Otherworldly Farmhouse

Mu Yu left, and those soldiers also left, so Tang Anwen's home in the deserted village became empty again. Tang Anwen had a hard time adapting to it. There was one less person, and he always felt that something was missing at home.Fortunately, there were still four noisy children at home, which added some vitality to some extent. Anyone who encountered the scene of the massacre would feel unable to calm down for a long time.

Luo Ling is also in full swing preparing to send Auntie to the elder brother's place, and Auntie will always think of things in the small town if he stays here, and it is always good for Auntie to stay away from this environment. And he also hopes to take the child to find Mu Yu earlier.

The fighters left by Mu Yu temporarily lived in Tang Anwen's courtyard in the town. The rooms and food there were enough to meet the needs of twenty fighters for three days.Now that bustling small town has become empty and very depressed, and no one has been sent to take over it. The officials in such a small town are not willing to take over.However, some bold villains dared to steal something secretly when the town was deserted and ordinary people dared not enter.

Tang Anwen's family lived in front of the town, two or three minutes away from the town, which was not considered to be inside the town, and was cleaned up by Muha warriors on the day of the death.So those less courageous thieves actually brought ladders from their homes and wanted to steal some things back. After all, such a good yard must have a lot of good things in it.

So they were all caught by the Muha warriors stationed there, but these people made the Muha warriors difficult.

Tang Anwen was hugging Maomao, the little guy just woke up and cried, probably because he was hungry, and Mu Feng was preparing goat milk.Sanbao woke up early, and he didn't cry when he woke up, and he didn't let Tang Anwen hold him.He just rolled around on the mat, flipped his thumb for a while, raised his little foot for a while, held it in his hand and stuffed it into his mouth, screaming indistinctly, not knowing what he wanted to say, but enjoying himself .

But the problem arose when Mao Mao woke up. San Bao, who was enjoying himself, saw his father going to hug Mao Mao. Just now, Tang Anwen didn't want to hug him. As long as Tang Anwen moved him, he would yell and hit his father's hand.Right now, he was babbling and crawling towards his father, and crawling towards Tang Anwen's arms, as if he would not stop until Mao Mao was squeezed out.

With Tang Anwen's left and right hands, he definitely can't hold the two children, especially Sanbao is very active now, he can't walk away, because as long as he doesn't watch and walk away, Sanbao may roll to the ground.Sanbao doesn't understand anything now, he is very courageous, even if he gets to the edge of the bed, he is not afraid to roll him anyway, Tang Anwen is afraid that he will fall headfirst on the ground, it is not fun, it might kill him.

Tang Anwen saw that Sanbao wanted to catch Mao Mao, and at this time Mao Mao was almost crying, Tang Anwen put Mao Mao on the bed.After Mao Mao was placed on the bed, her hands and feet were free, so she waved her hands and kicked her feet. The gold bracelet bells on her feet made noises with Mao Mao's kicking, which immediately attracted the Three Treasures who were crawling towards Tang Anwen's arms.

The little guy Sanbao was perseverant just now, but now he forgot about his father when he turned his head, and moved towards Maomao.Seeing his son opening his mouth to bite Maomao, Tang Anwen quickly dragged the little guy back. Maomao is not like him, at least he is an adult, and Sanbao only has teeth on the upper gum, so biting it does not hurt very much.Mao Mao is only so big, and it has only been a month and a half since he died, if he took a bite, Luo Ling would die of heartache!

Mu Feng came in with goat milk, Tang Anwen took it and fed it to the three treasures in his arms who were unwilling to settle down anyway, and Mu Feng hugged Maomao to feed it.Seeing that his mother was being robbed, Sanbao suddenly started acting strange again, screaming, goat milk that can be eaten quickly at ordinary times, but now he is clamoring and refuses to open his mouth to eat, and hangs his hands to ask his mother to hug him .

At this moment, Luo Ling was discussing with his father, Mr. Chen, whether to go to the south by water or by land. The waterway is fast, but there are still various dangers in the waterway.The land route is slow, but slow has its advantages. As long as they don't encounter bandits, they are safe.In the end, Luo Ling made a decision. Although he missed Mu Yu, safety was still the most important thing. They went to the south in the carriage.

Old Chen stayed behind to take care of Maomao, Luo Ling rushed back after sending his father and mother to his eldest brother, and entrusted Maomao and Old Chen to Tang Anwen and the others. Luo Ling was not worried, he knew that Tang Anwen and Mu Feng would take good care of the children.

After the family discussed it, Luo Ling came to Tang Anwen's bedroom, and saw Sanbao bent over and refused to drink the goat's milk obediently, Tang Anwen could barely hold the struggling Sanbao.Luo Ling took Mao Mao from Mu Feng's hand, and when he fed Mao Mao to drink the goat's milk, San Bao immediately became obedient, Tang Anwen fed him, and he obediently cooperated and drank the goat's milk.

When Mu Feng stretched out his hand to hug Three Treasures, the little guy shrank himself into his father's arms, screaming and refusing to leave his father's arms.

Tang Anwen put down his spoon and said: "De Xing, Eminem hugs you, but you don't want to, so why did you insist on Eminem hugging you just now? You are eating what's in the bowl and still staring at what's in the pot. A stinky habit you developed."

There was a knock on the door outside the yard, and Mu Feng went to open the door. When he heard that the houses in the town had been touched by thieves, he went to Tang Anwen to discuss it.Everything over there is excellent, from bedding to seating furniture.

Moreover, according to the descriptions of several young soldiers, many houses in the town were patronized by thieves. Unless there were still people guarding those houses alive, the whole house might be evacuated. Of course, these may be the so-called The relatives did it, and the thieves still dare not move things so openly, but no one dares to take the houses in the town, and the whole town is still dead.

After Tang Anwen found out, he stuffed the Three Treasures that were making trouble in his arms into Mu Feng's arms, and followed the little soldier to the courtyard of the town.They don't live in the town now, so it's not a problem to leave the things in the house like this.

Under Tang Anwen's command, the twenty or so soldiers helped to move all the valuable belongings in the yard into the secret room, such as those carved sandalwood beds, Tang Anwen had no place to put them back, and these things were really good. Being stolen by that thief, he felt distressed for a long time, so he disassembled all the parts and put them in the secret room.

And some more ordinary things, such as dishes, ordinary cabinets, tables and chairs, were taken to the deserted village.After Tang Anwen changed some of the furniture at home.So I went to Tang Lang, Tang Zhong, and Tang Shulin, and after they picked out some useful things, they sent all the remaining things to the Tang family compound.

At this time, the people in the Tang family compound seemed to be a lot more sensible, and they stopped making trouble with Tang Anwen. Tang Anwen would accept it if he gave it to them, and if Tang Anwen didn't give it to them, they would not lose their temper.Probably because Tang Anwen knew that the more they made trouble, the more he hated them. If he didn't make trouble, Tang Anwen would occasionally think of giving them some benefits.

Three days later, the government office of Shuiyang town sent another batch of supplies. The young Muha warriors bid farewell to Tang Anwen. After returning the keys to Tang Anwen, they left with the last batch of [-] horse-drawn carts.

Luo Ling quickly rented a carriage from Shuiyang Town. After planning the route, Luo Ling found a caravan going to the south and discussed with them to go with them.The caravan originally wanted to collect money, but after Luo Ling and the others were doctors, they immediately said that they didn't want the money, and took Luo Ling and the others for a ride.

For these people traveling north and south, it would be best if there is a doctor to accompany them on the road.Especially in this big summer, all kinds of problems may be caused. Having an experienced old doctor with them is good for them and not bad. Although there is a doctor in the accompanying convoy, it is just a barefoot doctor. Everything from people to livestock is taken care of, but the medical skills are really not flattering, and you can only blame yourself for being unlucky if you put them to death.

After Luo Ling took Mr. Luo and his wife away, Tang Anwen's house became even more deserted, except for Zhang Lan who sometimes came over to sneak out the door. The weather was hot in late July, and no one was willing to go out to bask in the sun if there was no work.

Because everyone is not going to the town anymore, but all kinds of daily necessities are needed, if you can’t go to the town to buy them, you need to go to other places to buy them, and it is too far to go to Shuiyang Town.So Tang Anwen and Tang Lang mentioned it.

Zhang Lan is a smart person, so she greeted her husband immediately, and the two of them handed over the child to Dad to watch over, then went to Shuiyang Town to buy some things, carrying the goods and selling them along the village, such as maltose, brown sugar, needlework powder, Soon some people in the village followed Tang Lang's example and went to Shuiyang Town to buy something and sell it along the village.

The market that was originally in the town is now facing Songjia Village, close to Tangjia Village. Because there is no house, many people set up wooden sheds to store things. Some people start doing it, just like starting to learn. Soon one A small market is formed on the side of the road, and the market is opened every three days.This also made Tang Anwen and the others much more convenient.Brother Tang Anwen and the second brother seized the opportunity this time and built four bamboo sheds. When Tang Dequan came to see Three Treasures, Tang Anwen mentioned that it would take some effort to set up those bamboo sheds. , and you can buy things without money.Even if you don't sell it yourself, you can rent it out to others.

So Tang Deqing went back and mentioned something to his two sons. When they started to make money, they finally said a word of gratitude to Tang Anwen, saying that as long as their third uncle is willing to leak some through his fingers, it is enough for them to live now. After earning some money, sometimes he would bring some unsalable melons and fruits to Mu Feng and the others, and learned a lot.

After more than half a month like this, an unlucky government office finally came to the town, because there are very few people in the town now, all those who can go away, and those who can go to their relatives.

Only those loyal servants were left, such as the old housekeeper of the Song family, who still had to guard the yard for his master. Nuo Da Song's family had only passed a little over a month, and now it is completely depressed.Because there were only five or six servants of the Song family alive, and the others were all killed. The old housekeeper was also a ruthless person, so he hid in the dungeon with his confidants.As for those day laborers, he knew very well that if the entire Song family ran away, those murderers would definitely suspect that there was a secret room in this house, so they would definitely look for it. For their own safety, it was necessary for some people to die.

It's not that Tang Anwen hasn't been to his fourth brother's house, but Housekeeper Song also watches over there from time to time, so Tang Anwen doesn't care much about it.He didn't think Song Yunxi would live in the house over there. His fourth brother agreed, and the Song family would not agree either.

Some time passed in a blink of an eye, and the weather was still cool. Mr. Chen was going to cut some grass after Maomao fell asleep. Although there was hay at home, Mr. Chen preferred to feed the young ewe fresh grass. Mr. Chen said The goats fed in this way have better milk, and all the milk from this little ewe is given to Sanbao and Mao Mao.The other goat's milk was fed with hay, but the whole family drank it. Even Mr. Chen was persuaded by Tang Anwen to drink a bowl of goat's milk to nourish his body when he had nothing to do.

Mu Feng asked Tang Anwen to look after the four children, and he also went out with Mr. Chen with a basket on his back. The two of them cut it faster. Mr. Chen is not young. The wind is still not at ease.

Tang Anwen has been quite flustered recently. Fortunately, Douzi is seven years old and can help him with a lot of things, such as taking care of his two younger brothers. Guoguo is five years old. Whenever he sits in the middle, he always tries to bully the younger brother. The Three Treasures, who couldn't get out of trouble with Mao Mao, could only wave their little fleshy palms at his little brother.

Every time Sanbao dared to bite Guoguo, Guoguo immediately went to bite his younger brother, not very hard, of course, just nibbling his younger brother’s fingers and not letting go. Bite, Daddy can bite, because Daddy will kiss him, and won't bite him too.

After Mufeng cut the grass, he asked Mr. Chen to take it back first. He went to Xiaoji to have a look. Recently, Mufeng would always go for a walk on the road. He didn’t want to buy anything, and the number of people on the border has gradually increased recently. Some, Mufeng has met many times, dragged his family and passed the northerners on the market road.People in the north and people here are still a little surprised. People in the north are generally much taller than people here, and their skin is also rougher, because they have been exposed to wind and sand all year round, and their skin is darker.

Mu Feng was standing by the side of the market. When the market just started some time ago, everyone gathered in the afternoon and went home. No one would continue to sell food.In the past few days, because people have passed by one after another, there are also newly opened tea sheds in the small market, and the stalls are open until evening to buy some tea and cakes.

Mu Feng walked into a tea shed, which was opened by people from Zhangjia Village, and ordered a cup of weak tea.Not long after Mu Feng sat down, six people came in, bringing the old and the young.Probably because they were short of cash, these people asked for two biscuits and a bowl of tea. The biscuits were distributed to the elderly and children, and the couple only drank tea. A bowl of tea here costs only one penny, and they can drink it all the time. Add money.

After taking a sip of water, Mufeng heard the brother next to the man say: "Ah Lang, when are we going to go? When will we be tall?" It is a family of three generations.

The man's face was crisp, and he sighed, "Afu, let's go, let's find a place to settle down, the two of us go to work, and we can always support our family."

The brother lowered his head and sighed, touched his stomach, he was also very hungry, but there were two children who were younger than ten years old and an elderly man beside him, he knew that Alang's money was running out. Drought, now there is no harvest in the field, the grass is all withered and yellow, and all the food in the family is eaten up.If you don't leave, will you starve to death at home?Alang decided to bring his whole family out to find a way for his family to survive.

The brother named Afu took a few more sips of the tea, and stuffed a small piece of pancake that Alang had given him into the hands of his youngest son.This child is about seven or eight years old. Although he is not short, he is very thin and skinny. The other one is about eight or nine years old and is also very thin. Although he stared at the food in his brother's hand, he finally held back his hunger Look away.

Mu Feng asked the shopkeeper for ten pancakes, brought tea to the table of several people, and several people looked at the pancakes on the table, even the tall man couldn't help swallowing.But they didn't try to snatch it. Even the youngest child stretched out his hand to grab it. After the brother named Afu clapped his hands, he withdrew his hand tearfully and called out embarrassingly.

Mu Feng looked at the skinny child who was about to fly away when the wind blows, and thought of his Douzi and Guoguo. Although their life was difficult before, he raised both children very well, and he did not become so thin.

Picked up two sesame seed cakes and gave one to each of the two children. Seeing that the two children were about to take it, the brother named Afu stopped him: "Brother, my two children don't sell them. Alang, I would rather go hungry with them." die, and don't sell the child."

When Mu Feng heard Afu's words, he said with a smile: "I'm not a matchmaker, and I won't sell your two children. They are hungry, let them eat something first, I just want to ask you for a question."

Hearing Mu Feng's words, the man still took the biscuits and asked the two children to eat slowly. He survived the hunger, but the two children hadn't eaten for several meals, and they couldn't even walk without eating.Only then did the man open his mouth and said, "Brother, just ask if you have any questions. If I know something, you can tell me everything you know."

But Afu grabbed the man and said in a low voice: "Ah Lang, we don't get rewarded for nothing." Afu was probably still worried about Mufeng's bad idea. He had heard many people say that southerners are very cunning. Selling may not be able to be discovered in time.

The man held Afu's hand and said, "It's okay, I don't think this big brother looks like a bad guy, we are now penniless and there is nothing to lie to, if I can give you a meal, I can be a cow or a horse for them .”

When Afu heard the man's words, tears welled up in her eyes, but she held it back firmly in the end, and did not stop the two children from eating sesame seed cakes.He knows the taste of hunger all too well, and the two children are still too young, and it is already not easy to persist to come here.When he was in the village, several people wanted to exchange children with him, but he would never agree. When that happened, Alang insisted on taking his family out to find a way out, just not wanting others to eat the child.

After seeing the two of them talking, Mu Feng said: "Where are you from, what happened at home, why these two children are so thin, don't just sit there, eat it, I sold it It was originally intended for you to eat."

Hearing Mu Feng's question, the man said: "We are from Laga Village, beside the Yellow Canal City, there have been droughts for several years, and last year it finally rained a little, thinking that we could grow some food, but we encountered locust plagues again. People in the whole village had no food to eat, and the bark was peeled off and eaten. A child next door to my house disappeared inexplicably, so I escaped with the whole family. Bottom line, the kids haven’t eaten for several meals.”

Mu Feng didn't know where Gala Village was, but he still knew about Huangqu City, which was not far from the border, so he didn't expect the disaster to be so serious.It's no wonder that their tribe needs to go out to buy food. Their tribe lives on the edge of the snow mountain, where the snow water resources are very rich, basically able to feed their 25 people.The tribe has been controlling the population all these years. One is because the tribe has developed too much and is afraid of being worried about by the King of Weinan. In addition, the resources are limited. If the population is too large, it will be difficult to feed and life will be even more difficult.

If there is a problem with their tribal food, the situation in the surrounding villages over there will only get worse. Mufeng watched the man not touch the biscuits. After the two children ate one, Afu would not give them to eat. They drink some water.He handed the remaining biscuits to each of the two old people. The two old people took one and asked their daughter-in-law and son to eat. The son is the pillar of the family. If it collapses, the whole family will starve to death.

Mufeng asked the man again if there was any war at the border. The man thought for a while and said that he had encountered a deserter who was closer to the border. It is said that he had fought with the iron wood murderers. Not Powerful.

After Mu Feng got the news he wanted, he asked the boss to pack ten sesame seed cakes for the whole family, and then he left the tea shed. He has been like this for several days.The owner of the tea shed has long been familiar with Mu Feng, as long as this generous brother comes over, he will definitely be able to earn tens of pennies.After saying something to Mu Feng and leaving, the shop owner really couldn't understand, how could there be such a stupid brother who bought sesame seed cakes for these fleeing people every day, so much money and nowhere to spend it.

When Mu Feng returned home, he told Tang Anwen what he had discovered, saying that a war might have started at the border. If there was a large-scale fight with the Iron Wood gangsters, it would be very unsafe for them here. If possible, Mu Feng hoped to be able to Moving, at least half a month's journey to the south.

Tang Anwen heard what Mu Feng said, but he didn't consider that the war would spread to them, after all, those criminals sneaked in last time.But it is quite difficult to come in on a large scale. After all, there are Muha warriors and border generals guarding them. Their home is not close to the village and town, and is surrounded by bamboo forests. At worst, the arch bridge will be demolished, and there will be no bridge. , I believe those murderers are too lazy to come here, and they want to pull the horse to walk the pebble beach road more than ten meters wide. Aren't they looking for abuse? The key is that there is no benefit.

But more and more people are fleeing famine, which is dangerous. Tang Anwen has never experienced famine fleeing, but he has seen many fleeing episodes on TV, and what happened on the road will definitely not be fabricated out of thin air, but It could really happen. There are not many people fleeing famine now. If tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people overwhelm them, there will be no safe place for them, because people who are hungry can really do anything.

Tang Anwen told Mu Feng that as soon as Luo Ling came back, they would return Mao Mao to Luo Ling, and they would also tell Luo Ling about the situation. If Luo Ling really wanted to take Mao Mao to the border, he would not stop him. Luo Ling, in this situation, Tang Anwen actually hoped that Luo Ling would not go to the border. It was too dangerous. Luo Ling and Maomao Chen were the three of them. They might be killed and buried on the way. The worse situation would be that there would be no bodies at all. up.

In this way, more than ten days later, the fleeing people were still one after another, and the scale of Tang Anwen's imagination was not formed. There were probably not many escape routes, and they were scattered.Tang Anwen longed for Luo Ling and his fourth brother back, but looked forward to Song Yunfeng.

This guy came back in a hurry after hearing that the town was slaughtered, because there are no people in the town now, and the government can't even recruit yamen servants. It's because they recruited a few escaped people recently that they are regarded as yamen servants. The yamen has been set up, and now there is no one in the town even in broad daylight.

Song Yunfeng couldn't find Tang Anwen and the others in the town. He didn't think Tang Anwen could die there.So I went to Tang Anwen's house in the barren village. When Tang Anwen opened the courtyard door and saw Song Yunfeng, he was completely dumbfounded, and said, "Don't you come back in a month?"

Song Yunfeng looked at the silly Tang Anwen, and said, "Why don't you welcome me?" Tang Anwen looked at the two tall and burly guards behind Song Yunfeng, and immediately cheered up and said, "That's possible, it's just that I didn't expect it. My fourth brother and the others Well, are you back yet? Come in quickly, the sun is scorching hot, Mu Feng makes a few cups of tea, Brother Yunfeng has come to our house."

Song Yunfeng followed Tang Anwen into the yard, and the two guards stood guard at the door, neither coming in nor going out, just like a door god, his eyes twitched when Tang Anwen peeked back.Song Yunfeng went out for a trip, and even used the guards. He was so proud of himself, he must have become a popular person in Zhennan King's eyes.

Sitting in the main room, Song Yunfeng cut to the chase and said, "Is the painting finished? This time I gave you a lot of time, and even Fengyun made you stop first. This is your bonus of 300 taels this time. Give me the drawing book, this time I'm evading, don't blame big brother for being sorry for Tang Angui, why don't I invite you to the government office."

Tang Anwen heard Song Yunfeng's words and said: "When did I fail to do what I promised, give me 300 taels first, and I'll go get you the painting book. If I wasn't lucky this time, I would have died in the town a long time ago. Where are you going?" You can also get the painting book. You, the big brother, don’t know how to scare me, the little brother, and now you are threatening me. When I see Yun Xi, I will talk to him. His big brother is just like this. Bo's."

Song Yunfeng wasn't angry either, he just smiled and said, "You just know what to say, take it quickly, I have other important things to do."

Tang Anwen wasn't making trouble with Song Yunfeng any more, brothers might turn against each other, not to mention a mere relative, Tang Anwen didn't really regard Song Yunfeng as his big brother.Mu Feng quickly came in with tea, and Tang Anwen went to the bedroom, and brought the scroll that Song Yunfeng gave him and the picture book he made himself.When the two books were handed over to Song Yunfeng, Tang Anwen was relieved.

Tang Anwen was always a little worried when things didn't happen before, but now that he handed in the drawing book, there is nothing to worry about, because he has made up his mind to move.If King Zhennan really failed, all his family would have run away.

Even if the new emperor wanted to settle accounts with him, Tang Anwen still felt that it was impossible. The new emperor had a lot of things to do, and he was busy cleaning up his opponents. How could it be possible to waste money and effort just to find him a small person? It is not worthwhile to think about it. You should also look for Zhennan Wang and the Song family, he is not even a shrimp, and it doesn't make much sense to catch him.

Song Yunfeng flipped through the contents of the painting book, the paintings were rather cryptic, but anyone with a little sensitivity could still understand that the prince favored by the current emperor is a tyrant, he does things cruelly, indiscriminately, favoring the collusion of villains Officials exclude dissidents.And the third prince, who is now the empress's son-in-law, is a very good-natured person, magnanimous and discerning, pleading for the people.Several other princes also described it, but they all had mediocre deeds, which would make everyone ignore it.

Tang Anwen actually knew that King Zhennan just wanted to muddy the water, and it was impossible for the two extremes to be the one supported by King Zhennan. It's all on the cusp of the storm, King Zhennan is thinking really well, he just wants to reap the benefits, and I don't know if this guy can do it.

If King Zhennan did it, Tang Anwen's life would be safe and sound. If King Zhennan couldn't do it, maybe one day the Song family and his two little shrimps would be thrown out by King Zhennan.So Tang Anwen didn't want to wade into this muddy water, he just wanted to take the whole family to spend a few days of quiet life with peace of mind.When the two children grow up and find a good husband for the two children, his life with Mu Feng will be almost complete.As for the Three Treasures, Tang Anwen never thought of being the master of the little guy. Only God knows what the kid will be like when he grows up.