"The village entrance! My mother said Aunt Wang saw my sister-in-law coming out of Jiang's house and went to the village entrance."
Chen Erhu was moving his legs around, trying hard to keep up with the tall figure in front of him, who was walking very fast and exuding a strong aura of displeasure.
"Brother Shan, slow down! Your leg has just healed. Your sister-in-law won the fight, so you shouldn't have been bullied..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the figure moved faster.
Chen Erhu's eyes lit up with admiration. He's worthy of being my Shan brother! Such physical fitness! He's recovering so well every day!
Look at how nervous she is. It seems that I was right to call her "sister-in-law". I just don't know when I can call her in person without getting beaten by Brother Shan.
His mind wandered, and he ran faster and faster, trying to keep up.
After noon, Huagou Village was quiet, and most villagers continued to squat in the fields, rushing to harvest.
He Jinshan's face was gloomy, and his dark eyes quickly swept across the empty village entrance. On the left and right were two dirt roads that led to nowhere. Going further, the view was soon blocked by thick grass and dense trees.
An old, withered tree with many branches stood in the middle of the dirt road. A few chirping birds were perched on its branches. Below it was an oval stone half a person's height with the three crooked words "Huagou Village" engraved on it.
Sitting next to him was a thin old man with a long beard and a black cloth shirt.
The old man had a skinny face with wrinkles all over his face. He wore a gray-black marching cap on his head and a pair of small, round, old-fashioned black blind man sunglasses on his thin, pointed nose.
He sat upright on a small wooden stick, his dry, branch-like hands holding his pipe on his knees, motionless, as if in a trance.
Chen Erhu walked back from the old man and said, "Brother Shan, the donkey cart has been going for half an hour. Uncle Erman's eyesight is not very good and he can't see anyone. He only said that he heard the girl's voice."
"Could it be that my sister-in-law has gone to town by car?"
He Jinshan retracted his gaze, his profile sharp, and said in a deep voice: "Erhu, you go back first."
"That's impossible! The donkey cart only runs once in the morning and once in the afternoon, and it's gone. Brother, I can walk fast, I can help you find it in two hours—"
He Jinshan lowered his eyes and retracted his knife. He hooked his leg to support Chen Erhu, who was falling down with his eyes rolled back, and left him directly on the conspicuous side of the road.
He turned around and let out a long whistle with his fingers, which sounded as pleasant as a bird's song.
The man's agile body ran quickly towards the woods in front of him on the right, and disappeared in an instant.
The old man sitting under the tree tilted his head slightly and spoke slowly: "Erhuzi?"
Hearing no other sound, he stroked his long gray beard again and resumed his original posture.
After Jiang Henian left, a new round of quarrels broke out in the Jiang family.
"What do you mean I didn't ask clearly, Boss? You agreed to the Li family's proposal, and now you're blaming me?"
"Okay, okay, you can't bear to part with your own daughter, so you treat my child as your own daughter, right? The He family has urged us to pay four times. If you can't come up with the money, I will take Bao'er and Miao'er and hang myself at their doorstep!"
The meeting ended with Wang Chunfang slamming the door and leaving work, and Jiang Chengmin puffing out a pile of cigarette butts.
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The hot afternoon sun, accompanied by the cool mountain breeze, makes people feel particularly sleepy.
The donkey cart was swaying forward on the narrow mountain road, and suddenly the body of the cart shook violently downward.
"Ouch!"
Jiang Henian closed his eyes slightly, hugged his knees and leaned against the bamboo basket, almost falling off the wooden cart.
She came back to her senses, rubbed her eyes, hugged the cloth bag tightly in her arms, turned around and asked, "Uncle, what's wrong?"
"Oh, the cart rope is broken." Chen Niu jumped off the cart, rubbed the donkey's neck a few times, grabbed the broken rope, and looked back at Jiang Henian.
"Is the girl not scared?"
Jiang Henian shook his head, rolled over and lay on the bamboo basket filled with radishes, leaning forward to look at the front of the car, "What should I do? Can I still move?"
"You can't walk anymore. You need to borrow a rope from a nearby village. It's still a few miles from the town. You can walk there by yourself."
Jiang Henian had no choice but to get out of the car holding the cloth bag. She turned her head and looked at the endless winding mountain road ahead, a little hesitant: "Uncle Niu, how about I wait for you to fix the car..."
Chen Niu reluctantly tied the rope again and turned the donkey around. "This round trip will take quite a while. Are you going to the supply and marketing cooperative? It'll be closed if you're late."
Jiang Henian looked down at the re-folded pieces of paper in the bag, and the discomfort in his heart came up again. He lowered his head and nodded, said "thank you uncle", then turned and left.
Chen Niu looked at the lonely back of the little girl, and thought of her crying face full of tears and climbing onto the car with her hands and feet at the village entrance. He felt a little sorry for her and couldn't help but nagging her loudly.
"My dear, if the supply and marketing cooperative doesn't have the transparent tape you want to buy, just ask the salesperson sweetly. If you want to take a donkey cart back home after your business, just wait under the crooked tree at the entrance of town!"
The cloth shoes made a slight muffled sound as they stepped on the loess road.
Jiang Henian looked at the unchanging green mountain scenery in front of him, and he regretted it in his heart, very regretful.
It’s been half an hour’s walk, just a few kilometers, how can it be so far away!
She moved her legs and sat on a big rock by the roadside, bending over and tapping her sore legs.
Suddenly, my ears moved, and I heard intermittent dripping sounds from behind, and there seemed to be painful hissing sounds.
This desolate wilderness...
Jiang Henian realized the fear later and stood up carefully, holding the cloth bag tightly. He backed away while glancing vigilantly at the woods behind him.
The sound stopped.
Someone is coming out this way.
Before I could hide, a bunch of bushes shook a few times and a man walked out.
The two of them met eyes unexpectedly.
Jiang Henian: ...
When Song Wenqing saw Jiang Henian, his hands, which were still gripping his waistband, suddenly tightened, and his legs also tensed up reflexively. After he came to his senses, his face suddenly became extremely ugly.
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