Chapter 5 This mother has backbone

"Tut, tsk, Mrs. Luo, is the girl you bought back alive?"

Mrs. Luo didn't want to talk to them, but they were all from the same village, and she didn't want to offend them.

"Don't talk about bad luck, if something really happens, it won't affect the whole village. My daughter is blessed with great life, and if she survives a catastrophe, there will be future blessings."

"Yo, it's my daughter's call now." Another villager pursed his lips angrily.

"I bought it and raised it as a daughter. It's not like some people. They are human beings, but they don't do human affairs. I don't know if the Bodhisattva will bless them."

"Hmph, what's the use of saying that, no one will stop you from being a good person if you have money"

Mrs. Luo snorted coldly and ignored them. There was already a bullock cart waiting at the entrance of the village.

There was no one in the car at the moment, after Mrs. Luo helped Xi'er into the car, Xi'er turned around and pulled her into the car again. It looked like a mother and daughter who depended on each other for life.

"Old sister, where are you going?" The driver was an outsider, surnamed Ma, and Mrs. Bi Luo looked a little younger.

"county seat."

"It's very expensive to go to the county seat. It costs [-] Wen for one person, so I'll charge you [-] Wen for the two of you going back and forth."

The old lady Luo thanked her, and the old horse glanced at Luo Xier: "This girl is a lucky one, are you going to register her household registration?"

"Isn't it? If you don't do this quickly, I can't sleep. What if it gets stolen?"

The old horse took a puff of dry tobacco and nodded. After a while, a few more people came from the village, filling up the ox cart in an instant, all of them were going to the town.

After the old horse collected their money, the ox cart started. Mrs. Luo and Xi'er sat in a corner, and the mother and daughter didn't talk to the villagers.

But everyone in the car was looking at the mother and daughter.

Mrs. Luo has long been used to that kind of look, and Xi'er doesn't care. Compared with the Li family's insults, beatings, scolding, and abuse, this kind of look is not at all lethal.

The ox cart drove to the town, and the villagers got out of the cart. When the old horse parked the cart at the town sign and waited for work, Mrs. Luo got out of the cart and bought a few buns and returned to the cart.

"Girl, are you hungry?"

Xi'er shook her head, and Mrs. Luo stuffed the oilcloth bag into her hand.

"Then eat it when you're hungry. You hold the buns, they're still warm. It's good to warm your hands."

The old horse stood next to the bullock cart to solicit customers, "It's the county seat, I'm going to the county seat, there are still five seats, and one only costs 25 renminbi."

With a few voices, the bullock cart was soon full, and when they set off again, there were no villagers in the car, so Mrs. Luo spoke to Xi'er.

"After applying for household registration, let's go shopping in the city. Look at your hands. Buy a bottle of chilblain ointment from the pharmacy, then go to the cloth store to tear a piece of cloth, and then buy a pair of shoes for you. By the way, I will buy you some more. A rope for your hair, a little comb, a mirror"

Speaking of the mirror, Mrs. Luo looked worriedly at the scar on her face.

"I don't know if the scar on your face can be removed. Is that kind of medicine expensive? Let's ask the doctor when we get to the medical center."

"Mother, don't worry about this, I will buy it when Xi'er earns her own money in the future"

"How can it be, you are still young, you have to start scar removal from an early age, and it will be difficult to get rid of it when you grow up."

"That's not in a hurry. As soon as Xi'er's head injury heals, I'll find a way to make money. Don't worry, mother, Xi'er will not let mother suffer. Now that she has become her daughter, she must support her."

Old Madam Luo was moved again, she hugged Xi'er in her arms, and the circles of her eyes turned red unconsciously.

The people in the car were all moved by the little girl's words, and they looked at Xi'er softly and with kindness.

An hour later, Pingyuan County arrived, and the old horse confessed that he would stay here for an hour, that is, he would rush back after the meal, so that the mother and daughter should not forget to come back.

Mrs. Luo pulled Xi'er out of the car, and she pointed to the county seat: "This is the county seat, bigger than Huaishu Town, right?"

Luo Xi'er nodded, she looked around with curious eyes, this place is almost the same as the place she used to stay, all are antique buildings, and the clothes are similar.

Mrs. Luo knew that it was her first time entering the city, so she dragged her to walk slowly, wanting her to see her well.

The county seat is not too big, and the construction is not bad. There are also many pedestrians and vehicles on the road. The mother and daughter turned a corner and arrived at the county government office.

Perhaps it was Mrs. Luo who had been here before. Although she was a little nervous, she was not very scared.

After reporting to the yamen guard guarding the gate, I was allowed to enter inside. When I came to the place where the household registration is in charge, there were quite a lot of people. After waiting outside the gate for a while, seeing no one was there, the mother and daughter walked in cautiously. .

Seeing the official who was on duty, Mrs. Luo hurriedly bent over and saluted.

"My lord, the housewives are here to apply for household registration for my daughter."

The official took a look at Xi'er, "I only come to do it when I'm so old, could it be my own?"

"Yes, I just bought it. This is a bond of sale. Please remove my daughter's slave status from me."

"Are you from Li Village?"

"Yes Yes"

"Why didn't your village head come along?"

Mrs. Luo hurriedly took out a dime of silver from her cuff and put it on the side of the official messenger.

"We are outsiders, you know,"

The officials put away the money, "A tael of silver for the elimination of slave registration, and a tael of silver for household registration"

Granny Luo quickly opened the cloth bag from her pocket, took out several pieces of broken silver, and put it on the table.

The official took it in his hand and weighed it, then put it in the drawer under the table, then silently completed all the formalities, and returned the household registration book to Mrs. Luo.

She hurriedly saluted the officer, and walked out of the yamen with her daughter.

Once out of the Yamen, Mrs. Luo hurriedly patted her chest and said.

"Mother also came here out of courage, she was so nervous that she would die when she entered inside."

"Mother, why didn't you let the village chief bring us here?"

"The village head sees that my mother is lonely and alone, and usually bullies me a lot. I would rather give this money to the yamen servant than give it to him."

Luo Xi'er pursed her lips and said nothing more, this mother has a backbone, she likes it.

After the important things were done, Mrs. Luo was not in a hurry anymore. She took Xi'er to the nearest cloth shop, asked the shop owner to give him the lowest price, and happily tore two pieces of fine cotton cloth, and another two pieces of coarse cloth. Cotton cloth, and bought a pair of shoes for Xi'er, six red-headed strings, a small comb, and a small mirror.

The cloth shop in the county town is big, and it has everything in it, and you can basically buy everything you wear and use.

As soon as she came out of the cloth shop, Mrs. Luo touched the cloth bag in her arms, gritted her teeth in distress, and then took her to the pharmacy, where she bought a bottle of chilblain ointment for [-] Wen.

Thinking of the child's thin body, Mrs. Luo took her to the grain store again, gritted her teeth, and bought ten catties of white flour and five catties of ordinary white rice.

Passing by the butcher shop, I bought another knife of pork. These things almost used up all of Mrs. Luo's savings.

She sighed, and pulled Luo Xi'er back to the cart.

Xi'er took out the buns, "Mother, you are hungry, eat the buns."

Mrs. Luo only took one, "Mother is getting old, she will be full after eating one, and you will have the remaining three."

Luo Xi'er sighed in her heart, knowing that the old lady Luo was worried about money, and the money was probably used for her retirement. Now that she came here, the land was gone, and the money was almost spent. If there is no income, I am afraid that I will really starve in the future.

When she came here, she observed that there wasn't even a mountain around Li Village, and she could see a mountain shadow in the distance, but it was impossible to get there without a distance of a hundred miles.

(End of this chapter)

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