farmer's little girl

Chapter 62
Mei Zhuangyi scratched his friend with his eyes, and when he turned to face Lu Jiaoyue, he had a smiling face.

"It's okay, Yue'er doesn't need to give my little uncle distressed money. Today, you will pay for Zishu, so we don't have to save it for him."

Obviously there was nothing wrong with these words, but Lu Jiaoyue felt guilty for a while, and couldn't help but glance at Han Jin.The eyes of the two met. She felt a little nervous and lowered her head.

Mei Zhuangyi finally finished ordering, threw the menu in his hand to Xiao Er, and said to Han Jin that you are cheap.

Lu Guangyi didn't understand what it meant, and Han Jin understood it in his heart. In order not to irritate his friend who was always picking on him during this time, he decided to keep silent.But thinking about talking to her when I have a chance, and visiting the Lantern Market together, I can't help but feel better.

All kinds of dishes were served on a large table, and Lu Guangyi and the others couldn't help being a little dumbfounded.

In order not to waste it on Uncle Jin Zi (this is what Mei Zhuangyi said), Lu Guangyi and his brothers let go of their stomachs and ate their stomachs. round.

The Lu family is frugal by nature, Lu Guangyi looked at the leftovers on the table, he couldn't help but feel a little pity, and so did Lu Jiaoyue, and couldn't help complaining about his little uncle's extravagance and waste.

Among these few people, probably only Guiya knew something, she looked at Mei's little uncle, then at Han Jin, and decided to keep silent, not to tell Jiaoyue the clue.

Xiaoer served a pot of tea, and the others drank tea for a while to get rid of the greasy stomach before leaving the restaurant.

At this time, it was already the beginning of the lights, and the streets were crowded with people and bustling.

The big girls and young wives who are rarely seen on the street in the past have seen several groups today, and they are all traveling together.Or follow your relatives, or hold hands with a few people, talking and laughing along the way, passing through the street.

"These people came out in a hurry to get rid of all kinds of diseases and touch the door nails. When it was time to arrive, there were more people at the city gate." Knowing that Lu Jiaoyue didn't go out often, Han Jin explained.

In fact, Lu Jiaoyue knew it, after all, she had lived two lifetimes, but she would not refuse Han Jin's kindness, she nodded to show that she understood.On the contrary, Guiya has never seen such a scene, her eyes are almost blurred, she is not very old after all, although she is much more mature than her peers because of the oppression of life, but she still has the curiosity that her peers should have.

"Jiaoyue, if not, we'll go take a look later." She discussed with Lu Jiaoyue in a low voice.

Lu Jiaoyue couldn't help but glanced at Han Jin, and Mei Zhuangyi felt resentful when he saw this look.Shouldn't he be asking about his little uncle?

Before Han Jin, he said: "What's wrong with this, the county is very lively today, when we are almost done playing, we will go to Baibing, catch up with Zishi, go to the gate of the city Feel for the doornail."

Han Jin's eyes flashed and he nodded.

When she heard that it was going to be so late, Lu Jiaoyue couldn't help hesitating, she hadn't stayed out so late before.

Han Jin explained: "Generally, it is on the [-]th day of the first lunar month to get rid of all kinds of diseases and touch the doornails. But many people think that the most effective time is just after the child's death."

Mei Zhuangyi also made a decision: "Anyway, I have a car, and I'm afraid I won't be able to go back then."

Now that the words have been said, naturally there is no more entanglement.

A group of people walked to the lively place.

The Lantern Market was indeed lively, with lantern sellers, lion dancers, jugglers, and chest-breaking boulder performers.There were a lot of people around the booth where the big stone was crushed on the chest. At this moment, when the performance reached a critical point, a big man with a big hammer in his hand smashed it at the person who was lying there with a stone slab on his chest. .

Everyone in the field exclaimed, and even the big girl and the young daughters-in-law covered their mouths in surprise.There was only a bang, and the stone slab shattered from it, and the person lying there stood up unharmed, patted his bare chest, and indicated that there was nothing wrong with him.

Some onlookers touched his chest and touched the broken stone slab before they had to admit that this was not a trick.

Suddenly, there was a burst of cheers.I saw an old man in a blue coarse cloth jacket walking out from the side, holding a copper basin in his hand, walking around the field, saying that those who are rich should hold a money field, and those who have no money should hold a private field.From time to time, someone in the crowd raised their hands, and the sound of crashing copper coins hitting the basin could be heard endlessly.

After collecting the reward money, the old man handed the copper basin to the people around him, held a piece of dog skin plaster and began to sell it.

It can be said to be making money and selling things.

The brothers and sisters of the Lu family had never seen this kind of juggling, and they were dumbfounded and surprised.On the contrary, Mei Zhuangyi and Han Jin looked disapproving.

Han Jin smiled, and said to Lu Jiaoyue: "It's not difficult, your little uncle can do it."

Really?

Lu Jiaoyue looked at Mei Zhuangyi with that surprised look.The same is true for Lu Guangzhi, Wulang, and Guiya. Lu Guangyi is a little more reserved, but his eyes are full of admiration.

I knew that my little uncle was a capable person, but I didn't expect him to know this.

Hearing this, Mei Zhuangyi scratched the tip of his nose in embarrassment.

Back then, when he loved to play, he once saw someone in the county performing juggling of breaking boulders with his chest under the bridge. At that time, like his nephews, he was dumbfounded, thinking that the person lying there was amazing, and even I tipped the other party a few pennies.

Afterwards, the more I thought about it, the more wrong it became. Why did that person get such a heavy blow, but nothing happened?
At first he wondered if the hammer and slate were fake. To prove it, he followed the juggling troupe for ten days.I saw them move from the east to the west of the county, from the south to the north of the county, and went to several lively places, but the person who received the hammer did not change from the beginning to the end, and I did not see any discomfort in him The place.

He even used an excuse to watch juggling, stepped forward to verify the authenticity of the slate and the hammer, and no one stopped him.Later, after seeing too much, he went to experiment. First, he sold a hammer to find stone slabs, smashed them one by one, and finally let him smash the truth——

It turns out that because of the large area of ​​the stone slab, if the hammer is accurate and strong enough, it can indeed smash the stone slab with one blow without hurting the table below.

It would be easier if the stone slab was tampered with. This kind of manipulation is not easy for people to discover. That is to hit the stone slab with a few hammers in advance so that the slate cracks and does not break.

Later, he specially asked someone to help him try it out, and of course it was Han Jin.But Han Jin cherished his life and refused to let him try.In desperation, in order to satisfy his curiosity, Mei Zhuangyi taught Han Jin how to exert strength, and took a few stone slabs for him to practice before going on the field himself.

Afterwards, Mei Zhuangyi also teased that if the two of them really couldn't get along any longer, they could still support their family with this skill.

Han Jin talked about what happened back then in a few words, and everyone looked at Mei Zhuangyi in a sudden change.There is no surprise, no surprise, but full of a kind of uncontrollable laughter.

Now they finally understood why mother always said that the little uncle was still a child at heart. To prove this point, he was really willing to work hard.

Mei Zhuangyi knew that Han Jin was taking revenge and he was always finding fault with him recently, but it was not easy to get angry in front of his nephews, so he had to interrupt and look out, and said: "There are yuanxiao sellers there, let's go eat some yuanxiao." As he said that, he walked to the stall selling Lantern Festival.

After a few people passed by, the owner of the stall had already cooked the Lantern Festival.

Looking at the Lantern Festival served, the brothers and sisters of the Lu family, as well as Gui Ya, couldn't eat it.I have eaten so much just now, who can eat it now, but the food has already been called, and it is a waste if I don't eat it.Only Mei Zhuangyi ate with gusto.Of course he could eat it. When he was just eating, he moved a few chopsticks.

Lu Guangyi and the others held a bowl of Yuanxiao each, and there were not many in the bowl, only three.It looks white and glutinous, and you can still see the black stuffing inside.

"Well, it's delicious. It's stuffed with sesame seeds and peanuts." Mei Zhuangyi said while eating, and then greeted several people: "Why don't you eat it?"

Lu Guangyi and others could only scoop up the Lantern Festival and feed it into their mouths with difficulty.

This is revenge, Lu Jiaoyue thought in her heart, the little uncle is really too bad, just because they heard some embarrassing things about him, even she took revenge.

Just as he was thinking, Han Jin took the bowl in his hand.

"Since you can't eat it, then don't eat it. Girls, it's not good to get fat." He said, and he ate all the Lantern Festival in Lu Jiaoyue's bowl. Leaked.

It's not that he likes to eat, he doesn't like sweets in the first place, but he knows that if he doesn't eat it now, that kid Mei Zhuangyi will have trouble later on.It doesn't matter to others whether he cares or not, but she, he is a little bit reluctant.

While biting the Yuanxiao, Han Jin thought viciously that Mei Zhuangyi might have made things difficult for his precious niece just because he had got his mind right.

Lu Jiaoyue looked at him so hard to swallow, she felt a little distressed, and couldn't help giving her little uncle a look.

Mei Zhuangyi had a big smile on his face, as if the Lantern Festival was the queen mother's flat peach, which caught his heart.

After eating the Lantern Festival, several people continued to move forward.

There are many lanterns in the Lantern City, row by row, making people dizzying.There are also many types of lanterns, including palace lanterns, flower blue lanterns, angular lanterns, tree ground lanterns, ceremony lanterns, mushroom lanterns, revolving horse lanterns, etc. The shapes are round, square, cylindrical, and polygonal.There are big ones and small ones, and there are many varieties. The biggest one is as high as a storey and stands in front of a restaurant.That restaurant is the largest restaurant in the county. At this time, it is full of guests, and you can feel the bustle of the restaurant from outside.And the smallest one is only the size of a palm, hanging in front of some stalls selling lanterns.

Wu Lang couldn't move his feet when he saw it, and Lu Jiaoyue's eyes flickered.On the small stall not far from them, there is a very beautiful kitten-shaped lantern, the whole is pink and white, and the lantern is made lifelike, like a living kitten squatting there, with black eyes The child seems to be able to shine.

Han Jin glanced at her, then pulled Wulang to the stall.

Let Goro pick one first, then pick up the little white cat lantern, and then call Lu Guangyi and the others to pick the lantern.

Lu Guangyi considered himself an adult, so naturally he would not play this game.The same is true for Lu Guangzhi.Guiya felt that it would be bad to have people sell lanterns after going out with Lu's family, eating, drinking and playing, so she didn't want to.

Instead, Lu Jiaoyue went forward to pick out a bunny lantern for her, but Gui Ya couldn't help it, so she could only hold it. Looking at the lantern in her hand, she couldn't help showing a childlike smile.

Lu Guangyi happened to see this smile, and couldn't help being startled.

Han Jin seemed to be indifferent and handed the lantern in his hand to Lu Jiaoyue.

"I think this looks pretty good, suitable for a girl's house." Then the man went to pay.

Lu Jiaoyue held the lantern in her hand, her heart was full of sweetness, she didn't expect that he knew her own feelings.

Lifting the lantern to look, it turned out that the kitten's black eyeballs were made of a kind of black stone. Because it was polished very smooth, it looked as if it could shine.There are no lanterns that are too finely crafted in this kind of small stall, and the rough handwork can be seen from a close look, but Lu Jiaoyue feels that this is the most beautiful lantern she has received in her life.

Several people continued to walk forward.

In addition to the lantern sheds selling lanterns, there are more food stalls in the lantern market.Selling steamed stuffed buns, cakes, wontons, candy, Lantern Festival, and sugar paintings, the list goes on and on.And every family's business is good, there are always a few customers eating at each stall.

"These food stalls are going to make a lot of money today, as much as they usually sell for half a month." Mei Zhuangyi said.

"Uncle Mei's family, are food stalls very profitable?" Along the way, apart from occasionally looking at particularly lively places, Guiya's eyes were mostly on these food stalls, and she finally couldn't help asking at this moment.

Mei Zhuangyi glanced at her: "It's okay, the county is different from the countryside. There are many rich people, and most of them don't cook breakfast at home. Some of these food stalls are for morning market business, and some are for evening market business. It can take care of the whole family."

Gui Ya nodded, her eyes resting on a wonton stall.

The owner of the stall was an old woman, and a woman dressed as a woman. The old woman was in charge of cooking wontons, and the woman was in charge of collecting money and serving wontons.The business at the stall was very good, Guang Guiya saw that they had sold five or six bowls of wontons.Because there is no place to sit, everyone is standing aside to eat.

"Oh, I didn't expect Mrs. Zhou to come today. Jinzi, I haven't eaten wontons from Mrs. Zhou's house for a long time. Let's go have a bowl?" Mei Zhuangyi said.

Han Jin looked at him with some distaste, as if he was like him, his whole stomach was a bottomless pit, he had just eaten two bowls of Yuanxiao, and now he was getting tired of it.

Mei Zhuangyi greeted others, everyone shook their heads, he smiled and walked over.

"If you don't eat, I'll go and eat. Wait for me for a while."

After the wontons were cooked, Mei Zhuangyi came over again holding the bowl.The stall owner seemed to know him well, and he was not worried about him taking away his bowl.While eating, Mei Zhuangyi said to several people: "This week, my wife is also a poor person. The white-haired man gave away the black-haired man. The family left an old mother, a young daughter-in-law, and a baby who was just a baby. There is no way to support the family, so I can only find a way to start a small business to support the family. But let alone, their wontons are authentic, and the soup is made of big bones."

You know it again!
Han Jin didn't say it, but his eyes were filled with this meaning.

Mei Zhuangyi smiled nonchalantly, who told him that he loves to eat, there are too few joys in life, and only eating can give him some fun.Of course, one more thing is added now, that is to do business, earn a lot of money, buy more fun things, go to farther places, and eat more delicious things.

The brothers and sisters of the Lu family only cared about pitying the family, but Gui Ya was thoughtful.

Mei Zhuangyi, who was eating wontons, glanced at her again, don't waste his thoughts, little girl.

The further you go, the more crowded the crowd is, and you can clearly feel that there are more and more people.

Lu Jiaoyue, Wulang and Guiya walked in the middle, and several men, big and small, stood by, telling each other not to get lost.

Suddenly, there was a panicked cry from the crowd not far away: "Fang'er, Fang'er...His father, look where Fang'er is..."

The crowd was moving, and a middle-aged couple was running back and forth in the crowd with expressions of anxiety and fear, calling their daughter's name and asking if anyone had seen their daughter.

Lu Jiaoyue and the others were not far away, so they soon knew what happened.

It turned out that the couple brought their daughter out to join in the fun, and they were doing well, but when they turned around, they found that their daughter, who was just fourteen this year, was missing.

As soon as they heard that someone was lost, everyone couldn't help feeling a little uneasy, and subconsciously looked at the people around them.Immediately afterwards, there were several panicked cries from the crowd.

Only then did everyone realize that more than one was lost.

Suddenly, panic seemed to infect the entire crowd like a plague.

Those who haven't seen their children call them children, and those who haven't seen their daughters call them daughters. All kinds of voices are mixed together in an extremely noisy manner.The crowd first moved, and then rushed around like a torrent out of control. In one place, the crowd pushed too hard and knocked down a lamp shed.

There were many lanterns hanging in the lantern shed, and the lanterns fell down and lit the lanterns next to them.But in an instant, the lamphouse was lit.

Seeing the fire broke out, everyone panicked even more. You pushed me and you pushed you, and wanted to stay away from here.All this happened in an instant, and many people were pushed forward by the crowd before they had time to react.

The lantern in Lu Jiaoyue's hand had already fallen, and before she could call for my lantern, someone pushed her forward.She was caught in the chaotic crowd, and at first she could see her little uncle and the others, but in the blink of an eye, there were only messy heads left in her sight.

She was afraid that she would fall and be trampled, so she could only desperately maintain her balance.Suddenly, she heard someone calling her, it was Guiya.

"Gui Ya, hold my hand." She called.

The two held hands and held tightly, trying to maintain their balance.

"Squeeze outside, go to the street, find a place with an alley!" Lu Jiaoyue said loudly to Gui Ya.

Gui Ya nodded, and the two squeezed towards the outer edge.

When they finally reached an open space, the two were separated because of too much momentum.Lu Jiaoyue went out first, and was about to turn around and reach out to grab Gui Ya, when suddenly her eyes went dark and she couldn't see anything.

Gui Ya watched Lu Jiaoyue helplessly as she was carried away by a man with a black bag covering his head, and his figure disappeared into the dark alley.Her eyes were tearing apart, and she didn't care about herself, she looked around in a breakdown and shouted.

"Jiaoyue, Jiaoyue..."

"Brother Lu, Uncle Mei, Han Jin..."

She didn't know how long she yelled and where she went, when suddenly she was lifted up, and a man's face appeared in front of her eyes.

It's Hanjin.

"Where is Jiaoyue, have you seen her?"

Gui Ya's voice is hoarse right now, she can only nod vigorously while crying.

"Jiaoyue was taken away, alone, in a black pocket, in that alley..."

After another round of upheavals, Gui Ya regained her strength and found that she was in a place where no one was around, and the noise and hustle and bustle in the distance seemed very close and yet far away.

"Hurry up and save Jiaoyue, there is a kidnapper!"

Lu Jiaoyue couldn't cry out when she wanted to, her whole body was jolting violently, as if she was being carried and run.

The noise in the distance was getting farther and farther away from him, as if all the chaos that happened just now did not exist.

Her heart was beating so fast that she knew what had happened to her.

kidnapper!

She struggled desperately, struggling with all her strength, and before she could move a few times, she felt a pain in her neck and passed out.

When she woke up again, she was in a dark room.

The room was very dark, there was no light on, and even the moonlight could not penetrate, and there was a faint sobbing sound beside me.

In her two lifetimes, Lu Jiaoyue had heard many stories about people being photographed, but she never imagined that such a thing would happen to her.

She tried to keep calm, but found that she couldn't do it at all, and her heart and lungs were full of panic.

In the darkness, I couldn't see the situation around me, and I couldn't see anyone clearly. I could only faintly hear the crying of a woman.

"Where is this?"

It seemed that another person had woken up, it was a girl.

"I do not know either……"

"It's so dark here, I'm so scared..."

"I went out with my parents to watch the lanterns. When my eyes darkened, I was here..."

"Me too……"

"Me too……"

Listening to the voice, it seems that there are seven or eight people.

"Did we meet a kidnapper?"

Hearing this sentence, everyone burst into tears.

Lu Jiaoyue didn't want to cry, but she couldn't help crying at this moment.

After crying for a while, but still no one came, someone couldn't help shouting.

No one responded, and there was a dead silence all around.

After an unknown amount of time, those who were shouting stopped shouting, and suddenly a bright light shone in.

It was the door that was opened.

The silvery white moonlight shone in from outside, and because of the light behind it, the face of the person coming could not be seen clearly, only a man could be seen.

Sure enough, a rough voice sounded.

"Call again, if you call again, you will be sold into a kiln. Be honest with me!"

The door was closed again with a bang, and the light was gone.

This time, the cry sounded again, this time it was a cry of despair.

What a kidnapper!

Lu Jiaoyue tried her best to calm down her brain.

Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, she has lived two lifetimes and has experienced death, so what is there to be afraid of.

Sure enough, she wasn't so flustered anymore. Even though she was still breathing coldly from the bottom of her heart, she was already able to think about problems.

An event that happened in her previous life flashed in her mind.

At that time, she and the Du family were renting in a small alley in Dongchangfu, and she overheard that the daughter of a family in the same alley was abducted by a kidnapper.At that time, the magistrate of Dongchang Mansion was a very capable official, but within a day, he copied the den of the traffickers, and the daughter of that family was also found. Unfortunately, he was ruined. On the night of his return, The girl was hanging on the beam.

The parents of that family almost lost their eyesight from crying, and the couple only had such an only child, and they were spoiled by thousands of pampers on weekdays.Because the incident was a bit big, everyone in the whole alley knew about it.Although Lu Jiaoyue seldom went out, she heard about it.

What will she meet?What will happen to her?
Lu Jiaoyue didn't dare to think about it, but she couldn't help thinking about the bad things. The more she thought about it, the more panicked she became, and the more she thought about it, the more frightened she became.

If she had experienced all that, she would probably have to die too, but she had only come back to life not long ago, she still had a lot of things to do, and she hadn't married him yet...

Thinking of Han Jin, Lu Jiaoyue felt a sense of despair.

At the same time, I couldn't help but feel cold in my heart. Even if nothing happened to her and she was kidnapped by a kidnapper, would he still want her?A woman's reputation is as high as the sky, a girl who was kidnapped by a kidnapper, who would believe that she is innocent?
But Lu Jiaoyue had a faint feeling in her heart that she should trust Uncle Jin Zi, thinking this way, she became firm in her heart.Uncle Jinzi is so capable, if he finds out that he is lost, he will definitely look for her, and what she has to do now is to try her best to protect herself before being rescued.

In the darkness, she held back her panic, wiped away the tears on her face with her sleeve, and then moved back bit by bit until she finally leaned her back against a wall.But she didn't stop, instead she estimated in her heart where the person opened the door just now, and then continued to move aside until she reached the corner of the wall before stopping.

Immediately afterwards, she touched the ground with her hand, found a lot of dust, and touched her face again, feeling that it should be almost ready, so she stopped the movement of her hands.

At this time, there was a sound outside the door.

It was the voices of several men.

"It's a bumper harvest today, and those are pretty good looking, so they should be able to sell for a good price..."

Someone was laughing and seemed very happy.

"of course……"

"We have been following for a long time, and we didn't blind ourselves with our efforts..."

"When I came back just now, I brought another one back by chance. That one is really beautiful. I saw it from afar."

"Really?"

"Can you believe my eyes?"

"That's true, who doesn't know that you have a sharp eye!"

"It makes my heart itch, otherwise we..."

"This can't be done, let the boss know, we should eat and hang up, these are going to be sold for a lot of money, it's not good to move..."

"You don't say it, I don't say it, he doesn't say it, who knows? I've been holding it in for a while, and my heart is itchy. Usually, the boss won't let us go out. Don't you think so?"

(End of this chapter)