Chapter 4 Child Brides
Seeing that it was Shen Baoshan, the old woman was obviously a little disappointed.
She let Shen Baoshan into the house, and while closing the door that took a long time to close, she asked, "Baoshan, why did you come out so early?" With such a big wind and snow outside, your children's family is not afraid of being blown away by the wind. ”
Although she was reproachful, her tone was full of concern.
"You want to take care of it." Shen Baoshan's attitude towards the old woman was very casual, and the old woman seemed to be used to it, and she was still fighting against the wooden door that could not be closed at this time.
Shen Baoshan entered the house, looked at the snow on Lu Yang's face, hurriedly slapped the snowflakes for Lu Yang with one free hand, and put the cotton jacket embroidered with a few broken flowers on Lu Yang's body, and then stuffed the mixed noodles into Lu Yang's hand like a treasure, let her eat it quickly, and touched the temperature on Lu Yang's hand by the way, and exclaimed: "Why is it so cold, it's frozen, right?" ”
As he spoke, he was about to pull Lu Yang's hand over and cover it, but Lu Yang avoided it without a trace.
At this time, the old woman finally closed the door reluctantly, and Lu Yang handed the old woman a nest, and he left a small bite to eat.
But the old woman's next small action made Lu Yang feel very uncomfortable.
The old woman took the nest and didn't eat it, but glanced at Shen Baoshan first, and saw that he didn't show an unhappy expression, so she dared to break off a small piece to eat, and put the rest in her arms, presumably to save it for the next meal, or to fill her stomach when her granddaughter was hungry.
When she was in the Shen family, the old woman saved her own rations from her mouth to feed Xue Yang.
That's why she is getting thinner and thinner, and she is as skinny as she is now.
Shen Baoshan squeezed the old woman away from Lu Yang, and said next to Lu Yang: "Sister Baohua, are you feeling better?" ”
"Sister Baohua, you go home with me, I'll hide you in the firewood room to make sure that my mother and my grandmother can't find you."
"Sister Baohua, it's too cold here, it's not as warm as our firewood room, you better go back with me, you see your hands are so cold, if you have chilblains, it hurts and itches."
"Sister Baohua ......"
Lu Yang was annoyed by him, and his eyes signaled to him, what should the old woman do.
Shen Baoshan glanced at the old woman along Lu Yang's line of sight, and said indifferently: "She is an adult, so she naturally has a way to take care of herself." He went to Mo Lu Yang again, and when he saw that she had finished eating the nest, he came to take her hand.
"Sister Baohua, you can go with me now, I can't let you get frostbite anymore, where is this place for people."
Lu Yang retracted her hand, she knew that Shen Baoshan was studying with Shen Laoxiu in Guyu Village and was literate, so she picked a small pebble and wrote on the ground one by one: "I want to be with my grandma, and I won't leave if grandma doesn't leave." ”
The old woman has no relatives and no reason, if she hadn't been there, the old woman would have left her to find Old Man Shen, Shen Baoshan is just a ten-year-old boy, what kind of people his grandmother Ye and his mother Wang are, she knows very well, Shen Baoshan can't secretly help her under their noses, instead of going back to be abused by them and not even having enough to eat, it is better to be with the old woman, she doesn't believe that she can freeze to death again.
As early as a year ago, the real Xue Yang wrote to tell them where her family lived, her parents were there, and as long as she was sent back, her father would give them a lot of silver.
The people of the Shen family have been digging in the field for generations, and they have been to the town as far as the farthest, and they didn't believe in Xue Yang, but although Xue Yang was only five years old, he knew a lot of words and wrote very clearly, and the people of the Shen family also wanted that. A lot of silver', so he made up the coil and Li Zheng went to the town to set up a road guide to Datong Mansion, so that Shen Baoshan's uncle, that is, Shen Jizhong, the eldest son of the Ye family, went to Datong Mansion for a trip, but he didn't even enter the door of the Xue family, and was beaten by the servants of the Xue family, went to half his life, and spent all the family's savings to be cured, but he also fell into a problem and could only do some light work.
The people of the Shen family hated Xue Yang and wanted to sell her for silver, but it was the old woman who broke her head before she stopped her, and the old man Shen who was in charge couldn't bear it, and pitied her for being lonely and pitiful all her life, and finally left Xue Yang behind.
Although she stayed, the Shen family didn't care if she was only five years old, feeding chickens and pigs, washing and cooking, and tossing her for a year.
The only old man in the Shen family who had some kindness to the old woman fell and passed away two months ago, and the Wang family saw that she was carved jade, so they wanted to leave her to their stupid son Shen Baoshu to inherit the lineage.
Shen Baoshan knew what it meant to be a child daughter-in-law, and the old woman was a child daughter-in-law bought by the Shen family.
Because she couldn't give birth, the dead grandfather would marry the current grandmother Ye, who was frustrated by the Shen family all her life, and as soon as her grandfather died, her grandmother scolded her, and she didn't treat her as a person at all.
Shen Baoshan didn't want this beautiful Baohua sister to be like an old woman, but he was not happy to let Baohua's sister leave the Shen family because of this.
"Sister Baohua, you are different from your grandmother, it is as cold as a cellar here, where is the place where people live? You better listen to me and come with me. ”
Shen Baoshan insisted on taking Lu Yang away from the thatched house.
He was kind, but Lu Yang made up his mind to be with the old woman, and refused to leave with him no matter how he persuaded him.
Seeing that Shen Baoshan was about to cry, the old woman had no choice but to persuade: "Baoshan, you better go back first, if you don't leave, your grandmother will know about it, and she should be angry again." ”
Her personality has always been kind and weak, and she came out of the Shen family the day before yesterday with a breath of relief, not wanting Lu Yang to follow in her footsteps, only two days later, Lu Yang's life was almost gone, she was deeply afraid, worried that she would not take good care of Lu Yang, and would kill Lu Yang, and she was also very hesitant in her heart, not only wanting her to go back without being cold, but also afraid that she would be forced to be a child daughter-in-law when she went back.
In the old woman's mind, she really wanted to send Lu Yang back to the Shen family, and she didn't let Shen Baoshan take it away secretly, which would only make the Ye family hate Lu Yang even more, and it would not be half beneficial to Lu Yang's situation.
"I'm not leaving." Shen Baoshan committed leftism, but resented why the old woman had to take Lu Yang away from the Shen family, "It's all your fault, I don't have to take Sister Baohua with me if I don't want to be disgusted, and I don't look at how old she is, why are you so selfish?" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a loud bang, and the door that the old woman had finally closed with great difficulty slammed down, startling the three people in the room, and they all subconsciously stood up and looked in the direction of the door in surprise.