Aunt Cheng suddenly rushed out beyond everyone's expectations.
And her goal was very clear. Her only intact eye was staring at Wang Mang closely, with a rather ferocious look on her face, and she was about to greet him with her stick.
Wang Mang: "???"
Wang Mang, who was targeted in this way, was completely confused and didn't understand where he had offended this crazy woman.
Fortunately, Xun Ke reacted quickly and immediately stood in front of Wang Mang and shouted loudly: "Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, Aunt Cheng, please don't get excited, this is my friend, he is not a thief, not a thief!"
"Not a thief?"
Aunt Cheng rushed over and still refused to put down the wooden stick in her hand. Her dim eyes turned around Wang Mang, her vigilance showing no signs of diminishing, "Why would you wear such clothes if you are not a bandit?"
Wang Mang was wearing a good leather armor in the style of Da Yue. He looked crisp and neat - this thing was undoubtedly a trophy he had captured.
But in Aunt Cheng's mind, anyone wearing this outfit is a bandit.
"This is what he picked up and wore after killing the bandits, not his clothes."
Gu Dan's reaction was of course very quick, but he didn't dare to reach out to stop Aunt Cheng, for fear that if he accidentally applied a little more force, it would easily cause irreversible damage.
"Really? Thieves are the most hateful and cunning. You can't be fooled."
Aunt Cheng was still a little doubtful, her eyes still wandering back and forth on Wang Mang's body.
Gu Dan thought for a while and immediately punched Wang Mang, "Look, if this is a bandit, he won't be so honest, right?"
"Yep!"
Xun Ke also nodded repeatedly and punched Wang Mang several times apologetically, "You are really my friend. If Aunt Cheng doesn't like this outfit, I will ask him to change it immediately."
Erniu finally found the time to interrupt, "Aunt Cheng, it's me! I am Erniu, and I prove that this person is not a thief."
Everyone was busy explaining, but Wang Mang, who had received a few punches in vain, seemed a little confused.
What evil has he done!
"Oh, that's a misunderstanding."
Aunt Cheng, who understood, put away the wooden stick in her hand in embarrassment and said with some fear: "I was in the house before and suddenly heard a loud shout. When I came out, I saw people wearing thieves' clothes riding down on horses. .I thought it was another thief, so I hurried back to get the stick. I thought you had been attacked by another thief just after you came back. It turns out it was a mistake, it was a mistake, it was a mistake."
Several people understood immediately.
Guess it was Wang Mang's loud shouting before coming that disturbed Aunt Cheng, and that's why this happened.
Those punches I received earlier were really not in vain!
Wang Mang immediately took off his leather armor and said with a begging look on his face: "I'm really sorry, we are so rude, we surprised you, we really deserve a beating!"
"It's embarrassing."
Aunt Cheng put down the almost shapeless stick in her hand and showed a simple but embarrassed smile to Wang Mang, "Since you are Ke's friend and you killed the thief, you are a good person. The village was attacked by thieves before, and many people The scared ones left first. Xun Ke finally came back, and I thought to myself that I would never be bullied by thieves again."
Wang Mang probably understood it in his heart.
"It's okay, it's okay. You can be so alert and brave, which really puts me, a grown man, to shame. It's all because I was too loud just now and I didn't bring any gifts this time."
As Wang Mang spoke, he stretched his hand into his arms, touched the money, and froze.
Money is certainly a good thing.
But since Aunt Cheng is here, she probably won’t be able to spend it.
No place to spend.
Wang Mang's mind was racing, and he looked at the White Lotus Saint Xu Wanrong beside him, and immediately said: "This is my wife, who is pregnant with a child. She got caught in a lot of rain while traveling, and I'm afraid she will catch a cold, so I can go to your house first. Want to take shelter from the rain? I need to prepare some hot water for her to wash herself."
"How can I still ride a horse when I'm pregnant?! I can't ride a horse again in the future. It's even worse if I get caught in the rain. What should I do if I get frozen? You can come to my house and sit for a while first. There is a bucket for hot water at home. of."
Several people followed Aunt Cheng to her home.
Compared with the overgrown weeds in the yards in front of other houses, this yard seemed much cleaner, but the house seemed extremely empty, without even a decent piece of furniture.
Aunt Cheng was a little embarrassed and took out two stools in front of everyone. One of the stools seemed to be stained with a lot of filth. It should be the stool she often sat on. The remaining stool was covered with dust, but it looked more dirty. clean.
"I didn't expect so many people to come here. There are not enough stools. This stool was made before Dingcheng. It's just that thieves came later. Dingcheng hid for now and hasn't come back to me. I don't have any skills. I can't do many things. Even the stools I won’t do it either.”
She lowered her head and placed the stool next to Wang Mang and Xu Wanrong.
"Oh! We are all our own people. I am very grateful that you can let us come in to take shelter from the rain. Why are you so polite? Where is the barrel you mentioned? I will go get some water to heat it up first."
Wang Mang reacted very quickly and took Aunt Cheng's hand, "You're welcome, we are very good at work, just point to the place."
Aunt Cheng took Wang Mang to the room and found the wooden barrel. The barrel seemed to be in good condition, and there was still some water left in it that was about to bottom out.
Wang Mang directly lifted the bucket and looked at Er Niu, "Let's go and fetch water with me."
When both of them walked out of the yard, Gu Dan heard Wang Mang asking about Aunt Cheng's specific situation.
Aunt Cheng and Saint White Lotus started chatting - mainly about their children.
"You have to be careful when you're pregnant. Giving birth is a life-and-death experience. When I was pregnant with Sheng'er, I often couldn't even eat. In the first few months, I couldn't be exposed to the rain. But my kid is very skinny. Except for the initial... In a few days, I can still go to the fields to do farm work."
Speaking of this, Aunt Cheng finally showed a happy smile on her face.
Xu Wanrong's performance was somewhat beyond Gu Dan's expectations.
Not only did she not feel any shyness or discomfort when facing this kind of topic, on the contrary, she was even able to have a back-and-forth conversation with Aunt Cheng, and she was exceptionally skillful and experienced.
It even makes people ponder, what kind of activities does the White Lotus Sect do on a daily basis, and why does the saint still have to master such methods?
After listening to the two chatting for a while, Gu Dan walked out and ran to a farther place, randomly selected an unlucky tree, chopped it into several sections with his zhenqi, and then threw away the wet parts. Take the intact tree core back and start a fire.
When he came back to raise the fire, Xu Wanrong was already chatting with Aunt Cheng about the situation outside.
"Don't worry, everything is getting better! Those thieves have been driven away, otherwise how could we dare to come here? Although my husband is careless, he is very good at killing thieves." Xu Wanrong said seriously.
"A good man! He who can kill thieves is a good man!"
Aunt Cheng was very happy, and her tone of voice couldn't help but rise a lot, "The thief deserves to be killed. The people in the village who have been harmed can't stay at home."
Not long after, Wang Mang and Er Niu also came back. They heated up the water together and then piled it to a suitable temperature.
Wang Mang nodded to Xu Wanrong, saying nothing.
"Aunt Cheng, I still have a lot of experience that I haven't asked you for advice. The water just happened to be boiling. Come on, let's take a bath first."
Several grown men immediately fled to another room.
"Aunt Cheng is actually not yet forty years old."
Xun Ke said somewhat dullly.
Under the age of forty, in an ordinary village, you would already be a grandma figure, with gray hair, dark skin, thin and withered skin. Years of hard work has long hollowed out a person's body and burned away the energy of life. .
Seventy years of life are rare in ancient times. Among the people, forty is considered a proper old age.
It's just that when I was in the Gu family courtyard, the people I came into contact with were all too high-class. Take Lin Xiaoyi, who is about the same age as Aunt Cheng, for example. At the age of thirty-six, she is still very well-maintained, with only a slight smear in the corners of her eyes. There are a few wrinkles, but other than that, no real age can be seen at all.
But one is the queen of Otsuki, and the other is the crazy woman in the village. The closest distance between them is age.
"There are a lot of these things."
The expression on Wang Mang's face looked a little cold, without the gentleness he showed at the beginning, and his voice was a little serious, "If you go out for a walk, you will always encounter this kind of thing. The family is ruined, the child is sold, and the whole family is left alone. I can’t even count the next one. That’s the way the world is.”
Talking about the emergence of heroes in large numbers always makes people excited and excited, and their ambitions are awakened together, making people want to join them together.
But when you lean down and take a look, it is not difficult to see that behind the emergence of heroes, there are the blood and tears of many families, and countless days and nights of pain and suffering.
I would rather be a peace dog than leave people alone!
Who can have it easy when the world is like this?
Lin Xiaoyi, who was the queen, had both her parents murdered; Wang Mang, who had achieved great success at this time, had his fiancée killed; Years of hard work turned into nothing, and he couldn't bear it anymore and slayed the dragon with three punches.
When misfortune strikes, no one can do anything but suffer.
If you can survive it, then continue living; if you can't survive it, it's just death.
It’s nothing more than the length of the process.
"Let's go after taking a shower."
Gu Dan said: "It's time to do something."
By the time Xu Wanrong and Aunt Cheng came out, the pouring rain had stopped, but the wind was getting louder and noisier.
Looking at the sky, it still looks gloomy and heavy. I am afraid that this moment of pause is not the grace of God, but the short silence before the storm.
Heaven and earth are unkind, and all creatures are like dogs.
The autumn wind rustled and filled with chills.
Aunt Cheng was washed very clean and put on good clothes. The clothes must have been brought by Xu Wanrong. They didn't fit very well, but fortunately the materials were very solid.
"This is the right outfit for you to wear!"
Xu Wanrong took Aunt Cheng's hand and walked out of the room, and saw several people who were already holding horses.
"Aunt Cheng, we have to leave!"
Xun Ke led the horse, "Brother Gu said there are some uneasy and well-meaning thieves around. We are going to deal with those thieves. We can't stay in the village longer."
"Going to deal with the thief?"
Aunt Cheng's eyes lit up, and she said worriedly: "Then you have to be careful. The thieves are very powerful."
"Don't worry, I know what's going on. I'm here just to solve the problem of thieves."
Gu Dan nodded with a smile and waved to her, "It won't be too long. Once the thieves are cleared away, everyone in the village will come back. You have to wait a little longer. Don't dislike our speed." slow."
Erniu patted his chest and said, "Look, I'll be back first. Soon, all the neighbors will be back too! I'll go clean up the house later, and I might even ask Aunt Cheng for your help."
"Okay"
Aunt Cheng nodded repeatedly.
Without any more gossip, the four of them rode horses and walked towards the road together.
When he was about to leave the village, Gu Dan looked back.
They saw Aunt Cheng waving to them, her lips twitching.
The distance was quite far, even with his hearing he couldn't really hear it.
I could only vaguely tell from the width of her lips that it meant "Have a safe journey."
In the autumn of the sixth year of Kangjing's reign, in Xunke's hometown, a very ordinary place, I saw very unremarkable people and things.
Gu Dan looked forward and tightened the reins of the horse in his hand.
There, there is his majestic pass.
The autumn harvest has just passed not long ago. I took the time to check the fields and found that there was nothing left in the fields. Everyone harvested cleanly this year! Let alone wheat, not even an ear of rice can be seen. Only at Daniel’s house, how come there are so many weeds growing in the fields and right next to my fields? Why don’t they know how to weed them?
When I was busy in the fields, I saw a lot of rice scattered on a piece of land. I didn't know whose family was so careless. I waited there for a long time, but no one came to clean it up. The sky is sinking and it's starting to rain. If I don't eat the rice left on the ground, it will be ruined by the rain. I really don't want to take advantage of others. When my wife comes back, it would be better to find the careless person and return it to him than to waste it here.
When I returned to the village, I walked around to Daniel's house, planning to talk about them and ask whose family lost the rice on the road, but I didn't find anyone, so I remembered that a thief came some time ago. Everyone I had to go out for shelter, but I was the only incompetent person who got sick and couldn't move around. It's already the autumn harvest, and they haven't come back yet. No wonder the fields at Daniel's house are full of weeds. It's such a pity for such fertile fields! The owner of the rice that fell on the ground is probably a passer-by, and may have gone far away. If I lost so many things, would I be so distressed when I go back? I had to be laughed at by the whole village for several years!
When I was about to go home, I was stopped by someone. I thought it was the person who threw something, but I didn't expect it was Xun Ke. Xun Ke was back. I heard that he went to learn art with others, and left earlier than the people in the village. He grew a lot taller, learned a lot of skills, and even passed the exam! This is a matter of honoring the ancestors!
I heard from his friends that he was actually valued by the queen's daughter, that is, the princess. If the princess valued him, did she want to recruit the consort? My dear mother, she is a relative of the emperor! When Xun Ke came back this time, he brought a lot of good food, which was particularly delicious. The queen had prepared it for him. Others in the village were not so lucky, so I was alone. When they came back, they would be jealous of me.
Not long after dinner, Xun Ke had a new friend come to the village. People who are valued by the queen are different. Friends can kill thieves and even take off the thieves' clothes. I even made a joke! I almost thought the thieves were coming again. According to his new friend, the thieves outside have been driven away, and there are not many left. This time he came back specifically to clean up the thieves.
The thieves will be cleaned up. After the thieves are cleaned up, everyone in the village will come back, right? I have to watch it carefully, and when people come back, I will tell the Daniel family immediately to remove the grass in the field first, because it is almost growing into my field.
Since there are no more thief, Dingcheng, Sheng'er, you guys will come back soon.
(End of chapter)
