inspire-indiana Chapter 173: Falling off the car
Chapter 173: Falling off the car
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "I forgot and just remembered that no matter how delicious the pine mushroom slices are, they can only be perfect with wine. It's best to use them as a side dish."
When the old man thought of that feeling, his eyes narrowed. He felt so happy just thinking about it that he stroked his beard with his hand and couldn't help nodding his head in pleasure.
Everyone found the old man's appearance funny, but then they felt a little sorry for him. Zhou Guo was especially so. She had money and had been into the city several times. Why didn't she think of buying some wine for her master?
Seeing how much he liked it, I guess he must have drunk a lot in the past, but when he came here, there was no wine to drink.
Li said at the right time: "Okay, Guoguo and I will go to the county town to have a look. It would be best if someone who knows the value of this thing can sell it. If we can't sell it, we can take it back home to eat. We can dry the ones we can't eat and make them into dried mushrooms. We can soak them in winter and eat them. I think they will taste good."
After dinner, the family split up and went about their business.
Li harnessed the ox cart, loaded the remaining sacks of pine mushrooms onto it, and took out the small scale from home.
Zhou Guo asked her brother to fill two bamboo tubes with water and also took the only two gourds in the house.
The mother and daughter didn't bring any dry food, so when they were hungry they just bought some steamed buns.
After getting in the car, Li was still a little nervous. What if no one wanted her? No one knew her.
Zhou Guo couldn't hold the reins and didn't have to drive the cart. He got up too early in the morning and had just eaten. As the ox cart was shaking, he felt drowsy and his eyelids kept drooping.
After a while, he fell into a deep sleep without realizing it.
She didn't know how much time had passed before the ox cart suddenly stopped and she fell forward from her sleep and rolled off the cart. She was so scared that she opened her eyes immediately. She fell so hard that she saw stars and was stunned for a moment, not understanding where she was.
Li was so frightened that her face turned pale. She immediately jumped down and picked her up, and began to check her body from head to toe, saying, "What's wrong? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Did you fall anywhere? Are you hurt? It's all my fault, it's all my fault. Where does it hurt? Huh? Speak?"
Extremely anxious.
Zhou Guo shook his head and looked down at himself. He was covered in dirt and had a mouthful of food. He spat and then answered Li's words, "Mom, I'm fine. I didn't fall anywhere. Why did you stop so suddenly? And why did you stop so quickly?"
Li brushed the dirt off her body, then she remembered the culprits and pointed to a place not far ahead and said, "Mother didn't mean it. We met some robbers on the way and they asked us to leave everything on the cart behind. I was so anxious that I tied the rope and stopped. I'm really sorry."
Zhou Guo raised his head and looked forward, and sure enough, he saw five or six young men in tattered clothes standing not far away.
This was probably not the first time for the young men to do this. When they saw them looking over, one of them said with a smile, "Don't be afraid, little brother. As long as you leave the cart and the things on it, we won't make things difficult for you and will let you pass. Hehe, we brothers don't hit little kids."
Again!
Zhou Guo was speechless. She couldn't count how many times she had been robbed on the way to escape. How come now that she had settled down, she still encountered these things?
She doesn't look rich at all. Her clothes are even shabbier than a beggar's.
"Well...Aunt...Aunt...no...not...Auntie, you guys please...quickly leave, otherwise, I...we will not be polite." She spoke haltingly, and if you listened carefully, her voice was trembling.
Zhou Guo looked over and saw that it was the shortest one among them. His legs were shaking when he said this and he was about to cry.
"Hiss, why are you shaking? Stand still!"
"Niu Er, if you continue like this, we won't bring you out next time. Think about your brothers and sisters at home. How will they work if they have nothing to eat? We are doing this big job. There are four sacks and four bags of grain on the cart, and this ox cart. We should be able to make a lot of money if we sell them. After doing this job, we don't have to do this again. You should be more promising." A man next to him was very disappointed with the man and poked his head at him, saying every word.
Zhou Guo heard it clearly. Seeing their familiar clothes, he looked down at himself. They were exactly the same. "Mom, they seem to be refugees too."
Li sighed, "That's right. They are all children of your uncle's age. They have to work hard to make a living at a young age. But no matter how difficult it is, they can't do this. Once they go down the wrong path, it will be difficult to turn back."
Zhou Guo said: "What can they do? They have nothing to eat or wear. The village only gave them a broken house, and the relief food is so little. I don't know how they will survive this winter."
The two of them were talking in whispers, but the other party couldn't stand it anymore and couldn't wait any longer.
"Hey, Auntie, didn't you hear me? Leave the cart and the things on it to me, or... or I will snatch your son away and sell him!"
"Yes, if you don't give it to us, we'll steal it and sell it to someone else to eat!"
Zhou Guo's face darkened. Although he was young, he was very ruthless. He began to untie the cloth strips on his hands.
Li originally felt a little sorry for these people, but after hearing this, she felt cold in her heart, "You are so young and don't learn well, didn't your parents teach you?"
The other party seemed to have heard a funny joke, "Parents? I don't have such a thing. I have been alone since I can remember. I don't have any relatives. You are right. I don't have parents to teach me. Auntie, if you don't do it, we will do it ourselves."
Seeing that the two men were really not moving, several people looked at each other for a while, then rushed forward, intending to rob and run away. They knew these two men, and even if they didn't know them, they knew the cow. The cow was given by the government and was very valuable. Moreover, they were all refugees. They had just arrived, and they couldn't find any help even if they called for help.
Li held a big stick in her hand without any fear. She had walked thousands of miles and had seen all kinds of scenes. A scene like this was nothing to her.
Just at this time, Zhou Guo had finished untying the cloth on his hands. He clenched his fists and it still hurt a little, but it was much better than yesterday.
These people didn't bring anything with them. They were all as thin as bamboo poles. She didn't even bother to take their sticks.
He rushed forward with his fists clenched, not hitting the vital parts, but specifically the parts that would be particularly painful. He controlled the strength in his hands to half, and just like that, he knocked out one person with one punch. In the blink of an eye, only three of the six people were still standing.
The three people who fell down each covered the places where they were hit, and for a while they couldn't even scream.
The three young men who were still standing were terrified. They looked at their companion who had fallen to the ground, not understanding why he suddenly fell to the ground. Then they looked at Zhou Guo who was moving his fists. How could this boy be so powerful?
Zhou Guo rubbed her wrist. She could beat twenty such weak people by herself. Looking at the remaining three people who were eager to try, she clenched her fists and was ready to charge.
"Hey, hey, hey, we were wrong, we were wrong. Uncle, please forgive us. We will never dare to do it again, never again." After saying that, he left the three people on the ground and ran away.