Chapter 18: Old Things
After that, afraid that Xiao Gong's sister-in-law would not be able to remember, Zhang Xiaodong specially wrote down the words she wanted to bring on a piece of paper for her to carry.
When Zhang Xiaodong and Yan Ruohua were about to leave, Gong Xia must carry the two bags of flour back to the tricycle for him, and said that he was a little stunned when he appeared at the door of the house, but he didn't expect Zhang Xiaodong to come to visit their family on the second day of marriage, but he was subconsciously afraid that he would be tired, so he didn't think about it and took it back at that time.
Zhang Xiaodong forcibly left his face on the grounds that he was the founder who initiated this wasteland, and that they had joined in this time and wanted to give them a franchise gift. Sister-in-law Gong couldn't understand what Xiaodong was talking about, she just felt that this kid was talking one by one now, all of which was knowledge, and in the end, she really couldn't say it, so she left her face behind.
And when the two were about to leave, Xiao Gong's sister-in-law went back to the house and took out a silver hairpin, saying that Zhang Xiaodong's mother put it on her back then, and asked her to hand it over to her daughter-in-law in the future, and now Gong Xia looked at Yan Ruohua's pleasing eyes, and she was tired of it for a while before letting the two leave.
So far, Donghua Co., Ltd. has completed the first recruitment.
On the way home on a tricycle around the edge of the village, Zhang Xiaodong looked back at the little girl sitting there carefully looking at the hairpin, and thought it was very interesting, so he joked.
"Why, the little girl from the city, the little orator, thinks this thing left by my mother is too ordinary?"
"Not really!" Yan Ruohua gave him a roll of his eyes, and then carefully held the hairpin in his hand, "I was just thinking, since the two of us are not together after that, then shouldn't I hold this thing." Otherwise, the aunt will feel sad that her hairpin did not fall into the hands of her daughter-in-law. β
When Zhang Xiaodong heard this, he was happy in his heart.
You little girl is really naΓ―ve, do you really think that if I want to send you out of the mountain, you are not my mother's daughter-in-law?
I just want to give you back the life that really belongs to you and let you do what you like to do, but I didn't say that there is no me in your life?
"It's okay, you can help me keep it first, and when you leave later, you will return it to my aunt, anyway, my mother asked her to help keep it." Zhang Xiaodong said.
"Oh......" Yan Ruohua said.
"Auntie...... Sister-in-law......" Yan Ruohua pondered these two titles in her mouth, remembering the hard-working but strong and capable woman just now, who had no land to plant, and walked up and down the mountains every day, there were two men in the family who needed to be taken care of, and one woman supported the family. Even though she has been bullied by her stepmother for several years and has suffered a lot of grievances, she suddenly feels that compared with Xiao Gong's sister-in-law, her own things are nothing.
"Zhang Xiaodong."
"Zhang Xiaodong?"
"Zhang Xiaodong!" screamed three times in a row, and seeing that Zhang Xiaodong still ignored her, Xiao Nizi blew her beard.
"Why don't you ignore me?"
"Ahem, you called me Xiaodong just now, and now it's Zhang Xiaodong. Hey, okay, don't pinch me, I'm not kidding. Tell me what to do. β
"Is Sister-in-law Gong both your sister-in-law and your aunt? What you just said, your mother will die after listening to her...... and being bullied by the village chief Wang Shan, what's going on, anyway, now you're boring on a bike, can you tell me? β
Zhang Xiaodong knew that Yan Ruohua would come to ask him this, but even if she didn't ask, he wanted to find a chance to tell her, knowing these things, she could have a more comprehensive understanding of what was going on with her relatives and the current situation of the village, so that she would not be easily deceived in the future.
"Okay, then I'll tell you about it."
Zhang Xiaodong sorted out his thoughts and began to speak:
As mentioned before, Zhang Xiaodong's father's name is Zhang Chunyu. And his mother's name is Gong Lan.
The Gong family is in the next village, not a short distance from Pinggu Village, when the two got married, her sister Gong Xia also came to Pinggu Village to attend the wedding with her sister's marriage.
It was at this wedding that Gong Xia, who was only sixteen years old, fell in love with the child of Zhang Chunxiang's family, Zhang Qing, the eldest of the Zhang family.
Zhang Chunxiang is much older than his younger siblings, and although his first child died young, Zhang Qing, who was later reborn, was about the same age as his younger siblings. The day he met Gong Xia, Zhang Qing was already twenty years old, and it was time to marry a daughter-in-law.
At that time, Zhang Chunxiang was very satisfied with Gong Xia, after all, his son was old, and it was not a good thing that a little girl came to chase him. So he was anxious to tell the two of them about their family. But this matter reached the ears of the Gong family, but they were not happy.
Your eldest daughter married your younger brother, and now let the second daughter marry your son, isn't this a burying person?
But after all, this is Gong Xia's own business, she saw that her family did not agree, so she ignored the objections and went directly to live with Zhang Qing. The daughter who was upside down couldn't keep it, and it didn't take long for the Gong family to bow their heads and end the marriage for the two.
At that time, Gong Xia and Zhang Qing both went to junior high school, and they were somewhat educated, and they were tired of life in this village for a long time, so they wanted to go out of the mountains to see the outside world.
Coincidentally, Zhang Xiaodong was three or four years old at that time, and the silly problem had already appeared, and Zhang Chunyu and Gong Lan began to worry about whether there was a way to treat their son and whether his son could marry a daughter-in-law in the future. The few acres of crops at hand can't make a lot of money, knowing that her sister has gone to school, Gong Lan came to Gong Xia to ask for a way out.
Hearing that her sister had the idea of making money, Gong Xia and Zhang Qing worked together to give her sister Gong Lan and third uncle Zhang Chunyu an idea.
Four people together, go down the mountain to work!
As soon as the idea hit, it was just to go, but when they really wanted to go out, they realized that things were not so simple at all.
They can get out of the village, but they can't get out of the town, let alone go down the mountain.
In the only station in the town, people from each village take turns to be on duty, and only people like Mrs. Li who have a mission to go out and can bring back Xinding to the mountain can go out.
If a young man wants to go down the mountain to earn money without permission, he will go back the same way.
In some of their mountain villages, poverty is a label that cannot be removed and does not want to be removed, and it is also a set of tacit rules.
Several subordinate villages in the town have already reached an alliance, that is, they will not let the villagers go down the mountain casually, and even if they do, they will have to pay a great price.
If someone comes down the mountain and then comes to the village to publicize the good news from outside the mountain, then everyone will not be willing to live in the mountain, and the village will soon become unmanaged.
This alliance is not only a matter between village cadres, but also for most of the villagers, they are also very supportive. Because since we are poor, then we are poor together, and as long as everyone lives the same, then we will not feel that there is anything that we can't live by.
But once someone thinks about getting better and getting rid of poverty, isn't that just forcing other people to die! This situation is definitely not what the village chiefs want to see.
Therefore, when Zhang Chunyu and Gong Lan and his wife found the home of the village chief Wang Shan, explained their hardships, and hoped that the village chief would let them go down the mountain to work. Wang Shan was very simple, and directly issued the conditions:
"It's not impossible to leave if you want to, you can only leave if your land is confiscated!"