The next day, just after dawn, Qin Fan got up and reached out and took two sweet potatoes from the stove into his arms.

The beast hadn't been here since that day when he had chased away the weasel, which was constantly squeaking outside the windowsill.

In this way, the Yao family was silent at night, and only the sound of insects and birds behind the house could be heard, and there was no more squeaky sound of noisy ears.

When he woke up this morning, he felt like he was in a panic, as if he had a premonition that something big was about to happen.

But at six o'clock in the morning, I couldn't sleep at all, so I turned over and sat up, and carried the hoe to the ground.

He arrived early, and the people in the village who had been hired to plough the land did not arrive until eight o'clock.

Qin Fan sat in a wet haystack, nibbling on sweet potatoes while looking at a few acres of land.

The soil quality of Sanshi Village is not good, most of it is relatively dry and hard soil, even if the air is moist and often damp, but the water vapor cannot reach much depth.

Just thinking about watering it backwards is a big job.

He was sitting in a haystack and was about to go to the river to wash his hands when he saw Zhang Jinzhi walking around the bend with a basket on his back and a blue overalls on his back.

The little widow's expression was very peaceful, and there was no sadness on her face, nor any unwillingness.

She carried the basket on her back, only lowered her head and walked forward, and when she looked up and saw Qin Fan, there was a little surprise in her eyes, but she quickly calmed down and saw him laugh twice.

"Why did you get up so early, I thought I would be the first to arrive......"

Yesterday's fight made Zhang Jinzhi's face colorful, and many places were broken, and Yao Xin deliberately took the potion to her house last night.

After those purple red potions were applied, her face looked blue and white, which made people feel a little miserable.

"I went to bed early last night, so I want to come to the field early today, but why don't you rest more and let you stay at home?"

Qin Fan frowned and asked, a salary of dozens of yuan a day was nothing to him at all, even if it was given to this widow for nothing, he was willing.

He can't see those who are bullied and weaker than himself surviving in this world, if he doesn't meet him, it's fine, but after he meets him, he has to find a way to help.

Zhang Jinzhi reached out and pulled the broken hair next to her ear, she put the back basket on the dry ground on the side, and picked out the guys inside one by one, including a sickle, a hoe, and a pair of cotton gloves.

"I was so flustered last night that I couldn't sleep, thinking that since nothing had happened, I might as well go to work in the fields. ”

"When people are busy, they don't think nonsense, and if I stay at home alone, maybe something will happen. ”

She said with a somewhat self-deprecating smile, and then she didn't listen to Qin Fan's persuasion, and directly began to turn over the land in the bright sky.

It's only seven o'clock, and it's too early, and even those who are hired will have to take a few bites of dry biscuits when they get to the fields, at least at half-past eight.

Qin Fan's wages for them are calculated on a daily basis, although there are regulations that a few acres of land must be turned over every day, but there is a lot of strength in numbers, as long as everyone works evenly, and no one needs to contribute more at all.

He saw a large tea jar and a stack of dried cakes in Zhang Jinzhi's back basket, and knew that this woman didn't want to make those bad money, so even if it was noon, she wanted to help in the field.

In this way, Qin Fan couldn't bear to let this woman work so hard, so he let people put down the hoe in his hand and sit aside to say a few words with him.

"Sister Jin Zhi, it's still early, there is dew everywhere, if you get wet later, it's uncomfortable, it's better to wait a little longer, and wait for the sun to come out before starting work." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Jinzhi also felt that what he said made sense, and after putting down the hoe, he wiped the dew on his body.

The first to speak was Zhang Jinzhi, she took out the stack of dry cakes in the back basket, and said that when she came over just now, she saw Qin Fan nibbling sweet potatoes, and she brought a lot of cakes, so she could let him eat more.

This woman's cooking skills should be very good, a stack of coarse grain cakes without much oil, eaten in the mouth, only the aroma of those dry foods remains, and there is no dry and spicy stinging throat.

"The aunt of the Yao family is a person who talks a lot, after you went back yesterday, you should have been reprimanded by her, right?"

Zhang Jinzhi asked Qin Fan with a shallow smile on her face, she nibbled on the cake while looking up at the Miao Miao Mountains in the distance.

The person's gaze is far away, and there is no sad expression on his face, as if he is telling something that has nothing to do with him.

Qin Fan understood that Zhang Jinzhi knew the reputation of his village in his heart, and he didn't hide it from her, so he nodded directly.

The aunt didn't say much, that is, the mouths of the people in the village were very broken. ”

"Really?" asked Zhang Jinzhi.

She obviously didn't believe Qin Fan's words, and she knew better than anyone else about her reputation in the village.

All this is to blame on others, only on her own life, which is really bad.

Who forced her to make a living at home, and after such a large-scale marriage fraud incident occurred in the village, she married here from the depths of the mountains the next year?

"I was only twenty-three years old when I got married, and it was a good time to go to work in a factory in the city at this age, but our family was so poor that there was not a grain of rice in the poor rice tank. ”

Zhang Jinzhi squinted his eyes and began to recall the ups and downs of his life.

Her mother's home is in a remote village north of Sanshi Village, over a dozen hills.

That place is even poorer and more ignorant than a village like Sanshi Village, which cannot be touched by Yangjiang light.

She didn't want to get married so soon, after all, everyone living in the mountains was poor, and these people also knew that it was a serious thing to muddle their mouths first than to get married early.

If there is a boy in the family, he can get married early and marry a daughter-in-law to be a helper in the family, but after a girl marries, she becomes a member of someone else's family, so it is better to stay at home and be a laborer.

Before she became an adult, the matchmaker who came to Zhang Jinzhi's house to say goodbye was almost about to break the threshold.

The people in the ten miles and eight villages knew that their family was poor, and as long as the bride price was enough, the old father would be relieved.

In this way, the bride price given by these people is not too much, and the price is even equivalent to the price of buying a fat pig in the market.

"Then what about later, why did you marry us later?" Qin Fan asked puzzled.

After all, Zhang Jinzhi is going to marry a man who has half of his body buried in the loess.

Being a widow in a village where the folk customs have not yet been fully civilized is a fatal thing.