Taking away my family's luck? I won't stand it!

He rushed directly into the temple. When he saw the situation inside, his eyes turned red and tears fell from his eyes.

Yuan Laoer supported Old Man Shen in and looked at the situation inside, feeling upset.

There was only a layer of straw on the open ground, and more than twenty people in thin clothes were huddled together, covered with straw.

The adults' thick clothes were given to the children, but they were still too thin. They were all shivering from the cold, and their faces were blue and purple from the cold.

Adults hugged their children tightly and tried to keep them warm with their body temperature.

A fire was lit in an open space to try to keep out the cold weather.

However, it was of no use. There were broken walls all around, and the cold wind kept blowing, taking away the warmth brought by the fire.

"mother!"

Shen Chulan staggered towards Old Lady Shen.

"Why do I seem to hear Lan'er's voice?" Old Mrs. Shen was drowsy from the cold, and for a moment she couldn't tell whether she was dreaming or in reality. Her lips trembled and she said weakly, "I haven't seen Lan'er for a long time. Lan'er, where are you?

Didn’t you say you were in the south? We’ve been looking for you, but we can’t find you…”

"Mom, I'm here." Shen Chulan threw herself into Old Lady Shen's arms and cried, "Mom, it's me, your Lan'er is here."

Old Mrs. Shen looked at her daughter, whom she had been thinking about all the time, in disbelief, and touched Shen Chulan's face with trembling hands.

It's hot and warm.

Not a dream.

"Mom, it's me, I'm here." Shen Chulan grabbed the old, skinny, and cold hand, her chest feeling stuffy, sore, and uncomfortable.

"It's really Lan'er!"

"I found Lan'er!"

Old Mrs. Shen opened her eyes wide and shouted, waking the others from their sleep.

"Lan'er...where is Lan'er?" Shen Yang sat up from the ground when he heard this.

"Brother, I'm here." Shen Chulan looked at her elder brother who was so thin that only skin and bones were left with tears on her face.

Shen Yang heard the voice and looked in the direction of the voice. He saw Shen Chulan standing in front of him alive, with a smile of joy on his face.

"Sister, we thought you were dead!"

Shen Qian ran to Shen Chulan with a look of joy, "Lan'er, we finally found you!"

"Yeah!" Shen Chulan nodded, her nose felt sore and her chest felt stuffy. She looked at her two brothers in front of her and made a muffled sound in her throat.

His eyes turned to the children sitting on the ground in a daze. They were pale and thin, with chapped skin and dry and pale lips.

I suddenly looked up at the ceiling, and it took me a long time to suppress the urge to cry.

"Husband, please go to the town and rent a few carriages to come here." Shen Chulan looked at Yuan Laoer, whose eyes were also red.

Yuan Lao Er nodded, "Okay."

Shen Chulan helped Old Lady Shen onto the carriage, then carried all the children up and took out a few plates of sweet and crispy snacks from the food compartment for them to eat.

The children were starving and they grabbed the snacks as soon as they saw them and gobbled them up.

"Mom, have a piece of dessert." Shen Chulan took a piece of dessert and put it in Old Lady Shen's hand.

Old Mrs. Shen quickly shook her head, "I'm not hungry, I'm not hungry."

These words made Shen Chulan almost cry out loud. She looked up at the Shen family members who were drooling and swallowing their saliva.

How could I not be hungry?

I just wanted to save some food for the kids.

"Daughter-in-law of the Yuan family, Ye Wan is still...still..." An old lady came to the front of the carriage, hesitant to speak, her hands nervously grasping the corners of her clothes.

Shen Chulan looked carefully and recognized that this was Ye Wan's family.

"Sister-in-law is alive."

Just a few words made the old lady burst into tears on the spot.

“It’s wonderful to be alive, to be alive.

Only then did Shen Chulan notice that in addition to the Shen family, there were also people from her eldest sister-in-law's family in the temple.

But now is not the time to ask questions.

Just at this time, Yuan Laoer came driving a carriage.

There were three carriages in total.

There's still enough space for twenty or so people to squeeze in.

Yuan Laoer specially rented the best carriage, which could hold charcoal under the carriage, so it was warm to sit inside.

The carriage drove into Lihua Village.

The wheels made a rolling sound, attracting the attention of the villagers.

Seeing two carriages following Yuan Laoer, everyone wondered if someone from the Lu Mansion had returned.

At this time, the Yuan family had already prepared the meal and was waiting for Yuan Laoer and Shen Chulan to come back and eat together.

Yaoyao stared at the braised pork and chicken stewed with mushrooms on the table with her round eyes, and a string of crystal clear saliva left the corner of her mouth.

Her pink mouth opened and closed, swallowing saliva continuously, her eyes fixed on the table full of food. No matter how her brothers teased her, she would not turn her head to pay attention to them.

"Strange, why haven't Lao Er and Chu Lan come back yet? They should have come back by this time normally?" Old Mrs. Liu said with a puzzled look on her face, looking outside the gate of Yuan's courtyard from time to time.

Yuan Lao Si smiled and said, "The restaurant's business is good today. I guess my second sister-in-law is still busy in the restaurant."

"You are such a fool! Why don't you stay and help your second sister-in-law run the restaurant? Your sister-in-law has no time to come back for dinner."

When Old Lady Liu heard this, she turned around and glared at Old Fourth Yuan.

Yuan Laosi touched his nose, smiled and said nothing.

He has been almost exhausted these days. This is not how you should live like an ox or a horse.

At the sound of wheels rolling, Old Lady Liu pricked up her ears and said quickly, "Your second brother and his wife are back. Go and serve the rice."

Yaoyao's eyes moved away from the food on the table at this time, and her pair of dark eyes blinked in confusion.

Three carriages.

Could it be that the handsome brother is back?

Thinking of this, Yaoyao excitedly flapped her hands and made excited sounds.

"Yeah!"

The handsome brother is back!

Old Mrs. Liu almost couldn't hold her. Seeing Yaoyao's body leaning towards the courtyard gate, she thought Yaoyao wanted Shen Chulan to hold her, so she hurriedly carried her to the door.

The carriage was at the door of Yuan's house.

"Three carriages?" Old Mrs. Liu was puzzled when she saw three carriages parked at her doorstep.

Yuan Laoer jumped down from the shaft of the carriage, lifted the curtain of the carriage, revealing the person sitting inside.

"Mother-in-law?" Old Mrs. Liu looked at Old Mrs. Shen in surprise.

Seeing that everyone in the carriage was dressed in rags, Old Lady Liu felt a pang of sadness.

What a suffering this must have been!

"Mom!" Ye Wan rushed to the carriage behind.

Old Mrs. Liu looked back and tears came to her eyes.

awful.

That's horrible!

"Old Third, hurry up and go to the kitchen to boil some water. Old man, you hold Yaoyao while I make something to eat."

"Old Four, go get some clothes and blankets from home and put them on, and put some braziers on to warm them up."

Old Mrs. Liu reacted and quickly told them to work.

Yuan Lao San and Yuan Lao Si felt very uncomfortable when they saw the miserable state of the Shen and Ye families, so they turned around and went into the yard.

An hour later, everyone had taken a bath, put on clean clothes, and was roasting by the warm charcoal.

The Shen family and the Ye family take care of the Yuan family's house.

The more I take care of it, the more frightened I become.

This house is great, with a floor paved with blue bricks, tiles and bluestones. It's so grand.

"It's time to eat. You must be starving. Come and have some porridge." Old Mrs. Liu came up with a big bowl of minced meat porridge.

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