Chapter 50: Pear Blossom IV
A low thatched hut with a wooden bed on the left and old grain piled on the right surrounded by bamboo mats, leaving only a passage for people to enter and exit. In the slightly dark room, a kerosene lamp was lit, and the light of the fire flickered and dimmed.
The weather in May and June can change as it goes, and the sky is still clear in the evening. When I was about to fall asleep, the wind blew fiercely, and the raindrops fell with thunder and thunder. It was raining heavily outside and light rain inside, so Pear Blossom took a few pots or buckets to catch the rain so that it would not wet the bed and food. Then with the flickering light, she sat on the bed, leaned against the wall and opened the fairy tale book that Bai Jiangyin gave her, and looked at it intently, and the little sister was already asleep at her feet.
Hua Luo woke up to the thunder, and when she opened her eyes, she saw a thatched house, hidden in the hazy night, with a few stars revealing from it.
Beside her was a tall pear tree, full of green fruit, which hung firmly on its branches no matter how the wind swept it. The body is still small, there is no change, but you can see more vision, and it is no longer limited to the place you are.
Hua Luo followed the guidance in the dark to the window of the helper, and the people inside were pointing to the words in the book and looking at them one by one. At a glance, she judged that this was a little lonely girl, and a girl abandoned by fate, just like her name, Pear Blossom, a snow-white pear blossom, which is only suitable for blooming alone.
Rika wants to find someone in the city to marry and change her fate of becoming a village woman for the rest of her life. The educated youth's trip to the countryside showed her the light, and she was desperate, pounced on him like a moth to a fire, and followed the educated youth from the city to set up a banquet. At the beginning, it did have a romantic time, with the passage of time, the college entrance examination resumed, Jiang Changqing returned to the city to take the exam, and was successfully admitted to the university, a few years later, sent someone to take away her child, the only child of the two, and deceived her, the family did not agree to the marriage of the two of them, let her wait at home, and when he graduated, he came to pick her up when he had a job. This is a lifetime, and Pear Blossom sits under the Pear Blossom Tree all day long, waiting for the arrival of her lover.
It's a very simple task, just stop Pear Blossom from approaching Jiang Changqing. But what's the matter with the white light on her body? In this dark night, it was as bright and dazzling as the searchlight of the previous world.
Hua Luo took one look, then left the window and returned to the tree. She landed in this world, her body was very weak, and she needed to rest for a while, and when her body recovered, she could see what was going on. Before leaving, he performed a doppelganger technique on Pear Blossom's body and looked at Pear Blossom for himself.
In the process of reading the book, Pear Blossom noticed that a gaze had been devoted to her, and when she raised her head, there was no one around, and she realized that it was late at night, and if she didn't fall asleep, she wouldn't be able to get up tomorrow morning.
It rained overnight, and the grass in the sesame field absorbed enough water, and it grew a lot, and the task assigned to Pear Blossom today was to weed the field, and a few young people did this work. Fangfang had already prepared, wearing a straw hat made of willow branches on her head, which could play a certain cooling role when the sun was in full bloom. The straw hat Jiang Changqing wore on his head was probably taught by Fangfang!
Fangfang is one of the most skillful girls in the village, and when she encounters a sturdy material that can weave things, she can always use it physically, or weave it into a basket or something like a basket, or straw sandals, and wear it on her feet, and she can make three or four pairs a day, which is much faster than making shoes out of cloth.
Pear Blossom can't compare with her in this area, but she is much more sensitive than Fang Fang in finding food. She knew all the fruit trees and wild grasses that could be eaten in this mountain.
In the off-season, or when she is not busy, Pear Blossom will take Fangfang to take advantage of the early morning when the rooster crows for the second time, when no one is around, to pick all kinds of food, and then secretly take it home and eat it with her family. is not a trustworthy person, neither of them dares to bring it, this secret, except for the two families knowing, has not been revealed to the outside world.
The houses in Fujiang Village are all built on a flat land at the foot of the mountain, and several families live halfway up the mountain. The last few peaks next to the mountain behind the house are steep, with many thorns and dense forests, and in case of rain, they are also very prone to landslides, forming a steeper slope. This place is called Tianfa Mountain, and no one dares to go to the village, and it is said that there are many wild beasts in it. The main reason is that there are two mountains next to each other inside, as if they were split by a sharp axe from the middle, forming the shape of a thousand walls.
There is a legend in the village that the mountain god of the mountain was split in half by the god of heaven sent by the emperor because he did not obey the rules of heaven. This mountain is an ominous mountain, and none of the human beings who entered it came out alive. The people in the village are superstitious and have always adhered to the forbidden notices passed down by their ancestors, and they dare not disobey them at will. Even in the famine years, looking at the lush Tianhua Mountain, the people in the village did not dare to go in to find food.
Pear Blossom took Fangfang to Tianfa Mountain, which no one dared to go to in this village. At first, Fangfang didn't dare to go in, so she just waited outside for the pear blossoms. Later, every time I saw the pear blossom come out stuffed with a back, the greed followed a piece of it. Tianfa Mountain is not as terrifying as the people in the village outside, it is no different from ordinary mountains, and when they entered, they didn't see any wolves, man-eating flowers and the like, only small animals that were ordinary but rabbits and pheasants. The two of them only walked around the outskirts of the mountain, and when the morning star in the sky was about to dim, they went home.
Rika thinks it's very comfortable for her to stay here, and Fangfang thinks it's a bit scary here, there is always a creepy feeling of being targeted by something, which makes the hairs on her body stand on end, if it weren't for Rika there, she would have run away without looking back.
While working, the two made a tacit look at each other. Bai Jiangyin also wore a similar hat on his head, looking at Pear Blossom, who didn't wear anything and couldn't tan no matter how he dried it, he was a little jealous and said, "Pear Blossom, jealousy makes me crazy." ”
Rika bent over, and the movements in her hands did not stop, "No way, natural beauty." ”
"Okay! Learn to scare me so quickly with what I've said. The progress is fast and commendable. Well! I commend you for weaving tomorrow's straw hat for me. Bai Jiangyin's hands were wrapped in rags, his face was several degrees tanned than when he came, and his skin was much rougher. A delicate little girl, no different from the village girl.
"What kind of praise are you, it's not like I'm asking you to do a job." It's ripe, and Pear Blossom isn't polite to her.
Fangfang, who had been silent, said, "I'll make it up for you!" It would be nice for Rika to give her her own braiding. ”
"Jiang Zhiqing, how many of them, did you also make it up?" Bai Jiang asked.
Fang Fang pursed her lips and replied slightly: "Yes." ”
"I knew that a few of them had a few good straw hats all of a sudden, and I thought it was made up by a girl who took a fancy to them?" Bai Jiangyin is a little angry, why didn't there be a gay man to give her something! She's not bad looking.
Jiang Changqing, who was being nagged, was spraying pesticides on the rice fields. The conditions in the village are poor, and when the pesticides are applied, there is nothing to cover the mouth and nose, and there is no protection on the body, so I can only frown, endure the pungent smell of the pesticides, and the pain and itching caused by the contact with the potion.