"The day before yesterday, Grandma Li in the west of the village died, and everyone went to the cemetery for the funeral, and they saw you lying there in the grass not far away. It just so happened that Mr. Zhao of Mengxue in the village was also seriously ill and did not wake up, and found a goddess to take a look, saying that he needed to rush with joy, and the clan elders summed it up, and they made you and Mr. Zhao into a relative, thinking about each other, maybe you will be fine, no, you will wake up early in the morning, and if you want to come for two days, Mr. Zhao will also get better. ”

Qin Ruixue was dumbfounded when she heard this, what kind of place is this, what happened to the owner of this body, to be tragically thrown in a mass grave with such a serious injury, and how can these clan elders be so arbitrary, do they have the right to decide her family affairs if they pick her up?

"You haven't thought about it, what if I have an in-law?"

Sister-in-law Zhang took the porridge bowl and motioned for Qin Ruixue to drink it by herself, and said with a smile, "It's not that sister-in-law speaks badly, Zhao Niangzi, if you have a good mother-in-law or a good mother-in-law, you will not end up so miserably, most of them have no mother's family, or they were kicked out by their mother-in-law." Besides, looking at your hair and outfit, you are all a girl's family, and everyone was anxious about Mr. Zhao's illness at that time, so they couldn't care so much. ”

Qin Ruixue couldn't help grinning when she heard this, it turned out that Mr. Zhao was the one who was rushed, and he was only a tool and an accompaniment at most, but I don't know, now that the people in the village know that she woke up first, and their Mr. Zhao is unconscious, what kind of mood will it be?

Thinking of this, her heart calmed down a little, turned her head to look at the handsome young man lying inside, and then lowered her head and drank the bowl of thin brown rice porridge.

When she was a teenager, she took on the livelihood of the family, her mother was sick, her younger siblings were young, and her relatives and friends were helpless, so that she had already cultivated a strong heart in countless tears. No matter how difficult it is, eating enough and surviving is the most important thing. As for the rest, there is always a solution.

A bowl of thin porridge went down, thanked Sister-in-law Zhang, and cooperated with her to apply black ointment to the wound on her back, while slowly asking about the situation in this strange time and space.

However, before she could ask a few words, she was stuffed with question marks in her head, Wu Guo? She rummaged through the limited historical knowledge she had learned in her previous life more than a dozen times from beginning to end, but she didn't find the name of this dynasty, and finally had to reluctantly conclude that this was not the ancient time and space of the original, but when she turned her head and looked at the few simple pieces of furniture in the house and Sister-in-law Zhang's dress, there should not be much difference in customs, but I don't know which dynasty there was a fault and multiplied.

However, these are not what she has to consider as a little woman, she has no ambition to dominate the world, she has a field and a house, she has no worries about food and clothing, she is not bullied, and she lives peacefully and peacefully, whether in her previous life or in this life, it is her highest goal.

What's more, she is still injured now, so let's take care of the present.

Sister-in-law Zhang doesn't know if it's rare for anyone to gossip on weekdays, or if she is naturally warm-hearted, she has to answer Ruixue's questions, and occasionally intersperses some old things in the village, and in less than half an hour, Qin Ruixue understands the situation in the village.

This is a small mountain village of more than 40 households and more than 200 people, at the beginning because most of the villagers were surnamed Yun, so the neighboring towns near and far all called this place Yunjia Village, although later they moved a lot of people with the surname Yun, and the people surnamed Yun only accounted for a small half, but they did not change the name of the village.

There are 100 acres of dry land in the village, and each family divides two acres into some corns, sweet potatoes and the like, except for paying taxes, the rest is only enough to barely maintain food and clothing.

Originally, there were 100 acres of good paddy fields outside the village, but a few years ago, there was a flood, and the villagers took refuge in the mountains, although they were able to survive, but there was no harvest in the fields, so in order not to starve to death, every family sold the paddy fields to Zhang Dahu in Lingfeng City, 20 miles away.

Zhang Dahu is also a shrewd person, and after the flooding has passed, he gives the paddy fields to the villagers to plant, so that he does not have to worry about the villagers spoiling his crops under the jealousy of the villagers, and he just sits and waits for the grain to be harvested every year. The villagers paid the rent in the autumn, and a few buckets of brown rice could fall per mu, and when they kept the New Year's Festival or a red and white celebration, they steamed and entertained guests.

There are a few low hills behind the village, and the people in the village will gather together in the autumn to go into the mountains to hunt some rabbits and pheasants, and if they are lucky, they will hit the foxes, and they will be exchanged for copper coins in the city, and they will weigh two catties of snacks for their children, and they will pull a piece of new cotton cloth for their daughters-in-law, which is also a big entry.

Bypass the back mountain, walk on the road of seven or eight miles there is a big river called Peishui, the new county magistrate of the Lingfeng Mansion this year does not know what the purpose is, after the spring planting, he ordered to recruit the people to build a wharf, for the ships to settle down or load and unload, but also lively. There are also young students in the village who go to work as laborers, and when they come back with dozens of dollars a day, they are known all over the village.

Sister-in-law Zhang talked for a long time, and suddenly remembered that the pigs at home had not been fed yet, so she panicked and put away the dishes and chopsticks and ran back, leaving Qin Ruixue to digest this information alone, and then fell asleep.

In the days that followed, Sister-in-law Zhang and another woman named Aoyama's sister-in-law took turns visiting the door to take care of the "newlyweds" who were bedridden at the same time.

Ruixue tried to drink more thin porridge every meal, and even nibbled on a few pieces of local chicken one day, of course, the chicken soup was fed to the husband who never woke up.

On the fourth day, Ruixue finally barely got out of bed, hunched over, moved a little bit, and looked around the front and back of the house, the more she looked, the more cold she became.

In the previous life, when my father died and my mother fell ill, although there was no money left at home, how could there be a month of grain and a few rows of vegetables and vegetables, but this family can only be described in two words, extreme poverty!

The house was made of adobe, with low eaves to shade the sun, so that except for two feet under the window, the rest of the place was dim, and the bedroom was poorly decorated, and even in the hall where the guests were entertained there were only one table and two chairs, and they were also mottled in paint, and the legs of one table were even padded with two planks, so that they could barely be leveled.

There are two stoves on the inside of the stove room, and the two small iron pots installed on it, one of which is intact, but the bottom of one pot is leaking. There were some dead branches piled up in the corner, and a brown clay jar next to it, with a slightly open wooden lid, she stepped forward to open it, only to see half a ladle of bud grain covering the bottom of the jar pitifully. The wooden shelves on the jar contain two pottery bowls and a large pottery pot, which are covered with dust, and it is obvious that they have not been used for many days.

There is a small half-acre vegetable field behind the yard, but unfortunately it is overgrown with artemisia grass, and the shadow of half a vegetable seedling is not found, the southwest corner of the front yard uses a wooden board to build a thatched toilet, but the southeast corner is rare to have a leafy osmanthus tree.

August is the time when osmanthus blooms, and occasionally the lively branches dance with the wind, and the snow-like petals drift away, falling lightly with a whirl.

Rui Xue reached out and took a few petals, lowered her head and sniffed the sweet fragrance, and suddenly felt sad...

I remember when she was a child, there was such an osmanthus tree at home, her father often sat under the tree in her spare time and taught her to write calligraphy, her younger siblings frolicked and picked up flowers to play, and her mother was on the side to mend clothes, occasionally looking up and smiling, the family was so happy, so warm, as if it could last until eternity. It's just that later, as soon as my father died, my mother completely collapsed, and how much effort did she, a teenage girl, work hard to support that family, but unfortunately...

When Sister-in-law Zhang came in with goat's milk, she saw her sitting under the tree in a daze, the sun shining through the flower branches, and the bright and dark light and shadow fell on her face. Sister-in-law Zhang hurriedly stepped forward and smiled, "This wound is just a little better, why just sit here and blow the wind, come in quickly." ”

Saying that, she helped her into the house, Rui Xue smiled and thanked her, slowly sat on the edge of the bed, and watched Sister-in-law Zhang compare and measure to feed her titular husband goat milk, but because she occupied a position, it was not easy to do it, so she took the bowl over, gently pinched the man's bruised lips with one hand, scooped a spoonful of goat milk, lowered her head to blow cool, and then slowly fed it, and then immediately started to help the man's chin open and close a few times, help him swallow, and finally picked up a cloth towel to wipe off the residual juice that flowed out of the corners of his mouth.

A set of movements, gentle and skillful, just like what I am used to doing every day, I saw that Sister-in-law Zhang was very surprised, and said with a smile, "Mrs. Zhao is also a literate and hyphenated person, just looking at this work is much neater than us village women, in the past, Mr. Zhao was fed food, and it was poured directly, not to mention the spoiling things, Mr. Zhao was also guilty." In the future, with Mrs. Zhao taking care of her, Mr. Zhao will be comfortable. ”

Rui Xue smiled, "I have taken care of patients for a few years before, so I am naturally more familiar than others." ”

Sister-in-law Zhang wanted to find out the origin of this Zhao Niangzi a few days ago, but although Rui Xue often smiled and acted gently and kindly, she still obviously had a sense of alienation, and she didn't dare to say more. Just look at your hands, those with fine skin and tender flesh are not poor women. ”

Rui Xue pinched the spoon of the hand is a meal, these days of cranky thinking, everything has been thought about, just didn't think about this important issue, at this time was asked, it is inevitable to make up an urgent one, her eyes rolled a few times, then lowered her voice, made a sad look, said, "I was originally sold to the south since I was a child, in a large family for Miss as a personal maid, I don't remember whether there are parents and family, and then Miss unfortunately died of a bad disease, Mrs. pity, called to serve around, but the master got up... Well, that thought, I would rather die than obey, he was annoyed and angry, so he beat me with dozens of canes and drove me out of the house. I lasted a day, and then I fainted in pain, and when I woke up again, I was here, and I don't know how I ended up here. ”

Unexpectedly, when Mrs. Zhao heard this, she actually wiped her tears, gritted her teeth and scolded, "None of these big families are not black-hearted, no old man or young master, they are all beasts." But all the maids of good colors must be pulled to the bed, bah, and they are not afraid of dying on the bed. Pity my little lotus, I'm going to be back in a year to get married..."