"Brother, your mouth is cracked. Water, I, water." Cheng Huaiyu's words were still a little incoherent.
Actually, before the Cheng family's incident, she had already discovered that she could make sounds during the imperial examinations, and she even secretly practiced calling out to her father, mother, and brother.
She also realized that she couldn't speak a very long sentence, so she planned to tell Jia Rao a long sentence before she could speak, and then the Cheng family had an accident.
"Water, drink water." Cheng Huaiyu said, scooping water from the stream with both hands for her brother to drink. However, each time she scooped up some water, it almost all slipped through her fingers!
She was so frustrated she almost cried.
"Yu, don't panic. Do you see those leaves over there? Go pick a few and I'll teach you how to make a water container." Cheng Huaijin tried to get up but found he couldn't move his legs. He forced himself to calm down, looked around, and said to Cheng Huaiyu.
"Hmm." Cheng Huaiyu ran over and picked a few large leaves.
Cheng Huaijin then taught her how to fold the leaves into something that could hold water.
Cheng Huaiyu went to fill his cup several times before he was finally quenched.
"Little sister, we're fugitives now, are you scared?" Cheng Huaijin asked after drinking his fill of water.
Cheng Huaiyu's eyes were somewhat confused. She had been well protected by her family, and before meeting Gu Xin, she could even be considered a little silly.
Gu Xin fed her a lot of jade beads before she returned to normal.
“From now on, it might just be us siblings. We don’t know if our parents and older brother can be saved by our maternal grandfather. Yu, are you upset that your brother took you away without your permission?” Cheng Huaijin asked.
Cheng Huaiyu shook his head, remained silent for a while, and then said, "Brother, Father and Mother, will they be beheaded?"
Cheng Huaijin: "I don't know. From now on, we siblings will depend on each other. Once this matter has passed, we'll go to the capital to take a look."
"Mm." Cheng Huaiyu nodded.
Cheng Huaijin didn't know why he chose to run away. A voice inside him told him, "If you don't run, your life is over. You won't have anything you want."
Run, run! Don't let your sister be preyed upon. She's still alive and well; she's never even seen the world. Take her and run!
And Nian Nian, if you don't run away, this departure will mean saying goodbye to your Nian Nian forever!
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The four Gu sisters stayed on the estate for three days. They discussed with the four women of the Meng family that they would be paid 100 coins each, and they would walk to the Gu family to work. They would leave between 7:00 AM and 3:00 PM and have lunch at the Gu family's house.
Gu Nian still wrote a contract, the content of which was to keep it confidential and not to reveal the work they had done.
The four women of the Meng family naturally agreed. The Gu family had given them a place to live and the opportunity to be law-abiding citizens. Now they were even given work to do. They would be crazy to leak this information.
Meng Yan and Zheng Ling were also included, but since they were older, they each received fifty coins.
If you work a full month, you can earn three taels of silver, which is a good amount for a farming family.
It should be noted that some peasant families only have three taels of silver for food, clothing and other necessities in a year.
Gu Nian also approached Meng Meng, drew up the divided farmland, and asked Meng Meng and his group to tidy it up. Her father would bring seeds over in a couple of weeks for everyone to plant.
The four sisters went there carrying empty baskets, and came back carrying four baskets full of flowers.
When Gu Xin got home and saw her parents, she didn't even put down her backpack; she gave them a big hug.
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