Mrs. Fan's lips trembled for a moment, lowered her head, covered her mouth with one hand, for a long time, with tears in her eyes, she looked at Li Xiaoqi and said in a low voice: "See Xiao••••••xiao for a while, tax collectors, officials and officers and soldiers go to the village almost every day to collect grain and ask for silver, and they don't pay attention to rules and regulations, the family grain depot is empty, and there is no more silver, that day, my father went to the county early in the morning, and wanted to ask Huang Zhixian to give a free order, almost noon, more than a dozen officers and soldiers came to the village, robbing things everywhere, and had to rush to the inner house, and the younger brother fought with them outside for a few words, was ••••••"

"I know that." Li Xiaoqi hurriedly stretched out her hand and pulled her to answer, Mrs. Fan's tears fell into a string, and she choked up and continued: "Mother came out, looked at the younger brother in the pool of blood, didn't come up in a breath, and followed •••••• to ••••••," Mrs. Fan's throat choked tightly for a moment, and then continued: "They are few, and when they see that there is a human life, everyone in the village rushes up and runs away, and my father comes back•••••• come back ••••••."

"Why do you want to escape? What happened next? Li Xiaoqi asked in a low voice,

"Later, after burying my younger brother and mother, I still kept urging food and silver, those officers and soldiers came every day, every day, my father said that he wanted to leave, the village was all surnamed, all surnamed Fan, and the land of several families was entrusted to his father's name, so as to save some taxes and grain, and the men in the village were all levied to fight, all of them were ••••••" Mrs. Fan turned her head to look at the helpless and tired women and children around her, and turned her head to look at Li Xiaoqi: "If you want to leave, you have to go together, and there is nothing to clean up, and I set off in the middle of the night, and my father is unwilling to go to Taiping Mansion, If you want to go to Beiping, you can go to South Vietnam, it's not that you don't want to go to Taiping Mansion, so we came all the way to the north, and the third aunt had a high fever in the middle of the night last night. Mrs. Fan pointed to the old woman who was half-lying in the arms of a young woman: "Father said to rest here and see if I can find a doctor." ”

Li Xiaoqi stood up, walked to the old woman's side and looked at it carefully, retreated to signal Mrs. Fan to rest assured, returned to Li Zongliang and Mr. Fan, and said a few words about what he had just heard: "•••••• doesn't seem to be seriously ill, I came out in the middle of the night, I was anxious and tired, and I was old, so I had to be able to take a good rest•••••• at least eat hot tea and rice." Li Xiaoqi didn't say any more, Li Zongliang turned his head to look at Mr. Fan, who lowered his head, as if he hadn't heard Li Xiaoqi speak, and sincerely suggested: "Sir, our brothers are now grass on this mountain, and everything on the mountain is still complete, if Mr. doesn't dislike it, go up the mountain to rest for two days first, and then make plans when the lady is well." ”

Mr. Fan nodded again and again in agreement: "Okay, last time when you left, I said that when we met again in the future, maybe I would rely on you, but I didn't expect it to be a prophecy!" In the past half a month, he was exhausted, he just wanted to fall asleep and never wake up, and felt that everything was in a dream, but he couldn't wake up, how to wake up from this nightmare.

Li Zongliang stood up and instructed everyone in an orderly manner: "Erhuai and Zonggui help Lao Changtou set up the car, and Sister Zhang, you help them clean up." Li Zongliang pointed to the group of women and children under the rock, a few people helped, quickly packed up the vehicle, helped the old and weak to get into the car, Lao Changtou and Li Erhuai and others each drove the car and slowly walked to the car.

Li Zonggui ran in front and called open the gate of the village, and everyone in the cottage looked at this line of ten or twenty old and weak women and children in surprise, you helped me, I helped you, and got out of the car in the yard, Li Zongliang didn't explain much for a while, Sister Zhang hurriedly beckoned a few people to come over, and simply cleaned a larger empty yard, Sun Qidi took a few people to unload the cow in distress, and led it down to wash and feed, Zhang Tiemu took someone to move everyone's luggage into the yard, and pulled the car to the side courtyard first.

Mrs. Fan looked at the mountain bandits like the villagers who were busy in the village, and only felt that it was incredible, which was like a bandit's nest, it was clear which village she had arrived at, and she was warmly received, Mrs. Fan relaxed, and she was busy with everyone, and followed Sister Zhang and Mrs. Sun into the courtyard, and looked everywhere, and did not ask for much of the meaning of each family, only discussed with Sister Zhang, and settled the temporary residence of each family, this line, a total of six, Mr. Fan took Lao Changtou, Ding Fu and Xiao Xiaomo book, Live in the two ear rooms next to the courtyard gate, Fan Da Niang and the girl Yuyan live in the third room of the East Chamber, the third aunt Liu, the daughter-in-law Zhao and the youngest grandson Pu Wa are a family of three, the second aunt Yan and the daughter Yueting live in the east and west of the main house respectively, the eldest sister-in-law Wu takes her daughter Mingwan and the youngest son Mingjing, the sixth aunt Wan and her grandchildren, and the fourth sister-in-law Qian and her son Mingdong live in the east and west wings, a group of people are tired and scared, and then they take a temporary break, no one has the heart to care where to live or where to live, Listening to Mrs. Fan's assignment, she quickly settled down.

Li Erhuai took more than a dozen prosperous charcoal basins and sent them into each house, Sister Zhang and Mrs. Sun helped, unpacking luggage, taking bedding, sending things and water, all the time was busy, Li Zonggui went to the kitchen and called Chef Zhang, prepared ginger tea, hot water, hot rice, and brought people over, Li Xiaoqi went in and took a few pills for calm evacuation and gave them to Mrs. Fan, and gave them to the three aunts who were hot.

A group of people washed clean, ate hot tea and hot meals, the house was coaxed by the charcoal basin warm like spring, several children were already tired and frightened, at this time it seemed to go home, full of food and drink, yawning into the soft quilt and falling asleep, Aunt Liu San was hot, Aunt Yan and Aunt Wantang were old, this relaxation, but also tired and couldn't stand the rest, the rest of the several, busy taking care of the children to sleep, and waiting for the old man to lie down, he was also sleepy.

"Let's rest for a while, relax when we get here, we are all Zhuang families, take a break, and then talk about the rest of the matter." Sister Zhang and Mrs. Sun gently comforted everyone, several daughters-in-law smiled and stopped, Sister Zhang and Mrs. Sun retreated to the gate of the courtyard and gently covered the door and came out.

Mrs. Fan worriedly waited for her father to wash, Mr. Fan only drank a bowl of thin porridge, fell asleep on the bed, saw Li Zongliang at the bottom of the mountain, Mr. Fan carried the breath a little relieved, nodded and agreed to go up the mountain, seeing that Li Zongliang was in order, this breath was completely relaxed, pain and tiredness came up together, and people were committed, and they didn't want to care about anything else, sleep first, wake up and then think about the future.

Li Xiaoqi watched Sister Zhang pacify and settle everyone, pay attention to the luggage and belongings of each family, and the more she looked, the more speechless she became, such a group of old and weak women and children, just like this, dare to take the car and flee with gold and silver in such a flamboyant way? ! Can still escape here, escape into their Beacon Hill territory, now the bandits and bandits in this area are more and more day by day, bad luck, a day to meet several times is a common thing, their village here, but a day more than a little road, but this day more road, they actually walked for two or three days, extremely rare, two or three days actually safe, really Bodhisattva bless!

Mrs. Fan watched her father fall asleep, and then went around the rooms lightly, breathed a sigh of relief, returned to the house, and sat on the chair very tired, the little girl Yuyan was too tired to stand, touched the little Mazha and sat at the feet of Mrs. Fan, yawned and muttered: "Girl, take a rest, don't be tired." ”

"Well, I'm worried about the third aunt's illness, this fever has been burning for more than ten hours, if you don't go back••••••" Mrs. Fan leaned back on the back of the chair, sighed sadly, and turned her head to look out of the door: "It's dark, let's look at tomorrow." Mrs. Fan clasped her hands together, closed her eyes, and recited the scriptures reverently for a while before she stood up, washed and fell asleep.

Early the next morning, before dawn, Mrs. Fan had already cleaned up and got up and opened the door to come out, and went to her father's room to see first, Mr. Fan was still asleep, Mrs. Fan withdrew lightly, and went straight to the main house to see the third aunt.

Sister-in-law Zhao's eyes were full of red bloodshots, and when she saw Mrs. Fan coming in, she hurriedly stood up and sat down, and said in a low voice anxiously: "Although it hasn't burned up again, but this heat just doesn't go down, and this person hasn't woken up, big lady, you have to ask a doctor to take a look quickly, don't delay!" ”

Mrs. Fan's mouth was full of bitterness, and she saw that Sister-in-law Zhao opened her mouth, but she couldn't speak, Sister-in-law Zhao immediately came to her senses, and hurriedly raised her hand and gently patted her mouth: "Look at me, I'm confused!" What is the point now, now I can have a place to live, it is not easy to have a hot soup, don't blame me, big lady, I am too, confused! ”

Mrs. Fan couldn't stop rolling down by her tears, and was about to speak, when the footsteps outside, Mrs. Fan hurriedly turned around and looked out of the door, Sister Zhang and Mrs. Sun each brought a big food box with unpainted logs and came in, Mrs. Fan hurriedly greeted her, Sister Zhang entered the house, handed the food box to Sister-in-law Zhao, sat sideways on the edge of the bed, and reached out to probe the third aunt's forehead: "Has the fever subsided?" Yo! It's still so hot! ”

Sister Zhang stood up, turned her head to look at Mrs. Sun and said, "You go back, see if the fifth master is up, and tell her, the third aunt's heat hasn't subsided!" ”

Mrs. Sun agreed, and hurriedly turned around and went out, Sister Zhang looked at Mrs. Fan and Sister-in-law Zhao, pointed to the food box and said: "Here is food for the third aunt and a few children, I came over and brought it over, the breakfast of the big guy, I will send it over in a while." ”

"No, no, I'll ask people to come and pick it up, and I won't send it." Mrs. Fan hurriedly agreed, called Yuyan in, and told her to talk to Lao Changtou and bring someone over for breakfast.

Li Xiaoqi had something on his mind, he woke up very early in the morning, he simply got up, brushed his teeth and washed his face slowly, and as soon as he got dressed, Mrs. Sun rushed in, Li Xiaoqi listened, hurriedly put on a leather cloak, and ran out with Mrs. Sun, this burned for a day and a night, don't burn your brain!