Before Chen Zhuangtou came, someone had already reported to him, saying that a daughter-in-law who was not long-sighted had told her aunt about the theft of melons and fruits in the field.

He was so angry that he greeted the daughter-in-law's ancestors for eight generations.

With his hands hanging down at his sides, Chen Zhuang waited anxiously for Fu Duoduo to ask.

Fu Duoduo didn't come to him to ask him anything, but just to understand the situation, so she said softly: "I heard that there have been melons and fruits stolen in the grange these days, can the matter be seen?" If you don't have enough people, I'll let the Bao Guards help you catch the thief. ”

Chen Zhuangtou was slightly stunned.

Didn't you come to him to scold him?

He looked at Hongmei who was standing on the side and waiting, and saw her nodding slightly to himself, so he put his mind at ease, and told Fu Duoduo about the strange things in the field from beginning to end, and finally said to Fu Duoduo very earnestly: "In the past few days, the little one has really worked hard, but there is no gain, and he really needs the help of the guards." ”

Fu Duoduo nodded secretly, feeling that Chen Zhuangtou was better than his mother, without too much exaggeration.

She looked at Hongmei, who turned to leave.

It didn't take long for the Bao Guards to come majestically under the guidance of Hongmei.

Fu Duoduo told him the reason for the incident, hoping that he would assist Chen Zhuangtou to catch the melon thief together.

Bao Escort responded with a bold mouthful, strode over, patted Chen Zhuang's shoulder, and said, "Don't worry about this, I will definitely help you catch the thief!" The speech was full of anger, and the ears of the people next to him "buzzed".

Chen Zhuangtou rubbed his shoulder that was patted painfully, and was busy polite to the Bao guard.

Bao Huwei has a straightforward temperament, he is not used to Chen Zhuangtou's flattery, and his face is a little bad, which makes Chen Zhuangtou confused, I don't know why.

After a simple handover, the Bao guards followed Chen Zhuangtou to the grange to arrange matters.

After they were all gone, Chun Fu came up to Fu Duoduo and asked with great interest, "Auntie, what do you say about this matter?" "The face is full of gossip, and the eyes are still flashing.

Fu Duoduo squinted at Chunfu and said evilly: "Do you want to feel it on the spot?" ”

Chunfu was puzzled and looked at Fu Duoduo.

Fu Duoduo said: "It's you who followed the Bao guards to catch the thief, don't you know what happened to everything?" You don't have to ask me now. ”

"Huh?" Chunfu exclaimed, tugged at Fu Duoduo's sleeve, and begged pitifully: "Auntie, don't go to the slave maid, it's dark at night, you don't see anything, it's so dangerous!" It's better to listen to the conversation of those servant women and have a good time chatting together. ”

Fu Duoduo smiled, withdrew his sleeve from Chunfu's hand, and walked straight to the inner room.

Chunfu was dumbfounded, looked at Fu Duoduo's back for a long time and didn't react, and looked at Hongmei for help.

Hongmei ignored her and followed Fu Duoduo's footsteps to the inner room.

In the inner room, the corners of Fu Duoduo's raised mouth drooped, and his face was full of sadness.

She vaguely felt that something unusual seemed to be going on in the Grange, and that something bigger was waiting to erupt behind her.

Worry is worry, time is still so passing.

Only one day later, Bao Huwei led his brothers to catch a group of melon thieves.

There were more than a dozen people in the melon thief, old and young, with tattered clothes, speaking with foreign accents, crying and telling their helplessness.

Chen Zhuangtou came to ask Fu Duoduo what to do.

Fu Duoduo didn't want to embarrass them, after all, who didn't have a time to suffer? Why bother not to spare others and leave others a glimmer of life.

So, she asked the bag guards to release the people and tell them to stop stealing.

Unexpectedly, those people asked to see a lot of blessings.

Fu Duoduo thought about it, and asked the Bao guards to arrange it, planning to meet them in the hall.

Bi Tao and the others disagreed, fearing that strangers would come in and threaten Fu Duoduo's safety.

Fu Duoduo thought about it, and also felt that if they all came, it would be too messy, and it would cause unnecessary burdens to the people of Zhuangzi.

Thinking about it, Fu Duoduo asked Bao Huwei to pass the word and asked those people to send a few representatives.

As soon as the words spread out, it didn't take long for two people to come, a man and a woman, an old and a young, under the leadership of Bao Guard, and among the dozen or so of them, the words were quite weighty.

As soon as he stepped into the hall, the old man, supported by the young woman, suddenly knelt in front of Fu Duoduo.

Fu Duoduo was so frightened by this sudden kneeling that he stood up suddenly, and hurriedly asked Hongmei to go over to help them up, arrange chairs, and serve tea reception.

The old man gently pushed Hongmei away, didn't let her support her, and said to Fu Duoduo: "I heard that you are the master of this Zhuangzi, and I took my daughter-in-law to thank you on behalf of everyone, thank you for your tolerance to us, and did not send us to the government for investigation." After speaking, he pulled his daughter-in-law next to him and kowtowed to Fu Duoduo a few times.

Fu Duoduo hurriedly dodged, and he really couldn't stand someone of such an age kowtowing to her.

She saw that the old man was very stubborn, so she had to help the old man up and said, "What are you doing here?" It's just a trivial matter, so why bother to give such a big salute to a young man like me? Those melons and fruits are picked, and they will grow again in the future, and everyone has a time of suffering, so why bother to force each other and leave others a way back? "After all, Fu Duoduo once lived in the 21st century, and some ideas are not in line with the people here, and he can't be the real master here.

The old man refused to get up at first, insisting on kowtowing to Fu Duoduo, listening to her say this, the old man burst into tears, and finally trembled under the support of his daughter-in-law, and kept saying that Fu Duoduo was a good person, and asked his daughter-in-law to kowtow to Fu Duoduo.

After some tossing, the old man finally agreed to sit on the Taishi chair arranged by Fu Duoduo, but let his daughter-in-law stand behind him.

In this regard, Fu Duoduo did not say much.

In this era, as a woman, she has no status, and she is powerless to resist.

Without further ado, Fu Duoduo asked the old man directly about his intentions.

As soon as he mentioned this, the tears that the old man had managed to stop welled up again.

He choked up and said: "You don't know, our hometown has suffered, and the people in the village are almost dead, even my newly married son is ......" Speaking of the sad part, the old man couldn't care much, and the tears couldn't help but roll down, wetting the placket, and also causing the daughter-in-law standing behind him to cry.

Sadness can easily affect the emotions of others.

Fu Duoduo and the others were also made red by the old man's sadness, and felt sad for what happened to them.

Especially Chunfu, if her family hadn't suffered, she wouldn't have been taken away by people at a very young age and resold several times.

For a while, the atmosphere was very depressing and sad.

After a long time, after the old man cried and vented his emotions, he was embarrassed to wipe his tears with his sleeve, smiled embarrassedly with a red face, and said to Fu Duoduo: "It's all my fault, why do I say these sad things in the past, but everyone is not happy." As he spoke, he slowly talked about what happened to more than a dozen of them.

It turned out that because of natural disasters in their hometown, there was no harvest in the fields, and in the following heavy rains for a month, some people with poor resistance suffered from dysentery, and the family had no money left for treatment, so they died of illness. This dysentery is contagious, and if one person in the family is infected, the whole family will have it. It spread out like this, and almost all the people in the village were affected, and only a few survived, including the old man and his daughter-in-law.

The whole village was almost empty, and the old man had to leave with his daughter-in-law, and along the way he met many people from the neighboring village who were also suffering.

It's just that, at the beginning, there were about 30 people with the old man, but later they were sick or separated or left, and for various reasons, there are only about a dozen people now.

After listening to the old man's story, Fu Duoduo and the others sighed.

However, Bi Tao frowned tightly, and while others didn't care, she quietly went out to find Dr. Ye.

She was afraid that the old man and the daughter-in-law would be sick, so wouldn't it be dangerous for the aunt and grandmother?

She knew that dysentery was severe, and once this disease was infected, even if it was cured, the person would lose a lot of weight, and he would not be human, if he couldn't cure it......

Bi Tao hurriedly shook her head, refusing to think about these bad things to herself.

Fu Duoduo's attention was on the old man and his daughter-in-law, but he didn't notice when Bi Tao had left.

She comforted the old man and asked, "What are your plans and those of your village in the future?" ”

If you just wander around like this, it's not a thing, and the best thing to do is to find a place to settle down and live a good life in the future.

It's just that it's easier said than done.

The first question is the place, where do they settle down? Ordinary villages are very resistant to outsiders, especially such a large group of people, which will cause panic among the villagers, for fear of taking away their interests, and they are still fleeing, and they will be very afraid that they will bring their illness to the village, let alone that.

Fu Duoduo has a headache, and he wants to help them but can't do anything.

The old man also planned to take root in his heart, looked at Fu Duoduo, and saw that her brows were tightly furrowed, and her face was embarrassed, he sighed and said, "One step is one step first, and it will always pass." Saying that, the old man sincerely apologized to Fu Duoduo, and said: "That melon and fruit, we have no choice, we are really hungry, if we have the opportunity to ...... in the future"

Hearing this, Fu Duoduo interrupted him, waved his hand, and said: "It's just a small thing, when people are in trouble, you don't have to ......" looked up and saw Bi Tao leading Doctor Ye over, Fu Duoduo's face darkened suddenly, knowing the intention of Bi Tao's behavior, he was very annoyed by her assertions, but the old man who didn't know why, saw that Fu Duoduo's face was not good, and he thought that he had said something wrong, and the corners of his mouth were twitching, and he didn't know how to speak.