The wind is cold and the dew is heavy, the clouds are low and want to rain, the morning mist is shrouded in the distant hills, and a little yellow and green weeds are hidden in the fields. Just after the autumn equinox, wheat has been sown one after another, and occasionally diligent farmers carry shovels to the ground to cultivate ridges.

Xie Xuan sat on the ridge, looking into the distance, and the clouds pressed down in a low voice, as if pressing on her heart.

Everything in front of me seems strange and familiar, the strange is Xie Xuan, whose soul comes from the 21st century, but what is familiar is the memory left by Xie Xuan'er in the Ming Dynasty.

"Xuanelle, what are you doing sitting on that lump, it's a cold day!" Uncle Zhang, a neighbor, was about to go to the field to cultivate soil in the field with a shovel, and saw Xie Xuan sitting under the dead tree in a daze, thinking of what happened to her two days ago, he couldn't help but ask.

Hearing Uncle Zhang speak, Xie Xuan came back to his senses, and then he felt cold and uncomfortable all over his body, "Uncle, why don't you go to the field to cultivate ridges?" She said hello with a forced smile.

"Yes, I just went out to see your grandfather and grandma looking for you, hurry up and go home......"

"Oh, uncle, go ahead, I'll go back!" Xie Xuan hurriedly got up and ran home.

Uncle Zhang saw that her figure was gradually moving in the direction of home, so he picked up the shovel and sighed and walked to the field: "What a sin......

As soon as I entered the village, I saw my eldest cousin Xie Zhiyuan and my little cousin Xie Zhicheng looking for me, and when I saw Xie Xuan's figure, I immediately ran forward happily.

"Xuanxuan, where did you go, grandma asked us to come out to find you!" Little cousin Xie Zhicheng is six years old this year, a few months older than Xie Xuan, and stepped forward to hold her hand, "Let's hurry home, my milk will steam egg custard for you!"

The eldest cousin Xie Zhiyuan is already ten years old, and he looks much more stable than Xie Zhicheng, he looked at Xie Xuan carefully, and then he took his brother's style and admonished: "Xuanxuan, you can't run out without saying hello in the future, so that we are all worried." If you want to go out and play, call me and Zhicheng, and we'll go with you......"

The pure concern of the two little little people made the depression in Xie Xuan's heart go a little bit, and she was at ease when she came - she couldn't help it if she was uneasy, let's take one step at a time for the time being.

When they got home, their grandmother Xie Wang and Da Yan Lin were setting up a meal - they called their aunt here, and when they saw the three children coming back, Da Yan smiled and told them to wash their hands and prepare for dinner.

After the whole family went to the dinner table, Grandma Xie Wang looked at Xie Xuan carefully up and down, and saw that she was in good spirits, so she touched her malnourished and yellowed hair, and brought the only bowl of egg custard on the wooden table to her, and said kindly: "We Xuan Nier have been wronged, grandma will steam an egg custard for you to eat, and you will get well quickly." ”

Xie Xuan looked around for a week, her grandfather was almost fifty years old, but he was much older than his actual age because of his perennial work.

In her time, forty or fifty years old in the city was middle-aged, but here she looks like a dying old man.

Uncle Xie Pingtian and the eldest concubine Lin are both kind-hearted people, Xie Pingtian is in his thirties, and he is a strong man who has been tanned by the sun. The eldest concubine Lin is short and stout, with two smears of tanning on his face, although his appearance can only be regarded as average, but his eyes are gentle and his temperament is smooth.

If someone else's sister-in-law's child eats for nothing, I am afraid that it would have been regarded as a thorn in the flesh and a thorn in the flesh, but the Lin family regarded this child who grew up from her grandmother as his own, and never blushed with his mother-in-law after marrying into the Xie family, which was highly praised by the old neighbors of the village.

Uncle Xie Ping'an is sixteen years old, and in her time she should be in high school, but here she is already a strong laborer who should be said to be a family.

A few days ago, Xie Xuan's mother Xie Huiniang finally gave birth to a boy with a handle, Xie Qingshan Xie Wang took Xie Xuan and Xie Zhicheng to eat full moon wine, and also asked Xie Xuan to see his mother.

Who knew that when he arrived at Gangxia Village for dinner, he was pushed into the well by Li Shengbin, the youngest son of the second son of the Li family, and finally rescued him, but he was out of breath.

The little cousin Xie Zhicheng hated him very much, and in order to avenge Xie Xuan, he rode on Li Shengbin and beat him hard, but he was slapped a few times by Xie Xuan's grandmother Li Zhang, saying that Xie Xuan was a mourning star, and she would have to kill her good grandson when she died.

Grandma Xie Wang was angry and tore each other with her on the spot, and was pulled away by the surrounding relatives and neighbors.

After grandpa Xie Qingshan rushed to invite a doctor to rescue Xie Xuan, he said that let him go home and leave it to fate, so when he woke up again, it was Xie Xuan in the future.

"Grandma, my body is much better, I don't need to steam egg custard for me in the future, save the eggs and sell them for my brother-in-law to marry a daughter-in-law!" Xie Xuan said.

Before grandma could speak, uncle Xie Ping'an blushed first, he stretched out his hand to knock her on the head, and scared: "Stinky Xuannier, have you learned to make fun of your uncle!" ”

"Ouch, my uncle is blushing, my uncle is blushing......" Xie Zhicheng shouted as if he had discovered something new, and was knocked twice on the head by Uncle Xie Ping'an.

Xie Qingshan and Xie Wang looked at this scene with a smile, and they didn't feel unruly.

"Xuanxuan, you will eat it if you give it to you, it is a serious matter to take care of your body, what do you do with a little big baby!" Xie Qingshan said with a smile, his face was full of wrinkles.

Xie Xuan looked at the sorghum porridge in the stoneware bowl on the table, as well as a bowl of cabbage without the slightest oil and water in the center of the table, and then looked at the fragrant egg custard in front of him, which was sprinkled with fine green onions, and suddenly felt that this world was not so useless, this poor peasant on the side of Taihang Mountain in Zhangde Mansion of the Ming Dynasty deserved to live a better life.

Just thinking about it, I suddenly heard my little cousin Xie Zhicheng say to Ai Ai: "Xuanxuan, the egg custard is so fragrant, why don't you eat it!" ”

Xie Xuan looked over, but saw that the six-year-old child couldn't help but glance at the chicken soup in front of her a few times, and swallowed.

Feeling embarrassed, he hurriedly took a big bite of the rough millet bun in his hand, lowered his head and drank the sorghum porridge that was so thin that it could be seen at the bottom of the bowl.

Xie Xuan couldn't help laughing, picked up a wooden spoon and scooped out one-third of the egg custard in the pottery bowl to Xie Zhicheng, stood up again, and scooped out one-third to Xie Zhiyuan, who was separated by a person, but Xie Zhiyuan dodged with the bowl.

"Big cousin, don't you think I'm dirty!" Xie Xuan deliberately showed a sad look on her face.

"No, no...... How could I think you're dirty, I don't want to eat egg custard......" Xie Zhiyuan hurriedly explained.

Xie Xuan took the opportunity to scoop the egg custard into his bowl, and said with a smile: "I can't eat it alone, but it's fragrant when I eat it with my eldest cousin and little cousin." ”

At the dinner table, everyone smiled and watched the three children humble each other, and even the rough millet bun in their hands seemed to be a little sweeter.

After eating, Xie Qingshan took his two sons to the field to harvest beans, the eldest concubine Lin went to wash the dishes, brush the pot and feed the pigs and chickens, and the grandmother Xie Wang went to work in the backyard vegetable field.

Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng went to the backyard under the firewood shed to carry baskets and prepare to go to the field to hunt pigweed. Grandma said that Xie Xuan's body was not well, and asked her to go back to the house to rest.

This is a small village under the jurisdiction of Zhangde Mansion of the Ming Dynasty, called Gangshang Village.

Located next to the remaining veins of Taihang Mountain, the land is barren, there are many stones and little soil, and the grain can not be planted, and the stones in the ground are dug out by manpower and slowly raised for a few years to raise a few acres of high-quality fields, most of which are barren fields that can not grow good grain.

But compared with the mountain people in the deep mountains of Taihang, the small villages on the side of the Taihang Mountains are still very satisfied, after all, the people in the mountains are poorer, but their lives are not so embarrassing.

Xie Xuan's grandfather Xie Qingshan has two sons and two daughters, Xie Xuan's uncle is called Xie Pingtian, has a wife Lin, and his girlfriend is Lin Hongmei, and has two sons.

The second Xie Huiniang is Xie Xuan's mother, the third Xie Qiuniang is married to Zhouwa Village three miles away, and the fourth Xie Ping'an has not yet married a wife.

And Xie Xuan's mother, Xie Huiniang, married Li Changping, the third elder of the Li family in Gangxia Village.

The Li family also has a large population, Xie Xuan's grandfather Li Yongcai has three sons and a daughter, uncle Li Changhe, second uncle Li Changwei, and third uncle Li Changping, that is, Xie Xuan's father.

As for why Xie Xuan is not called Li Xuan, she still grew up in her grandmother's house, this matter is a long story.

Xie Huiniang said that she was a matchmaker, married Li Changping, the third child of the Li family, and gave birth to three children in four years, all of whom were girls, the eldest Li Ying, the second Li Lian, and the third Xie Xuan.

Since the birth of the second child Li Lian, grandmother Li Zhang's grandmother has seen Xie Huiniang unpleasantly, picking thorns everywhere, disgusting her for not carrying a handle, wasting food, Li Changping also blamed Xie Huiniang for giving birth to two girls in a row, so that he couldn't raise his head.

When Xie Huiniang swallowed her anger and conceived her third child, she was born full of hope, and she was actually a girl again, Li Zhang's anger shouted outside the delivery room and grabbed the ground, scolding Xie Huiniang for wanting to cut off the incense of her third son, and to throw Xie Xuan, who was still a baby, into the urine bucket and drown, and then throw it under the bridge for thousands of people to step on it, to see which girl would dare to vote for their Li family's fetus in the future.

Xie Huiniang looked at the young and thin child in her arms, ignoring her weak body after giving birth, and fled back to her parents' house with Xie Xuan in her arms.

After returning to Xie's house, the Xie family listened to what happened to Xie Huiniang, and hated it so much that they wanted to accompany Xie Huiniang to Li's house and Li Changping on the spot.

The Li family opened their mouths, not only to divorce Xie Huiniang and let the Xie family compensate them for the bride price, but also to sell Xie Huiniang's two children, Li Ying and Li Lian, to people in exchange for money, saying that they would use the money to marry a new daughter-in-law who could give birth to a man.

As a result, the Xie and Li families made a big trouble, and later it was the head of the village who came forward to make peace, so that the matter was temporarily suppressed.

The two lieutenants naturally feel that the family and everything is prosperous, and after Xie Huiniang got married, she was virtuous and gentle, and the villagers and neighbors all looked at it, and it was not that she couldn't give birth, so she wanted a boy to give birth again.

Xie Huiniang was also reluctant to Li Ying and Li Lian's two children, Xie Xuan's grandmother Li Zhangshi said that if she wanted to sell it to people, it would really be able to do it. What's more, whether it is Heli or being abandoned and going home, it will hurt the face of the Xie family, at that time, her sister-in-law Xie Qiuniang had not yet married, and her brother Xie Ping'an had not yet married a daughter-in-law, how could she be so selfish and disregard for her mother's family.

So she nodded and agreed to go back to the Li family, but Xie Xuan's grandmother felt that the Xie family came to the door to show her face, and said cruel words to the Xie family, as long as Xie Xuan entered the door of the Li family, she would definitely be killed.

Xie Xuan's grandmother picked up Xie Xuan in a fit of anger and went home, just as her aunt Lin gave birth to Xie Xuan's little cousin Xie Zhicheng a few months ago, and she had not been weaned yet, so she grew up feeding the two children together.

From then on, Xie Xuan was surnamed Xie to show that he had nothing to do with the Li family, and Xie Xuan would be a member of their Xie family in the future.

Standing in an ordinary farmhouse courtyard in the Ming Dynasty, Xie Xuan finally realized what it meant to be poor.

The courtyard is very large, sitting in the north and facing south, a large main house with an earthen wall thatched roof is divided into three rooms, and the middle is the hall house, where a large table of eight immortals is placed, and the guests are all served here.

The ancients respected the east and the right, so the east ear room lived Xie Qingshan Xie Wang's family, and the west ear room used to be lived by Xie Huiniang and Xie Qiuniang, and now Xie Xuan is living.

There is also an east and west wing room with an earthen wall thatched roof in front, and the east wing is divided into two rooms, Xie Pingtian is the eldest son, so the uncle's family lives in the east wing; The west wing is also divided into two rooms, the front one is used as a kitchen, and the back one is safe to live in.

Grandpa said that when Xie Ping'an became his own son, he vacated the kitchen, and then pushed the earthen wall in front of him to build two rooms, which just formed a courtyard.

The chickens and pigs are in the backyard, next to the vegetable garden, so that you will not see the dirty pigsty and chicken coop as soon as you enter the door, and smell the stench of the sky, Xie Wang is a woman who loves cleanliness.

In front of the door of the right wing, there is a pomegranate tree about the height of the window, and the red pomegranates on it are fruitful, like small lanterns, adding a lot of vitality to the small courtyard.

There is also a jujube tree planted near the kitchen, which is higher than the thatched roof, and it is also a pimpled jujube, which is very gratifying.

The simple courtyard house, the earthen wall was washed by the rain and left a ravine, the thatch on the thatched roof was almost rotten, and sometimes the raindrops soaked through the roof and fell, and the grandfather and two uncles climbed up to block the plug here and there.

The window paper on the window was mottled by the wind and rain, and when the wind blew, I heard a whining sound, and I heard a feeling of desolation and loneliness in the dark night.

This is Xiao Xie Xuan's home.

Although Xie Xuan is also from the countryside, she has never experienced such hardship, when she was a child, her home was a two-story house with white tiles, and later she rebuilt a European-style three-story rural villa after she became rich, and she enjoyed the entire floor of space by herself. She had only seen a house like this on the Internet.

But a family like the Xie family is already a relatively good family in the nearby villages at the foot of Taihang Mountain, with no walls, no clothes, no hunger and cold, this is an ordinary rural family of the Ming Dynasty.

If the ancient people are divided into five classes: the fruit belly layer, the well-off layer, the rich family, the noble class, and the court layer, then this family just belongs to the fruit belly layer.

In a good year, there may be some surplus grain, but in a bad year, there will be no food, and the family's food and clothing are completely dependent on God's joy and anger.

A cool breeze blew, and her dry and tense face felt uncomfortable, and she didn't apply any skin care products when she washed her face, and her face was almost cracked in the dry autumn weather.

At the beginning, Xiao Xie Xuan was accustomed to not caring about it, because almost everyone in the village lived like this, and only the rich and noble families in the city could afford to use fragrant pancreas and facial fat.

Looking at the cloth gown with a patch in the east and a patch in the west, Xie Xuan couldn't help but sigh, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift......

When he was sighing, he suddenly saw the wooden door "creak" and was pushed open suddenly, and two people broke in.

Walking in front was a small-footed old lady about fifty years old, with hanging eyes slanting at people, thin lips slightly together, her head wrapped in a tight hair bun, oily and slippery, wearing a faded sauce-colored semi-long coarse cloth shirt on her upper body, and a wool green cloth skirt that could not be seen on her lower body.

Behind him was a young man, wearing a blue turban, a coarse caftan brown, with his head bowed with a scowling eyebrow.

Xie Xuan recognized it, these two people were Xiao Xie Xuan's patriarchal father Li Changping and grandmother Li Zhang.

As soon as the two entered the door, they saw Xie Xuan standing in the courtyard, and Li Zhang's face became gloomy, and he didn't speak, and grabbed Xie Xuan directly.