Li Xiuyuan took several guards and knocked on the door of a house in this village.
The person who opened the door was an old woman with white hair on her temples, a wrinkled face, and a sad face. When she saw Li Xiuyuan and others, the old woman's eyes showed a bit of surprise.
"We are travelers passing by your village today. We saw that it was getting late and we wanted to stay overnight. I don't know if it would be inconvenient for my mother-in-law." Li Xiuyuan gave a salute and said politely.
The old woman recognized Li Xiuyuan's gentle look and guessed that he might be a scholar. She smiled a little at a loss and said: "Convenient, convenient, as long as you don't mind the simplicity of the house."
"I'm grateful enough to have a place to stay. How dare I think it's so simple?" Li Xiuyuan said.
The old woman smiled sheepishly, and just invited a few people in, and then said: "There is a side house over there. Although no one has lived in it for a long time, I happened to clean it up a while ago. If you don't mind, the guests can stay there.
Bar."
She pointed to a simple side room.
"The well water and the wooden basin are over there. The guests can use it as they please. It's just... I've been short of rice and food at home recently. I'm afraid I won't be able to entertain the guests. I ask for your forgiveness."
When Li Xiuyuan saw the shabby appearance of this old woman, he knew that this was a poor family, but the surrounding area of the yard was kept clean. He could also see that this old woman was a very diligent person, such a diligent person.
Old woman, her family is so poor, maybe something happened to her to end up like this.
"Please rest assured, mother-in-law, we will be responsible for food and drink matters and will never cause any trouble to her," he said hurriedly.
The old woman smiled a little shyly, said a few more words, and then turned around and went back to her room.
Li Xiuyuan said: "Ma Dong, go to a richer family nearby and buy a pound of rice. Didn't we buy a lot of game when we came here? We will cook it later."
Ma Dong said: "Young master, do you want to buy so much for one stone?"
"If you don't finish eating, leave it to this mother-in-law. It's considered as accommodation expenses. This family seems to be quite poor. Let's help." Li Xiuyuan said.
"Yes, young master." Ma Dong responded with his hands raised and strode away.
For an ordinary family, one stone of rice is enough to last for a long time.
A few people quickly borrowed the fire and started cooking. After a while, the aroma of rice and meat filled the air.
"Smells, really smells good. This game tastes good when cooked. Nothing on the mountain is good, but this one is good. I never get tired of eating it on Wangchuan Mountain."
Wu Fei was intoxicated and greedily took a few sips of the meat in the cauldron.
"Don't just eat for yourself. Go get a bowl of rice and a bowl of meat and send them to the mother-in-law. She hasn't eaten yet. Add some and get a bigger bowl."
Li Xiuyuan said: "Forget it, don't go. The evil look on your face will scare others. Niu Er, you look more honest. You go."
"Okay, young master, the younger one will go right away."
Niu Er responded and brought a large bowl of rice and meat to the house.
After eating and drinking, the group fell asleep in the side room.
Li Xiuyuan did not sleep. He sat alone on the couch facing the moonlight outside the window and meditated with his eyes closed to regain his energy.
But not long after nightfall, the door was kicked open with a loud bang, and an idle man came in cursing.
"Yes, has the stone come back?"
Hearing the noise in the yard, the old woman in the daytime hurriedly opened the door and shouted something outside.
"Nonsense, of course I'm back. Damn old woman, I'm almost hungry. Is there anything to eat?"
This idle man named Shitou walked into the room and sat down, patting the old table suddenly.
A smile appeared on the old woman's wrinkled face: "Yes, yes, son, just wait, I will get it for you right now."
After saying that, the old woman hurriedly turned back to the house and took out two large porcelain bowls from the cupboard. One porcelain bowl was filled with white rice, without any wild vegetables, omnivorous food, and the other porcelain bowl was filled with rice.
The meat is full of wild game and is cooked together. It is very fragrant.
Shitou shouted: "Good rice and meat, old woman, where did you get this? You can't even catch such a good thing during the Chinese New Year."
"If you're hungry, just eat quickly. Don't ask where it came from." The old woman smiled.
Without saying a word, Shi Shi picked up the rice and was about to start eating. However, he saw a full bowl of rice but one mouthful was missing. He asked, "How come this bowl of rice is missing a piece of rice and was eaten by a mouse?"
"No, no, I didn't eat at night, I just took a small bite, not much," the old woman said.
Shitou said angrily: "Damn old woman, you haven't eaten enough and you still come to eat my food. If you do this again next time, I will kick you out."
The old woman nodded obediently without saying a word.
Shitou then immersed himself in eating and drinking. He ate big bowls of rice and big bowls of meat. He ate so happily that sometimes he even ate bones. He felt his teeth clenching. After a mouthful of rice and meat, he vomited it all on the ground. The old woman next to him watched.
It's a pity that I was in pain. I wanted to say a few words, but I stopped talking. I just squatted on the ground silently, picked up the spit out rice and meat, and stuffed it into my mouth to eat.
After he finished eating, Shitou threw the dishes and chopsticks on the table sleepily and said, "I'm full, let's go to bed."
But when he just got up, he heard the sound of horses braying in the yard behind the door.
"Hey, this is a horse's braying. Why is there a horse in the house?"
Shitou was confused for a moment and hurriedly went to the backyard to take a look. He saw four strong horses placed in the backyard. His eyes suddenly lit up. He said happily: "Good horses. Each of these horses can be sold for at least twenty taels of silver."
, this time he got rich."
After saying that, he wanted to take away the four horses.
"Son, this is the guest's horse. You can't use it." The old woman quickly stopped her.
"Go away, you damn old woman, you are a horse that has no guests, this is my horse when it comes to me."
Shitou said angrily, pushed the old woman to the ground, and went to get the horse.
The old woman fell to the ground and grabbed his feet, crying: "Son, I really can't do it. You stole someone else's horse. You will be sued. If you can't afford to pay, you will die in prison."
Yeah, do you still remember that guy from the next village? He stole someone else's cow, got a lawsuit and died in the county jail."
Shitou smiled grimly and said: "You're right, we can't afford this lawsuit. If that's the case, then let's just stop doing it. I'll call my brothers over, and as a result, I'll kill these guests and take away their belongings. That's it."
No one reported him once he arrived."
With so much money, it's worth doing this.
After saying that, he looked around, picked up a hatchet on the ground, and prepared to go out.
The old woman was frightened, cried and shouted, holding on to the stone to prevent him from committing the crime: "How could he do such a thing? This is murdering money and life. You must not do it."
"Damn it, old lady, stop screaming. If you scream again, you'll be heard."
When Shitou heard the old woman yelling, he was afraid that the neighbors would hear him. He was furious and kicked the old woman hard several times, knocking her to the ground, trying to teach her a lesson to make her stop yelling.
The old woman groaned a few times, fell to the ground, and started crying again, hoping to make a bigger fuss and stop Shi Shi's evil behavior. She knew that if her son did such a thing tonight, he would definitely be finished.
She couldn't let Stone do such a stupid thing under any circumstances.
"You old woman, aren't you afraid of being beaten? The more I beat you, the louder you scream. You are deliberately trying to harm me, right?"
The old woman fell to the ground, crying and shouting: "Someone, come here, come here, help me."
"Damn it, didn't you hear me? I told you not to scream, but you still scream. You are so old and you don't want to die, so you are ruining my business. Because of you, you damn old woman, I can't make a fortune all day long.
, How do you like to shout, right? I want you, a damn old woman, to not be able to shout."
Shitou was a little flustered. He was afraid that if someone really heard what happened and found out that he had not received any money at that time, and that he would have been sued in vain, he immediately became angry, picked up a hatchet, and struck the old woman's head hard.
"Boom~!"
But just when he raised the hatchet and prepared to chop it down, a thunder suddenly exploded in the sky, and the night where the moon was originally bright suddenly became dense with dark clouds.