She gave Aunt Ding a small piece of broken silver and a hosta as payment and thanks for the stay. In fact, she had money and silver with her, but she kept an eye on it. The so-called wealth is not exposed, she lives alone in a completely unfamiliar village, she still has this kind of guarding against others. It would be bad if she took out the ingot and provoked the villagers to covet the property.
Gold and silver jewelry are all eye-catching, but jade things are hard to guess the price, so she took a small piece of broken silver and a jade hairpin. This made Auntie Ding feel that she had no money, and she was so distressed that she refused for a long time. In the end, she only accepted the hairpin, and asked Ding Yanshan to keep the broken silver to be with her on the road in the future.
Ding Yanshan smiled and took back the broken silver. In fact, the hairpin was far more than a hundred taels of silver, but the aunt didn't know what to buy, so she casually gave the hairpin to her daughter Ding Manmei.
Soon the word spread in the village that the poor daughter had no money and had to rely on hairpins to pay for her stay.
But what is this daughter's background, her speech, her mannerisms, her gestures, that's not ordinary extravagance. Everyone guessed wildly, discussing with gusto.
The bandit is not interested in Ding Yanshan's identity or money, he is only interested in her.
Since seeing Ding Yanshan, the thief's understanding of beauties has taken a step further. In the past, Yingzi and Yinger were not considered beautiful, but this daughter of the Ding family is really beautiful.
Bandit loves beauty and always goes to see Ding Yanshan. Oops, that really catches the eye the more you look at it, it's so beautiful that it makes one's heart itch.
But Ding Yanshan obviously didn't like to answer him, and didn't give him a straight look. This made the bandit very worried.
That day, the bandit accompanied the village children to fish in the river, with their thick, hairy legs exposed. Ding Yanshan approached from a distance, and the bandit happily waved her to come and play, but Ding Yanshan turned her head and left without answering.
The bandit looked at her back in a moment of desolation.
Another day, the bandit helped the old man in the village to chop firewood, sweating profusely and showing off half of his body. When Ding Yanshan and Aunt Ding passed by, the bandit greeted Ding Yanshan with a big smile, but Ding Yanshan He turned his face away and walked away.
The bandit looked at her back and felt sad for a while.
After doing this several times, the bandit couldn't stand it anymore. He felt that it was necessary to change his image in Ding Yanshan's heart. He did rob her that day, he did scare away her maidservants, and she was so tired that she was alone now, trapped in a small mountain village, but he didn't mean it.
Either it was intentional, or it was unintentional, and unintentional means that she didn't intend to hurt her, and she didn't expect such a result. So it's really wrong for her to be so fussy and treat him as an enemy.
The bandit decided to reason with her.
Ding Yanshan is sitting in front of Mrs. Ding's house to enjoy the shade.
"Oh, the weather is really nice today." The bandit walked over, putting on a show.
Ding Yanshan turned her head and took a look, seeing that it was him, she turned her head back again and did not speak.
"Auntie Ding's chickens have grown so fat?" the bandit asked again.
Ding Yanshan still did not speak.
"I don't know if it will rain tomorrow."
This time Ding Yanshan simply stood up and prepared to enter the house.
"Hey..." The bandit shouted anxiously, "Girl, why do you hate me so much?"
This question is really straightforward. Ding Yanshan was taken aback for a moment, then slowly turned around and looked at the bandit.
The bandit straightened out his chest and tried his best to correct his posture and put on a good-looking appearance.
"Although I was tired of the girl's wandering here, I went out every day to help her inquire about someone, and I was the one who asked someone to pick her up and settle in the village. In this way, the merits and demerits balance out, and it can't be regarded as my fault. The girl understands this truth?"
reason? Ding Yanshan wanted to laugh a little. Regardless of whether the reasoning is crooked or not, it is really strange that he came to reason with her.
Seeing her expression, the bandit frowned, squeezed his big palm, resisting the urge to make a fist. He usually used it together with his fists when he reasoned, but now it is difficult to use his fists, he is really not used to it.
"The girl is a guest from afar, and I'm from the village, so I'm naturally the host. It's reasonable for a guest to be polite to the host, right? But the girl always doesn't show good looks, so it doesn't matter, right? "
"Yes." Ding Yanshan nodded, "But I also have a reason."
"Tell me." The bandit was a little happy. There were not many people in this village who were willing to reason with him. Everyone likes to make noise and shake their fists, but they are still gentlemen from the city.
The bandit grinned, waiting for Ding Yanshan's words.
Ding Yanshan didn't show any expression, she just said: "I hate people, there's no point in reasoning. Are you right?"
The bandit froze for a moment, opened his mouth wide, wanted to nod, but didn't want to.
There is indeed some truth in this statement, but one sentence completely negates what he said before, and blocks all the words that follow, so what else can he say
Ding Yanshan went into the room.
The bandit scratched his head, the girl from the city was amazing, he couldn't argue with her.
But he is not reconciled.
The next day, he went to find Ding Yanshan again.
"Girl, I have thought about what you said carefully. Although what you said is not wrong, since I am the one who makes you sick, the girl will naturally have to give me a reason to convince me. What I said yesterday Can't be convinced."
Ding Yanshan frowned: "What does it have to do with me if you are not convinced?"
One sentence left the bandit speechless again.
On the third day, the bandit went to look for Ding Yanshan again.
"Girl, I've thought about what you said. If I'm not convinced, I will naturally block my heart. If I am blocked, I will naturally find a girl. If I come to find a girl, I will naturally do the girl's business."
Ding Yanshan looked at him, and subconsciously puffed out her chest again.
"Is your name a bandit?"
"The name is Zhao Wenfu."
Ding Yanshan nodded, and said: "Once upon a time, there was an accountant in my family named Zhao Wenfu. He tampered with the account book, dirty the money, and was kicked out by my father."
The bandit was taken aback for a moment, it was such a coincidence. He hurriedly said, "My nickname is Shanzi, and my father has always called me Shanzi."
Ding Yanshan nodded again: "I know more about the man named Shan Zi. The coachman, waiter, and porter all have Shan Zi. There was a case in our place where a young man named Shan Zi killed him in order to rob money. He murdered the owner of a tea shop, framed a blind girl, and then tried to kill her to silence her. This case is quite famous, but it is far away, so you may not have heard of it.”
The bandit opened his mouth wide. He had never heard of it. He had only heard that an eighteen-year-old Shanzi from the next village stepped on dog poop, and that a six-year-old Shanzi from another village was chased up to the roof by his own chicken.
He was dazed again and again, and finally said: "It's just the same name, it has nothing to do with me. If a girl hates everyone with this name because of these, then it would be unreasonable, right?"
"I was hijacked by bandits before. They knocked me out and robbed me on the mountain. I escaped, but since then everyone has pointed at me. My reputation has been ruined. I can't get married and my friends don't see me well." Later, the bandit leader robbed me on the road, killed my loyal maidservant in front of my face, and almost killed me." She paused here , looking at the bandit's surprised expression, he said again, "Now, are you convinced? You led someone to rob me. I was ready to die at that time. I told myself that if I met a robber again, I would let you They stole my body. Now, are you convinced?"
The bandit was not convinced, he was angry!
Those turtle bastards, who are not as good as animals, how could they do such a thing to a girl's family! The beauty has suffered such suffering and suffered such crimes! He gasped for breath, feeling like his lungs were about to explode.
The bandit turned and ran away.
He finds someone to fight.
Ding Yanshan thought she would be clean from now on, but three days later, the bandits came back again.
At that time, Ding Yanshan was sitting alone on the hillside in a daze, when she heard the bandits calling "girl" from a long distance away.
Ding Yanshan turned her head to look at him, then turned her head back and continued to be in a daze.
But the bandit didn't know how to read his face, he leaned over and asked, "Girl, what happened to those bastards who bullied you?"
"died."
Such a straightforward answer made the bandit stunned, and said "oh", not knowing how to proceed.
He thought about it these few days, and the more he thought about it, the more distressed he became. If those thieves were not beaten up and sent to the officials, he would not be able to live safely, so he came here to ask more about the situation. Unexpectedly, this girl said "dead" coldly, leaving him no room for speech.
The bandit scratched his head, thought for a while, and then said: "I will never tell others about these things. I will not talk nonsense like those in the girl's hometown, and ruin the girl's reputation."
This time Ding Yanshan turned her head to look at him again: "It doesn't matter if you say it or not, since I dare to tell you, I'm not afraid of things being exposed. I won't stay here for a long time, so what does it matter what people here say about me? "
Right. The bandit sighed, her words were always more reasonable than his.
The bandit sat down next to Ding Yanshan. She is like a flower, he dare not get too close, there is a distance of two people between them.
"Well, this, what is the girl's plan?"
Ding Yanshan didn't speak.
The bandit continued: "What I mean is that the girl's servants have not been found yet. I don't know where the girl is going? If you are in a hurry, I can escort the girl."
Ding Yanshan glanced at him. The bandit quickly waved his hands: "I don't accept money, and I don't have bad intentions. I just thought, if I can't find those unfaithful ones, the girl will have no one to protect me." He scratched his head, "Actually It's useless to find those few, I think, if something really happens, they leave the girl and ignore them, like waste."
"I'm not going anywhere."
"Ah?" The bandit was surprised, "What is the girl going on a long journey?"
"Do nothing, just walk around."
The bandits don't understand at all, what's the point of walking around without going anywhere
"But, if you don't know where you're going or what you're going to do, how can you have the joy of fulfilling your wish?" The bandit wanted to reason again.
The joy of wish fulfillment
Ding Yanshan was taken aback for a moment.
"Just like me, sometimes I am very greedy for pork, and I really want to eat a full bowl. When I can finally eat it, I am so happy that I almost shed tears. But if I don't want to eat something, I don't feel like eating it. So happy. That’s what it says, isn’t it?”
Ding Yanshan didn't speak.
The bandit continued nagging: "If you don't know where you want to go, and you can't reach your destination no matter how far you go, how can you be happy?"
Ding Yanshan turned to look at him.
The bandit became ashamed when she saw her, swallowed, his voice became softer, and he said falteringly: "I... I just want to say, what I mean is, what, you can make a wish for yourself. I always In this way, when you have a wish, when it comes true, you will be very happy, and you will be happier. You are so unhappy now, I... I... "
Before he finished speaking, Ding Yanshan suddenly stood up and turned to leave.
The bandit almost didn't slap his mouth when he saw it. People don't want to listen to so much talk. But besides fighting with his fists, what he loves the most is reasoning with people. He can't control his mouth.
He thought, and really slapped himself on the mouth.
At this time, Ding Yanshan turned around and came back, looking straight at her. The bandit wanted to whip himself even more, but the beauty was looking at him, so he quickly put his hands behind his back, raised his head and chest.
Seeing his foolish behavior, Ding Yanshan had a half-smile, and only said: "I also have a wish. It's a pity that I will never be able to achieve it."
"How could it be?" The bandit regained his spirit, "As long as you have a wish, it will come true one day. Just like me, I wanted to be a bandit, and I finally made it. I want to cultivate fertile fields on the Black Mountain , and at last there was a harvest. I wanted to bring the spring water from the mountain to the village, and finally it did. I wanted to... "
"I don't think all those things happened. I haven't been robbed, Xiaoyu is still alive, I'm still that unruly lady, my father is still at home, and my sister is still talking and laughing with me."
The bandit stayed there. Although he didn't understand these words, he could feel the strong sadness in her light tone. He opened his mouth, trying to persuade her and comfort her, but he couldn't speak. Ding Yanshan didn't intend to wait for him to speak at all, so she turned her head and left.
The bandit stood there dumbfounded, watching her disappear from behind. Even if he didn't understand what it meant, he knew that the wish she said was impossible to come true.
The bandit suddenly felt very distressed. What has she been through? What happened to her dad? What happened to her sister? Why does she have to go out alone, with no destination, nothing to do, just walking around
The bandit was in a mess, he felt that there were many things he wanted to say to Ding Yanshan, but he didn't know what to say. Looking up at the sky, he yelled "Oops", turned his head and ran home quickly.
When passing by Ding Yanshan who was walking alone, he yelled loudly: "Girl, I'll take a step first, it's time to cook for my father, if you make him hungry, he will curse." He shouted While running, he ran away in a blink of an eye.
Cook? Being scolded by dad
Ding Yanshan was stunned for a moment, seeing the bandits rushing away in a hurry, she couldn't help but want to laugh.
This is probably the most imposing bandit she has ever seen.
But soon she found that the bandit was not only lacking in momentum, but also a bit dumb. Because a few days later, she received a gift from the bandit - muddy grass in a broken earthen pot.
The broken pot was placed on her window sill, and he didn't leave a note, so when Ding Yanshan found the pot of grass, she was really stunned for a long time. Finally, Aunt Ding told her: "It was sent by Shanzi, and he said you will understand."
A pot of grass, she will understand
baffling.
Ding Yanshan stared at the lush green grass, wondering if bandits could tell the difference between grass and flowers.
"Manmei went to the county to deliver mountain goods, and Uncle Li also sent a cart of firewood. Shanzi saw it and helped them deliver it. When he comes back, you can ask him." Aunt Ding looked at Ding Yan Shan was at a loss for this pot of broken grass, so she told her.
Ding Yanshan nodded. But she didn't intend to ask, she planned to just throw the pot of grass back to the dumb bandit.
But until nightfall, the three people who went to the county did not come back.
Aunt Ding began to worry. Every time Manmei went to deliver goods, she would be able to return home in the afternoon. This time, Uncle Li and the bandits were there to protect her.
Ding Yanshan didn't know how to comfort her, so she had to stand with her at the entrance of the village and look out. All the families in the village got the news and hurriedly gathered at the entrance of the village with torches. Everyone speculated, some said that maybe the carriage broke down on the road, and some said that maybe Uncle Li met an acquaintance in the city and chatted a little more, but as time got later and later, everyone finally stopped talking .
The village chief brought people over, and told a few young strong men to rush to the county town to have a look, and told them to pay attention along the way, maybe something happened to Shanzi and the others that stopped them halfway.
The men complied, prepared the water bag and set off with the torch. At this time, someone shouted: "They are back, the carriage is back."
Everyone cheered up, turned their heads and looked, a carriage was galloping back, and there was a person sitting in front of the carriage, it was Uncle Li.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but when the carriage approached, they could clearly see Uncle Li's expression, which was anxious. Sister Ding Man sat curled up on the carriage, her clothes were torn, and her whole body was covered in mud and dirt, she was in a very embarrassing situation.
Aunt Ding was so frightened that she almost couldn't stop. She rushed forward and hugged her daughter.
Ding Manmei had been crying all the time, but when she saw her mother, she threw herself into her mother's arms and burst into tears.
All the villagers gathered around, and Uncle Li hurriedly said, "I'm going to deliver the firewood. Shanzi will help me unload the goods, and Manmei will deliver the goods. We'll pick her up after we've agreed. But I didn't expect Manmei to wait for me." When we were together, we ran into the son of the county lord. The beast was drunk and was molesting the eldest daughter all over the street. When Manmei found out, it was too late to run away and was surrounded by the beast's men. Manmei struggled and called for help At that time, Shanzi and I were arriving. Shanzi was so angry that he fought with them. But there were so many of them that there were more than a dozen of them rushing up. Shanzi told me to leave him alone and take Manmei away. I saw that at that time The situation was wrong, and there was no one around to help. Everyone was afraid of the county master, and they all ran away. I had no choice, so I took Manmei in the car and ran away. But they were still chasing us, so we went around After several circles, I dared to return to the village."
"Is there still a king's law?"
"Bastard!"
"Where is Shanzi now?"
"Fuck you guys, let's save Brother Shanzi."
Everyone was chattering, the village head waved his hand, and everyone quieted down. The village head said: "Ms. Ding, take my daughter back and have a good rest. Today is my daughter's wronged, but don't panic, our village It's just a family, and we will never let outsiders bully you. Uncle Li, you go back too, and don't go to the county again during this period, and the folks in the village will help you if you have anything to do."
The villagers on the side nodded vigorously.
"Er Gou, you brothers have always been closest to Shanzi. You have to calm down at this time, don't take your guys to the county town to make trouble, lest others know that our village has offended the county master? You go to the mountain first and see if Shanzi is right? I'm back, if not, come back and report a letter. Shanzi and his father will go to the county to find someone, and everyone else will go back and get the guys ready. The girls and daughters-in-law of each family should not go out these days. Men, pay attention. If there are strangers wandering around the village, report them."
The young man named Ergou took a few boys and hurried up the mountain. As bandits, they have a stronghold in Montenegro, which is actually the lair of the real bandits back then. When Shan Zi beat the bandits away, he regarded it as his second home and lived there from time to time. Now that he has offended the county master, in order not to cause trouble to the village, if he can get away, he will hide in the mountain if he thinks about it.
The villagers felt that what the village chief said was reasonable, and they all responded loudly, and went home to prepare.
Aunt Ding took Ding Manmei to the house, passing by Shanzi's father and thanking him repeatedly. The old man showed concern, but he also comforted their mother and daughter and said, "It's good that my daughter is fine. My son's skin is thick and fleshy, so it's okay."
Ding Yanshan went back with Aunt Ding and the others. To her, the county magistrate is just an inconspicuous little official, so unlike the villagers who are facing a big enemy, she is more concerned about the wronged sister Man and the bandit who has not been seen yet.
Back in the house, Manmei cried for a while, and finally calmed down. Now that she's back home, she doesn't feel so panicked. Ding Yanshan sat with her, not very good at comforting words, she could only accompany her.
After a while, a villager came to Ding's house to report that Ergou and the others had found Shanzi on the mountain. He knocked down the dog paws of those county lords and fled back. It's just that this incident caused a big deal, and it was inconvenient for him to go back to the village. The villager came to tell Aunt Ding not to worry.
Aunt Ding thanked her, and quickly took eggs and chickens from home, and she was going to take Manmei to Shanzi's house to thank her father. After the mother and daughter left, Ding Yanshan let out a sigh of relief and sat in the room in a daze.