Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Suffering
Wanghai County, the county government prison.

Because Yang Ruoqing said hello, Dabai and Hongmei were locked in the same cage.

There was a simple wooden bed in the corner of the cage, with a few bundles of straw piled on it, and a tattered bedding.

When Dabai and Hongmei were escorted here, Dabai was struggling and cursing.

Then Dabai was taken out again.

He was still yelling and cursing when he was taken out, yelling that he was the cousin of the Great General Protecting the Nation, the cousin of the current number one scholar Yang Yongan, and asked the magistrate to come to see him and so on...

An hour later, Dabai was brought back again.

When he went out, he went out by himself, and when he came back, he was carried back by two jailers, and he stopped yelling and cursing. He only let out a painful moan when he was roughly thrown into the straw pile on the bed by the two jailers. Cursed: "Damn it..."

Before he had time to back out, the jailer immediately kicked him, and punched Dabai's chest a few more times.

"If you tell your mouth to be dirty, you won't be dishonest here!"

The jailer spat, locked the cage and left.

Dabai lay upright on the straw stack and groaned in pain.

Only then did Hongmei shrug her shoulders and come from the corner of the wall, "Dabai, Dabai, how are you doing? Don't scare me, woo woo woo..."

Dabai's fair face, which he claimed to be a handsome man, was now beaten into a fat pig's head, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, as if a pot of paint had been splashed on it.

Hearing Hongmei's cry, he tried hard to open his eyes, because one eye was swollen from the beating, and he could barely open one eye after a long time of effort.

He saw that the red plum in front of him was not much better, his hair was disheveled, the blood on his face was gone, and he was crying out of proportion, not at all like the neat one who was standing behind the counter in red clothes and dialing the abacus woman.

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

Dabai raised his hand and squeezed Hongmei's face.

Hongmei held Dabai's hand tightly, and found that his fingers were covered with blood.

"What did they do to you? Are they going to kill you?" Hongmei asked, sobbing.

Dabai spat out a mouthful of bloody sputum, gritted his teeth and said, "I was mistreated this time, and I was specially arrested to come in and be beaten!"

"Who is plotting against you? Didn't your father say it was your uncle and they wanted to report to the police to arrest you?" Hongmei asked.

There was a fierce light in the big white eyes: "My uncle and they reported me to the police because they wanted me to suffer from hunger and cold in the prison. They wouldn't really do anything to me. Look at me who was beaten, obviously someone else Hiding behind my back and intimidating Lao Tzu!"

Hongmei's face turned pale, and she asked in a low voice, "What? You mean there's something deeper here? Someone wants to borrow a knife to kill someone? Who could it be?"

Dabai's face was full of grimness, "Who else can have the means to make officials obey her orders? Of course it's my ugly cousin!"

Ugly cousin?
Hongmei was stunned for a moment. If I remember correctly, Dabai's cousin, apart from the He'er who sells vegetables in the town, is prettier than the other. How could she be so ugly?
Suddenly, Hongmei thought of someone, and her expression became more and more tense: "You mean, the cousin of your general's wife wants to kill you after the mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole?"

Dabai endured the pain and asked Hongmei to help him sit up first.

Every movement involved the wound, and he grinned in pain.

"Kill me? That's not the case. In her eyes, a small character like me is not qualified enough for her to use a knife."

"I don't want to kill you, so why beat you up like this?" Hongmei asked puzzled.

Dabai sneered: "Hmph, she is the same as my uncle and the others, she can't get used to me, but she is much more ruthless than my uncle and the others, this time coming in, don't let me shed a few layers of skin, I'm afraid she won't let me out! "

Hearing that Yang Ruoqing would not kill Dabai, Hongmei was relieved.

"As long as you can get out alive, we won't panic."

"You still have to panic!" Dabai said again.

"What?"

"We have no money! Now we are just two poor people!" Dabai said again, turning his pockets out, clean like never before.

"Where did the money go?" Hongmei opened her eyes wide in shock, and stretched out her hands to grope for Dabai.

Not only was the banknote hidden in her pocket gone, but the silver she kept close to her body and a few pieces of her jewelry were also gone.

Because of her pregnancy, she wanted to travel lightly when she ran away, so all the valuables of the two of them were placed on Dabai, and she just wanted to run away before she was caught, and she could hide anywhere with dozens of taels of silver. for a while.

When the limelight is over, come back to Qingshui Town, the two-story shop is there, and the business can still go on.

Anyway, this trip to prison was not for anything else, but because of the fight and injured someone.

"When did you lose this?"

Hongmei is really in a hurry now, even if Dabai was captured by two prison guards before, she has never been so anxious or panicked.

More than half of the money accumulated by the Zhang family over the years was used for the expansion and repair of the pavement, and the other half was used for expenses.

Because she spends a lot of money, she has to use the best rouge and gouache, and her clothes also have to wear the best materials and the most popular designs and styles, and her ex-husband, shopkeeper Zhang, dotes on her, so she has hardly saved much money these years. Come.

Although she quickly got involved with Dabai after her ex-husband died, and even instigated Dabai to extract 40 taels of silver from the house, half of the money was used by the two of them to renovate the shop, and the other half was spent on eating and drinking. Almost.

Fortunately, the business of the new shop was good after it was opened, and they made back their money in just a few months, but now that the money was lost, even if they got out, it would be difficult for the shop to reopen!
"Why are you so careless? That's our life-saving money. How can you lose it? How are you going to live? I'm still pregnant with a baby in my stomach. Poor thing, I'm really miserable, woo Woooo..."

When no farts were found on Dabai's body, Hongmei collapsed completely, sitting on the ground with disheveled hair, crying and scolding Dabai.

Dabai was also annoyed to death.

Where did I lose it?When he was sentenced before?
wrong!

"I remember! I know when I lost it!"

Dabai suddenly shouted.

Hongmei stopped crying and looked at him with red eyes.

Dabai tried his best to recall: "Do you remember that not long after we escaped from the back door of the shop, two men in black clothes suddenly came to meet me, they deliberately bumped into me, and then used this as an excuse to scold me for not being able to walk and then Beat me up?"

Hongmei also remembered.

At that time, the two hurried on their way, and they chose some remote and uninhabited paths, but even then they still bumped into each other, obviously the other party came to find fault on purpose!

"Our belongings should have been stolen by those two people at that time!" Dabai patted his thigh and said firmly.

With this slap, his thigh seemed to be broken, the pain made him break out in a cold sweat, and he almost lost his breath.

(End of this chapter)