farmer's little girl

Chapter 129 The Extra Story of Du Lian Part 2
Lu Jiaoyue dressed up very happily and beautifully today.

She was wearing a pink jacket with a bamboo green suede horse-face skirt. Red and green were obviously tacky, but she looked extraordinarily charming when worn on her.Especially against her extremely crystal-clear skin under the sun, it makes people feel dizzy.

"Auntie, I'll go out and find some, but this little girl has gone somewhere." Lu Jiaoyue said to Liu Cuilan, looking around.

Liu Cuilan also came to dinner today, because the courtyard was too crowded, so she sat outside with her two daughters.Chen Tiegen also came, and was sitting at the man's table with a blushing and proud face, drinking and bragging with the men in the village.Those who didn't know thought it was his son who had been selected as a scholar, but in fact he was just the brother-in-law of his married daughter.

As for the widow?The widow didn't come, Chen Tiegen didn't want to see her brought out.In fact, it's not that they haven't brought it before, but there are always people looking at the two with that kind of ambiguous eyes. The number of times, Chen Tiegen also knows that the widow has betrayed others.

"I didn't see her coming out. There are a lot of people at the moment. Let's look for it quickly, but don't let the child run away..." Liu Cuilan asked Taoya and Xiaoya to help find the child, and she also planned to help look around. As Yue said, she saw Zhou Jin walking over with a little lead.

"It's not!" Liu Cuilan said in surprise.

Lu Jiaoyue looked over, and then breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Zhou Jin: "You are really, my daughter is with you, why don't you tell me."

Zhou Jin was a little innocent: "I was drinking with someone, and this girl suddenly came to me. I heard that you were looking for a child, so she came out."

Lu Jiaoyue walked over and squatted down, touched her daughter's small head and said: "From now on, you are not allowed to run around, and you must tell your mother where you go. There are people coming and going in the family these days, so be careful to let the kidnappers take you away." gone."

She combed two little tufts with two silver bells wrapped around them, and wore a pink satin jacket embroidered with beautiful bluegrass, which complemented her snow-like skin and big eyes, making her look pink. Tender and cute, not at all like a country girl.

It was also a few days ago that two children were lost in a nearby village, and they have not been found until now. Everyone said that they were kidnapped by kidnappers, so Lu Jiaoyue was particularly worried about her daughter.

"I didn't run around, I went to find my father." Diandian said tenderly, blinking her big eyes.

"When you go to find your father, you have to tell your mother that she will be anxious if she can't see you."

"Alright then." The little girl nodded seriously, and the silver bell on her head made a series of crisp sounds.

"Come on, let's go in." Zhou Jin took his daughter and stretched out his little hand to pull on his mother. Lu Jiaoyue took her daughter's hand and was about to go into the yard when suddenly her footsteps stopped.

Seeing his daughter-in-law's dazed expression, Zhou Jin couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"

Lu Jiaoyue looked at the limping and disappearing figure in the distance, shook her head, and walked inside with the man and daughter.

"It's nothing."

That person is Du Lian?
Du Lian left in a hurry.

If he could run, he would have run up now, but unfortunately his legs and feet are inconvenient now, so he can only walk with a limp, like a lame dog running away.

Du Lian didn't know why he wanted to run, he just subconsciously didn't want that person to see him like this.

Lu Guili hurriedly chased him from behind and stopped him: "What's wrong with you? Why don't you eat?"

Du Lian touched his oily mouth subconsciously, and a feeling of shame turning into anger came to his heart.Did she see herself?Saw myself gobbling up dinner at her house?

She is the master, but he is a shabby householder who comes to live and earn a living. She vaguely remembers that she didn't want to marry him at the time, and she thought angrily that when he passed the examination of scholar and Jinshi, he would make her regret it for the rest of her life.

But everything at the beginning has become a joke at this time.

"I don't want to eat, I want to go back!"

Du Lian's eyes were fierce, and he couldn't help saying that he pushed her away and walked forward. Lu Guili wanted to chase her, but Cui Shi grabbed her from behind.

"What are you chasing him for? This guy doesn't know what's good!"

"Can……"

"Don't forget about business."

Lu Guili could only go to Erfang's house with Cui Shi.

Du Lian moved even more hastily, leaving Daxi Village all the way.

The sun was very strong, and he walked very fast, so he broke out in a sweat in no time.But he didn't intend to stop, and even his feet started to throb, but he still didn't.

He was full of aggrieved, angry, unwilling, disappointed, and annoyed. This kind of emotion hadn't appeared for a long, long time. He always thought that he could have no other emotions except numbness and indifference.But he didn't expect that these long-lost emotions would flood towards him like a stormy sea at this moment.

He even felt that the jacket on his body was becoming an eyesore, and he wished he could tear it off on the spot.

Did she see it?She was good at sewing, she must have seen it, what would she think of herself?
Du Lian finally couldn't hold on any longer and fell to the ground all of a sudden.

My hands hurt, my feet hurt, my knees hurt, and even my face was burning hot.

There was no one else on the road, only him, so Du Lian simply let himself lie there in embarrassment.It seems that without showing his face, he can keep his face.

After an unknown amount of time, there was a sound of footsteps in the distance, and at the same time, the voice of a child was heard in his ears.

"Hey, there is a person crawling over there..."

Du Lian hurriedly got up from the ground, didn't even dare to lift his head, so he limped away in a hurry.

"Oh, it's a cripple!"

"That man is really ugly."

The wind blew gently, and the voices of the two children could be heard from a distance.

Du Lian had a dream.

In the dream, he married Lu Jiaoyue.

He watched his mother rubbing her, watching her secretly crying in pain, but his heart was filled with joy.

He passed the examination as a scholar as he wished, and he moved to the county with his mother and the pale-faced and frail-looking her.

He was very proud of his life. Although it took him a few years to pass the examination, he was full of self-confidence after all. He firmly believed that he could pass the Juren examination, and even the Jinshi examination.

Sure enough, he got what he wanted.

On the day when he straddled the horse and paraded through the streets, he felt that he had reached the pinnacle of his life. He was a child from a poor family, but he was able to make it to this day, and he felt that he was no worse than the new champion.

He thought, thanks to his mother, who made a lot of money for him.He thought, thanks to his father who gave him a smart head and enlightened him early.

But only, he didn't think of her.

Where is that she?It's not in his mind anyway.

Dimly, he heard someone crying, and he heard someone saying that he was always laughing in his dreams, why are you worried.

Du Lian's dream is still going on.

As he wished, he passed the examination of the Shu Jishi, and he could not enter the Hanlin Academy unless he was a Shuji scholar, and he could not enter the cabinet unless he was an Hanlin Academy.Although he is just a small sage now, Du Lian is confident that he will be able to ascend to the position of elder in a few years.

And she was obviously a bit of an eyesore.

In a place like the Imperial Academy, which is said to be noble, incomparably noble, and philistine, Du Lian has clearly realized that if he is a child from a poor family, if no one helps him, he will be judged after three years. It is very likely that he will be thrown out of the capital and thrown to some crappy place to become a petty official.

Du Lian was undoubtedly impatient, so he didn't miss any opportunity to find opportunities for him. Later, the master wanted to recruit him as a son-in-law for his twenty-year-old unmarried daughter, so he was right in his arms.

And she has reached the time when she has to deal with it.

Du Lian should be thankful that he has a reputation for foresight. When he was first elected, it was not that there were no wealthy families who cared about him.But at that time, he was full of self-confidence, so he naturally didn't want to spoil himself, destroying his innocence just for a little stupid thing.When he thinks about it, he deserves better, including his mother, who often sighs that marrying him back then, really wronged him.

Now that you are bent, just let it go.

She is cowardly by nature and always afraid of his mother, Du Lian is very sure that she will handle this matter seamlessly and properly.

It's just that he never imagined that his mother would be so stupid. Even though he had repeatedly asked her to keep a low profile, she would make all the neighbors in the alley watch the scene, but she would rather die than die. Willing to be divorced.

Knowing that Mrs. Lu had kowtowed to death on the gate of his house, and that the person who did it was his own mother, Du Lian had no other reaction other than cursing repeatedly.

Seeing that someone was killed, the people who were present at the time immediately reported to the police.

Officials from Shuntian Mansion came to arrest people and locked Widow Du in prison.

With so many witnesses, Widow Du, a small country woman, could not argue.Widow Du was accused of murdering her daughter-in-law because her daughter-in-law refused to go to court.There is no shortage of tongue-twisters in Xijing Hutong, and they also told the officials who came to question some of the things that happened to the Du family before.

Du Lian was running around in a hurry, but he didn't know where to go to seek a way out for his mother.He has just arrived and has no foundation, and because of his behavior of climbing high, his colleagues in the Imperial Academy have created suspicions due to jealousy, and almost no one has contact with him.

As a last resort, Du Lian begged to go to the teacher's house.

Originally, he thought that the kind and amiable teacher who had always treated him would help him, but he was kicked out without even entering the gate.

"Bah, it's just you who want to date our girl? What a wishful thinking!" The porter cursed fiercely with disgust on his face.

In this part of the capital, gossip spreads very quickly. Obviously, the concierge has also heard the rumors outside.The concierge already knows, how can Liu Shilang not know?

Du Lian ran away in a hurry like a bereaved dog. The next day he went to the Hanlin Academy as usual, but he was reprimanded to go home by accusing him of misbehavior and connivance with a vicious woman.

This almost cut off Du Lian's career in the future, and no other scholar was kicked out of the Hanlin Academy like this.Du Lian knew that it was his master's handwriting almost without thinking about it.

He didn't know that because of this matter, Liu Shilang is also full of hair now, and the censors have impeached him for indulging his disciples in committing crimes, forcing his original wife to death, his evil deeds are obvious, and he ignores the imperial power.Sitting in the position of Liu Shilang, he has already made many enemies. Some people see such a good opportunity to come to their door, so they naturally let go of this good opportunity to attack and wipe out political enemies.

Liu Shilang can't be happy anymore, so naturally he won't let Du Lian go.

In fact, this matter itself is not very serious. There are too many officials who stopped their wives and remarried after they made a fortune.But the key point is that Lu Jiaoyue died, or died in the hands of Du Widow in public. Du Widow is Du Lian's mother. Behind is Liu Shilang.

It was originally a small matter, pulling out a carrot and bringing out mud, but because it involved the matter in the court, it became turbulent and unpredictable.

As the youngest little shrimp, Du Lian was naturally sacrificed early.

Widow Du was sentenced to be beheaded, and Du Lian was deprived of meritorious service and sent back to his hometown.

Du Lian's dream has since ended.

Before waking up from the dream, Du Lian had to beg and return home because he had no money.It was also a coincidence of timing, it was the twelfth lunar month of winter, and he was frozen to death on the way before he left the capital.

Du Lian was shivering all over his body, his upper teeth collided with his lower teeth, which woke him up. When he opened his eyes, he saw Lu Guili's haggard face and red and swollen eyes.

"You finally woke up, do you know that you have been asleep for three days..." Lu Guili cried again as she spoke.

Cui pushed the door open with a bowl and came in. Seeing that Du Lian was already awake, she said to her daughter, "I said earlier that it's nothing serious, so you are the only one who is nervous about him! You didn't give birth to a young master, but gave birth to a young master's body." .”

Du Lian was in a deep sleep, and Lu Guili was in a panic. She didn't even go home these days, so she just helped out, so she didn't like to see Du Lian.

"I have to go back. Your elder brother is working outside. That woman Wang is not worried. She didn't have to pry all the cabinets in my house." Seeing that there was nothing serious, Cui took off her apron and left in a hurry .

"Are you hungry? Have something to eat." Lu Guili wiped away her tears and went to bring over the porridge that Cui Shi had made.

Du Lian was obviously very hungry, but out of thin air, he became impatient and swept the bowl to the ground.

Why is it a dream?
Why is it a dream!
How wonderful it would be if there were no final accidents!

In the days that followed, Du Lian lay down on the kang and fell asleep consciously or unconsciously, wanting to reenter that dream and change the ending.But that dream was nowhere to be found, making him deeply doubt whether he had ever had that dream...

Du Lian was lying on the kang drowsy, while Lu Guili was picking beans while talking in a rambling manner.

After talking for a long time, Du Lian didn't make a sound, so she could only sigh helplessly.

On that day, Lu Guili asked with a straight face that she wanted to sell the tofu from Erfang's family. She thought it would not be so easy to do, but Lu Minghai agreed without hesitation.

Generally, people who sell tofu on behalf of others would buy tofu with silver money. Lu Guili had no money, so Lu Minghai found her a job picking beans.Give her a bag of beans every day, let her pick out the dirty stuff inside, and give her five catties of tofu.

Just pick beans for tofu and sell them back, and gradually Lu Guili has money to buy tofu.But Erfang didn't say anything, so she didn't plan to stop this job. Five catties of tofu can be sold for a few pennies, and mosquito legs are still meat no matter how thin they are. Lu Guili has already passed the days of being afraid of starvation and cold.

Although her current income from selling tofu is still not enough for her and Du Lian to feed their stomachs, but with Cui's subsidy, it will be enough to live on.

This kind of life was something that Lu Guili didn't even dare to think about before, but the only thing that worried her was Du Lian's current state.After waking up that time, Du Lian seemed to be dozing off more and more. Apart from eating, drinking and lazing, he just fell asleep on the kang.

Lu Guili thought, maybe he got some kind of disease.But now that money is really tight, I'd better wait until I have saved enough money, and then invite a doctor to show him.

Thinking of this, Lu Guili poured a pot of clean beans into the bag next to her, and poured out some unpicked beans from her pocket.By the way, he also took a look at Du Lian, and sure enough he fell asleep again.

She sighed deeply, and continued to bury her head in picking beans.

(End of this chapter)