There is no change in the countryside, and if there is a change, it is more desolate than before. The road was not easy either. From the city to the town, he encountered three waves of bandits. Fortunately, Erlang and his party brought more people.

The people of Beiguan are tough, Erlang, their ideas are not hard, and they have no meat to eat. It's not a good stubble. Nature is not afraid.

Finally arrived in the town, and Erlang went to find his father and mother first. After knocking on the door, the person who came to open the door did not know. Seeing that Erlang's clothes were not shabby, he was quite rich, and he was wearing a jade pendant, and the person who opened the door politely asked who he was looking for.

Erlang: "Mo Tieshu is not there?" I am his son. ”

"Mo Tieshu, the previous owner of this house. He sold his house and went back to the countryside. You're his son, he's having a hard time, so you'd better go home and take a look. When the house was sold to us, the gamblers came after us. I heard that it was your eldest brother who lost a lot of money in gambling. I haven't heard anything about it since. I don't know the specifics. The man said kindly.

Erlang thanked him, got into the carriage and hurried home.

Sure enough, gambling is unacceptable, when their family left, Mo Lan's tone was that Mo Tieshu was very strict, and it seemed that he still didn't prevent it.

Although the relationship is weak, in the end, it is the father and mother, and there is discord between the brothers, and it has not reached the point of life and death, so I am still worried about it. Hurry up and return to his hometown, Erlang's worries are instantly reduced by half. When I arrived at the entrance of the village, I was familiar with the old house, but there was no one at all. The people who live in the old house are a family of stones.

Shi looked at Erlang's bright clothes, and happily reminisced: "Erlang is back!" Where did this get rich? ”

"Where's my father?"

Shi said: "You have been gone for half a year, your eldest brother lost the gamble, and your father sold the house in the town, returned the gambling house, and returned to his hometown." I didn't expect your eldest brother to live in the village and secretly went to gamble, wanting to make a fortune. and lost so much that there were no pants left. Your father borrowed a circle from the village, but he didn't have enough of it. In the end, he sold the house to me. Your father broke your eldest brother's leg ruthlessly, and this can be regarded as Ansheng. ”

"Where are they now?" Jiro said with concern.

Shi He smiled and said, "Your house is so well repaired, it is useless to put it away." Let your father and them live in your house. ”

Erlang: "......." mood is a little sour.

Shi whispered: "Your eldest brother's leg is broken, and after he is lame, he still wants to gamble wholeheartedly." Stealing your mother's coffin money to gamble and losing again. If it weren't for the fact that you don't have the title deed of your house, your house would have been sold. Your eldest brother was lucky, but when the conscription came, he was lame and brushed off. Otherwise, it would have been gone. ”

"How have you been doing in the past few years?" Jiro took a deep breath and asked.

Shi sighed: "I saw that your eldest brother was brushed down like this, I dislocated my hand myself, and I only let Uncle Hu pick it up when the official left, otherwise I won't be able to get rid of it." In the past ten years, the above has been conscripted three times, and there are fewer men in every household, and now most of the people in the village are women. The son did not dare to give birth, there was still a way to live if he gave birth to a daughter, and he was afraid that he would be conscripted. Well, now, the battle is finally over. ”

Erlang has a kinship.

The stone patted Erlang on the shoulder and thanked him: "Fortunately, you gave the news in advance, and many men in our village hid in the mountains and reported their deaths. It's better to stay alive. The adult male in the next village is not even one. In the past ten years, all the men in our village have taken refuge in the mountains, and they only came out after the battle. ”