Chinese New Year's Eve, because during the national mourning, every family did not dare to post pairs and set off firecrackers, and the Lin family simply ate a reunion dinner, Lin Mei did not dare to give red envelopes, for fear of taboos, directly sent a purse containing ten taels of silver to each of her younger brothers and sisters, and gave Father Lin a silver ticket of one hundred taels, which is considered to be the money given for the New Year.

Cao Dahu got two taels of silver, Xu Rongsheng's family and the two got five taels of silver, and they didn't use their purses, they gave the silver directly.

The Lin family used to not walk around in the village often, but now that they are rich, there are more people who come to make friends.

Lin Mei didn't even sleep lazily, and was woken up directly.

Lin Quan's family originally wanted to have a New Year's dinner with the second brother's family, but after breakfast, they went to the second brother's house with the New Year's goods, and saw that there were still people who came to visit the New Year earlier than them, so the Wang family took the little Wang family to accompany those women to chat.

When the three sisters of the Lin family got up, they saw such a scene, there were seven or eight old men sitting in the hall, chatting with Father Lin.

A brazier was burned in the courtyard, and Wang and the two women sat around the brazier and whispered, not knowing what to talk about, causing Wang to shout excitedly, "You deserve it."

Lin Hai took a group of children to play at the gate of the courtyard.

Lin Meila's sisters went to the kitchen to wash up first, and vaguely listened: ...... The new daughter-in-law had just returned to the door for two days, and Fang Lao Er directly drove his daughter-in-law out......

Lin Mei was very curious and secretly hid at the kitchen door to eavesdrop.

It turned out that Zhang Lotus had already been divorced by Fang Lao Er, but because his son was about to get married, he had not made it public, and now the new daughter-in-law entered the door and drove Zhang Lotus out. But the lotus also deserves it, I heard that the new daughter-in-law just entered the door, and did not restrain herself, put up the shelf of being a mother-in-law, and on the second day of the wedding, before dawn, she yelled at the bride to get up and serve her mother-in-law, and set up rules, which caused the dissatisfaction of the eldest son and the new daughter-in-law.

The son complained a few words for his daughter-in-law, in exchange for Zhang Hehua's more ugly words. "I married my daughter-in-law and forgot my mother, these are light, and what is even more ugly is that the new daughter-in-law is a fox spirit, and it is not enough to pester her son at night......

This made Fang Lao Er even more angry, and directly took out the letter of resignation in front of his son's new daughter-in-law and drove Zhang Hehua out of the house.

The angry Zhang Lotus was even more broken, standing at the gate of the courtyard and scolding, saying that Fang Lao Er was a Chen Shimei negative man, and the two sons he gave birth to were white-eyed wolves with no conscience, and also said that the new daughter-in-law was a stirring up of the family spirit, and the hooves hooked the souls of the three big men in the family...... When she was tired of scolding, she sat at the door, crying for a while, laughing for a while, like crazy, and the frightened women in the village did not dare to come forward to persuade her.

Lin Mei sighed for a while and walked away, the wicked have their own wicked grinding, and they can't live if they do their own evil.

When it was almost time to eat, the brothers Lin Qing and Lin Song from the big house rushed over with their respective daughters-in-law and children.

Father Lin saw that the visitor was a guest, and he was still a nephew, so he didn't say anything, and directly let them eat at the table, Lin Mei didn't have a good impression of these two cousins, but it wasn't too bad for the holiday, so let Xu Dangjia add a few more dishes.

Seeing that there were too many people to sit down, the two discerning women said that there were guests in the house who were leaving with their children.

Lin Mei kept it again and again, and finally simply took out the prepared purse, and grabbed a handful of copper coins for each of the children, Lin Liu's saw it, and came forward to call someone with Jiabao and Jiahui, Lin Mei thought that she would give it sooner or later anyway, so she simply gave it together.

Wang was a little dissatisfied with the behavior of his nephew and daughter-in-law, pursed his lips, and said to Lin Song's daughter-in-law Dou Shi: "Don't learn from your sister-in-law's shallow skin. ”

Dou Shi was shy and nodded embarrassedly.

Seeing that she was shy, Wang glanced at her belly covered with her hands, and asked, "You have it, it's been a few months, when will you give birth?" ”

Dou Shi was even more shy, and answered Wang's words softly.

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After tossing for a day, Lin Mei's eyelids jumped, and she panicked inexplicably, as if something big was going to happen, but she couldn't fall asleep while lying on the bed.

It wasn't until the fourth watch that I fell asleep in a daze.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Lin Mei didn't sleep well last night, and dreamed that Baishui Town was swallowed by a sea of fire, which scared Lin Mei to wake up early in the morning.

Lin Mei was distracted all morning, her eyelids were still jumping, Xu Dangjia saw that she was listless, her eyelids jumped, and asked her to paste a red paper on her eyelids, but Lin Mei didn't believe in these earthworks.

Near noon, Tong Fugui sweated profusely and panted all the way to Lin's house.

"Owner, no... Well..., big deal...... Not good. ”

Lin Mei saw that he was tired and sweaty, and said, "You still drink saliva, don't be in a hurry to speak slowly."

Tong Fugui took the tea bowl from Xu Rongsheng and drank it in one go.

said to everyone: "This morning, my mother and I just returned to Baishui Town, and I saw that the whole town was in a mess, and there were crying voices from others, so I was so frightened that I hurriedly ran to Yulin Lane, and then I knew that Zhang Dafu's family of four was killed alive. Later, I inquired about the people in the town, and only then did I learn that last night, a gang of Tartars appeared out of nowhere, killing people and setting fire to the town, and robbing silver and food. ”

Lin Mei trembled with fright when she heard this, and asked, "What about Mama Wu?" Do you have any news of Wang Lin and the others? ”

"Mama Wu is fine, just a little frightened, and now my mother is in town with her and the dog. I heard that Wang Lin and Qiu Ninghai went to Lingyun Temple to burn incense on the first day of junior high school and have not come back yet. Feng Qiang was so clever that he heard that the voice was wrong, and escaped by hiding in the firewood room. ”

After all, Daddy Lin had fought with the Tartars, and knew that this sneak attack should not be over, so he grabbed the general point and asked, "Where did those Tartars go later?" Did the government send troops to encircle and suppress it? ”

This reminded everyone who was still in a state of shock.

Tong Fugui said angrily: "I don't know, I heard that I robbed the silver and grain last night and ran away in two." When it comes to the county lord, he is angry, I heard that he heard a movement last night, and Ding Zhutou organized the officials on duty to prepare to resist, but the county lord was greedy for life and afraid of death, and he did not agree, and ordered Ding Zhutou to take someone to take care of the home for him. ”

Lin Mei suddenly flashed in her mind, and said to Tong Fugui: "You go back to the town immediately, it's not safe to be late, if you meet Wang Lin and Qiu Ninghai, let everyone find a place to bury Zhang Dafu's family first." There are few people in the west entrance of the town, they are all poor families, it is impossible to attract the attention of the Tartars, I still have an empty house there, there is a cellar to hide, Mama Wu knows the place, where you take all the people to hide. This tartar has robbed the grain, and it is impossible to transport it away immediately, and it will definitely find a place to hide around the town, and maybe it will attack again. ”

When Xu Dangjia heard that he would sneak attack again, he stood aside in fright and asked, "Dongjia, what should we do?" ”

Lin Mei looked at Daddy Lin and said, "Dad, look, do we want to go together." ”

Father Lin hesitated for a long time and said, "If our family really goes together, if we really meet the Tartars, it will be a pot, and besides, the terrain of our family is quite biased, and the Tartars will not come here even if they want to sneak attack." ”

Tong Fugui was also frightened and didn't dare to delay, for fear of meeting a tartar on the road, so he said goodbye to everyone and rushed to the town.