Bai Lu tried hard to search for the specific route from the town to Ligou Village in the memory of the client, Ms. Zheng Huansha, but unfortunately Ms. Zheng didn't pay much attention to Hu Yanyan along the way, and besides, even if she did, the roads in the mountains were complicated, and it was impossible to remember too accurately.

Xiaolan put the sleeping little melon back into the house, and then beckoned the eldest child to come over, combed his hair with a grate, and Bai Lu watched quietly, she had only seen such scenes in old movies on TV before, or "Into the Depths of the Mountains", "The Call of the Mountain Village" and other theme reports on the lack of opportunities for children in the mountains to go to school.

At that time, Bai Lu would be moved by compassion and sympathy, but now that I think about it, since there is little arable land, poor soil quality, and poor harvest in Ligou Village, since I can "hire" a wife from outside the mountain, why don't I go to the outside world to work hard.

Other peasants can go to the city to work, so why can't they?

For generations, he has been living in Ligou Village, living a closed life of not hearing anything outside the window, and the more he keeps it, the poorer he becomes.

Of course, if you are self-sufficient, you are so poor that you are still restless, and you have become an important customer of human traffickers to sell "stolen goods", doesn't this encourage the crime of abduction and trafficking?

Children are innocent, but poor people must have something to hate, these children grew up under the influence of their parents, maybe Xiaogua is the next father, maybe it is the next Agui, rhubarb.

For a while, Bai Lu and Xiaolan didn't speak, only Da Gua occasionally muttered a few words, saying words that Bai Lu didn't understand at all.

"What's your name?" Xiao Lan broke the ice first.

"Zheng Huansha, or Zheng Sha. Bai Lu looked straight ahead and responded in a daze.

Xiaolan thought of Ah Guiniang's shouting "What", and knew that it was ambiguous, this is a trivial matter in Ligou Village, women, just have a shout, who cares what your original name is.

"I'm telling you this, it's really Aguiniang's explanation, you are too noisy in the morning, the villagers saw Agui's jokes, Aguiniang is not happy, let me persuade you, after all, we are all the same 'hired'. ”

Bai Lu thought, no, you accept the status quo, and I, no matter what, will not give in, not only to make up for the shortcomings of the miserable life for the client, Ms. Zheng Huansha, but at the same time, she herself is completely unable to agree with this terrible rural mountain village.

Illiterate, legally illiterate, hooligans.

"I'm not persuading you to accept it, I just think that if you run out without knowing anything, you will only be beaten in vain, tell you about the previous events, you have a spectrum in your heart, no matter what, you can only have hope by saving your own children first. ”

Bai Lu nodded slightly, indicating that she understood.

Zheng Huansha walked around the village before, trying to get rid of Agui who was following behind, but as long as her pace was faster, Agui would rush up directly, and the eagle grabbed her arm like a chicken, and dragged her back.

Therefore, Bai Lu did not plan to wander around the primitive and backward village of Ligou, where there was nothing to touch with in tattered mud fields, fence walls, rough villagers, pigsty and cowsheds, etc.

Moreover, the whole village is an accomplice of the Agui family, they help monitor women like Zheng Huansha and Xiaolan who are "hired" from outside, and report the movements of women to the people in the village at any time.

Next, Bai Lu sat in front of Xiaolan's house, watching her take care of the children, feed the pigs, peel the corn, dry the grain, and clean the cowshed......

Xiaolan explained to Bai Lu while working, such as:

"This grass must be spread out for the pigs to eat, otherwise some will eat too much, and some will not have to eat. ”

"This corn must be rubbed before it can be peeled, otherwise it will either not be peeled, or the corn kernels will be peeled off and broken. ”

"This bean has to be dried before it can be grinded, otherwise it will spoil if it gets too hot. ”

……

Bai Lu, who has always lived in the city, once wanted to experience the life of the farmhouse, that is, to bake corn tortillas with a wood-burning stove, grind soybeans with a stone mill, make tofu, tofu skin, etc., in the final analysis, she just yearns for the so-called cooking methods of some farmers in the documentary "A Bite of China" to preserve the most original ingredients and taste of the ingredients, so she will have such a little curiosity.

But now that he is in the most authentic farmhouse, Bai Lu just wants to hehe.

Towards noon, Ah Gui's father came back from the outside with a cow, bald, dark-skinned, homespun cardigan, trouser tube fat, and a dry tobacco pipe with a tobacco pouch obliquely inserted in his waist.

The old man took the notched coarse porcelain cup handed by A Guiniang, poured a few sips of water, and then led the cow into the cowshed and tied it.

Then, the family was babbling in a very fast local dialect, and as they spoke, they turned their heads and pointed at Bai Lu.

Xiaolan whispered in surprise: "You said that you can't marry before the ghost moon and the ghost moon, otherwise you will provoke evil spirits?"

Bai Lu nodded, feudal superstition is not credible, but now she can't protect herself, so she can only hope that the other party believes in the cow ghost snake god.

After Xiaolan nodded at Bai Lu, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes: "The Midyear Festival is the seventeenth of next month, and there is still a month before the end of the Ghost Moon, you really don't ...... like this."

Bai Lu suddenly interrupted Xiaolan's words: "Everyone's position is different, I can't force you to be the same as I think, and vice versa, so you can't change my original intention if you help me or stop me." ”

In his eyes, there was brightness and persistence that Xiaolan had never seen, and then, Bai Lu's tone was soft:

"Xiaolan... I know that you just want to live quietly in the mountains without being beaten or scolded, taking care of your children, doing farm work, and just living quietly in the mountains. ”

Xiaolan didn't speak, which was a tacit acquiescence.

"That's right, your life is indeed peaceful now..."Bai Lu's words changed: "But when you dream back in the dead of night, have you ever thought about the parents and family who have raised you for more than ten years! How anxious they will be when you suddenly evaporate!"

Xiaolan's expression became a little ugly.

He continued: "Have you ever tried to think about whether your mother in Kawada Prefecture has been in tears and prayed for your safe return every day during the four years you have been missing, whether your father has been looking for people everywhere to inquire about your whereabouts, sighing all day long, and your ......?"

Bai Lu's words were extremely inflammatory, and as far as Xiaolan herself was concerned, she had always suppressed her thoughts about her family to the extreme because she was afraid, and now that she was described and revealed by Bai Lu one by one, she couldn't help leaning over and crying anymore.

Even the crying of homesickness can only whimper quietly, how oppressed is this, Bai Lu felt a little unbearable in his heart, but still continued to lobby:

"Big melon, it's actually a girl, right?"

Author's words: Today is the Midyear Festival, and the text is set, so coincidental ~

One more. (To be continued.) )