Chapter 27: Successful Ox Sickness
Early the next morning, Su Wanqing was woken up by Li.
Xu Shen had already gone to rent an ox cart and was waiting for them at the gate.
For breakfast, they were multigrain cakes, and for lunch, they also brought oil cakes and steamed buns, and they were loaded with two bamboo tubes to drink on the clean waterway.
Anyway, it's something dry that is easy to carry and can withstand putting.
Xu Wei jumped on the ox cart excitedly, they really hadn't been out for a long time.
Although Xu Shen told him a lot of nonsense early in the morning, he still couldn't stop his excitement.
Xu Wei got into the ox cart without any expression, although Xu Cheng was calm, his eyes couldn't deceive people, and he was also very happy.
None of them knew how to drive the ox cart, so Xu Shen called the people who drove the cart together.
Anyway, the people and the ox cart are 100 wen a day, and Xu Shen didn't bargain, thinking about how they could rush back at night.
Su Wanqing told him to go back and see the Zheng family's ancestral home.
Anyway, she is also a new daughter-in-law, so she can't even know where the Zheng family is.
This reason is really impeccable, and the Li family can only go back with him.
As a result, Su Wanqing sat on the car board and shook her legs and said, "Uncle Xu, if we can't come back in the evening, we should live in the village." ”
Xu Shen regretted for a while, if he went for two or three days, he would go out in a few hundred words.
"Take a look and try to get back!"
The old man who drove the ox cart was already running with a whip.
This novel experience made Zheng Zuqing and Su Wanqing, who had never experienced it before, excited.
Coupled with a Xu Wei, the ox cart was full of chatter.
But it didn't take long for the excitement to be maintained, it was too bumpy.
Su Wanqing successfully fainted the oxcart!
Zheng Zuqing's face is not very good, and his butt is about to be turned into eight petals.
Although they repeatedly stressed that they would not rush to walk slowly, the coachman still threw the whip and just wanted to get the person there as soon as possible.
Everyone was in no mood to laugh, and they leaned on the ox cart tightly, for fear of turning themselves upside down.
By the time the ox cart arrived under the big willow tree at the entrance of Baiyun Village, Su Wanqing had already vomited out all the contents of her stomach.
The bullock cart is also too difficult to ride.
Li helped her out of the ox cart, and sat on the stone under the willow tree, and she felt the ground swaying.
Zheng Zuqing took the three children to stretch out his arms and kick his legs.
"If I knew it was so uncomfortable, we might as well walk back."
Li patted Su Wanqing on the back and said without replying: "I'm afraid I'm not halfway through walking now, but I'll get used to it next time." ”
However, except for Su Wanqing, the others recovered quickly when they got out of the car.
Li led the way through the village.
Looking at the desolation in his eyes, even Xu Wei was silent for a while.
Many of the washed away houses are lying there crookedly,
Occasionally, I met two or three people beating mud, and some people were standing in their fields waving hoes.
It's a little late to plant wheat, but it's better than nothing at all.
Li looked at the fresh faces, afraid that it was the person who had just arranged it.
I don't know if the original people in Baiyun Village are here.
"Old Zheng's?"
The voice came from behind several people, and Li Shi turned around with tears in his eyes, finally seeing an acquaintance!
"Aunt Feng, you are still in the village, how many people are still in our village!"
Aunt Feng is the daughter-in-law of Baiyun Village.
He was long black and thin, his hair was all white, and his face was wrinkled.
Aunt Feng looked at the people around her, and only recognized Zheng Zuqing.
However, this person was different from the one she had met in the village before, and she didn't say much.
just took Li's hand and sighed for a while.
"The people in the village are almost gone, we are hiding in Sanping City, the child's father is the chief, he has to come back as soon as the water recedes, there are only 8 households left in the past, and now it is forty or fifty families, and it will get better slowly."
"Where did you come from? What about the rest of the Zheng family? Who are these children? ”
Li hurriedly pulled Su Wanqing: "This is my daughter-in-law, Qing'er has married a daughter-in-law, just take her back to see, these three children are from Xie Yuan Town, just follow us to take a look, the rest of the Zheng family is estimated to have enjoyed happiness in Fuzhou!" ”
Su Wanqing called out obediently: "Grandma Feng! ”
Aunt Feng nodded with satisfaction, and from the Li family's words, she could tell that the people of the Zheng family might not come back.
"The child is good, your ancestor is a blessed one, but there are still two of the Zheng family's houses that have not fallen, but they can't live in it, do you want to come back to live? By the way, the Tian family next to you has returned. ”
Li hurriedly said: "I got an errand in the town, I will take the child back to see it today, and I will talk about the rest after reading it, then you go to work first, let's go back and have a look, and I will take the child to your house to sit in a while." ”
Because they were going back to the village today, the Li family gritted their teeth and picked out a few things that Su Wanqing and they bought yesterday.
The Zheng family here is good, and they have helped the Li family and Zheng Zuqing a lot before.
After a while, I sent them something over, and I was able to complete the courtesy.
The closer he got to the Zheng family's territory, Zheng Zuqing had a sense of familiarity.
The Zheng family used to be a big courtyard in all directions, and a family of more than ten people were crowded here.
Now the house has collapsed, and only a row of two rooms on the left hand side is still standing.
But it's also obviously tilting, and I'm afraid it won't last long.
Xu Wei gently tugged at Zheng Zuqing's clothes and asked him to bend down.
"Brother Zheng, don't be sad, we will live together in the future, and it doesn't matter if this house falls!"
Zheng Zuqing wanted to ask where he saw that he was sad.
It's just that I've never seen such a miserable environment, and I don't know what to say for a while.
But the child's kindness still has to be accepted.
"Well, I'm not sad anymore, then you have to take care of me more, let me eat all the chicken legs!"
Xu Zhong pulled Xu Wei and glared at Zheng Zuqing, and actually tricked children into eating meat.
However, along the way, Xu Zhong's state of mind has indeed changed, he has read the books of sages.
Seeing so many peasants living so hard, he was depressed all day long because of some trivial things, which really didn't look like a man.
"Yikes! The sister-in-law of the Zheng family is back! ”
Suddenly, there was an exclamation from the well-manicured yard next to it.
Su Wanqing looked over and saw a man with five big and three thick, not too cold and wearing a sleeveless gown.
Several people came out of the house in the back one after another.
"Ah, it's really the sister-in-law of the Zheng family, you can't go into that house, come and sit with us!"
Tian Laosi's daughter-in-law warmly greeted them into the door.
Then the five children ripped Zheng Zuqing around him and made trouble, probably thinking that he was the fool before.
"Let go, the clothes are going to be torn off, I have sugar, whoever lets go first will give it to whomever I want!"
As soon as they heard that there was sugar, the five children quickly let go of their hands and looked at him with blank eyes.