Early the next morning, Bai Xia woke up early and took a bucket to fetch water first.

Since only half a bucket of water was allowed, she did not carry the water burden, but only carried the bucket, and soon she came back with the water.

After exercising for a while, her strength has increased a lot, and it has become much easier to lift half a bucket of water.

A small pig has a total of only a few dozen catties, and some of them are dried to make jerky, so the amount is even less.

I ate a lot of wild vegetables in a basket, and there was probably half of the basket left.

She cut a lot of bamboo, made a bamboo tube to hold water, and when she came back from picking up the water, she boiled a large pot of boiling water, put the water aside to cool, and she grabbed a small half basket of wild vegetables and walked towards the village chief's house.

The village chief is past the age of sixty-five, and he has been sick since the official came that day.

His seniority is higher in the village, Li Xiuyuan wants to call grandpa, but the village generally does not call grandpa, but everyone calls him gong, so Bai Xia carried the vegetables, walked to the door of the village chief's house and patted the door and shouted: "Dagong, is Dagong at home?" ”

Li Xu is the eldest daughter-in-law of the village chief, when she heard the voice open the door, she saw that it was Bai Xia, she was surprised at first, and then saw her carrying a basket, and hurriedly greeted: "It's Sanya who is here, come in and sit"

After speaking, he got out of the way and welcomed Bai Xia into the house.

"Auntie, is the Grand Duke at home?"

"He went to the town, saying that he was meeting with the village chiefs of other villages, and wanted to ask the county lord to forgive us some time, you are looking for your eldest duke, what is the matter?" Li Xu's face was also worried, the village chief's daughter-in-law had gone a few years ago, and several sons and daughters-in-law had already separated, Li Xu's and her man were the eldest sons and daughters-in-law, so the village chief lived with them.

The children and grandchildren under their head add up, and the family is also a dozen people, and the grain tax to be paid is also hundreds of catties.

So not only the villagers are anxious, but even the village chief is also very anxious.

"Then can I wait here for the Grand Duke to come back?"

Bai Xia came today to make himself on the genealogy, of course, it is impossible to go back like this, fortunately, the Li Xu family is not a harsh person, although a few days ago he wanted the Lin family to remarry so as to seize the Li family's land, but wasn't that unsuccessful?

Besides, Li Sansheng is indeed a good candidate.

"Sanya, your mother...... Have you found it? Li Xu hesitated, but still asked where Lin went.

The Lin family went to his mother's house, and the people in the village knew about the disappearance of the people, but at this juncture, everyone was busy preparing food, and no one could get out of the way to help find someone, so there was no other way than to sigh that the Lin family and the two babies were suffering.

You can't care about the life or death of your own family, go and help find someone!

Bai Xia doesn't blame them, after all, everyone has to live.

Hearing Li Xu's question, her eyes turned red and said, "No, my grandmother and they all said that they hadn't seen my mother."

She didn't tell the story of Lin's sale, only that she couldn't find anyone.

"And what about your food tax?" Li Xu's knew that their family had already run out of food, let alone three hundred and fifty catties, but they were afraid that they would not be able to get out a catty of food.

Bai Xia wiped his face, lowered his head and said, "I...... I don't know."

Iniquity.

Li Xu frowned, two dolls, where to find food.

It's just that at this time, no one dares to take the field in the hands of these two children, after all, it is more than 300 catties of grain tax.

It was precisely because of this that Bai Xia didn't think to go over and ask the people in the village to take him in.

Li Xu, an adult, couldn't say a few words to Bai Xia, she hesitated for a while, and when she saw Bai Xia licking her lips, she still brought her a bowl of water in pain.

"Drink some water, your Grand Duke should be back soon"

As soon as Li Xu's words fell, she heard movement outside, she got up to open the door, and saw the village chief walking towards home with his hands behind his back and a sad face.

"Daddy, you're back"

"How's that going?" Li Xu looked at the village chief expectantly.

I saw that the village chief glanced at her, and then sighed and shook his head.

"Why didn't you go out to help collect it?"

Since the crops in the field are about to die, although the rice is still in the time of filling, everyone can't care so much, and they have gone to harvest it, hoping to produce some grain and relieve the urgent need.

"No, Sanya is here, saying that he is looking for you"

Li Xu gestured inside, the village chief frowned, and then said: "Okay, I know, you go to the field first and see if you can get some food."

After saying that, he walked towards the house.

"Grand Duke"

Bai Xia stood up and greeted the village chief respectfully.

Thinking of Bai Xia's current situation, the village chief sighed in his heart and asked, "You have something to do with me?" ”

"Grand Duke, I'...... I want to marry my brother."

"What did you say?"

The village chief was shocked, Brother Yuan was only five years old.

Bai Xia also knew that this was not good, but if she didn't get married, she wouldn't be able to go to the family tree.

"You also know, Grand Duke, my mother is ...... She's gone, and now there are only two people left in the family, I'm his child daughter-in-law, and we also have a marriage certificate, so it's better to take advantage of this time to get married and give me a family tree, otherwise I will ...... in the future ...... backwards"

"What's more, there are still two days to pay the grain, seeing that our family can't hand it over, I can't let Brother Yuan'er die, and I'll be lonely if I go down, how can I explain to my mother?"

Bai Xia covered his eyes and whimpered, seemingly crying sadly, but in fact he didn't shed a single tear.

The village chief groaned.

There has never been a precedent in the village for a five-year-old doll to get married, but Bai Xia's family is special, and it is not impossible.

Thinking of the matter of handing over the grain, the village chief's heart was heavy again.

"Then when are you going to get married?"

"Just Today"

"Today? Is there a time? ”

"Grand Duke, there is no food at home, we don't put wine, just kowtow in the ancestral hall, just pay the full number of rituals"

There are only two days left, not to mention that there is no food at home, even if there is food, it is impossible for Bai Xia to put wine, and there are still a bunch of things to deal with at home.

"Cheng, you go back and take Brother Yuan to the ancestral hall, I'll call someone"

The village chief nodded, and the rest was done.

Bai Xia went home according to her words, and saw that Li Xiuyuan was clumsily filling water into the bamboo tube, and couldn't help but be happy when she saw her: "Sanya, you're back"

"Well, let's go, follow me to the ancestral hall"

Bai Xia didn't say much, took his hand and walked towards the ancestral hall, Li Xiuyuan was confused and didn't know what to do in the ancestral hall.

After arriving, I saw the village chief standing at the entrance of the ancestral hall, as well as several other clan elders.

"Sanya, we ...... What are we going to do? ”

Li Xiuyuan's face was confused, but he was recalling in his mind when he had experienced this scene, but no matter how much he wanted to break his head, he couldn't think of having experienced this scene.

"Li Xiuyuan, Bai Sanya, kneel"

The village chief's face was serious, and his old face was wrinkled, which was a little scary at first glance.

Bai Xia didn't hesitate at all, and pulled Li Xiuyuan to kneel.