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Chapter 9 Sadness
  Although there are many miasma, mosquitoes, and poisonous insects in Lingnan, they can grow two crops of rice a year, have abundant rainfall, and even have an abundance of wild vegetables. They don’t have to worry about going hungry. They don’t want to go back to the north after living here for a long time.

At that time, Li Hu's daughter had not yet become the county magistrate's concubine and had no arrogance. The village was peaceful.

Later, Brother Shen built a blue brick house in Beili Village, with five main rooms, one wing room on each side of the main room, and three east wing rooms. The yard is also very big, enough to hold ten grain baskets.

Surrounded by a two-meter-high wall built with mud bricks, trumpet flowers of various colors were planted on the wall. Such a beautiful house is the only one in Shiliba Village.

The wages given by Brother Shen were extremely high. His wages just from helping to build the house were enough to cover his mother's medical expenses.

Brother Shen bought another 20 acres of good paddy fields. In addition to the 15 acres that he rented out to others, he planted 5 acres himself.

Because of his good friendship with Brother Shen, he often helped plant rice and harvest rice during busy farming seasons. Over the past ten years, with the wages he had saved, he not only married a wife, but also built three brick houses.

From the time when his mother and son were dependent on each other, now his mother is healthy, has a wife and children, all this is because of Brother Shen.

Thinking of this, Yang Dazhuang's eyes flashed with guilt. Yesterday, Li Hu and his five sons came to the Shen family to cause trouble, but he did not help at all. He felt that he was really ashamed of Brother Shen.

Shen Jia didn't think it was anything. People seek good fortune and avoid harm. In the situation like yesterday, if Yang Dazhuang stepped forward to fight with Li Hu, he would undoubtedly be throwing an egg at a stone.

He is not afraid of the Li family's retaliation and can lead the villagers to use public opinion to attack the Li family, which is already considered very good.

Shen Jia saw that in the corner of the backyard fence there were some leftover mud bricks from the previous construction of the fence, and asked, "Uncle Yang, can the old mud bricks in the backyard be used?"

Yang Dazhuang took a look and saw that every mud brick was smooth, without any breaks or missing corners. He smiled and said, "Okay. I thought I had to make mud bricks, but I didn't expect there were ready-made ones."

To make mud bricks, you need to use oxen to rake the mud, use a dung basket to carry the mud, and then manually lay the bricks one by one on the wooden mold. Under normal circumstances, you don’t need to wash the wooden mold, but when building a stove, you need to wash the bricks after each mud brick. Use clean water to wash the wooden mold.

However, Yang Dazhuang clearly remembers that the mud bricks on the exterior walls of Shen's house were washed out of wooden molds.

Shen Jiaye said with a smile: "That's great!"

"Mom, you can cook the rice later. I'll go to the nearby mountains to hunt some pheasants and come back. I'll invite Uncle Yang and Aunt Yang to have dinner at our house at noon. Don't worry, I won't go far and I'll be back in an hour at most. "

The Shen family doesn't have many chickens. There are six roosters and five hens. The eggs laid by the five hens do not hatch chicks, so they eat them themselves. Shen Jia wants to keep all these chickens.

When she came back yesterday, she saw a lot of pheasants on the mountain, so she thought about hunting some pheasants for the tooth festival.

When Mrs. Gu heard that Shen Jia said she wanted to go up the mountain, her face instantly turned pale. The scene yesterday was really terrible. She was worried that those people from the Li family would make trouble again. She was unable to fight against them, but she could not refuse Shen Jia.

After a while, he muttered: "Well, come back soon."

Shen Jia also knew that the Li family came to the Shen family twice to cause trouble yesterday, which frightened the Gu family, so she did not dare to run around today, otherwise she would have gone to the county town or into the mountains.

"Don't worry, the Li family won't come to cause trouble today. I'll go to the nearby mountain to hunt some pheasants and I'll be back soon." Shen Jia reassured her.

Mrs. Gu nodded gently.

Shen Jia was still carrying the simple backpack, took a hatchet, and a small hoe.

Perhaps after a day and night of hard work, Shen Jia was in a much better mood today than yesterday, and the surrounding scenery was more pleasing to the eye than yesterday.

It is surrounded by mountains, with a Yichang River running through the village. The village surrounded by mountains is very wide and full of flowers and grass. Occasionally, there are a few towering trees that add a lot of interest to the village. On several hillsides in the distance, wild flowers accompany it. Weeds can be seen everywhere, lush and colorful as far as the eye can see, and smoke rises from the cooking pots in the village, which is quiet and comfortable. Shen Jia still did not take the road that others often took. She cut another road and walked up the mountain.

There are no hunters in Beili Village, so there are a lot of wild animals on the mountain.

Pheasants flew very fast, but Shen Jia's bamboo arrows were faster. It didn't take long for her to kill three pheasants.

I saw five-fingered peaches on the mountain, so I dug some five-fingered peach roots back, peeled a few pieces of cinnamon bark, picked some star anise, and picked up a nest of wild eggs.

The harvest was very good, Shen Jia smiled with crooked eyebrows.

Shen Jia hummed a small tune and walked briskly down the mountain. Unexpectedly, he heard the sound of chopping wood halfway up the mountain.

Shen Jia looked over curiously and recognized her as the daughter-in-law of the Li family at a glance.

What impressed Shen Jia the most about her was that she was incompatible with those arrogant and domineering women yesterday.

The women in the Li family all wore red and green clothes, and she was the only one who wore clothes that had been washed white and were covered with patches.

The faces of those women were all red, but she was the only one who had a sallow complexion and was as skinny as a stick.

Shen Jia asked Shen Yun, and he said that the women smashed things without mercy. She was the only one who hid in the back and pretended to cut things with a sickle. Shen Jia checked and found that only one apron was damaged by her cuts.

Mrs. Wang also saw Shen Jia. She quickly put down her hatchet, ran over and knelt down with a 'bang' sound, and kowtowed three times with a 'bang bang bang' sound.

"Miss Shen, thank you! Thank you for saving my eldest sister, thank you for helping her remove the snake venom. There is no way I can repay you for saving my life. I will repay you by working as a cow or a horse in my next life."

When Wang knelt down, the legs of her trousers were rolled up by a small branch, revealing patches of blue and purple legs covered in bones.

Shen Jia's pupils shrank, and he reached out to lift up the other leg of her trousers. There were also a few purple bruises on the other calf.

Shen Jia rolled up her sleeves, and her hands were full of pinch marks.

Wang hurriedly put down his trousers and sleeves, and the expression on his face changed several times, ranging from embarrassment to sadness to indifference.

Shen Jia knew that she had misunderstood and said hurriedly: "I'm not laughing at you, nor am I looking down on you, really! I just think you are so pitiful, haven't you ever thought of resisting?"

Mrs. Wang raised her head, tried hard to suppress the tears in her eyes, and said: "Resist? How can I resist? What qualifications do I have to resist? If you marry into the Li family, you will be a member of the Li family when you are born, and you will be a ghost of the Li family when you die. The Li family will beat you and scold you. Who can control it?"

"What about your parents' family? You were bullied like this and they didn't care about you?" Shen Jia felt that her anger was about to burn her hair.

A trace of sadness flashed in Wang's eyes: "My married daughter has thrown away the water. My parents' family already has a difficult life. I can't selfishly ignore them for my own sake."

In this era, it would be quite shameful for a family to have a divorced daughter, which would have a great impact on the family's reputation. Therefore, families generally were not willing to accept divorced women.

This is the tragedy of women in this era.

(End of this chapter)