xiqiao under the jurisdiction of Nanyang City, they were surrounded by a dozen villagers with shovels and hoes and all kinds of tools.

Du Chenyu was also stopped while riding a horse.

Su Ying thought that these people were asking for money, but unexpectedly, one of the leaders asked the surrounding villagers to drag Su Mo off the carriage.

Su Juan and Su Ying were terrified. They thought they had encountered a child snatcher, and they almost called out the people in the dark to snatch Su Mo back.

Who would have thought that the leader would point at them and scold them angrily, calling them vipers, pretending to snatch the child, and then slipping away from under their noses openly.

Seeing that they dragged Su Mo out of the car, Su Ying asked a few strong men to surround and protect him, and did not take the opportunity to take Su Mo away, so she couldn't help but feel relieved.

Knowing that this group of people misunderstood them, Su Ying quickly explained that they were all a family, and something happened to their relatives far away in Nanyang City, and they rushed over there in a hurry, so they took this road.

When Su Ying said that, they still didn't believe it. It was the leader who pulled Su Mo aside and sent two people to interrogate them. Seeing that they spoke the same words, they realized that it was a misunderstanding and quickly apologized to them and handed Su Mo over.

Seeing that the people in this village were like frightened birds when they saw strangers, Su Ying understood that something happened in this village.

Du Chenyu comforted Su Juan and Su Ying, and hurried forward to negotiate with these people to understand the situation.

The leader of this group is Lizheng from Xiqiao Village, named Jia Lan. Although he is only in his forties, he has a very high prestige in the surrounding area.

After Du Chenyu inquired with Jia Lan, he learned that the village had lost seven or eight children recently.

What happened in the past two months, most of the people in the village were doing farm work at home, or doing odd jobs in the town or county to subsidize their families. Since this happened, no one dared to work, women The men are all guarding the children at home, and the men gather together in twos and threes to patrol around the village to prevent any suspicious people from approaching the village, even at night.

"I don't know if it's because the tigers on the mountain are too ferocious, or because someone we don't know took advantage of our inattention and took the child away. Anyway, the people in the surrounding villages are scared. If you go there, find a man from the village to take the child with you." Come on, so as not to stop you like we did, and cause another misunderstanding."

Just as they were talking, a young woman came out of a simple thatched hut built at the head of the village, wearing a married woman's bun and wearing a blue headscarf, and handed them tea one by one.

Su Juan and Su Ying hurriedly took it and thanked her.

"Actually speaking, I haven't seen any strangers in this village. I'm afraid it's the tiger on the mountain. After all, when the two children were lost, the people in the village started to take precautions. I thought that the outsiders watched our battle, even if they had a wicked heart, they didn't have the guts, or the animals on the mountain are not afraid of people, and took advantage of our unpreparedness to take the child to the mountain... Sigh..."

After the woman finished speaking, another woman took up the conversation. Su Ying turned her head and looked over. This was also a young woman, but with a red turban on her head. At the end, she couldn't help but sighed softly.

"Whether it's a tiger on the mountain or a stranger, if I catch him, I will eat him alive!"

Among the men on the side, there was a hot-tempered one, who directly gritted his teeth and clenched his fists and swore viciously.

Su Ying thought, if such disasters happened one after another in the village, it might be justifiable to blame the outsiders, but how could that woman speak for the outsiders?

There's something wrong with this.

"I'm really sorry that this kind of thing happened. We were too anxious and misunderstood you. If you are in a hurry, we won't bother you. We will send someone to send you off..."

Su Ying thought that she might find out something here, and immediately shook her head at Jia Lan, "Jia Lizheng, we can understand this feeling, and you don't need to apologize, but I have some questions to ask you, the age of the children lost in your village How old are they, have they been reported to the government, can the people in the government help to find and investigate?"

"The youngest of these lost children is only three years old, and the oldest is already eight years old. There are boys and girls. The first time this happened, we reported the case to the government, and the government also helped to find them. However, after some investigation, the spearhead was pointed at the herd of livestock on the mountain. After a month of siege and suppression, a tiger was beaten down.

After this incident, the people in the villages were indeed relieved a lot, but not long after, another child was lost. We thought, either there were still man-eating tigers on the mountain, or those outsiders were too cunning. kidnapped the child. "

"But it's weird, the world is in turmoil nowadays, if outsiders snatch children, what are they planning, these days it's hard to support yourself, can you still raise other people's children?

Besides, the barbarian invasion of the border has not yet ended, Liang Guo has come out to be a demon again, and the imperial court is estimated to have to conscript soldiers to fight wars, so such a young child is useless. "

After Jia Lan finished speaking, the woman in the red turban came out to speak again, and Su Ying couldn't help but look at her again.

This woman has fair skin and a plump figure. Compared with the woman wearing a blue turban, she is more like a young lady who does not touch the spring water with her fingers. Her previous identity was not as simple as an ordinary peasant girl.

This woman is weird, there must be something wrong!

Du Chenyu also noticed that something was wrong with her, and immediately gave Su Mo a look, Su Mo immediately understood.

(End of this chapter)