Author: West Lake encounters rain

The child's steps were weak and weak, but his idea of ​​escaping was very firm. In the thatched house, there seemed to be something horrible, forcing him to stagger out on his calves.

After a few steps, he hit Jiang Xinghuo's thigh with a "bang". If Jiang Xinghuo hadn't been holding him quickly, he would have almost fallen to the ground.

Inside the room, a pale-faced woman walked out with her hard support to the door panel. When she saw Jiang Xinghuo and others, her first reaction was not to negotiate to ask them for their son, but to be frightened.

"You guys go!"

The woman's voice was not hoarse, obviously not lacking in water, but she was a little weak.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at her bulging belly and probably understood something in his heart. He either had to fill up water or had to eat something that was indigested with a stomachache.

Seeing that Jiang Xinghuo and others were not leaving, the woman wanted to say something, but she didn't need to say anything.

In the porridge shed behind me, more than a dozen green-skinned scoundrels who had eaten their porridge came over naked.

To Jiang Xinghuo's surprise, what happened next was not a slap in the face of the gangster who "the gangster in the village bullies the orphans and widows, and the national teacher passed by and helped him with righteousness."

The rogue with a tiger tattoo on his head looked at the clothes of the few people and said respectfully.

"I just saw several distinguished guests from afar and didn't dare to come forward to disturb her. But when you came to Aunt Liu's house, you had to ask aloofly. I wonder if Aunt Liu still owed a debt to which landlord? If not, my brothers and I will pay it back for her, and you don't have to go in."

After saying that, he pointed to the woman's home, looked through the door panel, and said "the house is left with all its walls".

“Passing by.”

Jiang Xinghuo was very sincere: "I'm really passing by."

The leader of the 'a tiger'. Quan Qi called him that, but he felt so happy when he saw this. He just clasped his fists and said, "Then please leave the village quickly. I'm afraid I won't be able to leave later."

“Why?”

Jiang Xinghuo did not mind the big deal and asked patiently.

Before the 'A tiger' answered, he heard the movement from afar, but his face suddenly changed.

Without explaining to Jiang Xinghuo, more than a dozen green-skinned scoundrels all returned to the porridge shed under the big locust tree and drew out some homemade grafting weapons, such as sickles and long sticks.

Then, under the leadership of "a tiger", he walked towards the north end of the village.

The woman's complexion became more and more gray, but the next moment, she looked at her son who was in pain and felt panic, and there was a hint of anger in her eyes.

"Yiaowa, bear with it."

The woman took off her son's clothes and took a small branch to help her son, who was covering her stomach and trying to roll around the ground.

"It's soon, it's soon"

The child did not cooperate, and the woman became more anxious. The child was crying even more when he couldn't pull out the feces.

"It'll be fine if you hold it for a while, it'll be fine soon!" The woman said as she increased the force and pulled it out.

"Wow--"

The child cried loudly, as if he wanted to shout out all the grievances in his heart.

Jiang Xinghuo couldn't bear it anymore, so he took out something from his arms and handed it to the woman.

"Use this."

The woman took it and looked at the clean and transparent grease in the bottle, and was stunned for a moment.

She had never seen such good oil in her life.

"Hurry up and use it."

The woman no longer hesitated. With the help of fishman cream, the child quickly excreted the feces that were blocked in his stomach.

Seeing that his son's life worries were relieved, the unspeakable woman kowtowed to Jiang Xinghuo repeatedly.

At this time, Jiang Xinghuo could finally ask about the doubts he had just felt.

"Didn't those people just now want to be out of stock?"

The woman was stunned and then said, "You are misunderstood by nobleman. They are all friends of their husbands and their nephews."

I think it would be a farmer who can be friends with these people, who is not a farmer who is diligent in farming? Most of them are tyrants or want to be knights.

"Then I saw that they all drank porridge."

Song Li next to him is hard to say too much, but the meaning is also very obvious.

It’s so difficult for both of you and your son. Why are these friends and nephews reluctant to part with a single bite of porridge?

There were quarrels coming from the north end of the village.

The woman looked a little anxious.

Jiang Xinghuo said, "Tell us the whole story, maybe we can help."

The woman gritted her teeth and told a story that happened in the past few days.

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The woman's husband was born in the eleventh year of Hongwu. This year is the first year of Yongle. The year is 25 years old and is named Li Liuqi.

But Li Liuqi, the old bachelor, never got married. His family was too poor. Not only could he not afford to marry a wife, but his father's own children also had to be sent out, that is, adopting a son or marrying a daughter, thereby reducing the burden of food rations.

It was not until last year that I married a woman whose husband died, the "Aunt Liu" mentioned by the rogues.

Originally, the whole family could barely make a living by working as a tenant for the landlords in the next village, but this spring it was a severe drought. The green seedlings were withered and turned into yellow seedlings. The yellow seedlings were washed away by a transit flood diverted from the river. This year, there must be no harvest. The landlords' family still had some surplus grain to survive, so the farmers really had to wait to starve to death.

In addition to him and his wife and children, Li Liuqi's family now has parents, elder brother, sister-in-law and nephew, and second brother who is a bachelor, a total of nine people. The rest of his brothers and sisters have adopted or married.

And the rice jar at home is only a shallow layer of rice covered with dust.

The story came to Li Liuqi's last day.

"Squeak~"

The old door shaft, which was not lubricated, made a sound that made people feel sour. My mother, Chen, walked in with her left hand and a mud bowl with her mouth open in her right hand.

She was very weak, and in just a few short steps, she had to hold the window lattice and wait for a long time.

"Shh"

Li Liuqi took the mud bowl in front of him, and there was half a bowl of turbid soup inside. Some meat foam floated up in the middle. Seeing Li Liuqi still standing still, Chen hurriedly urging, "Drink it quickly!"

"What kind of soup is this? Have you drunk it?"

Chen looked at Lao Mo who was most distressed, squeezed out a smile and said, "The yellow dog at the entrance of the village is stewed. My parents have drunk it, so you can drink it quickly."

Li Liuqi had no doubts. He was so hungry. His body was tall and majestic. When he was young, he learned skills, practiced martial arts, and had also made a fortune in the world. He had not made any name for himself. However, he was a little prestige and was particularly impatient in the ten miles of the countryside, so he drank "gudonggudong" without hesitation.

After half a bowl of warm broth, he swallowed it with chewed bone residue. Li Liuqi regained some strength and no longer had any eyes.

"Thank you, mom."

Looking at her energetic young son carefully, as if she wanted to remember his appearance in her heart. Chen smiled satisfiedly. She held the bowl with one hand and put the other hand in front of her stomach, and walked out of the house with her back.

"Bang~"

The smoke and dust rose, and the mud bowl shattered and sputtered on the ground. Before Chen could step through the threshold, he fainted on the ground and was unconscious.

"Mom!" "Mom!"

Two anxious shouts sounded inside and outside the house at the same time, and Li Liuqi and his second brother staggered to Chen's side.

When Li Liuqi saw Chen's left hand on his abdomen, the broken fingers, as if he had thought of something, his face turned pale, and his stomach was turbulent, and he was about to vomit.

"Can't vomit! Swallow it back!"

The second brother said viciously, and directly pinched Li Liuqi's Adam's apple with his hands, pushing his nausea back.

"mother--"

For a moment, Li Liuqi seemed to be blind, his vision was white, his ears became unreal, and his tears fell down.

"Get up, this is my mother's decision. You want to survive. My nephew and sister-in-law are still waiting for you to bring the rice home!"

The second brother helped Li Liuqi up. After a long time, Li Liuqi's vision recovered. He looked at the strange and familiar home. His father and elder brother were lying on the bed so hungry that they couldn't get up. The eldest sister-in-law held his nephew who was a few months old, and his wife took her ex-husband's baby and looked at him timidly from the door of the woodshed.

He helped Chen to the kang and lay down, boiled some rice soup that could count even the rice grains, and waited for a while before Chen woke up slowly, but he couldn't even say anything weak.

"Let's go, go to the landlord's house with your second brother to borrow rice."

He and his second brother walked all the way, but they didn't go far. After passing a village, the other end of Guzhuang Village was the landlord's home.

The landlord's family is naturally different from his thatched hut. It has a grand tile house with three in and three out. There is a thick wall outside. The evil dog at the door roars at Li Liuqi wildly. A servant heard the dog barking and poked his head out.

Before long, the fat-headed and big-eared landlord came to the door wearing a blue printed copper coin robe cut in brocade.

The landlord was holding a bag of heavy rice in his hand. He looked at the second brothers of the Li family who came to his door with a smile and said something.

After the silence, the landlord asked, "Have you decided? Who will come?"

Li Liuqi held the second brother's hand and said in a deep voice: "Second brother, let the mother and the others survive."

"good."

The second brother, who was guilty, nodded heavily, took the rice bag from Landlord Fan, and turned around and strode away.

A drop of water fell on the ground and was instantly burned.
To be continued...