Chapter 106: The Memory Opens the Past
Ximen Jian rode on the spotted horse and walked towards the hometown of Sister Meihua's biological father, and couldn't help but think of the Meihua sister that his parents had told him, which was actually the magical life experience of his child daughter-in-law and sister-in-law.
"Hey......" he sighed, feeling lost, emotional, and entangled in his heart.
So, he opened his brain memory image memory, and the past jumped on the negative of the brain screen, vividly remembering:
It turned out that before Ximen Jian was reborn, the child with the same name and surname as him was also called Ximen Jian, and he had an older brother named Ximen Kang.
Meihua was brought back from the mountains by Ximen Jian's father, Ximen Dashan, to his brother Ximen Kang as a child daughter-in-law when he went hunting in the old forest of Changbai Mountain 12 years ago.
Ximen Dashan is a well-known hunter in the local area, often going to the mountains or prairies in autumn and winter to hunt prey, exchanging skins for money.
One day, he came to the primeval forest of Changbai Mountain to hunt, and on the way home, he suddenly encountered heavy snow blocking the mountain, so he delayed his journey.
He couldn't go home for a while, so he had to spend the night in a family surnamed Han in Xiaoyangshan, thirty miles away from the golden hook.
This family surnamed Han is Meihua's hometown.
At that time, Meihua was only seven years old.
Her family is too poor, and she has been without a mother since she was a child, so she is a very poor child.
She also has two younger sisters, one aged five and the other three.
As soon as Ximen Dashan entered the two thatched houses of the Han family, he saw that the three children had no clothes to wear, and they could not go out of the house in winter, so they had to lie on the kang with a broken quilt.
Lao Han, the father of plum blossoms, enthusiastically let Ximen Dashan to the small fire kang, and said with a red face: "Big brother, I'm sorry. My family was so poor that the three children didn't have a single piece of clothing to wear, which made my eldest brother smile. ”
Ximen Dashan glanced at the three little girls in the bed: "Hey, these days, how can anyone in our mountains be rich?" What's the joke? Oops, this duckling's egg is raw, one is more handsome than the other. ”
"Hey......" Old Han sighed and said, "Brother Ximen, you sit down, I'll get you something to eat." ”
Ximen Dashan said gratefully: "I'm really sorry, this heavy snow has caused trouble to my brother." You don't have to bother with this...... Just have ready-made ones to fill your stomach. ”
"Hehe...... Old Tang smiled bitterly: "I'm not afraid of brothers' jokes, my family doesn't have food every other meal, even if I want to bother to get you something delicious, it's difficult!" ”
As he spoke, he walked to the kitchen and boiled a large pot of potatoes.
Two simple and kind middle-aged men chatted while boiling the pot.
"Hey......" Lao Han sighed again, and said sadly: "Brother, we are too poor in the mountains, and there are many children in the family, this day is sad, so I have to let you deal with it at my house." ”
"Brother, look at what you said, these years are chaotic, and every family is having a hard time! It would be good if you girls grew up and could work. ”
"Hey, but it's hard to live these days now, when they grow up, if it's still like this, without clothes to cover their bodies, lying on the kang all day long and rolling up the broken quilt, where will my old face go!"
At this time, the three little girls who were older first showed their little brains, stretched their necks and said to their father: "Dad, I'm about to grow up, I want to get dressed, and I'll go outside to play!" ”
"Dad, I'm about to grow up, I want to get dressed, I'm going to play outside!" Another little girl got out of the bed.
"Dad, I'm about to grow up, I want to get dressed, I'm going to play outside!" The youngest girl did not show weakness, and she also came out, she had just learned to speak, and she knew how to wear clothes.
"Oh ......" Ximen Dashan listened to the words of the three little girls, and felt sad for a while, and said: "I have a piece of fabric here, which I bought when I passed by the market when I was hunting, so let's make a dress for them to wear......
Ximen Dashan saw that these three little girls were pitiful and cute, and because he only had two sons at home, he liked girls very much, so he took out a piece of blue and white coarse cloth from his bag and handed it to Lao Han with both hands.
"Huh? This...... What kind of line is this? Lao Han was pleasantly surprised, but shook his head and refused to accept anything.
Ximen Dashan said: "We are all poor people in the mountains, why are you polite?" This one...... The big girl is seven or eight years old, right? How can you go out to meet people without decent clothes, and you can't hold your child out of trouble? ”
In fact, Ximen Dashan's heart is also very entangled, and he is also very reluctant to make this pimple cloth. It was bought for his two sons, and in order to buy this cloth, he sold five wolf skins in the last few days.
"Hehe...... "Hehe" Lao Han smiled embarrassedly, so he had to lower his head and blush, and laughed at himself: "We poor people in the mountains are used to being poor, and if we don't pay attention to these, no one laughs at them......"
Ximen Dashan insisted on leaving the material, but Lao Han was embarrassed to accept it, and said vigorously that he would give money, but how could he have half an ocean at home?
Ximen Dashan saw that Lao Han was embarrassed to accept the material, so he had to say, "That...... This is just the cost of my accommodation, right? ”
"Don't don't don't ......" Lao Han hurriedly said: "Eat a few home-grown small potatoes and sleep, what's it?" No money. ”
Ximen Dashan nodded and said, "The people in our mountains are affordable." ”
Lao Han shook his head and said, "Brother Ximen, my three girls and their mothers went early, but I have no way at all, and I really can't pull it anymore." You are well-informed and well-informed, so show the children a way to live......"
"This ...... These days, no family is very rich, and it is not easy to feed the children, or ......."
Ximen Dashan glanced at the big girl again, thought for a while, and said tentatively: "Or...... This one...... I have two sons, one is 5 years old and the other is 7 years old......"
"Brother Ximen, say whatever you want to say directly, we people in the mountains like to go straight."
"That ......" Ximen Dashan said slowly: "Now the world is in chaos, and it is difficult for us people in the mountains to live!" Otherwise, at present, people in our mountains are fashionable to marry a child daughter-in-law, if ...... If you agree, let your eldest girl go to my house and be a child daughter-in-law for my eldest son? When they grow up, let them marry? Brother Han, what do you think? ”
"This ......" Lao Han hesitated, then was silent for a while, nodded, and a helpless wry smile appeared on his face, and then he coughed, gasped a few times, and said: "My old asthma, I will get sick in winter......"
He looked at the poor three little girls, although he was not very happy, but there was no way, he had asthma again, in order to let the child survive, in order to reduce the burden on himself, he had to agree.
With tears of sadness, he said again: "Brother, you stay at my house first, I will go out to do some idle business, and I will come back immediately." ”
After a while, Lao Han borrowed a set of clothes from the neighbor's house that could not be torn anymore and asked the big girl to wear them.
"Hee-hee...... Oh...... I'm going to get dressed, I can get out of the house and play outside!" ”
The 7-year-old little plum blossom didn't know what was going on, she was still chattering and laughing, and she was very happy.
Lao Han held the little plum blossom and refused to let it go.
Seeing the reluctance of Lao Han and Meihua, Ximen Dashan's heart was also sour.
He also said: "Brother Han, although my family is also poor, but it is a little better than your family, in addition to my perennial hunting and selling skins, my wife also works as a long-term worker for the landlord's family, and there are three acres and three points of land at home, so I will not let ......the child be wronged."