God's plan to save

Chapter 36

An Tian would come to see Yan Xiaoqi and Zhao Dazhuang every day. He tried to 'change' a piece of silver to ease the life of the Zhao family, but Yan Xiaoqi didn't dare to take that kind of money.

The imperial court was very strict with the money, and the source and serial number were stamped on the bottom of each ingot. If she took it out and used it rashly, she would be caught in prison if she couldn't return to the village.

Even if it is cut into pieces of silver, the color is too eye-catching.

Zhao Dazhuang's health has not been recovering all the time. Mrs. Zhao has completely stopped caring about seeing his wife for the three sons. Every day he either cleans up the house or takes care of Zhao Dazhuang's dressing and taking medicine.

But even so, Zhao Dazhuang closed his eyes permanently on a snowy morning, and the wound on his head was repeatedly inflamed and high-fever, bleeding at every turn. In the past two months, his body has rapidly deteriorated to the most serious level .

On the morning of Zhao Dazhuang's death, Yan Xiaoqi knelt on the edge of the kang, looking at the sunken cheeks that had been tortured by the disease, the pain in his heart was beyond words.

What echoed in my ears was Zhao's heart-piercing cries. With Zhao Dazhuang around, no matter how hard life is, the family has a pillar, and this family is still a complete family.

Now, the pillars are gone, only orphans and widows are left, how can life continue?Is the family gone like this?
For the first time, her heart was full of confusion, and she was also full of awe of this unknown time and space. When life, old age, sickness and death appeared in front of her so cruelly and unexpectedly, she could only passively accept it like this, and was at the mercy of her.

Putting on filial piety clothes and a filial piety hat, she knelt in front of the mourning hall with paper money in her hand. When someone came in, she would mechanically hand out a stack of paper, and when the other person offered incense and paper, she would bow and kowtow in return.

For three whole days, she just stood guard in front of Zhao Dazhuang's coffin, neither crying nor making noise, being sensible and polite.The little person stubbornly grabbed the short sleeves and held on, letting the cold winter wind blow on her thin body.

Eight-year-old An Tian is no longer as ignorant as he was when he was a child. He comes every day and sees Yan Xiaoqi kneeling in the cold wind like that, and his heartache will pour out unconsciously.

Yan Xiaoqi's hands and feet had already developed red and swollen chilblains. She didn't seem to know the pain, and she still followed the ancient rituals to do things seriously every day, busy with her brother Zhang Luo.

No matter how An Tian tried to stop her, it was useless, even if she was asked to sit down and rest for a while. If she couldn't resist, he could only discuss with An Shi to bring some small cotton clothes from the family and put them on Yan Xiaoqi's body.

Over and over again, he thought about what food he could 'conjure' to fill Yan Xiaoqi's stomach.

They stopped for five days, and early in the morning on the fifth day, the old people in the village came to help them arrange the burial one by one.Mrs. Zhao kept it for several years, and all the three taels of silver used to expand the yard were used to deal with Zhao Dazhuang's death.

Zhao's family, including Yan Xiaoqi's grandma and grandfather, all rushed over, including Sun Bei who had been trying to find a chance.

There is no need to kneel down anymore, Yan Xiaoqi is in the kitchen preparing meals, after the burial, the folks will come over to eat table seats, although there are daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law who are good friends with Mrs. Zhao who come to help, Mrs. Zhao has been infatuated since the day Mr. Zhao Dazhuang passed away. Stupid, silly, they always need someone to work with them.

The little money left in the family is in Zhao Feng's hands. He has lost a lot of weight because of his busy schedule these days.

Sun Bei came here early in the morning, and since he was too young to help, he wandered around in the yard. As soon as he came, he saw Yan Xiaoqi who was busy with a group of wives and women. She was thinner than when he came last time, as if It was because of the wind that it was blown up, the sunken face became more obvious, and the eyes were ridiculously big.

He stood in the corner of the yard and observed Yan Xiaoqi earnestly. He saw her expression was dull, she spoke and acted mechanically, it was obvious that she had not recovered after suffering a heavy blow.

This should be a unique opportunity, right?Taking advantage of such a chaotic moment, when no one is around, hit her on the head. . .The more Sun Bei thought about it, the more excited he became.

Yan Xiaoqi is really sad these days. Since she opened her eyes and came to this world, Zhao Dazhuang and his wife have given her the purest parental love. That kind of honest and heartfelt affection makes her attach and enjoy.

Her childhood whimsy had already made her regret countless times, and when she finally decided to cheer up and do her part for the family, the days that had never been easy became worse.

The cause of all this is the two years when I was self-willed when I was a child, right?She closed her dry eyes, unable to forgive herself at all.

The hands kept moving, kneading the corn dough vigorously. The dough has risen very well, and put a little white flour in it. The cake will be steamed later. She wants to secretly save some for Mrs. Zhao. The time has not been eating well, and her body will not be able to bear it if this continues.

Yan Xiaoqi was thinking about it, but completely ignored herself, forgetting that she was just an eight-year-old child, a malnourished and stunted child.

Dizziness and heart palpitations came in waves, Yan Xiaoqi shook his head vigorously, trying to wake himself up.But for a long time, she has been relying on porridge for a long time, her body has already been overdrawn to the limit, her hand kneading the dough became more and more exhausted, her body went limp, and she fell to the ground with a thud.

Seeing that she had fainted, the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law beside her hurried into the room to call for someone, but Mrs. Zhao had been in a daze these days as if she had been haunted by a nightmare. The mother-in-law Liu went in and shouted several times, but she didn't respond. , Mrs. Liu could only turn around and go out again, planning to find someone to carry Yan Xiaoqi into the house.

This man is the sky, the sky is falling, life is hard.But, as a mother, you always have to think about how many children you have. If she is like this, what should you do with those half-grown children?Mrs. Liu had some complaints in her heart, but after all, it was not her family's business, so she had no choice but to say nothing.

Yan Xiaoqi fainted, this is great news for Sun Bei, he has been thinking about how to do it just now so that he will not be discovered by others, and Yan Xiaoqi will not be called out.

He rubbed his hands, and leaned over with a worried face: "Ma'am, why did my cousin faint? Help me lift her up on my back, I have to carry her into the room slowly."

In a hurry to make lunch, the big guy didn't pay much attention to Sun Bei, and only helped Yan Xiaoqi onto him. Sun Bei carried her on his back, and walked around the adobe house quickly while no one was paying attention, and walked towards the back of the yard.

Fortunately, Yan Xiaoqi is only a handful of bones!It was a little hard to carry, Sun Bei turned to the backyard and threw Yan Xiaoqi on the ground out of breath, with a wooden stick as thick as a child's arm that he had found earlier.

Unexpectedly, the task could be completed so easily, Sun Bei grinned grimly, picked up the wooden stick and smashed it hard at Yan Xiaoqi's head.

(End of this chapter)