Chapter 41: Huzhuang's Cave Life (5)
No matter what the reason for the robbery, for Xiao Ju Niang and Xiao Ju, there is still a certain burden in their hearts. Xiao Ju Niang's burden comes from the rebuke of conscience, and Xiao Ju comes from the constraints of the education she received in her previous life for nearly twenty years, and neither of them can take it for granted.
So this dinner was very quiet and depressing. It's not like the Peach Blossom Family and the Hu Tianjia at all, everyone has a kind of excitement and hope on their faces. It may be that except for the days when Xiao Ju Niang was crazy in Huzhuang, she was hungry, and the rest of the time, because of Xiao Ju's cheating in the space food, the people in the family still ate three meals a day. What's more, because there is no farming, and the family does not owe any taxes or debts, so there is no feeling of being cornered.
After dinner, it was completely dark, and after Xiao Ju Niang lit the tung oil lamp in the cave, she said with a stern face: "Zhuang Zhuang, your sister and I are going out tonight for some business, you stay at home alone and wait for your mother and sister to come back, okay?" ”
In fact, Zhuang Zhuang has already guessed what his mother and sister are going to do tonight in the Q&A between Sister and Niang! I still vaguely hope that I can go with him, and then he can help the family get some food back. You must know that his strength is much greater than that of Hu Tian and Peach Blossom.
When Xiao Ju saw Zhuang Zhuang and heard that his mother wanted him to stay at home alone, his mouth was so pouting that he could hang several oil bottles. couldn't help but say a little funny: "Zhuangzhuang, do you know that there is no place to put oil bottles at home, so you pouted so high?" ”
"Sister, you stink me again! Hum! Zhuang Zhuang was already unhappy because he had to stay at home alone, but now he was teased by Xiaoju, and his face was even more stinky.
It's really a five-year-old kid, and he's angry! Xiao Ju no longer joked with him, but coaxed: "Zhuangzhuang, do you think it will be easy to keep you at home?" It's going to be a mess tonight, so you're going to stay at home to prevent someone from taking our things away! There's no place to cry then! ”
When Zhuang Zhuang heard Xiaoju say this, a flash of brilliance suddenly flashed in his eyes, it seemed that he wanted to go wrong, and thought that it was because he was too small to help, so his mother and sister let him stay at home, but it turned out that he left himself to take care of the family!
As soon as this person figured it out, his face immediately revealed a kind of excitement, and he straightened his small chest, and promised with a serious look of a little adult: "Sister, you and your mother go to do something, and the family will be handed over to me!" ”
Xiao Ju and Niang were both amused by Zhuangzhuang's cute appearance of the little adult, but looking outside the dark cave, thinking of the other two families who were waiting for them at Peach Blossom's house, they hurriedly told Zhuang Zhuang to stay at home alone and be careful, so they went out of the hole, locked the gate with a big lock, and then with that hazy moonlight, the two girls began to walk towards Peach Blossom's house one foot deep and one foot shallow.
The road down the mountain at night is really not easy to walk, fortunately, Xiaoju since meditating, her eyesight is different from ordinary people, under her leadership, she and her mother finally came to the door of Peach Blossom's house safe and sound.
Xiao Ju Niang knocked on the door gently, and the peach blossom girl, who had been waiting for her in the courtyard, quickly came over and opened the door and welcomed the two into the house.
As soon as Xiao Ju entered the hall, she found that the people of Hu Tian's family had already gathered here, and through the dim tung oil light, she could clearly see the excitement and expectation on everyone's faces. Xiao Ju stood silently beside her mother, holding two broken grain bags in her hands a little nervously.
Peach Blossom saw Xiaoju enter the house, suppressed the excitement in her heart, and stepped forward to pull Xiaoju. You must know that since the wheat field at home failed to harvest due to the wind, her heart has been in a panic.
This family is so poor that they don't have overnight food! She knows this better than anyone else, not to mention that this year's wheat seeds are still borrowed, and her father was captured by the hateful Japanese soldiers, and her grandmother is so old that she can't do any work at all! Her heart is ready to be sold by her mother for food, just like Sister Pear Blossom.
I didn't expect things to turn around! When the second uncle came to his mother and said: If you can't pay the grain tax, everyone will be forced to live! In the village, a person who helped Hu Fuhu do a short-term job said that the granary of Hu Fuhu's family was full of grain, and everyone listened to it and was ready to rob it!
After hearing this, Peach Blossom and her mother and grandmother were shocked at the time, they have been loyal and honest people all their lives, and their ancestors have accepted for generations the idea of being honest and filial. For the second uncle's thing of robbing other people's things, it is still unacceptable. Isn't this no different from the mountain bandits that everyone spurned before?
When the second uncle of Peach Blossom saw the expressions on the faces of his mother, sister-in-law, and niece, he also had a little clarity about the thoughts in the hearts of these people. Women are still women, when has this been, and still hold those old ideas that can neither be eaten nor used.
So he opened his mouth to persuade: "Isn't this forced by the world to live?" What's more, that Hu Fuhu is not a good person! In the past few years, the annual situation has not been good, and the annual rent has not been reduced! Since he is ruthless, then don't blame us for being unjust!
What's more, almost all the people in the village will be dispatched, and if we don't go then, it will be difficult to stay in the village in the future. And you can't open the pot at home, right? There are still so many taxes in kind owed, and when those puppet soldiers and Japanese soldiers come to the door, this will cost people's lives!
And robbing Hu Fuhu, anyway, the whole village has gone, what can Hu Fuhu do to us? In addition, I heard that Hu Fuhu was very rich, and the grain he put in Huzhuang's granary was not worth much to him. But for us, it is life-saving food.
As long as we can grab some grain and come back, we can survive for a while, and then find a way to plant this year's winter wheat, and when the winter wheat is harvested, we will survive this disaster year! ”
Peach Blossom heard that as long as she robbed Hu Fuhu, she could survive this time, which meant that the family didn't have to sell her. immediately opened his mouth and said: "Mother, anyway, the whole village is going, what are you afraid of?" Also, if Hu Fuhu is a good one, we don't need to rob it at all, we should automatically send some grain noodles to help the people in the village survive this famine! Hmph, the second uncle said it well, this person is not a good person! In this year's situation, he still has to collect rent, since he forced everyone to have no way to live, then he deserves to be robbed! ”
Peach Blossom Niang didn't make a sound, and she acquiesced to what Peach Blossom said. Only Grandma Peach Blossom sighed and said, "What a sin!" He didn't say anything more.
Seeing that everyone didn't speak again, Peach Blossom's second uncle knew that they all agreed in their hearts. They were especially told to prepare a few more food bags before leaving.
In fact, although Peach Blossom has no resistance to robbing Hu Fuhu, she is still very nervous. After all, it's the first time I've done something bad when I've grown so big, and it's still a bad thing, but to rob like a bandit! When I saw Xiaoju at this time, I naturally wanted to pull her so that I could get a kind of affirmation and support.
Xiao Ju let Peach Blossom pull her hand, in fact, she was also very nervous, she had never done such a criminal thing in two lives, how could she be calm?
Seeing that the three families had arrived, Peach Blossom Niang lowered her voice and said, "Let's go!" My second uncle said that everyone should gather at the wheat field in the village first! ”
Xiao Ju looked at the old and weak women in this room with a nervous expression, and suddenly felt uneasy in her heart! Can they rob others? Don't lose your life in vain!