The green leaves in the back mountain have become less and less, Shen Xiaoyu picked up firewood, and she couldn't get too big branches, so she picked up some small branches, and then tied them into a pile with rope and carried them home.

Here Qin Huaijin sat in the carriage, and Fu'an persuaded: "Young master, this place is dusty, it's better for the second young master to go back early." ”

"I'll naturally go back after reading it." Qin Huaijin said that he was originally a little guilty, his mother made this Chongxi daughter-in-law completely because she was angry with Wang Xiaoniang, but this Chongxi little girl was a little unlucky.

Fu'an sighed, this time he brought someone out secretly, and usually the second young master's courtyard doesn't let people go, but now he expects to send people back as soon as he finishes it, and it's good to do it without knowing it.

Fu'an drove the carriage to the village road, and just watched Shen Xiaoyu carry a large bundle of firewood to the village.

"Second Young Master, here, it's her!" Fu'an pointed it, Qin Huaijin hurriedly stretched his neck and came out to take a look, this look, stunned.

"What did you say her was called?" Qin Huaijin didn't ask before, but this little girl was really familiar.

Fu'an said: "It's called Shen Xiaoyu, my family is from this village, and now there is a disaster everywhere, and I still came to sell myself that day!" ”

"Shen Xiaoyu ......" Qin Huaijin still remembered the little girl who saved him that day, but it was too dark that day, and he didn't see Shen Xiaoyu's appearance clearly.

Fu'an saw Qin Huaijin thoughtfully, and said: "This girl is indeed rude, not as good as those famous ladies in the city, but I think she has the strength to ......" Then a large bundle of firewood is about to catch up with half a person high, and an adult will carry Baba, a child can carry it, and he is also eye-opening.

"Let's go back." Qin Huaijin sat back in the carriage, and when Fu'an got the order, he quickly turned the horse's head and hurried back.

Shen Xiaoyu looked at the person driving the car in front of her and seemed to be a little familiar, but the carriage suddenly turned around, and she couldn't see it.

"Go back early and eat white flour steamed buns in the evening." Shen Xiaoyu muttered happily, and didn't care about the carriage.

When I got home, Father Shen was sitting in the house, Cui Fenglan was burning the stove, the pot was already steaming, and the smell of wheat came out.

"Steamed buns?" Shen Xiaoyu sniffed her nose, her nose was quite smart.

Cui Fenglan nodded with a smile: "Your father said that you have been thinking about eating steamed buns for the past few days, and after a long period of noodles, we can eat them in a while!" ”

Shen Xiaoyu was excited, there was a woman in the family who was different, she used to cook and cook, but she didn't know the "difficult" skill of making noodles, even if she had white noodles, she still couldn't eat steamed buns.

Shen Xiaoyu washed his hands, and then came over to help pick up the steamed buns.

"Take a break." Cui Fenglan said, she was also distressed when she looked at Shen Xiaoyu like this, the life of the Shen family has always been very hard, such a small child, but she is more mature than adults.

Shen Xiaoyu smiled and nodded: "Cheng, I'll call my dad over and wait for the meal!" Then he went into the house.

Father Shen is repairing his desk, which has been broken before, and has been dealing with it, and now he has to repair it, and he is a bit of a life.

"Dad, what's going on?" Shen Xiaoyu asked his father with a smile.

Father Shen smiled: "What's the matter? ”

Shen Xiaoyu said: "What else can it be, are people willing to live with you?" ”

Father Shen blinked and said, "She is a good woman and can live." ”

Shen Xiaoyu could also see that his father was shy and shy, so he said, "That's fine." In the future, she really said that she was going to fill in the grave for the sick young master, and she didn't have anything to worry about.

Shen Xiaoyu went out, grabbed a handful of dried wild vegetables, soaked them in water, and used salt to accompany the dish of small pickles. There is also cornmeal porridge in the pot, and this meal is enough.

Cui Fenglan sat behind the table, drinking the porridge slowly, and the steamed buns were only half broken.

Shen Xiaoyu saw it, and directly took a whole white-flour steamed bun and stuffed it into Cui Fenglan's hand, and said, "Auntie, eat." And then he didn't say anything more.

Cui Fenglan's heart was sour, this Shen Xiaoyu could see everything, even if she didn't dare to eat more food.

Daddy Shen also said, "Eat." Although Cui Fenglan is a widow, she is four or five years younger than him and has a good birth, and he doesn't want his family to be wronged.

After eating a meal, Shen Xiaoyu put the thirty catties of rice he had taken out earlier in front of Cui Fenglan's eyes, and said, "Auntie, take this bag of rice back to my aunt's mother's house, now there is a disaster everywhere." ”

Cui Fenglan looked at the bag of rice and said, "This can't be helped, this grain is too expensive now......

"Send it, I also told my father that our family is marrying a daughter-in-law, not buying people, so it should be a gift, and what the family can get hold of now is this bit of food." Shen Xiaoyu said.

Cui Fenglan's eyes were red, the father and daughter of the Shen family treated her as a human being, and gave her enough face, even if she saw her mother's family in the future, she would be able to hold her head up, and she was not sold!

"Xiaoyu, thank you!" Cui Fenglan said that people's hearts change people's hearts, especially in such a difficult time, it is easiest to see who is a good person, and she will be honest and good to this father and daughter in the future.

Shen Xiaoyu smiled, just let Cui Fenglan live here in a down-to-earth manner.

In the next few days, Shen Xiaoyu trembled in her heart for several days, feeling that the Qin family might come to pick her up and go to "Chongxi", but it wasn't until the first snow fell in winter that there was still no movement on the Qin family's side, so she was relieved.

Sihe Village is covered with snow, their place is far north, the winter is really cold, the whole village knows that the Shen family now has food to survive the winter, and everyone wants to borrow food, but before it was cynical and yin and yang, the Shen family and no one in the village have much to do with each other, they go to borrow food at this time, and people may not take care of them.

At night, I heard that the old people in the village froze to death and starved to death, Shen Xiaoyu heard this, and he didn't make a sound, anyway, no one would take their family's grain.

As soon as the snow stopped at night, Shen Xiaoyu saw that it was not early, so he went to bed early, but he woke up in the middle of the night, and the window blew a crack in the wind, leaking the cool breeze for half the night.

Shen Xiaoyu went down to the ground lightly, but the sound of footsteps came from the yard at this time.

There was snow on the ground outside, and there was a creaking sound when she stepped on it, but the footsteps were very soft and slow, and if she hadn't woken up in the middle of the night, she probably wouldn't have noticed.

There was a crack in the window, and she looked out through the gap, and there was a man who went straight to his stove.

There is grain in the stove room, most of which are put in the cellar dug under the ground in the house, but there are also some coarse grains and fine grains in the stove room, and it is more than ten catties to add a piece!

Shen Xiaoyu's face darkened, he hurriedly put clothes and shoes on the bed, his movements were very light, and when he went out, he picked up the mallet for laundry at the door, and slashed it with a stick according to the person, shouting while beating back: "Come on, there is a thief, come quickly!" Father! ”

The village was not very big, but when she shouted, not only the two people in Daddy Shen's house were shouted, but several neighboring families also moved.

As soon as Father Shen heard that there was a thief in the house, he stepped on his shoes and came out, and Cui Fenglan also quickly got up, took a padded jacket and followed out.

Shen Xiaoyu chased after the man with a mallet, and after hitting a few sticks, the person hurriedly ran, and the movement was so big that he couldn't run for a while.

Daddy Shen hurriedly went out, and Cui Fenglan came out to see that she couldn't catch up, so she came over to protect Shen Xiaoyu.

Father Shen chased all the way, and the man ran fast, and finally ran to Mrs. Zhao's house in the same village.

Mrs. Zhao lost her husband at an early age and was a widow for decades, because the family was poor, and her son was not able to say that he was a daughter-in-law in his thirties.

Shen Xiaoyu saw that his father came back like this, and asked, "Did you chase it?" The man was covering his face with a sack, and she didn't see who it was.

Father Shen nodded breathlessly, and then the three of them entered the house first.

It was no longer warm in the house, so Cui Fenglan went to light a fire, lifted the futon, and the kang could emit some heat.

"I'm going to cook a little fish too." Cui Fenglan said and went to the side room first.

Shen Xiaoyu asked Father Shen: "Who is it?" ”

"This person ran to Mrs. Zhao's house and disappeared, and the footprints on the ground are all there." Father Shen said.

When Shen Xiaoyu heard this, he was also silent, the widow of the Zhao family is a businessman, that son is still a tiger, otherwise even if he works hard in his thirties, he will not be a daughter-in-law who can't talk about it.

"So that's it?" Shen Xiaoyu asked, now every family is like this, and there will definitely be more thieves in the future, who is not pitiful?

Father Shen sighed: "What else can I do if I don't forget it, what did he steal?" ”

Shen Xiaoyu shook his head, and Father Shen said: "After all, nothing was stolen, they are all from a village, and they always have to save some face for others." ”

Shen Xiaoyu pouted: "When I scolded our family, I didn't see them, these people saved face for our family!" "By now they have dared to steal, what more face do they need? It's stealing today, and after a few days, one by one the hungry red eyes, maybe I'm going to rob it!

When Cui Fenglan came back from the fire, she said, "Tomorrow, all the grain will be put in the cellar, and it will take some trouble." ”

Shen Xiaoyu nodded: "Tomorrow I will go into the city, buy a big lock, and then buy an iron chain, no one will think about our food!" ”

Cui Fenglan smiled, and Father Shen said, "Okay, go to sleep, and I will be more vigilant when I sleep at night in the future." ”

Shen Xiaoyu nodded and went back to the room first.

Father Shen saw that Cui Fenglan had been busy for a long time, so he said, "Let's sleep." Then he put the futon in place, the two sets of futons are separated, Daddy Shen is actually a little unsteady in his heart, and he can't get over this hurdle in his heart, although Cui Fenglan looks good and has a good character, but he still thinks about his daughter-in-law Zhao Yulan who has gone, and he is awkward in his heart.

Cui Fenglan nodded, and then lay down, life is a human life, and it will be fine after a long time.