Chapter 20: The Fire
The village chief babbled a lot, and then asked Bai Xia and Li Xiuyuan to kowtow in the ancestral hall, and then recorded Bai Xia's name on the Li family tree.
"Bai Sanya, from now on, you are the wife of the Li family, you must be obedient to your husband and extend your ......"
"Forget it, you guys go back"
I wanted to talk about the heirs, but looking at the two children in front of him, who were still half old, the village chief couldn't say anything, only waved his hand and told them to go back.
Li Xiuyuan walks lightly, he got married, married Sanya?
But he was only five years old!
Sanya is only nine years old!
He was shocked, and let Bai Xia lead him all the way home, and then he pretended to be confused and asked Bai Xia: "Sanya, what did the Grand Duke let us do in the ancestral hall and kowtow?" ”
Bai Xia's face didn't change for a moment, and he coaxed him: "I asked the Grand Duke to recognize me as my mother's goddaughter, and from now on, I will be your sister."
Deceitful.
It's obviously a daughter-in-law.
Li Xiuyuan complained in his heart, but he was only five years old, so he shouldn't know this, mainly because their relatives were too shabby, and they didn't look like people in the village were doing happy events, and they didn't even worship in the ancestral hall, they just kowtowed in the ancestral hall and memorized a family tree.
So he couldn't refute Bai Xia clearly, so he could only pretend to be naïve: "But the eldest duke said that you are the wife of the Li family, and you must be obedient to your husband."
"You heard it wrong, what the Grand Duke said is that I am the daughter of the Li family, and I will be obedient to my husband when I marry in the future" Bai Xia's face did not change.
It's just an expedient measure for her to marry this kid, anyway, he's just a doll, he doesn't understand anything, and when he grows up and is sensible, then he can just go and leave.
Sling the bull.
Lie to the kids.
Li Xiuyuan was so angry in his heart that he was going to die, but seeing that she was a dead duck with a hard mouth, and resolutely refused to admit that the two were husband and wife, he had no choice but to compromise.
"Oh"
"Okay, I'll cook first"
Li Xiuyuan's arm couldn't twist Bai Xia's thigh, and the two of them who couldn't raise food still decided to escape.
After lunch, the two of them hurriedly packed up their things, and at night, the people in the village went home, Bai Xia asked Li Xiuyuan to watch at home, and she carried things on her back basket alone and walked towards the mountain.
She didn't dare to go out of the village directly, for fear of running into an official errand who was watching outside, so she only dared to go to the mountains.
Maybe it's because it hasn't reached the point where the mountains are exhausted, and the grass roots have been cut a lot by everyone, but the village skin is still there, but the leaves have begun to dry out, Bai Xia touched the dark, the road walked slowly, and after walking for a long time, he found the cave he found when he went up the mountain before.
She hadn't seen wild game since she came here, and it was just a small forest, so there would be no wolves or other large animals, and she was quite relieved.
This cave was the one she found in the first place, it was located behind a mountain wall, and it was safe for people to come to it.
She put down the basket and went home a few more times, until the end of the second day, about five o'clock in the morning, when she finished moving her belongings.
Li Xiuyuan was still holding on to help at first, but in the end he couldn't hold back and fell asleep.
After Bai Xia was busy, he walked towards the well in the village, half a bucket of water a day, it must not be wasted, and it will only be more scarce in the future.
She is very glad that the village began to control everyone's water use early, even at this critical moment when every household is raising food, she has not relaxed and let people guard, otherwise she is afraid that the water in this well has already been exhausted.
Bai Xia brought the water home and began to boil it as usual.
Li Xiuyuan helped to light the fire and boiled the water in the pot until it boiled.
"We're going to eat the pig water today, it may taste a little, but it's better than not eating at all."
Fortunately, there was still a lot of river water stored before, so Bai Xia cleaned up a pig, otherwise the pig would really have to be thrown away, after all, that thing stinks.
Even if I rubbed the mud several times, the smell of the pig's water was not good.
Li Xiuyuan didn't say anything, anyway, whatever Bai Xia said, he would do.
His arms were too small.
And Bai Xia's thighs are too thick.
She also practiced martial arts.
He really can't screw it.
However, for Bai Xia asking him to call her sister, Li Xiuyuan kept his mouth shut, and he didn't call her dead or alive, at most he called Sanya.
Bai Xia didn't know what he was thinking, so he boiled the pig and ate it at noon, endured the strange taste, and forced himself to fill his stomach, so Bai Xia took a sickle and carried a basket on his back to the ground, and began to harvest like other people in the village.
Li Xiuyuan was ordered by her to stay at home so as not to suffer from heat stroke, and then she had to take care of him, a patient.
Pinching the shriveled ears of rice, Bai Xia sighed in his heart.
That's it, where can I get food.
But she knew what the people in the village were thinking.
All the grain stored at home has to be raised to pay the grain tax, and in the second half of the year, it is estimated that the straw that has been snatched back can only be ground into powder and dealt with.
If you're lucky, if it rains, you can plant more food.
Bad luck?
No one has thought about this problem and just wants to solve the problem at hand.
Bai Xia cut this straw naturally not to grind it into powder to fill her stomach like everyone else, but to have another plan, this straw is useful to her, so she also cut it very carefully, and after a while, a basket was cut all over her back and carried home.
"Sanya, drink water"
When she returned home, Li Xiuyuan was busy scooping water and serving it to her, and seeing her thin body sweating profusely, she felt very uncomfortable.
"Well, put the straw away as I said, do you hear me?"
"Hmm"
Li Xiuyuan watched Bai Xia go out, and then according to what she said, he put the straw along the root of the wall and the courtyard door of the house.
The day goes by quickly.
After dark, Bai Xia ran up the mountain again, carrying a basket of straw on his back.
The clothes, food, and everything that could be taken away at home were all moved by Bai Xia, she took the fire fold, walked around the house, lit the straw under the root of the wall, and then went out to hold Li Xiuyuan's hand, took a look at the fire that was slowly burning at home, let go of her hand and squatted down with her back to Li Xiuyuan.
"Brother Yuan'er comes up, let's go"
Her eyes were red, and since then, they have no home, and can only wander in this troubled world.
Li Xiuyuan didn't say a word, lay on Bai Xia's back, and the two walked towards the mountain in the village.
He didn't expect that Sanya would be so resolute that he would burn down the house.
He knew that she didn't want to implicate the people in the village, and if they ran away directly, she was afraid that the government would blame the village, so she simply burned the house on fire, making it look like a fire, so that the government would think that the two of them were burned to death at home, so that they would not be blamed because they couldn't hand over the food.
He took a breath, and thought of the days to come, and he also had a headache.
Bai Xia didn't think as much as he thought, since he ran, there was nothing to hesitate, she also had a breath in her heart, as long as these few days passed, her golden finger awakened, and this day could go on.
She was looking forward to it with all her heart, that is, this thought was supported, otherwise she would not be able to survive this ghost day when she only ate one meal a day.