The cannon fodder female supporting role stirs up trouble in period literature

Hua Rendong listened to the conversation between the three people and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although he didn't know why there had been no news from Xia Yu and the others, he was sure that nothing had happened to them and they were just hiding temporarily.

Just as she was thinking, someone suddenly patted her shoulder. Hua Rendong didn't expect that she had been focusing her attention on the small courtyard over there and didn't notice someone approaching her. She was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat.

But soon, a familiar voice came to my ears, "Erhua, it's me!"

Hua Rendong widened her eyes and turned to see Xia Yu's face with a smile that looked like he deserved a beating. However, it was different from the smooth and elegant look he had when he was an educated youth. Now he had a full beard and only his smiling eyes showed his handsomeness.

Hua Rendong wanted to greet his family as if nothing had happened, but as soon as she opened her mouth, tears flowed uncontrollably, which scared Xia Yu, who was still smiling. He immediately put away his smirk and hurriedly wiped Hua Rendong's tears, "Why are you crying again? Don't cry, don't cry, you make me want to cry too."

Passersby looked at the two of them. An enthusiastic lady with a slightly distorted northeastern accent frowned and asked, "Girl, is he your father? If he is a bad guy, tell me. There are so many people here, you can't let him bully you."

More than 2,000 miles away from home, Hua Honeysuckle could hear the familiar accent. She immediately felt at home. She couldn't help laughing at the old lady's question. The combination of crying and laughing really confused the old lady. "What's going on?"

Hua Rendong explained, "Auntie, I'm from the Northeast. My relatives introduced me to a date here, and my father sent me here to get married. My in-laws gave me 300 yuan as a betrothal gift yesterday, and asked me and my father to come to town to buy some dowry today. I liked a red headscarf, but my father thought it was too expensive and said I was a spendthrift. He also said that the money was for my brother to get married. I'm about to get married, so what else can I buy?"

The old lady got angry when she heard this, and pointed at Xia Yu's nose and scolded, "You are selling your daughter, don't you know that? You sold your daughter so far away, and she may not be able to return to her parents' home again in her lifetime. Why can't you buy her a red scarf with the money you earned from selling her? Your son is your biological child, but your daughter is not your biological child, right?"

After saying that, the old lady looked the two of them up and down, and suddenly slapped her thigh, "Girl, they say a girl looks like her father, but you look nothing like your father. Maybe you are not his biological child, and he got you from somewhere and brought you up to exchange for a dowry for his son?"

Hua Rendong opened her mouth slightly in astonishment, admiring how the old lady could tell from Xia Yu's big beard that they didn't look alike? She could also tell from their dissimilar appearance that they were not real father and daughter.

Seeing that the old lady was about to drag them to find the red armband, Hua Rendong hurriedly said, "Auntie, Auntie, don't get me wrong, I just look like my mother. My mother has thin eyelids and is very pretty."

The old lady was skeptical, but she finally let them go and leaned close to Hua Rendong's ear and said, "Girl, what do you think of the family your family told you about? If they're not good, just tell me. Arranged marriages are not popular these days. As long as you don't want to, they can't force you to marry them."

Some people nearby also came to their senses and asked Hua Jindong questions, but there were so many people talking and speaking with the local accent that Hua Jindong was confused.

The old lady translated for Hua Rendong, "They asked you what the family you want to marry is called and where they live. If they are not good people, you can't marry them."

Hua Rendong remembered that when the commune official sent Hua Rendong and his group to Wufu Brigade, he mentioned several names of the survivors of Wufu Brigade, so he said one at random, "The family's surname is Tong, and they were originally from Wufu Brigade."

The old lady immediately showed a look of sudden enlightenment, "That family is not bad, they are lucky, when the Wufu Brigade was destroyed, they happened to be visiting their daughter's relatives in town and escaped, now they move to the next commune. But I heard that everything in his house was robbed, how can he still afford 300 yuan to marry a daughter-in-law?"

Seeing that the old lady showed doubt as she spoke, Hua Rendong immediately pretended to be confused, "It was all stolen? Their family didn't tell them? Didn't they borrow the money to marry me? Three hundred yuan, how long will it take me to pay it back after I get married? Woohoo, Dad, I don't want to get married, take me home."

Xia Yu was so angry at her poor acting that he laughed, but he said viciously, "That won't do. I've taken the money. If you don't marry us, wouldn't that be a lie?"

As they were talking, Hua Rendong sensed that the two bandits had come out of the courtyard. When they passed by them, they stopped to watch the excitement for a while. Both of them looked at Hua Rendong with ill intentions. Hua Rendong heard one of them say to the other: "This woman is pretty enough. Let's take her back and make her the wife of the leader."

The other one chuckled, "You are so loyal. You always think of the big boss for all the good things. Have you ever thought about the big boss eating meat and not even sharing a mouthful of soup with us brothers? If it were up to me, we might as well get the person here, hide him and enjoy him ourselves. I have lived for so many years, and I have never had such a good time."

After a moment of silence, the man also started laughing, which made Hua Jindong feel nauseous.

After much persuasion, the old lady was finally persuaded to stop interfering in her business, and Hua Rendong hurriedly pulled Xia Yu away.

Originally, she wanted to follow these two bandits to find the location of Qingfeng Village, but since Xia Yu and others had already sneaked into Qingfeng Village, there was no need to keep these two people to lead the way. Since they dared to set their sights on her, she would just give them a lesson first.

Xia Yu also noticed the two bandits, who were pretending to be arguing over a red scarf along the way.

After leaving the town and walking about five or six miles, they passed a forest and saw that there were few people. Two bandits chased them from behind and blocked the road in front of Hua Rendong and Xia Yu, "Girl, don't follow your father who can't even afford to buy you a scarf. Follow your brother and you will have delicious food and drinks every day. Don't mention red scarves, we can buy blue, green, or yellow scarves, any color you want, and you can wear them as clothes."

As he said this, he was about to reach out to grab the honeysuckle, but before he could catch it, he felt a tingling sensation all over his body, and both of them fell straight down.

Xia Yu retracted the hand that had just used the supernatural power, walked over and kicked the two men a few times, and asked: "What supernatural power does the leader of your village have?"

The two bandits kept silent as if they were dead. At this time, they realized that they had fallen into a trap. Considering the evil things they had done, whether they confessed or not, they would be dead in the end. It would be better for them to say nothing so that the people in the village could take care of their families.

If I confess now and the people in the village find out later, every member of my family will be burned to death.

How could he only ask for 300 yuan for such a beautiful girl? If it were him, he would have asked for several thousand yuan? It was such an obvious trap, why did they still fall into it?