The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 1 Status Quo
The north wind in late autumn roared across the field with a growing chill, and the withered and yellow leaves were flying in the wind. Su Yunduo, who had just walked out of the forest, took a bite of the cold wind and couldn't help shivering.

Stretching out his hand to block the oncoming dead leaves, Su Yunduo narrowed his eyes and glanced at the looming home not far away, and pushed up the increasingly heavy basket behind him with both hands.

There was another gust of cold wind blowing towards his face, Su Yunduo shrank his neck and looked up at the sky, his brows tightened again and again.

The sky is afraid that there will be a rain soon, Su Yunduo just feels powerless when he thinks of the dilapidated house with no roof but no roof.

As the saying goes, after an autumn rain and a cold day, I can still look at my house except for the bedding covered by the scholar's father, the rest are thin and hardening bedding, and the family doesn't even have decent winter clothes. Su Yunduo felt resentment towards his grandma, anger towards his aunt, and even more confusion about the future.

Su Yunduo is the eldest daughter of the family, and now the scholar father who is the head of the family is seriously ill in bed, and was diagnosed by the town doctor as tuberculosis, an incurable disease that the world talks about. Whether she can survive is still a big problem, or else No matter how much the eldest aunt, Xiao Yang, cried and made noises, grandma would not be cruel enough to throw the scholar's son out of the house.

You must know that because of Su Chengzhi's reputation as a scholar these years, the Su family's ten acres of land do not need to pay taxes, and they are also exempted from the hardship of corvee. Can benefit the whole family.

But when Su Chengzhi was dying and sent back to Geshan Village from the school in the town, Su Yunduo's aunt, Xiao Yang, who got the news first, shut Su Chengzhi out and made a big fuss, finally forcing his grandma to abandon Su Chengzhi's family. house.

The reason is very simple, the entire Su family cannot be put on a dead end just because of Su Chengzhi.

As for the agricultural tax gap, in their opinion, it can only last half a year at most.

When Su Zefan, the eldest son of the eldest son who has already passed the county examination, passes the government examination and hospital examination next year and is selected as a scholar, the Su family will still be exempt from tax and corvee.

Thinking of these calculations of the Su family, a trace of indifference flashed across Su Yunduo's face. Without Su Chengzhi's personal guidance and follow-up, just relying on Su Zefan, hmph, the day when the Su family regrets is coming!
Thinking of the current situation of her own family, Su Yunduo couldn't help sighing in her heart, how could people live in those days? !

According to Su Yunduo's knowledge, although the scholar's father's illness was serious, he was not suffering from tuberculosis, but no matter how Su Yunduo tried to persuade him in the past half month, he couldn't make Su Chengzhi feel relieved.

For a patient who has no belief in survival, no matter how good the medicine is, it cannot be cured. What's more, in the current situation of their family, even food is supported by others. Drugs that are not completely symptomatic are already the limit.

In order to keep the family alive, Su Yunduo went to the mountain early almost every day with a basket on his back, knowing that he might not be able to find food when he entered the mountain, and today was no exception.

Before entering the mountain, she only drank a bowl of brown rice porridge that could almost make a person's figure visible. Fortunately, she found a few wild fruits in the mountain and ate two to fill her stomach. Finally, she survived until now.

These days, she went into the mountains almost every day, except for the occasional few wild vegetables that were too old to eat, which can be regarded as nothing.Today's search finally yielded something, instead of making her go all the way in vain like the previous few days, Su Yunduo lightly pressed his chest, showing a faint smile on his face.

Lifting the basket on his back again, Su Yunduo put away the sourness in his heart, shook his head and pursed his lips tightly, bowed his back slightly against the cold wind and sped up his pace a little, walking staggeringly on the field path.

In the back basket was her harvest of the day, besides some wild vegetables, mushrooms, half a basket of wild fruits, and a pumpkin that had dried up, Su Yunduo was very happy. With these things, at least two and a half days can be full. day.

If it hadn't been for the courage to venture into the deep mountains today, how could we still be able to dig wild vegetables, wild fruits and pumpkins in this late autumn, let alone things hidden in our arms.

He reached out his hand to touch the things hidden in his bosom, and then looked back at the halfway up the mountain. Su Yunduo still hid some things there. When he persuaded Ning to go to the county tomorrow, the things hidden in the halfway up the mountain were at least A glimmer of hope flashed in Su Yunduo's heart to add something to this poor family.

Although not every household in the village is as impoverished as Su Yunduo's family, but just after the disaster year, almost every family has not been able to recover. Not to mention Geshan Village, which is located in a mountain nest with barren land, even Linxi Town has a lot of food that cannot be eaten. They are not warm enough to wear clothes, and even have to sell their children and daughters in order to survive. Therefore, not to mention edible wild vegetables, even edible grass roots and bark can no longer be found near the mountains.

With these things in the back basket and the things hidden halfway up the mountain, Su Yunduo felt a little more confident in his heart.

The current situation of poverty at home cannot be changed for a while, and we can only take one step at a time. With this little thing in the back basket, at least everyone can have a full meal for dinner today.

Thinking of the scholar's father who was sick in bed, the pregnant and weak mother, and the young brother, who didn't need to drink white water to trick his stomach into urinating in the middle of the night, and would be so hungry that he could no longer fall asleep holding his belly, Su Yunduo's pretty face A faint smile could not help but float on.

After leaving the mountain and walking less than ten feet, there was rain in the sky, and there was a trend of getting bigger and bigger, Su Yunduo scolded God in his heart, and the speed under his feet was a little faster.

Looking at the hazy village hidden in the autumn rain in front of my eyes, I looked back at the road behind me, and the idea of ​​driving a mountain road behind my house came to my mind strongly again.

If you can open a new mountain road from the back of your house, it will be much more convenient to get in and out of the mountain.

But it's not easy to open up a new mountain road, is it just because of my small body?Su Yunduo couldn't help but heaved a long sigh.

It would be great if my little uncle was here!
Such a thought popped up in Su Yunduo's mind unexpectedly, but was quickly suppressed by her.

It is better to rely on others than oneself.

It is said that my uncle Ning Zhongping took over a big business three months ago and took a team of Ningwei Escort's most powerful bodyguards to the capital, but he never came back.

The capital is not too close to Yanshan Mansion, nor is it too far away, and it will only take seven or eight days if you hurry up. However, Ning Zhongping will not return for three months. If nothing happened, Su Yunduo would not believe it anyway. of.

Of course, Su Yunduo hoped that Ning Zhongping was only hindered by miscellaneous matters from returning home, instead of being injured or even killed in an accident.

In Su Yunduo's memory, this little uncle loved them juniors very much.

Although because of Su Yunduo's grandparents, he is not close to the Ning family, but whenever they meet, Ning Zhongping will always give some rare things to Su Yunduo's siblings, but it is a pity that these things were eventually snatched by his cousin Su Yunying Walk.

(End of this chapter)