And the children were originally worried that Aunt Qiu was so attentive to their father, could it be that they had the intention of seducing their father?

But these days, it doesn't seem to be the case.

Aunt Qiu takes good care of her father and them, but it seems to be quite a rule.

Even Aunt Wang, who asked them to be careful before, gradually relaxed their vigilance, feeling that it was probably because the mother and daughter really had nowhere to go, and they knew how to repay their kindness, so they thought about doing things at home in exchange for staying.

also persuaded them: "Anyway, the family does need people to help take care of your mother and sister now, and if you look for someone from outside, you will inevitably find someone with other intentions, I think this Aunt Qiu is doing things properly, Qingqing and you are also in harmony, you might as well leave people first, and wait until your mother and sister wake up." ”

Aunt Wang said so, and the children didn't say anything else.

And these days, under the care of Aunt Qiu and Qingqing, Niang and Niannian are indeed clean and tidy.

It's just that Li Qingqing always calls them brother and brother, which makes them always very uncomfortable.

Especially Zhou Yuan.

When Li Qingqing calls his brother, he always reminds him of Niannian, he doesn't like Li Qingqing to call him brother, but it's hard to refuse, so he chooses to ignore it every time, or ignore it, I thought that in this way, Li Qingqing would stop calling him.

But this Li Qingqing shouted more vigorously, and he also liked to stick to him.

It's been a long time, and I've been seen by the people in the village several times, and some people are pointing at them and saying something, "Zhou Yuan is not young this time, and there are already people in the village who are as big as him, and there are already people who are talking about marriage, I see that the girl looks good, and Zhou Yuan is right." ”

Zhou Yuan was thin-skinned, his face was suddenly red like a boiled shrimp, and he sped up his pace, wanting to shake off these voices and Li Qingqing, but Li Qingqing still stuck to him, calling his brother behind him, so angry that he stopped directly, with a cold face, he wanted to drive Li Qingqing away, but seeing Li Qingqing's red eyes, he really couldn't bear it.

There was no way, so I had to let Zhou Er and Zhou Shen stop her, and tell this Li Qingqing to do more things in the future, so that she would be less clingy to herself in the future.

Li Qingqing couldn't find Zhou Yuan, and saw that Zhou Yi was busy writing and painting there, so he came over.

"Second brother, what are you writing?"

"Don't call me brother, I don't have a sister, and when I write, I don't like people to be close." Zhou Er is not Zhou Yuan and Zhou Shen, he can directly say the people and things he doesn't like, and the little village chief has been doing it for a long time, and his small face is really quite upright, so as soon as he opened his mouth, Li Qingqing was scared directly.

"I, no, I'm sorry, I, I feel like you're smaller than me." Li Qingqing didn't dare to look at Zhou Er, so he hurriedly lowered his head and twisted his clothes with his hands.

"Not necessarily." Zhou Yi frowned, continued to look at the book in his hand, and sketched by the way.

"What?" Li Qingqing didn't seem to understand.

"I said I don't like people to bother, don't you understand?" Zhou Er was a little unbearable, looked up at her, saw that she was going to cry, her brows wrinkled deeper, this girl cries at every turn, it's really disgusting, it's better for my mother and sister, when my mother cries, it's raining in the sky, the rain will moisten the land, and the crops will grow better and better, and my sister is bullied every time she cries.

But he didn't bully this Li Qingqing, why was she crying?

I don't know this, do you think he bullied Li Qingqing?

"I, I know, I just, I just watch you read, and I love reading too." Li Qingqing had nothing to say, and the corners of her mouth were flattened.

"You say you like to read, you can read?" Zhou Er was surprised, in fact, he always had a question in his heart, this Aunt Qiu and Li Qingqing claimed to be mother and daughter, but they didn't look too alike, and Aunt Qiu was quite careful in her work, but Li Qingqing, to be honest, those hands didn't look like peasant girls.

"Well, I'm literate." As soon as Li Qingqing heard this, he hurriedly approached Zhou Er with small steps, looked at the book Zhou Er was reading, pointed it with his slender white fingers, and read it word by word.

It's a bit slow, but it's a good read.

Li Qingqing's eyes looked at Zhou Yi with some pride.

As if to say, look, I am not comparable to those illiterate peasant girls, but Zhou Er's always cold face, I really can't see too many emotions, which makes her feel a little bottomless.

"Well, you are literate, but didn't you say you were an ordinary peasant girl? Home sends you to study? ”

Zhou Yi seemed to ask casually.

"Not really, but I have literate military advisors at home." Li Qingqing said proudly.

It's just that as soon as the words came out, she hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand, and then looked at Zhou Er anxiously, but Zhou Er lowered her head, her thick eyelashes covered everything under his eyes, and she didn't ask questions for a long time, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

However, she didn't dare to stay with Zhou Er anymore, lest she say something wrong and miss it.

After she left in a hurry, Zhou Er raised his head and looked in the direction she left, falling into a trance.

Ever read a book?

Still have a military advisor at home?

This doesn't sound like an ordinary peasant girl.

On the immature face, a pair of eyes full of wisdom revealed a cunning light at this time.

It seems that I have to find an opportunity to confirm with my father and other uncles the origin of the mother and daughter.

If you really guess correctly, I'm afraid that the motive for the mother and daughter to stay is not pure.

Zhou Er went to the house to take a look at his father, and saw that his father was still staring at his mother and sister in a daze, so he shook his head helplessly and went out.

"Second brother, where are you going?" Zhou Shen came out of the house, and just saw that the second brother was going out, so he hurriedly asked.

"Get out there and get some air." Zhou Yi didn't reply.

"Second brother, you wait for me, I'll go with you." Zhou Shen shouted and quickly cleaned up the matter at hand, but the second brother didn't wait for him at all, and he finally caught up.

Alas.

Now the atmosphere at home is getting worse and worse.

When Zhou Er and Zhou Shen went out completely, Aunt Qiu, who was busy in the kitchen, went out to give Li Qingqing a look, and Li Qingqing followed to the kitchen with understanding.

Aunt Qiu poked her head out again to make sure that no one was following, so she carefully closed the door and pulled Li Qingqing aside to speak.

"What's wrong with you? Looking like you're out of the woods? ”

"Erniang, I seem to have said the wrong thing." Li Qingqing took a deep breath and told him what he had just inadvertently said about the military advisor and the things he had read.

"You, I told you when I came, you must be very careful in what you say and do, how did you promise me?"

Aunt Qiu seemed to be a little angry.

"Erniang, I didn't mean it, besides, it's just a child, what are you afraid of?"

"What do you know, several children in the Zhou family are all precocious, especially that Zhou Er, who is young and average, but those eyes seem to be able to see through people's hearts."

"What then?" When Li Qingqing heard this, he immediately became anxious.

"Fortunately, you're not too stupid, I think, the reaction you said, eighty percent of Zhou Er didn't hear it clearly at all."

"That's good, that's good, if they know our identity, they won't spare us, this is a broken village, there are a lot of things, you see how those people were executed a few days ago, I don't want to be beaten, that ass has to be beaten."

"Don't take it lightly, in case, that Zhou Er hears it, and then test you, you can try to reveal it little by little, just say, you used to be the daughter of a rich businessman, but your father and mother have been killed by bandits, just say that I am your father's aunt."

"But can they believe it?"

"By the way, I remember that last year your father didn't arrest a rich businessman surnamed Li, what is his name Li Yan, it was from the town next door, you will use that person's identity to say it then, but remember not to say too much at once, if they are too urgent, just pretend to be dizzy, yes, crying and fainting, you think, your father and mother were killed by bandits, you have to die of sadness."

"Okay, I listen to my aunt, but auntie, do you say my father is still alive?"

"It's hard to say, we left a mark at the time, if he was still alive, he would definitely come to us, if he died, then we couldn't be exposed."

"Well, auntie, you didn't say you were going to seduce that Zhou Cheng'an, but I saw you ......"

"What do you think, that Zhou Cheng'an is an elm pimple, do you think it's your dead ghost dad? Okay, but what I told you, do you remember? We have to prepare with both hands, in case your dead ghost father is really killed by the people of the government, we have to figure out our own way out, you don't want us to be here all the time as servants and subordinates, and I don't know when we will be kicked out, and in the future, we will be like those untouchables here, and we will have to hunch over and work to earn some food, right? ”

"Auntie, what do you say?"

"If you want to have a good life in the future, listen to me." Aunt Qiu hooked her finger at Li Qingqing, and then leaned down on the root of Li Qingqing's ear to confess a few words.

After Li Qingqing heard this, her ears turned red, and she hurriedly waved her hand and said that she couldn't do it, but she was glared at fiercely by Aunt Qiu.

"Little hoof, don't pretend to be innocent here, do you think I don't know that when I slept with your father at night, there was a pair of eyes outside, eavesdropping on the wall roots for so many years, what kind of innocent lady was pretending to be with me?"

"Okay, okay, it's all up to you."

……

And Zhou Er found the uncle and uncle who followed his father to the mountain bandit's den that day, and carefully inquired about the scene of finding these women that day.

"You're saying that these women were locked up that day?"

"Yes, they were locked up together, you don't know that those bandits are really not things, so many women are locked up in a place like a pigsty, and it stinks so badly that these women were all gray at the time, and if you don't look closely, you can't see it."

"But no, later General Zhou also asked us to prepare hot water for these women to wash them, and many brothers couldn't help but want to take a peek at that time, and they were caught by General Zhou and beaten several military sticks."

"Not to mention, after those women were washed, they changed into the clothes of other women we found from the bandits' den, and they were all really savage, and it is said that many of them were rich businessmen and landlords who were robbed by the bandits before, and even officials."

"Yes, yes, yes, I remember, a few days ago, we didn't let some go and let them go to find their families, at that time I was responsible for sending them home, and a few of them said that the family was actually a rich businessman, but because it was too chaotic over the years, the family had already moved away, but I was kind enough to find relatives and send them back."

When these uncles mentioned what happened at that time, they couldn't help but be excited.

When I heard the word bandit before, I was scared and my legs weakened.

I didn't expect that one day, I would be able to tear down the bandits' lair.

Although there was an official government to fight the front, but when they went there, there were still some people guarding the bandits' lair, but those people couldn't make it to the climate at all, and they were killed by General Zhou, and the back ones were directly killed by arrows.

The situation at that time still makes their blood boil when they think about it.

"By the way, you just said that the bandits have clean clothes for women?"

"yes, don't these bandits have a lot of women? Some of the robbers couldn't stand the threat and persecution of the bandits, so they became bandit women, by the way, I heard that the bandits still kept asking women to give birth, and some women still thought it was good to follow the bandits, by the way, I remember that the remaining bandits at that time also said that they wanted to protect Erniang and Miss. ”

"Erniang? Miss? Zhou Er's eyes narrowed, and he seemed to understand something.

But I still couldn't help asking.

"What about this Erniang and Miss?"

Everyone was stunned.

Later, one person replied.

"At that time, I didn't necessarily hear it right, that scene, noisy and shouting, everyone was busy going in to see the bandits' den, busy charging, busy seeing what good things were in the bandits' den."

"Yes, I didn't take it to heart, besides, when General Zhou said it, don't kill women, so we asked the women who stayed in the bandits' den at the time, if there are those who are willing to stay, stay, and those who are willing to follow us, we will be responsible for rescuing them."

"Yes, that's what General Zhou said at the time, and it seems that there were still many women left in the bandits' den at that time, and they should be the families of those bandits."

"Yes."

Zhou Yi nodded, although it is possible that Erniang and Miss really stayed in the bandits' den, but another possibility is not ruled out.

Looks like we really have to be on guard.

Moreover, if he guessed correctly, then they must have come here for a simple purpose.

It seems that we have to make sure that those bandits are alive and dead now?

The bandits' families are not something he can choose, and if they have no other purpose, if they do, then he will not show mercy.