Although the Zhang family agreed to go to Beijing with Qian Qian, they still looked worried, and the two of them spent the morning counting their property. Because of the funeral just now, the autumn grain was greedy again, and the Zhang family searched out all the belongings in the family, which was less than 100 yuan, but this did not include the dowry that the Zhang family prepared for Zhang Wuniang.

Speaking of which, Zhang Shusheng and his wife really love their daughter, since Zhang Wuniang was born, the couple began to give a penny, a penny to their daughter to save a dowry, when Zhang Shusheng was alive, he was the only one in the neighboring villages to teach people to read and write, and the annual collection of bundles was not small, but the couple was very frugal, almost all of them were exchanged for copper coins to save up, and the only daughter was given a dowry.

Zhang Shusheng has always felt that his family is weak and weak, and he is afraid that his daughter will be angry when she marries into her husband's family, so the dowry should be thickly prepared, so that Zhang Wuniang will be more confident after marrying.

After getting engaged to the Sun family last year, Zhang Shusheng put away all the copper coins he had saved over the years, sold his belongings, went to the town to exchange two taels of silver, and made a pair of thin silver bracelets, intending to give his daughter as a dowry. It's a pity that Zhang Wuniang can't use this rich dowry that she desperately bought.

Qian Qian saw this dowry, which can be called a huge amount of money in the village, and immediately felt that he had the bottom in his heart, at least he would not live on the streets when he arrived in the capital, so he could rent a house to live in.

Zhang didn't want to touch his daughter's dowry, after all, this was the future guarantee that he and her husband had worked hard to save for their daughter, but they couldn't stand Qian Qian's persistent chatter, and finally agreed to rent a house with their daughter's dowry after arriving in the capital.

The two of them summed up for a while, and decided to go to Lizheng's house to say a word first, so that they could go to the official office to do the road. Under the gossip and swearing all the way, Qian Qian and Zhang stood in front of Li Zheng's house, but unfortunately no one invited them in, and Li Zheng stood at the door with a disgusted face to talk to them.

Hearing that the two were going to the capital to join their relatives (this was an excuse that Qian Qian had discussed with the Zhang family at home), Li Zheng showed a sarcastic smile on his face, probably thinking that even if there were relatives in the capital, he would not take in Zhang's mother and daughter.

Zhang's proposed that he wanted to take Lizheng to the official office to do the road, but he refused indifferently: "Zhang, don't toss, you don't have to toss, keep it honest at home, what can the villagers take care of, it's not as easy as you think when you get to the capital." ”

Although the words were beautiful, Zhang's heart knew that Li was troublesome and didn't want to go to the yamen for the Zhang family's affairs, so Zhang's smiled at it: "Uncle He, you also know that the situation of our mother and daughter is really difficult, and there is no way to go to Beijing to join relatives." ”

"In addition," Zhang paused: "We are leaving, and there is no one to take care of the fields at home, so I bother you to take care of one or two, far away from home, how much harvest in the field is useless to us." ”

This is the meaning of planting the Zhang family's field for the Li Zheng family, and sure enough, after hearing this, Li Zheng showed a smile on his face: "Zhang, you are a sensible person, since this is the case, I will go with you." ”

Zhang nodded and said, "I'm sorry for you." ”

Qian Qian turned around and pouted secretly, and gave the field to the Li Zheng family for white seeds, which Qian Qian and the Zhang family discussed at home, the Zhang family has no one, and the unattended field will be occupied sooner or later, it is better to give away personal favors in vain, so that Li Zheng can help with the road quickly, relocation is not an easy thing in this era, and household registration management is much stricter than in modern society.

Sure enough, with the benefits of the Zhang family's land, Li Zheng took the Zhang family to the town early the next morning, and made some money to speed up the road, as if he was afraid that the Zhang family's mother and daughter would regret it, and he wanted them to move out quickly.

After finishing the road, Zhang took Qian Qian and began to pack the package to prepare for moving, in fact, there was nothing to clean up, but he took a few chickens raised by the family to the town and sold them for about 20 copper coins, and then cleaned up the clothes of the two, adding up to a few pieces.

Packing up Zhang Shusheng's previous clothes, Zhang's family was a little embarrassed, the man's clothes are now useless, but a few clothes have not been worn out, and he is reluctant to give them away, and he is trying to tear them down and change them into other styles, but he was stopped by Qian Qian.

Zhang didn't understand what Qian Qian meant: "I know that this is what your father worn, and you are a little reluctant, but the clothes will be moldy sooner or later, so change them if they can be used, don't waste them." ”

"No, mother" Qian Qian shook his head: "I just wanted to discuss with you, you are a woman's family, with me a teenage girl, it is always unsafe to go on the road, why don't you pretend to be a boy, more than a hundred miles away, it will take three or four days to walk, unless we hire a car." ”

Zhang Shi agreed after thinking for a while, it is indeed safer to travel with an underage boy than with a teenage girl, Zhang Wuniang is only thirteen years old, because she is a peasant girl, she looks a little black and thin, wearing men's clothes, she does look a little like a little boy about ten years old.

Since it was decided to dress up his daughter as a boy, Zhang didn't talk too much, and rushed to make her deceased husband's clothes smaller overnight, and spent a few days selling the food stored at home. I bought materials to make a pair of new shoes with thick bottoms for my daughter, and she herself wore the old shoes left by her husband, which were a little bigger, and they were rags.

Five days later, before dawn, Zhang took Qian Qian on the road to Beijing. Closing the broken wood door of her house, Zhang's tears couldn't stop falling, she knew very well that it was impossible to return to this small home run with her husband after leaving. Looking back at the little daughter who was wearing a green coat and hat and dressed as a boy, Zhang's eyes gradually became resolute.

There's still a daughter, and she's got a daughter......

Qian Qian looked at her and felt that this woman was really unusual, but if Zhang Wuniang's personality was a little like her, she would not hang herself easily. After Zhang Wuniang's death, Zhang was lynched to death by the villagers, probably because her husband and daughter died, she had nothing to love and didn't want to resist.

If Zhang Wuniang is alive, the Zhang family will not compromise so easily for the sake of her daughter.

Qian Qian carried a small package of dry food in his hand, followed his mother all the way, and left the small village where Zhang Wuniang had lived all her life in the morning light. No one sent them, and the narrow road was walked out by the mother and daughter.

Zhang was afraid that his daughter would be sad, so he comforted Qian Qian softly while walking: "Good boy, everything will be fine, when you get to the town, my mother will buy you a few pieces of candy." ”

"Mother, no need, there will be more places to make money in the future, I don't eat sugar......"