"It's a layman again, the previous things are gone, what are you still mentioning it? You've worked hard today, so let's take the kids to bed early. Chu Yunniang guessed that Liu Wuxiu must be telling herself that she used to follow the matter of Xiaodong and Xiaoxi from her own house, and directly interrupted her, did not give her a chance to continue, and turned around to leave.

Liu Wuxiu refused, pulled her, and looked curious: "Yun Niang, don't go yet, you tell me, where did Brother Dazhi hide the grain, why was it not discovered by the robbers?" ”

When Chu Yunniang saw her posture, she knew that she wouldn't figure it out, and she didn't want to take Xiao Qiongzhi to sleep tonight.

I had to take her directly to my room, find a small wooden hammer from the needlework basket, walk to the kang that Zhou Dazhi built a few days ago, knock down a piece of city brick cake to show her, and tell her how to make city brick cake.

Liu Wuxiu suddenly realized and excitedly said that tomorrow he would move all his grain over and use the same method to make all the city brick cakes.

The next day, early in the morning, Liu Wuxiu took the lead in steaming the city brick cake knocked down by Chu Yunniang last night, and cooked the porridge with the rice she brought, and made breakfast for everyone to eat.

When eating, she cut the city brick cake into five pieces in advance, one big and four small, among them, the big one was given to Xiao Qiongzhi, and she, Chu Yunniang, Gouzi, and Shi each ate a small one.

As a result, the taste of the city brick cake was too good, and before the dog and the stone ate it, when they saw the bigger piece in Xiao Qiongzhi's hand, they just showed envy on their faces and didn't say anything.

After it was his turn to eat, it was too little, and his eyes were staring at the big piece in Xiao Qiongzhi's hand that he hadn't had time to eat, trying to grab a little bit of it.

was so angry that Liu Wuxiu fanned over with a big mouth: "Don't you know how much food there is at home now?" You are all older brothers, grabbing food with your sister and a little girl, do you still want to be ashamed? Yes? Hurry up and apologize to Zhi'er! ”

Xiao Qiongzhi originally looked at the dog and the stone with a pitiful and salivating look, and planned to give them some of the remaining city brick cakes in his hand.

Hearing Liu Wuxiu say this, she felt that as a woman who came from the new era, it was necessary to cultivate the lady's priority consciousness of the boys around her in this feudal era.

So, while she slowly ate the brick cake in her hand, she fluttered her round almond eyes and looked at the dog and the stone, waiting for them to apologize to her.

It was Chu Yunniang, who hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks, and pulled Liu Wuxiu to persuade: "Wuxiu, don't do this, it's my fault, the child is hungry when he is growing up, I only knocked a city brick cake last night, how can it be enough for them to eat?" You come with me into the house, and I'll knock out another piece and steam it for them to eat." ”

In fact, she doesn't need Liu Wuxiu to accompany her when she knocks on the city brick cake, she just doesn't want Liu Wuxiu to stay here and beat the children.

Xiao Qiongzhi understood what she meant, and hurriedly cooperated with her, urging Liu Wuxiu: "Aunt Liu, go over with my mother quickly, if you stay here, the dog and the stone will be embarrassed to apologize to me!" ”

"I'm not going." Liu Wuxiu shook his head.

She grabbed Chu Yunniang instead: "Yun Niang, these city brick cakes of yours have been dried, you can put them for a long time, don't touch them first, today I plan to taste a fresh, only take them out to eat, in the future, we still have to wait for the other food that can't be made into city brick cakes at home to eat, we can eat them again." ”

"This ......" Chu Yunniang hesitated.

She recognized Liu Wuxiu's plan very much, but when the dog and the stone were arguing for food just now, the look in her eyes made her really ruthless and couldn't fulfill them.

Xiao Qiongzhi understood her character, pulled her sleeve, and asked her to divide the city brick cake in her hand into three, leave one for herself, and hand over one piece to the dog and the stone.

However, when the dog and the stone were receiving the brick biscuits, she raised her face very seriously and said, "I can give you things to eat, but you don't ask me for them, you want to rob me directly, no matter how much you want to rob, it's not right, you have to apologize to me for this." ”

"I'm sorry, Zhi'er." The dog and the stone had the city brick cake in their hands, so they didn't care about apologizing, so they immediately grinned and said loudly in unison.

After the meal, Liu Wuxiu began to busily take the dog and the stone to their own house, and bring the hidden food and other household supplies.

Chu Yunniang took her to the patriarch Zhou Yuandong's house according to the plan discussed with Xiao Qiongzhi last night.

Not far away, I met Zhou Yuandong with two old ladies in the clan, and several sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys, and a few robbers from the village who were tied up by Wuhuada.

It's a coincidence.

Chu Yunniang hurriedly welcomed them into the house.

After the two sides exchanged information with each other, Xiao Qiongzhi learned that Zhou Yuandong brought people to Xiao Qiongzhi's house this time, firstly, to comfort Chu Yunniang, Xiao Qiongzhi's mother and daughter, and secondly, to count the losses suffered by their families and the casualties of the robbers in Guangyu Village.

It turned out that yesterday, after dark, many people found from afar that the robbers in Guangfu Village would beat people, kill people, and burn houses if they didn't grab anything.

When it was their turn to be robbed, as long as it was a villager with many family members, they took advantage of the convenience of darkness and used the strategy that Xiao Qiongzhi used last night, and when the robbers in Guangfu Village searched the house and went down to the granary, they drew a ladder and cleaned them up.

However, although they were reminded by the patriarch of Zhou Dazhi a few days ago that few people hid grain in the granary, the young and strong men in their families were busy going to the fields and mountains to forage for food before joining the army, leaving them at home for the winter.

They didn't have any dry firewood in their granary, but mostly pickled loach fish, dried yellow eel, or a little sun-dried French fries like Xiao Qiongzhi's family.

In their kitchen and on the wooden beams above the kitchen, there was some dry firewood, but it was not too large, and it took time to carry it.

Therefore, they burned down the robbers in the village, which is not the same as the specific operation method of Xiao Qiongzhi's family.

Basically, they took the dry wood from the kitchen, lit some of it first, and threw it directly below the entrance of the granary, so that the robbers of the village did not dare to approach the entrance.

Then the rest of the part was plugged into the entrance in batches and lit the fire.

After burning, continue to plug and continue burning until all the dry wood has been burned.

At this time, the robbers below, who had already been smoked by the heat and smoke from the fire, either died or completely lost their resistance and collapsed in the granary.

However, the villagers were also tired enough.

They sealed the entrance to the granary with stone slabs, and deliberately stuffed rags and rags in places where it might be ventilated, and arranged for people to take turns to guard it, and at dawn, they asked the patriarch Zhou Yuandong to deal with it.

Zhou Yuandong's family is close to the end of the village, and in addition to him and the patriarch's wife, there are three daughters-in-law, four grandsons aged ten to sixteen, and three granddaughters aged eight to ten.

Last night, he also took his family to deal with the robbers of Guangfu Village in a method similar to that used by Xiao Qiongzhi.

He has many families and sons, and like Xiao Qiongzhi's family, he also stored a lot of dry firewood in the granary after vacating the grain.

It is logical that his family, like Xiao Qiongzhi and the others, burned several robbers who entered the granary of their home to death last night.

Before coming to Xiao Qiongzhi's house, Zhou Yuandong roughly counted it.

Of the more than 30 households between his house and Xiao Qiongzhi's house, five of them were set on fire by robbers from Guangfu Village.

For the rest of the households, a total of 23 robbers from Guangfu Village were directly burned to death, 35 robbers from Guangfu Village were killed, and 7 robbers from Guangfu Village were captured alive.

He had already arranged for someone to throw all the dead robbers in the village to the mass grave in the northwest corner of the village.

As for the seven robbers from Guangfu Village who were captured alive, he planned to send them to the government for handling after collecting all the robbers from Guangfu Village who were captured alive.

Xiao Qiongzhi listened carefully, and asked the robbers of Guangfu Village who were being escorted curiously: "Which township are you in Guangfu Village?" How many people in the village have to fall into the grass because they can't pay the imperial grain? ”