Quickly wear it with your skills

Lou Xiao now gets up early every morning to fetch water for watering the fields, and Lan Hanlu doesn't just sit at home and watch, after all, fetching water is really tiring work.

After finishing the work every day, we would go to the fields and water the crops. This was what basically happened to everyone in the village. Many women in many families also started carrying water.

People with connections outside have heard about this, saying that in some places there are no seedlings left. Going to the city to buy food is incredibly expensive, yet it's still hard to find anything.

With a household registration, each person can buy 10 kilograms every 5 days.

Their family had quite a lot of food stored, enough for them to eat, but every 10 days when they had to buy food, Lou Xiao would go with them.

They muddled along like this until autumn, when the land's output was used to pay taxes, and basically every household had nothing left, not even enough to eat half full.

But even so, they were not at peace. More and more people were fleeing past them. In a village next to them, a mother and two were killed the day before yesterday.

After hearing about this, the village chief organized a meeting and asked everyone to pay attention to safety. He also set up a roadblock at the entrance of the village so that there would be someone watching at all times.

As for the few people on the road, the village chief collected some grain from each household and gave it to these people as wages. Of course, their family also contributed grain.

Not only that, Lou Xiao also began to take up duty at the village entrance. After all, his martial arts prowess was widely recognized in the village, and it would be unacceptable if he didn't contribute.

However, as people became more and more impetuous, Lou Xiao would repeatedly remind Lan Hanlu to lock the door every time he went out on duty at night.

Although he had seen his young wife kicking people for him, he didn't think she had much fighting power. On the contrary, looking at her fair and tender skin, she was also very beautiful, although she usually concealed it.

But that figure and temperament could not be concealed, which was why Lou Xiao didn't like him going up the mountain, because every time Lan Hanlu went out, if you looked carefully, you would find someone staring at her.

In order to keep Lou Xiao quiet, Lan Hanlu nodded her head as obediently as possible to show her agreement. Seeing him so obedient, Lou Xiao felt even more worried. He sighed and left.

He now had a better understanding of his young wife. She was a bit greedy and lustful. Her greed mainly involved her love for gold, silver, and jewelry. As for her lust, she was attracted by the fact that if he wore something a bit light in the summer, she would stare at him.

Another point is that she is quite stubborn. She doesn't care about most things and will do whatever he says or does. But once she makes up her mind about something, no one can pull her back.

If he dared to be stubborn, Lan Hanlu would definitely kick him out, because her eyes said it all.

So the habit he has developed now is that as long as Lulu doesn't care about something, he will make the decision, and as long as Lulu decides on something, he dare not say a word of rebuttal.

So when he saw that she nodded obediently, but a hint of impatience flashed in her eyes, Lou Xiao quickly stopped talking. He smiled as he watched her close the door and go back into the house before he left.

This winter is destined to be turbulent. There are always some people who hope for luck and do not make excessive preparations. When the disaster really comes, these people will become the first to starve to death or freeze to death.

Add to that the waves of refugees who came over, which would have been fine if they were just passing through, but many of them harbored malicious intent. This winter alone, there had been no fewer than ten attacks on their village.

Although no one died in the village, there were several injured. However, Lou Xiao was admired and feared by the villagers because of his outstanding performance in these conflicts.

Yes, fear. After all, he was tall and strong, usually had a cold and serious face, and had a cold temperament.

When he clashed with outsiders, his strong body, superb martial arts, and ruthless attacks frightened the ignorant villagers.

In fact, Lou Xiao also did it on purpose, to scare these people away if things really got chaotic, so that fewer people would target them. After all, they have a small family and have to be on guard.

With the arrival of spring and the warmer weather, we thought the disaster would ease, but unexpectedly, even more victims arrived. The epidemic was even discovered because some victims starved to death and their bodies were not handled promptly.

The drought itself was severe enough, and adding the pandemic to the mix was suffocating. Thinking back carefully to his previous life, he was giving birth and taking care of the child, and Lou Xiao hadn't told her about anything outside.

Fortunately, the newly appointed emperor was quite decisive and responded quickly. He implemented a series of measures, including isolation, prevention, and treatment, and the epidemic was finally under control by the end of summer.

But things are always like this, good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes singly. I thought the heavy rain in autumn had ended, and the two-year drought had ended.

As a result, a border war broke out. Due to the drought, the soldiers were already hungry, and the other side was also deliberately infiltrating.

This war was undoubtedly lost. Not only was it lost, but it was also a tragic loss, with two cities lost in a row.

At the same time, the Minister of Personnel submitted a memorial to exonerate the former general's office.

When Lan Hanlu heard the news, she knew that the time was approaching. Lou Xiao was silent for two days. Lan Hanlu understood how he felt. Now he was vindicated with just one sentence, but back then, he was the only one left in the general's mansion because of just one sentence.

Lan Hanlu said that it was because they had been brainwashed so severely, generation after generation. If it were Lan Hanlu, if she didn't kill all the emperor's descendants, she wouldn't be a member of the general's mansion.

But Lou Xiao had been taught loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness since childhood; he couldn't possibly rebel against the imperial court. If the General's Mansion truly had such intentions, chaos would have erupted long ago. How could a modern emperor succeed to the throne safely?

Lan Hanlu knew what he would choose, but she didn't try to dissuade him. This was because she had said this to him in their previous life, when they had argued. "Lou Xiao, I feel bad for you leading troops away from home, while I was at home taking care of the children and the general's mansion, collecting food and fodder for you. And yet, you brought back a woman."

What did Lou Xiao say back then? Oh, he said, "My grandfather taught me to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic. Seeing the country on the verge of collapse, how could I remain indifferent? As for Chuxue, I have made it very clear. She will not compete with you for anything. She just needs a place.

She will not shake your position as the mistress of the General's Mansion at all, why are you so petty and intolerant?"

Tsk tsk, what's the point of thinking about this? When I liked him before, these words were like a sharp sword that hurt me, but now that I don't like him anymore, I find him ridiculous.

The drought of the past two years had consumed some of the food stored in the space. But after all, they had a lot of food stored, so the consumption was limited. Knowing what was going to happen next, she reviewed the space again.

While Lou Xiao was away, I made some extra food that could be eaten immediately.