Chapter 4 Du Jun and his people
The woman lying on the bed is not very old, with a goose egg face, a pair of almond eyes, deep eyes, looking at it will be brought in unconsciously, the eyelashes are very long, the skin is not fair, it is wheat-colored, the small nose, the lips are a little whitish, slightly chapped, a long hair is scattered and pressed under the body, covered with a bed of light red floral quilt, probably just woke up, and the eyes look a little dazed.
"Gentleman, you're awake, you're scared to death this time, don't do this in the future, tell your aunt if there's anything, our neighbors, there's nothing you can't get over, you're hungry, what do you want to eat?" Auntie will do it for you, you have been in a coma for two days and three nights."
As soon as Du Li opened her eyes, she saw a woman in her thirties wearing ancient costumes constantly opening and closing beside her, but she didn't understand a word, and her misty eyes were even more confused.
"Where is this? Who are you? ”
Du Li opened her mouth to ask, but the pain in her chapped throat kept the sentence from coming out, and she only opened her mouth.
"Gentleman, what do you want to say? I'm hungry, I haven't eaten in the past few days, I'll get you some porridge, wait. ”
The aunt stroked the broken hair on her sideburns, and the warmth that emanated from her heart could be seen in her eyes.
Du Li didn't speak, nodded slightly, although she didn't know what the aunt was going to do, but the gentle mood of accepting you could still be felt. Closing her eyes, Du Li was confused again, this time it seemed that she had had a dream for a long time, and she saw the road that a girl named Du Jun had walked all her life, she was like a bystander, watching the girl's joys, sorrows, joys and sorrows. Finally the girl walked over to Du Li and said only one word.
"If you come, live for me."
What does this mean? Let my sister live for you, so who will live for my sister? Anyway, you have to beg me, just send my sister with such a fluttering sentence, being a sister is asking for food, you are too irresponsible, Du Li has already started to jump her feet, mainly because this girl's life is too sad, and my sister can't play! Sister, I'm still a big girl with yellow flowers............
Why did you suddenly jump to the yellow flower, this is going to make an introduction to this Du Jun, to describe it in one sentence, that is, the bitter soup is soaked in the big one, is it too bitter, hey, it seems to be two sentences, forget it, ignore it...... Math is taught by physical education teachers.
Du Jun was born and raised in the local Zhaojia Village, and the difference is that she is not the biological daughter of Du Yuanzhi and Li Guixiang, but from other families in the village.
Her original home is in the west of the village, grandfather Zhao Renli, married Wang Rong of Wangjia Village next door, gave birth to six children, in addition to a child who died young, there are three boys and two girls, Du Jun is the eldest daughter of the eldest son of the family Zhao Shugui, mother Zheng Xiu'e, professional farming, the two gave birth to three girls in a row, which in ancient times of patriarchy, it is commonly known as "no household", so Wang is very unwelcome to see the eldest son's family, in Du Jun when he was five years old by his grandmother to Li Guixiang with twenty taels of silver, and wrote the succession document, After confirmation, birth, old age, sickness and death are irrelevant.
Father Zhao Shugui is a foolish and filial piety, he will only work with his head bored, what his grandmother says, he has never dared to refute it in his life, his mother is reluctant to follow her daughter, and she is pregnant in October, but there is no way, a woman without a son has no confidence, under the fists and feet of her grandmother and father, this poor woman can only lie on the bed and watch the five-year-old Du Jun leave step by step.
Du Jun is the surname changed after arriving at the Du family, the original name is Zhao Juan, when the head of the Du family Du Yuanzhi has been a soldier for many years, after a defeat, there is no news, life and death are unknown, daughter-in-law Li Guixiang has been sticking to the Du family, waiting for a fool, firmly believing that her husband will come back, year by year, waiting for 14 years, boiling white silk, before he had a stepchild under the advice of his brother. In total, it is not so difficult to have a companion, and when he gets old, someone will cry for himself, so he made up all the money in the family and borrowed a little, the village chief as a witness, and Zhao Jun, the little girl, actually wants a boy more, but the chief said that the boy can only be given to his own clan.
At that time, Du Jun was a small one, very thin, a five-year-old child, not as strong as a normal four-year-old child, he had never eaten enough in the days of the Zhao family, and he had to take care of his two younger sisters and help with housework, coupled with his grandmother's meanness, his father's indifference, the whole person was timid, and the first thing he said when he saw Mother Li was
"I'll work hard and don't eat much"
Mother Li, who had never had a child, accepted the poor child because of this sentence, and the mother and daughter lived in a broken adobe house for three years, until Du Yuanzhi came back with an injury one winter, and the family began to become complete.
It turned out that Du Yuanzhi was captured in the war, and he was forced to work in a foreign country for more than ten years, and he slowly saved some silver, and after a long time, the caretakers also relaxed, so he found an opportunity to sneak back.
Seventeen years, how many seventeen years more in life, the husband and wife hugged their heads and cried when they met, and after crying, their hearts were slowly settled.
"Guixiang, I've suffered you, I, Du Yuanzhi, swear never to let you suffer again in the future, I'm sorry for you for so many years."
Du's father made a solemn promise to his wife
"I'm not bitter, you're back, everything has passed, now I have you, and a daughter, I'm content, our good days are still ahead"
Mother Li looked happy, yes, seventeen years have passed, can there be more suffering to defeat this strong woman?
Du's father used his savings over the years to buy 30 acres of good fields, pushed his house to build a new one, the courtyard wall was also fenced, and a large vegetable field was enclosed behind the house, but due to overwork, Du's father was in pain, especially the two legs, and he couldn't move at all on a cloudy day, that is, severe rheumatism, and other back injuries, and couldn't do much physical work, plus Li had to take care of Xianggong, Du Jun was only eight or nine years old at that time, so the thirty acres of land were tenanted out for others to cultivate, and it was a ration more in a year. Li's usually raise some chickens, the big vegetable plot in the backyard is enough, sell some eggs for a needle and thread, a family of three has been plain for six years, and Du Jun is also fifteen years old after the New Year, and Xu Lipeng, the son of the Xu family in the same village, is engaged, and will marry in the winter of fifteen, and there will be a year in total.
There are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, people have good fortune and misfortune, Du's father may have stood up in a hurry when tidying up the chicken shed, people were confused and fell, this time they never stood up again, two months of kung fu people are gone, Li is also a fire and then went, these two or three months this family is left with Du Juan, a girl less than fifteen years old, taking medicine and funerals also hollowed out the family's family foundation, sold 20 acres of land cheaply, and left 10 acres of paddy fields, because the rice was planted at that time and was not sold, and the village chief was owed five taels of silver, and the rice was sold after the money was returned.
Du Jun's personality is a little wooden in Du Li's eyes, before the age of five in the hands of his grandmother was beaten and scolded, five years old to Du's father came back, than in the hands of grandmother can be better, but at that time the family was not rich, can only be regarded as full, eat well just think, Du Father came back after the six years is the happiest girl, can eat and dress warmly, can wear a new clothes during the New Year's holidays, plus embroidered a handkerchief, a tie, Li did not ask her, but also saved some private money, plus the fiancé's family is one of the best in this village, For the little girls in the village, they are envious, and they are also jealous and hated by some little girls' families.
Especially Zhao Caier, the eldest granddaughter of the Li Chang's family, is one year younger than Du Jun, relying on her grandfather and the second uncle who works in the yamen, she often goes to the academy to find Xu Lipeng, and everyone in the village takes this matter as a joke, but the pampered Zhao Caier still goes her own way and doesn't take it seriously
In addition to Du Jun's wooden personality and not much love to deal with people, other places are really good, people are relatively tall, white skin and beautiful long legs, well, this is a bit exaggerated, only one is accounted for, long legs, smooth and delicate skin, quiet appearance, is a typical Jiangnan woman. Work neatly, work hard, do not take advantage of others, and do not chew the root of the tongue, and a secret is that Du Jun is very strong, Du's father took his daughter to the back of the house to play for a while, in his words, this martial arts has to find a inheritance, Du Jun does have a little talent in martial arts, a set of military sticks to play tiger and tiger style, but as far as the Li family is concerned, the daughter plays with guns and sticks, it is better to embroider with one hand, and the daughter will spend more time on embroidery when she is older, so the situation that the daughter will martial arts, outsiders basically don't know.
There is also an advantage of filial piety, in addition to the Du family's parents, the same is true for their own parents, most of the private money saved is subsidized to the biological parents, buy some delicious food that they are reluctant to eat, and keep it for their two younger sisters, what is specially said is that Du Jun left the family for eight years, his father gave birth to a son, only two years old this year, and he got what he wanted.
A year after the death of the Du family's parents, Du Jun was sixteen, and he became more and more smart, and in order to make the dowry richer, he kept doing some embroidery work every day. Occasionally, when I think of the fiancé who everyone in the village praises, I will blush.
In the late spring county examination, Xu Lipeng was admitted to Xiucai, in everyone's various congratulations, "seventeen years old, Xiucai, young and promising, promising future", the Xu family's mentality slowly changed, and felt that Du Jun was not worthy of his son, but because of this proposed to withdraw from the marriage, and was afraid of being poked in the backbone, when he was in a dilemma, he thought about a team of officers and soldiers entering the village.
The location of Zhaojia Village is more than 200 miles away from the sea, and the population of two or three thousand is a large village. There are several characteristics of pirate landing and robbery, one is that most of the time is in the autumn, and the grain is harvested, and the pirates come to grab a handful, and rob the grain and the woman. The second is that the speed is fast, and the grabs are withdrawn, without dragging mud and water. Third, the landing site is uncertain, there is no law to find, many times the officers and soldiers are ambushed in various places, but it is completely up to luck to be able to meet pirates, and catching pirates means that they will be promoted to become rich, and now it is late autumn, and a team of more than 20 officers and soldiers who came today with more than 40 pirates who have been captured, because it is late, are ready to stay in the village and rest for one night before leaving.
A group of officers and soldiers took the captured pirates, and went directly to find the chief of Zhaojia Village in the village, led by a county yali surnamed Tian Lixu, whose jurisdiction includes Zhaojia Village, and usually often deals with Zhao Jiacai, the head of Zhaojia Village, who is a little greedy and lustful, with a lewd expression on his face.
Tian Lixu directly grabbed Zhao Jiacai and said in a low voice: "Uncle Zhao, this time the bandits have made a great contribution, twenty people have arrested more than forty, tonight to pick up the wind for the brothers, prepare some good wine and good food, I told Ah This group of people are all from Yuzhou, they are big, you serve well this time, and you will have benefits in the future, which is also the meaning of my second brother."
Zhao Jiacai's second son is doing the position of school inspector in the county government, and recently resigned from the main book, and many people are staring at that position.
"And what's the origin of these people?"
"You don't know, do you see the one in this gang who is taking the lead?" Tian Lixu pointed to a tall man in his twenties in the crowd with a suit of armor, "I heard that this is Zhaowu Lieutenant, Zheng Liupin, one level higher than the county order, surnamed He, just call Lord He for a while, but ......" said this, Tian Lixu glanced at Zhao Jiacai again and said.
"The young man next to Lord He is even bigger, I only know that Lord He calls him Xiao Shizi, I don't know which house it is, today, Uncle Zhao is waiting well, maybe I can change my second brother this time to see if he can change his position this time"
"Lord He is bigger than the Zhou County Commander, so isn't this son more powerful, Brother Tian, give the elder brother some pointers", he said, and a purse was stuffed into Tian Lixu's hand
Tian Lixu flipped his purse, well, five taels of silver in hand, in fact, he is an errand, how does he know what people want, but the hand is short, and the idea has to come out.
"Uncle Zhao, your best thing here is seafood, find two good cooks to make a table, don't be stingy, what is good, people may not be able to see it, and ah, these officials have been lying on the beach for more than half a month, take a hot bath, the wine at night must be good, and then find two little ladies to accompany you to drink a wine, maybe the one that is taken in is also their creation."
As soon as Tian Lixu's idea came out, Zhao Jiacai's eyes lit up, the eldest granddaughter is fifteen years old today, and she hasn't hired anyone yet, if she is ...... with that son Then the second son's main book is not stable, or Cai'er went to the prince's mansion and can't be a wife, so it's okay to be a concubine...... Zhao Jiacai's eyes rolled, and he had a thought in his heart.
Watching the two of them muttering for a long time, in fact, it was just a matter of a few words, because Lord He was wearing armor, and Xiao Shizi was dressed in a cyan robe, and he didn't say anything, Zhao Jiacai directly said to Lord He
"For the people to capture so many pirates, Lord He and all of you have worked hard, and Xiao Lao'er is here to thank Lord He for his great kindness for the old and young of Zhaojia Village."
"The chief is polite, this time I can make a difference, one is some luck, and more importantly"
As he spoke, he pointed to the boy next to him
"Rely on the ingenuity of our Xiao Shizi to dominate the overall situation, haha"
Zhao Jiacai then looked at the young man standing next to him, seventeen or eighteen years old, fair complexion, hair bun on the top of his head, a faint indifferent temperament with a sense of alienation, cold and unruly eyes, slender Danfeng eyes, a pair of proud thin lips under the high nose bridge, with a green bamboo color with silver stripes, wrapped in a slender and masculine body, the arrogant appearance that does not put anyone in the eyes is particularly significant in the crowd.
"It's still a hero out of a young man, come on, let's please, let the village prepare hot water in a while, the officials have worked hard, take a hot bath, and give the officials the wind at night."
Zhao Jiacai said as he guided Xiao Shizi and Master He to enter the house to rest, and then instructed people to prepare food for the night and find a place for everyone to take a bath.
The banquet was held in the village's main house, a table in the main hall, there were Xiao Shizi and Lord He, Zhao Lizheng found five respected old people in the village to accompany him, and set up four tables of banquets in the front hall, the remaining officers and soldiers, accompanied by Zhao Jiacai's eldest son Zhao Chao and Tian Lixu, for a while, push the cup to change the lamp, draw fists, persuade the wine, so lively.
Du Jun didn't know about the affairs of the officers and soldiers, she was helping to cook some seafood with five or six village daughters-in-law at the chief's house today, and she was also busy sweating and frying.
Zhao Jun's specialty dish is crispy yellow croaker rolls, which is being sorted out at the end, this is the last dish of today, after putting it on the plate, everyone cleaned up the kitchen and prepared to go back, at this time Zhao Jiacai's wife Zhao Sun came in and asked everyone to go to the front to receive the reward.
As several daughters-in-law entered the main hall together, Zhao Juan didn't look up, and heard Zhao Jiacai's voice
"These are the cooks who cook, and if tonight's dishes can enter the mouths of adults, that is the biggest reward for them."
"There are a few pieces of silver here, let's look at it."
A young voice said, and then Du Jun saw Zhao Cai'er holding a dark green purse and taking out pieces of silver horns.
"Thank you, sir."
The daughters-in-law who received the silver said one after another, and several people were very happy, and this piece of silver today was really a windfall.
"Then don't just say it, come on, a few of you come up and give a glass to the two adults"
Several women looked at each other, nodded, picked up the wine glass and toasted the two adults, after all, the chief spoke, or in public, it should be fine.
After the toast, several women went home with each other, and the daughter-in-law can generally drink some wine, Du Jun is unmarried This is the first time in her life to drink, and she is drunk when she gets home.
At this time, the degree of wine is not high, but Du Jun should be allergic to alcohol, so he has this performance.
In the middle of the night, Du Jun found that there seemed to be a person lying on her body, but she didn't even have the strength to open her eyes, and she lost her woman's chastity in a daze.
When I woke up the next day, my head still hurt suddenly, and when I raised my hand, I found that my clothes were thrown on the ground, and there were all kinds of scratching and biting marks on my body, even if I was dull, I understood what was happening, as an unmarried woman, my virginity was damaged, and it would also affect the sisters below, Du Jun was in a mess on the bed, like crazy, and after getting dressed, he hanged himself in the east house.
Du Jun's strange appearance attracted the attention of Aunt Liu next door, and after being rescued, only a little body temperature remained in her chest, and she still died after lying down for two days, which cheapened Du Li's otherworldly soul.