In the darkness, his eyes could not be seen. Ye Shu looked at his companion, the boy who claimed to be Xiaojiu looked from a distance. Seeing that there was really no sound, he leaned on Ye Kui's shoulder and closed his eyes.

When it was dawn, it became noisy outside.

Ye Kui felt shallow and got up from the ground. He saw a man in thick clothes wearing a hoe looking at her in a dumbfounded manner.

...

After a night of freezing, Ye Kui and his friends finally met the village.

The three of them followed the man in thick clothes who claimed to be Uncle Ding and stepped on the thin snow to the Ding family.

With white walls and black tiles, looking at the family's background, Ye Kui thought about it and followed the people into the courtyard. The man named Ding Duofu walked and said to the three of them with a smile: "I'll be frozen all night, go to my uncle's house to have some hot food and sleep first, and rest well."

The three children naturally thanked them carefully, but their expressions were still serious. Ye Shu, the youngest, was so scared that he was close to Ye Kui and refused to let go.

Ding Duofu looked at it, smiled and shook his head to walk towards the room at the east end.

As soon as he reached the door, his wife Mei walked out of the house and was stunned when she saw someone: "Whose child is this?"

Ding Duofu said: "It's a cold day, I don't know where these three children came from when they got the fight, so I slept in that dilapidated temple. I felt so distressed, so I brought it back first."

"In the ruined temple?" Mei frowned when she heard this, "Then I'll get them some food first, I'm afraid I'll be hungry."

After saying that, she hurried to the lower room on the other side.

Ye Kui and the other two went into the room to sit down. A brazier was lit in the corner of the wall, and it finally became much warmer. Ye Kui didn't feel like he was alive until then.

Not long after, Mei brought the porridge and pickles, put the food down and said, "I've been hungry for a long time, right? I'll drink some porridge first, and I'll still be hungry. I'll make food for you."

Ye Kui and others naturally thanked him again.

Ding Duofu lowered his head and drank hot water, but there was no reaction. Mei couldn't help but look at them a few more times. There were not many children in the village who were so polite. As he thought, the bowls and chopsticks were already arranged. The three of them finally had a hot meal.

After taking a few bites, Mei suddenly said, "Brother, how are you looking at this child's hand?"

Because of the injury, Xiaojiu's hand was hanging down beside her. Mei looked carefully and saw it at a glance. She hurriedly called Ding Duofu to see it. Ding Duofu was frightened when he saw it and screamed: "Why is it so swollen?"

The house suddenly became panicked and could not continue to eat the food. Ding Duofu and Mei discussed it a few times, and then prepared to withdraw money and send Xiaojiu to medical treatment. Since they encountered this, they would not be able to watch the child suffer from injuries.

But Mei said, "Auntie takes you to see the doctor." A sharp voice came from outside the door to interrupt her, "Why don't I know that you are the one who is in charge of our Ding family?"

Ding Duofu's old mother, Ding He, was standing by the door wearing a new jacket, with her loose eyelids drooping, covering her eyes into bloated triangular eyes. She snorted coldly, walked into the door and sat down, squinted her eyes and swept over Ye Kui and the other two in turn, looking unhappy: "I'm talking to everyone, where did you get three children on the ground? Do you have to give birth to yourself or do you think that the family is not full of gold, silver and flowers?"

When Mei heard this, she immediately knew that this was something that she had just cooked in the kitchen and was seen by her sister-in-law Xu, who had always been dissatisfied with each other, so she gave her eye drops to make her unlucky. She glanced at Ding Duofu without saying a word.

"I brought the person back." Ding Duofu said with a tingling needle in his mother's eyes.

Ding He sneered: "Hey, my mother, I am not a bad person. I feel sorry for this baby sleeping in the dilapidated temple, but, boss, look at the doctor? My mother, I have been sore in my waist for so many days, but I can't bear to buy medicine. You have become more and more determined to hire a doctor for the child I picked up from outside?"

Ding Duofu was dull and couldn't answer the words.

Mei couldn't help but feel a headache when she saw her mother-in-law uttering her words as soon as she entered the door. She was so angry that she immediately wanted to fight her. She said, "I saved the money for the child to hire a doctor, and I won't be able to do it."

"What did you say?" Ding He glared at his eyes, as if he wanted to eat people, "You prodigal girl! Isn't the copper you saved up with me?"

Mei was really annoyed now. She swallowed her anger all day long and rarely did it with Ding He. But the old pious woman wanted to swallow the money she saved with hard work. How could she bear it? There was no one in her family, and Ding He bullied her family, so she tried hard to torment her. Today she couldn't let go!

"What I'm talking about is that I'm a prodigal girl." She took Xiaojiu and a few more walking out with her purse, and never looked at Ding He again.

Ding He was extremely angry and patted Ding Duofu on the shoulder heavily, angrily scolding: "Even useless things can't even beholden to my wife, and they've bullied me!"

While talking, Mei had already brought people to a donkey cart with him.

It was originally more convenient to take Xiaojiu to the town only, but Ye Kui pretended to be a brother and sister when she saw Ding Duofu. This was a worry and she wanted to keep up. Fortunately, Mei was full of anger at Ding He and did not think about it.

The group was about to go out, but Ding Duofu rushed over and wanted to accompany him to the town.

Mei's tense face looked a little better.

It was cold and there were no people in the town. The donkey cart arrived smoothly in front of the clinic.

The clinic was also deserted. Ding Duofu shouted several times, and a fat middle-aged man with big ears came out. He looked at Ding Duofu and his wife up and down a few times, then looked at the three children who were still in a mess, and then said impatiently: "Who is asking for the consultation?"

There was actually a barefoot doctor in Taohua Village where the Ding family was located, so they didn't come to the town to see a doctor easily. Mei was angry with Ding He this time, so she rushed over. After meeting the doctor, she had a bad tone and couldn't help but feel nervous. She pushed Xiaojiu out and said carefully: "It's this child's hand."

"Come here and take a look." The doctor rolled his eyes, pulled Xiaojiu's hand and pressed it a few times, "It's amazing, it hurts the tendons. Have you brought enough money?"

Ding Duofu hurriedly said, "Take it with me."

The doctor seemed a little satisfied, and prescribed the prescription, asked the apprentice to bring the medicinal wine, while asking Ding Duofu to go to check the bill.

Ye Kui despised the doctor's character, but seeing that his massage gesture was normal, he endured it and simply asked Ye Shu to keep it first, and she followed Ding Duofu.

When he walked to the medicine cabinet, the primary school apprentice handed the medicine bag to Ding Duofu, "Hey, one tael of silver."
Chapter completed!