There are more than 100 households in Angelica Village.

In the past 20 years, 20 families have been ruined because of gambling and usury. As for the losers, there are more than 30 families who have changed from a family of three to a lonely family. In other words, since the gambling house loan shark entered Angelica Village, half of the families in Angelica Village have suffered great changes because of this.

Women have lost their husbands, children have lost their fathers, and parents have lost their sons. It's all because of a gambling word.

Xu Xiao, as a great real person who has traveled for decades, has seen too many such things, and his Dao heart has already cultivated to the realm of no desire and no desire. This kind of thing, he shouldn't have any ripples in his heart.

But when he saw the children in the village who had lost their mothers or fathers, he felt injustice.

So when he took these house deeds and found the village chief, he gathered the people of the whole village and said that he would return these house deeds to them. When he saw the children cheering for joy because of the return of their lost home, waves rippled in his chest.

Children don't understand the humiliation of breaking a home, they will only feel sad because the home they used to live in is suddenly someone else's, and they can no longer live in it.

And when their home is lost, they can continue to play in front of and behind the house, so they are happy.

"The old way... Old decay can be regarded as a good deed, and I also know the origin of the name of Angelica Village. Today, I will return to you all the houses and land you sold, and I hope that you will not make the same mistake again in the future. You should inherit the bravery of your ancestors and never forget the past. Because Xu Xiao deliberately changed into civilian clothes before entering the Xiling faction's stronghold, the villagers didn't know that he was a Taoist priest, but only regarded him as a righteous and courageous cultivator, and besides, he didn't want to reveal his identity.

The village chief led the villagers and gave Xu Dazhen a deep salute, and said thank you many times.

This time, after a year, Xu Xiao came to Angelica Village again.

At present, the highest generation in Angelica Village is the third grandmother, who is ninety-nine years old. His husband died twenty years ago.

No one knows where she came from, but she was brought back by her husband when he went out to fight.

She came to Angelica Village in her twenties and saw with her own eyes that a hard-working farmer in Angelica Village had become gamblers who didn't want to do anything after entering a gambling house a few times.

She didn't say anything, not just because she didn't want to say it, but more because it was useless to say it.

Although her body is still healthy, her ears are already very back.

Xu Xiao walked up to her and shouted loudly: "Third grandmother, Xiao Xu is here!"

The third grandmother sat on the rattan chair in front of the house, holding her knee with her left hand and the cane with her right hand, bowing slightly and nodding, a rare smile bloomed on her face, and she muttered, "Xiao Xu is here... Xiao Xu is here... Dog baby, pour tea for Grandpa Xu. ”

The two children next to Xu Xiao, one is called Gouwa and the other is Niuwa. The dog baby and the cow baby ran to the house, as if whoever found the tea pot first and made the tea first would be a big official.

Xu Xiao sat down next to the third grandmother, the third grandmother nodded, the furrows and wrinkles on her face flashed golden in the sun, and said, "Where is Xiao Xu going to go this time?"

"I went to Xiliang, I have a few friends over there, and I want to go and see them. Xu Xiao said loudly. Last time, he told the third grandmother that he was an idler who liked to travel the world, and he had a bit of martial arts, so he wanted to walk more while he could still walk.

The third grandmother stared at the void in front of her motionlessly for a long time before she said: "When I was young, my family also wanted to go out to travel, but I stopped me, I said, you, wait until you earn three hundred taels of silver, and then go out to travel." He said why do you want so much silver, I said, I have three sons and daughters, three hundred taels, enough to live for the rest of my life. He laughed. Later, when he died, he did not earn three hundred taels of silver. In fact, I already knew that he couldn't make so much money, and I also knew that he said that he wanted to go out to travel, but he was just talking, so he was reluctant to leave our mother and sister. ”

Xu Xiao nodded slightly.

The third grandmother slowly moved her toes, and then said: "Xiao Xu, in fact, I admire you, you can walk so many roads, you have been to so many places, and your ability is so great." ”

Xu Xiao shook his head. took the tea handed over by the dog baby, and saw that the cow baby was unhappy next to him, and it seemed that he didn't grab the tea canister.

The third grandmother hugged the dog baby and the cow baby in front of her, and continued: "Xiao Xu, people like you who have traveled so many places will definitely not get involved in gambling, because the world you have seen is very big, and for you, gambling is really not interesting at all, and you can't get happiness from gambling." He looked down slightly at the dog baby and the cow baby, and continued: "But children like the dog baby and the cow baby, their happiness is very simple, but it is also easy to be led crooked, if they are put in the gambling house, within three months, they will become gamblers." Like their father, who had lost his sight of where to beg. ”

"So read books. Xu Xiao turned his head and said loudly in the ear of the third grandmother.

The third grandmother pursed her mouth and nodded very hard, indicating that she agreed very much.

There is no school in the village of Angelica. Because there are too few people in Angelica Village, it does not meet the standards of the government to build a school. However, there is a jointly established school in several villages in this area, which was built by the government. But it is too far to go to Angelica Village for two hours, so many parents do not let their children go to school, because half a day has passed back and forth, and it is better to help the family do things with this time.

Sixty years ago, the third grandmother just entered the village. At that time, everyone in Angelica Village was talking about the group of ancestors who died on the battlefield.

Thirty years ago, there were a lot fewer people talking about their ancestors, and everyone began to talk about whose family had a good harvest, whose family made money, whose family married a beautiful daughter-in-law, and whose family went to the city to become an official...

Ten years ago, there were very few people talking about their ancestors, and everyone was talking about who won the money and who lost, who sold the house and the land, who bought the house and the land, who first bought the house and the land, and then sold the house and the land...

The third grandmother felt that all this was because Angelica Village was too far away from that school. If there is a school in the village, and the children can read some books, maybe that inn and that gambling house will close down because there is no business.

Children have books to read, they can find happiness in books, didn't the village chief say that there is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book. There are all good things in the book, then no one likes to gamble, no one gambles money, the gambling house can't be opened, and the gambling house is gone, and those who don't read have no money to gamble, so they will farm honestly. When the crops grow prosperously, there will be more food, and when there is food and drink, the heart will be settled, and there will be no more thinking about gambling to make money.