Listening to the various bird calls outside the window, Cai Ercheng sighed very comfortably.

"What's wrong? Are you tired?" Zhao Jiao looked over.

"No, I just feel that now is the life of people." Cai Ercheng looked at the lady gently, the only thing he was dissatisfied with was that the lady was too thin. Thinking that I will be able to earn money in two days, part of the money I earn will be used to buy some good supplements for the lady, and the rest will have to be saved.

Zhao Jiao smiled silently, compared with two years ago, it was indeed a good life, but compared with her previous life, she felt that she had fallen into a refugee camp.

It was about the same as the war-bullied places in Africa or the Middle East in the past, and sometimes even worse.

At least there is still some hope in modern society, if there are international organizations or kind-hearted people who donate money and materials, they may lose their lives at any time if they don't have enough to eat here!

When I first came, the original owner hung up because he hadn't eaten for a long time, and he was weak and had no strength during production.

She passed it through herself, and it took nine deaths to give birth to Bao'er.

Because of the difficult childbirth, she has been lying in bed for most of the year, if there is no Cai Ercheng, I am afraid that there will be no mother and son, but I can't say it, maybe she can wear it back!

The Cai family is very poor.

This whole village and even this whole country is poor.

This continent has experienced more than 200 years of melee, and the eight generations of the Cai family are all mountain people who survived the war, and it is not bad if they do not become serfs.

The original owner was a scholarly family, an only daughter, and her mother had a difficult birth and left her away. As for the foreign family, I don't know if there is, because my father didn't say that he would flee even if he wanted to.

My father and grandparents are all cultural people for five generations, and the family has hundreds of acres of fertile land and three large houses.

It's a pity that when he arrived at the original owner's father, he was bullied by the bullies and the county magistrate, and he owed foreign debts, so Zhao's father had to put the house under pressure, took the only dozen taels of silver left, and fled the county seat with his daughter to Qingshan Town.

could have lived a good life, but because of being deceived and angry, and a wind chill, Zhao's father fell.

The money ran out and couldn't afford to rent a house, so he could only take his young daughter to live in the mountain temple outside the town, and met Cai Dacheng when he was dying, whether his son-in-law was a good man Zhao's father couldn't see and couldn't help, I just hope that his daughter's luck will not be so bad.

Looking at his daughter, who was still at an ignorant age, Zhao's father was unwilling to let go.

The father's family moved to the south in the early years, leaving only Zhao's father's house, and the people were not prosperous and became extinct, otherwise the county master would not dare to bully!

You said that they are all single-family households, who can they bully if they don't bully him, after hundreds of years of war, how many families in the county have 100 acres of fertile land?

Without relatives and no reason, Zhao Jiao obeyed her father's last words and followed Cai Dacheng.

Let's talk about the Cai family.

Cai Dacheng lost his father when he was five years old, and when his younger brother was about to be born, his father was forcibly conscripted into the army and never came back.

His mother is a weak little woman, even if she wipes her tears in the middle of the night, she can't make people cry back, and the hard days have to continue, she still has two little ones!

But how difficult is it for a poor and backward peasant woman in a small mountain village to drag a pair of sons? Staying up and boiling it out will burn your body!

When Cai Dacheng was ten years old, his mother ran out of oil and left, leaving behind two dilapidated mud houses and a weak brother who was only five years old.

Although the mud house is broken, it is a valuable property for the two children, because it can withstand the wind and rain, and it is also a warm home in their hearts.

The Cai family has no fields, so in order to fill his stomach, he walks around the mountains all day long.

Because I don't want to go back and forth, I often take my younger brother to live in a cave.

At first, people don't find much to eat, and when they are hungry, they can find some wild vegetables, wild fruits, and leaves that can be eaten, and if you are lucky, you can catch mice, bird eggs, wild eggs, sparrow eggs, etc., and you can really catch what to eat.

As he grew older, coupled with his flexible brain, he also learned some hunting skills from other mountain people, and then relied on the production in the mountains, so that he did not starve the five-year-old Cai Ercheng to death.

Zhao Jiao was picked up by thirteen-year-old Cai Dacheng when she was ten years old. finally waited for Zhao Jiao to become an adult, Zhao Dacheng found the clan elder and calculated a good life, and got married in time for the New Year.

Just when the whole family was full of hope, they didn't think about it, just three months after they got married, the same thing happened again!

Eighteen-year-old Cai Dacheng followed his father's old path and was arrested in April.

Half a year later, news came from the same village, Cai Dacheng and they had just joined the army for a month and went to the battlefield, and in June, they were surrounded and annihilated in a fierce battle with the enemy team, and fifteen-year-old Zhao Jiao became a widow, which is only the second year of junior high school in modern times.

However, no matter how hard the life is, it has to continue, because Cai Dacheng left a seed when he left, and Zhao Jiao became a widow with a bad market and an oil bottle. The reason is that the original owner loves Cai Dacheng, and it is impossible to have a fetus without this child, which is Cai Dacheng's last root.

A year after Cai Dacheng's departure, the Chen dynasty was founded.

The government encourages farming, exempting from taxes for three years and newly opened wasteland for five years.

Encourage mountain people to go out of the mountains to be farmers, and no longer grasp the strong men at every turn. It is stipulated that a man under the age of 16 is not counted as a man, a single-family is not required to serve in the army, and a strong man with a large family is only one or is replaced by money.

In the past, they were arrested when they saw it, and everyone could hide.

There are many mountains nearby, and being a mountain folk can also eat a small half-full and reunite the whole family, and although the villagers under the mountain have fields, they can also have some food in a good year, but there is no way to live!

There are as many military service, conscription, and all kinds of exorbitant taxes as cattle, and there are many people who sell their sons and daughters.

Cai Dacheng would definitely not have been arrested if he had had an accident in the mountains!

Not to mention this thousand-mile mountain, he is also familiar with it within a radius of a hundred miles, caves, trees..., where can not hide!

Even if he usually went to the town to sell wild goods, he could escape if he encountered a strong man, but he unfortunately encountered an army, and his fists were hard to beat with four hands, not to mention the encirclement of the army.

With the support of the government, life finally settled down, and moved to live under the mountain with other mountain people, otherwise Cai Ercheng, a half-grown child, would definitely not be able to support Zhao Jiao, who was lying in bed for more than half a year, not to mention a nephew who was waiting to be fed.

There are capable people who can live in the mountains, and good luck cannot last a lifetime, and there are still many wild beasts waiting with their mouths open.

Because of the difference between men and women, because of the imperial court policy that widows must marry, and because they were afraid that rumors would fly all over the sky, under the auspices of the clan elders, Zhao Jiao and Cai Ercheng, who was two years younger, got married under the witness of the clan elders and neighbors.

Although they became relatives, they still kept festivals after marriage, and they only got married three years after Cai Dacheng's death.

Although life is poor, it is also a great blessing to have a lover who puts you first in everything.

You see, among the villagers in the same village, there are not a few who sell their sons and daughters and wives.

The two stumbling and stumbling supported each other to carry Bao'er to a difficult life, and in the past two years, they finally saw hope and the society was stable.

The only thing that worries her is that she is poor, she is so poor that she doesn't even have a decent piece of clothing.

Learning to weave linen clothes for the mountain people to wear, it is good to be able to wear linen clothes among the mountain people.

Fortunately, both of them are not stupid, and they can eat enough by hard work, and occasionally improve their food.

But she is afraid, there is no silver in her hands, there is no accumulated food, in case of something or illness, the days will fall into the bottomless pit again.

Zhao Jiao felt uncomfortable, others were either court maidens, princesses or something, or beautiful ladies with long sleeves and golden fingers who didn't worry about food and clothing, but what about her?

I don't hate to marry and have a stable career as a primary school teacher. The grandparents and parents at home are there, the brothers and sisters-in-law are harmonious and the nephews are cute, the grandparents, uncles and aunts are in pain, and they don't have to worry about food and clothing without thinking about the problem of biotechnology, why does God wear her unpleasantly!

The only problem is that she has not succeeded in major life events, although she is old and single, she is not yet thirty years old and only twenty-seven years old, is the golden age good?

On the day of the accident, when I was on the way home from work and listening to the headset with my eyes closed, I felt a headache and my eyes were black, and when I opened my eyes, I was actually giving birth!

It's been two years! There is nothing, you can't count on others, and it's a luxury to be well fed and clothed.

Like now, this muddy reed-roofed hall and bedroom, plus the firewood room outside the door, is still the result of two or three years of hard work. The most precious possession of the family is poultry, and there are five hens, one rooster, and six pairs of hares, and they fall asleep thinking about it.

Cai Ercheng is relatively satisfied, he has not lived a good life since he was a child, and he has to hide in Tibet all day long.

With his conditions, there is no support from his parents, no help from his brothers, and no permanent property at home. If it weren't for the chance to save Zhao Jiao, he wouldn't be able to marry a daughter-in-law when he was old. Just look at the village, and most of the people with similar conditions to him are still single!

The daughters in the village or the mountain people are either sold or born to die, drowned or thrown away, how can adults have more money-losing goods if they can't eat enough? can't set up a household, which directly leads to many male babies growing up to be unable to talk about daughters-in-law.

Cai Ercheng thanked God for sending him a beautiful girl, of course, it would be better if the eldest brother didn't have an accident!

This would make him wonder if Zhao Jiao had anything to do with him if his eldest brother didn't have an accident.

Thinking wildly, he stroked Bao'er's little belly and fell asleep unconsciously.