Thanks for the invitation: In ancient times, people shared children

Pei Xiaohai had almost finished what he wanted to do and no longer tried to get close to the children in the village.

She became friends with Waiya, probably because they were both weird.

Their hair was oddly short, and many children in the village kept their distance from them, and…they all disliked their families.

Little Pei wanted to stay away from the Liu family.

Waiya said, "I'm going to kill that old guy sooner or later."

She really hated her father, and her emotions were even more intense than Pei Xiaohai's.

"Then when you're done killing them, I'll help you bury them so no one else knows."

The friend just had a desire to kill her father. Pei Xiaohai expressed his understanding and support, saying that she was not a good person anyway.

"Actually, there's a better way," Waiya had some other ideas and said stealthily, "Kid, can you really see ghosts and monsters?"

The two of them have known each other for almost half a month, but this is the first time Waiya has asked about this.

Pei Xiaohai shook his head: "I can't see it, that's just nonsense, why are you asking this?"

Waiya drooped her shoulders regretfully. "That's a pity. If you could see, you could help me find some powerful ghosts and monsters. I want them to help me deal with that old thing. I've been to the haunted Yu family before. Those ghosts ignored people and looked stupid and clumsy, but they weren't very powerful."

Pei Xiaohai stared at her in amazement: "You...you are so brave, that place must be haunted..."

"What's the big deal? As long as I can kill him, I'm willing to do anything."

Waiya was talking seriously while plucking a few straws. Suddenly, she seemed to touch something. She quickly got up, squinted her eyes, and fished out half an ear of wheat from the straw beneath her.

"Look! I told you that your harvest wasn't thorough at all, and the wheat wasn't even threshed cleanly."

The gloomy expression on her face disappeared and she smiled brightly.

"Really?" Pei Xiaohai said cautiously, "You can't dig up the haystack to look for it, or we'll be in trouble!"

"I know, I won't do anything that would get me beaten." Waiya stuffed the wheat ears into her pocket and said lazily while leaning against the haystack behind her.

If Pei Xiaohai had not seen how frantically she searched inch by inch in the soil, she would have believed her.

This morning Pei Zhu asked her to drive all the chickens, ducks and geese to the fields, so Waiya could no longer continue to pick up wheat grains. This was an established rule.

"Have you saved enough food for the winter?"

"No."

"What should I do?"

"Who knows?" Waiya's eyes flashed with anger again. "If that old man hadn't stolen the chicken, I wouldn't have to worry."

There is no truth in this.

"You said it was a rooster, but it can't lay eggs. If you keep it, you'll have to find something to feed it..."

"Who knows? Maybe I'm seeing things!" Waiya licked her lips and interrupted Pei Xiaohai, saying, "At worst, we can have some meat."

Pei Xiaohai: "That's true."

"That's right," Waiya got Pei Xiaohai's approval and became even angrier. "If I can just have a good meal of meat, I wouldn't be happy not to eat for half a month. It's all that old man's fault, and that family's. There's no family name written on the chicken, so how did they know it was theirs?

If I hadn't been defeated, I would never have let them take the grain. It was so high and so much, more than half a bag! I spent a long time collecting wheat ears to save up!

I even had a fight with Maotou and the others. I just accidentally picked it up in their fields, but they were too busy playing to pick it up. So what's wrong with letting me pick it up? It would save them the trouble!

If they are unhappy, I will just leave. Why are you pulling my hair and calling me a bastard..."

If Waiya pours out her bitter words, they could drown a person. She talks endlessly and there is no end to it. Pei Xiaohai can't help but get distracted after listening to her for so long. He looks at the chickens in the field with his chin lowered, then looks into the distance.

It was noon and smoke was rising from a few houses, but most people still didn't eat lunch.

They sit at the door in groups of three or four, chatting for a while, and then go back to their own things to rest.

The more diligent ones were also working at this time, braiding garlic, cutting vegetables to dry, or stringing mushrooms into strings, weaving straw mats. In short, there was always work to do.

It's strange that after a busy year, everyone works so hard, but as long as they can have a few full and good meals, they feel that it's all worth it.

Don’t they feel anything?

When Pei Xiaohai thought about having to stay in such a place for the rest of his life, he couldn't stand it and wanted to escape back to the mountains.

A group of people appeared on the road leading to the village entrance.

Holding green flags and blue umbrellas, copper sticks and leather spears, and a mahogany sign with the word "Silence" written on it, they rang gongs to clear the way and blew copper horns.

The yamen runners in dark blue robes lined up in two rows, surrounded by a two-person official sedan chair in front and behind, and walked towards the village.

Someone was shouting something.

This was the first time Pei Xiao had ever seen such a scene. She covered Waiya's chattering mouth with her hand and whispered in her ear, "Stop talking! Listen! The county magistrate is here."

Waiya:!

The two children poked their heads out and stretched their necks to look at the road.

"Really? Why is he here?" Waiya wondered, "Did he find out about the meat incident and come to settle the score with us?"

Can?

The dragon meat incident happened last year. How could he know about it if no one mentioned it?

"We'll know when we go and take a look," Pei Xiaohai said hurriedly, noticing that more villagers were already gathering to watch. "Wait a moment, I'll drive the chickens, ducks, and geese back, and then we can go and see."

"Okay, I'll help you!" Waiya stuffed the shriveled pocket into her arms.

The two children ran into the field hand in hand, driving back these little creatures who were becoming more and more disobedient.

These chickens, ducks and geese were quite nice to Pei Xiaohai. They gave her face and did not chase her and peck at her. Instead, they gathered together slowly and walked home.

"I'm waiting for you here, please hurry up."

Waiya stopped at the door and didn't go in. She just stood on tiptoe and gave earnest instructions.

Pei Xiaohai waved his hand: "I'll be there soon!"

As he spoke, he grabbed a slow-moving goose, pinched its neck and dragged it in. Suddenly they walked much faster, as if the King of Hell was chasing them.

Cuimei's eyes widened: "Miss, please stop pulling it like that, or its neck will be broken."

After saying this, he felt something was wrong: "Why did you bring them back so early? Are they full?"

"I don't know," said Pei Xiaohai, "Let's eat later. The county magistrate is here, and I want to watch the fun."

"The county magistrate is here?!" Cuimei was also a little surprised and hurried into the house.

Liu Renben hasn't come back yet, she went to tell Pei Zhu.

In their place, they rarely see the county magistrate. At most, if there is something, an officer will come and tell them.

Once they arrived, they had to eat and drink a lot, and they had to pay for some tea and drinks before they would leave. No one dared to offend them, so each family chipped in some money and sent them away. The Liu family was the rich family in the village, so they had to bear more.

But they didn't know what the rules were when the county magistrate came.

Little Pei had no idea about all this. He drove the chickens, ducks and geese back and ran away with Waiya, squeezing in the crowd to watch the fun.