The leaves of the trees in the mountains were quickly plucked by the villagers.

As time passed, there were fewer and fewer prey in the mountains, and the days of hunting in the village were coming to an end.

On this day, at the entrance of Liujia Village, a woman with a dirty face that could not be seen could not be seen appeared, and she was holding a thin child in her arms.

She knelt straight at the entrance of the village, she had gnawed a little root and eaten some Guanyin soil on the road in the past few days, and barely survived, and arrived here with the child in her arms, where she smelled the smell of meat.

The aroma of the broth from the village was infinitely magnified in her nose at the moment, and as long as the people of the village could have a little mercy and give half a mouthful of soup to drink, her son would not starve to death.

Today, guarding the entrance of the village are Liu Laosan and several brothers and a few men in the west of the village, who hold the farming belongings in their hands, including hoes, iron forks, and wooden sticks.

They had already driven away several groups of people in the morning, but the mother knelt there with her child in her arms and was still unwilling to leave, and Liu Laosan rubbed the woman's arm with an iron fork, and the woman still knelt there stubbornly.

She had no choice, she had to kneel there, the hungry people outside had set their eyes on her son in her arms these days, and she understood the meaning of that gaze, the gaze that made her tremble.

The three brothers picked up the woman and threw her a mile away, and frightened her: "If you come again, I will kill you and cook meat to eat." ”

After Liu Laosan and the others threw the woman back to the village entrance for a while, the woman walked back to the village entrance with the child in her arms, and repeated it several times, Liu Laosan and the others had no choice but to ask the old patriarch.

When the old patriarch arrived at the entrance of the village, the woman had fainted, and the child had fainted.

The old patriarch asked the big fish daughter-in-law to help the woman to a hidden place, and secretly fed the woman and the child a few mouthfuls of soup, so many outsiders outside the village, they didn't dare to feed things openly, for fear that those outsiders would come to the village to rob them with red eyes after seeing them.

When the woman woke up, the big fish daughter-in-law stuffed the woman with a black steamed bun.

This time the woman was finally willing to go, but she planned to leave her son in the village.

As she went, she fell to her knees and cried, "Have mercy and leave my son behind, for he will not survive if he goes out with me. ”

Liu Laosan reminded Dayu's daughter-in-law: "Look at what outsiders have done in our village in the past?" You must not be soft-hearted. ”

Soon a group of people gathered around to watch the excitement, and the people in the village were still deeply impressed by the fact that they were deceived by outsiders in the past, and no one was willing to keep her son.

The woman left the village, returned after dark, secretly left the child at the entrance of the village, and left with peace of mind when she saw the child being carried into the village.

The person who came back with the child was Liu Dahe.

Liu Dahe and Xiao Qi went to Niujia Village to send wild boar meat to Niu Chrysanthemum's father, and when they came back, they saw a child being thrown on the ground on the road not far from the village, Liu Dahe couldn't bear to pick up the child and carry it back to the village.

Liu Laosan, who was standing guard at the entrance of the village, couldn't cry or laugh when they saw it, and they finally drove the woman holding the child out of the village, but Liu Dahe brought the child back.

Liu Laosan said to Liu Dahe: "Brother Dahe, this child is a foreigner, she knelt and begged for a long time during the day, and no one in the village wanted to have this child." ”

Liu Dazhuang: "At that time, I saw that Chrysanthemum's sister-in-law was also in the crowd, and I don't know if my sister-in-law will be angry with you if you take it back like this, so it's better to put the child back." ”

Liu Dahe couldn't do that kind of thing, and what if he threw the child back to his place, what if the child was eaten by wild beasts at night.

In the end, Liu Dahe returned home with the child in his arms.

Xiao Qi was silent the whole time behind Liu Dahe, she was also very conflicted in her heart, it was indeed cruel to let the child go into the wild, but when the child was brought home, she didn't know what kind of waves would happen at home.

Niu was a little surprised to see Liu Dahe come back with a child, she glanced at the small quilt wrapped around the child, and knew that it was the child of the foreign woman who was driven out of the village during the day.

Niu was very angry, and as a result, Liu Dahe was kicked out of the house with the child.

Xiao Qi gave Niu an idea, "Mother, Uncle Da Kui's family has lost a little crab, and it may be rare to have a son, you hold the child and go over to ask." ”

Xiao Qi added: "If Uncle Da Kui's family is willing, let's send some more food to his family." ”

Dakui's daughter-in-law was actually not so happy when she saw the child, but she heard that Niu said that she would send some food to her family, so she decided to keep the child.

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Early the next morning, a major event occurred in Liujia Village, the body of Liu Xiaoyu, the second son of the patriarch, was found in the ancestral hall, Liu Xiaoyu was killed by thieves who cut his throat, and there were blood marks everywhere in the ancestral hall, this method was too fierce.

Liu Xiaoyu is responsible for guarding the ancestral hall, and there are not many valuable things in the ancestral hall, only Xiao Qi and Hua Xi'er donated to the clan for emergency food, which has been distributed to the clansmen, and there is not much left.

The old patriarch originally planned to hold on for a few more days and bring this bit of old grain to the emergency, but Na Cheng thought that such a thing had happened.

Unable to withstand the blow of the white-haired man sending the black-haired man, the old patriarch fainted when he heard the news.

The patriarch's eldest son, Liu Dayu, went to the town to ask the doctor of Fushengtang to prescribe medicine, and after the old patriarch took the medicine, he woke up at night and turned around.

As soon as the old patriarch woke up, he immediately asked Liu Dayu to call several elders of the clan to his house.

Liu Dayu said to everyone: "Lang Zhong of Fushengtang said that Fushengtang will be closed in two days, I heard that the county prince has been killed by the chaotic people, the county seat of Guxian County has been in chaos, and there is also some chaos in Fenghuang Town, and the big families in the town are gone." ”

The crowd huddled in the patriarch's room with sad faces.

Old man Hua: "Recently, there have been more and more outsiders at the entrance of the village, and this time your brother's matter, it is difficult to say whether it was done by people in the village or outside the village." ”

The old patriarch Sha said in a hoarse voice: "From today onwards, everyone will not only have to guard the entrance of the village, but also patrol the village at night. ”

Old Man Hua nodded: "I promise this." ”

The old patriarch got up from the bed and called out to his son Da Yu, "Da Yu, you go and call Da He and his Xiao Qi over, and the hairpin will also be brought over by Da He." ”

The big fish naturally knows what the hairpin means.

Soon Xiao Qi and Liu Dahe came over, and the old patriarch called all the people who could be the masters of the patriarch to him.

He took out a simple and luxurious carved box, opened it, and took out the picture scroll inside to show everyone.

"The one on the picture is the legendary Liu Woman of our Liu clan, she saved our Liu clan with her own strength."

Several of the clan elders nodded, they had heard about it when they were children.

The old patriarch took the hairpin and then said to everyone: "The hairpin that Xiao Qi found is the token of Liu Nuxia, Xiao Qi is as natural as Liu Nuxia, I believe this is all God's arrangement, from now on, all the people in the clan are under Xiao Qi's orders, and violators will be expelled from the clan." ”

There was no objection from everyone.