People always say that there are a lot of things to do before the Lunar New Year, but nothing compares to this year's Lunar New Year! This is truly a year of many things to do!
With Fan's mother gone, Sun Jinhua mentally unstable, and Fan Qian suffering a stroke, the second and third pillars of her life have broken their arms and legs. Only the youngest pillar, the fourth pillar, is still in good condition. Therefore, Fan Jinlai must be the one to arrange the funeral arrangements for his mother-in-law.
Yan Qiuxing returned to Jianghehu and Wanxia, and naturally, they couldn't leave either, so they both stayed.
There were still a lot of things waiting for Shuiqing to deal with in the village, especially since most of the trouble was caused by Fan Qian and Fan Dazhu, and each one involved lives. Shuiqing went with Wang Guifen to deal with other matters first.
Fan Dazhu, Erzhu, and Sanzhu had stopped clamoring for Ding Heli and Qin Yilin to come and apply medicine and bandages for them. Instead, they asked Shui Qing for medicine and gauze, and Sizhu and Fan Laosi helped with the bandaging.
Although Fan Lao Si was angry, as a member of the same family, he couldn't really let it go. However, he didn't hold back much, and the three of them cried much more sincerely than when they were crying for Fan's mother.
Shuiqing followed Wang Guifen to deliver medicine to the Zhao and Sun families.
The Zhao family suffered the most. Old Master Zhao was gone, as were the elderly Zhao Laoda and his wife. Except for the youngest, everyone else was injured.
Like the Fan family, the eldest Sun family member, Old Mrs. Sun, has passed away. The difference is that Old Mrs. Sun was killed with a single blow, while her mother-in-law suffered a lot of torment before she died.
The only consolation is that the children are all okay and none of them were injured.
After delivering medicine and gauze, Ding and Li applied the medicine and bandaged the men, while Jiajia bandaged the women.
She only found out when she got back that Ling Ran had indeed caught a bandit at the spikes he had set up earlier. The bandit hadn't run far because of his injured leg, and he and Wen Hua had brought him here for interrogation.
Jiajia knew she had come back to get her medicine, so she brought her last remaining powder to help.
Seeing that everyone was busy but not chaotic, Wang Guifen turned around and went out to help Aunt Zhang cook porridge and ginger soup.
Several large bonfires were lit in the open space in front of the study, so that the men could keep warm at any time.
A large iron pot was placed on the fire, with ginger soup simmering inside and half a packet of brown sugar sprinkled in.
In another pot, I was cooking millet porridge with dried red dates. It was thick and half-cooked.
Aunt Zhang first ladled out two large bowls and brought them to the front door to warm up the men on night duty on the dike.
He scooped out another small jar and had Zhang Xiaogou deliver it to the man on duty at the back door.
Then he called out to the men around him, "The ginger soup is ready. Come and scoop some up if you want some."
The night was cold, and what man, cold and hungry, wouldn't drink?
They took turns drinking the sweet ginger soup, and felt completely refreshed!
I never imagined that I would be able to drink a bowl of hot ginger soup in the middle of the night when bandits were attacking.
"The red date and millet porridge will be ready in a little while. Come and have a bowl if you're hungry," Aunt Zhang said with a smile.
Over there, Wang Guifen had already ladled more water into the large iron pot where she had been boiling brown sugar and ginger soup, and started cooking red date and millet porridge. She then said with a smile, "Two large iron pots are cooking one after another, there's plenty to go around!"
The men felt that being tired was nothing.
If you get injured, there's medicine and someone to bandage you; if you're cold, there's brown sugar and ginger soup; if you're hungry, there's millet porridge; and there's a fire to warm yourself. Who would have dared to imagine this in the past?
It's simply impossible to achieve!
Now, the whole village has worked together to catch the bandits. They will be handed over to the authorities at dawn so that these bandits can receive the punishment they deserve!
"Alright! I'll go and interrogate those bandits thoroughly, and I'll make sure they vomit everything up."
Shui Qing thought of something and whispered, "Ask them carefully why they didn't hurt the child."
She always felt that he didn't mean any harm.
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