Chapter 453 Grabbing food
"This is not appropriate." Mother Lin waved her hand and refused. Although in her heart she hoped that the whole family could stay together, there was no reason for her married daughter to have her parents' family live together.
It can be said that the daughter wanted to fulfill her filial piety when the old couple moved in, but the son and daughter-in-law couldn't justify it.
"mother……"
Nanzhi wanted to persuade her again, but she saw Shen Zhiyu running out sweating profusely.
"Ah, grandma." The little guy's face was red now, and there were beads of sweat on the tip of his nose.
"Zhiyu, what's wrong? You're in a panic." Mother Lin looked at her grandson breathing heavily, and felt a little distressed so she patted his back to calm him down.
"Yes, it's outside. It's a mess outside."
"What's going on? Zhiyu, please speak more slowly." Nanzhi's heart tightened. He had just come back from outside. Could something have happened?
"Grandma, Grandma, I just went to the bookstore with Brother Xiaomi to buy books, and when we came back, we met someone snatching things! Brother Xiaomi asked me to come back first to find someone for help, but he was still staring at people there!"
Just as they were about to come back, they heard someone crying in the yard next door.
He didn't want to take a look, but before the two of them left, he saw the door being knocked open.
There was a lot of commotion inside, but I just stood there and listened, and I figured out that someone wanted to go out, but there was not enough food. When I saw the orphans and widows of my neighbors, I suddenly had evil intentions.
Zhiyu knew these feelings best, and immediately felt angry. However, there were only a few government officials left in the city, so after much deliberation, she had no choice but to go home and ask for help.
The cloak wrapped around the little baby had been lost somewhere on the way back. After running all the way, the sweat on his face had not stopped since he entered the door.
"Is there such a thing?" Nanzhi's expression changed. He stood up and was about to take Shen Zhiyu there, but was stopped by Mother Lin.
"Why are you going? You are holding your belly now. If something goes wrong, will you let me and your father survive?"
"Mom!" Nanzhi was a little embarrassed and just stood there stupidly.
"Okay, okay, you can rest at home and I'll follow Zhiyu there."
"Mom, I'd better go..."
Before Nanzhi could finish speaking, Mother Lin stared back.
This girl is also restless. Not only is her belly bigger, but her heart is also bigger.
I want to do everything by myself, and don’t think about the current external environment.
There were some guards staying in the city lord's mansion. Mother Lin only greeted three of them who were good at martial arts, and then followed her grandson out.
The bookstore was only one street away from the county government office, and a few people arrived there in a short time.
Those who recognized Mother Lin only moved a place to the side to let them in.
In the yard, a four or five-year-old girl was hiding in a corner and crying loudly. Her little hands were red and swollen from the cold, and her face was covered in bruises. She looked extremely pitiful.
In the middle of the yard stood two mean-looking middle-aged couples. When Mother Lin came, she saw one of them holding a rice bag, and the other looking at the little girl in the corner with eager eyes.
At this moment, Xiaomi was standing in front of the little girl, preventing the woman from dragging the little girl on the ground.
"What are you doing!"
Mother Lin led the people into the courtyard, and Shen Zhiyu also went from the side and pulled up the little girl on the ground.
"Get up quickly, the ground is very cold."
Xiaomi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the reinforcements arriving.
The couple was very evil-minded. Not only did they want to steal food, they also wanted to sell the little sister.
"Who are you?" The woman was interrupted, and she was full of malice, but she stopped talking when she saw the person clearly.
This is the city lord’s mother-in-law!
"Old madam, what are you doing? I just came to talk to my sister-in-law."
The woman had a flattering look on her face, but she glanced at her husband next to her from the corner of her eye.
It’s so useless, I can’t even steal a woman!
"Is that what you say? Could it be that you don't have a mouth and only have two hooves?"
Mother Lin glanced at her and took the sobbing little girl beside her.
The little girl was pretty, but a little too thin. She was only wearing a thin jacket. She was crying sadly just now. When she saw someone coming, she stopped talking and only dared to sob softly.
"He's a poor kid."
Mother Lin felt a little distressed, so she just rubbed the little girl's head, then took off her cloak and wrapped it around her body.
"Old madam, it's all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding."
The woman nodded and bowed to explain, just wanting Mother Lin to take the people away as soon as possible.
"It doesn't look like it to me." As she spoke, her eyes fell on the widow in the yard.
The widow was wearing gray clothes and a circle of white sleeves on her arms. It was not difficult to tell that she was still keeping filial piety for her husband's family.
"Old madam, please make the decision for me!" The widow's name is Qiu Ju. She is originally from Xujiazhuang outside the city. She married into Yancheng six years ago. Although the life of the couple is difficult, they are also harmonious.
But last fall, my husband went to the mountains to help his elder brother search for medicine. He lost his footing and fell off the cliff. When he found it, even the bones had been eaten clean, leaving only some stumps.
The mother and daughter were having a hard time, so she found a job washing dishes and washing pots in a restaurant. A few days ago, she heard that the food at Lin's Grain Store was cheap, so she gritted her teeth and bought three bags. As a result, the eldest brother and sister-in-law today Suddenly he broke into the yard, scolding himself as a scumbag, and trying to grab food.
"What exactly is going on?"
The sister-in-law wanted to open her mouth to defend herself, but when she saw the guard following Mrs. Lin draw her sword, she hesitated and shut up.
"It was my husband's eldest brother and sister-in-law who suddenly broke in today and tried to steal our food without saying a word."
Qiu Ju pointed at the two people on the side and said.
"Bah, you killed my brother! What happened if I took a bag of grain from you? That's to give you face! In the past, if you killed my brother, I would have sold you to a brothel, and you still had to Thank me for not immersing you in the pig cage!"
The man on the side stopped cursing and raised his hand to slap Qiu Ju. Mother Lin suddenly turned cold, but the person behind her was faster.
The guard raised his hand and shot out a stone, and the man suddenly screamed like a pig being killed.
"My hand! My hand!"
The pebbles fell to the ground with a clatter and rolled around twice. A big swelling suddenly appeared on the man's wrist, which made him grin and stamp his feet in pain.
"Old madam, it's really a misunderstanding! It was my brother-in-law who borrowed the money from the family, but last year he had an accident. We looked at the pity of our sister-in-law, who was an orphan and a widowed mother, so we didn't ask her for it.
It's the same now. The family can't survive anymore, so they come here to ask for some food to pay off their debts. "
When the woman saw that her husband was frustrated, she hurriedly opened her mouth to explain, fearing that she would also suffer.
"You're talking nonsense!"
Qiu Ju's eyes widened, and the hand pointing at them couldn't help but tremble.
When did my husband borrow money from them?
In fact, if the husband had not gone to the mountains to look for medicine for them, he would not have left the mother and daughter behind!