Yang Ruoqing's words really frightened Erya.

The little girl's face turned pale, and she nervously grabbed the cold and hard steamed bun in her hand. She was too scared to speak.

Yang Ruoqing raised her hand and touched her head again, and said comfortingly: "As long as you are obedient and follow your master, you will not encounter any traps."

Erya nodded vigorously, and then whispered: "They all said that the Guanyin here can manifest spirits. Actually, I also want to pray for blessings. I ask the Bodhisattva to bless my father's legs to heal as soon as possible and to go to the ground as soon as possible..."

"But, I didn't have breakfast. I was hungry and didn't have the energy to climb the mountain..."

Yang Ruoqing smiled softly, "If you have this kind of heart, Lady Guanyin will feel it. This steamed bun is cold and can't be eaten anymore. Give it to my aunt, and she will buy you other delicious things later."

"Well, thank you, Auntie." Erya obediently put the bun into Yang Ruoqing's hand and sat down obediently.

Erya couldn't tell the name of the alley where her family lived now, but Yang Ruoqing was good at tempting and excluding some conspicuous restaurants, shops, and iconic objects near the alley, and finally targeted the county town.

The most dilapidated area is Dahuaishu Alley inside Chengxi Street.

As soon as the carriage arrived at the entrance of Dahuaishu Alley, Yang Ruoqing heard a woman shouting Erya's name hysterically outside.

"It's my mother!" Erya jumped up from her seat and reached out to lift the curtain.

Yang Ruoqing stopped her.

Erya blinked her big eyes and looked at Yang Ruoqing with some confusion.

Yang Ruoqing quietly lifted a corner of the curtain so that Erya could see Mo's anxious voice outside, but also so that Mo could not see everything in the carriage for the time being.

"Look, because you sneaked out, your mother is so anxious. If you can't go home even after dark and are taken away by bad guys, your mother will go crazy." Yang Ruoqing warned Erya again.

Please don't blame her for being an adult who repeatedly used this matter to frighten a child. In fact, Erya's behavior needs to be given a profound warning.

Otherwise, she will still lose her memory in the future, and a newborn calf will not be afraid of tigers and will run around everywhere.

Children are the heart and soul of parents and the core of a family. If the child is lost, the parents are empty, and the home no longer feels like home.

This kind of mistake should never happen once. If it happens once, it will be a devastating disaster for this family.

Erya stood in the carriage and looked at the street outside the carriage. His mother, Mo, with disheveled hair, stopped the passers-by like a madman and asked them about her. She raised her hand to indicate her height and appearance...

When encountering pedestrians with a milder temper, they will stop, shake their heads, and wave their hands.

When encountering someone with a bad temper, he would not only push Mr. Mo away, but also call him "crazy woman"!

When Mrs. Mo fell to the ground, she made a loud thud, which made Erya feel pain when she saw it. However, Mrs. Mo seemed to be completely unaware. She lay on the ground and looked at the hurried pace of passers-by on the street, still saying something in her mouth.

He murmured Erya's name.

She got up from the ground and continued walking forward crookedly, shouting "Erya..." as she walked.

Erya couldn't help it any longer, got under Yang Ruoqing's arm, jumped off the carriage, and ran towards Mo's side crying...

Erya was taken to the opposite room by her aunt. In this room, Gao Jing was lying on the bed half dead. There were two people sitting facing each other beside the bed, namely Mr. Mo and Yang Ruoqing.

Just now, Yang Ruoqing had told Mo and Gao Jing how she met Erya.

Both of them were so frightened that they finally calmed down a bit.

Mo wiped away her tears and said to Yang Ruoqing: "Erya's father was so injured that the two brothers-in-law couldn't get out of bed. I took care of them at home, and her aunt helped me take care of Erya's brother. It really took the blink of an eye."

Erya ran away and disappeared."

"If Erya's father hadn't asked me where Erya was earlier, and I didn't see anyone all morning, I probably wouldn't have realized she was missing..."

"Mrs. Luo, you are really our family's savior. Thank you for helping us bring Erya back!"

Mrs. Mo slid down from the stool and knelt down to kowtow to Yang Ruoqing.

Gao Jing was also struggling to kowtow to Yang Ruoqing on the bed. Yang Ruoqing raised her hand to stop Gao Jing: "Your leg is injured. It's not appropriate to move. Lie down and don't move around."

Then she came to Mr. Mo and pulled him up: "I have met Erya several times, which also shows that Erya and I are destined. Please don't give me such a big gift. The most important thing is to tell me what happened to your family.

It’s hard, why are the three Gao Jing brothers injured? When we went into the house earlier, we met Uncle Erya, and his uncle didn’t look too good either.”

His forehead was bruised and swollen, and it looked like he had kowtowed.

Mo sobbed and sat back on the stool, glanced at Gao Jing who was lying upright on the bed, sighed, and told what happened in a plaintive voice:

"Thanks to Mrs. Luo for your great kindness, you gave us blankets, food, and money to tide us over during the difficult times,"

"On the sixth day of the first lunar month, the child's father's legs have improved and he can go to the ground. With the money you gave Mrs. Luo, we moved to a small inn and rented a bunkhouse to settle down first."

"After staying in the inn for five or six days, the child's father and the child's uncle found work outside. The employer originally agreed that the wages would be settled on a day-to-day basis, twenty cents a day, and they would take care of a meal at noon and leave work in the evening.

Give me money when you are ready.”

"Wait a minute." Yang Ruoqing raised her hand to interrupt Mo's words.

"What kind of work does it cost twenty cents a day?" she asked.

Even if I was cleaning tables and chairs and washing pots and pans in a food stall, I would still earn thirty cents a day and take care of two meals.

If you are doing hard work such as transportation, fifty cents a day is the approximate market price in the county at the moment, and twenty cents is a bit outrageous.

Hearing Yang Ruoqing's question, Mo was a little confused and looked at Gao Jing.

Gao Jing exhaled a breath and said in a deep voice: "A large family named Zhang in the county said that they wanted to build a house and were short of stones, so they hired people to pull stones from the quarry on the west side of the county."

"Twenty a day, one meal at noon, wages are paid in person every day."

Yang Ruoqing frowned. She had been to the quarry in the county ten years ago because of her fourth uncle.

As a result, it was discovered that the people in the quarry were related to Pang Pang, a good person in Huguang County, and Pang Pang was a member of the Black Lotus Sect.

After that incident, the quarry went bankrupt and was later taken over by other businessmen. The other businessmen were related to Zuo Junmo and were doing serious business.

I'm going too far, now it's not about the quarry, but about the dispute between the Li family and Gao Jing.

"The Li family mainly needs stones to build their house. Ask Brother Gao to help them pull the stones. They will only give you twenty cents at the end of the day, right?" Yang Ruoqing asked Gao Jing.

Gao Jing nodded.

"You want to take such a low-wage job? Pulling rocks is the most tiring of manual jobs. It's similar to carrying big bags at the dock, but carrying big bags at the dock costs fifty or sixty cents a day!" Yang Ruoqing was puzzled.
Chapter completed!