"Good. Several girls closed their mouths and silently waited for the moment when the rain had passed and the sky cleared. The beautiful girl led by her secretly glanced at Lou Yun, who was sitting on the side.

Lou Yun closed his eyes and leaned on the wooden pillar of the grass shed, he was indeed a little tired from traveling day and night during this time, and he originally wanted to buy a horse, but he didn't have much money with him this time, and the most important thing was that he didn't know how to ride a horse at all. So he can only walk, and he has changed several pairs of shoes in these days.

The sound of the rain gradually became quieter, and the shower came and went as fast as it came, and in less than an hour the rain cleared up. Lou Yun leaned on the pillar for a while.

When he opened his eyes, the girls had left, leaving only unburned firewood and grass and the ruts of horses' hooves on the road.

Lou Yun tidied up his clothes, took his hat and continued to hurry. The sky soon darkened, Lou Yun was worrying about where to spend the night, and a light appeared not far ahead. It looks like it's a small village. Lou Yun rushed over, although it seemed that the village was close at a distance, but the road was winding, and it was already late at night when Lou Yun walked to the village.

Every household here has closed their doors, and Lou Yun is walking on the street, trying to find a family to stay. But there were no lights in every house, and Lou Yun saw a carriage parked in front of a large house, and knew that the girls he had met before were also staying here. Lou Yun was looking for people to stay in the village, and when he saw who had the lights on, he came forward and knocked on the door, but almost all the people in the door blew out the lights after hearing the knocking sound, or drove Lou Yun away with foul language. Finally, Lou Yun almost went around the whole village, and finally found a house with a light on, this is just a simple fence wall, the wooden door on the door has rotted, just hanging crookedly on it, the night wind blows through the sound of "stubborn! stubborn!", it looks a little gloomy, and it sounds a little terrifying. There was a stone mill and a few broken buckets in the yard, and a few hens in a small fence in the yard. This family lived in an adobe thatched hut with only half a sheet of paper on the windows, and the family looked very poor.

The light came out of the half-papered window.

Lou Yun stood outside the door and shouted inside, "May I ask anyone? I'm a passerby, and now it's dark, can you keep me here for one night?"

No one in the house answered.

Lou Yun then shouted: "It's getting late now, the night wind outside is very cold, please ask the master's family to take me in for one night, and I will leave early tomorrow morning." ”

At this time, a little girl of five or six years old and an old woman of sixty or seventy years old with wrinkled faces came out of the house, and the little girl came to open the door for Lou Yun with a lamp. After that, he hid behind the old woman. Secretly looked at Lou Yun.

Lou Yun saw that the master was willing to take him in and hurriedly thanked him, Lou Yun raised his head and looked at the old woman and the little girl, they were dressed very torn, I don't know how many patches were on the coarse clothes, and the little girl's shoes were torn a few holes. It seems that they are really poor.

Lou Yun bowed to the old woman: "Thank you old mother for taking me in, I will only stay here for one night and leave tomorrow." Saying that, Lou Yun took out a string of copper coins from his pocket and held it in front of the old woman's eyes and said, "Old mother, this is my accommodation fee, and I hope you will accept it." ”

The old woman didn't pick it up, and the old woman said, "Childe doesn't need to be polite, if Childe doesn't think the old body is shabby here, it doesn't hurt to stay for one night." ”

Lou Yun thanked him again.

Lou Yun followed them into the house, the place where they lived was not big, only three small rooms, the outhouse was empty except for the general pots and pans, the innermost one was where the old woman and the little girl lived, they slept on the kang in the ordinary farmer's house, there was a small square table on the kang, and there was a missing table leg, which could only be barely supported by the other three table legs.

On the table, in addition to the oil lamp in the little girl's hand, there was also a spindle for spinning, and spun yarn.

The old woman said, "If the son does not give up, he will sleep in the empty house next door for the night." The old woman pointed to the room next door where the miscellaneous items were stored, although it was very messy, there was still a bed, and the bed was clean and there would be no problem for one night.

Lou Yun said: "Thank you, old mother, this is very good." ”

Then the little girl's stomach rumbled, and the little girl shook the old woman's hand and said, "Grandma, grandma, I'm hungry." ”

The old woman touched the child's head and said, "When Grandma sells the spun thread tomorrow, we will have money to buy grain." ”

Lou Yun took out his dry food from the burden and said, "Old mother, thank you very much for taking me in, I still have some dry food here, if you don't give it up, I'll give it to you." ”

Lou Yun opened the bag of dry food, which was filled with delicious sesame cakes, and the little girl drooled greedily.

The old woman looked at her granddaughter's appearance, and accepted Lou Yun's kind gift.

When she saw that her grandmother agreed, the little girl picked up a piece of sesame cake and devoured it, and she ate it quickly, as if she hadn't eaten enough for a long time.

The old woman sighed when she saw her granddaughter's gobbling appearance, and Lou Yun saw the tears in her wrinkled eyes.

Lou Yun looked at the room and asked, "Old mother, are there only two of you grandchildren here?"

The old woman sighed again and said, "Don't hide it from the son, there are only two of our ancestors and grandchildren left in our family." My wife, son, and daughter-in-law are all dead. ”

Lou Yun was slightly stunned when he heard the answer, and hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, old mother, I made an unintentional mistake." ”

The old woman said, "It's all right. ”

Seeing the old woman's desire to speak and stop, Lou Yun's curiosity was aroused, and Lou Yun then asked: "Old mother, did your son, daughter-in-law, and wife all die of terminal illness?"

The old woman shook her head and said bitterly, "No! No! Those wolves. ”

Lou Yun couldn't help but be stunned again when he heard this, and Lou Yun then asked, "Old mother, what's going on?"

The old woman sighed again and said: "Since you asked, the old man will also tell you that we were originally a small village that never closed its doors at night and did not leave any roads, but a few years ago, a group of robbers entrenched themselves in the mountains near us, and often came to our village to ask for some land money, and if they didn't give it, they would kill people!"

Lou Yun said: "Since the bandits are rampant, doesn't the government take care of it?"

The old woman said: "The previous county lord was a good official, and he led the officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress those robbers, but the officers and soldiers were greedy for life and afraid of death, and the king of the mountain heard that it was also very powerful, and the government has not been able to exterminate them. The wealthy families in the village all have homekeepers and guardians of the courtyard. They don't dare to offend easily. But a few years ago, the gang of robbers came to the village again to ask for land money, and my wife and son happened to go out, leaving only the old man and his daughter-in-law at home, taking care of their granddaughter. The robbers broke into the village, and a gang of robbers came and knocked on our door, and the old man gave them the land money, and they were about to leave after taking the land money, but one of the robbers saw my daughter-in-law who came back from carrying water, and they saw that my daughter-in-law was young and beautiful...... Then ...... "The old woman choked up," and a group of people ruined my daughter-in-law. Then the old woman began to weep.