Chapter 1: The Thief
In late spring, the valley rain is coming.
The smoke and rain were faint, and the space between heaven and earth seemed to become hazy and subtle.
The Nanliu River, which is more than ten zhang wide, turns along the mountain, and the beautiful mountain peaks and the bamboo forest on the shore reflect in the water, and several bamboos are swept through, like the top of the green mountain going up.
Nangan Village lies peacefully in this green mountain and green water.
The bamboo forests on the mountains around the village are verdant, but the fields in front of the village are also like bamboo forests, the roots are upright, with the terrain like undulations, and the warm wind blows through and rustles.
"The sugar cane leaves are green and green, heyβ
His clothes are tattered and tattered,
Half a bowl of rice bran and half wild vegetables,
After this year and next year,
Unreasonable, unreasonable,
Seed this sugar cane every year,
Can't taste a bite of sweet honey......"
The rough singing echoed in the mountains.
The singing man Zhao Lao shook his head, and after roaring this song, his heart was not happy.
His eyes were as confused as the weather.
Since he went to the sugar mill to carry sugarcane and sprained his leg in order to earn the daily wages of five cents, Zhao Lao, who was already eager to break the eight-petal flower for a penny, could only pick it even more, fortunately, there are wild vegetables all over the mountains in spring, otherwise it would really be impossible to open the pot.
In the past two days, he carried a shovel to the vegetable garden behind the house to turn over the ground.
Thinking of the large sugarcane forest in the village, the growth is gratifying, and it is estimated that there will be a good harvest after autumn, so he is more relaxed.
When he heard the sound of rustling, one of Zhao Lao's feet had already stepped into the mouth of the vegetable garden.
His first reaction was, there are thieves! The second reaction is to turn around and run.
Satisfied with staying in the garden, I only felt that a flower in front of me saw a gray-brown figure flashing by, and she was still holding a white radish with water droplets in her hand, and she didn't know whether to put it or take it.
After a few breaths, satisfaction came back to his senses, laughed at himself, and wiped the radish with the weeds in the ground, if it weren't for the momentary trembling of his hands that revealed his feelings, he couldn't see anything strange at all.
When she had done this, she stood up, looked at the mouth of the garden, hesitated for a moment, and finally slowly retreated to the side of the garden, and skillfully climbed over the low wall, and climbed into the candy house on the other side of the wall.
But he couldn't bear to leave immediately, and secretly looked at the vegetable garden.
"Ouch, Zhao Lao, you've been ghosted! Running like a rabbit, don't want this leg! A loud woman's voice came.
Zhao Lao's face turned a little pale, as if he had just felt pain, but he said urgently: "Ouch! What are you yelling, what-"
Ouch yo looked five big and three thick, seeing Zhao Lao's stern expression looking at him, he spoke like a cannon battle, "Which sentence did I say wrong, why are you in a hurry!" If this is really hurt again, in the future, you will go to Xingan Village to carry sugarcane for five cents a day, and you will not be able to earn a day's wages, see that you don't even mix bran with wild vegetables, and even grass can't be eaten, and this Xingan Village is also black-hearted......"
Listening to the words of these two people with satisfaction, one was a little anxious to stop it, and the other was alone and kept counting.
Her brow furrowed.
Nangan Village is having a hard time, and she is also clear, whether it is the dilapidated thatched hut of the village people or the things grown in the vegetable garden, the doubts are the red peppers hanging under the eaves and swaying in the wind, showing difficulties everywhere.
Even though she was prepared in her heart, when she heard this, she was still taken aback, as if the self-deceiving window paper had been pierced, she couldn't tell whether she was guilty or uncomfortable, and even the radish became hot.
Outside, the conversation between Zhao Laoli and Ouch Yoyo continued, but he was satisfied but didn't have the heart to continue listening.
"Five cents, five cents......" satisfied with the mouth of the mouth a few times, the bitterness of the little pieces rose in his heart.
How much is the five cents here, at most you can only buy half a catty of pork and two and a half pieces of rice cakes, but it is a day's salary for such a strong labor as Zhao Lao, working like a cow and horse, shedding so much blood and sweat, but he can't exchange it for half a catty of sugar!
Carrying sugarcane is a heavy body lì work, more than 100 catties of things are just camelped on the back, in the sugarcane field and the sugar mill like ants back and forth, the back is often a blood mark, just this day to give five cents, but also too bullying!
Satisfied, he couldn't help it, as if he could see what he had eaten before, turning into the sugarcane that pressed on Zhao Lao's body, pressing their already overwhelmed shoulders, and bending to the ground again.
She clenched her fists, retracted her thoughts for a moment, and turned over a black mass of leaves in the candy room.
I picked it up and walked out, and was about to climb over the wall, but hesitated again.
In a moment, she took the dead grass from a broken stone mortar, turned out a rough piece of yellow-mounted paper, and picked through the simple stove, and chose a charcoal head to use as a pen, and began to draw with a brush.
It's so simple, I hope I can see it.
After doing this, he clapped his hands with satisfaction, took these two things and turned them over to the low wall, carefully placed them in the vegetable patch, and then picked up a piece of soil and threw it at the end of Zhao Lao's talk.
"Ouch! A thief! "Ouch yo it's too loud.
The satisfaction of turning back from the wall was stimulated by her loud voice, and her feet were unstable, and she slapped on the ground.
Sure enough, the wall has been overturned, and there will always be a day when it falls.
Zhao Lao picked his eyes in a hurry, and he couldn't take care of his legs, seeing that he was going to look at his own vegetable garden, he hurriedly went over to stop him, "What kind of thief, there are thieves in our village, besides, the things in this vegetable garden are all home-grown, how can eating a vegetable be called stealing ......"
"You're generous! I didn't see your daughter-in-law Cuixin can even eat a vegetable for two days, otherwise you can call Zhao Lao to pick ......" The voice came suddenly, but he was frightened by Zhao Lao's outstretched palm.
Ouch Yo Yo said when he didn't want to ask, "You...... Do you mean, five, five girls? β
Zhao Lao saw that she didn't care about what she said, and his eyes widened again.
Ouch yo yo standing at this time, through the low wall can already look at the vegetable garden, she glanced at it, relieved, "You fell on the brain, the Hu family said that the fifth girl is sick, if you want to eat some of the things we eat on weekdays, what is it called, you can also go and get some, and then go to the Chen family together, I just came here, you look in your garden, there is not even a ghost!" β
Zhao Laoli actually saw it, it was indeed empty, and he moved it in disbelief, and saw that there was obviously something in the radish field, squatted down to take a look, grabbed the yellow mounted paper and black lacquer ointment with the picture, and looked at his legs, and froze on the spot for a moment.
But she said that she was satisfied with the sound of ouch yo yo and couldn't help laughing, but when she heard that the fifth girl was sick, and everyone was going to take a look, her face turned pale and she ran quickly.
There is an almost abandoned path from Tangliao, turn around and you can get to the courtyard of the Chen family from the other side of the ridge, and she is satisfied and takes a shortcut, running behind several houses, and she doesn't care if she will be discovered, she just wants to run back quickly.
In the smoke and rain, my body was also wet, and I couldn't tell whether it was sweat or rain.
It was only after she was satisfied that she had climbed over a brick wall and knocked on the window a few times before she seemed to have time to breathe.
There was no movement in the house, and Satisfaction was about to curse in his heart, but he saw a bang, revealing a fluffy black hand, and Satisfaction quickly climbed in, "Jump, do you want to starve!" β
I didn't care about jumping too much, I quickly took off the shirt on my body and threw it aside, grabbed the emerald jacket on the bed and quickly changed it on.
After putting it on, I was satisfied that I thought that my hair was a little misty and wiped it a few times, and Jump Hop had already hidden the clothes I had changed into before and leisurely came down along the bamboo pole.
I was relieved and felt a little soft in my feet.
There was a sound of footsteps outside.