Grandpa Shen habitually touched his pipe, but then he thought, forget it, he didn't know if he would be able to buy tobacco leaves in the future, so he decided to save some.

Master Shen pointed at Shen Youyou and the others and said, "What are you doing? Are you playing house?"

But I was thinking in my heart, these kids are so carefree, they don’t take a rest but play in the mud instead.

Shen Zhiqiu chuckled, and when he saw his daughter glaring at him, he pretended to cough twice and said, "Grandpa, they are distilling alcohol to warm the wound."

This sentence was very shocking. Doctor Guo ran over and squatted down to check what alcohol was.

"Uncle Guo, we can't distill it now. I'll show it to you when it's done." Shen Zhiqiu explained quickly.

Doctor Guo nodded randomly and sat down beside him, not planning to move.

Shen Zhiqiu suddenly thought of something and said to Grandpa Shen beside him: "Grandpa, we can't all sleep tonight. We have to leave someone to patrol the night! We have already entered Yuzhou."

Everyone thought, yes! They were still a little frightened by the thrilling scene not long ago.

What if a robbery comes in the middle of the night and they are sleeping soundly? Wouldn't they be wiped out in an instant?

Shen Zhiqiu saw that everyone agreed with his idea, and then said:

"The night watchmen can't patrol in vain. They are tired and hungry in the second half of the night, and they have to continue traveling the next day. Otherwise, we all pay some public grain and make some dry food for them. Each family can pay five catties first.

We have eighteen families, each with one strong laborer, divided into three groups, six people per night, taking turns to patrol at night, and the public grain that everyone pays will be left with Grandpa, okay?"

Doctor Guo was the first to say, "Okay, let's do it."

He turned around and asked his wife to scoop out some food, and shouted at her to scoop out the rice.

Doctor Guo likes the Shen family very much. These outsiders have never been treated coldly in Shenjia Village.

He still remembers how nervous he was when he followed his parents to escape famine. His father was also a traveling doctor who had seen a lot and knew a lot.

In the first few days, I told him and his mother that since they had just arrived in the village, it was okay to suffer some losses when seeing a doctor, but not to mind it, otherwise everyone in the village would have the surname Shen, and our life would be difficult.

Who would have thought that the people of Shenjia Village had never been discriminatory, and they paid a lot for medical treatment. Even if the patients were in real difficulty, they would first pay on credit and pay them back slowly. Doctor Shen's father was also grateful, and the medical treatment and medicine were very cheap.

There are also high hunters who often take the men in the village who are off-duty in farming to the mountains to hunt to supplement their family income.

After so many years, there is no difference between them and my own people.

Everyone went back to get food. At the Shen family's second branch, Tian Cuifen had just scooped a ladle of coarse grain when she was scolded by Shen Changqing:

"It's already this late, and you're still being petty. Why are you scooping corn stubble instead of fine flour? You don't even know how to give Qiuzi face. Don't you see that everyone is counting on us, Qiuzi? If you don't want to help the child, don't hold him back!"

Tian Cuifen thought to herself, "If I scoop out some noodles and take them over, will they know it's the noodles I scooped out when they eat it?"

But even though he was muttering to himself, he still scooped up the noodles happily.

The first person to bring back food was Chen Xiu'e, a widow from Shenjia Village, who brought five pounds of fine flour.

Chen Xiu'e was a woman with a miserable life. Her husband died two years ago while doing corvee labor. When her mother-in-law learned that her son was gone, she cried so hard that she died too.

She was the only widow left at home with a five-year-old baby.

The most important thing is that Chen Xiu'e is not from this area, and no one knows where she came from. She was picked up by her husband when he went up the mountain to chop firewood.

I thought that since her husband was dead, this woman couldn't stay with him, but she didn't want to remarry, so she just lived with her child.

Generally, such women are the least welcomed in the village. The reason is simple: widows are always surrounded by gossips.

Especially those who are good-looking and young, but they are very worldly-wise and usually solve problems by themselves if they can.

If she really couldn't do it herself, she would ask the women in the village for help. The women would feel sorry for her and ask their men to help her.

She wouldn't dare to do this if she wasn't driving the carriage. The carriage driven by Mr. Shen's second grandson was filled with her family's things.

She didn't sit in that car either, but took her child and got in a car with her great-grandfather's grandchildren's wives.

As soon as she heard about harvesting grain, she immediately took out the best flour from her home. In fact, she knew it very well.

The people of Shenjia Village would not bully her as a woman with a child. Even if she had nothing to eat one day, the Shen family would not watch her and her son starve to death.

If it were another village, they probably wouldn't have brought along a burden like them from the beginning.

But Master Shen felt a little reluctant: "Don't take it, it won't cost you anything."

In fact, no one objected to this statement. Not to mention that everyone knew Chen Xiu'e's difficulties. Even if this was not taken into account, Mr. Shen's words were usually like an imperial edict in Shenjia Village.

Shen Youyou and Li Jingshu, who had no memory of this, could not understand it. Perhaps this was the case with all ancient clans.

Chen Xiu'e smiled and said, "Grandpa, my family can't do anything special. I'll ask you for help when I have nothing to eat. You can't let me starve."

This is the truth. Even if Mr. Shen doesn't look at Chen Xiu'e, he has to look at Shen Ping'an.

Chen Xiu'e's son is called Shen Ping'an. He is the only child in Shen Laojiu's family, and the only one in the family.

Then, every family brought food. People who were usually very stingy brought either rice or fine flour.

Many people who are good at talking even said to the grandfather: "Grandpa, if it's not enough, please tell us. We will keep all the good food for you."

Listen, this is different from the past when I was in my hometown, where people would even curse at each other for the food. Although the Shen family used to be very united,

But living in a village, there are definitely a lot of people swearing in the streets, and Shen Zhiqiu's mother and second aunt are the best among them.

Shen Zhiqiu felt that the one who performed the best was his mother. Why did he say that?

Because Grandma Hua is not stingy with her father and Shen Youyou, but she is just a laughing stock to others.

He gave money to his family every year, even to buy land, but at home they could only eat coarse grain steamed bread for every meal.

The last time they had a good meal was when they came back from the county town.

These guys all took fine grains, and he was afraid that my mother would give him a few spoonfuls of corn stubble.

As a result, the old lady not only prepared fine grains, but also gave the boy a handful of salt, saying that he should add some when making dry food, which would make him more energetic when eating.

The salt in that era was not like the salt of modern times. The price of salt was much higher than that of grain.

In fact, the old lady was also heartbroken. There was nothing she could do since her third son became the team leader. She had to bring honor to her son. Although she didn't know what position the team leader held, he was in charge of everyone anyway!

It's time for dinner, and Shen Youyou's distiller has started working.

Grandpa Shen twitched his nose, licked his lips and continued eating, thinking: Why does my granddaughter's wine smell so good!

The considerate Yoyo saw that grandpa always looked this way, in fact, all men always looked this way,

However, Shen Youyou, who didn't have much wine, only saw his grandfather and great grandfather, so he filled three small bamboo cups with half a bowl of the distilled wine.

After handing it to Grandpa, Great Grandpa and Second Grandpa said, "That's all. The rest has to be kept for healing. You old men can share it." The uncles and aunts will not have any.

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