"Mother, if you don't eat again, the meal will be cold." Zhiwen said.

"Oh... Oh, just eat, eat that. Zhiwen Niang came back to her senses from her stunned and replied again and again.

Zhiwen sighed secretly, since he quit his job and returned home, Zhiwen Niang has often been in a daze like this.

At first, he thought it was caused by a sudden idleness and a moment of discomfort, but it has been several days, and Zhiwen Niang has not only not improved, but has become more and more serious.

It seems that there is something else on mind.

While he was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks after eating, Zhiwen asked, "Mother, do you have anything on your mind?" I couldn't give up for the past two days. ”

Zhiwen Niang looked at him and Nannan, sighed, and stopped talking.

"Mother, just talk about what you have, don't hold back your illness." Zhiwen smiled flatteringly.

"Alas, even when I saw these people, those who sold land and houses came out to flee, and I miss your grandma and grandfather, and I don't know what their current situation is."

"Oh, then go see grandma and grandpa." Zhiwen said.

"Then what are you going to do with you?" Zhiwen Niang said helplessly.

"Huh?" Zhiwen was stunned for a moment, and then thought that Zhiwen Niang now neither dared to take the two brothers and sisters away, nor did she dare to go on the road on her own, so that the two of them stayed in the house in the county seat.

"Mother, I think you should go to grandpa's house and see the situation, the further you go, the more people will flee, maybe something will happen?"

"When you go out, you lock the door from outside the courtyard, and I take the girl in the courtyard, and I won't go anywhere, I haven't heard of any break-ins into people's homes, right?" Zhiwen said.

It's not that I haven't thought about letting my parents take me and Nan Nan to Uncle Song's house for two days, but these two adults have never met, Zheng San and his wife only heard Nan Nan talk about playing with Xiaoying or something, and they may not be at ease with Uncle Song's family.

He himself hid in the yard with his nannan, and the danger was not too great, as long as the fleeing crowd was not out of control, breaking down the door, the open looting should not happen.

As for the warehouse, including animals and everything, it can be put in, but people can't put it in, and he tried it himself, and he tried it while the girl was asleep.

"Okay," Zhiwen Niang hesitated for a long time, "Wait for your father to come back in the evening and discuss it with him." ”

"Nope." This was the answer that Zheng San gave when he came home in the evening and listened to their thoughts.

"You're a woman, I'm not worried about going out like this." Zheng San shook his head and said, "This makes me feel more at ease than Zhiwen and Nannan staying in the courtyard." ”

The family was speechless, and now in such a situation, it is indeed a bit dangerous for a single woman to go out.

"Or, Dad, you take a few days off and accompany your mother?" Zhiwen thought for a moment and suggested.

"That's right," Zheng San groaned, "but I still don't worry about your two brothers and sisters." ”

"Don't worry, Dad, you are often not in the hospital, and my mother is sometimes not there during the day, so we are not okay." Zhiwen comforted.

"Besides, if you don't go to see your grandfather and grandmother, you and your mother won't be able to settle down."

Zheng San was silent for a while, and said: "That's it, I'm almost done with this work now, hurry up for a few days, and I'll go with your mother when I'm done, so I don't need to take leave." ”

"When the time comes, let's go early, and strive to be back that day." Zheng San turned his head and said to Zhiwen Niang.

"Hmm." Zhiwen Niang nodded, she would not object, she was also worried about this pair of children.

Before dawn on this day, Zheng San and his wife got up, hurriedly ate breakfast, brought dry food, and locked the two gates in the front and back yards from the outside, and then set off to leave the city as soon as the city gate opened.

Zhiwen and Nannan still got up and ate as usual, and then read and write.

Now in this case, I still want to read and take the imperial examination, which is nonsense, but I must be able to read and write.

Although Zheng San said that he had never opened Mengmeng, it was still okay to instruct him to recognize these thousand words.

Zhiwen bought a thousand-character text by himself, took Nan Nan to read and write together, and taught Nan Nan some simple arithmetic by the way.

These days, I'm teaching her to count, and yesterday she was able to count to fifty.

When it was time to eat at noon, Zhiwen didn't plan to light a fire in the courtyard to cook.

He also once had the experience of drinking only a little mush a day, and was so hungry that his eyes were full of gold stars, and he knew that the nose of a hungry person was smarter than a dog, and he made a fire to cook, so that the smell of food wafted out, and the courtyard door was locked, which inevitably led the brave to take risks.

Let Nan Nan review the words he just recognized, Zhiwen casually used the processing workshop to cook two cakes, cook a bowl of soup, and bring them out to eat with Nan Nan.

Yes, this soup mill can also do it.

He decided that before his parents came back, there would be no fire in the house, and everything would be made in the processing workshop and then taken out to eat.

I was still a little uneasy.

Zhiwen is not worried about his own safety, if he is the only one, if he encounters any danger, he can still run if he can't beat him.

But Nan Nan can't run by herself, and Zhiwen doesn't have the ability to run with her, and she has already learned a lesson from Xiaoying.

If only there was a hiding place in this courtyard, would there be a hiding place in this house?

Thinking of this, Zhiwen simply stopped reading, stood up, started from the front yard, and searched carefully.

The whole house is not big, Zhiwen spent most of the hour looking for it, but he didn't find it, it's not a rich family, and ordinary people don't get a basement.

Zhiwen was not reconciled, so he took a small hammer and knocked the walls and floors of several rooms all over, and there was nothing hollow.

When I got to the kitchen, I finally made a discovery.

Behind the stove, upwards is the chimney, and below, there is a green brick that echoes when knocked up, and when it is pried open, it reveals a small hole that is difficult for adults to enter.

Zhiwen and Nannan took a look at the entrance of the cave, it was a small underground space, more than enough to hide four or five people, and they also carefully repaired the ladder, which was probably used by the previous owner to store grain.

The entrance to the cave is cleverly designed, half of it is covered by the stove, and the other half is closed with green bricks, which is really not easy to notice.

Zhiwen was finally relieved now, if there was really something, he could quickly hide Nannan in this cave.

Zheng San and his wife did not come back that night, Zhiwen was a little worried, and things did not seem to be going well.

It wasn't until the afternoon of the next day that Zhiwen Niang entered the courtyard gate alone.

"Mother, where is Dad?" Seeing that Zheng San didn't follow into the door, Zhiwen asked.

Zhiwen Niang didn't answer, took him and Nannan's hands, and entered the hall.

"Your father and I met your uncle's family outside the county," Zhiwen Niang said, "They built two shacks outside the city to live, and your father was sharp-eyed, and when he saw it from afar, he stepped forward and asked me to come back first." ”

"It looks like they've fled too." Zhiwen Niang sighed.

"What about grandpa and grandpa?" Zhiwen didn't want to talk about the family.

"They, too, have fled." Zhiwen Niang's face was even worse.

"Ah, is Grandpa out of town? Why don't you ask them to come and live here? Nan Nan spoke next to him.

"It's not outside the city, I just know that they fled and left, and I don't know where they went." Tears flowed silently down Zhiwenniang's cheeks.

"Your father and I searched in and out of the city for most of the day today, but we didn't find it."

It turned out that Zhiwenniang and they rushed to Dingjia Village and found that their parents and family had gone to the empty building, and the neighbors were gone, and they couldn't find anyone if they wanted to inquire.

It was easy to find a big family in the village, and the housekeeper told them that after their parents sold the land to his master, they packed up their belongings and fled out of the village, but the ancestral house was not sold.

That night, Zheng San and his wife had a hasty rest in the ancestral house, and rushed back to the county seat the next day, but they didn't find it after searching inside and outside for most of the day, but they met Zhiwenbo's grandfather's family.

"It seems that they have fled to the east." Zhiwen Niang said quietly.

"Grandpa and grandpa are a big family and have brought food," Zhiwen analyzed, "Nothing will happen for a while, mother, don't worry." ”

East? The east side of Shaanxi should be the Yellow River, which is better in this direction than going south, and it will go out of Shaanxi after crossing the Yellow River.