Chapter 268 The vicious female partner escapes to farm (18)
Xu Yin directly carried the two boys onto the cart and found a restaurant.
When I was looking for it, I saw a young man who looked like a salesman, with a sleeping child sitting in the basket in front of him.
He didn't stop when someone called him to buy something. He walked quickly with the load and finally got into a carriage.
Xu Yin seemed to have something flashing through her 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: "Bao'er! Bao'er! Where have you been, Bao'er?"
Xu Yin suddenly realized something and called to the woman: "Is your baby a boy? Three or four years old?"
"Yes, 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 Sanmei, and not to go anywhere before 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 thinking of countermeasures while chasing. Suddenly she thought of a way and quickly switched [Universal Voice Actor] to Tiger Foley.
Tiger roars were everywhere, and the sense of coercion frightened the horse. Its legs trembled and shivered, and it was unable to move.
Not only the horses, but also the grooms and people on the street were frightened:
“Tiger, tiger roar?”
“I heard it right, it’s a tiger’s roar, right?”
“The big insect came down the mountain?”
“Oh my mother! The big insect is coming 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. He was so frightened by the roar of the tiger that his face turned pale and he wanted to hide in the shops on both sides.
Xu Yin finally caught up with the carriage at this time 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 is the child?”
"What child?" The salesman was startled, his eyes darted around, and he glared at Xu Yin with a stern look, "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 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 rushed over 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, right? Calling my son Bao'er! How ridiculous!"
“You!” The woman was shaking with anger.
“This looks like someone who was knocked unconscious by a flower maker.” Chen Mancang and Shi Feng also arrived.
They heard from Shi Fengnian that Xu Yin was chasing a carriage. They thought something had happened and were sweating profusely.
However, taking pictures of flowers is indeed a big deal. Chen Mancang immediately turned around and said: "I'll report it to the official!"
As soon as the passers-by heard about the tiger's roar, they came around to watch.
“Looks like someone from a eldest family...”
The salesman and the woman saw something was wrong and wanted to get on the carriage and drive away, but Xu Yin grabbed them by their collars one by one.
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 tea house.
“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 talked about the news he heard along the way.
Chen Mancang smiled and nodded in agreement: "Yes! 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 , 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 got confused and said hurriedly, “It’s getting late, let’s go back after eating!”
In addition to tea, the tea house also sells some 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 knows who a paihuazi is. If he is knocked unconscious by a paihuazi, he will be sold to another place. It will be difficult for him to see his family again in his life, and he heard that the life of the children who are sold is miserable.
Hence, he looked at his sister-in-law with great reverence, thinking that she was an unparalleled hero.
“Brother.” He suddenly called Xu Yin, “How well you got your name!”
Shi Fengnian laughed and said, "Didn't your parents give your brother his name?"
Erlang twisted his buttocks and ignored him.
Xu Yin was thinking: Is this salesman the same salesman who hooked up with the original person in the book and sold Erlang and Sanmei? If so, that would be great!
Back from the market, with plenty of supplies, Xu Yin can finally let her hands and feet go boldly.
She first hammered and modified the farm tools she bought, and made a simple version of a curved shaft plow.
The land reclamation progress 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 land. With the water delivered by the water tanker, 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 improve their plows. Unfortunately, the victims who fled the famine had no hope of having enough to eat. They had no extra money to buy plows. They still used hoes and rakes for self-defense to open up wasteland.
There is no other way.
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 took Sanmei to bury sprouted potatoes and sweet potato pieces in the land she plowed first.
A total of three acres of sweet potatoes and potatoes were planted.
The remaining seven acres are for growing medicinal plants.
(End of this chapter)