Xizi was lying on the bed, Qiu Niang was drying mushrooms and bamboo shoots at the gate of the courtyard, Shi Gui went up the mountain to dig, and put on a basket to change ten eldest sons, and he couldn't save money for medical treatment in a season.

She saw Shi Gui laughing first, and when she saw Chen Niangzi, she hurriedly stood up, the bamboo basket on her knees rolled down, and the bamboo shoots rolled to the ground.

Inside, Yu mother-in-law heard the sound and came out, first saw the bamboo shoots rolling all over the ground, just scolded, looked up and saw Chen Niangzi, her face immediately changed color, she had already thought about selling Shi Gui, and her son did not let go, so he saw that the sky was arguing with his daughter-in-law, and it was not his own, it turned out to be picked up, and after eating all these years, he had to repay some.

Every time she opened her mouth, Qiu Niang couldn't wait to cover Shi Gui's ears, afraid that she would stay away from them if she heard something that was not her own, so she had to tell her that grandma didn't like her and was talking nonsense.

Shi Gui has never said anything, but how Yu mother-in-law tossed Qiu Niang, she saw it in her eyes, but there are few difficult mothers-in-law like her in the village, which one does not work at home, only she does not move when she sees the sky, which woman does not go to the ground, but she does not even take the child with her hands, not only Shi Gui, but Xizi, seeing that Shi Gui can take the child, he also throws it to Shi Gui, and is idle at home to bask in the sun.

Mrs. Yu never gave Shi Gui a good face, seeing her staring at her eating, she was about to knock on the chopsticks, but at this moment, her eyes narrowed with laughter, and she reached out to pinch Shi Gui's arm: "She looks thin, but she has strength." ”

Qiu Niang shook her lips, this season's rice seeds are not bought, the land will be barren for half a year, and in the autumn to collect rent, the family even sold cattle, sheep have not been raised, these days the husband has not gone to the ground, first plough up the ground, tired and fell to the ground, asked someone to carry it back, a pants are full of blood.

She looked at her daughter, and then at Chen Niangzi, shaking her lips and couldn't say the word "no", Shi Gui turned around and entered the room, Xizi was lying on the bed, seeing her calling her sister, Shi Gui took out the candy and sent it to his mouth, Xizi's eyes were shining, she opened her mouth, stretched out her tongue and licked it, smashed her mouth, and thought about eating Shi Gui Candy, and promised him when there was no drought, and he has been remembering it until now.

As soon as Mrs. Chen left, the house fell and scolded, the man roared, and then there was no sound, Yu mother-in-law cried and howled, or those car wheels, it was not easy for a widow's family to raise a son, and she wanted to cut the meat and feed him, and she wanted to starve to death at this time.

Xizi stared at Shi Gui with a pair of eyes, held her fingers with her little hand, and pulled Shi Gui over to sleep next to him, Shi Gui patted Xizi to coax him to sleep, and ate sugar, which was sweet in his dreams.

At night, it was like a festival, Qiu Niang dug up the bamboo shoots thin, three dollars for a piece of old tofu, burned the locust pond that was a layer of ash, poured a lot of fat loaches, took bamboo shoots for two, cut into sections to cook soup, baked a few cakes, took out all the eggs for Shi Daddy's body, and served several large bowls of fragrant to Shi Gui.

Yu Pozi smelled the incense and jumped outside, but she didn't dare to make noise this time, swallowed spit through the window, and said a hundred words about the daughter-in-law was not filial behind her son's back, Shi Gui stood up and closed the window with a "snap", and Yu Pozi was bluffed outside.

Shi Gui took a spoon and fed Xizi soup in one mouth, it turned out to be white and fat, but now he is as thin as bean sprouts, and he has become a big-headed doll. ”

Early the next morning, Mrs. Chen came to pick up Shi Gui, Qiu Niang's eyes were swollen into walnuts, and Shi Gui persuaded her in turn: "Mother go back, I will bring food to Xizi during the New Year." ”

There were two lying in the house, only Qiu Niang sent her, hugged her just crying, rubbing from the top of her head to the palm of her hand, she looked at it all night and hugged it all night, but she didn't hug enough, she was not her biological father, but it was not bad to treat her like this.

When the family has money, they want to cut flowers and clothes for her to make skirts, such a big girl's family, no one in the village can wear silver cloves, and when the year is good, she also bought it to wear her ears and eyes, not to mention that there is a mother-in-law who chews her tongue when she sees the sky, although she has a hard time, but the life is smooth, the more so, the more she can't let this family disperse like this.

Qiu Niang followed the oil truck and walked a long way, out of the village, after crossing the stone bridge, Shi Gui just lifted the curtain behind the car and watched, Qiu Niang cried all the way, she bit her lip and didn't cry, her fingers clenched tightly, she must go home.

The sky was not yet bright, there was fog everywhere, Qiu Niang's shadow was getting fainter and fainter, until she could no longer see it, leaving her eyes full of bleak wild artemisia grass, she turned back and sat upright, a car of girls, looking at each other, all silent.

There were seven or eight people crowded next to each other in the green cloth oil truck, one by one, head to foot, head to foot, potholes on the path, there were stones buried in the long grass, from time to time it was bumpy, the body jumped high and then fell, and when it came here, it was out of the village, Shi Gui took a last look at the entrance of the village, remembered the ancient locust tree, and engraved the three words of Lanxi Village in his heart,

The donkey cart slowly moved forward, I don't know who didn't hold back first, sobbing in a low voice, the first sound was small, and the people outside the car didn't take it seriously, and the girls in this circle couldn't help crying, and when the curtain was lifted outside, Mrs. Chen's eyes slipped to them: "Crying very much, this is taking you to live a good life." ”

Shi Gui put the small package on her knees, and found some sugar cubes in it, which was the corner given by Aunt Bai, Qiu Niang wanted to bring it to her, she smashed the candy and left most of it for Xizi.

The sugar grains were black, but as soon as Shi Gui took it out, the girls all shut up, and there were tears on their cheeks, looking at her with a twitch.

She smiled and spread out her hand: "Eat." ”

The bold one stretched out to take it, and the timid looked at it timidly, Shi Gui sent it forward, so he dared to take it, and held it on the tip of his tongue a little bit and waited for it to melt, I haven't seen this snack for almost two or three years, and I am eating it at this time, although I don't cry, I can't laugh.

Since the locust plague last year, the girls who didn't have a head in the village came out one by one in Mrs. Chen's car.

The girls in Lanxi Village are one out of a hundred, the girls raised in the peach forest and willow streams, all of them are born with snow-white faces and peach blossom eyes, and the people who bought them made it clear, such a girl was collected, she learned to blow, sing, and play, she wore silk, ate oil, and lived a good life when she went out.

This is just a deception to the ears, but not to the heart, not to know, but to tell the daughter to go to a good place, the family charges a few taels of silver, and the family has a good life.

Chen Niangzi is a relative of Aunt Bai in the village, both in a village, she came to collect people, so she gave up one or two halves, and the girl's family that was sold was already a good future compared to the pain of being a child daughter-in-law in Menzi Xingyuan and selling as a child daughter-in-law.

They had a good journey, feeding the donkeys fodder in the tea house, a few girls drank a bowl of hot water, their stomachs were hungry, and they went to the city, and when they arrived at the edge of the city, Chen Niangzi lifted the curtain and called the next girl to go, and when the car got up again, someone asked: "What about Erya?"

This is a village from the village, no one answered her, she understood after asking, she was stunned for a moment, she didn't dare to cry anymore, bit her lip and trembled. Shi Gui saw that she was really young, and gave her another candy.

The heart is bitter, the honey in the mouth is not sweet, a total of eight girls, one stop stop, to the ferry to take the boat there are still five left, and when the boat is changed, there are only three left, and the two boats are sold, how to find home. The remaining three had uncertain futures, all shrunk back, Shi Gui paid attention to it, except for himself, those who stayed were born with good color.

The cloth car always took a few people with him, the three aunts and six women who lived in an alley, Chen Niangzi's business was quite decent, the rich people walked around a lot, the brain was active and the hands were smart, and the alley walked in, and they all said hello when they saw her.

Stopping in front of a small courtyard, Mrs. Chen tapped the door twice, and someone immediately opened it, it was a delicate girl, and she spoke in Wu: "Mom is back." ”

Mrs. Chen pointed to these girls, and the girl slipped up and down and smiled: "This time it's a good thing." Shi Guixian thought she was the daughter of Mrs. Chen, and when she arranged them in the house, she saw that there was still a girl inside, and the flowers were also like them, and when she saw them coming, she smiled and arranged a meal for them.

Shi Gui is not the oldest, but a car of people cried, only she didn't cry, after eating her candy, she took her as the head, shrunk behind her and didn't dare to move, she smiled, went up and asked: "Hello sister, my name is Shi Gui, what's my sister's surname?"

"We are like this, what is the name and surname, I will go out tomorrow. She smiled as she spoke, and told them that her name was Apricot, and asked them if they were hungry, and said: "Mrs. Chen always has dry rice to eat here, you wash them one by one, Ming'er is like a family, and it is better to be smart." ”

After talking to her, I learned that the one who opened the door and said a good word about the goods, he was also a goods to be sold at a price, and the apricots were kind to them because they had a future, and they gave them one of the two steamed buns they took.

Five people in a shop at night, Shi Gui slept in the corner, Aunt Bai told Chen Niangzi to find a good place for her, Qiu Niang hugged her and cried all night, not her biological mother, but also she fed porridge soup one bite at a time, such as cutting meat, how not it hurts, one in the family hurt her waist, one was sick, and hugged her tightly: "Three years and five years, and I will redeem you." ”

Buying someone is a sum of silver, if you are a girl, there is also a salary support, Shi Gui opened his eyes, and he didn't even smile bitterly, a good person became a commodity when he arrived in this place, and he couldn't even think of his father and mother in his previous life.

Traveled this way, it was a car and a boat, the roof did not leak, there was a quilt on the body, and the big things had to wait for tomorrow, squinted and fell asleep, the next day it was bright, and the one who opened the door yesterday came in and kicked the door: "Hurry up, can you be a girl?"

There is no rooster crow in the city, I really don't know that it is dawn, Shi Gui got up with a bone, and when he went out, he saw things scattered in the courtyard, and Apricot was preparing to go out, and it was a shy middle-aged man who came to lead her.

Shi Gui cooked porridge on the stove, cut the vegetable roots, steamed the remaining steamed buns, and the small table in the courtyard had been set up.

Yinliu leaned against the door frame and snorted: "But as a concubine, she is still a merchant's concubine, so she is happy to be like that." She said this, but in her heart she really envied the bracelet on the apricot wrist, and the merchant looked at the pot-bellied face, it was actually a money-rich man, gritted his teeth, and threw the handkerchief into the house.

Chen Niangzi came back and saw that there was porridge and vegetables, glanced at Shi Gui, with a little smile, but she was still a knowledgeable person, she could understand the height of her eyebrows and eyes, she didn't cry or make trouble, just these two are worth bothering to find a good person, if she goes up, she can also play loudly.

sat down and ate a bowl of gruel and a few side dishes, standing next to them and watching, the two little girls were obviously hungry and spitting, and they didn't see Mrs. Chen give them a bite to eat: "What to drink at this time, you have your own food when you get to the place." ”

Shi Gui looked at the two huddled together, like two sparrows spending the winter, his lips moved and moved, and he couldn't ask where they were going. Mrs. Chen ate the porridge cake, and let Yinliu spread the eggs, sprinkled with green onions, her mouth was full of oil, and she took the two out when she was full, Shi Gui stood in the courtyard, a total of eight, and she didn't even say all the names, so she didn't know where the call was sold.