Ma Erniang's Splendid Pastoral

Chapter 19
"Father..." Ma Silang pursed his lips and looked at Ma Qifeng.

This is also a helpless solution, Ma Qifeng nodded, "Listen to my sister."

"Oh!" Ma Erlang quickly pulled Guo Erping, and the two seven-year-old boys trotted to the back of the water stall.

Seeing the two children standing there obediently, the two adults glanced at each other and said helplessly, "Brother, hurry up and find Si Niang."

Ma Qifeng sighed: "Yeah!"

In a restaurant in a certain street, a young man in military uniform entered the second floor with a saber on. In the room, there were empty plates and bowls on the table, and the food had already been eaten by the people in the room.

"Zhang Tiaozi, how's the inquiry going?" Someone asked.

Zhang Nianmei cupped her hands and said to Xia Zhen: "Little General, Lord Yao entered the city last night before the city gate was closed. After entering the city, he did not go to the government office, but found an inn. Just left the inn."

Xia Zhen nodded, "Let's go, let's go to the government office too."

"Little General..."

Xia Zhen, who had already stood up, frowned: "What's the problem?"

"Little general, he is not going in the direction of the government office."

"Then where?" Xia Zhen looked extremely impatient.

"Back to the little general, we found out that firstly, he has never been to Xing'an, and secondly, he has no friends or old friends in Xing'an."

"You bastard, on the one hand, you don't want to be arrogant, so let us take the vacancy, and on the other hand, you don't go to the Yamen in Fucheng, and let us take the vacancy, what does this Yao want to do?" The burly Gu Dun yelled impatiently. .

Xia Zhen's face was sullen, and his anger was about to rise. Tian Yangguang, the staff member, immediately glared at Gu Dun, and walked to the master with his arms folded: "Little general, the old general asked you to come to pick up Master Yao. It is for the integration of Wu and Wen to solve the severe drought in Yizhou."

Xia Zhenneng's brows were loosened, "Then why don't you leave?" His tone was very aggressive, full of hostility, he lifted his foot and left the room.

The several lieutenants following behind shrank their heads and followed carefully out of the private room.

I don't know how long I searched for it. Seeing that the street was coming to an end, she was tired and hungry, and couldn't move her feet. Ma Min'er was so anxious that her mouth got sores.

Guo Lishi is as tired as Ma Miner, but she is an adult, her stamina is better, she reached out to support her when she was about to fall, "Second Mother, what should I do?"

After swaying a few steps, Ma Miner moved to the wall, supported the wall to breathe, but kept searching the crowd with her eyes, thinking to herself, could it be that the person surnamed Chen went to the west gate instead of the east gate? That's it, the most urgent thing now is to eat. If you don't eat, you may not even be able to reach the West Gate.

"Er...Er Niang..." After a long time to hear the answer, Guo Li was very flustered, obviously she was an adult, but she grabbed the little lady's arm flusteredly, as if she was abandoned because of a good eye.

This cannot be blamed on her. If it wasn't for the severe drought, she would be a peasant woman who had never been out of the village. Even if she had been out of the village, she would have gone to a small town the size of a palm at most. She had never seen such a bustling city and so many pedestrians , she had long been panicked and frightened, at a loss for what to do.

Ma Min'er didn't have the energy to speak, so she stretched out her hand to comfort Guo Lishi's back.

"Er Niang..." The fear of not finding Si Niang and the fear of the future made Guo Lishi unable to hold back tears: "Er Niang..."

"Aunt Guo, are you hungry?" Ma Min'er's questions were humming like mosquitoes.

"Erniang, when fleeing famine, everyone said that Fucheng has food to eat, and you can survive in Fucheng, but why do I think Fucheng doesn't even have grass roots?" Guo Li asked sadly.

Yes, once, she also thought so, isn't the big city full of gold?Why is it so difficult to even eat a meal?Only after gaining a foothold in a big city did she understand the true meaning of 'gold everywhere'.

Ma Min'er looked at the dark and thin Guo Lishi, and stretched out her hand to comfort her again, "Aunt Guo, don't be afraid, what about me?"

"Do I have to sell myself to have something to eat?" Guo Lishi's tears kept streaming down her face, and she was filled with grief, "But I don't want to sell myself, I still want to go home and farm."

Ma Min'er pursed her lips, and she didn't know how to answer her, her eyes looked towards the distance of the street, and there were noisy voices and crying in her ears.

"Head of the family, you sold the child because you don't know how to read. What's the deal with people being cheated?"

"I...I...what should I do?"

"Should we find someone who can read, so that we won't be deceived."

"We don't know each other well here, so we're looking for...whom..."

Ma Min'er, who was praying to God, heard this, like the sound of heaven, straightened her stomach aching from hunger, and walked towards a pair of middle-aged women, "Uncle, aunt, I can read."

"Little... little lady..."

"Auntie, I will help you read the contract, can you pay me a commission?"

"What... what is a commission?" the woman asked.

"Just enough for our family to have a full meal."

The middle-aged man blinked, "I... I was the head of the village. Is the commission you mentioned a middleman's fee?"

Ma Miner nodded.

The middle-aged couple looked at each other silently and did not speak for a long time.

Ma Min'er felt that the game was over, "Aunt Guo, let's go!"

Guo Li, who was in a daze, looked away from the middle-aged couple, "Oh!" Helping the little lady to turn around and leave.

"His father..."

"His mother..."

"How about..." The middle-aged man thought for a while and said, "It's time now, and I don't know who to look for, just her?"

The woman nodded: "As long as she can read the words on the deed to us, we will have confidence in our hearts."

"Then...then you quickly stop the little lady."

The woman hurriedly called out: "Little... little lady..."

Hearing the cry, Ma Min'er happily turned around and walked a few steps: "Uncle—aunt—"

"Little lady, then you come in with us!"

"Okay!" Ma Min'er nodded happily, and tugged at Mrs. Guo Li. She lowered her head, "Er Niang, what's the matter?"

"Aunt Guo, wait a minute, when I need your help, look at my expression, if... like this... you just... like this..." Ma Miner's voice was only heard by Guo Lishi, she hesitated, "Can you?" ...Can it work?"

"Aunt Guo, don't be afraid, I'm here."

"Oh!" Guo Shi nodded in bewilderment. The bustling city made her flustered and she didn't make any claims. She didn't realize that the other party was just a child under ten years old, and she was an adult.

The middle-aged woman was followed by three children—two girls and one boy. Although they were messy, they looked handsome upon closer inspection. Ma Miner sighed deeply, took a look at them, and stepped into the dental shop. .

In the year of the catastrophe, the market of the tooth shop was better than ever. They were high above them like the old masters, and they were picky about the big and small people who came to sell themselves as slaves.

"Go, go, go, don't, don't..."

"My lord, please... Please accept the child, she is capable and hardworking..."

"It's as thin as a bamboo pole. No one wants it. Hurry up and walk away, hurry up and let me go..."

"Big……"

Before the man finished speaking, he was kicked out by the staff of the tooth shop, "Master..." After a while, the voice disappeared.

"Next……"

……

"Next"

……

Seeing the middle-aged couple, they held the baby's hand with both hands, tears in their eyes, as if reluctant to give up, but helpless, "Lanzi, don't blame the parents for being cruel, I really can't live..."

The girl kept wiping her tears, "Father, mother..."

"Lanzi..."

"Next……"

He yelled, but when he found that the person hadn't stepped forward, Yaren yelled again impatiently: "If you don't want to sell, get out quickly, don't delay my business by crying here."

(End of this chapter)