Patriarch Chen looked at his younger brother Chen Sanyou: "Sanyou, my house has also been burned down. We will stay at his house when we return to the village."
Chen Sanyou had no objection, but Chen Yin's wife Zhang said: "Thank you uncle, he and Xiao'er will not go."
Her family also built a house on the south slope, which was also very unfinished. She went to check it out early tomorrow morning. The bricks, tiles, wood, and bamboo were all piled up there, untouched.
Moreover, her family built two small thatched houses nearby, which were originally used for the rest of the house builders. At that time, they were just for her and her son Chen Xiao to live.
There is water on the southern slope, and there is a small vegetable field next to my house. There are some kohlrabi left in the vegetable field, which is enough to feed my mother and daughter for a few months.
"Then where should I live?" Tang asked.
Zhang said: "There are two thatched huts on the south slope, where he and Xiao'er live."
Mrs. Tang's heart was moved when she heard this. Her son Chen Zhu also built a house on the south slope, right next to Chen Yin's house. Although it was not completed, he built a hut. If not, he, his fourth daughter-in-law, and his grandson would also live on the south slope.
never mind.
Then I thought about it, no, Zhu'er had never separated from her brothers, so leaving by herself wouldn't be in line with those people's wishes.
Huh! Even if you want to move, you have to wait until Zhuer comes back and separates with them before moving. Then I will live with Zhuer and let the old guy go alone!
Chen Sanyou's eldest son and fourth son were very unhappy when they heard that their house was burned down, but that the second brother's house was safe.
When Chen Yinqiu was building a house in Nanpo, he had a lot of trouble with his brothers. His father, Chen Sanyou, wanted to divide the family between his three sons and let them live their own lives and spend the money they earned.
Chen Shu is naturally willing. If he is the eldest son, his father's land will belong to him in the future, and the old house at home must also belong to him.
But the fourth brother did not agree to the division, because once the family was divided, he would have to cultivate the fields by himself, pay the taxes by himself, and have to do everything by himself. How could he be happy squatting under the wings of his parents?
In the beginning, Chen Yin was given out alone, and Chen Sanyou gave an additional 30 taels of silver to help his second son settle down.
So Chen Yin took the money and added it to his own earnings to build a house on the south slope.
Unexpectedly, before the house was built, the bandits came.
At that time, the bandits burned the whole house to pieces, and it was strange that the boss Chen Shu and the fourth boss Chen Ting felt balanced.
Chen Sanyou frowned, but didn't say what he wanted to say, so he nodded to his second daughter-in-law to acquiesce to her decision.
Chen Sanyou's old wife, Mrs. Lu, sighed, touched her grandson Chen Xiao's head and asked her second daughter-in-law: "Do I have food there? Are all the beddings and everything else available?"
Mrs. Zhang said: "He has gone to take a look. There is a little rice and noodles in the house, there are also beddings, and the pots and pans are all in order."
It was originally a place for craftsmen to live. The food was placed in earthen jars to the east of the kang hole. Although the bedding was a little dirty, it was still usable.
"Well, my mother and I will stay here first, and he will come to visit us in two months."
Aunt Lu glanced at her husband and said, "Anyway, my father is really asking for acupuncture. When the time comes, he will bring me some changes of clothes."
Mrs. Zhang: "Thank you, mother."
After breakfast at Jiang's house, the villagers left one after another. Patriarch Chen and Chen Sanyou also took their families back to the village.
Xiao Zhenniang's master and servant also went back because Wang Dashan said that the school was not damaged.
Seeing that her four younger siblings were gone, Mrs. Lin naturally couldn't stay in the Jiang family anymore, so she left with her daughter and servants.
The Jiang family immediately came east. Old Jiang walked around the house of his eldest and second son for a long time, and then returned to his third son's house with a sigh.
The biggest problem at present is not the house or the money. What he and his wife are most worried about is the lack of food at home.
The only food left now is half a bag of rice and a small half bag of flour, barely enough to feed a dozen people for seven or eight days.
But what will their family do after seven or eight days?
All the food that the eldest son and the second son had hidden in the shed was missing. Lots of cotton and sacks were scattered around the vegetable field, and it was soaked by the rain again. It was terrible to see.
Mrs. Jiang Liu and her three daughters-in-law and two granddaughters collected the cotton seeds one by one. They took the dirty ones to the pond, washed them, wrung them out and spread them in the yard to dry.
Old Man Jiang stood in San'er's yard for a while, and then walked around the vegetable field with his legs on his back. He saw that all the kohlrabi and red cabbage grown in the vegetable field were gone, and even the leeks had been cut to pieces.
In Bu Nao, on the day of his escape, he drove the two barking pigs and more than a dozen chickens at home into the depths of the bamboo forest. He then scattered a lot of wheat and rice in the bamboo forest, and he didn't know whether the sows and chickens were there.
"Dacheng!" Old Man Jiang saw his eldest grandson coming out of the bamboo forest and asked, "Have you found the pig?"
Jiang Cheng shook his head: "No, just find two chickens."
Those two chickens seemed to be accustomed to the life in the bamboo forest. They would hide in the forest when they saw people, and they would fight for their lives without mercy.
"Will he run away into the bamboo forest?" Old Man Jiang refused to give up and looked at his eldest grandson with a look of expectation on his face.
Jiang Cheng shook his head: "No, he was probably eaten by the bandits."
There were a lot of pig bones thrown away in and around our yard, but my grandfather didn't believe in evil, so he made sure he went to look for them in the bamboo forest, but he didn't find anything.
When Old Man Jiang heard this, he was so heartbroken that he shed tears.
Originally, the two pigs were planned to be kept for next year's New Year and killed for meat, but they didn't expect that they would be given an advantage by those little turtles.
This decapitating thing that killed a thousand people not only ate his pigs, but also burned down his house.
Old Man Jiang was going crazy.
At that time, those turtle grandsons were begging for help in front of him, and he would risk his life to kill a few of them to vent his anger!
"Where are those golden ears?" Old Man Jiang asked again.
"Is the golden ear okay? It's just that it was a little bit wet in the rain. I guess it won't look good when it grows out."
The Jiang family moved the golden fungus and snow fungus seedlings into the bamboo forest and covered them with straw. The bandits probably saw that the things were of no use, so they didn't move them much.
Old Man Jiang breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, that's good!"
Alas, what a blessing among misfortunes.
Fortunately, the bandit didn't know Jin Er, otherwise he would have arrived slowly.
Beside the bamboo forest.
Yingbao took her younger brother and Wei Zhan Yuanbao Huzi behind Youyoucuo and said, "Let's stop following him. Just wait for him there. He'll come out as soon as he gets in."
Jiang Wu grabbed his sister's sleeves tightly and said, "He will go too."
Jiang Jie: "He also begged to find Miss Zhu to find cantaloupe."
Wei Zhan and Hu Zi raised their legs: "He is very good!"
Yingbao was so angry with those followers that she lost her temper, so she coaxed her: "We'll wait there, and they will take us to the pond to pick lotus roots later."
Jiang Jie hesitated.
Jiang Wu pouted and was obviously reluctant.
He just wanted to look for cantaloupes with his sister, not lotus roots.
Yuanbao Wei Zhan and Hu Zi's eyes lit up and they nodded immediately: "Okay! I will keep my mouth shut!"
Mrs. Jiang Liu and Mrs. Zhou did not allow their children to play by the pond, and would spank their legs every time they saw them. Even Wei Zhan was not immune.
So Yingbao asked to take them to pick lotus roots, and the three monkeys immediately nodded in agreement.
Please tell me if grandma knows how to hit people with a stick, just let Yingbao take the blame. Grandma can't bear to hit her anyway.
Ying Bao led the deer inside, looking back from time to time to see if they were following.
Fortunately, they were very good that time and didn't follow me.
After walking for more than ten steps, seeing that the figure outside could no longer be seen clearly, Yingbao immediately took out a few melons, vines and red cabbage from the cave and stuffed them into the basket carried by Youyou.
The deer was carrying two baskets on its back, one on the left and one on the right. The left side was stuffed with cantaloupe, and the right side was stuffed with courgettes and red cabbage.
Carrying another basket of eggs in her lap, Ying Bao led Youyou out of the bamboo forest.
Thank you for your support all the way. Another month has begun. Let’s welcome the Children’s Day. I will update 10,000 words tomorrow.
