Chapter 18: Pondering

There are still seven days before the opening of the golden finger, but only two days before the date of delivery of the grain.

There is not a single food in the house.

The autumn harvest has not yet arrived, and even if it does, there will be no grain in the fields, and every household in the village is tight, and it is difficult for their own families to pay grain taxes, and it is impossible to count on them to help.

Bai Xia's heart was not ordinarily heavy.

"Sanya, I don't, I don't go, I want my mother, I want my mother"

Li Xiuyuan's eyes were red from crying, his hands were tightly hugging Bai Xia's waist, and his eyes were full of fear and confusion about the future.

He has lived in the village since he was born, and he has never even been to the town, and he is afraid of leaving Lijia Village and going to some strange places.

"My mother said that without land, we won't be able to live"

"When we're gone, there's no land"

"We will become homeless, become beggars, Sanya, we don't leave, okay, we don't go"

"The Grand Duke is the village chief, and the Grand Duke will definitely help us"

Li Xiuyuan read some books, and occasionally the master would talk about some other knowledge, and he learned some of them, but he didn't understand them, only that if they escaped from the place where he was born and raised, they would become outcasts and beggars.

The thought of having to live a life of begging on the streets, after eating the last meal, made him tremble with fear.

He buried his head in Bai Xia's arms, his eyes were dark, and in just a moment, he turned back to his teary eyes, leaving only horror.

"But if we don't escape, we won't survive."

Bai Xia was distracted.

To flee or not to flee may be death.

It may be easy to escape, but what about after you escape?

She and Li Xiuyuan are both children, and it is impossible to be a homeless person for a lifetime, so they always have to find a place to settle down and settle down again.

But this has to wait, wait for the imperial court's resettlement policy to come down, if the imperial court does not have a resettlement policy, the two of them will always be homeless, Li Xiuyuan can no longer study, there is no household registration documents, and the two of them can't enter the city, they can only find some suburbs to settle down.

If a widow is widowed, has no son, and has an in-law's family, she can still rely on her in-law's family, and if her husband separates and has no in-law's family, then she can only remarry.

Because if you don't remarry, you won't be able to survive in this era without land and household registration.

"There will be a way, Brother Yuan"

Bai Xia's face sank, she would definitely run away, but she had to think about it.

"I'm going to go get something to eat"

She pushed Li Xiuyuan away, lit another oil lamp and walked towards the kitchen.

They had just killed the pigs, and for the time being they were not short of oil, but they didn't have much oil.

Bai Xia picked some pig blood and mixed it with wild vegetables to make pig blood soup, and she had to go to the village chief tomorrow.

After Bai Xia left, Li Xiuyuan's face sank in the house, and he didn't look like a five-year-old child at all.

He got up and left the house and walked towards Lin's house, rummaging in for something, but after looking for a long time, he didn't find anything.

"Where did you go?"

"I remember that my mother put it here?"

He touched Lin's pillow and rummaged inside and out, but he couldn't find it.

"Sanya wants to leave, I'm only five years old now, there is no other way but to follow her, but these days, leaving the village is looking for death, and it's going to be chaos outside, we two children, I'm afraid that we will be targeted by those homeless, what should we do? What to do? ”

Li Xiuyuan's face became more and more ugly, as if he had thought of some bad memory, and his eyes were a little red.

"Brother Yuan?"

Bai Xia's puzzled voice came from the next room, he quickly collected his face, and staggered to the door of the next room.

"Sanya"

He stood in the doorway, looking at her timidly.

"Let's go, eat"

Bai Xia led him to the hall and sat down, Li Xiuyuan looked down, it was a bowl of blood-red pig blood soup, his stomach rolled a little, and he remembered some not very good memories, but he forcibly pressed it down, and forced the feeling of wanting to vomit, and drank a bowl of pig blood soup.

Bai Xia didn't have so much thought about him, although the original owner Bai Sanya had also seen some bad things, but after all, it was just the original Bai Sanya's experience, not her Bai Xia's, so Bai Xia drank pig blood soup, there was no problem at all.

After eating and washing the dishes, Bai Xia put Li Xiuyuan to sleep, and went to the courtyard to practice martial arts in the dark.

She also knew that if the two of them fled away from the crowd, they would inevitably encounter some ill-intentioned people, and they didn't want to become martial arts masters, but at least they still had the ability to protect themselves, even if they couldn't beat them, they had to run away.

She practiced boxing twice in a row, thinking about running away as she practiced.

She is Li Xiuyuan's child daughter-in-law, the two have marriage certificates, and their household registration is also in the Li family, but the two did not get married, so she did not go to the Li family's genealogy.

After escaping, without the clan as a guarantor, she and Li Xiuyuan could not settle down, and her surname was Bai, if she wanted to plan household registration in the name of her sister and brother, it was basically impossible.

Don't underestimate the troubled times, the more troubled the times, the more afraid of being taken advantage of by the spies, not to mention whether the imperial court has a policy of settling down with displaced people, even if there is, the review is also very strict, to send someone to verify the original household registration, if the original household registration exists to relocate, it is also necessary to verify the earliest household registration.

If there is any discrepancy, it will not be allowed to settle down.

Bai Sanya turned out to be a homeless person, and finally settled in Lijia Village, and then he escaped again, and he became a homeless again, if he wanted to settle down in the future, the government would inevitably find out about Lijia Village, and even find out in Baixia's earliest village.

The court's treatment of the displaced people is either to be resettled on the spot, or to be sent back to their hometown, and it is okay to repatriate their hometown, but it is nothing more than to return to Lijia Village, but she fled because she couldn't pay the grain tax, so after being repatriated, what awaits them may be a dead word.

Therefore, it is advisable to be able to secure local resettlement.

However, this matter is still early, and no one knows what will happen in the future and what the arrangement of the imperial court will be.

Therefore, she not only has to be on the same household registration book with Li Xiuyuan, but also has to be tied to death, from a child daughter-in-law to his real daughter-in-law, so that she can settle down in a different place later.

Bai Xia secretly thought in his heart, after the punch, the food in his stomach had been almost digested.

Fortunately, there was still a lot left at dinner, she went to the kitchen in the dark, drank the remaining pig blood soup, only felt full of strength, drank the soup, she returned to the house, and saw that Li Xiuyuan was sleeping soundly, and couldn't help pinching his face.

"I slept so well"

After saying that, he also lay down and fell asleep, and at this time, it was almost time.

She didn't notice it when she was asleep, Li Xiuyuan in the dark opened her eyes, looked at her sideways, and muttered in her heart: "Are you going to start?" ”

"This time, I will definitely protect you, Sanya"

His immature hand was on Bai Xia's head, not daring to touch her, only caressing it weakly.

Fu obediently lay on the bed again, looking at the roof, wondering how not to let her find out what she was strange about, and grow up to be able to protect her, but after thinking about it for a long time, he still succumbed to his five-year-old body.

What can a doll do?

Li Xiuyuan's face darkened, and after thinking about it, he found that he couldn't do anything.