Blissful Days After Widowhood

Mrs. Wang patted her chest and said with lingering fear, “I didn’t misunderstand, I said that on purpose. When I came, I saw him sizing you up and touching his waist. We had only seen Officer Caotou earlier, and like him that man should have a sword.”

“Then you knew that but you still came forward? You were not afraid…”

“How can I be afraid?” Mrs Wang raised her hand and patted her chest, but her hand was still trembling uncontrollably. She was ashamed and said, “Okay, I’m still a little bit afraid. But what can I do if I’m afraid? Can I just leave you alone? Oh, let’s not talk about that, how can that person treat you like that?”

Gu Yin thought for a while and said, “He asked if there was any child alone on the dock…”

Mrs. Wang slapped her thigh, “No wonder he changed his attitude when he heard me mentioning the yamen, it must be the person from the boat that abducted and sold people, for fear that they lost the ‘goods’ and spread the word. If I knew this, even if he cuts off his arm, I won’t let him go!”

Gu Yin felt something was wrong.

The tone of the other person was full of anxiety and concern. It seemed that he was not just concerned about a single item of goods.

But it was useless to think too much. The other person had already run away. She simply didn’t want to think about it much. She turned her head and asked why Mrs. Wang came back suddenly, and if the show ended.

Mrs. Wang said that it wasn’t over so fast, and added, “I saw more people gathering, so I thought that there must be no business on the pier, and came back to pick you up. It’s my fault, otherwise I wouldn’t know what would happen. “

After speaking, she lowered her voice and asked, “Has the child been here? Did you give him the cotton robe?”

Gu Yin sighed and said, “He came, but I didn’t have time to give it. That child was timid when he saw the stranger and slipped away after a while.”

Mrs. Wang said again, “It’s good that they didn’t meet at all! It’s okay, as long as the child is not taken away by the people, we could give it to him tomorrow.”

After talking, the two took away the stall and left the pier with a pole.

Not long after they left, a string of bubbles appeared on the water on the river bank. The boy was soaked all over and climbed ashore in a very embarrassed manner.

After going ashore, he didn’t dare to stay for long, clutching his aching arm and ran wild.

He walked all the way through the houses and the allies, choosing places with few people to walk, and went around to the door of an inconspicuous small house.

The door was knocked three times loud and two soft ones, and the person inside opened a gap, and he hurried in.

Seeing him like that, a fellow shouted, “Xiao Lu, didn’t you go to the pier to check the news? How did you make yourself look like this?”

“Did you meet the court’s dog? Are you injured?”

Everyone asked in a row, and the boy called Xiao Lu found a blanket and wrapped it around him, and drank a cup of hot tea before he said, “Don’t mention it, I went to the pier to inquire about the child, but today an opera troupe came up in the town to sing, and the pier was empty except for a wonton stall. I sat down and ate a bowl of wontons, and asked the little lady who set up the stall.”

When everyone heard him say that he hadn’t met anyone from the imperial court, their expressions loosened and they began to make fun of him.

“If you ask carefully, would you be like this now?”

“That’s right, did the little lady think you had malicious intentions, so she pushed you into the river?”

Xiao Lu’s white face flushed red, and he retorted, “I didn’t do anything! I just saw something running away under my feet. The little lady said there were wild cats or dogs on the pier. I was questioning her. Her mother-in-law suddenly rushed over and said that I molested a woman of a good family in broad daylight, and she also said that she wanted to drag me to the yamen. Of course I have to run!”

Speaking of that, he felt a dull pain in his arm again, so he simply took off half of his clothes to reveal his arm.

There were incomparably clear five-fingerprints printed on his fair-skinned arm.

He said with a sad face, “That woman was too scary, maybe she is stronger than our boss.”

“What kind of woman?” The man sitting at the head position suddenly asked.

His voice was not loud, but as soon as he opened his mouth, everyone fell silent, and the room was so silent that needles could be heard falling.

Xiao Lu also put away his joking look and said sternly, “It’s a middle-aged woman of about forty years old, tall and thin, very ordinary, but she is very strong. When she twisted my arm, I tried my best and didn’t have the strength. I broke free, and in the end I twisted my joints to get out of her grip.”

The man lowered his eyes and stopped talking, he just murmured the words “extremely strong” repeatedly.

Everyone waited for a long time, and seeing that he had no other orders, they gathered together to joke again.

Xiao Lu became more ashamed, and twisted his red neck to retort, ​​”I’m not completely at a loss, that little lady’s wontons are delicious! I haven’t given money yet, and I saved a little silver!”

He twisted one of his arms, was almost sent to an official, was forced to jump into the river, and even dared to twist his joints but said that he “did not suffer”.

The crowd laughed again.

And the man sitting at the head raised his eyes again when he heard that, sighed and shook his head.

Finally, he stood up and said solemnly, “On the way, we only found out that the child seemed to have fallen into the hands of the ocean-going ship, and was accidentally lost by them. Now we have inquired from all the piers, but they have found nothing. No matter how late, I am afraid that the court will be alarmed. Now the time given by King Yi has come, we should go back.”

Everyone put away their smiles, and quickly packed up their luggage.

When night fell, the group quietly left Hanshan Town.