Traveling through ancient times, I led my family to prosperity

"My mother bullies me just because she sees that there is no one left in my family." Liu said. This was a worry in her heart. She had nowhere to go when she was wronged, and she had no one from her family to support her.

"Fourth brother's wife, please stop crying. Look how good the fourth brother is to you. Xiaoye and Xiaotao have grown up. You have sons and daughters by your side, so what are you afraid of?" Zhang advised.

In the morning, Xiao Tao also followed Sheng Hao to collect firewood. Now he saw his mother and sister being bullied, so he surrounded them and felt very distressed.

"Aunt Si, look how well your uncle treats you. When Xiaoye and Xiaotao grow up, your family's life will be even better. Don't take grandma's words to heart." Xiao Lan also comforted her.

In the upper room, Old Master Sheng had a gloomy face and kept puffing on his pipe. Mrs. Cui was sitting on the kang with a stiff expression on her face. Chunhua was hiding in her room and had not come out.

"Don't think I don't know your little thoughts. You just saw that the fourth brother's family went to help the third brother's family yesterday, and you didn't want to, so you found an excuse to make trouble for them. Don't you think about it? They are brothers, and even if they are broken bones, they are still connected. What's wrong with family members helping each other? Are they delaying their own business?"

"Xiao Ye dares to talk back to me and doesn't even take me seriously." Cui said crying.

"Don't change the subject. You didn't scold Xiao Ye's mother, so how could she talk back to you? Besides, I saw the chickens running out of the chicken coop several times, and you never got angry. But this time you caught Xiao Ye's mother and scolded her. What else could it be if you were angry about the fourth brother's help yesterday? You are also a mother. Instead of wishing your sons well, you want them to have a good death in the next life? Think about it carefully." After Grandpa Sheng finished speaking, he lifted the curtain and went out.

Cui started crying and Chunhua heard her father had gone out, so she hurried out to comfort her mother.

It was already noon when Zhang and Xiaolan returned home. Xiaoting had already prepared the meal, stir-fried cabbage and radish with sauce.

Xiao Lan was quite sad. After her family harvested cabbage and radishes, they ate these two vegetables for every meal. Unlike other families, her family did not have dried vegetables dried in the autumn to provide a change. Now she was scared when she saw cabbage and radishes.

"Mom, how about we grow some bean sprouts?" Xiao Lan suggested to Zhang.

"Okay." Looking at Xiao Lan's bitter and resentful face as she stared at the cabbages and radishes, Zhang readily agreed.

The winters in the Tianqi Dynasty were cold, and people usually stayed at home. Occasionally, when the weather was good, those who were short of firewood would go out to collect firewood. The crops in Shengjia Village were planted for one season. Xiaolan once tentatively asked her father why he didn't plant two crops. Her father said that this was passed down from their ancestors, and they planted it this way, and they never thought about whether they could plant two crops.

In the afternoon, Zhang took out the soybeans, picked out some plump ones, washed them, and soaked them in a basin overnight.

The next day, pour out the water in the basin, leaving only the beans, put a wet cloth on the beans in the basin, cover it with a curtain, and put it on the kang. Pour water on the cloth three times a day and pour it out. After three days, the bean sprouts will be ready. Xiao Lan looked at the bean sprouts in the basin, which were growing neatly, and marveled at the wisdom of the ancients. Even in this imaginary era, people knew how to grow bean sprouts and eat them.

Bean sprouts are delicious whether fried or eaten cold. The family of five ate them all in just two days. Seeing that everyone in the family loved it, Zhang quickly made another pot.

During the day, the wife of Guihua from next door came to visit and said, "Third sister-in-law, your home is so warm, and the kang is so hot."

Zhang asked her to sit on the kang and talked to her while she was making a cotton-padded jacket. "The children went to the mountains in the fall and brought back a lot of firewood. Otherwise, we wouldn't have had such a comfortable winter."

"Oh, third sister-in-law, I think there is no other family in our village that can compare to your three children." said Osmanthus' wife.

Osmanthus looked at the work in the hands of the mother and daughter, and then said, "Look at your stitches, they are really fine. These are new cotton-padded clothes for the children. Xiaoting also made them very well." Osmanthus touched the cotton and cloth on the kang, "This new cotton is really good. I know it must be warm just by touching it. Third sister-in-law, your family has finally made it through."

"Well, I'm just making do with the help of my mother's family." Zhang answered with a smile, and naturally did not want to reveal the true situation of her family to outsiders.

"Auntie, have some water." Xiao Lan brought the kang table from the kitchen and put the bowl on the table.

Osmanthus' wife smiled and said, "Okay, okay, Third sister-in-law, if you ask me, you are still good at raising children. Look at how beautiful these two sisters are."

There is no mother who doesn't like to hear others praise her children. Zhang said with a smile, "They are just farm children, clumsy and rough, but fortunately they are hardworking."

How could Guihua's wife not understand the meaning behind Zhang's words, which was just a blatant criticism and a hidden praise?

Osmanthus' wife suddenly whispered, "Third sister-in-law, have you heard? A few days ago, some refugees went to Beishan and hunted some game. They got a taste of the sweetness and went a few more times. Later, other people found out and all of them rushed up the mountain. In the early morning of today, several of them staggered down, and they were said to be covered in blood. They are now at Chunshengtang in the town, and I don't know if they can be cured."

Zhang, Xiaoting, and Xiaolan all turned pale when they heard this. Xiaolan came to her senses first, secretly sighing at her and Shengxuan's luck. These refugees are also pitiful. They don't know the danger of Beishan Mountain. For a few bites of food, they rashly went up the mountain, and they don't know how bad their injuries are. Now it's winter, and there is less and less food in the fields. I hope the court will find a way to resettle them quickly. When they are hungry and have no clothes to cover their bodies, I'm afraid there will be trouble.

They were silent for a while. Zhang patted her pounding chest and said, "It's not easy for them either. They are displaced and have finally escaped famine and made it here. They don't want to lose their lives in the mountains. Alas, looking at the situation, I don't know if they can make it."

"Yes, after this incident, not only did these people give up the idea of ​​going up the mountain, but even those in our village who had uneasy thoughts also gave up." Osmanthus' wife took a sip of water and said, "I heard that there are still people who haven't come down yet. I guess they are in great danger."

All people are equal in the face of life. As long as they can have enough food and clothing, no one will go to the mountains to risk their lives.

Osmanthus's wife sat there for the whole morning. After she was sent away, Shengxuan and Xiaowen came back carrying firewood. They also knew about this.

This morning, the whole village gathered at the foot of the mountain, with loud cries and sharp curses. The village head was there too. It turned out that Sheng Fugui, a villager, had secretly gone up the mountain to take the game brought back by the refugees and had not returned for several days. When his wife heard that someone was being carried down from the mountain, she crawled to the foot of the mountain and saw that her husband was not among the people coming down. She started crying and startled the village head.

"The village head will send people up the mountain to look for people in the afternoon." Sheng Xuan said this at last.

Xiaolan and her family had not paid much attention to what was happening outside these days because they were digging cellars, making wooden shelves, and making cotton clothes. She was sighing at her luck for not encountering any ferocious beasts in the mountains so many times, and she was also sighing that she had kept the villagers in the dark about her family going up the mountain. If they had taken people up the mountain and something had happened, then her family would probably not be able to survive in the village.

Her family has lived alone and only maintains superficial harmony with the old Sheng family. If something happens to her family, the old Sheng family will not stand up for her family. Sheng Xuan is an invisible person in the village, with a low sense of existence. Her family is now a small family, so they need to keep a low profile. There are many big families in the village, and they usually have harmonious relationships. Once something happens, I'm afraid the whole family will come to the door, and a mouthful of spit from each person can drown a person.