The end of natural disasters: the daily life of child brides in ancient times

We went to Zhuzi's house first. Zhuzi's family was still having dinner. When they saw the two of them coming, Zhuzi's wife greeted them warmly.

"Daya, Xiaolang, you came just in time. Let's eat together. Don't be disgusted."

Seeing this, Lu Qingqing waved her hands and stuffed the silver in her hand to Zhuzi's wife, and signaled Qin Lang to put down the food and firewood.

"Sister-in-law, stop busying yourself. We've already eaten. Grandma asked us to bring this over. I'll put it down for you and then we'll leave."

Zhuzi was still a little stunned when he saw this. Zhuzi's wife reacted and said hurriedly:

"Hey, Daya, what are you doing? Take the things back quickly. We can't take this money. What are you doing?"

As he said this, he wanted to push the silver back.

"We've already distributed a lot of money and food during the day, so we can't ask for anything more from you. Take your things back quickly."

Zhuzi also reacted at this time and hurriedly put the things back on the cart.

"Sister-in-law, this is given to me by grandma. Without your help, my family would be in great trouble last night. Please don't be polite."

"Big Ni and Second Ni are still little. They need to have enough food to grow up. Besides, the weather is unusually cold this year. You can use this firewood first. If you don't have enough, come to my house and get more."

Lu Qingqing looked serious. She was really grateful to Zhuzi and the others for coming to help last night. Otherwise, she and Qin Lang would definitely be injured. Grandma is old, and a bump would be troublesome.

Zhuzi and his wife couldn't resist and accepted the food and firewood.

But he refused to take the silver, saying that he had already acquired half an acre of land, which could not be bought with three taels and five cents of silver at ordinary times, and he was taking advantage of them.

Lu Qingqing had no choice but to give up. She left the medicine behind and instructed the patient to clean the wound on time before continuing to walk towards the village.

We first went to the old village chief's house, and only then did we find out that the house had been cleaned up and County Magistrate Yao and his family had moved in that afternoon.

Lu Tianming's wound is no longer serious, and the medicine sent last time has not been used up.

The two men left their food and money behind and were about to leave, but were also rejected by the old village chief and Lu Tianxin.

After a tug of war, the two sides finally left the two bags of grain and stuffed the silver and money back into Qin Lang's hands.

The old village chief looked at the two people walking away and couldn't help but sigh,

"The children raised by the Qin family's sister-in-law are all good. You should take good care of them from now on. We have already distributed a lot of money and food during the day. Now we have sent this much food. We are taking advantage of them."

What the old village chief didn't say was that his eldest son and his family came back and brought back Yao County Magistrate's family. They lost a lot of food in order to escape.

The old village chief had to give away some of the food, as he had the eldest son's family to feed, so the food was indeed not enough.

Lu Qingqing didn't know what was happening behind her. When she arrived at the village chief's house, it was already dark and the wind started to blow, making it even colder.

The village chief's house was warm. When his wife welcomed the two of them in, the village chief was sitting cross-legged on the kang, smoking his pipe enthusiastically.

He was also surprised to see two people coming.

When he saw the food and money, the village chief refused several times.

The village chief's wife was frightened, fearing that the food and silver that were about to reach her mouth would fly away.

She kept winking at the village chief. The village chief looked at his wife's expression and his face turned red with embarrassment. Fortunately, it was late at night and the light in the room was dim.

After some refusal, he took the things.

After sending the two away, the village chief looked at his wife happily touching the silver and money, and wanted to scold her.

Then he remembered that his two children were about to complain to someone else. His wife carefully calculated the family expenses on weekdays. The family was indeed not rich, so he had to give up.

After returning home, Grandma Qin looked at the returned money and sighed that the old man had made friends with all the kind people.

After her old man passed away, it was not easy for her, an old widow, to raise her little grandson. Zhuzi often came to help with the work, and the old village chief and the village head also helped with village affairs.

When they heard that County Magistrate Yao and his family had already moved there, and it was already late, Grandma Qin asked the two of them to go there again tomorrow to give them some food as a congratulations on their new home.

After breakfast the next day, the two went to the Yao family to deliver food.

Upon hearing that it was a gift to congratulate the couple on moving into a new house, the Yao family accepted it and even gave a box of beautifully packaged snacks as a return gift.

Mrs. Yao was a very good person. She had no intention of looking down on the country folk. She treated the two of them warmly. Seeing that they were about the same age as her own children, she asked them to come and play whenever they were free.

When I returned to the Qin family, Li Chengcai was already clearing the snow outside the yard.

Seeing the two of them, he stepped back in fear. Lu Qingqing took a step forward when she saw him.

"I heard that my sister Erya is often bullied by you at your house? She even doesn't have enough food to eat. Is that true?"

Li Chengcai was so frightened when he saw the evil star approaching. She dared to kill people.

"No...no, I never hit her. I was ignorant before and scolded her a few times, but I will never dare to do it again."

Having said this, seeing that Lu Qingqing was still staring at him, he quickly assured:

"I will never dare to do that again. I will definitely treat that stinky... no, Erya as a good worshipper. I will never bully her, and I will never let my parents bully her either."

Seeing him like this, Lu Qingqing's expression finally calmed down.

"Okay, finish cleaning here, and I'll go back with you to see Arya."

After saying that, he went back to the house without waiting for Li Chengcai's reply.

When Grandma Qin saw the return gift from the Yao family, she opened the snack box. There were all kinds of snacks inside, and they looked very delicious.

I let the two of them pick a few snacks they liked and put the rest away.

When Grandma Qin heard Lu Qingqing say that she wanted to go see Erya, she told her to bring Erya back home for dinner.

Seeing that Li Chengcai's work was almost done, the two went to Li's house.

From a distance, I could hear Chengcai's mother's harsh words coming from inside.

"You little bastard, you can't do much work every day, and you keep complaining about being hungry. Do I owe you something by buying you?"

"I think you are a jinx. My family was fine before Chengcai came, but you got involved in this mess as soon as you came. We have suffered so much loss, all because of your jinx sister."

As I got closer, I heard Chengcai's father growl in the room.

"Alright, stop making such a fuss. The compensation isn't enough!"

Lu Qingqing turned her head and glanced at Li Chengcai beside her, and saw that he was waving his hands repeatedly in fear.

While explaining that it would not happen again, he quickly ran to the yard, shouting,

"Mom, what are you doing!"

Chengcai's mother had just slapped Erya, and when she heard her son running back to question her, she was stunned.

"This little hoof is disobedient, so what if I teach him a lesson? Isn't it always like this?"

When Lu Qingqing ran in, she heard this and looked at Erya who was beaten to the ground. She quickly stepped forward to help her up and looked at Erya whose cheek was swollen from being beaten. She said coldly:

"Auntie, you are so majestic. If you don't know me, you might think you are the county magistrate who solves cases. You can hit me whenever you want!"