After closing the courtyard door, Xiao Xuan took the letter and went back to the backyard directly, raised his hand towards Gu Huachen, and said rarely: "Look, my letter, there are still people writing to me!"

Gu Huachen was amused by his daughter-in-law's small expression, "Then you go back to the house and read the letter, this ground is as hard as a stone, or I will hoe, don't do it." ”

Xiao Xuan: "Is he showing off the strength of his martial arts?" "Hmph, who is rare!" he said, sitting directly under the eaves of the backyard and reading the letter.

Before, when he was flipping through the envelope and saw that the mailing address was Qingxian County, Cangzhou Prefecture, Xiao Xuan kept a question mark hovering in his mind, 'Do you have any acquaintances there?'

Until I opened the letter, I didn't read the content, and directly read the signature at the end of the letter: Chen Rui. After thinking for a while, it took me to react, isn't this one of the 'little sisters' I met on the train?

I think that at the beginning, they were all seventeen or eighteen years old! It's been ten years, and I think they should also get married and have children.

After reading the letter carefully, Xiao Xuan leaned on the pillar of the eaves, looked at Gu Huachen's back and looked empty, the evil of human nature is cruel, and these newly graduated students cannot understand and accept.

If Xiao Xuan is not mistaken, the four 'little sisters' Chen Rui and Su Mingmei on the train went to Cangzhou, and Liu Linli and Wang Xiaoqin went to Zaozhuang.

Xiao Xuan knew several pieces of information from the letter, the first information was that Chen Rui had written a few years ago, but he had never received a reply from Xiao Xuan.

The second piece of information is that Su Mingmei died, beaten to death by her peasant husband from the same commune.

The reason is very simple, in 72 and 73, when the commune wanted to report a list of 'rooted' youth, the number of young people who had not gone to the countryside from the big cities was not enough, and most of them went to the countryside, and Chen Rui and Su Mingmei were among them.

Later, in order to increase the proportion of people who actually 'took root', the men in the surrounding villages, whether they were unmarried, divorced, or with dead wives, began to choose suitable partners among the intellectual youth.

Su Mingmei is one of the unfortunate ones. When she first arrived in Cangzhou in 66, she was just a little girl who was 19 years old, and after four or five years, Su Mingmei went back to S City to visit relatives.

It's a pity that when several brothers are getting married, looking for a partner, they can't arrange Su Mingmei's return to the city to work, so she returned to Cangzhou.

In the next two or three years, I often wrote home to look for opportunities, and finally dragged on to 72 years, becoming a 25-year-old young woman in the eyes of rural people.

Just as the 'rooting' movement was gaining momentum, she was entangled by a widow's son in the village who had long taken a fancy to her. The man is less than 30 years old, has a lot of strength, and can work, but the biggest disadvantage is that he likes to drink and has a short temper.

After the man and the widow designed Su Mingmei, Su Mingmei had no choice but to marry the man.

In the early days of marriage, the young couple could still get by, although there were some stumbles, and the widow and mother-in-law would sometimes scold and scold, but the life could always go on.

Until the first child gave birth to a daughter, the family relationship suddenly became tense, and every day the widow mother-in-law either played the White Lotus or staged a full martial arts.

The eldest daughter was not yet one year old, but she had a second child, but the second child gave birth to another daughter, and she was forced to work in the field by the widow's mother-in-law before she was a full month.

If you can eat enough to work, forget it, but every day the widow's mother-in-law only gives her a bowl of thin rice that can't be thinned, and then she can't satisfy her stomach, Chen Rui will occasionally stuff half a bun or cake for Su Mingmei when she works, and Su Mingmei will always keep some back to bring to her eldest daughter.

Within half a year of such a day, the news of Su Mingmei's death came, and the widow and Su Mingmei's husband said that they were sick and died, and they were buried in a hurry that night.

After Su Mingmei's death, a child was less than two years old, and the other was just a baby, the widow mother and son didn't care at all, and the eldest daughter who was less than two years old would find a young person when she was hungry, and Chen Rui would always give her something to eat.

The third piece of information is that Liu Linli got married and Wang Xiaoqin committed suicide.

Liu Linli is married to an educated youth in S City, although her life is relatively hard, but the husband and wife have a common topic, and their lifestyles are similar, and they are generally not bad.

And Wang Xiaoqin was bent on going back to the city, and he was busy looking for acquaintances for a few years, but he was taken advantage of by a shameless village cadre.

People in the dormitory found a suicide note written by Wang Xiaoqin before she died, describing in detail the viciousness of a certain village cadre. Because the village responded to the call of the country after 66 years, many intellectual young people in S City went to the city, so they took the suicide note and sued the higher authorities directly.

In the end, the village committee cadre was dismissed from his post and sentenced to three years in prison. However, the life of these young intellectuals in the village has not been better, and the rules of the division of labor have changed, and after the autumn harvest every year, the local villagers can receive additional food subsidies, but the intellectuals do not.

Days like this go on. In the letter, Chen Rui didn't say much, but only told the story considerably. At the same time, I also thanked Xiao Xuan for giving them handkerchiefs at that time, although for Xiao Xuan, it was only five cents, but as far as Chen Rui said, this is a kind of mutual support from the countryside.

Whenever I was hungry and couldn't do it, or when I really didn't want to go on, I would take it out and look at the memories left when we met briefly on the train.

Xiao Xuan was a little at a loss, and originally gave them handkerchiefs, firstly, because the train station took care of her, the 'little sister' in their eyes, and secondly, she was also from S City, so she would not feel that handkerchiefs were a rare commodity, and they were more 'Zetai Ying'.

It's just that I didn't expect that a small move would give such a sacred meaning to the fellow villagers who only have one side.

Well, she admits that she doesn't have such noble thoughts, though, how to reply to this letter.

Moreover, judging from Chen Rui's description, she had also sent letters before, and from her correspondence with Liu Linli, she also learned that Liu Linli had also sent a letter to Xiao Xuan, but she did not send it again because she did not reply to the letter.

The reason why Chen Rui chose to send another letter this time is to try her luck.

Out of his mind, Gu Huachen, who was busy in the backyard, had already sorted out the frozen hard ground, and when he saw his little daughter-in-law's appearance of wandering into the world, he didn't understand what was going on.

put the hoe in the storage room, washed the handle, walked to the porch, sat next to Xiao Xuan, hugged her, and let her lean on herself: "Little daughter-in-law, don't think too much, many things will change if you don't think so." ”

"I just think it's a pity, it's in the prime of my youth~" For people like Xiao Xuan who have experienced the end of the world, life and death are not the same thing, but sigh in this world, when is it the end?