Chapter 44

"Our mother and daughter are unarmed, and we are afraid of being bullied when we are alone, so we want to find a simple village with villagers, and it doesn't matter if the village is small." The ancient countryside is more desolate and backward than the modern one, but Ye Lan looked at it, but she was very satisfied, she believed that Zhao Qi said that the villagers here should also be relatively simple, because they are simple, so they will not ask too much about their origins, and this will become the place where she and her mother started.

Listening to Ye Lan's explanation, Zhao Qi had a sudden sense of enlightenment, and repeatedly assured Ye Lan that the villagers here were absolutely simple, and while talking, he took Ye Lan's mother and daughter into the village, and stood outside the first fence at the entrance of the village.

"Big sister's house, I'm Zhao Qi."

"Someone, Brother Zhao is here, come in directly, the head of the Li family came back last night and told me, I am making cakes and preparing to entertain guests." A hearty woman's voice came from the house, so loud that the whole village could hear it.

"Talking called Li Jinhua, is a widow, living alone with a ten-year-old son, I and her husband have had some friendship, this big sister is very good, I will arrange for you to live here first, you will ask her for help if you have anything in the future, she is very enthusiastic, although you have a splendid village, but if you want to have your own house, you have to find your own way, I usually work in the city, if there is anything that can help in the future, you just say it." While taking Ye Lan's mother and daughter inside, Zhao Qi told the two about the background of the owner.

"The eldest sister-in-law's ancestor was originally from the capital, so I will leave you to her care."

"Let Brother Zhao bother." Hearing Zhao Qi's explanation, Ye Lan's mother and daughter had a bottom in their hearts.

"Yes." Zhao Qihan laughed, walked to the door but didn't go in, only opened his voice and shouted, "Big sister, if you come out, I won't go in, I'm still waiting for me to go back in the yamen." ”

"Brother Zhao is polite, what are you doing, I made lunch and then left without hurry." Li Jinhua walked out when she heard this, but she was shocked when she saw Ye Lan's mother and daughter, although Ye Lan's mother and daughter had changed into ordinary fabrics and clothes, and they were also dusty all the way, but the temperament of the whole body was unstoppable, and the skin was also crystal clear, and they were different from the countrymen at first glance.

"Alas, where did this come from, like a fairy daughter." Ignoring Zhao Qi, Li Jinhua ran over to Ye Lan's mother and daughter, "Brother Zhao, who are these two, they are so handsome." ”

"That's what I'm talking about, mother and daughter, they have settled here, big sister, they are new to here, and they are not very familiar with this place, so I will trouble you to take care of them more in the future." After Zhao Qi finished speaking, he said a few more words to Li Jinhua, and then said goodbye and left.

"That's, girl...... Do I call you a girl? Several people watched Zhao Qi leave, and before Qiao Zi could speak, Li Jinhua looked back at the fairy like a mother and daughter and asked with some hesitation.

Ye Lan's mother and daughter looked back at Li Jinhua, only to see that she was holding a simple and neat bun with a log chopsticks, and her standard melon seed face may often be exposed to the sun, making her skin look dark and her complexion dull, but her eyes are extremely bright, although her body is made of linen and coarse cloth, she has cleaned herself up neatly, and she is a shrewd and capable person at first glance.

After looking at it, Qiao Zi motioned for Ye Lan to salute Li Jinhua, and she nodded with a smile, "I'm afraid that Qiao Zi is going to take advantage of it, Qiao Zi is Chinese New Year's Eve and five today, so it should be bigger." ”

"Oh, it turned out to be my sister, I'm disrespectful, I'm twenty and eight this year." Li Jinhua looked at Qiao Zi a little embarrassed, she looked older from the outside, but she didn't expect Qiao Zi to come from a wealthy family, seven years older than her, but she looked like a younger sister.

The two sides were polite, Li Jinhua called Qiao Ziqiao sister, Qiao Zi called her Jinhua sister, Ye Lan called her Aunt Jinhua, and Li Jinhua called her Ye Lan.

The gate of Li Jinhua's fence courtyard can accommodate three people to pass through at the same time, but Qiao Zi can't be allowed to bring a carriage in, looking at the tall and handsome horse, Li Jinhua's eyes lit up, in their village, only the village chief's family has a cow, thin and small, but it is already a rich family in the village, and Qiao Zi's mother and daughter have a mysterious origin, and now there is a carriage that only rich people in the northern city can sit on, so doesn't it mean that they are richer than the village chief?

It's just that I don't know why this mother and daughter came to Yiyi Bai Jinxiu Village, since Zhao Qi ordered her to take care of people, Li Jinhua naturally won't slack off, she is just worried that this handsome horse is too conspicuous and will cause others to be red, if her family loses her family, it means that she can't afford to lose her family.

Thinking like this, Li Jinhua's eyebrows became worried, and she looked at Qiao Zi, "Sister Qiao, can you drive this horse into the yard, as for this carriage, we can tie the gate of the courtyard, such a tall and strong horse, I am afraid that others will look red." ”

"Oh, okay, I still have some things in the carriage, and I have to bother the golden flower girl to help me move them together." Qiao Zi nodded, with her appearance, although a horse in this splendid village is very remarkable, it will not be looked at by her, only if there is a carriage, it is more convenient to go anywhere.

"Okay, no problem." Li Jinhua nodded enthusiastically, but when Qiao Zi opened the car door and saw most of the things in the car, she couldn't help but smash her tongue, these two mothers and daughters are really rich women.

Li's family has two rooms, one is Li Jinhua's own residence, the other is her son's residence, now there are guests, Li Jinhua let her room out, Ye Lan followed her mother into the room, only to feel that the light in the room is extremely dim, the ground is also potholes, except for a square table, four stools, there is no other furniture in the house, although Ye Lan suffered a lot when she was young, but she has not entered such an environment for many years, she is a little unaccustomed to it for a while, one is not aware and almost was knocked down, fortunately she reacted in time to support the kang next to her.

"Lan'er ......"

"Ye Lan, are you okay?"

Qiao Zi and Li Jinhua were both startled, and when they saw that she was fine, they were relieved, and Li Jinhua was full of guilt, "The family conditions are poor, and I have wronged you." ”

"Don't say that, Sister Jinhua, my family used to be like this, but I got married later, my husband's family conditions are good, Lan'er has not suffered much since she was born, and she is a little unaccustomed to it for a while, just wait for her to get used to it." Although Qiao Zi felt sorry for her daughter, she couldn't make Li Jinhua feel guilty at this time, after all, it was someone who helped her.

"yes, I'm fine, I'm just not aware for a while, just get used to it." Ye Lan smiled next to her, she could feel her mother's guilt, reached out and touched the back of her mother's hand, giving her silent comfort.

"What a sensible child." Although Li Jinhua didn't know what happened to Qiao Zi's mother and daughter, but thinking that if it weren't for her love, she would not have come to this poor country, and when she heard Ye Lan's words at this moment, she felt that her guess was right, such a child is so sensible, if it weren't for the children of poor families who were in charge early, they would have had some experience, and judging from the current situation of Qiao Zi's mother and daughter, the latter guess is appropriate.

The two adults let Ye Lan stay in the house, they moved back and forth more than a dozen times, and finally moved all the things in the carriage into the house, Qiao Zi untied the reins of the horse, pulled the horse into the fence yard, found a pillar to bolt up, Li Jinhua took the hay over, let Qiao Zi feed the horse, and then she hurriedly went back to the kitchen, made her own cakes and served them on the table, then a pot of porridge, and a little pickles, and invited Qiao Zi's mother and daughter to the table,

"The harvest in this northern land is very small, and my family has no male power, orphans and widows, don't dislike ......"

"Don't be polite, Sister Jinhua, we're not here to be guests, you're already embarrassed to trouble you like this, we will settle down here in the future, if Sister Jinhua doesn't dislike it, treat us as family." Qiao Zi hurriedly responded, along the way, she couldn't be clearer about the situation in the northern land.

Li Jinhua saw Qiao Zi's sincere words, nodded immediately, and the three of them sat down to eat.

Ye Lan remembered that Zhao Qi had said that Li Jinhua still had a son, and immediately asked, "Aunt Jinhua, why didn't you see your son, don't we wait for him to eat together?" ”

Hearing Ye Lan mention it, Qiao Zicai patted her head, "Yes, I'm confused, Sister Jinhua, what about your son?" ”

"Hehe, we don't have to wait for him, he went to the back mountain with the people in the village early in the morning to dig wild vegetables, I prepared dry food for him, and he won't come back at noon, by the way, Ye Lan, which day are you, see if you are older or our family is bigger."

Speaking of her son, Li Jinhua was full of smiles, after a meal, Qiao Zi's mother and daughter knew that Li Jinhua's son was called Wang Lanjian, who was exactly three days younger than Ye Lan, Wang Lanjian's name was given to him by his father, because of the orchid grass, which is the name of a traditional Chinese medicine, Li Jinhua has passed away her husband Wang Liansheng, an ancestral medicine practitioner, and she is a childhood sweetheart, so don't look at Li Jinhua as a widow, but the village has a very high status, because she and her husband have studied medicine.

In this poor and remote place in the north, there is a doctor in a village, which is a big deal, but there is one in Jinxiu Village, when Wang Lian was alive, Jinxiu Village dared to call out the shit village of the rich village in the north, because Wang Liansheng's medical skills are excellent, and the north is very famous, even those old men in the north city have to greet Wang Liansheng with a smile, after all, no matter how powerful you are, you can't beat the sick, and if you are sick, you need a husband, and a doctor with excellent medical skills is definitely a wise decision.

Wang Liansheng is famous, and people in nearby villages invite him to come to the door when they are sick, and he is kind-hearted and only accepts a little silver taels and medicine money, so although it attracts the dissatisfaction of other doctors, but because his people have a very high status in their hearts, no one dares to trouble him openly, but that's it, the Wang family's northern border was also very solid back then.

It's a pity that the good times don't last long, Wang Liansheng and Li Jinhua got married not long ago, someone in the neighboring village had a sudden illness and asked him to go to the doctor, and he encountered a torrential rain on the way back, and broke his leg, because he was not treated in time, a leg has been scrapped since then, after this incident, Wang Liansheng was hit hard, depressed all day long, already a little thin body, more and more thin, Li Jinhua was pregnant at that time, Wang Liansheng only had time to look at his son, named him, and closed his eyes, leaving Li Jinhua and Wang Lan to see orphans and widows.

Compared with Li Jinhua's fate, Qiao Zi suddenly felt that she was much luckier, although she had also lost her husband, but her husband was still alive, and she had been in love with her husband for more than ten years.

Li Jinhua can raise her son alone in such a bad place, Qiao Zi is suddenly full of confidence in the future, she believes that she can also raise Ye Lan.

Since it is already a splendid village, naturally it is impossible to live in Li Jinhua's house all the time, Qiao Zi wanted to build a house that belonged to her and Ye Lan, Li Jinhua learned that she was very enthusiastic and proposed to let Qiao Zi build the house next to her house, they are both single women with a child, if they live together, they also have a care for each other.

This is exactly what Qiao Ziyi wants, their mother and daughter are new to the road, they are not familiar with each other, there are young men in the family, it is better to stay away, so as not to cause controversy, Li Jinhua is an orphan and widow, but she is with her, and she doesn't have to worry about other people's gossip when she is friends.

It's just that for the construction of a house, you have to ask the village chief, and the foundation has to be approved by the village chief.

"Sister Jinhua, I don't know where the village chief's house is, and I bother you to take me there, I have to ask the village chief for this foundation."

"Sister Qiao, don't worry, wait until it gets dark, let's go again, we, the village chief, are still good, but it's a little cheap, if you want to get the foundation smoothly, I'm afraid you have to show something." Li Jinhua nodded. "Thank you, Sister Jinhua, for mentioning this." When Qiao Zi heard this, she had an idea in her heart, she and Ye Lan went all the way to the north, and they didn't buy many things on the way, so that Li Jinhua and herself moved things down from the carriage, but most of them were transported from the capital, there was originally a lot of food, but they couldn't be put away for so long, and along the way, they were eaten by their mother and daughter, and now these things, most of them are living expenses and some children's toys, which she originally bought to take back to her hometown, but her hometown did not return, but those things were reluctant to throw away, and she sorted things out, Packed up all the children's toys and handed them to Li Jinhua,

"Sister Jinhua, I originally planned to give away these children's toys, but for some reason I didn't send them out, I hope you don't mind, take them to play with Lanjian, there are some little girl toys among them, if he doesn't like it, he will send them to the little girls in the village."

"Oh my God, don't you want such a beautiful and delicate toy, Sister Qiao? There are no such good-looking toys in this northern land," Li Jinhua was dazzled by the large number of toys on the table.

"Brought from afar." Qiao Zi smiled, "I'll take care of it for you." ”

"Such a cute toy, don't Ye Lan want to play with it?"

"I don't want to play." Ye Lan took the initiative to speak, she was past the age of playing with toys.

"If I want to give away such a delicate thing, I can't bear it, just let me keep it, if Ye Lan wants to play, tell Aunt Jinhua, and Auntie will give it to you." In the north, these toys are among the best in the public, and the corresponding price is not bad, such a bunch, it is impossible for Li Jinhua to take it away and give it away, so he decided to keep it well, and wait for his son to come back to play, he has played, and he can leave it to the next generation to play.

Just as he was thinking about where to put these toys, his son's bright voice came from outside the house, "Mother, I'm back." ”

"Lan Jian is back." When Li Jinhua heard this, she hurriedly responded in a loud voice, "Mother's room, come in." ”

"Mother, Lan saw that there was a ...... of picking herbs today" A little boy jumped in from outside, and when he saw that there were guests in his mother's room, there were still two beauties like fairy daughters, and the little boy was shy and hid behind his mother, refusing to stand up.

"Qiao Zi, Ye Lan, let you see and laugh, this poor child has never seen the world, our Jialan is afraid of seeing people, and when she is nervous, she stutters, and her whole body is abnormal." Li Jinhua pulled her son out from behind,

"Lan Jian, come and call someone, this is Aunt Qiao, this is her daughter, Sister Ye Lan, who is three days older than you."

"Aunt Qiao is good, Rui, Sister Yelan is good." Wang Lan saw that she was so big, and she saw that she was the flower of the village, but when she said goodbye to Qiao Zi's mother and daughter, they were like fairies in the sky, and they barely screamed, but the voice was very small.

"Lan is good to see my brother." Ye Lan smiled at Wang Lan, looked carefully, although there were some patches on the clothes on his body, the little guy's facial features were not bad, and he should be a handsome guy when he grew up.

(End of chapter)