Don't panic, the family boss is busy farming

Chapter 29
August has come to the end, autumn is coming, and the night is a bit cold, at night Qiu slept with the child in her arms, and later Wang told her to hold the child and sleep in the bed with Xu Yue and other children.

At this moment, Mrs. Tong has already led her son up, fed him some water, and was putting the things of the Xu family into the shed, when she saw Mrs. Qiu kneeling inside with the child in her arms, she called her .

Qiu Shi didn't answer, just opened his eyes, staring at a certain place in a daze, as if he had been sucked into his soul.

Tong's brows were slightly frowned, with a bad premonition in his heart, he got into the shack and lightly touched Qiu's shoulder.

Only then did Qiu raise her eyelids, and looked at her wearily.

Tong's heart skipped a beat, and she asked her softly, "What's wrong with you? You seem to have lost your soul?"

When Qiu heard her question, his dazed face suddenly collapsed, and he looked at the child in his arms.

Tong Shi followed her gaze, and the child who was just over one year old was very thin and thin, and looked similar to other people's half-year-old dolls, with a big head and a small body.

At this moment, the child's eyes are closed, his face is gray and pale, and he has been dead for a long time.

With trembling hands, Tong sighed at the child's snort, gasped in shock, subconsciously pulled her little man over, and hugged him tightly.

"My Xiaolang is gone." Qiu's words seemed to be stuck in his throat, and it was extremely difficult to speak.

She looked down at the child in her arms, her eyes were full of sadness, but she couldn't even cry.

"It's the first time the child has had such silky porridge since he was born. He ate up the half bowl yesterday. He seems to be very energetic. He still has the energy to play with me for a while before going to bed at night."

Qiu babbled on recalling the child's state yesterday, with a smile on his face.

"It's fine for him to go, but he chose me as his mother in this life so that he didn't have a full meal. I hope that in the next life, you can choose a good family and don't come to me."

Tong didn't know how to comfort her, so she could only listen to her silently.

"Sister-in-law, please don't say it. I want the child to go away. I don't dare to let those beasts know. I'm afraid the child will be killed by them."

Afraid of them, Qiu didn't say anything, and Tong knew about it. Those beasts didn't say anything about food in exchange for children, and they wouldn't let the ones just buried. If they knew, the children would not be able to rest in peace.

Here, Tong and Qiu hid the truth of the child's death, sat in the shack and waited for dark to bury the child, so that he could rest in peace.

And Xu Yue waited for the city gate to open, and the officials brought out the hot porridge, but there was no movement from the city gate for a long time.

The refugees who came earlier confidently reassured the restless crowd behind them, "The prefect is benevolent, he won't ignore us if we say so, don't worry, maybe the official mission was delayed by something, and they will always come later."

The tumultuous crowd fell silent again.

Everyone waited for another hour, and it was almost noon, but there was still no movement at the city gate.

Vaguely, I could also hear a few clashes of cold weapons and people shouting from inside the city.

The refugees in front of the porridge shed became more and more anxious. They didn't know who was leading the charge. They rushed to the city gate and slammed on the gate.

Beating and kicking were not enough, and they picked up hoes, sticks and other objects in an attempt to break into the city.

The heavy wooden door was pushed and pushed by so many people, but it remained motionless.

Xu Yue's family stood at the edge of the crowd, looking at each other, they had no expectations for today's porridge.

If you want porridge to be clothed early, why wait until now?
"Something happened in the city." Xu Da affirmed.

He has good hearing and heard the sound of fighting in the city.

Unexpectedly, the world has become so chaotic, not only the states are fighting each other, but also the counties are fighting each other.

The angry crowd gathered more and more, so Xu Da and Wang simply took the children back to the shack.

I didn't eat all morning, and I was already hungry. Xu Da took out some taro and shared two with each of the two capable boys. Everyone should fill their stomachs first, in case of any accidents.

Another hour later, around three o'clock in the afternoon, the heavy city gate that was knocked open suddenly.

Before the refugees showed joyful smiles, they were trampled under by the rushing horse team.

With a sweep of Tie Ge, the refugees blocked under the city gate fell down one by one as if they had been cut into leeks.

"Officers and soldiers are killing people!!!"

The screams came, and the refugees who were still stuck in the city rolled around and ran around.

The leading black-faced officer shouted directly: "Take all the rebels who are trying to break into the city!"

The group of refugees who knocked on the door were stunned.

Who is the Rebel?

They are obviously good people!

Someone hurriedly knelt down and explained that he was not a traitor, but before he could finish his sentence, his head was chopped off with a knife, and the blood spattered three meters away, scaring everyone dumbfounded.

Xu Yue's family who witnessed this scene in the corner were also dumbfounded. Why are officers and soldiers more terrifying than bandits these days?
They ran all the way, and finally saw a little hope, but now this little hope is also shattered by reality.

I'm afraid there is no time traveler who is more unlucky than their family?

God you have no heart!
Just when Xu Yue's family of five cursed God's heartlessness in their hearts and were about to run away again, the one-sided killing suddenly stopped.

Those who smashed the door most fiercely were pulled out and beheaded for public display.

Immediately, the refugees knelt down on the open space under the city gate, so quiet that there was only the sound of terrified breathing.

It was the same black-faced officer, holding the saber at his waist, and said to the victims in front of him:
"The prefect died of illness, and the affairs of the county are temporarily handled by the prefect. During the mourning period, there is no porridge shed, but you can go to the city to express your condolences!"

After finishing speaking, he pointed to a middle-aged man dressed as a scribe next to him, and told everyone that if you want to enter the city, you can find him.

Then [-] officers and soldiers were left behind, and they left with the rest.

The city gate was wide open, but looking at the officers and soldiers standing at the gate with white knives, no one dared to break through that gate again.

Those who were bolder tremblingly asked the scribe how to enter the city.

The scribe brushed off his wide sleeve robe, sat cross-legged behind the wooden table laid out by the officers and soldiers, and said with a compassionate face:

"One person can enter the city to express his condolences if he pays ten yuan."

Seeing the miserable expressions on everyone's faces, he calculated again: "In normal years, a stone of corn costs 300 qian, this year there have been many wars, many places in our state have experienced severe drought, and grain prices have risen slightly. A shi of corn costs 900 qian, and ten qian is only a catty and a half of corn. "

The word "just" is light and fluffy, but it made the refugees cry in despair.

Let alone a catty and a half of corn, they don't even have a single grain of rice!
In the corner, Mrs. Wang looked at Xu Da, and Xu Da looked at the ten five baht coins sewn into his clothes on his chest. His tanned face was so gloomy that water dripped out.

Obviously, they couldn't enter the city unless they paid a head fee of ten renminbi each.

If you can't enter the city, you won't find work, and if you don't have work, you won't have food, and you will starve to death in the end.

Of course, you can also leave and go to another city.

But getting here is already the limit for the refugees, where else can they go?

For a while, there was a lot of crying under the city gate, it seemed that even God couldn't stand it anymore, and the clear sky gradually turned overcast.

(End of this chapter)