There are flowers and wine, hoeing and farming

Chapter 27

The next day, everyone got up early, including Qiaoqiao.Because she slept very early yesterday, after being hugged from the carriage, she only heard her mother gently calling her up to eat. The voice not only made her unable to wake up, but felt like hypnosis, falling into a deeper and sweeter dream.

She woke up very early, woke up from hunger, and dreamed of a lot of food, puffs, cakes, flatbreads, spicy fish, appearing in front of her eyes alternately, but every time she stretched out her hand, it would disappear. She sat up from the bed, rubbed her eyes, and found that through a layer of window paper, the whole room was gray. She woke Ning up and said aggrievedly that she was hungry.

Seeing that the sky was also up, Ning woke up Cheng Zhiyuan. After washing up, the four of them also got up, and went downstairs to drink warm millet porridge, and after eating a few baskets of steamed buns, they set foot on off the road.

Liniang got a little more familiar with Ning's, and she was very bored in the carriage, chatting along the way to pass the time.Cheng Zhiyuan, a boy, was able to barely sit in it at first, but later he couldn't bear to let it go, and he couldn't live in peace. Seeing that he was really uncomfortable, Ning asked Li Jin and the others to stop the carriage. Anyway, the front of the carriage is relatively large. , let Cheng Zhiyuan squeeze in and sit inside, although he was still sitting, but Cheng Zhiyuan was still very willing to change from the boredom inside the carriage to the joy outside the carriage.

In the carriage, there were only three of them left.

Qiaoqiao couldn't sleep today, so she sat obediently next to Ning Shi. Fortunately, the road was smooth and the carriage was not bumpy, and there was a thick layer of cotton cushions underneath, which was very comfortable. She leaned on Ning Shi's arm , I bowed my head in a daze.

Ning was very concerned about her elder sister, she chatted with Liniang, but she always brought it up to her elder sister, but after listening too much, she couldn't help but sigh along with it.Liniang saw her like this, so she didn't bring up the topic any more.

"Miss is called Qiaoqiao, right?" Liniang smiled and talked to Qiaoqiao.

Qiaoqiao nodded.

"How old are you? Are you five years old?"

"Well, almost five years old."

The two asked and answered, and Liniang said to Ning Shi at the end: "This child is really obedient and obedient. He doesn't make any noise at all. He just sits quietly and stays with Mother, caring and caring." very."

Ning's words were very helpful and touched her daughter's face.

Liniang looked at Qiaoqiao carefully, looked up and down for a long time, and did not look away until Qiaoqiao looked back at her.

On the way, from time to time, I could hear the voices of Li Jin and Li Yin outside and Cheng Zhiyuan's surprised response. Both of them had served as soldiers in the battlefield before, and experienced several small wars. Boys at this age are always very sensitive to these things. If you are interested, the two told him about those things one by one, which aroused his amazement. Cheng Zhiyuan's eyes lit up when he talked about it. .

On the third day, the road started to be difficult to walk, it was bumpy and bumpy, and at noon there was no place to hit a sharp point above the head. Cheng Zhiyuan couldn't bear the hot sun outside, so he got into the carriage again.

It was a rather hard day to walk, and at night, the two Li Jin brothers suggested to Ning that the next day's journey might take a long time to find a place to hit the tip, and they needed to prepare some food in advance.Ning asked them to just do it.

The road they took is also a shortcut, which can save a lot of time. If they pass through the town, it will inevitably delay a day or so. Therefore, although the road is a bit difficult, it is not bad to be able to arrive one day earlier. It also endured a slightly difficult road.

On the fourth day, the weather was fine, and the road seemed a little dry. The dust on the ground would rise up when the wheels passed by, which made people feel anxious.

"Madam Cheng, is it a little hot?" Liniang asked.

Ning narrowed her eyes slightly, and leaned against the wall of the car with her daughter in her arms: "It's fine."

"It's coming soon, the day after tomorrow."

"kindness."

The two children were also tired from sitting in the carriage, tired and lacking energy.There was silence outside, save for the clacking of horseshoes and the grunting of wheels.

After walking like this for more than an hour, Li Jin stopped the carriage and took out the dry food prepared yesterday.

Brother Li Jin and Niu Gui leaned against the shade of the carriage and began to eat, the four of them sat in the carriage.Because I didn't move much, but the bumps were severe, and I didn't eat much, and the water in the water bag dropped a lot.

"It's been such a long journey, let's take a rest too." Ning Shi said to Li Jin and the others.

"It's okay, I'm not tired. Go back early so that Mrs. Cheng can rest early."

Several people drank some water, and when they were about to leave, they heard a noise coming from the front, from far to near, slowly moving towards this side.

Ning hurriedly closed the carriage door: "Li Jin, let's go."

"Hey, wait for Niu Gui and my younger brother, they have gone inside." Li Yin and Niu Gui went for convenience, and ran a little far away to avoid them.

Sitting in the front of the carriage, the people in front have already arrived in front of them.Two men and two children. However, the child was pushed forward with his wrists bound, his hair sticking to his face, and his clothes were so dirty that he couldn't see his true colors. He staggered and struggled under the sun. Forward.The man at the back seemed to be very dissatisfied, and cursed at every two steps. He either disliked the slow walking of the two or took the opportunity to kick them. Li Jin didn't want to be troublesome, but he couldn't help but frowned. , because one of the two children is a girl.

Few people take this road, so these two people are so presumptuous. After looking at it twice, Li Jin looked away helplessly.Don't want to be nosy.

But he didn't want to cause trouble, but the trouble happened to provoke him.

The two men probably saw that Li Jin was the only man, and the carriage looked very good, and they were very thirsty and tired all the way, so they looked at each other and winked, and acted tacitly.

"Brother, can you make an excuse to drink water?" A fatter man came over and asked.

Li Jin shook his head: "I didn't bring any water. Our journey is not far away."

"Not far? That's just right, give our brothers a ride." The dark-skinned man with a beard came over and said arrogantly.

Li Jin's eyebrows frowned even tighter. He moved his foot to avoid the two of them and replaced the carriage board, and then said loudly: "Second brother, third brother, don't come out. It's nothing. I just sent the darts. If you're tired, just rest."

Hearing this, the two of them immediately took two steps back, looking at the carriage, and suddenly the bearded man spat on the carriage: "You lie to me, sir, this is a trick we stopped using ten years ago. Kid, leave the car, or else, pay some money for the two brothers to buy some wine to eat. The two of us have practiced martial arts, and one person can deal with two like you."

Li Jin didn't speak, just looked at the sparse trees on the left side of the road.

"Are you fucking going to let me go?" The bearded man was so irritable that he punched him.

"Get out." Li Jin finally couldn't bear it anymore, jumped out of the carriage after dodging his punch, and started fighting with him.

The other fat man also hurried over and beat up Li Jin.

When Ning Shi and Liniang heard these conversations inside, their faces turned pale. Ning Shi looked out through the slight gap in the curtain, but couldn't see clearly.

"It's okay, Li Jin's kung fu is very good, and it will be fine when Li Yin and Niu Gui come back." Liniang said in a low voice.

Comparing two adults, children behave differently.

Qiaoqiao is very relieved, she feels that they have three big men compared to quality, and two of the three have served in the army. Those two ruffians are probably bluffing, so they will win no matter what. of.As for Cheng Zhiyuan, he was eager to try. If Ning Shi hadn't stared at him with a serious face and refused to allow him to get off the carriage, he would have jumped down to join the battle.

"Bastard, come back, come back."

Cheng Zhiyuan couldn't help but lift the curtain a crack. It turned out that the two children who were tied up by them took advantage of this opportunity and ran forward frantically.The fat man had no choice but to chase after him, leaving the bearded man alone.

The two children obviously didn't have enough to eat, and they had been abused to a certain extent. Their physical strength was very poor. They didn't run very far when they were grabbed by the fat man with one hand and brought back. on the little boy's chest.

Ning and the others naturally saw it too. Her face was very ugly, and Qiaoqiao couldn't help but squeeze her little hands tightly. Her mind was spinning rapidly. Out of the corner of her eye, her brother was about to get off the car excitedly. She grabbed him: " Brother, what are you going to do?"

"This kind of bad guy, of course, is to stop him."

"Can you beat him? Do you have kung fu? After you go down, what else can you do besides distract Master Li Jin and let that man beat him up?"

Cheng Zhiyuan's face turned red all of a sudden, and when he was about to defend himself, Qiaoqiao continued: "Brother, they are concentrating on driving, our car door is facing away from them, you can go down quietly later, and hurry to find Li Yin and Niu Gui. "

Cheng Zhiyuan looked at Ning Shi who heard these words, Ning Shi felt that it was not an option to go on like this, nodded, and quietly pushed the car door, Cheng Zhiyuan bent over, and quickly entered the bushes when they were not paying attention.

The fat man stepped on his feet for three or four times, unable to relieve his anger, and turned his head to replace the girl. He was so angry that he almost jumped down and yelled to stop, but the bearded man yelled instead: "Damn, come here quickly!" Help me, what are you doing?"

Li Jin had been a soldier, so his kung fu was naturally solid. These people relied on their strength to fight against others, and quickly gained the upper hand.

Not long after Fatty came to join, Li Yin and Niu Gui ran over.

As soon as the two of them saw two more coming, they immediately knew that something was wrong, and quickly ran away before Li Yin and the others entered.When the fat man walked up to the two children, he bent down and was about to lift him up. The boy suddenly opened his mouth and bit his arm with such force. After the fat man let out a miserable howl, he kicked him again. on the child's stomach.

"Come on."

"These bastards..." The fat man was unwilling to let them go.

"Let's go, come back and look for them after they leave." The bearded man was very anxious. He was sure that the two children had no strength and couldn't run. The people in the carriage would not be kind enough to save them. A beggar-like child.

In a blink of an eye, the two of them ran away without a trace.

Li Jinben didn't want to cause trouble, and since they ran away, they didn't continue to catch up.

Ning quickly got out of the car: "Master Li Jin, are you alright?"

"it's okay no problem."

"Our women and children can't help, so we didn't get out of the car just now. Master Li Jin, don't be surprised."

"Where is the matter, I was worried that you would not come out. Fortunately, Madam understands this and did the right thing."

"Then, we now..."

Ning looked at the two children lying on the ground, and hesitated.Qiaoqiao also jumped down from the carriage, she didn't say anything, just grabbed Ning's hand, raised her face and said: "Mother, they are so pitiful."

The girl crawled over slowly, grabbing the boy's hand bit by bit, crying out her throat.

Ning sighed, and said to Li Jin: "Master Li Jin, look, why don't we take these two children with us?"

"Mrs. Cheng has a bodhisattva heart." Li Jin was obviously also enthusiastic. He was obviously very happy to hear Ning's words. He played tricks and asked Li Yin and Niu Gui to pick up the two children and bring them over.

(End of this chapter)