Chapter 4 The happy life of the eldest sister
Ten days after Sister Ye'er ran away from home alone, Ye'er's parents received a letter from Sister Ye'er. In the letter, Sister Ye'er said that she was doing well there, and the day after she arrived there, the man's family held a simple but lively wedding for them, and the man and his family treated her very well. In the letter, Sister Ye'er repeatedly said that she was sorry for her parents, and asked her two younger sisters to listen to their parents and study hard, and finally said that she planned to go home for the Spring Festival next yearγγγγγγ
Ye'er's mother always scolds her daughter for being ungrateful, but on the other hand, she always secretly sheds tears of remorse behind her back because she misses her daughter.
Time slipped away quietly in this kind of thoughts and expectations, and in a blink of an eye, winter is coming, and the Spring Festival is still a few days away. One afternoon, remembering that it was the day of the sacrificial stove, Ye Er and her second sister were playing at home, when they heard a familiar shout from the direction of the big rock exposed on the hillside, it turned out that her sister who had been married for more than a year had returned.
Ye'er and her second sister shouted for their sister while running down quickly to greet her, and Ye'er's parents also came out to stand on the steps to welcome their daughter who had not seen each other for a long time. It was a little embarrassing, but in such a short time, they were melted by this family affection, and the family was immersed in the joy of this reunion, with tears, but more laughter.
Sister Ye'er came back with her husband, still holding a child who had just been born for two or three months in her arms, it was a boy, Ye'er's parents became grandparents, and Ye'er and her second sister also became second aunts and auntsγγγγγγ
This Spring Festival, the family was finally reunited.
Later, Ye'er and the others knew that her sister was not doing well in that mountainous area of northern Zhejiang. Girls who choose to marry far away are generally not happy, and the good wishes they had at the beginning are often struck by the cruel reality of life!
Listen to Sister Ye'er say, first of all, loneliness, away from familiar homes, away from familiar people, in a completely unfamiliar environment, you alone and everything here seems so incompatible, as if you are a visitor, loneliness and loneliness always accompany you, fortunately, Sister Ye'er became pregnant soon after she arrived there, and it was this unborn baby that made her persist and rekindle her hope.
In addition, there are various discomforts such as language and living habits. The dialect there is strange and difficult to understand, and usually they can only rely on broken Mandarin to communicate. Sister Ye'er said that she is also trying to learn their local dialect, and after more than a year of hard work, as long as the locals speak slowly, she has been able to understand some of the dialects spoken by the locals in general. Language can be learned, and it can be compared with hands, but the deep-rooted habits that have been passed down for thousands of years make it difficult for you to adapt to it all at once, even if it is for a lifetime, and some habits will never be adapted!
Sister Ye'er said that the rice there is always very difficult to eat, rough, hard, like a grain of sand, bouncing, it is really not as delicious as the rice in their hometown, the key is that they eat every day, there is no or very little pasta, let alone expect to be able to eat a dumpling one day. The mountainous areas of northern Zhejiang like to eat bacon stewed bamboo shoots, this dish is a delicacy for their locals, but for Sister Ye'er, it is difficult to swallow. The meat is not the fresh meat we eat here, but the bacon that has been marinated for a long time, and the dried bamboo shoots are like shriveled tree bark, and you really can't taste the taste of bamboo.
However, there is a dish that Sister Ye'er likes to eat, that is, fried winter bamboo shoots, winter bamboo shoots, tender, crispy, with a fresh fragrance of bamboo, and a little sweetness, which is really delicious. However, they were reluctant to eat it, because winter bamboo shoots were very scarce and expensive in winter, and they had to use these small winter bamboo shoots to sell them for a small amount of money to supplement their families, and everyone's life was not very good at that time.
Fish? It's almost inedible. Sister Ye'er said that when she was at home, she was used to seeing and eating enough of all kinds of fish, shrimp and crabs that were not named, and sometimes she would be sick to her stomach when she even saw them, but in this mountainous area of northern Zhejiang, if you want to eat such fish, shrimp and crabs, it is almost impossible, and the most delicious food that the locals are proud of is the stewed bacon with dried bamboo shoots, and there is also a rice cake, sticky, glutinous, grilled and fried, Sister Ye'er said that she doesn't like to eat at all, but their locals like to eat very much.
This kind of life may be bearable, but Sister Ye'er said that what makes her most unbearable is poverty, and this place is even poorer than her hometown. There are undulating mountains everywhere, there are continuous bamboo forests everywhere, and the main source of life for their locals is to grow tea, pick tea and sell tea, cut bamboo, dig bamboo shoots and sell bamboo shoots, you must know that tea and bamboo shoots are not the necessities of people's lives, so their agricultural and sideline products are rarely cared for in that era, and even if they can be sold, the price is quite low, so that their married life is very difficult.
Rolling mountains, bamboo forests all over the mountainsγγγγγγ This is the true portrayal of Sister Ye'er's marriage to that small mountain village in the mountainous area of northern Zhejiang.
In such a small closed mountain village, the hardships of life can be imagined. Therefore, Sister Ye'er's life after marriage is not good, and it can even be described as unhappy, but the unborn baby in the womb is their greatest hope in life and their greatest pleasure. Sister Ye'er said that life there is really not as good as her mother's small fishing village, but even if her married life is not as good as she imagined, she does not regret it.
I know that what Sister Ye'er said is not regretful, it is because there is a husband who loves her and loves her, that is because there is no endless domineering abuse by Ye'er's mother, and maybe there are those housework that can never be done, the resentment of being ordered to drop out of school, and the hopeless futureγγγγγγ
Sister Ye'er wants to try to change her fate through marriage!