Not to mention the others, who were unwilling to rob their wives and take away their food.

The people in the village twisted their strength into a rope like never before, and Shen Qingqing and the village chief gathered all the young and middle-aged people in the village, about forty or fifty people.

The village chief sat on the main seat, rubbing his palms against the crutches, and after a long while, he spoke: "I think everyone is familiar with the bandits, and we still have to come up with countermeasures." ”

Zhang Erhu first raised his arm: "Village chief, you say, if you have any orders, we will do it." ”

Lin Zhong stood at the back, but it was extremely conspicuous, and his voice was low: "Yes, village chief, just say what you have to say." ”

The village chief glanced at Shen Qingqing, and Shen Qingqing coughed and said: "The suggestion of me and the village chief is to divide the young and middle-aged people in our village into different teams, patrol them regularly in the morning, noon and evening, and quickly notify the people in the village if there is anything unusual. ”

Although she was a woman, her voice was gentle and firm, and her words were clear, and after a while, the villagers all understood.

At this time, there were no grudges, and several people formed a couple according to the good or bad relationship.

Then the village chief instructed them to be on duty every day, and this was not done until it was almost dark.

Shen Qingqing said a few more words to the village chief, and just walked to the door when he saw that Lin Zhong was also there.

These young men left earlier than her, so how could the forest wait for her here?

Lin Zhong saw that she was just scratching her head: "I'll send you home." ”

It's okay, Shen Qingqing looked left and right, it was dark and cold, the big guys were sleeping, and no one should see it.

When he walked halfway, Lin Zhong didn't know what he was thinking, his eyes looked ahead, and a kind of god that Shen Qingqing had never seen appeared before: "When did you say that the bandits are going to make trouble." ”

"I don't know." Shen Qingqing shook his head and watched.

Before, the lights of every house were on, although it was not lively, but it did not make people feel empty in their hearts, but now every house has closed its door, and even the lights are not on, and it looks like a ghost at a glance.

Shen Qingqing couldn't help but speak: "Although the people in the village didn't say it, everyone was very scared, I see, the village has not been so lively in the past two days." ”

"Yes, everyone is afraid, so you have to protect yourself." Lin Zhong sent Shen Qingqing to the door, but he just left this sentence, and left without turning his head.

Shen Qingqing closed the door and reached a table in the back, although the bandits came to this table for nothing, but there was a comfort in his heart, Xiao Douding had already climbed into bed and fell asleep, Shen Qingqing had already eaten one or two steamed buns and made a pot of charcoal fire and fell asleep.

The next day, Shen Qingqing got up and steamed several times more glutinous rice dumplings than before, and sent them all to the town, and told Zhen Qian about the bandits, so she didn't have to run to the town every day in the past two or three days, and it was a lot safer.

Shen Qingqing had just returned home, and before she had taken a sip of hot water, the eldest lady in the west of the village came.

That eldest lady has a very high rank in the village, everyone respects her, and she was not bad to Shen Qingqing before, but this eldest lady is not good by nature, how can she come to her house today?

Shen Qingqing thought in her heart and hurriedly greeted her: "Alas, auntie, why are you here today?" ”

"Qingqing......" The eldest lady sat down, patted Shen Qingqing's palm and looked left and right, with sincere admiration in her eyes. Yes, yes, I didn't expect you to be able to clean up the house so well as a woman. ”

Shen Qingqing smiled and looked at the eldest lady again, this eldest lady looked extremely white, but her eyes were a little red and swollen, as if she had cried.

Shen Qingqing couldn't help but ask, "Is there anything difficult in this big lady's family?" ”

When the eldest lady was about to speak, she heard another shout in the courtyard: "Is the Qingqing girl at home?" ”

This sound is very crisp.

Shen Qingqing opened the door and saw that the new daughter-in-law in the village was also standing in the courtyard.

The new daughter-in-law was dressed in red, but her face was not very festive.

The new daughter-in-law saw that the eldest mother was also here and hurriedly greeted: "Auntie, you have to come over to visit the door today?" ”

So in this way, the three women sat down around the charcoal fire, although the words were commonplace, but Shen Qingqing always felt that the two people in front of him were absent-minded.

After a few words, Shen Qingqing couldn't help but say directly: "Both, if you come to me for something, just say it, if I can help a little, don't feel a little embarrassed." ”

Hearing Shen Qingqing say this, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief and looked at each other.

The eldest lady touched her wooden hairpin: "Qingqing, I won't tell you, I came here today to borrow food from your house." ”

"I also borrowed food." The new daughter-in-law lowered her head and smiled shyly.

Shen Qingqing was puzzled: "This borrowing grain is borrowing food, why are the two of them still spitting out?" ”

As he spoke, he stood up and wanted to go to the kitchen to scoop rice for them, but he didn't expect the eldest lady to pull his hand directly, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said directly: "Qingqing, the grain I borrowed is not a star and a half, but a small half bag." I thought that it would be difficult for you to take out the food, so I kept thinking about whether to open my mouth. ”

Shen Qingqing glanced at the new daughter-in-law again, and it seemed that the new daughter-in-law had the same idea.

Now these years are not to mention having fun, even living is so hard.

Shen Qingqing didn't want to embarrass them: "I still have three big bags of grain here, and I have to keep some surplus grain myself, otherwise how about one person lend you half a bag?" ”

One = After speaking, the daughter-in-law stood up directly, holding Shen Qingqing's hand as if she had seen a life-saving benefactor, and actually cried: "Qingqing, don't you know that our family has not eaten food for several days, it is better to blame that the pipeline has been blocked by snow this year, and now there are bandits again, and the surplus food of every family is not enough." ”

"Qingqing, you are really a charcoal in the snow, I thank you......"

The new daughter-in-law said that she couldn't wait to kneel down for Shen Qingqing.

Shen Qingqing couldn't stand such a big gift, so he hurriedly comforted them a few words, and gave the two of them half a bag of rice each, and these two people were willing to leave only after a thousand thanks.

After sending the two of them away, Shen Qingqing sat in the room but didn't know what he had in mind.

I don't know when the day will come to an end, but a gust of wind blows, and the snow on the ground makes people feel a little colder.

But at the end of this year, the saddest thing is that Mrs. Liu, her baby's grandson Dabao has been taken away by the beast, and now there is no news for half a month, most of them are dead, so Mrs. Liu has been depressed for a long time, and even the house did not set off firecrackers during the New Year, and the black door was standing, which made people feel pitiful.

There was really no food to eat at home, so Mrs. Liu cheered up, picked up the basket and prepared to go to the mountains to dig some wild vegetables, but when she passed by the door of Shen Qingqing's house, her whole expression was stunned.

I saw Xiao Douding holding cabbage in his hand, squatting down to feed the rabbit in the cage.

Xiaodouding gained a lot of weight, and the meat on his face was like a marshmallow when he laughed, not to mention how cute it was, but it was this laughter that aroused the sadness in Mrs. Liu's mind.

She remembered the grievances between the two families at the beginning, and Mrs. Liu couldn't help but put down her back basket, walked in front of Xiao Douding, and grabbed his collar directly: "Okay, you are a little thing, did you kill my big treasure?" ”

Little Bean Ding didn't know what was going on, and the cabbage leaves in his hand fell off.

And that Mrs. Liu had already gone mad, and she was bent on venting all her resentment on Xiao Douding's body, so she pinched his arm: "My grandson died so miserably, why are you still alive?" Why wasn't it you who died? It's you who deserve to die, and one of your widows. ”

"Mother, help, help!" Xiao Douding was obviously frightened, and just howled loudly.

He had just howled twice, and Xiao Hei ran back from the yard and shouted loudly at Mrs. Liu.

Mrs. Liu was startled by this vicious dog and retreated back, but when she saw Xiao Douding, it was like seeing some enemy. While avoiding the dog, he pinched Xiao Douding's body: "It's you who should die, you are the one who was damned by God and killed us all, and one of your unfortunate widows." ”

Xiao Douding was so frightened that he could only keep shouting: "Mother...... Come and save me...... Mother, come and save me. ”

Shen Qingqing was cooking in the kitchen, and when he heard the scream, he threw the knife on the ground and ran out.

"Okay, you Mrs. Liu, why do you want to beat Xiaodouding?"

Mrs. Liu didn't know how long it had been since she had washed her face, all of them were oily and stained, and her hair was messy like dry grass, except for a pair of eyes that were bulging like skulls: "I just want to beat him and yourself as a widow." You two things can't die well, why are we the treasure of our family who die. ”

"Our family's big treasure is so cute, what evil things he has done, it should be your family's Shen Hao who died."

This person is completely unreasonable, Shen Qingqing didn't say so much, he pounced directly in front of Mrs. Liu with the strength of the dog, and kept beating her with a stick in his hand: "Dabao is dead, he deserves to die, what did our little bean Ding do wrong!" ”