On the second day, when the carriage drove out of the conduct hall, it was already early, but fortunately, the housekeeper knew that they were going out, and the relatives had prepared gifts in advance and loaded the car, saving them from being busy.

"It's all your fault." Sitting in the car, Liu Meibao couldn't help but complain all the way, glaring at Lu Yan, "It's said that it's a relative, and if you get up so late, others will die of laughter." ”

Lu Yan just smiled and stretched out his hand to grab her.

Liu Meibao raised her foot and kicked him.

"Stay away from me, and don't come near me again." She said pretending to be annoyed.

Lu Yan laughed, reached out and grabbed her feet, took off her shoes and scratched the soles of her feet, Liu Meibao laughed and shouted in fear, and threw herself into his arms to scratch.

Fortunately, out of the city, there are no pedestrians in the wild in winter, otherwise I don't know how much attention it will attract.

Before they left the city, there were already Kuaima Bao and Song Sanniang, and when they came home, the family was already anxious.

"New Year's greetings to my aunt." As soon as Lu Yan got out of the car, he rushed to Song Sanniang, and knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"Hurry up." Song Sanniang accepted his New Year's gift and personally reached out to help him up.

Liu Meibao also came over with a smile to give a salute, Lu Yan had already been led by Zhou Liangyu to kowtow in front of the ancestral case, and after the New Year's ceremony, a group of people sat around the house lively, talking and talking about the matter of helping the homeless.

"What a wreck." Song Sanniang sighed and said, "I heard that there are people who froze to death everywhere along the way, which is worse than when the Tartars entered the city." ”

While looking at Lu Yan and nodded, "You have done a great good deed." ”

"Where the duty lies." Lu Yan hurriedly got up and said.

Liu Meibao giggled on the side.

Xiao Ling personally held the tea to them.

"I heard that there are as many as a thousand hungry people coming? People from all over here are coming. Did the river government come to help? She glanced at Lu Yan with a little curiosity and said, and hurriedly lowered her gaze to avoid.

"Do your best." Lu Yan replied.

"Let's donate another ten stones of rice grain." Song Sanniang said to Zhou Liangyu.

Now the ancestral property recovered by the Zhou family and the fertile land sold later are only more than 100 acres, and they are all newly harvested, and there is no harvest this year, and donating ten stones at once is not a small amount.

Liu Meibao and Lu Yan hurriedly stood up and persuaded each other.

"What? Don't you think I'm as rich as you? Song Sanniang said unhappily.

"Auntie. You're talking nonsense again. Liu Meibao smiled helplessly.

"This is my mother-in-law's heart." Xiao Ling smiled on the side, "Sister, don't shirk." ”

Lu Yan no longer insisted, and thanked him.

The wine and food had already been prepared, and Song Sanniang also invited Master Meng Xiucai to come over and accompany her, divided into two tables. The men ate wine at one table, and the women ate food at the same table, and it was lively inside and out.

After eating, the women listened to the drunkenness there, and then came to Song Sanniang's house to rest.

Xiao Lian took the initiative to take care of the kitchen food.

"There's a sister-in-law." Liu Meibao smiled, knowing that she was deliberately avoiding them so that they could say intimate words.

Xiao Ling smiled shyly.

"Look at the adults, don't let him eat and drink more." Liu Meibao instructed the servant woman who came with her.

"What are these words, how can a woman's family manage a man like this?" Song Sanniang glared at her and said.

"This is our wife's distress for adults." The servants laughed.

"I'm afraid I'm too troublesome. My uncle is drunk and doesn't like to serve. Song Sanniang pretended to be displeased and said.

The mullions and the servants laughed and retreated.

Liu Meibao fell on Song Sanniang's big kang and rolled comfortably and satisfied.

"What does it look like?" Song Sanniang said angrily, but her eyes were full of joy, and asked her about her daily life, Liu Meibao also asked her brother and sister-in-law if she was okay, and Liu Meibao slowly fell asleep while talking, and she slept until the evening, and she didn't know where she was when she woke up.

"Why did I sleep here?" Liu Meibao hurriedly blamed herself and got up.

The servant woman came in and helped her comb her hair.

"Why don't you call me?" Liu Meibao said, hearing laughter outside the house, "What about adults?" ”

"Mrs. Uncle said let you sleep for a while. The adults also took a nap and were talking with their uncle and wife outside. The servant replied one by one.

Liu Meibao walked out and saw Zhou Liangyu, the third lady of Song, talking with Lu Yan in the room.

"She also loves to sleep at home, and she doesn't know where the weird problem comes from, she always likes to take a nap." Song Sanniang said to Lu Yan.

In fact, how could this be the case, Liu Meibao couldn't help but smile with a red face, knowing that this was Song Sanniang who was afraid that Lu Yan would laugh at her own girl.

See her smile. Song Sanniang glanced at her.

"She's tired, just get some sleep." Lu Yan said with a smile.

Liu Meibao and Song Sanniang understood this tired word completely differently, so that when they were free, Song Sanniang pulled Liu Meibao and whispered to send her the two servant women in the family.

"You are young, and all the people in your family are new. Running the house is not smooth. She said.

In fact, their family has nothing to manage, there are no parents-in-law, relatives or anything, the life of the two of them is very good, she is not tired of taking care of the house....

Liu Meibao refused with a red face and a smile.

Song Sanniang looked at Liu Meibao, who was more beautiful than flowers, and instantly understood, but also a little embarrassed.

"You are young, and you must be temperate." She coughed, but couldn't help but whisper.

Although she is a modern person, when talking about this topic with her elders, Liu Meibao still can't open her face, and blushes a few times.

After saying a few words in the house, after Liu Meibao had eaten hot tea, Song Sanniang hurried to let them go back.

"Why don't you see your sister-in-law?" Liu Meibao noticed that there was no mullions in the house, and hurriedly asked, "Let's come here, we're tired of her, right?" ”

Song Sanniang looked at Zhou Liangyu, and didn't seem to know where Xiao Ling went.

Zhou Liangyu was also a little confused, and turned his head to ask the servant.

"The young grandmother has a headache, go to the house to squint for a while, presumably go to the kitchen to prepare dinner at this time." The servant woman laughed.

Song Sanniang frowned slightly, and Lu Yan on the side also seemed to look slightly uncomfortable.

Zhou Liangyu and Liu Meibao didn't pay attention and continued to laugh.

"Let my sister-in-law bother." She smiled at Zhou Liangyu.

"She doesn't have to do it. How can it be so tiring. Zhou Liangyu smiled and looked at Liu Meibao, "Are you okay?" ”

This is the first time that their brother and sister have spoken alone after entering the door, and Liu Meibao is also Mimi.

"It's okay, but being someone's daughter-in-law is really different from being a girl." She laughed. Leaning slightly sideways, Zhou Liangyu smiled and said, "So, my brother should care more about my sister-in-law." ”

"Okay." Zhou Liangyu looked at her with a smile and nodded.

When it was time to go out and get in the car, Xiao Ling came over, but he looked very bad. Liu Meibao pulled her and asked with concern, and Xiao Ling smiled and said it was okay.

But no matter how you look at it, this laugh is a bit far-fetched.

"Auntie, young people have the life of young people, don't put your mother-in-law on the shelf to embarrass your sister-in-law." Liu Meibao found an opportunity to whisper to Song Sanniang, but was beaten on the head by Song Sanniang with her raised hand.

"Don't worry." Song Sanniang glanced at her.

Liu Meibao grinned and Lu Yan got in the car and left, and watched their carriage and horses disappear at the corner of the street, and Song Sanniang took her son and daughter-in-law back to the house.

Be considerate of them all tired. After dinner, they dispersed early, and Song Sanniang was old and sleepless, so she sat in the room and recited Buddhist scriptures.

"....Uncle rested in the ear room....The young grandmother took someone to clean up... The servants packed up the tables and chairs and withdrew, but the young lady was still inside, and then she came out in a panic....After a while, my uncle also came out... It's not good to look at...."

The servant whispered in her ear.

Song Sanniang twisted the hand of the Buddha beads and was stunned.

"You're the only one who saw it?" She asked, after a moment of silence.

The servant woman whispered yes.

"You're mistaken, they're not like that." Song Sanniang said simply, and looked at the servant woman again.

"Yes." The servant woman immediately knelt down and said, her expression calm and solemn, "The old slave is the first person." I am used to stealing chickens and touching dogs, so the old slave's heart sees that nothing is right, and the old slave will put his heart right in the future, and he hopes that Mrs. will forgive his sins. ”

Song Sanniang nodded and smiled, motioned for her to get up, and said something else to divert the topic.

The night is getting darker, and the north wind is rising. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is coming soon.

"Kill!"

With a scream, a spear pierced a stout bandit screaming and rushing, blood splattering the face of the soldier with the spear.

The soldier's face was pale, his hand trembled, and he did not pull out the spear in time. The whole team was stunned because of this, and a short bandit who rushed towards him noticed it and immediately pounced.

With a "poof", a javelin was thrown in the distance, and it pierced the bandit's heart, and the bandit stared and fell on his back.

"Idiot!" Zhang Shun spat and glared at the soldier fiercely, "Don't be embarrassed by Lao Tzu, demote you by three levels, and then go back to the Xinding team to practice!" ”

The soldier bowed his head in shame and self-reproach.

"These bandits blow so badly, but they are vulnerable, I really don't know how they stayed for so long, are these people in Songshan Fort eating for nothing?" A few other big men strode up, laughing all the time.

At this time, on the slightly leveled cliff, there were corpses rolling to the ground, and thirty or forty bandits kneeling on the ground with their heads in their hands.

"That's the kindness of the people in Songshan Fort, who deliberately kept it for us to subsidize our family." Zhang Shun puffed out his chest and laughed.

"It's not blowing, the seizure is very rich." Beside the big man, a soldier with a relatively white skin said, while opening the paper in his hand, "There are five hundred taels of silver, and one hundred stones of grain and rice..."

Hearing this statistic, everyone's eyebrows fluttered, this time it may be a good New Year, except for those who handed over to the post castle, these people will be rewarded according to their level and the number of enemies killed, the more they capture, the more rewards, and for a time everyone shouted in unison.

"Kill the captives, pack up the capture, and go down the mountain." Zhang Shunyi waved his hand and said.

With a scream, the soldiers who had long been accustomed to it rose and fell with their knives in their hands, and rolled down their heads on the ground.

At this moment, a few whistles were heard, and the faces of everyone present changed slightly.

"Does this mean that we are surrounded?" Zhang Shun was a little surprised and a little incredulous, and asked.

"Could it be that there are other bandits in this cottage? Deliberately ambushing us? The other big men were also surprised and asked.

Everyone flocked to the edge of the cliff to look down, and the night was very dark at this time, and the mountain wind was cold, and they saw a large number of torches under the mountain.

"There are still a lot of people...", a big man was surprised.

They were amazed, but there was no fear on their faces.

"No, that's an officer and soldier!" Zhang Shun's eyes were sharp, and he suddenly shouted, "It's from Songshan Fort!" (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )