Chapter 1239

Qili Village became lively the next day. Many people in the village went to Lao Zhou's house to help cook. It was basically a woman's job.

The men gathered together. The old man of Zhou family decided to open the ancestral hall. A group of elderly people took Zhou Lixue and some people who had read books to turn the genealogy in the ancestral hall. After providing the ancestors with freshly stewed chickens, ducks and sheep, they re clicked Zhou Yin and his wife on the genealogy and recorded Zhou Yin's life in the genealogy.

Qili Village is remote and has lived here for generations. Except for the refugees who rushed in during the chaotic Jin Dynasty, only natural disasters can destroy their village.

But such disasters are rare, because Qili Village is in the mountains. There is no food, wild vegetables, weeds and bark. There will always be roots left.

As long as a few people in a family or village survive, they can become a village again after years, but from 100 households to dozens, from dozens to several households.

The drought in Dade in the past 11 years was a test of extinction for the villagers of Qili Village.

At that time, many families in the village had actually collected their bags and were ready to go out to escape the disaster. They had privately agreed to go north and go all the way to the capital, even begging along the road, as long as they could live until the end of the drought.

However, people are far from home. I hope so. In the end, how many people can survive on the road? No one knows. The first group of people who went out from the village only came back. The rest are basically folded on the road.

Those who went out were young and strong. They didn't lose so much, let alone the village heads who planned to lead their families.

Just when they were hesitant, Zhou Yin carried back a bag of grain. In addition to leaving a portion for his family, he also gave some to some orphans and widows in the village who had been out of cooking for several days.

Then he pulled the young people in the village together and took them to the county seat. He nodded and bowed to find them a job to carry bags.

It's very tired and bitter, but it can survive. Squeezing the food you get can also make the old and children of the family hold one breath.

Relying on the job introduced by Zhou Yin, Qili Village didn't escape the disaster at last, and most people survived.

The owner of the firm liked Zhou Yin very much and left him in charge of the industry in Luojiang county. He and the caravan took Zhou Yin away.

Everyone in Qili Village knew that Zhou Yin was a slave. According to the rules, selling as a slave should be crossed out from the genealogy, but no one in the family wanted to cross out Zhou Yin's name at that time.

The old Zhou family still had a hard time, and the whole Qili Village had a hard time. When the year was good, they could live a year frugally.

When the year was bad, I pulled my pants and belt and survived.

Therefore, in their spare time, everyone will sit under the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village and discuss it. They say that Zhou Yin is smart and capable, and the business owner attaches great importance to him. Maybe he is popular and spicy at this time, and he will send a letter back soon.

But the old Zhou family and the villagers of Qili Village turned over the new year and another year, and Zhou Yin still had no news.

The old Zhou family even asked people to deal with passing merchants, but the news was not very good. It was said that the owner of the firm met refugee troops and bandits on the road, the caravan was robbed, and all the people were killed

It is also said that there is no such firm at all. People must have been cheated into mining in the mountains. When they enter the mine, they don't have to think about looking for people. They won't even have bone debris

So year after year, people in Qili Village didn't mention Zhou Yin, even the old Zhou family didn't mention it, so they thought it wasn't bad to have no news. Maybe they went away with the firm and couldn't reply for a while. After all, they were servants and couldn't help themselves

Until the third year of Dazhen, Zhou Yin suddenly drove a mule cart back to Qili Village with his wife and daughter. The whole village was lively.

For example, although Zhang has a lot of opinions about Qian and has been tit for tat for the rest of his life, he has no opinions about Zhou Yin, so he also joined in the fun.

Not to mention other families that have a good relationship with the old Zhou family.

Zhou Hu and others who played with Zhou Yin also got married. They thought that Zhou Yin would come back and put more than ten tables on the table. Everyone was busy once.

Zhou Yin did not object, patted his chest and said that he would have a banquet when he went to the county to get the things brought by the entrusted firm.

As a result, the couple didn't come back as soon as they went.

If Zhou Yin is a bandit, the villagers who killed Qili Village don't believe it. How can Zhou Yin be a bandit?

The bandits killed him almost!

Therefore, the officers came to inquire with the vague portrait of Zhou Yin. At that time, the men were questioned one by one at the entrance of the village. The women covered the couple's bodies with straw mats, and then dragged them to the haystack in the rain to hide. In order not to let a trace of blood flow out, they supported tarpaulins all the way to block the rain

Afterwards, he poured a few more buckets of water on the ground. When the officers came to search, they simply fell to the ground and dealt with them.

Then, no one dared to make a statement. At night, the young people in the village dug a big pit in the cemetery of the old Zhou family. They didn't even have a coffin. They had to cover the two bodies with quilts, cover them with straw mats and bury them

Later, the official came twice, and the chief looked at it with fear. Finally, the old people of Zhou quietly opened the ancestral hall and drew a line on Zhou Yin's name, pretending that he had never come back after selling himself as a slave and had been crossed out by the genealogy.

Things slowly subsided, and no one asked Zhou Yin again. It seemed that the matter had passed, and the villagers seemed to have forgotten, but over the years, everyone was not without doubts.

What did Zhou Yin do outside, how did he die, and how did he provoke these officials.

Not only the villagers, but also the old Zhou family.

It was not until they shouted that the king of Yizhou was rebellious, there was a fight outside, and there were deserters everywhere. Then man Bao's letter went back to Qili Village. They knew what happened 12 years ago.

Only then did they know that they saw that the big girl had grown up and could sue the imperial court for her biological father.

The old people read these things out and let the later students write them with some emotion. How time flies.

Then the village head looked at the pen left by his grandson and wanted to ask old Zhou, "Uncle Jin, do you want to write man Bao down in the name of Uncle Xiao Yin? She is an only daughter, and capable, and can be listed in the genealogy. "

Old Zhou tou thought for a moment and said, "remember."

The village head asked, "is that to remember our Zhou or Xia?"

"Remember what Xia surname? Of course, remember Zhou surname. Zhou man, the name I gave you. The second son agreed and followed Dalang."

"But isn't uncle Yin talking about Xia man? After all, it's superfluous... "

Old Zhou tou was not happy. He immediately grabbed the pen and said, "who, who said, Zhou man! She has been calling this name for more than ten years. If you want to change her last name, don't remember it. "

The village head nodded obediently. The old man on one side was not happy. He opened his toothless mouth and said vaguely: "keep your word, keep your word..."

Lao Zhou pretended not to hear.