son. Niu Da moved his thick lips almost in a daze, and told the frightened child in the barrel.

The thin child hid against the wall of the barrel, but the barrel was knocked over, and he rolled out like a poor stone.What greeted him was the man's thick arms.

Niu Da carried the child into the house.

Second, officials and bandits wiped out flat households

Niu Da's room is dilapidated, and all the good things have been moved to his wife's room. Even the wooden bed is an old guy that creaks when he sits on it.

The kerosene lamp was lit, and the room was brightly and secretly alive.

The light shone on people, and their reflections became fat, appearing on the wall hung with cobwebs, big against small.

Niu Da moved the wooden table to the bedside, put the child on it, and looked at it carefully.

The cloth towel stuffed in the child's mouth was obviously loose, so he could make a faint cry.Because it is silk, the color of the part soaked by saliva has turned dark purple, and against the bright red flowers on it, it has an inexplicable beauty.

It was dark and nervous before, and I didn't see the child's appearance and clothes clearly.

At this time, Niu Da almost held his breath.

You can tell at a glance that it's not a girl. The clothes on her body are all high-quality goods, and even the cuffs and skirts are embroidered with delicate cloud patterns of silver thread.There is a long-lived gold lock on the neck, gold bracelets on the hands, gold chains on the feet, and jade buttons on the laces of the small clothes.

Not to mention the appearance, a fairy boy with thin skin and tender flesh, red eyes, traces of crying, pink and white face, smooth to the touch.

Obviously, he is a young son supported by a big family.

However, which family's decent young master will be thrown out of the prostitute's door in the middle of the night?

for something?There are valuable things.human?No one was abducted.Is it for hatred and revenge?For what... Niu Da didn't want to care, he finally got this child, he must never let it go, he must never let others know, and he must never give it back.

The child sat on the table with his little legs leaning against the edge of the table.The body shakes a little.

Niu Da did not dare to untie the silk scarf from the child's mouth, because he was afraid that he would scream; Niu Da did not dare to untie the rope binding the child's hands and feet, because he was afraid that the child would run and jump; The child will suddenly disappear.

After a while, Niu Da blew out the oil lamp, took the child in his arms, wrapped himself in a quilt, and got into the bed tent.

The child's hands and feet were cold, and Niu Da hugged them in the dark to keep him warm.The child must have suffered a lot, was exhausted, struggled for a while and lost energy, and obediently fell asleep against Liu Da.

It was bright in no time.

Niu Da kept his eyes open almost all night. Seeing that the child was sleeping soundly, he lifted the quilt and looked at it. The child's delicate hands and feet had been rubbed red and swollen by the rope. Niu Da was distressed. After thinking about it, he carefully untied the child. Then he wrapped the child with a quilt like a rice dumpling, and then trapped the child outside with the rope. He firmly believed that the child could not escape, so he was at ease.

After sitting down, he opened the child's mouth again, pulled out the wet towel, and took another long cloth to tie the child's mouth tightly, making sure that he would not make a sound, and then heaved a sigh of relief.The child didn't even wake up.

The silk scarf was unfolded, and on it were several blooming red peonies, with the word Lu painted on the corner.

Niu Da stuffed the half-wet silk scarf into the front of his clothes like a treasure, and went out the door.

Business still needs to be done.

The wooden barrels in the yard were moved by Niu Da to an inconspicuous corner and piled up.

But one night, the county town of Lingxi Prefecture was in an uproar.The young master of Lu Yuanwai's family is gone!I heard that he was abducted by vicious servants and sent to other places.

The county magistrate sent two teams to investigate, one team chased out of the city, and the other team searched from house to house in the county!

The Lu family is a big family in Lingxi.So it's not enough to touch the favor of the county magistrate.

The head of the Lu family has only one child at present, of course it is a baby, of course it is important, and of course it is a big event.

Aunt Liu, who was eating wontons, was gossiping with two aunts.

"Do you know? Do you search from house to house? The Lu family's tone is that they want to see people when they live, and they want to see corpses when they die!"

"Hey, that child is only four and a half years old. It's pitiful. I don't know where it was sold. It's not easy to be a child of a rich family."

"How did I hear that he was a silly baby? After four years old, he still doesn't know how to shout, thanks to the fact that the Lu family has become a baby."

"With such a lifeblood, can you not be a treasure? It was born by a concubine. If it came out of the main wife's stomach, I'm afraid it won't appear in this mess."

"It's a crime."

"Shh, keep your voice down, I also heard that the eldest lady has long been unhappy with my concubine. The concubine is not a decent woman, and she was a pillow for thousands of people before entering Lu's house..."

"Looks beautiful..."

"That's not right, I heard that he is a qin waiter, who sells his art but not his body."

"It's prostitution rather than art."

There was a giggle.

The other two bowls of wontons were served in front of the woman.

Aunt Liu raised her head and looked at Niu Da as if she had seen a ghost: "God! Why does he look like this! Haven't you slept all night? It's like being hooked to half your life by the King of Hades!" Aunt Liu patted her chest.

Niu Da clumsily twitched the corner of his mouth, and said, "Auntie, I'm giving you these wontons. Help me take care of the stall."

"Where are you going?" the woman asked.

"I'll go home and get some noodles." Niu Da scratched his head, "I don't have enough belts, it's not enough."

"Stupid boy, go, go!" Aunt Liu, who was already smiling like a flower, waved the half-worn flower handkerchief in her hand when she heard that it was free to eat.

Niu bowed his head and hurried home, almost running as he walked.

Can't be searched!

Home on Xiaoan Lane.

The door was firmly shut, and the cow let out a big breath.He went straight into the house, hugged the child even under the quilt, and stuffed it into a broken wooden barrel.

Niu Da has a good physique and is naturally afraid of heat. It's already December, and he's just covered with a thin autumn quilt.Although it was an autumn quilt, after all, it was too bulky. Even though the quilt was added to narrowly squeeze it in, the broken wooden barrel was still hard to hold on and half of it was broken, and the pieces of wood fell to the ground.

No matter what, Niu quickly moved the dilapidated wooden barrel into the underground pit where the sweet potatoes were placed.

The child opened his eyes wide.

Unable to bear it in his heart, Niu Da's rough hands touched the child's white and tender face soothingly, and said: "Don't be afraid, Daddy will come back at night." After speaking, he covered the wooden boards at the mouth of the pit back, and spread straw and firewood to cover it up. , The broken barrel piece was also kicked into the corner.

After all this was done, Niu Da didn't stop. Although his face, flesh and heart were tense, he understood that it was not safe for him to stay here.He must calmly set up a stall and do business as usual, so as not to be suspicious.

The county seat is not big, but in such a small place, people will know if there is any trouble.

Niu Da did not dare to act rashly.

Sure enough, not long after the owner left, the half-closed door of the small courtyard was kicked open, a group of officers and soldiers with no neat clothes ran around like tigers and wolves, the cabinet door was opened, the bed curtain was lifted, and the dressing table was pushed down. He didn't break into the abandoned pig pen and sheep pen, let alone check if there was a secret room, so he couldn't wait to leave this poor, clinking, rotten place.

Niu Da, who sells wontons by Shiliang Bridge, is kneading noodles meticulously in the heat of soup!Skin and stuffing, but the ears listen to the movement around.

Although Muyun Street was lively, at this moment, it seemed that something was in his eyes and ears.He is in the downtown area, but he is not in the downtown area. He separates himself from the world.

The women who were already eating the free second bowl of wonton soup seemed to have endless intimate conversations.

"Tell me, when those officers and soldiers rush around, will they bump into someone's beautiful girl, that's the only one?"

"No, it's broad daylight...but..."

"what?"

"They will rob things, valuable..."

"I hid it before I came out, it's all right. I was afraid of bumping into these officials and bandits, so I didn't have the guts to stay at home."

"Ah, no, I have to go back. The jade bracelet I bought the day before yesterday is still under the pillow."

"..."

Three, poor Lu Jiatong

The stall was set up until dark, and Niu Da was clumsy to close the stall.

Usually at this time, he usually has to rectify and continue the evening scene.Because of my good physical strength, I did not feel tired after doing this for a long time.

However, today, Niu Da does not want to continue to sell stalls.

I didn't sleep all night last night, and today I was struggling all day, suddenly I was in the sky, and suddenly I was in the underground purgatory, the taste is really not very good.And the child should be hungry, he hasn't eaten all day... Officers and soldiers, they should rest and go home at night.

Entering the courtyard and locking the door, throwing the stall in the courtyard, Niu Da rubbed his hands, he couldn't wait to see the child.

Push aside the straw, lift up the plank, and in the pit, the wooden barrel is in front of you.

The face of the toddler in the bucket was flushed, and when he saw someone, tears fell one by one, and he cried so hard that he was frightened.

Such a young child has experienced so much in one day and one night, even if he doesn't understand what it means, what these encounters mean to him.But cold, hunger, and darkness bound him all the time. He was thrown in the hole alone, accompanied by the smell of sour food, and dirty creatures such as cockroaches and mice.

He was tired from crying, his eyes were swollen into peaches, but the hole opened, there was light, there was someone, and the child cried again.

When the wooden barrel was moved out, there was a foul smell.

The child's mouth was still tied and he couldn't make a sound.Niu Da was not afraid of shocking others, so he untied the quilt directly.

There was a child's wet urine in the quilt.

The child is incontinent.

No one can bear not being as good as the toilet all day, let alone a child who doesn't know what to do.

Niu grinned, and stripped off the child's clothes. Apart from urine stains, there was also a puddle of soft yellow child feces on the clothes.Niu Da wiped off the dirt on the child with a clean corner of the quilt, and carried him into his arms.

The cold child tightly hugged the neck of the adult in front of him.

Niu Da was very happy.

He took out the soft quilt used on the wedding night from the cabinet and covered the child.Niu Da turned to boil hot water, but was caught by the hem of his clothes.

The child's black eyes were full of soft fear.

As an apology to him today, Niu Da packed up

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