Five-year-old little girl: Mom has thousands of acres of material space

Chapter 217 It was the villagers who abducted the child

Mrs. Li cursed a lot in the direction of the east room, saying that she would not let Li Shoude follow Yunying to do business in the state to survive.

"Shou De, you are going to the state to get fame, how can you bring a woman's family with you?" Mr. Li said earnestly, "I think we should just let Yunying stay at home. It's not easy for our family to make some money. You can save a lot of money by going to the state alone..."

"Dad, I told you, I will solve the money problem and won't trouble the family." Li Shoude repeated again.

Yunying is not a person like Sun. How can she agree to stay in the Li family alone?

"How do you solve the money problem?" Mrs. Li asked the key question.

"Shou De, I'm not telling you, the cost of going to that state to study is not small. It may last three years for you to go there this time. A month's study is only two taels of silver, which is more than seventy at least. Two silver coins, where did you get so much money?”

Mrs. Li has always been unobtrusive in her work, but she still knows how to deal with money issues.

These days, once a child passes the scholar examination, he or she will be eligible to enter the Fuzhou official school. After three years of enrollment, he or she can take the provincial examination.

Those who pass the rural examination will be selected as candidates.

Only by becoming a Juren can one be truly qualified to be an official.

How easy is it for a student from a poor family to be admitted to the Juren Examination?
Not to mention the travel expenses, accommodation and food to the prefecture, the Li family can't even afford the three years of repairs...

"Shou De, listen to dad and don't leave in a hurry. I'll think of a way to go to Shuangzhai Village to find your second uncle and the others. I should be able to borrow money..."

Listening to the old couple's persuasion, Li Shoude frowned more and more.

He knew that his parents were worried about his future and couldn't bear for him to suffer alone, but he couldn't tell them the truth about his wealth, so he could only silently hold back his eagerness to leave.

He couldn't leave too abruptly or show any urgency, otherwise the old couple would definitely notice that something was wrong. Combined with the "rumors" that had been making a fuss in the village recently, what he and Yun Ying had done would be exposed.

In the end, Li Shoude said nothing more and returned to the east room without saying a word.

As soon as she arrived in the east room, Yun Ying came forward eagerly and asked, "Did you go and tell them? Did they agree?"

She had been eavesdropping on what was going on outside in the room, but except for what the damn old woman kept scolding her, she couldn't hear anything else very clearly. She didn't know what Li Shoude said to the old couple.
Li Shoude shook his head silently.

"You still don't agree!?" Yunying immediately exploded, "What on earth do they want to do! Neither I nor I need a penny from my family to go to the state, so what reason do they have to stop you? Why are you not allowed to go? !”

Li Shoude looked at Yun Ying who was roaring hysterically at him, and for the first time a trace of disgust and impatience flashed in his heart.

At this moment, Yunying's mentality is very broken. She has done so many evil things to help the Huang family despite the danger and the condemnation of her conscience, but she still can't escape from this home that suffocates her. She is no longer in the mood to pretend to be gentle and sensible like before. of a little woman.

How could Li Shoude not know what Yunying was thinking? He said quietly: "They want you to stay at home and let me go to the state alone."

Yunying's roaring voice stopped abruptly.

"Why! That's the money I earned! Why should I stay at home!!"

Yun Ying's anger suddenly rose, but the next second, she seemed to realize something and immediately shut her mouth.

"Shude, you don't really want to leave me alone at home, do you?" Yun Ying quickly softened her tone, hugged Li Shoude's arm and said coquettishly: "You said that I am your only confidante. , how can you leave me alone at home?"

She didn't want to stay in this wolf's den like home and end up like Sun. "How could it be?" Li Shoude patted the back of Yunying's hand comfortingly and said warmly: "Why would I leave you alone at home? Don't worry, if I give my parents a few more days, they will always agree to you going with me. State."

How dare he leave Yunying alone at home?
If Yunying revealed all the things they had done, not to mention the anger of the villagers, even his career would be ruined...

……

Although Li Shoude and Yunying tried their best to stay calm, the incident of missing children in the village became more and more serious.

Those families who had lost their children cried and howled all day and all night, and finally the trouble reached Li Zheng's side.

Not long after, the sound of Li Zheng's gongs and drums could be heard in the village.

"Everyone, please gather at the village ancestral hall."

Everyone knew that this time it was about the missing child in the village, so they didn't dare to delay and came one after another.

Li Zheng stood in front of the ancestral hall and said loudly: "I believe everyone knows that four children in the village have been lost recently, and they were all seven or eight-year-old little girls. Don't believe that nonsense about wild monsters catching children. , please keep a close eye on your children, don’t let your children go out when nothing happens, and try to stay at home..."

"Let me see, either the wild monsters in the mountains have kidnapped the children, or some philanderers have come to our village..."

"I don't think it's like a flower girl. The ones who got lost are all half-grown girls. If you want to catch a flower girl, you have to catch a boy. What's the use of arresting these seven or eight-year-old girls..."

"But I haven't seen any strange faces come to our village recently..."

……

Listening to the discussion in the village, Jiang Xiaoxiao, who was standing next to Jiang Wei, couldn't help but frown.

She looked around at the faces of the villagers, and every one of them was a familiar face to her.

As the villager said, no strange faces have entered the village recently.

That means that the only people who kidnapped the children were people from the village.

"...In short, everyone must be careful recently. If you see a strange face entering the village, you must report it in time. Don't be careless!"

As soon as Li Zheng finished speaking, Aunt Guihua cried and asked: "Uncle Li Zheng, our second girl has been missing for so many days, why don't you go and report to the official position for us?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she was pulled hard by her man: "You are the only one who talks too much! We have just lost a few girls in our village. As for bothering the official?"

"Wang Laifu, do you really care?" Aunt Guihua did not save face for her man in front of everyone this time, and immediately refuted it, "Our second girl is lost, why don't you feel sorry at all? She is you My biological daughter!”

"You, you..." Wang Laifu knew that there were so many pairs of eyes around him looking at him, so he didn't dare to say anything, so he turned his head and said impatiently: "You can't explain this to a messy woman like you!"

"I've been to the county government..." Li Zheng sighed, "But our Yong'an County county government just had an incident not long ago, and now we can't deal with this kind of missing child..."

In fact, Wang Laifu is right. These days, unless a life is caused, the county government will generally not accept such trivial matters as a missing child.

Unless you meet the kind of official who loves the people like his son or who is in urgent need of political achievements.