Generals take care of their children: The master mother leads the system to farm

Like Doctor Li and Haopo's family, the refugees who were assigned to settle in Lushui Village all lived their own lives behind closed doors.

But some of the former villagers of Lushui Village felt sympathy when they saw the two little people shivering in the cold wind at their doorstep.

In the first year of the drought, their harvest was good and every household had some grain in stock. The situation was better than in Guangji County.

Half a piece of black flour cake, a handful of stale grains mixed with a little bit of gravel, or if he met a hunter, he would occasionally give the two children a piece of pheasant neck, or skinny chicken wings without any meat, but these were the best ingredients for Li Shixi.

Among them, Haopo loved the two children the most. Whenever she had some money saved up, she would give some to Li Shixi.

He was lucky to have something to eat, so he took the food home. He only knew one way to cook it, which was to add water to the pot, put the ingredients in, and cook them when the water boiled.

You asked him where the disaster relief food distributed to his family went?

Because of Li Changle's illness, most of the food went into the pocket of the doctor at Huichuntang in the town.

Li Changle drank the medicine for more than two months. When he was at the end of his rope, even Li Shixi was filled with despair.

He is so young, but he really tried his best.

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Seeing that Xiaoyuer was drowsy, Li Changle took the wooden basin under the bed and went to the kitchen to fetch water from the pot. He washed the two children's hands and faces without taking off their clothes because it was too cold. He put the wrung-out towel into their collars and wiped their bodies casually. Li Shixi awkwardly pulled the towel from Li Changle's hand and hid in the kitchen to wipe it.

After the two children took off their shoes and washed their feet, Xiaoyuer had already fallen asleep.

She looked at the bed made of two wooden boards, which was 2 meters wide. After thinking for a while, she took out another gray blanket from the wooden cabinet and put it inside the wooden bed for the two children to sleep on, using half of it as a cushion under their bodies and rolling up the other half as a quilt.

Otherwise, it would be very cold if you sleep on this wooden bed with your back pressed against it.

Li Shixi was also sent to lie down and slept in the innermost position. He rubbed the soft and warm blanket with his fingers, feeling a little dazed.

She had a full stomach and warm bedding. Most importantly, her aunt seemed to have recovered from her illness and was able to work inside and outside the house.

Is this really not just a dream?

Li Changle didn't know about his worries. She tidied herself up in the kitchen and went into the main room to lie down next to Yuer. After being busy for a while, she felt tired and her hands and feet were sore. She needed to lie down.

Seeing Li Shixi looking over at me with no intention of sleeping, he said, "Shixi, you know that Aunt is confused about who she is now. Can you tell Aunt about it? See if I can remember something after listening to you?"

Li Shixi had no choice but to say something. He jumped up and was about to speak, but Li Changle pushed him back into the bed, "Why lie down and talk? It's freezing cold in this weather."

Li Shixi lay in a large fluffy blanket and began to tell Li Changle everything about his original body. Of course, it was the part that Li Shixi knew.

His original name was Li Changle. He was from Guangji County. His mother died early and his father was a scholar. As he had no interest in officialdom, he returned to the county and opened a private school. He spent most of his life teaching and educating people, and most of his students were children who were just beginning to learn.

He has an older brother in the family, but he is not interested in learning. He has been honest and kind since childhood. He married his wife from a neighboring village. The couple had a good relationship after marriage. He stayed in the village to take care of the family's fields and gave birth to a son, Li Shixi.

Li Changle stayed in the county to take care of his father's food, clothing, housing and transportation, and also prepared lunch for the children in the private school.

Li Shixi didn’t know what happened in the past. He only knew that one year, a man named Gu Jingyan came to the private school.

He told Li Shixi's grandfather that he came to fulfill the marriage agreement between their children that had been made between Gu's grandfather and Li's grandfather.

The Li family had no idea what the story was, and the Gu family didn't have any specific explanation either. They only said that the Gu family's grandfather gave the token to the mistress of the household before he died, and when Gu Jingyan reached the age of marriage, the mistress took it out and gave it to him.

All in all, all in all.

Two months later, Li Changle married Ping An in Kyoto.

In order to buy a good dowry for their younger sister, the brother and his wife sold several acres of good farmland. The father also took out his life savings and divided it into two parts in front of the brother and sister. One of the parts was given to Li Changle as her dowry.

Her brother took out some more money from his share and went to a silver shop in the county to make a pair of solid gold bracelets for her to add to her dowry.

Li Changle got married in a hurry, and it has only been more than three years since then.

Li Shixi recalled and spoke, in fact, some of the timelines were blurred, he just spoke whatever came to his mind, and sobbed, "Aunt, there was fire everywhere. After grandfather pushed me out, the beams of the house collapsed and the fire set grandfather's clothes on fire. Dad went in to save him, but in the end, both of them couldn't get out. Later, mother cried and cried, and her stomach bled. She grabbed my hand and told me to go find my uncle and aunt..."

Li Changle was stunned, "Then did you go look for her?" Her stomach was bleeding... If I guessed correctly, this sister-in-law should be pregnant.

Li Shixi pursed his lips and said woodenly, "I did look for her, but she passed away anyway, taking my little brother and sister with her."

Li Changle turned sideways, and through the fish in the middle, she held his cold little hand, "It's over, it's all over. Your father, mother, and grandfather must have hoped that you could live well."

Li Shixi nodded slightly, "Aunt, I will, but I miss my parents and grandfather so much."

"Later, Auntie will go back with you to pay respect to them."

"Yeah." Li Shixi responded, thought for a while and continued, "My uncle took me back, but my aunt was unhappy and we often quarreled. Soon, my uncle brought me back to our village and gave all the land left by me and my parents to my second grandfather."

"Then why is Aunt Yu'er staying here with Shixi now?"

"My aunt is here to look for my uncle. She said my uncle is a general stationed at the northern border."

In ancient times, there were constant disputes on borders, with swords and spears, and bloody wars would break out from time to time.

She came to look for someone with a baby?

What's so serious that it requires you to risk your own life?

Li Shixi's voice gradually weakened. "Hearing that Guangji County was hit by a severe drought, my aunt turned to Guangji County and said that she wanted to take our family away, settle us down, and then continue to look for my uncle. When my aunt found my second grandfather's house, it happened that my second grandfather and his family were discussing secretly selling me on the way to escape the famine in exchange for food, so as to save food for one person."

After finishing speaking, Li Shixi bit her lip and said, "Aunt, my second grandfather heard that you were rushing back from Kyoto, and he insisted that you give him food before he would let you and me go. He didn't even want money, otherwise he would make all kinds of excuses. If it weren't for Aunt going to the county to ask my grandfather's old friend for help and exchanging money for some food, Shixi wouldn't know where he is now."

Li Changle let out the anger in her chest and comforted the slightly uneasy child in front of her, "Don't be sad, I finally got you back. You are my good nephew. Your parents treated me so well before. I will treat their son as my own child. But do you know why my aunt is looking for your uncle?"

According to Li Shixi's description, the original body was also a person who understood right from wrong. When she was a girl, she was filial to her elders and got along well with her brother and sister-in-law.

Going to your husband's house won't necessarily change your personality.

The journey is long, and it is not wise to run north with a young daughter.

Did she run away from home to join her husband because she encountered difficulties at her husband's house, or was it for some unknown reason of her own?

She was lost in her thoughts and when she came to her senses, she found that Li Shixi did not answer her question and his eyes were flickering.

"Is there something you can't tell Auntie?"

"No... You said before that someone in the Gu family told you that your uncle might have a concubine outside. Your aunt didn't believe it and wanted to verify it. She said that if it was true, you should take Yu'er back to your mother's home in Guangji County..."

Li Changle: "..."

Oh, there is also this!

But she couldn't possibly travel all the way to the front line just for such a trivial matter. Why would she do that?

Why not just enjoy the good food and drinks in the backyard and settle the bill when people come back?

She felt that there was something fishy going on here, but now she was completely in the dark and couldn't look that far ahead.

Let’s just get through this winter first.

A general's concubines are not as important as having enough food and clothing!

How can it be so cold? There is real snow outside!

As a native resident of a southern coastal city, she said she had no resistance to this kind of weather.

She covered Li Shixi with a blanket and told him to relax and have a good sleep. It was obvious how nervous and miserable the little man had been these days, even though he was only eight or nine years old.

There was another blanket under her. She rolled up the other half and covered herself with it, but still didn't feel warm enough.

Looking out the paper window, the sky outside is not clear, but based on the time that has passed, it is already mid-afternoon.

Let her take a nap. She doesn’t want to move at all now.