After unpacking the black-core quilts she bought on the Qiongheihei app and washing them thoroughly with warm water and soap, Chen Xuanxuan bought a lot of old clothes on the Qiongheihei app. Chen Xuanxuan

and her family worked hard for three days, and they finally wore the new thin cotton-padded clothes.

Although these cotton-padded clothes are very thin, for Chen Xuanxuan's mother-in-law and her six children, the days of wearing new clothes are really joyful.

"Daughter-in-law, you are still smart and skillful. The clothes you sew are better than mine..."

Chen Xuanxuan was very happy to hear that everyone in the family said so.

However, thinking that there was not much food left in the house, Chen Xuanxuan said to her mother-in-law and the children in a serious manner, "While it is not raining outside and it is just cold, you can go to the river or the mountain and bring me some more food. Especially those wild vegetables..."

Thinking that those people in the village who had no clothes to wear were reluctant to go out during the cold wind, Gu Dazhu and Erzhu said, "Mom, I will go now!"

After that, they reluctantly took off their cotton clothes and planned to keep them at home. However, when Chen Xuanxuan saw this, she said to them in confusion.

"It's so cold outside, why are you taking off your cotton-padded clothes?"

"I made these clothes for you to keep you warm. If you eat well and wear warm clothes, you won't get sick in the future. I feel at ease when you don't get sick. After all, money and clothes are nothing. Don't let me say more, put on your cotton-padded clothes quickly. If there is time and opportunity, I will make you a pair of warm cotton-padded shoes by myself."

Hearing their mother's serious promise, Gu Dazhu and Erzhu were delighted. "Mom, you are so kind."

After buttoning up the seven buttons on the cotton-padded clothes carefully, the brothers carried the buckets and the baskets they cherished very much on their backs, and were excited to go out.

Chen Xuanxuan's mother-in-law was a little worried when she saw that he and his boys were out at this time. After she warned Chen Xuanxuan a few times, she picked up the sickle and went out with Gu Dazhu and Erzhu.

As soon as they left, Chen Xuanxuan asked Gu Sanzhu, Sizhu, Daya and Erya to light the fire and cook.

Chen Xuanxuan planned to make porridge today.

She made a pound of bulk eight-treasure porridge that she secretly bought on the Qiongheihei app last night. The ingredients of this Silver Bird Eight-treasure Porridge looked pretty good.

However, a pound of ingredients was not enough for eight people. Chen Xuanxuan added half a pound of sorghum rice, half a pound of yellow rice, and a pound of soybeans.

After adding water and covering the lid, Chen Xuanxuan took out the nail clippers and cut the nails of each of their children.

Just as she finished this, she heard someone crying outside her door.

From the sound, it seemed that the crying was particularly sad and particularly aggrieved.

Chen Xuanxuan found that her children seemed to be frightened, and she was a little scared in her heart.

Because Chen Xuanxuan felt that her house was actually in the wilderness. There were dense forests everywhere around the house. Every time it was windy and rainy outside, the people in the house could feel the gloomy cold air.

"Come, come, all of you, come closer. Hurry up and warm yourself by the fire."

"It's not someone crying outside, it's probably just the sound of the wind in the forest, don't be afraid..."

Seeing their mother calm down, Sanzhu, Sizhu, and the eldest and second girls nodded gently.

Chen Xuanxuan had just comforted them when she heard someone knocking on her door.

"Auntie, seventh auntie, are you in the house?"

Hearing someone calling outside, Chen Xuanxuan stared at the dark house and was silent for a moment. Soon, she frowned and replied loudly, "Who is playing tricks outside?"

Hearing Chen Xuanxuan's voice, the crying outside became louder.

"Auntie, auntie, please open the door!"

"We are really in a bad condition now..."

Hearing this, Chen Xuanxuan couldn't help but stand up, and then, in front of the children, she quietly walked to the door of the stove room, and then, through the hole on the door, she saw that the people standing in front of the door were all children she didn't know at all.

"Who are you?"

"Don't call me Auntie all the time!"

When the children with dry hair, fleshless faces, tattered clothes, and no shoes on their feet heard this, their eyes turned red and they almost cried out of grievance.

"Auntie Qi, don't you want us either? Wuwuwu, if you don't acknowledge us, we brothers will starve to death..."

Seeing these children in such a miserable state, with no adults to take care of them, Chen Xuanxuan thought about it again and again, then she carefully opened the door for them, quickly pulled them in, and gave them a few persimmon cakes that she bought on the Qiongheihei app a few days ago.

The persimmon cake looked abnormally black, as if it had fallen into a sewage pit. However, it tasted good, and people who were not picky would generally like to eat it.

Because there were four children who suddenly came in, Chen Xuanxuan only gave them two in total.

She shared the other two larger persimmon cakes with her four children.

After filling their stomachs, the children who were like ferocious little beasts just now looked much gentler and more obedient.

"Seventh Auntie, my parents have been thrown into jail."

Don't look at these children, they are only ten years old. But they are smart and know all the twists and turns in the government office. Especially for merchants like them who need to deal with the government.

Their family has long been rooted in the county town by making tofu. But five days ago, a diner who was eating fried tofu suddenly fell down with blood all over his mouth in front of their dining table.

Such a big thing happened suddenly, and their tofu business was completely ruined.

The house and the shop had been sealed by the government. Most importantly, all the pillars of the family, that is, their grandparents, father and mother, had been detained by the government. No one knew what their current situation was.

The brothers had been thinking about how to deal with this matter and who to ask for help.