Seeing the anxious expression on the other party's face, Jiang Yue really wanted to know the reason, so she reminded her, "Do you know what happened to the Wang family on the right?"
Wu's expression changed, and she clenched the handkerchief with her fingers, "I've heard a little bit about it, but we live too far away, so I don't know how true or false the rumors are."
"The tragedy in their family was caused by relatives coming to stay at the house." Although this is not the root cause, it is indeed the introduction.
Jiang Yue saw that the little girl next door had a special interest in her, so she decided to speak more clearly.
"In times of disaster, how much food is enough to drag down relatives? Besides, the relatives who come to their family are not doing anything, they only suck blood. This is how Wang Madam is dragged into the abyss step by step."
Jiang Yue finally clicked on the mother and daughter, "Sometimes, you have to refuse decisively, otherwise, the word "excessiveness" is not for nothing."
Jiang Nian was a little impatient. He took his mint leaves and still had to say so many words. It was so verbose!
"Go in, it's too hot."
Jiang Yue looked at him with a smile, a lot of sweat dripping from her forehead.
Wu was a little embarrassed, then thanked and apologized.
Jiang Yue shook her head and said no, then closed the door and entered the house.
There were also some vague conversations, "Zai, we can eat pickled vegetable noodles today."
"Is the pickled vegetable noodles delicious?"
"It's just pickled vegetables with noodles. What I cook is delicious..."
Seeing her mother's troubled expression, Fang Lu said, "Mom, we have learned from the past. Sister Jiang's reminder is not unreasonable. Look at how she saw off the guests in the end? That's what we need to learn. If you should refuse, just say no. If you refuse, will your face be used as food? People may not appreciate it if you are soft-hearted."
Mrs. Wu pinched her, "Girl, don't talk nonsense! This is your ancestral home."
"Hiss—" Fang Lu muttered as she dodged her mother's vicious hand, "But they are taking possession of our family's things, and we are our closest blood relatives."
Wu was choked and wanted to refute, but felt that what she said made sense.
Fang Lu is very independent at a young age and can still suppress her mother.
When there are outsiders at home, she doesn’t cook anything eye-catching like steamed buns, but hard multigrain pancakes. And there was only my family of five, so I just said that there was not enough water, so I had to chew hard.
The Wu family, who claimed that they would just live here and not take care of their son-in-law's family, were as dark as the bottom of a pot. They had no water or firewood, and couldn't turn on the fire.
Mrs. Wu was trembling, worried about her father and mother, and couldn't eat the pancakes.
Fang Lu did not persuade her, but said, "Mom, if you can't eat it, just divide the pancake in half and give it to your grandparents. They are old and cannot be hungry."
Mrs. Wu actually took the cake, but she was still in a state of confusion when she came back.
"Mom, what's wrong with you? Did your renter's father and grandmother accept it happily and praise you for your filial piety?"
Mrs. Wu choked up and said, "They, they gave the cake to the grandson, and said that I was unfilial and careless about every bit of water and firewood, and that I had no conscience."
Wu's heart was broken. If they were not kept in mind, whose married mother would still receive relatives from her natal family at such a time? It wasn't the man in her family who was kind-hearted, but now he was being complained about.
Butcher Fang frowned, but didn't say anything. The more he talked about it, the more uncomfortable his wife felt. He broke the bread in his hand into two halves and said, "Eat, and give me half of mine."
Mrs. Wu shook her head, "No, this pancake is so small. How can you eat it?"
Fang Lu took out a pancake from the cabinet and handed it to her, "Mom, don't you know what I mean? When we have spare time, we can help my grandfather's family. But we can't even take care of our own family, and you still want to pull it. What about a big family?”
"You have to understand that you and we are one family. Just like grandma only has her two sons in her heart."
When she gets married, she will most likely become like this. You will have your own new home, and that is your closest family. But she just doesn't want to be a white-eyed wolf.
Butcher Fang didn't expect that the smartest and most thoughtful person in the family was his 12-year-old daughter. He touched her head and found that she had really grown up.
From that day on, Mrs. Wu lived her life with her ears and eyes covered, as if she didn't know what her parents meant by sighing in her ears all day long.
As soon as they start to cry, they cry too, crying that God is blind, crying that their own business is not easy to do, and crying that they cannot get food or water.
The Wu family couple were dumbfounded and couldn't cry anymore. Their daughter was actually a master...
In the evening, the two families had dinner separately as usual.
Butcher Fang looked at his wife and said cautiously, "Ah Zheng and I are going to sign up to guard the city gate."
Wu's face changed drastically, and Fang Lu also held her father's arm tightly.
"Why go there? How dangerous it is!"
"There are not enough guards in the city now, but there are waves of refugees outside the city. If we can't guard the city gate, we can't guard our home either."
He comforted, "You don't have to be afraid. Now that the city has experience in dealing with refugees, there will be no danger. Moreover, when the two of us go to defend the city, we can give them three steamed buns every day. How much food is saved at home!"
Mrs. Wu couldn't refute, and the food at home was not endless.
In this way, Butcher Fang and his eldest son guarded the city gate every day, sometimes day and sometimes night. Occasionally, they would bring back two more steamed buns, which greatly reduced the pressure on the family.
Now that there are no gates in or out of the city, Jiang Yue can only rely on the tightness of the city's guards to judge the situation of the refugees.
"There are more people guarding and patrolling the city." Jiang Nian said after getting off the roof.
Jiang Yue exhaled, the energy in her heart had been building up, and she didn't know when it would be released.
Three days later, at the end of Xu Shi (9 p.m.), when I was drowsy, a half-scream suddenly came from next door. It seemed like he was only halfway through shouting when someone covered his mouth.
Jiang Yue and the two quickly changed their clothes and walked out of the yard.
Jiang Nian climbed up the ladder. When he came down, he looked serious and said, "There were three people next door with knives and tied everyone up in the yard. They should be robbers."
Someone was breaking into and robbing the house at this time?
