Escape from the desert

The original body is greedy for money and delicious food, and all her belongings add up to less than fifty copper coins.
"It's not easy for a woman to pull a few children, and there really is no copper in the family."

The village chief touched his not-so-long stubble, pondered for a while, and then sighed and said, "Hey, for Lin Er's sake, I'll pay you the fifty copper coins first, and the rice is coming soon. Take it, when the farm is busy and there will be more places to work, I will introduce a few jobs, if you work hard and have money, give it back to me."

"Father! It's not like you don't know what kind of virtue Aunt Jiang is. Even if Dongzi and the others make money, she can't pay it back to you! Isn't the loaned money going to waste?"

When the tall and strong boy heard the village chief say borrowing money just now, he was a little anxious.

Jiang Yan also thought about it for a while, then nodded slightly to the village chief, and said to her sons: "We would like to thank the village chief for his help. When the farming is busy, the part-time workers introduced by the village chief must do it well and earn money. Don't give it to me, just return it to the village chief."

Village Chief Lin waved his hand, and then asked the loud boy to count out fifty copper coins.

While the young man counted the coins in aggrieved way, he glared at Jiang Yan, as if he counted his lifeblood.

Village Chief Lin thought of Liu Xiaomeng's life experience and couldn't help sighing. They are all hard-working people. I just hope that the Lin family can treat her better.

The young man counted it several times, and he rubbed the fifty copper coins back and forth. Village Chief Lin couldn't see his mother-in-law's appearance.

Liu Dazhuang's daughter-in-law was fat, dark-skinned, and sloppy, and was carefully counting the copper plates in her hands.

"I said that your Linjia Village is so poor that even fifty copper plates have been inked for a long time. In the future, the girl from that village would dare to marry your village?"

After counting the money, she said bitterly, if the original body is still there, she will be designated to scold her for [-] rounds.

However, Jiang Yan couldn't speak, and some people could speak, only to see an old lady pinching her waist and cursing.

"Bah! Don't say fifty cents, we can afford five hundred cents! But is your daughter worth it? Who doesn't know that Liu Xiaomeng was adopted by you, and you can't wait to starve her to death as a girl all day long. I'll give you fifty copper coins, and hurry up and snicker!"

"That's right, a broom star. I heard that her parents died for her."

"It's no wonder that I have to marry into the Lin family to endure hardship. It turns out to be a broom star." People in the village who didn't know it were discussing a lot.

Jiang Yan frowned and followed Lin Nan's gaze, a thin girl with red eyes, as if waiting for the fish to be slaughtered on the chopping block after a good price, her face was dead silent.

This is Liu Xiaomeng, who is even thinner than the original body remembers. Jiang Yan is inexplicably distressed when she sees it. At first glance, this small body looks like a poor little one who doesn't care for her mother and doesn't love her.

The black and fat aunt was said to be blushing, she would not lose if she lost, she straightened her slightly plump figure, and said as if giving alms: "Hmph, fifty wen is only fifty wen, the right should be our Liu family. Relieve the bachelors of the Lin family!"

Many people in Linjia Village were so annoyed by the words that they rolled up their sleeves and prepared to fight.

Fearing that the matter would be serious, the village chief quickly took a break and persuaded the Liu family members to leave. When he turned around, he saw Liu Xiaomeng staring at the Liu family members who were far away.

No one said a word to her, so she was left alone in this strange place.

"You can live with Lin Nan in the future." The village chief sighed and walked away.

And Liu Xiaomeng's tears flowed down, Jiang Yan looked at the Liu family and his wife speechlessly, and walked away while talking.

The small mud courtyard suddenly became quiet.

"Second child, go and coax your daughter-in-law and close the courtyard door." When the crowd slowly dispersed, Jiang Yan had the energy to look at the house.

Clay walls, muddy ground, thatched huts, and air leaks from all sides. If it rained heavily, she doubted that the house would be washed away by the rain.

The sons were yellow-faced, skinny and tanned. They were all dressed in coarse linen and patched, and wore straw sandals on their feet. They looked like refugees fleeing from the famine.

Everyone looked at her cautiously, especially Lin Nan, who was even ready to be beaten by his mother.

"Guru~"

Jiang Yan heard her stomach growl.

Although she was also in the countryside when she was a child, she has lived for more than 30 years and has never felt hungry. No matter how rich the family is, she will never stop eating. At most, she cannot eat big fish, sea cucumber and abalone.

She swallowed her saliva, her throat was burning with pain, she hadn't drank water for a long time, and her eyes were dry.

Lin Dong said cautiously: "Mother, Jinhua has gone to dig wild vegetables, and she will be back soon. I can cook and eat in a while. I will pick her up."

With so many things happening today, my mother will definitely lose her temper, and maybe she will beat them!

But before he could get up, the door was pushed open, and a thin woman with patches all over her body came in with a simple bamboo basket and a two- or three-year-old radish-headed child.

This is her eldest daughter-in-law Wang Jinhua and grandson Xiaodouzi.

Seeing that everyone was looking at her, Wang Jinhua hurriedly said, "Mother, I dug up a lot of wild vegetables today, so I'll cook them now."

There are only three rooms in this yard, one room is for the eldest son and his family of three, and the other room is divided into two rooms, where she lives with several sons, and then there is a main room with a shabby mud-grass shack built on the side. kitchen.

Wang Jinhua bent down and picked up a handful of wild vegetables from the basket on her back, and Xiaodouzi who was following her also picked up a handful.

These days, every household is very poor, the year is not good, and there is no good harvest in the field. Every day, the family is full of wild vegetables and a little coarse grain flour. Once cooked, it is a big pot, which can be regarded as a daily ration for the family.

Otherwise, the Liu family wouldn't marry Liu Xiaomeng to the Lin family, and if they were good years, they would still earn a lot of betrothal money.

There was a large pitch-black iron pot on the earthen stove, and two ears had fallen off. It looked a few years old and was the most valuable item in the house.

Not long after, a large pot of wild vegetables was ready, and the family ate in the main room.

A few adobe bricks, and a fairly flat wooden board is the dining table.

A lot of things happened today, the atmosphere of the whole family was a little low, and no one dared to speak.

At the dinner table, several people neatly arranged the bowls and chopsticks, and there was a bowl of wild vegetables in front of each person, looking at whether it was yellow or yellow, black or black, it was not appetizing.

"Gudong~" The sound of swallowing saliva.