Chapter Forty-Nine: Outsiders Appear
When the village chief learned about this, he felt more and more that this Qiao family was indeed different from before.
It's like a different person.
What does this mean?
It shows that it must be Liujin Village under his leadership, and the people are simple, so he can slowly turn a wicked woman who treats children harshly into a good person with great kindness and foresight!
The village chief was very satisfied.
The villagers of Liujin Village also regarded Qiao Huaping more and more as their own.
The four cubs of the Mei family went out, and even on the way to escape the famine, there were often villagers who stuffed a few peanuts into their hands, stuffed a few wild fruits, or made one or two pieces of dried meat or something.
Since ancient times, feeding food has been the most direct and simple way to express good feelings.
The four cubs of the Mei family obviously felt the difference.
In the past, when they were in the village, some children would scold them for being mourners and debt collectors without fathers and mothers.
But now, wherever they go, there are villagers who greet them warmly, and the attitude is kind, as if they are their own sons and nephews.
Even the naughty ghosts who used to make faces at them with the corners of their eyes pulled at them, if they were still so annoying, and were seen by the adults in the family, they would be hit on the back of their heads lightly: "What the hell do you look like!" ”
All these changes are brought about by Qiao Huaping.
They felt the kindness of the whole village.
Rao is the most nervous Mei Qingyao, and she couldn't help but sigh with her younger brothers and sisters in private: "...... Don't say it's a bit cool. ”
Mei Qinghuang opened her mouth and shouted Qiao Huaping Niang, and she became more and more aware of Qiao Huaping as her mother, and she straightened her little chest when she heard the words and was honored: "Mother is really amazing!" ”
Mei Qingying nodded.
Mei Qingyao couldn't help but learn from the cold and mature appearance of adults, and snorted coldly!
Although Mei Qingyao is no longer as hostile to Qiao Huaping as before, he feels that he is an eight-year-old man, standing up to the sky, and he is not unweaned, so he doesn't need to find a new bride for himself.
Forget about my sister, I didn't have a mother when I was a child, and I was still a four-year-old girl, and my little stepmother was good to her now, and she was naturally close to her.
He understands!
But what about his resentful third brother?
Immature! Immature! Not like a man!
Even he felt that his younger brother's behavior of being a good little baby of the little stepmother was simply a loss of their manly face!
Look at the second brother Qingyu, he is different!
He is smart, calm and wise!
will not be like the third brother of the resentful seed, one bite and one mother......
Mei Qingyu: "My mother is really powerful. The people in the village are so kind to us now, almost all of them are looking at my mother's face. ”
Who doesn't have a person in the family who learns archery with Qiao Huaping!
Mei Qinghuang nodded frantically, and Mei Qingying nodded her little head seriously.
Mei Qingyao: "......"
The eight-year-old man was shocked!
My smart, calm and wise second brother, when did you also betray our brotherly alliance front!
Looking at the eldest brother's shocked appearance, Mei Qingyu was rarely a little embarrassed, and coughed lightly: "...... Eldest brother, my mother also said before, it was in the past, and now it is now. She has changed, and we should not be stuck in the past. ”
Mei Qingyao actually knows this reason.
But he just can't get over that hurdle in his heart.
Mei Qingyao said stiffly: "You call you, I don't care!" Leave me alone, let's go our separate ways! ”
Mei Qingyao took his small bow and strode forward.
Mei Qinghuang was a little anxious, and shouted behind Mei Qingyao: "Brother Yao, where are you going!" My mother said that she couldn't go into the forest, so she could only practice archery at the edge of the forest! ”
It's "mother" again!
Mei Qingyao felt a little aggrieved and a little sad, and didn't look back: "I know!" ”
He didn't go into the woods, but ran to a path on the other side of the hill and kicked a large patch of grass with his foot.
He knew when he was a child that he, the second brother, the third brother, and the younger sister, they were not the same mother.
He lost his mother when he was a child, and there was only his father and an old servant named Uncle Sheng at home.
When the second and third brothers were born, he was still young and had no memory, but when he got older, the people in the village didn't gossip much about the children, saying that the second and third brothers were born by the woman whose father was outside, and when they were brought back, they looked like a few months old baby.
When I got to my little sister, he was a little older and had a memory.
He remembers clearly that one day, his father said that he was going to go out to run errands and left home.
He and his two younger brothers relied on the old servant Uncle Sheng to take care of them for several days.
But that night, the wind and rain were blowing, and my father was full of cold, and he came back in a clothed shirt.
Under the coat, there is a small swaddling cloth.
Dad told them it was their sister.
My sister's mother passed away due to illness.
Yes, Mei Qingyao knew it when she was a child that they had four brothers and sisters, and their mother was not one.
That being the case, there is a new mother, and he doesn't really care much.
But...... That person is that Qiao painting screen!
He was very conflicted, he knew that the little stepmother was very good to them now.
But he couldn't forget that the four of them had been beaten and scolded and treated harshly by the little stepmother, and they were not given food or clothing, and even the little stepmother wanted to take her sister away and sell her!
"Ah——!h
Mei Qingyao couldn't help but scream in annoyance!
As a result, I heard someone in the distance say "Huh": "Whose child is there!" ”
Mei Qingyao's heart tightened, and she clenched the small bow in her hand-
He may be reckless, but he is not stupid.
That direction was not the direction in which the people in their village were resting.
The three villagers who went out to explore the road today, he also knew, and the way to explore was not in this direction!
Mei Qingyao's mind flashed countless possibilities in an instant.
But don't be a bandit!
Mei Qingyao's body stiffened slightly, looking around for a hiding place.
He can run and run, but as soon as he came, his father took him to the county town to watch a play, and the mountain bandits in the play book all had horses.
No matter how fast he runs, can he be as fast as a horse?
Again, the other party is not necessarily a mountain bandit, can't it be a mountain man who went into the mountains to hunt?
It's better for him to hide first and see what is going on!
Mei Qingyao was rigid and reckless, and found a cramped small cave where he could hide, relying on the small size of the child, he quickly hid in.
The other party came quickly.
A few people with patched clothes and a little tired and wary looked slowly coming from the grass.
Mei Qingyao secretly glanced out, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment!
One of them, he's seen!
It's not someone else, it's his father's new marriage to the little stepmother, who came to see off his relatives, the little stepmother's mother's family!
Mei Qingyao clenched her fists.
Before that day, his father had already disappeared, and the villagers helped him to go into the mountains to find a broken corpse on the side of the road, as well as the torn blood-stained clothes!
It was indeed the clothes that their father wore before he disappeared!
Among the men who went into the mountains to look for them were experienced hunters, and when they looked at the wounds on the carcass, they knew that they were the work of wolves.
In other words, their daddy was eaten by wolves!
The four children of the Mei family, the sky has fallen!
But at that time, their father had already spent a lot of money to order the family affair, and Qiao's family was unwilling to return the money, so they married Qiao Huaping!
On the day of the send-off, Uncle Sheng, who had taken care of them for many years, died half a year ago, and the so-called mother's family, seeing that only a few of their children were in this big yard, actually moved a lot of things in their house!
If it weren't for the village chief of their Liujin Village who brought people in and forcibly drove them away, then they would have taken more away!
Mei Qingyao can't forget every face they had at that time!
His tiny fists clenched tighter and tighter.