Chapter 50: Many Hands Add to the Fire【VIP】
In the Shen family's kitchen.
Huang Xing, Huang Mei and Miao each hand-sewed a reed jacket.
Although the three of them were sitting around the stove, the house was not much warmer than outside, and the areas near the doors and windows had been soaked by the wind and snow.
Huang Mei saw her younger brother and sister looking out frequently, so she cut the thread in her hand and said to them, "Don't worry, the children are grown up now and know when to go out."
Both of them sighed deeply upon hearing this.
A mother worries when her son is away from home, and it's snowing so heavily this morning.
Chen Yao followed his father and uncle into the mountains to cut bamboo, Huang Songbai went to the city to deliver and sell goods, not to mention Baolai crossing mountains and rivers to go to the village to collect goods, which was very dangerous.
It all comes down to the lack of money at home.
Huang Xing grabbed one end of the needle and thread and stuffed the reed fluff into her jacket to finish it. It was no wonder that she looked worried, as her left eyelid had been twitching non-stop since morning.
When Miao heard her say this, she hurriedly got up, took out a grain of rice from the jar and asked her to stick it on her eyelids to dispel bad luck.
Before Huang Xing had time to stick the rice on, she heard someone's cry in the wind and snow outside.
Boss Luo braved the wind and snow to come to the Shen family to report the news. He didn't breathe a sigh of relief until he saw Huang Xing coming out of the kitchen.
Boss Luo was welcomed into the kitchen by the three men. He lowered his voice and said briefly, "A vicious man came to the village and said he was looking for your family, but Chunya's father stopped him first."
He first came to inform the Shen family, worried that Huang Dongsheng might offend someone and get into trouble while doing business in the town, so that everyone in the Shen family could make preparations in advance.
Huang Xing first thanked him, and then asked Boss Luo what the visitor looked like.
"He was a big, burly fellow, with a beard all over his face, so I couldn't tell his features, but he came on horseback."
Upon hearing this, Miao and Huang Xing looked at each other, and they both thought of the same thing.
The person who came should be Coach Xing that the children mentioned.
He came to visit unexpectedly today, maybe something happened in the quarry.
"Brother Luo, please go to the village and find a few people to go up the mountain and bring back my man. The three of them should be on their way down the mountain now." Huang Xing put down his reed jacket and prepared to go out to meet Coach Xing.
"Big sister, please come with me. You, my younger sister, stay home and wait for Ayao and the others."
"become."
After the three of them discussed it, they immediately took action separately.
The wind and snow outside were getting heavier and heavier, like goose feathers.
In the house, Xing Fang drank a bowl of hot water and his body immediately felt much warmer. He then stood up and asked the man next to him to take him to the village to find the Shen family's residence.
Zhang Chunya's father bravely stepped forward and poured another bowl of hot water for Xing Fang, and did not forget to ask the visitor indirectly why he was looking for the Shen family.
Even if Xing Fang was a big, strong man, he could tell what this man was up to. But he didn't have time to deal with it. He slammed his whip on the table and shouted, "Hurry up and lead the way."
Zhang Chunya's father looked at the whip mark on the table, protected his wife and mother behind him, and looked at the evil man in front of him, and actually felt a sense of courage.
"Don't mess around, you evildoer! I'm telling you, long before you even entered the village, someone in the village had already sent a letter to the head of the village to report this to the authorities!"
"Bad guy? I am——"
"Lord Xing, why did you come here in person in such a heavy snowstorm?" Huang Xing suddenly rushed in, startling everyone in the room.
"Ayao's mother, why are you here?" Chunya's father winked and signaled her to leave quickly, but his wife behind him whispered to him, "The child's father, he is an official."
Boss Zhang took a deep breath, then hurriedly led his family to kneel down and apologize to the "bad guy".
Xing Fang was too lazy to punish them. His fierce eyes fell on the two women who broke into the house: "Which one of you is Chen Yao's mother?"
Huang Xing immediately stepped forward and claimed that she was the one.
Xing Fang tightened his whip and smacked his lips, then began to speak, "Last night, a mountain collapsed. One of your family members had his head smashed by a rock, and another was buried and hasn't been found yet. Who of you will come with me to dig them out?"
With a thud.
Huang Xing fell to the ground, fortunately Huang Mei caught her in time, pinched her philtrum and rubbed her chest.
Chunya's mother gave Huang Xing another sip of hot water, and she felt better.
"Is what you said true, sir?" Huang Xing's face turned pale and she was gasping for breath.
Xing Fang raised his thick eyebrows in a rather impatient tone, "Why would I lie to you? If you can't dig him out within three days, I'll assume he's dead. You can do whatever you want."
As soon as he finished speaking, a large group of children rushed in from outside the door.
Yang Wenying, who arrived first, blocked the wind and snow outside the door, her red lips moving in and out: "Master Xing, is my brother buried down there?"
"Yang Jizong is buried there. Do you want to go with me?" Xing Da pushed the people in the house away and walked out.
"I'll go with you." Yang Wenying's heart was beating like a drum, and she clenched her palms tightly to prevent tears from flowing out.
She believed that her brother would not die so easily, so she had to go and dig him out herself.
Huang Xing was supported by Huang Mei to stand up, and he grabbed you and followed him, waiting for A Yao and his father to come back.
"Wenying. Listen to your aunt and don't be stupid." Huang Mei put her arm around her sister's shoulders and advised her, also worried about her brother's injury.
Let's go together. "Knowing that Teacher Yang's brother was in trouble, Shitou, Hua Niu and Luo Dunzi all grabbed Yang Wenying's hand and shouted.
Xing Fang scolded, "My horse can only carry one person. You can go to help, but you have to go on your own."
Luo Dunzi was not afraid of him at all, and he opened his arms to protect Yang Wenying. "We will definitely be able to dig out Teacher Yang."
"Yes, that's right!" the children said in unison as they stood in the snow.
After hearing what Yang Wenying said, she bowed deeply to everyone and got on Xing Fang's horse. The two of them rode away in the wind and snow.
The children in the Zhang family's yard all ran out and shouted, "Teacher Yang, wait for us!"
As a result, before he could run to the stone bridge, he was caught and brought back by the adults in his family one by one.
"Dad, I want to help Teacher Yang. Her brother is buried underground." Luo Dunzi twisted into a pretzel in his father's arms and was slapped twice by his father.
Zhang Chunya and her younger brother were also pulled into the house by their parents, who told the elderly in the family to keep an eye on them and not to let them go out.
Huang Xing and Huang Mei looked at each other and hurried home in panic.
Before the two of them even stepped out of the Zhang family's yard, they heard Chunya's parents calling out from behind: "Ayao's mother, please wait for us. We will go with your family."
"I'm going home too, but you have to wait for me. I have to go to the village head's house to get a pass for Dunzi's mother."
"My house will go with you."
On the country road, every household went back to their houses, picked up their farm tools and gathered in the wind and snow.
"You, you guys--" A thick layer of snow fell on Huang Xing's shoulders. Looking at the people who came to help, thousands of words could only be summed up in one word of deep gratitude.
When Chen Yao, his father and his uncle were carrying bamboos down the mountain, they suddenly saw the villagers coming to look for them, and all three of them were startled.
After hearing everyone say that a stranger had entered the village and was looking for her house, everyone immediately hurried back home and unloaded the bamboo under the porch.
As soon as I entered the yard, I was surrounded by a large group of people holding weapons standing inside and outside the main house.
Chen Yao learned from her mother that her uncle and Yang Jizong had an accident in the quarry, and the villagers also wanted to go to the quarry with her family to help dig out the people. Chen Yao bowed and thanked everyone on behalf of Yang Wenying.
Zhang Chunya's parents hurriedly helped her up: "Wenying is the children's mentor. How can we stand by and watch her brother get into trouble? That would be ungrateful."
"That's right, Ayao, let's go quickly."
"Yes, let's go."
Everyone was talking at once, urging the Shen family to set off quickly.
Chen Yao was stuffed with two pink reed jackets by her mother. When she put on her own jacket, she felt the heavy purse inside and nodded secretly to her parents.
Seeing that Sister Baozhu was also going to follow them, he hurriedly told her to stay in the village and call all the children in the village to his yard to watch over them, otherwise he was afraid that the children would sneak out.
Especially Luodunzi.
As soon as Boss Luo entered the courtyard, he heard Chen Yao call out his son's name. Instead of being angry, he very much agreed with her decision: "Ayao, you're right. These children in the village are very independent now. We elders can't keep an eye on them. We need someone to keep an eye on them."
So Huang Xing and Tian Baozhu stayed at home waiting for Huang Dongsheng and Tian Bao to come, and take care of the children at the same time.
Before leaving, Chen Yao told the children to split the bamboo she brought back in half, as they would use the bamboo to make paper. The children immediately promised to complete the task before the adults came back and would not run away.
Of the twenty-five households in Xiahe Village, almost every family sent someone out, even the Zhou family next door, who had a grudge against the Shen family. Zhou Dashun followed the crowd out of the village in the wind and snow.
Zhao Liangshun, wearing a melon-shaped hat, stood at the village entrance with his son, watching the vast group of people disappear in the wind and snow. He shook the snow off his shoulders and muttered to himself, "The Shen family is more popular than me."
"Dad, let's go back." Zhao Xiaofu didn't care about these.
The villagers followed the Shen family's relatives and passed through several villages without staying for long.
If they came across any village where people were just watching the fun and saying strange things, the men were not worried at all. Their own wives would spit on them to death, and if several wives joined together, they could drown someone with their saliva.
Although they thought so, they didn't have time to argue with people from other villages. Saving people was the most important thing.
It was already dark when Chen Yao and his daughter led the villagers to the East Suburb Quarry.
The arrival of this group of people frightened the guards. Even though they were familiar with Shen Yao, they had to let her wait outside while they went to report to the head instructor.
Miao was in great anguish. Knowing that her boss's head was hit by a falling rock, she was worried that something might happen to others. She touched the silver in her arms and felt that even if his head was hit today, she had to take the person home first.
Not long after, the officers were ordered to come and check their passes one by one. After the inspection, they led everyone into the collapsed area of the quarry.
The villagers' enthusiasm to save people was not dampened by the wind and snow on the way, but they were shocked by the scene before them.
They knew that there was only entry but no exit from the quarry, but when they actually saw the skinny laborers breaking and moving stones, everyone's mood became heavy.
If they fail to pay the rental tax during the autumn harvest next year, they will suffer the same fate.
"Sir, I wonder how my uncle Huang Songbai is doing now?" Chen Yao asked the officer.
The accompanying officer glanced at Chen Yao and the others and said loudly: "Our Instructor Xing is kind-hearted. After the incident, he invited a doctor from the city to come and treat the injured. Your uncle is lucky and is still alive."
When Miao heard the news in the crowd, she couldn't help but cover her mouth and cry softly.
"What about Yang Jizong? Have you found him?" Chen Yao asked again.
The officer rolled his eyes at Chen Yao and pointed his whip forward: "If you can find it easily, the coach will let you in. Go and dig quickly, you may even find a complete body."
"Bah, bah, bah, don't talk nonsense, he must still be alive." Chen Yao spat at the officer.
The officer held the whip in his hand and did not dare to drop it, standing there in a daze, not daring to move.
Because the people from Xiahe Village who were carrying hoes all spat at the ground under his feet when they passed by him. It was so fucking disgusting.
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