Chapter 2 Life Experience
Zhu Yan walked back with a vegetable basket, thinking to himself, Butcher Hu gave a little more meat today, and I don't know if his mother-in-law will say a few words about him when she knows about this. But I have to be grateful to him.
In these years, it is difficult to move an inch without money, it is difficult to eat more meat, and when I am growing my body, my nutrition cannot keep up with it for a lifetime, and I will grow like bean sprouts, and my grandmother needs some energy when she has been sick for a long time.
With complicated feelings, Zhu Yan still came to the door with a basket with a smile. Simple people, there is nothing worth stealing, so it is not locked.
Zhu Yan sighed: Now it's a thief and I don't care about it.
Push the door in, bolt the door with a latch, and take the vegetables to the kitchen first. In any case, she, an eight-year-old girl, still has to worry about crutches.
The kitchen is connected to the firewood room. The yard was not large, with only two large houses and a hut. In fact, the Zhu family's belongings were not only these in the past, but they have been used almost over the years, and even the fields and other things have been sold by Zhu Dalang. It is not easy to have a place to live, especially for orphans and widows.
As soon as Zhu Yan walked into the kitchen, he felt that something was wrong with the kitchen.
Because Grandma Zhu has been sick for the past few months, she takes care of the kitchen. The eight-year-old girl didn't have much to do, she didn't work much hard in the first place, she just picked up more or less enough.
In a small kitchen, Zhu Yan didn't put much effort into it, but she could still see at a glance that something was wrong.
For example, the ground is too messy, and there used to be some thatch on the ground, but there won't be so much.
Zhu Yan stopped and glanced at it roughly, only to feel that there were dots of blood mixed with the thatch.
She didn't dare to go any further, so she naturally put down the basket in her hand not far from the door, and went out.
Under her careful inspection, clues were found.
Someone was wounded and came into her house. And the injuries were not light, and most of the time he hid in the kitchen.
Zhu Yan sighed, I don't know if this person from where he saw that he didn't have a strong man in his family, only an eight-year-old girl and an old man with few days to come, would do it.
In the face of life, any words are powerless, so whether it is a vendetta in the rivers and lakes or a wanted criminal in the government, Zhu Yan doesn't want to deal with a person who doesn't know his gender for this. Let's assume that I didn't see it.
If it weren't for Zhu Yan's rebirth, he would indeed not have noticed these details. Perhaps, I also encountered this in a previous life? But after thinking about it, there is still no impression, there are no big thieves in Jiangyang Town, at least there is no homicide in Zhu Yan's memory.
In her previous life, she couldn't make a fire to cook, and Grandma Zhu had nothing to do when she was sick, and every time she cooked, she tossed the kitchen very messy, and she wouldn't notice it.
Sometimes it's better not to know.
The events of the previous life have been more than sixty years away from now, and even if Zhu Yan has a good brain, he can't remember these things, at most they are a few major events.
It is now the third day of the fourth month of the 14th year of the Great Xia calendar, and the day of Grandma Zhu's death is April 20. She had decided to stay at home with her grandmother for the rest of the time, and maybe her grandmother could live longer.
Zhu Yan threw away those disturbing speculations, and only came to the big house where Grandma Zhu was without knowing it.
As soon as she pushed the door open, Grandma Zhu's voice rang out.
"Yan'er, is Yan'er back?"
"Grandma, it's me."
Zhu Yan squeezed out a smile, came to Grandma Zhu's bedside with a smile, and began to tell about the people or things she met in the market today. She didn't expect that in just one or two hours after she went out, she would enter a stranger, and she was still a person who didn't know whether it was good or bad.
However, since there was nothing to do in the previous life, this time it should be time to leave, thinking about it this way, Zhu Yan is much more relieved.
Grandma Zhu was lying on the bed, looking at Zhu Yan who kept talking lovingly. Looking at this well-behaved and sensible granddaughter, I remembered her sensibility and care for herself in the past few months, and suddenly my heart was filled with resentment towards her unfilial son. Thinking that after he went, his granddaughter would have no one to take care of. Pity this child, he has no mother since he was a child, and his father doesn't take care of things, what can I do in the future!
The more I thought about it, the more worried I became, and Grandma Zhu, who couldn't help it, shed two lines of turbid tears, but her breathing became short.
Zhu Yan was subconsciously startled: "Grandma, grandma, what's wrong with you?" ”
Grandma Zhu's face was wrinkled, and her body that had been eroded by the years was like an old banyan tree that had lost its moisture, and she grabbed Zhu Yan's hand tightly, so tight that Zhu Yan was afraid of hurting her grandmother's hand if she wanted to break free.
Grandma Zhu made up her mind, her face flushed, and she could see that Zhu Yan was panicking, but what she said surprised Zhu Yan, and she couldn't even comfort her grandmother.
How can the staccato sound make people so confused?
What is Zhu Yan is actually not the daughter of the Zhu family, but Zhu Dalang picked it up from the outside back then?
Listening to Grandma Zhu's description, that year was the month of the one hundred and sixth year of the Great Xia calendar, and Zhu Dalang hurriedly returned from outside with something in his arms in the wind and snow, with ecstasy on his face. At that time, they didn't live in Qingbai Lane. It's just a small village around Jiangyang Town.
At this time, there was no snow in the sky, but a thick layer of snow was spread on the ground. Zhu Dalang's nervous return did not arouse the suspicion of others.
Grandma Zhu was a little strange, so she stepped forward to check and saw that the thing turned out to be an swaddling baby. Outside the swaddling clothes is a layer of fox fur, which is a good way to keep the child warm in the swaddling clothes.
Zhu Dalang shouted: "It's been sent, it's been issued." "I saw that in addition to the valuable fox fur, there were gold bracelets, concentric locks, and gold collars inside, this is not a simple child, it is simply a golden boy.
Zhu Dalang had long been fascinated by those golden things and lost his mind, and when he arrived at home, he was relieved and quickly took off those valuable accessories.
At that time, the Zhu family did not have any money left, and Grandma Zhu was worried about money, and she could live better with this money, so she did not stop Zhu Dalang's behavior in the end.
But about the child, the two had a disagreement. Zhu Dalang is not a ruthless person, and naturally he doesn't want to kill the child, but he is not happy to let him raise a child, and he has not yet married, so he pops up with a child, who is willing to marry him.
But the child is indeed a tricky problem, and looking at the child's swaddling clothes, either rich or expensive, maybe her parents will find her in the future, so the people who have taken care of her for so many years can certainly get some compensation.
In the eyes of those rich people, a little reward may be able to make the Zhu family live a good life.
In the end, it was Grandma Zhu who made the decision and left the child. This child is Zhu Yan. However, in the past eight years, no one has come to look for the child, and Grandma Zhu has long regarded her as her own granddaughter, and she has never thought of telling her about her life experience.
Today, Grandma Zhu felt that she couldn't hold on, Zhu Dalang was not a person who could take care of people, and she didn't listen to her words and entered the Lu family without permission, which made her even more angry, especially when she was sick for a long time and didn't come to see her, and her pity for Zhu Yan prevailed for a while, so she told the matter.
After finishing speaking, Grandma Zhu choked her breath.
After hearing these things, Zhu Yan didn't know whether she should resent the Zhu family for not telling her about her life experience, or whether she should be grateful to Zhu Dalang for picking her up back then. It was the cold winter of Layue back then, if he really only took away the things on his body, his little baby would definitely have gone to see Lord Yama a long time ago, and it was not certain whether there would be a later Zhu Yan to cross over.
It stands to reason that Zhu Yan should not have a grudge, but her resentment is for a reason. She was connected to the events of the previous life, and she had speculations about the truth. The Zhu family adopted her, and they didn't have good intentions, but they were just greedy for money.
Moreover, in the last life, when Grandma Zhu was dying, she didn't explain her life experience, she still thought that she was just the daughter of a man's ex-wife. In this life, why did she just die seventeen days early, Grandma Zhu said it.
Because, that man Zhu Dalang will be back in five days!
After coming back for twelve days, he took her to the capital, saying that the capital was just a periphery of the capital.
Later, one day a few months later, the Lu family seemed to be developed, but they hid it and didn't let her know, and later the whole family moved to the real capital, but left her in a small village on the edge of the town, wanting her to be a child daughter-in-law.
If it weren't for Zhu Yan's crossing, he might have to make cattle and horses for the lame family of Wang, who finally gave birth to a son. Wang's lame family is very strictly guarded, and if he doesn't work well, he will be beaten. That day reminded Zhu Yan of the woman who was sold to the mountains in the news to inherit the family.
She only tried her best to escape, and she also experienced a lot of deception during the process, who called her just a girl, and she looked pretty good. After all, there is no endless road, and Zhu Yan finally met a good person when he was cornered.
The man saw her dejected appearance, did not ask anything, sat in the carriage and gave a few words lightly, and his men did it. Soon she has a new identity, an orphan girl living in Jincheng, a good citizen, no longer a beggar with unknown household registration.
By the time she settled down in Jincheng, the few people who had helped her were long gone. The most important thing to do business is capital, and that person left her capital, although she is not very shrewd, but some slightly more advanced practices she still did, and the money she made was not much, but it was enough for a single woman to live.
She has been in business for five years, and when she was fifteen years old, she was matched by Aunt Wang next door and became married to a Xiucai named Fu Yan. Later, Fu Xiucai went to the capital to take the exam, and when she came back from the exam, she became a lifter.
She once asked Xianggong to learn about the news of the Xia Lu family and Zhu Dalang in the capital, Fu Juren is not particularly shrewd and capable in life and work, and brought back some scattered news. I heard that the sixth lady of the Lu family turned out to be the long-lost daughter of a big man in Beijing, and now she has recognized her ancestors and returned to her ancestors, and the Lu family has also suffered some benefits.
As for what kind of big man it is, Fu Juren can't find out, at that time, Zhu Yan also felt that it was none of her business, not to mention that Zhu Dalang was that kind of person, she didn't want to get close again. So, she put these things aside.
However, after listening to Grandma Zhu's words at this time, she seemed to understand something about her previous life.
This time, because Zhu Dalang hadn't come back yet, Grandma Zhu couldn't hold on and released the news, but what if Zhu Dalang came back?
In the last life, Grandma Zhu didn't say it, she seemed to feel very guilty about Zhu Yan when she died, and Zhu Yan thought that she couldn't continue to take care of her, it seems that there are some things she doesn't know.
However, Zhu Yan knew one thing enough.
The sixth lady of the Lu family is the same age as Zhu Yan!
The things in the swaddling clothes were taken away by Zhu Dalang back then, if there was really any big man to recognize his relatives, who would believe it just by one side? At this time, physical evidence is needed, especially since the Lu family has opened several pawnshops, and there is a young lady who is also eight years old.
Mr. Lu was old and had a daughter, and happily set up wine for three days and three nights, which was told several times by Grandma Deng next door. Then, one day, the protagonist who had been happily serving wine for her became someone else's daughter.
Hahahaha, Zhu Yan felt like she had witnessed a joke.
Everything was understood, but Zhu Yan felt at a loss in his heart.