At this time, Geng Jinyan said: "Sixth uncle, since the chief gave it to you, take it." After all, Geng Jinyan has lived with the traversers for more than ten days, and has a certain understanding of their style, knowing that these people are more realistic and don't like to play false, so he asked Geng Liu'an to accept the rice.

Hearing Geng Jinyan say this, Geng Liuan no longer shirked, took the rice bag, of course thanked him repeatedly, asked his son and daughter to take the rice and put it away, and once again told them to boil the water quickly, and let everyone drink a sip of hot water. And Geng Liu'an's heart has also settled down a lot, it seems that this group of people will not collect taxes from the village, otherwise they will not send rice to themselves.

And Li Songchen asked again: "How is the harvest in the field today?

After harvesting the rice, Geng Liu'an's attitude was obviously much more positive, and said: "How can it be good, this year is the first drought, but the drought in Tianjin is a little better, and there is a lot of river water here, spend more effort, and can cope with the past, but since May has not stopped, first the Boxers, and then the foreign ghosts and ghosts came in, from it is July and August, is the busiest time before the autumn harvest, watering water and fertilizer, a moment is indispensable, as a result, everyone went to hide from the foreign ghosts, and the result was that the field was delayed. We are back to the village early, so seize the time to get more fertilizer, but also a little more, this looks more than 20 days before the harvest can begin, if you don't come back now, it can be difficult to say, the yield must be at least halved, and it is possible to get only two or three percent. ”

Li Songchen nodded, thought about it again, and then said: "If you let other fields in your family grab it and put on some fertilizer, when it comes to harvesting, will you be able to harvest a little more?" ”

Geng Liu'an listened, and couldn't help but feel a little weak in his heart, in fact, just like Li Songchen said, when he grabbed his own land, he also robbed the Liu family and the Huang family of more than ten acres of land to some fertilizer, because these two families were killed, and he was not afraid that someone would come back, so when he harvested, he collected all these lands, so that he could harvest more this year, in fact, not only him, but everyone else also did this. Now when he heard Li Songchen ask, he could only say vaguely: "It's okay, it's okay." ”

Li Songchen saw it in his eyes, and he also had a bottom in his heart, so he didn't continue to ask any more, and asked some other questions, and Geng Liuan also replied one by one, which made Li Songchen very satisfied, this time it was indeed not in vain.

After asking about it, Li Songchen said again: "Fellow, can you take us to the field to have a look." ”

Geng Liuan hurriedly nodded and said, "Of course you can, let's go now." ”

Saying that, everyone got up one after another, but before they could get out of the house, they saw Geng Liu'an's youngest son running in from outside, and said: "Dad, second brother, go and have a look, the bolt and the iron pillar led the group of children to Xiaojie's house again, and at this time they were beating Xiaojie, and Cui'er was also scared and cried." ”

When Geng Liu'an heard this, he couldn't help but sigh again, and said, "Alas! This is really a sin!"

At this time, Geng Jinyan said: "Sixth uncle, what's going on, Bolt, Tiezhu and Xiaojie don't have any festivals in their family, why did they fight." ”

Geng Liu'an said: "The foreign ghosts came, the adults and tenants of Xiaojie's family were killed by foreigners, only Xiaojie and Cui'er, the two children, hid in the cellar and escaped death, but there were only two children left in the family." And the adults in the house of the bolt and the iron pillar were also killed by foreigners, and these two children gathered a group of children from some nearby villages, and there are a few you should recognize, and they are secretly robbing in this area, just to find a bite to eat. They didn't dare to go to other people's homes, only Xiaojie's family was two children, they came to rob it once two days ago, but they were driven away by a few of our neighbors, but they didn't expect it to come again now, alas, they are all hard-working children. ”

Li Songchen heard their conversation very clearly on the side, and roughly understood what was going on, and immediately said, "Let's go, let's go and have a look." ”

When Geng Liu'an heard this, he immediately led everyone out, and Luo Yue also called the soldiers who were resting in place to follow together, passing through several uninhabited houses and coming to a room. I saw that the door of the room was wide open, and in the main hall, several children were wrestling together, rolling on the ground, and there was a girl whining and crying on the side, and several children outside the room were scurrying in and out, rummaging through the boxes and cabinets looking for something. In the room, the chairs were overturned, and there were many broken bowls and cans on the floor.

Without waiting for Geng Liu'an to speak, Li Songchen said, "Platoon Commander Luo, quickly pull these children away and let them stop fighting." ”

When Luo Yue heard this, he immediately walked into the room in a few steps, and then he saw that there were four boys fighting, and the three boys were working together to beat a boy, and at this time he was pressing the boy to the ground, punching and kicking, and not scolding in his mouth. Luo Yue rushed over, grabbed the wrists of the two boys one by one, pulled them away from the beaten boys, and shouted at the same time, "Stop, don't fight again." ”

Another fighter also rushed over and grabbed the other boy, and the beaten boy was considered to be free, and the girl came over, crying, and the beaten boy was helped up.

The two boys who were caught by Luo Yue struggled hard, but how could they fight to get rid of Luo Yue, they couldn't even break free after a few struggles, and Luo Bing saw that the two children were not honest, their fingers were forceful, and the two boys were immediately pinched and screamed, so they were honest and didn't dare to break free again.

At the same time, the other soldiers also entered the house and restrained the other children one by one, only a few children who were close to the back door saw that the situation was not good, and ran away from the back door, and the squad leader Li Lixin and a soldier chased them out from the back door.

Only then did Li Songchen see clearly that these children were unkempt, ragged, dirty, skinny and skinny not much better than those called flowers, but the boy and girl who were beaten looked slightly better, although they were also thin, but they looked much cleaner, but the boy was beaten and his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and there were several places on his face, hands, and body that were bleeding. When Li Songchen saw it, he hurriedly called Gao Jun to take a look at the child and spray some hemostatic agents.

At this time, outside the door, Geng Liu'an asked Geng Jinyan quietly, "Yan Xiao, what will they do with these children?"

Geng Jinyan said: "Don't worry, the chiefs are good people and will not harm these children, they will bring these children to Tianjin City to raise them, and they will also teach them to read and write." ”

Geng Liuan was a little unconvinced: "There are still such good things?"

Geng Jinyan said: "Of course, after the leaders conquered Tianjin, they have already taken in more than 160 orphans, and they also plan to open a school in Tianjin to teach these orphans to read, and they are brought to Tianjin as well." ”

Geng Liu'an listened, then he was a little relieved, and said: "That's good, that's good, in fact, these children are not bad people, but there is no way, the adults are gone, this has no food or drink, how can you survive without stealing and robbing." But there is no way to go on like this, sooner or later they will become bandits, and the chiefs really want to raise them, but they have done a great thing. ”

Just as the two were talking, I saw Li Lixin walking back with one hand and a child in his hand, just like two dogs, and muttered: "Little rabbit, do you still want to run out of the palm of my hand?"

After entering the house, Li Lixin put down the two children, and at this time, the other children were restrained and honestly stood in a row against the wall. Li Lixin asked the two children he grabbed to stand with the others, a total of twelve children, two of them were girls, about twelve or thirteen years old, Li Lixin said viciously: "Give me honesty, if anyone dares to run, see if I don't clean you up." As he spoke, he waved his fist and made a gesture to hit someone.

The children were scared, some shivering, others crying.

Luo Yue said on the side: "Okay, okay, don't scare the children." ”

At this time, Geng Jinyan and Geng Liu'an walked into the house, and the boys and girls who were beaten saw it, and they all rushed over, one called "Sixth Uncle" and the other called "Sister Yanzi", they all cried, Geng Jinyan hugged the girl, turned her face to the children standing in a row, and said with a calm face: "Bolts, iron pillars......" and ordered a few children I knew, "What are you doing here, why do you want to bully Xiaojie and Cui'er." ”

The children named by Geng Jinyan all lowered their heads, not daring to make eye contact with Geng Jinyan's eyes, and after a while, one of the children cried and said, "Sister Yanzi, I'm hungry, I haven't called anything for two days." When he cried, the other children also cried, and they all told that they hadn't eaten for several days, which made Geng Jinyan's heart only sour, and she couldn't bear to scold them anymore.

The others were also very sad, and Geng Liuan sighed even more. When Luo Yue saw it, he took out a pack of compressed biscuits from his backpack, handed it to Gao Jun, and said, "Captain Gao, give this pack of biscuits to these children." ”

Gao Jun took the biscuits, first came to Geng Liu'an's side, and said, "Okay, okay, don't cry, let's eat something first." As he spoke, he tore open the bag, took out a biscuit, and handed it to Xiaojie.

Xiaojie took the biscuit, and instead of eating it, he gave it to the little girl first, and said, "Cui'er, you can eat it." ”

Cui'er was a little hesitant and didn't dare to pick it up, Geng Jinyan touched her head and said, "Eat, Xiaojie still has it." Cui'er reached out and took the biscuit and took a bite.

Gao Jundao also liked Xiaojie a little, handed him a biscuit, and said, "You love your sister very much." ”

Xiaojie took the biscuit and said, "She is not my concubine, she is my daughter-in-law." ”

Gao Jun's eyes widened, with a look of disbelief, he looked at the two of them and said, "How old are you, and you are already married?"

Geng Jinyan said on the side: "They are not married yet, Cui'er is Xiaojie's child daughter-in-law." ”

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