Chapter 1305 Extra: Lijia Village
"Who are you?" The old man became more and more alert.
Two young men and a young girl, they don't look like locals who dig for food in the soil.
What are they doing here?
Are they here to steal their land?
As soon as Mi Xiaoying saw the old man's alert expression, she knew it was time for her to show up.
Compared with men, women are more likely to make people lower their guard, especially when looking at delicate, soft and cute girls.
Coincidentally, Mi Xiaoying's appearance perfectly meets this point.
"Don't get me wrong, old man." Mi Xiaoying said with an expression that was difficult to say; "We are really here to seek refuge with relatives. My aunt is called Zhang Dafeng. She came here 25 years ago. Later, she wrote to my mother twice and told us that she settled here. So this time we are really here to seek refuge with my aunt."
There is indeed a person named Zhang Dafeng in Lijia Village.
But she is a homeless child without any relatives. When she wandered here, she was picked up by a poor man and taken home.
The people here don't communicate with the outside world, so naturally there is no such thing as going to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a marriage certificate. Having a few tables of banquets is considered a marriage.
The people here have always been like this, so no one thinks there is anything wrong.
Since Mi Xiaoying and the others came under the name of Zhang Dafeng, they naturally did their homework.
Anyway, Zhang Dafeng has been dead for two years now, and there is no evidence, so what is there to be afraid of?
Jing Shaohuai also said: "Yes, if we were not desperate, why would we come to seek refuge..."
"Xiaohuai!" Mi Xiaoying deliberately looked anxious and interrupted Jing Shaohuai's words, and the expressions on the faces of the two people became difficult to speak.
Yin Yinuo spoke at this time and said: "It's all because of my incompetence that you don't even have a place to stay."
"Don't say that, I am willing to suffer any hardship to be with you." Mi Xiaoying looked at Yin Yinuo affectionately, like a virtuous little wife.
Mi Xiaoying secretly thanked herself for going to the Hans base for various special training before she came.
One of them is acting.
Although Hans is a pervert, his subordinates are all elites.
So under their guidance, Mi Xiaoying perfectly showed her superb acting skills.
The old man was successfully deceived!
"Zhang Dafeng, dead! Dead for two years! Your uncle died a long time ago!" The old man pointed to a dilapidated house not far away and said: "That house is their home. Because it leaks, no one wants it, so it's just idle there. If you don't mind, go and live there."
Mi Xiaoying immediately put on a grateful smile: "Thank you, thank you, old man. I don't know what your name is?"
Before the old man spoke, someone outside the door called out: "Third Grandpa, I heard that there are guests at your house?"
As soon as the voice fell, Mi Xiaoying saw a young man in shorts and buttoned clothes, looking in from outside.
The man was obviously stunned when he saw the three people in the yard.
Subconsciously, he asked: "Who are you?"
The old man answered for Mi Xiaoying and the others: "They are Li Zhuzi's nephews, who came to seek refuge with their aunt."
"Isn't Uncle Zhuzi already..." The young man stopped talking before he finished speaking, and looked at the three of them with a scrutinizing look.
Mi Xiaoying hid behind Yin Yinuo, looking like a frightened young wife.
Yin Yinuo kept patting Mi Xiaoying's shoulders to comfort her, looking like a good husband.
Jing Shaohuai acted like a fool, and said stupidly: "My uncle is gone? How could this happen?"
"Since they are not outsiders, you can take them over." The old man said: "We in Lijia Village would not do such a thing as driving away relatives. It just so happens that Zhuzi did not leave any descendants, so let this young man go to Zhuzi's grave and bury him, which can be regarded as having descendants."
The ideas of the people here are still stuck in the last century.
That is, people must have sons and descendants, otherwise there will be no one to support them when they die.
Yes. That's right.
The meaning of their having sons is to have someone to support them when they die.
If there is no son, use a nephew, and if there is no nephew, use a nephew, and it must be a boy.
This Li Zhuzi has been a single-line family for three generations, and his generation has been cut off, and he has no children left.
At the beginning, the people in the village helped to bury him, and now there is no one to help him with soil and weeds.
In the eyes of the locals, this was basically the end of the matter.
Now that a nephew had appeared, the people of Lijia Village naturally wanted Jing Shaohuai to help them visit the grave.
Jing Shaohuai also understood this truth, and immediately said: "It should be, although I am not my uncle's biological son, we are a family after all, and this is what I should do. Where are the graves of my uncle and aunt? I will go now."
Jing Shaohuai's words made the old man and the young man smile with satisfaction.
"Let's go, I'll take you there." The young man glanced at Mi Xiaoying and said; "Women and outsiders should not go."
Mi Xiaoying snorted in her heart, but replied obediently on her face; "Then let's go and clean up the house."
Jing Shaohuai followed the young man and left.
Mi Xiaoying and Yin Yinuo arrived at the dilapidated house that was about to collapse at any time.
Looking around, Yin Yinuo couldn't help but whispered: "Can people still live in this dilapidated house?"
"It's definitely not allowed to be inhabited." Mi Xiaoying didn't dare to live in it because it might collapse in a rain: "But our purpose is to stay here first, and we'll talk about the rest later."
Yin Yinuo and Mi Xiaoying could only roll up their sleeves and start cleaning up.
After tidying up for a long time, I finally managed to find a place that was barely livable.
This house was probably used to store grain, so it was built relatively solidly and could provide some protection from wind and rain for the time being.
It can only cover the wind and rain.
Fortunately it's spring. If it were winter, it would definitely freeze to death.
On the other side, Jing Shaohuai followed the young man to visit the grave.
Jing Shaohuai is a lively and talkative person, and he quickly came up with the information he wanted: "Brother, my name is Jing Xiaohuai. I am 21 this year. What do you call me?"
As he spoke, Jing Shaohuai took out an egg from the bag behind him and handed it over: "It's quite hard to travel such a long way. Don't dislike it, little brother, just take care of your stomach first."
The little brother looked at the eggs, swallowed in dissatisfaction, and used a lot of effort to look away: "You don't have to be so polite. Since you are here to join your relatives, you will all be from the same village in the future, so this way is not a problem." It’s nothing. My name is Li Dayong, I’m three years older than you, just call me Brother Dayong.”
"Okay, I'll call you Brother Dayong. Take this egg, and don't be polite to me. We are all from the same village. I still have some things I want to ask you, Brother Dayong. The population of our Lijia Village "Not much. Why did I hear my aunt say that there is a large population here?" Jing Shaohuai pretended to be casual and asked: "But I think there are only more than 300 people in this village, right?"
After saying that, Jing Shaohuai couldn't help but push the egg to Li Dayong.
This egg is really hard currency.
They used three eggs and successfully settled in Lijia Village.
It can be seen that the economic situation here is really bad!
Li Dayong was really greedy. Seeing that Jing Shaohuai gave it sincerely, he didn't refuse anymore and carefully stuffed the egg into his pocket, intending to take it back.
Probably because he had eggs as gifts, Li Dayong didn't have much to say.
"That's because you haven't gone to the town yet. There are many people there." Li Dayong said: "Lijiacun has a total of more than 400 people, so it is considered a small village. Zhangjiacun and Zhaojiacun next door are large villages, and they have almost all of them. There are more than a thousand people. The other villages are also small, with only a hundred people.”
"Is there a town here?" Jing Shaohuai asked as if he had never seen the world before: "Why didn't I see it? The three of us didn't see it all the way over the mountains and ridges, didn't we?"
Li Dayong said: "You walked up the back mountain, right? You are really good at it. You were able to climb over from the back mountain. You suffered a lot along the way, right? The mountain over there is so steep that most people can't climb it. We all walked up the front mountain. Going forward from here is the village, and there is a path over there that leads directly to the town, which is about six or seven miles away. "
Jing Shaohuai felt a layer of sweat on his back.
They were all airdropped here, so how could they know that the back mountain would be difficult to navigate.
Almost exposed!
"Oh, forget it, we have to go over there." Jing Shaohuai said as if he was hesitant to speak: "Forget it, Brother Dayong is not an outsider, and there is nothing that cannot be said about this matter. I'll tell you the truth. Let’s face it, I followed my sister-in-law to seek refuge with my aunt, and also to avoid the gang at my brother-in-law’s house.”
Li Dayong became interested: "Hiding family members?"
"Yes, you can see it, right? My brother-in-law is a weak scholar with a soft temper, and he just happens to have an eye for my sister. But my brother-in-law's family doesn't agree with them being together at all, and they are determined to break them up. My brother-in-law wants to My sister, for the first time, disobeyed her family's wishes and left with her. My brother-in-law's family was very powerful, and I was also implicated. I was thrown into trouble every time I looked for a job. I had no choice but to follow. My sister and my husband came together. We thought, as long as we can find a place to settle down, it doesn’t matter how far it is, as long as we can survive.”
Li Dayong looked at Jing Shaohuai sympathetically: "So that's it. No wonder none of you three look like locals to me. What dynasty is there now?"
Jing Shaohuai paused and said vaguely: "There is no dynasty now."
Li Dayong looked surprised.
Jing Shaohuai took advantage of the situation and asked: "Brother Dayong, why do you ask that? What dynasty were you in when you came?"
"We came here in the 16th year of Chongzhen." Li Dayong replied.
Jing Shaohuai paused.
Oh my god.
The sixteenth year of Chongzhen?
16-43 years?
It’s almost four hundred years ago!
These people really know how to hide!
The terrain here is difficult, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The most important thing is that people outside have no idea that anyone lives here.
If it weren't for the GF-112 project, they wouldn't have known there were so many people hiding in the mountains!
They couldn't escape from the world, so naturally they didn't know about the Qing Dynasty or the warlords fighting behind them, let alone the new China after liberation.