The casual life of the flat space

"Haha, okay, okay, my good intentions have been taken for granted. I didn't tell anyone, so don't put the blame on me. I was thinking that Bao'er is just a little girl, and she didn't steal much money. How would she live if I told her? That's why I swallowed this loss.

Like you said, I didn't go to you guys for days, of course I didn't want to make a fuss about it, but you guys came to me to complain? If you didn't steal, where did my money go?"

"You all heard what she said, right? After all this talk, it's just because her child asked my child to go to her house to play. If I had known you were such a person, I wouldn't let her go even if I broke her legs!" The woman became angry again when she saw that the young wife refused to tell her what the situation was.

The young wife rolled her eyes and said, "What a joke! Your child came here and the money was lost. Who else could have stolen it if not you?"

The woman listened to the people around her agreeing with the young wife, and immediately became furious and said, "If you are a suspicious person, you shouldn't invite others over. People who go to your house should be suspected of being thieves? If you have any dissatisfaction with me, you can go to the adults. What's the point of wrongly accusing a child?

You haven't said it yet? You have said it a lot, right? Otherwise, how did this story get spread? Did the people in the village make it up because they don't like my family? But when I ask you, you say that this is the case!

Let's not discuss whether you really have such good intentions or not. I just want to say one thing: catch the thief and take the dirty work. If you can produce evidence, I won't need you to say anything more. I will strangle this loser to death with my own hands."

"mother……"

Bao'er looked about eight or nine years old. She was already frightened when her mother suddenly rushed home and loudly questioned her whether she had stolen money. Her mother then dragged her to confront the person, and this confrontation made her feel confused and her whole body numb and stiff.

Now she only vaguely heard her mother saying that she was going to strangle her to death, and then she screamed incoherently from her blocked throat, her hands suddenly clenched into chicken claws, and she fainted. The panicked woman called "Bao'er, Bao'er", but she couldn't wake up the little girl.

The young wife was also panicked when she saw this, but suddenly she heard a voice next to her. She laughed in anger and said, "Oh my, you two are really good at making trouble! One of you insists that I produce some evidence, and the other one is pretending to be crazy. You really put on a good show!"

"Help, help! Master! You can't take Baoer away! What's the point of me living if anything happens to her!" When the woman saw that she couldn't wake the child up, her whole body went limp and she could only lie on the ground and cry.

Bai Tieying listened to the two people arguing with certainty, and wondered what was going on. When she saw the little girl fainting, she immediately felt that the symptom was very familiar. After carefully recalling it, she remembered that her uncle had mentioned this symptom when he told her about the medicinal effects of the five pungent vegetables, and immediately dismounted and shouted:

"Get out of the way, everyone. If you don't want to get involved in a lawsuit, stay away! If you're too late, you'll really die!"

When everyone heard that they were going to be involved in a lawsuit, they immediately made way for Bai Tieying and the other man.

"Aunt, I am your new master. This child must be treated immediately. Take us to your house now! Brother Mu, hold the child!"

Bai Tieying didn't see any response from the woman after he finished speaking, so he turned around and asked the person next to him: "Who knows where she lives? Lead us to the way!"

"I! I know, come with me young lady!" A woman who looked to be about 30 years old came out and said as she walked, "Young lady, my husband's surname is Wang, and we live in the same house. Please come with me! Just let our people take care of the horses."

This village is called Xuanqinglu, located at the foot of Laoniu Peak, 40 miles southeast of Shang'an County. The area of ​​the whole village is half the size of the county town. At the beginning, County Magistrate Xiao "bought" and moved away the villagers of Laoniu Village, leaving only 18 tenant farmers living here. According to Aunt Wang just now, this place was not completed until last year.

Compared with the manor house, the main house's yard was not that wide. It was a layout of two horizontal and three vertical, that is, two three-courtyard houses side by side. In front was the Pubang River, a tributary of the Yubei River, which separated the main house and the tenants. One had to cross a stone bridge wide enough for two carriages to cross.

The back is backed by Laoniu Peak - it is said that it was later changed to Qingniu Peak by County Magistrate Xiao, but the tenants here still call it Laoniu Peak privately. It is not cold in winter and not hot in summer, which is a good place to escape the cold and heat.

From the outside, it looked no different from Bai Tieying's house, except that it was several times bigger. But once you walked in, you could feel the difference. The main courtyard on the east side of the two courtyards was slightly wider, with nine main rooms; the cross courtyard on the west side was slightly narrower, with seven main rooms, a total of ninety-nine rooms of all sizes. It was said that County Magistrate Xiao was demoted and exiled because of this number of rooms.

The two courtyards have their own gates, and the east and west wing rooms of the second courtyards of the two houses form a garden. The owners can travel east and west through the moon-shaped gate in the middle of the path, while servants can pass through the small doors in the back rooms and the rear rooms.

Although the whole garden is not decorated with carved beams and painted buildings, the decorations are exquisitely designed and elegant. "And again and again" According to Aunt Wang, there is a golden carp in the lotus pond in the middle of the garden, which is three feet long and is the favorite of County Magistrate Xiao.

And it was because her ancestors had raised fish for the royal palace that she was able to bring her family to be bought by County Magistrate Xiao and sent here. But since she came, County Magistrate Xiao had only come once and something went wrong, and the golden carp was taken away by the men from the capital along with the original fish breeder.

Now there are more than a hundred refugees living in the main courtyard, and the former servants live in the west wing. They are all managed by the former steward, and all the food is delivered by him. They are not full but not starving, but there is no restriction on going out to find food to fill their stomachs, as long as they do not leave the farm.

Although no one cared, they all knew that they were slaves. Even if they escaped, where could they go? Did they really have to live in the mountains as savages? Besides, they lived in peace and had two meals a day. They just had to wait for the new master to come here.

It was unknown who the current owner of this manor was, but who in this small place could be bigger than Mu Qingqiu? So Bai Tieying went straight through the gate and took the shortest path, listening to the enthusiastic Aunt Wang's introduction, and finally arrived at the residence of the woman and the little girl named Bao'er.

Bai Tieying asked Mu Qingqiu to put the child down and go out, and asked Aunt Wang to find two garlic cloves. She let Baoer lean on her and fed him about half a bowl of well water little by little.