Xiao Manyun, who was disturbed by nightmares and didn't sleep well all night, woke up early in the morning, and it was like sweeping a layer of black under his eyelids. Because the beautiful little face is as white and greasy as porcelain, and the two compartments are lined with a lining, which makes people feel heartache when they look at it.

For the sake of the long-term planning of his body and bones, Zhou Manyun still fought hard and had a meeting with Zhu's mother in the yard as he did a few days ago. But as soon as she ate breakfast, her little yawns involuntarily popped up one after another.

Du Shi was amused by Man Yun's thirsty sleepiness, Zhu's mother squinted her eyes and squinted at her young lady, and took Man Yun in distress, hugged her side in her arms and coaxed her, wanting to let Man Yun sleep well again.

Zhu's mother is fat and powerful, and Man Yun can't break free like a big fish caught in a net.

"Mother!" , she screamed pitifully, as if begging for help, and looked at her mother who was close at hand.

Du Shi pretentiously covered his red lips that were bent over the crescent with a light red handkerchief, and twisted his face towards the wall. Only the red gold title bead phoenix hairpin that was obliquely inserted in the falling horse's bun was left, and he trembled and trembled in front of the round and smooth beads, laughing at Zhou Manyun's futility.

As a result, Zhou Manyun was still pressed by Mother Zhu's towering crest and thick arms, and her eyes were dark, not revealing any bright gaps, so she had to resign herself to half-closing her eyes.

Originally, Zhou Manyun just wanted to pretend and get up after dealing with Zhu's mother, but her five-year-old little body didn't cooperate at all, even if she felt that there was a noisy buzzing sound outside in the haze, she still fell asleep with Zhu's mother's soft body.

It was almost noon, Man Yun, who got up from the small bed, took a sip of warm water from the azure teacup brought by Xiao Man, shook his head vigorously, and only then did he clearly hear what his mother and Mother Zhu were talking about.

The fourth uncle, Zhou Tan, was kneeling in the courtyard outside, and the fourth uncle Min Shi, who pleaded for her husband in front of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Zhou, in the inner courtyard was also punished.

Originally, the Min family also wanted to kneel with her husband at the door of Mrs. Zhou's room in the inner courtyard, but she was persuaded by Aunt Bai and the concubines, and everyone also helped her ask Mrs. Zhou for mercy, and now the Min family is staying in her own room to reflect.

Zhou Tan will be punished by Mrs. Zhou to kneel, or because of that false Taoist priest.

Lie Yan left the Zhou family in the middle of the night last night, which is a good thing for people who don't like him very much, but the main Taoist priest is too unkind and too secretive.

The false words that slipped away did not alarm anyone, only a letter to Zhou Tan was left and placed on the table in the guest room of the outer courtyard.

The letter said that in the middle of the night, the little Taoist boy who was left in the old Junguan in Xiwan came to report that several of his friends in Xiwan were seriously ill, and the Taoist priest had to rush back to watch, and it was too late to say goodbye, and please forgive Yunyun.

Zhou Tan, who originally received the farewell letter, didn't feel that there was anything wrong, and the condition of the four children of the Zhou family was stable, and then he took medicine according to the prescription, that is. Since the Taoist priest was in a hurry, he also left a letter to say hello, and left.

What's more, in Zhou Tan's opinion, when the Taoist priest came to the Zhou family, he only took away a water map drawn by himself, and after calculation, the Zhou family should still owe the children's medical fees and a generous Cheng Yi, so they have to make up for it in a hurry. Therefore, when he saw the letter in the morning, Zhou Tan's first reaction was to ask the elders around him to bring money and goods to Lao Junguan in Saiwan to give gifts.

It's just that Zhou Tan didn't think about it, the news that the Taoist priest left in the middle of the night was spread to the inner courtyard before the people notified him.

When Zhou Tan was still thinking about how to talk back to his mother-in-law, Mrs. Zhou had directly asked her subordinates to take Zhou Tan to her upper room for training.

Mrs. Zhou was very angry that the Taoist priest could say goodbye without saying goodbye. Last night, when the Taoist priest received the letter, when he left, and how he left, the people in the outer courtyard were like an open fence to let them in and out, and Zhou Tan, who was in charge of the safety of the family, was unaware of it, and it was very derelict from top to bottom.

"That person is high and high, don't recruit a thief to come to the house!" , Mrs. Zhou's comment was refuted a little by Zhou Tan, who has always been honest, saying that he selfishly thought that Brother Dao was not the kind of villain who forgot his righteousness.

So, Zhou Tan, who was rarely fattened in front of his mother-in-law, was directly punished for kneeling down next to the door of the Weeping Flower Courtyard where the inner and outer courtyards were connected because of this disrespectful rebuttal.

"The fourth master has been kneeling for almost an hour, in this big sun! If you don't die of sunburn, you'll see hell! Zhu's mother was holding her uneven mouth and teeth in the room, and Du gently patted her fat hand.

In the small courtyard rented by the Zhou family, there are still a bunch of maids and wives waiting for them here, and the outer courtyard where Zhou Tan lives is small and loose, which really gives the Taoist priest the opportunity to leave. But the reasons are not all Zhou Tan's negligent management. If he wants to take care of it, someone has to let him take care of it, the Zhou family has scattered the servants and returned to the hometown, and the eldest grandmother Xie sent someone to Luojing to give gifts a few days ago, and asked the steward to take away a number of young and middle-aged male servants who could be used to watch the door and nursing home.

In the past two days, the manpower in the front yard was obviously insufficient, and Zhou Shen and Zhou Huai, the boys who were originally in serious condition and sent to the front yard for the Taoist priest to take care of nearby, were also moved back, saying that they had improved greatly, but in fact, it was also because there was no one to take care of them in the front yard, so that the only few mothers-in-law ran at both ends of the inner and outer courtyards, and they were really tired and panicked.

But what more reasons can be? The one who made the fourth uncle kneel under the sun was his mother-in-law. Zhou Manyun looked through the pane and looked at the sun outside that was rampant in midsummer, and lowered his head silently.

In his previous life, how ignorant and confused should he have been, so he thought about giving his child to another woman to raise. Even if the child and himself can survive at that time, if they can't even protect their own children like Aunt Bai, and they have to stand aside and praise the mother's punishment with a smiling face, then what's the point of giving birth to a child and suffering?

The hot and poisonous summer sun is shining, making people dizzy......

Sure enough, as Zhu's mother expected, after a while, there was a panicked cry in the courtyard, and Zhou Tan's fine skin and tender flesh couldn't resist the sun, and finally fainted.

"In recent years, Madame's temperament has become bigger and bigger!" , Listening to the sound, he slipped out for a walk, and casually made the effort to help Zhu's mother, who carried the fourth master Zhou Tan back to the house, and as soon as she came back, she couldn't help but smack her mouth, and said mysteriously about the message brought back from outside by the long entourage who went to Xiwan next to the fourth master.

"That Taoist priest is no longer in Xiwan Laojunguan. Zhou Changgui went there to inquire, but it turned out that no one was sick at all last night. In addition to the local fiber pulling, moving goods and begging for a living, there are more than 4,000 servants from the surrounding states who came to repair the river. This year, the weather in Pingzhou has been dry since May, but Binzhou in the north is even more miserable, and the rain has not fallen since March, and it is not as good as Fengjin on the riverside, and there are locusts in June......

When the servants of the river repaired heard that the situation in their hometown was anxious, they were originally extremely dissatisfied with the forced pulling of them from their hometown to do work in the busy agricultural season in the spring, and they were not allowed to go back after the March service was delayed for five months.

As a result, the response from the officials was to let them take advantage of the drought and shallow water to quickly clean up the riverbed and riverbank. The servants who took the lead did not listen and got on the bar, and as a result, the servants fought with the soldiers stationed at the river engineering station.

The croppers who did not have a proper way to beat the soldiers could not defeat the soldiers, lost two lives, seriously injured four or five, and slightly injured twenty or thirty people.

"That Taoist priest just got retribution, and rushed back to show the injuries to those who were injured!" , Zhu's mother said, carefully half-pushed open the red paint window, and looked down at the yard.

Although there was no one outside, she deliberately kept her voice down, "The river workers want to punish the sin of the servants, saying that they are going to cut off the heads of those leaders." As a result, I don't know why, the letter leaked, and those injured leaders ran away for more than half of the night last night, and even the Taoist priest who went to show them the injuries disappeared......

The people who have not yet been released from labor have run away, what else can they do, but they are just looking for a place in the mountains and forests to fall into the grass! After listening to Zhu's mother talk for a long time, Zhou Manyun began to faint with the little head that she had been holding with both hands, for Xu Ne, she didn't know much in her previous life, but according to the current situation, that is to say, the Taoist priest started to officially become a thief from here?

The story of the Taoist priest running away with the thief was soon learned by Mrs. Zhou, and the Zhou family was given a gag order from master to servant, from top to bottom, and was not allowed to mention that the Taoist priest had come to the house.

As for the fourth uncle Zhou Tan who suffered from heat stroke, he was even more miserable, lying on the bed in a daze, watching the old mother sent by Mrs. Zhou copy his residence thoroughly, and the one that was exactly the same as the water map taken by the Taoist priest was thrown into the brazier, which made Zhou Tan so distressed that his eyes almost popped out.

After turning on the lamp at night, the eldest grandmother Xie Shi specially went to Du's room on the order of Mrs. Zhou, and severely trained Du Shi, who was lying in bed to raise a fetus. This is already a preferential treatment for the Du family, and the other two concubines, who had been inviting the thief Taoist priest to come to the door, had been kneeling in Mrs. Zhou's room for two hours.

"Beware of the portal, beware of thieves!" Under the instructions of Mrs. Zhou, Zhou Tan supported his weak body and began to strictly guard the door of the Zhou family with the few remaining male servants.

The moon is dark and the stars are scarce, the air is dry, and just when Zhou Tan was carefully guarding against thieves in Fengjin County, Pingzhou, thousands of miles away, the servants of the Zhou family sent by the Xie family to Luojing to give gifts really met thieves......

On the Cangbi Mountain Post Road on the border of Pingzhou and Chenzhou, the Xie clan sent Zhou Ping, who went to Beijing, was under the escort of two dart masters, riding a horse and galloping in the direction of Luojing.

A few silver tickets were still on Zhou Ping's body, but several large boxes of treasures were thrown into the dark forest of Liuxi Gorge in Cangbi Mountain along with the bodies of other Zhou family servants and dart masters.

"Why did the post road, which has always been peaceful, come out of bandits? Good haode inn is occupied by thieves? Thursday Ping was puzzled, and so was the dart master who was protecting him. Listening to that group of strongmen claiming that they should be the bandits of Liangguan Mountain in Chenzhou, it is obvious that they have crossed the line now.

The dart master who escaped with Thursday Ping suggested going back to Pingzhou to report a message around the path, but was rejected by Thursday Ping, saying that he would rush to Luojing to save the old man, but in fact he was afraid that he would finally escape and turn back, and he was slaughtered by the mountain bandits.

"Fengjin County, Pingzhou?" In the gloomy woods of Liuxi Gorge, a bandit leader with a fleshy face and beard opened a box, looked at the bright yellow and white things, and read the name of the place that a servant who had just been killed said when he begged for mercy.

"Boss, Fengjin is a good place!" Seeing that the bandit boss was moved, several of his subordinates came over, "Tuojiang can go directly to Jiangnan from there, this Jiangbei disaster year, the grain and rice transferred from the south will definitely be in Fengjin!" ”。

The disaster year in Chenzhou has harmed not only the people who farm. There was no food to drink, and even the bandits that were originally entrenched in the mountains had to go south to eat. Robbing people's grain and rice, you don't have to worry about eating, but in a disaster year, only a transportation center like Fengjin can have money and silver, and you can't rob the official silver sent by the government with heavy troops, and it is not a problem to sweep a few rich grain merchants.

"Good! Brothers, disguise yourself as escapees, let's go to Fengjin! The bandit boss roared, arrogant.