Chapter 237 It's time to find fault with the officials
Zhao Chunxiu didn't know what was wrong with her. She felt like vomiting when she smelled the fishy smell of egg yolk when she inhaled just now. She covered her chest and forced back the nausea, as if she was explaining, or comforting herself.
"Maybe it's been too cold these days and I caught a cold!"
No one wants to hear nauseating sounds while eating, so as several families gathered together to eat, they heard the sound of Zhao Chunxiu retching continuously.
Even Li Xinyuan frowned and scolded her: "Don't you see what the situation is now? Is this the time to get sick?"
"Get away from me right now, or you can infect the baby in Xue'er's belly!"
Zhao Chunxiu was also worried that something might happen to her grandson, so she suppressed her nausea, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, walked to the entrance of the cave and sat down.
Zhao Chunxiu felt much better facing the cold wind, but Ran Qingxuan, who was watching all this silently in the cave, narrowed his eyes slightly, and no one knew what he was thinking.
"Sixth brother's wife, why don't you eat? The cold noodles will get cold soon!"
The third sister-in-law pushed Ran Qingxuan, who was a little absent-minded. The latter came back to his senses and slurped a mouthful of noodles. When he turned around, he met Gu Yanchen's inquiring eyes.
Ran Qingxuan didn't say anything, but his eyes clearly showed that something good was about to happen.
After dinner, several women from the Gu family who were on good terms with the family sat together, embroidering handkerchief purses on their hands and chatting about random things.
Since they had to stay in the cave at night, it would be uncomfortable without firewood for heating, so the officer called a few male prisoners to go out together.
Bu Fei and the Chen family father and son dragged back a dry tree as thick as a bowl. Bu Wei ordered the male prisoners to cut it into small pieces and tie them up for use in the next few days.
Since the officers did not give them knives, Li Xinyuan and Shang Zicheng reluctantly used their hands to pry apart the growing branches, and soon they started to cause trouble.
The mumbling sound reached Bu Wei's ears, and he immediately sneered and mocked: "If you have the ability, you wouldn't be here. Since you have the energy to be picky, then don't eat that steamed bun tomorrow!"
When Li Xinyuan heard this, he was furious and wanted to step forward and say a few nice words with a calm face, but he didn't expect to be whipped back by Bu Wei.
Now Zi Shang Zicheng was unwilling to do so. Relying on his youth, he rushed forward and started to fight with the group of officers.
"Why do you say you won't give us food? We have obviously contributed, why, why?"
No one expected that at this time, the eldest son of the Shang family would choose to confront the officials head-on.
The women hurriedly stood up and moved away. The officials had been lax in recent days, and now that there was an activity coming to their doorstep, they immediately became excited.
He Qin cried and went forward to pull the people away, but she was also whipped several times by the officer.
In the end, the culprit Li Xinyuan hid far away, but Shang Zicheng, who stood up, was beaten unconscious.
When the officers had their revenge, Shang Zicheng lay on the ground motionless like a dead dog, except for his chest still rising and falling.
The officers sat back cursing and wiping their sweat with their necks open. He Qin and Shang Zifan cried and went forward to drag Shang Zicheng back.
Ran Qingxuan looked at this scene coldly, and felt that everything that happened was a little too weird...
Everyone knows that the police are not easy to mess with, and no one will take the initiative to provoke them. Eating less of a meal will not kill you, so why should Shang Zicheng confront the police head-on!
In short, no matter whether it was because it had been accumulated for a long time or because he couldn't help it for a moment, Ran Qingxuan felt that he should be more vigilant.
There must be something wrong when something is abnormal. This statement is always correct!
Several women from the families who were on good terms with each other sat together again and discussed in low voices what had just happened.
"What do you think is wrong with Shang Zicheng? He is still trying to pick a fight with the police even at this time. Shouldn't he have started to pick a fight earlier?"
"Who said it wasn't true? This family was silent, watching their son being beaten, and Shang Bin didn't even open his eyes to see."
The second sister-in-law and Mrs. Xiao Li Ping were talking together, while Mrs. Chen Zou Yu signaled them to stop talking.
"Let's not talk about them. Some time ago, I accidentally glanced at the Shang family and saw Shang Bin staring at your eldest brother. His sinister eyes were scary."
As he spoke, Zou Yu rubbed his chest with lingering fear, closed his eyes and shook his head, trying to get rid of that creepy look out of his mind.
After listening to this, Ran Qingxuan looked towards Shang Bin, but didn't see anything special. He was still silent and taciturn, no different from usual.
The second sister-in-law snorted coldly upon hearing this, and said nonchalantly: "Shang Bin must be feeling unbalanced because he saw that our family was still reunited under such circumstances. Li Si even glared at us blatantly."
"If you ask me, they just haven't accepted the reality yet and can't stand seeing other families doing better than they already are."
"That may be the case. If it were you, I'd better not have any contact with them when we get to the Northwest Exile Area, or you'd have to sleep with one eye open at night."
"Aunt Chen, if you sleep with one eye open, you are a monster..."
"Ha ha ha ha..."
The women laughed as they talked, and Ran Qingxuan also laughed, not taking the matter to heart.
The weather in November changes suddenly. When they went to bed at night, there was only a slight breeze and it was a little cold at most.
But in the second half of the night, the sound of the wind blowing outside the cave was like the howling of ghosts and wolves. The children had never experienced such a situation, and Xuan'er and Xiaozhe's two twins were so scared that they burst into tears.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Qian Zheng crawled out of the tent, walked to the entrance of the cave in the freezing wind, took a look, and then quickly retreated.
"Old Qian, what's the situation outside?"
"Bad luck. I'm afraid it will be hard to leave tomorrow."
Qian Zheng shrank his neck and added a few pieces of firewood to the fire, but it was of no use at all. The heat accumulated in the cave was blown away in an instant.
Ran Qingxuan was afraid that Madam Gu couldn't stand the cold, so he quietly went in and covered her with a down quilt.
Madam Gu, who had been sleeping uneasily due to the sudden drop in temperature, wanted to get up immediately after she felt someone covering her with a quilt.
"Mom, did I wake you up?"
"It's Ran's. If you give me this quilt, what will you and Yan Chen do?"
"It's okay, mom. This quilt is extra. Lie down and sleep quickly to avoid the wind blowing in."
"Okay, you guys should take a rest as well."
After Madam Gu lay down again, she found that the coldness that had just appeared disappeared instantly. After sighing for a while, she fell asleep.
Because it was windy outside, she didn't hear Xuan'er's soft crying. Ran Qingxuan followed the same method and covered the quilt for the fifth sister-in-law and Xuan'er. Xuan'er stopped crying when she felt the warmth.
The noise outside continued until after five in the morning. Ran Qingxuan barely slept for more than three hours before getting up. Unexpectedly, Gu Yanchen got up even earlier than her.
"Why don't you get some more sleep?"
"The officials said they had to leave before the big snowstorm came, so I got up and cooked some porridge."
The rice has been cooked thickly, which shows that Gu Yanchen has been awake for a while.
Seeing this, Ran Qingxuan took out a frying pan and fried a large plate of eggs. Everyone ate a bowl of thick rice porridge and eggs, and they instantly felt less cold.
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