After Dressing Up As a Stepmother, I Transformed the Whole Family Into Working In the Fields Chapter 54

Chapter 54 Official messengers are coming

Qin Yao was given a bag of fine yellow-orange millet, which weighed fifty kilograms. When converted into money, it was only half a tael of silver.

The eyes of Liu Ji and his son were all bright. Qin Yao handed over the rice, and Liu Ji immediately reached out and took it, not forgetting to praise her: "Madam, how can you do it if there is no one in this family who is kind-hearted?"

Qin Yao rolled her eyes and didn't bother to give him a look. She motioned for the four younger ones to follow her and left.

Liu Bai and Liu Fei each carried a sack of rice weighing fifty kilograms, a total of one hundred kilograms. Even after the husks were removed, more than half of it was left. They were the envy of others.

The two brothers caught up with them, but they couldn't move fast while carrying the food. They could only shout: "Brother and sister, wait!"

The two families dropped in on each other, and we had company when we walked together.

 Qin Yao stopped, and Liu Ji also stopped. He heard that today the eldest brother and Liu Fei, the younger brother, also used weapons to fight off the horse thieves. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, looked at the two of them curiously, and joked:

“I didn't expect you, eldest brother, to be so brave. In the past, I thought the second brother was more arrogant, but I didn't expect him to be coward today.”

What is even more frightening is that the horse bandits who came to Liujia Village yesterday were just a small team.

However, the two policemen who stayed behind also said that the county magistrate and county magistrate received a report last night, and they immediately sent people to issue notices to nearby villages and towns in Kaiyang County to remind people to pay attention.

Qin Yao asked: "Have you found all the food that was stolen from your home?"

At the same time, we have asked the magistrate for instructions, asking the military camp near the government office to immediately organize the troops and come to suppress the bandits.

Thinking of the two acres of wheat fields in unknown condition, even the fragrant chicken soup that Zhang had cooked all morning felt bland.

 Early in the morning, before daybreak, a large group of officers and soldiers wearing official uniforms, riding high horses and carrying torches, entered the valley and formed a long torchlight dragon on the winding path.

 It is said that it is to fight fire with fire. If the remaining two hens are frightened, they may lay eggs.

Such evil deeds are truly horrifying to hear.

Looking at it from a distance, a little red light is floating in the blackness, which is a bit eerie.

 The horses and corpses left behind by the horse bandits have been brought back by the officials.

The village chief walked to the door of the ancestral hall and waved his hand, signaling everyone to go to their homes.

The red lantern should have been hanging cheerfully under the eaves, but now it was illuminated by Qin Yaoti's hand.

"Okay!" Liu Bai was also annoyed, "Shut up!"

Liu Ji moved the rice to the storage room next to the stove and put it away. His body instinctively started working in the kitchen, lighting a fire and boiling a large pot of hot water.

Si Niang shouted: "I won't play with you anymore!"

 Liu Ji: "Okay~"

The population of the village over there was similar to that of Liujia Village, but because there was no leader like Qin Yao, they were unable to resist at all. Food, livestock, money, women and children were all robbed.

"Your second brother is not my second brother? We are a family, look at this kid, he is talking about two families." Liu Jichang smiled at Qin Yao, with an air of grandeur like we are not as knowledgeable as a little kid.

Before leaving, the two of them took a look at Qin Yao and seemed to feel that she was not as tall as she was. They nodded to her, quickly got on their horses, shouted "Drive!" and rode away.

Liu Fei couldn't tolerate him and sneered: "If it weren't for my third sister-in-law, you, Liu Laosan, would have been so scared that you wet your pants! You have the nerve to criticize my second brother, how shameless?"

As he spoke, he leaned closer to Liu Fei, touched the grain bag on his shoulder, and found that it was rice, which made it even more squishy.

This day was so stressful that everyone couldn't stand it anymore, so they fell into a deep sleep.

 It sounds reassuring, at least the government is still in charge.

Qin Yao responded.

Liu Bai hummed and said, "We have found them all, except for one of the four hens. I don't know if it was taken away by horse thieves or if it was picked up and killed by others."

He was eager to join in the fun, and he was also eager to go to the old house to drink chicken soup. The five father and son were running wildly on the road that turned snow into ice. Qin Yao watched them fall into pieces one by one with her own eyes. She felt no fluctuation in her heart and even wanted to laugh a little.

“My mother said that the three remaining hens were frightened and worried that they would not lay eggs.”

 Qin Yao was awakened by the sound of horse hooves at first, and then heard some noise coming from the ancestral hall. He guessed that the officers and soldiers had arrived, and continued to fall down to meet Duke Zhou.

 When it came to spring plowing, Qin Yao was shocked.

“It's okay, let's all disperse. The snow has melted before our eyes, and we are still busy with spring plowing.”

Qin Yao shouted coldly: "Get out!"

Four children were walking hand in hand between their parents. The family of six stepped through the wet snow in front of the door and finally returned home.

He patted himself on the shoulder and said, "Millet, yellow and orange, out of shell."

When the horse bandits left, they also set a fire and burned down the ancestral hall in Wangjiaao.

By the time she woke up, the officials had already left, leaving only two minor officials behind at the ancestral hall to understand what was going on with the villagers.

Seeing that she didn't move, Liu Ji, who had already finished his bowl, shamelessly came over and asked if he wanted to help her drink. He didn't mind.

Getting up and patting her butt, she stood there aggrievedly and waited for Qin Yao to come over. She followed A Niang.

 Liu Ji took two quick steps and stayed away from Liu Fei.

 Sheng Guo had just established a new dynasty, which was when the imperial power was most concentrated. If the court knew that each government could not deal with a group of horse bandits, and the emperor would be angry, it would be a big trouble.

The main team returned to the village to celebrate after grabbing Wangjia'ao, leaving the small team that came to Liujia Village yesterday to continue searching in surrounding villages.

 Hearing this information, Liu Ji broke out in a cold sweat.

 Liu Bai knew his temperament and didn't argue with him.

This group of horse bandits numbered in the hundreds, and they were a robbery gang with certain organizational capabilities.

 The whole family gathered around the stove, drank hot water, warmed themselves up, and then went back to their houses to rest.

When they arrived at the ancestral hall, Qin Yao and others realized that the horse bandits had plundered a nearby village called Wangjiaao earlier before coming to Liujia Village.

It doesn't matter, this is no longer a group of criminals committing crimes alone, but a group of gangsters, the nature of which is very different.

Liu Fei couldn't stand his teasing and looked at his elder brother angrily, "Brother, you don't care about this person!"

The two last-minute servants finished their official duties at the ancestral hall and only accepted two white-flour steamed buns from the village chief's wife, decisively refusing Liu Dafu's lunch.

Everyone was thankful that only a small team came yesterday, otherwise the tragedy in Wangjia'ao would have happened in Liujia Village.

“Oh, by the way, my father and mother asked me to tell you that when we come home for dinner tomorrow morning, my mother will kill a chicken and eat it.”

When they reached the door of the old house, Qin Yao and his family stopped going in and went straight home.

 Liu Ji woke up the four children, put on warm cotton clothes, quickly washed up, and urged Qin Yao to go out.

Erlang blamed Sanlang. Sanlang weakly said that he was the eldest brother, but Dalang glared at his father angrily. This was the culprit.

Over the next month or so, officers and soldiers came two or three times. Each time they came, they just asked about the number of horse bandits, what they looked like, and where they could trace them.

The village chief responded seriously every time, and at the same time, he showed up from time to time because of official duties. The villagers gradually let go of their nervousness and concentrated on the new round of farming.

 (End of this chapter)

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