Siheyuan: The wife was intercepted after returning from the battlefield

Lin Ping looked at the 100 kilograms of corn flour and scratched his head, saying, "Mom, I have prepared the food. I won't bring any food from home, or I won't be able to get it on the road."

Upon hearing this, Lin Shanhai said to Wang Xiuzhi, "Just listen to Pingzi."

Wang Xiuzhi also knew that her son could get food, so she immediately warned him, "Don't bring fine food, otherwise it will be easy to get into trouble."

Lin Ping smiled and nodded, "Don't worry, Mom. I know what's going on."

The next morning, Wang Xiuzhi and her family saw Lin Ping off. Lin Xuan and Niuniu looked up unwillingly and asked, "Erguo (Second Uncle), are you really not going to take us with you?"

Wang Xiuzhi pulled Lin Xuan back and scolded, "Don't make trouble, you stupid girl. Your brother is on a business trip, so he doesn't have time to take care of you."

Lin Yun also suppressed her daughter Niuniu, and Lin Ping was able to escape successfully.

Wangjiabao, suburb of Xincheng, Henan Province.

At noon, a few old men were chatting at the entrance of the village. They had nothing to do because the wheat was not ripe yet.

Lin Ping asked along the way and finally arrived at the entrance of Wangjiabao Village. He saw several old men chatting at the entrance of the village, but their sallow complexions showed that they were malnourished.

When Lin Ping arrived at the entrance of the village, an old man asked, "Young man, you look unfamiliar. Are you from Wangjiabao?"

Hearing this, Lin Ping smiled and said, "Uncle, I'm from Sijiu City, looking for the two brothers Wang Daniu and Wang Erniu from the village."

The old man looked Lin Ping up and down. He knew from his complexion that he was not a man with a missing mouth. No wonder he came from a big city. However, there were still enemy spies active at the moment, so he asked cautiously, "Who are you to Da Niu?"

Lin Ping smiled and replied, "Uncle, I am Wang Daniu's nephew, and my mother's name is Wang Xiuzhi."

The old man's alertness faded after hearing this, and he smiled and said, "So it's Xiuzhi's child. Is Xiuzhi doing well in the city?"

Lin Ping smiled and nodded, "Thanks to your good words, my mother is doing well."

The old man nodded and said, "Okay, as long as you live well, life is hard nowadays. Let's go and I'll take you to Daniu's house."

Several old men at the entrance of the village looked at the backs of Lin Ping and the other man. One of them sighed and said, "That young man looks like he has plenty to eat. He must be carrying food in his hands. The Daniu and his family are blessed."

After saying that, he drank a sip of water to relieve his hungry appetite.

Wang Daniu's home.

Wang Daniu lay on the kang with his eyes closed, resting. Beside him were his wife and three children. Because they were not full, they tried not to move as much as possible, which could also save food.

A little girl of about three or four sat up and rubbed her belly and said, "Mom, I'm hungry."

Wang Daniu's wife felt so distressed when she saw her little girl. She picked her up and coaxed her, "Be good, Yaya. Wait a little longer and we can have dinner in the evening."

Wang Daniu felt bad when he saw this. He looked at his eldest son and second daughter, both of whom were sensible enough to help his wife coax the little girl, and sighed, "When will this day end?"

Wang Daniu's wife looked back at Wang Daniu and said, "It's good to have food to eat. As long as we don't starve to death, we can wait until the famine is over. When the sun goes down, the children and I will go dig wild vegetables so that we can have more to eat at night."

Just as the couple was sighing, the village chief's voice came from outside, "Daniu, your relatives are here."

Wang Daniu stood up and walked to the gate of the courtyard. He saw a handsome young man following the village chief. He couldn't help but ask curiously, "Third Grandpa, who is this?"

Without waiting for the village chief to speak, Lin Ping said directly: "Uncle, I am Pingzi, and my mother is Wang Xiuzhi."

Wang Daniu was surprised when he heard this: "You are Pingzi. Your mother said in her heart that you have the potential to become a cadre now."

He turned around and said to the village chief, "Third Grandpa, please come into the house and talk."

The village chief waved his hand and said, "Daniu, I won't go into the house. You and your family can chat." Then he turned and left.

After sending the village chief off, Wang Daniu took the food from Lin Ping and said, "Let's go inside and get some sun."

As Lin Ping loosened his hand, Wang Daniu felt his hand sink. He didn't know what his nephew brought, but it was probably food.

After entering the yard, Lin Ping looked around. There were three main rooms and two side rooms. Although they were adobe houses, the yard was kept clean, which showed that Wang Daniu's family were all hardworking people.

When they arrived at the main hall, Wang Daniu shouted into the room, "Sanni, our nephew is here, why don't you come out and entertain him quickly?"

Lin Ping looked around the main room. Apart from a table in the middle, there was almost nothing else in the room. It was extremely poor.

At this time, Sanni came out from the inner room with her three children. She looked at the neatly dressed Lin Ping and said with a smile, "You are Pingzi. I heard from my elder sister that you are a cadre now?"

Hearing this, Lin Ping smiled and said, "Aunt, I am Pingzi. Whether I am an official or not, I am here to serve the people."

Wang Daniu smiled and said, "Pingzi is really good at speaking. Let me introduce them to you. This is your eldest cousin Wang Ben, who is twenty years old this year. This is your second cousin Wang Hui, who is fifteen years old this year. The youngest is your little sister Yaya, who has not yet been given a name."

Wang Ben, Wang Hui and Yaya all shouted to Lin Ping, "Brother Pingzi."

Lin Ping smiled and nodded, "Hello."

After saying that, he took out White Rabbit milk candy from his backpack and shared it with the three people.

Wang Hui saw the White Rabbit and exclaimed, "Oh, it's a White Rabbit." She took it happily. She had only seen it but never eaten it.

Yaya was much simpler, she just took the white rabbit and started biting it. Lin Ping saw it and smiled and said, "Come here, brother will peel it for you."

Wang Ben honestly hid the candy and prepared to let the girl he liked taste the candy from the city.

Sanni remembered something and said, "Pingzi, you haven't eaten yet, I'll cook for you right away. We don't have anything good at home, so you have to make do with it." After saying that, she prepared to cook.

From what Lin Ping saw at the entrance of the village, he knew that Wang Daniu's family was not in a much better situation, so he quickly said, "Aunt, please stop worrying. I've already eaten at the station."

Sanni asked doubtfully, "Have you really eaten it?"

Lin Ping nodded and smiled: "I really have eaten it."

Sanni then said to Wang Daniu, "Daniu, go to Erniu's house to call for help, and go to the next village to call my younger sister as well."

Upon hearing this, Wang Daniu slapped his forehead and said, "Look how confused I am. I'll go right away." After that, he left in a hurry without waiting for Lin Ping to reply.

Sanni looked at Lin Ping and said with a smile: "Your uncle is just impatient, please don't be offended."

Lin Ping smiled and said, "How could that be possible? Aunt, when I came here, I saw that the people in the village all looked unhappy. Are they having a hard time?"

Sanni sighed when she heard this, "Yes, there has been a year of famine and no one has enough to eat. If it weren't for the money and food your mother sent back last time, our three families would have really gone without food."

Lin Ping thought to himself that this was only the first year, and there were still more than two years to go. He didn't know how people in the countryside would live in the future. But this was not something he could help with, and now he could only help his own family members get through the difficult times.

Seeing his aunt with a worried look on her face, Lin Ping brought the sack over and said, "Aunt, here are 200 kilograms of corn flour. You can use it for emergency purposes first. I have some grain stored in the county town, but I can't take it, so I hid it temporarily."

Sanni finally took her eyes off the corn flour. When she heard that there was still food hidden outside, she said anxiously, "Pingzi, why didn't you tell me earlier? I'm going to chase your uncle now and get the food back first. It's life-saving." As she said that, she was about to run out.

How could Lin Ping let her go? He quickly grabbed Sanni's arm and said, "Aunt, don't worry. I hid it very well. No one can find it. Wait until night to get it. Otherwise, there will be too many people around and it will be easy for something to go wrong."

Sanni finally calmed down and nodded, "You're right, I'll let Daniu and Wang Ben go with you in the evening."

After saying this, his eyes lit up as he looked at the corn flour. With this grain, even if it was divided among three families, they would be able to hold out until the autumn harvest.

Wang Hui's eyes lit up as she asked, "Mom, can we eat our fill from now on?"

Sanni nodded with moist eyes and said, "Yeah, I can eat enough now."

At this time, Yaya, who was nestled in Lin Ping's arms and eating candy, said in a baby voice, "Mom, Yaya is hungry."

Sanni wiped the tears from her eyes and nodded, "Okay, Mom will cook for you right away."

Then he looked at Lin Ping and said, "Pingzi, I'm sorry to have embarrassed you. If you hadn't come, we would have been starving."

Lin Ping felt bad, so he nodded and said, "Aunt, don't let the child go hungry while you're busy."

As they were talking, a man who looked somewhat like Wang Daniu rushed into the room with his wife and two children and asked, "Eldest sister's child is here, where is he?"

Sanni rolled her eyes at Wang Erniu and said, "Why are you so anxious? Can he run away? Look, he's not there."

Wang Erniu looked Lin Ping up and down for a while before he smiled and said, "She really looks like our eldest sister."

Lin Ping also shouted, "Second uncle, second aunt."

Li Shuzhen smiled and said, "Well, Pingzi is indeed a handsome man. No wonder my elder sister kept praising him in her letter."

Later, I met the two sons of my second uncle, Wang Hu and Wang Bao, one seventeen and one fourteen years old.

After talking for a while, Sanni asked, "Erniu and his sister-in-law haven't eaten yet, right? It's a good opportunity for us to have a meal together."

Before Wang Erniu could say anything, Li Shuzhen waved her hand and said, "Who dares to eat three meals a day now? Just cook for Pingzi. We are not hungry."

As soon as she finished speaking, her stomach rumbled, making Li Shuzhen's face turn red.

Seeing that both of his two aunts were not mean people, Lin Ping was very satisfied. Such family members could get along well in the future and were worth helping.

Lin Ping had already thought it through when he came here. If they were all ungrateful and greedy people, he would only help them this time and forget about it in the future. However, it seemed that he was quite satisfied with them for now.

When Sanni saw this, she laughed and said, "Okay, I'll go cook. We'll eat here later." Then she ran to the kitchen.

Li Shuzhen quickly followed into the kitchen to help, while Wang Erniu and Huairu Lin Ping chatted about things in the old city.

It didn't take long for the meal to be ready, a big pot of steamed corn bread and homemade pickles. Just then, Wang Daniu walked in with a grim look on his face, dragging a woman in her thirties. Lin Ping knew it was his aunt as soon as he saw her. She looked exactly like Wang Xiuzhi.

The woman saw Lin Ping and forced a smile, saying, "This must be Pingzi, what a handsome young man. Big sister is so lucky."

Sanni saw that her husband looked unhappy and knew that something was wrong. Thinking about the situation at her sister's home, she sighed and said, "Okay, let's eat first. We can talk after dinner."

After dinner, Wang Daniu sent the children out and then told them about his sister's family affairs.