farmer's little girl

Chapter 131 The Extra Story: Delayed Happiness 2
Because of bringing Lu Jiaoxing and Tiantian with him, Shanzi could only slow down his pace, so when he got there, it was already dark.

This is a small village built in a valley, surrounded by cliffs on three sides, and a thick wooden fence around the mouth of a bowl on the outside.It is a bit exaggerated to say that it is a village. There are not many houses in it. Looking at the past, it seems that there are only a dozen families.

"Brother Shanzi, are you back?"

As soon as the two entered the village entrance, someone jumped out from the side.

This person is tall and thick, with a strong physique, but he looks a little slovenly, and the clothes on his body look very shabby.

His name is Huzi, and he is also a mountain dweller.

This small village is built in a big mountain, where there are many wild animals. Every night, the wooden railing gate at the entrance of the village will be closed from the inside, and a vigil will be sent out.Huzi is the night watchman tonight, and he was about to close the gate, but he didn't expect Shanzi to come back at this time.

"This is your mother-in-law? My God, brother Shanzi, you are so lucky to have come back with such a beautiful woman." Huzi's envy was palpable, Lu Jiaoxing had never seen such a frank person before, Immediately, she blushed with embarrassment at the phrase 'mother-in-law'.

Shan Zi was very happy in his heart, he sneaked a look at Lu Jiao Xing, and still did not forget to reprimand him: "Go, go, your sister-in-law is timid, don't scare her." After speaking, he looked at Lu Jiao Xing with a red face, "Let's go, I'll take you home, ignore this kid."

The two returned home.

In fact, the so-called home is two houses made of stone, surrounded by a fence outside, and the yard is about half an acre in size.

The room was very simple, with few pieces of furniture. There was a large unpainted wooden cabinet, a kang cabinet, a small kang table, a wooden table with stones under the lame leg, and a few wooden tables. stool.

"My family is poor, and I'm the only one, so I don't usually clean up. But I will hunt hard to earn money and add something to the family." Shanzi said anxiously, for fear that his wife would dislike him.

Unexpectedly, Lu Jiaoxing didn't show any disgust at all, "It's okay, life goes by slowly."

"You don't dislike me?"

Lu Jiaoxing glanced at Shan Zi, then shook her head.

A smile suddenly broke out on Shanzi's face, he ran to put down the burden on his body, took Tiantian over, put it on the kang, and said, "I'll cook."

After speaking, he ran out in a hurry.

Soon, the meal will be ready.

Dinner is very simple, just a bowl of pitch-black boiled bacon, and a few steamed buns that Shanzi bought when he first entered the mountain, and the steamed buns are still baked.Maybe he also realized that his skills were not good enough, so he said in a bit of embarrassment: "I didn't go out to hunt this time when I went out of the mountains. There is no fresh meat at home. I will go out to hunt when I catch up. Then I can have fresh meat to eat... ..."

"In the future, you will hunt and I will cook. Before I go out, I brought some vegetable seeds from home, and I will have fresh vegetables to eat when I plant them."

Before entering the door, Lu Jiaoxing could tell that there were almost no people in the village who opened vegetable fields, as if they didn't need to eat vegetables.

Don't they usually eat meat and steamed buns?Lu Jiaoxing was surprised, but she didn't say it out loud.

And the reason why she brought vegetable seeds was that people outside described the mountain people as too poor.They said that they had no land, so they had no food to eat, and no vegetables to eat. They never expected that what they said was true.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help asking: "You don't open a vegetable field, don't you usually eat vegetables?"

Shan Zi was stunned for a moment, and said: "Of course I can eat vegetables, but few of us here know how to grow vegetables. They all gather wild vegetables in the mountains to eat. You don't know that some wild vegetables are delicious..."

Lu Jiaoxing listened silently, trying her best to absorb some knowledge about life in the mountains.

She had prepared for the worst before, so the difficulties in front of her were all tolerable in her opinion.In fact, so what if she couldn't bear it, she had to live on, and she had to live her life well, even if it was for her daughter.

"Why don't you eat meat, eat more."

Shan Zi kept adding meat to Lu Jiao Xing's bowl, and looked at the bowl of meat piled up in his own bowl, but the meat bowl had already bottomed out, but he hadn't eaten a piece of it yet.Lu Jiaoxing thought, with such a person by her side, maybe the future will not be difficult.

Knowing that Shanzi brought a daughter-in-law back, everyone in the village came to congratulate him the next day.

These mountain people have different appearances, but the same physique is very strong.In fact, I can also imagine that those who can survive in this place, and those who are not strong, can survive a few.

The days are just like this day by day, working at sunrise and resting at sunset.

Whenever Shanzi went hunting, Lu Jiaoxing seemed a little restless, probably because she knew that his wife would be worried or frightened, and Shanzi seldom spent the night outside, and he would come back the same day.

The relationship between the two is getting better day by day, and their relationship is getting better day by day.On a well-rounded night, the two finally became husband and wife.

And Lu Jiaoxing has obviously gotten used to the life here, and within the limited conditions, she tried her best to live the life at home as much as possible.

She opened a vegetable field, planted the seeds she brought, and asked Shanzi to go out of the mountain to buy some chicks. By the way, she also bought some things that were missing at home.

Shanzi is actually rich, but not much. After saving for so many years, he only saved a dozen or so taels of silver.In the eyes of people outside the mountain, this is a lot of money, but in the eyes of the mountain people, this amount of money is far from enough to marry a daughter-in-law, so they are all very poor.

This kind of thinking is deeply rooted in the bone marrow. Those who have not married a wife are poor.

After Lu Jiaoxing got married, many mountain people would jokingly ask Shanzi in private how much money it cost to marry this daughter-in-law.They still didn't believe Shanzi when he said that he didn't spend any money.Because in their opinion, even a widow needs money to marry, let alone such a beautiful woman.

Yes, Lu Jiaoxing claimed to be a newly widowed widow. This was what she discussed with Shanzi at the beginning.She brought a daughter to marry, but she could only be a widow.

The days are busy and fulfilling, boring but peaceful.

There are not many women in the village, there are only three or four young daughters-in-law, and the rest are all elderly women.Lu Jiaoxing is the new daughter-in-law, everyone treats her very warmly, sometimes when the men go hunting, these women will gather together to talk.

Because she was one of the only five young wives, the other young women always came to talk to Lu Jiaoxing.

Compared with others, they seemed much more curious, always asking why Lu Jiaoxing married to such a place.Because no matter in terms of appearance or clothing, Lu Jiaoxing doesn't look like a person whose family is so poor that he wants to marry his daughter to the mountain people.

It is worth mentioning that these young daughter-in-laws all have their own backgrounds.One of them, Cuihua, is from this village, and her parents are also mountain people. When she grew up, she married the best hunter in the village, a mountain person named Leopard.The other three were all married from outside the mountains. A young daughter-in-law named Dani was too poor. In order to marry her brother, her parents married her to a mountain man at a high price of 30 taels. .And the other two were almost all due to various reasons in the family, and were promised to marry at a high price.

In fact, it is better to say that it is a marriage than a sale. Anyway, the three of them never mentioned how their natal family was.

That is to say, these three people are very curious about Lu Jiaoxing's origin. From their point of view, this Shanzi's daughter-in-law was probably sold in by her family.It's a pity that Lu Jiaoxing never mentioned these things, which disappointed them.

Therefore, the three of them rejected Lu Jiaoxing very much, and always felt that she was not in the same camp as themselves.

Let's talk about this.

These three young daughters-in-law are not very willing to stay in this kind of place, even if there is meat to eat here, even if their respective men hold them in the palm of their hands, they are full of resistance to this place.During the day, they always quarreled with their respective men, making the whole village restless.

Even so, the people in their respective families, and even other people in the village, were very tolerant to them.

It has to be said that in this village, the status of women is very high.Not to mention beating daughter-in-law, it is rare to even scold a daughter-in-law, probably because it is not easy to marry a daughter-in-law.

In contrast, the quiet and docile Lu Jiaoxing won the welcome of other people in the village.

In fact, the reason for this is very simple. When the unbearable fate shows its ferocious minions to you, you can face it with a smile and full of resentment, but it will not change anything. On the contrary, it will be annoying and make yourself ugly.

Because of this, every time any of the three families got into trouble, Shan Zi would hug Lu Jiao Xing gratefully and say, thank God for marrying you to me.

Lu Jiaoxing didn't say anything, but she was thinking in her heart, thank God for letting me marry you, and letting me know that there is still hope in this world.

When Tian Tian was nine months old, Lu Jiao Xing became pregnant.

After Shanzi knew that his wife was married, he almost jumped onto the roof of the house. He became more diligent in hunting and said he would work hard to make money. Afterwards, he took his wife and two children to live outside the mountain.

It's not that Shanzi has forgotten his roots, but that the life in the mountains is too bitter. Bitterness is a problem, and the most important thing is that it is too dangerous.A few days ago, a hunter in the village was seriously injured while hunting. He was carried back and died in the afternoon.

This village is not big, if a family dies, the whole village will come forward.

Lu Jiaoxing in the crowd was so frightened that she trembled, tightly clutching Shanzi's hand, fearing that one day he would be carried back like this.

In fact, this kind of situation is not uncommon in the village. It is very rare for mountain people to die in bed. Back then, Shanzi's father died outside like this, and his bones were not found. Shanzi's mother left after a short time, leaving Shanzi behind. one person.Now Shanzi is married to a daughter-in-law and has a daughter, who has an unborn child in her belly. This simple and simple mountain man begins to think about his wife and daughter.

Walking out of the mountains, this is something he never dared to think about before, but now Shanzi has to start thinking about it.

At the same time, Lu Jiaoxing was also thinking about this question.

She thought that when the couple had saved enough money, she would ask her parents to sell two acres of land outside, and then go back to Daxi Village to take root.

Although this will inevitably cause trouble to parents, but looking at her cute and ignorant daughter and the unborn child in her belly, Lu Jiaoxing can only think so.

Another two years have passed, and Lu Jiaoxing has never been back in these two years.

It's not that she doesn't want to go back, but that she really can't find time.At first, it was to conceal Tiantian's life experience, but after she had Maotou, she couldn't leave her body.It was also Lu Jiaoxing who had been holding back a lot of energy in her heart. She didn't want to drag her son and daughter back to her natal family, but wanted to wait until she had saved enough money to go back to her natal family generously.

However, Sanfang didn't lack Lu Jiaoxing's letter, because Zhou Jin's business existed, and every winter, when they were collecting furs, Shanzi would go back to the mountain.One is to sell the skins saved by the family, and the other is to bring some mountain products to the old man.Even because of this relationship, Shanzi helped Zhou Jin and the others collect a lot of good leather, which not only saved Zhou Jin and the others a lot of effort, Shanzi himself could earn some hard money from it.

In fact, at first, Shanzi only thought of them as relatives and wanted to help them, but Zhou Jin felt that they should not be done for nothing, and would give some hard money every time.The number of times was too high, Zhou Jin simply entrusted Shanzi with the matter of collecting skins, and because of this, Shanzi was very busy in the past two years, often running in and out of the mountains.

But hard work is rewarded. Shanzi has earned more money in the past two years than in previous years.

With money in hand, Lu Jiaoxing began to think about moving outside the mountain again.

She told Shan Zi about it, and it happened that Shan Zi also had the same idea.After the couple discussed it, they took their children out of the mountain.

Back in Daxi Village after a long absence, Lu Jiaoxing felt in a trance.

When they arrived at the house, Mrs. Qiao was basking in the sun in the yard. When she saw her daughter from a distance, she burst into tears.

She rushed over, patted Lu Jiaoxing with her hands, and scolded: "You are cruel, you haven't come home for several years. If you didn't ask Jinzi to bring some mountain goods back every year, mother would have thought something was wrong with you. It's fine if you don't come back by yourself, even my grandson and granddaughter don't come back, you cruel girl..."

Lu Jiaoxing also burst into tears, and threw herself into Qiao's arms and cried loudly.

"mother……"

It's not that she doesn't want to come back, it's that she has no face to come back.She has already caused so much trouble to the family, if she doesn't get on with her life, how can she have the face to come back.

Lu Mingshan had already come out when he heard the commotion outside.

Standing on the side, he also had sparkling eyes. After all, he is a man, and he can't behave like a woman, so he can only say in a rough voice: "What are you crying for? Just come back."

Yes, it's good to be back.

(End of this chapter)