Poor family farming: the sick and weak scholar's wife is very sturdy

Chapter 23 On Fire
The fun was over, the candy was eaten, and the villagers went home to work.

When the village head was about to leave, Lin Xiao stopped him:
"The village chief stays for a while, if you don't mind, I implore you to have lunch together?"

In the Great Xia Dynasty, many people only ate two meals a day.

If you get up in the morning and eat breakfast, then you don't eat lunch, and you don't eat the second meal until the evening, and you go to bed directly after eating.

If you don't eat breakfast in the morning, then you will have lunch at noon, and then dinner in the evening, and work together!
In Lijia Village, everyone basically eats two meals in the morning and evening, and does not eat at noon.

It's not that I'm not hungry, but I'm really poor!

The village chief hesitated for a moment, then said with a smile: "Being respectful is worse than obeying orders. I also rely on my old sister-in-law's blessing!"

Lunch is fragrant rice, fried wild boar with wild vegetables and fish soup.

Not to mention Li's mother and others, even the village chief has never eaten such sweet and delicious rice, and with the blessing of salt brought by Lin Xiao, the taste of the dish is also extremely delicious.

Therefore, everyone ate happily, and their happiness soared.

After the meal, Lin Xiao asked the village head to be a witness.

If Mother Li was still alive, she would ask Li Yuyan to come over every once in a while to deliver necessities such as rice, salt and sugar.

If Li's mother passed away, she would immediately stop offering these things.

How can Liu Ruyan, who has eaten delicate meals, be willing to eat bran swallowed vegetables again?

She repeatedly promised that she would take good care of Li's mother in the future and worship Li's mother as a bodhisattva.

On the way back, everyone who saw Li Yuyan sent them off with smiles on their faces.

Thinking about the face he avoided when he came here just now, Li Yuyan smiled wryly and shook his head.

He admired Lin Xiao even more.

It was obvious that he was asking the village chief for dinner, but in fact, he was asking for help but kept his face, and instead let the person being asked offer to help.

Furthermore, the most respectable person in the village will be the witness, and Liu Ruyan and his wife will not dare to make things difficult for Mother Li again.

The method is really clever!

"Thank you for today's matter. In fact, you really don't need to do this. They...they didn't treat me that well."

Li Yuyan thought about it, but decided to tell Lin Xiao the truth, he was afraid that Lin Xiao would respect Li's mother and the others because of him in the future.

He is not some kind of saint, and he will never do anything that repays evil with kindness.

"Don't worry, I will only do some superficial efforts, at least they raised you, we have to pay back this favor, don't we?"

How could Lin Xiao, who is like a mirror, not know what life Li Yuyan lived in Lijiacun.

Liu Ruyan's ability to insult Li Yuyan (Li Yuyan) so unscrupulously and even openly attack Li Yuyan is obviously due to the support of Li Yugua, a half-hearted bastard, behind her.

He is not big or small to Li's mother, which shows how mean he was to Li Yuyan (Li Yuyan), who was not yet married!

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao felt sorry for Li Yuyan, she said seriously:

"It doesn't matter if we don't go back to that natal family in the future! It's okay to send the things to anyone. In short, you can't go back and be wronged!"

Lin Xiaonuan's words went straight to the softest part of Li Yuyan's heart.

He suddenly felt his nose sore, and turned his head with a soft "um", so that Lin Xiao could not see the crystal clear teardrops in his eyes.

Without the gift for Mother Li, the two walked at a much faster pace.

In less than half an hour, the two of them had already returned to Lin Family Village.

As soon as I entered the village, I saw Aunt Wu standing anxiously at the entrance of the village and kept looking outside the village, as if she was waiting for someone.

Seeing Lin Xiao, Aunt Wu's eyes lit up, and she hurried forward:

"It's not good, it's not good, Xiao Linzi, go back and have a look, your house is flooded!"

To run out of water means to catch fire.

When Li Yuyan heard that there was water in his house, he immediately ran back, and Lin Xiao followed closely behind.

The courtyard had been burnt to pitch blackness, and the three large bays were even more ablaze.

The villagers who came to fight the fire stood not far away holding wooden tubs and barrels, their faces full of helplessness.

The black charcoal on their faces and their muddy shoes showed that they had tried their best.

"Xiao Linzi, you guys are back!"

Lin Xiaowu greeted him and said:

"Don't worry, you two, I have already asked my wife to go to my house to clean up the empty room and come out. You two can stay at my house for a while!"

How could the water go out when it was so good?

And when I went to Lijia Village today, I could tell from Mother Li's expression that she obviously didn't expect to see Li Yuyan (Li Yuyan) again.

So who exactly said that Li's mother was dying of illness and wanted to see her daughter again for the last time?
The person who let it go was obviously trying to distract the two of them so that he could enter her house, so as to achieve his ulterior purpose!

And this ulterior purpose must be related to wealth!

Lin Xiao made a lot of money by hacking and killing giant pythons and making salt.

In this feudal society where there is not enough food and clothing, it is obvious that there are not a few people who are jealous.

Since that person has already done the robbery and arson, then use this opportunity to draw out this scourge and uproot it!
Ever since, Lin Xiao pretended to be anxious and wanted to rush into the fire, but fortunately, Li Yuyan hugged him lazily.

She waved her helpless hands and cried like Liu Ruyan:
"My money~~ My hard-earned money~~ My life-earned money~~"

This cry made everyone present not moved.

They all saw the money Lin Xiao made, it was indeed hard money, and they even gave them a piece of the pie.

"Xiao Linzi, don't be afraid, silver is not afraid of fire, wait for the fire to go out before getting the silver, the silver will definitely be there."

A village woman comforted her.

"Yes, it is said that real gold is not afraid of fire, and silver is certainly not afraid of fire, so don't worry!"

"Yes, after the fire is out, my aunt will help you find it."

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Other village women also comforted each other.

Firstly, they felt sorry for Lin Xiao, and secondly, they were afraid that Lin Xiao would never recover from a setback. Then where would they go to "get money for nothing"?
"Aunts, do you really think this fire was an accident?"

Lin Xiao pretended to be both sad and angry.

"Master, do you mean that someone set the fire on purpose?"

Li Yuyan naturally knew that the fire must be man-made, but he still pretended not to know anything and deliberately sang with Lin Xiaoyi.

"Let's not say that we have extinguished all the sparks before we went out, but just talk about the intensity of the fire. How could it be that the fire in the back room is stronger than the fire in the kitchen?"

The villagers couldn't stop nodding when they heard the words.

"Yeah, I was the first to notice the fire. It is true that the fire in the back room is stronger than other places."

said a villager.

Lin Xiao nodded and continued:

"Why is the fire in the inner room stronger than other rooms?"

"Obviously the person who set the fire went to the back room to steal the money first, and then set the fire. The purpose was to destroy the corpse!"

"And I dare to guess that the person who set the fire must be an acquaintance. Otherwise, how would he know that I put the silver in the back room instead of the kitchen or the study?"

　Don't pick up the red envelopes on the roadside!
　　This is what I heard from a teacher.

　　It is said that a man was walking by the side of the road and saw a hundred-yuan bill with a red string and a piece of red paper tied around the bill.

　　He picked up the hundred-dollar bill for cheap.

　　Open the red paper and look, it says "Lend you five years of great luck".

　　The man didn't care, thought it was nonsense, so he threw the red paper away, and took the money to eat a good meal.

　　The next day, he started to feel something was wrong...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)