When the sun gradually rose, Li Yangqing, who was still in bed, turned over, nostalgic for the warmth on the bed, rolled up the coarse linen and thin quilt, got up and sat on the bed by willpower, squinted his eyes and groped his way out of bed, put on his clothes and combed his hair, and when the bed was made and the door was opened, the morning sun shone on his face, raised his hand to cover his eyes, and the spirit of the day was suddenly raised.

When I went into the kitchen to fetch water and wash, the light of the firewood in the flickering stove shone on Li Sun's face, and I smelled the aroma of food, which was very warm.

"Second sister-in-law, morning!"

"Yangqing, you got up, the third brother, Wen Dong, Cheng Gang, and Cheng Qiang got up early today, and followed my father and mother to the paddy field at home, saying that the rice was about to ripen, and the water in the field was released." Li Sun picked up a dry branch and broke it and stuffed it into the stove with a "click", and there was a "crackling" sound of dry wood burning.

"Second sister-in-law, I'll go feed the chickens some food and see if they work hard to lay eggs, hehe!"

After Li Yangqing finished speaking, he ran to the chicken coop in the grass shed, found some old and yellow vegetable leaves and threw them into the trough of the three chickens, the spirit of the old hen "clucked", the three chickens saw the vegetable leaves and hurriedly rushed to eat, touched the chicken nest with their hands, and was lucky today, picked up two eggs, Li Yangqing excitedly took the eggs to the kitchen.

"Second sister-in-law, look, I picked up two eggs today, and I'll feed the chickens some more water." Li Yangqing put the eggs in the basket and covered them, scooped a scoop of water and ran to the grass shed again, poured the water into the broken bowl next to the chicken coop, and couldn't help but stare at the chicken and said: "You have someone to serve you to eat and drink every day, but you have to lay a few more eggs!" ”

"Yangqing, what are you talking about to the chicken?" It turned out that Li Yangwu carried two buckets of water into the yard, there is a big well next to the ancestral hall of Lijia Village, which was raised by the village to raise money, and it has been many years, and the water in the village depends on this well, so Li Yangwu went to fetch water early in the morning, and he had to wait in line when it was late.

"Second brother, I didn't say anything." Li Yangqing lowered his head embarrassedly.

"Yangqing, go and call the people who are busy in the field to go home for dinner." Li Sun poked his head out of the kitchen door and shouted to Li Yangqing in the courtyard.

"Okay, second sister-in-law, I'll go now." Li Yangqing opened the courtyard door, walked along the village road, and walked in the direction of the family's three acres of paddy fields.

"Dad, mother, Wen Dong, Cheng Gang, Cheng Qiang, go home for dinner." Li Yangqing raised his hand and stood on the ground in the shape of a trumpet and shouted.

"Sister-in-law, you're here, we just caught tadpoles in the field to play!" Li Chenggang ran in front of a group of people, followed by Cheng Qiang and Wen Dong, Li Tingyuan and Li Yangming resisted the hoe hall, and several people walked towards home after meeting Li Yangqing.

"You're back, it's time to come inside and eat, the food is already on the table." Li Yangwu was sharpening bamboo skewers in the courtyard again.

"Second brother, you can rest too!"

"It's okay, little sister, take advantage of the time to cut more, anyway, let's use it, let's eat first." Li Yangwu put down the knife and bamboo in his hand, and surrounded Li Tingyuan and his wife into the hall, everyone picked up the bowl and drank the gruel, and the family ate it fragrantly.

"Bang bang bang, bang...... A hurried knock on the door kept ringing, Li Sun hurriedly put down the bowl in his hand, ran to the gate of the courtyard to open the door, only to see a young young student panting, red, sweat sliding down his forehead and wetting his sideburns, suddenly rushed into the courtyard and shouted: "Oh no, no, someone died, is Sister Wen Man here?" ”

"Who are you, may I ask you? Who's in trouble? Please make it clear. Old Man Li walked into the courtyard and looked at this strange young student and asked anxiously.

"Excuse me old man, your family, the kid is Wenwang, a native of Wenjia Village, Sister Wen Man's brother has been working as a helper in the landlord's house, the day before yesterday when he helped the landlord's family build a house, he fell from the roof, and his brain bleed on the spot, and he didn't wake up after he fainted, and Sister Guihua took a pair of children to the landlord's house to ask for an explanation, and was bitten back by the landlord and said that no one else had fallen, but Brother Wen Yuan fell, indicating that he had accidentally had an accident, cough ...... Ahem....... ”

Wen Wang ran all the way, his breath was still even, and he was a little anxious, "Quick, sit down and talk slowly, what's going on in the back?" Li Qiu moved a chair and put it at Wen Wang's feet, beckoning people to sit down.

"Xie, thank you, auntie, the landlord of the king even arranged that Brother Wen Yuan's body must have something wrong with his body to come to his house to work, he kindly agreed to let him work to earn money, now something happened is his own problem, out of the compensation of Keling to the orphan and widow of one or two silver, Aunt Osmanthus was not convinced, and shouted at the door of the landlord's house for a night, this morning was beaten by the subordinates of the landlord's house and thrown out, probably really angry, and then fell to the ground after hitting the pillar of the landlord's house, and the blood mark is still on the pillar! I heard that Aunt Osmanthus had yelled to death before hitting the pillar to become a ghost to find revenge on the landlord's family, so that their family was restless, and Brother Wen Yuan's family only had a sister who married into Lijia Village, so the kid went to your uncle's house to call Sister Wen Man to take care of the funeral, pity the two babies in their family, and their parents are gone, what can I do in the future? Wen Wang patted his thigh and sighed.

"This ...... What can I do? Hurry up and call the old guys back from town. Li Qiu's red eyes quietly wiped away tears.

"Woooooooooo......oo Uncle and aunt...... Whining....... Li Wenqiu has already cried into tears.

"Uncle...... Uncle....... Li Wendong couldn't say anything when he heard the bad news, so he could only hug his sister Li Wenqiu with red eyes and cry.

"I still saw my sister-in-law's two nephews last year, and now there are two poor children left in the family, hey!" Li Sun, as a woman, couldn't hear such a tragic thing the most, and thought that only two lonely children would be left in the future, so he became sad.

Listening to Wenwang's words, Old Man Li was quite calm, and hurriedly beckoned Li Yangming and Li Sun to come back to replace the boss who set up a stall in the town, and asked Li Yangming to take the boss to the government to report the case first.

Li Tingyuan ordered the matter, and followed Li Qiu, Li Yangwu, Li Wendong and Li Wenqiu to Wenjia Village, and the others waited at home for news.

"Dad, I'll go too, I can also help you run errands, there are many people and momentum." Li Yangqing wanted to go mainly because the landlord of the king was not easy to get along with when he heard it, to prevent the family from being impulsive, doing something, and ending up in a bad situation, and at the same time, he also wanted to understand the process of the matter in detail, and when he encountered something, he could also think of a way together.

Li Tingyuan thought that although Li Yangqing was small, he had a flexible and intelligent head, and he knew the head catcher and doctor in the town, so it didn't hurt to bring it, so he said, "That's okay, Yangqing will go with us." ”

The family followed behind Wen Wang, rushed to the direction of Wenjia Village, Wen and Li villages looked at each other across the river, and when they arrived at the river at the entrance of the village, they saw a middle-aged man with a trouser leg pulled up to his knees and a straw hat leaning on the side of a wooden boat.

After a group of people said hello, they hurriedly got on the boat and sat down, everyone was very anxious, and they arrived at the river beach on the opposite bank in a quarter of an hour, "Brother Dahe, thank you, we will return to Lijia Village in a while, and we will bother Brother Dahe to wait here for a while." ”

"Don't worry! Uncle. Wen Dahe nodded in agreement.

Several people strode all the way towards Wen Yuan's house, Wen Wang took everyone around, and the people of Wenjia Village who met on the road were all talking about Wen Yuan's family, and the people in the village heard Wen Wang say that it was someone from Lijia Village, and one by one they wanted to see the lively people, and followed the Li family to Wen Yuan's house.

"Uncle, look at the front of Brother Yuan's house." Wen Wang pointed to the house not far ahead.

Li Yangqing followed Wen Wang's hand and looked over a paddy field, and saw a courtyard surrounded by a fence, in which were three thatched houses piled up with earthen walls, and there were two or three plum trees in the yard.

When the group arrived in the courtyard, they saw two children wearing linen and filial piety kneeling in the courtyard, and the bones of Wen Yuan and his wife were spread out on a wooden board covered with a layer of straw mats. Everyone who entered the hospital burst into tears when they saw it, and they were moved by compassion.

"Wenshan, Wenshui, come here, the Li family is here." Wen Wang whispered to the two siblings who were kneeling with their heads bowed.

The two brothers and sisters raised their eyes that were already crying and swollen, and the two brothers and sisters, who were pale and haggard, stood tremblingly, probably kneeling for a long time and almost couldn't stand steadily, and were helped by Li Yangwu on the side.

"Thank you, Uncle Li." It was Wen Yuan's eldest son who spoke, thirteen-year-old Wen Shan, the poor boy was dressed in sackcloth, a sackcloth hat, grass shoes on his feet, and a straw rope around his waist, with a layer of grass ash on his forehead, a small face full of tears, a pair of red and swollen but somewhat stubborn eyes looked at the comer, and bent down to the Li family in the courtyard and said: "Let the Li family's grandparents, uncles, and aunts worry about it, the boy and sister are here to express their deep gratitude, and I hope that the elders will support justice for our family, and my brother and sister will definitely repay your great kindness in the future." As he spoke, he pulled his sister who was choking on the side to kneel down and kowtow, Li Tingyuan and Li Qiu hurriedly stepped forward to support the brother and sister.

"There is no need to make this big gift, your aunt went to the town to set up a stall today, I have already notified the family to call them back, and I will come to your house later, our Li family will help handle the funeral of your parents, and we will also go to the landlord's house to seek justice for you." Li Tingyuan promised.

"Thank you, Grandpa Li." It was Wen Yuan's youngest daughter, ten-year-old Wen Shui, who was talking to Wen Yuan's youngest daughter, a petite and thin little girl wearing an empty wide white shirt, a blue belt around her waist, a yellow flower on her head, and a pair of big eyes with hazy tears, and tears fell out of her eye sockets one by one like beads of broken thread.

Thinking of the early death of the parents of the two brothers and sisters, he took out the handkerchief in his sleeve and carefully wiped the little girl's eyes, pulled the little girl into his arms, touched the little girl's hair, and comforted softly: "Don't cry too much, be careful of hurting your eyes, we will make decisions for you." ”

"Shui'er girl, relax!" Li Yangqing stood aside and comforted him.

"Let's go, Wenshan, Wenshui, follow us to the king's landlord's house, let's see how they bully people, isn't there a king's law in the world? Trouble a few neighbors to help carry the bones of Wen Yuan and his wife, and go to the landlord's house to seek justice. Li Tingyuan clenched his fists and pleaded with the surrounding neighbors.

"Let's go, let's go to the king and landlord." Li Yangwu clenched the fists in his hand, took the lead and walked in the direction of the landlord's house, and after a while, the people around the courtyard disappeared cleanly, and followed the Li family to the door of the landlord's house.