sweet wife little confused

Chapter 1 Worry
"Chirp, chirp, chirp, Mulan is weaving at home, I don't hear the sound of looming looms, only the sigh of the female..."

On the podium, a young and handsome gentleman was dressed in a blue robe, holding a yellowed scroll in his hand, his voice was sweet and magnetic, and the way he read every word, he looked more and more elegant and charming.

Holding the food box, An Xiu'er stood outside the window sill, and when she looked at the teacher on the podium, bitterness appeared on her pretty face.

"Last night, I saw the military post. The Khan ordered soldiers. There are twelve volumes in the military book. The volume has the name of the master. The grandfather has no elder son, and Mulan has no elder brother. I am willing to be a saddle horse in the market, and I will recruit for my master from now on!"

The teacher finished reading a paragraph, put down the book, and accidentally glanced at the window, just in time to see An Xiu'er standing outside the window, he smiled warmly, and nodded to her, An Xiu'er blushed immediately, and lowered her head involuntarily, At the white and slender chin, the slender neck is like a beautiful swan neck.

The sound of books next to her continued, but An Xiu'er's thoughts had already drifted to the sky. Before she could recover, the academy had already ended, and her tiger-headed little nephew ran up to her, "Auntie, You came?"

"Well, did you listen to the teacher's lecture well this morning?" An Xiu'er pursed her lips and asked gently.

"Of course, my master even praised me today." The young man raised his head and answered crisply, with a little pride on his face.

An Xiu'er then smiled, patted her nephew on the head, and led him to the bamboo forest behind the school, and found a free stone table, she put down the food box, opened the lid, and brought out the simple meals inside.

It's just a bowl of brown rice, a butterfly pickle, and an egg.

This food can be regarded as the highest configuration of An's family, because An Ronghe is studying, so apart from An Xiu'er occasionally eating a few eggs, most of the rest are reserved for An Ronghe.

He came to school early in the morning and read all morning. An Ronghe was indeed very hungry. He picked up the bowl and chopsticks and told An Xiu'er, and then started to eat hungrily.

"Slow down." An Xiuer patted his back.

"I have to go to study after eating. The master said, whoever recites Mulan Ci today will be rewarded with a writing brush." ​​With food in his mouth, An Ronghe was a little slurred.

An Xiu'er laughed again. She picked up the egg and peeled the shell for him. Her small white hands were almost the same color as the white of the egg. She put the shelled egg into his bowl.

"Auntie, you can eat too." An Ronghe split the egg in half, and gave An Xiu'er a chopstick of egg white.

"Auntie has already eaten." An Xiu'er saw that the child was so sensible, she smiled again, and said: "Eat quickly, didn't you say that you will go to endorse the book later?"

When An Ronghe heard her words, he didn't refuse any more, hurriedly finished his meal, greeted An Xiu'er, and ran back to the school.

Looking at his back, An Xiu'er smiled helplessly, lowered her head, and picked up the food on the stone table.

"Xiuer..." A bright voice rang in her ears, she raised her head, and saw a pair of smiling eyes, it was Gu Linlang, the teacher here.

"Hello, Mr. Gu." An Xiu'er panicked, and quickly put down her things and saluted him.

"Why is Xiu'er so polite to me today? Didn't you call me Gu Lang in the past?" Gu Linlang took two steps closer to An Xiu'er, and sat down on the stone bench beside her.

"Mr. Gu was joking, how dare Xiu'er go over the line."

An Xiu'er took two steps back calmly. Gu Linlang saw his action, and his eyes sank. He quickly put away the coldness, and said affectionately: "In a few days I'm about to leave Qingshui Village, have you considered what I told you?"

Gu Linlang looked at An Xiu'er with burning eyes, those peach eyes were full of affection, An Xiu'er only took one look, then felt her cheeks burn, and looked away.

In fact, she still doesn't know if everything in the dream last night is true or not. However, she has already made up her mind. She made the completely opposite decision. She will not elope with Gu Linlang. Zhang, the blind fisherman in this village!

An Xiu'er is the youngest daughter of the An family, and there are two elder brothers above her. Father An's old daughter, An Xiu'er has always been a golden lump in his heart. Since childhood, the An family has suffered no matter how hard it is, but An Xiu'er has never eaten It's hard, but let the two sisters-in-law do any housework at home.

Until last year, misfortune happened to the An family. The eldest sister-in-law Li had a dystocia when she gave birth, and she died twice. Only An Xiuer's elder brother, An Tieshi, was left alone to raise the two underage children. In order to make a living, An Tieshi has gone Work in the county.

Father An is getting old. After the eldest brother went to the county, the second brother An Tiemu became the pillar of the family, and the second sister-in-law Dong was busy working in the fields all day at home. In this way, the An family could barely live. An Xiuer Only in this way can she still live her relatively stable boudoir life.

If this has always been the case, then life can barely survive. However, misfortunes never come singly. The court wants to enlist the people to serve in corvée, but anyone who has two sons in the family must go to one of them. The An family happens to have two sons, and a son must be born. .

However, An Tieshi has already gone to the county to make a living, and An Tiemu is the pillar of the family, and it is the time of spring plowing. Once he leaves, the An family's fields cannot be managed by An Lao alone.

After much deliberation, Father An actually planned to serve corvee by himself!
This corvee service is not a good job. I heard that this time the corvee is to build river embankments, which is a hard job. I still remember that some people in the village went to repair river embankments last year. When they came back, they were all dressed. The ragged and skinny ones are no longer human. Father An is so old, if he goes to repair the embankment, how can he survive?
However, there is always room for flexibility, the village head said earlier that if you don't want to hire someone, you can just pay the corvee tax of five taels of silver, and one person can be exempted from the corvee.

The An family relies on the one-acre three-point land, but it is barely enough to live on. Although An Tieshi went to the county to make a living, the money he earns is not even enough for his son An Rong and his studies. How can there be extra money?
Just when An's family was at a loss, a flower matchmaker came to the door and said that Zhang, a blind man who lived by the Qingshui River, was willing to marry An Xiu'er with six taels of silver as a dowry. With five taels of silver, he doesn't even have to worry about the money for An Rong and his studies next year.

But his origin is unknown. He came to this Qingshui village suddenly two years ago. He gave some money to the head of the village and let him settle in this village. fish for a living.

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?But girls from good families don't want to marry such people, the world is chaotic, looking at him like that, maybe he is some kind of desperado.

Yes, this blind man Zhang is tall and burly, with a ferocious face. He is in his early thirties. He is not really blind, but he always likes to wear a black cloth over his eyes. No one has ever seen him. The black cloth had been removed, so the people in Qingshui Village called him Blind Zhang.

On weekdays, there are few villagers who come and go with him, only some bold women will occasionally go to his house to buy fish in groups. An Xiu'er met him once when she was washing clothes by the river, and she was so frightened that time. Didn't dare to lift it.

An Xiu'er has fair skin and looks as beautiful as a flower. Not only is she good-looking, but she is also ingenious. Everyone in this village praises her. Many young people in the village miss her tweed.

So, how could she marry this blind man Zhang?

What's more, because she often went to deliver meals to An Ronghe, she already had a crush on Gu Linlang, the private school teacher in the village. In her eyes, only a gentle, handsome, and knowledgeable person like Gu Linlang could be worthy of him. She An Xiu'er, what is that ugly and vulgar blind Zhang!
But if she doesn't marry this blind Zhang, then her father will go to serve in corvee. Thinking of how kind her father is to her, An Xiu'er has been tossing and turning for the past few days.

She felt that she was just like Hua Mulan written in this book, full of worries.

But this Gu Linlang was pressing her hard again. The implication was that he was about to leave Qinghe Village and go back to his home. Before leaving, he asked her if she would like to go with him.

Gu Linlang told him that after he returned home, he planned to study hard for a period of time and then go to the scientific examination. At that time, he was going to be the number one scholar. If she left with him, she would be the wife of the number one scholar in the future.

Every time she thinks of this, An Xiu'er feels blushing, hot and heart-beating. She is a hearty girl, and if she can marry this unparalleled handsome Gu Linlang, she will be able to marry a husband and wife in the future, loving each other, she thinks this is what she wants life.

Gu Linlang would occasionally tell her some stories on weekdays. The beauties in the stories were willing to elope with him regardless of anything for the sake of her sweetheart. If she really loved him, she should elope with him.

As for Father An, he will compensate him when he becomes an official wife in the future.

An Xiu'er was attacked by such sweet words, she almost believed it.

However, she had a nightmare last night. In the dream, she was really coaxed by Gu Linlang to elope with him, but it turned out that Gu Linlang's family already had a wife, and she could only be an unknown concubine after she passed.

She was sad at the time, and wanted to repent and run back, Gu Linlang told her again: "I would rather be a rich man's concubine than a poor family's wife, he will definitely treat her well in the future, the so-called wife and concubine is just a title. "

She believed it again. At first Gu Linlang was very kind to her, but then he changed. Later, he had a newcomer by his side, she was pregnant, and his wife poured her a bowl of big red flowers After this bowl of safflower, she didn't die, but her child did. Not only could she not conceive for the rest of her life, but she was also at the root of her disease.

Within two years, she became increasingly haggard and lost her appearance, and her brother, a scholar who was full of admiration at the beginning, sold her to a one-eyed widower. The widower was cruel and beat and scolded her every day. She went home, only to find out that Old Man An, who once held her in the palm of his hand, had died during that time of corvee.

She was only in her twenties at the time, and the villagers couldn't recognize her as a flower in the village. They thought she was a beggar woman from somewhere, and pointing at her, she stood in the clear water disheartened. By the river, looking at himself with a haggard face in the river, he jumped down.

The feeling of drowning still appeared in her mind until now. When she woke up, An Xiu'er was so frightened that she broke out in sweat. Everything in the dream was so real, it was as real as if she had really experienced it.

After she got up that day, she worshiped the Bodhisattva all morning.

She once heard the story of Huangliang Yimeng, and she felt that the Bodhisattva must have used magic to make her see another way clearly in the dream. The so-called wealth and glory are all illusory.

It's a lie to be a rich man's concubine rather than a poor family's wife.

She just wanted to marry this blind man Zhang, at least she was a legitimate wife, and the other one could repay her father and mother's kindness in nurturing her, so that her father would not have to do hard labor and live a few more years.

(End of this chapter)