Their family is in the south of Yunzhou City, is the poorest farmer, renting a few acres of land is not enough to make a living, fortunately, several brothers have grown up, strong, in the city to work part-time to earn money, but also to support the family, but this year's rain is so much, the city is not easy to play, if you can't work, you have no money, no money, no food.

This is her mother's sorrow, and it is her sorrow.

After tying the only ploughing cow in the family into the cowshed, the head of the family walked towards the firewood house with his hands behind his back, and his little daughter Qixin was keeping the goose with a knife and straw to feed the goose before going to bed at night. The year is not good, this goose can't be raised, tomorrow morning my father and a few brothers will be pulled to the city to sell, for a few buckets of rough girls, stay up for a day, a little grass mixed with wheat bran, at night to coax the goose to eat a little, tomorrow morning can also weigh an extra half a catty and two taels.

Seeing her father go to the firewood room, the girl hurriedly slipped into the kitchen, grabbed a handful in the jar containing wheat bran, and put it under the broken grass, and the poor white goose had been holding it since it came out of its shell, and sold it to the people in the city tomorrow morning.

What the little daughter is doing sneakily, the old father knows it, but he pretends not to know. The year is not good, tighten your belt and get through it, but you can't hurt people's hearts because of the hard days.

He stood in front of the palm-sized window and looked at Li Mao, it was dark, and the room was even darker, and he couldn't actually see anything.

"I haven't woken up yet, Dr. Xiao said I'll wake up today."

As the girl spoke, her eyes revealing a sorrow that was not appropriate for her age.

"Alas......" The old man of the Qi family sighed slightly, waved his hand and said, "Feed the goose." ”

"Ugh." The girl answered, looked into the room through the window, and went back to work.

In the middle of summer, because of the heavy rain, the weather was not too hot, but there were still many mosquitoes terrible, Li Mao's whole body was wrapped in cloth, and the mosquitoes had nowhere to go, only the eyes and mouth were the hardest hit areas, and he kept blinking and blowing, but a cunning mosquito still took advantage of his squinting to bite his eyelids, which was sore and painful.

However, with his paralysis, this itch is not worth mentioning at all.

At dinner that day, there was a small argument at the dinner table between the family, and the cause was Li Mao, who was recuperating from his injuries in the firewood room.

After the seventeen-year-old second son Qi Hao drank his own share of porridge, his stomach was still growling, he looked at the half pot of clear soup and little water on the gray and dilapidated wooden table, and dissatisfiedly dropped the broken bowl, and his sister Qixin, who was taking a sip of gruel, cautiously glanced at the second brother, the second brother had a bad temper, and she didn't want to argue with him during the meal.

"I met the third son this afternoon, he just came back from Yunzhou City, saying that there was a rebellion in the city, someone rebelled in the city, and said that the handsome man died of illness and changed to a new handsome, and now the city is full of rebels."

The mother, who was drinking porridge with her head down, stopped when she heard this, looked nervously in the direction of the firewood room with cloudy eyes, and asked cautiously, "Will it be ......?"

"No, it won't." Qi Zheng, the boss who was drinking porridge, took over the words, he wiped his mouth, "He is a monk, bald-headed, the rebel is a soldier, how can a soldier be bald." ”

"Snort." The second child sneered, "What a joke, the third son said that there was a monk general among the rebels." ”

"But he ...... Not a monk. Qi Xin couldn't help but join the conversation.

"How do you know he's not a monk, isn't he bald?"

"He doesn't have a scar on his head."

"That's right, if you don't quit scarring, you're not a monk, right?" His mother was anxious for an answer that would reassure him.

"That's not for sure, I've seen a monk who hasn't quit."

"That's a wild monk, not a real monk." The girl whispered, "I don't think he's a bad guy." ”

"Look...... Hehe, if you don't see it, it's not, I think he is! According to me, you shouldn't have rescued him, the source is unknown, do you know what the four nerds asked me this morning, asked me if there was someone hidden in my house, and Hou Xi Mura Zheng also asked. ”

"And how did you answer?" Mother asked uneasily.

"I, of course I said no."

"It's broken." The boss said nervously.

"When." The mother's hands trembled, and the bowl fell on the table. She looked at the boss in horror.

"The fourth uncle also asked me, and I said that it was my eldest cousin, who offended people in the city, was beaten, and came to the countryside to recuperate."

"Oh no, the fourth uncle is a fine person, he must come to ask what happened."

"What can I do then, the boy is older, you can give me an idea."

"Panic what!" Qi Laohan shouted dissatisfiedly, "Even if he is a traitor, the fourth child will not dare to report it, it has been three days, and it is a capital crime to not report it if he knows it. ”

"That ......" The old mother showed signs of fainting, and she was at a loss and didn't know who to listen to.

"I don't think it's anything, Mr. Xiao didn't say anything, how nice others are, there is really something, we must let us send people away." The Boss said.

"Yes, yes, yes, Da Lang's words are reasonable, if there is something wrong, Mr. Xiao will definitely inform us."

"I don't know, but in order to save this person, our family owes Mr. Xiao a lot of debt."

The eldest daughter-in-law, who had been tearing with the two children, suddenly interjected and said, pouting that she could hang a sesame oil bottle.

"Shut your mouth, is this your right to speak?" The second child shouted dissatisfiedly, and the eldest glared at the younger brother and didn't say anything. The eldest daughter-in-law really shut up.

The whole family looked at the head of the family together, the old man sat like a bodhisattva, sat for a long time, blinked his swollen eyes, and finally said: "The difference between man and beast is that man can't see death without saving, he can't die in our house." ”

The old man said this, the first to leave the table, the second child left, before leaving, he looked at the little clear soup left in the clay pot, but thinking that his mother had been worrying about his heart and didn't eat anything, he still licked his mouth and walked away silently.

Li Mao later learned that the family surnamed Qi were all authentic farmers, and three generations had not yet solved the problem of food and clothing, and they found themselves on the side of the floodway outside Yunzhou City, when he was lying on the water grass, and a piece of wood happened to rest under his chin, which happened to lift his mouth and nose out of the water, and it was this raised inch that saved Li Mao's life, otherwise he would have died of suffocation.

The severity of Li Mao's injuries can be seen from the thick bandages wrapped by Xiao Zhengyi, a former famous doctor in Yunzhou who lives in the township.

Li Maofu has a big life, he will not die, Qi Laohan is right, the village does not dare to report him to the government, because after the death of Li Shigu, the city of Yunzhou has experienced a great chaos, the government decree is changed day and night, and people are constantly killed, the crime is inexplicable.

In this case, or if he has not seen the world, but he is absolutely familiar with human nature, how can the cunning village be willing to wade into this troubled water, and if he has made a meritorious service, how many benefits he can get is still in two words, even if there is, there are no three melons and two dates left in his hands after being stripped layer by layer. And one accidentally saddled the crime of banditry, that is, a broken family.

Even if everything goes well, it won't work out, today ** take his life to exchange for wealth, tomorrow he will retaliate with the party, how is it good, the king flag on the head of the city changes, saying that he can guarantee that his own flag can be fought for thousands of generations? (Dissertation College)