Chapter 40: Joy in Suffering, Don't Bow Your Head
"Sister, I'd better go to the handyman. www.biquge.info"After so many days of contact, Yuan Xing already knows that Ma Xiuying is not comfortable in Guo's Mansion, and he is unwilling to make it more difficult for Ma Xiuying because of himself. Besides, he thought that being able to be a slave in the house and eating was better than in the days of hunger and cold.
"No, if you want to be a general in the future, you must have a good background, and no one can laugh at you. Ma Xiuying refused Yuan Xing's request without hesitation, and did not forget to boast, "Don't worry, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, sister, I am so smart that I will definitely be able to come up with a way." ”
Yuan Xing smirked and longed, "Can I really be a general in the future?"
"You forgot that I know how to tell fortunes? Well, young man, I see that you have amazing bones, excellent bones, and you are not an extraordinary person, and you will become a great weapon in the future, and the heavy responsibility of maintaining world justice and peace will be handed over to you in the future! I have a long-lost martial arts cheat, for the sake of our fate, I will only sell you ten taels of silver a piece, and if you buy two copies, you will be given a twenty percent discount......." Ma Xiuying had not finished speaking, and she had already laughed to the ground. Stephen Chow's movie "Kung Fu" is always evocative.
Yuan Xing couldn't understand Ma Xiuying's babbling words, but he was infected by her joyful mood, his worries were reduced, and his eyebrows and eyes were crooked.
It was impossible for Ma Xiuying to leave Yuan Xing to eat with Da Zhang and others, so she ran to the kitchen every day to serve food.
Da Zhang sneered when he found out, and instructed the servant, "Since she wants to be willing to fall, don't prepare food for her in the future, she will eat whatever you eat." No one is allowed to help her, but I want to see how long she can last. ”
Since then, Ma Xiuying can only serve coarse tea and light rice in the kitchen, and sometimes only residual soup is left in the kitchen.
Ma Xiuying was also stubborn, not noisy or noisy, gathered the leftover soup, and ate it with Yuan Xing when she came back. Liu Dashan also left a few changes of clothes before, and Ma Xiuying always carried them with her, and this time she also took them out and begged Xiao Zhang's to help change them to Yuan Xing to wear.
Xiao Zhang's and Zhou Huniu both persuaded Ma Xiuying and Da Zhang's to be angry, why bother to suffer for an outsider.
Ma Xiuying always smiled faintly and rejected the kindness of the two. Because she knew that Da Zhang's disgust with herself for a long time, even if she lowered her head, she would not change Da Zhang's attitude, it was just a joke in vain. What's more, in her heart, Yuan Xing is not an outsider, how can there be a sister to enjoy happiness and let her younger brother suffer.
Yuan Xing was so moved that he only ate a small portion every time he ate, and most of it was left for Ma Xiuying.
"You're at the critical time to grow your body, so you need to eat a little more. Ma Xiuying put the food back into Yuan Xing's bowl, and when she saw that he refused to eat it, she pretended to be angry and said: "I am a girl's family, I want to keep in shape and lose weight, do you want me to grow into a big fat man and not be able to marry?"
"If my sister can't get married, I'll support my sister for the rest of my life. Yuan Xing clenched his fists and swore that he would have to change the bowl.
The food was pushed around by the two of them, and no one moved the chopsticks every time it was cold for a long time. In the end, Ma Xiuying was helpless and forcefully assigned: "One person and half, no one is allowed to rely on the skin." ”
As soon as the words fell, Yuan Xing buried his head in the bowl, and after a while, he held the empty bowl and smiled to supervise whether Ma Xiuying was cheating. Ma Xiuying looked at the bright bowl and smiled bitterly, "Lick it so cleanly, you don't need to wash it." ”
It is true that the amount of one person is enough for two people to eat, although the sisters and brothers are smiling and happy, they often wake up hungry in the middle of the night, but neither of them makes a sound and stays up silently until dawn.
Until one day in the middle of the night, Ma Xiuying was so hungry that she couldn't stand it and drank cold water, Yuan Xing also came out to drink cold water, and when they bumped into each other, they realized that everyone was secretly hungry.
Ma Xiuying, who is tired and widowed, plans to secretly take Yuan Xing to the pond to dig lotus roots and dig bird eggs from the trees. It's hateful that there are nursing home guards in the house, and before the two of them have achieved their goal, they were found and reported to the Da Zhang family.
Da Zhang couldn't help but say, and ordered the servants to put Ma Xiuying and Yuan Xing in the firewood room, and only released them after three days, and warned the two to be disposed of as thieves and driven out of the Guo Mansion next time.
There was nothing but bundles of firewood in the humble firewood room, and the cold wind blew through the broken windows to make the cobwebs sway, and Ma Xiuying and Yuan Xing shivered with cold as soon as they entered. Without discussion, the two of them immediately started to pile firewood in front of the window to shield themselves from the cold wind, but the wind still penetrated through the cracks.
Ma Xiuying squatted in the corner of the wall and hung her head silently, reflecting on her behavior, blaming herself for being too idealistic, and implicating Yuan Xing.
Yuan Xing didn't care, and comforted Ma Xiuying, "Sleep, I used to sleep often when I was hungry, and three days passed after waking up." ”
Sleeping in the firewood room for three days in such weather is only afraid that people will freeze into popsicles, Ma Xiuying admires Yuan Xing's big heart, but she does not plan to follow suit. She directly lit a small pile of firewood, and also brought the stunned Yuan Xing over to keep warm.
Da Zhang's was angry and angrily scolded Ma Xiuying for how dare she light a fire in the firewood room, if the house went to water, the entire house would be destroyed.
Ma Xiuying was irritated when she heard this, so she simply lay down on the ground and pretended to be dead, and soon Yuan Xing's crying covered Da Zhang's chatter.
The noise alarmed Zhang Tianyou, and in order not to let the servants see the joke, he had to come forward to persuade Da Zhang, "The children have been punished, you should dissipate your anger and let them out." ”
"Okay, it's okay to let them out," Da Zhang actually agreed happily, but her next sentence made Ma Xiuying's heart fall to the bottom, "Ma Xiuying has a bad character, and she has been taught repeatedly and has not changed, and she will deduct half a year's monthly example." ”
Although there are not many monthly cases, it is very important for Ma Xiuying and Yuan Xing, who are not full of food, and this time it was canceled by Da Zhang's family, which made Ma Xiuying feel deeply frustrated, and her spine, which had always been straight, tilted slightly for the first time.
Xiao Zhang looked sad, quietly bought clothes and food for Ma Xiuying, and sometimes gave her some silver taels to please the cook and get more meals.
Zhou Huniu knew Ma Xiuying's predicament, and couldn't help muttering in Zhang Tianyou's ear that Da Zhang's was too harsh on Ma Xiuying.
Zhang Tianyou frowned and said: "Eldest sister, let's not interfere in taking care of the backyard, if you have the leisure to take care of others, it is better to give birth to a baby for me quickly." ”
The man spoke, Zhou Huniu could only sigh silently, and secretly carried Da Zhang's and Zhang Tianyou to occasionally help Ma Xiuying.
Despite the unsatisfactory life, Ma Xiuying still insisted, she was very grateful to Xiao Zhang and Zhou Huniu, and let her know that not everyone is as vicious as Da Zhang. At the same time, she believes that there is no endless way, and as long as she is willing to work hard, she will definitely come up with a way to solve the current dilemma. After thinking about it in the house for a few days, she came alive again, calling Yuan Xing to tinker with the yard together.
Ma Xiuying named the courtyard Lin Yingyuan, no one knows why she chose such a strange name, only she knows that this is a kind of remembrance of her past life.
Although Lin Yingyuan is not big, it is more than enough for two people. Ma Xiuying renovated Lin Yingyuan, did not plant trees or flowers, and actually turned over the soil and planted all vegetables, vegetables, radishes, potatoes, corn and other crops were divided into areas one by one, and a small stove was built in the corner, and Zhou Huniu's servants helped buy some kitchen utensils to cook by themselves.
"Oh, Ma Xiuying is not going to be a young lady and a farmer. Guo Daya and Guo Xiaoya, who came to watch after hearing the news, laughed.
Ma Xiuying laughed at them, these people who grew up in the old society will never know how expensive the food in the new society is. Besides, the servants of the Guo Mansion don't regard her as a serious master, rather than looking at people's faces, it is better to do it yourself, and with these green vegetables, there is no need to eat the rotten vegetable leaves specially prepared for her in the kitchen.
After the house was settled, the Guo brothers were sent to a nearby school to study, and the girl did not have to go to school, but learned red embroidery in the house.
Ma Xiuying's personality can be quiet, and after studying for two days, she excuses herself to go back to her room to read and not leave the yard.
Guo Daya and Guo Xiaoya are jealous and hateful, often telling right and wrong in front of Da Zhang's family, disliking Ma Xiuying for being vulgar and embarrassing.
Da Zhang's wish that Ma Xiuying was as stupid as possible, and it was rare not to accept the complaint of the two daughters, and let Ma Xiuying fend for herself, and it was best that Ma Xiuying never leave the yard and be trapped in it.
Xiao Zhang and Zhou Huniu persuaded Ma Xiuying several times, asking her to learn to be a female celebrity so that she would not be able to find a husband in the future, but she was always refuted by her strange theory that "there is a golden house in the book, and there is a rich and handsome man in the book".
Ma Xiuying hopes that the Da Zhang family and the Guo family sisters will completely forget her and not come to harass her life. Because recently, she was making another secret matter, preparing to dig through the wall with Yuan Xing and sneak out of the house. She thought that instead of being trapped in the yard and being subject to the Da Zhang family, she should find an opportunity to go out and see if there was any future outside.
Although Da Zhang didn't care about Ma Xiuying's life and rest, he knew that she was a wild girl, so he specially greeted the porter, and did not allow her and Yuan Xing to go out of the house casually, and put the two under house arrest in a small courtyard in disguise.
If you don't let me out, I won't go out?" Ma Xiuying pursed her lips, took out a Mongolian knife and continued to knock and dig on the wall, vowing to dig a hole. She listened to the wall for several days before she started, and it was very quiet outside, and it was estimated that there was a secluded alleyway outside the wall, and it should not be discovered if she slipped out of a hole from here.
As Ma Xiuying's absolute supporter, Yuan Xing's little brother took this strength job without giving up. Although the knife is not as destructive as the hoe, the two firmly believe that an iron pestle can be sharpened into a needle, and a knife can dig a hole!
Keeping in mind the lesson of being caught by the nursing home last time, the two of them had to investigate the "enemy situation" before digging a hole, and as long as the nursing home did not patrol to the vicinity of Lin Yingyuan, the two began to work. When digging a hole, one is also responsible for watching the wind, and the other is dedicated to work. Fortunately, Lin Yingyuan is remote, and the New Year is approaching, and the house is very busy, and the two of them sometimes use too much force to make ping-pong noises and no one pays attention.
After the Spring Festival, a half-person-high hole in the wall finally took shape. Seeing that it was done, Ma Xiuying was very proud: as long as the knife dances well, there is no hole in the wall that cannot be dug!
Yuan Xing struck: "Are we going to climb out of this dog hole?"
"It's not a dog hole, it's a wall hole!" Ma Xiuying was annoyed and angry, and knocked Yuan Xing a few chestnuts.
"Wall hole, wall hole, sister, I was wrong. Yuan Xing covered his head and bowed his head and begged for mercy.
Ma Xiuying took the opportunity to exploit underage children, "Go and move the firewood here, don't let people find holes in the wall, and next time the eldest lady and them leave the house, we will sneak out for a walk." ”