The stick struck four times, and Xiangyun lay in her mother's arms, drinking the freshly heated milk. She watched her mother look toward the door from time to time, and her heart was filled with worry.
Dad has been out all night. I don’t know what the current situation is like. Have the eldest uncle and the second uncle been rescued? My brothers have been suffering these days. When they come back, she will make a dietary prescription to give the family a good supplement. .
Just as I was thinking about it, there was a commotion coming from the direction of the door of the courtyard, and Mrs. Lin outside made a sound first.
"Master Zhu, go and see if the boss and the others are back?"
Mrs. Zheng hurriedly responded, dragging her daughter's buttocks onto her shoulders, and ran all the way to the entrance of the courtyard. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the haggard but intact family at the door.
"Brother, sister-in-law, second brother, come in and have a rest. It's been a hard time for you these past few days. I'll prepare some food for you."
Mrs. Zhang wanted to hug Xiangyun, but when she raised her hand, she saw that her clothes were covered with dust and her palms were thick and heavy with calluses, so she retracted her outstretched hand.
"Sister-in-law, help me hold Ah Bao, and I'll find you some clean clothes to change into." Madam Zheng said as she pushed her daughter into her sister-in-law's arms.
Xiangyun hadn't been hugged by his aunt for a long time. He was babbling and stretched out his little arms to get into Mrs. Zhang's arms. He pressed his mother-in-law's rough cheek with distress, squeezed out a handful of salicylic acid ointment from the space, and shined it on Mrs. Zhang's face. After kissing her twice, I took the opportunity to smear the saliva on her face and hands, hoping that my aunt wouldn't dislike her saliva.
"Our Bao's kisses are magical, and I don't feel tired at all now."
Everyone laughed out loud and rushed to hug Xiangyun, as if the frightening scene in the quarry had never happened before.
Boss Lin checked the weight and said, "Oh, why has our little face lost weight? It's not as heavy as before."
Lin Laosan explained: "The rice soup I have been drinking these days is not nutritious. Fortunately, Mr. Zhu found milk yesterday. Brother, don't worry, the little girl will gain weight."
Lin Silang came forward and said, "Ah Bao's face seems to be more open, and his hair is much thicker. He is getting more and more beautiful."
The young men, who had not seen their sister for a few days, were anxious to see her.
Xiangyun also missed his brothers very much. He felt heartbroken when he saw that the boys had become as thin as skin and bones in just a few days.
"Why don't you come into the house? Come in and let me take a look."
Mrs. Lin's shout came from the house, her voice filled with anxiety.
When everyone stepped into the house and saw my mother, they all felt like they had found an outlet for the suffering they had suffered these days, and their eyes turned red.
"Mom, I thought I would never see you again."
"Mom, thanks to Mr. Xie, we are alive to come back to see you!"
"Nai, Tianfu misses you so much, Tianfu is afraid of the dark..."
"Boy, those people are good and bad. Not only do they curse, but they also beat them, woo woo woo..."
Mrs. Lin was also in tears. Seeing her children and grandchildren suffering, her heart felt like fried oil.
Officials do not treat the common people as human beings, and the laws of the dynasty are in vain. In this cannibalistic world, the common people are not killed by natural disasters, but almost die in the mines.
More and more refugees are gathering at the gate of the city, waiting for Fuhai City to let them into the city. If they knew that after entering the city, they would be sold like animals to do hard labor, I wonder if they would be so angry that they would want to turn around and go back.
Xiangyun looked at the thin cheeks of his family members and the large and small wounds all over their bodies. In just a few days, the previously glowing family had been tortured to a state of disgrace, which showed that the work in the mine was not done by humans at all.
There are powerful enemies outside that have repeatedly disrupted the border, there are officials who are inactive inside, and natural disasters are rampant, and the people are in dire straits. All these signs are signs of the fall of the dynasty.
This world is probably not going to be peaceful anymore. Fuhai City may not be a good place for a family to settle down. I'm afraid this escape will be on the agenda again soon.
The Lin family sat around Mrs. Lin and told how they were sold to the ore field by the city gate guards. Then they came up with ways to leave traces along the way, waiting for Mr. Lin to find the location of the ore. Finally, they took Mr. Xie with them. They took over the private mines and released the people who were illegally enslaved inside.
Just listening to it makes me feel horrified, let alone the Lin family who experienced it firsthand.
Seeing the heavy atmosphere, Lin Laosan joked to lighten the atmosphere.
"I didn't expect that the path-finding method that my father taught us when we were young would come in handy today. It must be my father who is protecting us underground!"
Boss Lin also smiled and said: "You learned the best at that time. If it were me who found the way, everyone would have to stay in the tiger and wolf den for another two days."
Lin Laoer and Lin Silang both laughed out loud.
Tianji and Tianrui were a little absent-minded. They had been looking for Zhao Ruoxia since they entered the house.
"Grandma, where's my mother? Didn't she come back with her third uncle yesterday?"
Mrs. Lin snorted angrily: "Who knows where she went? She disappeared overnight."
Tianji and Tianrui were a little worried. My mother complained yesterday that she felt unwell. When the bad guys came to arrest people to do hard labor, my mother was so sick that she fainted. I don't know if she is feeling better now.
Mrs. Zheng brought water into the house and came over with new clothes for everyone to change into. Then she hurried to the kitchen to prepare some food for the family.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he stepped into the kitchen yard, the roar of the lady holding the spoon was deafening.
"You're such a bastard, you're trying to steal something from me, and you don't even bother to inquire about it. I've been in charge of the stove for more than ten years, who dares to run wild on my territory?"
Zhao Ruoxia screamed when she was whipped with a feather duster. It was as if she had clairvoyant eyes. She was hit specifically on the spot where she had been whipped two days ago. She felt a burning pain in her back. She rolled out of the kitchen and ran into Mrs. Zheng. .
"Brother and sister, please save me quickly. This old woman is so cruel. If she eats a few snacks, she will beat someone to death."
After that, he pulled Ms. Zheng in front of him. If the lady in charge hadn't collected the feather duster quickly, she would have been slapped on her body.
"Only two pieces of snacks? Do you know what kind of cakes they are? Golden crab cakes! Just one piece is worth your annual expenses. I specially prepared it for my master's sister. It is more precious than gold. You are eating chaff. Can your intestines bear the food?"
"I've eaten all the food, what else do you want? You can't spit it out, just wait until I pull it out." Zhao Ruoxia wiped the cake crumbs from the corner of her mouth and said confidently.
The maids who were helping in the kitchen were all shocked by her unreasonable remarks when they heard such dirty words, and they all pointed at the two of them.
"You're a bitch, you're looking for bad luck so early in the morning. Fortunately, I thought the Lin family were good people before."
"For those with dirty hands and feet, we should have less contact with each other in the future. Maybe someone will take advantage of your wallet that day."
Although the Lin family was poor, there had never been anyone who stole anything. At this moment, Zheng wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in, or just pretend that she didn't know Zhao Ruoxia and leave.
However, Zhao Ruoxia held her tight and refused to let go: "Zheng Zhujun, you are mute, but you should speak. Tell them that I am a family member of her master's savior..."
Zheng covered Zhao Ruoxia's mouth. She was so frightened that she felt the urge to strangle someone to death for the first time in her life.
In the past, I only knew that Mrs. Zhao was lazy and lazy, but I didn't expect that she was still a brainless person. She just said this in private, but she dared to say it in front of outsiders. Wouldn't it bring trouble to the Lin family?
Unfortunately, Zhao Ruoxia's words were clearly heard by everyone in the kitchen.
"What a strong tone! Your Lin family's ability to repay favors is even better than your medical skills!"
A young woman wearing a green double-breasted waist-length skirt with a magnolia flower on her head walked in from a distance.
Everyone shouted in unison: "Miss Yunfu."
