Chapter 1: Soberness
There is no end to a winding path, there are a lot of weeds growing crookedly on both sides of the road, Shen Yuanyao walked forward one by one, but the road was under his feet but he couldn't step on the ground. She didn't know how she was here, she didn't know why she was going, but there was something pulling her there.
The footsteps stopped in front of a house, it was late at night, and the house looked very lonely under the moonlight, and the sound of insects could be faintly heard.
A thick cloud covered the bright moon, a large thick fog surrounded Shen Yuanyao, a green light flashed on her hand, she only felt that her eyelids were very heavy and she couldn't open her eyes, and she fell asleep groggily.
The rooster crows outside the yard, and no one knows what happened in the middle of the night, and there is no trace of it as dawn comes.
"Where's Sanya?" A shrill female voice sounded outside the house, and the silent courtyard suddenly found its voice.
Shen Yuanyao only felt that his head was a little dizzy, and the voice outside was particularly harsh, and he was about to go out to have a look, but he was frightened by the posture in front of him.
The half-foot-high bed was hung with an unrecognizable bed net, covered with a heavy quilt, and the plain blue bed was washed with a little bit of paper. The furnishings of the room are simple, just an adult-sized table and neatly arranged books against the corner.
She apparently came home from overtime and fell asleep on the couch, not in this strange place. This is obviously not her apartment of more than 30 square meters, which is dirty and even ancient, an old house made of bricks on dirt and all sides.
Just as she was still thinking about what was going on, the door was pushed open from the outside, and a figure stood at the door, and the sunlight behind the man shone into the room, and shouted at her, "Your father and your brother have gone to the ground, why are you still in bed!" ”
The coolness of the room dispersed, bringing in a large area of warm sun, Shen Yuanyao listened to this person speak silently, his breathing was short, and his head was in chaos.
Jia Xiuli stood in the light, couldn't look at the faces of the people in the room, listened to the strange voice, remembered that she had locked her sister-in-law out of the door yesterday, and the fierce arrogance was extinguished at once, and she said: "Why are you sick after being drenched in the rain, but your body is weak!" ”
The more she spoke, the more reasonable she became, the guilt that was not much in her heart was swept away, and the movement of her mouth up and down was a meal that she didn't like.
Shen Yuanyao is familiar with hitting people without slapping her face, but everything in front of her disrupted what she knew, and her reason was torn apart by reality. Raising his hand to lift the quilt and putting on his shoes leaning on the edge of the bed, a damp and cold air came from the soles of his feet, which turned into a wave of anger and strode forward to push away the people blocking the door.
Jia Xiuli was pushed and staggered, watching the door panel close in front of her, and scolded the room with her hands in her waist: "You little, you are lazy all day long, and you don't do any work!" When I returned home, I brought a drag oil bottle, and I was very thick-skinned! ”
Now Shen Yuanyao couldn't take care of her, and only after closing the door did she feel a lot easier to breathe, and staggered back to the bed, looking at the old window lattice, the light outside the house cast a light spot in front of the window lattice. The memories that rolled in her mind reminded her that this was not a ridiculous dream after a deep sleep, and that she was now in this body, a person who stepped on this land solidly.
Shen Sanya is the third in the family, the first two elder brothers, five years ago, in order to raise money for the eldest brother to marry a daughter-in-law, the original owner's mother Qin Hua is a patriarchal again, and the original owner's father is a rough man, so he doesn't care about his daughter, after all, it is not bad to eat with one less mouth in the family, and agreed that Qin Hua sold the original owner to an old doctor.
The old doctor lives in the deep mountains and old forests all the year round, and he thinks that the name Shen Sanya is not good, so he takes the word Yuan Yao and leaves the surname Shen. The old doctor was neither good nor bad to Shen Yuanyao, and taught her a lot of medical skills, from the identification of medicinal herbs to the pulse and medical treatment.
The reason why the old doctor bought a girl was that he wanted to die in the future, and there was someone who could clean up his own afterlife, but he never expected that this girl was a talented and studious person, and his mantle was all given to such a girl. Looking back on the time of my life, I can still teach what I have learned to others, and it is not in vain.
The old doctor died a month ago, leaving a four-year-old child Liu Anyi, who could only return home with Liu Anyi in order to make a living, and Shen Yuanyao, who had been away from home for nearly ten years, had a vague memory of his relatives.
Shen Yuanyao went from hesitation at the beginning to the reality after returning home, giving Shen Yuanyao a resounding slap in the face.
The sister-in-law's return home made the sister-in-law Jia Xiuli even more unhappy, making the Shen family restless, and looking for the sister-in-law's stubble every day. It was yesterday, the original owner who was not in good health was locked out by Jia Xiuli, and he was subjected to two hours of rain, and no one found out when the wind was cold, and when he fell asleep, he was gone.
There is also a person in this family who loves the original owner, but it is also the memory of the original owner before it was sold. The young man took her all over the mountains to look for wild fruits to eat when the cicadas chirped, and stuffed hot nests into her arms in the cold winter, but this person left home in the third year after she left home, and there is no news so far.
Shen Yuanyao sat on the edge of the bed, pulling out a hint of a smile but not a smile, no one could accept that he woke up at once, the time went back to ancient thousands of years ago, it was still a strange era, and there was no recorded dynasty in history.
At this time, Liu Anyi happened to come out of the kitchen with a porcelain bowl, and when she saw Jia Xiuli standing at the door scolding, her hands trembled, and she almost couldn't hold the bowl in her hand.
"What are you doing? Didn't you secretly take food from home again! Jia Xiuli saw Liu Anyi, who was hanging her head and didn't dare to look up, strode forward, grabbed Liu Anyi's white and tender arm, saw the black and slimy medicinal juice in the porcelain bowl, and with disgust on her face, she let go and shook off Liu Anyi's arm.
Liu Anyi is still a child less than five years old, how can she be worthy of an adult woman who is used to farm work, her arm was thrown away and she was knocked over to the ground with the freshly boiled medicinal juice, and the medicinal juice was scattered all over the ground, and a lot of it was directly splashed on Liu Anyi.
Shen Yuanyao was awakened by Liu Anyi's cry, her chaotic brain seemed to be poured down by a bucket of cold water, her brain was much clearer, and as soon as she opened the door, she saw Liu Anyi sitting on the ground, her bare arms were red marks, and the placket on her chest was also stained with black and slimy medicinal juice.
didn't care about asking the people on the side, stepped forward to pick up the people and rushed to the wellhead to fetch water, rinsing Liu Anyi's red and swollen arms at once, and anxiously asked the people in his arms, "Where else is it burned?" Show it to my aunt. ”
Liu Anyi's crying was much smaller after seeing Shen Yuanyao, and now he had already stopped his tears, his face was full of tears left over from crying, and his eyes stared at the person in front of him without blinking, as if he hadn't heard Shen Yuanyao's words. The reason why he cried just now was not only because of the medicinal juice poured on his body, but also because he was afraid that his aunt would fall asleep forever like Grandpa and couldn't hold him to recite the Three Character Sutra.
Jia Xiuli also felt weak at first, but now she saw the two of them flushing water at the wellhead, thinking that Liu Anyi was probably nothing serious, and the little weakness that had just risen in her heart was washed away, and then she remembered that this little sister-in-law had just pushed herself, and her anger was even greater than that of Shen Yuanyao, and she scolded the two of them.
"The half-grown boy learns to steal, and sure enough, if he has no father or mother, he has a bad stomach!"
As soon as she thought of it, a few days ago, her sister-in-law secretly brought eggs to this guy, and her two own sons didn't have to eat a bite, so she fed them all and felt a burst of fire, and then scolded: "Stealing eggs when you are young, you will be a bad child when you are older!" ”
"I didn't, the herbs were brought back by my aunt, and I didn't steal anything." Liu Anyi had a circle of tears in her eyes, and her stubbornness made people feel distressed.
Jia Xiuli didn't expect this guy to dare to talk back, and was about to open her mouth when she was swept away by Shen Yuanyao's eyes, and she was so frightened that she choked directly.
Shen Yuanyao narrowed her eyes coldly, and said lightly: "If it weren't for my eldest brother and the two sons, I would still call you sister-in-law, if you really feel very proud of bullying a girl, then I wouldn't be able to take care of this cheekiness and talk to you." ”
Seeing that Jia Xiuli was choked by her own words, she still felt uneasy, so she looked through Liu Anyi inside and out, and put down her hand when she found that there was nothing serious.
Although I can't accept that I have come to such a place, I really can't feel at ease with this child. At the beginning, the original owner brought him home, so that the Shen family could let him have a household registration, and this child was really unreassuring.
The parents don't know that they were brought by their grandfather since they were children, and now the only relative with blood has also passed away, and this child can be said to be an orphan. If Shen Yuanyao doesn't care anymore, no one will really care, you can imagine what Liu Anyi will face.
Shen Yuanyao took him home, no matter how hard and tired he was, he gritted his teeth and supported himself, even if it was the gossip in the village, he pretended not to hear it. Even so, these people are still unwilling to let go of such a kind person, the exclusion of relatives at home, and the cynicism of outsiders are the reasons for the defeat of this girl.
Jia Xiuli looked at her aunt and nephew coldly, rolled her eyes, and turned around to go back to the house. When the Shen family returns home today, I can't give her some color!
She really doesn't believe it, she can't cure this sister-in-law anymore!