After the meal, Xiao Die'er called Ya Ya into the house and carefully admonished her.

It's nothing more than that you are an older sister, taking care of your younger brother, greeting your grandmother, and condolences to your aunt.

Ya Ya squinted and smiled, and couldn't help but complain softly.

"Mother, my grandmother and aunt have always been above the top, why do you and your father have to prepare so many things? ”

"You!"

Xiao Die'er nodded her daughter's head, "Do you arrange your elders like this?"

Bud Ya sticks out her tongue, no matter how you say it, her grandmother is also her mother's mother.

"However, your grandmother is indeed a snob, but she dislikes her, I honor mine, do my best, and live my own way. ”

Bud nodded and whispered.

The girl picked at her fingernails, looked up at her mother, wanted to say something, and swallowed it back.

After several times, Xiao Die'er couldn't help but smile and asked, "What do you want to say?" ”

The girl hesitated for a while, and said timidly: "Mother, Zhu, Aunt Zhu and Uncle Liang, it's true - the red apricot is out of the wall." ”

Hmm? It's not an inquiry, it's a certainty.

Xiao Die'er looked at Ya Ya with disgust, an unmarried girl, what do you care about these things?

Yaya was a little embarrassed to be looked at by her mother, so she lowered her voice and said softly, "I know." ”

"And you're still helping her?"

"I'm not helping her, I'm helping your third uncle. Your third uncle is the master of the village, if you let people sit down on this matter, where will he have the face to continue teaching? Your third uncle can't farm or hunt, if the private school can't continue, how will the family live in the future?"

Yaya's heart sank, and sure enough, her mother was much more thoughtful, she didn't think about the third uncle at all, nor did she think that Zhou Ajiao and Zhou Junchen would be affected.

"Gillian said that there are a lot fewer students in the private school......"

"It's okay. ”

Xiao Die'er patted her daughter's hand and comforted: "This is temporary, after a while, this matter will fade down, it will be fine, after all, in addition to the town, there is only your third uncle in eight villages." ”

Yaya nodded, looking at her mother with a little uneasiness. Her mother's comfort seemed to know something.

"Then, mother, I want you to help me watch Gillian, before, when Aunt Zhu wronged me for stealing hairpins, Gillian helped me not help her in front of everyone, I was afraid that Aunt Zhu would target her. ”

Zhu Qinglian will naturally not deal with Zhou Ajiao just because of this one reason.

Zhou Ajiao was originally a chess piece in her hand, in order to pave the way for her Zhou Fengling to carry a sedan chair.

"Don't worry, my mother has been watching it, Gillian and Junchen, my mother is watching. ”

Don't talk about the relationship with these two children over the years, just say that on that day, she and Zhou Mingzhi were not at the scene, it was Zhou Ajiao, Zhou Junchen and Zhou Xing who had been protecting the buds, she remembered.

Xiao Die'er smiled and groaned, I wish Qinglian to give her daughter a basin, and she also remembers this account!

It's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, just wait.

"Then, mother, can you handle the marriage between Gillian and Brother Junchen?"

Well?

"I wish my aunt such a person, I'm afraid that she will mess with mandarin ducks. ”

Xiao Die'er smiled and nodded her daughter's forehead, "You little brat, what are you worried about! Gillian and Junchen's marriage is also what you are worried about?"

"No, I'm just afraid, the third uncle is confused-"

"Stop," Xiao Die'er looked at her embarrassed girl and interrupted her in disgust. "Why do you say that about your third uncle?"

After a pause, the young woman's apricot eyes rolled slightly, "It is true that your third uncle is indeed confused. ”

If he wasn't confused, he wouldn't let Zhu Qinglian enter the door, and the third brother and sister Sun Xiaohe were still pregnant at that time.

Yaya covered her mouth and smiled, what her mother said, she couldn't say it.

"Alas, in the past few days when my mother is not here, you must have taken a good look at Gillian, I am afraid that Aunt Zhu will be restless——"

"Okay, but after going out for a few days, what are you talking about, like a little old lady. ”

Xiao Die'er glanced at her, "If you don't go out, Aunt Zhu will be safe?" Don't worry, my mother is watching." ”

Bud Ya grinned reassuringly.

After a while, Daddy and Amber finished plotting in the courtyard and walked in, naturally with another long instruction.

What grandmothers and aunts are not easy to get along with, but the juniors have to be patient, and they can't help but pee and, and Xiao Die'er can't cry or laugh when she listens.

The buds responded one by one, and opened the appearance of wanting to speak and stopping.

Xiao Die'er smiled and patted her, "Say!"

The girl spoke slowly and thoughtfully. "Daddy, I heard from Dr. Wei that our Great Zhou fought with Xirong on the border, and we were defeated. ”

"Oh, yes? Do you want to be conscripted?"

Zhou Mingzhi was stunned, there has been no war for many years, is it going to start chaos again? He is an adult man at home.

Yaya shook her head, "I didn't say anything about the conscription, I said that I would levy food." ”

In the big dream, this war ended quickly, and the imperial court did not recruit soldiers, but only asked the people for food and money three times before and after.

"Oh, that's good, I'm just an adult man in our family, if I go to the army, what will happen to your mother?"

Zhou Mingzhi sighed, he never had any other pursuits, and the hot kang head for his wife and children was the best.

At the end of last autumn, except for the food and public grain, the rest were collected by the grain store. ”

The farmer family relies on the harvest in the field for some money, and the family lives a life, although they grow and eat by themselves, but it is indispensable to spend some silver.

Zhou Mingzhi secretly calculated the silver in his heart, but fortunately, the bear sold a lot of silver and could buy some food.

"I went ahead to buy some food for later, and when everyone was going to buy it, it would be expensive. ”

Ya Ya nodded in response, and said thoughtfully: "I heard that the battle will not be finished for a while and a half, and there may be more than one grain collection, and even next year or the year after next." ”

"It's going to take so long?"

Ten miles and eight towns were as peaceful as ever, and it was hard for Zhou Zhizhi to imagine that there was a war somewhere on the border.

Yaya stubbornly said, "This is secret news from the capital, you can't tell others, for fear that people will panic and cause civil unrest." ”

What awaits everyone in the future is much more terrible than the war with Xijon!

It's just that the girl can't say.

Wei Wangchu naturally has a lot of connections in the capital, and his words are credible.

Zhou Zhizhi nodded innocently, but Xiao Die'er looked at the girl with a weak face thoughtfully.

"It's going to be the summer harvest soon, and there is also the autumn harvest, so it's better that we won't sell grain this year, and we'll keep it all in stock." ”

Zhou Zhizhi looked at his daughter funny, "Do you know how much land our family has? and your third uncle's family, our shed can't fit it." ”

Looking at the shed in the yard, the girl said softly, "The place where the grain is stored is too small, and there is no dark room. ”

As soon as the word dark room came out, Zhou Mingzhi didn't react, and Xiao Die'er's eyes were even more suspicious when she looked at her daughter.

"It's better for us to secretly dig a dark room under the shed, dig a little bigger, it's about two times bigger than the current shed. The exit is set up in the shed, and a boiler is covered on the exit, and when not in use, burn some firewood, and cover the ashes, so that nothing can be seen from the outside. ”

The girl simply told all the plans.

When the darkroom was almost finished, we lifted the shed and used the excavated soil to build a larger one. ”

There was a faint excitement on the girl's face, and Zhou Mingming wanted to refute, but was held down by Xiao Die'er.

"Demolishing old sheds while the farm is not working, which is very common in the village and does not attract the attention of others. ”

The more the girl talked, the more details she had, obviously thinking about it for a long time, Xiao Die'er looked at her daughter scrutinically.

Ya Ya was still unconscious, and suddenly looked at her father with a serious face and told her seriously.

"Daddy, dig the dark room, you have to dig secretly, and you must not let others know. ”

Zhou Mingzhi understood what his daughter meant, disagreed, and said loudly, "What kind of dark room to dig, isn't this the same as a cellar? ”

"How can a dark room be the same as a cellar? A dark room, the key is in the dark, that is, it is used to hide things from others. ”

"It's all our own food, why do we have to hide it? ”

Zhou Mingzhi is an elm pimple, and it doesn't make sense.

Ya Ya was anxious, and she was anxious to say something, but was interrupted by Xiao Die'er.

"Daddy, go and see if the door of the duck pen is open, why do I hear the duck running out?"

"Hmm, yes? I didn't hear that. ”

Zhou Zhizhi listened attentively, but he didn't hear any sound.

Xiao Die'er glanced at him with disgust, "You go and take a look, by the way, look at the chickens, pigs, the newly bought little pigs won't be bullied by the big pigs, right?"

Zhou Zhizhi can see that his wife is arranging for him to go out.

As soon as the man went out, Xiao Die'er turned her head and stared at her daughter.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

Bud Bud didn't know why, and looked innocent, "Hmm, what's going on?"

"Why did you tell your dad to dig a dark room?"

Xiao Die'er looked at her angrily, "Don't talk about the war, look at the expression of your weak heart just now, you deceived your father, you can't fool me." ”

Alas, it's hard to get a mother.

Yaya smiled embarrassedly, "Okay, I'll tell you, don't tell anyone." ”

After receiving an affirmative reply, the girl continued: "Doctor Wei's master, that is, the Mingkong Daoist, once made a divination, saying that in our Fushan Town in the next two or two years, or within two or three years, there will be major disasters, such as droughts, floods, locust plagues, and the like. ”

Xiao Die'er listened carefully and motioned for her to continue.

"Doctor Wei didn't say anything about this news, for fear of causing a riot, and besides, this was calculated by the Mingkong Dao people, and he didn't know whether it was true or not. It's just—"

The girl carefully observed her mother's face, "I thought, in case this is true, our family must hide some food, just in case." ”

Xiao Die'er looked at her daughter suspiciously. Looking at her sincerity, it didn't look like she was lying.

"As the book says, if the catastrophe really comes, it will be that many people will have no food to eat, and they will be forced to go up the mountain to become bandits, and there will be smashing and looting. If they knew that we had food at home, wouldn't they rob us? So, I thought of secretly building a dark room to hide some food. ”

Xiao Die'er pondered her daughter's words, and her face gradually became solemn, "Have the Mingkong Dao people ever calculated anything else in the past?

Bud Ya shook her head, "I don't know. ”

She made it up.

"I think it's better to believe it than to believe it! Daddy hunted a bear and sold a lot of silver, and our family didn't have any silver, as long as we had enough land to store grain, we didn't need to sell grain for silver, right? Just ask Daddy to spend some effort and secretly build a dark room. ”

Xiao Die'er felt that what her daughter said was also reasonable, but-

"Why can't you tell this prophecy to everyone so that everyone can be ready?"

Ya Ya scratched her head, "Even if you say it, no one may believe it, the Mingkong Dao people's medical skills are rumored to be good, but no one says that he is very good." ”

At the beginning, Master Liwen was not a national teacher, but only the Si Tianjian of the Imperial Court Hun Tian Supervision Yuan, who had already predicted seven or eight state affairs in the name of the stars.

When he predicted that there would be a earth dragon in the Dazhou River Mussel area, how many people didn't believe it, and less than one-tenth of them were willing to listen to him and move their families.

The ancestors took root here, and the people were reluctant to cut off their roots because of this unfounded prophecy.

Later, it was Master Wen who pressed the court with his life, so that the court used force to forcibly move the people.

At the beginning, before the earth dragon came, it caused public resentment to boil, and many violent incidents occurred.

Fortunately, Master Wen's prophecy came true, otherwise there might be some moths.

"Master Wen, is the current national teacher of our Great Zhou, when he predicted that the earth dragon would turn over, most people didn't believe it, and I don't know how much chaos and violence happened, if it wasn't for the later fulfillment, Master Wen's life may be gone. ”

If it is successful, it will be crowned a national teacher.

If you lose, you will go to hell.

Fortunately, he became, and became famous in the first battle, not only was he reused by the imperial court and named a national teacher, but also established a god-like status among the ordinary people of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Yaya looked at her mother cautiously.

"What if the Ming Kongdao people are not accurate in their calculations? He was already vague and unsure what kind of disaster it was, but if the disaster did not come by then, but caused a commotion and riot among the people, and some bloody accident occurred—what should we do? This rumor was spread by us, and the government could spare us?"

Xiao Die'er quietly looked at the girl who was talking.

Since when has her bud been so thoughtful in doing things?

She is just a 14-year-old girl, who should be an innocent age, looking forward to her future husband and looking forward to a beautiful emotional ......

"That's what you want?"

Yaya nodded, and shook her head again, "I also listened to what Dr. Wei said." ”

Without hesitation, he put the matter on Wei Wangchu's head.

Xiao Die'er thought for a while, so Wei Wangchu reminded them to build a dark room?

"You don't tell the truth to your father, are you afraid that your father will go out and talk nonsense?"

"My father, my father is upright, I'm afraid he won't understand the twists and turns in this......"

The girl's eyes rolled a few times, in case, he ran to ask Wei Wangchu again, it was not a goof.

As a person like Wei Wangchu, I don't know how to doubt myself.

"Also, Master Wen didn't come out of retreat after more than ten years of retreat because he predicted that the earth dragon would turn over, it was against the way of heaven, and his heart and lungs were severely damaged. ”

She didn't want to end up like him, and she didn't know how to retreat, so don't put your little life here.

Although it was a catastrophe, I have not heard how many people died.

Dr. Wei didn't let him tell others, because he was afraid that his master would also be implicated because of this. Xiao Die'er nodded, indicating understanding, but-

"It's just that if it's really a catastrophe that can be compared to the Earth Dragon's turnover, then, I don't know how many people will suffer, will many people die?"

Alas, Xiao Die'er is still a bodhisattva.

Yaya shook her head, when her family suffered, they would only fall into the well and see your jokes, it was really not worth her to pity anything.

Thunder means, only protect the people you want to protect.

The bodhisattva has a heart, and only loves the person he loves.