The younger brother he met this time seemed like a completely different person. When he said this, Lin Zao Zao believed it without any doubt.
Lin Rui also hated the original owner's inhumanity. His second sister Lin Zao originally had a better marriage. She was in love with a scholar and were talking about getting married. However, the original owner was forced to go to the house because of gambling debts. Not only did she sell all her food and borrow money from relatives, she still owed thirty taels.
If thirty taels of silver are not repaid within one day, the interest will compound endlessly. The principal of a few days will become interest. Usury has existed since ancient times.
If the debt is not repaid after three days, one finger of the original owner will be chopped off every additional day, and this will continue until all ten fingers are chopped off.
Lin Changxi and Feng Zhenniang were at their wit's end and had no choice but to make a fuss about their daughters' marriages. Lin Zaozao and Lin Susu had lost their eldest brother, and under the influence of patriarchal ideas, they also wanted to keep their only younger brother.
So the eldest sister Lin Susu married a hunter who had spent all his family wealth to marry her, and the second sister Lin Zaozao married Jiang Chengcai, who was eight years older than her.
Strictly speaking, the original owner was the culprit who caused the eldest sister's miserable life.
When I got home, my father had already called back my second sister Lin Susu and her husband Zhao Qing, and brought their daughter Niuniu who had just turned three years old.
Seeing her emaciated and disheveled daughter, Feng Zhenniang burst into tears. Lin Susu also hugged her sister with red eyes. It was Lin Rui who comforted her: "Don't go back in the future, big sister. You will live with us. When our little niece is born, she will have our surname Lin and be a child of the Lin family."
"Yes, my last name is Lin, and I have nothing to do with the Jiang family."
"There's no time to talk about this, Mom. Is the food ready?" Lin Rui asked hurriedly.
Feng Zhenniang nodded quickly: "Alright, alright, everything has been loaded into the car."
Lin Rui looked back and saw that the cow was almost crushed to death. How come the octagonal table was brought along?
"Mom, we're going to escape famine, not to have fun. Let's give away as much as we can."
Feng Zhenniang was not happy: "How can I give it up? I spent a lot of money to buy all of these. Apart from other things, I must take this Eight Immortals Table with me. It was the dowry your parents gave me when you were still alive."
"We have to take this iron pot with us, too. Otherwise, what will we cook along the way? We can't eat raw food, right?"
This reminded Lin Rui that they were going to escape famine and disaster, and there were many dangers along the way. They might run into starving refugees at any time. They couldn't just focus on cooking during their rare rest time.
The most convenient way is to make pancakes with all the flour you have and take them with you. When you are hungry on the road, you can eat one, so you don’t have to waste time cooking.
"Mom, you..." As she was speaking, the eldest sister Lin Susu nervously grabbed her daughter Niuniu's hand and looked at Lin Rui and asked: "Rui'er, what happened, why..."
My brother-in-law Zhao Qing was carrying a bow and arrow on his back and holding a rabbit with fur stained red with blood in his hand. It seemed that he had just returned to the village after hunting when he was called by his father-in-law Lin Changxi.
Lin Rui said without further ado: "Sister and brother-in-law, the Emperor will soon give up Linjing to foreigners. When that happens, people inside and outside the city will suffer. We must make plans early and leave here early!"
Zhao Qing was shocked and looked at his nonchalant brother-in-law: "Lin Rui, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want!" He was also a refugee in his early years. He finally settled down in Linjia Village with his good hunting skills and had a wife and daughter. Now if he leaves again, he will be a refugee again.
Feng Zhenniang was not happy with her son-in-law's words about her son. She pointed to the two ox carts full of stuff in the back and said, "These are all the money your brother earned from doing business in town. It's all for us relatives to have a better life while fleeing the famine. If he had no conscience, he could have just abandoned the old, weak, and disabled like us and fled alone."
Lin Rui unloaded the stuff that was piled high on the oxcart and prepared to rearrange it. This messy arrangement wasted the remaining space on the oxcart. "Brother-in-law, I've already told you what I wanted to say. I've done what I could. I'll give you at most one day to pack your luggage."
"This..." Zhao Qing and Lin Susu looked at each other, unsure of what to do.
After sending his eldest daughter and her husband home, Lin Changxi immediately went to the homes of his other two brothers, Lin Changfa and Lin Changhe, who were born to the same mother. He hurriedly told them the situation and asked them to make plans early and it would be best if they could leave with his family so that they would be taken care of along the way.
Lin Changfa and Lin Changhe certainly didn't believe it and thought that Lin Changxi had gone crazy. How could he take the words of his disappointing son as an imperial decree? How could he just leave like that? The crops were about to mature. If he left, it would be a bargain for others. Crops were the life of farmers.
It happened that at this time, Lin Changhe's eldest sons, Lin Ziyang and Lin Zicheng, came back from the fields carrying hoes. When they heard their father and mother teasing the second son's family about their misbehavior and talking about fleeing from famine, they immediately stopped.
"Dad, what's the point of escaping from the famine? What happened?"
Lin Changhe smiled and told his two sons this as a joke. The second son, Lin Zicheng, laughed it off, but Lin Ziyang's face immediately changed after hearing it: "Did he really say that?"
Lin Changhe looked at his eldest son's serious expression and stammered, "Yes."
Lin Ziyang dropped his hoe and said, "I'm going to find Lin Rui."
Seeing his elder brother like this, Lin Zicheng immediately followed him: "Dad, I'm going to look after him!"
Linjia Village is a small village with only dozens of households. Each house is not far from each other. The two brothers Lin Ziyang quickly found their second uncle's house.
As soon as I walked in, I saw my cousin Lin Rui and a half-grown boy unloading the things from the ox cart one by one, revealing the rice bags filled with grain underneath. The white and fine rice made their eyes go straight: "Lin Rui, these..."
Lin Rui turned around and found information about the two people from his original body's memory. They were his third uncle's two cousins: "Cousin, you..."
Lin Ziyang straightened his mind and said, "Lin Rui, I have something to ask you. Can you please spare me a moment to talk?"
Lin Rui looked at the mess in the house. His parents were busy making pancakes. His second sister, who was pregnant, was hiding in the room sewing thermal blankets and tents with the cotton cloth he had torn. When his family asked about the origins of these things, he just said that he got them in exchange for doing business with foreigners.
His parents and sister were all farmers and had never left Longting County in their lives, so it was easy to keep the secret. So no one said much, which made Lin Rui feel relieved. After all, sometimes a lie has to be covered up with another lie, and the more lies you tell, the more loopholes there will be.
Lin Rui knew what Lin Ziyang wanted to ask, so when he got to the inner room, he confessed directly to the two brothers: "It's really a mess outside!"
Lin Ziyang's lips trembled: "As expected..."
This sounded like there was another meaning behind it. Lin Rui looked at him and asked, "Do you know something?"
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