Chapter 268 Did we lose the war?
Fortunately, Xiao Nuobao saw the sadness of his fourth brother and reached out his chubby hand.
Feng Jing touched his sister's hand, as if he had gained strength, and quickly held it back, and only then did he stop crying.
Not long after, Li Wencai told him everything he had experienced in the past few days.
It turned out that after the child came out of the thieves' den, he had nowhere to go, so he could only go to the restaurants and teahouses to pick up slop to eat.
However, in the past few days, most people in the city stayed indoors, so even leftovers were rare.
He had no choice but to steal because he was so hungry. He just took a few wreaths from the peddler and wanted to exchange them for buns.
The Jiang family members felt more and more sad as they listened, so they hurriedly pushed all the food on the table in front of him.
"You must be hungry, right? Fill your stomach first. After you finish eating, I'll take you home." Mrs. Feng wiped her eyes and said bitterly.
Li Wencai swallowed his saliva, stared at the fish, meat, shrimp and crabs in the exquisite dishes, and his stomach couldn't help but growl.
The Jiang family was afraid that he would be embarrassed, so they urged him several times. Finally, he was able to let go of his courage and grabbed a big chicken leg and bit into it like a hungry tiger.
It seemed that this child was very hungry. He almost choked himself after a few bites. Jiang Fenghu poured water and put it next to him, sighed again, and whispered to his wife.
"Wencai has been out without food and drink these days, why didn't he come back to our village? Well, at least he won't be hungry if he comes back to the village."
Li Qiqiao said in a low voice, "Do you need to ask? Either he has no hope in living, or he is afraid of burdening his sister. This child is thoughtful and has a high spirit. Now that his body is in such a state, I really don't know what to do in the future."
This is true.
Although Wencai can still eat voraciously, he is only eating out of his survival instinct.
In fact, he has long thought that even if he returns home, he will only be a burden and will be sympathized by the whole village.
Instead of this, it is better to live one day at a time outside and not drag anyone down.
Now that this has happened, I am afraid that I can't visit the Lantern Festival today even if it is a good scene.
Besides, it was not easy to find Wencai. If Yin'er was not told quickly, Mrs. Feng would worry that something might happen.
So, when Li Wencai's stomach was almost full, the Jiang family got up and went to say goodbye to Qin Bu Tong.
Then everyone got on the carriage together and rushed to Dalui Village.
Before leaving Qin Caiju, Xiao Nuobao was hanging his head. He didn't dare to think about how uncomfortable sister Yin'er would feel after returning.
But at this moment, suddenly a trace of the breath of a dead body came faintly from the basement of Qin Caiju, which made Xiao Nuobao stunned for a moment, straightened up and looked back.
"Let's go quickly, let Madam Xiao's carriage go ahead of us." Mrs. Feng's hoarse words interrupted Xiao Nuobao's discovery.
Seeing that the carriage was about to leave, Nuobao couldn't stop it, so he put it aside for the time being, holding his little round face, and snuggling on his mother's legs waiting to go home.
This night was destined to be a restless night for Daliu Village.
The child who was one of the best students in the village, and was boasted by Aunt Li as a child of prime minister, now, after staying with his father for some time, he has become a little beggar with missing arms and legs and blank eyes...
When Li Yiner saw his brother like this, he immediately fell to the ground, hugged Wencai and cried bitterly.
The village chief and others also had red eyes and were silent.
Each of them was filled with pity.
They only hated that Li Dakang didn't throw that guy to the death kiln on the day he made trouble, and just put an end to this beast directly!
"He sold his son and then wanted to sell his daughter. He is really... a scum in our village, worse than pigs and dogs!" The village chief's eyes were almost popping out tears, and he squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth.
Granny Liu pinched her philtrum, slapped her thigh and cursed, "He is not worthy of being beaten. He gave birth to two good children but didn't know how to cherish them. He only wanted to waste them. Why didn't God strike a thunderbolt to kill him?"
Seeing Yin'er crying loudly and almost crying to death in Jinniang's arms, Xiao Nuobao was so distressed that she gritted her teeth and felt so sad that her heart was about to break.
She wanted to throw out a thunderbolt right now and do what Granny Liu said to hit Li Dakang into a roasted duck!
However, Xiao Nuobao calculated that this person's blessings and virtues were exhausted and the miserable days were still to come, so she didn't reward him for now, so as not to let him get away with it.
"Don't be anxious, Granny Liu. People who sell their children will not live long. They will suffer in the future!" Xiao Nuobao clenched his fist and hummed.
When the villagers heard this, they all nodded vigorously as if relieved.
"Nuobao's words will never be missed, let's wait and see Li Dakang's end." Mrs. Liu wiped her eyes.
"Evil deeds will be punished sooner or later, that bastard and the beggar will not be able to escape!" Old Li had a gloomy face.
At this time, the village chief wiped his eyes, patted his chest and stepped forward to guarantee.
"Don't worry, Yin'er, from now on, Wencai will be the child of all our villagers. At worst, we will raise him together, and we will never let you two sisters be without support!"
The villagers are all so righteous. Li Yin'er, with her eyes swollen and unable to open, hugged Wencai and thanked them one by one.
Feng sniffed and had already made up her mind. At worst, she would use the profits of Xianquanju to give Wencai fifty taels every year so that the two sisters could live well.
Xiao Nuobao had already clapped his hands, and took out a lot of rice, flour, grain and oil from the offerings, and secretly put them in Yiner's cellar.
The villagers also went home, bringing sauerkraut, eggs, salted fish and other food, and put them in Yiner's yard without saying a word.
Of course, Yiner can earn money now, and her family is not short of these foods.
Everyone did this just to show their attitude and let Yiner know that the whole village will take care of her family together.
Anyway, with the villagers around, no one will let them suffer. Old Mrs. Xiao and Dean Wei saw this with tears in their eyes and couldn't help sighing.
The villagers are so righteous and kind. It would be a blessing if they could live here for a long time.
The next morning, the sun was warm and the weather was perfect for work. However, because of Wencai's experience, the villagers were not in a good mood. They
would just chat in a low voice and sigh when they met each other.
After Feng took the bedding to the yard to dry, she went to Yin'er's house and told her to stay with Wencai at home.
She and Yang Tianmei would take over the affairs of Xianquanju in the next few days.
Around noon, someone suddenly came from Xishan Village and said that Li Qiqiao's nephew from her mother's family was one month old and asked her to go over to attend the full-moon banquet.
Li Qiqiao didn't like to have much contact with her parents' family. In the past, her parents' family rarely visited her.
Now, they just wanted her to go
there to show their respect because they saw that the Jiang family had made a lot of progress. Li Qiqiao was inevitably unhappy. Seeing her daughter-in-law's dilemma, she was afraid that she would feel uncomfortable if she went, and she was also afraid that if she didn't go, she would be accused of not recognizing people because she had money. So Feng simply took the whole family and accompanied her to Xishan Village for a feast.
"It would save you from being uncomfortable staying alone. It would be better if we go together. When the time comes, leave 200 coins as a gift, and no one can find fault with it." Feng was very heartwarming.
Because Xiao Nuobao woke up too late, Feng was reluctant to call her. When she stretched her lazy waist and closed her eyes, the whole family had gone to Xishan Village.
Only Dean Wei was left at home to watch over her and Xiaochun.
Dean Wei is a man living alone, but he is not good at housework. Right now, he is squatting beside the stove with Chun Ge'er on his back, trying to figure out how to light a
fire to heat up the meal. He has been busy for a long time, but the firewood under the stove has not burned. It only emits black smoke, which makes them cough.
"Cough cough!"
"Cough ka cough ka~"
Both the big and the small are uncomfortable, and the wolf and the leopard "duet" sounded in the outer room.
When Xiao Nuobao heard the noise and stepped on the bench to get down, he saw that their faces were blackened by the smoke. When he raised his head, only two pitiful eyes were exposed.
Xiao Nuobao couldn't help it for a moment, and he held his stomach and gurgled.
"Haha, Uncle Dean is so stupid that he can't even light a firewood. Even Xiao Guoguo is better than you!" The little girl laughed happily, but she completely forgot how to solve the problem of lunch.
Dean Wei was at a loss and couldn't figure it out. He had to hold her clothes by the back of her neck and put her on the kang to discuss.
"How about Uncle Dean go to Xianquanju to see if there is any leftover food there, and we can eat it." Dean Wei begged.
After saying that, he touched his head embarrassedly.
"Just wait until your mother and others come back, don't tell this to others, otherwise, even if they don't say it, they will laugh at me behind my back."
As the dean of a college, he can't even light a fire. If this gets out, I'm afraid that even the Wei Academy will be embarrassed.
Little Nuobao rolled on the kang with laughter, and only nodded with her little white teeth when Dean Wei agreed to make her two flowery hand ropes.
Meanwhile, Feng Shi had no idea about the jokes in the family. She was sitting at the front table with her son and daughter-in-law, enjoying the meal.
With the help of the Jiang family, Li Qiqiao's family got a lot of glory. Everyone was smiling attentively, and a big pork elbow was specially served for their table.
Everyone was enjoying the meal.
At this moment, two old women suddenly broke the door, fell in and shouted loudly.
"It's bad, it's bad, have you heard it!"
"The battle report just came back from the city, saying that we lost the battle in Changbai City! The imperial master who led the expedition was too anxious, and brought a few hundred people from a camp called something, and rushed directly into the territory of the Pibei, and ended up falling into their trap!" The two old women shouted with grief on their faces.
Feng's chopsticks stopped in mid-air, and fell on the table with a click.
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