It is said that on the evening of Laba, a group of people dressed as beggars entered the village, dyeing the originally festive Lijia Village with a sad color.

Situ Yan was busy in the stove room, and heard someone knocking on the courtyard door, Li Dalang went to open the courtyard door, the person who came was Xiao Yang'er, let people into the hall, Situ Yan brought a bowl of hot water from the stove room, and then listened to Xiao Yang'er's intention.

"Little Wu, my father asked me to come and tell your family, the people who served have come back, and the patriarch's grandson and Li Zhaocai are gone. Let you be careful, I'm afraid that the Cao family will make trouble. ”

Situ Yan was a little surprised, thinking about it, she also knew that these two people had never suffered hardship, and it was not accidental that something happened, but Li Dalang was stunned when he heard it, although they didn't like Li Zhaocai, but after all, this person had lived with them for more than 10 years, and if you want to say that there is no relationship at all, it is not that they have played together when they were children, but they only went further and further when they were older.

Li Dalang had tears in his eyes, he wanted to cry but was afraid that his little sister would misunderstand, but Situ Yan opened his mouth first, "Big brother can cry if he wants to, although this Li Zhaocai is not a good person, but after all, I have lived with you, don't hold it back and hurt yourself." After the words of the little sister, Li Dalang hid in the west room, but he didn't dare to cry loudly. Situ Yan asked Erlang and them to persuade them not to cry and hurt themselves.

"Thank you, Brother Little Yang'er, you go back and tell Uncle Wangfu, I have a few things in my heart, let him rest assured."

"Nacheng, I'll go back, I'll open the ancestral hall tomorrow at noon, and let Brother Da Lang and them arrive early."

Sending the little sheep out of the door, Situ Yan heard the crying sound from the village, sighed, and tightened the door, thinking that I was afraid that I would not be able to stop today. But I waited until Uncle Niu, Fourth Uncle and Brother Liangzi came to the door, but I didn't see Cao's trouble.

The three of them went home to wash up and have dinner before bringing their respective daughters-in-law and children over. Situ Yan invited everyone to the kang, and looked at the complexions of several people as if they were overworked and malnourished, so they seemed to be a little weak, and they were also very thin, but on the surface, they didn't see any hard injuries.

I boiled water with red dates, longan, and wolfberries for a few people, added red sugar, and drank it first, and I couldn't sit down in the hall.

"Girl! If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have been able to come back this time. Li Aniu wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve as he spoke, and he didn't want to shed tears in front of a room of children, but this time he was too tired, and he was a little scared when he thought about it.

"Yes, girl, you saved my family's life." Li Si also cried on the side.

Liangzi even knelt directly on the ground, and he had to kowtow to Situ Yan, but it was Da Lang who dragged him to persuade him.

"Living in this village, what is Brother Liangzi doing? Besides, I didn't help much, I was able to survive, it was the blessing of my uncle and brother, don't be like this, I'm still too young to bear this, and thank you, but it's my blessing. As soon as Situ Yan said this, the three of them stopped thinking about thanking. told Situ Yan about leaving the village in detail, and a room of people who listened gasped.

There are a total of three villages in Xinchang County this time, and when they arrived in the county, the village was also giving cakes to everyone, and everyone also got the letter, knowing that it was bought with the money that Li Shilang had injured him, and they all remembered this love in their hearts. At the beginning of the day, he rode an ox cart from the county to the place where he was serving, rested in the cart shop when he was good, and slept in the field when he was not in good time.

In winter, the ground is covered with snow and they have to sleep in the fields, and even if they light a fire, some people will suffer from frostbite, let alone sleep. Li Aniu got the straw mat made by Situ Yan, so he could barely sleep without being frozen.

From that day on, some villagers came to ask them how the straw mat was made, and they had to pay money to buy it from them. This is a life-saving thing, and no one will sell it. When they arrived at the place, they only had to eat two meals a day, and everyone had to dig a piece of soil to have dinner, and in the morning they would give some vegetable porridge, and the ground was so hard that they couldn't even pick up a pickaxe, and they couldn't even eat dry food for a day.

Situ Yan sighed secretly in her heart when she heard this, the old prisoners in the prison in her previous life were better off than these people, so she asked, "Then why didn't Li Zhaocai have it?" ”

Li Aniu then went on to say, Li Zhaocai has never done this job, although he has the help of his father Li Erzhu and his grandfather Li Daniu, but if he wants to be lazy, he will be beaten, and he can only do it. Sleeping in the wind-filled shack around at night is even more frozen.

It is also thanks to the fact that these people still have the cakes given by the village in their hands, and they can still hold on to the first half of the month, but the second half of the moon cakes are eaten, and the soil is not enough to dig, and they are hungry day by day, that is, Li Aniu, who also ate a health pill given by Situ Yan, and took money to make offerings to the military master, and this day is better, and he did not get sick until the end of the month.

Later, in Layue, except for him, Li Si and Liangzi, the rest of the people were sick, and the government looked at this is not a problem, and these people were not forbidden to eat at night, but all the moldy cakes were distributed, and Li Zhaocai and the patriarch's grandson died after eating moldy cakes.

Lijia Village is not bad, Li Aniu and a few of them found that their body was wrong, so they took the pill given by Situ Yan, although it also hurt for an hour, but after a while, the people eased up, and everyone took out a pill and crushed it with water, and fed a little bit to the people in the village, which lasted until dawn The government sent Lang Zhong to treat them.

It was also this Li Zhaocai and the patriarch's grandson who were delicate and delicate, so they didn't survive. Lang Zhong swallowed his breath when he came, and Li Daniu and Li Erzhu fainted at that time. The two of them couldn't even cry after being rescued and woke up, so they came back with the villagers in a faint state. It was Li Zhaocai's corpse, which was brought back by Li Aniu and Li Si.

In other villages, there were more people who died, and several of them froze to death, plus those who were sick and had eaten badly, and I don't know how many people were carried out in one night.

"Little Wu, I can't speak, but I really thank you. My body is not as good as Uncle Niu, I would have eaten all the health pills you gave, if Uncle Niu hadn't given me one, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to come back. Ryoko took his daughter-in-law's hand, and the more she spoke, the lower her voice became, and finally she hugged her and cried.

"Brother Liangzi, don't cry, my sister-in-law is still pregnant, you cry, she should be anxious, isn't it all safe to come back, just come back, this is in the future, let's make more money, and hand over the 'more endowment' next year, no one will suffer from that sin."

"If only it could be like that." Aunt Niu sighed, everyone knows that this is also a word of comfort, and no one takes it seriously.

"The days will always get better and better, uncles and aunts, don't sigh, this is back, just take care of your body, I still have some jujubes here, uncles take it back to cook porridge and put some, it is also good to replenish qi and blood." Situ Yan said as she wanted to get off the kang to get something.

"Xiao Wu, don't be busy, we came to thank you, if we take things from you again, what will happen to us!" When Li Si went home, he heard from his daughter-in-law that Situ Yan took a few of them to make shoe sewing dolls, and not only paid back the 100 wen she was given, but also made a lot of money. He can have a good New Year this winter, he is grateful to this six-year-old baby from the bottom of his heart, and when he heard that Situ Yan was still going to get them something, he hurriedly went to stop him.

"Fourth uncle, look at what you said, this is not a rare thing, it is all picked in the mountains, and I can't use it now. Don't be polite to me. Situ Yan didn't stop, and when he finished speaking, the person had already entered the east room.

"The girl is kind-hearted, and in the future, we will be more than one girl, and we will often take care of it. Give it to us! Li Aniu persuaded Li Si, and Li Si sat back again.

"Uncle Niu is right, there are no adults in our family, and we have to trouble your uncles and aunts in the future.

"You girl, knife mouth tofu heart, when didn't you help us, but you just said as if we helped you a lot." Aunt Niu took the paper bag handed by Situ Yan, hugged Situ Yan to the kang, and chatted for a while, Situ Yan persuaded them to go back early and rest, what do you have to say that the days will be long, and I am afraid that I will not have time to chat.

Several people were also sleepy, so they all said goodbye and left. Li Dalang insisted on practicing the words for two hours, and he stopped almost when he was near.

Situ Yan didn't dare to sleep, she was worried that this Cao family would come to make trouble, if it was okay to make trouble, I was afraid that this person would have no hope, and she had the intention of ending up together.

In fact, Situ Yan really thought too much, although Cao fainted sadly twice, she cared more about her own life, and she didn't have the courage to do something that didn't want to die. She wanted to make trouble, but she also knew that this matter had nothing to do with Situ Yan and Li Dalang, and if she had to rely on them, she would have to sum it up.

Li Erzhu's daughter-in-law fainted from the moment she saw Li Zhaocai's corpse and didn't wake up all night. Cao Shi looked at the second and third sons who were guarding him, and his tears couldn't stop flowing, "Why don't you look at the fortune, why don't you get more food for him, you look at his skinny, but if he stutters, he won't be able to hold on." ”

"Mother, can we not take care of Zhaocai? Most of the cakes issued by the village are given to Zhaocai by me and my third brother, but this stinky boy only knows how to eat, and can't work, what can I do. Li Erzhu was sad, and he was also angry in his heart, if it weren't for his mother's baby, Li Zhaocai wouldn't have done anything, and he wouldn't have enough to eat. Everyone gave money to the military master, and when they left, his mother didn't even give them a son.

"My eldest grandson! Poor thing! It's all to blame Li Dalang for a few stinky boys, and that cheap girl, if it weren't for their wealth, how would they suffer from this! Oh my God, how can I live! Cao's crying was sad, but Li Sanzhu had other thoughts in his heart, this time he looked at Li Aniu, Li Si and even Na Liangzi, but anyone who was close to that girl had a better life than them, and he also saw Li Si secretly stuffing money to the military master, Li Si's family still has a sick father, how can there be that spare money. So Cao's accusation, he didn't take it to heart at all.

Li Erzhu was sad for his son, his spirit was still a little trance, and he didn't have time to persuade his mother. It was Li Daniu who spoke, "Okay, the sons are not in good health, let the daughter-in-law cook more delicious food and make up for my grandfather." There is a village to attract wealth, isn't there an ancestral hall tomorrow, when you want to cry and make trouble, it's up to you. ”

Cao Shi collected his tears, took out a few eggs from the cabinet, and asked the third daughter-in-law to cook them and add vegetables to the grandfather. The night passed quietly in the joy and sorrow of the villagers.