"It's so miserable. This kid was struck by lightning and didn't even know how to hide from the rain."

"It would be better to be struck to death by lightning. Widow Jiang has to support him for the rest of her life. This family is ruined."

"Let's see the fool, haha."

The rain was like a rumbling thunder. The villagers stood under the eaves and pointed at Jiang Anyi in the rain. His words drifted into his ears with the wind. Jiang Anyi was extremely angry and obscene. He followed the teachings of the saints since he was a child, acted gentle and kindly, and got along with others. However, they were all fellow villagers in the country, so why bother to speak so viciously?

When he lost his father at a young age, he suffered a thunderous disaster. The creditor came to his house, and the encounters made Jiang Anyi feel full of anger and nowhere to vent. He really wished that a flash of lightning would turn himself into ashes, along with those who were malicious.

"Brother, brother..." The thin body was marching hard in the strong wind, and the shouts were scattered by the wind and rain. The sounds of "Brother" were heard in his ears. Jiang Anyong ran over with deep legs and shallow legs.

Running closer, Jiang Anyong gasped and untied his straw raincoat, tiptoed on his brother, "Brother, huh... I'm afraid you will get damaged,... I'll pick you up. Huh, come back quickly, your body is soaked, don't catch a cold."

The straw raincoat carried body temperature to dispel the coldness in Jiang Anyi's heart. A slanted wind blew, and Jiang Anyong's brown cloth shirt was wet. Jiang Anyi hurriedly said, "I'm all wet anyway, so don't get wet too."

Jiang Anyong smiled "hehe" and said, "I'm strong, this rain is like taking a shower, it's okay. Brother, you are a scholar, don't get hurt."

Jiang Anyi's heart became hot, his eyes became sour and astringent. He hurriedly raised his face and let the raindrops hit his face. The warm feeling slid down his face. Without any explanation, he pulled the straw coat half and covered his younger brother. Jiang Anyi held the hat and blocked it in front. The two brothers snuggled together and ran to the house staggeringly.

Jiang Huang stood in front of the door and looked anxiously. When he saw his son running back in the rain, he shouted angrily: "Come in the house and change into dry clothes, be careful of catching a cold."

Jiang Anyi took off his heavy straw raincoat and hung it on the wooden hook under the eaves with his hat. The raindrops fell on the broken stone steps in front of the eaves and penetrated into the soil. Yan'er held a few clothes and waited beside her, with a stern face, and taught Jiang Anyi a lesson in an old-fashioned way: "Brother, you are so old that you are as ignorant as your second brother. When you catch Liang Niang, you will feel distressed again."

A few drops of rain splashed on Yan'er's tender little face, and her face was tilted like a flower blooming with dew. Jiang Anyi carefully wiped away the raindrops on her face.

After changing his clothes, Jiang Huang called Jiang Anyi to his side and said, "Mom has thought about it. Since you said you have paid off your debt before the end of the year, Mom can't let you break your trust, so sell your land."

Jiang Anyi knew that the Zheng Dynasty adopted the equal-land system. When males became adults, they could get twenty acres of land, allowing land to be sold, and encouraging the reclaiming of wasteland. However, in the more than a hundred years since its founding, the population has increased fivefold, and land annexation is very serious. Most officials used wasteland as land and taxes were levied.

After his father died, there was no adult male at home, and twenty acres of official land were taken back. Now the ten acres of land in the family have been purchased by generations of people. These ten acres of land are my mother's life. After selling the land, how can the family live? Jiang Anyi was so scared.

Jiang Huang's tone became firm: "It is natural to repay the money from debt. It was thanks to your second uncle who borrowed money to us. Since your second uncle's family now wants to use money, then pay off the debt."

After a pause, Jiang Huang's voice choked up: "Yi'er, you must be successful, study hard, and be able to pass the imperial examination in the future, and you can buy the sold fields back."

Back at the desk, Jiang Anyi held a book in his hand, his head was messy and he couldn't see a word. Under the eaves, An Yong and Yan'er opened their hands to follow the rain curtain, and the brother and sister played with raindrops. They didn't know the taste of sorrow at young age, and how could they pretend that they didn't know anything and let their mother bear the pressure alone.

At night, the wind and rain remained uninterrupted. Jiang Anyi couldn't sleep peacefully. He gently pushed An Yong's legs across and turned over. Outside the window, the rain sounded drizzling, and the chickens in the town began to crow. It was almost five o'clock. After a while, there was movement in the house and my mother got up.

The first thing my mother did when she woke up was to burn incense and pray in front of her father's tablet. A slight sound came, "...It's all good, don't worry... the children are all sensible, but there are difficulties at the moment... Don't blame me..." The depressed crying sounds came out intermittently, mixed with the "rustling" sound of wind and rain shaking bamboo leaves, which was particularly desolate.

Next year, I was sixteen years old. According to Da Zhenglu, I became an adult. After adulthood, I had land distribution, but I had to do uncultivated wasteland and also had to be employed in labor service. The family was not in enough staff, so I would spend more money? What if I failed the scholar exam for a while? How long can I support it by selling land? After all the land was sold, would I really want to sell Yan'er? Jiang Anyi could no longer lie down and turned over and sat up. The scene of the family separation flashed through his mind, and he was sweating in a cold sweat.

There is a process of growing up and maturity. The speed varies from person to person. When Jiang Anyi heard his mother's crying, he felt that his heart was so tight that it was so tight that it was split into pieces. When he felt the pain, he relaxed and grew up all of a sudden.

The Master said, "Cultivate oneself, manage the family, govern the country and pacify the world." Now that the family cannot be protected, what else can we talk about? Since the demons in his body have a way, it is a way for heaven to be free. As for whether it is a way to live or a dead end, let the way forward first. Jiang Anyi gritted his teeth and asked the God of Thunder to kill him if God is angry. As long as he can keep his family's safety, he is willing to do so.

He got up in a daze, sat at the table in a daze, drinking the porridge in a daze, Jiang Anyi was unstable. Yan'er noticed his brother's abnormality and asked in surprise: "Brother, why don't you eat 'braised pork'?" The saying of comparing taro to "braised pork" is very favored by the family. Whenever Yan'er sees taro, she laughs at him and says she eats "braised pork".

Awakened by his sister, Jiang Anyi made up his mind, felt relieved, and his thinking became active. Speaking of food, it was nothing more than "delicacies from mountains and seas". He had never seen the shrimp about a foot long before, but the "flying spots and rabbits" were ordinary. The town was surrounded by mountains, with many beasts, including pheasants, hares, bamboo rats, wild sheep, wild boars, etc., and occasionally there were bisons, black bears, and tigers. There were two hunters in the town. During the slack farming period, many people would go up the mountain, collect mountain goods, hunt wild game and sell them to Wangji Mountain goods shops, which was a great asset for farmers.

The demon often enters the deep mountains and forests empty-handed, and survives by the natural things of the world. Among them, there are methods to dig traps based on the materials and trap ropes to catch wild animals. The methods are simple and easy to learn. Hunters in the town all hunt with bows and arrows. I haven't heard of anyone who can set up traps to catch wild animals. With one trick, you can eat all over the world. The family's livelihood may start by setting up traps to catch animals.

After the rain, the sky was clear. An Yong had nothing to do today. After breakfast, he didn't put his sickle up the mountain to chop wood. Jiang Anyi hurriedly called his younger brother and said to Jiang Huangshi: "Mom, there is not much firewood at home. I will go up the mountain with An Yong." As a farmer's child, Jiang Anyi couldn't sit at the desk all day long to study, chop bamboo, chop wood, carry water, and put the vegetable field work. Jiang Huangshi nodded and agreed.

Yan'er ran over and held the clothes of the two, and begged: "Brother, remember to pick some fruits for me when going up the mountain. The mountains are red and wild chestnuts. Yan'er likes it very much."

The Cangshan Mountains washed by heavy rain are green and the green waters are secluded. This is the most simple manifestation of the undestroyed natural beauty. Beauty is beautiful, but the rain also makes the mountain roads muddy and difficult to walk. The rainwater accumulated on the leaves falls and quickly wets the clothes.

The brothers chose a place with dense trees at the foot of the mountain, and quickly cut two bundles of firewood. When they came, they promised Yan'er to find wild fruits. They walked up the rugged mountain road. The mountain wind was blowing and the air was particularly clear. The mountains and fields in August were rich in colors, green, yellow, red, and purple, splashed in the forest casually. The wild fruits of various colors were fragrant among the thorns. One or two tits were occasionally shocked in the grass beside the road, and a pheasant spread its wings and flew away with a "pan" sound, and a branch of rain fell.

Jiang Anyi took a deep breath of the clear air and felt that he was much lighter. He walked slowly and looked at it. In the grass, there were many traces of animals passing by. Jiang Anyong was cleverly like a wild sheep, and he disappeared after a while. When he appeared again, the cloth bag around his waist had already bulged up, and he was holding a handful of wild fruit in his hand, and let Jiang Anyi taste it vaguely.

Jiang Anyi had something to do in his mind, so he deliberately walked to the deep forest and lush grass, carefully checking the traces of birds and beasts. When he chose the place, Jiang Anyi took out the prepared thin rope and curled the traps. While busy, he said to Jiang Anyong: "This is the method of catching animals that I learned from books. If you take a good look, you will have to go up the mountain to set up a condom in the future."

Jiang Anyong jumped happily. A pheasant is worth more than 20 cents and a rabbit can be sold for thirty or forty cents. If this method can really catch wild animals, my mother wouldn't have to work so hard. After more than an hour of busyness, the two of them set up traps everywhere. When they straightened up, the sun shone in the sky and the sweat was as crystal clear as pearls.

Carrying firewood back home, watching Yan'er eating wild fruits, squinting and smiling, her heart full of happiness, Jiang Anyi secretly prayed: I hope the trap is effective, as long as I can make my family live happily, it doesn't matter even if I fall into the underworld.

The next morning, the two of them slipped out of the door while Jiang Huang was not careful and ran to the mountain. The wild beasts in the mountains had never experienced traps. Three ropes in the four traps were trapped to cover their prey, two rabbits and one pheasant. Jiang Anyong was so happy that he hurriedly held the hare that was still jumping around, unbuttoning his belt and tied it tightly. The prey in autumn was fat, and the two hares and one pheasant combined were more than ten kilograms.

Holding the prey, the two brothers returned home happily. From a distance, they saw Jiang Huang standing in the yard with anger. Jiang Anyong grimaced at his brother and ran over. Before his mother got angry, he raised the prey on his back in a treasure-giving manner and said with a smile: "Mom, look, what did you catch?"

Two rabbits and one pheasant can sell more than a hundred cents, which is worth more than a month of income from Jiang Huang's bamboo basket. Jiang Huang didn't bother to get angry and smiled and asked his son to put his prey on the ground. Yan'er saw the colorful feathers on the pheasant's body and stretched out his hand to gently stroke it. Unexpectedly, the rabbit next to him suddenly struggled hard, which scared Yan'er and hurriedly hid behind Jiang Anyi, which made Jiang Anyong laugh.

Yan'er pulled Jiang Anyi's clothes and glared at her second brother angrily, and carefully poked her head out. Her black eyes were looking at the struggling rabbit with a little horror. The prey was actually alive, and Jiang Huang was at a loss and shouted, "Be careful not to run away, Yong'er, carry it carefully, and then go to the mountain goods store."

Jiang Anyi had calculated on the way back and advised: "Mom, since this method is very useful, there are many opportunities to catch prey in the future. Our family's food is too vegetarian, and my younger brothers and sisters are too thin. You also need to make up for it. I asked me to leave a rabbit to eat at home, and there is still time to pay off the debt, and the money should be settled."
Chapter completed!