What?

Everyone looked at the adults. The adults were wearing new clothes made by Shiba, with a faint expression. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, they repeated tirelessly: "Who said you are not worthy?"

Shiba panicked: "Sir, don't joke about Shiba..."

"I'm not kidding." The adults sorted out their clothes and looked handsome and steady. "If two people are in love in this world, there is no right or wrong."

After saying that, he walked to the eighteenth and said, "In the next 20th and 5th year, I have not married yet. I have no father or mother at home, but only good fortune. If you marry me, someone will take care of you in the future. You don't have to serve your parents-in-law and sister-in-law, just be my wife."

Shiba was startled and retreated repeatedly, waved his hand: "You can't do it, sir, don't say such words, the 18 flowers are defeated by the willows..."

"I don't care." The adult was very open-minded. "As far as you know now, you are a good girl, that's enough."

"Yes! Ziba, just promise me!" Xiaojiu happily pushed the Eighteenth Dynasty's arms from behind. She was too strong and Ziba had no way to resist, so she was pushed into the adult's arms. In order to prevent her from falling, the adult gently held her waist with one hand. Ziba's face was flushed, and Xiaojiu laughed: "Although the adult is a little bit pedantic, he is definitely the Qingtian parent official. You must be right to marry him!"

The scholar also smiled and said, "I think it's not bad. I've been with the adults for almost ten years, but I have never seen an adult ask for a marriage proposal to any girl. After saying this, the adults really like the eighteen girls. If the eighteen girls don't dislike the adults and don't say sweet words, they are always busy with business, so it's better to nod and marry."

Cheng Pu said angrily: "If the Eighteenth Girl looks down on the adults, then it's great to see me!" As he said that, he turned over a few seconds, then jumped onto the roof and the big tree, and then landed handsomely after several rounds and round trips, and put on a particularly handsome look: "What do you think of the Eighteenth Girl? I am strong and obedient, and I give all the money I earn to support my family. You can do whatever you ask, absolutely nothing else!"

The adult glanced at him and he immediately smiled embarrassedly: "Hehe, kidding, kidding."

"How?" the adult asked Eighteen.

Shiba's heartbeats like thunder, her little face flushed, she quickly broke free from the adult's arms, and said softly: "Sir, don't say such things to me. Men and women will not kiss each other, so I'll go back first." After that, he turned around and walked, his steps getting faster and faster, and soon disappeared from everyone's sight.

Xiaojiu was shocked: "The first time I saw Shiba walking so fast, was she going to fly just now?"

The scholar smiled and said, "After all, the girl's family is thin-skinned."

Xiaojiu stuck out his tongue and asked the adult: "Is sir sincere?"

"Have you ever seen me say something against my will?" The adult asked replies without answering.

"Okay, this matter will be included in me, but if it is done in the future, you will have to give me a big red envelope!"

The adult's lips curled: "Give you three months' salary."

That was a huge sum of money, Xiaojiu's eyes lit up: "A word is determined!" After saying that, he immediately went to chase after Shiba who had left, and worked hard for the matchmaker's red envelope.

When Xiaojiu's figure also disappeared around the corner, the scholar teased the adults and said, "Wansheng had long thought that the adults were interested in Miss Eighteen, and now it seems to be really good."

"What? You've seen it long ago?" Cheng Pu was surprised. "Then why didn't I see it? You saw that you didn't tell me?"

"You are stupid, with a well-developed limbs and a simple mind." The scholar joked, "Didn't you see that? Every time the 18th day appears, the adults' eyes are on others. The 18th is now responsible for buying groceries and cooking. If Xiaojiu doesn't have time to follow him, the adults will take the initiative to help carry the basket. Have you followed you when you bought groceries before?"

Cheng Pu shook his head honestly: "That's not. But I'm not a woman either. Why do you want adults to follow me?"

The scholar sighed and said, "Don't talk to the summer insects."

"What insects and ice?" Cheng Pu scratched his head. "What does it mean?"

"No matter what it means, just remember that the adults have long fallen in love with other girls." The scholar was so moved that he wanted to cry. "It's almost ten years since he has moved his mind. Wansheng thought that the adults would have to die alone in this life."

The adults let them make fun of it, but when they heard this, they looked at the scholar with a smile. "I have known each other for only more than a month, and now I may have a good relationship. You and Xiaojiu have known each other for seven years, and aren't there any hope yet?"

This was too poisonous. The smile on the scholar's face froze instantly and he could no longer laugh.

Xiaojiu caught up with Shiba and kept telling her various advantages in her ears. She would not have to take a concubine if she was loyal and reliable. She could solve any smart and wise and difficult case. She was handsome and beautiful and very pleasing to the eye... In short, she used everything about her adult as her advantage, striving to make Shiba nod.

Shiba just listened quietly. When Xiaojiu spoke so hard that he got up and poured her a glass of water, and took over the handkerchief that he had not embroidered before. It was too difficult to eat well with the salary of these few people. A county magistrate only had a higher salary per month, which was not enough to spend at all. In addition, the adults were honest and never accepted bribes. They could only eat a meal of meat every few days, which could be said to be very difficult.

So Shiba was about to do some girl-red and sell it. She had a very good embroidery worker. When she was buying vegetables, she accidentally met a cloth shop owner. When she saw her handkerchief falling to the ground, her eyes lit up. She tried her best to invite Shiba to work for her. The cloth shop owner also runs a shop that specializes in women's clothes, and was short of a good embroidery girl. Shiba thought that she was not doing anything in the county government office, so she agreed to take the clothes or handkerchief back to embroider, and hand it over every three days.

Now she has been embroidering for half a month. Her embroidery worker is good and fast. In addition, the profit here is sufficient, and the boss lady is very sincere. She has always been the highest price for Shiba. So recently they can eat meat every day. The scholar has sighed more than once that it is better to be an embroiderer than an official. He instigated the adults to resign and embroider, but Xiaojiu knocked him several times.

"...Eighteen, are you listening?" Gudugudu drank the water, and Xiaojiu asked.

Shiba lowered his head to embroider and said, "I've heard it."

"What do you think?" Xiaojiu asked. "You can't stop getting married, right? Where can I not be married in my daughter's family?"

"...I'm going to marry." Shiba said softly. "Just marry a man who doesn't dislike me. Adults deserve better."

"You are the best!" He would get angry when he heard that Xiaojiu was underestimating himself. "Are you thinking about it again? Who else can be better than you? After all, he will like you!"

"Xiaojiu, stop talking, I won't marry an adult." Shiba embroidered flowers, his tone was calm. "Maybe I will remember everything in a while. No one knows what I was like in the past, if I..."

"Stop talking nonsense." Seeing Shiba so worried, Xiaojiu hurriedly held her hand and comforted, "You are the best girl, there is no doubt about this. You are so good for losing your memory, and of course you have the same memory. Shiba, promise me, don't say anything belittled, okay?" She was really heartbroken and heartbroken.

Upon hearing this, Shiba looked up and smiled at Xiaojiu, saying, "Okay, then you have to promise me too. I feel very embarrassed when I don't mention marrying an adult again. If I mention it again, I will not live in the county government."

Xiaojiu quickly agreed: "Okay, okay, I won't say it." It's just a pity that my salary for three months... dozens of taels of silver!

Only then did Shiba really laugh.

Afterwards, Xiaojiu talked to the adults about Shiba’s thoughts. The adults remained silent. Xiaojiu asked, “Does he really like Shiba?”

The adult looked at her: "Don't you believe me?"

"Of course not, just..." Xiao Jiu twisted his fingers, looking like he was reluctant to speak. "Aren't you men all..."

"That's just the idea of ​​ordinary people, not me." The adult said as he looked at the official document. "What the Eighteenth was like in the past has nothing to do with her now. I believe that even if something bad happened to her, she was not willing to do so. Let's take a step back, even if she was willing, she is so beautiful now, which is enough for me."

Xiaojiu turned around and went back to tell Shiba. She did not ask Shiba to marry the adult, but just told Shiba what the adult said and did, so that she could know that the adult really liked her, not that he had any intention, nor was he sympathy and pity.

But Shiba refused to accept it. Not only that, she has now begun to avoid adults. She will not meet without meeting each other. If she must meet, she lowered her head and refused to speak. She really has to speak, so she used a few words instead, which was particularly far away.

But she showed it too obvious that even Cheng Pu, who was the most nervous, could see it and asked the scholar: "What happened? Did the adults do something bad to the Eighteenth Girl? Why did the girl see him like a ghost?"

The scholar sighed that he was unintelligent and walked away without explaining. Cheng Pu scratched his head, and the monk was confused and did not understand what was going on.

So when he saw the adult blocking the eighteen on the path from afar, he quietly lie behind the rockery, widened his eyes and raised his ears to eavesdrop.

Shiba saw the adult walking towards her after more than ten meters away. She was so scared that she quickly turned around and changed the path. Unexpectedly, after walking a few steps, she saw the adult turning around and staring at herself. Her posture seemed to settle the score, Shiba was so scared that she almost turned around and ran away.

However, the adult was tall and long legs, and he took a few steps to her and blocked her way: "Where are you going?" Looking at her handkerchief and clothes in her hand, "Go out?"

"Well..." Eighteen sounds like tattoos, "Today is the day to hand over the veil and clothes."

"I'll accompany you, it's not safe for you to go out alone."

Shiba quickly refused: "No, no, I'm fine if I'm alone..."

"Because I expressed my love for you, do you not even want to see me?"

"No, it's not like this!" Shibaya denies. "Just, just--"

The adult, who had no idea of ​​pity for the jade, pressed step by step: "It's just what?"

Eighteen retreated continuously: "Just, just..."

"It's just something, you said." The adult narrowed his black eyes, and some bottomless thing in his eyes made Shiba blush and almost explode. "Don't get so close to me!"

After shouting, she saw the adults' disbelief look, and quickly explained: "I don't mean that..."

"Then what do you mean?" The adults didn't understand. "Eighteen, is it difficult to promise me? Or do you think I am not worthy of entrusting my life?"

"It's not so. You... are really a rare gentleman. If anyone marrys you, you will be happy for the rest of your life." Shiba grabbed the fabric in his hand and trembled a little, "It's just that I...I don't have that blessing."

"What kind of blessings are not blessings? As long as you promise me, this blessing is yours. If you don't marry, I will not be called blessings."

"I am not worthy of the adults. My memories will come back one day. By that time, I don't even know how to face the adults, face Xiaojiu, and others. So, please don't force it anymore. Adults will definitely meet a good girl, a thousand times better than me, a hundred times better..."

The adult was about to say a few words in a deep voice, but he saw that the clothes she was holding in her arms were suddenly wet.

She actually cried.

He sighed, regardless of her rejection, held the person hard into his arms and whispered: "Silly girl, why are you crying? In my heart, you are cleaner than anyone else."

Shiba listened in a daze, and then told him in his heart: No, I'm not clean.

I'm not clean anymore.

At first it was the body, then it was the heart, and now my soul is covered with filth.

"I don't care what your past is like, but now you are under my wings, I have the obligation to protect you. Regardless of whether you agree to marry me in the future, I will protect you and no one will bully you." The adult touched her head, held her shoulder and looked at her, and smiled very gently: "Okay, I won't mention these in the future. I wonder if you can take me out now?"

Shiba raised one hand and wiped away the tears in a mess, smiled at him, sniffed, and walked beside him.

The two of them gradually drifted away, and Cheng Pu turned out from behind the rockery. He was always too lazy to use his brain, but he was not a fool. Just now, the adults hugged the Eighteenth Girl. The expression on the Eighteenth Girl's face always felt a little strange...

He thought for a while, but didn't think of anything, so he simply stopped thinking about it. Anyway, Shiba is a good girl. If an adult wants to marry someone, he must be more sincere. This is a matter between the two of them, so he will not get involved in it, so as not to be kind to help the others.

After that day, the relationship between Shiba and the adults became much softer. They stopped asking for marriage. Shiba relaxed a little, at least they were no longer so cautious when speaking.

The disappearance case began again.

This time, the 14-year-old daughter of a family in the south of the city, named Huancui. She said that she went to the city with her sister yesterday morning to go to the market, but there were too many people and they got separated. In the end, the little sister returned home safely, and Huancui lost her trace. The family first waited at home, thinking that the little girl might like to watch the fun and play in the city, but in the afternoon, the person still didn't come back. So Huancui's parents summoned the villagers to the city to find her, but the good girl was gone, and she searched everywhere but had no results, so they had to come to the county government to report the case the next morning.

At that time, everyone was having breakfast. When they heard that the disappearance had begun again, the adult's face darkened. The scholar was rarely so relaxed and happy, and his expression was a little sinister: "It's starting again."

Cheng Pu threw the bowl and chopsticks: "This group of bitches is raised."

Xiaojiu lost her appetite, and the dead girls appeared before her. They were abducted and sold to somewhere, and they didn't know where they were sold. However, when she followed the adults to investigate the case, she had visited brothels and saw what kind of life the girls inside lived. Thinking of this, she couldn't eat any delicious food.

Everyone stopped eating, and Shiba naturally put down his chopsticks. She looked at everyone worriedly: "Don't worry, let's see what's going on first."

Now they are already a family, and adults do not shy away from her when they talk about cases. In the past, they rarely mentioned it in front of her because they were afraid of arousing her memories. However, if Shiba intends to face it honestly, they will talk in front of her. Shiba always listens quietly and occasionally gives a few opinions.

"Okay." The adult stood up. "I'll go to the court first, Zigui, come over after breakfast with Cheng Pu."

It is also an iron discipline for the county government to not waste food, but it tastes faster. The scholar and Cheng Pu finished their portions in the manner of wind sweeping the clouds, greeted Xiao Jiushiba and went all to the court.

At present, all adults can do is find people, but unfortunately, they will not have any results even if they send all the yamen runners out. These criminals are cunning and sophisticated. They have been engaged in trafficking in people for so many years and have never been caught. In addition to their strong backers behind them, the superb method of committing crimes is also a reason.
To be continued...