The old lady was very enthusiastic and insisted on letting Liu Shichu take her noodle cake. No matter how Liu Shichu refused, she insisted on giving it to her. Finally, Liu Shichu had to accept her noodle cake.
"Eat quickly. You are young and have good teeth. Don't waste it. The pancakes made by the old lady taste quite good." The old man said to Lu Shichu with a smile.
The old lady also stared at her with sharp eyes: "Eat quickly, eat quickly."
The eagerness and excitement in their eyes had betrayed them. When Liu Shichu saw how enthusiastic they were, he couldn't live up to their "good intentions", so he put the noodles to his mouth and was about to take a bite when he suddenly stopped.
"Eat quickly! Why don't you eat?" Seeing that she hadn't eaten yet, the old lady urged her impatiently, so anxious that her voice broke.
Liu Shichu smiled at her and said, "The bread is too dry. I'd better drink some water to moisten my throat first."
"Drink quickly, drink quickly." The old lady urged again, staring at her with a strange and creepy expression.
Liu Shichu seemed not to notice her weirdness and eagerness. Under their searchlight-like eyes, he stopped teasing them. He calmly put the dough into his mouth, took a bite, and started chewing.
Seeing Liu Shichu finally eating their noodles, the old lady and the old man finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked at each other. The excitement on their faces was very obvious, and they looked at Liu Shichu as if they were looking at gold.
Liu Shichu took a bite and tasted the expected drugged taste. Sure enough, he wanted to use the pancake to stun her. The method was really ordinary.
Liu Shichu finished eating without changing his expression. The joy on the faces of the old lady and the old man could no longer be concealed, but they continued to fool Liu Shichu in a clumsy way: "Drink some more water, the pancake is a bit dry... We are here Thank you very much, don’t worry..."
Liu Shichu smiled and drank a few more sips of water. As soon as he got on his old donkey, the old lady quickly called her: "Hey, you'd better sit on my ox cart and have a rest. There is no ox cart on the donkey's back. It's comfortable to sit on it." ?”
"Okay, thank you, auntie." Liu Shichu sat down next to the old lady obediently.
The old man and the old lady continued to talk to her for a while, but in fact they were both distracted and didn't care what they were saying to Liu Shichu.
Finally, in their excited and expectant eyes, Liu Shichu finally "passed out" as they wished and passed out on the bullock cart.
"I finally passed out! Fortunately, I wasn't sitting on the back of a donkey, otherwise I would have fallen off and hurt my face. If my face was disfigured, I wouldn't be able to sell it for a good price..." the old lady said in great surprise.
"Okay, don't get excited yet. Let's move her to the middle and cover her with a quilt. When we enter the city later, we will tell the city guard that she brought her seriously ill granddaughter to Beijing for medical treatment. Don't let it slip. ." The old man suppressed his inner excitement and said to the old lady.
"I know, I know!" the old lady said impatiently, and then she saw Liu Shichu's old donkey gnawing grass on the roadside, and warned again, "Don't forget to take the old donkey with you. You can also sell it for a few taels of silver." !”
The old man then brought the old donkey over and tied it to his ox cart. After a while, the two of them drove the ox cart again and lined up at the city gate.
Liu Shichu, who was pretending to be dizzy, lay comfortably on the slightly swaying bullock cart, thinking that he had saved a penny in the city fee, which was really good. One penny could buy a plain steamed bun.
After waiting for less than half a stick of incense, Liu Shichu was transported into the capital. The old lady looked at her "sleeping" and said to the old man with great joy: "This product is very good. It can be sold for twenty or thirty taels of silver." .”
The old man lowered his voice and said: "Twenty or thirty taels are nothing? If you go to those places, you can sell them for forty or fifty taels."
"That's right, she looks upright and young. It's the time when the flower bones are about to bloom. Those brothel madams like this kind of goods the most. They will definitely make a lot of money this time!" The old woman could hardly hide it. He suppressed his excited voice.
"Keep your voice down!" the old man warned her.
The old woman had no choice but to whisper, but she was still very excited and couldn't help but want to talk to others: "This silly girl is so stupid. She dares to travel far away alone. She really doesn't know how high the sky is. She didn't give it to others for free." Huh? You’re not wary at all... But it’s better not to be wary. It’s easier for us..."
"Windfall from heaven, we deserve to be rich this time." The old man said happily, "This time my younger son will be rich when he gets a wife."
"You have to marry a good child-bearing woman, but you can't be like the eldest daughter-in-law. After more than ten years, she has only given birth to a skinny loser. She is going to ruin our family!" The old woman was indignant and began to complain about herself. eldest daughter-in-law.
Liu Shichu felt a little bored. After about two sticks of incense, the ox cart finally stopped, seemingly in front of a house.
"Boss, boss's wife, please come out and help me. I'm taking my granddaughter to see a doctor. She can't move on her own now. Please help her in quickly..." the old woman shouted towards the door.
Two hurried footsteps suddenly ran out of the house, first the voice of a middle-aged man: "Granddaughter? My daughter? Yes, my daughter is sick. She is really a loser. She has to bring her to Beijing to bring her to Beijing... "
"Bring her in quickly, don't let the wind make the illness worse." A slightly hoarse female voice added, and she scolded the neighbors who were watching the excitement, "What are you looking at? I haven't seen it before. Sick girl?"
When the neighbors saw how fierce she was, they dispersed one after another.
Not long after, Liu Shichu felt two hands pulling her arms and legs, dragging her into a room.
"Mom and Dad, where did you find this good product? It's white and clean, and can be sold at a good price! It's much better than that yellow-haired girl last time." The middle-aged man seemed to have seen Liu Shichu's appearance clearly, and lowered his head happily. the voice asked.
"I met her on the way to the capital. She was riding an old donkey stupidly alone. She said she was coming to the capital to visit relatives. There was no adult around her. Didn't she just come to us?" the old woman said proudly. said.
"There are such fools, tsk tsk." The middle-aged female voice sighed with emotion.
"Both parents are gone. A girl who doesn't know anything. She thinks she's as safe outside as she is at home. Will she fall into our hands soon? We deserve to be rich." The old man was also happy.
"I have to ask several stores for this product. I can't sell it cheaply." The old woman's son said very shrewdly, "If it is sold to a high-ranking official who likes this kind of inexperienced girl, it can be sold for a lot of money." Several hundred taels of silver!"
"So much? Hundreds of taels?!" The old woman was so excited that her voice became louder.
Her son quickly asked her to keep her voice down, and then said disdainfully: "Those dignitaries are rich, a few hundred taels are nothing! If you have a thin horse in Yangzhou, you can have a few thousand taels!"
