Farming Comb Paintings Return Home

The night wind was a little cool, and the clouds slowly moved away, and a bright moon appeared in the west of the sky, quietly shedding a clear light.The lamp hanging on the city gate was shining faintly, reflecting the figure turning its back on the street more and more clearly.

Xiao Xian, who was nestled in Li Cong's arms, was awakened by the noise at the gate of the city. Not knowing what happened, he opened his eyes weakly, poked his head out from under the half-covered quilt, and glanced at Li Cong. Just as he was about to ask, he felt a ring on his shoulder. He stretched out his hand and pulled the quilt violently, covered his head again, and pressed his head hard, motioning him to keep quiet.

Xiao Xian closed his mouth, turned his face away, buried his head in Li Cong's arms obediently, feeling that the danger was approaching, and stretched out his hands from under Li Cong's arms, tightly wrapping his arms around his waist.

Even if he brought someone with him, he could escape if he wanted to. It was even easy to stun or kill these two yamen servants.But today is different from the past, and we are living in a border area with strict guards. Committing night crimes is a felony, and it is even more serious for suspects to break into the city. If these two officials are not settled now, they will definitely report back to the government office later. Alarmed the government and the police quickly searched the city to find people.In this situation, there is no need to kill people, and the consequences of beating people out are the same. He went to the city to seek medical treatment from Zhao Ruqiu, and he will be found sooner or later. If someone recognizes Qu Xian, things will be bad.

So Li Cong didn't leave.With the tip of the knife reaching his back, he stopped, turned back calmly, lowered his head, and said in a deep voice, "I'm reporting to the official, Li Cong from Xiaomin Shanqiao Village, my younger brother is in urgent need of medical treatment at night, and I hope the official will be accommodating." " After saying that, he moved Xiao Xian up, freed a hand, took out a few pieces of broken silver and a handful of copper plates from his pocket, and handed them respectfully in front of the two yamen servants.

It is said that they are government servants, but they are just two little rascals.Qingliu County has a lot of bad rules, except for prostitutes and butchers, sometimes it even affects the common people. It is because the yamen has kept this group of local hooligans.

Li Cong recognized these two people.The one with the yellow teeth was named Wang Yong, he was good at managing up and down, he was very active in the yamen, and he had a good sex. He didn't have much silver but always liked to run to Hongxinglou. He was not a good guy.The thin monkey-like one was named Wu Zhuang, and he got a job guarding the city gate after he got a little kiss with a headhunter in the county.

When Wang Yong saw the silver, his eyes lit up, and he put down the knife abruptly, but he was not in a hurry to take the money. He pretended to hold back the money, and waved to Li Cong disdainfully, asking him to take the silver back.Li Cong had no choice but to follow suit, holding the money in his hand, and retracting his hand to support Xiao Xian.And Wu Zhuang stood behind Wang Yong like a follower, hesitated for a moment when he saw this, and then withdrew his knife, as if everything was based on Wang Yong's idea, this person should not be a danger.

"Guy, my younger brother's illness cannot be delayed. I hope you can accommodate me." Li Cong couldn't figure out what the yamen servant was thinking, so he had to repeat it eagerly.

Wang Yong grinned and sighed, touched his chin, as if he had never heard of the anxiety in Li Cong's words, raised the knife to brush away the hair from Li Cong's sideburns, and the blade gleaming with cold light touched the tattoo on Li Cong's right cheek Pat patted, then squinted his eyes and stepped forward, seemed to recognize it carefully for a while, rolled his eyes, and said: "So it's you, come out in the middle of the night to find someone bad luck?!"

Hearing Wang Yong's tone, Li Cong said inwardly that it was terrible, thinking that Wang Yong's involvement in the county's annual household inventory check would always be indispensable, and he must be remembering himself at this moment.Although Li Cong didn't have much quarrel with Wang Yong in normal times, it would definitely not be easy for him to fall into this man's hands, but now Li Cong is only thinking about Xiao Xian's condition, and he only hopes that the two yamen servants can let Xiao Xian go quickly. Doctor, no matter what you do with him.

Li Cong gritted his teeth, took out some silver taels from his pocket, hugged Xiao Xian and pleaded, "I disturbed the official's sleep, and Xiaomin pleaded guilty, but my younger brother was seriously ill and there was no doctor in the village, so I had no choice but to enter The county came to seek medical treatment, and I hope the official will let me let it go, and the three liang of silver here is considered filial piety..."

Wang Yong didn't listen to Li Cong's nonsense, his two-point mouse eyes gradually moved down, and suddenly became interested in Xiao Xian who was curled up in Li Cong's arms, tightly wrapped from head to toe, so he interrupted Li Cong, pouted his mouth, and asked : "Who is in this arms?"

Li Cong stopped what he was saying, frowned, and vigilantly hugged Xiao Xian tightly, but still said submissively: "Returning to the official, he is Xiaomin's younger brother."

"Brother?" The yamen servant snorted, rubbed his hands together maliciously, narrowed his eyes, looked Xiao Xian up and down, and then said: "This figure... Could it be that she has kidnapped some girl?" ?" After saying that, taking advantage of Li Cong's inattention, he stretched out his hand to caress Xiao Xian's arched body, asking for a little advantage, and immediately withdrew his hand.

"Ah!" When someone pinched his waist suddenly, Xiao Xian let out a cry of surprise, and with a flick of his body, half of the covering sheet fell down, revealing half of his face that was still in shock, Wang Yong's heart was suddenly shaken. , I felt that I must have seen that charming little face somewhere, and the color suddenly appeared in the eyes, and I even forgot to say anything.

Li Cong was taken aback, feeling that something was going to go wrong, he tightened his arms, and pulled Xiao Xian into his arms again, and took two steps back, but before he could stop, Xiao Xian leaned up angrily and blurted out: " No... no! It’s just going to the city to see a doctor! Who are you?! Why are you embarrassing my brother!”

Although the voice is soft and breathless, it is indeed a male voice.Wang Yong looked intently and saw that Xiao Xian's face was like a peach blossom and his mouth contained almonds, but his Adam's apple was also obvious, and his interest suddenly disappeared.Although he said he was slutty, he was very fond of women. The face of the sick beauty in front of him was indeed seductive, but men are not as delicate as women, so he changed his mind, snorted resentfully, crossed his arms with one hand, and spread the other towards Li Cong After weighing it, the rascal said: "Hey, I said filial piety, where are the things of filial piety?"

When Li Cong saw what happened just now, his heart relaxed, and he hurriedly covered the fallen quilt tightly again, and handed over the broken silver and copper plates in his hand.

"Are you a beggar?" Wang Yong glanced at the money in Li Cong's hand, spat hard, turned the knife over, and pushed Li Cong with the handle.

Li Cong frowned in embarrassment.If all the money is given to them, what should Xiao Xian do with medicine?He hesitated for a while, but had no choice but to take out all the money in his pocket.At the end of the month, the family's savings were running out. Fortunately, the wages of Tianxianglou had not been collected, so this little money was only used for bankruptcy and disaster relief.

Knowing that these two yamen servants were obviously here to take advantage of the fire to loot, Xiao Xian clutched Li Cong's lapel, so annoyed that he couldn't help but struggle a little, but Li Cong's arm tightly wrapped around his body was secretly warning him not to act rashly. , so he had no choice but to give up his thoughts, and only hoped that there would be no further incidents.

Wang Yong got the silver, and smiled with his mouth crooked. He looked satisfied, picked out the broken silver and stuffed it into his pocket, and threw the remaining copper coins to Wu Zhuang behind him. , stepped back and continued to guard the goal.

Li Cong breathed out, and was about to turn around when he was stopped again.

"Hey, wait a minute—" Wang Yong withdrew his knife, walked around in front of Li Cong with his arms folded, squinted his eyes, and felt that the tall Li Cong was standing in front of his short and fat man. Thinking about Li Cong's previous words, although every sentence was low-key and small, but he always felt a sense of oppression all over his body, which made him uncomfortable. Authentic: "Are you really leaving like this? Are you really a beggar?"

Li Cong was also extremely anxious, but he couldn't let it go, he said patiently: "Please tell me clearly."

"If you ask for help, come out with the appearance of asking for help! Standing upright like this, waiting for Grandpa to make way for you?" Xiao Xian huddled in Li Cong's arms, his face was covered by the sheet and he couldn't see outside, when he heard Wang Yong say After saying such a sentence, he didn't know the intention, and in doubt, he suddenly felt that Li Cong who was holding him went stiff. He pushed aside the single corner of the quilt and looked up in worry, and saw Li Cong's lower jaw, his ax-like thin lips tightly pressed together. He pursed his brows tightly, as if enduring an incomparably huge humiliation, his face was complicated, and he couldn't tell what it was.

Xiao Xian poked his head out, glanced down, and saw the movement of his head clearly. It turned out that Wang Yong folded his arms and just kicked Li Cong's knee in a leisurely manner.

Suddenly understanding what the rogue yamen servant meant, Xiao Xian's heart tightened, he grabbed Li Cong's lapel and shook it, choked with trembling breath and said, "No, brother, don't..."

It's just that Li Cong ignored Xiao Xian, just gave him a look to tell him not to talk nonsense, then gritted his teeth, bent his knees, and knelt down straight.

"You bastard, don't bully people too much!" Xiao Xian struggled for a while, lifted the blanket and shouted angrily.That's his brother!What did he do wrong to punish him to be humiliated by a scoundrel? !Just because he has no power, no wealth, no power, and because of the indelible imprint on his face, does he deserve to be looked down upon?

Wang Yong grinned his yellow teeth, his face became more and more ugly, Xiao Xian was so angry that his stomach was cramped again, he raised his voice and cursed fiercely: "If you do evil to others, you will not be afraid of retribution!"

"Shut up!" Before the word "Ying" came out, Li Cong let out a suppressed growl, interrupting Xiao Xian.Xiao Xian was startled, his throat choked, he forgot to make a sound, he just looked up at Li Cong in a daze, the circles of his eyes were slightly red with anger.

But it was too late.

"Retribution? Hmph, I'm afraid of retribution?" Wang Yong gave Xiao Xian a vicious look, and caught off guard, spit on Li Cong's face. Li Cong tilted his head, barely avoiding the dirt.Xiao Xian stared sideways at Wang Yong's humiliating actions, his knuckles turned white, and he gritted his teeth. Seeing that Wang Yong's move failed, he felt relieved and let out a trembling breath. unhappy.

"What do you think you are?" Wang Yong raised his leg to step on Li Cong's back, and bent down to pull Xiao Xian's hair. If there is no sign, I beg the official to calm down!"

"My Lord has always been reasonable, hey, this is a big road, if you have to kneel down and crawl, then crawl over, let's go, Lord, help me, hahaha..." Wang Yong was heartbroken when he heard Li Cong begging for mercy. After sleeping more comfortably, the tiredness in the middle of the night came up, and the money was in hand, so I was too lazy to spend it with them, so I stood up and laughed and kicked Li Cong, signaling that he could get out, but he had to walk on his knees.

Li Cong lowered his head, time was urgent and Fei couldn't get entangled with the rascals, so he silently knelt on the ground and walked forward step by step as fast as possible.

"Climb, I told you to climb! Don't you understand what crawling is, huh?" Li Cong took two steps on his knees, Wang Yong stared at his still straight spine, and suddenly felt a surge of anger in his heart, stepped over A few steps ago, Li Cong raised his foot and kicked hard. Li Cong was caught off guard and fell to the ground. Fortunately, his palm supported the ground in time and Xiao Xian was not hurt. Hearing what the yamen servant said, he simply didn't get up , just propping up on the ground with one hand, kneeling on the ground and crawling slowly.

Wang Yong looked at Li Cong's back kneeling on the ground, stepping away with his hands and knees, he weighed the money bag around his waist, spit out a bunch of obscenities, and muttered as he walked towards the city gate: "That little showy hoof , it would be great if it was a woman, hehe..."

There was no one in the cold street, Xiao Xian raised his hand to wipe his face, grabbed Li Cong's neck and looked back, suppressed his crying, and said, "Brother, wake up..."

The man did not flick his tears lightly, but at this moment Li Cong's clothes were wet.

Li Cong nodded, stood up quickly as if nothing happened, held Xiao Xian steady and ran towards the west of the city without stopping.

The gatekeeper let them go, and it only took a moment to go from the east to the west of the city.Li Cong rushed to Zhao Ruqiu's residence next door to Huichun Hall, stepped up the doorstep and knocked on the door vigorously.

There is no one else in the house, and there are no servants, except Zhao Ruqiu.Zhao Ruqiu, who was sleeping peacefully on the couch, was awakened by a rapid knock on the door, guessing it was an emergency, hurriedly put on his clothes and went to the ground, hurriedly lit an oil lamp and went out to answer the door.

Unexpectedly, when he opened the door, he saw Li Cong, holding a person in his arms, half of his body was stained with blood, and his underwear was filthy, even Zhao Ruqiu, who was used to life and death scenes, couldn't help being moved, and panicked: "What's wrong? "