"The adults in their family are really mean. Why didn't they send anyone to look for their children when they were stranded outside? Oh, they are really generous!" The old woman said, picking up the selected vegetables and said, "I'm going to cook rice. I'll make soup from it, which will be just right for the children to nourish their bodies."
The next day, before dawn, several men at the village gate were busy stacking bundles of firewood and putting them on the donkey cart. Hao'er and the other two followed and watched. A man next to them said with a smile: "Village chief, why do you want to go to the town with us? If you want to buy anything, just let us know and we can buy it for you! You don't have to run back and forth with us like this."
"Oh, it's because my old leg problems of the past few days have come back. Let's go to the city to have a look, otherwise I will be too sore to sleep at night." The old village chief said to the old woman beside him: "Okay, okay, go back! You can be back in the evening."
"Be careful on the road, go early and come back early." The old woman instructed, stuffing the prepared cakes into Hao'er's hands and letting them eat them on the road.
"Come, come, sit on it." The man carried Yue'er onto the donkey cart. When he was about to carry Chen'er, Chen'er said, "I can get on by myself." Then he climbed up by himself.
After seeing him get on, Haoer followed suit. The old village chief and the man driving the donkey cart sat in the front.
"Everyone sit down, we're going to go." The man shouted, threw the target in his hand, and drove the donkey cart along the mountain path.
After watching the donkey cart leave, the old woman returned to the house. Unable to fall asleep any more, she went to clean up the house where her three children had lived for a few days. Unexpectedly, she saw a shining gold coin on the table.
“What, what is this?”
The old woman was slightly startled. She picked it up and looked at it carefully. She was surprised. How could there be a gold coin? This gold coin is worth a hundred silver coins. For ordinary people like them, this is a lot of money.
On the way, Hao'er, who was sitting in the back, was cross-legged practicing. The old village chief and the man sitting in the front knew that they were sitting in the back and were not worried about anything else. They just talked to them from time to time.
Yue Er and Muchen in the back were eating cakes while they were listening to the suppressed words coming from the front.
"Village chief, I heard from them that this road has been a bit uneasy these days. Several passers-by died a while ago."
"Are there bandits again? Logically speaking, our area is a remote and poor place, so there shouldn't be bandits around here."
"I heard that he was a murderer who fled here for refuge. The terrain here is complicated, and it's difficult for the government to catch him. Now he has become a scourge to us ordinary people."
The brother and sister were eating the bread and talking in low voices in front. They didn't know how much time had passed. Suddenly, the donkey cart stopped abruptly, and then there was the clanging sound of swords clashing.
Seeing the dozen people who suddenly appeared in front of them and surrounded them, the old village chief and the man turned pale and trembled a little: "Bandits, bandits, bandits!"
"Hahahaha! I'm worried that no one has come to deliver the money these days! What are you still standing there for? Get off the cart! Take out all the silver!" The leading man put his hands on his waist and laughed with his head raised, and ordered people to come forward and pull the old village chief and the man off the donkey cart.