Fortunately, the courtyard wall of the Xin family is a high wall of blue bricks, and there are dogs in the yard. The men walked around a few times outside and didn't come in.

For safety, Xin Ping couldn't avoid suspicion, and took the Lin family's mother and daughter to live in the Xin family. The house of the mother and daughter of the Lin family is so bad that if someone kicks outside, the fence and courtyard wall can fall down. Jiao Niang felt a lot more relieved with the company of the Lin family's mother and daughter.

That night, the people who were still freezing with snowflakes in the sky were shivering, and there was a knock on the courtyard door of the Xin family. Xin Ping did not open the door vigilantly, but asked who was knocking on the door.

"It's me, Mafu. I came to report the news, and I heard my father and mother say that they would come to rob your family in the middle of the night. Beware yourselves! Ma Fuliang trembled, rubbed his fingers and whispered outside the door.

Knowing that Ma Fu didn't need to lie to himself, Xin Ping thanked Ma Fu gratefully: "Thank you, Brother Ma Fu." ”

"Don't thank me, it wasn't for Xin Jiaoniang who saved my life by sprinkling chili powder on the mountain, I'm already dead. I am a man who repays my kindness. I'll go first. Ma Fu walked home slowly, he couldn't persuade his father and mother not to come to rob the Xin family, so he could only report to Xin Jiaoniang like this.

When Xin Ping returned to the room, he called everyone up, and asked Jiao Niang and the others to hide in the room with kitchen knives and hoes. I went to the Zhu family next door, and after a while, Xin Ping brought Uncle Zhu and the three brothers of the Zhu family, as well as some neighbors next door, more than a dozen people back.

When the second half of the night arrived, the night in Panyun Village was very quiet, so quiet that only the sound of snowflakes falling could be heard, and all the lights in the Xin family were extinguished, as if all the people had fallen peacefully.

Ma Qin, Ma Zhu, and twelve other villagers quietly touched under the wall of the Xin family.

"I said, why are there fewer people?" Ma Zhushi counted the number of people, and found that there were a few fewer people who did not come to whisper to Ge San next to him.

"It is said that the Xin family has sent them food, and they don't do anything to avenge their kindness. Hurry up, it's cold. Ge San put a wooden ladder on the fence and jumped into the courtyard wall first.

When everyone jumped into the courtyard of the Xin family, ready to run to the kitchen. The door of the Xin family's hall opened, and a group of young adults with hoes and sickles rushed out, led by Xin Ping.

"Let's go, let's go!" The people who came to rob were the old, weak, sick and disabled in their own village, but they just relied on the large number of people to rob other people's food. When they encountered this group of young adults, they naturally panicked and wanted to turn around and run away.

Those who run fast open the gate and run, and those who run slowly must be beaten well. For a while, wolves cried and howled in the courtyard of the Xin family, and the screams continued. Xiao Xin'an was also frightened by these movements and cried.

Widow Lin hugged Xiao Xin'an in distress and coaxed, and scolded in her mouth: "Kill these conscience things." ”

A group of people were beaten and driven out of Xin's house, and Ma Qin and Ma Zhu helped each other back home.

"Oh, Fu'er. Pour me a glass of water. Ma Qin lay down on the bed, grinning in pain.

"Fu'er, come and give me a hand." Ma Zhushi leaned against the door frame and stretched out his hand to his son.

Ma Fu sighed helplessly: "What do you say you are tossing around all day long!" Two old bones, and learn from others to rob. ”

Ma Qin was already angry, and when he heard his son's cynicism, he suddenly became angry: "It's not because you gambled that your family lost to the wall!" ”

Ma Fu scratched his head irritably: "I said it earlier, you and my mother don't keep tossing around, I won't gamble." ”

"You're a bad boy! Do you blame me and your mother for gambling money? Ma Qin was beaten straight to the bed by his son's anger.

Ma Zhushi watched the father and son quarrel more and more, crying and collapsed to the ground: "Why is my life so bitter......"

The clouds are bleak here, and the joy is there. The Lin mother and daughter made a hearty meal. Please help the neighbors to have a celebration banquet at Xin's house.

When the people left, Jiao Niang pulled her brother and asked, "What did you say, why did Uncle Zhu and them all come?" ”

Xin Ping smiled and touched her sister's head: "I said that someone is going to rob all the grain of our family tonight." It started with my house, and then Uncle Zhu's house, robbing one household after another. Uncle Zhu, they were in a hurry. I proposed that they all come to my house and ambush the thieves, and they all agreed. ”

"My brother is as smart as I am." Jiao Niang found that Xin Ping seemed to have matured a lot and could think like an adult.

"Don't worry, Jiao Niang, my brother will be smarter, I will definitely be able to guard our family." Xin Ping said solemnly to Jiao Niang.

Jiao Niang recuperated at home and finally fully recovered, except for chatting with her family and playing cards with Xin'an, Jiao Niang had nothing to do. Jiao Niang felt that the ancient winter life was too boring!

On this day, Jiao Niang leaned against the window to look at the snow outside, and suddenly smelled the fragrance of plum blossoms outside. The fragrance of plum blossoms is the favorite of Jiao Niang, cold and elegant, refreshing.

"Brother, there are plum blossoms near our house?" Jiao Niang ran to ask Xin Ping, who was reading a book.

Xin Ping looked at her curiously: "Yes." Isn't there always a white plum by the small pool outside our yard? ”

"Oh!" Jiao Niang smiled awkwardly and ran away, she didn't know much about the things that were not explained in the book.

He wore a goose yellow cotton jacket and a white cloak left by his mother. Jiao Niang quietly slipped out of the house with a basket.

As soon as Jiao Niang left the house, her calf fell directly into the snow: "This is too exaggerated." Jiao Niang did not stop her progress, but walked harder towards the plum tree.

She's so idle, she has to find something to do!

After a lot of effort, Jiao Niang finally came to the plum tree, "There are a few plums in the corner, and Ling Han opens them alone." I know that it is not snow, but there is a dark fragrance. Good poetry, good poetry. ”

pretended to chant a poem under the tree, and Jiao Niang finally began to pick up plum blossoms.

Silence was silent, and snowflakes were drifting slowly in the sky. Xin Jiaoniang, who was wearing a cloak, looked like a flower and moon, and her skin was better than snow, like a fairy who had fallen into the mortal world, standing under the plum blossom tree.

"I didn't expect such a lovely person from Peugeot to be able to plot a few top killers. It's wonderful! In the grove not far from Xin's house, two men were watching Xin Jianniang's every move. The man in white was full of praise for Xin Jianniang and admired it again and again.

"So, you pry the killers open? Is this Xin Jiao Niang suspicious? There was no superfluous expression on the handsome face of the man in black, and the phoenix eyes stared coldly at Xin Jianniang.

The man in white was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "You don't want to do it to other people's little girls, do you?" I called you because Ye Wenzhou knew that we were on an errand in Panlong Mountain. Ask me to see if the three children of the Xin family, the sons of his old friends, need help. ”

The man in black was stunned for a moment: "Ye Wenzhou's old friend, surnamed Xin." That ......"

"You're the same as I thought." The man in white sighed, turned and walked into the depths of the grove.