The two handfuls of wheat seeds picked up on the ground were ground on the ground, and the dry food was burned in the iron pot that was half smashed, Wang Laozhuan pinched a hot hard bun in one hand and handed it to the two children, and then broke the remaining piece of dry food in half, threw more than half to the daughter-in-law who was sitting by the stove and wiped her tears, and said to the daughter-in-law in a muffled voice: "I beat you through the door to this day, and I haven't asked you to eat a few full meals!" Marrying into my old Wang family, is ....... It's a loss to you! ”

Holding half of the dry food thrown over by Wang Laozhuan, and then looking at the two children who were eating hard buns, Wang Laozhuan's daughter-in-law finally couldn't help the grief in her heart, covered her mouth and cried bitterly......

Poor small families, digging in the soil and relying on the sky to eat, can be exchanged for half hunger and half fullness after a year's hard work, and the life can be regarded as being able to survive. Catch up with God to open his eyes and enjoy a bumper harvest year, and exchange the extra grain in the field for a long-life lock piece with the size of a broad bean and a silver wire bracelet with a thick hemp rope, which is estimated to be a family heirloom for generations. If you really grit your teeth and tear the flower cloth to make a big jacket for your daughter-in-law, the ladies of a village can grit their silver teeth with envy behind their backs!

Seeing that the weather is not right this year, there is not much grain in the field at all, even if the daughter-in-law of Wang Laoshuan is careful to calculate, she only has the idea of exchanging wheat for miscellaneous grains and boiling porridge to fool around the next year. The two children in the family cried many times, wanting to eat a mouthful of dry food baked from the new wheat, and the daughter-in-law of Wang Laozhuan put her hand into the clean and dried wheat, but she still retracted her hand ruthlessly......

But before Wang Laozhuan took Yangjing's sun-dried wheat to Qingle County to change the grains, more than a dozen devils had already led a group of second devils to rush into the village. There is one family in the village of more than 30 households, whether it is wheat or other miscellaneous grains, all of them are snatched clean by those devils and the second devils. At the entrance of the village, two families hugged a bag of grain and wanted to run, but before they could run a hundred and ten paces away, the big gun in the devil's hand rang out. Wang Laozhuan watched as the bags of blood-stained grain were thrown onto the cart, and the back of his waist was dragged by his daughter-in-law, so he could only bow his head and throw down the wood-chopping axe that was already in his hand......

The grain was robbed, and the villagers who went out of the village to find relatives and ask for some food also returned to the village empty-handed with a sad face, only to bring back a desperate news - the villages in Qingle County were almost all looted by devils, and there was no food left!

There is no way to ask for help, and even the years of war and chaos, even if you go out to ask for food and escape from the famine, you are desperate. It was only two days of work, and there were already narrow-minded people in the village who set fire to their houses, and a family of three hanged themselves on the big tree at the entrance of the village. Seeing that there was no way to live, Wang Laozhuan could only turn his heart sideways, beckoning his daughter-in-law to grind noodles with two handfuls of wheat seeds picked up from the ground, but he sat next to the wheat straw stack that was scattered by the devil, and tied three straw marks with wheat straw with red eyes......

Almost about to pinch half of the dry food in his hand into powder, Wang Laozhuan scanned back and forth between the two ignorant sons and the crying daughter-in-law with a pair of red eyes, and opened his mouth several times, but he still couldn't say a word. Seeing that the two sons who had eaten up the dry food first were all staring at the half of the dry food in their hands, Wang Laozhuan had to harden his heart and close his eyes vigorously: "Tomorrow...... Let's go to Qingle County and find a way for you to live......"

With a pair of teary eyes open, the daughter-in-law of the Wang Lao family choked up and looked at the two children around her, and it took a long time for the old man to squeeze out a sentence from her throat: "Two children...... But you're only four or five years old...... There's no more Daddy...... Why don't you sell me? Give your grandfather some food to survive......."

Shaking his head heavily, Wang Lao replied in a sloppy voice: "In these chaotic years, if you can find a place to eat food, even if your ancestors accumulate virtue, who can take food out to buy people again......."

"But I can't bear to have children....... My father and mother are no longer around, and the child is bitter......."

"It's good to live these days, it's hard...... What is suffering? Where can you not be bitter......"

Unable to bear the sadness and helplessness in his heart, Wang Laozhuan clenched his fists with both hands, pounded his forehead vigorously, and finally couldn't help crying bitterly. And the two ignorant children saw their father and mother crying bitterly, and they all cried sharply!

In the bitter crying of a family of four, a deep voice suddenly came from outside the house of Wang Laoshuo's house: "Folks, don't cry yet!" Here's some food, take it first. After seven days, there is naturally a way to survive! ”

Surprised to stop crying, Wang Laozhuan suddenly stood up from the stove, picked up the axe for chopping wood next to the stove, and shouted outside the house in a dumb voice: "Who is outside?!" ”

It was as if he hadn't heard Wang Laozhuan's questioning at all, and the voice outside the house was still calm and abnormal: "Remember!" Seven days later, there is a way to live, and my heart is full of chaos! ”

With that calm and unusual sound, a coarse cloth bag that was not too big was thrown into the room through the half-open door, and soft footsteps sounded outside the room. Before Wang Laozhuan came back to his senses, a somewhat shrill voice had faintly come from the neighbor's yard not far away: "...... After seven days, there is a way to live! ”

Hesitantly putting down the wood-chopping axe in his hand, Wang Laozhuan walked to the pocket that had been thrown into the room, and bent down to pick up the bag that only weighed three or five catties. Just opened his pocket and took a look, Wang Laoshuan's eyes suddenly widened in surprise - there were actually clean and dried black beans in his pocket!

With a pair of tearful eyes, the daughter-in-law of Wang Laozhuan looked at Wang Laozhuan holding his pocket and was stunned on the spot, and couldn't help but stand up timidly, and asked in a trembling voice towards Wang Laozhuan: "Child, father, what's in this pocket?" ”

Tightening the mouth of the bag, Wang Lao Shuo hurriedly closed the door, and then whispered to his daughter-in-law: "It's food!" Black beans...... Just these black beans, mixed with some wild vegetables or something to make some thin soup, it is really enough for our family to live for seven days! ”

Surprised, her mouth grew, and the daughter-in-law of Wang's family exclaimed, "Is it really food?" What kind of immortal is this, knowing that our family can't survive, and comes to deliver this life-saving food to our family in the middle of the night? ”

Waving his hand to his daughter-in-law, Wang Laozhuan listened attentively to the movements of several watchdog dogs in the village when they saw the living people, and only whispered for a long time: "Not only our family, but also the families in the village who were robbed of food by devils have all got this life-saving food!" child, hurry up and find a place where you can hide things and hide the food well! I'll go out and see ......."

Seeing that Wang Laozhuan grabbed the wood-chopping axe in his palm again, the daughter-in-law of Wang Laozhuan was so anxious that she rushed to Wang Laoshuan's side with an arrow step, and hugged Wang Laozhuan's strong waist regardless of it: "Master, don't you go out...... This army is chaotic, the lights are blind, and the people who deliver food to us outside don't know where it came from, in case it is ....... How can you call us mothers to live?! ”

With a slight shake of his body, Wang Laozhuan easily broke free from his daughter-in-law's entanglement: "I don't go far, I just go to Wang Ergou's house next door to have a look!" ”

"Wang Ergou's house is the same as ours, the food has made the devil rob a fine light, what can you see when you go to his house?"

"Aren't those two dogs like to pick up a merchant to earn pocket money in the village when they are not farming? When he ran the farthest, he had been to Baoding Mansion to buy goods, and he should have seen some of the world! I just want to ask Ergouzi to see if he can know the origin of this person who doesn't show up in the middle of the night and delivers food from house to house? ”

To put it mildly, Wang Laozhuan finally coaxed his daughter-in-law to let him go out. Covered by the trees on both sides of the road in the village, Wang Laozhuan didn't walk a few steps, and was already standing outside the gate of Wang Ergou's house in the same village. Bent down and picked up a lump of dirt, Wang Laozhuan raised his hand and gently threw the lump to the roof of Wang Ergou's house, and then shouted in a low voice to the yard: "Ergouzi, I am Lao Zhuan, you come out and open the door!" ”

It was a little frightened, and as Wang Lao's voice fell, Wang Ergou's voice also sounded quickly in the house: "Yes...... Is it an old bolt? The family is asleep, what's the matter, let's talk about it tomorrow morning? ”

Listening to the small sound of moving objects in Wang Ergou's house, Wang Laozhuan couldn't help but raise his voice a little: "What are you going to sleep on?" Hurry up and open the door, I have something to ask you! ”

It seemed that he was afraid that Wang Lao's shouting would alarm more people, and after a moment of silence, Wang Ergou finally tiptoed out of his house, carefully opened the courtyard door, but blocked the courtyard gate and smiled at Wang Laozhuan and said: "Lao Zhuo, what ...... do you have on this big night?"

Looking at the thin Wang Ergou's dodgy appearance, Wang Laozhuan simply stretched out his hand and pushed Wang Ergou into the yard. Turning his hand to close the courtyard door, Wang Laozhuan pressed his voice and leaned in front of Wang Ergou and asked, "Your family also got it?" ”

"Got it...... What's in it? ”

"Give me the outfit back?! Grain! Someone threw some miscellaneous grains into my house just now, and I heard that there was movement in your yard, what else are you going to put on me? ”

"Old bolt, you also have food? Have you written down what the man who delivered the food said? ”

"Say that we can survive for seven days, and the family will have a way to live? Ergou, you carry the merchant to the village on weekdays, and you can be regarded as a person who has seen the world in the village, do you know what is the way of this person who delivers food in the middle of the night? ”

"Coming...... I can't say for sure! But I did hear about it......"

"What's the matter?"

"Just two days ago, the devil called a fire to burn it clean at the grain depot next to Qingle County. None of the devils guarding the granary escaped, all of them were burned to death in the granary! ”

"The! Deserved to die! But it's a pity that all the grain in the granary has been burned......"

"Who told you that the grain in the granary is burned? What was burned was an empty grain depot, and the grain depot was almost 100,000 catties of wheat, and it disappeared like this. I heard the people in Qingle County say that it was a strand of silk that came down from Tieping Mountain, and the wheat in the granary was carried out in an hour's effort, and the piggyback also tied up the ticket of the rich man who was close to the devil! It's strange to say that the devils in Qingle County saw the fire rising, so they led those two devils to chase after them, but they didn't see the figure of the locks! ”

"With a small 100,000 catties of grain, the small road must not be able to walk, and the big road is ..... Can you go fast? Besides, aren't there still devils' turrets stuck on the road? What kind of magic power does this strand evoke? Did you invite the Tuxing Sun in the god list to come up and escape from the ground? ”

"I don't understand that...... If I want to lose the small 100,000 catties of grain, it must be carried by the five ghosts! At present, there are ten miles and eight townships in Qingle County, and those who can have food in their hands to help us are estimated to be these characters who robbed the devil's grain depot. If you look at it by this number...... Seven days later, I'm afraid we can really have a way to live? ”

"Ergou, you mean...... Can these people really feed us? ”

"I figured I could do it! It's just that...... I'm afraid this meal is not for nothing......"