Chapter 3: Brother-in-law
Yang Chen sat in the dilapidated thatched hut in a daze, his expression changed, both shocked, ecstatic and excited.
In my mind, there are a lot of popular poems and songs, flowing endlessly, as if a clear spring is stirring in my mind, there are poems and books in my belly, and the temperament is naturally quiet and beautiful like autumn leaves.
Ahh
A cold wind blew, like a sharp sword blade piercing directly into the flesh and blood, and the whole person trembled with this cold wind, and his muscles suddenly tightened.
Yang Chen couldn't help but hug his hands together, sighed hotly, and rubbed his palms a few times, hoping to add some warmth to his body.
In the broken house, there is nothing but books, outside the broken house, covered in silver, thousands of miles of snow, and there is a cold wind surging in from all directions of this broken house, and the whole house is suddenly like an ice cellar, cold to the bone.
What's even more tragic is that Yang Chen is still hungry, which is really a bit miserable.
"It's not a good day!"
Yang Chen recalled it, and knew from his memory that it seemed that there was no surplus food at home.
In the past, the weather was clear, and Yang Chen was able to go up the mountain to find some wild vegetables and fruits to satisfy his hunger, but now that the snow has closed the mountain for several days, Yang Chen is almost hungry and hungry.
If this continues, Yang Chen, who has just crossed over, will have to starve to death again.
"There are still some days before the New Year's Pass, if the New Year's Pass is near, you can go out to help people write some Spring Festival couplets and exchange for some food. ”
"What is it like now?"
Yang Chen never thought that the first problem he needed to solve on the first day he crossed over was actually a stomach problem.
The people take food as the sky, and their stomachs can't be filled, so they really don't have any energy to do anything else.
With his hands clutching his shirt, he followed the path of his memory towards the kitchen to the east, where the water in the barrel was now a thick block of ice, which still looked very hard.
Next to the bucket is a large rice bowl, and now in this rice bowl, there are only a few sparse rice grains.
"Damn, this house is really shabby, and the poor can't even open the pot!"
After glancing at a few rice grains in the rice jar in disappointment, Yang Chen sighed helplessly.
It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, there is no thing, even if Yang Chen wants to make something to eat, there is no way to make something out of nothing.
"Forget it, it doesn't matter if you don't have rice, it's such a cold day, no matter what, you have to boil some hot water to warm your body, otherwise, it won't take much effort, your hands and feet are cold, and you have to freeze." ”
Just do it, roll up his sleeves, Yang Chen found a household to smash the thick ice inside the bucket, poured the cold water into the pot, and then lit a handful of dead grass to ignite the firewood.
The red flames were filled, and the bright light shone on Yang Chen's face, and the warm feeling slowly returned to his body.
"It's so warm, it's so much better than just now. ”
"Wait a while, drink some hot water, and find something to repair your dilapidated house, otherwise, there will be no way to sleep on such a cold day, and you will freeze to death." ”
In the past, Yang Chen did not distinguish between grains and limbs, and he never thought about repairing the house.
Boiling water, steaming.
Yang Chen's face gradually became rosy.
"Yang Chen, is Yang Chen at home?"
A voice came from the courtyard.
The sound is somewhat familiar!
Yang Chen recalled it, and then it suddenly dawned on him.
No wonder the sound is familiar.
It turned out that the owner of this voice was actually Yang Chen's eldest brother.
In this life, Yang Chen is already sixteen years old.
At the age of sixteen in many places, he was married and had children.
Yang Chen hoped that he could take the high school entrance examination, and secondly, he had no money to spare, so he never married the wife that his parents had betrothed him when they were alive.
The person who came was his fiancée's brother.
However, this eldest brother doesn't like Yang Chen, thinking that Yang Chen is a nerd, he can't operate, he can't live, a good family, Yang Chen lost his family fortune, and now his family is surrounded by four walls, and there is no way to give his delicate sister a happy future in the future.
Therefore, all along, this eldest brother has been picking his nose left and right when he looks at Yang Chen, how he looks at it and hates it.
Every time I saw Yang Chen, I couldn't help but sneer at him, and the relationship had not been very good.
"In!"
Yang Chen answered and walked out of the kitchen.
Anyway, this is also the brother of Yang Chen's wife who has not passed through the door in this life.
Besides, Yang Chen did feel a little sad for the dead Yang Chen, how wasted the dead Yang Chen had to be to be able to ruin a good home to this extent.
In my memory, since the death of Yang Chen's parents, Yang Chen has been calling friends all day long, participating in various poetry meetings, banquets, comparing poems and words, and pretending to be a literary style.
The silver was sprinkled like flowing water, and it also won a reputation abroad.
In addition to these, it is to read and practice characters at home, hoping that when the scientific examination is carried out, it will become famous all over the world in one fell swoop.
It's a pity that over the years, the silver flower has been clean, but he has not been admitted to the exam, but has fallen ill, until he died in a broken house today, and was reborn by Yang Haipeng, who fell from the sky.
After coming out of the house, Yang Chen saw a young man in a mink coat, walking towards his yard by himself stepping on the snow that was below his ankles.
Brother Childe's eyebrows are clear, with a strong bookish atmosphere, but this bookish atmosphere can't hide the shrewdness revealed in his star-like eyes.
Outside the courtyard, Yang Chen saw a gorgeous-looking oxcart parked.
It is estimated that this eldest brother should have come in an ox cart and looked very rich.
After thinking about it for a while, I realized.
It turned out that his fiancée's family was a merchant family, and it was very famous in the nearby village, and according to people, it was also a wealthy family with a group of wealthy slaves.
Riding a cart like an ox cart, as far as the eldest brother is concerned, it is purely ordinary, and it can even be regarded as low-key.
However, although the unmarried family is rich, they have a low status.
In the Great Zhou Dynasty, the status of merchants has always been low.
In the eyes of scholars, businessmen are mercenary, with thick hearts and thick skins, not to mention the smell of copper, and all the festivals are lowly people who are broken.
And Yang Chen's family is a scholarly family, with a reputation and morality, and etiquette, although it has declined to this point, its status in society is much higher than that of his fiancée's family.
"What are you doing?"
The eldest brother glanced at Yang Chen, frowned slightly, and flashed a trace of disdain, Yang Chen's face was stained with some black wood ash because of boiling water, and he looked a little embarrassed.
"It's too cold, I'm boiling some hot water to warm up, uncle, why are you here?"
Yang Chen smiled slightly, a little bright, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.
"Hehe, boil water?"
The eldest brother sneered, a little harshly.
"There's no rice to put in the pot!"