Although Aunt Dou hates Qi Xuan, she also knows that he does not bother to lie.
"Then have you seen the village chief?" Seeing Qixuan shook her head, Aunt Dou scolded: "I asked you to find out what's happening here. In the end, not only did you run in vain but also got beaten up. You tell me the truth? What can you do?"
Qi Xuan said: "I, I don't know that this kid's head can't be touched!" In Zhongyuan, although it is said that men and women are not married, they are also after the age of seven.
"Then tell me what you know? Do you know how to farm? Do you know how to grow vegetables?" After speaking, Aunt Dou's face changed, and she rushed into the room where the grain was stored.
Qi Xuan was hurting all over, but he still followed. Seeing Aunt Dou rummaged in the room, Qi Xuan asked, "What are you going crazy?" In Qixuan's eyes, Aunt Dou was a shrew who could go crazy at any time.
After searching, Aunt Dou was about to cry: "If there are no vegetable seeds, how can there be no vegetable seeds?" I won't talk about leaving so many bags of grain, and there is no vegetable seeds. What do you want them to eat from now on? You can't eat potato sweet potatoes every day.
Qi Xuan originally wanted to say that he could dig wild vegetables to eat, but he swallowed it back when he heard the words. Wild vegetables are eaten in spring, but what about winter? Nothing in winter. When the time comes, do you really want to eat sweet potatoes every day
After thinking about it, Qixuan said, "There are no vegetable seeds. Let's go to the village and ask for some."
Aunt Dou turned her head and snorted coldly: "Want some? All the vegetable seeds you used as a family fell from the sky?" It's unrealistic to ask for some, but it can be replaced with something. It's just that they don't have anything now.
Thinking of this, Aunt Dou thought of her box of jewelry. As a result, after opening the package for a long time, she did not find her jewelry box.
Qi Xuan looked at her with a frustrated expression and asked, "What are you looking for?"
"My jewelry box was taken away by them." Gu Jiu would definitely not covet something from them, so the only explanation was that she was not allowed to take shortcuts.
Queen Mother, this is too cruel, this is really to push them into desperation!
Qixuan understood what Aunt Dou was thinking, looked at the clothes on the bed and said, "We can go to the village and change our clothes for vegetables!"
If it weren’t for the queen mother to ask her to break Yun Qixuan, Aunt Dou would disdain him: “I will change the clothes, what shall we wear?” Originally there were only three changes of clothes, and the clothes could not be dried when it rained. It's time to be naked.
Qi Xuan looked at the two thick quilted jackets and said, "This quilted jacket is temporarily unavailable. You can change the vegetables and other things."
Aunt Dou couldn't hold back, she kicked it over: "Now I have changed the quilted jacket. Will it freeze to death in winter?" This is the young master who doesn't know the suffering of the world.
In fact, if it hadn't been for the hardships in Shudi that year, none of these things would have been known.
Qi Xuan said: "I will paint two paintings and sell them in town. If I have money, I can buy things for the winter."
Seeing Aunt Dou fixedly looking at him, Qi Xuan's heart burst: "Did I say something wrong?"
Aunt Dou held back her anger, and said, "Let’s not say whether your paintings are worth the money. Does anyone want it? Just this place, do you think you can get out? If you can go to town at will, why bother with the empress dowager? Get here?"
Qi Xuan's expression changed: "You mean the village head won't allow us to leave the village?"
"What do you mean?"
In fact, Qi Xuan had this guess in his heart, but he just didn't admit it.
No matter how hard it is, I have to live and go back to see my son alive. Aunt Dou stood up and said, "Get up, let's go to the village chief together." She was really starving to death if she counted on this waste.
The village chief lived in a house built of stones, and there were quite a few houses, including six. Just looking at the stones piled up in the house, you also know that it takes a lot of effort.
The outside of the house here is an open area, unlike the houses of good families in Beijing, they will have a yard.
Seeing Qi Xuan's fierce face, a man with a stubborn look murmured. Although I don't understand, but I want to know that it is definitely not a good thing.
Aunt Dou pulled Qixuan down, and then bent over ninety degrees toward the man.
Qi Xuan felt aggrieved, but he was going to live here for a year. The so-called people under the eaves have to be low. Then he said apologetically: "I'm sorry, we just came here and didn't understand the rules. Please forgive me for the offense."
The sturdy man's expression eased a lot, and then he called to the main courtyard.
After a while, an old man in coarse clothes with a cigarette stick in his hand walked out of it.
In the Central Plains, all things outside are made by men. Aunt Dou pushed Qixuan to let him speak.
Qi Xuan asked respectfully: "Are you the village head Mr. Su?"
Su Li looked at Qi Xuan from top to bottom, and then called the two into the house.
There is a long table in the main hall with many chairs on either side. There were all sorts of things in the corner, and many Qixuan didn't recognize them.
After entering the house, the village chief knocked on his cigarette and asked, "Archie said that you offended a big man in your hometown. What big man did you offend?"
Gu Jiu told the village chief that Qixuan was not a weapon and had offended powerful people. The elders in the family were afraid that the other party would be black hands, so they sent them out to hide for a few years. As for the exact number of years, Gu Jiu didn't know.
Although it is in Mandarin, it has a strong local accent. Qi Xuan even guessed and guessed the land before he understood the meaning of these words: "I..." I wanted to say that I didn't offend anyone, but I thought that even if Xia Gu Jiu told the village head like this, he wouldn't recognize the village head and he wouldn't believe it. . It's very simple. If it wasn't for offending people or committing serious things, it would be impossible to come to this horrible place.
After traveling abroad for so many years, it is impossible for Qi Xuan to really be a novice who doesn't understand anything. Qi Xuan lowered his head and said, "I offended the brother-in-law of Zhizhou." In such a remote place, Zhizhou is a great official to them.
The village chief knew that he was offending the big man, and immediately said: "Don't worry, it's surrounded by mountains. They can't find you."
Qi Xuan had a spirit in his heart. He had only heard of being surrounded by mountains on three sides, but had never heard of being surrounded by mountains on all sides.
Aunt Dou felt wrong, but she heard the pride in the village chief’s words, and asked with a smile: "Yes! When we came, we found that this place is a treasure of geomantic omen." When she said this, she was ruthless. Qi Xuan was pinched to the ground. This is also afraid of Qixuan talking nonsense, and offend the village chief by then.
The four words of Fengshui Baodi pleased the village chief.
The village chief laughed and said: "You are right. This is the treasured land of geomantic omen. A few decades ago, there were wars outside, and the officials were recruiting civilians, and many people died. But here, we have not been affected at all."
Qi Xuan felt wrong: "Could it be that the local government didn't come here to recruit soldiers?"
The village chief said proudly: "They can't come in. Even if they come in, they can't come to the village alive without us leading the way."
Qi Xuan thought of the cliff behind the house, and his anxiety grew stronger.
Without waiting for him to speak, Aunt Dou asked: "Lord of the village, we don't have vegetable seeds. When do you think the people in the village will go to the market? I want to go to the town to buy some vegetable seeds."
Hearing this, the village chief frowned: "The people in our village went to town a few days ago, and the next time they go to town will be three months later." Their village went out once every three months.
After going to the fair every three months, Qi Xuan, who had traveled many places, was also shocked. What the hell is this place, why do you have to go out every three months.
After thinking about it, Qi Xuan asked: "The village chief, besides vegetable seeds, we have to buy a lot of things. The village chief, can you ask someone to take us out." Oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, cloth and huh soap, etc. I don’t have anything, I have to buy everything.
The village chief shook his head and said, "There are many beasts out there. Many people have to go out together. And it takes four or five days to go out. It's the busy farming season, and they don't have time to go with you."
Qi Xuan felt wrong, and asked: "We have walked two or three hours since we got here from the town!" The four or five days that we told the village chief were completely wrong.
The village chief hummed and said, "That's because you are walking on a ladder. Naturally, when you walk on a ladder, it will be fast."
Qi Xuan knew it badly when he heard this name: "Village Chief, I want to ask you to take us to see the ladder."
"Yes." The reason why the village chief speaks so well is because he has benefited greatly. If not, Qi Xuan and Aunt Dou, who have offended big shots, will not be allowed to take refuge here.
You have to go through the whole village to get to the ladder. Along the way, many villagers saw them whispering, and there was a burst of laughter from time to time.
Hearing their laughter, Qi Xuan felt that these people were laughing at him. Qi Xuan couldn't help thinking more because he was ridiculed before carrying water and wrestling.
"The village chief, what are they laughing at?" Aunt Dou was not only winked, but also put down because she had to deal with all kinds of guests on the boat with her parents. So when she called Su Li as the head of the village, she was very respectful in her words. Who is Ke Qixuan? Except for his parents and elder brother, no one needs him to bow his head. He restrained himself just now, but he spoke with a commanding tone in his heart.
The village chief was a little unhappy when he heard this tone. This tone, the same tone he used to train others. No wonder it will offend people, it's strange that people who don't have a temperament can't offend people.
But for the sake of that box of silver, I can bear it. However, what the village chief said is not so pleasant: "They are talking about why your skin is so white? They are all guessing whether you used to stay at home and never do anything, relying on your mother-in-law." In fact, Qixuan is not very good. White, a complexion like him is considered average in the capital. It's just that the guy in the mountain except winter. At other times, I have to go out to work every day, and it’s darkened by the sun. In contrast, Qixuan is particularly white and tender.
Qi Xuan's face turned black in an instant.
Aunt Dou remembered what happened just now, and said respectfully: "My lord village, we didn't understand a lot of things just now, I hope you can tell us. Otherwise, I am afraid that the misunderstanding today will happen again."
The village chief glanced at Aunt Dou with admiration, this woman is more sensible than the kid surnamed Han: "The girl in our village is not allowed to touch her except for her family. Not even a single strand of hair will work."
After finishing speaking, the village chief glanced at Qixuan: "My son also knows that you didn't understand the rules here. If a man in the village touches it, he will definitely chop off his hand. But there will be something like this next time. , You are asking for more blessings."
Qi Xuan shuddered, where did his mother send him!
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