The night is quiet.

After a tiring day, several people climbed into bed and fell asleep after getting home to wash.

Gu Qing made an appointment to harvest mushrooms tomorrow, and gradually fell asleep.

A shrill scream pierced the silent night sky, and she jerked up from her bed, a loud cry in her ear.

Yang Pei stood at the door of the house and said, "The head of the house, there are thieves in the village!" ”

Gu Qing instinctively looked at the cabinet where the grain was placed, she took out the key and opened the cabinet, the rice and white noodles were still there, and her heart was suddenly relieved.

"All the food in Aunt Zhao's house next door was stolen." Yang Pei said, "Aunt Lizheng has already sent someone to chase the thief, I don't know if I can catch up." ”

Gu Qing got up, put on his shoes and walked out, most of the men in the village went to chase the thief, and the woman stayed here to comfort Aunt Zhao.

Aunt Zhao sat on the ground and wiped her tears: "What kind of sin has our Zhao family created, why do you want to steal our family's food...... The thief who was punished by God was killed by a thunderbolt of God......"

Gu Qing and the Zhao family lived at the foot of the mountain at the end of the village, and thieves came in, and the first ones to be stolen were the two of them.

The Zhao family is a foreign surname, and the last two generations fled to the foot of Gujia Village, and the homestead is located in this periphery.

The place where Gu Qing lived used to be lived by people with foreign surnames in Gujia Village, but the foreign surnames only gave birth to two sons, and after the two sons got married, he became a desperate household, and the house was empty after his death.

The original family was successfully arranged by Li Zheng to live here, although the house is broken, but it is better than no house to live in.

Aunt Zhao patted her thigh and cried: "The crops in the field have not landed, and the family's silver and grain have been stolen, how should I live in the future...... A family of six died together...... Fifty or sixty catties of grain, the food that was saved from the mouth, was stolen like this...... All the money that the family earned by picking mushrooms was gone, and even the two large chestnuts that they picked up a few days ago were stolen......

The onlookers couldn't help but smack their tongues, they didn't expect that at this time, the Zhao family still had fifty or sixty catties of grain in stock, and they could save a little bit a day by eating one meal, and the family of six could eat for a month or two......

Li Zheng sighed and said: "There are still a few days before the rice can be harvested, and the big guy will lend you a little bit to try to overcome this difficulty!" ”

Gu's village is also surnamed Gu, 55 years old this year, has been a Lizheng for more than 20 years, and is very prestigious in the village.

Gu Lizheng was the first to borrow a pound of grain to the Zhao family, and the others also wanted to echo and borrow a little, but there were too few people in the village who had surplus food, and everyone was starving to survive, who could get the extra food.

In the end, the villagers gathered a total of three catties of grain.

Three catties of grain, even if you tighten your belt to get by, and you can eat a full point a day, a family can only eat for four or five days.

Aunt Zhao was out of breath crying with three catties of grain, and finally fainted directly and fell into the arms of the eldest daughter of the Zhao family.

Mrs. Gu was also in the crowd, she borrowed half a catty of millet to go out, and told Gu Qing to be vigilant in the middle of the night, now Gu Qing's family has not only food, but also silver, but you have to be careful.

Mrs. Gu didn't sleep when she returned to the old house, but called the whole family up to hide the food.

The Gu family only had Gu Qing's one room divided, and the second and third rooms all lived together, with adults and children, a total of twelve people.

Mrs. Gu is a person who has lived a hard life, she knows the importance of saving food, saving a little a day, after such a long time, the family has saved forty or fifty catties of millet, thirty catties of buckwheat noodles, and more than thirty catties of quinoa cornmeal noodles...... The old lady asked her two sons to hide ten catties in each room, even if a thief sneaked in, they would lose ten catties at most, and they would not be like the Zhao family, where the whole family went to drink the northwest wind.

This night, no one in Gujia Village slept well.

If the thieves didn't chase it back, the Zhao family only had three catties of grain left, and there were still six or seven days left in the autumn harvest to last the autumn harvest...... The most important thing is that there may not be much grain left behind in this year's autumn harvest.

Early in the morning, the Zhao family made a commotion.

"Mother, please don't sell me, please......"

Zhao Daya, the eldest daughter of the Zhao family, knelt on the ground and cried into tears.

Zhao Goudan hugged his eldest sister and broke down and cried: "Dad, you sell me, I'm a boy, I can sell it for money!" ”

Aunt Zhao's man Liu Fugui's tears also flowed down: "Family master, does it have to be like this?" ”

"There is no food at home, how can you live this life if you don't sell her?" Aunt Zhao sighed, "It's a big family, even if there is a famine, there is a stutter, sending the big girl over is a blessing, what is there to cry about!" When the big girl went over, people gave us a tael of silver, and how much grain could be bought for a tael of silver, which is a good thing! ”

She said so, but her face was full of sorrow.

It's not that life can't go on, and no one will think of selling children.

As soon as Gu Qing got up, he heard an argument next door over the sale of the child.

"Isn't Da Liang Guo a woman with a higher status, why don't you sell dog eggs and sell big girls?" Gu Qing was puzzled.

Yang Pei and the others went to the town before dawn, and now only Gu Qing, Gu Yu, and Gu Nuo are at home.

Gu Yu explained: "Eldest sister, you don't know, it is precisely because of the scarcity of women that people want it, and there are many men in the Liang, let alone selling, it is to give it to others, and others feel that it is a waste of food." ”

This is also the reason why Yang Pei's family knew that Gu Qing was a bastard, but still sent their son over to marry Gu Qing.

Gu Qing entered the kitchen, bought ten catties of millet and two catties of rice from the virtual mall, and walked to the door next door.

She leaned against the mud wall and pretended to be sarcastic: "Li Zheng is really partial to your family, and without saying a word, I made up three catties of grain for you, but my family didn't have a grain of rice before!" There is a grocery store in the town who didn't give birth to a daughter, so he said two taels of silver and bought my second sister and threw it into the pot! ”

"My two younger brothers and sisters, five husbands and sisters-in-law all open their mouths to eat, if I sell Yu'er, two taels of silver is enough to eat until the New Year, no matter how much I bastard, I am the eldest sister, I can't do anything to sell my children, it's a big deal to starve to death together." She threw the hairy chestnut in her hand over, "I won't buy Dahua back, let's exchange this grain for Dahua and come to our house to work for half a month!" ”

She beckoned, "Big girl, what are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and wash my clothes!" Zhao Daya knew that although Gu Qing was not a good person before, but now everyone can see the changes, Zhao Daya got up from the ground, couldn't wipe her tears, and immediately followed Gu Qing.

Liu Fugui was reluctant to sell his daughter, and after his daughter ran out, he deliberately blocked the gate of the courtyard, for fear that Aunt Zhao would catch up.

Liu Fugui sat on the dry firewood and smoked dry cigarettes.

Aunt Zhao picked up the cloth bag on the ground, which was heavy, at least eleven or twelve catties. When I opened it, I saw that it was yellow millet and a lot of snow-white rice, the rice was full of grains, and at first glance it was high-grade rice, such a good rice, Gu Qing only changed to a big girl to work for half a month, where did Aunt Zhao not understand.

"Gu Niangzi, this bastard, can live her life without hesitation, why can't we!" Liu Fugui looked at the rice bag in Aunt Zhao's hand, gritted his teeth and said, "Even if you eat wild vegetables and gnaw tree bark, even if you eat soil, I don't agree to sell children!" ”

Aunt Zhao sighed: "Then wait for the rice in the field to be harvested!" ”