Chapter 193
When they got home, Xia Yujiao finally couldn't hold it in anymore. She knelt on the ground, hugged Zhou tightly, and burst into tears.
The cry was so loud that even the swallows on the eaves were startled and flew away. The sparrows on the roof also flew away chirping.
Zhou's face was filled with sorrow, and there was a hint of hatred that could not be erased. At the same time, she was filled with heartache for Xia Yujiao. The expression on her face was inevitably twisted and complicated.
But her hands were not idle. She kept patting Xia Yujiao's back gently and kept saying:
"It's all over, it's all over, it's all over..."
Xia Daohua quietly hid out and went to Xia Youtian's house, where she settled the two brocade-robed cloud riders. She then went to the kitchen and worked for a while, boiling a large pot of water and preparing a large pot of thin white rice porridge.
By the time the aroma of the white rice porridge wafted up, the two brocade-robed cloud riders had regained consciousness.
Xia Daohua filled two bowls of rice porridge on a bamboo tray, and peeked through the crack in the door. Seeing that Zhou and Xia Yujiao, mother and daughter, were still crying, she did not disturb them. She walked a few more steps and handed the two bowls of porridge to the two brocade-robed cloud riders.
The two young men were so hungry that they didn't have time to talk much. They saw the porridge as if they had seen their own parents. They picked up the bowls and started drinking it, "slurp, slurp" with relish. After a short while, two bowls of porridge were gone.
After the two young men finished their porridge, they looked at Xia Daohua pitifully, with an expression of "I'm not full yet, please feed me" on their faces. It can be seen that the two young men were very hungry before.
Xia Daohua smiled and served them two more bowls of porridge, but this time it was even thinner than the last time - people who are starving cannot eat too much at once, otherwise their stomach and intestines will not be able to bear it. It is also easy to have problems with the pancreas.
Afterwards, Xia Daohua went to check on Zhou and Xia Yujiao, mother and daughter. Seeing that they had almost stopped crying, Xia Daohua thoughtfully handed them hot towels, tea, and two or three snacks, allowing them to wipe their faces, drink some water, and fill their stomachs.
After the two of them calmed down, Xia Daohua asked them if they wanted to drink porridge or go back to the old house to stay with their family.
They both nodded, and Xia Daohua served them more porridge. She then asked two riders in brocade robes to accompany them back to the old house.
Anyway, there are a lot of empty rooms in the old house, so it can accommodate a few more people.
Thinking of this, Xia Daohua had an idea. Perhaps, it was time to release Doctor Wang and Li Gan and the others.
Although they won’t die staying in the space supermarket, being hungry all the time is enough to make them suffer.
At that time, my family can live in the old house, and let Li Gan and others live in the new house by the South Lake. At most, I can ask him for two gold bars as accommodation fee.
I don’t know whether this war will spread to the village.
Keeping Li Gan and the others would be a helper at least. As soon as Xia Daohua thought of this, she couldn't help laughing out loud - thinking about how Li Gan looked like a dumpling now, who was helping whom?
Zhou and Xia Yujiao looked at Xia Daohua in surprise: "Daohua, what are you laughing at?"
Xia Daohua smiled shyly, raised her hand and touched the back of her head, and suddenly found that her hair was no longer short. She retracted her hand a little embarrassedly: "Hehe, nothing, I'm just happy today!"
After saying this, Zhou and Xia Yujiao's faces changed. Xia Daohua hurriedly said, "The city is in such a mess. We were able to run back safely. Isn't it worth being happy?"
Before she finished her words, she saw Zhou's face change again. Xia Daohua thought about it for a moment and suddenly realized that something was wrong. She had forgotten to ambush her!
However, if she doesn't ask, I won't tell her. If she asks, I'll just fool her!
Zhou glanced at Xia Daohua's face twice and finally said nothing.
Xia Daohua felt a little guilty, so she served even more diligently.
After eating and drinking their fill, they washed themselves with hot water, and changed into clean clothes, shoes and socks. Then, both Old Lady Zhou and Lady Xia Yujiao finally felt better.
Xia Daohua called out to the two brocade-robed riders to fetch some water and wash.
The two went to the kitchen to get water and found the porridge pot.
Without saying a word, the two of them drank up the pot of warm rice porridge, then hurriedly washed their faces and hands and said they were done.
So Xia Daohua accompanied the four of them and went back to the old house.
When Xia Daohua came back this time, she found that the old house was more fully populated.
Xia Dalang and A Liu hurried back, exhausted.
But he didn't go alone. He brought a woman from the neighboring family, the one whose pot he had taken away.
The woman was originally preparing to cook in the kitchen. She had just finished cooking one pot of porridge and was washing another pot when she heard something strange outside.
She had experienced a war when she was a child, so she had more experience than others.
In a hurry, she simply crawled into the stove where she was originally preparing to cook, and crawled a few steps inside along the kang hole.
The kang hole was connected to the stove at one end and the chimney at the other, so it was originally intended for ventilation.
But because she had lit a fire to cook porridge, the smoke drifted in and almost suffocated her to death in the kang.
Later, there was no one to guard the stove, and naturally no one to add firewood. The original few pieces of firewood burned out, and the fire went out.
When Xia Dalang walked into her house, she was on the verge of waking up. When Xia Dalang took the pot away, her breathing suddenly became much smoother and she woke up quickly.
But she waited until there was no movement outside before crawling out.
Because she had crawled out of the kang hole, her whole body was darker than coal. When she first appeared in front of Xia Dalang, Xia Dalang almost beat her to death with a stick.
When Xia Dalang realized that he had taken away her family's pot and almost hit her to death with a stick, he felt very ashamed and had to take this burden with him to escape.
As the two walked out of the city, the city became much quieter.
It could be because most of the families were killed by the soldiers, or it could be because many soldiers died in inexplicable fights on the main street, or it could be for some other reason...
In short, the two of them were lucky enough not to encounter any danger along the way and returned to Beiguan Village smoothly.
After listening to Xia Dalang's experience, Xia Daohua looked at A Liu who was sleeping soundly in the cradle.
This child doesn't know yet, she may never see her mother again...
Xia Dalang had already changed into mourning clothes, as he had to mourn for the tragic death of Xia Youcai.
But the family did not have suitable mourning clothes for A Liu, so Xia Dalang begged Zhou to help make a plain dress for A Liu.
Zhou wiped her tears and nodded in agreement.
Xia Yujiao took over the job without waiting for Zhou to say anything.
It seems that killing Jin Yong is indeed useful...
If it were before, Xia Yujiao would definitely be very sad, lamenting her miserable life, and would not dare to touch A Liu's clothes.
(End of this chapter)
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