"Go quickly, go quickly!"
When Xu Ping and Xu An heard such a shocking secret, they were immediately frightened. For fear of being discovered by Wang Zhu and Liu Niang, Xu Ping quickly urged his sister to go back.
The two of them crept back along the long road, but accidentally stepped on a loose tile, which made a little noise.
Wang Zhu was alert. When he heard the slightest movement, he immediately signaled Liu Niang to be silent. He took two steps towards the side room and listened to the movement outside.
Outside there were only the faint sounds of hawking on the street, the rustling of leaves in the wind, and the crying of the children in the backyard.
Liu Niang walked over quickly, "What are you looking at?"
Wang Zhu frowned, "Go and take a look at that kid's home to see if he's back."
Liu Niang was shocked and understood the meaning of his words. She was afraid and said, "Did he listen to what we said?"
Wang Zhu suddenly shouted, "Go if I tell you to. Why are you talking so much nonsense?"
Liu Niang was startled by him and hurried away.
When she went to the west courtyard, there was no one in the bamboo forest. She walked in and called tentatively: "Brother Xu, are you back?"
After calling twice, the door of the room opened. Xu Ping stretched and yawned from inside and walked out. He rubbed his eyes and said, "Sister Liu, are you looking for my elder brother? He left in the morning and didn't come back. I don't know why. hour……"
Xu An also walked out of the house quickly, grabbed his brother, and narrowed his eyes with a smile: "Sister Liu, I'm afraid my eldest brother won't come back until midnight."
Liu Niang nodded and said with a smile: "It's just that the sugar paste in the tea shop has been sold out, and I want to ask your elder brother for some more. He's not at home, so just wait until he comes back."
After saying that, Liu Niang went back.
When Xu Ping saw her leaving gracefully, he felt as if he had seen some man-eating demon. No matter how beautiful she was, she was still a woman with bad intentions!
He hurriedly said to his sister: "What did you do to hold me back just now? Lie to her that you don't know when the eldest brother will come back. When the eldest brother comes back, we will tell him to move away!"
Xu An glared at him, dragged him back into the house, bolted the door, and then whispered: "Didn't you see how ferocious a man he is? Just now, he said he was giving medicine and cheated the elder brother of the pear paste prescription. What if he You changed your mind and want to attack us?"
At this time, in the east wing, Liu Niang went back to report the news. Wang Zhu heard Liu Niang say that Xu Ling might have gone away to buy pears and didn't know when he would come back.
Wang Zhu was impatient, but Liu Niang looked relaxed, which immediately made him angry, "Are you just hoping that he won't come back so that he won't be deceived by you?"
Ever since the idea came to Xu Ling's head, he had always thought about how he could make a fortune. When he was not at home a few days ago, he often went to casinos and brothels and spent a lot of money.
He was just waiting to kill Xu Ling, the fat sheep, to regain his health, but he never found a chance to do it, and his woman also ran away with him.
How could Wang Zhu not hate him?
Liu Niang shouted hurriedly: "If you dare to lay a finger on me again, don't blame me for turning against you!"
Wang Zhu gritted his teeth and endured it. He walked anxiously around the room twice, then suddenly raised his head and looked at the roof of the side room.
After a while, he seemed to realize something, and suddenly said: "Do you think those two children know the recipe for making sugarpaste? Xu Ling carried us on his back, but not them. Since it is a recipe passed down from ancestors, they also You should know!"
Liu Niang was afraid, "What are you going to do? Do you want me to seduce two children who don't have all their hair?"
Wang Zhu smiled evilly and said: "You don't need to do anything, I will do it myself! Just trick them out!"
Since Xu An expressed his suspicion that Wang Zhu would attack them, the two children were so frightened that they bolted the doors and windows, and blocked them with all the things in the house that could be used to resist them.
Waiting for nightfall, the bamboo leaves are swaying outside, and the autumn wind blows the bamboo leaves around, making a whining sound.
Xu Ping and Xu An held Xu Ling's knife for peeling pears and the stick for stirring sugar paste in their hands. The two of them squeezed into the same bed, sitting there wrapped in quilts and shivering.
"Xu An, will he really come to us?"
"I don't know either, but it's okay to be a little defensive."
When the two children thought about that possibility, they were overwhelmed. They didn't know if the eldest brother would come back tonight. It would be great if he could come back!
Time passed little by little, and I don’t know what time it was. The night was already very deep.
Xu Ping and Xu An were drowsy when suddenly there was a knock on the door.
It's Liu Niang.
"Xu Ping, Xu An, have you two eaten? I cooked some food at home, why don't you come and eat some together?"
Xu Ping and Xu An looked at each other and swallowed.
"Do you want her back?"
"Go back."
Xu Ping said boldly: "Sister Liu, we have already eaten and gone to bed, so we won't go to your place. Thank you very much for your kindness, Sister Liu."
Liu Niang said "Really?" and left.
But before the two children could take a breath, Liu Niang came again.
There seemed to be a cry in her voice as she talked about the bustling market outside and wanted to take Xu An to buy clothes with her.
There will be a problem if the two children can't tell that something is wrong. Xu An said: "Sister Liu, it's too late today. Let's talk about it tomorrow."
Liu Niang left again.
This time, no one came for a long time, but the two children were not sleepy at all. After an unknown period of time, there was a banging sound on the door.
It was Wang Zhu who came to the door himself!
Wang Zhu's knock on the door was like a thunderstorm, and Xu Ping and Xu An had the courage to reply with a few words.
Then Wang Zhu left without believing anything.
He asked Liu Niang: "Have you told them?"
Liu Niang's beautiful face was bruised by his beating. She smiled miserably and turned away: "If I tell them, won't you beat me to death?"
"Son of a bitch, these two brats are much smarter than your pretty boy!"
Wang Zhu cursed bitterly, fearing that what he had done had already alerted the enemy. If those two children said something to Xu Ling tomorrow, wouldn't the duck in his mouth be about to fly away?
The more Wang Zhu thought about it, the more unwilling he became, and the more impatient he became.
Xu Renren was in Qinghe Town, feeling a little uneasy for some reason.
The feeling was so mysterious that it made him so uneasy that he didn't even think about buying pears.
Fortunately, with the help of Mrs. Li, she searched for good pears in the village in advance, bought them and stored them at home.
Xu Ling went to her home to weigh her, paid her, and bought more than 800 kilograms of pears in one go, when he learned a sad news.
This autumn is colder than last year and the wind is strong. The pears on many people's trees were blown off by the wind. I'm afraid that if we buy more pears, we won't be able to buy as many pears.
Eight hundred catties of pears can be used to make at most 50 cans of autumn pear paste, which can be sold for more than 20 taels of silver. After deducting materials and other expenses, it is estimated that there is still some distance before building a house after paying off the money...
Xu Ling couldn't help but frown.
He didn't waste time in Qinghe Town. He arrived at Lijiazhuang in the evening. After buying pears at midnight, he took a long detour at night to take a boat at the pier.
For some reason, he desperately wanted to go back.
