Chapter Thirty-Six: From the Mine Village
Maybe it's because of Liu Tianyu's smile, or maybe it's because of Zhang Shufang and Wang Haixin's enthusiasm, the one-armed little girl who was very timid and cramped just now is now a lot more relaxed.
At the dinner table, several people sat around the table.
At first, Zhang Shufang, Wang Haixin and Liu Tianyu just talked about some topics casually, and Zhang Shufang didn't ask the one-armed little girl directly as soon as she came up, but just kept helping the little girl pick up vegetables, and then asked her if it was delicious, whether she liked it?
After the little girl said that it was delicious and liked to eat, Zhang Shufang would show a big smile, and then serve the little girl vegetables more diligently.
In this way, halfway through the meal, the little girl's face finally lost a little timid and cramped expression.
"Xiaorui, I've known you for a long time, and my sister hasn't asked you who you are?" Seeing that the one-armed little girl was no longer cramped and afraid of life, Zhang Shufang once again gave the little girl a chopstick dish, and then asked casually.
"I'm from YN. Hearing Zhang Shufang's inquiry, the one-armed little girl quickly swallowed the food in her mouth, and then looked at Zhang Shufang and replied.
"YN, good place, I used to go to school and have a classmate who is YN, her home is YN Yuxi Xinping, have you heard of it? I have been there once, the scenery there is really good. Zhang Shufang continued.
"Yes, I know there. The one-armed girl nodded.
"Where is your home? Not far from where I said?" Zhang Shufang spoke again after the one-armed little girl's words fell.
"My family is in Balihe, MLP County, Wenshan, I don't know how far away it is from the place you said my sister, I just heard about the place you said, but I haven't been there. The one-armed little girl shook her head when she heard Zhang Shufang's question.
"Balihe, MLP County, Wenshan?" After listening to the one-armed little girl say the address of her home, before Zhang Shufang could speak, Wang Haixin, who only knew Kunming Dali and Xishuangbanna, said hello first.
"I know Wenshan, but I don't know the place Xiaorui said. Seeing that Wang Haixin looked at himself after speaking, Zhang Shufang shook her head as she spoke.
"Don't look at me, my geographical knowledge is not necessarily much better than yours, and I don't know where Xiaorui said. Seeing that Wang Haixin didn't get an answer from Zhang Shufang, and turned his head to look at himself, Liu Tianyu also shook his head.
Seeing that Zhang Shufang and Liu Tianyu couldn't solve their doubts, Wang Haixin pursed his lips and spit out two words at Liu Tianyu: "It's really inferior!"
"Hey~~!You're really interesting, okay, I'm poor in geography, I'm inferior to me, but how much better are you than me? Not only are you as inferior as me in this regard, I don't think your head is very bright. Hearing Wang Haixin's contempt, Liu Tianyu was reluctant.
"Why am I not bright, you make it clear to me, otherwise you won't want to eat this meal. Liu Tianyu is a generous and good-tempered person who is easy to get along with in Wang Haixin's impression, plus the two are about the same age, and Liu Tianyu has never put on a boss in front of them, so it is normal to joke at ordinary times, so now I hear Liu Tianyu say that his head is not bright, and Wang Haixin is about to slap Liu Tianyu.
Liu Tianyu is also used to Wang Haixin and himself fighting, and only after dragging a chair and pulling a little distance from Wang Haixin did he speak: "You still don't admit that you don't have a bright head, yes, I don't know the place Xiaorui said, you say I am inferior to me, but the place that Xiaorui just said is her hometown, you don't know that place, you ask Xiaorui, why do you have to catch me and ask?
“·······” Wang Haixin was speechless by Liu Tianyu.
However, being unreasonable seems to be exclusive to women, and Wang Haixin is also self-taught about this exclusive skill.
After being told by Liu Tianyu that he couldn't find a reason to justify, Wang Haixin simply chose not to speak, and then got up and walked to Liu Tianyu and stretched out his hand to slap him, and after the shooting, he also gave him a pair of sanitary balls.
“········” This time it was Liu Tianyu's turn to be depressed, but it is not advisable to reason with a creature like a woman, especially in some special circumstances, obviously it belongs to this special situation now, so Liu Tianyu said that he was not as knowledgeable as Wang Haixin, and he no longer paid attention to Wang Haixin, but turned his head to look at the one-armed little girl: "Xiaorui, come, tell some people where you said the place?"
"Don't say it as if I don't know, don't you know?" Hearing that someone in Liu Tianyu's mouth was himself, Wang Haixin gave Liu Tianyu a pair of sanitary balls.
"Hehe! hehe!" Seeing Liu Tianyu and Wang Haixin fighting, the one-armed little girl was also infected, first opened her mouth and laughed a few times, and then looked at Liu Tianyu They explained: "I said that you don't know Balihe, MLP County, Wenshan, but I said another name, I guess you will know." ”
"What's the name?" asked Liu Tianyu, Zhang Shufang, and Wang Haixin in unison.
"Mine Village. The one-armed little girl said the name that made Liu Tianyu and the three of them look forward to it.
However, after hearing this name, the expressions on the faces of Liu Tianyu, Zhang Shufang and Wang Haixin were stunned.
Obviously, several of you here have heard of the name 'Mine Village'.
Of course, this does not include Diandian's little sister-in-law, not to mention where the mine village is? Even the specific address of the mobile phone store they are in now has not yet been figured out.
But a little sister-in-law Liang doesn't know, but Liu Tianyu, Zhang Shufang and Wang Haixin do.
At the beginning, the news of "87 people only have 78 legs left" was very sensational.
Before, Liu Tianyu didn't know that there was such a terrible place in his own country.
Listening to the one-armed little girl say the name of the landmine village, Zhang Shufang seemed to understand something, and looked at the little girl and asked hesitantly: "Your arm ????"
Seeing Zhang Shufang's hesitation, the little girl didn't seem to care much about this problem, and after giving Zhang Shufang a smile back, she said: "Well, this arm of mine was implicated when the goat accidentally stepped on a mine when she was herding sheep." ”
"Herding sheep?" Wang Haixin felt very incredible when she heard the little girl say that her arm was implicated because the goat stepped on a landmine when she was herding the sheep, but what she felt incredible was not that she was implicated by the goat, but that the little girl didn't look very old, shouldn't a child of her age be in school? Why did she go to herd sheep? If she didn't herd sheep, wouldn't there be no thing about being implicated by goats.
"Well, we are very poor there, and most children can't afford to go to school, especially because there is too little arable land, so in order to have more land or raise a few more sheep, we can only risk going to minefields to cultivate and graze. The one-armed little girl was very clear-minded, and she knew what she was thinking by looking at Wang Haixin's expression, so she explained to her.
"After so many years, hasn't anyone cleaned it up?" Zhang Shufang asked with a frown when the little girl's words fell.
Unlike Wang's focus, Zhang Shufang's concern lies in the mines buried deep underground that could be detonated at any time.
Hearing Zhang Shufang's question, the little girl smiled bitterly: "It's not that no one has come to clear mines before, and the mines in many of our places have been cleared, but our village belongs to the mountainous areas with inconvenient transportation, and some places are still poor mountains and bad waters, and there are often snakes and insects. ”
"Even if the mines are not cleared, there should be warning signs, just don't approach the warning area, how can you still ... Wang Haixin's attention is finally back on track this time.
"There were so many mines that no one knew how many there were, so it can be said that the entire border line was full of minefields, and warning signs didn't play a big role at all, and as I just said, we were very poor there, and we had nothing there, so in order to get by, even if we knew that there was a minefield in front of us, we had to go there, and we could farm and graze in a minefield, and we could live our lives, but if we didn't do anything, we couldn't even live, so we didn't know the danger, but there was no way, in order to live, we could only take risks。 The one-armed little girl's words were calm, not at all like describing a human tragedy.
Perhaps, for her, this is a normal thing.
But for the few people present, they all heard it in their hearts and couldn't speak for a long time.
"That's why you're coming out of your hometown, aren't you? After a long time, Zhang Shufang asked faintly.
"It's not. Listening to Zhang Shufang's words, the one-armed little girl shook her head, then hesitated for a moment before continuing: "I escaped from home. ”
"Escape?" came out of his own house and used the word 'escape', Liu Tianyu, Zhang Shufang and Wang Haixin couldn't understand it again.
"Well, just escape. The one-armed little girl nodded to show that she had not used the wrong word, and then continued: " My brother is of age to get married, and I just said that we are very poor, and my family can't afford to marry my brother's daughter-in-law, so my parents want to exchange my parents, but if the person I want to marry is a normal person, it will be fine, and I will accept my fate, after all, our marriage is everywhere, but I want to marry a fool, I don't want to live with a fool for the rest of my life, so I begged my parents, but who knows that my parents not only ignored my prayers, but also locked me up, and finally I smashed the window and escaped。 ”
The one-armed little girl calmly told her story, but Liu Tianyu was furious when she heard it.
In this era, in this country, there is even the practice of exchanging relatives.
It's incredible.
It's not that Liu Tianyu hasn't been to the remote mountainous areas, and Liu Tianyu also knows that there is patriarchy in the mountainous areas, but even in patriarchy, there is a degree, and I have never heard of taking his daughter to exchange his son for a daughter-in-law, especially his own daughter has to marry a fool.
However, although he was very angry, Liu Tianyu obviously felt that although the one-armed little girl said this in a very flat tone, the little girl's mood was not calm at all.
knew that the little girl was very concerned about this matter, so Liu Tianyu didn't continue to talk about this topic without opening her mouth, that is, Wang Haixin wanted to speak, but she was glared back by Liu Tianyu with a look.
"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this topic, I'll tell you something else, our mobile phone store is about to close. Feeling the strangeness of the little girl, Liu Tianyu bluntly changed the topic.
"Why do you want to close it, isn't the business in our store very hot?" The little girl's mood changed not only Liu Tianyu felt it, but other people also felt it, and even Wang Haixin realized it after being stared at by Liu Tianyu, so after listening to Liu Tianyu divert the topic, Wang Haixin immediately picked up the conversation.
"There was a supply problem in the store, so it had to be closed. Liu Tianyu shrugged and looked at Wang Haixin and explained.
"Well, then I'm going to lose my job, I've only been on the job for less than a month, let me tell you, even if I work for less than a month, you have to pay me a month's salary, not a dime." "I know that since Liu Tianyu is talking about this now, then he must have something to say later, but seeing that his anger is a little dull now, Wang Haixin deliberately opened his teeth and claws to adjust the atmosphere.
"Yes! Yes!" Knowing that Wang Haixin was adjusting the atmosphere, Liu Tianyu nodded very cooperatively, with an expression on his face that I was afraid of you and didn't dare to lose a penny from you.
"That's pretty much it. Seeing Liu Tianyu's cooperation, Wang Haixin nodded with satisfaction.
But then, Wang Haixin suddenly fell down in front of the table, and continued with a very fake fake cry: "Woo woo~~! I'm so pitiful, even if you pay me according to the first month, but I'm still unemployed, and everyone will pay me at the end of the month." ”
"Okay, okay, fake death, I just said that our mobile phone store was going to close, but I didn't say that I was going to fire you. Watching Wang Haixin's performance, Liu Tianyu's embarrassment was about to be committed, so he hurriedly opened his mouth to let her stop.
"Hehe!" Wang Haixin, who was exposed, was not a little embarrassed, and raised his head with a smile: "Boss, do we really want to be a jewelry store in the future?"
"How do you know?" After listening to Wang Haixin's words, Liu Tianyu was surprised, and he remembered that he hadn't told Wang Haixin about opening a jewelry store after closing the mobile phone store.
"Sister Shufang said it. Wang Haixin said and stretched out his hand to point at Zhang Shufang.
"Did I tell you? Why don't I remember?" This time it was Zhang Shufang's turn to be surprised, she really didn't remember that she had told Wang Haixin about this kind of thing.
"Oh, it's the few days when our boss didn't come to the store when he went out to do errands, and the two of us chatted about nothing in the store at that time, and I forgot what we were talking about, anyway, you said that casually at the time, I thought that turning off the phone to make jewelry should be a matter of the future, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly. Seeing that Zhang Shufang had forgotten about this incident, Wang Haixin had no choice but to help her recall.