There are often merchants from all over the village who come over, and most of the letters from the city are brought by the merchants.

Chen went to wait every day, and after half a month, Liu Er finally asked the merchant to bring the letter back. said that he had arrived safely in the family school, and told his family not to worry. It's just that he hasn't been able to settle down yet, so he hasn't found any news yet, so he asked Liu Xiaohua to wait at home for a while. Chen finished reading the letter and reluctantly read it several times. Liu Xiaohua looked at it, and her heart was not happy, so she heard Sanzhi's voice coming from outside the courtyard, "Ah Hua!" ”

Liu Xiaohua frowned when she heard this, she always felt that this was like barking a dog. Lift the cotton curtain and let the three branches in.

Although some time has passed, Sanzhi's face is still not very good. The corners of his eyes and eyebrows were full of sorrow. Seeing that Chen was reading the letter, he was surprised, "Auntie is literate?" Liu Xiaohua also realized that the people in this village were illiterate.

Chen smiled embarrassedly, "I just know a few." So he put the letter away.

Sanzhi didn't think much about it, turned around and said, "I came to ask Ah Hua if she would go to the city to find a job." Atai sent a letter from the city, asking me to go to work in the city. I remembered that Ah Hua said last time that she was going to go too, so I came over and asked. If you want to go, just come with me. Atai said he had found a place to stay. Ah Hua and I can still take care of each other, and we are not afraid of being bullied. ”

This is great news for Liu Xiaohua. She was really afraid of Liu Er, and she was reluctant to go to the job he found for herself. It's great to be with Sanzhi now. She pondered that when she went to the city, she could think of some ways to make money according to local conditions. She optimistically estimated that as a modern person, she could not have more knowledge than these ancients. Slowly, the small days will pass.

So he persuaded Chen, "Why don't I go with Sanzhi." Ah Er has just gone to the clan school, where can he find free time to help me find a job? When he doesn't know when he will wait, it is better to go with Sanzhi, and the two of them will also take care of them all the way. Otherwise, when Ah Er came, no one in the village would go on the road with me, and I would be scared. Even if you can't find a job with Sanzhi, Ah Er must already have news on her side. ”

Chen was a little hesitant. After thinking about it, he nodded and agreed, and said worriedly, "But neither of you has ever been out of the village......"

Sanzhi knew that his good friend was going with him, and his face was a little more happy. Hurriedly comforted Chen, "It's okay." How to get to the city, Atai's letter made it clear to me. ”

Chen hesitated again and again, and finally nodded the next day. Constantly telling you to be careful on the road or something.

Liu Xiaohua looked at Chen's huge dark circles and knew that she was also very sad because she was worried that her daughter would not be able to sleep. Listen patiently to her.

In fact, there is truth to the saying 'parents are not far away'. What's more, there is only one Chen family in the family now, but if you don't leave, this family will even have problems with survival, and there will be no future at all.

It's easier to get three branches. She is now fed alone, and the whole family is not hungry. Liu Xiaohua can't rest assured that this cheap girl who has always treated herself sincerely. So before leaving, he reversed and told Chen a few words. The main thing is to worry about Chen's body. Tell her that if she is unwell, she must send a letter to her quickly.

On the eve of leaving, Liu Xiaohua began to pack up her things, and found that many of her clothes were torn, so Chen sat under the oil lamp and sewed her torn clothes. Patching up, from time to time I will be stunned.

Liu Xiaohua was very excited, she felt as if she had been exiled for a long time, and now she was finally going to return to civilization, and asked Chen, "I don't know what the city is like?" Has A-Niang ever been to the city? ”

The needle in Chen's hand was stunned. Say "Haven't been." ”

"A-Niang hasn't been there for so long?" Liu Xiaohua was incredulous.

Chen smiled faintly and said, "In this village, many people have never been out of the mountains after living all their lives, so what's so strange that I haven't been to the city." It's you, it's lucky to be in the city. If you are ordinary, when you grow old, you will naturally find a family in a nearby village, how can you call a girl's family and go far away to the city. Unless you don't want a girl at home, you send it to the city to sell it. ”

When Liu Xiaohua heard this, she only felt terrible. The life of the daughter's family is like duckweed, left to the hands of others. "If you become a parent, you can go to the city. Go to work. ”

"If you have few brothers and sisters in the family, you have to take care of the elderly, how can you go to the city to work."

Liu Xiaohua listened silently. The people in the village do not have the concept of birth control, and the mortality rate of children is high, so married women are either pregnant or giving birth except for physical problems. It is a blessing to be born, and it is unrealistic to always follow a group of children to do things in the city behind a good fortune.

"Sanzhi is also a blessed person." Chen lowered his head and said while sewing, "Atai is affectionate and righteous. "The relationship between the two of them was still decided when Sanzhi's mother was alive.

Liu Xiaohua put the clothes in the package, and said, "I'm not convinced, why can women only rely on men if they are blessed." She thought about it and couldn't help but say, "Ah Niang, do you think it's for my good to let Ah Er go to school." But I don't think so. No matter how good and reliable others are, it is someone else's after all, even if the relationship is close, it is not as good as relying on one's own waist. I just don't belong to ethnology, and I will never be attached to others in the future. ”

Chen's stitch almost stuck in his finger, raised his head and frowned and said to Liu Xiaohua: "A-Niang knows that you want to go to clan studies. But that road is not so easy to follow. It is said that it is a good thing to become an immortal and gain the Tao, but how many people in this world have become immortals? How geometry is the woman in it? Counting and counting, there is only one Lin Ajiao for thousands of years, what is the fate of the other women who have entered this threshold! How many are worse than dead! You look at the scenery of those people, but how many dry bones they have stepped on under their feet, and if you are not careful, you will be wiped out! How many people died without a place to be buried! The more he talked, the more high-pitched his voice became: "A-Niang, will it hurt you!" Becoming an immortal is becoming an immortal, what is so good about becoming an immortal! ”

Liu Xiaohua was completely shocked. A few words blurted out almost without a brain: "Become an immortal?" I, I didn't think about becoming an immortal. She didn't know that there was still a cultivator in this world, so she just thought that going to the clan was going to school.

But in retrospect, it was true that the method of selecting people was a bit odd. But she didn't think about it at the time.

"I don't want to be the best!" Chen softened his tone slightly: "Isn't it a blessing to be plain in my life?" The tone was also loving: "A-Niang doesn't want you to suffer." Peace be upon you. ”

Liu Xiaohua relieved herself, thought of what she had experienced recently, and said: "Even in this remote mountain village, Daddy is not safe. If he had some ability, he would not have died in the belly of a glutton. An ordinary family like ours lives a dull enough life, and Daddy's deceased family should have reached out to help, but no. It can be seen that if a person wants to live a peaceful and ordinary life for himself, he must first have the ability to make others unsafe. Although it was a slow voice, it was a firm tone.

Chen looked at her in a daze, as if looking at a stranger.

Liu Xiaohua was shocked, estimating that the real Liu Xiaohua would not say these words, and was about to come back.

Chen Shi was already angry, put down the needle and thread in his hand suddenly, and said angrily: "I can't be your master, whatever you like!" He turned around and went to sleep on the kang.

Liu Xiaohua looked at Chen, who was facing away from this side and didn't even show his head outside the quilt, and sighed secretly. I don't think I'm talking too much. In fact, Chen is just out of a mother's desire to care for her children. But he talked about such a big list fiercely.

She sat for a while, and when she saw that Chen didn't pay attention to her, she picked up the needle and thread that Chen had put down. After trying to make up for it a few times, I realized that needlework is not so easy. I can't help but secretly regret that I can't even do needlework well, I pierce my fingers full of holes, and my hands and eyes are strictly uncoordinated, and it may not be a material for cultivating immortals. I really can't make Chen angry like this for such an irrelevant thing. Silently packed up his things, and went to the kang.

However, I couldn't sleep after tossing and turning. It's a mess in my head. For a while, he fantasized about his own legacy and looked down on the common people, and for a while, he imagined that he had gone mad and poked himself into a bloody hole. I don't know when I fell asleep in a daze. I had all the strange dreams, one moment I dreamed that I was playing hand in hand with a little doll who looked like Fuwa in the deep mansion, and I dreamed that I was being chased and killed, she ran and ran, and when she was about to catch up, she turned around suddenly......

It turned out to be just a dream. I'm still on the kang. Under the oil lamp, Chen didn't know when she got up and was helping her sew clothes. I was startled by her suddenly sitting up, seeing that she was sweating, and I didn't care about getting angry again, so I took a towel to let her wipe her sweat, "Another nightmare?" ”

Liu Xiaohua nodded silently. That dream was too real!

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's all fake. There is A-Niang, A-Niang is protecting you. It's going to be fine. Chen was distressed.

Liu Xiaohua looked pitiful, "Auntie, don't be angry with me." I'm not talking nonsense anymore. ”

Chan let her snuggle up in his arms. sighed, "Actually, what you said is not unreasonable. I was so happy that you were chosen at the beginning. But then the more I thought about it, the more scared I became. As an ordinary person, there are also clan law constraints, and you will not encounter any vicious people. But if you really enter the cultivation gate, you are an orphan girl, you have no powerful relatives behind you, and you don't have a strong big family, you don't rely on four or six, if you meet someone who has the ability to harm you, what can you do? Just think about it, my heart is like a knife. Think about it, why did those great clans occupy the blessed land of Lingshan for hundreds of years, didn't the other clans have ever had extraordinary geniuses? But why are these people nowhere to be found? It is between the Great World Clan and the Great World Clan, and it is also bloody and bloody. The centuries-old clan ceased to exist overnight, and the grievances and grievances in it were not clear for a hundred years...... As an ordinary person, although there are difficulties and calamities of ordinary people, they are always much less difficult than those encountered after entering the cultivation gate. ”

Liu Xiaohua wanted to say very much: "Although I am very afraid of death. But whether it's a big hardship or a small hardship, not all of them are death. It's better to be able to see the scenery of the world with great hardships and dangers, and maybe, if you are not careful, you will never die. Besides, I don't have a backer, so does Ah Er have it? You're not letting him go. ”

But thinking about it, I still quietly shut my mouth. It's normal for mothers to worry too much about their children. When I went to the city, the sky was high and the birds were flying, so why did I insist on talking to her at this time, which would make people unhappy. As for letting Ah Er go to the clan study, it may be that there is a secret to himself.

"Actually, I don't want you to go in the □□." Chan said