Chapter 40: Ding Sanqian (I)
A little girl with a swarthy school uniform and a little girl with an old, odd style that looked like a schoolbag sewn from old cloth was parked on the side of the road.
She didn't want to cross the street, nor was she waiting for someone, she just looked at the nearby buildings in a daze, silent.
A small car drove by, carrying a foul smell of exhaust fumes that brought the little girl's thoughts back to reality.
She raised her hand and rubbed her nose, spat in the direction where the car left, scolded and retracted her gaze, raised her hand to carry the schoolbag on her shoulder, and finally sighed and walked to the right path.
A desolate and dilapidated place, full of the smell of earth, is her world. The clean, tidy, noisy world of cars on the left was destined to be just a passer-by for her.
Ding Sanqian got off the road around Fengchime Town and began to walk towards his home.
After walking through the overgrown forest paths on both sides, and after walking for more than ten minutes, after crossing a bridge, a dilapidated village came into view, this village is not small, there are about 100 households.
The houses are scattered, and most of them are old wooden houses, and even if there are a few brick and stone houses occasionally, they are only red brick houses, and compared to the tiled rooms in Wind Chimes Town, they are completely heaven and earth.
Strictly speaking, this place is also considered to belong to Wind Chime Town, but it is not recognized by the people of Wind Chime Town.
Speaking of which, the people here used to be big people with heads and faces. They used to have the same name: landlord!
After more than 70 years of changes, the village has recovered a lot, but the village is still poor. No, because the people of the town will crowd out the people here, whether it is for work or business, and under the same circumstances, few people will choose them.
Moreover, they do not have much land, most of it is wasteland carved out by themselves, and the harvest is naturally very different from those fertile paddy fields.
Of course, with the progress of society, this kind of discrimination has been reduced a lot, but it is still inevitable.
As some middle-aged, young and young people went out to work in the big cities, only some old people and children were left in the villages, and it was not surprising that they became depressed again.
When Ding Sanqian arrived at the entrance of the village, some children who had been waiting for a long time would wave hello to her from afar. Most of these children are children who have just fought together, and when they see the third sister coming back, they naturally want to give a warm welcome.
For this third sister who always likes to be in a daze at the intersection, everyone is used to it. Sometimes they do the same, fantasizing about the time when they too will have a nice house in town. Don't need to be very big, fifty or sixty square meters are enough, beautiful and tidy, no snakes, insects, rats and ants. For them, this is already a very big dream.
Stepping on the dirt road and greeting familiar people all the way, Ding Sanqian continued to walk forward. Her home is in the innermost part of the village, closer to the mountains.
Because of the spring, there is plenty of dew, and although it hasn't rained recently, the roads are still a little muddy. When Ding Sanqian walked to the door, her little white shoes had turned into small mud shoes. She didn't care either, because she was used to it for a long time.
Push open the old wooden door of the yard and step into the wide courtyard.
The yard is huge, half the size of a basketball court, but it's not luxurious at all. A two-story wooden house with an area of about 100 square meters, located in the middle of the courtyard.
The house is mainly made of wood. Because of the age, it was once a luxurious and beautiful wooden house, but now it is only dilapidated.
Gray-black wooden houses, with patches of white mold growing in many places. The gray eaves on the roof were also scattered and weeds grew.
The first thing Ding Sanqian did when he entered the courtyard was not to enter the door and put his schoolbag, but to start inspecting his family business.
She had been in the yard for some time.
Suddenly, she looked at the insect gnawed vegetables in front of her and swallowed a mouthful of saliva. When a worm heard the sound, probably sensing the danger, it raised its head to look left and right, and when it saw the little girl staring at it drooling, it did not hesitate to burrow under the leaves with a row of legs.
Seeing the meat dish disappear in front of her, the little girl sighed and withdrew her gaze. Running a fart? I'm just over the hook, don't you have any points in my heart for what I look like? I'm hungry and thirsty, but I can't eat in the face of a vegetable insect, okay!
"Alas, sorrow! It's a vegetable that I grow to feed myself, but I don't want to keep a bunch of bugs as pets! Ding Sanqian sighed. There's no way, who calls her poor, she can't afford pesticides or anything, she can only watch her vegetables being ruined.
For her, the lifespan of her own vegetable garden is very short. There's no way, she not only has to raise herself, but also needs to raise a group of insects that she eats by herself, and she drags her family and eats her cubs together!
Therefore, the time for each of her vegetables is very short, and as long as she does not pick them in time, they will be eaten up by the insects. Even if she picks it in time, it won't take too long to sell it, because she doesn't have a refrigerator at home, and if she doesn't sell it all in a short time, it will still rot.
Anyway, it was like this for her, and she was used to this kind of day of working very hard and harvesting four or five points.
When I walked to the chicken coop and took a look, my eyes immediately turned red. The last old hen is still gone.
Raised his hand and patted his cheek, "Ding Sanqian, don't cry, it's not a big deal, isn't it just a chicken?" ”
After cheering up, she hurried to the back of the house. When she saw the large green dry field on the left behind the house, her face immediately blossomed.
A total of about five acres of land, standard square. The potato branches on the left are close to a palm's height, and the harvest season will be in two months!
Thinking that in two months, he would not have to go hungry and be able to eat enough every day, Ding Sanqian was happy to fly.
When her eyes fell to the sweet potato field on the right, she was even more happy to see her teeth and eyes.
With her hard work day and night, all the sweet potatoes have finally been planted, and the water has been watered, just waiting for them to take root.
Looking at the results in front of her, Ding Sanqian's face was full of pride, this was all her belongings in exchange. Distress is distress, but she is still very happy, because this will be her hope to get out of poverty and eat well.
This is the result of three years of her moving stones, hoes, hoes, and reclamation. It is also the result of her preparation for several years, no day, no night.
She suddenly thought of something, pinched her chin with one hand and said thoughtfully: "You can't just think about eating, most of them still have to be sold to save some money, I am a person who has a daughter-in-law now, and I can't just think about myself." ”
Thinking of the stupid audacity that kicked the enemy out and protected himself, Ding Sanqian immediately smirked all over his face.
He and he were enemies, but he still protected himself. That's pretty telling, he likes himself, there's no doubt about it.
"Alas! I don't know if he will dislike me for being poor, so he won't marry me! Ding Sanqian shook his head vigorously and shook off this terrible thought, "Definitely not, stupid and bold is not the kind of superficial person." Yes, definitely. ”
After the self-hypnosis was completed, Ding Sanqian looked sneakily left and right to make sure that there was no one, and he slipped into the house as soon as he slipped into the smoke. Squatting and moving a few meters ahead, he looked back to make sure that there was no one, and began to dig the earth.
Here is her baby bump, which is one of the few family possessions she has now.
Soon a wooden barrel with a diameter of about 15 cm and a height of about 40 cm was pulled out.
Ding Sanqian carefully opened the lid of the bucket, and when she saw the contents inside, a satisfied smile suddenly appeared on her face.
Her nose twitched a few times, and then her face changed dramatically, and she began to nervously take the brown egg out of it. When she reached the third layer, she took the egg to her nose and sniffed it a few times, feeling slightly relieved. When she got to the fourth layer, she picked up another egg and smelled it, her face was already a little ugly, and when she got to the fifth layer, she almost cried.
The smell came from the last layer of eggs, and when she put the rotten eggs aside, she counted back and forth three times before she stopped weakly.
She sat still, and after a moment, lowered her head, wrapped her arms around her legs, and buried her head in her knees, the girl's body began to rise and fall slightly, but no crying came out.
After a few minutes, the girl raised her head, wiped away her tears, grabbed a piece of soil and put it in the barrel, pulled out a weed, and began to deal with the stench in the barrel.
By the time she threw the weeds away and poured out the soil, the stench in the barrel had almost been removed. She plucked a few more weeds, removed the dirt, put it on the bottom of the barrel, and put the eggs back in the barrel once more. Finally, she pushed the five broken eggs into the hole in the barrel, filled them with earth, carefully pocketed the five eggs on the fourth floor, carefully wrapped them in her clothes, turned around, and moved away from this sad place.
It's only been three days since I counted, and I went to two out of five, which is not a big blow.
She liked the feeling of having a surplus, even if her surplus was very small, even if it would cost her a lot, but she still liked it. Because counting every few days is probably one of the few happy times she has.
She moved outside, and was about to stand up, but she still reluctantly glanced back, twitched her nose, turned her head, and stood up.
Life is so helpless, those things that people carefully treasure may inadvertently decay and deteriorate. Even if you are reluctant to give up in your heart, you can only give up in the most secret corner in the end.
"Hehe, let's eat scrambled eggs with leeks today." Regardless of the hardship, face it with a smile, this is Ding Sanqian's creed when he was alone.
Smiling into the house, she put her bag and eggs away, went back to the utility room on the right side of the yard, picked up her eating guy, and prepared to start the daily quest.
This is the root of her laziness to survive, and it is one of the tasks that must not be lazy.