Chapter 47: Pear Blossom One
Pear blossom is a flower in the village of Fujiang Village, which has been exaggerated from childhood to adulthood, and has developed a somewhat arrogant temperament, and she can't look down on the young people in the village, and wants to climb the high branch and marry someone from the city.
When it comes to the appearance of pear blossoms, there are all kinds of praise in the village. What fairy went down to earth to reincarnate in the pear blossom family, what pear blossom girl gave birth to pear blossoms, the pear blossom fairy dreamed of her and so on. Let all hear and do not count. However, Pear Blossom really deserves this title, although she is a village girl, there is also a sense of nobility that the villagers can't say.
On her round face, there are two cute little dimples with a smile, matched with her bright eyes that can shine into people's hearts, a clever and straight nose, and small red lips. With such bright facial features, she was immediately distinguished from the other girls in the village, and she was the one who could be seen at a glance in the crowd.
Jiang Changsheng was attracted by pear blossoms in this way, but he didn't expect that in a place like the countryside, there was such a village girl who looked like a girl in the city, and she actually saw something called temperament in her.
Jiang Changsheng is one of the educated youths who responded to the call of the country and took the initiative to go to the countryside. According to his age of seventeen or eighteen, he was preparing for the college entrance examination at this time. Despite the opposition of his parents, he resolutely embarked on the road south. I came to a remote and poor southwest mountain village - Fujiang Village.
Fujiang Village, as the name suggests, is next to the water's edge, and the stream crosses from here. The water is crystal clear, with clumps of aquatic plants growing underneath, rippling with the water, and there are also some small fish and shrimp swimming around, and if you are lucky, you can also see crabs swimming among them. The most common sights in the water are various shells and other creatures sticking out their tongues to hunt, as well as field snails. The people of the village are largely blind to other creatures in the water, except for the fish. So, there is an abundance of shell creatures here. The children were throwing these shells around as toys.
When Jiang Changsheng came to the edge of the stream for the first time, he was really curious for a long time before he started to wash clothes. Washing everything is downstream, the upstream is the place of draft, digging a shallow well on the edge of the stream, the mouth of the well is blocked with stones to build a high platform half a meter high, is to prevent children from falling when they are not paying attention, although it is very shallow, but for children who are less than the height of human legs, it is still quite deep. The water here is stored very quickly, and as soon as it is finished, it will be filled up again.
Fujiang Village is also really poor, and people rely on God to eat. When there is a drought, there is no grain in the field, so people go up to the mountains to find grass roots and bark to eat, or go down to the river to catch fish to eat. At that time, the river was shrinking and fish were scarce. When the rain is abundant, the river swells and can wash away everything, and the autumn harvest is not to be counted on, so people can only hide under their own roofs in a group, watch the endless lightning flashing in the sky, count the days when the rain has passed, and make up lies to deceive the children. Also be careful not to rise too high to flood your house.
At this time, the water from the well was no longer edible, so the people took the large and small basins of the house and boiled them with the rain from the sky.
It was at this well that Pear Blossom said the first thing to Jiang Changsheng.
Jiang Changsheng was born with red lips and white teeth because of his good family background, and he had the feeling of being a young student in that era, and he couldn't hide the bookish atmosphere on his body. Rika was planting rice in the field at the time, and when she looked up, she saw a few young people passing by in the distance who were dressed differently from these young men in the village. Jiang Chang is the most beautiful, and his temperament is more elegant.
After getting off work, Rika couldn't help but secretly inquire about the origin of these people.
The people in the village love to gossip, regardless of gender, and there is really no entertainment here. The only thing to say after the meal is the incident of going to the countryside to know the youth this time. It's enough for them to talk about it for a while.
Lihua didn't inquire much, and the little aunt who was doing needlework in the next room kept talking a lot about these educated youths. There were six educated youths in the village, four men and two women. The two girls in the city, with a beautiful appearance and a reserved body, look like a young lady from a big family in ancient times. As the aunt spoke, she brought the topic to Pear Blossom. "However, you still look better in pear blossoms. They're young ladies, and you're princesses. ”
"Auntie, if you praise me, you can praise me directly, why do you want to bring others. If they heard it, they would be unhappy. "Pear Blossom doesn't want to make trouble for herself and stop her aunt's hurtful behavior.
"Got it, my good niece. Let's not talk about them, let's talk about those young people. The best-looking one, what is it called......" Someone on the side reminded an immortal. "Yes, it's called immortality. You're so handsome! has to fight with the horses in the play. I remember when I was a girl, my grandmother used to serve the host's house to hold a banquet, and when I secretly ran over to watch the play, the little student who played the pony looked like a thief. ”
"What drama?" Pear Blossom is curious, she has grown so big, she hasn't seen the play yet! Only when Grandpa was idle, several people gathered around the fire, and the story of the murderous bandits told by Grandpa scared her so much that she didn't sleep well for a few days. The rest are some rural fantasy tales. What monkeys carry children, what monkeys enter the village to rob beautiful daughters-in-law, and their buttocks are branded red.
"I can't remember, I'll tell you when I do. Speaking of this immortal, it's really a belly full of words. Be polite to others, and don't dislike us countrymen. When we took the big bowl and poured water for the educated youth who came from afar, Changsheng also said thank you to us, and picked up the bowl and snorted.
The countrymen don't pay attention to these false courtesies, just see that they, the city people, don't dislike it. The others are also good, but they just drink the water, slowly. I'm afraid that when I go down to work in the field in the future, it will not be good for the rope. I looked at it coldly, Changsheng is a good person, quite refreshing, and he must be a good worker. How's that, Rika, do you like him? ”
"Auntie, what are you talking about?" Rika covered her face and ran away.
Jiang Changshengguo, as the aunt said, after the initial discomfort, he soon became handy and decently started farm work, which was an extraordinary improvement compared to the other ones in the same place.
Pear Blossom only glanced at Jiang Changsheng secretly when she occasionally passed by Jiang Changsheng to work.
He also looks good at work, wearing a simple straw hat on his head that he doesn't know where it came from, bending down to plant seedlings in the field, sweat running down his cheeks to his neck, in such a hot weather, he is also wearing thick clothes, wrapping himself tightly, compared to other shirtless people, he is more eye-catching.
The two met at the mouth of the well, and it was only then that their first conversation began that they had passed by countless times.
"Coincidentally, you're here to fetch water." The two spoke in unison.
Rika took a step back and let him hit first.
"Ladies first, or you come first." Jiang Changsheng carried the bucket and stepped back faster than she moved.
Rika didn't say anything more, silently put down the water burden on her shoulders, picked up the bucket and quickly filled two buckets of water. She has reached the age where she can get married, and when she can avoid suspicion, she still has to avoid suspicion, and she can't let the chattering aunts tell her family's jokes. She was satisfied with a word or two to him.