This night was probably the most generous time Wu had ever cooked and put rice.
The white rice was piled high in the bowl, and the white flour steamed buns were made into a large basket.
He also specially cooked a small pot of meat porridge and left half a bowl for his grandson Doudou. The rest was taken to the woodshed and fed to the old couple who were in a daze due to illness.
Cooking with wet firewood filled the yard with choking smoke. A large group of people ate the rice and steamed buns in the smoke, which tasted like delicacies from mountains and seas.
The villagers living nearby smelled the smell and listened to the movement, and sometimes came over to inquire about it. When they saw the horses and well-dressed people in the yard, they left without daring to go inside.
Tianbao and his party did not take this matter to heart.
Although the people have been affected by the disaster, they are not at the end of their rope yet and cannot do such things as robbery and killing for the time being.
Once the government's disaster relief order comes down, the situation will begin to gradually improve.
At most, someone saw that the He family had food and shamelessly came to beat the autumn wind.
But in the hands of the He family's sister-in-law, those people couldn't dig out anything.
After dinner, Su Wen and Su Wu stayed at He's house for one night.
Tianbao kept the medicine to treat the old couple of the He family and took the others back to the Liu family.
In the middle of Xu hour, the night is dark.
A waning moon hangs in the sky, and the moonlight falls on the water, reflecting the dim light.
It was a cool night in late September. Everyone was riding on horseback and driving by the moonlight. The speed was neither fast nor slow. The sound of horse hooves was extremely clear in the quiet night.
"Uncle, just hold on tight to me. You won't fall. Just relax." Su An smiled at the stiff man behind him while riding his horse.
"Don't dare to let go, don't dare to let go," Uncle Liu is still stiff and upright, "Uncle has lived for more than forty years and has never even ridden in an ox cart, let alone rode a horse. If you hadn't led me, I wouldn't have even ridden a horse. I can’t even climb up.”
On the back of another horse, the little old man said carelessly, "If you are really scared, the old man will teach you a trick. Just don't ride a horse, just climb on Xiao Anzi's back and let him carry him! The old man has experience! I also get motion sickness in a carriage. , and then I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I thought of a trick, I grabbed a boy and sat on the roof of the carriage, and I lay on his back, which can blow the wind and be stable at the same time. Hey! The old man really doesn’t get carsick on the roof of the carriage!”
The old man's words caused a lot of sullen laughter, as well as screams of distress from the young people. I guess all of them had been caught and used as young men.
Listening to the pleasant laughter around him and looking at the strange-looking children, Uncle Liu started to laugh.
The farewell scene seemed like it happened yesterday. At that time, Xiao An was still a child less than five years old, and Tian Bao was just one month old and still sleeping in his swaddling clothes, with a small face that was not half as big as his hand.
Goodbye today, several of the children have grown up, Xiao An is half a head taller than him, and the infant baby has become the senior sister in the sect, and the people around him are not ordinary people.
All have great potential.
Yuelan and Dajiang seemed to be living a good life in the exile, so their family felt relieved.
Returning to Liujia Village, you can see bright lights in the yards of people's houses on the slope in the middle of the village from a distance.
When we arrived at the Liu Family Courtyard, it was full of people who were looking forward to it.
The eldest uncle and second uncle of the Liu family, who had not been seen before during the day, were all present in the two rooms. When they heard the noise, a group of about ten people came out of the door to greet them.
A dining table was set up in the main room. The table was full of untouched food, and there was no steam coming out.
Greeting each other.
Start the meal.
The scene brings laughter and tears.
When I finally got some rest, the moon was already at its peak.
"Sister, aren't you sleepy?" Tianbao tilted his head and met a pair of confused eyes.
She slept in the same room as Wheat Sui and Bing'er tonight. Wheat Sui was already snoring lightly and was exhausted.
Tianbao rubbed Bing'er's head, "Why aren't you asleep yet?"
"Sister is not asleep. Are you homesick?" Bing'er squeezed her head onto her sister's pillow, her little mouth curled up, and she liked the feeling of whispering to her sister like this.
"Well, I miss home." Tianbao admitted.
Looking at the cold and untouched food on the table, and the family members who were still waiting for them to come back to eat together even though they were very hungry, Tianbao suddenly missed his grandparents very much.
I don’t know why, I just thought.
Every time I come home from abroad, no matter how late I get home, my grandparents will always get up and light a fire to cook them a hot meal.
The more delicious she and her brothers eat, the more contented her grandparents are with their smiles.
For the Su family, the hard days are over, and now they are good days.
But outside the penal colonies, in many, many places, people's lives may not be as stable as those in the penal colonies.
If my mother-in-law knew that her grandparents were still living so hard, she would feel guilty and blame herself.
Tianbao closed his eyes, then closed Bing'er's big blinking eyes, "Go to sleep, we will go to Dahuai Village tomorrow."
"Okay, sister, please put it away first and don't lose it."
"Well, sleep."
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Dahuai Village.
The big banyan tree at the entrance of the village has a wider crown than it did more than a decade ago, with long, full-year-old whiskers hanging from its branches, and its leaves are dark green and lush.
This is probably the only thing in Dahuai Village that has not been affected by the flood.
Standing at the entrance of the village and looking in, there are only about a hundred households in the entire village, and it is devastated at first glance.
Due to the terrain, not only the rice fields on both sides of the road, but also the road into the village were flooded.
The foundations of all the houses are almost invisible, as if they were growing in the water.
Faint cries and sobs gathered from different directions, and finally reached the ears of those with good hearing.
Su An stood at the entrance of the village with a sigh of relief and let out a lion's roar, "Get the food! Come to the village entrance and give each household a bag of rice and noodles!"
Thanks to more than ten years of practice, after repeating it several times, there was movement in the lifeless village, and the sound of someone running into the water became louder.
Soon, figures rushed out from various courtyards one after another, their clothes were ragged, their eyes were red, and they were in disbelief.
The first people who rushed to the village entrance still couldn't believe it when they saw a cart of grain bags under the banyan tree at the entrance of the village. They asked the people beside the cart in a trembling voice, "Can you really receive grain? Are you a government official? Come, come and give it." Are we distributing relief food?"
There were five carriages under the banyan tree, with two bags piled as high as a hill.
Standing next to the car were several young men in their twenties and several teenage girls. They were all good-looking and well-dressed.
Make people afraid to offend easily.
Su An pulled a bag of rice noodles directly from the car and put it into the hands of the first person to arrive. With a bright face and a gentle voice, he said, "If the grain is really released, as long as it is from Dahuai Village, every household will have a share!"
Those who came from behind saw with their own eyes that the villagers had indeed received the food. All doubts and fears disappeared and were replaced by extreme joy.
After the disaster in the village, everyone was struggling desperately while waiting for rescue. Every day was suffering, not knowing whether the court would rescue them or not care about them at all.
The lives of ordinary people are worthless in the eyes of the powerful.
Now that I can actually receive food, my desire to live outweighs everything else, so who can care about anything else.
