After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

An hour later, Wen Fu and several villagers returned without success. Not only did they not find the horses and mules, but they did not even find the pigs and cattle that the Jiang family villagers had put into the forest.

The old man Jiang sighed, but soon he stopped being entangled.

As long as people are there, those things are just belongings outside the body, and they will be bought later when they make money.

It was not until evening that all the people in the cave escaped.

People from Jiangjia Village returned to the village one after another.

When Uncle Jiang knew that his younger brother's family was going back to the village, he sighed and bid farewell to his younger brother with tears in his eyes.

But as soon as he entered the village, he found that the whole village had been burned down, and not a single house was intact.

The villagers sat beside the ruins and wept loudly, and some people actually blamed Jiang Sanlang's family.

"If it weren't for them, how could we have encountered such a disaster."

"That's right! They didn't come, our village is fine, now it's fine, it's all over!"

Jiang Jiu couldn't take it anymore, and said angrily, "Enough! Didn't you go to the next village to see? Or go to a village farther away! Is there any village that has no casualties like ours? If it wasn't for my brother who ran away overnight Come to warn, you have already died in the house! Can you still cry here?"

"Hmph! A bunch of white-eyed wolves!" Uncle Jiang snorted coldly: "My nephew shouldn't have saved you!"

Jiang Dahu sighed, "Okay, okay, don't cry, anyway, people are here, and the family is also there. Hurry up and find a way to build a house. It's going to be freezing, what's the use of complaining here!"

"Build a house? What if the bandits come again?"

"Yeah, wouldn't it be a waste of work if the bandits come?"

Jiang Dahu stared: "Then the bandits won't come if you cry here?"

Uncle Jiang rolled his eyes: "It's up to you to build a house or not. The weather is getting colder and colder. When the time comes, you can dig a hole and live with the blind mouse. It will save the bandits from your work for nothing!"

Villagers:  …

Let's talk about Patriarch Chen and old man Jiang and his party.

Wang Dashan brought a message after returning.

"All the bandits have gone to the county seat!"

Wang Dashan took a sip of the water that Jiang Cheng handed over, and said: "I saw with my own eyes, many people were holding animal tooth flags, and there were mules and horses in carts. There were thousands of people in this vast area."

The old man Jiang frowned: "Going to the county seat? Are they trying to attack the county seat?"

Patriarch Chen also looked serious, "No wonder the villages were mopped up, so they wanted to prepare food and grass before attacking the city."

"This is terrible. My Dalang Erlang and the others haven't come back yet. I don't know if they were taken away by them." The more old Jiang thought about it, the more frightened he became.

Patriarch Chen: "Don't guess anything, let's go back to the village quickly. If Sanlang and the others don't see anyone when they come back, they will definitely go back to the village. We can't stay here for long."

"Okay, let's go back to the village first."

Everyone picked up the saluting bedding and the only remaining food, got up, and followed the old man Jiang's family to Chencun.

Jiangjia Village is twenty miles away from Chen Village, but that is the distance from the official road, if you walk along the trail, it will be more than twenty miles.

It was already dark now, so they only dared to light two torches to light everyone.

No one made noise in the whole team, even Wen Tian didn't say anything, because Mrs. Lin gave a bracelet to a villager and asked him to walk with Wen Tian on his back.

When encountering villages along the way, they bypassed them far away, even extinguished the torches, and everyone just kept their heads buried in the road.

Finally arrived at Chencun in the middle of the night.

From a distance, the village was pitch black, not even a dog barking.

Patriarch Chen approached old man Jiang to discuss, "I can't enter the village right now, I have to ask someone to investigate the situation first."

The old man Jiang nodded, "Okay! Why don't you go to Nanpo first, it's far away from the village, and there is a bamboo forest. If there are no bandits stationed, everyone will stay at my house first."

"Okay, let's do it like this." Patriarch Chen immediately nodded in agreement.

Autumn nights are cold and cold, so sleeping out in the open is not an option. Many people don’t even have bedding. If it’s freezing all night, they won’t get sick. It would be great to have a shelter from the wind and rain.

So Wang Dashan and a villager ran into the darkness, first went to the south slope to see if there were any bandits.

They came back in less than half an hour, and said to the old man Jiang without a word: "It is true that there are no bandits in Nanpo, but your house was burned."

The old man Jiang was taken aback for a moment, and his heart ached to the point of bleeding, "Is it all burned?"

Wang Dashan nodded, "Uncle Jiang's house is alright, only the stove was burned, but the main house was not damaged much."

Chunniang breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that.

The old man Jiang was silent for a moment, and said: "Then let's go to the south slope quickly." It was already late at night, and it would be dawn in one or two hours.

"Okay, let's go quickly." Patriarch Chen took the lead and walked forward, feeling very uncomfortable.

Even the Jiang family's house on the southern slope was burned, so what about their own house?Oh, what a disaster.

The group soon arrived at Nanpo Jiang's house.

Through the moonlight, the big tile-roofed houses that were once neat have been dilapidated.

Only Jiang Sanlang's house is okay. Although the stove was burned, only one corner of the three big tile-roofed houses was destroyed. As long as a few tiles are repaired, there should be no major problems.

Chun Niang was the first to run into the house, and saw that the house was in a mess, with ashes and burn marks on the ground, as well as discarded rags, and the kang in the house was also in a mess, as if many people had slept on it .

All kinds of leftover bones and food scraps were thrown all over the floor, even on the kang.

What distressed Chunniang the most was that all the furniture and other things in the house had disappeared.

However, the floor tile where the silver is buried in the corner of the room has not been touched, which makes Chunniang happy and worried, but she can't dig it out to check at this time.

Find a broom in the yard to clean the earthen kang, spread the quilts brought back on the kang, let the mother-in-law, elder sister-in-law, second sister-in-law and two nieces sleep on the kang first, and I bring my little girl and two sons to the side.

Everything will be discussed tomorrow, and after driving most of the night, they are almost exhausted to the point of collapse.

The other room was also full of women and children. Mrs. Wen took her daughter and nanny to squeeze on the Yingbao Kang with many women.

The men lay the floor in the main room and barely survived until dawn the next day.

At this time the sun was high, Yingbao got up and saw two big iron pots set up in her yard, and two big pots of rice porridge were boiled in the pots.

Grandpa and Patriarch Chen sat under the eaves and listened to Wang Dashan's report on the situation in the village.

"There were no bandits in the village, but many houses were burned."

"Has anyone returned from the village?" Patriarch Chen asked.

Wang Dashan: "Several households have returned and are tidying up the house."

Patriarch Chen stroked his beard and asked again: "My house was also burned?"

"That's not true, but the Third Grandpa's house was burned down several times."

Mrs. Wang Dashan stuck her head out of the window and asked, "Dashan, where is our family?"

Wang Dashan: "It's also burned."

Da Shanniang frowned, but she was not very sad, because her family built a house here on the south slope. Although there was only a frame, the bricks, tiles and wood bought by the family were piled up on the south slope.

Now that the house in the village was burned down, I decided not to go back home. At worst, I would live in a wall frame and cover the roof when my husband came home.

Li Dayong and Li Eryong's family also had the same idea as her, because they also built a house on the south slope, and they had not had time to build a roof.

When the news of the bandits first came out, the blind old father insisted on letting them send him to the south slope, not wanting to burden his children and grandchildren, and then he stayed alone in the wall frame on the south slope, living off the dry food and water left by his son.

Early this morning, Li Dao and Li He went to look for their grandpa by the wall frame of their house. Unexpectedly, the blind grandpa was not killed by the bandits, and he didn't even lack food.

Not only is there no shortage, but there is also a small bag of rice.

According to the blind grandfather, someone gave him a bag of food and told him to live well.