When Liu Yuhan and others returned to the courtyard, it was getting dark. The people who stayed in the courtyard asked them about the outcome of the matter. They were relieved to hear that it was resolved smoothly.
Liu and others had already steamed buns and fried a few simple dishes. Everyone was not very hungry, so they had a simple meal, washed up, chatted, and then went to rest.
The Liu family squeezed together and cleared out two rooms, which were cleaned up, one for men and one for women. Doctor Liu occasionally went to the mountains to collect herbs and would sleep outdoors in the woods, but he didn't care about these things.
Liu Shinan was originally a farmer and was used to a simple life, so he didn't care at all.
During the five years that Huo Dong served in the army, he often slept outdoors. The barracks were simple, but he didn't care.
The weather is not that cold at night, so a few thin blankets will be enough.
During the Chou hour, people are most sleepy and sleep soundly.
There was a rustling sound of footsteps outside the courtyard, accompanied by a faint firelight.
Huo Dong's eyes flashed like a wild wolf in the night. He got up quietly, without disturbing anyone, and walked out of the room and closed the door.
He slowly approached the faint light not far away and stared at the two people. Sure enough, they came. Huo Dong did not forget the resentful eyes of the Xiong couple when they left the Xiong family.
The Xiong couple did not notice him.
"Mother, do you really want to burn the house? If someone is hurt, will the government arrest us?" Xiong Da said in a low voice.
"You're stupid! We just threw the torch into their kitchen and ran away. Who would have known it was us?"
"I think we should just forget it. The village head warned us today not to offend them. Let's go back."
"I can't bear this. I saved two taels of silver for a long time! And that little bitch beat my son like that and got away with it. I can't accept this!"
"Hush, keep your voice down. Let's go and throw the torch onto the woodpile in the kitchen."
Huo Dong watched them throw the torches onto the pile of firewood outside the kitchen without stopping them, and the fire slowly started to burn.
Huo Dong picked up a stone and hit the door of Liu Zhiyi and Liu Hong's room, where they were sleeping next to the kitchen. Liu Hong was instantly awakened. He quickly went out of the room and shouted loudly towards his family's room.
"Fire, fire, everyone get up!"
While calling people to get up, he used long logs to sweep away the burning firewood, forcing the burning firewood to be separated from the non-burning firewood.
When the Xiong couple saw the fire, they wanted to leave quietly.
Unfortunately, before they could see what was happening, they were kicked away and directly kicked into the yard.
The couple rolled around in the yard, crying out in pain.
Liu Zhiyi, who ran out first, knew what was going on as soon as he saw the couple. He ran to the gate of the courtyard and shouted, "Fire, fire, someone set the house on fire! Everyone, help put out the fire!"
The neighbors who lived not far away were alarmed and everyone put on their clothes and rushed over to help put out the fire.
The fire was quickly brought under control. Apart from the blackened windows on the side of the kitchen and some firewood being burned, there was no other damage.
Everyone saw the couple groaning on the ground in the yard, and they all knew what had happened.
If they have a conflict during the day, they will set fire at night. If they are not discovered in time, people will be burned to death. This is intentional homicide!
Although their lives in Yubei Village were hard, people still lived in peace with each other, and there had never been an incident of arson or burning down someone's house!
Village Chief Lin was also alarmed and came over. Needless to say, these two idiots really knew how to cause trouble for him!
At this point, he could only enforce the law impartially. He ordered his men to tie up the men and silence their mouths as they kept crying out for justice and begging for mercy. He would take them to the head of the village at dawn. He estimated that their final fate would be to be sent to the provincial capital to be imprisoned for intentional injury.
After everyone left, the Liu family's yard became quiet.
What a restless night.
The children were called to go to bed, and the adults were no longer sleepy after being woken up. They all went back to their rooms. Whether they could sleep or not was another matter, but they must have been feeling very complicated.
They didn't expect things to escalate to this extent, where the children's quarrels turned into setting fire to the house.
If they were not alert, or if they were drugged before the house was burned down, would they have died?
They have been in this place for 16 years, honest and upright, never harming anyone, just wanting to live in peace and quiet. So what if they don't accept their fate? Imperial power is greater than heaven.
Liu Zhiyuan didn't know whether he would regret it at this moment. If he hadn't stepped in, his family wouldn't have ended up in such a state. His children and grandchildren had never even left the island, and his little daughter couldn't even restore her identity.
Liu Yuhan had no way to comment on whether his behavior was right or wrong. Everyone has a selfish side, and everyone has a different sense of mission. If it were her, facing such a thing, before her country and family, perhaps she would choose to protect her family first.
If you can’t even protect your family, how can you protect your country?
Liu Yuhan couldn't sleep, so she lay down next to her mother and entered the space, going to work!
When you are in a bad mood and upset, working can make you forget a lot of things. Sometimes sweat can make you happier than tears.
Liu Yuhan harvested the Chinese cabbage and sowed the seeds again. She had bought several bags of Chinese cabbage seeds and planted a small ridge each time. She could plant it many times. If it didn't work, she would wait until the cabbage was old and bloomed and save the seeds.
The tomatoes and watermelons have already sprouted. The space and land are so good. As long as the seeds are in place, everything will be fine.
The five acres of corn planted during the Spring Festival have matured. Let’s keep the old ones for seeds.
The remaining 300 kilograms of seeds had all been taken back to the farm by Huo Dong for planting.
If one acre of land requires about 5 kilograms of corn seeds, then at least 60 acres of land can be planted.
Even if the yield per mu cannot reach 3,000 jin, 1,500 to 2,000 jin is already very good. We can harvest a lot of grain and save a lot of grain seeds.
Huo Dong said that they had several farms, the larger ones had three or four hundred acres, and the smaller ones had seventy or eighty acres. The more Liu Yuhan calculated, the more he felt that having land was good, and having fertile farmland was good.
When the rice in Fulai Village is harvested, County Magistrate Zhu will definitely discover the specialness of the rice given his frequent visits to Fulai Village. He is a smart man.
The county government will definitely buy or collect their grain seeds, and hybrid rice can be promoted slowly. In the next three to five years, the grain output of the entire Changle County and the entire Fu'an City will be greatly increased.
The five mu of corn she's currently planting, if dried, should yield at least six to seven thousand kilograms of seeds, enough to plant at least 1,300 mu of cornfield.
She also needs to have good farmland of her own. She is not very confident about the harvest from the 10 mu of corn field she planted.
Mother has found her family, so it seems she should take some action when she returns to Fulai Village.
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