Chapter 1 The Jiang Family
On a gentle slope at the foot of Taicang Mountain, a sturdy black buffalo is leisurely grazing with its head bowed. The buffalo has a ring on its nose, and a rope is tied to it, and the other end of the rope is holding the hand of a little girl who is ** years old.
The little girl has beautiful eyebrows and bright skin, which is very different from the other girls in the village. At this time, the afterglow of the sunset poured down, plating the little girl with a layer of soft and brilliant glow, which seemed a little unreal.
The little girl's name is Jiang Rong, and she is the daughter of the only family surnamed Jiang in Taohua Village.
Peach Blossom Village is located at the foot of Taicang Mountain, back to the mountains and water, the scenery is unique, now it is the best Fangfei February season of the year, the peach trees planted all over the village are in full bloom with a tree of flowers, a piece of pink and white from a distance, such as a brocade like a glow, like a brilliant brocade of the sky, it is really full of beauty, every inch is sweet.
Most of the people in Peach Blossom Village have the surnames Zhao and Wang, and Jiang Rong's family belongs to outsiders, and they have only lived here for seven or eight years, and they are about the same age as Jiang Rong. That is, not long after Jiang Rong was born, Jiang's father Jiang Yi moved here with his family.
At that time, there were only three members of the Jiang family, Jiang's father Jiang Yi, Jiang's mother Li Xin, and Xiao Jiang Rong, who had just been born.
Now that seven or eight years have passed, the Jiang family has added two more people, that is, Jiang Rong's two younger brothers, the eldest brother Jiang Yu is only more than two years old now, and the second brother has only been born for more than six months.
Because it was an outsider, the place originally assigned to the Jiang family in the village was located at the foot of Taicang Mountain, which was far away from other families in the village. This piece of land is said to be in the village, but it is actually not far from the wasteland.
However, Jiang Yi didn't care about this, it was also beneficial to stay away from other families in the village. At least pure, right and wrong.
The Jiang family's house is made of blue bricks and tiles, with five wide main houses, and two large courtyards surrounded by blue bricks and stones in front and back. There are also two rooms connected to the main house in the front yard, one used as a kitchen and the other as a utility room.
A peach tree planted in the corner of the yard is now quite large-scale, and when it is in full bloom, it looks like a cloud, which is very beautiful! Under the peach tree, there are stone tables and chairs, which can be used for rest and dinner. Under the scorching spring sun, the family eats around the table, smelling the fragrance of peach blossoms and blowing the warm breeze, not to mention how refreshing!
There is also a grapevine on one side of the wall, and a long bamboo chair is placed under the shelf.
In the backyard, there is a specially cultivated vegetable field, a bunch of furrows are particularly neatly tied, and as far as the eye can see, a vigorous and verdant area, and there are seasonal vegetables in all seasons.
There are five main rooms, the one in the center is the hall house, the one on the left side of the hall is the bedroom of Jiang's father and Jiang's mother, and the one in the past was converted into a bathroom by Jiang Yi, which is connected to their bedroom, and can also be entered from the outside, which is convenient to enter and exit.
There are two rooms on the right side of the hall, one is Jiang Rong's bedroom, and the other is empty, not for guest rooms, but for future children. Now with Jiang Yu, this one will naturally become his bedroom.
It's just that Jiang Yu is not yet three years old, and Jiang's father and Jiang's mother don't worry about letting him sleep in a room alone, plus he is particularly attached to Jiang Rong's sister, so Jiang Yu and Jiang Rong sleep together temporarily.
The Jiang family's blue brick compound is spacious and magnificent, and it is unique in Peach Blossom Village.
It's just spacious, but the land in the countryside is not valuable, as long as there is silver, how big of a place can't be remediated?
The key is this style, the roof is all paved with big black tiles, the walls are all made of large bluestone bricks, that is, on the ground, it is also specially paved with polished smooth bluestone slabs, just looking at it reveals a hard and sparse, than those thatched roofs of the mud block houses do not know how many streets to throw out.
When the Jiang family's house was completed and the villagers were invited to come to the warm house to eat and drink, I don't know how many admiration and envy they attracted.
There are even many people who have had crooked ideas secretly, who called this Jiang family an outsider? Who told him to show his wealth as soon as he came?
There are even people who covet Jiang's mother Li Xin's beautiful appearance.
The area of Peach Blossom Village is beautiful, and the land is brilliant, and it is a place for beauties. In the past, before Li Xin came, there were several quite praised beauties here. However, since Li Xin's arrival, those so-called beauties have been compared to weeds.
In fact, Li Xin's appearance is still secondary, the key is her soft temperament, which cannot be compared.
In this way, Li Xin has attracted the attention of many people.
However, those people also have the heart of a thief but not the courage of a thief, because of Jiang Yi's storage.
Although the Jiang family is new, they are not easy to bully.
Jiang Yi doesn't look like five big or three thick, on the contrary, his body is tall and slender, and with such a deep and handsome appearance like a carving, he is wearing a coarse cloth short clothes, and he still can't resist his outstanding temperament.
If you put on a brocade robe and go out and say that he is a noble son from a big family, no one will believe him.
Jiang Yi and Li Xin, the couple, as soon as they appeared in Peach Blossom Village, the sensation caused by them has not dissipated for a long time.
And those who have bad intentions end up with nothing good. Because Jiang Yi is not only handsome, but also handsome in his hands and feet. Anyone who came to find trouble was cleaned up by Jiang Yi, and he would never dare to provoke trouble in the future.
Because of Jiang Yi's high force value, there is no one in the village who dares to cause trouble without long eyes. Later, Li Xin taught the children in the village for free, and from time to time helped those who were living in difficulty, and gradually, the Jiang family also gained a firm foothold in Taohua Village and gradually integrated into the life of Taohua Village.
Now that seven or eight years have passed, the Jiang family has become very close to most of the families in the village, and they have truly become people in Peach Blossom Village.
However, an incident that happened more than a month ago completely put the Jiang family in a difficult situation, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the sky has fallen.
Because Jiang Yi, the head of the Jiang family, disappeared! Didn't come back for more than a month!
No one in the Jiang family can farm and take care of the crops, and since moving to Peach Blossom Village, Jiang Yi has been hunting for a living.
He was a good kung fu, a skilled archer, and a more patient, so that every time he went into the mountains to hunt, he was very rich, and his harvest was often several times greater than that of the other hunters in the village.
Because of this, the Jiang family's life has always been very good.
However, for some reason, a black fog suddenly filled the depths of Taicang Mountain, and once a person entered, he didn't want to find a way out.
Gradually, the villages at the foot of the mountain were rumored that there were demons in the mountains, and there were many fewer people entering the mountain all of a sudden, for fear that one day they would accidentally enter the range of the black fog and never get out again.
As a result, the hunters' hunting range was suddenly reduced, and the harvest was much smaller than before. is a good hunter like Jiang Yi, and the harvest is not half of what it used to be.
Even so, the Jiang family's life is very rich.
However, there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck, Li Xin was bleeding heavily during the third birth, and after he was easily rescued, this body fell ill, and he continued to take medicine every day.
There were a few precious herbs in the decoction, and each dose of the medicine required a lot of silver.
In this way, within a few months, Jiang Yi's previous savings were all filled in. The family's livelihood is becoming more and more difficult, and there are three young children to raise, Jiang Yi also fell into an embarrassing situation for a while.
For the sake of his wife's body and the family's livelihood, when Li Xin was in better health, Jiang Yi entered Taicang Mountain again. Only this time, he plans to go deeper, at least to hunt a big guy. I had no choice but to venture into the area shrouded in black fog to give it a try.
However, this time, Jiang Yi did not come back.
In the past, Jiang Yi also did not return for a while, but in order not to worry his wife and children at home, even if it was delayed, he would rush back as much as he could in three or five days. Never more than that.
But this time, Jiang Yi didn't show up for a month.
At the beginning, the village chief also sent the villagers to look for it together, but after searching for more than ten days, there was not even a trace of Jiang Yi. The villagers stopped helping. After all, they can't lose their jobs and see the world to find people, right? They have to live their lives, and they don't have to drag their own families down for the sake of other people's families.
Even though I sympathize with the Jiang family's plight, in the end, my own family is more important.
Within a few days, rumors spread in the village, some said that Jiang Yi strayed into the black fog area and failed to come out, some said that he was eaten by a big guy, and some said that he fell off the cliff and died without seeing his body...... In short, it's all kinds of bad speculation.
Anyway, no one believed that Jiang Yi, who had been missing in Taicang Mountain for a month, was still safe and sound.
With Jiang Yi's kung fu and his family-oriented temperament, if he is still fine, why hasn't he appeared until now? So, something must have happened to him.
Almost everyone recognized the fact that Jiang Yi was dead. Except for Li Xin and Jiang Rong. As for Jiang Yu, he is not yet three years old, and he can't understand the meaning of "Daddy is gone" at all, he only knows the silly joy of catching insects and teasing birds every day, and looks forward to his father bringing him back wild fruits and cute little animals.
So, overnight, the villagers in the village, who were originally full of envy for the Jiang family, were full of sympathy and pity for Li Xinniang'er at this time. Maybe some people still have a little bit of schadenfreude in their hearts.
This is without Jiang Yi, Li Xin's mother is a few weak and weak, small, for Li Xin's weak body, the family's money has been spent, how can I live in the future!
Some dark minds have unconsciously sprouted again......