Chapter 279
"Dong dong dong~!"

Li Xiuyuan took a few guards and knocked on the courtyard door of a family in this village.

The one who opened the door was an old woman with white hair on the sideburns, wrinkled face, and a sad face. When the old woman saw Li Xiuyuan and others, there was a bit of surprise in her eyes.

"We are travelers passing by. We passed by your village today and saw that it was getting late. We wanted to stay overnight. I don't know if this mother-in-law is inconvenient." Li Xiuyuan saluted and said politely.

The old woman recognized Li Xiuyuan's gentle appearance, and guessed that he might be a scholar, she said with a helpless smile: "It's convenient, it's convenient, as long as a few of you don't dislike the shabby house."

"I am grateful to have a place to live, how dare I think it is simple." Li Xiuyuan said.

The old woman smiled embarrassedly, and just invited a few people in, and then said: "There is a side room over there, although no one has lived in it for a long time, but it just so happens that I cleaned it up a while ago, if the guests don't mind, they can live there Bar."

She pointed to a simple side room.

"The well water and the wooden basin are over there. The guests can use them as they please. It's just that the rice has been out recently at home. I'm afraid I can't entertain the guests. Please forgive me."

When Li Xiuyuan saw the old woman's shabby appearance, he knew that this was a poor family, but the surrounding yard was kept clean, and it could be seen that the old woman was a very hardworking person, such a diligent person. The old woman's family is so poor, she must have encountered something to make her fall to this point.

"Please don't worry, mother-in-law. We will take care of the food and drink, and we will never cause trouble for mother-in-law." He said hastily.

The old woman smiled a little ashamedly, said a few more words, then turned and went back to the room.

Li Xiuyuanda: "Ma Dong, go to a richer family nearby and buy a stone of rice. We bought a lot of wild game when we came here, and we will cook it later."

Ma Dong said: "Young master, do you want to buy so much for a stone?"

"If you can't finish eating, leave it to this mother-in-law. It's the cost of staying overnight. This family seems to be quite poor. Let's help out." Li Xiuyuan said.

"Yes, Eldest Young Master." Ma Dong clapped his hands in response, and strode away.

For an ordinary family, a stone of rice is enough for a long time.

The few people quickly borrowed the fire to cook, and after a while, the aroma of rice and meat permeated the air.

"Smell, it's really fragrant. This wild game tastes good when cooked. There is nothing bad on the mountain, but this one is good. I can never get tired of eating it on Wangchuan Mountain."

Intoxicated, Wu Fei greedily sucked a few mouthfuls of the meat in the cauldron.

"Don't worry about eating by yourself, just add a bowl of rice and a bowl of meat, and send it to the mother-in-law. She hasn't eaten yet. Add some, and take a bigger bowl,"

Li Xiuyuan said: "Forget it, don't go, your ugly face will scare others, Niu Er, you have a simple and honest appearance, you can go."

"Okay, young master, let's go now, little one"

Niu Er responded, and sent a large bowl of rice and meat to the house.

After eating and drinking enough, the group fell asleep in the side room.

Li Xiuyuan didn't sleep, he sat alone on the couch facing the moonlight outside the window and closed his eyes to meditate to recover his energy.

But not long after nightfall, the door was kicked open with a loud bang, and a loafer walked in cursing.

"Yes, is the stone back?"

Hearing the noise in the yard, the old woman in the day hurriedly opened the door and shouted to the outside.

"Nonsense, of course I'm back, dead old woman, she's almost starving, do you have anything to eat?"

The idle man named Shi Shi walked into the room and sat down, he patted the old table and said.

A smile appeared on the old woman's wrinkled face: "Yes, yes, son, just wait, I'll get it for you."

After finishing speaking, the old woman hurriedly turned around and went back to the house, and took out two large porcelain bowls from the cupboard, one porcelain bowl was filled with white rice, no wild vegetables, omnivorous, and the other porcelain bowl was filled with rice. The full meat is cooked with wild game from the mountains, and it is very fragrant.

Shitou snorted: "Good rice meat, old woman, where did you get it, such good things can't be kept up during Chinese New Year."

"If you are hungry, eat quickly, and don't ask where it came from." The old woman smiled.

Shitou picked up the rice without saying a word, and was about to eat it, but he saw that there was a mouthful of rice in the bowl full, and he said, "Why is there a piece of rice missing in this bowl, and it was eaten by mice?"

"No, no, I didn't eat at night, so I just took a small bite, not much." The old woman said.

Shi Shi said angrily: "Damn old woman, you still come to eat my food if you haven't eaten enough. If you do this again next time, I will drive you out."

The old woman nodded obediently, without saying a word.

Only then did Shitou sink his head into eating and drinking. The big bowl of rice and the big bowl of meat made him feel very happy. Sometimes when he ate bones, he felt his teeth grit, and he vomited all the rice and meat on the ground with a bah sound. It's a pity that my heart hurts, and I wanted to say a few words, but the words stopped, I just squatted on the ground silently, picked up the spit out rice meat, stuffed it into my mouth and ate it.

After he finished eating, Shi Shi threw the bowl and chopsticks on the table to sleep, and said, "I'm full, I'm going to bed."

But when he just got up, he heard a horse's cry in the yard behind the door.

"Hey, this is called a horse, how can there be a horse in the house?"

Shi Shi was puzzled for a moment, and hurried to the backyard to have a look, but saw four healthy horses placed in the backyard, his eyes lit up immediately, and he said happily, "Good horses, each of these horses can sell for at least 20 taels of silver. This time he's fucking rich."

After speaking, he wanted to take the four horses away.

"Son, this is a guest's horse, so don't let it go." The old woman hurried to stop it.

"Go away, old woman, what kind of horse is not a guest, this is my horse in my hands."

Shitou said angrily, pushed the old woman to the ground, and went to fetch the horse.

The old woman fell to the ground and grabbed his feet, crying, "Son, I really can't do it, you stole someone else's horse, you will face a lawsuit, and if you can't pay for it, you will die in prison Yes, do you still remember the crooked head from the next village? He stole someone else’s cow, got a lawsuit and died in the county prison.”

Shi Shi grinned grimly and said, "That's right, this lawsuit is unacceptable. If that's the case, why don't you just keep doing it? I'll go and call my brothers, but the guests end up robbing him of his belongings. Since then, no one has reported it.”

It's worth the money to do this.

After speaking, he looked around, picked up a hatchet on the ground, and prepared to go out.

The old woman was shocked, crying and shouting, clutching at the stone to prevent him from committing crimes: "How could such a thing be done?

"Damn it, stop barking, old woman, or you'll be heard if you bark again."

When Shi Shi heard the old woman shouting, he was afraid that the neighbors would hear him, so he became furious, kicked the old woman several times, kicked her to the ground, and tried to teach her a lesson to make her stop shouting.

The old woman groaned a few times, fell to the ground, and cried again, hoping to make the trouble bigger and stop such evil deeds as Shi Shi. She knew that if her son did such a thing tonight, he would definitely be doomed.

She couldn't let Stone do such a stupid thing no matter what.

"Aren't you afraid of beating, old woman? The more you beat you, the louder you scream. You really want to hurt me, right?"

The old woman fell to the ground and cried and shouted: "Come on, come on, come on, help me."

"Damn it, didn't you hear me, I told you not to yell, but you still yelled, if you are old, and you don't want to die, it will spoil my business, because you are a dead old woman, I can't make a fortune all day long , why do you like to shout, right, I can't let you, a dead old woman, shout."

Shitou panicked a little, fearing that people would really hear what happened just now and the money would not be obtained by then, and instead he would suffer the lawsuit for nothing. Immediately, he became angry from embarrassment, picked up the hatchet, and slashed at the old woman's head fiercely.

"Boom~!"

But when he just raised the hatchet to chop down, there was a sudden thunder in the sky, and the night when the moon was originally in the sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds.

(End of this chapter)

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