playful peasant girl

Chapter 3

Finally arrived home, pushing open the dilapidated courtyard door, Xia Lan's hunger suddenly hit.

Xia Lan cleaned up an open space in the yard, poured all the wild vegetables and mushrooms on the ground, and sorted them out with Niu Niu.

"Sister, how do we cook? Or cook these with water?"

When Xia Lan heard what Niu Niu said, her body froze. Did the original master siblings just barely fill their stomachs like this before?

No wonder the original owner is 11 years old, but his body looks like a child of eight or nine years old, and Niu Niu also has a sallow complexion.

"Let's pick some wild vegetables first, blanch them with hot water to remove the bitterness, then eat them cold, and then have a clear soup to stew the mushrooms."

Xia Lan raised her face, "Don't worry, it must be better than before!"

The two washed the dishes, divided the work and started to work in the kitchen.

"Damn girl, get out of here!" A sharp female voice from outside the door pierced Xia Lan's eardrums very lethally, and Xia Lan couldn't help frowning.

"Sister, it's the aunt who's here." Niu Niu's face also wrinkled into a bitter gourd shape.

Xia Lan's mind was spinning rapidly. The original owner was the aunt Li who took away the land after the original owner's parents died.What's more, even a child as young as Niu Niu is not happy to see her, which shows how annoying she is.

If you hate it, you hate it, Xia Lan still had to go out to greet her, "Hey, what brought you here, ma'am?
Xia Lan smiled but didn't smile, if she hadn't taken into account the strict ethics of ancient times, she wouldn't have come out to be angry, and she knew it was not good at a glance.

"In the morning, people in the village said that you wild girl was cured. I still didn't believe it. It seems that this is really good."

As she spoke, she came to pinch Xia Lan's arm, and Xia Lan snapped Li Shi's hand in pain, "Ma'am, if you have anything to say, just tell me."

Mrs. Li glanced at Xia Lan, "Good thing, great thing, since you are all well, Li Ershu from my natal Li Village wants to marry you, you are ready to get married in two months."

Xia Lan's guess was right, as expected, nothing good happened, so she kept her face. "Auntie, I'm still far away from Jiji (adulthood). Second, Niu Niu is still so young, how can I, a big sister, get married?"

Mrs. Li kept a close eye on Xia Lan, "You don't have to worry about that, Niu Niu, I have already found him a good family, and I will be his adopted son, so I can lose him!"

Xia Lan wanted to make a plan, but thanks to the fact that the original owner and Niu Niu were her nephews, Xia Lan tried her best to hold back her anger, "I'm afraid this is inappropriate, and the farming will be busy in more than a month. The crops in the field..." .

Li's face became even more joyful, "Hey, aunt, can the crops in the field be damaged? At that time, aunt, I will reluctantly collect it for you. Anyway, there will be no one in your family when the time comes, so just Save the food and exchange it for silver money to give to my Erzhu to go to school, and I will plant it for you in the future."

Xia Lan was extremely angry, and she was so shameless that she not only plotted against her, but also plotted against a child as young as Niu Niu, and then took her family's field as her own, and exchanged the grain produced in her family's field for money so that her son could go to school , Xia Lan has seen it, she has never seen such a shameless person in her life!

Don't want such relatives!
"Unexpectedly, she and Niu Niu are still living in Liujia Village, how can they not be talked about, and can get rid of the relationship with this Li family?

Xia Lan's heart skipped a beat, and she made up her mind.

"Auntie, Niu Niu and I are your nephews anyway, and we are left with only your relatives. How can you treat my siblings like this? Where is your conscience? You are sorry My dead parents?"

Xia Lan burst into tears, so sad that people couldn't help but be moved. She cried, made trouble and hanged herself three times. It has been passed down for thousands of years, and playing tricks to seek justice has some effect.

At this time, the sun has been out for a while, and some active people in the village have eaten, and some are still eating.

Hearing the sound of trouble at Xia Lan's house, the country people who usually don't have much entertainment like to join in the fun, and soon gathered in front of Xia Lan's house.

Xia Lan has part of the memory of the original owner, and moreover, Xia Lan feels very resentful and saddened by what Li did, her sad expression became more and more real.

"Mother, tell me who is right for you to do this?" Xia Lan firmly grabbed Li Shi's arm to prevent her from leaving.

"You wild girl, let me go!" Seeing more and more people watching, Li was so annoyed that she pinched Xia Lan's arm.

Xia Lan frowned in pain, only acted as if she was wronged, and didn't criticize aloud. Naturally, someone remembered Li's actions in their hearts.

"Girl Lan, what are you doing with your aunt?" A woman who loves to watch the excitement asked.

"Second Aunt of the Liu family, tell me, is there anyone who acts like this?" Xia Lan looked at the woman with the eyes of a savior.

"Since my parents passed away, my aunt first occupied a few acres of good land on the ridge of my house. I got cold and my family ran out of food. My aunt didn't care about it or ask about it. Today I'm alone Auntie came to me early in the morning and said that she wanted to marry me to a bachelor in Li Village, and I still have a concubine here for several years, how could she do this for the few dowry money?"

Xia Lan sniveled and burst into tears, like a little daughter-in-law who has been greatly wronged.Now that they heard Xia Lan's cry, they all looked sideways at Mrs. Li.

Although the people in the village like to watch the excitement, but the folk customs are simple, so naturally they can't just watch the excitement when this happens, not to mention that Xia Lan and Niu Niu are very pitiful in the village, and people's hearts soon turn to Xia Lan.

"Oh, I said Li Jinhuaer, you are trying to kill Niuniu and Xiaolan!" "Is there someone like you who is an old lady?" Some people in the village began to ask questions to Li, and there were more and more accusations. Seeing that something was wrong, I immediately wanted to call the crowd and slip away.

How could Xia Lan follow her will?Hold her tightly.

"Everyone, uncles and aunts, I beg you to be my master!" Xia Lan's previous grief expression was replaced with resentment, "Mother, she not only wants to marry Xiaolan, she also wants to marry Niu Niu It's sold, she wants my Xia family to be extinct."

People were shocked when they heard such words. Although the Xia family is an outsider, they have been here for two generations.The righteous and highly respected elders were immediately outraged by what Mrs. Li had done.

"Mr. Li, is what Xiaolan said true?" A respectable old man stood up and asked.

Li Shi was annoyed that he was meddling in his own business, but he didn't dare to offend him, so he evaded it and refused to make a sound.

"I, I, I was that, that was" Li Shi was really going to do this, but she couldn't tell why, and everyone was like a mirror in their hearts, knowing that Xia Lan was telling the truth, they were all angrily stand up.

"I said everyone Xia, how can you do this?"

"Is this what an aunt should do?"

Mrs. Li loves to take advantage of small things, and she likes to make troubles. She is not very popular in the village, and she is from the countryside, so she speaks relatively straightforwardly. How could those onlookers spare her with their mouths.

(End of this chapter)