Chapter 10 Chicken Soup. Serving Corvée
Under the resentful gaze of Mrs. Gu, Song Liyun blatantly looked at all the rooms in the Song family, and then entered the small room where the two brothers lived and closed the door to rest.
From morning till now, there has been fighting and noise. An ordinary person would have been exhausted long ago.
She didn't feel tired at all, but was anxious to rest because she needed to clean up the chicken and chicken soup that she had just stored in the space.
Song Liyun lay on the kang with her eyes closed, her consciousness entering the space. At this time, a piece of empty space appeared in the gray world, and several earthen bowls were placed randomly in the middle.
Song Liyun found her previously used suitcases, backpacks, tents and other supplies from the pile of doomsday supplies in the corner of the space, and quickly set up a living area.
The chicken soup was taken out of the earthen bowl and put back into a special fresh-keeping food box.
In the end times, energy and materials are scarce. In order to improve the quality of human life, all kinds of life technologies have made rapid progress.
If you store food in a fresh-keeping container, it can be left outside for half a month without spoiling.
If you put it in a space, it can last for a year.
Now, in addition to the apocalyptic waste, there are also several earthen bowls filled with some salt and oil.
These were collected by Song Liyun when Mrs. Gu smashed the kitchen.
The items from the end of the world are too outrageous to be displayed casually, so she needs to prepare tools that are suitable for this era.
In addition, she also found a three-edged military bayonet and placed it in the open space. It was also her spare weapon in the apocalypse, which was convenient for dealing with mutant beasts that might appear at any time.
The weapon he originally carried with him was an electric spike gun, but unfortunately it was lost among the rats.
This is Song Lao Er's home. The eyes of Mrs. Gu and Mrs. Gu looked at me as if they were poisoned. Although the door was closed, there was no guarantee that they would not use some tricks. I couldn't stay in this space for too long.
After sorting things out and her consciousness had just left the space, Song Liyun heard footsteps approaching outside the house.
She lay quietly on the kang, just paying attention to the movements outside.
As the rustling of clothes rubbed against each other, someone looked inside through the crack in the door and saw her lying down and sleeping. After a moment, she turned around and left.
Song Liyun quietly stood up and leaned against the door. Through the crack in the door, she saw Song Defu's back. He had returned and was instructing Xiao Gu to keep an eye on him.
I raised my hand to open the door, only to find that it had been locked from the outside and a padlock was hung on it...
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An afternoon passed in a flash, the sun was setting in the west, and the wind was blowing, blowing the dead grass and yellow leaves into the air.
Xiaoshi Village, located in the middle of the wasteland, fell into silence, and every household finished work and went home to prepare dinner.
Wearing a felt hat and a long robe, Song Lizheng, a man in his fifties, walked hurriedly through the village road.
When we walked outside the Song family courtyard, Song Lizheng raised his fist and pounded on the gate.
The "bang bang bang" sound could be heard from far away, attracting the neighbors to look out. When they saw that it was the village chief Song Lizheng, they quietly retracted their heads and only peeked out through the crack in the door.
Aunt Zhang, who had been keeping an eye on Song Laoer's family, hurriedly climbed up the courtyard wall to get the latest news.
Today, the second daughter of the Song family jumped into the water, and Mrs. Gu had a quarrel with the wife of the head of the village, and they kept fighting at home for so long. As the head of the village, Song Laohei would definitely come to intervene.
Song Lizheng had a dark face and pounded on the gate for a long time before it finally opened. Little Gu came out with a big smile on her face, "Fifth Uncle!"
She felt a little guilty. She had quarreled with the village head's wife this morning because of the little bitch diving. Now the village head came to her house, he must be here to ask about this matter.
The village head ignored her and walked straight into the house, shouting as he walked: "Song Defu, what exactly is your family's plan for corvee labor this year? Will we provide labor or money? There are dozens of families in the village, but only yours hasn't decided yet. Are you deliberately trying to go against me?"
As the village head, he couldn't interrupt the woman's quarrel. Although he was very angry at the moment, he could only bring up official business.
As for the diving incident, Song Laoer's wife said in front of everyone that she fell into the water accidentally, so he didn't say much.
Song Lizheng was walking so fast that little Gu didn't even have time to close the door, so she just trotted after him.
When she heard that they were here for corvée labor, she immediately put her mind at ease and explained with a smile, "Fifth Uncle, it's not that my family is trying to make things difficult for you. It's just that my second son caught a cold a few days ago and couldn't get up, so he missed the trip to your house to answer your questions."
Song Lizheng stopped and glared at her with disgust: "Song Laoer got sick at the perfect time. He didn't get sick earlier or later. He lay down when the court wanted to recruit workers. Who would believe what you say now?"
"Who would believe it? My family member is sick, who else would believe it?"
As a hoarse female voice sounded in the house, the straw curtain hanging in the main room was lifted, and Mrs. Gu came out and blocked the door.
She was already filled with anger today, and now the village head had called her up here just to let her vent.
"Mrs. Gu, you can't be so unreasonable. It's the imperial court's order that every family contribute one laborer to repair the border wall. You can't be unreasonable with me now." As soon as he saw this old woman, Song Lizheng's eyes twitched.
He went to town to attend a meeting all day today. When he returned home in the afternoon, he saw his wife with tears in her eyes and injuries on her face. She was very unhappy when she saw him.
After asking my daughter-in-law, I found out that it was Gu Chunhua who was causing trouble again.
well!
He got a headache whenever he saw this shrew. Even if his wife scolded him when he got home, he could only bear it.
If it weren't for the urgent official business, I would never have thought of coming to Song Defu's house.
Since the beginning of summer, the imperial court has sent out conscription documents to mobilize tens of thousands of laborers to repair border towers.
Every county and town had to send people to perform labor service for one month, and now it was the turn of Qingping Town where Xiaoshi Village was located.
As the head of the village, he was in charge of the lists of Gujia Village and Xiaoshi Village. He had been running around for a few days and had almost arranged the staff in the village. As the time for departure was approaching, the Song Laoer family was still reluctant to agree.
Song Lao Er is a scoundrel, and Gu, Song Lao Er's biological mother, is an unreasonable shrew.
The family's refusal to move caused other people in the village to talk about it, saying that if Song Laoer didn't leave, they wouldn't leave either.
Today, he was determined to enter Song Laoer's yard and get a definite answer from Song Laoer, the tough guy.
"Whoever is unreasonable, you call him unreasonable."
Gu slapped her hips and yelled, "So many people in my family rely on the second son for support, and you want him to die? You black-hearted, ungrateful bastard, you should be buried in the sand after you die!"
Today she scolded the wife of the village head by the river, and now she started scolding the village head again.
Song Lizheng's face darkened with anger, and he said in a trembling voice, "Okay, okay, Mrs. Gu, you scolded me well. Today I won't bother with you, a woman. I'm only looking for Song Laoer."
As he said this, he strode forward, pushed Mrs. Gu aside, lifted the straw curtain and went into the house.
He knew that even if he talked to this woman for a whole day, he would never get to the bottom of it, so he had to find the real culprit.
Although Mrs. Gu was blocking the door with her arms and hips spread out, she was no match for a man in strength. Besides, she had been tormented by Song Liyun today and was already exhausted. She was only holding on with her resentment.
When the headman grabbed his arm and pushed him, he fell to the ground along the wall like a thin bamboo pole, with his legs facing the air.
(End of this chapter)
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