Day 3.
Song Yuehua slept a little late today. When she got up, Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu and Bai Shu had already gone to school.
Liu Xue was tending to the vegetable garden outside.
"Everyone has finished eating. Do you want to eat anything?" asked Granny Wang.
Song Yuehua thought for a moment and said, "Mother-in-law, I want to eat Yangchun noodles."
Xie Wenwu had cooked it once and it wasn’t difficult.
Half a spoonful of lard, a handful of chopped green onions, and a spoonful of soy sauce. Even if you only use boiled water as the soup base, the aroma is enough to make you salivate.
Dabao, who was standing by, watched eagerly, with a long silver thread of saliva flowing out of his body.
Zhu Yanli wiped it for him and said with a look of heartache, "Look how greedy my eldest son is. How about giving him a small bowl as well?"
"I can't eat anymore."
After Granny Wang brought the noodles over, she took Dabao away and muttered as she walked, "You greedy boy, you ate the most this morning. Your belly is already full. If you eat more, you'll get sick..."
Song Yuehua took the noodles and slurped them up. Zhu Yanli held Xiaobao and played with him. She said with a smile, "We are both children. How come Xiaobao is not greedy?"
Song Yuehua said, "Who wouldn't be greedy? Xiaobao loves sweet soups. Cook some longan and red dates soup and see if she'll be greedy."
“I see…”
As they were talking, there was a knock on the kitchen door. The two looked up and saw Duan Yidao with a red face standing at the door, laughing at the two people inside.
Song Yuehua: "..." a bit vulgar.
Seeing that Duan Yidao wanted to see Song Yuehua for something, Zhu Yanli tactfully took Xiaobao away.
Before leaving, Zhu Yanli winked gently at Duan Yidao, who was blushing so much that he looked almost cooked.
It was Song Yuehua who called out to him before Duan Yidao came back to his senses. As soon as he entered the room and had not had time to sit down, Song Yuehua handed him an empty bowl and said, "Fill me another bowl."
Duan Yidao was stunned. This eating speed was a bit too fast.
Song Yuehua took the bowl of noodles and asked, "What's the matter?"
Duan Yidao also filled a bowl of noodles for himself, took a bite and said, "Something happened in Xingjia Village..."
Song Yuehua paused with her chopsticks in her hand, "This is only the third day, right?"
Duan Yidao shook his head and said, "What happened the night before yesterday..."
The incident happened the night before yesterday, which was the night after Duan Yidao and Erguotou left.
Song Yuehua originally thought it would take at least four or five days, but she didn't expect...
Duan Yidao obtained most of the information from Zhu Xiaomao.
Zhu Xiaomao is the little boy who came to the dilapidated temple in the middle of the night.
According to Zhu Xiaomao, ever since Xingshan received the golden Buddha, he held on to the box containing the golden Buddha and dared not let go, even taking it with him to the toilet.
Just wait for the merchant to come back in three days and you can get the 50 taels of silver.
Xingshan didn't even dare to think about asking him to take down the golden Buddha.
Anyone who can do business outside must have a background. Just look at that person's clothes and you will know that he has a wealthy family. How could an ordinary person like him dare to compete with him?
In the entire village, no one hoped that the Golden Buddha could be returned intact more than Xingshan.
Unexpectedly, on the next night, three groups of people broke into the Xing family one after another.
The first group not only stole the golden Buddha, but also beat up Xingshan. The next two groups did not find the golden Buddha, so they tied up the four members of the Xing family and tortured them for a long time until dawn, then they hurriedly left.
That night, there was quite a bit of noise coming from Xingshan's house. The neighbors kept their doors and windows shut and pretended to be deaf and dumb the entire night.
Until the next day, no one came to visit the Xing family.
It was when Zhu Damao passed by that he discovered that the gate of the Xing family's courtyard was wide open. After entering, he found that all the property in the house had been swept away, leaving only a mess on the ground.
Xingshan was covered in blood and was dying. Zhu Damao also found Xingshan's son, standing in a daze in the corner without saying a word. After asking him a few questions but getting no response, Zhu Damao ignored him.
The most urgent thing is to send Xingshan to the county clinic for a check-up.
Zhu Damao took the man to the clinic, where the doctor only gave him a few injections and some medicine, which cost him almost 300 coins.
The money was paid by Zhu Damao. The doctor said that Xingshan would probably have to lie in bed for the rest of his life.
Then his money was probably wasted. No further medicine was prescribed and the patient was sent home directly. Zhu Damao had done his best.
When they came back from the clinic, only their frightened son was left at home. After asking the villagers, they learned that just as they left, Xingshan's wife took their daughter and left Xingjia Village.
As for whether he will come back or not, I don’t know.
Duan Yidao said to Song Yuehua, "I have another contract here..."
Song Yuehua shook her head and asked, "Is there really a thief on the official road?"
"They are not that kind of thieves. They are just a few people hiding at the entrance of the mountain road and blocking the way." Duan Yidao stood up and poured himself another bowl of noodles.
Song Yuehua said, "Then don't worry about it. Just let people know that the golden Buddha is in the hands of the village chief."
Duan Yidao said while eating noodles, "Won't the fake Buddha be exposed soon?"
"So what if they found out?" Song Yuehua put down her chopsticks and said, "The fire has already started."
After that, Song Yuehua did not inquire about the affairs of Xingjia Village anymore.
Time flies, and the Chinese New Year is just a few days away.
Although Song Yuehua still couldn't go out, at least she could walk around in her own yard without being scolded.
Liu Xue is busy washing clothes and feeding chickens every day and is always busy.
A few days ago, Song Yuehua applied medicine to her wound for the last time. The scab on her back fell off, leaving a deep scar.
The twelve-year-old girl's back was covered with crisscrossing scars.
Song Yuehua touched the scars and said with a distressed look, "I'm sorry, if only I had found you earlier..."
"Master..." Liu Xue turned around and said with a smile, "You have already saved me."
Song Yuehua asked Duan Yidao to go to the county to buy the best scar removing medicine. The doctor said frankly that the medicine he had could only heal wounds but not remove scars.
Liu Xue was quite open-minded about this. "As long as I don't get married, who can see it? I can't even see it myself, so what does it matter?"
Song Yuehua disagreed, "Who can predict what will happen in the future? I just hope that when you want to get married, you won't have any other concerns."
"Anyway, I don't want to, so don't worry about it." Liu Xue said firmly.
Song Yuehua was too lazy to argue with her about this matter. Whether she wanted to or not, she had to get rid of it if she could.
If you can't find the medicine in the county, go to the provincial capital to look for it if you have a chance. If that doesn't work, see if you can ask someone in Beijing to ask.
Recently, Xiaoyu and Xiaoyu slept in another room, and they could always hear faint voices coming from them in the middle of the night.
Song Yuehua always had to remind them from across the room that it was time to go to bed.
Not only Xiaoyu and Xiaoyu, but even Xie Wenwu spent the whole day in the kitchen researching new food.
The New Year is almost here, and everyone is more motivated than usual. Song Yuehua couldn't help but sigh, saying that young people are indeed full of energy.
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