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In the upper room of Mrs. Qin, the elders in the family were silent, and they often lowered their voices for a while and talked to each other for a word or two.

The atmosphere is indescribably depressing.

And in the west wing where the pepper lived, in the hall that was used as a study, the pepper brothers and sisters were also stunned for a while, and they had something to say in their hearts, but they couldn't speak.

Seriously speaking, Sichuan pepper has not talked with his brothers and sisters behind closed doors for some years.

Twisting his fingers and calculating carefully, last time, maybe he still didn't take in the little monk Shi, nor did he recognize Luo Ji Wenqi, let alone leave Fang Qingmai's Chenguang.

That Chenguang, their brothers and sisters are still at home.

Even if the eldest sister Dill came out of the cabinet later, there are not many Chenguang who really get along, but the elder sister Fennel is still at home, and the lobby brother has not gone out......

Unlike now, there are only nine brothers and sisters, and they can't be said to be lonely.

And that kind of Chenguang may never be there again.

It's a little embarrassing.

It's just that except for peppercorns, I'm afraid that there is no little boy or girl who still has the heart to speculate about these and not.

And thinking of the reason why their brothers and sisters got together like this, Hua Jiao couldn't help but sigh.

Before he finished sighing, he suddenly felt an itch in his nose, which penetrated through the halogen door.

Sichuan pepper Dengjue is not good.

Subconsciously squinted his eyes, and the hand that only took out the handkerchief was still hanging in mid-air, and he began to sneeze.

Sichuan pepper hurriedly covered his mouth and nose.

"Ahh Ahh Ahh

One after another, the pepper nodded his little head heavily, even his toes curled up, and he sneezed five or six times in one breath, and his voice was different, and there were a lot of tears, snot and saliva, and the two fleshy little hands were soaked.

The delicate little eyebrows also drooped, and the nose and eyes were even squeezed together, only to feel a dry pain in the nose, and the two suns were throbbing, and it was indescribably uncomfortable.

It also broke the peace of this room.

A room of sitting, standing or squatting, all of them seemed to be preoccupied, and the little girls and little boys came back to their senses in unison under the fright of pepper sneezing, and most of them still had two points of dazed look in their eyes.

Xiangye stared at her round eyes, and watched in a daze as the snot bubbles that spewed out of her nostrils burst from the peppercorns next to her, and she hurriedly took out her own handkerchief to wipe her face and hands.

Lilac didn't think about it, so she went straight to the bedroom next door to peppercorns, and took out a stack of fine paper one by one, and blew her nose one by one.

The sixth brother had already taken two steps, squatted in front of Hua Jiao, stretched out his hand to her forehead to try her body temperature, and carefully looked at her face, his clear eyes were full of worry: "What's wrong with Jiaojiao, is it a cold?" ”

Since fennel went out, although there are differences between men and women, the sixth brother, who has taken good care of Sichuan pepper, has put half of his life on his sister. Although relatively speaking, his feelings are more subtle than those of his sisters, and sometimes they are even so subtle that they can't be captured at all, but they follow him like a shadow.

The lobby brother was not at home, and the second cousin and the third cousin, who had already automatically assumed the responsibility of taking care of their younger siblings, also came over, looking at the red nose of the pepper still twitching and twitching, and the little brows were frowning tightly, the second cousin asked her: "Do you still want to sneeze?" ”

Huajiao shook his head, made a bitter face, and said angrily: "I want to call, but I can't fight!" ”

The third cousin brought a cup of warm boiled water: "Hurry up and drink saliva!" He said to the second cousin: "I'm afraid it's a real cold!" ”

The fourth cousin heard that he was about to go to Mrs. Qin to get the rare thing specially sent by Mrs. Li Li, saying that it was called snuff, and said: "That thing works, as long as you pick a little and put it in your nose, you can sneeze!" ”

"No need, Fourth Brother!" Sichuan pepper "grunted" twice, swallowed a large mouthful of warm boiled water, and hurriedly shouted to him: "I just have an itchy nose, snuff doesn't work, and I don't like snuff." ”

The point is, pepper probably knows that he really has a cold. It is estimated that it was a cold sweat in the second half of the day, but it was just a cold, and it was not worth making such a big move. Especially if the elders know, everyone should not stop, especially Qin Lao Niang and Luo Shi, I am afraid that they will not be able to sleep well at night.

The fifth cousin didn't think about it so much, but he also said kindly: "If you don't need it, you don't need it, that thing is sour and spicy, I don't like it, where can I stand that, I think it's better to eat two big bowls of hot ginger tea!" Wrap yourself in a quilt and cover it for a night at night, and keep Ming'er alive again. ”

In the early years, the health of peppercorns was not very good, and the family became frightened birds. Don't say that you don't dare to call her hot or cold, Rao doesn't dare to let her go out after dark, and he doesn't dare to ask her to eat well water on a hot day, and even if he speaks louder, he is afraid of bluffing her.

Until now, Sichuan pepper has felt that his big earlobes have been pinched by his brothers and sisters, especially fennel and bay leaves.

Until the past two years, the pepper has grown up, and the bones of the body have become stronger, and she has not even sneezed when she is idle, and the family will not be so nervous about her.

Just waiting for the idle people who don't sneeze so many times in a row today, the little girls and boys suddenly became alert, and the cloves were going to make ginger tea.

The small characters sitting in the station, although they have never said it, Rao is seventh cousin, and they are very impressed by the little pepper lying on the bed silently.

Huajiao took her hand: "No need, third sister, my mother will come back later, let my mother cook it for me, and sleep after drinking, so that the effect is good!" ”

The sixth brother also stopped her: "When the time comes, I'll cook, and the third sister won't be busy." ”

Lilac saw that both of their brothers and sisters said this, so they didn't insist, but together with Xiangye, they took the little cat-like peppercorns to wash their faces.

When I came back, the atmosphere in the room was more relaxed than before.

I saw that the fourth cousin was a little surprised and awe-inspiring, and said a little eagerly: "I really didn't expect that there are water bandits on the river!" ”

"There are bandits in the mountains, there are bandits in the water, this is a thing that has existed since ancient times, and there are ......" The second cousin looked at the fourth cousin with a childish face, and explained with a smile, only looking at the serious expressions of his younger brothers and sisters, in the end, he swallowed the words "people robbed officials" that had already reached his mouth, and continued: "Our Lianxi has solidified the people from the ancient city, and Chongtang has been stable for a long time under the governance of his uncle. However, in the outer realms, especially those in the poor mountains and bad waters, in addition to the scattered bandits of thirty or fifty or more than 100 people who are casually put together, there are not without bandits who are snobbish enough to dominate one place in history. ”

All the little boys and girls nodded in unison.

Indeed, there are examples of this in Rao's book.

But it opened a window for them, and they talked about this topic in a variety of ways, either documented or hearsay......

The seventh cousin, who had never been in contact with the sinister world before, listened intently to the words of his brothers, and couldn't help but worry: "Then the eldest brother walked on the Zhijiang River with the eldest brother Fang, didn't he fall into the bandits' den?" ”

Xiangye also nodded heavily: "Isn't it very dangerous!" ”

The fourth cousin said, "You don't know this!" Then he was quite complacent, and explained to them a little yearningly: "Big brother and Big Brother Fang have traveled these two times, whether it was by land or by water this time, the Fang family has entrusted the dart game." It is the Longsheng Dart Bureau in the provincial capital, and the noble surname of the family is Sheng, known as the invincible God Fist, and is a famous boxer in the north and south of the river. No matter what kind of gold and silver you have on the boat, as long as you have the little yellow flag of Sheng Sanye, you can keep you safe all the way. ”

The fifth cousin even added: "Not only will they not stop the robbery, but if they see it, some will take the initiative to escort them, and they will not turn back until they see you out of their land." ”

"Wow!" When the peppercorns, bay leaves, and the seventh cousin listened, they all whispered in unison.

It's like listening to a story.

Lilac was also the first time she heard about it, but she frowned: "But I know that there are bandits, why doesn't the government want to exterminate them!" ”

The fifth cousin pouted: "How can it be so easy." He also said: "Isn't there a saying, it's called the official bandit family." As he spoke, he looked left and right like a thief, and then said in a low voice: "It's like my uncle, the so-called 'virtuous people' in our Chongtang and even Lianxi City, but there is no one he doesn't know and hasn't dealt with." ”

When the second cousin heard this, he clenched his fist to his mouth and coughed.

The fifth cousin hurriedly smiled at the second cousin flatteringly, and said: "But this is also a matter of no way, the in-laws and uncles don't want to find a way to deter them and settle down, how can we have a stable life for the common people." ”

I didn't know that the second cousin didn't care about him, but Lilac didn't plan to spare him, so she raised her little chin and asked him: "Then you say, where is it not easy, why does the government dare not make efforts to exterminate the bandits!" ”

"Ugh!" The fifth cousin was stunned there.

Looking at the lilacs staring at him, as well as the three small ones with sparkling eyes, he scratched his head and looked at his second cousin as if asking for help.

It's not that he doesn't know, it's that he doesn't know if he can talk to his sisters.

This time, it was Lilac's turn to pout, and she followed the fifth cousin's gaze and looked at the second cousin.

"Second brother, our peppers are already ten years old, so don't treat us as children anymore, and even say that half is left in half." also said seriously: "It's really boring." ”

The second cousin couldn't cry or laugh, yes, he was still not a human inside and out.

But when you think about it again, there is really nothing to hide in such a common practice in the world.

After glancing at the third cousin, he told his younger brothers and sisters, especially the Lilac sisters and the seventh cousin: "I think there are probably two reasons for this." First, most of these bandits will pay tribute to the government on a regular basis, and when they receive silver, the government will of course turn a blind eye and tolerate it. For those local officials, the more bandits they exterminate, the more chaotic the people in their jurisdictions become, which often affects promotion. Therefore, instead of suppressing bandits, they will be more inclined to deceive their superiors and subordinates and whitewash the peace. ”

The third cousin couldn't stop bowing his head when he listened, and added: "Just like many places, even if a robber is caught, the government will be designated as a thief, and the case will be closed in a daze." ”

"That's it." The second cousin agreed.

It's just that this third reason, the collusion of officials and bandits, the second cousin still doesn't plan to say it.

As soon as the second cousin's voice fell, he hurriedly added: "What's more, there are some bandits, such as the canal all the way to the north, especially to the area near the capital and Haijin, because the land on both sides of the bank is too barren, a saline-alkali land, the particles are not harvested, and even the water they drink is salty, and most of the people, especially the men, go out to beg for a living, and those who stay at home, some of them have lived by robbery for several lifetimes." robbing the rich and helping the poor, but the reputation in the countryside is not bad. You say, "Where can this be reasonable?" ”

"Robbing the rich and giving to the poor?" Lilac frowned, and couldn't help but snort coldly: "They are also worthy!" ”

The fourth cousin smiled and said, "Don't the bandits say that they rob the rich and help the poor!" You think, robbing the poor can have a lot of oil and water, robbing the poor and then helping the rich, people are not rare, so they can only rob the rich to help the poor. ”

Everyone laughed.

Lilac said: "Anyway, those thieves, bandits, and thieves are not very good things." ”

The second cousin and the third cousin glanced at each other, and the pepper and the sixth brother also glanced at the cloves, but it was the first time that they knew that the cloves were so cynical.

The fifth cousin is already upright: "But I heard that there is another kind of bandit, called kidnappers, compared to those bandits, this is the most vicious and vicious bandits, relying on kidnapping the old man and young master of a large family to extort ill-gotten gains, I don't know how hateful!" ”

"Kidnapping? How is it tied? This time, Lilac's interest was completely mobilized by the fifth cousin.

"It's just tailgating, and the kidnappers don't have the courage to run to the door to kidnap them, usually they step on it first, find someone to watch, and then rob people, and ask for money to ransom people." The fifth cousin shook his shoulders and said.

The fourth cousin also said: "However, it is said that there are two rules that must be followed in black and white. The first can't tie up a woman, and the second can't tear up the ticket, I heard that Mo said that he tore the ticket, even if he doesn't have a nose or ears, it's not allowed in the industry. ”

These are all things they heard little by little when they followed Li Qi to study martial arts, Rao is pepper, and it was the first time they heard of it, and they felt Sen Sen's malice, and shuddered, secretly alert, and they must drink two bowls of ginger tea later.

I didn't expect that when Qin Lianbao and Luo came back, Hua Jiao and the sixth brother sent their brothers out - Xiangye and Lilac decided to sleep with Hua Jiao, so as not to kick the quilt at night.

Luo Ji beckoned her to go to the kitchen, scooped hot ginger tea from the stove in the corner of the wall and gave it to peppercorns, and said, "I heard you sneeze." ”

Sichuan pepper laughed, naturally appreciated, drank two large bowls of hot ginger tea, and got up twice in the night, but got up early the next morning, and sure enough, as the fifth cousin said, he was refreshed and alive.

But it was the other people's turn to have a headache.