Huang Yishan, who was in his early fifties, wore a coat with patches, shrank his shoulders and walked into the small yard made of fences from the wind and rain. He placed the shoulder pole on his shoulder and the sickle on his waist on a corner of the yard, and shouted that I'm back. The tightly closed door was immediately opened, and two children of seven or eight years old stood in the threshold with trembling eyes, looking at him.

Huang Yishan strode into the house, and the temperature inside was not much different from that outside. Although there was a fire, the house was really leaking from all sides.

"Why did you come back so late today?" My wife, who had been worried for a long time, felt relieved at this time and looked at Huang Yishan dissatisfiedly, "The family is still waiting for you to buy noodles before making steamed buns. Both grandchildren are so hungry."

"Father-in-law!" The two thin and flirty daughters-in-law stood up and whispered.

"I bought it back, I bought it back." Huang Yishan smiled embarrassedly, took out a small pocket from his torn cotton jacket and handed it to his wife.

"Have you drunk?" The approaching wife suddenly took a breath and immediately stared at him with wide eyes: "There is no overnight food at home, and you are still using the little money you earned to buy wine? Do you know that if you have a meal of wine, you can add another day of extra food at home."

"I've been drinking, but it's not the money I paid. I met a fellow villager, who paid the money." Huang Yishan scratched his head, explained quickly, took out a small pocket from his arms, opened it, and took out two oil paper bags, and a fragrance spread out in the layer. "Here, there is a roast chicken and some pork head meat here, which my fellow villager bought and gave to me."

The two little babies stood on the left and right of Huang Yishan, grabbed the hem of his clothes, and kept swallowing, and even the two daughters-in-law standing aside couldn't help swallowing their throats.

Huang Yishan touched the heads of his two grandchildren in a doting manner, "Today, let you eat enough, eldest daughter-in-law, you and your second brother go to make steamed buns, don't cherish the food, have a full meal at home today. I have something to say to your mother-in-law."

"Oh!" The two wives agreed, picked up the food bags on the table, and walked towards the kitchen like a wind.

The whole family was waiting for Huang Yishan to sell the firewood he brought yesterday to the town to sell it before buying back the food for the evening and the half day of tomorrow. Today, Huang Yishan came back for no reason, so the whole family could only wait for the rice to be put into the pot on hunger.

Huang Yishan was at the fire, and his wife filled half a basin of hot water in a wooden basin. She squatted where to untie his hard shoes. Then she pressed her feet in warm water. While rubbing the cold feet for Huang Yishan, she asked in confusion: "Our fellow villager, which one is not so poor that he is so poor. Why can this person still have the money to invite you to drink and buy meat for you? Hey, don't move around, soak for a while, I'll rub you again."

My wife squatted on the ground and rubbed her feet hard for Huang Yishan. Both sons went to the army to fight. After following Marshal Bian to the distant Jiangnan of Chu, Old Man Huang became the only strong laborer in the family. His body was tied to the family's job. If he had any physical problems, the family would really collapse.

"It's not a fellow villager who ran to Anyang with us, but a fellow villager who didn't come to Anyang at the time and is still in Qinghe County." Huang Yishan sighed: "We used to be soldiers together, and we were about the same age as me, and now we live a good life."

"Then why has he arrived in Anyang again now?"

"He is like me, he is always a squad. A boss hired him to drive a carriage and gave him five taels of silver a month." Huang Yishan said enviously: "He invited me to drink and talked to me about his current life. Not to mention how happy it is. He has no sons, only a few girls. Now his son-in-law and girls have moved out of the mountains. There are hundreds of acres of land at home, and the family has no worries about food and drink. Isn't this the house in winter? He is also a person who can't live in the city, so he ran to the city to work, and was hired by a boss who carriage and traveled to Anyang, including food and accommodation, and also paid another five taels of silver."

"Is there such a good thing? Old man, you are a regular guy. Can you invite this fellow villager to talk about the relationship and drive the carriage? Earn five taels of silver a month, the family can eat enough and save money. Look at the two young grandchildren, when they are growing up, they are as thin as bean sprouts."

"Of course I said it, and my fellow villagers agreed." Huang Yishan said: "But old woman, my fellow villagers told me something."

"What's the matter?"

"My fellow told me that there are too few people in Qinghe County now. Didn't Marshal Bian take so many people away when he left? There is no one in Qinghe County now. So, now, in order to attract people, there are ruthless measures. As long as someone goes, they will be divided into ten acres of land each time, and they also say that there are houses and other things, which are ready-made."

"How can such a good thing be like this? Could it be a lie?" My wife looked at Huang Yishan suspiciously.

Huang Yishan smiled and said, "Look at our family, there are so many walls. What can others cheat? I just thought, we are better off fighting and running back. If it is really what this fellow villager said, we just fell into a honey pot."

"It's OK, but the boss, are we allowed to leave?" asked my wife.

Huang Yishan snorted: "Of course those officials won't let us go. But I also told the fellow villager that their boss is a Ming person, with a broad path and a way. As long as we are willing to go back, he can get us back."

"This matter needs to be well summarized, and we must discuss it with our two daughters-in-law." My wife hesitated for a moment, "Our acquaintances are all here. If we run back, although we are back in our hometown, there is no one who recognizes them anymore. I don't know what is going on there now?"

"It's necessary to discuss it." Huang Yishan grabbed the teeth.

Although the dinner at the Huang family was late today, it was the most sumptuous meal in a long time. The table was no longer the unchanging radish pickles, and the aroma of roasted chicken and pork head was filled with the house. The two young grandchildren only ate their belly, and even the two daughters-in-law finally saw a trace of blood on their faces.

Huang Yishan, who was sitting by the fire and watching all this, was happy and finally made up his mind. Here, he was a stranger from a foreign land and was bullied. Even if the big guys were hugged, they were still outnumbered. The people of Anyang hated them so much that they might as well run back to their hometown and return to their roots. Their home was there.

They didn't fall asleep all night, and their two daughters-in-law had no idea. When Huang Yishan said that, they only asked their father-in-law to make an idea. This made Huang Yishan, who had been tossing and turning in the bed for half a night, climbed up before dawn and headed straight to the town to find his fellow villager.

One day later, the whole family went out with a few small bags on their backs before dawn, and there were only a few clean clothes in the bag.

Huang Yishan is willing to go out. If you stay here, you may starve to death when the family will starve to death. The fellow villager has no reason to deceive him.

He rushed to the outside of the town with deep feet and shallow feet. Several carriages had been waiting there. The fellow villager smiled and greeted him, "Old Huang, that's right. The water flows to the lower part and people walk to the higher part. When you return to Qinghe County, you will get the benefits. Don't forget to invite me to drink."

"That's nature, that's nature." Huang Yishan nodded repeatedly, and said with concern: "Brother, we escaped. What if the higher authorities find us running away?"

"Don't worry, with our boss here, no one dares to do anything to you!" The fellow villager said with a laugh. The people who were traveling with him also didn't care. They placed Huang Yishan and his family on the carriage, and whistled, and set off for a trip.

What opened Huang Yishan's eyes was that the hangers along the way had never checked their group. Even at Jingjing Pass, they walked out unimpededly.

Five days later, they walked out of the Luoying Mountains, and seven days later, a beautiful village appeared in front of them.

This is a village composed of about two or three small courtyards, but what surprised Huang Yishan and his family was that there was no one in the whole village.

"Membersman, is this?" Huang Yishan asked the fellow villagers who were sent to them in confusion.

"Brother Huang, this village was built specifically for those who want to come back like you. Congratulations, you are the first to come back. Come on, let's go and see your new home."

Huang Yishan followed the fellow villager into the village as if in a dream. His wife looked around in a daze. Her two daughters-in-law carried a bag and held her son, full of joy but could not hide her inner worry. Even if they were in Qinghe County, they had never lived in such a good house.

In the middle of the village, the fellow villager took Huang Yishan into a huge yard. There were many people standing in the yard. Judging from the clothes on his body, he actually became an official.

Huang Yishan's face changed suddenly.

"This is Brother Huang Yishan, right?" A man who was like an official walked over with a smile and said in Huang Yishan's disbelief's eyes: "Brother Huang, look, this is your new home. Come on, this is the house deed, the name has been filled for you. This is the land deed. After Brother Huang has been resettled, we will take you to see the land assigned to you. But now it's snowing heavily, so I can only see about it. Six people have come back, which is 60 acres. Brother Huang, you can see it clearly."

Huang Yishan took over the house deed and land deed in a daze.

"Brother Huang, come and see, this is the livestock you have given to your family. Not much, just a cow. We have prepared the forage for the past two days, and you have to go to make grass by yourself in the future. Come on, come and take a look in the house. These bags of rice and flour are enough for you to eat for a month. Please order and check it."

"Brother Huang, it's okay, so please sign my name for me. Ah, you're illiterate, it doesn't matter, it's okay to press a handprint!"
Chapter completed!