Chapter 267 The vicious female partner escapes to farm (18)
Xu Yin directly carried the two boys onto the cart and found a restaurant.
While searching, I saw a young man who looked like a salesman, with a sleeping child sitting in the basket in front of him.
When someone called him to buy something, he didn't stop. He walked quickly with the load and finally got into a carriage.
Something seemed to flash through Xu Yin's mind, and she saw many people on the street carrying tired children in bamboo baskets, but she didn't think deeply about it for a while.
I saw a small restaurant selling noodle soup. I was about to push my two children there when I almost bumped into a woman carrying a baggage who was looking for her children along the road: "Baoer! Baoer! Where have you been, Baoer?"
Xu Yin suddenly realized something and called to the woman: "Is your baby a boy? Three or four years old?"
"Yes, yes! Little brother, have you seen him? Which direction did he go? This kid! I asked him to wait for me at the door, and he disappeared as soon as he turned around..."
Xu Yin quickly put down the cart, just as Shi Fengnian came over after shopping, and told him to keep an eye on Erlang and Third Sister, and not to go anywhere until she came back. After that, she quickly chased the carriage where the seller was sitting.
However, the carriage had already passed through the crowded road and began to accelerate.
Further ahead is the town entrance, and beyond the town is the official road. By then, it will be difficult to catch up.
Xu Yin was chasing and thinking of countermeasures. Suddenly she thought of a way and quickly switched [Universal Voice Actor] to Tiger Foley.
"Ouch——"
Tigers roared everywhere, and the sense of coercion frightened the horses. Their legs trembled and shivered, and they could hardly move.
Not only the horses, but also the grooms and pedestrians on the street were frightened:
"Tiger, tiger roar?"
"I heard it right, it's a tiger roaring, right?"
"The big bug came down the mountain?"
"Oh, my mother! The big insect has come down the mountain!"
"Help-"
People's expressions changed drastically, and they all looked for places to hide.
The people in the carriage also came out.
There was a man and a woman. The man was the salesman just now. His face turned pale when frightened by the roar of the tiger, and he wanted to hide in the shops on both sides.
At this time, Xu Yin finally caught up with the carriage and stepped forward to grab their shoulders.
"Wait a minute, you two!"
"Who are you?"
The salesman was startled by Xu Yin's actions. When he turned around and saw a stranger, he looked annoyed and asked, "Why did you stop us?"
"Where's the child?"
"What kid?" The salesman was startled, his eyes darting around, and he glared at Xu Yin with a stern look and scolded him, "What's wrong with you? If you don't run away when the big bug comes, why are you catching me?"
Xu Yin was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, so she knocked him down with a punch, jumped on the carriage, and took down two baskets from the carriage. There were two children lying in each, both of them sleeping.
At this time, the woman who had left the child arrived panting, picked up one of the boys in the basket, and shouted anxiously: "Baoer! Baoer, what's wrong with you?" Then she glared at the salesman, "You did this to me, Baoer.
What?"
"I, you... who said this is your baby? This is obviously my son!" The woman next to the salesman was nervous for a moment, and after receiving the salesman's eyes, she shouted confidently, "You woman is so unreasonable.
Calling my son Bao'er! How ridiculous!"
"You!" The woman was shaking with anger.
"It looks like I was knocked unconscious by a flower girl." Chen Mancang and Shi Feng also arrived.
They heard from Shi Fengnian that Xu Yin was chasing a carriage, so they thought something had happened and were sweating profusely.
However, photographing flowers is indeed a big deal. Chen Mancang immediately turned around and said: "I'll report it to the official!"
As soon as passers-by heard about Huazi, they immediately forgot about the roar of the tiger and gathered around to watch.
"Ah! Isn't this the youngest son of Dazhu from our village? He lost it the day before yesterday. I haven't found it after two days of searching. He was taken away by Pai Huazi. I have to report to him quickly!"
"This kid looks familiar to me, but I can't remember who he belongs to."
"Looks like someone from the eldest family..."
Seeing that something was wrong, the salesman and the woman wanted to get on the carriage and drive away, but Xu Yin grabbed them by the collar with one hand.
Shi Feng stepped forward and knocked the salesman down.
He can't beat the heroic brother, but he can't beat a weakling like a pretty boy?
Xu Yin did not stop him.
She returned to the door of the shop and asked Shi Fengnian to help Shi Feng keep an eye on the salesman to prevent him from running away.
She took Erlang and Sanmei to the Zhenkou teahouse to wait for them.
After Chen Mancang arrived with his yamen servants, the group met at the teahouse.
"Brother Hero, you don't know that one of those four children is the nephew of the county magistrate's wife! You have done a great thing, and I guess the county magistrate will reward you!"
As soon as Shi Fengnian arrived, he started talking about the news he heard along the way.
Chen Mancang smiled and nodded in agreement: "That's right! I heard from people in the yamen that the county magistrate's wife cried so much that her eyes were swollen. She watched the child grow up, so how can we not feel bad if it is lost? We outsiders said
, I feel uncomfortable just thinking about it, let alone a close relative. The other three families who lost their children are also inquiring about your whereabouts and say they want to thank you."
"Don't!" Xu Yin heard this and said hurriedly, "It's getting late, let's go back after eating!"
In addition to tea, the tea house also sells simple food.
Everyone was hungry after running around for a long time. Xu Yin ordered a portion of white-cut pork head, fried dried fish, braised peanuts, multigrain steamed buns, and a jar of wine.
"Thank you for your hard work today, I'll treat you to this meal!"
This time, Erlang, a young adult, didn't say anything.
He knew who the paihuazi was. If he was knocked unconscious by the paihuazi, he would be sold to other places. It would be difficult for him to see his family again in his life, and he heard that the life of the children who were sold was miserable.
Therefore, he looked at his sister-in-law with great reverence, thinking that she was an unparalleled hero.
"Brother." He suddenly called Xu Yin, "It's great that you got your name!"
Shi Fengnian burst out laughing: "Didn't your parents give you your brother's name?"
Erlang twisted his butt and ignored him.
But Xu Yin was thinking: I wonder if this salesman is the salesman in the book who hooked up with the original person and sold Erlang and Sanmei. If so, that would be great!
After returning from the market, with plenty of supplies, Xu Yin could finally let her hands and feet go boldly.
She first took the farm tools she bought, beat them, and modified them to make a simple version of a curved shaft plow.
The progress of land reclamation is much faster now!
Plow three acres in one day, six acres in two days...
The soil in the wasteland contains a lot of sand and gravel, so it is easier to plow than the hard-planked land. With water delivered by water trucks, watering is also easier than before.
Soon, ten acres of wasteland were cleared.
Everyone saw that her plow worked well, so they lined up to borrow it.
Xu Yin wanted to help them improve their plows, but unfortunately, the victims who were fleeing the famine had no hope of having enough to eat. They had no extra money to buy plows, so they still used the hoes and rakes they carried for self-defense when clearing the land.
There's no way around it.
Xu Yin handed the plow to Chen Mancang. He could arrange it whether he borrowed it in line or used it in turns.
When Xu Yin was clearing up wasteland, Erlang and his third sister buried sprouted potatoes and sweet potato pieces in the land she had plowed first.
A total of three acres of sweet potatoes and potatoes were planted.
The remaining seven acres are for growing medicinal herbs.