At dusk, Chenjia Village.

The yellow sand at the border passes blew hard in the evening, especially in the past two days. The little daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in the village all wore headscarves and came out to collect their clothes, which had just been dried in the morning, and they would be washed in vain if they were not put away quickly.

In the courtyard of the Chen family, Du Shi was not at home today, only a slender figure was busy in the yard.

Dressed in coarse cloth and wrapped in a headscarf, she was clearly dressed as an ordinary peasant woman, but from time to time she could attract the attention of passers-by.

"This is the Chen family? Why haven't I seen it before, so handsome, is it Du's daughter-in-law? ”

"What nonsense, how old is Du's son this year? I heard that he is temporarily living in the Chen family, a foreigner! ”

"Central Plains? No wonder, looking at the skin is white and tender! ”

From time to time, the women's exchanges would reach the ears of the sweet aunt, and when she heard it, she didn't hear it, and after packing up the clothes in the yard, she went into the house.

The small courtyard of the Chen family is not big, but it is better to be clean and tidy, she came to Chenjia Village half a month ago and was not familiar with the place, but fortunately she met Du Shi on the way, and the other party was warm and good, so the sweet aunt lived in.

In the past half month, the two sides are also familiar with each other, Du's man Brother Chen also joined the army half a year ago, and only the mother and wife in the family depend on each other, and they can be regarded as having the same illness as her. So Du Shi knew about her past and immediately invited her to live at home.

Tiangu came from the Central Plains, walked on the road for two months, and was tired of traveling and driving, and now she has only recovered a little. She went back to the house, put down her clothes, and walked to the side of the cradle to see Xiaobao.

Xiaobao is now one year old and three months old, just weaned, and has to pout her fingers from time to time, but this child is very well-behaved, and she laughs when she sees Tiangu coming.

Tiangu was very rare Xiaobao, and after hugging and coaxing for a while, Du Shi came back.

"Girl."

Tiangu immediately turned around: "Sister Chunhua." ”

Du's name is Chunhua, and Tiangu is called so.

Du Shi said: "Sister, sister has inquired for you clearly, the military camp where the Chengyang Army is stationed is one hundred and fifty miles east of Chenjia Village, and it takes almost a day to rent a carriage, but the conditions over there are more difficult than here, are you sure you want to go?" ”

Tiangu thought for a while and said, "Go, it's all here, this opportunity is not easy to come by, my mother has this wish when I go out......"

Du Shi sighed: "That's okay, in this way, I'll give you a carriage and send you over, but if you are not comfortable over there, you can come back at any time!" It's better to live in the village and find a job than to go to that place to suffer, tell me about you, your mother-in-law is gone, why are you still so sinner, you have to come and suffer? ”

Sweet Aunt stopped talking.

Yes, many people say that she is stupid, she has been married to the Gu family for three years, the man has not seen each other and is widowed, and the mother-in-law has to come to find a husband when she dies, then Gu Jialang has not heard from her for three years, Mrs. Gu just doesn't give up, and a letter from an unknown source has to ask her daughter-in-law to come and find someone! Be really ruthless!

Tiangu didn't care, and smiled: "What can I do, my father married my stepmother, my mother's family can't go back, although my mother-in-law is a little stingy, but she hasn't treated me harshly in the past three years, when I just passed the door, this happened, many people scolded me Kefu, and the Gu family didn't drive me away, so it can be regarded as kind to me." ”

Du Shi already knew her situation, sighed fiercely, and looked at Xiaobao in her arms again: "Sister, why don't you tell you about your relatives?" You said that this child is not your own, find a new man, settle down in Chenjia Village, and forget it for the rest of your life! ”

Tiangu smiled: "Besides, Sister Chunhua, I don't want to think so much now, I just want to raise Xiaobao and save more money." ”

Tiangu's true thoughts didn't say, marrying someone and marrying someone, she was sixteen years old because of the hard life of marrying, and now she finally has an opportunity, she doesn't want to pin her fate on a man.

She has a craft, she can earn money to support her son, and she can live well anywhere.

Du Shi was not reluctant: "Okay, then you can rest early today, and we will leave tomorrow!" ”

Tiangu smiled: "Thank you, Sister Chunhua." ”

Du Shi: "What's polite to my sister!" ”

In the Chen family's small half a month, Aunt Tian did not live in vain, not only insisted on paying Du Shi five yuan in rent, but also did the work in the yard if she could, which made Du Shi very embarrassed in the end. However, because of Tiangu's good craftsmanship, Du Shi still acquiesced to her cooking, but she also made up her mind that she would pay the driver for tomorrow's car as early as possible.

Tonight's dinner is cold fish, and now it's summer, dry and hot, and neither of them has much appetite. Yesterday, I arrived at a bag of cornmeal, and Tiangu made a pot of cold fish. Paired with the ancestral sauerkraut syrup water in Chenjia Village, it is also an appetizing food in summer.

The cold fish is a paste sprinkled with cornmeal, and a special colander is used, which is shaped like a small fish, hence the name. There are a lot of material water with cold fish, sauerkraut pulp water is a common one, the sauerkraut pickled in the farmer's clay pottery jar, although the appearance is indecent, but the taste is sour and fragrant, most of them are mustard greens and celery in spring, chopped, mixed well with leek and green onion juice, the boiled cold fish is poured directly into it, sour and appetizing, the taste is excellent.

Du Shi ate a bowl and said with a smile: "The food you cook tastes good, no wonder that person introduced you to the army room!" ”

Tiangu smiled, went to feed Xiaobao rice cereal, the one-year-old baby also began to eat supplementary food, Xiaobao is very well-behaved, Tiangu fed him a bite, obedient.

While feeding her son, Tiangu inevitably remembered the past.

She had a bad life, and she lost her mother at the age of five. Dad married the stepmother again, like countless stepmothers, Tiangu's stepmother Liu is undoubtedly ruthless, let her do laundry and cook in winter, Xiao Tiangu caught a cold that night and launched a high fever, that is, that night, she dreamed of her mother.

The mother in the dream is so young and beautiful, and she said a lot of words that she didn't understand, raiders, crossing, those words five-year-old sweet girl couldn't understand at all, of course, she didn't understand it now, but in the dream, her mother taught her a lot of things, and gave her a lot of things that her friends in the same village had never eaten.

At first, Song Tiantian thought she was in a daze, until she saw the things under the pillow, and realized that she was not dreaming.

She kept it a secret for ten years.

Following the mother in the dream, Song Tiantian learned a lot of things, and the skill of cooking was also learned at that time. When she was fifteen years old, Liu told her about the Gu family, and Song Tiantian wanted to talk to her mother that night, but after that day, her mother never appeared in her dream again, and it was three years to say goodbye.

Tiangu's memory came to an abrupt end, Du Shi had finished eating and cleaning up the dishes, she settled Xiaobao and went over to help, Du Shi smiled: "Forget it, you go back and rest, you have to leave tomorrow, you have to pack up a lot of things, right?" ”

This is the truth, Tiangu did not refuse, took Xiaobao back to the room, and began to pack her bags.

Half a year ago, the old lady fell in the field, she was old, and there was no doctor with good medical skills in Gujia Village, so her body was not as good as day by day after that day, until one day, a man from the same village came back and sent a letter to the Gu family! The road is the news that there is Gu Jialang at the border, which can make Tiangu's mother-in-law excited, and she immediately packed her bags and came to the border to look for relatives, but because she was too excited, she tripped again, where did the old man withstand two falls, after that, Lang Zhong shook his head and sighed.

Before leaving, the mother-in-law took Aunt Tian's hand and begged her to come to the border to find her husband who she had not met no matter what. Liu's family set her a kiss, although it was blown to the sky, she didn't believe half a word, Gu Jialang has not married a wife in his twenties, he joined the army in the twenty-first, and he was already a strange person in the village, and he only talked about his family affairs after joining the army, and when the sweet aunt married in the past, she couldn't officially worship the church, go through the door first, and wait for Gu Jialang to come back and then officially visit the church!

It's ridiculous to say it!!

But the Liu family was anxious to throw her stepdaughter out, and the old lady of the Gu family was superstitious, please count it as a half-immortal, just a good day that day, take back Tiangu, and their Gu family will be able to rise and fly Huang Tengda step by step, who expected, that half-immortal is a good day, Tiangu is on the way, the bride has not arrived, and Gu Jialang's bad news has come first.

Good things turned into white things, which can be said to have caused an uproar in Gujia Village.

When Liu heard this, he immediately closed the door and let out the words, and the girl who got married walked out of the house was out of the pavilion, and there was no way back.

In fact, it blocked Tiangu's retreat.

When Tiangu heard this, she had the idea of seeking death, and the sedan chair stopped halfway up the mountain, but she was unwilling and resentful.

Fortunately, the Gu family sent someone to find her in time, and her mother-in-law gave her a promise that as long as she was willing to enter the door of the Gu family, she would be regarded as the daughter-in-law of the Gu family.

Sweet Aunt didn't have a choice.

entered the Gu family and became a Gu housewife, filial to her in-laws, hard work.

The memories came to an abrupt end, and thinking of this, Tiangu made up her mind.

This time she came back to the border, although she was looking for relatives, but also to change her life.

After the death of her mother-in-law, the person who delivered the letter lacked a cook, and opened a letter of introduction, if she took the letter of introduction, she could smoothly enter the Chengyang Army, and the kitchen lady in the army would also be a stable livelihood.

In troubled times, it is not easy for a woman to survive, and she can save money with a stable livelihood. The Chengyang Army is an expeditionary force in the capital, and sooner or later it will have to go back to the capital, and Tiangu has inquired about this a long time ago.

She has had enough of the life in Gujia Village, and she never wants to go back, and the county seat is not her home, with this experience, even if she can't stand in the capital in the future, she can also have a place in the restaurants and restaurants in Fucheng, and then use her savings to buy a small house, send Xiaobao to study, and worry about not having a good life?

As for that man, if she finds it, she will repay the Gu family's three-year kindness, and sign a peace book by the way, but if she can't find it, then don't blame her.

made up her mind, and Tiangu fell asleep with Xiaobao in her arms.

Patting her son in her arms, she slept extra sweetly this night.

It's just that in the second half of the night, the border pass, which has not seen a drop of rain for half a year, actually rained heavily for the first time in a long time.