Along the way, Dongfang Huajin took in 20 homeless children and teenagers, ranging from five to fifteen years old. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info over the age of twelve, there are thirteen, ten years old girls five. When I was in Fucheng, I deliberately stayed for another day, and through Yayu, I bought thirty-five able-bodied teenagers, from fifteen to thirty years old. Among them, there are three young couples.

In the county seat of Shuixian, I stayed for another day and bought twenty able-bodied teenagers, also from fifteen to thirty years old. In addition, five families were bought, a total of 35 people. Of the five families, there were twenty-three able-bodied people, five elderly people in their fifties, and the rest were children between the ages of three and ten.

Naturally, these people all signed a death contract.

It took ten days for Oriental Painting Brocade to screen out all those who had bad character or bad habits. Then, together with their families, they were sold far away through Yayu and sold to the Yucheng area. The geographical location of Cuizhu Bay, as well as the layout of its own house, can not let these people who are sold leak to any bad guys.

There are thirteen of these people in all. Those who stayed, in terms of character, don't see any problems for the time being. There were a few people who had some small shortcomings, and Dongfang Huajin and Ye Mao together beat them hard. If you are frightened, you will give up, no one is perfect, let alone a slave who has been bought, if the requirements are too high, it is unrealistic.

From the people who stayed, Dongfang Huajin and Ye Mao together selected fifty more people to form a guard. This team is a personal guard that completely belongs to its own family, and the captain is naturally Ye Mao. These people are all over the age of thirteen.

In addition, ten people between the ages of seven and twelve were selected to form an escort team, and his younger brother Jinzhi, who was only ten years old, became the captain of this escort team, and his younger sister Yunjin became the deputy captain. There are boys and girls in this convoy.

So far, these two teams have been training for more than ten days.

Since the day before yesterday, I have entered intensive training. Among them, there are thirteen people who have the talent to practice martial arts, and those who have a very good character, and are selected as personal guards. These thirteen people were taken out separately to open a small stove, carefully instructed, and the training intensity increased a lot. Of course, the food and drink are also a little better, every meal has meat to eat, and the rice is enough to ensure vigorous energy and good condition.

Oriental Painting Brocade is still on occasion, and will go to the villages of ten miles and eight towns to look for suitable candidates. Specifically, focus on those who have no place to live, or those who are oppressed so that they have no way to live, as well as those orphans. Naturally, these people must be people of good character, people who do not have big enemies.

So far, I have secretly been optimistic about some people, and I will wait for a while, and when the time is right, I will buy it. In the open space behind the house where chickens, ducks and geese are raised, additional houses are already being built, and it is planned to build two rows of ten dormitories. One dormitory for eight people.

And the carpenter's workshop, has been disbanded. Except for the five teenagers who volunteered to stay and sign the death deed, the rest of them all went home. Today, the carpenter's workshop has also built a row of five-room houses, and more than 50 people have been accommodated.

Today's Shui County, as well as the surrounding counties, including the Fucheng Yucheng, have basically reached saturation in demand for high-end furniture. And the most profitable ones are those high-end furniture, which are all furniture that needs to be carefully crafted. Ordinary people, especially those in rural areas, are reluctant to buy such good furniture, and most of them invite ordinary carpenters to imitate some low-cost furniture according to the style of the furniture store of the Oriental Painting Brocade Family.

In the furniture store of Oriental Painting Brocade, there are also low-grade furniture, but because of each batch of furniture, more than 30% of the furniture is a new style. When building, it should also be fine. So, in comparison, it's still slightly more expensive.

Dongfang Qi'an was very interested in the escort team, and he was in a hurry to return to the border pass, but he also put down his anxious emotions, listened to the persuasion of Dongfang Huajin, and planned to stay at home for twenty-five days according to the original plan.

A one-month vacation, four days back and forth on the road.

Of course, there is also reluctance to give up on his wife and children. Especially, the reluctance to his wife. As the wife of a soldier, Pu has suffered a lot over the years. Not to mention staying alone in the empty room for a long time, I have to be scared, and I often have nightmares that I dream that he is covered in blood.

This kind of suffering, this kind of loneliness, this kind of suffering, is not something that ordinary people can bear. That is, Pu is affectionate enough for her husband and loving enough for her children, otherwise, she may have remarried long ago. Pu looks very weak and easy to bully, but in his bones, there is still a strong one. Otherwise, he may not be able to hold on for a long time and will be boiled to death.

When she heard that her husband was going to stay at home for 25 days, Pu couldn't help but cry with joy.

has been married for more than 20 years, and the days that her husband has been with her have actually added up to no more than a year. Three years ago, my husband couldn't go home once in three years, and every time he came home, he had to leave in a hurry after staying for three days. Now I understand that it was all killed by Ma Chenggong, and her husband's family leave was intercepted by Ma Chenggong's rotten person. Originally, veterans who had been in the military for more than three years had half a month of family leave every two years.

Ye Mao was conceived when she was newly married, and the second brocade was conceived when she went to visit her husband at the border. At that time, she and the wives of several soldiers in the village brought clothes, shoes and socks made by themselves, and went to visit her husband together. In the village closest to Hukouling, the partnership rented a house to live in, and waited for her husband to come over for a reunion in the evening.

From Hukou Ridge to that village, it takes an hour to ride a horse. When they go to visit relatives like this, the barracks will give their husbands ten nights' leave. During these ten nights, they were allowed to reunite with their wives. Of course, it has to be when there is no war, and in case of war, a maximum of two nights' vacation will be given.

At night, lying in her husband's arms, Pu couldn't help crying.

Dongfang Qi'an came back, and Jinzhi was also called by Dongfang Huajin to live in the Sanjin courtyard, leaving the space of the second courtyard to his father and mother. The sound insulation effect of the house is still good, at least between the two courtyards, when in the house, as long as the speech is not loud, it is generally not audible.

That's why Pu dared to cry.

"Lady, I'm sorry for you for my husband. In the future, my husband must redouble my efforts, become a big official, and strive for the identity of a wife of the Decree for you, so that you can enjoy your happiness! Dongfang Qi'an hugged his wife tightly in his arms and said distressedly.

Pu buried his head in her husband's broad and warm chest, and cried: "I don't want to be glorious and rich, as long as you are single-minded, no matter what time it is, you will not take a concubine, and there will be no other woman!" ”

Dongfang Qi'an was hot all over, stroking his wife's increasingly smooth and delicate body, and promised emotionally: "Okay, I promise you, I will be with you in this life, and I will not have any pull with other women!" ”

"Xianggong ......" Pu's voice was soft and sweet, and he heard Dongfang Qi's body tingling for a while, and he turned over and pressed her under him......

At dawn, Dongfang Huajin had breakfast, took the back basket and the bow and crossbow, and prepared to go up the mountain to collect medicine and hunt.

The little baby Dongfang Zhiyuan's face was full of envy and longing, pulled the hem of her clothes, and begged: "Auntie, take me with you!" ”

Dongfang Huajin bent down and hugged him, and kissed his little face affectionately: "No, you are still young, the mountain is very dangerous!" When you grow up, your aunt will take you up the mountain again! ”

The voice is soft, the face is full of gentle smiles, but the attitude is very resolute.

"Okay, I got it." Zhiyuan wilted all of a sudden, looked listless, and muttered in his heart: Alas, the little baby is pitiful, there is no human rights!

Breaking his fingers in his heart, he counted and calculated, and couldn't help but sigh deeply: Alas, I am only so old, and I have to be too young to be considered to have grown up?

The little baby's heart was extremely depressed.

Dongfang Huajin couldn't bear it, and hurriedly took the initiative to promise: "When my aunt comes back, I will make a new villain book for you, and bring wild strawberries back for you to eat!" ”

"Wow, thank you, auntie!" When Xiao Bu heard this, he immediately smiled.

He is a snack and a lover of villain books.

The days went by, and it had been a month without a drop of rain. This is still in the early days of spring, which is really abnormal.

Dongfang Huajin proposed: "Grandpa the village chief, this can't be done, why don't you tell the people in the village to hurry up and buy some food?" ”

The village chief sighed: "Yes, I have to buy more food, alas, in fact, I have told the people in the village a long time ago, but many people don't listen." Even after listening, most people only bought hundreds of catties and stopped buying them. There are not many families who have bought enough rations for half a year, and there are only about a dozen households. ”

These dozen or so households are still very close to Ye Mao's family.

The village chief and the patriarch's family also bought enough rations for half a year.

In fact, according to the original proposal of Oriental Painting Brocade, it is hoped that people with good family backgrounds can buy enough rations for one or two years. Also, salt, oil and medicine should be prepared, enough for about two years.

Ye Mao naturally listened to his sister's words, and had already quietly bought enough grain, salt and vegetable oil for a hundred people to eat for two years. Several houses in the family have dug hidden tunnels, as well as cellars. There is enough place to store that grain. Even charcoal, I bought a lot. I also bought a lot of cotton and all kinds of dried fruits that are durable. A lot of medicines, especially those for treating wounds and preventing epidemics, have been prepared.

Not only that, Ye Mao also listened to the proposal of Dongfang Huajin and led people up the mountain to pick a lot of herbs. For example, the root of the blue, the thistle, the purple flower, the small firewood, the crane grass, the white root, the purple bead, the waterline grass and so on.

The village chief and the patriarch jointly gathered the villagers at the east end of the village, held a villagers' meeting, and called on everyone to sell more daily necessities such as grain, salt, oil, and medicine.

The people in the village were also afraid, and they no longer dared not listen, so they hurriedly went to the city in groups of three or five to sell grain. However, now the price of food has begun to rise, and it is at least 20% more expensive than in the past. Even so, everyone had to grit their teeth and buy enough for half a year, but they were extremely remorseful in their hearts.

Alas, if I had known this, I should have listened to the village chief in the first place.

Of course, there are still a few families who still don't take the words of the village chief and the patriarch seriously. Some are poor and don't want to "risk" to buy food at a high price; Some of them didn't go to the city at all, and even took the words of the village chief and the patriarch as a fart.

The village chief and the patriarch gathered under the big banyan tree at the east end of the village and looked up at the sky together, their faces full of sorrow. The school has been suspended, and now the situation is tense, whose children are responsible, so as not to have an accident, it is not good to be relied on.

The water level of the two wells in the village has been dropping, and it is estimated that it will not be long before they will dry up. The water level in the small river has not dropped much, after all, Cuizhuwan is in the upper reaches of the river. The source of this river is in the mountains, which are formed by the convergence of several mountain streams, and do not dry up so easily.

The village chief and the patriarch sighed again and again, and the village chief proposed: "It's not okay to go on like this, why don't you start queuing up to fetch water from tomorrow?" ”

The old patriarch nodded vigorously, his brows furrowed: "It has to be like this, otherwise, many families will not be able to use well water." Moreover, the amount of water pumped must be limited, and only one bucket of water can be fetched a day. Laundry, washing, bathing, having to go to the creek to fetch water, well water is only used for cooking and boiling water! ”

The water in the river, although clean, is certainly not as clean as the well water. The most important thing is that it is much fetched to fetch water from the creek, which is a quarter of an hour's walk from the village than to a well.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the well to dry up completely. The water level in the creek has also dropped a lot, at most it is only half of what it was normally for.

The weather seems to be much hotter all at once.

The atmosphere in the village was much more tense, and everyone except for the children under the age of five could not laugh happily. Even children under the age of five are much more well-behaved when they see adults like this.

There seems to be a low pressure in the sky above the village, and the atmosphere is very oppressive.

Some people silently packed up their salutes and went to distant places to join their relatives.

Some people, who really can't get by, even start selling their children.

The village chief and the patriarch couldn't stand it anymore and had to intervene to stop it.

However, these families, because they had not bought grain before, now want to buy it, but because of the soaring price of grain, they simply do not have the spare energy to buy it. Today, there are only a dozen catties of food left at home.

"Uncle, if you don't sell your children, the whole family will starve to death!" The child's mother sat down on the ground, beat the ground with her hands, and began to cry.

Both the village chief and the patriarch frowned, their faces full of boredom.

The child's mother's eyes suddenly lit up, and she hurriedly said to the village chief: "Uncle, isn't the Ye Mao family very rich?" Otherwise, it's okay, please help the uncle to talk about it, and our children will sell it to their family. I don't want much from the villagers in this township, 300 catties of grain for each boy, and 200 catties of grain for each girl, so it's okay! ”

The village chief rolled his eyes when he heard this, and scolded angrily: "That's it, don't you want much?" Do you know what the price of a pound of grain is today? Nowadays, a pound of grain, even if it is a bag of grain, costs a pound of silver! In the past, there were only ten copper plates, which is simply one day and one earth! Three hundred pounds of grain, that's three hundred taels of silver, do you think your son is made of gold? But he is only ten years old, he can't read a single big character, and he doesn't know martial arts, in this extraordinary period, Ye Mao's family is not crazy, what is the use of buying it? It's just a burden! ”

"That's right, it's just a fool's dream!"

"That's right, wishful thinking, ridiculous!"

"That's it, if you want to take advantage of Ye Mao's family, don't take a look, if people are easy to bully, are they stupid!"

Mocking laughter came and went.

This family was not a kind and diligent family in the first place, and its popularity in the village was not very good. At the beginning, the people in the village went to buy food en masse, and they were ridiculed by the family.

The child's mother begged Ye Mao's head again.

Ye Mao was a little hesitant, feeling that this family was indeed very pitiful, but remembering the various mutters in his ear in his ear these days, his sister Huajin became angry again, and flatly refused: "I'm sorry, there are enough people in my family, you think of other ways!" ”

The children of this family, both big and small, are not good children. Lazy and gluttonous, and there are a lot of ghost eyes, if you buy it yourself, maybe one day, it will bring disaster to your family.

The third sister is right, rotten good people, can't do it.

The village chief and the patriarch are very supportive, and there is one less person who is lazy and gluttonous, and has a bad character, so that the safety of Cuizhuwan will be a little more guaranteed.

If they don't fall into the well, they are already merciful enough!

However, there are people who make irresponsible remarks.

"Ye Mao, your family should have a lot of food, you can even pity the people from other villages and buy them. Why can't we take out a little food and help the people in our village? This is all an ancestor's, you can't really watch them starve to death, they will be thundered by the sky! ”

The person who said this, although he was not a bad person, had always been at odds with Ye Mao's grandfather. Therefore, I don't have a good impression of Ye Mao's family. Moreover, this man is over 60 years old, and relying on his old age and high seniority, he relies on the old and sells the old.

Ye Mao's face was flushed when he was asked, and he didn't know how to deal with it.

Oriental painting brocade jumped down from the treetops and landed in front of everyone in a very chic manner. She clasped her hands to her chest, glanced at the restless people sharply, and said with a mocking smile: "This very caring grandfather, your family should also have a lot of food, right?" Since you are so loving and compassionate, why don't you give 300 catties of food and buy her child? Or, you can carry forward your style and simply give her family a little food! ”

"I don't have much food in my family." The old man blushed and had a thick neck when he was asked, and under the disdainful gaze of everyone, he hurriedly fled in embarrassment.

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