Nongmen Shenjue

At this time, there are not many idlers in the village.

Follow the instructions to find the place, only to see a young girl cleaning the yard.

"Who are you looking for?" The girl was a little surprised when she saw the two strangers, but she was not afraid.

"We're looking for Yu Tiezhu." Mu Qingyan said.

"Looking for my brother? My brother has gone to the ground. Are you in a hurry? How about I go and call him back." The girl leaned the broom against the wall, scooped up water to wash her hands, and beckoned the two of them to come in and sit down, with a natural and generous attitude.

"No, we're just here to ask a question, and you should know it too." Mu Qingyan didn't go in, and talked to the other party through the low wooden door.After all, the other party is only a young girl, and they are two big men, Guadain Lixia still has to avoid it a little bit.

The girl looked puzzled: "What do you want to ask?"

"Your brother gave birth to a son two years ago, and he was taken away by the ghost mother, right?" Mu Qingyan asked directly. Through the matter of Yu Youcai's family, he felt that these people did not shy away from the ghost mother stealing the son. thing.

"Yes, you..." The girl was even more surprised. After all, it was two years later, and it was unexpected that someone would come to inquire about this matter.

Wen Jixue didn't feel the need to explain in detail, otherwise the other party would ask more and more questions, so he simply took the right to ask: "Miss Yu, did any strange things happen before and after your nephew disappeared, or did you see any strange people? How has it changed from before?"

Even though he had a slight smile on his face, Miss Yu felt a chill down her spine, and she opened her mouth unconsciously to answer: "Dad, he is my brother's second son, and his nickname is Er Dan. Sleeping in the house. It is a custom for children to serve the full moon wine. Besides, the surname is Yu in a village. The elders think that the children who have served the full moon wine are stronger and more blessed. It was a sunny day and it was indeed very lively. The aunts and sisters-in-law Come to help, set up ten tables, and give the leftovers to beggars."

Mu Qingyan was a little surprised: "There are still beggars? Where did they come from?"

In general, there will not be such a person in the village.

"I don't know where they came from, maybe they came from the city. There are almost ten of them, big and small. They look so pitiful." Miss Yu also secretly gave the little beggar an egg behind her parents' back. , she still remembers now, the hand of the little beggar who picked up the eggs was black and thin, like a chicken paw.

Seeing him, Miss Yu seemed puzzled, and said: "This is also common, they just beg for food, if they know where someone is hosting a banquet, they will say a few auspicious words and beg for something to eat."

Mu Qingyan nodded: "Your nephew was lost on the third night after the full moon, and he was lost for five days. Please tell the whole story in detail."

After all, it happened two years ago, so many details are blurred. Ms. Yu is young and enthusiastic, so naturally she doesn't like to talk nonsense, so she just reminisces and talks about it.

Mu Qingyan seemed to be listening, but in fact, he activated his ability, going back to the day when Yu's nephew was full moon two years ago.

As the girl from the Yu family said, it is a custom to hold a full moon wine. Regardless of whether the family is rich or poor, they will hold a banquet at their discretion, and invite relatives and friends from far and near to bless the children.All the families who lost their children have held the full moon wine, so the full moon wine is like a signal, and it is also a very important symbol. It is through the full moon wine that the "ghost mother" knows that this family has a baby.

Two years ago, Midsummer.

Yu Tiezhu's family built two new tile-roofed houses, and added a fat boy, double happiness, happy from ear to ear all day long.Yu Tiezhu has parents, and younger brothers and sisters, and his life is more insufficient than the former.The daughter-in-law was from a neighboring village, and the couple had temper tantrums. They had an eldest son in the second year of their marriage, and now they have another one. His small life is envied by many peers.

When the child is full moon, wine is served according to the custom. Although the table is full of meat and vegetables, it is lively and festive.

There are not enough tables in the courtyard, and there are still a few tables on the road outside the courtyard.

Sure enough, seven or eight beggars came to beg for food, some old and some young, but they didn't gather around at the beginning, but waited until the banquet was almost over, and then they came together to say a few words of blessing and beg for some leftovers to eat.

Some aunts and aunts felt sympathy for the little beggars, so Yu Tiezhu's mother made half a bowl of leftovers for each of them, and then gave them a steamed bun of Erhe noodles.There are boiled eggs at noon, and they are all cut according to human hair. Two years ago, Ms. Yu was thirteen or fourteen years old. She stuffed the eggs she had saved and was not willing to eat to the little beggar, and asked her to hide and eat secretly.

As if frightened, the little beggar grabbed an egg and hid behind a beggar.

The beggar bowed straight to Ms. Yu: "Thank you, miss, thank you."

Although her voice was hoarse, Miss Yu could understand that it was a young girl.This surprise, look carefully, through the black and gray face and disheveled hair, those eyes are very beautiful.

Ms. Yu felt that they must be mother and daughter, and couldn't help but mutter: "It's so pitiful."

There are many poor people these days, but if it is not really hard to survive, no one wants to be a beggar.Beggars are at the bottom of the class, belonging to refugees, not engaged in production, and dressed in sloppy clothes. No matter they are officials or ordinary people, they don't like them.

On the night of the third day after the full moon, everything was silent.

Of the two new tile-roofed houses, Yu's parents lived in one, and Yu Tiezhu's family of four lived in one.Yu Tiezhu went to work in the field during the day, was exhausted, and slept soundly.

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Yu family is not having an easy time, she is in confinement in name, but the family is busy.The mother-in-law is pretty good, she is not allowed out of the house, she does not need to take care of the cooking, and she does not need to wash the diapers, but the eldest son is only two years old, and the younger son has just been born. She was also snoring softly for a while, the eldest son was lying on her left side, and the younger son was lying on her right side, just right against the wall, so there was no need to worry about the child falling off the bed.

There is a big window facing the yard, and it is hot in summer, so people are used to sleeping with the window open.

To deal with mosquitoes, farmers are used to fumigation with wormwood, and they must be reluctant to use bed curtains. With that money, they might as well make clothes out of cloth.The Yu family had just had a baby, and the baby's skin was tender and attracted mosquitoes, so they directly lit the wormwood inside the house to avoid the fumes, so they put the wormwood outside under the wall.

The bright moonlight cast a dark shadow on the ground.

This person's figure is nimble and light, even though the walls of the Yu family's yellow mud courtyard are low, this person seems to have floated in without making a sound.He stood at the window and looked into the house. He bent over and went in. Like a cat, he hugged the baby on the side of the bed with the quilt in his arms, and then he turned and left the small farmyard.

From the beginning to the end, no one in the Yu family noticed.

The night was very bright, and Mu Qingyan could see very clearly that it was a woman.Although the woman's hair was combed neatly and her face was washed clean, her clothes were torn and her shoes had holes.If it wasn't for the clothes being washed clean and neatly tidied up, he would undoubtedly be like a beggar.

No, even if she speaks cleanly now, if someone sees her, they will still call her a beggar woman.

Naturally, Mu Qingyan thought of the beggar who came to beg for food on the day of the full moon wine, the female beggar with a little girl.Their eyes are different, but their eyes and facial features are similar, and with the clothes on their bodies, they should be the same person.

However, I always feel that this woman is a little strange, and her mental state is like two people.

Turn the time back five days, and it is still a time when the night is quiet.

A small black shadow came to the gate of Yu Tiezhu's house. It seemed that he wanted to push the door. However, this wooden courtyard door was very low for an adult, but it was undoubtedly tall and strong for this shadow.The courtyard door was tied from the inside, and she couldn't push it open, and she was afraid of disturbing the villagers, so she hesitated for a moment, and put the baby in her arms in front of the courtyard door.

She patted the baby's face lightly, then ran away and hid.

Not long after, a loud cry of a baby was heard. Yu Tiezhu's family was very sensitive to the sound, perhaps because they had lost their child, and immediately the eldest daughter-in-law of the Yu family yelled at the child.

Little Heiying breathed a sigh of relief, didn't dare to stay, and ran away quickly.

Sure enough, it was the little beggar.

Mu Qingyan's body swayed as his mind swelled slightly.

Wen Jixue has been paying attention to him all the time, quickly helped him up, frowned and said: "Your face is a little pale."

Wen Jixue speculated that it might be because his abilities were too exhausting, but there was no such accident the previous time, which made him a little suspicious.

Miss Yu just finished talking about it, but because she didn't know the reason, she thought it was heatstroke, and hurriedly said: "Come and rest in the shade of a tree, it must be very hot, take a breath first, I'll fetch a basin of water to wash his face .”

At this time, someone shouted from the yard next door: "Yingzi, do you have peony flowers in your house?"

"Yes, Sister Taohua, come and get it, I can't go away." Yingzi replied, and then hurriedly looked around the room for fear of waking up the little nephew who was sleeping inside.

Yingzi quickly went to the kitchen again, brought a basin of clean water out of a wooden basin, and brought it over. The face towels used at home were ordinary linen cloths, which were torn and blackened, so she didn't have the nerve to take them out.

Wen Jixue naturally didn't ask her to take it, and directly took a green handkerchief from her body, soaked it in water, and handed it to Mu Qingyan: "Wipe your face."

"Thank you." Mu Qingyan was not polite, wiped his face, washed the handkerchief twice, wrung out the water, and returned it to him.

Wen Jixue raised her eyebrows and accepted it with a smile.

Mu Qingyan closed his eyes, seeming to be resting, but he was actually absorbing the energy of plants and trees by operating his abilities.

There was no wind, but Jixue and Yingzi both felt cool and comfortable all over their bodies.Wen Jixue felt even more deeply, this feeling seemed familiar.He thought of Mu Qingyan's cooking, and seeing the other person's face slowly getting better, he seemed to have a clear understanding.

Yingzi didn't pay attention to that, a girl of about the same age came outside the courtyard, but she was more beautiful than Yingzi.

The two whispered a few words, that sister Taohua didn't come in, Yingzi went back to the room and made a show for her.

Mu Qingyan opened his eyes and looked at the girl. Just now he felt that the girl seemed to be sizing him up, as if he knew him.

Yingzihui got it wrong and said: "Our family has five clothes with Sister Taohua, but we live in the same village and are neighbors, so we are very close. Sister Taohua is a good hand both inside and out, which is also to say that we are close." ..."

Speaking of depression, it is obvious that the other party's marriage is not very good, and she has been talking about marriage recently, so she can't help feeling the same.

Mu Qingyan and the two didn't stay long, and left Yu Tiezhu's house after thanking them.

Walking past Yu Taohua's house, that Taohua was indeed looking at him again, but he only took one look before turning around and entering the house.

"You know her?" Wen Jixue couldn't see anything unusual.

"I don't know." Mu Qingyan shook his head, seeming to think of something, frowned and said, "Maybe it's the girl my elder brother talked about kissing before."

That's okay, according to Yingzi's words, this Yu Taohua has already made a marriage agreement.