The three of them retreated while talking, and they left the battlefield after a while. They first asked the children playing in the alley for directions and found the well.
There is little water in the north, and few people can dig a well alone. Most of the village chiefs decide the place to dig a well for everyone to use together.
The well was not very far from where they were, and although it was already noon, there were still many people fetching water and washing clothes there.
Bai Erlang ran at the front, borrowed a bucket from the people at the well and threw the bucket down. He clumsily brought up half a bucket of water, but it was enough for them.
He fetched water to wash his hands, and waved to Bai Shanzhou: "Hurry up."
Bai Shan stepped forward to wash the veil, and then wiped his face with disgust.
Man Bao also asked for water to wash his hands. She was lucky, and when the two started to quarrel, she stood behind Bai Shan.
The two of them squatted aside and watched Bai Shan wash his face with smiles.
The laundryman by the well also stared at Bai Shan, and a woman couldn't help sighing, "Young master is so pretty."
Bai Shan blushed slightly, politely thanked the man for his compliment, and then asked casually, "I don't know where the head of the village is here?"
Everyone couldn't help looking at Bai Shan and the other three, and couldn't help asking: "Your Majesty, is there something for our Lieutenant?"
Bai Shan smiled politely: "We came from the capital to look for relatives, but we haven't contacted each other for many years. It seems that relatives have moved to another place, so I want to inquire with the village chief."
Everyone was excited when they heard that, and they all said, "The relatives you are looking for are from our neighborhood? Then ask us, we have lived here all the time, so we know something about it."
Bai Shan's eyes just passed over them. Those who know how to wash clothes here don't grow old anywhere. The oldest one is only around 30, there are only six of them in total, and the other five are watching. The clothes are smaller, and they look about the same age as Saturday's sister-in-law, and they all wear women's hair in a bun.
Obviously they all married here, but Bai Shan didn't really believe that they lived here all the time.
However, there are more rumors and less secrets in the neighborhood. The sister-in-law Xia just now seemed to have a bad temper and a bad relationship. She must prefer to talk about her family's affairs. Maybe they really know something.
So Bai Shan found a stone beside him and sat down to talk to them, "We are relatives of the older generation. We are young and have never been here. We haven't contacted each other for more than ten years, and we don't know where they are."
He asked with a smile, "Sister-in-law, do you know that there was a family of talented scholars named Xia more than ten years ago? There was only one daughter in the family, and I heard that they got married later."
The oldest one was stunned for a moment, and looked at Bai Shan in surprise.
The young daughter-in-law at the side laughed and said, "I've never heard of such a family. Did the young master remember wrongly? We don't have any family here."
Bai Shan looked at the older woman.
She hesitated for a moment, then looked at Bai Shan curiously and asked, "Is your husband a relative of the Xia family?"
Bai Shan smiled and nodded.
She frowned, "I've never heard that the Xia family has such a relative outside."
She looked at Bai Shan in a wrong way, and her enthusiasm faded a lot, but she still said: "However, more than ten years ago, there was indeed a family named Xia who was a scholar here, and the person has long since disappeared. There is a girl who recruited, It's just that she left with her husband and never came back."
Having said that, she paused, and looked at Bai Shan suspiciously again, but seeing that he was a boy and not the right age, she shifted her gaze to Zhou Man who had been squatting quietly at the side.
Taking a closer look, her eyes widened slightly, and she stared at Zhou Man before looking up and down.
Seen by her eyes, Man Bao moved back slightly.
Bai Shan then got up and walked in front of Man Bao to block her, and said with a smile to the woman: "Does the sister-in-law know who is living in his house now? I don't know if there are any relatives in his family?"
But the woman tilted her body and wanted to take another look at Zhou Man. Seeing that he moved to block her gaze again, she said helplessly: "The one who lives in his house now is a nephew of his own family. It's been a while, you are..."
She looked around, lowered her voice and asked, "Are you from Xinniang's family? Where are Xinniang and Zhou Xianggong?"
But Bai Shan only smiled, stretched out his hand to pull Man Bao up from the ground, and said to her: "We are here to find relatives, I don't know how to get to the elder's house?"
The woman showed them the way energetically, "Go in from there, go out at the intersection ahead, you go out, go to the second house on the right on the street."
She wanted to take another look at Zhou Man behind him with piercing eyes, but was blocked by Bai Shan.
Bai Shan thanked her, pulled Man Bao and left.
The three of them left quickly, almost running, Man Bao patted his chest and said happily: "It seems like I'm going to eat me."
Bai Shan said: "You must look like Uncle Zhou or Aunt Zhou."
Man Bao tilted his head and thought for a while: "I always hear my father say that I look like my father, and people in the village also say that I look like my father. I think it should be like my father?"
Bai Shan led her to find the Li Chang's family, and said with a smile, "That's good, it saves a lot of trouble if we look alike."
And behind them, the woman put all the clothes into the tub with an excited face after they left, took them and left.
The little daughter-in-law at the side couldn't help but said: "Aunt Fan, you don't want to wash?"
"No more washing, I'll go home first."
The young daughters-in-law watched her put the unwashed clothes into the wooden bucket, their eyes were straightened, and they thought to themselves: If you go back like this, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law may have another quarrel.
Aunt Fan didn't care, she walked quickly with the wooden basin in her arms, and threw the wooden basin in the yard when she got home. Her son opened his mouth wide when he saw it, and her mother-in-law saw it too, pinched her waist and was about to scold, but she was already excited "Mom, do you know who's back?"
"Who's back? You can't just throw away the wooden basin like that. There are only a few basins at home. Wait, have you washed your clothes..."
"It's Xinniang's family who are back."
"Who is Xin Niang?"
Aunt Fan pointed to the neighbor and said, "Xinniang! Her family's Xinniang is back!"
The old lady's eyes widened slightly, she didn't care about the tub and clothes anymore, she grabbed her sleeve and asked, "Really? Where is he?"
While speaking, he pricked up his ears to listen to the movement next door, "No, I only heard the neighbor and Mrs. Gao arguing today, but nothing else. Did you see Xinniang?"
Aunt Fan's body froze, and then she remembered that something was wrong. She hadn't seen Xinniang, and if Xinniang came back, she could go directly to her own home, so why did she come to ask her about her relatives
Seeing that her daughter-in-law was in a daze again, the old lady said angrily, "You're talking nonsense again..."
"There are shadows and shadows. I didn't see Xinniang, but I saw Xinniang's daughter. Really, that child looks about fourteen or fifteen years old. Let's not say that the age is right. That little face is similar to Zhou's." The husband looks very similar, his eyes are just like her father's, and her forehead and chin are very similar to Xinniang, she must be the child of the two of them."