After finally making it to night, the two children were already out of breath.
"Mom, I know I was wrong."
Not caring about getting food, Lin Sihu ran to Ye Chuqiu's side and pitifully admitted his mistake to her, "Mom, I was wrong. I promise you that I will never be playful again. I will take good care of myself."
read."
"It's okay. Mom doesn't need you to help me study. Just do your job as farmers and work hard." Ye Chuqiu said calmly.
"Mom~" Lin Sihu looked coquettishly at her, stretched out his hands covered with mud, and was about to pull the hem of her clothes.
Ye Chuqiu stood up quickly, took two steps back, avoided his outstretched hand, and said with a smile, "My good son, Mom is looking after you. Work hard. Tomorrow is another day. Mom is going to eat.
Already."
After saying that, he got up and went to the stove to prepare for cooking.
Seeing Lin Sihu's appearance, Lin Sanhu came over, patted him on the shoulder and said, "How about it? Even if you beg her, she won't let go."
"You still have the nerve to say that it's not all because of you." Lin Sihu said angrily: "If it weren't for you, my mother wouldn't have done this to me. I'm exhausted after a day's work."
"Hey, what's the day? It's less than two hours, okay?" Lin Sanhu said something and went to eat as if nothing happened.
Of course he could endure the first day of work, but Ye Chuqiu decided to let them work for a few more days without straining their muscles and bones. How could they know the happiness of studying.
Thinking that they were both growing up and had suffered a lot during their escape, she didn't want to starve their bodies. Otherwise, she would definitely starve them for several days.
"Mom is so cruel."
While eating, Lin Sihu held a bowl and squatted next to Wufeng, talking to her casually.
But this time, Wufeng did not speak for him. He just glanced at him and said, "Who told you not to study hard? If you study hard, then you and I will be both civil and military, and we will be both civil and military. It will be great."
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"Hey, it's all my fault that Third Brother asked me to go play. I didn't want to go."
"Hey, I see you are happy."
Wufeng said, lowering his head and focusing on cooking.
Next, no matter what Lin Sihu said, she stopped talking. After dinner, she took the calligraphy written by Ye Chuqiu to her and walked slowly to eat and read the words.
Ye Chuqiu saw it and felt relieved. Fortunately, there was still an obedient person in the family.
After eating, the villagers all went down the mountain. Ye Chuqiu found Lin Dahu and waved to him, "Dahu, let's follow your Uncle Huang tonight."
"What's wrong? Mother." Lin Dahu asked.
"Mom suspects that there is something wrong with the origin of his batch of stone bricks. Tonight, you and your mother will go catch him." Ye Chuqiu said.
"Ah? There's something wrong with this batch of bricks. What's the problem?" Lin Dahu asked immediately.
"Shh, keep your voice down, don't let them hear it. If mother knew there was something wrong, she wouldn't have arrested him."
Ye Chuqiu said: "Look, Huang Yougui didn't ask anyone to smash stones. In the morning, he could pull stone bricks out of his house. Don't you think it's strange?"
"It's a bit strange, but what if it was the rock he asked someone to throw at him before?" Lin Dahu said.
"This is also possible, but Mom is still worried and wants to take a look." Ye Chuqiu said.
"Okay, since you insist, let your son go alone. It's windy this night. We don't know anything about their actions right now. We don't know how long they will stay here. If you go with us, don't be cold to you."
Already."
"It doesn't matter." Ye Chuqiu said, "I'll wear more clothes, but I won't worry if you go alone."
"Okay then." Lin Dahu thought for a while and agreed.
Immediately afterwards, he entered the room again and whispered a few words to Zhao Hehua, saying that he had something to do and asked her to go to bed early tonight.
Although Zhao Hehua wanted to ask more questions, when she saw Ye Chuqiu outside the house, she stopped asking and only told Lin Dahu to be careful.
When I went out, the night had completely dominated the sky, and the sky was getting darker.
A crescent moon is like a small boat, hanging faintly in the sky.
The crescent moon was not bright. Ye Chuqiu and Lin Dahu walked down the mountain along the path and passed the cemetery in Lin'an Village. They seemed to hear whispers.
Even Ye Chuqiu, who was well-informed and didn't believe in ghosts and gods, couldn't help but quicken his pace.
At night, when wild beasts are out and about, you can hear all kinds of strange sounds in the distance, including the sound of a night owl, which is like a child crying, very permeable.
The two of them squatted by the village road, waiting for Huang Yougui to go out.
He didn't know how long he had been squatting there, and his feet were numb from squatting. Just when Ye Chuqiu suspected that Huang Yougui would not act again tonight, Huang Yougui finally came out of the house with a few people.
"Let's all be more diligent today and bring back more bricks. I think the old widow of the Lin family is not easy to mess with. She seems to be suspicious of something today."
In the quiet night, Ye Chuqiu easily heard Huang Yougui's voice, and she immediately became furious.
He didn't even want to call me old lady. Instead, he called me old widow. This was really unpleasant.
The main reason is that Ye Chuqiu is much younger than before. Her appearance and figure don't look like an old lady at all, and Huang Yougui can't call her an old lady.
But she was really a grandmother, so I had to call her the old widow.
But this title sounded harsh to Ye Chuqiu's ears. It was simply an insult!
However, Ye Chuqiu still endured it. Just wait and see. If your stone brick is stolen later, I don't want you to look good!
In order to know where Huang Yougui was going out to steal bricks this late at night, Ye Chuqiu didn't say anything and just followed them quietly.
Huang Yougui brought a few apprentices and pushed a cart. It seemed that they were going to do a lot of work. Ye Chuqiu followed them up the official road first, and then they turned around and walked to a small road next to them.
The path actually led to the mountain. Although Ye Chuqiu had kept his voice extraordinarily quiet, he still made some noise.
"What sound?"
A man walking behind pricked up his ears. He always heard something coming from behind, but when he turned his head, he saw nothing.
"What's wrong?" Huang Yougui, who was walking in front, turned around and asked.
"I seemed to hear a voice behind me, as if someone was following me." Huang Yougui's apprentice said from behind.
"Don't scare yourself. No one is following us this late at night."
Huang Yougui came over and raised his torch to shine behind him. A gust of wind blew and the branches behind him swayed, and not a single ghost was visible.
"You see, it's just a gust of wind, blowing the branches and making you feel that there is someone there." Huang Yougui said, "If you are afraid, just go ahead and I will come to the back."
"No, no, no, Master, you should go ahead. I just misunderstood, and I won't do it anymore." The apprentice nodded and bowed. He didn't want to make his master look down on him or make his brothers laugh.
A group of people continued walking forward, turning east and west along the mountain road, and unexpectedly came to a small mountain col.
Under the torch, this small mountain col is full of neatly stacked stone bricks.