farmer's little girl

Chapter 32 The dusty past

Han Jin was at a loss. He was about to put down the horse stool, but when he turned around, he saw her crying, and almost threw the horse stool out.

"Jiaoyue, what's wrong with you?"

But the woman gave less money just now?With all sorts of dark thoughts in Han Jin's mind, he decided that if this was the case, he would take someone to smash the other party's shop later.Although the other party's store is very powerful at first glance, but Han Jin can't care so much at this time.

"It's nothing, Uncle Jin...I'm fine, I'm just so happy..." Lu Jiaoyue cried and laughed, wiping her tears with her sleeves.

Cry when you're happy?

Han Jin really didn't know what kind of reaction this was. He tried hard to recall the only two people in his life who could be regarded as women, his mother and his sister.His mother won't talk about it, his sister never cries, so I'm afraid she can't make an example for reference.

Lu Jiaoyue didn't know what was wrong with her, she wanted to laugh, but tears flowed down her face.

Is this the so-called cry of joy?
"Uncle Jin, you don't know, I've sold for money, and my elder brother can finally get married..."

After returning from a new life, no one knew what kind of pressure Lu Jiaoyue was under. She blamed it on the tragedy of her previous life. She was always afraid that even if she did it all over again, she would not be able to do well and the tragedy would happen again.No one knew how difficult it was when she said no to her mother, and no one knew that she couldn't sleep well every night, because she was afraid that she might not do well and let her family go down the old path of her previous life...

It seemed that when she faced Lu Guangzhi, she was extremely confident that she would be able to save enough money to marry her eldest brother, but in fact, she had no idea.

She is a different kind, she is obviously dead, but she came back to life again!
No one knows, only she knows!And she can't tell anyone!
So she is extremely uncertain about anything, that feeling of insecurity is too strong, so strong that she is best at embroidery, but she is still not sure.Especially with the Du family's marriage before and the separation of the family, she felt that she didn't do anything, and things changed dramatically, which made her discouraged and depressed, and also had an inexplicable sense of fear.

It wasn't until she actually held the more than 20 taels of silver she earned by herself that she had a real sense of controlling her own destiny.

It doesn't matter, she can make money, she can make money so that the elder brother can get married, so that the second brother doesn't have to marry that woman, so that parents don't have to be exhausted and exhausted for their children and for the family every day...

So, she must be able to do it, no?
Because of this, she lost her composure.

Grandma raised her since she was a child, women should not be so shameless, crying in front of a man, but Lu Jiaoyue couldn't bear it anymore.

She is so happy!

When Han Jin learned the real reason for her crying with joy, a burst of pity came to his heart.

This is a kind and weak girl. She has thin shoulders, but she bears things that she should not bear.I'm afraid that that day when she saw her brother, who was so young, but went out to do coolies to make money, it must have dealt a great blow to her.

If not, why so.

The two people with different thoughts stayed on the street for a long time, until the passers-by couldn't help looking at them, they suddenly woke up.

Lu Jiaoyue wailed in her heart, covered her face and got into the car.

She actually did such a thing!

As for Han Jin, he coughed twice in a concealed manner before sitting on the shaft of the carriage and driving the carriage away.

When the carriage came to a place where there were few people, Han Jin said in a low voice: "Since it's a happy thing, you shouldn't cry, if your eldest brother knows that he has such a younger sister, I'm afraid he will be proud of you too. "

Han Jin is not good at comforting people, so he felt that his words were pale and powerless, and he really couldn't express his heart at the moment.

While feeling annoyed, a soft voice came from inside: "Thank you, Uncle Jinzi."

Han Jin couldn't understand the meaning of this thank you, only Lu Jiaoyue understood why.

"That is to say, you sold embroidery work behind our backs, and you sold a lot of money, enough to marry your elder brother?"

In the main room of the second room of the Lu family, it was completely a scene of three courts being interrogated.

Mei Shi and Lu Minghai lived high on the kang, and several sons stood beside them.Originally, Lu Jiaoyue was also treated as a kang, usually when her mother took care of her second brother, she would sit on the kang, she would persuade her on the kang, and her brother would persuade her on the bottom of the kang.It's a pity that she lost this treatment at this moment, and replaced Lu Guangzhi's position.

Lu Jiaoyue was stunned, a little unable to react, shouldn't the family members be very happy?
It was due to Lu Jiaoyue's ecstasy before, this ecstasy lasted for a whole day, and did not erupt until the family gathered together at night.She didn't think about how her mother would react when she heard it, so she told all about how she made money selling embroidery.

Unexpectedly, her parents did not look happy at all, instead one was full of anger and the other was bitter and bitter.

Mrs. Mei went to get the feather duster on the kang cabinet, and after holding it in her hand, she realized that it was her daughter standing there, not her thick-skinned and thick-skinned son.If you want to let it go, you feel that it will damage your dignity. If you don't let it go, she really can't do it.

At this time, Lu Minghai stepped forward to make a rescue.

"His mother, what's the matter? Look, you scared our daughter."

Only then did Mei put down the feather duster with an embarrassing expression, and sat back down again, but her eyes were still stern.

"Have you forgotten how mother told you?"

Lu Jiaoyue was taken aback for a moment, she naturally did not forget that her mother told her to take good care of her eyes, it is best not to touch the needle and thread if she can, especially the complicated embroidery work, it is best not to touch it at all.

But, isn't that for marrying the elder brother a wife?

Mrs. Mei naturally understood her daughter's expression, and reprimanded: "You forgot why your grandma's eyes are bad? When your grandma wanted to teach you double-sided embroidery, mother didn't want to. How terrible is it to do this kind of thing?" Don't worry about it, do you think mother doesn't know?"

Lu Jiaoyue argued in a low voice: "Daughter will be careful not to hurt her eyes."

"You said it!"

This was the first time that Mei had spoken to her daughter in such a harsh tone, Lu Jiaoyue couldn't accept it for a while, maybe she felt a little wronged, obviously she was doing it for her elder brother, wasn't she?Why is my mother like this.

Unable to help, tears rolled in her eyes, and she tried hard not to let them fall.

Lu Guangyi couldn't help but uttered, "Mother—"

Lu Minghai sighed, and said: "Okay, mother, don't scare the child. There are some things you never say, how can the child know your concerns."

Hearing this, Mei Shi showed a look of bewilderment, and then she told a story.

The protagonist of the story is Lu Jiaoyue's grandmother, Liu Shi.

The Liu family is a southerner, born in a family of embroidery art. The women in the family have been embroiderers for generations, and they are all passed down from mother to daughter.However, Liu's fate is not good. In the early years, she was loved by many people at home, and later she married someone, but it is a pity that she met someone who was not kind.

Yes, Mrs. Liu married once before she married Old Man Mei.

It is said that the family was also a wealthy family in the past, but it was a pity that the family was in decline. When Mrs. Liu married into the family, the family's situation was already very bad.As a well-known embroiderer, Liu Shi is undoubtedly a life-saving rope for the other party.You must know that a good embroiderer will not be afraid of hard work for a year. Not only will she not have to worry about eating and drinking, but she will also be able to save a decent family business.

The family is useless, so they can only rely on Liu's embroidery to earn money to support the family.

Liu worked day and night, bent over tired and dazzled, but the other party was not only ungrateful, but also used the money she earned to make fans and raise actors.When Liu knew about it, she was very sad, and finally made up her mind one day and ran away from that house.

You must know that in the place where Liu grew up, women's morals were extremely strict, widows could not remarry, chastity archways abounded everywhere, and women who had broken their women's morals would have no other end except being immersed in a pig cage.So it is extremely difficult for a woman to reconcile, not to mention that the other party has long regarded Liu as a cash cow, so how could she let his wife go.

So she can only escape.

The Liu family fled their hometown with the heart of death, and then fled to the north where the folk customs are relatively open. By chance, she married the old man Mei who had been a bachelor at that time, and then took root in Lihualing.It's a pity that her body fell to the root of the disease in her early years, so Liu's health has not been good.

Lu Minghai knew about this a long time ago, and he also heard it from his wife, so he could understand why his wife was so strict about her daughter's embroidery.

After hearing the story, everyone in the room fell into shock.

"Isn't grandma the embroiderer of a rich family?" Lu Guangzhi murmured.

Mrs. Mei said angrily, "Can you talk about this kind of thing?"

It is appalling for a woman to run away from her husband's house and remarry, even in the relatively open north.That's why the Liu family found such an excuse to cover up, but very few people knew about it, only the old man Mei and his children, not even Mei's two sister-in-laws.

"It's fine if you listen to this matter, no one is allowed to say it outside." Mei said again.

Lu Guangyi and the others were not stupid, so naturally they would not bring this kind of matter up to the outside world, so they all nodded.

Lu Jiaoyue couldn't come back to her senses for a long time. Her previous life was very similar to her grandmother's. It's just that her grandmother ran away, and luckily met her grandfather. She lived happily ever after, but she died in front of Du Hanlin's house.

So, my mother didn't let her learn to embroider and touch needle and thread. In fact, it wasn't just because she was afraid that her eyes would be damaged and her body would be exhausted. There was another reason, right?

"A woman's lack of talent is virtue. At first glance, this sentence seems to be derogatory to women, but when you think about it seriously, it is not unreasonable. In this world, it is the norm for men to dominate the outside world and women to dominate the inside. It is the norm for women to make money. It's a good thing, but if you meet an unkind person, it's a disaster. Your grandma is lucky. Although she suffered a lot on the road, nothing bad happened. She fled all the way to the north and met your grandfather again. If Otherwise, what do you think will happen to your grandma if she continues to stay in that family?"

Exhausted, exhausted, blinded, and then ended up with a husband who married another and was abandoned.

This was what happened to her in her previous life, and Lu Jiaoyue naturally remembered it deeply.

Lu Jiaoyue fell into a long silence.

She felt that things shouldn't be like this. Could it be that grandma is her fault for being a skilled embroidery artist?No, it can only be said that both grandma and her in her previous life met people unkindly.Is it their fault that they are unkind?No, it can only be said that this world treats women too harshly.

And she didn't do it for others, but for her elder brother and her family.

If it was Lu Jiaoyue in her previous life, she would have believed her mother's words. She cannot say that what her mother said was wrong, but she was biased.But after experiencing so much, Lu Jiaoyue is no longer the simple and obedient girl she was back then. She has already learned to distinguish right from wrong, right from wrong, and to think for herself in the circumstances of her previous life.

Lu Jiaoyue uttered her own thoughts, and then said: "Mother, you, father, elder brother, younger brother, and younger brother, will you harm me, will you treat me as a cash cow?"

Mei Shi didn't speak.

"So it's not my grandmother and I's fault that we know how to embroider. As long as we know how to protect ourselves, my daughter will learn from my grandmother's lesson and protect herself well. You, dad, older brother, younger brother, and younger brother will also protect me, won't you? "

"Of course." Lu Minghai nodded.

Lu Guangyi and Lu Guangzhi said the same thing, and even Goro waved his small fists and said that if anyone bullied the elder sister, he would beat him up.

Mei was speechless, lost in thought.

Her mother had said the same thing to her before, but it was a pity that she couldn't listen to it, but now hearing her daughter say the same thing, she had to think deeply.

Lu Minghai also persuaded: "His mother, I have long felt that your thinking is wrong, but if you insist on it, I can't say anything. It is a good thing for a daughter to have a craft, so why should you think so badly about it. "

Mrs. Mei didn't speak, and Lu Minghai persuaded: "Actually, think about it differently. This is not a good thing. At least our urgent need has been solved, and the family land doesn't have to be sold."

Mrs. Mei glared at him: "What a great prospect, we parents have to make our daughter worry about earning money!"

Lu Jiaoyue somewhat disagreed with this statement, and said: "Mother, what are you talking about, am I not a member of this family?"

"Okay, okay, I'm worthless, don't be angry now." Lu Minghai smiled with Mei, turned his face and said to Lu Jiaoyue with guilt: "Yue'er, it's all because of my father's incompetence. Let you worry about your family."

"Little sister..." Lu Guangyi also looked guilty.

Lu Jiaoyue was very helpless: "Father, don't you work hard every day selling tofu to earn money, and you also have to work in the fields. And big brother, every time you come back from work, you always buy me a lot of things, don't you? As a younger sister, I can't do something for you? Aren't we a family? "

Yes, we are family.

"So, as long as we work together, life at home will definitely get better and better."

Lu Minghai and Lu Guangyi are not hypocritical people, so they quickly let go of it. Of course, the two are determined to work hard to make money so that their families can live a good life, so let's not mention it for now.Mrs. Mei also seemed to let go of her prejudices, occasionally seeing her daughter doing embroidery work in the house, she would not say anything to stop her, but told her not to do it for too long.In order not to touch the nerve in her mother's mind, Lu Jiaoyue restrained herself even though she was desperate to make money.

As for Lu Guangzhi, after experiencing the scene where his elder sister was "jointly interrogated in three courts", he was completely afraid to tell his family members about his work in the gambling shop.Especially now that the family has money to marry the eldest brother, it doesn't seem to matter whether he earns the money or not.

Just when the whole family was working together to live a good life, an unexpected guest came suddenly.

This uninvited guest is none other than the Hu family.

When Mrs. Hu came, Erfang's family was eating.

Seeing Mrs. Hu walking in, Mrs. Mei's face pulled down on the spot.There was no trace of a smile on the faces of the little ones, only Lu Minghai stood up with a complicated expression and greeted her.However, it can be seen from his expression that he actually has a lot of estrangement from Hu Shi in his heart.

Mrs. Hu didn't seem to feel that the Erfang family didn't like her, so she smiled and said, "We're all eating, I don't have anything else to do today, my parents asked me to come. The thing is like this, Guili The wedding date with Lian'er has been fixed, and on the 24th of this month, my parents asked my second brother and his second aunt to come over and discuss this matter."

Mrs. Mei slapped the chopsticks on the table and sneered: "If there is anything else to discuss, please tell my sister-in-law and the upper room, just say we are busy, so we won't go."

Hu ignored Mei, but looked at Lu Minghai.

Lu Minghai sighed, and said, "Sister-in-law, what Mo Lan means is what I mean."

Hu's expression was embarrassing, "Is that so, then I'll go back and tell my parents."

After Mrs. Hu left, Mrs. Mei lost her temper.

"What the hell is she trying to do? Is this person so shameless, or does our family think we are all fools? How can we have the face to ask us to go over and discuss Lu Guili's marriage when things are going on like this! What kind of discussion is it? It’s true that he wants us to pay money.”

When Mei gets angry, other people generally dare not speak out, and only Lu Minghai and Lu Jiaoyue dare to speak out to persuade them.However, Lu Jiaoyue was very silent at this moment, and she didn't know what she was thinking while sitting there.

Lu Minghai was full of helplessness, coaxing his daughter-in-law in a low voice, while Lu Guangyi and his brothers were completely as if they didn't exist.The mother is getting angry, and the father is coaxing the mother. If possible, they actually want to disappear.

Lu Jiaoyue was a little puzzled. According to her eldest aunt's temperament, she would usually not do such thankless things.It was just to inform the upper room to call her family to come over. She didn't need to go out in person at all, just give orders at home, and someone came over.

But it happened that the eldest aunt came.

Could it be that the eldest aunt doesn't care about being treated coldly at her own family, or does she no longer care about her relationship with her family, even if her face is torn apart?
Lu Jiaoyue always felt that it was not the case. The eldest aunt had always been a person who paid great attention to her face, and she always felt that with the other party's temperament, even if she broke skin with her family, she would maintain a superficial harmony and would not take the initiative to anger her family.After all, it can be clearly seen that when the aunt said something, the mother was annoyed.Especially with an elder uncle caught in it, the elder aunt shouldn't be in a stalemate with her family.

But Lu Jiaoyue couldn't figure out why the eldest aunt came here, so she could only think that she was thinking too much.

On the other side, Mrs. Mei also made a decision: "No one in our family is allowed to go there!"

It seemed that the words were addressed to the Lu Guangyi brothers, but they were actually addressed to Lu Minghai.Lu Minghai had no intention of going there, so he naturally reassured his daughter-in-law that he would not go.

Putting these aside, it seems that Lu Guili's marriage has nothing to do with the second room and the family.Every time people from the second room came in and out through the gate, they all ignored the busy look of the upper room who was about to have a wedding.

A few days later, Mrs. Mei couldn't bear it any longer, and asked Lu Minghai and his boss Lu Guangyi to open the back door from their own side.

The second room is behind the upper room, and there is a vegetable field behind the house, so you can go out directly by opening the door from the back.From then on, when the second-bedroom people went out, they didn't even have to go through the front door, it was fine to go through the back door.In this way, they don't need to know what's going on in front of them.

On this day, Lu Jiaoyue asked Lu Guangzhi to bring a letter to Han Jin, saying that she wanted to meet him and ask him some questions.It was an excellent opportunity to sell embroidery products, but it was a pity that Lu Jiaoyue was so sad and happy at that time that she completely forgot about it on the way back.After the incident, she remembered it, but she had no choice but to ask her younger brother to help with a sentence.

Seeing her younger brother's puzzled face, Lu Jiaoyue explained to him that she wanted to ask about her little uncle, but Lu Guangzhi didn't doubt it either.

The next day, when the appointed time came, Lu Jiaoyue told Mei Shi that she would go to Gui Ya's house to talk to her and wanted to go out, but Mei Shi didn't stop her.

Now, Mrs. Mei didn't go to work in the town anymore. It was Lu Jiaoyue who told her in private. She told Mrs. Mei's family that they don't have to worry about money for the time being, so naturally they don't have to do the work.

In fact, it was a last resort for Mrs. Mei to go out to work. Naturally, it was good if she could not do it. After all, this mess at home couldn't always be left to her daughter.And if he let the man know, he would blame himself, so Mei didn't go again.

It is inconvenient for Lu Jiaoyue and Lu Guangzhi to go out when Mrs. Mei is at home. After all, Lu Guangzhi is a boy, and he is used to playing outside on weekdays. He finds various excuses to go out, but he also hides Mrs. Mei from the past. .

Lu Jiaoyue naturally told her younger brother not to go to the gambling house anymore, anyway, now that the eldest brother has money to get married, but Lu Guangzhi did not agree, just as he himself said, he didn't want to stay at home and farm for the rest of his life , It is also good to see the world outside.

Although Lu Jiaoyue was worried, after all Han Jin was watching, she was quite at ease.

Before Lu Jiaoyue realized it, she had placed more trust in Han Jin than she had imagined.Because of this, she didn't have any scruples about the defense of men and women, and directly asked her younger brother to send a message to Han Jin.

She was inexplicably confident that Uncle Jinzi would definitely come.

Sure enough, Han Jin came at the appointment.

All the way to the end of the village, Han Jin's carriage had already stopped there.

Lu Jiaoyue didn't have time to talk to him, so she got into the carriage. The carriage drove all the way, and stopped when it came to a remote place.

"Thank you, Uncle Jinzi."

Lu Jiaoyue always felt that Han Jin was an unexpectedly considerate person, and he knew her scruples almost without her saying a word.This feeling is very strange, as if the other party is worthy of my trust.

That's exactly what Han Jin wanted, he smiled nonchalantly, and said, "I have a bad reputation, so I can't hurt you."

Lu Jiaoyue hesitated to speak, some wanted to ask the other party that he was obviously not what the legend said, why the outside world would spread him like that.But this is the other party's private matter after all, and it's not easy for her to ask too much.

"What do you have to do with me?"

Han Jin looked at her who was much shorter than him standing in front of him. Looking from his direction, he could only see the top of her jet-black hair and the faint pink ears in her hair.Inexplicably, his mouth was a little dry, and his voice couldn't help being a little hoarse.

At this time, the two were on a hillside surrounded by a small forest, and the carriage had been tied by Han Jin where people could see it not far away.He deliberately got them both out of the carriage. He was fed up with the situation that every time he talked to her, he was in the carriage. You couldn't see me and I couldn't see you.

Lu Jiaoyue just paused for a moment, then said: "I want to ask about my little uncle's business."

Han Jin raised his thick eyebrows, "Did your mother ask you to ask?"

Although she asked like this, but based on Han Jin's knowledge of the Mei family, she was never someone who was willing to let a foreigner touch her daughter. If there was anything she would ask herself, how could she pass through her daughter.

Sure enough, Lu Jiaoyue shook her head and said, "I want to ask myself."

Han Jin glanced at her in surprise and said, "Then what do you want to know?"

Lu Jiaoyue pursed her lips lightly, and said, "I just want to know something about my little uncle's business." She paused, apparently there was still something to say.

Han Jin became even more puzzled, and asked tentatively, "Are you worried that your little uncle will lose money in business?"

Lu Jiaoyue was taken aback for a moment, then nodded immediately, and pretended to be casual: "You also know that my little uncle is used to doing things casually, so I was worried that he would lose money because he didn't think carefully. The money is used to do business.”

Han Jin thought it was a little funny, wondering if she knew that she looked cute when she was lying, she didn't dare to look at people, and the tip of her nose was sweating a little.

What is her purpose?Han Jin became curious.

He blinked and said, "It's normal for you to be worried, after all, you have to invest a lot of money this time."

"That's right, that's why I was a little worried about little uncle, so I wanted to ask."

"This..." Han Jin touched the stubble on his chin, and said with a strange light in his eyes: "I don't know about this, you know, I have a lot of things on weekdays, and your little uncle said to do it For business, I just need to make up for it. But don't worry, your little uncle is not without discretion, I trust him."

Lu Jiaoyue couldn't help wrinkling her face, this had nothing to do with discretion, it was a matter of man-made disasters, which cannot be avoided with discretion.It's a pity that she didn't know anything about her little uncle's business in her previous life, if not, she wouldn't rush to the doctor to ask him about it.

(End of this chapter)