Chapter 107 The Lost Money Bag
On the way to catch fish, Fan Xiaoxiao's mood was very low. The old man walked behind her, his two hands tangled together.
After hesitating for a long time, he looked at Xiaobao. But the little boy puffed out his cheeks, pointed at his aunt, and whispered to him, "Auntie is unhappy! You comfort her!"
The old man's beard twitched, and after hesitating for a moment, he stammered, "Little girl, are you...are you alright?"
Fan Xiaoxiao glanced at him with a gloomy expression, then sighed as if she were about to cry: "Something's wrong, I'm really in a lot of trouble."
She lost a hundred-tael silver note for no reason, how could she not be in trouble! That money was the money she was saving to buy a house on the other side of Tianshan!
The book says that after a drought, a hundred taels of silver could only buy a small house in that area. They would have spent a lot of money just to get to the Tianshan Mountains, let alone have any money left to buy a house.
"Uh... well... if you lose your purse, you can earn it back... every cloud has a silver lining, who knows what other good things might happen even though you've lost your purse!" The old man got more and more excited as he spoke, his white beard trembling incessantly.
“Yes, sister. We can still make ends meet. If you’ve lost the money, let’s figure out a way together. Let’s go back and look for it. Maybe it’s just in the thatched hut?” Madam Fan gently patted Fan Xiaoxiao’s back and began to comfort her.
"Sister, I'm sure when I woke up this morning, my purse was still in my arms! It was after I left the house..." As Fan Xiaoxiao spoke, she suddenly remembered the little girl who had bumped into them that morning.
Yes! She was certain her purse was still safely in her arms before that! It was only after the oxcart ride!!
Fan Xiaoxiao paused, stopping in her tracks. The old man behind her didn't react in time and almost bumped into her.
"Hey! Little girl, why did you stop?!"
"Grandpa!" Fan Xiaoxiao smiled and grabbed the old man's arm. "Can you do me a favor?"
The old man struggled slightly, a bit uncomfortable, and asked, his beard twitching, "What kind of help?! Let me tell you, I don't have any money!"
"Oh! I don't want your money! You need to find me someone!"
Everyone was slightly taken aback, but Uncle Wang reacted the fastest.
Uncle Wang raised his eyebrows slightly: "Girl, do you suspect the child from this morning?"
Fan Xiaoxiao nodded: "Yes, apart from that child, no one else has come near me today! In any case, I think we should try to find that child and ask him."
"A child? What does he look like?" the old man asked, smacking his lips with curiosity.
"He's a kid who won't let us call him 'big brother'!" Xiao Bao interjected in a childish voice. "That big brother is really fierce. He even rolled his eyes at them before he left."
Fan Xiaoxiao was amused by his appearance and chuckled as she ruffled his hair: "That's not a young man! It's a young woman!"
After she finished speaking, as if recalling something, she tried hard to remember the child's appearance and described it to the old man word by word.
After a short while, the old man roughly understood what the little girl looked like.
He looked about seven or eight years old, covered in dirt, with thick eyebrows, and looked somewhat like a boy.
"Is bringing her back all we need?" The old man adjusted his basket and turned to Fan Xiaoxiao to confirm.
“That’s right, just bring her back.” Fan Xiaoxiao nodded and waved to the old man, signaling him to hurry back.
The old man turned and took two steps away, then stopped and turned back.
Fan Xiaoxiao looked at him with some confusion: "What's wrong?"
"Hiss, little one, this old man has a bad memory! You have to come with me!"
The old man twitched his beard, his mind filled with scheming. What a joke! If he were to run into that dark-skinned kid, he'd be in real trouble.
If he gets taken away, he won't be able to eat this little girl's food! No, he has to take this little girl with him. If that child comes to grab him, he'll take the little girl with him too!
The more the old man thought about it, the more feasible it seemed, and his expression became increasingly self-righteous.
"Me go with you? What about the fish? Didn't we say we were going to eat fish balls?!" Fan Xiaoxiao frowned. Although she didn't mind going with you, she also wanted to find out some information about the Tianshan Mountains while catching fish!
"Oh yes! And fish too!" The old man slapped his forehead, realizing he'd almost forgotten about it! If only he'd known which restaurant he'd gone to steal chickens from earlier, he would have taken some of their fish!
"Fish...fish..." His eyes flickered and landed on Uncle Wang. He clapped his hands and grinned, "That's right! Aren't there still them? Hey, come with me to find them! They can go catch fish!"
"But..." Uncle Wang was about to speak when the old man interrupted him. The old man waved his hand impatiently and said, "Don't hesitate! Don't worry, we'll search in town! Alright! It's settled then! Let's go!"
After saying that, without waiting for Uncle Wang and the others to react, he grabbed Fan Xiaoxiao and was about to leave. Xiao Bao immediately followed.
"Wait for me!"
The old man didn't stop him; he simply scooped him up and, before anyone could react, vanished around the street corner in a few flashes...
On the other side, in the courtyard west of Jingchuan.
"If we're going to Tianshan, shall we still take the waterway?" The man in white, or rather, Bai Hua, asked, looking at the people in the courtyard.
“If we were to travel by water, going that far, the currents of the rivers would vary along the way, and those two boats alone wouldn’t be enough.” Master Lu led Xiaoyu out of the shadows in the courtyard, his brows slightly furrowed.
When they arrived, Jingchuan was only three days' distance from Huilong Village, and the two small boats were barely enough. However, the journey to Tianshan was long, and even merchant ships would face certain risks, let alone ordinary small boats.
With a creak, the young man stood up from the wicker chair and slowly emerged from the shade of the tree. The light shone on his face, making him look exceptionally handsome, except that his eyes were covered by a cloth.
He slowly walked to the middle of the courtyard, tilting his head slightly towards the white flowers.
"We won't go by water; let's arrange a horse-drawn carriage."
Bai Hua was slightly taken aback: "But...but the waterway is very fast."
The young man didn't speak, but simply remained in that position, as if he were looking at the white flower.
The latter was immediately jolted awake, and upon realizing what was happening, quickly knelt down and bowed his head.
"I've spoken too much! I'll get on it right away!"
After saying that, Baihua lowered her head and walked backwards out of the courtyard.
Master Lu glanced at the young man and called out to Bai Hua, "Wait a minute."
Bai Hua was taken aback and stopped in her tracks to look at him.
Grandpa Lu turned around and walked to the courtyard wall, picked up a basket, and then led Xiaoyu to Baihua.
“I’ll go with you.”
(End of this chapter)
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