"It's miserable, this baby was stupid by thunder, and he didn't even know how to hide from the rain."

"It's better to be killed by lightning directly, Widow Jiang has to support him for a lifetime, and this family is ruined."

"Come and see the fool, haha."

The heavy rain was like a note, the thunder was rumbling, and the villagers stood under the eaves, pointing to Jiang Anyi in the rain. The words drifted into his ears intermittently with the wind, Jiang Anyi was extremely angry, he had followed the teachings of the saints since he was a child, acted gently and elegantly, and got along with people kindly, but they were all villagers in the village, so why bother to speak so viciously.

The loss of his father at a young age, the tragic thunderstorm, and the creditor's door, one after another made Jiang Anyi full of anger and nowhere to vent, and he really wished that a lightning bolt would turn him into ashes, along with those who had malicious intentions.

"Brother, brother......" The thin body traveled with difficulty in the strong wind, and the voice was torn apart by the wind and rain, and the sound of "brother" was very kind in the ears. Jiang Anyong came running with a deep leg and a shallow leg wearing a coat and a hat.

Running closer, Jiang Anyong gasped and untied his coat, stood on tiptoe and draped it on his brother, "Brother, huhu...... Mother is afraid that you will get wet,...... Let me pick you up, huhu, come back, you're soaked, don't catch a cold. ”

The clothes carried body temperature, dispelling the coldness in Jiang Anyi's heart. A slanting wind blew, and Jiang Anyong's brown cloth shirt was wet, and Jiang Anyi hurriedly said: "I'm wet anyway, don't get wet too." ”

Jiang Anyong smiled "hee-hee" and said: "I am strong, this rain is like taking a bath, it is not in the way." Brother, you are a reader, don't get wet. ”

Jiang Anyi's heart was hot, his eyes became sour and astringent, and he hurriedly raised his face, letting the rain drops hit his face, and the warm feeling slid down his face. It is impossible to say that half of the coat was torn off and covered on his younger brother, Jiang Anyi held a hat to block the front, and the brothers snuggled tightly together and staggered home.

Jiang Huang stood in front of the door and looked anxiously, and when he saw his son running back in the rain, he greeted him with disgust: "Come into the house and change into dry clothes, be careful of getting cold." ”

Jiang Anyi took off his bulky coat and hung it on the wooden hook under the eaves together with the hat, and the rain dripped on the broken stone steps in front of the eaves, seeping into the soil and disappearing. Yan'er waited beside her with a few clothes, with a small face, and taught Jiang Anyi an old-fashioned lesson: "Brother, why are you as ignorant as the second brother when you are so old, and you will feel distressed again when you catch a cold girl." ”

A few drops of rain splashed on Yan'er's young little face, and her upturned face was like a flower blooming with dew, Jiang Anyi wiped the raindrops off her face with pity.

After changing clothes, Jiang Huang called Jiang Anyi to his side and said, "My mother has thought about it, since you said that you will repay your debts before the end of the year, your mother can't let you lose your trust, so sell your land." ”

Jiang Anyi knew that the Great Zheng Dynasty adopted the equal-land system, and when the male became an adult, he could be allocated 20 acres of land, allowing the sale of land and encouraging the reclamation of wasteland. However, in the more than 100 years since the founding of the country, the population has increased fivefold, land annexation is very serious, and the government mostly uses wasteland as land, and taxes are levied.

After his father's death, there were no adult men in the family, and twenty acres of official land were recovered, and now the ten acres of land in the family were purchased by several generations of thrift, and these ten acres of land are the lives of his mother.

Jiang Huang's tone became firm: "It is natural to repay debts, and it is thanks to your second uncle who lent us money to get through the difficulties." Since your second uncle's family needs money now, then pay off the debt. ”

After a pause, Jiang Huang's voice choked up: "Yi'er, you have to fight hard, study hard and make progress, you can go to school in the future, and you can buy back the fields you sold." ”

Back at the desk, Jiang Anyi was holding the book in his hand, his head was in a mess, and he couldn't read a word. Under the eaves, An Yong and Yan'er opened their hands to catch the rain curtain, and the brother and sister frolicked the raindrops. I don't know what it's like to be young and sad, my younger siblings are still young, how can I pretend that I don't know anything, and let my mother bear the pressure alone.

At night, rain or shine. Jiang Anyi couldn't sleep restlessly, gently pushed away An Yong's legs, and turned over. Outside the window, the rain was pouring down, and the chickens in the town began to crow. After a while, there was movement in the main house, and my mother got up.

The first thing my mother did when she got up was to burn incense and pray in front of her father's tablet, and a small voice came softly, "...... It's all right, don't worry about it...... The children are sensible, but now they have difficulties...... Don't blame me......" The suppressed crying sound came out intermittently, mixed with the "rustle" sound of the wind and rain shaking the bamboo leaves, which was extremely desolate.

In the next year, I will be sixteen years old, and I will be considered an adult according to the law of Da Zheng, and I will have a field allocation when I am an adult, but I will have uncultivated wasteland, and at the same time, I will have to serve as a servant, and my family will not have enough manpower, so it will cost more? What if I can't pass the exam for a while, how long can I support myself by selling land, and after the land is sold, do you really want to sell Yan'er? Jiang Anyi couldn't lie down anymore, turned over and sat up, the scene of the separation of the family flashed in his mind, and he broke out in a cold sweat.

There is a process of growing up and maturing people, the speed varies from person to person, hearing his mother's cry, Jiang Anyi felt that his heart was extremely tight, and he was torn apart, and the pain was extremely painful, but he relaxed, and grew up all of a sudden.

The master said, "Self-cultivation, Qi family, ruling the country and leveling the world", what else can we talk about if the family can't be kept now. Since the demon in his body has a way, it is the path of no one in the sky, as for whether it is a way to live or a dead end, go down first. Jiang Anyi gritted his teeth, if the heavens were angry, he would let Thor kill him, as long as he could keep his family's safety, he would be willing.

got up in a daze, sat at the table in a daze, and drank the porridge in a daze, Jiang Anyi was in a daze. Yan'er noticed her brother's abnormality and asked in surprise, "Brother, why don't you eat 'braised pork'." The saying that taro is compared to "braised pork" is very popular with the family, and Yan'er laughs at eating "braised pork" every time she sees taro.

Awakened by his sister, Jiang Anyi made up his mind, his mood relaxed, and his thoughts became active. Speaking of eating is nothing more than "delicacies of the mountains and seas", the shrimp that is a little long has not been seen, but the "flying rabbit" is ordinary, the town is surrounded by mountains, there are many beasts in the mountains, pheasants, hares, bamboo rats, wild sheep, wild boars, etc. are common, and occasionally there are bison, black bears, tigers. There are two hunters in the town, and many people go up the mountain to pick mountain goods, hunt wild game and sell them to Wang Ji Mountain store, which is a lot of wealth for the farmers.

The demon often enters the deep mountains and old forests empty-handed, and survives by the natural things of heaven and earth, among which there are methods of digging traps and catching wild beasts under rope lases, which are simple and easy to learn, and the hunters in the town are hunting with bows and arrows, and I have not heard of anyone who will set traps to catch wild beasts. One trick is fresh, eat all over the world, and the family's livelihood may as well start by setting up a trap to catch animals.

After the rain, the sky is clear, An Yong is fine today, don't go up the mountain to chop wood with a sickle on your waist after breakfast. Jiang Anyi hurriedly called his younger brother and said to Jiang Huang's family: "Mother, there is not much firewood at home, I will go up the mountain with An Yong." As a child of a peasant family, Jiang Anyi couldn't sit at his desk all day long and read, he had to do the work of chopping bamboo, chopping wood, carrying water, and planting vegetables, Jiang Huang nodded and agreed.

Yan'er ran over and grabbed the clothes of the two, and said, "Brother and brother, remember to pick some fruit for me when you go up the mountain, the mountains are red and wild chestnuts, Yan'er likes them so much." ”

The mountains washed by heavy rain are green, and the green water is secluded, which is the most simple display of unspoiled natural beauty. The beauty is beautiful, but the rain also made the mountain road muddy and difficult to walk, and the rain that accumulated on the leaves shook down and quickly wet the clothes.

The brothers chose a place with dense trees at the foot of the mountain, quickly cut two bundles of firewood, and when they came, they promised Yan'er to find wild fruits, and the two went up the rugged mountain road. The mountain wind gusts, the air is exceptionally clear, the mountains and fields in August are rich in color, green, yellow, red, purple are splashed between the mountains and forests casually, all kinds of wild fruits are fragrant in the thorn bushes, one or two chickadees and pheasants are startled from time to time in the grass beside the road, and the wings of "Peng" fly away, and a branch of rain falls.

Jiang Anyi took a deep breath of the crisp air, felt that the whole person was much lighter, and slowly walked and looked, and found many traces of animals walking in the grass and bushes. Jiang Anyong was dexterous like a wild sheep, and after a while, he disappeared into the bushes, and when he reappeared, the cloth bag on his waist was already bulging, and he was still holding a handful of wild fruits in his hand, and he vaguely let Jiang Anyi taste it.

Jiang Anyi had something in his heart, and deliberately walked to the deep forest and grass, carefully checking the traces of birds and beasts. After choosing a good place, Jiang Anyi took out the prepared string, bent the branches and cloth the trap, and said to Jiang Anyong while busy: "This is the method of catching beasts that I learned from the book, you are careful and optimistic, if you can do it, you will have to go up the mountain to set up a set in the future." ”

Jiang Anyong jumped up happily, a pheasant is worth more than 20 yuan, and a rabbit can be sold for 30 or 40 yuan, if this method can really catch the beast, my mother doesn't have to work so hard. After being busy for more than an hour, the two set up four traps, and when they straightened their waists, the sun was shining in the sky, and the sweat was crystal like beads.

Carrying firewood back home, watching Yan'er eating wild fruits, smiling and intoxicated with happiness, Jiang Anyi secretly prayed: I hope that the trap is effective, as long as I can make my family happy, it doesn't matter if I fall into the underworld.

Early the next morning, the two of them took advantage of Jiang Huang's inattention to sneak out of the door and trotted towards the mountain. The beasts of the mountains had never experienced a trap, and there were actually three ropes in the four traps that caught the prey, two rabbits and a pheasant. Jiang An Yong was happy, and hurriedly pressed the hare that was still jumping around, untied his belt and tied it firmly. The autumn prey is fat and fat, and two hares and a pheasant add up to more than ten pounds.

With the prey in hand, the brothers happily returned home, and saw Jiang Huang standing in the courtyard with an angry face on his face. Jiang Anyong made a grimace at his brother and ran over, without waiting for his mother to get angry, he lifted the prey he was carrying in a treasure offering, and said with a smile: "Mother, look, what did my brother catch?" ”

Two rabbits and a pheasant can be sold for more than 100 yuan, which is equivalent to the income of Jiang Huang's family from weaving bamboo baskets for more than a month. Yan'er saw the colorful feathers on the pheasant, stretched out her little hand and stroked it gently, but the rabbit next to her suddenly struggled, which frightened Yan'er and quickly hid behind Jiang Anyi, causing Jiang Anyong to laugh.

Yan'er pulled Jiang Anyi's shirt, glared at the second brother angrily, and poked her head out carefully, looking at the struggling rabbit with a little horror in her dark eyes. The prey was actually alive, and Jiang Huang was also at a loss, shouting: "Be careful not to run, Yong'er, you carry it carefully, and go up the mountain store." ”

Jiang Anyi thought about it on the way back, and persuaded him: "Mother, since this method is easy to use, there are many opportunities to catch prey in the future." Our family's food is too vegetarian, and our younger brothers and sisters are too thin, so you have to make up for it, and I want to say that I will leave a rabbit to eat at home, and there is still time to repay the debt, and the money should be settled. ”

Jiang Huang saw his children looking at him with hope, sighed, and nodded in agreement.