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

Qin Yao was given a bag of fine yellow-orange millet, weighing fifty kilograms, which was only half a tael of silver.

The eyes of Liu Ji and his son were all bright. Qin Yao handed over the rice, and Liu Ji immediately reached out and took it, not forgetting to praise her: Madam, how can you do it if there is no one in this family who is kind-hearted?

Qin Yao rolled her eyes and didn't bother to give him a look. She motioned for the four younger ones to follow and left.

Liu Bai and Liu Fei each carried a sack of rice weighing fifty kilograms, a total of one hundred kilograms. Most of them were left after the husks were removed, which made others envious to death.

The two brothers chased after them, but they couldn't walk fast carrying the food, so they could only shout: Brother and sister, wait!

The two families are on the same road, walking together has a companion.

Qin Yao stopped, and Liu Ji also stopped. He heard that today the eldest brother and Liu Fei, the younger brother, also used weapons to fight off the horse thieves. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, looked at the two of them curiously, and joked:

I didn't expect you, eldest brother, to be so brave. In the past, I thought the second brother was more arrogant. I didn't expect him to be a coward today.

Liu Bai knew what his temper was and didn't argue with him.

Liu Fei couldn't tolerate him and sneered: If it weren't for my third sister-in-law, you, Liu Laosan, would have been so scared that you wet your pants! You have the nerve to criticize my second brother, how shameless?

Your second brother is not my second brother? We are a family, look at this kid, he is still talking about two families. Liu Ji smiled at Qin Yao, looking like we are not as familiar as a little kid.

As he said that, he leaned closer to Liu Fei and touched the grain bag on his shoulder. He found that it was rice, which made it even more squishy.

Patting on his shoulder, he said, Millet, yellow and orange, out of shell.

Liu Fei couldn't stand his teasing and looked at his elder brother angrily, Brother, you don't care about this person!

Okay! Liu Bai was also annoyed, Shut up!

Liu Ji then took two quick steps to stay away from Liu Fei.

Qin Yao asked: Have you found all the food that was stolen from your home?

Liu Bai hummed, I have found them all, except for one of the four hens. I don't know if it was taken away by horse thieves or if it was picked up and killed by others.

My mother said the three remaining hens were frightened and worried that they wouldn't be able to lay eggs.

Oh, by the way, my father and mother asked me to tell you that when we come home for dinner tomorrow morning, my mother will kill a chicken and eat it.

It was said that it was to fight poison with poison, and if the remaining two hens were frightened, they might lay eggs.

Qin Yao agreed.

When they reached the door of the old house, Qin Yao's family stopped going in and went straight home.

The red lanterns should have been hanging cheerfully under the eaves, but now they were illuminated by Qin Yaoti in her hands.

Looking from a distance, a little red light is floating in the blackness, which is a bit eerie.

Four children walked hand in hand between their parents. The family of six stepped through the wet snow in front of the door and finally returned home.

Liu Ji moved the rice to the storage room next to the stove and put it away. His body instinctively started working in the kitchen, lighting a fire and boiling a large pot of hot water.

The whole family gathered around the stove, drank hot water, warmed themselves up, and then went back to their houses to rest.

This day was so stressful that everyone couldn't stand it anymore, so they fell into a deep sleep.

In the early morning, before dawn, a large group of officers and soldiers in official uniforms rode high horses and held torches. They entered the valley and formed a long torch dragon on the winding path.

Qin Yao was awakened by the sound of horse hooves at first, and then heard some noise coming from the ancestral hall. She guessed that officers and soldiers had arrived, and continued to fall down to meet Duke Zhou.

When she woke up, the officials had already left, leaving only two minor officials at the ancestral hall to understand what was going on with the villagers.

Liu Ji woke up the four children, put on warm cotton clothes, quickly washed up, and urged Qin Yao to go out.

He was eager to join in the fun, and he was also eager to go to the old house to drink chicken soup.

The five father and son were running wildly on the road that turned snow into ice. Qin Yao watched them fall into pieces one by one with her own eyes. She felt no fluctuation in her heart and even wanted to laugh a little.

Erlang blamed Sanlang, and Sanlang weakly said that he was the eldest brother. Dalang glared at his biological father angrily, and he was the culprit.

Si Niang shouted: I won't play with you anymore!

She got up and patted her butt. She stood there aggrievedly and waited for Qin Yao to come over. She followed A Niang.

The horses and corpses left by the horse bandits have been brought back by the officials.

When they arrived at the ancestral hall, Qin Yao and others realized that the horse bandits had plundered a nearby village called Wangjiaao earlier before coming to Liujia Village.

The population of the village over there was similar to that of Liujia Village, but because there was no leader like Qin Yao, they were unable to resist. Food, livestock, money, women and children were all robbed.

When the horse bandits left, they also set a fire and burned down the ancestral hall of Wangjiaao.

Such evil deeds are truly horrifying to hear.

What's even more frightening is that the horse bandits who came to Liujia Village yesterday were just a small team.

This group of horse bandits has hundreds of people and is a robbery gang with certain organizational capabilities.

After the main team finished snatching Wangjia'ao, they returned to the village to celebrate, leaving the small team that came to Liujia Village yesterday to continue searching in surrounding villages.

After hearing this information, Liu Ji broke out in cold sweat.

Everyone was thankful that only a small team came yesterday, otherwise the tragedy in Wangjia'ao would have happened in Liujia Village.

However, the two remaining officers also said that the county magistrate and county magistrate received a report last night, and they immediately sent people to issue notices to nearby villages and towns in Kaiyang County to remind people to pay attention.

At the same time, we have asked the magistrate for instructions, asking the military camp near the government office to immediately organize the troops and come to suppress the bandits.

It sounds reassuring, at least the government is still in charge.

No matter what, this is no longer a group of criminals committing crimes alone, but a den of gangsters in groups, with a very different nature.

The Sheng Kingdom had just established a new dynasty, which was when the imperial power was most concentrated. If the imperial court knew that each government could not even deal with a group of horse bandits, and the emperor would be angry, it would be in big trouble.

The two last-minute servants finished their official duties at the ancestral hall and only accepted two white-flour steamed buns from the village chief's wife, firmly refusing Liu Dafu's lunch.

Before leaving, the two of them glanced at Qin Yao and seemed to feel that she was not tall enough either. They nodded to her, got on their horses neatly, shouted Drive! and rode away.

It's okay, let's all disperse. The snow has melted just now, and we are still busy with spring plowing.

The village chief walked to the door of the ancestral hall, waved his hand, and motioned for everyone to go home.

Speaking of spring plowing, Qin Yao was shocked.

Thinking of the two acres of wheat fields in unknown condition, even the fragrant chicken soup that Zhang had cooked all morning felt bland.

Seeing that she didn't move, Liu Ji, who had already finished his bowl, shamelessly came over and asked if he wanted to help her drink. He didn't mind.

Qin Yao shouted coldly: Get out!

Liu Ji: Okay~

In the next more than a month, officers and soldiers came two or three times. Each time they came, they just asked questions about the number of horse bandits, what they looked like, and where they could trace them.

The village chief answered seriously every time, and also showed up from time to time due to official duties. The villagers gradually let go of their nervousness and concentrated on a new round of farming.