On the way to Houshan, Yan Nian met Feng Shuang, a girl from the Feng family in the west of the village, who was holding a child and putting ducks on the side of the road.

Yan Nian remembered what Aunt Zhilan had said that her husband had died and had remarried someone else with a drag oil bottle. A few days later, she was almost killed by her ruthless mother-in-law, and she made things difficult for Feng Shuang and her children.

In the end, she threw herself into the river with the baby, but fortunately she was found by the villagers in time, and the child almost choked to death. Now I can only be taken home by my mother's family.

Feng Shuang saw Yan Nian coming, and hurriedly chased the duckling to the side to hide, as if he was afraid of meeting someone.

Yan Nian really sympathized with Feng Shuang in her heart, she was only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child, but now she was said to be a nemesis.

Yan Nian greeted Feng Shuang and asked with a smile, "Did you raise your little duck?" ”

Feng Shuang saw that Yan Nian took the initiative to talk to him, and a shy smile appeared on the childish doll's face, and he promised in a low voice: "Yes, my own chickens hatched." ”

Seeing that Feng Shuang was talking to herself, Yan Nian stepped forward while laughing and teased the two- or three-year-old Xiaobao in her arms, "Xiaobao, you look so cute, what's your name?" ”

Xiaobao buried his head in his mother's arms and didn't dare to look at people, Feng Shuang said with a smile: "The child recognizes life." ”

Yan Nian said with a smile: "Feng Shuang, if you have time, go to my house, we are all sick and sympathetic, I am in a similar situation to you, Sister Yan Nian can help your mother and daughter try to help you." ”

Hearing Yan Nian say this, Feng Shuang seemed to have found his relatives, and suddenly, there was a little light in his eyes.

Yan Nian knew that this woman was even more miserable than herself. Though oneself is in this situation now, oneself can recognize one's current situation and is trying for improvement. However, this woman, no one gave her thoughts, and she didn't know how to change her fate, so she could only rely on the pity of her mother's family to survive.

So what about the child? Looking at Xiaobao in Feng Shuang's arms, Yan Nian thought of the two children in his family.

"Then you're living in your mother's house?" Yan Nian asked again.

"Well, I don't have a place to go either." After speaking, Feng looked at Yan Nian with tears in his eyes.

Yan Nian couldn't bear to ask any more, and hurriedly wanted to leave. However, Feng Shuang said again: "My mother said, after a while, the matchmaker in the village will find me a mother-in-law." ”

After speaking, Feng Shuang lowered his head shyly and looked at the cloth shoes that had exposed his toes.

Yan Nian shook his head, "Would you like to go to another one?" What if the house you go to again kicks you out? Yan Nian was worried.

Feng Shuang stepped on the small stone on the ground with his shoes, clenched his silver teeth, and shook his head, "I don't know either." ”

"Are you ready? Will the child suffer with you again? Didn't you know that you almost drowned the child last time? Yan Nian has never been able to change this straightforward problem.

Hearing Yan Nian ask, Feng Shuang shook his head and looked at Xiaobao again, "My mother said, my sister-in-law does not agree with me living at home for a long time, saying that I will come back alone, and now I still have a drag oil bottle, and the Feng family can't afford to support our mother." After speaking, Feng Shuang couldn't hold back his emotions anymore, and tears fell down his eyes.

Xiaobao in his arms saw his mother crying, stretched out his little hand to wipe his mother's tears, and said in a milky voice: "Mother, don't cry!" After saying that, he pouted and cried.

This time, the mother watched Xiaobao cry, and coaxed Xiaobao again, "Lan'er, don't cry, you see that my mother doesn't cry." ”

Yan Nian looked at the hard-working mother and daughter on the side, feeling very uncomfortable, and didn't know how to help them.

"You shouldn't listen to your family's arrangement, you should have your own thoughts, isn't it good to live with your children first?" Yan Nian didn't know how to say it.

Wiping Lan'er's tears, Feng Shuang whispered, "I've lived by myself?" How can I have your ability, where do I go to live by myself, I have no house and no land, and I don't have a single silver in my hand, can't my Lan'er starve to death? ”

Yan Nian was speechless, really, can he solve these difficulties by himself?

Seeing that Yan Nian stopped talking, Feng Shuang shouted that the little duck in the grass was about to go forward, and when he saw the duck, Yan Nian patted his head, "You wait, you don't sell this duck, if you want to sell it, I will buy it all." ”

Feng Shuang heard that Yan Nian wanted to buy ducks, nodded and said excitedly: "Sell, I still have some at home, enough to raise." ”

"Well, look at how much a duck costs, I bought all of these, and I can help your mother and daughter."

Yan Nian felt that this was feasible, and it happened that he also wanted to buy some ducks and geese to raise, and he could also help Feng Shuang.

Seeing Feng Shuang lowered his head and thought about it, he said, "Then Sister Yan Nian, you can give me a copper coin for each, there are a total of fifteen ducks, you can drive them away." ”

Yan Nian nodded, "Okay, let's go, take the duck to drive me home, and I'll get you fifteen copper coins." ”

Feng Shuang nodded happily, "Okay, okay." ”

In this way, the two of them walked towards Yan Nian's house while chasing the ducks.

On the way, Yan Nian asked what these ducks fed every day, and then asked all the precautions, Feng Shuang happily answered Yan Nian's question.

From what she said, Yan Nian felt that this little girl was actually a very cheerful and lovely child, but she was forced by her husband's mother-in-law who had died her husband and remarried to find a short-term opinion, and she always felt inferior and inferior.

After getting fifteen copper coins, Yan Nian gave Xiao Lan'er two more candies. Xiao Yanyan saw that Lan'er was also very close, and the two children were playing happily in the yard.

It's just that Nuno feels very stable, and he just watches this little sister from the side, and doesn't come up to play.

Yan Nian asked his son: "Nuonuo, why don't you play with Sister Lan'er?" ”

Xiao Nuonuo's face turned red, and she said in a low voice: "Sister Lan'er and Yanyan play, I will protect them by the side." ”

Feng Shuang and Yan Nian both laughed.

Looking at the neat courtyard, Feng Shuang was very envious, walked around the courtyard before and after, and asked, "Sister Yan Nian, you can really do it, you can take two little treasures out to live, and live so well!" ”

Yan Nian looked at Feng Shuang's envious eyes, nodded and said, "There's nothing impossible, sometimes things are not as difficult as you think, as long as you do it, any problem will be solved, and you can do it." ”

Hearing Yan Nian say this, Feng Shuang looked at Yan Nian and asked suspiciously, "Can I do it?" ”

"Why not? As long as you recognize yourself and think that you must do it, then you can do it, otherwise, you can only be slaughtered, and then marry one family after another, and finally don't know what the fate of yourself and your children will be in the end! ”

Yan Nian's face turned red when he said that he was excited.

Looking at Yan Nian's excited face, Feng Shuang was also moved, his eyes looked at Xiaobao playing happily in the yard, nodded and said: "If I had a house, I would really move out and live with the child by myself, and I also want to give the child a future like you and live my life in peace." ”