Chapter 3: The Burrow

Although the reedy road is difficult to walk, it is not long, and after two or three hundred steps, a row of simple thatched huts will appear in front of you.

"Unload the car!" Fugui'er muttered without any emotion, turned around and began to seriously investigate his new home.

"Brother Jiu'er, Brother Jiu'er, do you know where my family's share of the thirty acres of land is?"

Seeing the twenty thatched huts written in the contract, Chun Xi'er faintly felt that the thirty acres of land would not be a good land, so Xiao Jiu'er, who was pulling the unloading truck, asked again and again.

"This reed field between the long workshop and the workshop is it."

Xiao Jiu'er obviously knew that her words would stimulate Chun Xi'er, so she buried herself in work after speaking, and no longer had any words.

"Ah, reed field, this, what can be planted here, it's too bullying, and I blame Chun Xi'er for having a bad life, why is she such a fool with you, you are still bullied like this when you are separated from a family, woo woo woo ......"

Listening to Xiao Jiu'er's words, Chun Xi'er sat on the ground and cried.

"Shut up, don't suffer from suffering and become a master, what about the burrowed room, the dog is not poor at home, if you dislike it, I will ask my father for your deed of sale and return your freedom, and you Shao Ying, if you don't want to stay, I will also let you go......"

Chun Xi'er cried, which completely ignited the fire in Fuguier's heart, not because of the share of these houses and real estate, but because this Zhu Shou did things to his own son.

Fugui'er's voice was high-pitched and loud, and there was a frightening majesty in her words, not to mention that no one in Chunxi'er's entire Zhu family compound had ever seen the fourth young master speak like this, and they all looked at Fugui'er in a daze, and they didn't dare to say anything more.

"Chun Xi'er, do you leave or not, if you go, I will go to get your deed of sale at this moment, if you don't leave, take someone to move......"

After Fugui'er finished speaking, she no longer bothered with a group of unloading people, turned around and began to carefully inspect these grass huts in disrepair one by one.

Listening to the young master's words, Chun Xi'er stopped crying, stood up from the ground, slapped the dust on her body twice, glanced at the young master's back timidly, and continued to sort out the things that had been unloaded.

This morning, Chun Xi'er took a group of subordinates and moved six times in a row, and the things in Fugui'er's side yard were finally moved.

Except for the first time and the next few times Fuguier did not participate, the morning was spent in inspection and thinking, and the workshop saw a donkey cart pulling things back and forth between the Zhu family and the long workshop, and there were curious children and idlers who came to inspect and watch.

"Yo, is it the fourth young master? What are you moving things to do here? ”

An old man with a kind face looked at the belongings piled on the ground, approached Fugui'er and asked softly.

"Oh, old man, I have become married, according to the rules of the Zhu family, when the concubine gets married, I will have to move out of the Zhu family's compound, these twenty thatched huts are my family's income, dare to ask the old man if he knows the origin of my twenty thatched huts and reed fields?"

"Hey," the old man took a deep breath and stroked his gray beard helplessly, "The life of a motherless child is miserable......"

It is said that there was not so much land in the Zhu family before, and it was not released, they all hired long-term workers to plant, and short-term workers were hired when the farm was busy, and if you want to farm the land, you have to raise cattle, donkeys, and plough the land to pull the carts, so there are so many sheds, and now the land is rented out, and the sheds are idle, and the things left by the ancestors cannot let it collapse, so it will be repaired every three or two years......

As for the appearance of the reed field, the words are long, it turns out that there was no Xiaoqing River before this piece, this river was dug by the Zhu family master with the villagers in the winter when the farmers were slack, when there was no river, the water coming down from the mountain went from the reed field, and the mud and sand and stones were left behind after the water passed, so the reed land was formed......

Later, someone asked the master of the Zhu family for the land and wanted to cultivate, but after cutting the reeds and picking up the stones inside, they found that the sand on it was three feet thick, even if they tried their best to transport the sand away, the silt under the sand was still covered with reed roots, and it could not be removed at all, so for so many years, that large area of land could only grow reeds, and could not cultivate any crops, and the reeds on the ground could only weave some curtains to build houses and sheds.

Because there is no stove and can't make a fire to cook, Fugui'er's family of three can only get some snacks and cold food to simply fill their stomachs, and in the afternoon, Chun Xi'er led everyone to find a few houses with walls that are not too cracked, and after a simple cleaning, they temporarily piled up the things they moved in.

Fuguier and a group of children who came to see the excitement found some stones, and simply built a stove with some mud, and built a simple bed with wooden planks, with the guarantee of eating and sleeping, this is finally a little fireworks.

In the evening, there were two people in this Fuguier's new home, one was Zhu Cheng, the third brother of Fuguier, this Zhu Cheng left home at the age of six to practice martial arts, and soon returned to the Zhu family after ten years of art.

"Fourth brother, don't take it to heart, in fact, my father was not bad to you before, but the fourth aunt is a narrow-minded woman who is not allowed to be many, and I won't get any benefit when I marry a wife and split up the family. If the fourth brother can't do it, he will take his younger brother and sister Chunxi'er and go out to do some small business, I also have a few friends in the city, and I will help one or two, I don't have much here, so I saved twenty taels of silver, and I will treat it as a warm pot for the fourth brother......"

"Third brother, forget about this silver, I am really grateful that you can come."

The arrival of the third brother Zhu Cheng really touched the wealth, I thought that this stupid person had no friends, but he didn't expect the third brother in the family to come and bring silver.

The two brothers, you pushed me and pulled for a long time, and finally the third brother left the silver and hurried away, along with a letter written by his father Zhu Shou to Fuguier.

"Damn, write a letter, is this embarrassing to face me?"

Fugui'er opened the envelope with a bitter smile on her face, but there was not a word in it, only two deeds of sale and a hundred taels of silver tickets.

The second person to come to the long workshop is the wet nurse, in the afternoon to go to the side yard of Fuguier to prepare dinner but the building has been empty, looking for someone to inquire only to know that Fuguier has become a family and has now come to the long workshop.

The nurse cooked at home and brought it over, which made Fuguier and the two little girls finally have a hot meal.

"Young master, you take a step to speak," Watching the two little girls gobbling up their meals, the nurse gently dragged Fugui'er, and the two of them walked out of the leaky room with their front and back feet.

"Young master, will you eat one last time? I'm not coming tomorrow. ”

The two of them found a hut full of wheat straw and sat down, and the nurse unbuttoned her clothes while enduring the grief in her heart.

"Touch it if you want, I won't hit you......"

As she spoke, the nurse finally couldn't hide the sadness in her heart, and her voice choked and tears fell quietly.

"Nurse, my family is too thin to give you three hundred wen a month like before, and I know that you will have no livelihood without me. It's better to do this, I'll take care of your family of four three meals a day, give you 100 wen a month, I won't eat this milk, you can cook, do you think this is feasible? ”

"Young master......" Grandma called out to the young master affectionately, and her tears were like the pillar with a broken thread, "I don't take any money, as long as the young master takes care of the food and clothing of me and the children, my fifth sister Tian is born as a young master, and death is the ghost of the young master." ”

"Okay, don't cry, what a ghost, frustration, difficulties are temporary, believe me, we will be fine."

As Fuguier spoke, she reached out and wiped her tears for the nurse, which made the nurse a little embarrassed.

"Well, don't cry, don't cry, when the man in my family is gone, I feel like the sky is falling, and then the blind mother-in-law of the neighbor told me that people will inevitably encounter difficulties in their lives, and it will be over if they encounter things, young master, this time I will carry the ...... with you."

The nurse spoke, and there was a firm determination in her words.

"Okay, carry it together, fasten the buttons, don't catch a cold, I'll send you back when it's not early."

After listening to Fugui'er's words, the nurse remembered that she was still bare-chested and exposed, and quickly blocked it with her hand.

"Otherwise, you might as well eat it, it's uncomfortable."

Seeing that Fugui had already stood up, the nurse blushed and still said what was in her heart.

It is difficult to be gracious, in the haystack of the hut, Fuguier still ate for the last time, which is a real farewell ceremony with grandma, although the nurse had said not to hit Fuguier's hands before, but Fuguier's hands are still very regular, even so the nurse still has a different cramped and uneasy heart than before.

On the way back from the nurse, it was completely dark, and the humid air occasionally raindropped, Fugui'er quickened his pace, and finally rushed back to his humble room before the heavy rain fell.

The house leak happened to be rainy, and when people were unlucky, they drank cold water and stuffed their teeth, and returned to their huts, where two little girls were curled up at the foot of the bed to avoid the rain exposed on the roof, and the yellowish lamp head of the oil lamp in the house swayed with the wind may be extinguished at any time.

"Come, the deed of sale for the two of you," Fugui took out the deed of sale from his bosom and carefully identified it, and handed it to the two of them one by one.

"Young Master, are you trying to drive us away?" Chun Xi'er held her deed of sale in her hand, and an inexplicable loss arose.

"I'm not going to drive you away, I have no future with me, you're not too young, find a good man to marry," Fugui said, dragging the wormwood rope in the house to the door, the smoke that filled the house made Fugui's eyes astringent.

"You touched and touched, and you slept, but now you let me marry, woo woo woo ......" Hearing Fugui's words, Chun Xi'er couldn't help crying.

"Didn't you say we had nothing?" Fugui'er touched her head, this thing is indeed a little embarrassing.

"I've slept with you since I was six years old, and if you don't touch my ears every night, can you sleep? You stupid rich man, you are not only stupid, but you have learned to bully people...... Woowoo woo ......"

recalled the past of the two, and Chun Xi'er cried even more fiercely.

"Damn, it turns out that this is touching and sleeping?" Fugui'er almost dropped her jaw when she heard Chun Xi'er's words, "Okay, don't cry, no one will let you go, if you don't want to leave, stay, even if you have a bite to eat, I will let you eat first." ”

"What about me?" Shao Ying listened to the two of them singing and talking in harmony, and interjected coldly.

"You too, you can leave if you want, stay if you want, anyway, the deed of sale is in your hands, now that you are free, you can continue to plant grass and sell yourself again."

"I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about the food that has mine?"

Shao Ying looked at Fugui'er with a begging face.

"Absolutely! Whoever has a bite to eat, eat it first with both of you. But you can think about it, you may have to suffer with me! ”

"As long as there is something to eat, what kind of bitterness is this, it's much better than drilling haystacks and sleeping in the temple that night......"

"Have you slept in a ruined temple through a haystack?" Listening to Shao Ying's words, Fuguier couldn't help frowning.

"Hehe, let's mix the rivers and lakes, it's common to occasionally sleep in the temple and drill haystacks, right, there is always a time when the money is not ready."

Shao Ying found that she had slipped her mouth and hurriedly went back to find words.

"Honestly, I don't like my people hiding their eyes from me?" Fuguier knows the roots of Chun Xi'er, but he doesn't know anything about this newly married little daughter-in-law.

"Alright then, you can't dislike me......"

It turned out that Shao Ying was only fifteen years old, and she was also a hard-working person, who came to Donglai County with her parents to do business in the early years, but who knew that the whole family was infected with the epidemic halfway, and finally her parents died, only Shao Ying survived, but since then she has become a beggar on the street.

An old man died in a beggar begging together a few days ago, and in order to eat enough, Shao Ying acted in a bitter drama of selling grass to bury her father.

"Then why don't you run away when you have the money?" As a modern person, Fuguier inevitably felt compassion after listening to Shao Ying's words.

"The courtyard wall of your house is too high to climb over," Shao Ying is straightforward and true temperament, and she doesn't drag her feet in answering questions at all.

"Okay, this will be your home in the future, it's much better here than if you eat and sleep on the streets, don't be hypocritical about that Chun Xi'er, you see that it's raining heavily outside the house and it's raining lightly in the house, doesn't this look like a water curtain hole? Haha, I forgot, you two don't know about the Water Curtain Cave, come, I'll tell you the story of the monkey in the Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave......"

On the first night of the long workshop, the three of them leaned close together, and the two little girls listened to Fuguier's story and fell asleep slowly.

Leaning against the cracked earthen wall, looking at the pouring rain outside the window, Fugui'er didn't sleep all night, he thought a lot, in the past life and this life, since he can't go back, let's live in the present, everything is a floating cloud compared to life......