Peasant woman

Chapter 1

Xu Cao held a long bamboo pole, stared wide-eyed, and looked up at the jujube tree with luxuriant branches, on which hung green jujubes.The jujubes are a bit small, and they have to wait a month or two before they mature.

Thinking that he would be able to eat those sweet and delicious jujubes in a month or two, Xu Cao swallowed her saliva and told herself to hold back, she must hold back, the jujubes are too astringent now, and it won't hurt to knock them down. tasty.

After rubbing her sore neck, Xu Cao heard the sound of a child crying loudly from the thatched hut next to the jujube tree.She panicked, threw away the long bamboo pole in her hand, and said to a little white-haired dog standing at her feet: "Little Bai, you should keep an eye on this place, don't let anyone knock this date down. "

The little dog is not big, its height is only up to the little girl's knees, it is very thin, only skin and bones left, when it heard the little girl's voice, it was very excited, it wagged its tail vigorously, and barked at the little girl twice Voice.

The little girl named Xu Cao hurriedly ran towards the thatched hut, the little white dog stood there staring at the little girl's figure, until the little girl entered the thatched hut, the little white dog lay down lazily Under the jujube tree.

Xu Cao entered the thatched hut, and there were two little girls about seven or eight years old standing inside. Seeing Xu Cao, the two little girls hurriedly shouted: "Sister, are those dates edible? We are so hungry, and so is fourth brother." gone."

In the corner of the thatched hut was a big kang, on which sat a two or three-year-old boy, who was crying loudly. When he saw Xu Cao, he wiped his tears with his hand, and said sobbingly, "Sister, Xiaoshan is hungry." .”

The two-and-a-half-year-old child still couldn't speak clearly, and looked at Xu Cao while wiping away tears.

Xu Cao looked at his younger siblings, thought for a while, picked up the fishing net next to him, and said to the two little girls, "I'll go to the river to catch fish and see if I can catch them. The two of you stay at home and watch the hill."

The two little girls nodded hurriedly.

It's only August now, it's hot, the sun is scorching hot outside, and the scorching sun above the head is baking everything on the earth. It's noon, and there is no one outside, only the chirping of cicadas can be heard.

Xu Cao wiped the sweat from her forehead, and walked towards the river resignedly.She is 13 and a half years old and was born in Zhanghe Village. She is the eldest child of the Xu family. She has two younger sisters and a younger brother.

She was also very surprised to come here, she didn't know what was going on.Her real name is Xu Bao, she was born in the Republic of China, and she has a very happy family. One time, she accidentally fell down the stairs when get out of class was over, and she came to this place when she woke up. She also became a girl named Xu Cao. one year old girl.

Yes, when she came here, this body was only one year old, and now she has been in this place where no birds lay eggs for 12 and a half years!She is a doctoral student at the Agricultural University, and she thought about time travel so she could do it, so she can make this poor family rich with her own abilities.Unexpectedly, things backfired. She was only one year old at the time, and she finally grew up to five years old. Then she told her old mother how to farm to double the grain output in the field. As a result, her old mother thought she was a ghost, talked nonsense, and put She was beaten to death.

In the future, every time she talked about it, her old mother would come to her. She also thought about tending those fields by herself, but as long as her old mother found out, she would not be able to run away after a beating.

In fact, she also understands what my mother thinks. In the past few years, there have been wars in the frontier and heavy taxes. The common people have to pay almost half of the food they grow. , that family will starve to death.In this case, how could my mother allow her to touch the field.Later, she gradually let go of these thoughts, and grew up to 13 years old with a full meal and a hungry meal every day.

After seeing so many stories about time-traveling women showing off their talents and becoming rich as soon as they time-travel, Xu Cao just wants to say that this is all nonsense!

After traveling through the past 12 years, she felt that she was about to be assimilated into an ancient person with ancient life and age.Fortunately, she remembers those skills firmly, and she also believes that she will use them one day.

Xu Cao thought while walking, and soon came to the Zhang River in the village, and the village was named after this river.The Zhanghe River is very long, and Xu Cao has never reached the end.

After throwing the fishing net in the river and fixing it, Xu Cao had nothing to do, so she found a shaded place and lay down.

This time Xu Cao slept until the end of the night, and the sun was already a little westward.She hurriedly got up, spread her feet and ran towards the river. She was small and a little thin. After a lot of effort, she finally fished up the fishing net and found that she was lucky. There was a big grass carp in the net. There are a few small crucian carp.

Xu Cao grinned and swallowed. This was the first time in a month that he had caught such a big fish. Usually there were only a few small fish as thick as a thumb. It seemed that his luck was really good today.When I woke up in the morning, I heard magpies calling. Could it be that there is some happy event today!
The grass carp weighed about four to five catties, and the three crucian carp also weighed about one catty.

Xu Cao dragged the fishing net back home and found that her mother and father hadn't come back yet. She asked Erya to boil the water in the pot, and asked Sanya to go back to the vegetable field and pull out radishes.Seeing a big fish, Xiao Shan staggered down the kang and followed Xu Cao's buttocks around.

"Elder sister, fish...fish, eat fish." Xiaoshan was still a little unsteady when he walked, wobbly.

Xu Cao turned her head and smiled at Xiao Shan, "Okay, eat Yuyu, Xiaoshan obediently go to the side and wait, you can eat Yuyu later."

As she spoke, she quickly scraped off the fish scales, broke open the fish belly, took out the fish intestines inside, put the fish bladder and fish roe in a wooden basin, chopped off the fish head, spread a thin layer of coarse salt on the fish body and hung it under the eaves sun up.It would be nice to have stewed radish and fish offal with fish head tonight.

With such a good dish, Xu Cao gritted her teeth and mixed beans and coarse rice to cook a pot of soybean rice.On weekdays, I cook porridge and drink it. It has been a long time since I have eaten, and I feel a little greedy.

After the soybean rice was steamed and the fish head was almost cooked, the voices of mother Li and father Xu Zicheng came from outside the door.

"What does it taste like? It's really fragrant."

"I'm afraid the big girl went out to catch fish again. I can smell the smell of stewed radish with fish head." This was the voice of his father Xu Zicheng, and Xu Cao seemed to feel that there was a sigh in his father's voice.

Xiao Shan heard his father and mother's voice, and ran out staggeringly, "Ah, father, mother..."

Seeing the baby's youngest son, Mrs. Li hurriedly stepped forward to hug him with a smile, "Xiao Shan is so good, and you know how to come out to pick up your parents, come here, give your mother a kiss, mother will miss you to death." Mrs. Li and Xu Zicheng have already After entering the house, Li Shi glanced at the soybean rice in the pot, and her face immediately changed. She put the hill on the ground, and ran towards Xu Cao, grabbed Xu Cao's ear, and shouted : "You damn girl, didn't I tell you that I can't eat steamed rice this month. Our family doesn't have much food left. According to your way of eating, the whole family will be hungry before the end of the month. You Damn girl, did you take my old lady's words as wind on your ears!"

Xu Cao cried out in pain, protecting her ears with one hand, "Mother, mother, I was wrong, Xiao Shan, Erya Sanya and the others are hungry, so I just steamed rice with soybeans."

Xu Cao wanted to cry, but she couldn't help crying even though she had lived here for 12 years and was used to her mother's patriarchal patriarchy.What a sin she did in her previous life, to throw her into this kind of place and meet this kind of old woman in this life!

"Okay, there's nothing wrong with the big girl, so don't beat her up." Xu Zizi said as he picked up his precious son who was squatting on the ground, "Xiaoshan, let's go to eat."

Mrs. Li nagged at Xu Cao for a while, and then scolded: "Hurry up and go eat, maybe you want my old lady to bring you food!"

Xu Cao covered her ears and ran to eat.

There was stewed radish with fish head, fried fish offal, and pickled vegetables. The Xu family hadn't eaten such a rich food for a long time, and they all ate with their stomachs open.Xiaobai outside smelled the aroma of the food, and barked whimperingly. This little dog is also pitiful with Xu Cao. He often eats the last meal without the next meal. Fortunately, he can sometimes find some food by himself. That's how I grew up.

Xu Cao hastily removed the last bite of food from the bowl, pulled all the remaining bones from the fish head into the bowl, and rushed out.

Faintly, Xu Cao heard Li's yelling and cursing, "Damn girl, we can't get enough to eat, she still has time to raise a dog, so she will kill the dead dog tomorrow, so that Xiao Shan can have a good meal." !"

"It's true, that dog didn't eat our food, it went out to find food by itself, or the big girl gave it some bones to gnaw on, you can tell me that too! Well, the big girl won't stay in our house for long It's gone." The voice behind was getting weaker and weaker, but Xu Cao was taken aback. What do you mean she won't be able to stay at home for long?

Throwing the bones in the bowl to the little soil dog, Xu Cao hurried into the house with the empty bowl, looked at his parents, and asked, "Father, mother, what do you mean I can't stay in the house for long? Could it be... Could it be." She said, with a look of horror on her face.Could it be that her parents wanted to sell her to a rich family as a servant?

She always knew that her mother was a nagging and nagging mother. Although she often beat her, she was not evil.However, the family was short of money, and Xiao Shan was ill a few days ago, and asked his uncle's family to borrow a few hundred Wen, could it be that the uncle came to press for the debt?So parents want to sell her for money?The more Xu Cao thought about it, the more frightened she became. There are many such things in this day and age.

Mrs. Li gave her a blank look, "You damn girl, what are you guessing! Although my old lady hates you as a girl, she is not the kind of cruel person who sold you to be a slave! Today, I will give it to you with your father." Talking about marriage, I think the man is not bad."

(End of this chapter)