The old ancestor, with a wave of his long sleeves, the world is still the world: the village fence and the tile house, the thatched house and the grass, the market hook fence, the palace and the universe... To each his own family, the ink is still the same.

Yu Shen: The life of a person and the death of a person are just like a few drops of ink painted on the tip of a pen, sprinkled and withdrawn, that is, no worse at all, as easy as a palm.

Yu Ren: A catastrophe is a catastrophe after all. Splashing ink is hard to collect, sprinkling is sprinkling, covering bones is difficult to live, yin and yang are forever separated, who can say that they have never experienced it?

In Gouyu Dongshan, the westernmost courtyard of the Jing family, there was a heart-rending cry of the baby girl, as if calling the whole world to pay attention to her. The mother-in-law of the Su family next door, standing on tiptoe, pushed open the firewood door of the Jing family, and came to the empty courtyard of the Jing family, and saw that on the stone mill, an indigo cloth and broken flowers swaddled clothes, and the cry came from there.

"Pity this Jing family, there is no one." Su's mother-in-law picked up the swaddling clothes, followed the bluestone slab quaint village road, turned into the alley Mo separated from the Jing family by two alleys, at the end of the alley, is a blue lacquered wooden door of the second courtyard house, Washe will pave several roofs into the shape of fish scales, which is in Gouyu Village, is already a very elegant family.

Su's mother-in-law knocked on the knocker twice, and a half-old opened the door, with a smile on her face: "Hey, it's Su Po, this is..."

"Her aunt," Su's mother-in-law used the name of the infant child to her: "This is the child of your brother's family, and now that your brother and brother-in-law have died of criticism, she is also a bloodline of your Jing family." ”

"This..."The half-old still had a smile on her face, but she was embarrassed in her heart: "Although I am a girl from the Jing family, I also married into the Su family in our village." When I take in a child, I still have to ask the owner, don't I? "Most of the people in Gouyu Village are surnamed Su.

"Who doesn't know, Su Jing family lady, you are the most capable family," Su family's mother-in-law, without distinguishing between them, has stuffed the child into the arms of the half-old Su family's Jing family: "I am also kind enough to give you a hug, otherwise, the Jing family's yard is empty, this child has been crying, if you alarm the neighbors, you are her aunt, you have to hug it, you can't let your own niece and nephew, cry and starve to death there, you say yes?" ”

After speaking, the mother-in-law of the Su family tiptoed on her little feet and slipped back to her house.

The lady of the Jing family of the Su family, surnamed Jing Mingyin, is a clever person, slippery, calculating, good at housekeeping, and is a well-known character with a honey-bellied sword and a two-sided three-knife character. When he was young, his parents died early, and his younger brother depended on each other, and later married Su Jian in the village, but Su Jian, but not sound, one leg is still lame, there is some property, but he never helps his daughter-in-law's brother's family, so that although it is a family, it looks like a god, but it is not harmonious.

"Just after the catastrophe, the whole girl is back, who will raise it?" Su Jian's roar, across the wall, the Su family's mother-in-law who slipped away also heard it clearly. This roar frightened the baby girl, and the ghost cried wolf and screamed.

"Send her away! Send her away! Su Jian dropped something to show that he would never raise other people's children.

"This child is from her grandmother's house, which is a big family in Yue's Village, and it is not far away," Jing Yin, the lady of the Jing family of the Su family, said unhurriedly: "I will write a few words, and the porter in the village will bring it over and let her family pick it up." ”

"What other words, bring the ones you bring, it's not too troublesome, and you delay the time, and you take the people away, wouldn't it be light!" Su Jian calmed down, admired the lady's good thoughts, and wanted to get out of trouble as soon as possible.

In this way, the baby girl was given to the porter as a 'goods' by the lady of the Jing family, stuffed the porter with a penny, and instructed it to be sent to the Zhao family in Yuewu Village.

The porter has always been known for his diligence and honesty, or no one would dare to use it. Entrusted by people and loyal to people, he got this errand, put the swaddling clothes in a wooden barrel, picked it up with a flat pole, and went to Yue'an Village without stopping all the time, trembling and trembling.

Two mountains, ten miles of walking, Yuewu Village is in front of you.

Zhao's family, is a large household, 60 hectares of fertile land, 15 houses, carved buildings and paintings, pavilions and water pavilions, all luxurious. The five sons and two daughters of the Zhao family, the daughter who married into the Jing family ranked fourth, according to the genealogy to the word "and", named "and jade", in the jade parents saw her silent, kind-hearted, afraid that marrying a big family will suffer a loss, so they were protected by the media, and found such a poor and honest family in Gouyu Village, although the life was poor, but sometimes there was a mother's family to help, and it was also thriving.

The porter knocked on the door, and the mother-in-law came to open the door, but when she saw that it was in the bucket of goods, loaded with a living person, and she was asleep all the way. Surprised for a moment, he asked aloud, "What is this?" Dare to love you as a human trafficker? Go and go, the Zhao family is a serious family, don't get dirty! ”

"No, no, no," the footman quickly explained: "This is the widow of the lady of the Jing family in Gouyu Village, the lady of the Jing family died in the flood the day before yesterday, and her child was not adopted, so she sent it." ”

"Who taught you to send it?" The woman still looked like she wanted to close the door at any time.

"When she was in the village, there was an aunt who said that she also had two children at home and couldn't afford to raise them, so she gave me a penny and asked me to send them to the Zhao family in Yuewen Village." The porter made it clear to him the ins and outs.

"Do you have a token?" The woman continued to ask vigilantly: "The matter of human life is related to blood, and it is not clear that I can't be the master to alarm the old lady." ”

"No, her aunt didn't give me anything, except for a penny," the porter took out the penny from his broken pocket for a long time. But I don't want to think about a penny, who can carry it in his pocket, what can he prove?

"This is also an inauthentic pickled woman, a child's life, no evidence, and I don't come in person, I don't pay a penny for a penny, if our Zhao family refuses to accept it, what should you do?" The woman began to mumble and curse the messenger.

"She said, "Don't take it back," said the porter, "and besides, she didn't pay me for the return consignment." ”

"To put it bluntly, it's 'self-fending'," the woman glanced at her mouth and said, "Come on, I can't do this, but I'm not so black-hearted, I'll report the old lady for you." Take it or not, look at this child's creation! ”

The mother-in-law spoke, turned around behind closed doors, returned to the upper house, and made it clear to the old lady, who picked up her crutches, slammed the ground, and stood up: "There is such a thing!" Since they are all sent to the front of the house, is it Yu'er's bloodline, and I can't let a swaddling child starve to death under the lintel of my Zhao family! ”

The mother-in-law reopened the door, and the old lady behind her, on crutches and supported by the mother-in-law, crossed the threshold and came to look at the child: "Pick it up, let me see." ”

The porter took the swaddling clothes out of the barrel, and the child, who had been asleep, was awakened by a heart-rending cry.

The old lady didn't know if it was because she saw her, thinking of her daughter, or because she just pitied the child's life, the old eyes were also framed with tears, and the bright-eyed mother-in-law saw it, and hurriedly took out a handkerchief, and while wiping the old lady, she instructed the maid next to her: "Help the old lady take it, take it to your house first, and feed some rice porridge." ”

"Fortunately, I met the right person, this kid, life is very hard!" The porter paid the errand, carried the empty flat barrel on his back, step by step, and went back to Gouyu Village, shaking his head and sighing as he walked:

"This child, who has a deep creation, is blessed in life when he meets an old lady with such a good heart," the woman carried the old lady back to the house.

"Someone went to Gouyu Village to inquire, see if this child is from Yu'er?" The old lady instructed her mother-in-law. The mother-in-law answered.

"Where is the child housed?" Mother-in-law asks for instructions.

"I'll leave it to you for now," said the old lady, "and I'll tell you if I understand." After all, it's a life, and you have to be kind to you. ”

"Naturally, yes," the mother-in-law responded.

Two days later, the servant who was listening came back and said:

"A few days ago, there was such a big flood, the people of Gouyu Village first hid in the green sac courtyard, and I heard that they were also killed, and the eldest lady was killed by the wicked there, as for the child, at that time, who didn't cry and shout, and no one paid attention to the child's affairs, so after inquiring for two days, I couldn't ask anything, and there was not only one eldest lady in Gouyu Village who was pregnant, and there were many people in the green capsule courtyard, and there were also miscellaneous, and there were people who went to take refuge in nearby villages."

"Didn't you say that her aunt of the Jing family sent it by the footman, didn't you ask her?" The old lady sat in the pear blossom chair,

"She asked her first, the woman, listen to my explanation, the words are different from what the porter said, I don't know if it was a temporary change, or the porter's words are wrong, anyway, two people, one of them lied," the servant said, "She said that she didn't know whether the child was from the Jing family, so she couldn't raise it, otherwise, she couldn't bear to send her dear niece." ”

"There is no such reason, where did the child come from, she doesn't know?" Mrs. Zhao was angry: "Moreover, she didn't send it elsewhere, but asked the porter to send it to my Zhao family, saying that it was her niece's daughter, since she didn't know, where did she start when she said it?" ”

"I questioned her in the same way," the servant saw that the master was angry, and suddenly fell to his knees: "She said that she never said those words to the porter, but only asked him to help send it away, so the little man said that she and the porter must have lied." She also wanted to drag me to the porter to confront me, because I had listened to the old lady's instructions not to show off, so I didn't go to Ning this lawsuit with her again, and I met, so as not to have to get into a fight. ”

"Get up," said the old lady, "I am angry with that woman, not you." You go on to say that she should always understand how the child got to her house. ”

"Yes, she said that it was sent by the mother-in-law next door to the Jing family, but I also went to ask about the mother-in-law later, saying that it was picked up from the aisle of her house, but I guessed that it was from the Jing family, I don't know if it was or not. No one else had seen it but her. ”

"It's a headless lawsuit," the old lady said, "Isn't it just that no one raises it, it's just that the Zhao family can afford to eat a bite." ”

In this way, this baby girl, unknown or not, has lived in the Zhao family for seventeen years. Her identity is very embarrassing, she has the surname Jing, the name of the old lady's nephew and daughter, and her living expenses, but she is all in the courtyard of the nameless mother-in-law next to the old lady.

Year after year, she served tea and sent a cup to the old lady, washed the inkstone and studied ink, stepped through the moon gate separated by the master and servant, she grew to the age of seventeen, when she recalled the past, it was all a blur washed away by time, only a few unforgettable, fragments, intermittently interpreting her childhood:

[Married]: With the two daughters of the third uncle's family, she played the house, she played the bride, the cousin of the eldest uncle's family, and played the groom. The two cousins coaxed her cousin to visit the church with her, and dragged her to force her cousin to kiss her. She wanted to dodge but couldn't.

[Pierced in the back]: Gossip is overwhelming, unbearable words abound, how many people point to her vertebrae and scold: "I don't know who my father and mother are!" ""Obscene embryos", "I also deserve to live in the Zhao family, and I am worthy of being my own young lady", "I don't have anything to do at home, I only deserve to eat some leftovers"... She cried and went to find her grandmother. The old lady felt sorry for the child, and in order to prove that she had relatives, she asked her to lead her to her aunt's house in Gouyu Village, but her aunt's cousin pierced her back with a thick needle from the sole of her shoe. It hurts.

[Branded]: The children of her uncle's family surrounded her, and the eldest cousin of the uncle's family, saying that she was his slave, branded her with a charcoal-fired soldering iron on the back of her hand.

……

She could have been just a country child, carefree and running around the meadows and fields;

She can also be a nominal lady, helping bamboo and flowers in her own garden to catch bees and butterflies.

But she didn't have any of that. She didn't get anything. Because, she was indecent, nothing.

Zhixi's life, even if she starts all over again, is still an orphan. lived to the age of seventeen, only a surname, no name, and was called 'Jing Nu'.