In the early morning, it was already bright outside, and light was shining into the house. He had gone to bed late last night, so Cao Xiangnan woke up at this time of the day, but he didn't feel sleepy. He liked the person in his arms.

He wondered how he could be so lucky to get this person, and couldn't help but lower his head and kiss her several times, forehead, eyes, nose, mouth...

Qi Wanfeng opened his eyes and just looked at his husband, watching him kiss him while he was still asleep. In fact, he noticed when his husband started kissing him while he was half asleep, and wanted to see how many times he would kiss before stopping, but he didn't expect that he had no intention of stopping, so he had to open his eyes.

The sex last night was as intense as a burning fire and as gentle as flowing water. It was the most passionate sex they had experienced in such a long time together. Neither of them wanted to stop, and Qi Wanfeng forgot how he fell asleep.

When he woke up, he found that his body was not sticky. He thought that his husband had wiped him, and his body was dry and refreshed. He slept soundly until he woke up just now.

"Good morning, when did you wake up?" Cao Xiangnan was not embarrassed at all when he was found out. He smiled openly, looking at the lazy person curled up in his arms. He liked his wife the most when she just woke up.

"When you started kissing me." Qi Wanfeng smiled, and put his hands around her husband's neck, with a smile on his lips. He imitated his husband's previous behavior, leaned over and kissed the corner of his mouth, and said, "Good morning, husband."

He didn't know when he got used to being with his husband in this way, and it didn't make people feel sick. Yesterday they talked it out, and the things that had been hidden in their hearts were gone. The two of them were more casual with each other than ever before, as if they were supposed to be like this.

The two of them hugged each other like this, and for a while, no one wanted to let go of each other.

Just when the grain in the fields was being collected, refugees began to come to them. Caojia Village is protected by a wall and there are gatekeepers at the entrance. It is not easy for outsiders to enter their village.

Several ragged men came to the entrance of Caojia Village to ask for water.

"Please be kind enough to give us a drink of water. We have walked such a long way and are really thirsty and can't walk anymore." The man who spoke looked as if he would sit here and not move if you don't give me water.

"You!"

"Give them a bowl of water, drink it and leave quickly."

One of the gatekeepers said, he was guarding the door here and asked another to go and get some water.

After giving them water, those people said they were hungry and wanted to eat.

"Are you guys leaving or not? If you don't, I won't be polite!" The man who had just told his companions to go get water picked up a stick. If these people didn't leave, he would be rude. Several men looked at each other and left dejectedly.

But these people didn't leave, they walked around the guard wall outside.

They couldn't get a bite of food in Nanyang City, so they had to leave Nanyang and go to other places. There were more and more refugees in Nanyang, and life was not easy. It would be better to go somewhere else, maybe they could still get a bite of food.

The carriage came in from the village entrance, and the gatekeeper said that Li Zheng asked him to come to his house when he came back. Cao Xiangnan asked the boy who was chasing him to drive the carriage to Li Zheng's place. When he arrived at Li Zheng's house, Cao Gui and Sun Yanmiao were all there.

There was a war in the north, and several cities were seized by the Zinus. If the people did not flee, they would be captured by the Zinus and made into slaves, which was worse than death. No one wanted to be a slave of the Zinus, so they were forced to flee their homeland with their families.

This year, there was a drought in the north, and no one could harvest any grain. It was unknown how many people died of starvation.

Once a person is hungry, he is actually no different from a hungry beast. When he sees food, his eyes turn green, and he will do anything.

Cao Xiangnan saw refugees as early as the last time he went to Nanyang. He went to Nanyang, but he did not expect that refugees would come to them so soon. What was supposed to come still came. Since it was impossible for them to move all the people in the village together, they could only come up with a complete coping strategy, how to deal with the dangers that these people might bring to them.

"Fortunately, our village has a protective wall, otherwise we can't stop these people. If they enter our village, it will be really..." At this point, Li Zheng also talked about how Cao Xiangnan had foresight and proposed to build a protective wall in their Caojia Village early on, and praised Nan Xiaozi a few times.

Cao Xiangnan smiled embarrassedly, then put off the smile on the corner of his mouth, and talked about business with a serious face, "I just went to the town to see that several waves of people came from the town, and those people went to the village below."

I think people from the nearby villages have come, and their Caojia Village has now become the best village in the area, so don't become the target of criticism.

"It's better to arrange two more people to guard the entrance of our village." During the day, people in the village come in and out, and the door of the village is still open. If they are not careful and let outsiders in, it will be unsafe here. "Another point is that whoever is on night watch must be more alert at night."

They are not afraid of refugees at this time, but they are afraid of bandits coming at night. Everyone understands this. Li Zheng nodded and said, "I will talk about this matter."

They talked about the harvest in the village this year. There were a few lazy families. The seedlings in the fields all died. Where is the grain to harvest? Now they know how to cry. Who told them to just leave the fields alone? They didn't even check whether the weather was the same as in previous years. They carefully took care of the crops in the fields. This year's harvest can only barely feed the family.

At this time, no one knew what the day would be like, but they still had some food in their hands.

Fortunately, some people in their village had enough money from the taxes last year and this year. When the officials came to collect taxes, they gave copper coins as collateral instead of food. Some people still had some food left at home.

No one wanted to see the outsiders not come in, but the people inside were fighting among themselves. Everyone

talked about the arrangements in the village, and they must be careful of refugees and bandits. The bandits might be those among the refugees, and no one could tell who was a good person and who was a bad person. After everyone worked hard day and night, the secret passage in the village was dug through. They agreed to go down and check the secret passage after dark. This was their last way out, and no one could relax.

Autumn has come, and winter is coming soon, just a blink of an eye.

Seeing that winter is coming soon, this is the critical time. If they don’t have some food, they don’t know how to survive in the winter. Those refugees came to them from a long way, and they only thought about how to survive. They were afraid that they would fight to the death and take their lives to snatch the food in their mouths.

The things in the village still need to be arranged in detail. After discussing with everyone in Li Zheng for a while, it was almost dark, and Cao Xiangnan went back home. Fortunately, he asked Qiang to go home first to let people know where he was, so that they wouldn't worry.

Everyone hadn't eaten dinner yet, so they agreed to go and see the secret passage after dinner.

Seeing that it was getting dark and her husband had not returned yet, Qi Wanfeng kept looking towards the door. When he heard the door open outside, he came out and saw that it was her husband who came back, and then he felt relieved.

"Dad." The children at home ran out first when they saw their father coming back. Qi Wanfeng followed behind with Baoer and Lele in his arms and went to greet him. Cao Xiangnan reached out and touched a few little radishes. When he saw the people coming out, he smiled and asked, "Did you study well with the teacher in the academy today?" "

Yes." Several voices responded in different voices.

An'an and Xing'er had good grades in school, and Zheng Xiucai liked the two little brothers very much. Maybe there were some other reasons. When he was free after coming back, Cao Xiangnan would also talk to the children about their homework, which was considered as a review for the children after class.

"Husband, you are back. Why did you stay in the village for so long today?" Qi Wanfeng put Baoer on the ground, and Baoer ran to his father with his short legs. Cao Xiangnan bent down to catch the little guy. The little guy giggled and said, "We talked about something there, so we were delayed for a while."

"I heard that there were refugees coming to our village today, right?" Qi Wanfeng heard this from Chen Hong. Husband had told him about the refugees a long time ago, saying that people from the north would come to them sooner or later.

"Yes, that's right. I went to the town, and quite a few people came to the town." Cao Xiangnan held Bao'er and asked the children to go back to the house. He told Wanfeng about the things in the town. He said, "Don't worry, our village is much safer than outside."

Qi Wanfeng nodded. Her husband told him everything. He knew that there was a secret passage in the village leading directly to the back mountain. If something happened, they would leave Caojia Village through the secret passage.

But it would be best if nothing really happened, so that they can spend this year in peace.

"I went to the town to talk to Magistrate Zhao about the refugees. It depends on how the government handles it." What they can do is only a small part. Cao Xiangnan went to see Zhao Xianzhi and could only give a few suggestions on how to deal with the refugees, which is also relatively effective.

Since all these people have come here, can they just watch them die?

All the people who come to the village are strong men, and it is not guaranteed that all of them are good people. However, there are old people and children in the town. These people have come here from thousands of miles away. If they are left alone, they will not be able to survive the cold winter and will all die in the cold winter.

Before the cold winter comes, the government had better find an effective way to resettle these people. After this winter, no matter how bad the situation is in the spring next year, they can dig some food out of the fields, so that so many people will not starve to death. Without food and clothes to keep out the cold in the winter, you really can't escape the word "death".