Wang family small peasant girl

Chapter 14

"Yun'er, don't believe what the villagers say, I won't marry anyone else." Tie Suo took a step forward anxiously, wanting Zhang Yun to listen to his explanation.

Zhang Yun moved a few small steps to the side, and stopped him aloud: "Don't come here again."

Seeing her like this, Tiesuo felt bored and frustrated, and said anxiously, "Yun'er..."

"You'd better listen to me." Zhang Yun interrupted his words, Tiesuo hesitated to speak, but finally remained silent, just staring at her blankly.

"Our little baby, don't take it too seriously, don't hurt your parents, break the harmony of the whole family, and embarrass me for this." Zhang Yun finished speaking calmly.

Tie Suo seemed to have misunderstood him, and couldn't help but took another step forward, and hurriedly said: "I didn't mean to embarrass you, you believe me, for you, I won't look at anyone, and I won't marry back House's."

Zhang Yun was almost suffocated after hearing this, and it seemed that if he didn't explain clearly, this stupid boy would not wake up, so he simply said with a sullen face: "Your family wants to marry you, you only need to consider the other party's character, You don't need to worry about me at all, to be honest, I never took that baby girl seriously, even if your family doesn't want to marry you, I won't marry you. "

Now that she said it harshly, Zhang Yun felt a little worried, afraid that the iron lock would be stimulated, and if she couldn't see it, it would be bad for her. Thinking of this, she hurriedly backed away, looked at the iron lock in a hurry, and saw His face was pale, he staggered, he stumbled for several steps before he stabilized, he couldn't hear anything clearly when he was muttering, he lowered his head and didn't dare to look at her, he was in a daze for a long time, then slowly raised his head, Glancing at her sadly, he turned his head and staggered away.

Looking at the figure of the iron lock going away, Zhang Yun let out a sigh of relief, feeling a little stuffy in his heart, not feeling very well, and no longer in the original interest, he squatted down and gathered the water candle he had just pulled out, and carried him home up.

Just around the Qingling River, the sky was pattering down with raindrops. Zhang Yun hurriedly quickened his pace, trotted into the fenced yard, and ran into the kitchen with the water candle in his arms. After putting down the water candle, he turned his head and looked outside. The rain was already gone. Even in a line, the dry mud in the courtyard was quickly wet.

Seeing that the rain was getting heavier, Zhang Yun hurriedly opened the cupboard, pulled out a dry lotus leaf from the bottom layer, used it as a straw hat, covered his head, and rushed out, running to the back to pile up sundries such as farm tools, haystacks, and straw In the thatched hut, I took the coir raincoat and bamboo hat from the inside and put them on, hurriedly returned to the front yard, took all the sieves for drying vegetables and soybeans back to the main room, took away the wooden frame on which the sieves were placed, and ran to take the chickens, The hen rushed back to the chicken coop and lifted the chicken coop under the eaves to avoid the rain. The grass nests where the eggs were grown were also taken back to the main room.

After collecting all the things in the yard, Zhang Yun wiped his wet face, ran back to the thatched hut, took all the coir raincoats and bamboo hats, tied them with hemp rope, and ran out the door carrying them to the field to deliver to his family. go.

The pouring rain hit Zhang Yun's hat, and the water falling from the brim of the hat formed a rain curtain, covering her sight. She was carrying a heavy coir raincoat and became unable to walk. She couldn't run fast at all. He hit a puddle of mud, slipped his foot and fell to the ground.

Zhang Yun hurriedly stretched out her hands to support herself beside the mud puddle, kicked her legs and stood up, her pant legs and arms were all covered with mud, she ignored these and pulled her legs out of the puddle.

"Yun'er, why did you fall like this? Are you okay?" Just as Zhang Yun pulled out his leg, someone ran towards her not far away, and when he got close, he reached out to take the coir raincoat and bamboo hat in her hand, and before she could speak, Then he said: "This is for your father and Cheng Zi. You give it to me, and I will send it for you. You go home and change your clothes, so as not to catch cold."

Zhang Yun raised his arm that was not stained with mud, wiped away the rain that had smeared his eyes, and looked over, only to see the back of the man, who could vaguely recognize Chang Man, who was completely naked, The clothes and pants were already soaked by the rain, so he ran quickly with his coir raincoat and bamboo hat.

Now that someone sent it to her, Zhang Yun turned around and went home without further delay. As soon as he entered the house and took off his coir raincoat, he felt the cold air seep into his body. After receiving some rainwater, I washed off the mud on my hands with a cloth towel, and then rinsed my legs and feet with water. After the mud was washed away, I took off the wet clothes and pants to dry them, and changed into clean clothes and pants.

This is still not safe, so Zhang Yun quickly ran to the kitchen with a bamboo hat, took old ginger from the cupboard, washed it, sliced ​​it, and put it in the pot to cook ginger soup. Unfortunately, there is no brown sugar at home, otherwise, he would make brown sugar ginger tea The effect of cold will be better.

While cooking the ginger soup, Zhang Yun huddled next to the stove door, and felt a lot more comfortable when the fire warmed him, so he stuffed some more firewood into the stove to make the fire burn hotter. Look out to see if the family has come back.

When a large pot of ginger soup boiled, the rain outside eased a little, and the people working in the field came back together.After the family came back, they were in a hurry again, washing their legs and feet, drying their bodies and changing into dry clothes, while Zhang Yun was busy serving the ginger soup in bowls, so that everyone in the family could drink a large bowl.

The spicy ginger soup, coupled with the good physique of the laborers, allowed Zhang's family to survive the cold rain, but the rain did not stop, and it rained for three days. During this period, except for Zhang Youqing who wore coir raincoats and He took the bamboo hat to the field to see the condition of the wheat, and the rest stayed at home.

The whole family sits in the main room and bundles the corn cobs that have been turned over and dried. They can be hung on the earth wall or under the eaves to dry in the sun. Good milling.

And Zhang Yun is packing up the water candles, picking off all the stems, taking out the white and tender parts inside, which can be cooked into vegetables, and the rest are used to feed the chickens first, and the leaves are kept, and after drying, they are ready to try to make baskets, and Many water candles have hairy tops, which can be taken off and filled into pillow cores.

The whole family is busy with their hands and their mouths are not idle. They are all talking and chatting. From time to time, they look up and look out of the hall. The drops seem to form a crystal curtain. Watching the rain scene like this adds a sense of comfort to the busy life.

After tidying up the water candles in his hand, Zhang Yun helped to bind the corn cobs, brought the bench to Mrs. Zhou's side, and said while tying the corn: "Mother, the water candles I pulled out, the little pig loves them very much." Well, let's just grab two little piggies, and we can save some money just before the price increases during the Chinese New Year."

Mrs. Zhou didn't raise her head, she replied: "The money saved by the family has to be paid back to Dr. Lin before the twelfth lunar month. Dr. Lin asked us to pay it back over several years. He is already taking good care of our family. We can't pay it back." If we continue to delay, Dr. Lin's family will not be well off."

As soon as Zhang Yun said this, Zhang Yun's mouth was blocked. Although she wanted to raise pigs earlier and sell them for some money, so that the family's life would be better, but she didn't even have the money to catch piglets. , she can only give up. From this point of view, the road of raising pigs to get rich will not work for a while, and she has to think of other ways as soon as possible.

Zhang Yun gave up the idea of ​​raising pigs, so the stems of the water candles were no longer kept, so he burned cattail vegetables for several days in a row, and the hens and chicks followed suit and ate them for many days.When the rain stopped for many days, the weather became colder and the autumn atmosphere became more intense.

When the water was still dripping under the eaves, the young people couldn't stay any longer. The pillars of Chang Siliang's house, Shuanzi, and his daughter Xiaocui came to Zhang's house together, passing by Wang Damao's house on the way, and shouted Chunhua, Xiuhua and Sanwazi of their family, a group of people carrying baskets and holding small hoes, ran into the fenced yard talking and laughing.

"Brother Cheng Zi, Xing Zi, we are going up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots, do you want to go together?" Chang Zhu shouted as soon as he came in.

Zhang Cheng and Zhang Xing were sitting in the main room tying corn. When they heard the shout, they put the corn away and ran out of the main room.

Mrs. Zhou, who was in the kitchen, came out with a smile, and said, "It has been raining for a few days, and there must be a lot of bamboo shoots. This will really be a good time to dig bamboo shoots."

When several young people saw Mrs. Zhou, they hurriedly called their aunts. Chunhua, the biggest among the girls, said with a smile, "Auntie, we think so too. No, when Xiaocui called, we followed."

"It's because you are greedy and want to eat bamboo shoots." Although Xiaocui is young, she is the most eloquent. When Chunhua finished speaking, she laughed at her, causing Chunhua to reach out and pinch her arm. With a busy smile, he hid behind his elder brother Chang Zhu.

Mrs. Zhou laughed at the side, "I haven't eaten bamboo shoots for a long time, and I'm hungry now, Cheng Zi, Xingzi, you all go together, dig more and cook." Zhou said here, still Don't forget to tell me a few words, "It's okay for you to dig now, don't dig in a few days, as the saying goes, 'The winter bamboo shoots before the ninth day will rot in spring, and the winter bamboo shoots after the ninth day will come out in Qingming." Wait a few days until the winter solstice, and the bamboo shoots on the mountain You have to save it for the coming year."

Several young people responded one after another. Mrs. Zhou hurriedly took out a bamboo basket and a small hoe, handed them to Zhang Zhang, and told a group of people: "It has just finished raining, and the mountain road must be slippery. You have to be careful on your feet." Dot, do you know?"

"Understood, auntie." After everyone answered, they turned around and prepared to leave the fenced yard. At this time, Zhang Yun, who heard the movement in the vegetable field behind, also ran over, and when he came to Mrs. Zhou, he said: " Mom, I want to go too."

Zhang Yun's words made a group of people stop and turn their heads to look at her. They were silent for a while, thinking in their hearts that what happened to Zhang Yun in Qingtunling not long ago would make her and Go, will it be bad.

Zhang Cheng also thought so in his heart, and was about to speak out to dissuade him, but Zhang Yun took a quick step and said: "I'm fine, we live at the foot of Qingtunling Mountain, in the past it was common to run several times a day, you won't let me this time , there will be a next time, maybe I will never go to Qingtunling in my life." After finishing speaking, he turned to look at Mrs. Zhou and said, "Mother, I'm really fine, just let me go."

Seeing Zhang Yun's eyes smiling, Mrs. Zhou didn't really have any grudges. Thinking about what the girl said, she was right. You can avoid it once, but you can't avoid it for a lifetime. Thinking of this, she let go of her heart and patted her hand with a smile. , turned to Zhang Cheng and said: "Let Yun'er go together, just be careful on the road."

Mrs. Zhou opened her mouth, and Zhang Zhang had no objection, so she could only agree. Mrs. Zhou hurriedly went back to the kitchen to fetch the bamboo basket.

Seeing that Zhang Yun wasn't sad at all, everyone relaxed, and Xiao Cui immediately ran over with a smile, took Zhang Yun's hand, and said, "Sister Yun'er, let's go together."

Seeing that everyone was fine, Chunhua and Xiuhua also laughed and waved to them.

Zhang Yun took the bamboo basket, followed the big guy out of the courtyard gate, bypassed the fence of his own house, walked to the back of the house, and went up the mountain trail not long after.

(End of this chapter)