In the following days, Ma Hui was liked by everyone.

She is down-to-earth and generous, quick in her work, and crisp in her speech.

What's more, this time they are all big men, and this young woman is not very beautiful, even if she is not very beautiful, it still makes a group of men with strong blood can't help but show it in front of her from time to time.

Among them, Liu Xi is the most, but he found that Ma Hui had to treat himself and others a little.

Xiao Chenyu had seen enough of everyone's performance for a woman, and suddenly missed Qin Xun very much.

couldn't bear the thoughts in his heart, Xiao Chenyu immediately notified everyone to go to Xiaojia Village, and ended the trip early to go back.

Ma Hui was left in town, but she insisted on following everyone.

Liu Xi looked at Ma Hui with pity, and said, "Second brother, let her go together, we can go back to the county seat directly after we are done, and we won't have to pick up people in the town." ”

It was already afternoon when the group arrived at Xiaojia Village.

Fortunately, the sky is clear today, but the ground is still full of puddles and mud, and the rice fields and the grain in the fields are even more miserable.

The peasants bent over the fields to check on the damage, the men could not help wiping away their tears, and the women wept.

The group arrived at the Xiao family's house first, but Liu Xi separated from everyone at the entrance of the village and went directly back to the Xiao family to see his mother and younger siblings.

He originally wanted to take Ma Hui to his home to have a look, but now that the two have nothing to do with each other, what is the matter with bringing them back?

Xiao Chenyu arrived at the door of the house, asked everyone to go in and wait, and then went to the back mountain, and Xiao Lian hurriedly followed.

Xiao's father's grave is very large, and it is buried with his wife, while Xiao's mother's grave is on one side, much smaller and a little lonely.

There was nothing wrong with the grave, and the soil had not been lost, and after a careful inspection, it was drizzling again, so it was impossible to light incense, candles, and paper money, so I had to kowtow.

Xiao Chenyu babbled about what had happened recently, and then kowtowed again, and his body was already covered with dirt.

Afterwards, Xiao Lian also knelt down and kowtowed seriously, shouting the old lady and the old lady in his mouth.

Coming down from the mountain, he found the village chief waiting for him at home.

Xiao Chenyu went to change his clothes first, and then came over to sit down, Ma Hui stepped forward and put the steaming tea in front of Xiao Chenyu: "The second master first drink a cup of hot water to get rid of the cold, this summer is cold and wet, but it is very uncomfortable." ”

"Thank you!" Xiao Chenyu also felt a little uncomfortable, so he smiled and thanked Ma Hui.

Although the tea is not brewed well, it is steaming, and after taking a sip, I only feel comfortable all over.

Ma Hui pursed her lips and smiled, turned around and went out.

The village chief is the father of the swallow and the eldest son of the old patriarch.

After he watched Ma Hui's back disappear, he looked at Xiao Chenyu and asked with three points of joke and seven points of envy: "This is your concubine's room?" You outsiders are just living well, three wives and four concubines."

"Uncle, don't talk nonsense, she is also a poor person, we just saved her by chance." Xiao Chenyu interrupted him a little unpleasantly.

Village Chief Xiao smiled, but he didn't think it was wrong: "By the way, I came this time to discuss something with you?" ”

Xiao Chenyu was a little surprised, he can be said to be a marginal figure in Xiaojia Village, although he has not completely left Xiaojia Village, but he has also moved out of the village for so many years, not to mention, he and the clansmen of Xiaojia Village do not seem to have much intersection and affection.

However, stretching out his hand and not hitting the smiling person, not to mention that the village chief is an elder, Xiao Chenyu nodded and motioned to the village chief to explain his intentions.

The village chief knew that they were in a hurry to leave, so he was not verbose: "Our village has suffered heavy losses this year, and many people are afraid that they will not be able to afford to eat, and the rest of the people can say that it is even more difficult for those orphans and widows." ”

Subsequently, Xiao Chenyu finally understood what the village chief meant.

There are a few families in the village who have no strong labor, a few lonely old people who have no heirs, and orphans who have no fathers and mothers.

But now, if everyone else is out of food, how can they still have the ability to help others?

Therefore, when the village chief heard that Xiao Chenyu was back, he hurriedly came up with his idea and wanted him to give money to nourish these old people and orphans.

Xiao Chenyu doesn't hate all the Xiao family now, but taking the initiative to fund and being asked to fund is always a little different in his heart.

After listening to the village chief's words, Xiao Chenyu pondered for a moment, touched his smooth and beardless chin, and said, "The funding naturally doesn't matter, but how can this silver be guaranteed to be given to them?" ”

Village Chief Xiao was insulted by these words, and was so angry that he wanted to leave immediately, but the matter was not done, so he had to stay and continue to explain to this junior.

It's just that his face and tone are a little unable to suppress his anger: "If you don't feel at ease, just follow me and send money from door to door, I won't touch my hands, right?" ”

Xiao Chenyu smiled and said, "The village chief misunderstood his nephew, how could the nephew not believe the village chief?" ”

Seeing that the other party's face was a little pale, he said again: "It's just that I came out in a hurry this time, and I didn't bring silver taels, so how many orphans are there in the village who are not helpless?" ”

This helplessness means that there is no acceptance from relatives and friends.

The village chief frowned and calculated, and said: "If they are really helpless, there are not many, there are only three, three sisters and brothers, the eldest sister is seven years old, the second brother is five years old, and the younger sister is only three years old." ”

The grandmother and parents of the three sisters and brothers died one after another, and the second uncle and uncle said that their sisters and brothers were hard to kill their relatives and did not want them to live with their own families.

After such a fuss, the three sisters and brothers went out with their reputations, and the second uncle and the younger uncle didn't want them, and others were even more reluctant to go home.

"The three children are also pitiful, they rely on the village people to give some food on weekdays, and the eldest sister goes to the mountains to dig wild vegetables, and they can barely survive after a full meal, but when this natural disaster comes, it is difficult to say how long they can live."

There were more lonely old people, five or six, all of whom were slow to move and wait to enter the ground.

Xiao Chenyu got up and paced back and forth, thought for a while, and then said to the village chief: "In this way, the three children will be sent to live in my house, and I will leave some food for them, and they will live here and help me watch the house and clean it by the way." ”

After thinking about it, he said: "As for those old people, it is okay if they are willing to come and live here, but they can't guarantee how good they will eat, but it's okay to barely have a full stomach." ”

The village chief meant that he wanted Xiao Chenyu to give him the silver, and he would arrange the lives of those people, in the end, he could still have a reputation for kindness.

But Xiao Chenyu's arrangement directly made people grateful to Xiao Chenyu, but the village chief didn't get any benefits and a good reputation.

Although he was dissatisfied, after all, he got rid of nearly ten mouths, which can be regarded as a great benefit.

After all, they are all clansmen surnamed Xiao, and as the village head, can he still watch everyone starve to death?

Now that Xiao Chenyu is willing to care about the lives and deaths of these people, he still takes advantage.