The return of the son-in-law

At the same time, the bandit village on the hill outside Tonghua County was full of voices.On the table were several large pots of cooked meat, plus several jars of wine, the soil on them had been patted open, and the aroma of the wine was overflowing.

A group of bandits wore patched clothes with knives hanging from their waists. They all opened their voices and scolded and teased each other. While talking, they poured a big gulp of wine into their stomachs, and tore off a large piece of cooked meat and put it in their mouths. Chewing.

In front of a group of majestic and mighty men, there was a half-worn table with only two people on it.

The one on the main case was smaller and looked only eleven or twelve years old. His pair of lacquered eyes looked very clever, and there were still a few lumps of oil stains on his face and hands, but he didn't care.

At this time, the child was holding a thick bone of leg of lamb, eating happily.

Sitting next to him was an old man with gray hair, who was looking at the child kindly at this moment, and tried to persuade him from time to time: "Don't just eat meat, but also eat more vegetables."

The child shook his head, and continued to hold the leg bone until his face was covered with grease, until the old man sighed leisurely, and said, "It's a pity, a child who only eats meat, only grows flesh but not growth."

As soon as the words came out, the kid immediately dropped the lamb leg bone that had been gnawing on his saliva, and hurriedly ate all the vegetables that the old man put into his bowl earlier.

The old man watched with a smile as the child finished eating the only green vegetables, and he did not forget to take out a clean handkerchief from his arms, wipe off all the oil on the child's face, and said slowly: "Yu'er, you have to remember Hold on, everything is too late."

The child named "Yu'er" nodded and said: "I know, you taught me two days ago that there is a limit to everything, and if you exceed this limit, it will lead to misfortune."

The old man nodded in relief, and said: "That's exactly the case. The so-called prosperity must decline, and the full moon will lose. Everything is in a cycle."

The child nodded, hummed, and didn't know if he had listened. He picked up the half-gnawed lamb leg bone and continued to eat the meat.

The old man saw that his hands and face were covered with oil, he shook his head helplessly, took out a clean handkerchief, wiped the child's face while the child was chewing the mutton, and said, "There is another word , It’s called Wu Ji Tai Lai. Yu’er, you have to remember that the suffering we are suffering now is for the purpose of accumulating blessings in the future.”

"En!" The child took another bite of the meat, and then seemed to have thought of something, and hastily corrected the mistakes in the old man's words: "Grandpa, we are not suffering."

The old man smiled wryly. From the child’s point of view, of course it is not suffering. There is meat to eat, sleep to sleep, and a place to play. Occasionally, his mouth is so greedy that he can still cheat a sip of wine from other people with a crying face. .

However, anyone with a discerning eye knows that this village is no longer viable.

Huo Dashan, the owner of the previous generation of village, lost because he was fighting for territory with another bandit village. He was wounded and took only a dozen or so brothers who were willing to follow him, and hid in Tonghua County. Take this hill.

There are no business travelers here, and as bandits, they naturally set their sights on Tonghua County at the foot of the mountain.As a result, I was completely disappointed when I broke into Tonghua County for the first time.

No wonder there were only a few people in the village, and it didn't matter if they were robbed of the village. After they escaped, they never came back. In vain, they waited every day to prevent the opponent's counterattack.

It turns out that Tonghua County couldn't be poorer!

Every household was broken into and searched, but nothing of value was found.How could Huo Dashan and the others take care of those pickled meat and pickled vegetables?In the end, he just grabbed a dozen jars of fruit wine and returned to the village.

After Huo Dashan brought his people back to the stockade, there were two days that night because he couldn't bear the days when birds could fade out of his mouth, so he packed up his bedding and left overnight.

After that, several people left one after another. After Huo Dashan died, there were only such a few people left in the village, which could be counted on two hands.

The bandits can't do this job anymore, there is really no place to rob. As the accountant in the village, the old man has some ideas, so he simply leads people to set various traps in the mountains and lives by hunting.Occasionally go to Yong'an Mansion to exchange skins and bones for some vegetables and rice, and I can barely live on.

Boom!

An empty wine jar was swept to the ground, and there was a man standing on the table on the right, saying viciously: "I heard that the one on the next hill, who is that, Zhang, Zhang," he was drunk, his tongue was tied, and he couldn't help it. It was easy to make one sentence clear, "Zhang Dahu! He has married his third wife! We can't lose either!"

"Can't lose!" Several drunken people shouted together.

Hearing everyone's cheers, the man became even more drunk, raised his arms, and shouted loudly: "I, we, we also have to find a sister-in-law for the village master!"

"Find a sister-in-law!"

The man jumped off the table drunkenly, staggered, and fell to the ground. He staggered up from the ground, looked at the child, and asked, "Boss, what kind of sister-in-law do you want?"

The child who was asked by name was obviously taken aback, and looked at the old man next to him asking for help.The old man smiled and patted him on the back, signaling him not to speak, but he put on a straight face and looked at the drunk man: "Don't talk when you are drunk! What kind of sister-in-law is not sister-in-law? Yu'er is only 13 years old and still It's not time to get married!"

"Isn't it!" A voice came, and soon a middle-aged and slightly fat woman came from the side, pinching the drunk man's ear viciously with one hand: "My man talks nonsense when he is drunk, village master, you Don't take it to heart."

The child shook his head and said, "Ms. Zhou, the mutton you roast is delicious."

"Sister Zhou's mutton is delicious, but the vegetables I cook are not good?" Another woman's voice came, and another middle-aged woman came over and looked at the child with a smile.

"It's all delicious! The vegetables cooked by Mrs. An are also delicious!" The child hurriedly expressed his favor.

"Okay, okay," the woman called Mrs. An stood in the center with her hands on her hips, looking like Zhang Fei, "I've eaten enough, and I've had enough to drink. Let's all go back to sleep."

"No!" The drunk man was not happy, and he threw off Aunt Zhou who was supporting him, and said, "Today, we have agreed to find a Mrs. Yazhai for the village owner!"

Drunk people can't stand the excitement, and for a while, the small village was full of voices: "I want to find Mrs. Yazhai!"

The old man's face turned blue, and just as he was about to say something, Aunt An spoke first: "It would be nice to find Mrs. Yazhai, Mr. Sun, take a look, there are only two women in the whole village, sister Zhou and me, who are about the same age as Yu'er." It’s too big, and it’s time to find him a playmate.”

The old man known as Sun Lao shook his head in disapproval and said, "Then you shouldn't find a girl and play with her all day long. Will you become a playboy when you grow up?"

Aunt Zhou covered her mouth and smiled, and said: "The girl is here to be a daughter-in-law, and Aunt An and I will teach her. As for Yu'er, if you are afraid that he will be lonely, just arrest two or three boys."

It has to be said that a bandit stockade is a bandit stockade. Even if you have stopped doing bandit business now, your thinking is still that of a bandit—just grab whatever you want.

"That's the reason!" The drunk man became more interested when he heard that his mother-in-law agreed, "But it doesn't have to be a little girl, the village master is not healthy, I think I need to find an older one, so that I can take care of the village master in the future .If you catch a cute little girl and cry all day long, your ears can't stand it. As the saying goes, if a third-year girl holds a gold brick, find a girl who is three years older!"

After hearing this, Mrs. Sun couldn't laugh or cry: "You did it when you said you were looking for it? And find someone three years older? Besides, we are no longer bandits, so don't rob them all day long. We used to rob business trips, but now we are still robbing them." Is someone coming?"

Mrs. An was not happy now, and said, "Mr. Sun, don't talk nonsense. When we were robbing business trips, which time did the former village owner inquire about the news in advance? If we are doing serious business, we will let you go." Let them pass. The most abominable ones are those who use the name of business travelers, but those who are doing private business with the enemy!"

At the end, Mrs. An raised her eyebrows upside down, quite a heroine.

When Sun Lao met these two women, he was really a scholar who met a soldier, and he couldn't explain why.He couldn't treat Aunt Zhou and Aunt An like those little bastards, so he retreated steadily: "Then tell me, don't rob people, where can I find a three-year-old girl from Da Yu'er to be a child bride for Yu'er."

"I know that!" The drunk man hiccupped and said intermittently, "I saw it last month when I took my fur to Yong'an Mansion to exchange food. The county magistrate in Tonghua County, I heard it was for the sake of it." Which family's yellow flower girl, sent someone up to ask for marriage, saying that she was going to marry as a concubine. I guess after a few days, the snow would not be so thick, so they were carried in."

"Just him?" Sun Lao snorted coldly, "I don't have much money, and you still want to take a concubine?"

This county grandpa was the main target of their robbery at the beginning. Unexpectedly, this county grandpa didn't have any cash in his house. After searching every house, he couldn't find any money. It really disappointed the bandits all over the village.

"That's not clear." The drunk man hiccupped again and said, "We don't know what's going on in Tonghua County where the mountains are covered by heavy snow. Are you rich? Hahahaha."

This joke didn't amuse Old Sun, the old man's expression changed after careful consideration, his words were already murderous: "Are you going to steal someone else's concubine to be Yu'er's daughter-in-law?"

The drunk man was drunk, so he didn't care about Mr. Sun's eyes that were about to eat him, and said to himself: "Oh, Mr. Sun, you don't know, I was curious about this girl at the time, thinking about the girl in Tonghua County. The magistrate of the county didn't have much money, so he said he was taking concubines, but how could the girls in Yong'an Mansion just come to Tonghua County to be concubines? So, I made a special trip to inquire about it. That girl is very beautiful, but it's a pity that her mother died early, and her father didn't love her stepmother. She came out to sell vegetables since she was a child, and for some reason, she was taken by the passing county magistrate. For my concubine."

"That won't work either!" Elder Sun refused straight away, "How good is this person, what kind of temper is he? We don't know these things, so how can he casually snatch her to be Yu'er's wife?"

The drunk man was not happy anymore, his half-closed eyes suddenly opened wide, looked at Elder Sun, and said: "This is not okay, that is not okay! Is it possible to make it? It's just a child bride, and that woman is me too." I've inquired about it, she's good-looking, quick-witted, and pretty smart. I heard that there were hooligans who wanted to take advantage of her when she was selling vegetables, but I never let those hooligans succeed. The key is that if we snatch her, we don't have to Prepare a dowry gift! Besides, if you really don’t like it, you can just get divorced.”

"Okay, okay." Seeing that her man was about to go crazy with alcohol, Aunt Zhou hurriedly stepped forward to stop her, "The county magistrate is not a good person, since that girl is innocent and good, and she was wronged at home, let's rescue her first. Think of it as saving people from fire and water. As for child brides, let Yu'er decide for himself when he grows up."

"Hmph! Old man, don't be shameless!" The drunk said a harsh word, then turned to his drunken brothers and said, "I've been watching over the past few days. If any sedan chairs come in, we will Grab a daughter-in-law for the village master!"

"Snatch a daughter-in-law!" I don't know who yelled this first, leading everyone else to yell.

Looking at the absurd scene in front of him, Elder Sun shook his head, not knowing what to say.

On the other hand, the child who had eaten the bone of the leg of lamb was full, looked at the bustling scene in front of him, and didn't know what they were shouting, but raised his little hand together, clenched his fist, and shouted: "Marry a daughter-in-law! "