novelaction Chapter 131 A Safe Place
Chapter 131 A Safe Place
The family members looked at each other in bewilderment. They had never been to the North before, and the North was so large. Who would have known that the place they were going to was actually the territory of the Hu people? If they had known earlier...
"Hey, you don't have to be afraid. Beiyuan is now guarded by General Xu Xiushan. The old general has been fighting on the border for decades since he joined the army. Although he has never been defeated, he has won more than he has lost. As long as he is guarding, the Hu people have disturbed the border so many times on this line, but they have never set foot on the pass. Now, looking at the entire country, I am afraid that the only place that can still have a peaceful day is the north. Elsewhere, it is either natural disasters or man-made disasters. The people can't eat and become bandits. They rise up in rebellion. There are wars everywhere. It is better to be stable in the north."
The old man talked for a long time, mainly because he was very depressed these days. He had a stern face and looked lifeless. He couldn't find anyone to talk to.
Everyone listened and nodded thoughtfully, and no one responded.
The old man looked a little sad. If Zhou Su were still alive, as soon as he finished speaking, the little guy would take over and exclaim, "This old general is so awesome!"
"This old general is really amazing." Zhou Guo praised: "I hope he can live longer, so that he can protect the North for a longer time, and we can have a few more days of peace."
The other members of the Zhou family nodded in agreement. Yes, they just wanted to live a peaceful life.
After these words, everyone had a general idea of their future life, and they couldn't help but start thinking about how to live a good life in such a chaotic time and under the threat of the Hu people.
Zhou Guo was also thinking about how to live in the north.
These words made everyone in the family no longer depressed. They now had things to worry about, and they didn't even have time to be sad.
Li was also very busy, counting the money in her hands. Before her mother-in-law left, she gave her all the money in the house.
When she left the village, the family's savings totaled more than one hundred coins, plus what she earned on the road, robbed... no, picked up, the total was almost one hundred and twenty-two taels. She spent some of it on buying meat, salt, needles and thread, medical treatment and medicine, which cost her almost two taels. She still had one hundred and twenty taels left, so she still had five taels in her hand.
With this money, I can at least rebuild a home in the north.
We can also build a few large brick and tile houses. Seeing that the children have all grown up and are only a few years away from getting married, this house cannot be built smaller. We have to build a few more rooms to avoid having to add on later.
Something has to be prepared for them when they get married. Guoguo is not in a hurry. Zhou Xing is getting older, and it will be in the next two years. She has to be given some dowry. A girl without a dowry will never be able to hold her head up in her husband's family, and will be pointed at by the villagers all her life. She has experienced that feeling for more than ten years.
I must never let my children fall into such a situation again.
Girls need dowries, and boys also need betrothal gifts, which are the biggest expense.
As for this land, I don't know if they will be given some land in the future. If not, they will have to buy it with money. It is said that the teenagers can eat their fathers out of money. They can all eat five or six bowls of food in one meal. If you don't have some financial resources, who can afford it? I just don't know if the land in the north is expensive.
If they had settled down, they would have nothing now except two carts and pots and pans.
The few quilts that were brought out were used to bury my parents-in-law.
The children had no clothes. All the good clothes they had were gone. The few clothes they had were with them all the way and were already in tatters. I heard that it is very cold in the north in winter, so they need to prepare quilts and thick clothes.
We also need to buy some small items for the house, such as a bed and a table.
When you calculate it this way, it’s really a huge expense. Fortunately, I have this money, otherwise I really don’t know how I would survive in the north.
When the children heard that the north was just ahead, they couldn't help but get excited. They had been walking for so long and were like homeless dogs on the road. Now their home was just ahead, and it was like they had found their roots. Their hearts instantly settled down.
Zhou Dacang grinned when he saw how happy his family was.
"Uncle, shall we go into the mountains?" Seeing that he was in a better mood, Zhou Guo stepped forward to invite him, thinking that it would be better to go out for a walk to relax.
Zhou Dacang glanced at her sideways, "After entering the mountains once, are you feeling wild now?"
"It's not that I'm wild at heart, it's that I've become picky about food." She said with a sad face. After getting used to eating rabbits and pheasants, who could go back to the days when they had to eat bran and vegetables for every meal? Besides, they have such conditions now, unlike that time when they couldn't even find water to drink, and there were no birds singing in the mountains, let alone any wild animals.
Zhou Dacang pondered for a moment, nodded vigorously, and stood up, "Okay, let's go into the mountains and hunt dozens of prey."
Zhou Guo's eyes lit up. She was glad to be in the mood to go into the mountains. She looked at the old man who was dozing off beside her and said, "Master, you should come with us."
"I won't go. I'm so old, and you still ask me to go into the mountains to work. Can't you have a little filial piety? I am your master after all. Can't you bear to see me rest?" The old man shook his head without even opening his eyes. He was not destined to work hard.
"Okay then, you just take a rest. I'll come back with some big prey to honor you." Zhou Guo didn't force him. The old man was exhausted during this period of time. He accompanied her to find her brother and went into the mountains. He took good care of her along the way, just like raising his own daughter. She could just take a rest.
The two men did not ride horses, mainly because Zhou Dacang did not know how to ride. They said they were going into the woods to hunt, so each of them only carried a big knife and nothing else.
Zhou Guo didn't care. She just wanted to let her uncle go into the woods to relax. Zhou Dacang was not worried either. It was not like he had never done hunting before.
The two of them went in leisurely.
When other families in the village saw this, they were extremely envious. "Oh, it's a pity that we don't have such a skill. The two children of the Zhou family are really capable. If they learn this skill, they will never lack meat no matter where they go in the future."
"What's the big deal? When they come out, if there are a lot of them, we can just go up and buy some. We are from the same village, so I think they won't want to charge us too much. Just a token of appreciation will be enough."
"Humph, you are so shameless to say that. The uncle and nephew worked so hard to fight for their lives, why should they give you the advantage? Who are you to them? How dare you take advantage of this orphan and widow? Do you have no conscience?"
"That's not what I meant. I'm thinking about my fellow villagers. There's no need to be so heartless for such a small amount of game. They are embarrassed to ask for it, but we can't just do it for the sake of showing our respect."
In recent days, the rumor that the Li Lai brothers are natural nemesis has been spreading more and more in the team. Even some children know a little about it. As time goes by, everyone feels alienated when facing the two children.