Qingben beauty

Chapter 4 Take care of the door at night

A road was opened outside Huangguan Village three years ago, and Lao Ge’s home was not far from the village head. Lao Ge drunk the village chief with two bottles of wine, asked for a piece of land at the village head, built a grocery store himself, and A simple toilet was set up next to the grocery store. The last time I went to the toilet, I charged one cent per person.

Our place is a mountainous area, and the villages in front and behind are far apart. It is difficult for cars running on the road to find a place to rest. Once Lao Ge’s grocery store and toilet opened, the business was very good, with more than ten yuan a day. income.

At that time, this income is a monopoly in our area!

Lao Ge became the first person to build a new tile-roofed house in Huangguan Village.

There are three big houses and a new tile-roofed house with a living room. The furniture in the house is brand new, and the clothes worn by Mrs. Ge are also beautiful that I have never seen before.

At that time, I was relieved to see the new house and the indifferent but not disgusted face of Lao Ge's wife.

I thought, maybe what Grandpa said is right, I can at least eat better and dress better here.

But after half a day, I knew I was naive.

How could my stepmother let me live a good life.

I didn't even enter the doors of the three tile-roofed houses, so Lao Ge took me to an old house with half of the skylights open and half of the mud walls collapsed.

The old house also has three houses, two of which have broken roofs, and only one hut, which is only a few square meters, can barely shelter from the wind and rain.

Lao Ge built a wooden plank in that hut, threw two beds of broken cotton batting over, and considered it a nest for me.

Then, I saw Ge Muzhuang.

At that time, Ge Muzhuang was only 14 years old, but he was very tall. My head only reached his waist, and my body was not even half of his.

But Ge Muzhuang, who is so big, has a stupid face, and he doesn't know where he came back from, with a pile of weeds on his head and a piece of cow dung in his hand.

Seeing me, he threw that piece of cow dung on me, and when he was done, he clapped his hands and laughed.

At that time, I was so angry that I picked up a wooden stick and wanted to beat him up.

As soon as he picked up the stick, Lao Ge slapped me to the ground, pointed at me and scolded: "You little bastard, if you dare to touch my son's finger, I will beat you to death!"

That day, I didn't eat a single bite, only water, and it was only at night that Lao Ge's wife brought me a bowl.

Then let me clean the kitchen, and then took me to see the pigsty at home, as well as the place where chickens and ducks were raised, and even the two-acre vegetable garden behind.

At that time, Lao Ge's daughter-in-law was only about thirty years old, she was very thin, her cheekbones were protruding, and her complexion was extremely pale. Even though she was wearing very bright clothes, she still had a gloomy look.

I looked at her and felt a little scared. I just nodded when she said something, and didn't dare to say a word.

Lao Ge's daughter-in-law looked at me like that and didn't say much. After telling me what vegetables were grown in the vegetable garden, she turned and walked back.

When they reached the gate of the vegetable garden, Lao Ge's wife looked around and said in a low voice, "Girl, close the door at night."

Her voice was low and it took me half a minute to understand what she was saying.

Close the door?
Of course I will close the door!
At that time, I didn't think about the meaning behind the words at all. My head was full of cucumber vines that had just bear fruit in the vegetable garden.

As soon as Lao Ge's daughter-in-law left, I immediately went back to pick the few tender cucumbers, rubbed them twice on my hands and put them in my mouth.

That night, I took a bath in the stream next to the house, and washed my only clothes in the stream.

A few cucumbers just filled my stomach a little, and my hands were weak to wash clothes. My heart was sore and painful, and my tears fell into the stream. Following the gurgling stream, I don't know where it went.

I have no mother, no father, and now, I don't even have a home...

When the clothes were washed, the last tear fell on the water, making a small splash.

I wiped away the tears from the corners of my eyes, and said to myself, girl, stop crying, it’s useless for you to cry, because no one will care.

Naked, I took my clothes and walked back to the broken mud house, hung the clothes outside, lay on the plank bed, and wrapped the two heavy-smelling quilts around my body.

That night, I turned over countless times on the board, and I didn't know when I fell asleep in a daze.

Before dawn the next day, I woke up habitually, squinted on the bed for a while and then quickly got up.

I remember half a year after my father left, a middle-aged woman came to visit me in the village, and my grandma said, that was my grandmother.

I know what grandma means. Grandma is my mother's mother. The grandson of the family next door likes to show off how good his grandmother is to him in front of me.

When grandma said it was my grandma, I was really happy and excited. I wondered if my grandma didn't know what life I was living before, so she never came to see me. This time, she will accept me. I go?
But the middle-aged woman only said one word to me and left. She said: Girl, people have to bow their heads under the eaves. This is your fate, so just admit it.

I don't know what this fate is, so I accept it, but I can probably understand what she meant by bowing your head under the roof.

Now that I have been sold by my grandfather, I can no longer go back to that home. I have no other place to go, but here is where I can find my hiding place.

At least, I can no longer let Lao Ge punish me.

I have nothing to eat for a day, I am really hungry, and I feel uncomfortable...

I got up, took off the quilt first, took it to the riverside to wash it quietly before dawn, then hurried back, took the half-dry clothes to wear, and then put the quilt cover to dry.

The kitchen of Lao Ge’s house is not like mine. It is an independent room next to the new house. Yesterday Lao Ge didn’t allow me to eat, and they locked the door after dinner.

I didn't have the idea of ​​messing with the kitchen, I just cleaned the yard like I do at home.

Lao Ge's house is very new, but the yard looks like it hasn't been tidied up for a long time. It's messy everywhere. There are lumps here and there on the ground, either dog poop or cow dung.

I took a broom taller than me and swept it for half an hour before it was considered clean. Seeing that it was already dawn, I hurried to cut pigweed.

When the sky was bright, I had chopped up the pigweed and put it in the pigsty. At this time, Old Ge's wife came out.

Looking at the scene in the yard, Old Ge's daughter-in-law looked at me with a complicated expression, and muttered in a low voice: "It's a lot."

After Ge Mu got stronger, I knew what it meant to be troubled.

Within 5 minutes, the entire yard was littered with trash, dog poop and cow dung again.

Ge Muzhuang doesn't allow me to sweep!

Said that those were his soldiers!

He's the general, and those shit, cow dung and garbage are his soldiers!

Seeing Lao Ge standing at the door with a gloomy face, I didn't dare to talk back, and I didn't dare to clean up those stinking 'soldiers' anymore, so I picked up the basket and went to the vegetable garden.

That day, Lao Ge gave me food.

Although I couldn't eat white rice and meat with them, at least I was given a big bowl of leftover rice covered with a lot of vegetables.

It was the most filling meal I've had since I can remember.

Even if there are more things to do than before, Ge Muzhuang is too difficult to deal with, and Lao Ge who drinks every day either beats his wife or me.

But to be able to manage my fullness and have a place to sleep, I think, I am satisfied.

What I want is really simple, very simple.

However, even such a day has not passed a month.

(End of this chapter)