Meng Qigu was reluctant to let her go, so she took advantage of the time when Ran Jia had to embroider her wedding dress for two months, and ran to Ran Jia's house three times a day, staying for half a day. She and her children listened to Ran Jia talk a lot about the Song Mansion and the Yun Mansion, and they were also apprehensive about the shocking changes in Kyoto two years ago, and sighed at the fate of the two masters and servants.

She knew that Ran Jia was a woman who valued love and righteousness, thinking of her wife's goodness, the Yun family's nurturing grace, the Song family's love for several years, and her sister-in-law and nephew. They must be good, although Meng Qigu has not seen it, she also wants to do her part.

Moreover, the second son-in-law took over the work of Jiang Mansion for Ran Jia, and the shopkeeper said that no matter whether he succeeded or not, he would be grateful to them, and gave Ran Jia an additional reward of two hundred taels, and by the way, he also gave fifty taels to the second son-in-law, and he gave himself another twenty taels!

Meng Qigu was thinking about how to give back, and now she has to prepare her luggage for Ran Jia. A friendship can't be bought by any amount of money.

Now is the time when fruits and vegetables are flourishing, so she exchanged the silver coins for a large amount of copper coins, collected the vegetables sold by the farmers in Luoshili and Eight Villages, pickled them slightly in sand water and dried them. The yard was full of dried vegetables, leaving only a very narrow path for the family to enter and exit.

Looking at the vegetables, but after drying them, there are a lot less, especially the radishes, which can be fried and pickled, and they can't be dried in three catties out of ten catties! In addition to vegetables, she also asked someone to bring words and silver to her relatives who lived in the colder mountains and deep forests, so that they could give her more mountain goods, such as sun-dried fungus, mushrooms, dried fruits, roasted hares, pheasants, wild ducks, wild boar, venison, finch meat, and so on.

In this way, a large car was gathered, and Meng Qigu also prepared a lot of delicious pickles, pickles, bean paste, sesame paste, peanut butter, sesame juice, chili sauce, tofu and other condiments, and another car.

She moved so much that she couldn't hide it from others, and Meng Qigu didn't hide it, and said with a smile that Ran Jia had found a relative and wanted to go for a walk.

Meng Qigu's brother-in-law asked someone to follow the address given by Ran Jia to the ancestral home of the Yun family and the Song family, and visited it a little, but the two families were both former ministers and ministers, and their more detailed information was not easy to obtain, and they learned from the people around them that they were not living well.

The Yun family and the Song family lived next to each other, their great-grandfathers studied together and went to Kyoto to be officials, and the children and grandchildren of the three generations were married, and it can be said that the relationship was deep and supported each other all the way to prosperity. The two families also worked hard in the face of the crisis to avoid the misery of the Nine Clans, but they also ended up in the desolation of being absconded back to their ancestral hometown.

Although the ancestral house is located in a ravine, there are many fertile or flat fields or orderly terraced fields surrounded by mountains, which can produce a lot of grain every year. In previous years, they did not let the side branch transport grain, fruits and vegetables to the capital, which was regarded as the back road of their own family, and also as the hard work of the side branch to take care of the ancestral home.

At that time, the Yun family and the Song family were in the limelight, and they were very stammered, and every year they traveled tirelessly to Kyoto to deliver fine and delicious grains, as well as some preserved fruits made of sweet fruits, etc., of course, they got more benefits than these values. They also wear gold and silver foxes in their ancestral hometowns, and fake tigers are so uncomfortable!

It's just that now that the Yun family and the Song family have fallen, and the Yan branch has been sneaked back to their ancestral hometown, the side branch immediately turned his face and denied it, saying that they are both heirs of the family, so why should they give up the food and accommodation that they have worked so hard to take care of. These are all left by the great-grandfathers, and they are shared by everyone. All the scenery has been enjoyed by the Yanzhi, and the hard work is left to them, and now that the scenery of the Yanzhi is gone, they will come back to take the food from everyone's mouth.

They were numerous, all of them strong and strong, and they had been entrenched in their ancestral homes for decades, compared to the descendants who had been imprisoned and exhausted from long journeys. So some abandoned thatched huts, overgrown with weeds and rocks, were used to send the heirs, and they relied on the large number of people to rob the chariots and horses of the heirs, and some gold and silver, and even some beautiful maids and daughters-in-law also suffered great insults, and also caused a few lives.

Although the young masters of the Yanzhi branch are not strong, they have some bloody skills, and they can only stop the evil deeds of the group of white-eyed wolves when they see blood with a knife.

Everyone is a little disheartened, the outside world has hit everyone, they have done a lot of psychological construction along the way to grit their teeth and admit it, who can guarantee a smooth life, there are ups and downs, and if you can bear the wealth, you must be ready to fall down. However, the blow from the same people was tantamount to the last straw on the camel's body, completely destroying the two families.

Completely fell from the sky to the ground, and rolled in the mire.

They are far from being as good as Ran Jia imagined, there are many women and children in the family, and the men can't leave, and secondly, they are suppressed by their colleagues, and they can't find a good job at all, so they can only do labor. For two months, the fair-skinned and handsome men were black and thin, and the depths of their eyes were full of decadence, but they still had to grit their teeth to support their mothers, wives and children to support a small family.

Work in the fields, fight for others, and be a mason.

Oh, they have some kung fu to go into the mountains to hunt some food, but the group of brave side branches immediately surrounded them and blatantly robbed, or did something to attract hungry wolves, tigers, and wild boars, and the group of young men lost two of them and three were disabled, so that the family stopped them from going up the mountain again to exchange their lives for stuttering.

Women will be popular, but the heroines have been pampered for a long time, where do they have personal girls who do well? Most of the girls were robbed, and in order to survive, they also showed their true nature, and the rest were busy doing farm work, cooking and laundry, and taking the time to make exquisite embroidery pieces were deliberately lowered, and even blatantly occupied.

The hard work was not rewarded, and they also rested on it.

The two families were completely reduced to peasant households, disgraced all day long, and people were numb to mess around day by day, and those concubines who were noisy and followed saw the opportunity to lead the concubines and concubines to run away with the things they had secretly hidden. Those who can stay are those who are sincerely for this family, and there are also those who are old, weak, sick and disabled and can't leave.

They didn't dare to tell Ran Jia about this, but they secretly began to plan to send more people, which would make her suffer when the time came, after all, they had to carry a lot of supplies, and her beauty was so earth-shattering.

Meng Qigu knew that Ran Jia would not be afraid after she knew, but she might go in advance, without sufficient preparation, where would she dare to let Ran Jia leave.

Ran Jia was calm and slightly expectant to devote herself to the sewing of the wedding dress, she was a tasker, but she was also an ordinary person, only blood and family could give her a bond, making her feel that she was really alive. People can't do without love words, and she is also willing to use her own efforts to protect the precious friendship.

She still gets along with the children day and night, trying her best to lay a solid foundation for them in these two months, and also influencing them little by little with her view of being a good person and doing things. It is said that when you are three years old and see you old, it is not a child who gradually constructs an outlook on life, worldview and values when gradually understanding the world, which has a great relationship with the cultivation of adults and the influence of the environment.

The children are very obedient, and they are indeed influenced by her, and they are more polite, sensible, diligent and studious.

Only occasionally she looked at the courtyard wall made of loess, her heart was a little empty, and her smile was also dyed with a lonely angle. There will always be some shortcomings, some things that cannot be done, and some friendships that cannot be controlled.

They have very little communication, but people's hearts are so soft that they are unexpectedly soft, and once there is a shadow, they can no longer erase the traces.

The summer harvest was in full swing, and Ran Jia also put on a hat, wrapped a cloth scarf, and carried a basket to deliver food and drink to the village chief's family, who was so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground.

I don't know if the point where she went out happened to be the point where An Xuning came home, or if he did it on purpose, whether she looked at the sun carefully half an hour in advance or half an hour behind, she would meet him every three or five times.

After all, the two of them are neighbors, and when they meet, they can't really say a word, right? Her cheeks flushed under the cloth towel and said a few words to him, and she hurriedly collapsed the basket and left with three three- and five-year-old little beans who couldn't help.

The farmer's food is limited, but Ran Jia can make many delicacies with simple things, there are seven or eight kinds of soup to quench thirst and relieve the heat, and it does not cost much material but can make people who are tired for a long time feel comfortable. Every time she made something delicious and delicious, someone always sent her own girl to ask, if she didn't lack this mouthful, she gritted her teeth and followed suit.

For example, mung bean soup, tomato and potato soup, loofah soup, winter melon soup, and tomato and egg soup that make them sigh. Some of the food is also to make people who have no appetite in summer have a rare hunger, some cold noodles, cold noodles, prepared cold dishes, and some sour and hot and delicious seasoned side dishes.

She has a gentle personality and is not secretive, and soon became the most popular person among the eldest girls and little daughters-in-law, without the slightest frivolity that makes people feel annoying.

On this day, she deliberately stepped on the basket to go out at the hottest time of the day, her yard was not small, and it was packed up by Meng Qigu before and after into a vegetable garden and orchard, and a circle of big watermelons was planted around the wall. In the yard, after she got the two thousand taels of silver, she asked people to dig a deep well in the yard, soak the watermelon in the cold well water every day, and then fish it out and cut it into thin strips and send it to the field, and by the way, there is food at noon.

A few of the kids would come running to help her, and they were already running away with the watermelon, with only a few smaller ones clinging to her behind carrying the warm mung bean soup and food.

An Xuning's steps were a little vain and his face was pale, he saw her nodding from afar, and said in a hoarse voice: "Go to deliver food to the village chief's house again?" ”

Ran Jia chuckled and nodded, her eyebrows and eyes were curved like a touch of cool pool water, rippling with gusts of wind.

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