After dressing up as a stepmother, I transformed the whole family into working in the fields

Aniang, do people in the city post this during the Chinese New Year? Siniang asked curiously.

Today the children all wore new red coats and were full of joy.

Si Niang is also blushing, and her fleshy little face looks like two red apples against the red background, making people want to take a bite.

Qin Yao explained: This is the word blessing. It should be pasted upside down, which means that blessing has arrived.

I don't know if anyone in the city celebrates the New Year like this, but from now on, this is how our family will celebrate the New Year.

The son of the patriarch has been studying at the county academy for three years. This morning he set up a long table in his yard to write couplets for the villagers.

The villagers would bring two eggs or a bowl of rice, and red paper prepared by themselves, and ask the patriarch's son to help write a couplet for good luck.

Early in the morning, Qin Yao asked Dalang Erlang to bring half a bowl of fine rice in exchange for a pair of couplets. Now they are pasted together with the word Fu, and then she hangs a pair of red lanterns she bought before under the eaves of the hall. The atmosphere is quite good.

Liu Ji stood at the door, reading the couplets posted on both sides of the door over and over again, and snorted: The writing is not much better than mine.

Sure enough, Mr. He made tofu. In the morning, when Qin Yao asked Da Lang Erlang to write couplets, he sent two kilograms of white flour to the old house as a New Year greeting to the two elders.

At noon, Jinbao and Jinhua brought a bowl of freshly baked tofu.

Qin Yao wanted to give soybeans, but they didn't want them either. Qin Yao had no choice but to give two copper coins to each other as money, and watched the two brothers and sisters run home happily.

There was still snow on the road, and the two of them fell several times along the way. It didn't hurt at all, and their cheerful laughter spread far away.

Dinner is ready! Liu Ji shouted in the main room.

Qin Yao closed the courtyard door, pushed open the closed door of the main room and walked in. A charcoal fire was burning brightly. There was an iron pot on it. In the pot, there was stewed meat, tofu and bean sprouts from Qin Yao's own. There is the last cabbage in the house.

There is such a full pot of stew, it is steaming, and the room feels warm just by looking at it.

The four children were already impatient. Seeing Qin Yao sitting down, Liu Ji asked expectantly: Have you eaten?

Qin Yao nodded: Eat.

The children happily picked up the dishes and chopsticks, and picked up whatever they could. Sanlang and Siniang, who couldn't pick up the dishes, begged their father and mother.

They all say that they can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Dalang and Erlang were so hot that they breathed out.

Qin Yao told them to vomit, and they shook their heads with tears in their eyes, reluctant to waste food.

Moreover, the tofu has been cooked for a long time, and the flavor of the gravy has soaked in, making it delicious.

Qin Yao had no choice but to get up and go to the kitchen to bring in a pot of cold boiled water so that she could take a sip to calm down her mouth.

She was talking about the children, and when it was her turn, she was so hot that she breathed out, and the room was full of snickering sounds.

When the atmosphere was just right, an exclamation of There's a horse thief! suddenly came.

Qin Yao's eyes darkened and she put down her chopsticks.

She knew that this New Year's Eve dinner would not be enjoyable!

what happens?

Liu Ji didn't even have time to put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands, and stood up nervously, Why are there the sounds of horse hooves?

He hurriedly rushed out to check, and within half a minute he came back in a panic, put down the dishes and chopsticks, moved the stool to pick the two high-hanging red lanterns.

While picking, he said in a controlled voice: Horse thieves have entered the village to steal things! Hide quickly!

When the four children heard this, they were stunned.

Liu Ji threw the lantern on the table in the main room and was about to find a place to hide, only to find that Qin Yao was not in the room. He hurriedly ran to her bedroom. Sure enough, Qin Yao was inside.

The horse thief is here! He shouted sharply, fearing that she wouldn't know.

Qin Yao stuffed the money bag into her arms and quickly put on the convenient leather boots. She stuffed the dagger and slingshot on her waist and slung the quiver on her shoulder. She took out the long knife on the desk with one hand and picked up the long knife hanging on the wall with the other. With bows and arrows, he strode out.

When she saw Liu Ji, she glanced at him first. She had already heard what he was yelling about.

But now is not the time to get angry, so I calmly told him: We don't have a cellar to hide in. We can only rely on this newly built wall for defense to prevent them from entering.

You send the four children back to the house first, and I'll find something to hold the door open. Our house is in a remote location, so they may not come over.

After saying that, he slung the bow and arrow over his shoulder, put the long knife on the sink, and went to the firewood pile to find a big log of firewood to block the front and rear doors.

Liu Ji was just stunned for a moment, and then he immediately reacted. Seeing that she was not in a hurry, he felt a lot calmer. He drove the four frightened children back into the house and told them to close the doors and windows and stay away.

No one expected that the horse thieves would come at this time, thinking that the heavy snow would stop them from moving.

But thinking about the frozen zombie bodies that the village chief and others carried away for burial this morning, it is not difficult to guess that the horse thieves must have reached the end of their rope at this time.

This makes them impatient to wait for the snow to melt, and as soon as the sky clears, they can’t wait to go down the mountain to plunder.

When encountering such evil spirits, there is no guarantee that they will not kill anyone.

Ha~ Qin Yao suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly, there is no guarantee, he will definitely kill someone!

Those who are starving in the last days will see food everywhere they look.

When Qin Yao saw Liu Ji locking the door and settling the children and walking towards her, she asked him to bring the ladder and set it up to check the situation at the bottom of the mountain.

The terrain here is high and there is no obstruction in front of the door. At a glance, she can see a large group of people rushing into the village with strange screams. They divide into four waves at the village well and rush in different directions.

The horrified shouts of the villagers echoed throughout the village. The fence was low, and the horse thieves jumped in directly on horseback, searching the yard for anything valuable.

Unable to find it, two or three people broke open the door and went straight into the house. They grabbed the villagers' New Year's Eve dinner and stuffed it into their mouths. They threatened the owner with a knife and forced the owner to hand over the valuables.

It was inevitable that someone wanted to resist, but the horse thief stabbed him in the face!

Women screamed and children cried helplessly in fright.

Qin Yao frowned, watching the two horse thieves riding towards his house excitedly, taking off their bows and arrows, taking out the arrows on their backs and setting them on them.

Are they coming for us? Liu Ji stood under the ladder and asked in horror.

The door was blocked tightly by Qin Yao, not even a crack was exposed. He couldn't see, he could only hear the chaotic sounds coming from the village, imagining all kinds of terrible scenes, and scaring himself so much.

Qin Yao hummed, Two people came to our house on horseback, with bows, arrows and knives in their hands.

Liu Ji's scalp felt numb and he quickly asked: Are you okay?

Qin Yao nodded.

At this moment, Liu Ji felt that the way she stood on the wall and calmly drew her bow was so beautiful.

Then, what can I do? he asked, swallowing his saliva.

run?

He didn't even think about it!

There is a fierce woman like Qin Yao at home, and no one in the village is safer than by her side.

Qin Yao said softly: I will call you if necessary. If you are afraid, you can take the knife on the sink.

Liu Ji responded and hurriedly looked for Qin Yao's knife. He found it and grabbed it immediately.

His hand sank. He held the heavy sword specially made for Qin Yao with both hands before he could swing it.

However, this heaviness also gives people a sense of security.

Liu Ji took a deep breath and stood by the door.

The sound of horse hooves got closer and closer, and the clicking sound became clearer and clearer. Finally, it stopped because of the slippery snow.

Liu Ji was so nervous that he forgot to breathe, and his face turned red from holding back. As Qin Yao murmured, We are within range, his heart suddenly rose to his throat.