It was the middle of an autumn night, the moonlight was as light as water, the evening breeze flowed happily, and the insects who had foreseen that their lives were coming to an end, singing with all their strength and singing about their helplessness about death, and looking forward to the next cycle of life being more exciting.

In the old Nangou, every household is immersed in a sound sleep, no matter whether they are working hard or being rich and happy during the day, they are treated equally in front of Zhou Gong, playing the same chess game and dreaming the same dream.

On the east slope not far from the ditch, between the two dead trees, with thatch and branches, a small shack is built indiscriminately, and it is not clear where the door is and where is the window in the night, only the faint sobbing sound faintly penetrates, intermittently, disturbing people's dreams.

The old yellow dog lying on his stomach at the head of the village occasionally listened to it, and then continued to bury his head between his legs and take a nap.

No wonder the old yellow dog has no sympathy, and refuses to even raise his eyelids more, because this cry has been going on for a few days and nights, and it is already very shameful that it did not jump up and roar angrily twice.

It's a pity that the old dog doesn't know, the villagers don't know, this night is the last time they hear this cry, with a crisp "click" sound, the world is finally quiet, only the crescent moon is still hanging in the sky, see the world as if the world is miserable, light and light hook lips smile...

Dong Wan squatted on the stone with a large pottery bowl in her hand, drank bud porridge, and looked up at the small village at the foot of the mountain from time to time, where the old people were carrying baskets to put new forage on the cattle, the hen cooed, following behind the woman to beg for food, the old yellow dog lying on his stomach at the entrance of the village barked twice, shook his fur and ran back to his house, the smoke curled over the houses everywhere, lined with the morning mist, the emerald green and yellow of the hillside, a leisurely pastoral scenery.

Of course, if she had seen such a good scenery three days ago, she would have admired it so much, but now, she just wanted to jump to her feet and scold, "You blind God, I'm Dong Wan, I don't steal or rob, I just saved up money to buy a small QQ, and drove home for a while, why are you jealous, a truck knocked me down This bird doesn't here?" So many evildoers, you don't punish them, you just bully me, you wait..."

She scolded with her waist crossed, but she didn't want God to be angry, and a thunderbolt fell from the clear sky, shaking the half-couched shack behind her.

Dong Wan was so frightened that she squatted down and hugged her head, muttering in a low voice begging for mercy, "Okay, okay, God, it's me who is kind enough to be a donkey's liver and lungs, and I want to thank you for your great kindness for reliving my life, it's my kindness that will take revenge, it's me who doesn't know what to do..." That's a hundred and eight thousand miles..."

"Flutter," the two children next to her, who were also holding bowls and drinking porridge, saw her jumping up and down like this, scolding and muttering, very weird, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Dong Wan turned her head and saw it, and immediately glared and scolded, "What are you laughing at, eating the old lady and drinking the old lady, and now you dare to laugh at the old lady, believe it or not, I will cut off your porridge tomorrow and starve you to death!" ”

The two children were immediately silent, lowered their little heads, and drank porridge aggrievedly holding a bowl and drinking porridge, which looked extremely pitiful, and saw that Dong Wan softened again, secretly spit on herself, and what kind of ability did she have the ability to sprinkle on the child's head.

So, he took two pieces of radish pickles and threw them into their bowls, and said in a vicious voice, "Eat, the porridge is not bad for these pickles." ”

The two children are not very old, the little girl is only seven or eight years old, and the little boy is only five or six years old.

They seemed to hear the kindness behind Dong Wan's evil words, or they were used to her appearance, they all smiled shyly and thanked in a low voice, "Thank you, sister-in-law." Then, he lowered his head and slowly drank the porridge and ate the pickles, as if the bowl was not bud grain porridge, but abalone and sea cucumber.

Dong Wan sighed rarely, drank the porridge in her bowl in a few sips, took the bowls of the two children, washed them in the wooden barrel next to her, and continued to sit on the stone in a daze.

That morning, she heard a rooster crowing in her ears, and thought it was the rooster at home, and the rooster who squatted in front of her window for pleasure and sang was making trouble again, and habitually wanted to touch the slippers under the bed and throw them out, but when she opened her eyes, she found that the world had completely changed.

She has changed from an English teacher in an agricultural technical school to a child daughter-in-law who has been abused in this world, from an unmarried iceberg beauty in her thirties to a pampas grass that is not enough to describe with a washboard and bitter cauliflower, and the gap between heaven and earth simply collapsed!

On that day, she scolded the unscrupulous driver from God, and scolded the car and a half-wide highway that had been "taken care of" by the leaders at all levels, in short, all of them were scolded, but unfortunately, she couldn't find a way to go back with her head hammered.

In fact, she was like a mirror in her heart, she was hit by a big truck from a three-meter-high highway, and her small QQ, which was only 30,000 yuan, was not magical enough to ensure that she was unharmed, that is to say, Dong Wan in that world must be dead, and even flesh and blood are blurred.

Poor her old lady no longer has to nag her to get married, poor her little niece can no longer shout to her aunt to buy dolls, poor her, the daughter of the Dong family, is separated from her family for two lifetimes after all...

I cried and cried, scolded and scolded, and tried all kinds of tricks to coquettishly, but she was still in someone else's shell, and there was still no hope of crossing back, so she was silent.

Well, she is an optimistic person, think about the bright side first, compared to going to the underworld to queue up for soup, now she is lucky to live a new life. It's just that she can't laugh when she receives the memories of this life.

The life of this girl named Pucao is not enough to describe it with two words: sadness.

At the age of five, she was sold to Zhang's family as a child daughter-in-law, endured the beating and scolding of her mother-in-law, starved and frozen, worked hard in every way, and suffered in all kinds of hardships, and finally married Zhang Fu, who was idle, I thought that a good day had come, but I didn't want Zhang Fu to go to the shit and get a windfall, and immediately found a beautiful woman to abandon her out of the door, let her be spurned by others, and live in a shack at the edge of the village.

Fortunately, the eyes of God in this time and space were bright and punished by heaven, the beautiful woman was a liar, abducted all the property of the Zhang family, mortgaged the Zhang family's house and ran away in style, her tall and big husband and wife, seeing the Zhang Fu mother and son who chased after the news, sent them to Huangquan as guests, the Zhang family lost two pillars, and the family was ruined in one day.

Ordinary women hear this, afraid to clap their hands and applaud, but unfortunately, Pucao has been brainwashed by her mother-in-law since she was a child, and from the beginning, her husband and wife have been ingrained in this idea, so she just mourned Zhang Fu's mother and son for less than seven days, and she tied her roots and hanged herself.

I have to say that poor people must also have something to hate, Pu Cao's short life is pitiful, but it is also cowardly and really hateful, if Dong Wan heard about it before, she must scold a few words, I can't wait to pull Pu Cao's soul to tell her the truth that women should be self-reliant and self-reliant, but now she is Pu Cao, Pu Cao is her, she only has the heart to cry to death, where do you remember what the truth?

Looking down at the scars and cracks on her hands, touching the airfield on her chest, and pinching her thighs like reedwood sticks, Dong Wan was so grieved that she wanted to see the heavy snow immediately to show her grievances.

But there is no way, you have to live, there is life, everything can be fine.

Pu Cao lowered her head and carefully calculated her future livelihood, the two children were squatting not far away and muttering quietly, and the little boy secretly asked the little girl, "Sister Peach Blossom, is your sister-in-law crazy?" ”

The little girl frowned, pretending to be an adult and patting him on the back, "Shanzi, my sister-in-law is not crazy, it's just... Well, it's getting stronger. ”

"Then will she still paste cakes today, I haven't eaten yet." The little boy rubbed his little belly with a deflated mouth, obviously not full, and after speaking, as if he was afraid that the little girl would be angry, he added in a low voice, "Your second brother is afraid that he is also hungry?" ”

The little girl's delicate little brows furrowed even deeper, turned around and glanced at a certain courtyard under the mountain, imagining that the second brother must be hungry again, her eyes were red, and she choked up and said, "I don't know, the second brother refuses to come to drink porridge." ”

"If you don't come to drink porridge, you will starve him to death, when is it, and pay attention to the decency of scholars, let your second aunt be mean to him for a few days, and let him know that he knows the suffering of the world." Dong Wan was so noisy by the two children's voices that she couldn't help but mock when she heard the little girl's words.

This little girl's name is Peach Blossom, she is the youngest daughter of the Zhang family who abandoned Pucao and went out, and she has a twelve-year-old second brother named Zhang Gui, who entered a private school at the age of nine to study a few lines of poetry, and developed a stinky temper of a scholar.

When Zhang Fu's mother and son were still alive, they naturally had no worries, but now that the family is ruined, their brothers and sisters live in the distant second uncle's house, and the second aunt is a mean and tricky person, how can he treat them well, he actually refuses to accept the stinking temper, then he does not suffer and starve, it is simply a miracle.

The little girl's eyes were even redder, tears were about to flow out, and she opened her mouth as if she wanted to argue a few words for her brother, but when she saw the young daughter-in-law walking slowly at the foot of the mountain, she immediately pulled the little boy to hide behind the collapsed shack.

Dong Wan was puzzled, turned her head to see that she was smiling.

The young daughter-in-law was a little short and fat, wearing a blue dress, a blue handkerchief wrapped her hair, and she looked neat and neat, at this time she held a large pottery bowl in her left hand, and two golden bud cakes on the chopsticks in her right hand, and was straining to bend down and climb up the hillside.

Dong Wan inherited Pucao's memory, and is very familiar with this little daughter-in-law, in her more than ten years of life, several rare happy times have all had this little daughter-in-law, she is Pucao's only friend and best friend, Chunni.

The bud noodles they used to make porridge in the morning were secretly delivered by Chunni the night before, and they came early this morning, which shows that they are really worried about Pucao.