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After a few days of haze, it finally cleared, and there was not much food stored at home, so Awan went to the field to dig radishes with a bamboo basket on her back.
She digs radishes, and some people call them carrots.
The radish is not big, not as big as Awan's fist, but the skin is thin and watery, and it is sweet and silky when you bite into it, and it can get into people's hearts.
Now is a good time to eat radish, and when the weather is colder, the taste of the radish is not so tender and sweet, but a little astringent and spicy.
"Awan! Why are you still here? You're here! ”
An aunt came over with a dustpan and said.
Ah Wan, who was squatting on the ground, blushed: "Auntie, don't talk nonsense, who, who is my father-in-law?" ”
The aunt smiled jokingly: "I'm about to get married, it's not your father-in-law, is it my father-in-law?" ”
On the other side of the ridge, peasant women picking rape laughed.
Ah Wan's face was flushed, although she didn't admit it, she knew that she did have a fiancé.
The fiancé's surname is Zhao, his name is Zhao Heng, and he is the only talent in their village.
Zhao Heng was not a local, but fled to their village in the year when the war began, and then settled in the village.
Zhao Heng's father died in the war, leaving only him with his widowed mother and a sister who was the same age as Ah Wan.
Thanks to the help of Awan's family over the years, the family of three has lived in fear.
The life of Awan's family is not very good, especially after Awan's father was arrested and sent to the army, this house has no pillars, and life is becoming more and more difficult.
No matter how tight it is, Ah Wan is reluctant to let Zhao Heng be wronged.
When she passed by a small fish pond, she squatted down and washed the mud on her hands, her hands were frostbitten, and the wound entered the water, which hurt her so much that she gasped!
Then, she untied the belt, wiped the water with her hands to comb her hair shiny, braided a beautiful four-strand pigtail next to her ear, and carefully took out the red head rope that she was willing to wear during the New Year from her arms, and tied it little by little.
When she had done this, she washed her face with a handful of cold, fishy water in her almost unconscious hand.
"I'm cold!" Ah Wan screamed at the ice.
But he said that Zhao Heng had been wandering outside Awan's house for a long time, and he hadn't seen Awan for a long time, so he decided to come back another day, but when he passed by the fish pond, he happened to see Awan squatting on the shore washing his face.
Zhao Heng frowned, can the water here wash his face? The fishy smell is so heavy.
Ah Wan also saw Zhao Heng and stood up in a hurry.
It's only been half a month, Zhao Heng has grown taller again, although he is three years older than Awan, but he doesn't know that when he first came to the village, he was thinner than Awan.
Seeing that he had grown up, Ah Wan was happy.
"Ah Heng!" Awan walked over with a smile on her face.
The girl was dressed in a bloated cotton jacket, with patches on her knees and elbows, and she looked a little embarrassed, but this face was so well born that she could not pick out a girl more handsome than her.
Once upon a time, Zhao Heng also thought that Ah Wan was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, but since he had seen those daughters in the city, he only had a shabby rustic rustic atmosphere when he looked at Ah Wan again.
Ah Wan saw Zhao Heng's hands, which were a pair of scholar's hands, with slender fingers, clean and delicate.
Without a trace, Ah Wan retracted her little swollen hands with chilblains into her sleeves, and asked him with a smile, "Why are you here?" Today is the middle of the month, and it is not yet the day of the tie...... Is it that the money on hand has been spent? I'll get it for you. ”
In fact, there are not many left, only the last few silver nudes are left, and the New Year's goods have not yet landed, but Zhao Heng's study is important, she thinks, A-Niang will not blame her.
"Awan." Zhao Heng stopped her.
Ah Wan turned around, and a sweet smile appeared on her little face that was red from the cold: "Huh? ”
"You don't have to give me any more money." Zhao Heng said.
"Why? Aren't you studying? Ah Wan asked in surprise.
Zhao Heng paused: "It's not ......"
Ah Wan thought that he was worried about the silver in the future, so she patted her chest and said, "Don't worry, I have the silver!" I...... I can earn it! When spring comes, I'll pick wild vegetables! I can still chop wood! Can farm ......"
"Awan, where did you get your money?" Zhao Heng interrupted her.
Ah Wan was stunned.
Zhao Heng said with a gloomy face: "You don't have to hide it from me, I already know it, your silver is not clean...... You didn't actually go to your cousin's house the year before last, you ...... You're in the kiln! ”
A thunderbolt hit Awan's head on a sunny day!
Ah Wan's body shook, the back basket fell to the ground, and the red radish rolled to the ground.
Ah Wan looked at Zhao Heng with a pale face: "Who?" Who told you? ”
Zhao Heng clenched his fists and said, "You don't care who told me, you just said whether it was or not!" Did you go into the kiln? ”
Ah Wan's eyes turned red a little, and she grabbed Zhao Heng's arm: "Ah Heng......"
Zhao Heng was caught off guard when he saw these swollen hands covered with chilblains, and he was so frightened that he withdrew his arms!
Ah Wan felt his disgust, and didn't dare to touch him with her hand again, but just choked up more and more and said, "I...... I didn't go into the kiln! Ah Heng, you believe me, my money is clean! I exchanged it for a jade pendant! ”
Zhao Heng looked at her coldly: "Where did you get the jade pendant?" ”
"I picked it up!" Awan said.
Zhao Heng sneered: "Can you just pick up a piece of jade pendant and exchange it for so much silver?" ”
He also naively thought that all his expensive bundles of silver were planted by Ah Wan and chopped wood, but who would have thought that...... She actually traded her own body for it!
Is she still going to be shameless? Do you want it?!
She has already married him, and she is going to do shady things with other men!
Why is she so dirty?!
"Ah Heng, you believe me, I didn't enter the kiln, I can swear!" Ah Wan cried so much that her heart was about to break, she really didn't enter the kiln, she really didn't......
The two grew up as childhood sweethearts, and for a long time, Zhao Heng and his sister ate in Awan's house and lived in Awan's house, he still remembered the days when the whole village was in a famine, and it was Awan who saved his own rations and fed him one bite at a time.
If it weren't for Ah Wan, he might have starved to death a long time ago.
He has a trace of affection for Ah Wan after all.
"Don't worry, I won't publicize your affairs because I know each other, but I can't marry you anymore." He said charity.
Zhao Heng thought that he had done his duty, after all, for a woman, there was nothing more important than her reputation, he was willing to keep her reputation, she should be content.
Zhao Hengyi said solemnly: "I am a Xiucai, the master said that with my talent, he will be able to enter the office one day, and I can't marry a woman who is not clean...... I will come to the door to return the family affairs, and you will not come to me again in the future. ”
After that, Zhao Heng didn't dare to look at Awan's heartbroken face, and fled away.
But he hadn't run a few steps when there was a loud pop in the fishpond behind him.
"Awan—"