Midnight.

Jiang Liu's eyes stared at the roast chicken in front of the door, and as time passed, the roast chicken emitted an attractive aroma.

She swallowed her saliva, and couldn't wait to step forward immediately, first scold Chen Xianyue, and then take the roast chicken for herself.

"Wow! I knew there was something good in this little hoof! I can't believe they still have meat to eat! ”

Jiang Liushi gritted his teeth, and the expression on his face was hideous.

"You said that this Chen Xianyue actually has meat to eat, so should we exchange her for food?"

Jiang He could see it clearly, and he said, "I don't know where they happened to pick up the meat, what about a dozen people in our Jiang family, it's safer to exchange her for a few bags of grain." ”

"Yes." Jiang Liushi nodded, still thoughtful as her husband.

Inside the house, Jiang Luo sat on the bed, holding his cheek with one hand and instructing Jiang Cheng, asking him to quickly find tools to dig a hole in the back wall, so that they could leave at night.

The walls on all four sides are earthen walls, which are hard and solid.

Jiang Cheng looked around for tools, groped around the empty room, and finally found the medium-sized military shovel that Jiang Luo had quietly dropped under the bed.

Jiang Ran stood behind Jiang Cheng and looked at him, his eyes fell on the roast chicken outside the courtyard gate intentionally or unintentionally.

The taste of the meat was so fragrant that she was drooling so much that she didn't have the heart to pay attention to anything else.

When Chen Xianyue came in, Jiang Cheng had already dug a small hole in the back wall.

"Cheng'er!" She hurriedly stepped forward to take the military shovel, and then the hole he dug expanded.

After a few moments, a small hole half a meter wide appeared in the wall, large enough to climb out.

Jiang Luo jumped out of bed and clapped her hands, she squinted and looked outside the wall, it was pitch black, and she couldn't see anything in the dark moon and high wind.

The smell of barbecue outside the courtyard was even stronger, and she couldn't help but swallow her saliva.

"Alright, let's go." She lowered her voice.

There was no light in the dark room, and they crawled out of the hole in the wall in the dark.

Before Jiang Luo left, he deliberately asked loudly, "Little lady!" Is the roast chicken ready? ”

"I'm so hungry!"

Chen Xianyue responded to her busily, "Luo'er will sleep obediently for a while, and when the meat is roasted, the little lady will call you to get up and eat." ”

They left the courtyard, carrying the only two packages on their backs, and headed north along the river.

Jiang He and his wife outside the courtyard were guarding the roast chicken, and seeing that the firewood was extinguished, Jiang Liu's stepped forward to take down the roast chicken, and Chen Xianyue did not come out.

The two of them each took a big bite of meat, and after a moment's pause, realized that something was not quite right.

When they stepped through the courtyard door and pushed it open, they saw a hole in the back wall.

"Not good! They ran! ”

The night was as dark as ink, and only the sound of the wind could be heard.

Jiang Luo shivered, wrapped the thin clothes on his body tightly, and the late autumn sky was getting colder and colder.

Jiang Ran was reluctant, she dreamed of eating a bite of Fangcai's roast chicken, she was tired and hungry, and she couldn't walk.

"Mother, where are we going?"

"If we are caught up by my grandfather, will they kill us?"

Jiang Luo took her hand and comforted her with a smile, "Don't worry, they won't chase us, and we won't have to be exiled from now on." ”

They walked all night, Chen Xianyue was glad that they had really regained their freedom, but she was also afraid, how could she support her three children by herself in this world?

By daybreak, they had walked more than fifty miles.

Jiang Luo couldn't walk anymore, Chen Xianyue took water, picked up some firewood, and wanted to boil some hot water to drink.

Jiang Luo took out a handful of rice for cooking porridge painfully, these are seeds, she wanted to settle down, she wanted to use them to sow seeds, and now she took them out to eat, it was really a luxury.

They peeled the rice grains into white grains and cooked porridge in clay pots that they brought with them.

As the temperature rises, the white porridge in the jar tumbles, exuding the aroma of grains.

Jiang Ran kept a grain of rice in her hand that she was reluctant to put into the jar after peeling it, round and white.

She had eaten a lot of white rice in the capital, but she had never seen such a plump, large, white grain of rice.

"Sister, this rice looks good." She carefully wrapped it in a dirty handkerchief and put it close to her body, as if she were a treasure.

"yes, it's a very powerful man." Jiang Luo's thoughts flew far away, it was her hometown, planted by people like gods.

Jiang Luo sat on the side with a porcelain bowl, drinking white porridge in small sips, the sweet porridge was boiled and melted in his mouth.

She squinted her eyes with a happy expression.

"From now on, our family will live a good life, and we will never live this kind of upheaval again."

Chen Xianyue's tears fell into the steaming porridge, which was really fragrant.

"Little lady must work hard to let you live a good life."

She doesn't have the strength, but she can do more work as she can do sewing, washing, and embroidering.

No matter how bad it is, she still has some appearance, if she can marry a solid family, she doesn't ask how good her life is, as long as her children have something to eat.

"Drink it well~" Jiang Ran's eyebrows and eyes curled with a grin.

Jiang Cheng sat on the side and didn't speak, drinking porridge by himself.

The sun shines on the forest, scattering dappled shadows.

They had a full meal, rested for a while, and continued on their way.

After crossing the river from the shallow water beach, and walking for another two miles, I came across a village, surrounded by mountains and rivers.

The young people of the village have fled the famine, and only some old and weak women and children remain.

Jiang Luo stood in front of the village and looked at it, and there was a large flat area at the foot of the mountain, which was covered with withered grass.

"Little lady, let's settle down here."

They exchanged half a bag of rice with a family in front of the village for a dilapidated courtyard at the foot of the mountain, the mottled courtyard wall crawling with dry vines, many of which had collapsed due to disrepair.

The thatch on the eaves of the five thatched huts has rotted and is overgrown with withered yellow weeds, and the air leaks everywhere.

The creaking doors and windows were crumbling in the wind, and the house was covered with cobwebs and dust.

Jiang Luo originally wanted to find a place to build a house by himself, but their orphans and widows couldn't carry it on their shoulders, so it was better to find a ready-made place to live.

Many people in the village secretly laughed at their stupidity, and sure enough, the orphans and widows were easy to deceive, and they actually exchanged such good rice for a dilapidated house that could not be inhabited.

Chen Xianyue didn't know how to barter things, but Jiang Luo said that it was worth it, so of course she agreed to change it. And let the original owner of the house make a document for them, and ask the village chief to make a witness.

From now on, this is their home, and she will definitely raise her three children well, and live up to the second master's kindness to her.

Chen Xianyue was relieved and aggrieved, she tearfully took away the inner room, and the four of them slept all night.

Early the next morning, Chen Bo, the original owner of the house, came to knock on the door with dark circles under his eyes. Xu was because he took advantage of the sky, and those people in the village pointed at him behind his back, and he couldn't help it.

So he found four or five people to come over and help Chen Xianyue repair the house and renovate the courtyard wall.

After two days of tossing like this, the house took on a new look.

Chen Xianyue is an extremely diligent person, she cleaned up all the old things, and even wiped the steps in front of the courtyard door new.

After the clutter in the room was cleared, only the four empty walls remained.