Chapter 9: The Pain of Happiness
Although the farm life is many and complicated, it is better to have a simple heart, but it is also happy and comfortable.
In addition to household farm work, Situ Ming often stayed with Shi Zi'er, and thus met a group of children of the same age in the village. Every day, I climbed trees and chased them, and went down to the fields to catch crickets and grasshoppers.
Although there were occasional disagreements, this one fought with that one, and that one stopped talking to this one, and it didn't take long for everyone to reconcile again.
Although the daughter of a peasant family is not like a young lady from a big family, she lives in the boudoir and does not go out of the door, and it is rare to play with boys every day like Situ Ming.
They only occasionally go out to the river to wash clothes, and most of them stay at home to take care of their younger siblings, raise silkworms and weave cloth, and become familiar with female workers. After marrying a good in-law.
Because Situ was wearing men's clothes, Shi Zi'er often introduced her playmates as a distant cousin, and those adults only occasionally took a picture with her or looked at her from a distance and never doubted it.
I just think that this nephew of the Shi family is very handsome, but several sons of the Shi family are also more beautiful than ordinary children, so I don't think it's different.
But the boys who were playing with her became suspicious, and several people got together to talk.
"Do you think that cousin of Shi Zi'er is a little weird?"
"yes, tree climbing competitions are always last. behaved awkwardly, spoke softly, and put on a look of disciplining people all day long. I don't believe that he can frighten the boys in the upper villages. ”
The Shanggezhuang people he said were the sons of Lin Zilai's wealthy family, and the group of people who relied on Shizi'er to steal the fruit last time.
"It must be Shizi'er boasting, I'm afraid that we won't play with daylily."
"Shizi'er, that kid must be coaxing us, the more I look at it, the more I think that daylily is a woman."
"Hey, I think I do that when you say that, too."
A few people met and chattered, and you and I came up with a bad move.
Boys are naughty, and often a group of people team up to help the other person, of course, there are mostly jokes. They were also going to make such a joke on Shi Zi'er and the two of them.
first sent a child to Shi's house to call Shizi'er to come out to play, Situ Ming was playing with Shi'er, and was dragged out by Shizi'er.
Shizier thought he was burdensome, so he coaxed him to work in the field, and promised to catch a big cricket for him when he returned.
The two of them walked out the door with the child, and walked to an old locust tree, where they were greeted by a group of boys.
The group of boys divided into two teams, one team twisted Shi Zi'er's arm to make him unable to move, and a strong man in the other team hugged Situ Cheng from behind. The others coaxed to take off Situ Ming's pants and verify the male and female.
Shi Zi'er's face changed in shock, although he was still young, he knew things very strictly.
Busy shouted loudly:
"Daylily is a woman, you can't move, let her go quickly."
A boy said:
"Whether it's a man or a woman, it's all you say, who knows if it's true or not. A few days ago, he told us that it was your cousin, and today our brothers just made a common joke and everyone had fun, but you protected him so much. Everyone can move, but your cousin can't move, is he even higher than us? ”
Everyone is a child of a common people's family, and they hate those rich children who are invincible in their lives. Hearing something superior, he was furious, and he had already thrown Chu Zhong out of the clouds.
A few people were about to step forward to pull Situ Ming's belt, and they didn't care whether the person in front of them was a man or a woman.
All of them happened in an instant, and Situ Ming's face was flushed with struggle, but how could he break free with little strength.
A group of children don't know the severity, and they are about to succeed when they see it. Situ Cheng felt that her mind was suddenly clear, and said coldly:
"Ruining a woman's innocence for no reason, marrying according to love, and punishing according to the law, have you decided who will marry me and who will go to prison?"
When everyone heard this, they still had doubts in their hearts, and they immediately stopped, and the big man who was holding Situ Cheng also hurriedly put her down.
Everyone's faces were dumbfounded, and they all became silent like gourds without mouths.
Shi Zi'er pushed everyone away and pulled Situ Cheng to leave, but Situ Cheng stood still and said to everyone:
"I'm just a child of a poor family, and I was victimized by gangsters and ended up here, but it was the Shi family who saved me. The situation forced him to wear men's clothes, and he didn't mean to deceive everyone. Today's events should only be a game between children, and we must not talk to the outside world. If this matter is too big, everyone can't get out of it. ”
The half-grown children were already panicked and at a loss, for fear that the adults in the family would know what had just happened, so they nodded their heads when they heard Situ Ming say this.
The boy who was holding Situ Cheng said embarrassedly:
"I don't know how offensive the girl's identity is, I hope the girl doesn't have a grudge, and everyone can play games as usual in the future."
It turned out that he was the son of his neighbor Aunt Cao and the younger brother of Xiaoyu. Because he is taller and stronger than children of the same age, everyone calls him Big Strong, and he is the leader of these children.
Cao Dazhuang's eyes stared at Situ Ming, thinking that she was so outstanding in men's clothes full of patches and tatters, if she was dressed up, she would definitely be better than her own sister.
There are so many beautiful women in the world, Da Zhuang, a peasant child who has never seen the world, only knows that there is no one more handsome than Xiaoyu in the nearby village, so he compares like this in his heart.
Shi Zi'er looked at Da Zhuang's dejected appearance, and guessed that he didn't know what dirty thoughts came up in his heart. Angry and hateful, he gave Da Zhuang a punch.
This punch knocked Da Zhuang's out-of-body soul back, and Da Zhuang glared angrily, grabbed Shi Zi'er's sleeve and tripped him to the ground with his legs and feet. The two are entangled and inseparable.
The crowd boiled like a pot of water with plenty of firewood, some cheering and cheering on the side, and some wanted to pull the rack but couldn't intervene. Situ Cheng shook her head and walked home alone.
"Don't fight, she's gone."
Someone shouted.
Shi Zi'er finally turned over and rode on Da Zhuang, intending to fight back to relieve the anger of being beaten. I heard that after Situ Cheng left, she looked around and didn't see her figure, so she didn't care about anything, so she got up and chased after her.
"You stop, I'm being pressed to the ground and beaten, why are you so ruthless?"
He panted as he ran.
"You don't all fight like that, you get annoyed and fight at one time, and then you are like brothers. I have a heart to manage, can I manage it? Aren't you just because I've been in too much control that I came up with such a trick to cure me? ”
"What I, yours, are you willing for me to happen today?"
"You always dragged me out when you played, you should have expected such a day. It's all my fault for being soft-hearted, and I obeyed you as soon as you said a few kind words. I'm never going out with you again. ”
"Aren't you afraid that we'll destroy all the nests in the trees near the village?"
Shi Zi'er said with a wink.
In fact, Situ Cheng knew that she had a special identity, acted meticulously and cautiously, and never got along with people outside the Shi family. Even if I usually go to the river to do laundry, I also avoid crowded places.
Once, when Shi Zi'er came home, he brought a few chicks for Mi'er to play with, and Situ Ming touched the scene and took pity on the finches for being weak and forced to be separated from their parents. She begged Shizi'er to put the chicks back into the nest, but the nest had already been destroyed by some of their children.
Situ Cheng was very unbearable, and he didn't listen to Shizi'er. Later, it gradually evolved into a verbose follower behind Shi Zier.
Things started because of the chicks, and now Shi Zi'er gambled her mouth with the words of destroying the bird's nest, and she suddenly hated and said:
"What does the Rausch Nest have to do with me, I'm in this situation myself."
As he spoke, he thought of his own children, whose flesh and blood had not yet been saved, but he was here worrying about the birds and birds. The past is vivid, although I am fortunate to be reborn, I can't do anything about it.
What is the difference between living like this and dying, the more I think about it, the more painful it becomes, so I lean on a dead tree and cry loudly.