The splendid life of a small peasant girl

Chapter 3
On the way to the river, Yao Yu met a lot of women in the village, who seemed to be washing clothes or dishes, but after seeing Yao Yu, those people hid in tacit understanding and pointed, whispering, Yao Yu pretended not to notice, and took Nuo'er straight to the river, and chose a spot to squat down.

Yao Yu looked up and found that the man's eyes were full of schadenfreude, he just pretended he didn't see it, and smiled at the man, as the saying goes, don't hit the smiling face, the man had no choice but to wash himself silently when Yao Yu responded like this The clothes in his hands, but he doesn't feel like making things difficult.

Without detergent, Yao Yu had to rinse the bowls constantly to clean them. In addition, Yao Yu was injured and didn't want to talk to the people around him, so she washed very slowly. Yao Yu finished washing a bowl and stood aside. Nuoer, who was waiting, wiped the bowls dry with a cloth. After washing all the bowls and putting them in the tub, Yao Yu discovered that there was only one woman left in the whole river.

The woman had obviously just washed her clothes and was about to go back. When she saw Yao Yu get up, she asked, "Go back together?"

Yao Yu had a little impression of this woman. When Yao Yu came over just now, she didn't laugh at herself like the others, and kept silently squatting aside to wash her clothes. Yao Yu had a good impression of her. When she met her, she offered to go back together. I agreed without thinking.

The woman obviously didn't expect Yao Yu to agree, she was stunned for a while, then hurried to the right side of Yao Yu, and enthusiastically began to introduce herself, "I live next to you, my name is Wang Fengzhen, and the guy in my family is called Li Dalin, if you don't mind , just call me sister."

This was the first person who was so warm to him after crossing, Yao Yu felt warm in his heart, and shouted, "Sister Fengzhen."

Wang Fengzhen saw that Yao Yu was so forthright, which suited her taste, and she also liked Yao Yu in her heart. The two chatted all the way, feeling like old friends who hadn't seen each other for many years.

Yao Yu smiled and said, "Maybe I'll come to wash the dishes at this time tomorrow."

Wang Fengzhen said with a smile, "That's a good relationship, we will still make an appointment then."

After separating from Wang Fengzhen, Yao Yu fell into deep thought. Through the conversation just now, she learned a lot about Xie's family, but these things made her sympathize with Xie Zhimo.

The reason why Xie Zhiwen can study with such peace of mind now is because of Xie Zhimo’s blessing. After Xie Zhimo started the thieves business, all the money he earned was handed over to Xie’s family. Xie Zhiwen today is all earned by Xie Zhimo.

Xie Zhimo's voice of being a thieves is despised by the villagers, but usually if anyone in the village comes to the door in trouble, Xie Zhimo will help them, so although everyone dislikes it, no one will say anything about Xie Zhimo for a while.

This time I went out to do thieves business, and I didn’t reply for several months. Later, I heard people from other villages said that they were dead, and the Xie family didn’t send anyone to find the body. The villagers began to feel sorry for Xie Zhimo again. It's really pitiful to leave this world before getting married, all because of the Xie family.

The Xie family probably also felt sorry for Xie Zhimo, so they wanted to find a ghost marriage for him, but they searched all over Shuangshui Village and the surrounding villages, but they couldn't find an unmarried dead woman, so they decided to find a living person. Then he found Yao Yu's house.

Yao Yu took the bowls to the kitchen and put them in order, ready to feed the pigs, when he heard a voice from Xie Zhiwen's room.

"Speaking of money, I'm angry. As for the Yao family, it's still worth ninety-two nine dollars. Hmph, I think it's because the Yao family dislikes Yao Yu who only eats but doesn't do anything. But they know how to do things because they know what we do. The most important thing is to accumulate virtue and do good deeds." Listening to the voice, it was Mrs. Liu who was speaking.

Yao Yu hurriedly knelt down and made a silent gesture to Nuoer, Nuoer covered her mouth strangely and stood aside, Yao Yu took Nuoer to hide aside and secretly listened to the conversation in the room.

"Okay, mother, the money has already been spent, let's kill him and bury him when it's time, and we will pay him back. Besides, we may spend more money to find his body." The voice was Xie Zhiwen's. , Yao Yu showed an unbelievable expression, a scholar, so lightly said that he wanted to kill a person, it seemed as simple as casually saying that he would kill an ant, and he chose the dark marriage because it would cost more to find the corpse of the third child. The money, this is the Xie family?

"Mother, if it weren't for the outsiders saying that the third child will be your schoolmate, our Xie family is sorry for him, who would go and get him a marriage." Liu's tone was rather unwilling, as if he was still feeling sorry for the ninety-two nine money of silver.

"Ghost marriage." Xie Zhiwen's tone seemed a little impatient.

"That's right, it's a ghost marriage." Liu could also hear the impatience in Xie Zhiwen's tone, "I'm going out right now, fourth child, you can read at ease, and tell mother what you want to eat."

Yao Yu hurriedly took Nuoer to the pigsty. If Yao Yu guessed correctly, Xie Zhiwen came up with the idea of ​​the ghost marriage. The purpose was very simple, so that he could earn a good reputation in the village. She was still thinking about talking to the fourth child, but she didn't expect that the perpetrator was the fourth child. How could Yao Yu have forgotten, how could a farmer in the countryside know about the ghost marriage? There must be someone in the family who understands, and the Xie family This person must be the only scholar, Xie Zhiwen.

He worked hard to spend money for his family, but he didn’t expect his family to be ungrateful. Xie Zhiwen had no respect for Xie Zhimo in his words, and seemed to feel that Xie Zhimo’s voice as a thieves had affected his reputation. Yao Yu felt more sympathy for Xie Zhimo. , At the same time, she began to feel confused again, there are still nine days until Jiji's day, what should she do?
"Oh, brother and sister are feeding pigs."

Yao Yu raised his head and looked at the person who came, the daughter-in-law of Xie Zhichuan, the second wife, Song, her complexion was sallow, she looked very unhealthy, and she had thick lips and big mouth, showing yellow teeth when speaking, Yao Yu almost vomited come out.

"Second sister-in-law." Yao Yu replied lightly, holding back the tumbling in her stomach.

"If you're okay after feeding the pigs, go back to the vegetable garden and pick some leaves for dinner." Mrs. Song pointed in the direction of the vegetable garden.

Yao Yu sneered in his heart. When Yao Yu first came, Song-shi tried to curry favor with all kinds of things. Ever since Yao Yu was beaten, Song-shi also changed his face, "Mother asked me to wash fourth brother's clothes. I'll pick it up before it's too late."

Hearing about the fourth brother, Song's complexion immediately turned bad, but what can be done, he is the only treasure of the Xie family, if it delays his affairs, it is good that she, Song, is not scolded and beaten to death, "Forget it Alright, I'll go by myself."

That's what he said, but in his heart, the Song family had already hated Yao Yu.It's just that Yao Yu didn't have time to take care of these things. Facing the pigs in the fence, Yao Yu was in a bit of a dilemma. How to feed the pigs and how much should they be fed at a time? How much feed do you feed?"

Mrs. Song glanced at the pigsty, then went straight to the back room without answering.

Yao Yu decided to pour this pile of unknown feed into the pig trough, and then took Nuoer back to the room.

Sure enough, within a quarter of an hour, Liu's roar like killing a pig came from the courtyard.

"I'm going to die, feed so much! You cheap hoof, are you trying to feed my pigs to death! If you sell you, you can't buy a pig." Liu said while crying, "What evil did I do? Oh, I spent money to buy something like this back."

"I have never fed pigs at home." Yao Yu pretended to be innocent, "And I asked my second sister-in-law sincerely before feeding."

Song, who was gloating at the side, didn't expect Yao Yu to draw fire on her so quickly, and jumped up, "Ask me, did I ask you to feed so much?"

"But the second sister-in-law didn't stop me from feeding so much." Yao Yu said pitifully, "Besides, the second sister-in-law had time to look for mother just now, so she might as well take the extra feed out of the pig trough."

Mrs. Liu knew that Yao Yu didn't know how to do farm work, so she didn't expect that she couldn't even feed pigs, but Mrs. Song who was at the side knew how to feed pigs. For the extra feed, Mrs. Liu looked at Mrs. Song with eyes full of fire, "I mean you, why don't you know how to say something, our Xie family feeds you, it's better to feed a pig." , Mrs. Liu picked up a broom beside her and beat Song Mrs. "See if I don't kill you broom star."

Mrs. Song was chased by Mrs. Liu and ran all over the yard. Yao Yu knew that Mrs. Song was a person who likes to provoke dissension. After feeding the pigs, Yao Yu saw Mrs. Song come out of the house and ran to the pigsty for a look, and then went to After entering Liu's house, I guessed in my heart that something must be wrong.

Yao Yu took the opportunity to go into the house, threw the bloody clothes she changed yesterday into the basin, and was about to wash them.Seeing the wooden basin Yao Yu was carrying, Mrs. Liu hurried into the room and carried a lot of clothes still inside.

Mrs. Song took the opportunity to put a lot of clothes in the second room into Yao Yu's wooden basin. Mrs. Liu pretended not to see it, and acquiesced to Mrs. Song's behavior. Seeing this, Mrs. Song gave Yao Yu a proud look.

Yao Yu looked at the clothes in the tub and frowned, "Mother, with so many clothes, what if I don't come back in time to cook for my fourth brother?"

Sure enough, when Mrs. Liu heard this, she yelled, "It's delicious and lazy, and I still don't take yours away. I want you to look good when I'm hungry."

Reluctantly, Song stepped forward to take away the second room's clothes, and Yao Yu took the wooden basin to the river to wash the clothes. Nuo'er followed Yao Yu the whole time without saying a word, but even so, You could see the relaxed expression on his face.

(End of this chapter)