After transmigrating into a stepmother, I transformed my whole family to work on farming

Chapter 54
Qin Yao was given a bag of fine yellow-orange millet, weighing fifty kilograms, which was only half a tael of silver.

The eyes of Liu Ji and his son were all bright. Qin Yao handed over the rice, and Liu Ji immediately reached out and took it, not forgetting to praise her: "Madam, how can you do this if there is no one with a kind heart in this family?"

Qin Yao rolled her eyes and didn't bother to give him a look. She motioned for the four younger ones to follow and left.

Liu Bai and Liu Fei each carried a sack of rice weighing fifty kilograms, a total of one hundred kilograms. Most of them were left after the husks were removed, which made others envious to death.

The two brothers chased after them, but they couldn't walk fast carrying the food, so they could only shout: "Brother and sister, wait!"

The two families are on the same road, walking together has a companion.

Qin Yao stopped, and Liu Ji also stopped. He heard that today the eldest brother and Liu Fei, the younger brother, also used weapons to fight off the horse thieves. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, looked at the two of them curiously, and joked:
"I didn't expect you to be so heroic, brother. I used to think that my second brother was a bit arrogant, but I didn't expect him to be so bad today."

Liu Bai knew what his temper was and didn't argue with him.

Liu Fei didn't tolerate him, and sneered: "If it weren't for my third sister-in-law, you, Liu Laosan, would have been so scared that you wet your pants! You have the nerve to criticize my second brother, how shameless?"

"Your second brother is not my second brother? We are a family, look at this kid, he is still talking about two families." Liu Ji smiled at Qin Yao, looking like we are not as familiar as a little kid.

As he said that, he leaned closer to Liu Fei, touched the grain bag on his shoulder, and found that it was rice, which made him even more embarrassing.

He patted himself on the shoulder, "Millet, yellow and orange, shelled."

Liu Fei couldn't stand his teasing and looked at his elder brother angrily, "Brother, you don't care about this person!"

"Okay!" Liu Bai was also annoyed, "Shut up!"

Only then did Liu Ji take two quick steps to stay away from Liu Fei.

Qin Yao asked: "Have you found all the food that was robbed at home?"

Liu Bai hummed, "We have found them all, except for one of the four hens. I don't know if it was taken away by horse thieves or if it was picked up and killed."

"My mother said the three remaining hens were frightened and worried that they wouldn't be able to lay eggs."

"Oh, by the way, my father and mother asked me to tell you that when we come home for dinner tomorrow morning, my mother will kill a chicken and eat it."

It was said that it was to fight poison with poison, and if the remaining two hens were frightened, they might lay eggs.

Qin Yao agreed.

When they reached the door of the old house, Qin Yao's family stopped going in and went straight home.

The red lanterns should have been hanging cheerfully under the eaves, but now they were illuminated by Qin Yaoti in her hands.

Looking at it from a distance, a little red light is floating in the darkness, which is a bit gloomy.

Four children walked hand in hand between their parents. The family of six stepped through the wet snow in front of the door and finally returned home.

Liu Ji moved the rice to the storage room next to the stove and put it away. His body instinctively started working in the kitchen, lighting a fire and boiling a large pot of hot water.

The whole family gathered around the stove, drank hot water, warmed up, and went back to their houses to rest.

This day was so exhausting that everyone couldn't take it anymore and fell asleep.

In the early morning, before dawn, a large group of officers and soldiers in official uniforms rode high horses and held torches. They entered the valley and formed a long torch dragon on the winding path.

Qin Yao was awakened by the sound of horseshoes at the beginning, and then heard something from the ancestral hall, guessing that the officers and soldiers had arrived, and continued to meet Zhou Gong.

When she woke up, the officials had already left, leaving only two minor officials at the ancestral hall to understand what was going on with the villagers.

Liu Ji woke up the four children, put on warm cotton clothes, washed quickly, and urged Qin Yao to go out.

He was eager to join in the fun, and he was also eager to go to the old house to drink chicken soup.

The five father and son ran wildly on the road that turned from snow to ice. Qin Yao watched them fall one after another with his own eyes, and his heart did not fluctuate, and he even wanted to laugh.

Erlang blamed Sanlang, and Sanlang weakly said that he was the eldest brother. Dalang glared at his biological father angrily, and he was the culprit.

Si Niang shouted: "I won't play with you anymore!"

She got up and patted her butt. She stood there aggrievedly and waited for Qin Yao to come over. She followed A Niang.

The horses and corpses left by the horse bandits have all been brought back by the officials.

When they came to the ancestral hall, Qin Yao and others knew that the horse bandits had looted a nearby village called Wangjiaao earlier before they came to Liujia Village.

The population of the village over there was similar to that of Liujia Village, but because there was no leader like Qin Yao, they were unable to resist. Food, livestock, money, women and children were all robbed.

When the horse bandits left, they set a fire and burned down Wang Jia'ao's ancestral hall.

Such evil deeds are truly horrifying to hear.

What is even more frightening is still to come. The horse bandits who came to Liujia Village yesterday were just a small detachment.

This group of horse bandits has hundreds of people and is a robbery gang with certain organizational capabilities.

The main team went back to the cottage to celebrate after they finished robbing Wang Jia'ao, leaving behind the small team that came to Liu's Village yesterday to continue searching the surrounding villages.

Hearing this information, Liu Ji rolled down in a cold sweat.

Everyone was fortunate that it was only a small team that came yesterday, otherwise the Wangjiaao tragedy would have happened in Liujiacun.

However, the two remaining officers also said that the county magistrate and county magistrate received a report last night, and they immediately sent people to issue notices to nearby villages and towns in Kaiyang County to remind people to pay attention.

At the same time, I have asked the magistrate for instructions, and asked the barracks stationed near the government office to immediately rectify the troops and come to suppress the bandits.

It sounds reassuring, at least the government is still in charge.

No matter what, this is no longer a group of criminals committing crimes alone, but a den of gangsters in groups, with a very different nature.

Sheng Guo had just established a new dynasty, and it was the time when the imperial power was most concentrated. If the imperial court knew that the various governments could not even deal with a gang of horse bandits, and the emperor was angry, it would be a big trouble.

After finishing their official duties in the ancestral hall, the two guards at the end only wanted two white flour steamed buns from the village head's wife, and resolutely refused Liu Dafu to stay for lunch.

Before leaving, the two of them glanced at Qin Yao and seemed to feel that she was not tall enough either. They nodded to her, got on their horses neatly, shouted "Drive!" and rode away.

"It's all right, let's go, the snow will melt soon, and I'm still busy with spring plowing."

The village chief walked to the entrance of the ancestral hall, waved his hand, and signaled everyone to go to their homes.

Speaking of spring plowing, Qin Yao was shocked.

Thinking of the two acres of wheat fields in unknown condition, even the fragrant chicken soup that Zhang had cooked all morning felt bland.

Seeing that she didn't move, Liu Ji, who had already finished his bowl, came over shamelessly and asked if he wanted to help her drink, he didn't dislike it.

Qin Yao shouted coldly: "Get out!"

Liu Ji: "Okay~"

In the next month or so, the officers and soldiers came two or three times, and each time they came, they were nothing more than asking about the number of horse bandits, what they looked like, and where they could be seen.

The village chief answered seriously every time, and also showed up from time to time due to official duties. The villagers gradually let go of their nervousness and concentrated on a new round of farming.

(End of this chapter)