Xia Yuanqiu hugged her mother back and said firmly: "It will definitely happen. Dad will be resurrected and our family will be reunited." She not only kept repeating this sentence in her mouth, but also kept repeating it in her heart. This is what keeps her going.
Xia Tieniu and Lin stayed in ambush outside the Xia Mansion all night. No one came out of the Xia Mansion. It was midsummer, and although the night was not cold, there were so many mosquitoes that they were covered in bites.
Xia Tieniu scratched the itchy bumps on his body and muttered: "With this, I wonder if Xia Yuanqiu can be given a few thousand more taels of silver notes."
At dawn, Xia Tieniu, who had been alert all the time, heard the noisy voices in the courtyard, which seemed to be talking about where to go. He hurriedly kicked Lin who was sleeping next to him: "Mother, wake up!"
Lin opened her sleepy eyes and asked Xia Tieniu, "What's going on? What's going on?"
"What's going on? Look at how confused you are in your sleep. I'm telling you, stop talking for a while and shut your stupid mouth."
Mrs. Lin rubbed her eyes, yawned and said, "Okay, okay, whatever you say will be done. I'll listen to you, okay?"
Xia Tieniu held up the wall and said, "We're all up and about to go out. Come on, let's go to the entrance of the village and lie down."
Mrs. Lin was puzzled: "Why go to the village entrance and lie down? Can't you just squat at the door of Xia Mansion?"
Xia Tieniu said angrily: "You squat at the door of her house. How can she not know what you are here for? Why don't you annoy her? Let's squat at the entrance of the village. If she wants to go out, she must pass there, so we will lie down In the middle of the road, can she come down and take a look? Seeing how miserable we are, and Yuan Hao is here again, can she not give Yuan Hao some face?"
Mrs. Lin nodded: "What you said makes sense. Okay, I'll listen to you."
The two of them ducked and sneaked to the entrance of the village. This was the only way to leave Xipo Village. Xia Yuanqiu had to pass here if he wanted to leave.
According to the plan, the two of them lay down in the middle of the road, and they kept lying like that. After waiting for a long time, no one came. However, many people in the village went out to work and saw them like this, and they made fun of them.
Xia Tieniu muttered to himself: "That's not right - I just heard them saying they were going to leave immediately, why haven't they seen anyone yet?"
After lying there for a while, the sun rose in the east and was already shining on their buttocks. More and more villagers came out of the village, and some people simply squatted beside them to watch the fun, wanting to see what the couple was playing. Xia Tieniu couldn't lie down any longer. He turned to Mrs. Lin and said, "Just lie down and don't move. I'll go explore the situation."
Xia Tieniu came to the door of Xia Mansion and saw Mr. Xu holding a wet cloth and wiping the red lacquer door and the stone steps at the door. He stepped forward and asked: "Brother Xu, I want to ask you something - "
The elder Xu could tell who it was without looking back. Xia Tieniu came to pick a fight with him in the next few days, saying that he was a relative of the princess and wanted to enter the Xia Mansion to have a look, but of course he wouldn't allow it, so the two became friends. Liangzi, fight every time you see one.
Xu Daguo dropped the cloth towel in his hand, looked back at Xia Tieniu, who was dressed in rags and had a gray face, and said with a half-smile: "Hey, Uncle Xia doesn't come to Sanbao store for nothing, tell me what you have to say!" "
Xia Tieniu stretched his neck and looked into the crack of the door. Xu Daguo stretched out his hand and pulled the door knocker, closing the remaining crack of the door.