Chapter 018: Encountering in Trouble
Zhang lived in a fishing village when he was a child, and later moved to Panshui Town with his father. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoAs the name suggests, there is no shortage of water in Panshui Town, the waterways are vertical and horizontal, the boats are like shuttles, and every family is born by the water.
Zhang's father opened a water mill in the town, pushing noodles and rice, squeezing oil and refining pulp, and the work was very meticulous. The people in the town loved to come to Zhang's house, and gradually left out the Hujia water mill that lived on the other side of the town.
The owner of the Hu family is an arrogant, and Zhang's father is not a soft persimmon, and the two families have fought a lot of lawsuits for business, and they have even done it twice. Since then, water and fire have been incompatible, and they have looked at each other with their nostrils when they meet.
The Hu family has a son named Hu Fa, who is one of the best leather boys in the town. Digging birds up trees, going down to the river to fish, teasing cats and dogs, stealing melons and jujubes, there is nothing he doesn't do. The two families did not deal with each other, and the children of the Zhang family naturally became the target of his key bullying.
The Zhang family has no male babies, only Zhang's and his sister's two female babies. For this reason, Zhang's father and mother were not less scolded by the Hu family.
Sister Baozhu is one year younger than Zhang's, and her temperament is also soft, and she will only cry when she is bullied. Zhang's is a pungent one, with Hu Fa on the tip of a needle, a wheat mang, you have been fighting back and forth for many years.
She dug a pit for him today, and he will put a clamp on her tomorrow, no one will suffer a loss, and no one will take advantage.
When you're older, you don't fight, but you still look at each other unpleasantly, and no one cares about anyone.
People in villages and towns get married early, and most of the girls start to talk about marriage until the thirteenth or fourteenth year, and the eleven or twelfth years old will settle down at the earlier or twelve. The Zhang family did not have a male baby, so Zhang's father and mother moved the idea of recruiting money.
For men, being rich is "eating soft rice", and they can't afford to straighten their waists to be human beings for the rest of their lives. Those who are willing to intervene are either thick-skinned and uncompromising, or lame and blind and sick, or their family is not good, and they are really desperate.
No matter what the situation is, it must not be as pleasant as the family affairs that are set by the family.
Zhang's father and mother hesitated for a long time between the two daughters, and they were reluctant to let their younger daughter suffer, so they decided to call Zhang's recruitment. Zhang didn't want his father to be embarrassed, and he didn't want his sister to marry unsatisfactory, so he agreed without saying a word.
Zhang's appearance is well-born, and there is no more ingenious girl in the town than her. Although he has a tougher personality, he can live in a small village and town, and if he is not tougher, he will not wait to be bullied?
Besides, the Zhang family's business is good, and in the future, all the family property will belong to the Zhang family. Based on this alone, there are many people who have the idea of being a son-in-law for the Zhang family.
Zhang's father and mother finally felt that they owed their eldest daughter, and they should be as careful as they were when choosing their son-in-law, and if they were a little lacking, they sent people away. picked and chosen, and unconsciously dragged Zhang's age older, and after the age of sixteen, the family affairs were not settled.
In the summer of that year, it rained heavily for more than a month, and Liyutan burst its embankment and flooded, and Panshui Town, which was close to it, was the first to suffer. The people in the town packed up and dragged their families to flee for their lives.
The road was chaotic, and there were officers and soldiers blocking everywhere, and Zhang was separated from his father and sister without paying attention, and went into the mountains with a group of people without a head. caught up with the landslide, and the people who traveled with her died and lost it, and in the end she was the only one left.
In the end, it's a girl's house, no matter how pungent her personality is, she is afraid of being trapped in the mountains alone. After a few days of spinning like a headless fly, I ran into Hu Fa.
It is said that the road is narrow, and if you don't succeed, you will fall into one place. Both of them were separated from their families, and finally met a companion, no matter how big the enmity was on weekdays, they had to let go at this time, and they had the strength to work together to find a way out of trouble.
When Zhang escaped, he wore a pair of embroidered silk shoes on his feet, which had long been worn out these days, and his feet were injured and blistered. At first, I could grit my teeth and persevere, but within two days, it was swollen like steamed buns, and it hurt to move my heart.
Hu Fa first helped her, and then simply carried her away.
Although there is no rule that men and women are seven years old at different tables in the town, they must avoid suspicion when they reach the age of kissing. But whenever there is a skin-to-skin relationship between a man and a woman, the difference is very similar to that of a husband and wife. If there is no explanation, the men will be sunk in the river, and the women will be exiled.
Hu Fa mentioned it awkwardly, saying that when the flood passed, he would send a matchmaker to the door to propose marriage.
The Zhang family didn't take what he said seriously, the fathers of the two families were about to break their heads, so it was strange that they could be in-laws. Although he didn't take it seriously, he felt that he was a little responsible, which was very different from the appearance of the person who hated dogs when he was a child.
In addition, when we meet in distress and share weal and bene, our impression of him is much better.
The rain didn't stop, and they went around the mountains for a long time, but they couldn't get out. Lack of food and clothing, but also to guard against landslides, avoid wild beasts, day and night trembling, fearful.
That day, he saw a dead man in the ravine who had been gnawed by a wild beast to only half of his face, and Zhang finally couldn't stand it anymore, and sat in the muddy water and wailed. Hu Qiqi first persuaded her with kind words, but she didn't persuade her for a long time, and she couldn't bear it anymore, so she hugged her and cried together.
The two of them were in love for the first time, the other was strong-blooded, and they were in urgent need of comfort at the most desperate moment, so they became husband and wife in a daze.
When I came to my senses, I realized that something was wrong, but the raw rice had been cooked and cooked, and it was too late to regret it.
At this point, if you don't get married, you have to get married. Hu Fa repeatedly promised that when she went back, she would confess to the parents of the two families, and the three media and six hired to welcome her through the door.
The two of them made a decision for life in private, as if they had a head, and they worked in the mountains for more than a month, and finally got out when they met the officers and soldiers patrolling the mountains to search and rescue. At that time, the flood had receded, and the imperial court issued a document to return to their hometowns to appease them, and they led the porridge and rice distributed by the government all the way back to Panshui Town.
Most of the families in the town responded to the call of the imperial court and came back one after another, and the Bizhang family and the Hu family were not among them.
Zhang and Hu Fa were worried about their families, and they inquired with the people in the town, and some people said that they saw that the two families were going in the direction of the capital. Hu Fa thought about it for a while, so he asked Zhang to stay in the town and wait, and his family went to the capital to find someone.
Not long after Hu Fa left, Zhang felt something strange on his body. She is not one of those young ladies in the boudoir who doesn't listen to things outside the window, she has seen and heard a lot about women's upbringing, so she naturally guesses that she is pregnant.
The two of them were confused once, and they didn't dare to be confused for the second time, which Cheng wanted to be so quasi-method, and they planted it all of a sudden. Counting the days, it must be almost three months, and this stomach will not be able to cover it.
While carefully avoiding human eyes, she eagerly looked at Hu Fa to find someone to come back quickly. I looked forward to it day and night, and finally looked forward to my father and sister back.
The next day, the people of the Hu family also came back, but Dudu Hu Fa did not come back!
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