After the marriage was severed, I fled with my golden finger to protect my mother

"Hey, Brother Dazhu, how come you have time to come here?"

As soon as the carriage stopped by the roadside, a skinny young boy ran over and greeted Zhang Dazhu in a flattering manner.

The young man's clothes looked very thin, with patches on them, but they were washed very clean, and the stitches of the patches were very smooth.

"It's you, boy. My master was passing by here and thought he'd look around."

Zhang Dazhui smiled and said a few words. The reason why he knew this young man was that he had gone out to help the government with shopping and saw this young man fainted from hunger on the roadside. He felt pity for him and asked for a bowl of porridge from a roadside stall and then brought the man back.

"Hey, since the master is here, I won't waste your time..."

The young boy was very perceptive. When he heard Zhang Dazhui say that his master was there, he quickly planned to leave, for fear that he would be disliked by the other party. It would be bad if the other party was dissatisfied with him again.

"Do you live here? Are you familiar with the people here?"

Xu Qinghe in the carriage had an idea. He lifted the curtain and asked him a question. Seeing him nod affirmatively, he was naturally very satisfied.

"If you have nothing to do, come into the carriage. I have something to ask you."

He wanted to know the specific situation of Lao Xu's family, but he didn't want to be discovered by those people.

"I'm fine. I'm free."

The young boy turned his gaze towards Zhang Dazhui, and when he saw him nodding at him, he let down his guard, brushed off the unnecessary dust on his clothes, and then climbed swiftly onto the carriage.

"Hello, sir. I wonder why you asked me to come up here? Please tell me what you want. As long as I can do it, I will never say no."

The young boy is very loyal. Zhang Dazhui is his savior, so he cannot let Zhang Dazhui lose face in front of his master.

"It's nothing serious, don't be nervous."

Perhaps seeing through his thoughts, Xu Qinghe pushed the snacks on the small table, motioning for the boy to take some and eat. He then asked about his age and family situation. After hearing the boy's answers, he asked about the situation of Old Xu's family.

The young boy's name is Li Xiao. He is an old resident here and is very familiar with the situation in the north of the city.

"The Xu family you mentioned, are all the people in the village surnamed Xu? Did they flee from the drought in the south?"

Seeing Xu Qinghe nod affirmatively, Li Xiao did not hide anything and told him everything he knew.

"There are eight families in total, with a total of more than 40 people. Someone from above must have given us a heads-up and assigned us to live in the row of wooden sheds at the edge. It's quite spacious..."

Li Xiao didn't know what Xu Qinghe meant by asking these people, so he didn't say much and just gave a brief explanation.

Because the northern part of the city was not big, and there were wooden sheds built next to each other everywhere, so his house was not very far from the Xu family.

Sometimes when I passed by there, I could hear those family members accusing and cursing each other. They didn't sound like a family at all. They sounded more like enemies.

"But the men of the Xu family were not at home during the day, because the government suddenly called in a large number of people to do the work. Although they were not paid, they were provided with two meals a day, so they followed them."

When Li Xiao went there today, he also saw those Xu family members. Because most of the people who came to do the work were from the north of the city, everyone would greet each other politely when they met. This was also for the purpose of keeping each other warm and surviving better outside so that people would not dare to bully them at will.

"So what kind of work did you go do?"

Xu Qinghe took a look at Li Xiao's clothes. They were quite clean and didn't look like he had done any dirty work.

"I don't know what the people above are thinking. In the middle of winter, they asked people to dig ditches outside the city. It must be exhausting."

Li Xiao stretched out his blood-soaked palm and waved it in front of Xu Qinghe, then said:

"I was assigned to move rocks today. I was afraid that my clothes would get dirty and I would have to trouble my mother to wash them, so I simply took off my clothes and moved the rocks, so I didn't look dirty."

Xu Qinghe looked at the many patches on his clothes and nodded in understanding.

Li Xiao had said before that because his father died of illness in his early years, his family’s fields and houses were occupied by the clan, and in the end, they drove him and his mother out.

It was not easy for a woman to raise a child in that era. In order to support him, his mother took out all her belongings and settled down in the north of the city. She worked day and night to do embroidery to make money. Now that he has grown up, his mother has become ill due to overwork.

Li Xiao knew that Xu Qinghe wanted to know the situation in Xujia Village, so he enthusiastically said that he would pay attention to these families after returning, and if there was any news, he would send a letter to Zhang Dazhui.

Anyway, he would meet those people every day, so it wouldn't be a big deal for him. He also wanted to do something for his savior, Brother Zhang Dazhui.

"Then I'll trouble you, Brother Li, but it's better not to let other people know about this."

Of course it would be best to have a spy, and Xu Qinghe also wanted to help, so he pulled out a pig's trotter and a piece of fat meat from the basket next to him.

"This is a pig we raised on our farm. It's not worth much. Let's take it home and stew it."

This basket will be taken back and handed over to the big kitchen to be kept for consumption. It doesn’t matter if there is more or less.

Li Xiao had already seen the pork in the basket, but he tried his best to avoid looking at it, not daring to look at the white pork.

Not to mention eating meat, his family hasn't seen such old meat for a long time.

"Really give it to me?"

He was a little bit incredulous. Was it worth giving this big pig's trotter and fat meat just for asking a few insignificant questions?

“No, don’t give me these…”

He looked away with some difficulty, thinking that even if he was given nothing, he would still do it for Zhang Dazhui.

"Take it. If you have any difficulties, go to your brother Zhang for help."

Xu Qinghe pulled a rope to tie up the pork and pig's trotters and handed them directly to him.

"Well...thank you very much, sir..."

Li Xiao had no choice but to take it. He planned to stew the pig's trotters to nourish his mother after returning home, and save the fat to make oil. It would be enough for the mother and daughter to get through for a while.

Xu Qinghe waved his hand to indicate that it was okay, and Li Xiao hurriedly thanked him again, then got off the carriage with his things.

Watching the carriage leave, Li Xiao secretly made a decision in his heart. When he returned, he would look for some of his good brothers and ask them to help keep an eye on the Xu family. In any case, he would never let people down.