Daiyu of the Red Chamber raised a cat

Hearing what the old man said, the old woman ran out in a panic, tripped over the threshold, got up and ran desperately.Daiyu, Lin Ruhai, Zhou Hang and others hurriedly put on their clothes when they heard the words. Before they could leave the house, they heard the old woman's shrill cry of pain.

The next words seemed to be said with pain, a bit depressed.

"Son, I am mother, don't you recognize mother?"

When Daiyu came out, she saw the young man who was pressing the ground with one hand and was struggling to bite with his mouth open, and the old man who was pushing the old woman to prevent her from getting too close to the young man.The young man, the son mentioned by the two old men, was wearing very ordinary and ragged coarse clothes, his exposed skin was black and blue, his limbs were stiff, and his nails were black. The long-awaited living dead.The living dead had a very strong evil spirit and strong attack power. The reason why the old man was able to restrain him was because he suffered heavy injuries in the battle and both his legs were broken.Even so, he still struggled to resist, biting and trying to jump on people.

The old woman's arm was bitten very badly, almost a piece of flesh fell off, and blood flowed for a while.Except for the initial instinctive exclamation, she seemed to have forgotten the pain, just watched the puppet cry, and kept saying "son, mother, mother".

The old man said: "Be careful, my son has some strange disease, he bites anyone he sees, and I was bitten twice too. Oh, don't just cry, help carry it in." The son's body was not seen. , he and his wife never believed that their son was dead.It's okay, okay, my son is still here, just come back, just come back!Even if this strange disease is not good for a lifetime, the couple also admitted it.

Zhu Zi ran out, first called grandma, then was stunned for a moment, with a happy look on his face, and wanted to run over.Daiyu stopped him by the waist, and refused to let go no matter how hard he flung about.

"Sister, let go, dad, that's my dad, sister!" Zhu Zi cried anxiously.

"Your father is dead." Daiyu said.Although telling Zhuzi the truth now hurts him a bit, but the truth has to be faced, it's better than letting him rush over without knowing the severity and being bitten by the father he thought was his own.Although it is not possible to become a living dead after being bitten, the wounds bitten by them are difficult to heal, and the pillars are small. If they are not handled properly, there is a danger of losing their reputation.

Zhuzi said anxiously: "No, my father is not dead, that is my father. Why are you so bad, you won't let me recognize my father!" Then he broke Daiyu's hand, opened his mouth to bite, Thump hard.

The boy's teeth were still sharp, and the bite was quite painful. Daiyu couldn't help but let out a soft cry, but still didn't let go.He knew he couldn't let it go, although this kid was usually very good and easy, but he was stubborn.As soon as she let go, he must have rushed over to find his father, and he would probably be injured.

Zhou Hang walked over, snatched him away, picked him up with one hand, and glared at him.He was not happy to hear that Daiyu was bad at Zhou Hang, but now he bit her again, going too far, the brat should be taught a lesson.

Looking at the two rows of bloody teeth marks on Daiyu's wrist, Zhou Hang's expression became serious.This is the person he swears to put on top of his heart. He himself is not willing to hurt a hair of her, this kid, dare to bite her!

"Who do you say is bad, say it again, eh?!"

When Zhou Hang kept a straight face, there was a kind of intimidation without anger, and Zhu Zi shrank his neck in fright.

"Why don't you talk? Why don't you bite?" His face was much gentler, and he even pulled the corners of his mouth, showing a loose smile, but his eyes became more sinister, more terrifying than the angry one just now.

Seeing that Zhuzi's face turned pale with fright, Daiyu pushed Zhou Hang: "He's still a child..."

The implication is, stop haggling with children.

Zhou Hang said: "A child can do whatever he wants? A child can bite people indiscriminately? Especially if he bites you." But he still slowly put the man on the ground, still holding his collar to prevent A certain ignorant kid suddenly pounced on him and was injured, and Daiyu blamed him for not taking good care of him.

It is human nature to be close to parents, especially for young children, they regard their parents as heaven.Actually, it’s no wonder Zhuzi. Daiyu touched Zhuzi’s head and said gently, “It’s for your own good not to let you go. I’m afraid you will get hurt. Your father will bite everyone he sees now.” The old couple, struggling to wrap a bundle of hemp rope around the living dead, pursed their lips, and silently took out a talisman, and pasted it on the living dead's forehead, making it instantly quiet, like a piece of wood.

The old man and his wife looked up at Daiyu in shock.

After a while, the old man shook his lips and said, "Gu... girl, you, so the girl knows the way?" Daiyu was outside, although she was dressed as a man from the beginning to the end, but when she met the old man, she didn't use magic to change her description. The body is slender, so it can be easily seen that she is a woman disguised as a man.The old man's family are all good people, and Daiyu didn't hide it deliberately.

Daiyu nodded and said: "Carry it back to the house, be careful, don't lose the talisman."

The two elderly people thanked Daiyu and wanted to kowtow to Daiyu, but they were picked up by Lin Ruhai, and the three carried the "person" back in a reasonable manner.Zhou Hang pulled the pillar with one hand, and Daiyu followed closely with the other, taking time to bandage Daiyu's wrist.

Daiyu lowered her head, thinking about how these two kind-hearted old men could accept the fact that their son was dead.The living dead are neither people nor corpses, but a kind of evil that does not rot or rot.With such an abnormality, they must have guessed something more or less, but they refused to think in the worst direction, and they only believed that their son was just suffering from a strange disease.If you tell them the facts directly, they will definitely find various reasons to refute.The most thorough solution to this kind of living dead is to burn them with a fire, otherwise even if they are buried, they will not rot, and they will inevitably be unearthed one day and cause harm to the world.

However, persuading the two elderly people to agree to cremation is a difficult task.

Of course, they can forcefully deal with it without the consent of the two old people, but this will inevitably break the hearts of the two old people and a child.This is a kind family, and Daiyu doesn't want to use extreme measures.

After he settled the person on the bed, the old man knelt down in front of Daiyu and said, "Miss is supernatural, I don't know if she has it, but is there a way to save my son's life?"

The old woman also knelt down and said: "Girl, my son has a strange disease, please help me, the old woman will be your cow and horse in the next life..."

Daiyu said repeatedly: "You can't make it." She hurried to help him up, and finally helped him up, sighed, but didn't know how to speak.He looked at Lin Ruhai, who had a dignified expression and no superfluous expression on his face. Seeing Daiyu looking at him, Fang returned a look that reassured her.

"Old man..." Lin Ruhai stepped forward, helped the old man and his wife sit beside the bed, and then slowly said: "If we can save it, we will do our best. It's just your son..." The old man and his wife stared at Lin Ruhai eagerly, The latter sighed, "Your son is not sick..."

"It's not sick, so...how could this happen?" The old woman looked at her son on the bed with tears in her eyes.

Zhou Hangdao: "It is a living dead person who gathers resentment and resentment, and then refines it with the puppet technique. Due to the excessive evil spirit and wrong guidance, he bites everyone..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the old lady: "You mean... my son... is dead?"

Zhou Hang said: "Exactly."

The old woman suddenly went crazy, and pushed Zhou Hang, Daiyu and others: "Go, go! You villains are here to kill my son! My son is not dead, not dead, my son is still fine, Isn't it?" After speaking, he ran to the bed, hugged the living dead in his arms, and couldn't stop cursing.

Daiyu knew that she was insane due to excessive grief, so naturally she didn't care.Secretly, she can curse as much as she likes, and she won't lose a piece of meat. Instead of being stuffy in her heart, it's better to let her vent it.The old man was more sober than her, although he was also extremely sad, but he just sat on the bedside and wiped his tears silently.

"Gentlemen, my son's face looks like life, could it be, is he really dead?" After crying for a while, he looked at the "person" on the bed and asked unwillingly.

Daiyu stepped forward and said gently: "Old man, take a closer look. Although your son has not been corrupted, his complexion is blue and black, his eyes are dull, his nails are also black, and his limbs are as stiff as wood. This is what a living person should look like." Is it? He has a lot of evil spirits, and I speculate that he died at least two years ago."

The old man endured his grief and took a closer look, and it was true what Daiyu said, living people shouldn't be like this, even if it's a strange disease, it shouldn't be like this.Only the corpses of monsters that turned into ghosts due to excessive yin energy in the legends and stories would look like this.Could it be, could it be...

He wailed and said: "My poor son, how could you be like this, how could you be like this..."

Seeing that he was really sad, Daiyu couldn't bear to say anything more, and persuaded: "Please forgive me, my father and I will definitely not let your son die in vain. We must find out the real culprit and avenge him."

"Who said my son is dead! My son is not dead!" The old woman suddenly yelled and removed the talisman stuck on the forehead of the living dead, and the living dead went berserk again on the bed, biting the old woman's neck, Sharp teeth and nails were embedded in the aorta, and blood was sprayed all over the bed immediately.

Everyone was shocked, Zhu Zi took advantage of Zhou Hang's stunned time to break free from his control, and called his grandma to jump on the bed, Daiyu could only care about holding Zhu Zhu, but couldn't care about re-attaching the talisman.

"Brother Hang!" she yelled.

Zhou Hang understood, and hurriedly took a talisman, and was about to stick it on the forehead of the living dead, but was pushed away by the dying old woman.She lost a lot of blood and was already on the verge of death. Naturally, she didn't have much energy. At most, Zhou Hang hesitated for a moment.But what she did next caused Zhou Hang quite a headache.She stretched out her trembling hand to cover the forehead of the living dead, preventing Zhou Hang from sticking the talisman.The old woman's face was already very pale, if this continues, her life will be lost.It seemed that she had been hit too hard, and she wanted to die with all her heart.

"Brother Hang, hurry up!" Daiyu shouted again, Zhou Hang had no choice but to forcefully break her hand away and subdue the living dead.According to his temperament, in fact, he should use the exorcism talisman to burn the living dead directly to ashes at this moment, so as to save such trouble.But since Daiyu took care of the emotions of this family, she had no choice but to suppress the "people" for the time being.

Zhou Hang quickly tied up the living dead, so as not to cause harm to others after the talisman is dropped.The old man and others hurriedly settled the old woman on another bed, and Daiyu bandaged her wound with a clean cloth dipped in spiritual spring water.However, the old woman was extremely uncooperative, and the treatment was carried out very slowly, and the blood was still flowing like water.

Zhu Zi was still crying at first, but now he was so frightened that he was like a fool, so he didn't make a sound.

It is easy to save a dying person, but it is difficult to save a person who does not even want to live.The old man thought that the old woman would surely die from such an injury, so he sighed and wept.Daiyu accidentally caught a glimpse of Zhuzi with dull eyes, kneeling beside the bed stupidly, her head was smashed and she didn't know it, suddenly she had a plan.She pulled the pillar to her side and said, "Look at who this is?"

The old woman raised her head slightly, her eyeballs moved.

Daiyu was overjoyed, and secretly said: "There is a play!"

She pinched Zhu Zi's neck with one hand and said: "Didn't you miss your son and Huang Quan to reunite with him? Why don't you just bring your grandson together and have a good family reunion!"

Zhuzi called out at the right time: "Grandma, don't die, Zhuzi won't let you die..."

The old woman burst into tears, struggling to hold the pillar into her arms.Such a fuss is considered to have freed her will to survive.Sure enough, to deal with stubborn old people, children are the most effective.Old people love and love their children, no matter how stubborn they are, they will disappear when they see their grandsons and granddaughters.What's more, the old lady didn't seek death wholeheartedly. Otherwise, why didn't she see her seeking death since her son had been missing for two years?It's just that I saw my son by chance, and I was overjoyed and then sad, and I couldn't accept it for a while.Although she lost her son, she still had a grandson after all, and the grandson was still so young, so naturally she couldn't bear to leave him.

The grandfather and grandson hugged each other and cried for a long time. Daiyu persuaded the old woman to bandage the wound on her neck.The old woman was old and seriously injured, and passed out after a while.

Zhu Zhu stood in front of the bed, looking at the motionless undead who was putting on clothes.He watched very seriously, his eyeballs remained motionless, carefully observing his face, hands, etc.He was only three years old when his father disappeared, and he only vaguely remembered a vague image of what his father looked like, whether he was tall, short, fat, or thin, and had no impression at all.

Is this his father?

Zhuzi felt a little strange, but also a little kind. It turned out that his father was a very tall man.

He thought, I don't know when I will grow up so tall.

Daiyu couldn't bear it, she walked over, covered Zhuzhu's eyes, and dragged him into the yard.Not long after, Zhou Hang also came out, and after a while, Lin Ruhai also came out slowly, and gently closed the door.Zhuzi looked at Lin Ruhai, then at Zhou Hang, and finally his eyes fell on Lin Daiyu, shaking her sleeves, he asked, "Sister, is my father really dead?"

Although she didn't want to tell him the truth, Daiyu still knelt down, looked him in the eyes, and said, "Zhuzi, your father was killed by bad guys. My sister must find someone who will return your father to help you avenge him." .You can trust my sister?"

Zhu Zi was stunned for a while, then nodded, and said, "I believe in my sister."

Lunch is barbecue made by Zhou Hang. The hunted rabbit and goat are cleaned and cut into small pieces, put on the campfire, sprinkled with seasonings and roasted, and the fragrant meat will come out.Zhou Hang's cooking skills are not good, only to the extent that he can cook well.But the old woman was seriously injured, and the old man was watching over her. Naturally, he didn't care about eating or cooking. Lin Ruhai and Lin Daiyu came from a family, and they couldn't even touch the spring water with their five fingers when urinating, let alone cooking, and they couldn't even light a fire.

It’s okay for ordinary people to eat barbecue, but patients can’t eat this. Fortunately, Zhuzi Daxiao helps grandparents with housework and can cook porridge.There was round-grained rice in the space, and Daiyu gave her some, and cooked a big pot of thick porridge.The water used to cook the porridge is the diluted spiritual spring water, and the old lady should be able to recover a lot after eating the porridge.

The old woman woke up, managed to eat half a bowl of porridge, and urged the old man to feed the porridge to her son.Besides being interested in the flesh of the living, how could the living dead also eat human food?However, the old woman insisted, so the old man had to hold the porridge bowl to feed. Wherever he could feed, he couldn't even open his mouth, and a bowl of porridge went down, and the flow was everywhere.

He went back with an empty bowl in his hand and said, "Eat it all."

The old woman: "It's good to eat..."

Knowing that her son was dead, the old lady still deceived herself, and because of the deep love between mother and child, Daiyu couldn't bear to criticize her.But going on like this is not an option after all.The old lady ate three bowls of porridge that day, but nothing else.Daiyu and the others lived for another two days, and on the third day, the old woman was nourished by the porridge boiled from the spiritual spring every day, and she was still in good spirits, and she was able to sit on the bed and talk. Tell her about an article in Weird Novels after processing.

The content is roughly that once upon a time, there was an old couple who lived most of their lives without children. When they were nearly fifty years old, they suddenly got a son by luck.The husband and wife love each other like eyeballs, which are held in their mouths for fear of melting and holding them in their hands for fear of falling. The youngest son grows up to five or six years old, giving birth to snow balls, but he died of illness after not wanting to.The couple almost cried to death, hugging their son's body and refused to bury it. Knowing that the body was rotten and smelly, there was nothing they could do about it, so they asked a Taoist priest to carve a portrait of their son in wood at home.I wish that if my son is gone, let the woodcut be with me, as if I were my son, but I don't know that this will cause my son's soul to be trapped on the woodcut, unable to reincarnate.

The old lady listened intently and asked, "What happened to the son in the end?"

Daiyu said: "What else can he do? He resented his parents for imprisoning him, making him unable to reincarnate. Later, the resentment accumulated more and more, and he turned into a ghost, sucking the yang energy of ordinary people every day, committing a great sin, and was punished by heaven. The soul is gone!"

The old woman remained silent for a long time, before she raised her head and asked, "My son...will he also turn into a ghost?"

Daiyu said: "The person who has passed away should be allowed to rest in peace as soon as possible."

She grabbed the old woman's hand, felt her hand trembling slightly, and said softly, "Don't forget, you still have a grandson."

The old woman said: "Can you really avenge my son?"

Daiyu: "Definitely."

The old woman: "I want to see my son one last time, and after that, you can do whatever you want. I don't want my son to hate me, and I don't want him to be a lonely ghost who cannot be reincarnated..."

That night, Daiyu and Zhou Hang rationally incinerated him and redeemed him.Before the cremation, Daiyu took a piece of cloth from the clothes worn by the living dead. Although the clothes on his body were torn, they looked like they were newly cut. Maybe I could find some clues in the county town.

With the skill of the two of them, they can actually see some souls. When chanting sutras, seeing the black air in the flames gradually dissipate, replaced by the faint white light emitted by the souls, you know that the ghost's obsession has disappeared. It's time to reincarnate.

On the second day, Lin Ruhai, Lin Daiyu, and Zhou Hang bid farewell to the old man's family and prepared to go to the county.

Although the two old men didn't know Lin Ruhai's identity, they also guessed that they were not ordinary people. Seeing that they promised to help their son find the real murderer and take revenge, they were naturally very grateful.Daiyu left a pot of spiritual spring water, gave Zhuzi a jade pendant, and gave them 100 taels of silver, and told them to take Zhuzi to live in the town, buy a few acres of land and let Zhuzi read a book. enough.The mountains are barren and there are few people. What's more, the older they are, the more difficult it is to live here, especially the old man, whose hunting skills and eyesight are no longer good.

The pot of spiritual spring water she left had already instructed them in detail to pour a little while cooking every day, and it should last for about ten days.Ten days later, Shen Ke in the old couple should also go, and it should be no problem to live to the age of 70 or [-] in good health. By then, Zhuzi should also start a family and start a business.

After leaving the old man's house, Daiyu used spells to change her description. In this way, she is a man with a standard and strong temperament, and no one will recognize her as a girl anymore.

Of course, this is just what she thinks.

Lin Ruhai and Zhou Hang agreed that even if Daiyu changed her description, she was still very delicate and handsome, but she would not be recognized as a daughter.

The three of them rode horses and soon arrived at the county seat.First, there is a small county called Qiu County, which is about [-] miles south of Shan County.After entering the city, I went to a cloth shop and a tailor shop first, but I had never seen the cloth on the living dead.Daiyu wanted to leave in disappointment. An old tailor said, "A new cloth shop has opened in the west of the city. It's a big shop. It is said that there are all kinds of cloth. Would you like to go and have a look?"

So, they went to the cloth shop.

It's called Futaibuzhuang. It has three spacious fronts with plaques hung upright. Although it is not as good as the shops in Beijing, it is quite decent in this small county. The boss is also one of the most famous people in this county. .

But such a big store still doesn't have that kind of fabric.

Several people returned in disappointment, ready to have a look at the folk customs of the county and listen to the people's views on the county magistrate.According to the old man and his wife, the county magistrate is not a good official, but he can't listen to the family.

While walking on the street, a man in his early twenties followed them furtively.Daiyu was the first to notice, followed by Zhou Hang, and Lin Ruhai soon noticed it too.Looking at each other, several people crossed the street, walked towards a less crowded alleyway, and blocked the person at a corner.

Zhou Hang lifted his collar and asked, "What are you doing sneaking after us?"

The man hurriedly raised his hands to beg for mercy, and shouted: "Misunderstanding, I am here to help you..."

"Who sent you here? Tell me!" Zhou Hang asked sharply as he leaned against the wall.

Zhou Hang's strength was far superior to that of ordinary people. Even if he didn't use all his strength, the man couldn't take it any longer. He slammed into the wall behind him, feeling as if his internal organs had been flattened, and he was miserable.Secretly said: If I had known that these people were so difficult to mess with, I would not have taken advantage of it.

"Strong man, spare your life..." he said, "I know where that cloth is."

Zhou Hang stared at him, making sure that he didn't dare to lie to himself, so he let go, stood tall, straightened his sleeves, and said slowly but dignifiedly: "Say!"

The man held his neck and gasped for breath, obviously frightened, and said tremblingly: "There is a farm five miles east of the city, and there is a workshop in the village, with about twenty or thirty weaving machines. machine, day and night, weaving is this kind of cloth."

Zhou Hang said "hmm", but didn't continue, and just looked at him with dark eyes.The man was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and said, "I dare not deceive this strong man. It is true. I have seen it with my own eyes."

It seems that I have met and found the right person.Glancing at Daiyu, Zhou Hang thought to himself, he didn't bother to scare him any more, a rascal in the market place didn't bother him to bother.He directly took out a talisman and activated it with a formula, and the man told all the things he knew about Bu as if pouring beans.

It turned out that he was a gangster on the street. He usually bullied and bullied the people and lived by cheating and abducting. Sometimes he would do some part-time work when he was hungry and hungry.Half a year ago, he received a good job with a good salary, which was to move a batch of goods outside the city. It was quite mysterious, and he went there blindfolded at the time.But he was used to running around ready-made, even though he was blindfolded, he recognized that Zhuangzi.The goods transported at that time were such cloth, and there were quite a lot of them, hundreds of pieces, loaded into several carriages, and they were transported at night.

At that time, he felt that something was wrong, but after the completion, the host gave him a tael of silver, and he just forgot about it because he was happy.Today, seeing someone inquiring about the cloth, and a few well-dressed rich people, they thought there was something lucrative to be found, so they followed him.

After asking for the address, Zhou Hang knocked the little rascal unconscious with a knife.Daiyu hated the hooligans who bullied the common people the most, so she kicked her twice as she walked over.Lin Ruhai saw her daughter suddenly revealing the human nature of a little girl, twirling her beard and walking behind happily.

"Yu'er, be careful not to trip." He also kindly reminded her.

He found that his daughter was much more lively outside than at home.Perhaps it is right to let my daughter go out more.Although the world has high expectations for girls and has many rules, Lin Ruhai is not such a pedantic person. Although girls don't show their faces like boys, they are not without flexible methods.For example, this is fine now.He felt that his thoughts were already open-minded enough, but he didn't want His Royal Highness to be more open-minded than him, so that he could watch his fiancée show his face in public.

Lin Ruhai was relieved that this son-in-law had chosen the right one.

At least, he didn't rely on his husband's power to ask his daughter to submit to everything and imprison her in the boudoir.

Several people went to the vicinity of the village and found out that there was indeed a workshop.So, he pretended to be a merchant who bought cloth, and wanted to discuss with their managers about buying cloth, but who knew that one of the managers didn't see him, and was rushed out by a few servants.

"Come on, we don't sell cloth here!" They waved their hands, as if to repel flies.

"Aren't you weaving cloth? Don't sell the cloth after weaving?" Lin Ruhai asked.

"Hey, I said you don't understand people's language, right? I told you to go away, looking for a beating!" As he spoke, he raised the flowerless stick in his hand to be beaten, but was stopped by an older man, Said: "It's just a few businessmen who don't know the importance. There's no need to be as knowledgeable as them. If we beat them, we are still tired. Go in and have a drink."

As he said that, he pushed the boy who wanted to do it in, but the other party was reluctant, so he finally cursed again and went in.The old servant turned around and said to Lin Ruhai and the others: "You want to buy cloth and buy it elsewhere. Cloth is not sold here. If you continue to entangle, you will suffer."

Lin Ruhai saw that the old servant still had kind thoughts, so he said gently: "Please tell your master that I am willing to pay a high price..."

Before he finished speaking, the old servant waved his hands and said, "No matter how high you are, go back."

At this time, another impatient voice came from inside, "I said, Old Li, what are you talking nonsense with him? Isn't it over when you get out? Do you want your brothers to help you?" Then he shouted to copy what the guy said. .

It seemed that today he was determined not to ask any more questions, Lin Ruhai bowed his hands to the old servant, thanking him for his generous help, turned around and took Daiyu and Zhou Hang away.

However, they did not go far.After only settling in one family in the village, Zhou Hang released the black cat fish balls.In the evening, Yu Wan brought back news that there were [-] looms in the workshop, and [-] female textile workers took turns weaving day and night, and they could weave hundreds of looms a day.The owner of Zhuangzi is a wealthy gentry in the county, who is powerful, and he and the county magistrate are both sworn brothers.As for whether these were sent there to be processed into clothes, and then worn on the bodies of the living dead, because the process was too secretive, it had not been found out for a while.

It seems that the magistrate of Qiu County must have something to do with the mastermind behind the production of the living dead.

Yu Wan also inquired a lot about the rumors about the magistrate.His reputation was so bad that on the first day he arrived in Qiu County, he made a rule that no matter how much tax the court collected, he would add [-]% to the original tax.Needless to say, the [-]% went into the pocket of the magistrate.The people complained, but he didn't care about injustice, whoever gave the silver would be judged as the winner, and the loser would either be exiled into the army or blackmailed.As soon as the exiles left, there was no news. They didn't know whether they were dead or alive. Over time, the people would rather die wronged than sue the officials, so as not to burden their families.

As for his noble gentry, he was even more disastrous for the village. He fell in love with a farmer's daughter, but the parents didn't agree, so he sent his whole family into the army and robbed the girl to be a child.

Such a squire, such an official, it would not be pity to cut him to death.

It seems that this time the county really came to the right place.

At dinner time, I talked with the farmer's family, and they were also full of complaints about the county magistrate and this gentry.

"Sir, you don't know, it's not easy for the common people!" The host is a man in his fifties, wearing coarse and short brown clothes, with patches on his elbows, knees, and buttocks.He saw that Lin Ruhai was very refined and elegant, and he looked like a scholar, so he naturally called him Mr.He said: "We have worked so hard, lying in the fields all year round, handed over to the government, even our own rations are not enough, the children are clamoring and hungry every day, there is nothing we can do..."

His son is only in his early 20s, and he looks like he's in his thirties, basking in the sun all year round.

"If this continues..." He glanced at the pair of children who were squatting next to them picking stones from the wheat. The elder brother was only four or five years old, and the younger sister was at most three years old. Her arms were very thin, like bamboo poles.He stopped talking halfway, when his wife came out with a tiny baby in her arms.Farmers’ families don’t have as many rules as officials’ families, and they see everyone on weekdays, and they don’t shy away from it. Even Lin Ruhai and others saw a woman coming in and wanted to avoid it, but they were stopped and said no, and there was no place to avoid it. .Out of politeness, Lin Ruhai and Zhou Hang, except for the initial greeting, turned their eyes away from the woman.

Daiyu looked at the woman backwards, and said with a smile, "How old is this child?" She is small in stature, from the perspective of a boy, she is only about ten years old, and everyone regards her as a child.Therefore, even if she stared at the woman, the farmer's family didn't think there was any impoliteness.

The woman said, "It's been eight months."

Daiyu asked again: "Boy or girl?"

The woman replied: "Girl." She sighed and finished what the man had left. "If this continues, the child will be sold." When she said this, tears were in her eyes, her teeth were along her lips, and she turned her head away, as if she didn't want to look at the pair of children and the child in her arms.

Who would be willing to sell their own child unless it was a last resort?

Daiyu grew up in the midst of wealth and wealth, and never seriously understood the sufferings of the people.I have read a lot of books that are not easy for ordinary people, but I can't help but feel a little bit scratchy, and I haven't had such a shocking experience.When she came out this time and saw these people, she really felt that ordinary people are not easy, those corrupt officials are really hateful!

After dinner, she said to Lin Ruhai: "Daddy must bring corrupt officials to justice."

Lin Ruhai nodded and hummed.Zhou Hang spread some straw on the ground, and spread a mat on top of the straw. The mat was a little tattered, but it was better than nothing.The farmhouse they stayed in had only three tile-roofed houses, the old man and his wife lived in one, his son and wife lived in one, and the children lived in one.Now move the children to the other two rooms and make room for Lin Ruhai and the others.The old man's family didn't know the identity of Daiyu's daughter, and heard Lin Ruhai said that she brought her son and nephew out to do business and practice, so naturally they didn't think it was inconvenient to live in the same room.

There are two beds in this room, one big and one small. The big one is only about one person long and one meter wide. It is just right for one person, but it is a bit crowded for two people.If the narrow one sleeps with an adult, the feet will be exposed outside.Of the three of them, only Daiyu was small enough to sleep in a small bed.Therefore, between Lin Ruhai and Zhou Hang, there must be someone who wants to lay the floor.

Zhou Hang suggested to sleep in the space, but Lin Ruhai said that you should be careful outside, and don't enter the space if you can, lest you don't notice it for a while and cause some trouble.Therefore, Daiyu and Zhou Hang had no choice but to give up this idea.

Zhou Hang laid the floor before Lin Ruhai, in order to dispel Lin Ruhai's idea of ​​giving him the bed.Reasonably, he should do this.One is that Lin Ruhai is his future father-in-law, and he should be respected as an elder; the other is that he is a monk, and his physical fitness is much stronger than Lin Ruhai's. Even if he doesn't lay anything, he can sleep on the ground overnight, but Lin Ruhai can't do it.

Unexpectedly, Lin Ruhai didn't say anything when he was making the bed, but just as he was making the bed, Lin Ruhai came over and patted him on the back.

"Hang'er, go to bed and sleep." Lin Ruhai said.

"..." Zhou Hang was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly lay down on the floor, and said with a smile, "I, I just sleep, it's fine."

Sleep on the bed by yourself and let the father-in-law sleep on the floor, he can't do it even if he is killed, okay?

From Lin Ruhai's point of view, letting him sleep on the bed while His Royal Highness the Crown Prince lays the floor is not what a minister should do.Besides, if it gets to the ears of the sage in the future, if I dare to let the sage's precious son sleep on the floor, I'm afraid there will be no good fruit to eat.

Zhou Hang had already occupied the floor, but Lin Ruhai couldn't pull him up, so he frowned and said, "You are the prince, how can you use the floor?"

Zhou Hang said: "I am not the prince now, my lord just treat me as your junior. There is no reason for the younger generation to sleep on the bed and let the elders sleep on the floor. My lord, don't argue with me." He didn't say the last sentence, fighting for you is also fighting But mine.

Daiyu also interjected at the right time: "Father, you should follow Brother Yihang."

Lin Ruhai looked at her daughter for a while, said "OK", got up, walked to the bed and sat down.For no reason, he felt a little unhappy.Although it was for his own good that his daughter persuaded him to sleep on the bed, it also made him a little disappointed.He knew Daiyu's temperament best, if she really regarded him as the closest person, she would probably let him sleep on the floor and let Zhou Hang sleep on the bed.But the reality is just the opposite, that is to say, in Daiyu's heart, Zhou Hang's position has even faintly surpassed that of his father.Although she knew that sooner or later, when her daughter grew up, she would marry, have children, and be more or less alienated from his father.This is not because she is unfilial, but because she will eventually have her own life.But he didn't expect that this day would come so early, he was a little lost and at a loss...

He always thought that he could accept his daughter's growth calmly, but he was wrong.

Lin Daiyu is sensitive by nature, and soon she felt Lin Ruhai's abnormality.Looking in his direction, she called out worriedly: "Daddy..."

Lin Ruhai smiled, and said in a calm voice, "Daddy's Yu'er has grown up, Daddy is happy."

Yes, he should be happy.The daughter has a good home, and there are people who really care about her and treat her well.He should be happy for his daughter, so what if her daughter no longer regards herself as the closest person?He will always be her father and the grandfather of her future children.Thinking that Daiyu's children in the future will be as well-behaved as Daiyu was when she was a child, she couldn't help laughing.

Daiyu tilted her head and asked, "Why is Daddy laughing again?"

Lin Ruhai said: "I just thought of something funny."

Daiyu: "What's so funny, why don't Dad tell me about it?"

Lin Ruhai shook his head and said, "I can't say it, I can't say it..."

Daiyu refused, and insisted on asking him to talk, because she walked over and grabbed his arm and said, "Daddy tell my daughter!" Lin Ruhai pulled her daughter over and whispered in her ear, "I can't say it now, until tomorrow Hang'er is gone." Then daddy will tell you alone."

Daiyu knew that it might not be a good word, it was probably to tease her, and it had something to do with Zhou Hang.She snorted, shook off Lin Ruhai's arm and said, "If you don't say it, then don't say it. Daddy doesn't want to say it, and my daughter doesn't want to hear it." Yin went back to her bed, closed her clothes and lay down, covering her head with the quilt.

Zhou Hang also heard Lin Ruhai's whisper, and he was very happy. Lin Ruhai was willing to make fun of him and Daiyu, explaining that he really regarded him as his son-in-law, and it was not in vain for him to spend so much effort to please him.I was having fun in my heart for a long time, seeing that Lin Daiyu was embarrassed and covered her head with a quilt in shame and anger, she couldn't help but said worriedly: "Sister Yu'er, don't cover your head, don't be bored anymore!" In front of Lin Ruhai, he was always commensurate with Daiyu's brother and sister, In case Lin Ruhai misunderstood him as an apprentice who wanted to take advantage.

Daiyu ignored, Zhou Hang said again: "After the third watch, I will go to visit the weaving workshop at night."

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