Chapter 2 Recognize that real life is difficult

Three years have passed, Lin Saiyu gradually recognized the reality, it is now the Northern Song Dynasty Shenzong, the late autumn of the seventh year of Xining, Shifang Village is a small mountain village, there are more than 20 households, a total of more than a dozen acres of thin fields, mainly planting some wheat beans.

Lindsay Yu went to the field to do farm work and studied these grains, the varieties were of inferior quality, her heart was much colder, as a ten-year-old girl, where did she go to get good seeds? As for the most basic conditions, land, his family only has three points of thin land, and he is the owner of the manor? Dream on! Who let her come from a low background and be a daughter, lucky that someone can see her strength and ability to do work and marry, and if she is unlucky, she will be sold into slavery, as soon as she thinks of these, Lin Saiyu feels cold, but she has no intention of looking for death, looking at Cao Saburo and the Lu family, she feels that it is not bad to marry a villager in the future, with her ability, life will definitely be better.

In order to create a good image of being able to marry, Lin Saiyu decided to build herself into a good village woman who is hard-working and hard-working.

In the past three years, Lin Saiyu has been scolded by the Lu family, without any complaints, fetching water, chopping wood, washing and cooking, and taking her younger brother, from the moment she opened her eyes until it was dark, if it weren't for the fact that she had passed such a day since she was a child, I really don't know how to survive. In this case, the goal of becoming a successful person gradually faded, and this year experienced a famine year, more than half of the people in the village died, and staying alive was Lindsayyu's biggest goal.

Cao Sanlang knows some carpenter's skills, and will go to the city to work as a small worker when the farm is not working, and the conditions at home are good in the village, but it can only ensure that everyone will not starve to death, as for eating well, in view of the actual conditions, it can only be solved by Lin Saiyu himself.

After the family had breakfast (two meals a day), Lin Saiyu obediently packed up the dishes and chopsticks and went to the well to wash, while listening to Cao Sanlang talking to Lu's family, the golden egg was lying crookedly in the warm corner, playing with the clay figure that Lin Saiyu pinched for him a few days ago.

"My sister has grown taller again, I should make a cotton coat, my brother's shoes are also small, my mother's illness is committed again, and my brother who has been cut a thousand times doesn't care, I have to go and see... I've been in my stomach for four months, and I have to spend money on it," Lu frowned and calculated, he didn't dare to stop the work in his hand, and rubbed his head with a needle from time to time, "This needle is useless, remember to buy a new set when you come back from the city." ”

Cao Sanlang squatted on the threshold and thrashed on the wooden bench with a broken foot, while responding kindly, waiting for Lu Shi to stop talking, he swallowed his saliva, "Ming'er should let us bring food to my mother, don't you forget... ”

Before he finished his words, Lu Shi sighed, his eyes widened, and he threw away the work in his hand, "Why should we be tomorrow?" How many days are there less for the second family inside and outside here? At the beginning, your mother was biased towards the small one, why is it not biased now? ”

As soon as he heard her words, Cao Saburo immediately picked up the carpenter's tools and walked out of the house, Lindsay Yu quickly put away the dishes and chopsticks, grabbed the broken basket and threw down the sentence "I picked up firewood" and ran out of the house, and heard Lu still scolding from a distance, the object of scolding is Cao Sanlang's dead father and living mother, and his younger brother who lives in the west of the village, it sounds like Lu was angry with his mother-in-law back then, and the family seems to be dissatisfied, and he has been resentful, and he keeps scolding when he gets the opportunity, in this case, it can only be Lindsay Yu who suffers, so she immediately hid out.

Slowly swaying to the entrance of the village, I saw a boy, wearing a torn robe, squatting on the side of the fence wall to dry wild vegetables, and saw Lindsay Yu coming over, and stood up with a smile.

"Little flower, little flower!" He beckoned.

Lin Saiyu rolled his eyes and ignored him, the name came out of his mouth, and he became more and more disgusted, but he still kept shouting, so he had to stare at him: "What are you shouting!" ”

"Catching birds again? Take me with you. He laughed, his hand touching his clothes.

"Phew, don't think I'm still fooled! You won't be allowed to follow me! Lin Saiyu immediately became angry when he heard this, this child is called Liu Xiaohu, not from their village, he came with his widowed mother last year, bought this house that no one lived in, said that he escaped from the Liao Kingdom in the north, and gave the chief some benefits to settle here.

Judging from his appearance, Liu Xiaohu is only thirteen or fourteen years old this year, his face can't be washed all day long, and his two big eyes are extraordinarily bright, slightly taller than Lindsay Yu.

Their family rarely goes out, relying on Aunt Liu to do some handicrafts for a living, going to the city every month to buy food, and has little contact with the people in the village.

Originally, children like Lin Saiyu who like to run alone in the wilderness have nothing to do with them, but one day when he saw Liu Xiaohu being held down and beaten by several children in the village, Liu Xiaohu blushed and held back tears, which made Lin Saiyu think of his younger brother, so he stepped forward and shouted away from those children, from then on, Liu Xiaohu always came out of her side coldly, especially when she used the frame to buckle the sparrow to eat, no matter when, where, as long as she has a good frame, Liu Xiaohu will show his head ghostly on the side, was beaten several times by Lindsay Yu with clods of soil, and his ghost still lingered.

"Little flower, why do you always like to eat sparrows?" Liu Xiaohu was not annoyed by Lin Saiyu's warning at all, and still spoke with a smile.

"Nonsense, hungry." Lindsay Yu glanced at him and said viciously again, "Don't follow me again." ”

Liu Xiaohu held his two hands in his arms and said slowly: "Xiaohua, if you are hungry, come to our house to eat a cake, don't underestimate these sparrows, if you eat it, it is equivalent to eating half an acre of wheat." ”

When Lin Saiyu heard his first few words, she was ready to ignore him, but when she heard the end, she couldn't help but be stunned, and looked at the child with interest, about the impact of birds on crops, she naturally knew about the impact of birds on crops, but she didn't expect such a child in front of her to have such thoughts, it was really rare.

When they said this, Aunt Liu came out of the house, preparing to find a warm place to sit, and when she saw Lin Saiyu standing at the door, she smiled and greeted: "Sister Hua, go collect firewood again." ”

Aunt Liu is only about thirty years old this year, she is kind and kind-eyed, she wears an old short placket, revealing the wrap skirt with blue cloth printed floors inside, walks to the big stone at the door, and first lays a thick cushion and sits down.

The woman's face was slightly haggard, and her clothes were poor, but Lin Saiyu seemed to be different from the peasant women here, and she seemed to have the smell of books.

Maybe he was born in a rich and noble family, and there are many rich and noble families, especially in the past few years, Lin Saiyu has heard a merchant from the village say that a big minister in the capital has implemented a system, so many rich people have broken their wealth and sold their land, so this year there was a "sky change", fortunately, the official family disposed of the big minister in time.

The history of China is too broad, poor Lindsay Yu always memorized the front and forgot the back in order to cope with the exam when she was in school, and basically didn't remember any details in the end, so she couldn't figure out the current era, and there was no reason to know the future trends, and after biting her fingers for a few days, she didn't think that the official family at this time was the emperor of the Song Dynasty, who the prime minister was, and naturally she couldn't be a successful person with the ability of golden fingers.

"Big lady." Lin Saiyu said hello and continued to walk, Liu Xiaohu followed a few steps behind her, shouting Xiaohua, she had to turn around and glare at him, and said in a low voice, "I know!" I don't eat it! ”

Liu Xiaohu had been fighting with her for a year, and the first time he heard her say such a thing, he stopped his feet and smiled at her with relief, and Lin Saiyu threw him a roll of the eye and ran away.

The afternoon sun is the best time, at this time the field outside the village is barren grass, the line of sight is very open, the hills not far away are clearly visible, Lin Saiyu likes to go to the wilderness, she is a gluttonous person, she wants to eat everything she sees, rural people are used to eating on the street with a bowl, when she was a child, her father never dared to take her out of the meal, Lin Saiyu stared at other people's rice bowls and made the Lin family's father and mother lose face.

Picking up a few sticks of firewood, Lindsay Yu found a broken tile, first sighed that if this is brought back to modern times, it is a treasure that can be exchanged for real money, and then lying on the slope to dig the roots of the grass, wipe off the mud, and put it in his mouth to chew one by one, just like eating sugar cane.

It's been three years since she came here, and Lindsay Yu has been working hard and having fun, guarding this piece of unspoiled nature, and snaking all year round.

The land was hot from the sun, lying on it, Lindsay Yu squinted her eyes and wanted to sleep, and the sparrows chattering and grazing around her made her turn over, and she looked at the cheerful fat birds and drooled for a long time, and finally suppressed the idea of eating, forget it, let's find a chance to persuade Lu Shi to raise her a dog, so that she can have a chance to catch rabbits.

Chewing on the grass roots that are getting lighter and lighter, the stunned Lindsay Yu thought of his relatives, his nose was a little sour, fortunately he built a new house for the family, and his younger brother also learned a lot of knowledge with him, and the orchard must be taken care of, so that the life of the family is guaranteed, and it can be regarded as her filial piety as a daughter, her father has always disliked her, and he knows that he is dead, maybe he won't be so sad, right?

When Lin Saiyu's tears fell, there was a sound of pedestrians on the road, and she looked over curiously, only to see that there were two green cloth carriages, followed by four middle-aged men.

"Little lady!" Seeing her, one of them shouted loudly, with a bit of anxiety in his voice.