Notes on Leisurely Living in the Farm

Chapter 3

Yiyou was lying on the kang, with a thick layer of hay under the thin quilt, and the yellowed bed sheets were lumpy and lumpy. Compared with the fine cotton rags in Chen's house, her house was like the sky and the earth.

However, her body has adapted to this since she was a child. After overcoming the psychological barrier and lying on the bed, she stretched her feet to the bottom of the kang, and the familiar temperature there made her feel very cordial.Although the Chen Mansion is rich and exquisite, everyone inside is full of human spirits, and if one is not careful, it will be destroyed forever.

Before she died, she had received riches and honors. After Huang Liang woke up from the dream, she realized that the golden nest and the silver nest were not as good as her own pig and dog nest.Although the house is empty now, there are family members who care about her here, and she feels very at ease when she is with them.

With a comfortable sigh, she asked in a low voice, "Mom, are you going to grandma's place tomorrow?"

After a while, Li's voice came from next to my ear: "Well, Erya and your brother have to follow, listen more and talk less over there. It's getting late, go to bed early."

Across the mother, her father let out a suppressed long sigh.Yiyou understands that grandma hates her father, and every time they go back home, it's like an interrogation.Now if she asked any more, it would be tantamount to adding pressure to them.She tucked into the quilt and lay down, the room was quiet, only the sound of Changsheng's even breathing.

"I'm going to sleep now."

After agreeing, Yiyou yawned and couldn't fall asleep for a long time.Those things went back and forth in her mind, and in her memory, her second uncle and second aunt first brought up the matter of her going to be a maid for a wealthy family.

This thing is going to happen tomorrow, but she doesn't want to follow the old path of her previous life, what should she do?
Yiyou thought about it for a long time, until she was too sleepy, and then unconsciously fell asleep.When she woke up the next day and saw the haggard self in the bronze mirror, she had a plan.

Putting on her red padded jacket, she carefully walked up to Mrs. Li, rubbed the hem of her clothes, and whispered, "Mother, I want to use your box of gouache."

Gouache is a rarity in the countryside, and their family is poor, let alone have the money to buy this or that.The only box of water powder was the year my younger brother was born, and my father secretly asked my third uncle to bring it back from the market without telling my mother.Because of this, she was so awkward at the time, she was just a black charcoal ball who only knew how to cry and fight for favor, and my father was so happy.

Mother scruples about her emotions, counts father.But Yiyou knows that mother treasures that thing very much, and she will only take it out for a little bit during the Chinese New Year.Six years have passed, and there are still more than half a box left.Aunt Shen in her previous life must have dismissed such inferior goods, but now she needs them very much.

"You are a child, what are you doing wiping that thing?"

Yiyou choked, what did she say.It's not that she deliberately hid it from her parents, but that her past experience is too absurd. They are all honest farmers, and they may not be able to bear it after hearing it.

"I want to try, mother, I'll just use a small amount."

As she spoke, she squeezed her hand, making a small gesture.Li Shi laughed, remembering that when he was a child, he also liked the manners of adults among scholars.My daughter is probably the same, not just a little gouache, ready-made, she can use it if she likes it.

After fastening the front, she climbed onto the kang, opened the only wooden box, and took out a bunch of handkerchiefs from the bottom.Opening the handkerchief, she carefully took out a rough porcelain box.

The box is a circle smaller than Changsheng's fist, and it is Li's only dowry.

Looking at the baby carefully held by her mother in her hand, Yiyou's nose felt a little sour.After becoming a housekeeper in the previous life, my mother followed my father to the city at night to see her.In front of the Chen family, she felt ashamed, so she called her "Mama Li", bluntly saying that she is a country father and mother who can invite servants.She still remembers her trembling body at that time.

Mother has been working hard for the family, but she broke her heart.In the previous life, I didn't know how sad it would be for her to send a white-haired man to a black-haired man with her father after she died.The only thing that makes her happy is that there is a younger brother in the family, who can at least take care of them to enjoy their old age.

"Spray less, it will burn your face if it's too much."

The sun has risen outside the window, and time is running out.Yiyou put away her emotions, it's still too late, she still has time to make up.

"I'll just use a little."

Yiyou took it, opened the box and sat in front of the bronze mirror.After being an aunt in the previous life, she didn't have to worry about food and clothing, so she put all her thoughts on Chen Deren.If you want to compete for favor, you must always be as beautiful as a flower.During those three years, she had perfected her make-up skills.

Dip a little gouache on your finger and apply it on the slightly rosy cheekbones.After a while, a man with blue-black eyelids and yellow face appeared in the mirror, looking sickly.

To see a beauty, you must first look at the spirit.The so-called one white covers all ugliness, mainly because the white skin looks at the spirit.With such a simple cover up now, her [-]% beauty immediately became nothing left.With thick bangs and a red padded jacket, she looks like a vulgar village girl no matter how close she looks from a distance.

Nodding in the mirror, she was very satisfied with the effect.

Seeing this, Mrs. Li became anxious, Erya is such a beautiful girl, how could she not know how to dress herself up.

"You child, see what you have done to yourself? Time is running out, go wash it up."

"Mom, no one pays attention to me over there anyway, so let's go like this."

She insisted on insisting, and Li Shi had no choice but to agree.The family just walked to the old house at the east end of the village.

The Shen family is a big family in Yunlin Village. There are more than a hundred families in the village, and more than half of them are surnamed Shen.

Walking all the way, the stream is gurgling and the wind is blowing the wheat seedlings.Now is the busy season of farming, but there are few people in the fields.It wasn't for any other reason, but because of the Shen family's clan gathering today, most of the people went to the old house.

Near the east of the village, the sound started to become noisy. Yiyou looked at the two courtyards in front of her. This is the best house in the village, and it is also the seat of the Shen family.Grandpa died when she was a child, and the current patriarch is her second uncle.

Unlike her father, the second uncle is the grandma's first son, and he is the most favored.He was a child student when he was a child, and he was the only scholar among his father's brothers.As for his wife, Cheng Shi, although her father was a farmer, her grandfather had also been a child, and the two were roughly in the same household.They are the most prestigious in the entire Shen family. Since she was a child, she has liked the ostentatious second uncle and second aunt very much.

Walking to the door, the second aunt Cheng, wearing a brand new silk gown, was busily directing.Seeing their family, she hurriedly smiled and greeted them.

"Fuxiang and the fourth sibling are here, please sit in the room, everyone is waiting for you. Is Erya recovering from her illness? I haven't come here for a few days. Siya has been thinking about you."

If it was in the past, Yiyou must be very happy to hear these words, the second aunt is so kind to her.But after experiencing everything in the Chen Mansion, she is no longer the village girl who is occasionally a little cautious, but most of the time she is silly and carefree.

Although the second aunt smiled kindly, she beat her parents inside and out, and made everyone wait for her late arrival.As for Siya, talking about her is not true, but taking the opportunity to tell her the benefits of being a maid is true, right?
Raising her head, she showed a pale face, coughed and said weakly: "Second Aunt, I'm not in good health, just stay with my parents."

Mrs. Li glanced at her daughter in surprise. Is this why she asked for gouache?This child has been with her second uncle's mother since she was a child. She knew that she and her father were not as good as her second elder brother and second sister-in-law. Thinking that the child could learn more with their family, she held back and did not stop her.

But what happened to her today?A little curious, but she didn't think about anything else.It is a good thing for a child to kiss himself, and even parents will not be unhappy.

"Fourth brother and sister, look at you as a mother. Erya has become so ill, so don't let her stay at home and have a good rest. Poor see you, go to Siya's room to rest."

Li Shi was at a loss, but Yi You sneered.It's all like this, what Cheng said was not to send her back, but to do everything possible to lure her to the fourth sister's room.If it wasn't for her past life memories, she must simply think that the second aunt cared about her very much.

She kept thinking of ways to escape last night, and at first she wanted to pretend to be sick.But it was immediately rejected by her. If you don't come today, you will most likely be labeled as delicate, and your parents will not be able to step down.And later on, the second aunt will definitely come to the house to care for her in person, and continue to lobby for the benefits of being a maid in the house.

She knows that Cheng's comprehensive methods are not at all like a native farmer.She can definitely do this kind of thing, and let everyone say she is good.

"I'm the one who wants to follow me. I won't see you for a few days. I miss my second aunt."

The smile at the corner of Cheng's mouth paused, and this girl's light words resolved all the embarrassment, and made everyone feel that she respected herself very much.

Did she do it intentionally or unintentionally?
Yiyou felt terrible when she said it, she was acting too much.Throwing away Chang Sheng's hand in disgust, she took Cheng's arm, smiling all over her face.

"I've been taking medicine for the past few days. It's really uncomfortable. The second aunt will be free later, so please talk to me well."

Although the voice was weak, the expression on his face was full.Mrs. Cheng held her hand back, feeling relieved: "Four younger siblings look at this girl, it's really heart-wrenching. Si Ya, help your sister down, don't you keep talking about my elder sister's elder sister and my younger sister's shortcoming?"

Yiyou vomited for a while, and almost couldn't hold back her face.Looking down, I happened to see my brother's sad face.She didn't pay attention before, but now her heart hurts.

Seeing Si Ya who was reluctant to come over, she had a plan in mind: "Let Chang Sheng come along, he is too naughty, it would be bad to disturb Chun Sheng's brother from studying."

Cheng looked at the handsome son in the door, and then at the dark Changsheng in front of him, they really weren't suitable for playing together.Erya has a good relationship with Chunsheng, so she should be with him.

"Erya also knows how to take care of younger brother, Siya, take your sister and Changsheng in."

When Changsheng heard that his sister was going to take him with him, his disappointment quickly disappeared.As for the naughty tricks later, anyway, his parents often said that about him, so he didn't take it to heart at all.He ran over and held his sister's hand.

Changsheng's small body just separated the Siya who came over.Yiyou curled her lips into a smile, nodded to her parents, and followed the reluctant Siya inside.

(End of this chapter)