It’s very hot in summer nights. Because the firewood in the kitchen is limited, the hot water burned is at most a small basin for each person to wipe their bodies.

Xiaoxiao was only moved at this moment. Although the life in Dawangzhuang was difficult, the suffering was fake. At least the firewood, rice, grain and oil were ready-made. Even if it was tormented, there was hope in my heart. Anyway, I would just spend three days there, and I would still happily return to Fugui Township after three days.

Unlike now, I can’t bear to use a few pieces of wood - there is no longer a family as a solid support behind me, and I still have to worry about the current situation of my parents. The torment in front of me is without a deadline, and no one can predict whether to end the suffering tomorrow or fall into a deeper abyss.

Every room has to be beaten for a while before you can fall asleep. Especially when you look at it, you are most afraid of mosquito bites. But the mother and brother who live with you don’t attract mosquitoes, so you have become the target of public criticism.

Zhan Yan had just lying down when he heard the buzzing mosquitoes again. But the man had no strength. He lay on the bamboo mat and shook the sycamore leaves in his hand to drive him away: "Grandma is really, instead of sending those new quilts, it's better to give us a few mosquito nets! Those quilts can only be used after autumn!"

The second wife Jiang said, "They have never suffered any hardships, so how could they think of the situation here? They just thought they could not come here frequently. It is said that the same guests can visit at most once in three months. I don't know if they can see each other again, so they prepared the bedding for winter in advance - they can still grit their teeth and fight it in hot weather. In the middle of winter, that day will be difficult."

In the middle of winter, the two words were like wind, frost and swords, and Zhan Yan couldn't help but tremble: "Do we still have to spend the winter here?"

Jiang sighed: "Your uncle asked Madam Li to come over and told me many examples similar to our family. After all, this matter was the meaning of the emperor, and no one else dared to interfere. The emperor was busy with all his affairs and gradually forgot about this matter. Many people died in prison, and were not tortured or hungry, and were slowly exhausted."

Zhan Yan became anxious when he heard this: "Uncle, you can remind the emperor!"

"It is said that Lord Gu was almost demoted by the priest because of his stubborn advice. Now the priest has disappeared even if Lord Gu is faced."

After hearing this, Zhan Yan became a little depressed: "No wonder there are no one from the three-bedroom house coming today..."

Xian'er turned over and woke up, scratched her body, muttering, "I'm so hungry."

After hearing this, Jiang did not sigh as usual, but got up and got out of bed. He took out a small cloth bag from somewhere and reached out to greet his children: "Let's say softly, come here!"

Xian'er didn't move and was still scratching her thighs: "These mosquitoes are crazy and even bite me."

Zhan Yan came to his mother and saw that her mother opened the cloth bag and then opened the oil paper bag inside. A fragrance came out: "Is this... meat?"

Hearing the meat, Xian'er jumped up violently: "What meat?"

Jiang hurriedly asked him to keep a low voice: "I dared to take it out while everyone is asleep, otherwise it would not be enough!"

There was no oil lamp in the room. First, it was to save the lamp oil, and secondly, it was not to let others notice it, but still in the moonlight, it was seen that there were two pieces of bacon as big as a fist in the oil paper bag.

Jiang whispered: "This is what Madam Li secretly stuffed it to me when she was not careful. There is not much meat. You two should eat it quickly!"

Xian'er had already picked a big piece and bit it down, and tears came out: "It's so delicious, the meat is so delicious."

Zhan Yan hesitated a little: "We just eat secretly like this... grandmother and the others..."

Jiang said: "If you divide the family of more than a dozen people, you won't even get a shredded pork!"

Seeing that Xian'er had eaten most of the time, Zhan Yan beat him up: "It's better to save some money, it's gone after eating!"

A sentence reminded Xian'er, spit out the bite he had just bitten and chewed slowly: "That's it, it's gone after eating."

Zhan Yan tore off a small piece of the meat and sent it to Jiang's mouth: "Mom, eat it too."

Jiang was used to having a good life of luxury and food. Unexpectedly, this piece of bacon became the greatest delicacy in the world. He couldn't bear to swallow this small piece of meat in his mouth after chewing it for a long time.

Zhan Yan only ate a small piece and put away the meat.

Jiang looked at the window and listened carefully to the movement outside. Except for the occasional chirping of crickets, everything was almost silent.

Jiang carefully closed the doors and windows, and Xian'er couldn't help but say, "Whatever my mother closed the door, it's so hot!"

Zhan Yan hurriedly silenced his younger brother and said in a false voice: "Mom must have something to say."

Xian'er stopped talking and looked at her mother with her sister.

Jiang sighed first: "Xian'er is almost ten years old, and she still has to squeeze in the same bed with her mother and sister... I don't know how long it will take for such a hard life... Your grandfather and grandmother have long wanted to take you back."

Xian'er's eyes were bright: "Can we really take us back? Let's live in my grandmother's house?! Just like before, we live in Nuanqing Pavilion?! From now on, I will go to school with my cousin?!"

Jiang nodded and touched his son's head with his hand: "It's the same as before, nothing changes."

"When will my grandfather come to pick us up?"

"tomorrow."

"Very good!"

Zhan Yan said nothing, and after a while, he said, "What should grandmother and the others do? You can't follow me too."

Xian'er then thought of her grandmother and frowned: "Can you take her grandmother too..."

Jiang was silent for a while: "Only our mother and three of us go and just go back and give them some good things."

Xian'er was happy again: "Let's just send more meat back!"

Seeing that he had already moved his son, Jiang looked at his daughter again: "You are already sixteen years old, and it's a big delay. Today, the Lu family has already set up a card with Wufang. Maybe it's the Bai family tomorrow... Let's go back to your grandmother's house and make sure to last year. It's not too late to start attending various flower banquets at the age of seventeen..."

Zhan Yan was carrying the moonlight on her back, and she couldn't see her expression clearly while sitting.

Jiang sighed deeply: "Today, Madam Li told me about the Lu family that was once, and that family could not survive the winter... I know that the old lady would blame me for being selfish, but I can only say that after I left it for the Tang family, I raised Xian'er well, which is worthy of the Tang family."

After a while, Zhan Yan suddenly said, "We are here, what's our surname?"

Jiang paused: "What's the surname? It's still Tang."

"What is it like for us Tang family members to live in a foreign family? The Tang family members are not dead. Some are in prison and some are in the village. How can we join the foreign family members? They can only be considered as escaping at the last battle."

Jiang was also a little anxious: "We just need to save our lives now, and we can only wait for death if we stay here!"

Zhan Yan said, "If we leave like this, even if we are traitors of the Tang family, we are no longer qualified to have the surname Tang."

Xian'er was almost ten years old after all, and she also understood some truths. She lowered her head and thought for a while, and said to her sister: "If we stay, we will only starve to death. I will study hard in the future and will definitely overturn the case for our Tang family and rebuild the ancestral hall for our Tang family!"

Mrs. Jiang wiped her tears and held her son in her arms: "Good child!"

Zhan Yan shook his head: "Grandmother and the others suffer here and starve, and grandfather and the others suffer even more in prison. But we fled to our homes to enjoy the peace of mind, but we are afraid we will feel uneasy."

Jiang's tone was completely consistent with his son's tone at this moment: "We are also protecting the Tang family!"

"I won't leave, I'll leave you," Zhan Yan showed his usual stubborn expression. "Who are we going to the outside world? We are neither Tang nor Jiang, so we are obviously the most embarrassing person."

Jiang said cruelly: "We will leave first tomorrow and come to pick you up in a few days."

Zhan Yan stopped talking and lay down and fell asleep.

On the second day, Jiang got up early and went to the old lady's room. When he walked out of the door, his eyes were swollen from crying.

Xian'er was waiting for her mother in the yard, while Zhan Yan locked herself in the room and refused to come out.

Jiang took Xian'er and kowtowed to the old lady's room in the yard.

After a while, the eldest lady came out of the main room: "The old lady asked to bring the bedding back together, there was no need here."

Jiang had already cried heartbrokenly: "Why should the old lady be so stubborn..."

The eldest lady waved her hand and said, "The old lady said that she is no longer a family, and now she can't even reach relatives, so why bother to collect things from outsiders?"

The others stood in front of their house, silently watching the second wife and her party crying and pulling Xian'er out of the yard.

When he was about to leave, Zhan Yan suddenly rushed out of his room, crying so hard that his eyes were like peaches. When Jiang saw his daughter, he couldn't help but feel surprised and thought the child had figured it out.

Unexpectedly, Zhan Yan said word by word: "Mom, I have to stay here. When the Tang family turns over, my father and the others are back. I have to stay here to plead for you. If we all escape, I am afraid we will never come back in this life."

"Silly child." Jiang's tears were almost dry, and he gritted his teeth and made up his mind, and pulled his son out.

A sound of a horse whip came outside in a short while, and the carriage seemed to have left quickly.

In the quiet yard, the old lady called out "to serve" and pulled everyone's thoughts back.

The Tang family’s rice is still a bunch of coarse grain steamed buns distributed by the government, a few dried radish sticks, and a large pot of perilla chili vegetables mixed with Xiaoxiao.

At the dinner table, the old lady said: "As long as someone is willing to accept it, anyone can leave. However, according to the Tian family, as long as they leave, it means that they are no longer a member of the Tang family. Even if the Tang family is willing to accept it in the future, according to the law, they will never be able to recognize their ancestors."

Everyone didn't say anything, each had their own thoughts. Jin Baodi tried hard to put away her melancholy expression and smiled: "Our Tang Jiafu is a great life, and we will definitely be able to overcome this difficulty!"

Before he could finish his sentence, he heard the officers and soldiers outside saying that a guest had arrived.

The person who came was the daughter and son-in-law of the second wife - Huanyan and Mr. Weng.

Huanyan held her waist with her hands, and it seemed that she was pregnant. She directed her servants to move rice, flour, grain and oil into the yard.

The second wife, Jiang, passed by her eldest daughter like this, and she had never seen her last time as a member of the Tang family.

If we see each other again in the future, although the relationship between mother and daughter will be different, it will be different.

The yard is now full of joy. Because outsiders cannot step into the yard, the rice, flour, grain and oil are piled at the entrance of the yard. The women's family members do not feel heavy. They carry the two of them, or even carry them one by one, and then move these "treasures" into the kitchen.

The "living room" was packed with people, full of Tang's family.

The veteran had to say, "There are too many people."

Yanran was clever and clever: "I only said that the guests were limited to three people, and there was no explicit restriction on our master's family!"

The veteran thought about it, so he didn't say anything.

Xiaoxiao whispered to the veteran: "We have food and grass, and each person will have a large butter cake, so I can only do it!"

Unexpectedly, the veteran also whispered: "It's better to save some food. These people can't deliver food to you every day."

The veteran said to himself: How many relatives are not afraid of death in the world? I guess this is the only one.

Huanyan was crying for the hard life of her mother and her younger brother. When she heard about her mother and younger brother, she was not too excited. She just said: "My mother is confused."
Chapter completed!