I don't want to have children

"It's time for the new emperor to appease the hearts of the people. Let's not enter the town for the time being and live in the village. When the government sends people to find us, we won't kill innocent people indiscriminately, unless he wants to cause another civil uprising." Zhao Er said calmly.

"I think so too, Dad, Ah, Big Brother, let's go back to the ground first, and then we can't hide." Xiaomao agreed with Zhao Er's proposal.

"That's right, we won't starve to death when Dad and Ah come to the ground." Li Xuejun also expressed his attitude.

Wu Su'er and Wang Er didn't understand the new emperor, but they knew that they couldn't stay in the cellar any longer.The nine people ate, drank, and scatter in one place. Although everyone paid great attention to burying the excrement with soil every time the excretion problem was solved, there was no circulation in the cellar, and the air became quite dirty. In addition, the food had already bottomed out. up.

After deciding to return to the ground to live, Li Xuejun and Wang Dazhu took the kitten and the twins to find food near the village, and Wang Er and Zhao Er took Wu Suer and Li Jiaer to clean up the burned houses.

After losing sight of the five fingers, Li Xuejun and his team returned to the burned yard with only a small amount of grass roots. Fortunately, a fire could be built. Wu Su'er cooked half a can of grass root soup in a broken earthen pot, which was not overheated for more than half a month. All the people in the water drank quite sweetly.

At night, I slept on the ground that had been slightly cleaned, and was surrounded by a low earth wall surrounded by broken bricks by Wang Er and the others.With Wu Su'er's acquiescence, Li Xuejun slept next to the kitten, lying on the ground at the end of August, and the cold was still quite heavy, so the kitten woke up for several nights and found itself hugged by Li Xuejun like a koala In the first few times, the kitten would be embarrassed, but later on, it can only be said that getting used to it is a terrible thing, and it is natural to hold it. The kitten will even get into Li Xuejun's arms before going to bed.

Finding food became the biggest problem. Not only the Kitten family survived the man-made fire, but two or three other families in the village also escaped by hiding in the cellar. Some fugitives stopped in Dahe Village, and the grassroots became a hot commodity.

Fortunately, the disaster relief measures implemented by the new emperor finally began to bear fruit, and a large number of soldiers were sent out to find and resettle the surviving victims.Five days later, a small group of officers and soldiers arrived in Dahe Village. After the accompanying military doctors confirmed that there were no plague victims among the refugees staying in the village, food, clothing and other supplies were transported over, because Wang Er was an aboriginal in Dahe Village and knew some The word, was recommended by everyone to assist the government in distributing materials and allocating housing reconstruction. The government gave Wang Er a bag of grain and half a penny of copper money every month.After the new emperor came to power, new copper coins and silver mirrors were minted. The copper coins and silver of the previous dynasty had to be exchanged at the government before they could be used.

The government office of the courtyard where Li Xuejun just started construction re-opened the title certificate. The survivors in Dahe Village still rebuild their original residences. unfolded.

I learned from the officers and soldiers that the rescue work in the town is similar, and that after the government cremated the collected corpses, the ashes were packed in small cans. If someone claimed them, they could only bring back one can of ashes. Wu Suer asked the kitten to accompany her Li Xuejun went to the town.

Li Xuejun carefully hugged the little pot he received, his eyes were full of sadness, but when he saw the crying kitten beside him, Li Xuejun blinked hard: "Cat, don't cry, let's go and bring back the yard and shop first." .”

"Hi, brother Xuejun, hiccup, if you are sad, cry out, don't hold on." The kitten said, choking.

"Okay, let's go." Li Xuejun gently patted the kitten on the back.

Land deeds, store deeds, and bank notes were always kept by Yang Xiuer, and they were given to Li Xuejun when he drove Li Xuejun and the kitten away. With these contracts, Li Xuejun easily claimed a few ruins, and the government even made up for them. The new contract was exchanged for silver notes.

"Brother Xuejun, come down for a rest and eat something." The kitten shouted to Li Xuejun who was busy on a low adobe roof.

It has been six days since they were brought back to their residence, and the government has opened a large kiln to make earthen bricks, and those who need them can get them for free.Kitten and Li Xuejun split up every morning, one went to the town to collect building materials, and the other went to the town center to collect food.After several days of hard work, Kitty and Li Xuejun have built a simple small house, and it is expected that they will not have to sleep outside tonight.

"Brother, why are you here? Everything has been arranged at home?" Kitty came back with today's food, and was pleasantly surprised to see Wang Dazhu picking it up in the yard.

"Ah, don't worry about you two, tell me to come and have a look." Wang Dazhu raised his head and said with a silly smile.

"It's nothing, it's not a matter of a day or two, everyone is the same." The kitten put down the dry food and said: "Brother, wait a moment, I will start a fire and cook right away."

"Don't worry, let's meet again when Xuejun comes back. I entered the town because I saw him coming soon." Wang Dazhu carefully searched in the scorched black.

Wang Dazhu helped Xiaomao and Li Xuejun build a few rooms and then left. The village was also in a hurry.

At the end of September, God finally opened his eyes. An autumn rain came, and then it began to rain normally, and the drought was relieved.Several massacres and arson by the soldiers of the previous dynasty effectively curbed the spread of the plague. The new emperor invited experienced folk doctors to find out a way to prevent it. A catastrophe caused by the drought in the north finally came to an end.

Half a year later, everything in the town was almost back to normal. Li Xuejun hired people to help build a new yard and shop, and the shop still planned to make a living as before.

Zhao Er left after the situation stabilized. He said he would go back to the north to find his family.

"Ah, I want to go out to find some goods. I'm afraid it's not safe for Xiaomao to be in the town. I'll send him back to live for a while." Li Xuejun confessed to Wu Suer who was waiting at the door.

Wang Er has been officially elected as the village head. In addition to reclaiming his own wasteland every day, he has to help the villagers resolve various disputes, and he is too busy to see anyone.Li Xuejun sent the kitten back to the village, only Wu Suer was at home.

"Let's talk first." Wu Su'er welcomed Li Xuejun and the kitten into the yard: "Cat, that room over there is reserved for you, go and pack your things first."

After Wu Su'er dismissed the kitten, she said to Li Xuejun: "Xuejun, if you want to go out for a run these few years, I won't stop you, just one, always remember when you are outside, you already have a family. Don't mess around, when the cat is older, put your heart back, don't break into it again, I don't hope that you can make the cat rich and rich, and you can live a stable life, you are not young anymore , In two years, the kitten will be 12 years old, and the house will be consummated, and you can start planning for children."

"Ah, I know, when the goods are found and stabilized, I won't travel far." Li Xuejun explained.

"Hehe, Xuejun is already an adult, so you don't need to talk too much, you have your own measure." Wu Su'er said with a smile.

The government distributes adobe bricks for free, but there are no thatched houses in the village, and every household is a brick and tile house.The kitten took a look, and found that the layout of his yard was similar to before, except that he had built an extra large room, which was the room he lived in now, and the furniture was not prepared yet, except for a large bed.

At Li Jiaer's suggestion, when everyone was busy building their own houses, Wang Dazhu hired a carpenter as his teacher to learn the craft. The old carpenter came from another place and was separated from his relatives. Son, not to mention spending a lot of apprenticeship fees, and not learning the real skills of the master. Most of the carpenter's unique skills are passed down from generation to generation.With carpentry skills, as long as there are no natural disasters and man-made disasters, farming in normal times and making furniture in spare time, life is much easier than that of ordinary farmers.The old carpenter wandered to Dahe Village. Wang Er was not like other newly built villages. The widows and orphans were taken in, and it was just a burden. Anyone who wanted to stay in Dahe Village, Wang Er would make arrangements for him, so there appeared in Dahe Village a similar to the orphans of later generations. In the courtyard, the old, young, sick and disabled without family members are placed there, relying on the people in the courtyard to do some small work and the village's relief.The old carpenter's legs and feet were no longer flexible, and Li Jiaer brought Wang Dazhu to visit his teacher. The old carpenter saw that Wang Dazhu was a down-to-earth and willing to work, so he agreed without making things difficult.

Originally, Wu Su'er was worried that Wang Dazhu would learn crafts, and Wang Er would be busy with village affairs, and the work in the field would be too much. As a result, Li Jiaer's elder brother was equal to a young and strong father, and the four-year-old twins were in Fighting in the field, he just didn't drop the autumn sowing.

After lunch, Li Xuejun left with a small burden on his back, and the family rested in the yard.

"Asu, an old Gong student came to the village a few days ago, and his knowledge seems to be good. I'm thinking about building a school in the village, how about it?" Wang Er said to Wu Su'er while twisting the hemp rope quickly.

"Okay, okay, Dad, this is a very good thing." The kitten heard it, and cheered without waiting for Wu Suer's reaction.

"You're still blah, there's no steady image." Wu Su'er put down her needlework and patted the kitten's head: "You should think about it. Be the head of this village and do your best."

Wu Su'er glanced at the twins playing in the corner of the yard. In the past few months, the twins had lost their skinny cheeks due to lack of food. With food, they went to the fields to help with work every day, and their faces were gone. The child's tenderness made her heart tighten for a while: "If you want to build a school, hurry up. Wang Xing and Wang Zu are just the age to start school. If they can get in, let them go to school in the future."

"Ah, ah, let me teach Wang Xing and Wang Zu to read first tonight, okay?" The kitten pulled Wu Suer's sleeve and shook it, and from the corner of his eye, he saw Li Jiaer stopped what he was doing, and his face showed a little Looking eager, he went on to say: "Brother Jia will follow suit, okay?"

Li Jia'er hurriedly waved her hands and said: "I have learned how to make things, but I am stupid and can't learn!"

"How come, it's very simple to recognize characters."

"Okay, okay, let Wang Xing and Wang Zu study with you for half an hour at night, brother Jia, too, it's better to know a few words than to be blind." Wu Su'er patted the kitten's hand and said.