"He went out to gather firewood!" Li Cuihua had long expected that this old pious woman was going to ask her, although her voice was a little weak, but at least she replied quickly.

"How could he go collect firewood for no reason?" Wu Xiuhong was suspicious.

Zhi'er is like a mother, she still knows her son very well, and her three sons are the same, very lazy!

Can a guy who can lie down and never sit can go and collect firewood by himself?

"Jin Er is cold, so he went." Li Cuihua took her son Ma Jiajin out to talk about it.

Wu Xiuhong looked at her grandson when she heard this, and she didn't say anything.

Anyway, when her son gets the firewood back, she will have to divide some of it, and it's always good to go out and find something.

For a time, many bonfires were lit in the cave, and the dark entrance to the cave was much brighter.

Ye Qiuyun carefully carried her daughter out of the car, the five boys nested in the carriage for a day today, and they were really miserable, and after they came down, they gathered around their families to make a fuss.

The three brothers of the Ji family found many branches and leaves, the fire burned quite big, and the family snuggled together.

The rest of the families are similar, they all take their children by their side to comfort them and enjoy this rare moment of warmth.

The ten young men assigned to the task stood at the entrance of the cave, holding the wooden stick all the time, vigilantly watching the movements around them.

Before you know it, it's late at night, and everyone is tired from a day's journey, and many people fall asleep.

Afraid that something will happen to the child, the adult sleeps the child in the middle.

This moment is their sweetest and most relaxing moment.

But there is one person who will not relax.

This person is Li Cuihua.

Two or three hours have passed since Ma Xianfu went out, and he has not come back for a long time, seeing that it is late at night, Li Cuihua is becoming more and more panicked.

Wu Xiuhong fell asleep just by leaning on the side, because no one asked Ma Xianfu.

At first, she could comfort herself that Ma Xianfu saw the prey and delayed the time, but seeing that so much time had passed, she finally began to panic in her heart.

At this time, her son Ma Jiajin was really cold, and shrunk into his mother's arms and complained:

"Mother, didn't you say that my father went to collect firewood for me? Why haven't I come back for so long, I'm going to die of cold! ”

The popularity of the Ma family is not good, if it is a good person, even if the family does not get firewood back, they can go to other houses to rub it.

But the other family now regards the Ma family as a plague and doesn't want to have any dealings with their family.

The later the night, the cooler the temperature.

Li Cuihua touched her son's head, her voice trembling a little unconsciously, "Your father will be back later." ”

Although Ma Jiajin was reluctant, he couldn't help it.

He saw that the corner where the two sisters were shrunk was more sheltered, and he rudely stepped forward to push the two sisters away:

"Get out of the way! The location was warmer than mine! What are two money-losers doing in such a warm location! ”

Li Cuihua's two daughters have never been valued at home, and they didn't dare to say anything when they were treated so roughly by their younger brother, so they silently moved out of the way.

Anyway, if they make trouble, their parents will not uphold justice for them, and they will praise their younger brother for his intelligence.

Li Cuihua waited patiently for another half an hour.

By this time most of the people in the cave had slept, even her own children, and she was the only one who was still staring.

As far as the eye can see, the campfire is full of sleeping people.

She was hungry and cold, and the panic in her heart could no longer be suppressed.

Something must have happened to the housekeeper, right? I haven't come back for so long, something must be wrong!

Li Cuihua got up from the ground in a panic and ran to the young man guarding the door.

"Sister-in-law, is there something wrong with you?" The young man guarding the door saw that she was anxious and asked.

"Cousin Lei, your rich brother has been out for almost two or three hours, and he hasn't come back yet. See if you can help me get someone out and look for it, it's so dark in the mountains now, don't anything happen! ”

She recognized the young man who spoke, called Lin Lei, the only son of a family in the village, and he was relatively honest.

Lin Lei didn't expect this to happen, listening to her voice trembling, her face was like gold paper, he glanced at the rest of his partners, and then looked at the dark sky outside.

Although there were many fires in the cave that looked bright, it was pitch black outside, and it looked like the hideous mouth of a wild beast.

Who would dare to go out rashly at night in the mountains?

Everyone's faces showed embarrassment.

Even if the best family in the village came to intercede at this moment, they would have to weigh it, not to mention the notorious Ma family.

"Cousin Lei, you have to help me, you can't see death without help, now we are all fleeing, if I have no man, the babies have no father, how can this family of orphans and widows live?" Li Cuihua immediately cried bitterly.

What she said makes sense, although Ma Xianfu is usually out of tune, but there is a huge difference between having a man in the family and not having a man in the family.

Now Wu Xiuhong is picky about her, if her family is gone, she is afraid that she will be devoured alive.

"Sister-in-law Cuihua, we have to protect the safety of all of us, and we can't leave rashly, I'd better tell the village chief about this." Lin Lei thought about it and said to Li Cuihua.

Li Cuihua did not refute.

So Lin Lei went to wake up the village chief and told the village chief about it.

"It's nonsense!" The village chief immediately became angry and directly reprimanded: "People don't say it until they see it for two or three hours, if there is any danger here, there will be no such person for a long time." ”

I was already annoyed when I was woken up in the middle of the night, but now that I know what happened to the Ma family, I am still unhappy.

His voice was not suppressed, waking up a lot of people who were always vigilant, and everyone asked the village chief on their feet.

"Village chief? What's going on? ”

"Is something happening? Could it be that someone is coming from outside? ”

"It can't be a beast, I heard that there are big man-eating guys in this mountain."

“……”

Everyone had different opinions, and almost everyone slowly woke up.

Seeing that everyone was panicked and waiting for an explanation, and seeing Li Cuihua crying and pleading beside him, the village chief simply said it clearly.

Everyone was panicked at first, but after listening to the village chief's explanation, only anger remained.

"Ma Lao Er has always been a slacker, who knows if he went out to collect firewood or what he was doing this time, it's so late now, do you want the big guy to risk his life to find someone?"

"I don't think I'll come back for three hours, most of the time something happened, let's all go out, what if there is any danger?"

"I'm going to go to you, I'm not going anyway. Their family has always been disobedient, and when something happens, they know they are looking for us? ”

The villagers were very resistant, and Li Cuihua saw that everyone was refusing, and suddenly cried in despair:

"Please! Please, everyone! ”

Kneeling and kowtowing again, Li Miaomiao, who was moving a lot, woke up.