After a few more days, the snow finally stopped, and perhaps God heard the prayers of the lower classes.

Liu Bicao wrapped the thick cotton clothes she was wearing before opening the door, a cold air came to her nose, walked quickly to the kitchen, and turned on the fire in the stove, only then did she feel warmer.

While boiling hot water while steaming the remaining steamed buns from last night, as soon as these were done, Shen Jinqian and the three of them came in.

"I've boiled hot water, you guys scoop it up and wash your face." Liu Bicao quickly picked up the steamed buns, put them in the sea bowl, and beat two or three eggs to make a soup.

Taking advantage of the time for the three of them to eat, he babbled a lot of things: "Although the snow has stopped, but the road is still slippery, you go out carefully, and you are not in a hurry to come back, if you can't come back at noon, you will have lunch in the town and come back, as well as Bo'an and Jinxin, you two must listen to your eldest brother, you can't come nonsense, do you hear?" ”

Shen Jinxin was busy eating, so he didn't say yes, but Liu Bicao said a word and nodded, which made people look funny.

Shen Jinqian frowned and knocked on the table: "Did you hear what your sister-in-law told you?" Speak. ”

In view of Shen Jinqian's prestige on weekdays, Shen Jinxin didn't dare to make a mistake, swallowed the steamed bun in his mouth, and replied in a proper manner: "I know, sister-in-law, don't worry." ”

Liu Bicao turned her head to look at Liu Boan again, and Liu Boan didn't dare to take it lightly and nodded hurriedly and said that he remembered it.

In this way, the two of them were spared, and when the three of them had a good meal, Liu Bicao sent the three of them out, watching the backs of the three gradually disappear in the dark night, and then returned to the room, but the worry in his heart became heavier and heavier.

The three of them went in the direction of the town in the night, and there was snow on the road, and they didn't dare to go too fast, so they were used to walking this road.

"You're going to town?" Halfway through the break, I met hunters who were hunting in the mountains.

"Yes, you're going hunting in the mountains?" Shen Jinqian saw that he was carrying hunting tools on his back, so he asked.

Orion nodded: "Our hunters on the mountain have no farmland to cultivate, and they usually make a living by hunting and exchanging food with the villagers under the mountain. ”

"Now the town is very different from the past, and the three little brothers should not go if there is nothing important." After Orion finished speaking, he carried his belongings and left, leaving the three of them standing in the snow.

"Brother-in-law, shall we go again?" Lyubon didn't understand what Orion meant by being very different from what he had been before.

Shen Jinxin, who was also not very understanding, also looked at Shen Jinqian, waiting for Shen Jinqian's decision.

Shen Jinqian did not hesitate and nodded: "Go, but if something happens, don't panic." ”

When they arrived in the town, Liu Boan and Shen Jinxin knew what Orion meant.

The vendors who used to sell on the streets are now all people in tattered clothes and hugging each other to keep warm.

"Big brother, this is ......" "Give me something to eat, please give me something to eat, the child hasn't eaten for two days." Before Shen Jin finished speaking, a woman on the side of the road rushed up to cover her legs.

Shen Jinxin had never seen this situation, and was a little panicked, pulling Liu Boan and shouting: "Big brother, what should I do." ”

"What's the panic, let's go, let's go to the dart game first." Shen Jinqian pulled away the woman who was holding Shen Jinxin and escorted the two to the dart game.

"Brother Qianqian, why are you here, there is such a mess in the town now." The head of the dart board was a soldier under the same account as Shen Jinxin, and the relationship has always been very good.

"I've come all the way, and I've seen it." Shen Jinqian returned the salute with a fist.

"Brother Zhong, what the hell is going on, how did this street become like this?" Liu Boan had opened a dart game with Shen Jinqian before, and he also knew the people in the dart game.

Zhong Darttou sighed, beckoned the three of them to sit down, and then explained the situation in detail.

It turned out that those people were from several villages near the town, and the houses were crushed by the continuous heavy snowfall, and the people who had been conquered by the Yamen some time ago made many families reluctant to suffer from their families, so they sold their food for money.

The heavy snow did not stop, and the hawkers in the town did not go out to sell things, giving the shops an opportunity, and the prices of things went up, and the villagers could not afford to buy things, and there was no food at home, plus the houses collapsed, more and more villagers came to the town in the past two days.

"Don't the people in the yamen care?" Shen Jinxin stood up suddenly, his hands clenched into fists.

Zhong Darttou snorted coldly: "Those people only care about their own happiness and happiness, who cares about the life and death of the people, I heard that a few days ago, the county lord robbed several women into the mansion, and one of them is the daughter of Zheng Zheng in Xiahe Village next door to you." ”

"It's just too deceitful." Liu Boan gritted his teeth, and the more he listened, the more angry he became.

The heavy snow caused a disaster, and the people were homeless, and the county government not only ignored it, but also made it worse.

Shen Jinqian said a few more words to Zhong Daotou, asking him to have any news, he must let people go to Dahe Village to spread the word. Zhong Darttou naturally agreed, and when he left, he specially instructed Shen Jinqian to say a word: The current situation in the capital is getting more and more chaotic.

Although the price of things has been raised by the black-hearted shopkeeper now, the items needed at home still have to be bought, so Shen Jinqian spent twice the price to buy the same amount of things as usual, and then rushed home.

"Come in and warm up." Liu Bicao, who had been worried for a day, saw that the three of them came back safely, and her heart was put down.

"How's it going?" After the three of them drank the water, Shen's father asked directly.

Shen Jinqian picked up the key points and told the situation in the town, and the room was quiet.

"These people, they are evil." Shen's mother sat on the kang with Shen He in her arms.

Liu Bicao didn't expect the situation to be so serious, and stabilized her mind: "Meizi, you take your younger siblings with you, you are at home during this time, don't go anywhere." ”

Shen Mei is not a child who doesn't know anything, after listening to her eldest brother's words, she saw her sister-in-law's serious face and nodded in agreement.

There are always some people who do improper things and will take advantage of the chaos to commit crimes, and child abduction and trafficking abound. There are also some people who can't survive anymore and sell their girls.

Seeing that the prices of items were rising faster and faster day by day, taking advantage of the days when the snow stopped, Liu Bicao and Shen Jinqian discussed going to the town early to buy the daily necessities that should be bought.

Although the Shen family's food stock is enough, many families in the village are no longer able to eat, and they are afraid that the wall will have ears. Liu Bicao and Shen's mother decided to eat two meals a day.

On this day, Liu Bicao was handing over Shen Mei to make chestnut cakes in the kitchen, when she heard someone knocking on the door outside.

"Boan, go open the door." Shen Jinxin and Liu Boan were both sitting at the door of the hall, and Shen Jinxin was too lazy to open the door, so he instructed Liu Boan to go.

Liu Boan glanced at him, "Why don't you go and tell me to go?" ”

Shen Jinxin took two steps back: "See, you are close to the door, I am far away from the door, who will go if you don't go?" ”

Liu Boan had nothing to say and looked at Shen Jinxin's childish behavior, wrapped his cotton clothes in resignation, and stepped out of the hall to open the door.

"It's coming, it's coming." Liu Boan took two steps quickly, I am afraid that if it is too late, the courtyard gate will be damaged, I don't know who has so much strength.

"Boan, is your sister at home?" It turned out that it was the father of Liu Boan's sister and brother, Liu Erlei, who was in a hurry outside the hospital.

Seeing clearly who the person outside the door was, Liu Boan wanted to close the courtyard door immediately, but Liu Erlei leaned against the door, didn't let him close it, and shouted inside: "Bicao, I'm Dad, Bicao." ”

Liu Erlei shouted in this voice, and all the people in the Shen family heard it, and Liu Boan had no choice but to let him in.

Liu Bicao, who was in the kitchen, heard the sound, wiped her hands, unbuttoned her apron and went to the yard: "What are you doing here?" ”

"Bicao, this yard is quite cold, let me go into the hall to talk." Liu Erlei handed over all the money he had saved because he didn't go to serve in the conscription before, and Wang's private money was tightly grasped in his hands, and it didn't take half a cent. So Liu Erlei was still wearing the cotton clothes from a few years ago, and the old cotton clothes were not worn at all to protect against the cold, and he walked all the way from the Liu family to the Shen family, and stood outside for a while, his hands and feet were already frozen.

"Since you're here, let's come in and sit down." Father Shen saw that he was really cold, no matter how he said it, he was Liu Bicao and Liu Boan's father, Shen Jinqian's father-in-law, and the Shen family's in-laws, so he couldn't go too far and be gossiped about by others.