The Lady of the Farm in the Red Mansion

On the second day, when the first ray of sunlight broke through the window in the morning, Xiuyan woke up, and the person beside her was in a deep sleep, with long eyelashes and thin lips, she couldn't bear to disturb him, quietly Lift the quilt to get up, push open the door, raise your head and take a breath of fresh mountain air in the morning, cheer up and prepare to go down the mountain.

"What are you doing?" Before he knew it, Li Mu had already walked behind Xiuyan, his voice was so cold that Xiuyan jumped.

Xiuyan patted her chest, collected herself, turned her head and said with a strange smile: "Brother Mu, when did you wake up, do you make no sound when you walk?"

"I asked you what to do?" Li Mu stared at Xiuyan without blinking.

"Of course I'm going down the mountain to buy groceries!" Xiuyan casually twirled her hair, took a bag of scarves, turned around and walked to the wall, took off a big canvas bag and hung it obliquely on her body, and conveniently put it on the moldy storage rack I took a bamboo basket and put it on my shoulders, and changed into non-slip shoes for going down the mountain by the door. While changing the shoes, I asked, "By the way, Brother Mu, don't you like to eat fish? The artificial lake needs a batch of fish, and a dozen fishermen directly pull out their nets, and the fish caught are distributed to the townspeople for free!"

"Really? Who did you listen to!"

"Who else could it be, of course it's Brother Zheng!"

"Brother Zheng!" Li Mu bit out the three ironic words playfully, narrowed his eyes, pulled the corners of his mouth, and then walked leisurely to the wall, took off a gauze hat, walked slowly to Xiuyan, and directly Put it on for her, and while tying the belt of the gauze hat, said softly: "It rained last night, and the mountain road was slippery. Let me go with you. Also, in the future, a girl should not go out easily, even if she has to go out, she must go out." Remember to wear a gauze hat!"

Xiuyan stared at Li Mu motionlessly, her eyes were moist, Brother Mu hadn't been this gentle for a long time.

"Why are you crying?" Li Mu's laced hand froze under Xiuyan's chin, he thought he had said something wrong again and made her unhappy!

Xiuyan turned her face sideways.He raised the back of his hand and wiped the corners of his eyes, and replied, "It's nothing, the sand is blinding my eyes!"

"Silly girl, do you think I'm a three-year-old?" He nodded her forehead and smiled.Looking up at the gray sky outside, he suggested, "Girl, I don't think the weather is very good, it looks like it's going to rain anytime. Why don't we go down the mountain today?"

"I have to go even in the rain!"

"Is it because of him?"

"What are you thinking? I'm going to share the fish with you!" Xiuyan paused, then lowered her head and added in a low voice, "I'll drop by to see off Brother Zheng!"

"I knew it," Li Mu whispered, then raised his head and said to Xiuyan seriously, "Xiuyan, if I say I don't want to eat fish today, don't you have to go down the mountain?"

His voice was too low, Xiuyan seemed not to hear him.Going straight to the wall, she found a half-new dusty foreign cloth umbrella in a big bamboo basket, and when she opened it, she found that two bones of the umbrella had been broken. Xiuyan curled her lips and said, "Although It's a bit old, and two bones are broken, so it should be usable!" Then she looked up at the gray sky and said to herself, "It rained last night. It shouldn't be raining during the day." It will be down, those fishermen are still planning to pull fish today, they will not be so stupid that they don’t even look at the weather! Whatever it is, let’s go down the mountain first!”

Then he stuffed the small parasol into the big pocket that hung diagonally from his body.Just get ready to go down the mountain.

"Why are you carrying that ugly and big bag?" Li Mu asked, pointing to the blue canvas bag on her waist.

"Do you mean this storage bag?" Xiuyan asked, pointing to the waist pocket.

"Storage bag? Is there a name for such an ugly thing?"

"Ugly?" Xiuyan checked the pocket again and again, and said to herself, "I think it looks pretty!"

Suddenly, she slapped her head and said, "Why are we still pestering these bastards? Hurry up, let's go down the mountain. It's late, and the fattest fish have been snatched away!" Then, she pulled Li Mu and ran down the mountain.

"Give me the pocket!"

"Are you so kind?" Xiuyan seriously doubted this guy's "character"

"It's so ugly to hang such a big bag on such a small body!" He said that he took off her bag himself, but didn't carry it on his back, just twisted it into a messy roll and held it in his hand.

It turned out that he was not helping her sincerely, but was afraid that she would embarrass him by walking on the street!Xiuyan let out a leisurely breath, ignored him, and walked down the mountain in a bouncing manner.

"Slow down, the mountain road is slippery!" Li Mu chased after him.

When they came to the artificial lake, the fishing activity that Xiuyan was looking forward to did not take place as scheduled. The nets were ready, and a dozen shirtless fishermen sat on the steps of the artificial lake and smoked cigarettes, surrounded by some dejected townspeople. The people, all of them had baskets ready to hold fish in their hands.

Xiuyan pricked up her ears to listen to the townspeople's discussion, "Let's go, don't wait, the Zheng family hasn't shown up until now, no one has paid, and these fishermen don't work for nothing. No more!"

"Wait a little longer, maybe the Zheng family has something to do and it's delayed!"

At this time, the fishermen on the steps also began to complain: "I called us early in the morning and waited like this. Isn't this just playing tricks?"

Those shirtless fishermen were smoking their cigarettes one after another, obviously upset that they couldn't earn the labor fee.

At this time, a strong shirtless man with a beard patted his thigh, stood up with a whoosh, and cursed: "Is the Zheng family dead? You don't come here so late, are you playing with grandpa?"

"This person really stinks, where did he come from!" Xiuyan asked the aunt beside her.

"They are fishermen from the fishing village by the sea. They were specially invited by Zheng Daguan. They came early in the morning, just waiting to collect money and start working!"

"Brother Zheng invited them here, so where is this lake?"

"The girl guessed right. This lake was also excavated by Zheng Daguan. Ren Zheng Daguan is the living Bodhisattva of our town. With him, the lives of our townspeople can be improved. But this time, for some reason, Zheng Daguan But he made a slip of the tongue! He used to do what he said, never like today!"

Xiuyan looked up, and saw that the artificial lake was surrounded by townspeople carrying fishing baskets. They were all waiting to share the first basket of fish in the morning. However, looking at the situation in front of them, their expectations might be dashed. , Each of their faces is full of disappointment.

Xiuyan remembered that Zheng Daguan had mentioned this matter to her yesterday, so she thought of coming to share the fish early in the morning, and said goodbye to him by the way, but she didn't expect that Brother Zheng didn't show up, she raised her eyes and looked around After confirming that he really didn't show up, her heart began to beat a small drum again, thinking, something really happened to Big Brother Zheng!

At this moment, the Zheng Mansion sent someone to pass the message: "Everyone should leave, people from the Zheng Mansion will not come today!"

The crowd started to move, and they gathered around to ask the reason. The person who was sent couldn't help but said: "What's the noise? Our master is missing now, so I can't care about you!" After finishing speaking, he raised his sleeves and left .

Whereabouts are unknown!Xiuyan dropped the vegetable basket and ran towards Zheng's mansion.

"Xiuyan, let's go back!" Li Mu followed up to stop it, but it was impossible to stop it. (To be continued.)