Seeing Shu Bing's obviously dazed look, Erlang suppressed his anger and tried to squeeze out a smile, gently touched her forehead and explained: "That shrew is the eldest aunt, walking the streets and alleys as a matchmaker and a tooth wife, you are so good-looking, you can't be caught and sold by her." ”

He took care of his little sister's comprehension and slowed down his speech as much as possible, Shu Bing found that he magically understood most of it, at least the terrifying reality that "the other party is cruel and may be betrayed".

“…… Uh-huh, brother? (Is it okay to stay outside alone)" She stretched out her hand and pointed outside the room, trying to make Jiro understand what she meant with a puzzled and worried look.

"It's okay, barefoot is not afraid to wear shoes, she doesn't dare to fight with her brother." Erlang replied like this, but Shu Bing still didn't feel very comfortable in his heart.

Although her body has shrunk, she always feels a little blush when she can let a child who is less than ten years old protect herself, not to mention that the child may not be able to stop the shrew, and the future is worrying.

Hearing that the two were still arguing outside the door, Shu Bing suddenly had a spirit, and hurriedly took off the hollow longevity lock hanging around his neck, as well as a pair of golden bracelets, and then looked around to find a place to hide.

The lock engraved with the words "longevity and wealth" is not only decorated with exquisite bat and curly grass patterns, but also a small "Shu" character can be seen if you carefully distinguish it, which happens to correspond to Shu Bing's original surname.

Perhaps, this is the reason why she crossed into this body, and in the future, it may also become a proof of finding physical parents, taking a step back, when she is too poor to eat, she can exchange the gold bracelet for a year or two of rations. Such an important thing must not be snatched away.

Seeing Shu Bing opening the wooden box and lifting the mattress in a hurry to find a place to hide things, Erlang hurriedly led her to the corner of the house, and carefully pulled out a palm-sized thin clod of soil from the root of the wall, revealing an artificially hollowed out hole in the braided bamboo wall.

In the sunlight through the window, you can clearly see a small string of copper coins, a butterfly love flower silver hairpin, and a smooth and oily light cyan stone seal in the shallow hole, which is all the brothers have at this moment.

After Shu Bing put his own jewelry in, the hole in the wall was immediately stuffed, and Erlang immediately filled the wall skin back, carefully sweeping the sand to cover all traces, and then turned his head and raised his eyebrows and smiled at her.

Looking at his precocious and childish appearance, Shu Bing was inexplicably a little sad.

After the two of them had cleaned up, they went back to the door to listen to the movement outside, and found that the argument had become quieter, and the shrewd aunt seemed to be talking to another woman with a crisp tone.

"It's the godmother who is here, let's go, let's go out." Erlang knew that he had a helper, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and Xizizi took his sister's hand and opened the door and walked out.

Shu Bing raised his eyes and saw that there was a good-looking, thin young woman in the courtyard, who was confronting the fat aunt with her brother.

This person was wearing a light gray and blue short shirt, a moon-white high-waisted slim long skirt, covered with indigo half-sleeves, and a white velvet flower on the high bun, and I don't know whether he was keeping filial piety or being widowed.

Seeing Shu Bing go out, the young woman gently pursed her lips and smiled, and the fat aunt was also full of smiles, but it was a pity that she was a little fatter, and she was born from her heart.

"Yo, this little girl looks really peugeot," the eldest aunt opened her mouth and showed a slightly crooked yellow teeth, and her squinting eyes shone brightly, "This dress is also rich and valuable!" ”

"It's none of your business if it's worth it!" Da Lang stepped forward and stood in front of Shu Bing, waved his firewood knife with a fierce face, and asked, "No one in my family invited you to dinner, aren't you leaving?" ”

"I'm going to accompany the little girl to see Muramasa, why don't you go. Come on, come on, little lady come to my house for dinner, there are delicious sweet porridge and meatloaf. The aunt rolled her eyes at her eldest nephew, and beckoned to Shu Bing with a smile after speaking.

"Nope." Shu Bing shook her head neatly, she had nothing to do, she was either a traitor or a thief, how could she, a pseudo-child, be deceived. Seeing that the fat woman looked worried about the firewood knife in Da Lang's hand and didn't dare to reach out to grab it, there must be something wrong with going to her house.

"Do you want a treat? That Erlang and Godmother, let's go, eat and drink enough, and then go to the village house together. Da Lang squinted at the eldest aunt and swallowed his saliva, holding a knife in one hand and crossing his waist in the other, "I just have a flat stomach." ”

"Huh?" The eldest aunt was choked by the lifeline, her eyes widened instantly, and she said in disgust, "Who, who said they wanted to invite you?" Go, go, die! ”

"Then get out of here!" Erlang, who was idle, took the pot of steamed cakes, directly scooped a spoonful of boiling water and splashed it on the ground, accompanied by a harsh sound, and sneered, "Why don't we ask you to drink water?" ”

"Tsk, you two scoundrels! Don't do it in the hands of the old lady in the future! The eldest aunt was frightened by the disfiguring boiling water, and said cruelly as she retreated, "I, I'll eat by myself." Wait, I'll see you later! ”

The crowd finally forced the eldest aunt to leave in a huff, and the three hungry children had to have an empty breakfast, and then the woman who called herself Fu Sanniang took them along the country road to the head of the village, intending to go to the village house.

Seeing that there were scattered and regular courtyards beside the road, and more women wearing skirts, Shu Bing slowly had some guesses about the appearance of this place - looking at the clothes and hairstyles, it looks like it was in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

The village is a rich family at a glance, and you can see three spacious main houses on the opposite side when you enter the courtyard door, there are side rooms and firewood rooms, stove rooms, and birds and beasts squatting on the ridge, and the window lattice seals are carved and carved. The hall has wooden floors, and you have to take off your shoes and go up three steps to enter.

Just when Shu Bing was wondering whether the owner of the house would bully others, he saw a rich old man with a kind face smiling and inviting him to eat peaches, while Fu Sanniang knelt down with the brothers and muttered to him.

At this moment, the shrewd aunt really reappeared, and this time she changed into a cordial elder in front of the village and joined the three-way conversation.

"What kind of sister do they have children, isn't this a joke?" The eldest aunt said and looked at Shu Bing again, and said to the village with a smile, "If you look at her fine skin and tender meat, it looks like she was lost by a big family, and when you go to my house, you must eat and drink well, and you won't lose a meat or two." ”

"Ha, you don't even want to give food to your own nephew, and you will be kind enough to support outsiders?" Fu Sanniang began to sneer after hearing this. He also said: "It's better to follow me, I'm alone and I am missing a cute little padded jacket." ”

The fat aunt immediately retorted: "Come on, how can you take care of the little lady when you open a tea shop?" Don't be stolen by diners again in the blink of an eye. How can I be reliable when I don't go out often at home? After she finished speaking, she patted Shu Bing's chest. looks like he swears that he will definitely take care of her.

"The family has been locked up for a few years, why don't you wait for your sister's family to find money to sell it, or when you go out by yourself, you can take her south and sell it, right?" Da Lang suddenly got up and glared angrily at his aunt.

Finally, Muramasa, who had been listening for a long time, slowly spoke: "Let the little lady choose for herself, who are you willing to follow?" ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone turned their heads to look at Shu Bing at the same time, but her face was full of confusion, because she only understood all the conversations, and she was still guessing and pondering repeatedly. When he raised his eyes suddenly, he was startled when he met the hot eyes of the eldest aunt who was looking forward to it.

It's like the feeling of "people are swords, I am fish and meat", which instantly provoked her hairs to stand on end.

Thinking of the word "sell" repeatedly spoken by the two boys, as well as the profession of the eldest aunt - matchmaker and tooth wife, Shu Bing vaguely had a guess that the woman who was slamming the door had taken a fancy to the appearance and origin of her body and wanted to take advantage of it.

Thinking about it like this, although he couldn't completely understand the situation, Shu Bing gritted his teeth and hid directly behind Da Lang, after all, he fished himself out of the mountains, and he was more trustworthy.

After selecting the family, the village made a decision to end the matter, and the eldest aunt was unwilling, hateful, and scolded when she went out: "Hmph, I will find the clan elder to distinguish with you another day!" ”

It wasn't until five days later, when Shu Bing, who had learned to understand the local dialect and gradually integrated into village life, that he realized that the village was the village chief of this small banyan village, and he was a supernumerary government member of the smallest unit at the grassroots level.

Although she is only a young child at this time, she is also a black household that suddenly appeared in the village, and she needs to be interrogated through formal channels, and according to the specific situation or a first-level report to find relatives or settle down on the spot, the eldest aunt hurried to come early in the morning to make her her own family when she settled.

Later, as Shu Bing guessed, once they became parents, the uncle and his wife had some right to dispose of her. For example, it is a crime to abduct and sell underage girls, but it is reasonable and legal to hire an adopted daughter as a wife and concubine, and sell herself as a slave.

"......" Shu Bing couldn't help but look at the moon and sigh, there are traps everywhere in life, and he was almost cheated to his grandmother's house.

Shu Bing temporarily returned to the next-door neighbor of the Rong brothers, the widow village Hua Fu Sanniang raised her, lived in her house, and called her godmother like the Rong brothers, and the household registration needs to wait for the village to ask if anyone has reported to the official that the daughter has been lost.

As for why the Rong brothers recognized Fu Sanniang as their godmother.

It is because, Xiaorongshu Village is located in the nearby villages to the front of the county on the way to the road, in every Friday to catch the market when the crowd is like a tide, opened the tea shop Fu Sanniang alone is lacking in skills, so let the Rong brothers to help, she has manpower, this pair of orphans can also go up the mountain to fish, catch birds in addition to subsidizing some households. The three of them went back and forth, and when they got close, they recognized their relatives.

Fu Sanniang always showed pity when she mentioned the brothers.

When she got up early in the morning, when Shu Bing was trying on the light blue muslin dress that Sanniang made for her, she heard her smile and mutter: "These two stinky boys refuse to move in by themselves, and they want to take you back, saying that they don't want to drag me down." I don't want to get married anymore, and it's not bad to have them to support me in my old age. ”

"The godmother is young and has to be married." Shu Bing was forced to cherish words like a child dressed in gold, and learned to express his meaning in the local tone.

"You don't have to get pregnant in October to have two and a half children, Dalang is almost eleven, and he can be the pillar of the family in a few years, and he will be cheap for nothing. When you get married, you have to serve Aunt Weng, and you don't know if you can raise a sensible child-this is a money-losing business. Fu Sanniang laughed while tidying up Shu Bing's clothes.

"It's not a kiss." Shu Bing continued to persuade, and at the same time stretched out his hand and stretched his waist, and suddenly found that his sleeves were a little shorter, and his wrists would be exposed.

"You don't remember your parents, what does it matter if you're not pro, it's just intimate. Eh, the sleeves are a little shorter! It's too late to change the day today, so I'll put an inch on you when I come back in the evening. After Fu Sanniang finished speaking, she pulled Shu Bing out.

At this moment, the dawn is just dawning.

Sanniang took a dry noodle cake from the stove and stuffed it in Shu Bing's hand, pushed the steamer, tea cup and other things in the cart, went out of the yard and locked the door, and went to the next door to call the Rong brothers, and took them to the tea stall in a hurry.

Chewing on the slightly sour dead dough dry cake, Shu Bing frowned at first, and then suddenly he was happy again. She is a pastry chef, she can make dim sum and sell it in Fu Sanniang's tea stall, think about it, maybe she is crossing the village and making a fortune?

Slowly, you can become a small owner of a pastry shop, serve as the shopkeeper of a teahouse, marry a rich and handsome, and walk to the peak of life, which is a little exciting to think about.