"Get up, get up quickly. See when it's gone? A lazy girl, she has the same virtue as your uncle. If you don't make money all day long, you just know how to eat, eat, eat, eat you......" Lin Xiaozhu opened his eyes as usual in a burst of scolding. She looked at the freshly lit sky, got up from the straw-covered ground with a grunt, folded the bed of tattered cotton wool, brushed her hair quickly, and opened the door and went out.

Qin saw her get up through the ventilated gaps in the firewood room, combing her hair, but still scolding in her mouth, scolding nothing more than Lin Xiaozhu's uncle went to gamble again, and got a little girl who didn't make money for nothing to feed her. Lin Xiaozhu pursed his lips, opened the door and walked towards the kitchen.

"Why don't you hurry? Dead girl. Every day, I have to let my mother call to get up, and I want to be lazy! The Qin clan scolded on a whim, stretched out his palm and wanted to give Lin Xiaozhu a slap. didn't want Lin Xiaozhu to rush forward, and her slap fell short.

"Okay, you dead girl, you dare to hide." The Qin family was suddenly furious, and when he caught up, he wanted to grab Lin Xiaozhu, but although Lin Xiaozhu's strength was small, his body was extremely flexible, and he just didn't let her catch it.

The Qin clan was so angry that his teeth were itching, but he couldn't do anything about it. I had to pause and hold on to the wall and pant vigorously. Lin Xiaozhu turned around and secretly made a grimace, and went into the kitchen to scoop water and wash his face. Anyway, after being in this house for half a year, she has long been accustomed to the virtue of the Qin family. Beating her is absolutely not allowed by the Qin family: except for her uncle, no one in the Xia family can catch her. As for scolding, the Qin family is willing to move her mouth, so let her be. Xiaozhu didn't recognize that she was scolding herself—her fat, cousin who never wanted to do things and only knew how to pick her mouth was the lazy girl in Qin's mouth.

After washing, Lin Xiaozhu brought the washing water to the door, ready to splash the yard wet and sweep the floor.

"Dead girl, I think you are tired and crooked, dare to splash the old lady with water." The Qin family, who was still combing her hair under the eaves, was probably the eldest aunt who came, and she was in an extremely unhappy mood. Lin Xiaozhu was still far away from her, so she jumped on it again. Lin Xiaozhu couldn't help but look at the sky, isn't it raining today? Otherwise, she could still splash water on the Qin clan from such a distance?

"Mother, are you still letting people sleep?" A little boy of five or six years old suddenly came out of the door, rubbing his eyes and complaining to the Qin family.

"Ouch, noisy my little girl?" Qin's face became faster than that June day. When he saw the little boy, he immediately walked over with a soft smile and a soft voice, "Come, let's sleep again." Mother sleeps with you. With that, the mother and son entered the house and closed the door with a bang.

Lin Xiaozhu shrugged, finished spilling the water in the basin, picked up the big broom that was two heads taller than her, and began to sweep the floor "whoa".

"Dead girl, sweep the floor softly." There was Qin's heavy drinking in the house.

Lin Xiaozhu ignored her, swept the yard three times and divided it by two, lifted the big pot of clothes in the kitchen and went out of the courtyard.

"Xiaozhu, so early?" When I went out, I turned a corner and met my neighbor Liu, who was walking home with a wooden barrel in his hand.

"Aunt Liu, are you so early?" When Lin Xiaozhu saw her, a bright smile suddenly bloomed on his face. This Liu is a diligent person, with a gentle and kind personality, sympathetic to Lin Xiaozhu's situation, and stuffs some food for her from time to time, she was not starved to death during the time she first arrived here.

"Heh, I'm not like you kids, when you're growing up, you don't get enough sleep. I woke up at dawn and couldn't sleep. ”

Lin Xiaozhu stretched out her head to look at the wooden bucket she was holding in her hand: "Aunt Liu went to pick up snails again?" ”

Liu sighed: "Is there any way?" Your fifth uncle fell his leg and couldn't go up the mountain to hunt. The child hasn't been fishy for a long time, picking up some snails, no matter how small it is, it's meat, isn't it? ”

The Liu family is good, but their lives are not good. The father-in-law and mother-in-law at home are sick all the year round, and there is a little uncle who is only twelve years old, and he has four children, and the fifth uncle fell his leg and couldn't go to the ground for two or three months.

"Alright, you go to the laundry. Otherwise, your aunt should jump again. Liu said.

"Aunt Liu, I'm leaving." Lin Xiaozhu smiled sweetly at Liu.

"Well, let's go." Liu Shi waved his hand, looked at Lin Xiaozhu's back bouncing, sighed, and turned to enter the door.

I woke up late today! Some distance away from the river, Lin Xiaozhu heard the sound of a group of women chattering and laughing. She looked up at the sky and stuck out her tongue.

"Xiaozhu, come on, come to Auntie's place, there is still a place here." A woman turned her head to catch a glimpse of Lin Xiaozhu and hurriedly beckoned to her.

"Aunt Hua." Lin Xiaozhu ran over quickly, turned his head and greeted the others with a smile, "Seventh mother-in-law, third aunt, sister-in-law Wang, sister Chun'er......"

"Hey, this kid, what you smile is sweet." The Seventh Po happily replied.

"Well, who's to say it isn't? Such a lovely child, doing so much work all day long, her aunt either beats or scolds, I really don't know what she thinks! The third aunt sighed.

"What do you think? I think Xia Dazhu has no ability to get an idle meal. Xia Dazhu is a violent person again, she didn't dare to yell at Xia Dazhu, so she only took Xiaozhu to get angry. ”

The women in the village talked a lot about their own affairs. But Xia Dazhu is her own uncle, so everyone just talks about it, but they just sigh and say that her life is not good. So Lin Xiaozhu didn't care about it at the moment, and chatted with Aunt Hua for a few words, while pouring out the clothes from the wooden basin, soaking them in the river water, and then hammering them one by one with a mallet.

"Hey, do you know, this Qin clan is going to talk about Xiaozhu to Hejiaao." The third aunt's deliberately lowered voice came into Lin Xiaozhu's ears. Lin Xiaozhu's eyes moved slightly, but he didn't raise his head, and his hands were still hammering his clothes one by one.

"What? Hejiaao? The seventh woman who was squatting next to her was surprised. When the others heard the words of the third aunt, they quickly stopped their words and looked at the third aunt together.

The third aunt coughed lightly, looked at Lin Xiaozhu, and did not make a sound.

"Tell me what's going on?" The seventh woman pushed her, and also glanced at Lin Xiaozhu, "Be quiet, you shouldn't be able to hear it." ”

"Well, what do you hear? Even if she doesn't know it now, when Hejiaao comes, won't she still have to know? What can you do if you know? Who can survive it? Sister-in-law Wang sighed, "Poor child." ”

Aunt Hua saw that Lin Xiaozhu was still hammering her clothes one by one, hammering for a while, and then putting her clothes into the river to rinse them, as if she hadn't heard the words of the third aunt. She finally couldn't suppress her curiosity, leaned over there, and asked quietly, "Hejiaao?" The place was so poor that it didn't even have enough to eat. I heard that the women there want to marry outside. How did the Qin family think about marrying Xiaozhu into the deep mountains? ”

"It's because the women there are all married out, so there are a lot of singles. Speaking of this family, there are four brothers in the family, I don't know who to give it to, I heard that the bride price is a lot. The Qin family saw that there was a lot of money in this bride price, so they moved their minds. ”

"Evil, Xiaozhu is only twelve years old!"

"Isn't that right? However, I heard that she will be a child daughter-in-law first, and then she will have a round house. It costs less to buy a child than to buy a girl. That one is also calculating. ”

Aunt Hua snorted: "Only a person like the Qin family would deal with this kind of thing." Another person, even if it is a relative, can't bear to let a child go to that kind of place, eat without food, wear without clothing, and have a single family. When the time comes, who will be clear about which daughter-in-law to be? ”

Everyone was silent. looked back at Lin Xiaozhu and saw that she was staring blankly at the river, and there seemed to be no expression on her face. Several people couldn't help but feel worried in their hearts, regretting discussing this matter in front of her.

"Hey, clothes!" Aunt Hua saw the clothes in Lin Xiaozhu's hand drifting downstream, but she didn't know it, and hurriedly shouted.

"Huh?" Lin Xiaozhu woke up suddenly and wanted to go to get clothes. But her location is downstream, and the river is urgent, where can she catch it? I had to watch my clothes flow downstream.

"Xiaozhu, my aunt only heard this, but this matter is just your aunt's wishful thinking, and your uncle will definitely not let you go. Don't think about it. The third aunt saw Lin Xiaozhu, who was smiling no matter what difficulties she encountered, so stunned, she couldn't hold back her words and regretted it to her intestines.

"Seventh Mother, you talk to Fourth Mother, let her talk about the Qin family." Aunt Hua said to the seventh woman.

The seventh woman sighed: "The fourth woman is not the serious mother-in-law of the Qin family, what can she do?" If she can listen to persuasion, Xiaozhu doesn't have to live such a life. I'll give it a try, though. He turned his head to comfort Lin Xiaozhu again, "Xiaozhu, don't think about it." In fact, even if you go to Hejiaao, it may be better than you staying at your uncle's house. The family is full of boys, and they all treat you as a sister, and it is possible that you don't have to do anything, just enjoy yourself. ”

"Yes. You stay here, you have to do all kinds of work, and you are beaten and scolded all day long, and you are not given food at every turn. Since the family can afford so much bride price, maybe life is really better than here. The others didn't say anything to comfort Xiaozhu.

"yes, I see. I'm fine, mothers-in-law and aunts don't worry. Lin Xiaozhu smiled at everyone, and comforted everyone in turn.

"Alas, what a good boy." Everyone sighed and stopped talking. I washed the clothes in my hand quickly and left here one after another.

"Xiaozhu, you ......" Aunt Hua washed her clothes, but she didn't worry about Lin Xiaozhu, she squatted there and opened her mouth, and she didn't know what to say.

"Aunt Hua, don't worry, I'm really fine. I don't want to stay in this home anymore. Maybe Hejiaao is really better than here. Lin Xiaozhu smiled and lifted the wooden basin, "I've also washed it, let's go." ”

Seeing that Lin Xiaozhu could think about it, Aunt Hua also put her mind at ease. After walking with her for a while, he waved his hand and walked home.

The sun shines through the gaps in the clouds, shining on the earth, gilding the trees in the distance and the houses in the vicinity. By this time most of the people in the village had risen, and the chickens and ducks had been released from their cages, quacking, fluttering their wings, and running into the fields to feed.

The wildflowers on the roadside, moistened by the dew, face the sun, and shyly half-bloom in the morning breeze, looking particularly delicate. A gust of wind passed, and the fragrance of osmanthus suddenly filled the entire village.

Lin Xiaozhu put down his mind and showed a big smile at the sun in the sky.

It's so good to be alive. Since he was killed in a car accident half a year ago, Lin Xiaozhu said to himself that he must cherish his life and live well. Therefore, despite the material poverty here, the hard life, and the best relatives under the fence, she still lives hard, lives happily every day, and improves her life little by little every day. Now, it's nothing more than a little wave in the big river of life, what can be the big deal?