Chapter 40: Stealing Sugar Cane
Another spring morning.
Two people and one monkey, after practicing the five poultry plays.
Satisfied found that he seemed to be very accustomed to this rhythm, and when Aunt Qiao came to call him, he knew how to get up, and he felt refreshed.
It's scary to get used to!
However, she found that there seemed to be nothing wrong with waking up early.
She walked along the yard, with the dew dropping on her body, watching the gray sky gradually turn white, and then dawn.
The flowers in the yard and the trees around them have taken on a color because of the change in the sky, rather than the gray and white outlines of the first day.
This is completely different from what I saw the night before I was satisfied.
I don't know if it's because the five-bird drama has finally worked, or if I'm satisfied with eating and sleeping well, although I'm still thin at this time, I don't look so empty anymore when I put on the willow cotton dress prepared by Aunt Qiao, and my face is no longer just pale.
Aunt Qiao looked at her with a pair of watery eyes, and was satisfied, she was still a child in the end, although she could also cheat, she was still very obedient.
She knew that she was satisfied, and she had already consciously gotten up early at this time.
Seeing Aunt Qiao's expression relaxed, she felt that her countermeasures of pretending to paralyze Aunt Qiao had some effect, so she took the opportunity to make a request, "Aunt Qiao, you see that I have nowhere to go now, it is better to go to the sugarcane field, after all, our family is boiling sugar, and I don't even know what the sugarcane looks like, isn't it good?" β
Aunt Qiao hesitated, "You go by yourself......"
Seeing that she was loose, she was satisfied and quickly promised: "How big is this village?" I know people when I go out, not to mention that I don't go far, where is a person, don't I go with a jump? If you're not at ease, won't you just let Zhuqing pick us up? β
Aunt Qiao readily agreed.
Satisfied with jumping out of the yard, I was going to be moved to tears!
It was still early in the morning, and there were not many pedestrians on the road.
Seeing that he was squatting and jumping on his shoulder, he said hello to one side.
If they are satisfied, they all agree, "Wow, this bamboo shoot is so good!" β
"Uncle Huang, are you carrying a firewood knife up the mountain to chop firewood or bamboo?"
"Auntie, I'm not a child, this wild fruit is left at home for them to eat!"
Along the way, I turned onto the main road.
Turn around again and you'll reach the sugar cane fields on the banks of the Nanliu River.
From a distance, the time for planting spring cane is still short, and the sugarcane seedlings in the field are verdant like thatch, and you can still see the land, while the autumn planting has already stood upright, looking at a gratifying scene.
"The sugar cane leaves are green and green, heyβ"
Listening to this rugged mountain song with satisfaction, I feel a little familiar.
Only then did I remember that I seemed to have heard Zhao Lao sing before.
She stood still and listened to the song of the mountains in the field.
"Sugar cane grows well and strong,
This year's sugarcane sweet last year,
It's like going uphill and eating sugar cane, hey,
Step by step, the festival is sweetβ"
Listening to it with satisfaction, joy rose in my heart, this year is a good harvest, and everyone's days can really be sweeter.
She smiled and walked briskly.
But I heard a loud voice.
From a distance of a few feet, it should be the laughter of several children.
When I got closer, I realized that a bamboo basket was thrown on the ground, and the green mugwort leaves were scattered all over the ground, and in the middle was a little girl covered in patches, shrunken, buried between her knees, trembling all over.
A couple of half-grown children beside him.
but threw clods of earth at her.
"Ugly! And the face comes out! β
"That's it, my mother said that if you have six fingers, you are stealing!"
For some reason, the word stealing was deeply touched by satisfaction.
Could it be that he has stolen too many things, and he has pity when he sees his peers?
Just as he was about to step forward to dissuade him, a boy of twelve or thirteen years old ran over from the middle of the road, dressed in a single dress, black and gray and gray.
Pull the laughing child around, and drive away, "Hurry up!" What a thief, she picks her mugwort leaves, what's in the way of you! If you don't go, I'll beat you up! β
The children spread out a little, but they didn't go far.
Just gather outside, giggling and singing.
"Toad, toad, the Zhao family gave birth to a toad, and he was born a big dumb person-"
The more I listened, the more wrong it became, and I was satisfied and quickened the pace.
was in the middle of the commotion, and a group of people chased after him.
"Catch the thief, catch the thiefβ"
"Can't let this kid run awayβ"
The kid who was originally squatting on the ground, still holding Ai Ye in his hand, heard the cry behind him at this time, and couldn't care about it, so he quickly got up and stumbled forward.
A headbutt is satisfied with the shoulder, satisfied with a stumbling, can stand firm.
The things in the boy's arms seemed to slip a little, and he hurriedly sorted them out, while still vaguely saying sorry to satisfaction.
When he was about to run again, he was stopped by the child who was laughing at him.
The rest also came consciously and surrounded the boy, but before they could react to their satisfaction, they were blocked out of the circle.
The group rushed over, pulled the boy and gave him a slap, "Xu Shishi, the thief of the Xu family, is really you!" Let you steal sugar cane! β
The slap was fast and heavy, and the corner of the stone's mouth was also broken, and it was slowly oozing blood.
He couldn't run, and he didn't run anymore, looking at this group of chasing people, there was bitter hatred in his eyes.
"How dare you stare like that!" The man at the head is going to beat people again.
I was about to fight again, but I was stopped by someone behind me.
Persuaded: "Steward Huang, it's still a child, don't fight!" β
"What's wrong with the child, this is also a teenager, several families are stealing, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, I don't teach him a lesson, I can't swallow this breath in my heart!"
Looking at these people with satisfaction, they are a little unfamiliar, but they should be from the sugar factory, but they don't know if it is the Chen family sugar factory or the Zhu family sugar factory.
The half-sized boy who was holding the stone just now raised his head to praise, "It's him, I caught it!" My mother said that they are not good people over there! β
At this moment, a carriage passed by the road, and when it saw this, it stopped, and got out of the carriage, a master, a servant and two girls.
Seeing this, he persuaded: "Everyone has something to say, the child is still young, no matter what, he can't do it." β
Steward Huang was polite to this girl, "Miss Zhu, don't you know, this kid is not a good person when he steals sugar cane, and the family is so ......."
Looking at the Zhu girl with satisfaction, at this time, a goose egg face was a little embarrassed, Yuan Shan frowned, and sighed: "At such an age, if there is really no way, it will not steal things, otherwise, how many things he stole, I will compensate you tenfold, as for your master, I will also send someone to go, and I will not make you embarrassed." β
"Don't be afraid, come to my sister's side." After Miss Zhu finished speaking, she said to the stone again.
Stone originally only hated to look at these people, but when he heard this, he glared at her and shouted, "I'm not a thief, and neither is our family!" They are! β
Seeing this, Miss Zhu's outstretched hand stiffened a little, and the people on the side also shook their heads.
Besides, I don't know what the girl who followed said, Miss Zhu smiled and motioned to the girl to give a piece of silver, "This steward, we have an urgent matter today, please don't embarrass this child." β
After saying that, the carriage ran up, as if there was something urgent.
Seeing that this person was gone, Steward Huang still held the silver in his hand and said, "Miss Zhu is the most kind-hearted, only in this world, there are so many people who don't know what to do, where can they help." β
Hearing his words, several children on the side threw things at the rocks again.
The stone stood in place, could have dodged, but he just didn't move.
It made those children a little worried.
The girl who was originally nesting on the ground didn't bury her head in her lap, and she didn't care about the bamboo basket, so she moved it over, and her tone was a little weak, but she said, "Brother Shi is not a thief. β
The crowd was so noisy that everyone didn't seem to hear what she was saying.
Although the girl's body was still trembling and her voice was a little trembling, she still tried her best to say, "Brother Shi is not a thief!" β
This voice has finally attracted everyone's attention.
Immediately, someone laughed at her, "It's really funny, I'm a thief, who believes your words!" β
"Ugly girl, toad, when did you get guts?!"
"Why did this girl come out again, oh, you are the leper girl of the Zhao family? Get out of the way! β
"Steward Huang, Zhao Lao picks that person a little left-handed, you still don't mess with her, what's wrong with a child?"
Satisfied with the person who was called Huang Steward, he was very angry, and the people around him didn't seem to have seen it.
There were men and women, and at this time, the group of half-grown children was in front, and the people behind them, with disgust or indifference in their eyes, seemed to think that these two children looked annoying.
The yellow steward waved his hand, "I don't mess with the brothers of the Zhao family, but I'm not afraid of them, this girl said that he is not a thief, maybe he is a gang, what we see can be wrong!" β
"Not really! Beat up and let the adults take the money to receive it! β
"Lest anyone be able to take anything for the sugar mill!"
As he was talking, as if he had been encouraged by the adults, two sturdy little girls came up, tore off the thin child's face covering directly, and pushed the person to the ground.
Seeing this, the stone rushed forward again.
The adult behind him yelled when he saw this, "You try to move my Nizi, but if you do it first, I will break your legs!" β
"Stop!" Satisfaction can't bear it.