The little girl's innocent and romantic look made Li Xinan and these rough men burst into tears and rushed to tease her.
"Little sister, what are your name?" Ye Qinglan asked.
"My name is Yaya." The little girl replied.
"Yaya, are you from this village?"
"Yes." Yaya plucked her mouth and asked them: "You haven't answered my question yet."
"What's the problem?" The few people looked confused.
"How did you know the history of our Zhaojia Village?"
"So that's it." Li Xin'an smiled, "Because the words on the stone tablet have been written out, we recognize the words, so we know."
"That's it." Yaya said, "I recognize words too, I know ten words."
"Yaya is great." Ye Qinglan stroked Yaya's head and said with a smile.
"My father is even more powerful. He knows more than 30 words. My father said that he would teach me one a day. In a short time, I would recognize all the words."
Listening to Yaya's tender words, Li Xin'an smiled and said nothing. This little girl didn't know that there were tens of thousands of words in the world, and thirty words were not even a drop in a drop in the bucket. But even so, Li Xin'an didn't mean to laugh at it at all. For Yaya, learning thirty words was what this little girl looked forward to most. Things in the world were nothing more satisfying than achieving her own dream. This small and happy dream is precisely the most mediocre and the most out of reach.
"Come on Yaya, sooner or later, you will know more words and become more powerful than your father." Li Xinan encouraged.
"Where are you from?" The little girl remembered now and asked how many people were from.
"We came from a very far away place." Ye Qinglan replied, "Yaya, is there any place in your village where we can stay?"
"Um..." Yaya frowned and thought carefully.
After a while, the little girl shook her head: "I don't know."
"But you can live in my house. My yard is so big, with two yellow dogs, a donkey, and a group of chickens and ducks. The hand-rolled noodles made by my mother are so delicious." Yaya said excitedly.
The few people looked at each other and they all really liked this little girl, so Li Xin'an agreed.
"Okay, Yaya, can you lead us?"
"Okay, okay, come with me."
The little girl was excitedly leading the way. Ye Qinglan asked with a smile: "Yaya, aren't you worried that we are bad people?"
The few people would have thought that the little girl pouted her mouth after realizing it and asked them loudly, but unexpectedly, Yaya's answer was very straightforward.
"Don't worry, because you look different from bad guys."
"Does the bad guy still have a bad guy face?" Li Xinan asked with a smile.
"Of course." Yaya said, "I've seen them. Each of them is very scary and terrible. They smash things everywhere, bully the elderly and women, and burn our houses."
Hearing this, the few people looked at each other and Xiao Xuangan whispered: "There should be bandits."
"But it is close to Mianzhou City, and it takes only a few hours to go back and forth. How could the bandits commit crimes here?" Zhou Bian said.
"Jiannan Road has many mountains and forests, with rugged terrain, and rainy days, and muddy roads." Murong Bai said, "It is not as smooth and wide as in the north, and it is easier for bandits to commit crimes. Moreover, the people in Jiannan Road are tough and evil people are rampant."
"Oh, I just hope that the government can take more control and stop letting the people suffer."
While talking, several people walked into the village with their horses, which attracted the attention of many people in the village along the way. Especially those young women, who could hardly walk when they saw Murong Bai and Ye Qinglan's faces. They conveyed their emotions and secretly sent a look of autumn.
"My home is ahead!" Yaya excitedly stepped forward and ran forward, shouting:
"Dad! Mom! I've taken the guests home!"
In the yard, a man's voice sounded: "Are there any guests? Girl, you won't bring back the cats and dogs you picked up, don't make your mother angry."
"It's not a cat or a dog, it's a human!" Yaya corrected.
Li Xin'an coughed awkwardly, walked into the yard, and bowed deeply to the man:
"Hello, my elder brother. We came from Chang'an and were going to Yizhou. After a month's journey, I saw it getting late, so I thought about staying in Guicun for one night. I happened to meet Yaya outside the village. She invited us to come, and asked my elder brother not to mind, we will present it with gold and silver."
The man dressed by the farmer stood up in a hurry: "Oh, what are you doing? It's your duty to help farmers. Where can I ask for money for a few people? Hurry up, Yaya, clean up the house, and we have a distinguished guest."
A peasant woman walked out of the house and said with a smile: "Some people wait, I'll go and clean up the wing."
"It's not a problem for my sister-in-law, we can do it ourselves." Xiao Xuangan said as he wanted to come forward to help, but was stopped by Yaya, the little girl.
"My father and my mother are very hospitable, so you can just stay there with peace of mind."
Yaya's father brought a bundle of fodder and said apologetically: "I'm so sorry, our family only has fodder for donkeys and mules, but we have to treat the horses of the young masters injustice."
"Where is it?" Li Xin'an smiled, "These horses followed us to eat weeds for a month, and they had tender grass. They are rare foods for them. Brother, you have spent money."
"So this is a horse." Yaya said with her neck tilted, "I thought it was like our donkey. I have ridden the donkey many times, and I haven't seen the horse yet."
Zhou Bian raised his eyebrows: "Little girl, do you want to try riding a horse?"
"Is it really possible?" Yaya said excitedly.
"What do you think of, you damn girl?" Yaya's father scolded, "Go and choose vegetables with your mother."
"Brother, we can help with cooking. Let Brother Zhou take Yaya out for a walk." Li Xin'an said, "We really feel sorry for letting Brother and Sister-in-law work hard."
"Then... OK." Yaya's father's eyes were complicated, but he still agreed.
"Girl, come back early."
"I know!"
Zhou Bian picked up Yaya and turned over the horse, and rode away amid the little girl's silver bell-like laughter.
Soon, several people cleaned up the idle house and cooked a pot of noodles with Yaya Niang. Yaya's father originally wanted to slaughter chicken and stew a pot of chicken, but Li Xin'an said he would not let him go, but in the end he was reluctant to cook an egg for each of them.
After it was completely dark, Zhou Bian brought the little girl back here. Yaya looked unsatisfied and kept talking about what she saw and heard on the dining table, saying that all the friends in her village had seen it and were extremely envious.
A simple and warm supper soon passed by the little girl chattering. Perhaps because she was so excited, Yaya fell asleep quickly. Li Xin'an and the others were embarrassed to bother too much, so after washing the dishes, they turned off the lights.
In the middle of the night, Li Xin'an was sleeping in a daze when he suddenly heard a barking from outside. At first, there was only one dog barking, but in the end, it caused the dogs in the whole village to bark continuously.
"What's going on..." Ye Qinglan said vaguely, "It's so noisy."
"You're cursing?" Li Xin'an said with her head under the quilt, "This is very normal in the village."
It is indeed normal for dogs to bark in the middle of the night, but it is very abnormal when it gets hot in the middle of the night.
I noticed the strangeness in the village and did not fall asleep. Murong Bai and Xiao Xuangan, who were meditating cross-legged, opened their eyes first and went out to check. I saw that the west end of the village was filled with fire. The man's vulgar curses and the howlings of women and children came from vaguely.
"No, something happened!"
Murong Bai was about to enter the house and called out the others, but unexpectedly, Yaya's father and Yaya Niang left the door first.
"What's wrong?" Yaya Niang looked frightened, "It's not that they are here again, right?"
"It should be, this time it's Xitou, Zhao Wu's family." Yaya's father signaled his wife to rest assured, "It has nothing to do with us."
"They?" Murong Bai was curious when he heard this, "Brother, you're recruiting bandits in the village."
"It's not a bandit." Yaya's father's expression was hard to describe, "But they are even more hateful than a bandit!"
"What does this mean?"
"Oh... I'm outsiders, this matter has nothing to do with you, so don't inquire." Yaya's father said, "This is also for your own good."
"Brother is such a bad thing."
Li Xin'an's voice suddenly sounded, and the fire outside shot into the sky. They were awakened even if they were sleeping to death.
Li Xin'an said in a deep voice: "The murder and arson happened in front of us. How can we sit still and ignore it?"
"This..." Yaya's father sighed, "It's not that he doesn't let him care, it's that he can't control it at all."
"I can't control it, it's not a bandit, is it because the government has set fire?"
"It's not the government, but it's almost done."
Yaya's father paused and talked about the whole story.
"There is a neighboring village in Zhaojia Village. When Zhaojia Village was established, they were all retired soldiers and there was no land here. Zhang Yuanwai's ancestors were the prefect of Mianzhou City during the Former Sui Dynasty. Because of his contribution to the sacrifice of the city, the surrounding land was rewarded. Including the land in Zhaojia Village, the land in Zhaojia Village was not our own, but Zhang Yuanwai's family. Therefore, the people in our village were not villagers, but Zhang Yuanwai's family."
"We have been farming here for generations. Zhang Yuanwai's father's grandfather is also very good to us. The land tax only needs to be paid one-tenth of the year's income. In the year of great disasters, our land tax was exempted. However, since Zhang Yuanwai's father passed away, Zhang Yuanwai treated us ruthlessly. The land tax increased and was no longer linked to the harvest of that year, but had to pay a fixed amount. Once the amount was not reached, Zhang Yuanwai would send someone to the house to plunder things to mortgage the debt. If it was not enough, they would directly rob people, and the children were taken to the Zhang family as servants, and the women were sold to the kilns."
"Why do you do this!" Li Xin'an said, "Does the government ignore their actions?"
"Official government? How can I control it?" Yaya's father sighed, "When Zhang Yuanwai was young, he was ignorant and often went to Mianzhou City to spend time and live in the city of Mianzhou. With Mianzhou Prefect supporting him, Zhang Yuanwai is the local emperor here."
"He also colluded with a group of gangsters in Mianzhou City to be responsible for being a thug for him. Sometimes this group of people is even more hateful than Mr. Zhang. When they come to collect rent, they will hit people without warning. When they see beautiful women, they will drag them into the room to humiliate them. We... dare not speak out."
Li Xin'an took a deep breath, narrowed his eyes, and said slowly:
"The descendants of the heroes who opened Shu at that time actually fell to this level and were bullied by others. Collusion between officials and businessmen, such people... Humph, it's really damn!"
"Do you do it now?" Murong Bai asked tacitly.
"certainly."
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