The village chief took some old bed mats from his house, two old quilts, and a small bag of coarse grain, and sent the three men to the westernmost part of Xishan Village, in front of the house at the foot of the mountain, and left.

Before An Xiaojiu, An Xiaoqi and Qing Niang had time to take a closer look at the house, they heard a child's fairy tales.

"Hey, are you going to be our neighbors?"

An Xiaojiu turned around and saw a little boy about five or six years old leaning over from behind a clump of bamboo, looking at them with big eyes.

The eyes were black and white, innocent and clear.

Just looking at it, it makes people feel good.

An Xiaojiu recognized this little boy and replied, "Xiao An An, Huan welcomes us to be your neighbors." ”

The original owner was often beaten by Yang and Quiet Niang, and every time he was beaten, he would run to the stream at the foot of the mountain to cry.

A few hundred meters down the stream, there was a householder. It's not a villager in Xishan Village, and he has never had anything to do with the people in the village.

The head of the household is an old man in his fifties, everyone calls him Uncle Rong, and he has a six-year-old grandson Rong An and a twenty-five-year-old nephew Rong Jing.

Because that Rong Jing had been a soldier, he had a scar on his face, and he was silent, so no one came to the door to say goodbye.

This third master has been living like this, but Uncle Rong's bamboo skills are good, and Rong Jing can hunt, so the life of this third master is not bad.

Just look at the white and chubby Rong An.

Rong An also recognized An Xiaojiu coming, jumped out from behind the bamboo, and happily took An Xiaojiu's hand, very happy, "It's good, Sister Xiaojiu is going to be a neighbor with me, so she can always play with me, right?" ”

The child's black and white eyes were full of longing.

An Xiaojiu's heart was sour.

Because Uncle Rong doesn't interact much with the people in the village, the children in the village don't play with Rong An, plus the scars on Rong Jing's face, the children are so scared that they don't dare to come to Rong An to play, so Rong An is very lonely, so after meeting An Xiaojiu, he became friends.

"Yes, my sister will always play with you."

"An An." Uncle Rong's voice came, and after a while, Uncle Rong came over, looked at An Xiaojiu, An Xiaojiu and Qingniang, and asked, "Do you need help?" ”

An Xiaoqi hurriedly waved his hand, "Don't bother, we'll clean up by ourselves." ”

"This house hasn't been inhabited for more than ten years, it will be very trendy for you to live in, or stay in my house for two days? I still have an empty house in my house, and the three of you can make do with it. ”

Rong Lao Xu was extremely kind to An Xiaojiu because of Rong An.

An Xiaojiu also refused, "No need, it's too troublesome for Uncle Rong, let's just burn more fires." ”

"Hmm." Uncle Rong answered, didn't say anything more, took Rong An's hand, and left.

"Xiao Jiu, you haven't told me yet, you ......" An Xiaoqi looked at Qing Niang, and stopped talking to An Xiaojiu.

An Xiaojiu laughed and explained: "Sister, I met a nobleman, please save you, but I also agreed, in exchange, I want to give you 200,000 taels of silver for five years, this is sent by that nobleman to help us." ”

An Xiaoqi is not stupid, so she naturally knows the purpose of Qing Niang's visit.

It's just that......

"Two hundred thousand taels?" An Xiaoqi exclaimed, and dragged An Xiaojiu with a somewhat panicked face and said, "Xiaojiu, is this 200,000 taels too much?" How can we ...... two of us for five years?"

In a peasant family, it doesn't cost twenty taels of silver a year.

In the same way, I can't earn much, these two hundred thousand taels of silver...... I'm afraid I can't earn it, right?

"It's okay, sister, you believe me." An Xiaojiu squeezed An Xiaoqi's hand and said seriously, "Besides, compared to your and my lives, 200,000 taels is not much." ”

This reason persuaded An Xiaoqi.

Indeed, compared to life, the 200,000 taels of silver are really not much.

Although in An Xiaoqi's opinion, earning 200,000 taels of silver in five years is tantamount to a fool's dream, but it's a bit rushing, isn't it?

It's better than spending the rest of your life in that kind of place.

"Qing Niang, you ......" An Xiaojiu looked at Qing Niang, and didn't feel any disgust, but he didn't know how to arrange Qing Niang.

Qing Niang smiled heartily, "I fled from the south, and my family died on the road, leaving me alone, and I was only bought by the young master a few days ago." The young master said, let me live together like you. ”

Of course, you have to watch An Xiaojiu don't run away.

For Lu Li, in fact, An Xiaojiu is just a fun, and it is precisely because of fun that he is interested.

"You two just treat me as a distant relative." Qing Niang said generously.

"Okay, then my sister and I will call you Aunt Qing from now on."

After discussing it, An Xiaojiu began to look at the house.

The house is not big, not even a courtyard wall, just a fence wall

There were two adobe houses, side by side, opposite the door was the stove room, and then to the owner of the stove was a room, which was supposed to be occupied.

An Xiaojiu didn't go in to see, there was a thatched house, a shed, and a well in the yard.

"Come and see, Xiao Jiu, you see that there is a thatched house behind you." After An Xiaoqi entered the house to take a look, he found that there was a small door in the stove room, and after opening the door, there was a small room inside.

It is a thatched house, although it is built quite strong, but it is very small, next to the wall of the stove room is a kang, but this kang is a little narrow, quite long, and it is slept against the wall.

Then there are two large vertical cabinets in each of the two corners, and there is a door in the middle, and on the east side of the kang, there is also a small window.

An Xiaojiu went over and pushed open the door to see that the back was quite empty, and there was a fence around it, it seemed that it should have been planting vegetables before.

Qing Niang smiled and said, "There is still a kang here, it's good, then I'll sleep here, and you two sisters will live in that main house." ”

"It's not good, this room is too small...... An Xiaoqi said with some concern.

Qing Niang waved her hand heartily, laughed and said, "What is this?" On the way to escape the famine, to have shelter and food is simply a dream. ”

For those who are used to suffering, the conditions here are still good.

An Xiaojiu thought about it and agreed.

In this way, she is also convenient.

"Come on, let's start packing up." Qing Niang put down her things, rolled up her sleeves and said, "I'll go to that thatched hut to see if there is any firewood or something, we should burn the fire first, let the kang be hot, and have some hot water." ”

"Okay."

An Xiaojiu and An Xiaoqi smiled happily.

They're starting to clean up their new home.