Shopkeeper Bai was busy in the yizhuang. When he heard that there was a girl outside, he guessed that it was Shen Yuyu and quickly took off his sheepskin gloves and walked out.
"Master." Shen Yuyu giggled and got off the ox cart. She was not good enough, so she could only drive the ox cart. Ji Xun drove the cart aside to wait for her.
"Girl Shen, it's really you." Shopkeeper Bai smiled kindly at Shen Yuyu.
Shen Yuyu said: "Master, I brought you two pieces of bacon and spicy cabbage and put them in Zuixianlou. Remember to pick them up when you have time."
Shopkeeper Bai, as a widower, spends most of his time in the village, so it's not a good idea to bring food here.
"This girl is carrying things for the uncle again. She is really more considerate than a daughter." Shopkeeper Bai smiled happily. He has no children. During this time, he really treated Shen Yuyu like a daughter.
Shen Yuyu chuckled and said: "Then uncle, just treat Yuyu as his daughter. By the way, uncle, what happened to the ostrich meat case?'
Shopkeeper Bai shook his head speechlessly: "That case has been closed."
"What?" Shen Yuyu couldn't believe it, "It ended so quickly? Has the murderer been found?"
"The murderer? There is no murderer." Shopkeeper Bai looked helpless. "Didn't uncle say before that there was a flood and drowned many people? Those corpses were cut from the dead people. Everyone was caught and cut. The person who sells dead human flesh is an old man from the next village."
"Impossible." Shen Yuyu shook his head, "Uncle, you have also tested it. Those pieces of meat are clearly from women's buttocks and thighs. If they are really cut from the dead, there will always be men, women, old and young, right? ?How can it be so unified?'
"Sigh." Shopkeeper Bai sighed, "But County Magistrate Lin didn't believe me and said that if I dared to talk nonsense, I would be removed from my post. I originally wanted to go to Shenjia Village to tell you, but I have been busy with things lately."
"Then this matter will be settled like this?"
"Isn't that right? The old man who sold the meat was fined and ruined, and was sentenced to two years in prison. That's how it ended."
"Okay, master, go ahead and get the bacon from Zuixianlou." Shen Yuyu felt panicked, County Magistrate Lin, a mediocre official! Incompetent!
She said goodbye to Shopkeeper Bai with some depression, left Yizhuang and walked around the streets with Ji Xun, went to the blacksmith shop to get a scalpel, bought some things she needed at home, and then returned to Shenjiacun.
As for Hongluan, she was about to go home after wandering around the town for a long time, when a man wearing a bamboo hat drove a carriage towards her.
"Does the girl want to take the car?" He lowered the brim of his hat and asked proactively.
"How much does it cost to go to Shenjia Village?" Hongluan glanced at him casually.
Today, after the government coachman dropped her off at the town, he went to the county to do some business. She had to take a ride back by herself.
"Five articles." the man replied.
"Okay, let's take a seat." Hong Luan said and paid the money and got on the carriage. The driver drove the carriage out of the town and headed towards Shenjia Village.
Hong Luan had been running errands in the town for several days but could not find anyone. When she returned, she was beaten and scolded by Ding Xiaolian who was in a bad mood. She was so exhausted physically and mentally that she became confused as she swayed on the carriage.
She didn't know how long she had been dozing, but suddenly she felt the carriage stop. She quickly opened her eyes and lifted the curtain to see, huh? This was a remote forest path, not the road to Shenjia Village at all.
"Car driver? Coach driver?" Hong Luan was very angry and shouted as he got off the carriage, "Do you have something wrong with your ears? I'm going to Shenjia Village~~uh~~uh~~" Hong Luan was suddenly interrupted before he finished speaking. The person used his belt to strangle his neck from behind and dragged him into the woods.
She was so strangled that she rolled her eyes and said, "Let me go! Uh~~" Hong Luan knew that he had met a bad guy, so he quickly grabbed the strap with his hands and struggled hard.
But the gangster made a vicious move and strangled her tighter and tighter. Hong Luan was choked until she was frothing at the mouth. At the critical moment, she remembered that she had a gold hairpin on her head, so she hurriedly took off the gold hairpin with one hand and stabbed it behind her back.
He didn't know where he was hit, but the man let go of his hand in pain, and Hong Luan took the opportunity to break free, holding the hem of his skirt and running as fast as he could.
But the gangster had no intention of letting her go and chased after her.
"Help, help!" Hong Luan shouted as she ran. Her survival instinct gave her strength, and she ran out of the forest path like crazy.
It was also a coincidence that as soon as she came to the road, she met two farmers passing by with hoes on their shoulders. She was terrified and rushed towards them to ask for help.
"The girl said she was strangled? Where is the bad guy?" The two farm men looked around strangely, but saw no one.
Hong Luan finally managed to catch his breath. When he looked back, he did not see the criminal. He must have seen someone sneaking away on the avenue.
"Two eldest brothers, please don't leave yet, please." Seeing the two men about to leave, Hongluan knelt down towards them. He quickly took out his money bag and poured out all the money in it, "Brother, eldest brother, this is
Where? How far is Shenjiacun from here? If you are willing to send me back to Shenjiacun, I will give you all the money."
"Did the girl really meet a bad guy?" They didn't believe it at first, because they were afraid of encountering a fairy dancing or something, but now they saw Hong Luan taking out all their belongings, so they believed her words.
"Really, of course it's true! If you don't believe me, look at my neck. It was strangled by a gangster." Hong Luan said, tilting his head, revealing a red strangulation mark on his neck.
When the two farm men saw that they had indeed been strangled, they said enthusiastically, "Young lady has really met a bad guy. Don't be afraid. The bad guys don't dare to come back when we are there."
"Five or six miles ahead is Liujia Village. Go to the village first to find a carriage and then ask someone to take you back."
"Thank you, thank you two big brothers." Hongluan burst into tears of gratitude, knelt down and kowtowed twice, and then followed the two farm men to Liujiacun.
Hongluan hired a carriage in Liujia Village and found two aunties to accompany her, and then she dared to return to Shenjia Village.
She was shaking non-stop along the way, remembering that the gangster was cruel and cruel. If it hadn't been for the golden hairpin on her head, she might have died. Thinking of this, Hong Luan seemed to have escaped from death.
"Auntie, is this far from Shenjia Village?" Hongluan huddled between the two aunties, trembling like a quail in fear.
"Far away, at least twenty or thirty miles apart.'
Hong Luan trembled even more when she heard this. It was just afternoon when she left the town. Looking at the sky at this time, the sun was about to set. It was only because of her carelessness that she dared to sleep in a stranger's car. She almost fell asleep in the car.
Someone was murdered!
terrible!
"I heard that many girls were kidnapped in nearby villages. It would be better for girls to be less alone in the future." The two ladies were also warm-hearted. Although they took money from Hongluan when they accompanied her back, they still spoke enthusiastically.
"Isn't that true? I have a daughter from a distant cousin who was abducted by someone three days ago. I heard that she will be sold to the Western Regions as a slave and will never be able to escape."
Hong Luan listened to their discussion, but felt that the gangster just now did not look like Ren Yazi. If Ren Yazi wanted to kidnap her, he could have kidnapped her while she was sleeping, but this gangster clearly dragged her to the point of being helpless.