The story of the rich and the young being tricked into farming

The young man did not lie, the two carriages only took about a stick of incense, and then stopped in front of a small dilapidated temple.

The dilapidated temple seemed to be in disrepair for a long time, the courtyard was overgrown with weeds, and a piece of the front hall of the temple had collapsed. The heavy rain made the mottled statue of Lei Gong even more desolate.

But fortunately, although the apse was densely covered with cobwebs, the top was still full of beards and tails. Everyone jumped out of the carriage, and then swarmed in.

"You guys are looking for some dry firewood from my temple," the young man's lips turned pale, but his eyes were steady, "The others drive the two carriages into the front hall, so as not to let the horses get drenched in the rain all night."

The crowd began to move one after another, and soon, two bonfires were lit in the apse. The group of people divided into two teams and sat around the bonfires.

After the young man finished lighting the fire, he sat on the ground next to Ye Xiaozhou. Among the group of people, Ye Xiaozhou was the only one who was different. He recognized at a glance that this was the young master who was desperately trying to escape.

He held a long wooden stick in his hand, fiddled with the bonfire, and looked at the fire with good eyes: "Take off your clothes."

Ye Xiaozhou, who was sitting next to him, froze for a moment, then turned to ask him, "Me?"

The boy nodded, and then explained: "Take off your coat and bake it. You will catch cold if you keep wearing wet clothes. When it gets hot, no one here will care about you."

"Oh, thank you." Ye Xiaozhou took off the light brown coarse cloth jacket, hung it by the fire to roast, and then he looked at the boy again.

That boy probably hasn't grown a beard yet, his chin is bald, not even a stubble is visible, the line of his jaw is much softer than Jing Min's, not as cold as him, and his face still has a little childish look.

"What's your name?" Ye Xiaozhou asked.

The boy turned his head, was slightly startled, and then said: "Cheng Xiaofeng, what about you?"

"His name is Ye Xiaozhou," Chen Mengchu, who was sitting next to Ye Xiaozhou, suddenly replied, and she smiled slyly in the orange-red firelight, "I knew him first."

She paused for a moment, and then said: "I didn't see it clearly in the box just now, but now I find out that he is really a beauty—Cheng Xiaofeng, don't you think so?"

Cheng Xiaofeng paused slightly with his hands that were fiddling with the campfire, and replied in a deep voice, "It's okay."

Chen Mengchu was keenly aware of Cheng Xiaofeng's hesitation, and then smiled briskly at Ye Xiaozhou: "He also thinks you are beautiful, you don't know him, everyone in the village thinks he is ugly, I asked you before He, what do you think of yourself? He also said it's okay, so it can be seen that the word "faithful" is the highest compliment he can give to a person."

Ye Xiaozhou has been praised by countless people for his appearance since he was a child, but he is still a little shy when a little girl he just met praised the word "beautiful" face to face.

"You know each other?" He changed the subject and asked the two of them.

"We are from the same village, and we live not far away, so he is still a distant relative of mine, isn't he cousin?"

Cheng Xiaofeng didn't want to talk to her, so he frowned slightly and said, "When I left, I let go of the horses in the damaged carriage, and threw the damaged wooden box and the three corpses into the bushes. It's already night, and the heavy rain hasn't stopped, but as soon as the day breaks, those three corpses will inevitably be found. The three people's death conditions are so miserable, that the Yamen might investigate strictly, and those three people are just the tip of the iceberg among the traffickers. , if those people want to retaliate, there is almost nothing we can do to fight back."

Ye Xiaozhou's mood sank after finally getting up.

"Xiao Zhou, where is your home?"

Ye Xiaozhou answered honestly: "In Pingjiang Mansion, but I'm afraid it's still thousands of miles away from here."

"It's okay." Cheng Xiaofeng's eyes lit up slightly, and the pupils of his pupils looking at Ye Xiaozhou were shining with fire, "Xiaozhou, how about we make a deal?"

"Chen Mengchu and I will send you home. We don't need to reward you after the matter is completed. As long as you accept us into the mansion as servants, how about it?"

Ye Xiaozhou didn't hesitate at all, and blurted out: "Okay."

Cheng Xiaofeng and Chen Mengchu looked at each other and smiled, and they both breathed a sigh of relief.

They were all sold by their relatives. As long as the people behind the teeth of the three are willing to investigate, their backgrounds will be clearly investigated, so they will definitely not be able to return home.

But Ye Xiaozhou is different, he was cheated on the way, those three people don't know his identity at all, and he seems to be either rich or expensive, it's better to be near him than to wander around outside, besides his parents Considering that they are the benefactors who sent their son back, it is expected that they will not treat them too badly.

"Everyone, please be quiet," Cheng Xiaofeng suddenly turned up the volume, "Listen to me, please take out all the money you just found from the three corpses, let's count it first, and then divide it equally according to the heads."

Everyone looked at others, and then at Xiaofeng. No one wanted to be the first to take money.

Cheng Xiaofeng had expected it a long time ago. He first took out eight taels of silver from his belt, placed it on the open space in front of him, and then said in a nonchalant manner: "I heard from them that they brought a total of fifty taels of silver with them this time. For the money of the goods, deduct the money of the 33 buyers, four taels of silver per person, and the remaining money is no less than 68 taels."

"Of course, in order to avoid hiding things, I will randomly select a few people with my eyes closed to conduct a simple body search with me. If someone is found hiding things, that person will not be paid a penny. And those of us who are in charge of the body search will check each other. Do you have any opinions? ?"

No one said anything, and then one after another, people began to take out money. After the sound of taking out money stopped, Cheng Xiaofeng took three people randomly selected to search.

Together with the money found in the body search, there was a total of 31 taels, which far exceeded Cheng Xiaofeng's estimated value. After deducting the two who hid the money privately, the remaining [-] people were each given [-] taels of silver.

"There are seven taels of silver left, and two taels will be divided equally between the two dishonest ones. After all, we are together. If one person loses two taels, it will be regarded as a punishment," Cheng Xiaofeng said, "The remaining five taels will be split into pieces. Five for the younger children."

What he did was fair, but no one raised any objections, even the two dishonest ones who were going to argue hard lowered their heads, at least they had a tael of silver, so they wouldn't take the risk of confronting so many people.

After the money was distributed, everyone put away their own money, found a corner and went to sleep. They hadn't eaten for two days, and just now they made such a fuss. They couldn't hold on anymore. Many people As soon as he fell down, he fell asleep.

Cheng Xiaofeng deliberately squeezed beside Ye Xiaozhou, lowered his voice and said to him: "Don't fall asleep later, we will leave when the night is late."

"How?" Ye Xiaozhou lowered his voice lower than him.

"Carriage," he replied.

Ye Xiaozhou understood what he meant, those two carriages belonged to everyone, and they would definitely be sold for money tomorrow, and now they were worried that they didn't have the tools to go to Pingjiang, and it was impossible for them to get money from those carriages. The children bought the carriage. Although those children are not big, they all have their own calculations in their hearts, and it is absolutely impossible for them to be easily deceived.

Their only solution now is to grab it hard.

Thinking of this, Ye Xiaozhou couldn't sleep anymore, and besides, when he opened his eyes, he saw the three limbless corpses. Ye Xiaozhou thought of the six bloody round holes, and also the mottled and paint-stained statue of Thunder God in the front hall. , couldn't help but moved towards Cheng Xiaofeng.

Next door to him was Chen Mengchu, a girl's house, he was really embarrassed to push her, so he could only pretend to lean toward Cheng Xiaofeng unintentionally.

There are many brothers in Cheng Xiaofeng's family, so he doesn't think there is anything wrong, he just stares at the back of Ye Xiaozhou's head in a daze, not knowing what he is thinking.

The three of them didn't fall asleep, and stayed up until midnight, only to hear snoring in the back hall, Cheng Xiaofeng suddenly pinched Ye Xiaozhou's shoulder, and said softly: "Wake up Mengchu."

Without Ye Xiaozhou doing anything, Chen Mengchu turned around, her cheeks were skinny and yellow, only her eyes were scorchingly bright.

The three of them tiptoed towards the front hall. At the end of the aisle, Cheng Xiaofeng who was walking in the front suddenly stopped, and he waved his hands at the two people behind him: "There are people."

He turned his body slightly, and Ye Xiaozhou saw a person lying across the aisle.

Cheng Xiaofeng was one step ahead of them, stepping over the man's abdomen lightly, and Ye Xiaozhou followed closely, without disturbing the people on the ground.

They boarded the carriage in the rain, while Cheng Xiaofeng jumped into the front room, and drove the horses with a whip.

The sound was really loud, and the person lying down and sleeping in the corridor was awakened immediately, he looked out in a daze, as if he realized something, and then shouted at the top of his voice: "Someone has robbed the carriage! Damn it, you bunch of dead pigs don't sleep!"

His roar was so earth-shattering that it made Ye Xiaozhou's heart jump into his throat. He only hoped that the carriage could run faster, and they must not let them catch up.

The carriage really lived up to his expectations, because there were only three people in the carriage, the carriage was moving very fast, and the mixed shouts and curses soon fell behind them.

Ye Xiaozhou still had a sense of unreality when he was sitting in the carriage. He had gone through many ups and downs along the way, almost going through all the hardships that he hadn’t experienced in the first half of his life. Some can't believe it.

"Don't be too happy, Young Master Ye," Chen Mengchu was afraid that he would think too much, so he poured cold water on him, "We don't have customs clearance, so we can only take a detour, the more out-of-the-way place the better , and Cheng Xiaofeng and I only know the roads in this area, and once we go south, the roads are difficult to walk, and it is not easy to find people to ask for directions and avoid towns."

Ye Xiaozhou nodded. Although he is an optimistic person, he is not blindly optimistic.

"Don't you sell maps?"

Chen Mengchu glanced at him like a fool: "Master, do you know how much a map is worth? Besides, maps are not easy to buy. Without channels, it is hard to find."