Started as a mute girl? I prospered in the lean years

When they returned to the valley, the villagers were still waiting for Jiang Erlang and his party, and did not go to bed early as usual.

Jiang Zhengmao took Jiang Miao and Jiang Dalang to carefully check the things they got from the bandits, and finally sorted them out.

"Why hasn't Erlang come back yet?" Jiang Zhengmao looked at the mountains in the distance and felt a little uneasy.

Privately speaking, he wanted to leave everything he got from the bandits to the village. After all, it was Jiang Huaixu's credit that the bandits were able to escape completely, but taking away the food would mean denying the mountain people a way to survive. , after all, all the food of the mountain people was probably robbed by bandits.

After much thought, he cursed the bandits in his heart.

"Uncle the village chief!"

Jiang Zhengmao coughed dryly: "Girl Xu, what's the matter with you?"

"I heard from Qi Dafu that there are five caves in the mountains that contain food. Do we want to stay here for a day tomorrow and move the food out of the caves?" Jiang Huaixu asked.

Jiang Zhengmao was shocked, "Is there still food? How much food did these sons of bitches steal?!"

"These people are thieves. When Qi Dafu comes back, let him lead his people to find them."

"Yao Mei, it's so late, you should go and have a rest." Jiang Dalang reminded.

Jiang Huaixu: "I know, brother, I'll go right away."

Before getting into the carriage, Jiang Huaixu was still calculating the round trip distance for Jiang Erlang and others. For a round trip of twenty miles, half a day was enough. The mountain road was difficult to travel. It seemed normal to go later, but now, it was too late.

She was certain that she had not missed her second brother's signal smoke, and she was not sure whether there was any accident.

Suppressing the worries in her heart, she walked around Jiang Fu and Jiang Rong and slept in the carriage with her clothes on.

In the middle of the night, Jiang Huaixu was woken up by Fu Tuan. The moment she opened her eyes, her mind was clear, as if she had never fallen asleep.

Evading the night watchman's patrol, she followed the mountain road to the mountain behind Yangwei Village. She took out a big shovel from the space and started digging into the grave.

As time passed, the chill in the mountains at night turned into hazy vapor as it approached her body, making her look like a mountain spirit.

Soon the bottom of the shovel touched something solid and dug up all the soil on the coffin board. Jiang Huaixu put down the shovel in his hand and easily lifted the corner of the coffin and moved it away. The contents of the coffin appeared in front of his eyes.

Smelling the unpleasant smell, she frowned slightly.

I thought that there was no dead person in this coffin, but now it seems that is not the case.

Wicked.

While scolding others for being immoral, Jiang Huaixu didn't feel at all that his behavior of taking things from the coffin was immoral. He stretched out his little hand and put a box of gems into the space.

After all the things in the coffin were put into the space, she found something stuck to the bottom of the coffin. With the light of the shark beads, she could see clearly what seemed to be writing on it.

She jumped into the coffin, and when she got closer, she discovered that it was a sheepskin. The life of a person was written on the sheepskin.

After reading ten lines at a glance, she knew that this was the grave of the old leader of Yangwei Village, and that the two leaders who had just died were the apprentices of the old leader.

Then the property in the coffin should be that one of the two dug up the bones of the old village leader from the grave and used his coffin to contain his own treasures.

After all, no one would think of such a thing.

Lack of great virtue.

She threw the parchment in, re-covered the coffin and buried it with earth, put away the shark beads and headed back home.

Just after crossing the suspension bridge, Fu Tuan suddenly said that Jiang Erlang had brought people back and brought back a lot of things.

Jiang Huaixu sped up and returned to the valley before Jiang Erlang and his party.

"I'm back, I'm back, I'm back!"

The shouts of the night watcher reached the ears of Jiang Huaixu, who had just gotten into the carriage. She touched Jiang Rong, who had a cry in her voice after being awakened, and comforted her before stepping out of the carriage.

Looking from a distance, the mountain people stood together, and Jiang Erlang and the other three were surrounded by the villagers.

Jiang Huaixu didn't bother to squeeze in. He could hear clearly from the outside.

Jiang Zhengmao asked: "Erlang, where did you get so much food? Is it from the mountain people?"

Jiang Erlang's gentle voice came, "Thanks to Brother Qi. He knew where the bandits hid the food, so he took us to look for it on the way back, so it took us so long."

"I see, it has helped us a lot!" Jiang Zhengmao said excitedly, "Tonight your sister is still thinking about the food in the cave, so we won't have to worry about it tomorrow!"

The girls who heard the commotion also dressed up and looked into the crowd with their feet raised, hoping to find their families.

Not long after, someone called out "Mom and Dad" in surprise, and the baby bird rushed towards the family like a duck in the forest.

After narrowly escaping death, the cries gradually began to ring out after a long separation, causing many women in the village to cry.

In a corner, the depressive atmosphere was completely different from the joy of other mountain people.

"Shuanghua, tell dad, are you kidnapped by bandits for so long..."

Xia Shuanghua held her dress tightly with her hands, lowered her head and bit her lip without saying anything.

The man squatting on the ground glanced at Xia Shuanghua with disgust and said loudly, "Dad, aren't you asking for nothing? How can you still be innocent after being kidnapped by bandits?"

The cries in the crowd paused for a moment because of these words.

Xia Shuanghua felt like her head was buzzing, and her whole body was so numb and stiff that she couldn't say a word.

The man kept talking, "We can't have a girl who has lost her innocence! Otherwise, how can your grandchildren talk about kissing her?"

The woman next to the man glanced at Xia Shuanghua and quickly looked away, "Dad, you have to think more about your grandchildren."

Old Man Xia did not immediately answer his son and daughter-in-law's words, he just looked at Xia Shuanghua and sighed.

"Dad, I can work, farm and so on, not much worse than a man. In the future, I can still provide for you until you are old..."

"What did you say?!" The man stood up abruptly, "I am your brother, how can it be your turn to support our father until his death?"

Xia Shuanghua stared blankly at her brother in front of her, suddenly collapsed and shouted, "Brother! Do you want to force me to death?!"

This shout completely attracted everyone's attention to this corner, and the man's expression immediately changed, "Am I forcing you to death?! I am the man of the family, when will it be your turn to take care of my father until he retires? I It seems you want to curse me to death!"

"Shuanghua, look at you, you are so ignorant. Your eldest brother and father are also thinking about your future. They have been ruined. How can anyone want you? You can't stay at home like an old girl... ··”

Xia Shuanghua shouted "Dad" hoarsely, interrupting her sister-in-law's words. She looked at Old Man Xia with blank eyes, full of expectation, as if she was tightly grasping the last life-saving straw.

Old Man Xia avoided his daughter's gaze, "I have agreed with your brother and sister-in-law that we will go to your second aunt's house tomorrow. We don't have much food to bring, it's not enough to eat. Look at you..."

After hearing these words, Xia Shuanghua calmed down. She brushed away the tears on her face and said softly: "I understand, dad."

As soon as she finished speaking, she hit the mountain wall.