1. Chapter I
In the winter of the seventh year of the Republic of China, the snow was white.
Located in Wuning County, Jiangnan Province, in the Lu family's mansion east of Lujia Town, an old lady opened the door slowly, glanced at both sides several times, sighed and closed the door, turned around and walked into the house.
"Huizhen, Canwen hasn't replied in a few days."
As soon as Mrs. Lu entered the house, she sighed and talked to her daughter-in-law Ruan Huizhen.
Ruan Huizhen was roasting sweet potatoes, smelling the fragrance and feeling good. Hearing the old lady ask about Lu Canwen, the corners of her mouth twitched.
"Mother, on this snowy day, you can't send a letter, don't worry about it, come and eat something."
The old lady shook her head, "Hey, I can't eat, I'll go to the house to rest first." If this child doesn't send a letter back, both of us will have to drink the northwest wind. ”
Seeing the old lady enter the house, Ruan Huizhen continued to lower her head and play with the sweet potatoes in the stove. Looking up at the mansion, Ruan Huizhen also sighed faintly.
If she could have had such a big house before, she would have dreamed of waking up with a smile. But at this time, I really can't cry.
Such a big house, empty, nothing. Everything that could be sold was sold, and what could not be sold was burned as firewood. What's the use of her and the old lady guarding this big mansion. The old lady who lost money still expects Lu Canwen to send a letter back. If you really had this thought, you should have sent it back before winter, and you can wait until now? If she hadn't crossed over, the old lady would have starved to death just like the original Ruan Huizhen.
Since crossing over, he has received Ruan Huizhen's memory, and he is quite worthless for Ruan Huizhen.
The original owner, Ruan Huizhen, is a standard daughter-in-law of the Republic of China. Wrapping small feet, not stepping out of the door, being diligent and thrifty, the key is to be filial to your mother-in-law. Such a daughter-in-law should be placed later, and she is a typical five-good daughter-in-law. But in this era, it's a tragedy.
Ruan Huizhen is a girl from the Ruan family in Lujia Town.
The Ruan family has long since declined, the Ruan family's parents have passed away in their early years, and Ruan Huizhen's younger brother Ruan Huixian also left home to go out and never return, leaving Ruan Huizhen alone to live at home. Ruan Huizhen's appearance can only be regarded as delicate, and she is very rigid in her dress on weekdays, so she looks a little old-fashioned. And very hard-working, and very well-behaved, this is also a very suitable daughter-in-law candidate during the Republic of China. Mrs. Lu settled her early, and after her son came back from studying abroad, she let the two get married.
However, Lu Canwen of the Lu family accepted the new ideas and refused to arrange an arranged marriage. The old lady was angry and forced each other to die, and finally let the two worship heaven and earth and become husband and wife.
Lu Canwen fulfilled his filial piety, the old lady had her favorite daughter-in-law, and the Lu family was very happy. Only Ruan Huizhen is tragic. Her husband didn't like her, and he didn't touch her on the wedding night, so he left his hometown the next day on the grounds of study, leaving Ruan Huizhen to take care of his mother.
Maybe he felt that he had married his daughter-in-law according to his mother's request, and he had done his best to the family, Lu Canwen had not come back since he left home, but fortunately, he kept writing letters and occasionally sent some living expenses back, so that his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law could barely get by.
The first two years were not bad, but gradually the cost of living became less and less. Sometimes it's rare to send it back once in half a year.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are both illiterate, and they are women with small feet, so they don't even want to go out to find a job. The old lady had no choice but to sell her property and make ends meet. The Lu family slowly withered away, and now the house is surrounded by walls, leaving this empty mansion. And Ruan Huizhen was too weak because she was sick and disappeared.
If it weren't for the fact that he had a killer weapon in his hand, Ruan Huizhen felt that even if he crossed over, he would have to die once.
After eating the roasted sweet potato, Ruan Huizhen closed the door, went to the kitchen by herself, and made a bowl of sweet potato porridge for the old lady and sent it to the old lady's room. Seeing that the old lady was sleeping, she didn't bother, put down her things and went back to her room.
There is now only a bed and a small table left in the room. The bedding on the bed was worn out. Ruan Huizhen took off the padded jacket on her body, put the soup woman in her hand on the bed, got into the quilt and hugged the soup woman and squinted her eyes.
In the blink of an eye, Ruan Huizhen entered another space.
This space is not large, about ten acres of land. The inside was verdant and verdant, already overgrown with sweet potato vines.
Ruan Huizhen's space belongs to the divine consciousness space, so when the soul crosses, he also brought it with him. In Ruan Huizhen's previous life, she was born with this space, and her grandmother, who depended on each other for her life, told her since she was a child, don't tell her this secret to others, otherwise the bad guys will arrest her. Although Ruan Huizhen is young, she cares very much about her grandmother's words, so she has never told others. Even if she was the one who fell in love and almost got married, she didn't say a word. At that time, there was no shortage of food and clothing, so she rarely used this space. Unexpectedly, this space has now become a lifesaver for her.
You can't conjure things out of thin air in this space, but the soil inside is very good, and basically as long as there is a seed, a large patch of food can grow in a few days.
The current acres of sweet potatoes are the only sweet potatoes that Ruan Huizhen found in the kitchen of the Lu family. After Ruan Huizhen dug up dozens of catties of sweet potatoes from it, she planned to take these sweet potatoes out and exchange them for some other seeds, so that she could survive eating sweet potatoes all day long, and the old lady might not be able to survive.
Early the next morning, when Ruan Huizhen went to see her mother-in-law, Mrs. Lu, Mrs. Lu had already eaten the porridge in the bowl. There was not a drop left in the bowl, and the food was clean.
Seeing that Ruan Huizhen was coming, Mrs. Lu said, "On this snowy day, don't go out to wash clothes, our mother can eat less than two meals a day." ”
In order not to make the old lady suspicious, Ruan Huizhen used the excuse of looking for a job outside to earn money from washing clothes. Mrs. Lu believed it, and now she saw that it was freezing outside, and she didn't want her daughter-in-law to go out and suffer.
"Mother, it's okay, I'll go out for a walk. Now that it's cold, it's easy to find this laundry thing. Maybe people can look at the cold winter wax moon, and they can give us more copper dollars, and we can still eat rice when we go back. ”
Ruan Huizhen naturally wanted to go out. Although it was freezing outside, she didn't want to eat sweet potatoes all winter. And her body is very weak now, and the old lady is not much better, so she must eat meat and make up for it.
Hearing Ruan Huizhen's insistence, Mrs. Lu also understood that life was compelling, and she didn't stop her anymore, but just looked forward to it, "It would be nice if Canwen came back." There is a man in the family, so that our mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will not live such a life. ”
Ruan Huizhen sighed twice in her heart and didn't speak again.
Lu Canwen, a man, doesn't care if he is a scumbag or not, anyway, she didn't expect this man to come back to raise her. Although the world is chaotic now, if Lu Canwen cares about his mother and wife at home, he should not leave the house and let the two women live at home. Knowing that the Lu family had fallen in its early years, Lu's father smoked a lot of cigarettes at the beginning, and the only remaining savings also allowed Lu Canwen to go out to study by himself, and the family had no money to live at all. Lu Canwen can still go for a few years, which is a typical lack of responsibility.
After leaving the gate of the Lu family and locking the door from the outside, Ruan Huizhen found a secluded place and took out twenty catties of sweet potatoes from the space. She wanted to take out more, the scoundrel had a pair of small feet, and she didn't have the strength on her body, so she couldn't lift more. With these twenty pounds alone, she can't walk steadily.
Lujia Town is not small, it is bigger than some of the towns that Ruan Huizhen saw in his previous life, especially this Huizi landlord is quite rich, very rich, so the town is very lively, and the big mansions on both sides of the road look very spectacular.
However, Ruan Huizhen did not envy the size of their house. Speaking of big mansions, the Lu family's big mansion is the largest in the town. This Lujia Town was named after the Lu family at the beginning, and it was also a beautiful time back then. It's just that later on, he continued to smoke and gamble, and his descendants withered and did not produce, so the family fell quickly. The land changed hands, and the store was monopolized. Now only the ancestral house where I live now remains. According to Ruan Huizhen's meaning, sell the house as soon as possible to get a lot of money, and then the two of them will change to a small house to live in, and they will be able to live well for many years. It's a pity that she mentioned this matter once, and was scolded by Mrs. Lu for a bloody squirt, and this matter was naturally over.
Thinking about things in his heart, he didn't feel cold along the way, Ruan Huizhen looked for several stores, and finally found a grain store.