Chapter 1 Mulberry leaves in the village
After the beginning of spring, the south of the Yangtze River of the Great Ming Dynasty is like a freshly washed jade, shining layer by layer, reflecting such as green mountains and green water.
The story takes place in an ancient mountain village in the south of the beautiful river, Dafenjiao Village. No, it's the annual mulberry picking festival. Early in the morning, firecrackers were set off in every household in the village. The noise drowned out the rooster's crowing. A few ducks swayed their feathers and stepped on the sound of firecrackers, and their rough voices could not be heard.
Speaking of this mulberry picking, the village of the foot of the tomb is based on mulberry, proud of silkworms, and there are several large sericulture households with golden plaques before and after. Now they've all moved to town.
Among them, there is a family, surnamed Xie, who left a single-house branch in the village a few generations ago, keeping all kinds of mulberry, raising silkworms, and then sending them to the main family in the city to draw cocoons into silk and dye them into silk. A few generations ago, it was still rich, but it is a pity that the children and grandchildren are sitting on empty land, and now they are in great decline.
No, Xie Ling, the righteous daughter of this family, put an incense case by the river, set off the firecrackers, and washed a bamboo wilt.
This bamboo is the only bamboo product that the family bought from the town, and the others are like blue seeds and pots, which are all woven by themselves. Those that have been washed clean can only be used on the first day of the mulberry harvest, which is a unique habit of the Xie family and shows great importance.
At this time, the whole mountain village is lively, green water surrounds the green mountains, and experienced old people know that this is a good place for feng shui. The people of the surrounding villages love to buy land here to build graves, so it is called "Big Grave Foot Village".
There are more graves on the mountain than there are stones by the stream, and the people of the village are superstitious, and they do not like to go out at night, so it seems that the day is lively.
Xie Ling is not in a good mood today, she has been frowning, the third daughter Yang Duanwu has been sneaky since yesterday, and she has not seen anyone, and when she asked her in the evening, she only said that she went to pick wild fruits, and disappeared early this morning.
The second daughter has just gotten married, the fourth son and the fifth daughter are still too young, but there is not even a helper, the first day of this mulberry picking is very important, if you don't pick, it will touch a year's mold, where did the Dragon Boat Festival go?
was worried, suddenly an ox cart slowly passed by, looked up, the girl sitting on the car, with long hair wrapped in a hat, a thin veil hanging down from the hat, and something in her arms, wasn't it the Dragon Boat Festival?
If you don't look closely, you really don't recognize it.
Xie Ling hurriedly followed the ox cart.
But the ox cart did not go anywhere else, but stopped in front of the door of his broken house.
The yellow and green bamboo poles cover the peach blossom red, the pear blossom white, and there is a dilapidated house in the middle of the house, and the master bedroom is divided into several small bedrooms, and the left and right sides are a firewood room and a kitchen. The firewood room is not only filled with firewood, but also a lot of bits and pieces are piled up inside.
This is exactly the house where the Dragon Boat Festival family lives temporarily.
The twelve-year-old girl got out of the ox cart during the Dragon Boat Festival and looked around vigilantly before entering the house. He put the child in his arms on a small bed against the wall—the bed was broken and small, but it was his own sleep.
"Ah Yuan, don't cry, there is an aunt here." The Dragon Boat Festival covered the baby with a quilt, and a pair of bright eyes were not in a hurry, revealing a calm and indifference that did not match her age. finally stopped crying, and there was a knowing smile on the face of the Dragon Boat Festival.
It's really like, the Dragon Boat Festival strokes the baby's face, she doesn't know what day it is, the people in the village set the day of picking mulberry as carefully as the first day of the new year, but she doesn't believe in this, she can't let the baby not save, let her sister's affairs go.
"Dragon Boat Festival, what are you doing?" Xie Ling suddenly pushed the door in, angry, the Dragon Boat Festival wanted to cover the baby's face, but it was too late, Xie Ling had already seen it: "Why don't you listen to your mother?" Why do you want to take this little sin home? Do you know that you're going to kill your sister like this? ”
"Mother, Ah Yuan is still a baby, you usually can't even bear to pinch an ant to death, why can you bear to throw him into the river?" Dragon Boat Festival bowed his head in protest.
"Who asked your sister to do such a thing, if your mother doesn't help her deal with it, how should her mother-in-law's family treat her! Besides, why don't you forget jì, today is the first day of mulberry picking, but you are not at home to help your mother, you were not like this in the past! Two lines of tears flowed from Xie Ling's sunken eye sockets, "Your father is missing, your brother has gone to town, you are the eldest child in the family, why are you so kind to your mother?" ”
Looking up at Xie Ling during the Dragon Boat Festival, the woman who was only in her early thirties, her wrinkles were crawling, and her facial features were all covered by the hardships of life, leaving only the vicissitudes of life.
Dragon Boat Festival heart aches, perhaps, she is not considerate of Xie Ling enough, she has only passed through two months, and she does not fully understand this contradictory mother of this body, but she is not a person who is indifferent to family affection, since she has become the new owner of this body, she has to replace her to love her relatives: "Mother, my daughter knows that she is wrong, and my daughter promised her mother that she will definitely let you all live well, is it okay for my mother to leave Ah Yuan?" Ah Yuan is my sister's lifeline. ”
"No, what else do we have at home, you go to the kitchen to see, over the years, when has the silver from selling silkworms not been taken by the uncle? If we keep him, it will only hurt him, and it will hurt our family. Xie Ling wiped her tears as she spoke, she was not a cold-blooded person, but there was really no way to do it at home. In order to save her children and find her husband, she can only become the most ruthless grandmother in the world.
"Mother, today is the day of mulberry picking, losing the child will touch the mold of a year, and the mother always doesn't want the sericulture to be unsatisfactory this year. What's more, Ah Yuan is my sister's own son and my mother's own grandson, can my mother really bear it? Dragon Boat Festival knelt down and pulled Xie Ling's sleeve. If she wanted to keep Ah Yuan, Xie Ling would definitely not be able to stop her, but she didn't want to turn her face with Xie Ling.
In her previous life, she had lost so much for the so-called love, and in this life, she just wanted to keep the relatives who were worthy of her love. Even when she knelt down, she didn't want her loved ones to be sad.
Xie Ling's heart softened, how could she be willing to lose her own grandson. Besides, she didn't want to touch her head today.
"Mother, you see how cute Ah Yuan is, when he grows up, he will definitely be a filial child."
Ah Yuan's two bamboo poles grabbed Xie Ling's clothes with his arms, and his pale red mouth called out, in the end, he was a hard-working baby, he was born with this catastrophe, and he looked thinner than a rabbit.
"Alas!" Xie Ling was really defeated under the eloquence of the Dragon Boat Festival, no wonder, before the Dragon Boat Festival crossed, he was a lawyer, "My mother went to pick mulberry first." You don't want to go today, Ah Yuan needs someone to take care of him. ”
It seems that Xie Ling agreed to keep Ah Yuan, and the Dragon Boat Festival happily hugged Ah Yuan and kissed him, it was really too similar, too similar, in his previous life, he also had such a big child, but unfortunately, time and space were separated, and she never had a chance to hug him again.
Ah Yuan fell asleep, and in the morning at the head of the village, he asked a family for a few mouthfuls of milk, and Ah Yuan was easy to feed, so he slept so peacefully. Holding him and sitting like this, the Dragon Boat Festival looked out the window and fell into deep thought:
Before the crossing, she was a well-known divorce lawyer in the 21st century. but died because of a very stingy man. She still vividly remembered that the man, after taking possession of her and obtaining a marriage license with her, spread lies that she was leaving him and that she had damaged his reputation, in order to defraud him of the bride price he had paid. She returned all the money to him, left angrily, and gave birth to the child alone, but he was entangled, and wanted to get back the jewelry money he gave her, and insulted her and the child. In a fit of rage, she drove to his death. and then traveled into this time and space of the twelve-year-old girl Yang Duanwu.
When she saw Ah Yuan, she thought of the child in her previous life, and she jumped into the river to rescue Ah Yuan regardless of a qiē, but she was afraid that she would also treat Ah Yuan as him.
If the son in his previous life can't see his mother, will God also give a woman like her to take care of him and let him have a happy and carefree childhood?
"Child, you must live well. Mom will live well, too. She muttered, as if she was saying it to her son in her previous life, and as if she was saying it to Ah Yuan.
After noon, the wind blowing from the window brought the warmth of spring, brushed the broken hair on the forehead of the Dragon Boat Festival, and the Dragon Boat Festival watched the silkworm babies in the silkworm room next door.
They are all still first-year-old silkworms, with white flowers, lying in a dustpan covered with straw. When I first came to the Dragon Boat Festival, I still felt disgusting, but now I see them eating silkworms quietly, and the heart of the Dragon Boat Festival has a feeling of settling down.
This is her home, although she is poor, but as long as she works hard, she is still very happy.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, I found the early spring tea picked from the mountain the day before yesterday from the firewood house. The tea leaves are in full bloom, and there are some buds and leaves, which grow on the high mountains, and no one can get them for free during the Dragon Boat Festival, but this taste is better than the tea planted by the Nanxijiang farmers in the previous life!
I took a few slices during the Dragon Boat Festival, washed them with boiling water, and brought them to the edge of Ah Yuan to drink.
The tea leaves are fresh and tender, the tea fragrance is light and sweet, but it is delicious and tight.
The silence of the countryside was shattered by the sound of hurried footsteps.
"Dragon Boat Festival, it's not good, the people in the village are talking about it, saying that the groom was left alone in the empty room on the night of the wedding, and the bride did not abide by the woman's way, and she was clamoring to reconcile." Xie Ling rushed in the door, his eyes full of anxiety, "Erya has a pure temperament, how can she not abide by women's morals?" They must have wronged Erya. ”
Putting down the teacup, the Dragon Boat Festival raised her lips and sneered, the reaction of the Wu family was all within her expectations, and now the most important thing is that the whole family should help her sister with one heart: "It's not like this, mother, I saw my sister yesterday, it was my sister who told me personally, the people of the Wu family decided to withdraw from the marriage because we didn't give them a dowry, but he wanted to go back to the dowry given to us, so he went around preaching that my sister was not **." They wanted to force their sister to mention the matter of reconciliation first. ”
Xie Ling was stunned, the Dragon Boat Festival was not going to pick wild fruits yesterday, but to find Erya.
"Why are they ruining Erya like this? Dowry, what dowry? Xie Ling was confused, but after thinking about it, she also reacted.
There was an omen for this.
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