Lu Fang's face was printed with a few pieces of black, and his hands were also black, presumably left by the fire.

"Eldest sister is tired, come, eat a cake mat." The woman smiled, took a piece from the plate on the side, and looked at Lu Fang's clothes, "Look, no matter how suitable this dress is, you don't need to change it." ”

This is the food on the uneaten plate that was recovered from outside, clean and unbitten, and it is absolutely reluctant to throw it away, but to keep it for yourself.

Lu Fang looked at Liu Meibao.

"Thank you, auntie." Liu Meibao looked at him and smiled.

"Thank you, auntie." Lu Fang looked at the woman and said, stretched out his hands to take the steamed cake she handed over, turned slightly sideways and ate it slowly.

"Thank you for not disliking leaving our mother and daughter to beg for food, I am grateful, eldest sister, you also sent old clothes and old mattresses, my heart is really..."Liu Meibao looked at the woman and said gratefully.

"What you said, if it weren't for you, my old man would still be standing here stir-frying? He died in the wilderness. The woman pretended to be annoyed and said, "Besides, you don't have any idle food, you brush the pots, wash the dishes, sprinkle and sweep the house, the eldest sister burns the fire and carries the firewood, you are a woman and a little girl, you eat little, and you don't use labor, and I still earn it." ”

"I didn't need to invite someone, but we had two more mouths to eat..."Liu Meibao said in a low voice.

"I really didn't need it before, but these days, if I don't fight, it's better, the business is better, and it's good for multiple people to help." The woman laughed.

Liu Meibao hesitated and looked outside.

This restaurant is not big, the lobby outside is for guests, here is for stir-frying, and the small courtyard inside is where everyone lives.

By this time in the afternoon, the diners had dispersed, and the previous noise could not be heard outside.

"Are the officers and soldiers defeated?" Liu Meibao asked in a low voice.

Before she could finish speaking, the woman covered her mouth and waved at her in horror. When I looked out, it seemed as if some fierce beast was going to pounce on me.

This is Li Changsan's control area, and no one dares to call Li Changsan here, but the Great Sage Ming Tang King.

This is Fancheng, which was given to the Shuntian King who started from Haozhou as the capital by the Great Sage Ming Tang King, in order to show the unanimity of the thirteen kings and seventy-two battalions.

Since there were people at the dock who were checking, Liu Meibao simply took Lu Fang to no longer go north that day, but turned around and went south. She is a pregnant woman and cannot be changed, so she dressed Lu Fang as a little girl, maybe it is really the most dangerous place is the safest, and there was almost no interrogation along the way, and by chance he rescued a man who was poisoned because he ate too many Liushen Pills, and got the opportunity to come to his home to settle down.

She doesn't think about long-term goals and plans, the most important thing at the moment is to find a stable place to produce smoothly, so that the danger of being found out on the road will be reduced by one point.

The couple are locals, and the man's surname is Zhao. When the rebels attacked the city, their children and families died, and the old couple and their grandson were lucky to die.

"I'm sad. Of course it's sad, I gave birth to six, and only survived two, and when it arrived, I still died..."

After a simple bite of food in the afternoon, Mrs. Zhao sat in the yard while helping Liu Meibao wash the dishes and chopsticks. While chatting with her.

"But so what, you have to live, even for this little one, you have to live..."Zhao Niangzi sighed and said. Fortunately, everyone has to eat, so the ancestors passed on the craft, otherwise they really wouldn't be able to survive, so they would have to go to fill the city..."

She laughed again, and her chubby face was like a flower.

Li Changsan and other rebels were no less ferocious than the Tartars, slaughtering the city at every turn, expelling the captured people during the siege and serving as meat shields to fill the trenches.

Reclamation is certainly not a funny thing.

Liu Meibao looked at her smile and smiled along, but the smile was bitter.

"You're also unlucky, it's not good to run away, flee here.." Zhao Niangzi sighed again and said, without waiting for Liu Meibao to speak, she smiled again, "However, it's not easy to go anywhere, you are a woman with a child, and there is another one in your belly..."

"yes, you have to live." Liu Meibao borrowed her words and said with a smile.

Zhao Niangzi also smiled.

"That's exactly what I want to think." She smiled and rubbed the dishes and chopsticks in her hand, "But I heard that you are doing well in Shanxi, and that adult beat the Tartars so hard that they didn't dare to invade, and the days of protection were stable, why did you come out instead?" ”

Liu Meibao's hand paused slightly.

"Our family is on the edge of Shanxi, and we can't get any light..."She lowered her head and said, "Besides, my family has nothing to protect in this ruined life, and I can't live anymore..."

"That's the same, it's all good, we who have no money and no power can live a stable life anywhere, and those who are rich and powerful can live a stable life anywhere." Mrs. Zhao sighed, leaving the topic away and not talking about it again.

Liu Meibao lowered her head to wash the dishes, and Lu Fang on the side quietly placed the washed dishes and chopsticks neatly in the wooden box.

I was washing, and there was a bustle outside listening.

"Grandma, there is a soldier grandfather coming to eat.." A six- or seven-year-old ran in and said.

He was wearing a yellowish shirt, with a braided hair, a round head and a round head, but the horror on his face did not match his age.

As soon as they heard this, the people in the courtyard became nervous.

Grandpa Bing refers to Li Changsan's soldiers.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'll take a look." Zhao Laohan hurriedly got up and said, walking out quickly.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and listened carefully to the movement outside.

“… Old Zhao Tou, I heard that the food you cooked is good, let us taste it today..."

Loud laughter was heard outside, and the sound of weapons crashing against the table.

Liu Meibao's heart was beating very fast, and she suddenly felt a warmth in her arms, and looked down at Lu Fang leaning over, her big eyes flashing with fear.

He was too young to understand what was going on now, but he knew that there were a lot of bad people who were arresting him and his mother, and he couldn't tell anyone what his name was, where his father was, and he couldn't tell anyone that he was a boy.

Liu Meibao reached out and hugged him.

"Dandan is not afraid." She whispered.

Lu Fang's nickname is Xiaozhou, and Xiaochuan naturally didn't dare to shout anymore, so he took Guizi's favorite name Dan'er, and girls naturally couldn't call it this, so it was homophonic Dan'er.

Those who fled suffered deeply, and they were even more afraid of these soldiers, especially those hungry people who took refuge in Li Changsan to form mourning soldiers, and they did all kinds of evil, lewd wives and girls ate human flesh.

It was frightening to think that their mother and daughter had been displaced all the way.

"Don't be afraid, Dandan. These in the city are still better." Zhao Niangzi comforted in a low voice, while turning her head and calling out to the boy who had just come in, "Iron spoon, take my sister to the house to play." ”

The boy who was called an iron spoon looked at Lu Fang, who was next to Liu Meibao, and was a little embarrassed.

"Go!" Zhao Niangzi patted him on the shoulder and urged.

The iron spoon walked over and stretched out his hand to pull the boat.

Lu Fang looked at him and shrank back at Liu Meibao.

"The girl's family is timid." The iron spoon muttered. While stalking his neck, he said to Zhao Niangzi, "Grandma, I'll go and greet grandpa."

As he spoke, he was about to go out, but Zhao Niangzi grabbed his ear.

"You give me some peace." She glared and whispered.

As he was talking, Zhao Laohan hurriedly came in.

"Cook a few hot dishes, make a bowl of soup.." He said in his mouth, commanding the young man who ran out of the house, "Little Er, hurry up and get the wine." ”

The young man answered.

"His grandfather, is it really just for dinner?" Zhao Niangzi asked in a trembling voice.

"yes. Now it is, if the service is not good. I don't know. Zhao Laohan stomped his feet and said, "Why don't you hurry up and burn the fire.."

Everyone was busy, Zhao Niangzi and Liu Meibao worked together to carry the bowl box in, and Zhao Laohan jingled to chop vegetables.

"Eldest sister, you and the iron spoon will bring the tea out." Zhao Niangzi said, sitting by the stove.

Lu Fang was stunned, and subconsciously looked at Liu Meibao.

"I'll go. Children, don't bump into them..."Liu Meibao stood up with her hands on her waist and said.

"I'll go." Lu Fang said crisply, and as he spoke, he grabbed the teapot on the side and ran out.

He's a girl now. The bad guys don't easily recognize him.

The iron spoon also hurriedly followed.

Liu Meibao wanted to call him up, but Zhao Laohan put the oil into the oil pot and raised the smoke, and the sound of sizzling overshadowed her voice.

Lu Fang and Iron Spoon had already entered the front hall.

Zhao Laohan and Zhao Niangzi were busy and didn't take this matter to heart at all, Liu Meibao walked out in a few steps, stood behind the door and listened.

There was constant laughter in the front hall, nothing more than what was robbed of someone's house where, what kind of good treasure was obtained.

"Kid, this way, this way, give me the teapot."

A loud voice greeted.

No answer could be heard, but the sound of pouring water rang out.

"How old is the little girl?" Someone asked.

Liu Meibao's heart suddenly rose to her throat.

"Five." Lu Fang's crunchy voice rang out.

Until November of this year, Lu Fang only turned three years old, he is tall and thin, taller than children of the same age, saying that five or six years old is also like, in order to avoid verification, Liu Meibao told him to pretend to be a girl, to tell others that he is five years old, but when it comes to the issue of his father, Lu Fang, who has always been quiet and obedient, stubbornly disagrees with the setting that his father is dead.

"Daddy can't be found, and he's gone." He blinked earnestly to suggest.

Liu Meibao's eyes turned red, and she nodded in agreement.

"The little girl looks very handsome."

"Be your son's daughter-in-law."

"My son doesn't know where his mother is."

The laughter in the lobby was louder.

Zhao Laohan's dish here was quickly ready, and the young man and Zhao Niangzi came up with flying footsteps, and Lu Fang and the iron spoon withdrew.

Soon the men had finished eating and dispersed.

"Did you give the money?" Zhao Niangzi asked cautiously.

Nodding his head and sending these uncles away, Zhao Laohan, who came back to catch his breath, glared at her.

"If you don't burn down the store, you'll be content." He snorted.

Although they didn't make any money, everyone was still happy as if they had picked up a windfall, and the atmosphere in the courtyard calmed down again.

Liu Meibao washed the dishes and chopsticks that had been cleaned up, and looked at Lu Fang, who was squatting aside to help.

Lu Fang held the washed dishes and put them in the box, and when he saw his mother looking at him, he grinned.

Liu Meibao also smiled and reached out to help him wipe the firewood ash on the tip of his nose.