Xu Lan rolled her eyes in her heart.

Xu Dahai opened her mouth, and she knew what the other party was going to say.

It's nothing more than how difficult it was for the Chen family before, and how much suffering they suffered for pulling the two brothers together.

These Xu Dahai whispered in Xu Lan's ear over and over again, Xu Lan listened to it so well that her ears were about to grow calluses.

Sure enough, Xu Dahai began to talk about the old cliché before.

Xu Lan listened to him honestly on the surface, nodding yet, in fact, the left ear went in and the right ear went out, and she had already wandered around.

Xu Dahai saw that Xu Lan was so well-behaved, but he felt much more comfortable in his heart.

Recently, Xu Lan made money, and got the right to be a housekeeper from Lizheng, although the situation in the family is getting better day by day, but it makes Xu Dahai, the head of the family, feel that he can't get over his face.

"Well, it's not going to be a good winter." Xu Dahai's exclamation attracted Xu Lan's attention.

I heard him say: "It was like this back then, there were only 30% of the dealers in the field, and the summer had not yet arrived, but it suddenly snowed heavily!" ”

"Snowing?" Xu Lan was taken aback.

That's a rarity.

Before the autumn solstice, it snowed heavily, and the only remaining 30% of the crops in the field were afraid that they would freeze to death.

"Yes, our family is all going to harvest the crops." When Xu Dahai remembered when he was a child, his mood became heavier and heavier, "I finally snatched some back, but my father was sick." When he got sick, he gave all his food to my brother and me in order to save food. ”

"Later, he couldn't stay up and left, so my mother had to dig holes in the snow every day, trying to dig out the places where the voles hid their food."

Xu Dahai let out a long sigh.

"My grandmother doesn't do anything every day, she just scolds my mother."

"My mother finally found some food, and my grandmother was heard scolding. The village was full of hungry and crazy people, they wanted to rob them, and my mother was desperately protected from them, and she was beaten to the point that her head was broken and bleeding. ”

Speaking of the past, Xu Dahai, who is now middle-aged, has red eyes.

Xu Lan's heart sank when she heard this.

It was the first time she had heard this past, presumably because in Xu Dahai's heart, this was his most unforgettable memory.

"Girl, for my sake, you must be filial to your grandmother in the future." Xu Dahai said, "It's not easy for her. ”

Not again!

Xu Lan sighed helplessly.

"It's not easy for my mother, my grandmother used to survive from her daughter-in-law, why can't she be considerate of my mother?"

To be honest, Xu Lan actually felt uncomfortable when she heard how the Chen family survived before. But she was treated harshly by Chen since she was a child, but she couldn't forgive Chen for bullying her and Zhang.

"You kid, why can't you understand people?" Xu Dahai saw that he had been talking for a long time, and this dead girl was still like this, so he couldn't help but hit her hard, "If it was before, you would have been taken away and sacrificed to the god of ceres." ”

"What?" Xu Lan's eyes widened, "What is the god of ceres?" ”

Xu Dahai pursed his lips, and after a long time he said, "Last time there was a famine, but it was a master. He chose some maidens from each village to take them away, saying that they were dedicated to the god of ceres. As a result, as soon as the people left, the relief food of the imperial court came down. ”

"What Ceres!" Xu Lan suddenly thought of meeting Daxian in the city, "They must all be liars!" Those little girls were abducted, and they must have been sold. ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" Xu Dahai suddenly covered Xu Lan's mouth and scolded sharply, "The god of grains is the most effective, if it weren't for the sacrifice of those little girls, how could the famine end?" Our whole family had been starved to death long ago. ”

Xu Lan struggled a few times and broke free from Xu Dahai's hands.

She ran to the door and said seriously: "Dad, I don't believe in this, but today I met a liar in the city who pretended to be a ghost, and the liar was arrested by the government. ”

"You, you girl is angry with me!" Xu Dahai picked up a piece of firewood and chased after him to beat Xu Lan.

Xu Lan saw that the situation was not good, and immediately rushed out of the door to find Zhang.

She decided to keep an eye on her family's belongings.

His father is easily deceived at first glance, and if someone takes the opportunity to pretend to be a magic stick, he will definitely be the first to be fooled.

Running and running, Xu Lan saw a fruit tree on the side of the road.

She stopped suddenly.

Yes, there are millet, vegetables, fish and chickens in my space, but there are some fruit trees missing.

Not many people in the village planted fruit trees, and they usually took them to the city to sell them.

Xu Lan remembered that the medical skills said that if the body is weak on weekdays, this food supplement is better than the medicine supplement. In her previous life, Zhang died because of tuberculosis, and her lungs have not been very good, and she is prone to coughing when the seasons change.

"It's better to plant more pear trees, and stew pear soup for my mother every day."

Xu Lan's eyes lit up suddenly.

After she found Zhang's, the mother and daughter talked and laughed and went home together.

On the way, Xu Lan asked Zhang about Ceres.

Unexpectedly, Zhang's eyes turned red all of a sudden.

"Mother, what's wrong with you?" Xu Lan was startled, and she didn't know which of her words made Zhang's sad.

Zhang shook his head, wiped his eyes and sighed: "I'm afraid your father didn't tell you that you have an aunt because of the god of grains." ”

"Auntie!" Xu Lan's eyes widened, "Why do I still have an aunt?" ”

For so many years, she had never heard Chen or Xu Dahai mention a word.

Chen's mouth is full of "my two sons" on weekdays, but she has never said that she has ever given birth to a daughter.

"Hey, don't you know what kind of character your grandmother is? She only has a son in her eyes, but her daughter is not a human being in her eyes. Zhang said, "Your little aunt is the youngest, and it turns out that when I was a girl, I had the best time with her." ”

Hearing this, an ominous feeling suddenly rose in Xu Lan's heart.

She asked in disbelief, "Could it be that in the famine back then, the little aunt was sent to the god of grains by her grandmother?" ”

"Hmm." Zhang nodded heavily, "Your grandmother only has your uncle and your father in her heart, and your little aunt is not well fed and clothed every day, and is regarded as a maid by your grandmother." ”

"Later, there was a famine, and your grandmother wanted to sell her for food at first."

"As soon as the god of grains came, your little aunt was given to him...... Your grandmother's house has half a bag of brown rice...... Relying on that half a bag of brown rice, your father and they survived until the time when the imperial court disaster relief food came. ”

When Xu Lan heard Zhang's words, she didn't speak for a while.

She only felt heavy in her heart.

The mother and daughter didn't say anything all the way.

It wasn't until Xu Lan saw her cigarette holder from a distance that she asked softly, "Mother, why did my father never mention this little aunt." ”

"Do you know where she was taken by Ceres?"