After a few days, there was a rare heavy rain, after drinking the autumn rain, the grain field was really in a big situation, and the experienced farmers predicted that there would be no famine next year, even if it was not a bumper harvest, and the villagers had a smile on their faces, after all, for them, the field was tantamount to a lifeblood.

People only thought that the previous emergency measures and this timely rain saved the grain fields, and even Yu Yu was not very clear whether the effect of her blood was greater, or whether the role of nature and manpower was stronger.

Lu Shi finally does not have to worry about next year's harvest, and his face is not as sad as a few days ago, but he still has to go to the field every day to have a look.

Just like that, more than half a month passed, the weather was really cold, and getting up in the morning became a very difficult thing for Yi Yu, although she was not afraid of the cold, it was also compared with the physique of the previous life, and it was really the same as the other three members of the Lu family who were used to not wearing cotton clothes in winter, this winter was indeed a test of psychological quality for her.

Lu Jun didn't have to go to the martial arts hall for most of the time to go to the back mountain to collect firewood, and Yu Yu went there twice and then couldn't stand the feeling of sweating profusely and suddenly getting cold, so he stayed in the house every day embroidering and reading books, and the children's days were always simple and boring.

In addition, Xiaochun Tao became a frequent visitor to her home, at first she just pestered Yu Yu to teach her to embroider things, and later Lu Zhi also taught her to recognize a few words from time to time, and Aunt Niu also sent five or six eggs to her house because of this incident.

Not to mention whether you can pay the tuition fee of 200 yuan a month, there is only a small private school next to Zhang Zhen in the backing mountain village. Yi Yu also passed by there once when she accompanied Lu Shi to the martial arts hall to bring food to Lu Jun, it was not much bigger than her house, with three or four rows of tables scattered around, and there were a total of about a dozen students.

The gentleman who taught was quite snobbish and a little sour, although he had some talent, but he only accepted some children from wealthy and famous families in Zhang Town, and there were also a few people in the nearby villages whose ancestors could be related to some literati and scholars who could send their children in.

Yiyu has such a playmate as Xiaochun Tao, although the two have an insurmountable age gap psychologically, but what makes Yiyu himself strange is that the two get along happily.

For her to have such a child, Lu is the happiest among everyone, and the reason is probably only known to herself.

***

Just as Yuyu was expecting to welcome her first New Year here, something happened in the village. The protagonist of the incident is the Xiangxiang sister that Xiao Chuntao mentioned to Yiyu before, a beautiful thirteen-year-old girl.

On the twenty-second day of the twelfth lunar month, the night before the sacrificial stove, the family after dinner was sitting in the courtyard to roast the fire, and the red pine branches crackled with small sparks, and the heat smoked the little face of the jade red, but only when the body was warmed first, and then washed and washed the face and lay down in the quilt to not feel cold.

Yi Yu baked her little hands, thinking that when the weather warmed up, she would help her mother embroider more complicated things, and let her mother buy a brazier and put it in the house next winter.

Suddenly, the sound of a woman's angry scolding gradually sounded in the distance, and the four members of the Lu family all looked up when they heard the sound, although the moonlight was not bright, but because most of the people were roasting in the yard, they could still faintly see the figure in the distance in this dark night.

It seemed that something had happened to someone's house, and the noise was getting louder and louder, Lu Shi frowned and looked at it for a while, and then explained to the three children, got up and went out over there.

After another half a moment, the noise turned into a woman's cry again, and the three brothers and sisters sitting in front of the fire all got up from the bamboo bench and ran to the gate of the courtyard.

The crying became louder and louder, mixed with abuse, Lu Zhi patted Lu Jun's shoulder and said, "I'll go find my mother, you two are watching the fire in the yard."

Just as he raised his foot to leave, Yi Yu reflexively reached out and grabbed his cuffs, Lu Zhi turned his head to look at her, and said to Lu Jun: "I'll take Xiaoyu with me, you just stand here and wait." ”

Seeing that Lu Junxin pouted reluctantly and nodded in response, he took Yi Yu with his backhand and walked towards the place where the accident occurred, his steps became faster and faster, and Yu Yu could only trot with his calves all the way.

When they arrived at that place, they saw a dozen or so villagers scattered around a courtyard, so Lu Zhi pulled Yi Yu and walked a few steps forward to bypass the villagers who blocked their view, and only then did he see clearly what was happening in the small courtyard.

A peasant woman who was nearly forty years old was sitting on the ground beating her legs and crying, scolding incessantly, and two women squatting beside her were comforting, but in front of her stood a young man with his hands in his cuffs and a look of impatience, which was obviously the person she was scolding.

"You brute... Whining... Forcing our family to death... Do you want her life! You damned thing... How did I raise such an inhuman ......?"

Yi Yu didn't know why, so he gently pulled Lu Zhi's hand and asked in a low voice, "Big brother, what about my mother?" ”

Lu Zhi ignored her, looked around left and right, looking for the Lu family in the night, but there were only a dozen adults mixed with a few children in the Manchurian Collective, where was the figure of the Lu family.

"You're talking... Even I know what Zheng Li of that Zhang Town is... Xiangxiang was bought by him, how can he live... Woo, how much do you owe to you, let's give it... Let them return the deed of sale to us..."

There was a lively crying over there, but Lu Zhi was anxious because he couldn't find Lu, so he didn't care so much, so he took the jade and walked towards the courtyard of the house, and just took two steps when he heard the young man finally open his mouth.

"Who gives money, you give? Hmph, I don't know how much money we have. Besides, I'm sending Xiangxiang to enjoy happiness, then Zheng Gongzi is Mayor Zhang's brother-in-law, Xiangxiang made him a room person, and he is not fragrant and spicy, you just wait to enjoy happiness in the future, what to make trouble with me here, it's not a shame, it's better to persuade a dead-eyed girl. ”

"You still have to be shameless, your sister is an innocent girl, you are really cruel to send her to be a slave for others! You said! You just say how much you owe someone! Yi Yu was pulled forward by Lu Zhi, and when he turned his head to look, he saw the woman get up from the ground and jump to the young man, grab his shirt and scream.

"Cheng, I said that if you can really take it out, I will make a face and ask for Xiangxiang's deed of sale back."

"You say!"

"It's a total of twenty times with interest, you go and get it for me."

Yi Yu took a deep breath, and before entering the house, she saw the woman slumped on the ground, and the two women behind her who were still persuading her just now were also stunned and motionless.

Twenty yuan of money, their family does not eat or drink for a year, and it will take seven years to save enough only by relying on the grain in the field, and they must have a bumper harvest every year.

Yi Yu didn't come back to his senses in shock, and heard Lu Jun shouting "Niang" in a low voice, and when he turned his head, he saw Lu Shi sitting on a mat in the corner of the room, and next to her was Xiao Chuntao's aunt Niuniu.

Aunt Niu was holding a crying and trembling girl in her arms, and because she was facing away from the two of them, she couldn't see each other, but she thought it was that Xiangxiang.

Lu Shi heard Lu Zhi's voice and glanced up at the two of them, but did not speak, just nodded lightly and motioned for them to wait.

Yi Yu was pulled by Lu Zhi to sit down on the mat a little further away from the three of them, and then the crying and the mocking voice of the young man sounded in the courtyard, and the two were clearly transmitted into the room, and she raised her eyes to see the increasingly angry expression on Lu's face.

"You say you're stupid or not, what if you're really dead and your mother? Pay off your brother's debts for the rest of your life, and when she gets old, no one will support her......" Aunt Niu patted the little girl gently, and said some comforting words in her mouth, and after a while, the person in her arms stopped crying, and seemed to have fallen asleep.

Only then did Lu say goodbye to Aunt Niu with his eyes, and gently got up and went home with the two children.

***

The three of them were surprisingly silent all the way, until they reached the gate of their courtyard and heard Lu Jun's loud voice.

"Mother! What's going on? ”

Lu Shi did not answer his question, but only ordered him to put out the fire in the courtyard, and then took the jade to wash her face.

Later, until he went to sleep, Lu Jun looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, but he didn't ask anything again, and Yu Yu thought that Lu Zhi must have explained something to him outside. She actually wanted to ask, although she had already guessed a rough idea, she still wanted to hear what Lu Shi had to say, but Lu Jun didn't touch her mother's brow, so she naturally wouldn't rush to hit the muzzle.

So the family of four slept quietly all night, and the next day, at dawn, Yuyu was woken up by Lu Shi and urged to get dressed and get up, and finally opened his mouth when he was eating breakfast.

"Mother will discuss something with you, and you will see if it can be done."

Yi Yu's heart moved, probably understanding what she was thinking, and nodded with the two brothers, and then the Lu family told them about the Xiangxiang, that is, Liu Xiangxiang's family.

This Liu Xiangxiang's eldest brother Liu Gui, that is, the young man who was not doing right last night, died of his father's illness two years ago, and had to sign a living deed in Zhangzhen to become the family member of the mayor's family.

This Zhang town is over fifty years old, and there is only one sick and crooked main room in the family, but the two concubines are very favored, one of them is called Liu Niang's concubine, and the mother's family only has a brother surnamed Zheng Mingli, because his sister got this family and moved to Zhang Town. This mayor's uncle was originally a hooligan from other places, and everything that was stealing, cheating, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling was a little better, especially a gambling word.

Liu Gui was sent by Mayor Zhang to follow Zheng Li for a while, but he didn't learn anything else, but the word "gambling" was thoroughly soaked, and from this spring onwards, he gradually spent some of his savings not to mention, and gradually even sent monthly money to his home on time, and later intensified his gambling from home.

A while ago, he followed Zheng Li to a big gambling house in Qingyang County, and lost a lot of money, what is the gambling house? If you don't have any money, I'll lend it to you, as long as you continue to gamble, but when you repay the money, you have to double it, so you have always changed it twice, two times and four times, until the gambling house is no longer willing to lend money to Liu Gui, and he already owes people twenty dollars.

Before he came out, people asked him to chop off his fingers, a finger is always money, and even the toes are just enough, but how could Liu Gui really let people chop off his fingers, and finally begged Liu Gui, who accompanied him to the gambling house, and promised to sell his sister to the other party before letting him hide.

I don't know how he coaxed Liu Xiangxiang to sign the deed of sale a few days ago, until the afternoon before yesterday Zheng Li sent someone to the mountain village to deliver a letter, asking the Liu family to pack up their things and send their daughter to someone tomorrow, which let Liu Xiangxiang's mother-in-law Zhao know that there was such a thing.

Helplessly, Liu Xiangxiang's father died early, only her mother Zhao was alone at home, and her brother forced her to be a slave to pay off her debts.

As for Liu Gui, he didn't know why, he rushed back to Gushan Village from Zhangzhen last night, and it happened that Aunt Niu sent Liu Xiangxiang back and let Zhao know that her daughter had been looking for death, so she caught her son and made a fuss last night.

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