Farmer’s Little Girl

  Chapter 236 Zhou Yin

  As soon as he saw the Liu family, Mr. Bai quickly asked about it.

  Liu asked him to serve him tea, and asked the kitchen to prepare some sweet soup for Master Bai to fill his stomach temporarily. Then he said: "You may not believe it, I think they are coming for my Bai family."

  Master Bai couldn't understand, and asked: "Why?"

Liu did not answer, but instead asked: "Lizhi, they seem to be looking for someone in the village. It should be a young person. In Zhou Jin's house, both sides reacted greatly. Do you know that he has a younger brother named Zhou. silver?"

  Master Bai was surprised, "Are they here for Zhou Yin?"

  Liu couldn’t help but sit up straight, and asked: "Do you know?"

  Master Bai gave a slightly uncomfortable cough, turned his head and asked, "Why is my aunt suddenly interested in these things?"

   Liu said: "You tell me first, and I will tell you later."

   Perceiving Liu's wariness, Mr. Bai was not sad, but was even more shocked. Auntie didn't even believe how big the matter was.

  Master Bai pondered for a while before he said, “Zhou Jin had a younger brother. When I moved with my family, he was not in the village, but he can often hear the villagers talk about him.”

  In the past six years, everyone has subconsciously avoided Zhou Yin and talked about it, as if it were a taboo, but it was.

Master Bai organized a language and said: "In the 11th year of the Great Virtue, the drought was severe in this area. The Zhou Jin family's family situation was not good at that time. Because the ancestors had a small population and there were many children in their generation, the family was very difficult. This disaster is the worst for their family."

  The dynasty began to divide the people and the land after the founding of the country, and it has only been divided into three generations.

  So Zhou Jin’s father only left a piece of Yongyetian for their brothers.

  But Zhou Jin was too able to give birth to six sons and a daughter. At that time, Zhou Dalang had just married, but had not yet become a child, so another person was added to the family.

  A drought directly pushed their family into a desperate situation.

Master Bai said: "I heard that Zhou Yin was brought up by Zhou Jin's wife, Qian. He was very filial and clever. He was only fourteen years old at the time. When people were not paying attention, he sold himself to a caravan. , And exchanged a bag of grain for the Zhou family."

   Liu's listened silently.

"Not only that, he was also very righteous, and he was thinking about the villagers. Not to mention the things that he had done for the village before, he said that he followed the villagers and returned with the caravan not long after. He was in the caravan for the villagers. The young and middle-aged people won a part-time job and introduced people from several families to do coolies in the county town. With that little grain, many people survived."

"But after that, he left with the caravan and never came back." The village head then asked Master Bai to help cover up, telling Zhou Yin all these things like a bamboo tube to pour millet, and Master Bai was right. Zhou Yin's impression was also very deep. In addition to the fact that this matter has been pressing in the bottom of his heart, he kept remembering, "Later, Zhou's family went to look for it, including the caravan passing by here. I heard that he was caught in the cold shortly after leaving. After the epidemic, the caravan left him some money and left. There was no news afterwards."

  Liu said, “It’s luck that people who have gotten the epidemic are still alive.”

"Yes, Zhou Yin was indeed still alive at the time. The first time my nephew saw him was in the early summer of six years ago, when he returned home with his wife and little clothes. I talked to him for a while and felt that he was a clear and unrestrained person. ."

  Because of this, he invited the other party back home for a drink. Master Bai felt that if Zhou Yin were alive at that time, they might become good friends.

  And Liu, hearing the word "Chu Xia", couldn't help but squeeze the handle of the chair, and asked, "What happened later?"

  Master Bai lowered his eyes and said: "When we meet for the second time, they are already dead."

Master Bai paused and said, "Zhou Jin said that his brother wanted to go back to live in his hometown, and he asked someone to send the furniture to the county town. At that time, he and his wife went to the county town to fetch things, but they didn't come back that day. The villagers who went up the mountain to look for mushrooms found that they had fallen on the mountain. They were covered in blood and their faces were scratched. However, the villagers knew the two of them very well and recognized them at a glance, so they carried them back."

   "At that time, they had nothing on them, and even the donkey carts they brought back were gone. Therefore, the Zhou family decided that they had encountered robbers and were about to report the crime to the county town. Who knew that officers and soldiers would come to the village first to investigate."

Master Bai said: "I was the first to receive people. They were careless. I first saw the portrait of Zhou Yin and his wife, so I asked one more question. They said it was a bandit, but how could Zhou Yin be a bandit? ?"

   Liu asked, "Do they have a donkey cart?"

  Master Bai was taken aback and nodded confusedly, "Yes, it was brought back by Zhou Yin. He took his wife and children back to the hometown and couldn't walk back, so he bought a donkey cart. What's wrong?"

   Liu slowly shook his head, "What then?"

  Master Bai was a little embarrassed. At that time, he had just lived in Qili Village, only for more than a year. Although the villagers were very enthusiastic, he always felt incompatible with his identity there.

  For Zhou Yin, and also to improve the relationship between the two sides, at that time he dragged down the official post and let someone go and notify Zhou Jin's family first.

   Then when he waited for the officer to check, almost everyone said that they didn’t know the two people in the portrait.

Master Bai said: "Almost all in the village have the surname Zhou, even if they are not from an ancestor, they are all related to relatives, and everyone in the village has been favored by Zhou Yin, and these officials are not local officials in Luojiang County. It’s easy to pass them."

   "But just like this, Zhou Jin's family didn't dare to erect a monument to Zhou Yin and his wife, they were only buried quietly on the mountain."

  Liu seemed a little uncomfortable, and leaned on the table with his elbows and asked, “What about their children? Didn’t they say that they were wives and children?”

  Master Bai paused, and whispered: "That person's aunt has also seen her."

  A bright light flashed in his mind, and Liu asked, "Yes, Zhou Man?"

   "Yes, it's the child, but she doesn't know it."

  Liu nodded, unable to hold back the tears anymore, and began to fall sternly.

  Master Bai was shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward and handed her the veil, "Auntie, what are you..."

   Liu wiped his tears, and said softly, "This may be fate."

  Master Bai:...

   "Qi'er didn't die at the hands of mountain bandits."

  Master Bai was taken aback, and quickly asked, "How come?"

  "Why not?" Liu said with some excitement: "Qi'er is going to kill the bandits, and he shouldn't come to Luojiang County. Shu County is not close to Luojiang County."

  "Didn't Ziqi kill the bandits in Shu County?"

   "No," Liu said with certainty: "They transported Qi'er's body to Shu County in disguise."

  (End of this chapter)