At the end of the day, it's all about poverty.

Zhang Jinzhi never thought that she would get married so early, after all, if she stayed at home for one more year, she would be able to help the family earn an extra year's food money.

The poor have no romantic talents, only to take care of the food in front of them.

"I thought that life would go on like this, and sooner or later it would get better, but I didn't expect this natural and man-made disaster to come together. ”

Zhang Jinzhi said melancholy, she said that there was a big flood in the Yangjiang River that year, and even their villages that couldn't hit the eight poles were flooded because of the continuous heavy rain.

Extrapolating from the time, Qin Fan carefully calculated the days, when it rained heavily that year, I am afraid that this was the day when Yao Qing's condition was the most serious.

It is estimated that he has arrived at that time, and he can't live without special painkillers all day long.

Zhang Jinzhi is the eldest sister, and there is a large group of younger brothers and sisters below, and it has been raining heavily for more than a month, their house has been washed away, and there is nowhere to go among them.

Although the village committee had a place for them to settle down temporarily, the impact of the flood that year was so great that every household was almost unable to take care of it, so how could they have extra food.

"When the matchmaker came to kiss, I didn't want to get married, but at that time, natural and man-made disasters came, and my younger brother had a high fever because of the rain, and the family really didn't have the money to treat him, so he gritted his teeth and agreed. ”

The time card is very coincidental, and the young men who originally came to Zhang Jinzhi's house to say their relatives have put their love affairs on hold because of the flood, and no one thinks about marrying a daughter-in-law again.

In Sanshi Village, which is relatively far away from their village, the floods were not so severe, but it rained heavily for several days in a row, and the crops in the village were affected.

In this way, her husband, who died early, asked someone to go to Zhang Jinzhi's house more than a dozen mountains to say goodbye, saying that he was willing to help their family tide over the difficulties in front of them and give them food.

Qin Fan frowned, most of the rich people's joys were the same, but the sorrows of this poor family were different.

"Sister Jin Zhi, did you know the situation in Genzi's family at that time?"

Qin Fan asked, Zhang Jinzhi was born beautifully, with a slender figure, diligent and capable of doing things, no matter where he put it, he was a leader who could handle the inside and outside.

As long as such a woman's family lives steadily, even if it is a broken grass house, she can live a small western-style house, and every time I think about her situation, it makes people feel pity.

"I didn't know at first, but seeing that their matchmaker was so anxious, I could guess a few points in my heart. ”

Zhang Jinzhi smiled bitterly, no matter where she put her family situation, it was a countdown, not to mention that there were fathers and mothers above, and the group of younger brothers and sisters below was enough to frighten people.

She had no choice, accepted the bride price money, and after settling her family, she took her few two sets of clothes and climbed over more than a dozen mountains to Sanshi Village.

Although Zhang Jinzhi had been mentally prepared before he came, he was still taken aback when he saw the man on the bed who was coughing and his face was red and he was about to get up in one breath.

She didn't expect that she was married to Chongxi, but after she came, she couldn't leave anymore, so she was doing things for her mother-in-law's house every day.

Qin Fan listened quietly on the side, he could see that Zhang Jinzhi was a resolute woman, even when talking about those difficult things in the past, the expression on his face did not fluctuate much.

It was as if she had chewed all those miserable lives, swallowed them into her stomach in one go, and opened her mouth to say it without meeting anyone, but remembered it forever.

"Within two years, the two in-laws let go, and when they left, they told me that they must leave a grandson for the Yao family. ”

As of that day, Zhang Jinzhi had been married to the Yao family for a year.

She knew that her man was not up to the task, and she had never urged him, or even pinned any hope on him.

Zhang Jinzhi then spoke, saying that her man also died the following year, and from then on she was the only one left in the tiled house.

"I originally thought that when the family was in place, and after the people were gone, I would go back to my mother's house and be a widow for the rest of my life. ”

"But I didn't expect that the people in my mother's family were taboo that I was a widow, saying that after I went back, it would definitely affect the marriage of my younger brothers and sisters, so that I would not come back in the future and stay honestly in this village. ”

She sighed, the sadness and affection that appeared on her face for the first time.

Qin Fan felt bad in his heart when he heard it, and felt that the ill-fated woman in front of him had never lived for himself once.

He looked at Zhang Jinzhi, and suddenly remembered his mother Lin Qiuping in a daze.

The gentle mountain woman has always been in charge of the inside and outside of the house, always putting her husband and son first.

Although the fates of the two women are not very different, what they do is roughly the same, but they are dedicated their lives to the family.

"Sister Jin Zhi, I can see that you are an optimistic person, our village will vigorously develop the economy in a few years, whether it is men, women or children, you can find a way to make money. ”

"You don't care about the gossip of the people in the village, what can you do if you become a widow, it is not your own choice, you did not live for yourself in the first half of your life, and you must live a down-to-earth life in the second half of your life. ”

Qin Fan comforted her, feeling that Zhang Jinzhi was really not easy.

She belonged to the foreign population in the village, and after the death of her in-laws and men, there was no land left for her in the village.

There are one or two acres of land in the mountains, that is, there is no guarantee of subsistence, even so, Zhang Jinzhi's dress looks cleaner and neater than others, this is where Qin Fan admires her.

"Of course I could have thought about it, or I would have jumped into the river and drowned. ”

Suddenly, a few smiles appeared on Zhang Jinzhi's face.

"Actually, my life is not so bad, although my man is a sick man, but his in-laws are fine, otherwise I would not have stayed in the village alone for so long. ”

Zhang Jinzhi is the kind of person in the village who has no livelihood, she neither goes to the city to work, nor does she help others.

Just thinking about it, Qin Fan felt a little curious about how this woman survived.

After all, when I went to the small courtyard of the Zhang family that day, I saw that her house was clean, refreshing, and even some small household appliances that people in the village did not have.

It is estimated that he saw through Qin Fan's thoughts, Zhang Jinzhi said that the reason why he was doing well was because her father-in-law had left an ancestral craft.

"I'll boil that ointment, the kind that is hard to find on the market. ”