Chapter 10 The Beginning of Nature
Shi Zi'er had never seen her so out of control, and she was too busy to step forward and comfort her. Because I don't know the reason, I just said something that shouldn't be naughty to make her angry or didn't take care of her and made her feel wronged.
Situ Cheng cried to herself, and the depression in her heart dissipated a little. Only then did I notice that Shi Zi'er's clothes were covered with dust, and several places were torn.
Plate Face said to him:
"There are only one or two clothes that can be worn, and there are still three days to be mended. If you continue like this, your hair will be loose and your face will be blackened, and you will be no different from a beggar. β
Shi Zi'er knew that her remaining anger was still gone, and he didn't quarrel with her, but only replied:
"Then I have to trouble you to make up for it again, but I have to carry my mother behind my back, so I don't have to be scolded again."
Situ Cheng thought about it, and the clothes on his body were also his. Shi Zi'er had fewer clothes than she worn, so she was embarrassed to think about it.
When he saw his brother happily going out but coming back so wolfly, he swallowed half of the words he wanted to ask him for a cricket. just hugged Situ Ming and pestered her to listen to the story.
The night was deep, the moonlight shone in through the papier-mΓ’chΓ© window lattice, the child slept sweetly, and the stone child was still snoring.
Situ Cheng is also worried about going to Kyoto to find her son, but there is no money for the journey, and secondly, due to age and identity restrictions, it is not a foolproof solution to go on the road alone.
She suddenly remembered the words of the strange old woman when she returned to Yang Road, saying that she would be given a book without words. Listening to the name, the book should be able to solve all difficulties, but how can you read it without words? Maybe I misheard.
In my thoughts, I only felt heavy eyelids and sleepiness. But the brain is awake and unwilling to sleep like this, and after all, he can't resist the sleepiness and sink into sleep.
Gold, a lot of gold. The thatched house of the Shi family has also been transformed into a bright brick house, and the beautiful new clothes are piled up on the bed. She was packing her bags, and there was a carriage parked outside the door.
She stuffed the gold ingots into her luggage, and the gold became more and more as if it could never be filled.
His eyes were stinging with yellow and clear, and his arms were very sore. The coachman outside the door was urging her, and she was so anxious that she was sweating and woke up with a shiver.
It turned out that the sun had risen, and the sun was shining brightly. When she got up, she saw that there was no one in the family, including her children, and she must have gone to the field.
The Shi family and his wife really had nothing to say about how well they treated her, and they couldn't bear to call her to get up when they saw her sleeping sweetly.
The Shi family planted a total of about a dozen acres of land, all of which were divided? In different places. Situ Cheng couldn't tell where they went today, so she took a wooden basin and put the dirty clothes they had changed into and went to the river to wash.
She picked up a no-man's land, crouched down, took out her dirty laundry, and hammered it on a boulder in the river.
Villagers here usually draw water from wells for drinking, and river water is only used for washing and irrigation. Everyone is used to washing clothes upstream, so the water downstream is not so clean.
The farmer's clothes are only a little more dusty and muddy, so Situ Cheng should not wash them by herself. Suddenly she felt something floating in front of her, and she hurriedly stretched out her gauntlet to trip it so that it would not drift away with the current.
When I fished it up, it was a girl's underwear, and although the material was cotton, a few sleeping begonias were embroidered with colorful cotton threads. Someone must have accidentally let the water drift away while washing.
Situ Cheng put it aside and waited for someone to come to find it, and sure enough, someone in the distance ran over in small steps, but it was Xiaoyu from Aunt Cao's family.
When she saw clearly, it was Situ Ming washing clothes by the river, and her face was red with shame. When I looked into the distance along the river, I didn't see what I was looking for. Without looking at Situ Ming, she turned around to leave.
Situ Cheng shouted to her:
"Sister Xiaoyu is here to find this dress?"
Xiaoyu's footsteps stopped, and when she turned around and saw the dress in Situ Ming's hand, she couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground and get in.
She was about to deny it, but Situ Cheng hurriedly said:
"We are both women, sister, don't be embarrassed."
For fear that she wouldn't believe it, she opened the placket slightly, revealing the peach-pink belly pocket strap behind her neck. That was the dress that Situ Cheng wore when she first came to Shi's house. She was too flashy and conspicuous, but she wore it inside, and the old clothes covered with stones on the outside.
Even siblings don't wear the same thing inside and out, not to mention that she and Shi Zi'er are not blood relatives.
Xiaoyu had heard her brother Da Zhuang say that the daylily next door was a woman, but she didn't believe it and thought that her brother was trying to make fun of her by talking nonsense. Because she had said before that she had never seen such a handsome little boy as Situ Ming, her brother said that her heart was budding and something like that.
Xiaoyu dared to look at Situ Cheng squarely, looked her up and down, and said:
"Are you telling the truth?"
Situ Cheng came over and grabbed her hand and said:
"Have you ever seen that man in the world who knows how to do laundry? Or have you ever seen a half-sized boy who wears a belly pocket? β
Xiaoyu snorted and said:
"Who would pay attention to any man, but since the last time I met, I thought to myself, whose boy is this who gave birth to a daughter and a daughter's heart, it's really strange."
Situ Cheng knew that she was talking about the last time Shi Zi'er scared her with green cabbage insects, but Situ Cheng stepped forward to comfort her, but she was startled.
Then he smiled and said:
"I've never told the public that I'm a man, it's all your guess based on my clothes."
"It's not all, it's no wonder that others misunderstand you when you play with Shizier and them all day long."
Xiao Yu hurriedly covered her mouth as soon as she finished speaking, feeling that this was very inappropriate and insulting.
Situ Cheng disagreed:
"Everyone is born without being bound by so many strange rules, not to mention that they are just children, it is natural to play, why should we divide men and women."
Xiaoyu was very annoyed because of her gaffe just now, and then when she heard Situ Ming's words, she just felt that it was unreasonable. There is a difference between men and women, and men are inferior to women, these are all passed down from generation to generation, and it is doubtful that it is not suspicious.
Xiaoyu opened her mouth wide in surprise and looked at her suspiciously.
Situ Mian continued to say to her:
"My sister is also too cowardly, and some things seem to outsiders to be just jokes between children. But if my sister just blindly cries and runs away, it will inevitably become a fun thing for everyone to make fun of. Things go from small to big, and my sister will suffer sooner or later. β
Because Xiaoyu loves to cry very much, the children in the village who are younger than her dare to bully her. There was no bad intention, and it was just to make her cry and funny. Xiaoyu was running and crying in front, and they were still coaxing and saying something in the back:
Xiaoyu cried, and the heavy rain came. Don't sacrifice to the gods, don't worship the dragon king.
It was very unlucky to compare Xiaoyu with those immortals, and Aunt Cao was so angry that she mentioned that the child who shouted the loudest slapped her buttocks. The family also came to the door for this, and the two families had a big quarrel, and they still ignore each other when they meet. Since then, Aunt Cao has had a bad reputation for protecting her shorts.
In fact, I don't blame Aunt Cao for Xiaoyu for being too easy to bully.
Having said that, although Xiaoyu was very curious about Situ Ming, she didn't dare to agree with her words and said:
"Shall I fight with those who make fun of me? There are so many of them, I have beaten them, and how can I ...... them if I am a woman?"
Situ Ming didn't say anything when she saw her like this, but just praised her for the begonias embroidered on her dress.
The embroidery maid is Xiaoyu's specialty, she modestly only said that it was average, and also asked if the clothes in Situ Ming were silk. It is very enviable that the peasant family can afford to wear silk.
Situ Cheng just wanted to prove that she was also a daughter at that time, and she didn't want Xiaoyu to be very careful in this matter. I'm afraid that there will be more accidents to attract attention, but I just said:
"If I really have silk to wear, why should I wear old clothes of stones, but they are just rags."
The two gossiped a few more words, but after all, they didn't have a good temperament, and Xiaoyu left.
Situ Cheng shook her head and sighed after watching her walk away:
"It's like this by nature, and I don't know how many ordeals I will suffer for no reason in the future."
Here she lamented others, but she didn't know that her own nature had quietly changed.
In her previous life, she was influenced by her biological mother, and she was also blindly afraid of things, and she swallowed her anger obediently. After the death of her biological mother, she didn't want to try to change her situation at home, so she eloped with a man she had only met a few times. It came to a tragic end.
Who would have thought that the scene here would all fall into a wall of realm where you can see from afar.
"Did you hear their conversation just now?"
A vicissitudes of life voice in the Commander said.
"It seems that Fairy Si Xuan is gradually starting to return to her nature, master, it won't be too long for me to enter the mortal world."
Immature children's voice back.
"There are some things that cannot be rushed, and when the time comes, it will come naturally."