By the time the brothers drove the bullock cart into the courtyard and unloaded the cart, it was already dark.
"I'm starving to death..." The hungry Lao Liu shouted weakly.
"Let's eat some dry food first." The fifth brother took out half a cooking cake from somewhere, which was given to them on the way.
"I can't bite..." Lao Liu said pitifully.
"Light the lamp first, and then make a fire to cook." The third child gave the order.
"Then there must be a lamp first." Zhu Di said angrily. He had just searched through it, but he couldn't find an oil lamp or a candle.
"Is there a possibility that people go to bed after dark?" Lao Liu reminded.
"Damn it, it's really possible." Zhu Di patted his head and said, "I remember my father once said that when he was a child, he would just get into bed and sleep in the dark."
"Maybe the poor can't afford oil lamps," Zhu Ye nodded and said, "Maybe there are some stories about 'cutting through the wall to steal light' and 'the firefly reflects the snow'."
After hearing this, the second brother climbed up the wall and looked around. The village was completely dark, and there was nowhere to go to steal the light.
However, he was not completely unaware. In the bright moonlight, he saw a pile of firewood not far across the alley. He jumped down and brought a large handful back.
"Okay, sir, let's make a fire." Seeing that there was firewood, His Highness King Jin gave the order again.
"Then there must be fire first..." Zhu Di poured cold water on him again.
"Why, don't you even have the tools to make a fire?" Zhu said angrily.
"I gave you this." Zhu Di picked up two things and shook them.
By the moonlight, Zhu Neng recognized them as fire sickle and flint.
"Would you like to order it?" Lao San urged: "Don't you often skip class and go to barbecue?"
"I used the tinder sticks they prepared," Zhu Di said gloomily: "I pulled out the hat, shook it, blew it on the tinder and it lit up."
"But I don't know how to use this thing." After saying this, he wiped it for a while, only sparks were scattered, but no smoke was seen from the tinder.
"Idiot, I'll do it!" Lao San grabbed the fire sickle and rubbed it violently, but still only saw sparks and no smoke...
"I'll give it a try, I'm very energetic." The second child took it over and clicked twice with all his strength. Don't tell me, it's really different.
There was just a click, and the flint broke into two pieces.
"It's over, go to sleep." The third and fourth children shook their heads helplessly. "We'll think of a solution tomorrow."
Looking at this scene, Zhu Zhen felt as if he was watching a survival scene in the wilderness.
He remembered that it usually took the third day for Mr. De to successfully light a fire, but he didn't know how many days it would take for his brothers to succeed.
"Alas..." The brothers sighed and opened their bedding rolls, piled them on the kang indiscriminately, and then lay down one after another with their clothes on.
In fact, they are not afraid of a little hardship and a little fatigue. The main thing is the frustration of not being able to light a fire, which makes every proud man who thinks highly of himself unbearable.
Feeling that the mood of the people was low, Zhu Zhen felt that he should stand up and lead them out of the predicament.
But when he thought about it, although he had been born in two generations, facing the current situation, he seemed to be worse than his brothers.
The fourth brother only knows how to use fire crackers, and I only know how to use a lighter...
"Alas..." Zhu Zhen also lay down with his clothes on, and the fifth brother handed over the half of the cooking cake again. This time he didn't mind it, took it and gnawed it with great effort.
I fell asleep while gnawing...
"Hmm, pig's trotters are delicious." She even talked in her sleep while sleeping.
"Lao, Lao Liu, that's brother's hand, hand..."
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Early the next morning, Zhu Zhen was woken up by scolding.
"What the hell, who are you arguing with me?!" He got up angrily. After sitting for a while, no one helped him put on his shoes, and then he remembered that Mu Xiang was not around, and now he had to do everything by himself.
I had to slowly bend down, pick up the cotton shoes and put them on my feet awkwardly.
When I walked downstairs, I seemed to have worn it backwards.
There is no way, this is the first time in his life that His Royal Highness the King of Chu wears his own shoes.
Anyway, the shoes were too big, so he didn’t bother to change them, so he just walked to the door wearing the wrong shoes.
Facing the morning light and rubbing his sleepy eyes, he saw an old man and several young adults in the courtyard, arguing with three brothers.
"What's going on?" Zhu Zhen asked Fifth Brother in a low voice.
"The old man is from the opposite door. He brought those people here in the morning and called the second brother a firewood thief." Zhu Ru whispered.
"You, you are talking nonsense. I, I didn't go to your house. The firewood was placed on the street. No, you didn't take it casually?" His Highness King Qin blushed. How could he have thought that one day he would be slandered as a thief?<
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Why did they steal a handful of firewood...
"That's right, can it be called stealing if something is left outside?" The fourth child also looked matter-of-factly.
"You are talking nonsense. Go out and take a look. Whose firewood is not piled at the door?" The old man was also furious, pointing to the street and said: "Old people always put firewood like this, don't you know?"
"I, I really don't know." Zhu Xi scratched his head, his arrogance slightly reduced.
"Okay, stop arguing." His Highness the King of Jin waved his hand and said generously: "When you turn around, I... I will give you one cart, no, ten carts of good firewood! Is that okay now?" p>
"Who doesn't know how to brag about Boyi? It's useless! Besides, did you just steal firewood?" Before the old man could speak, the middle-aged man behind him said angrily:
"You also stole the millstone from the village!"
"And the front door of my house!"
"My water tank!" The others followed suit.
"Good guy..." Zhu Zhen originally thought that the villagers were making a fuss, but now he knew that they were beating him without even entering the house, so he restrained himself enough.
Of course, they didn't knock on the door directly, not because of his talent, but because his big and round brothers naturally make people talk well.
"We don't need you to pay compensation!" The purpose of the villagers is also very simple, just to drive them out before they take root.
"Hurry up and pack up and go to another village. We don't welcome you in Jinqiaokan!"
In order to boost their momentum, the villagers showed off shovels, door bars and the like hidden behind their backs.
"Oh..." The brothers suddenly realized that they wanted to drive people away with an excuse.
"No, one code equals one code. If you deserve compensation, pay it!" Zhu Di immediately said loudly: "Second brother, return the millstone to them first!"
"Okay, okay!" Zhu Ping bent down and grabbed the stone millstone on the ground, lifted it up easily, and then roared.
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"Give it back to you!"
As he spoke, he exerted force and threw the two-hundred-three-kilogram stone millstone directly over the heads of the villagers, and landed outside the courtyard wall with a bang.
Have the villagers ever seen such a giant spirit god? It’s all for free.
Immediately, the two sides were trembling, and I could hardly hold the hoe and door bars in my hands...
"I have to go to the ground..." Someone finally couldn't help but apply oil on the soles of his feet.
"Yes, we have to go home for dinner. There is a lot of work in the fields." Seeing the leader, the rest of the group quickly followed and dispersed in a flash.
"Hey, don't leave, take your things back." Zhu called from behind.
"No, I'll give it to you..." the villagers responded from afar.
"Hey, fourth child, you guessed it right, just scare them and they will be honest." Second child smiled proudly.
"You bastards!" The third brother was so angry that he pointed at the second and fourth children and cursed: "You are sneaking around on the first day back home. You two have lost the face of our old Zhu family!"
"Our surname is Hong now. What we have lost is the face of Lao Hong's family, not Lao Zhu's." Zhu Di snorted and said: "Besides, I looked from house to house and they have moved all the things in our courtyard. Now
Just return the property to its original owner!"
"If nothing else, the stone mill is not from this courtyard, right?" Zhu Nu said.
"No, it's not. I thought no one wanted it on the street, so I took it back and prepared it for practicing." Zhu Xi whispered.
"Can the millstone be useless?" Third brother went crazy.
"I, I didn't know that was a millstone..." Zhu Xi muttered guiltily.
"In the past, in the military camp, I always watched the soldiers practice with that thing." Zhu Di explained for him.
"Ignorant! Stupid!" His Highness the King of Jin wished he could sever ties with these two disgraceful people. "You can't just take something back if you don't want it! To the common people, this is stealing!"
"Okay, next time, I'll ask first if no one wants it before I take it." His Highness King Qin was obedient.
"That won't work either!" Zhu was so angry that he didn't know how his elder brother managed to deal with these two things.
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