Crossing the Homeland

Chapter 1

As the sun gradually turned to the west, Xia Junyan came out of the mountain with a disheartened face.

Seven days have passed since the crossing.

To this she just wanted to say: Bad luck!

At this time, she was as thin as a stick, and she was wearing pale washed clothes, as if she could faint by the side of the road at any time.In the bamboo basket in my hand was a small half-basket of mushrooms just picked from the mountains, which would be exchanged for a dozen or so copper coins in the market tomorrow.

The original Xia Junyan was a thin and weak girl who lived alone in the village. Both her parents died and she had no brothers or sisters.Except for two thatched huts and some pots and pans left by her deceased parents, they were almost destitute.Fortunately, Mrs. An next door saw that she was lonely and pitiful, so she often gave her a few corn cakes to satisfy her hunger.

When I went to the mountain to pick mushrooms today, Mrs. An was afraid that she would be hungry, so she wrapped two big white flour steamed buns for her!Xia Junyan knew that this steamed bun was not easy to get for Mrs. An's family, so she was reluctant to eat it at the moment, so she carefully tore off a small half of it to fill her stomach, and took the rest into the mountains.

However, some things are destined not to be available, such as dormitories from other people's schools, children from other people's homes, boyfriends and girlfriends from other people's homes, and steamed buns from other people's homes...

After Xia Junyan drank a few sips of water and rushed back from the stream, the steamed buns in the basket disappeared, probably taken by animals in the mountains.Even the basket is in a mess. In this world, even two steamed buns are not safe!

Bad luck!

Xia Junyan heaved a long sigh, and rushed down the mountain helplessly.

At this time, in front of the thatched cottage, stood a strong woman with a pair of triangular eyes and a very unkind expression.Xia Junyan looked at it from a distance, and her mind began to spin rapidly.The original version of Miss Xia's interpersonal relationship was very simple, and the person who came was her future mother-in-law, Mrs. Li.

Xia Junyan walked quickly, with a slight smile, and said softly: "Auntie."

Mrs. Li looked at this remote courtyard calmly, with a hint of disgust in her eyes: "Let's call me Third Aunt just like the people in the village."

Xia Junyan couldn't hear the meaning of alienation in it, but she still didn't know Li Shi's reason for coming, so she asked, "Third Aunt, it's so late, why are you here?"

"The boy in my family can come, but I can't?" Li Shi pushed Xia Junyan away, walked into the yard, glanced coldly at the deserted hut, and couldn't help snorting contemptuously .

Xia Junyan was pushed back a few steps to the side by her, and the mushrooms in the basket were scattered out, so she bent down to pick them up in distress.This poor look fell into Li's eyes, which aroused another burst of disdain.

"Xiaoyan, I can be regarded as your elder. Although country girls don't have so many taboos, my boy is a scholar after all. Now he has passed the government examination, and when he passes the college examination, he will be a serious scholar. He It's a boy, so it's inevitable that you will be irritable, you are a girl, and you don't know how to avoid suspicion. Although your aunt can't read, she also knows what courtesy, righteousness and shame are!" Li said every word very seriously.

Since Li's son was praised by his husband in the academy, Li thought that he was different from other women in the village, and began to say some bureaucratic things, thinking that he was a gentleman.

Xia Junyan remained silent, she really had no experience dealing with this kind of woman.Seeing that she didn't speak, Mrs. Li became even more proud: "You are also a big girl of seventeen or eighteen years old. Although the country girls are not as expensive as the girls in the town's family, they are not easy to show their faces. I remember your father used to After studying for a few days, I know some words and reasoning, you should also know these principles. It’s not my aunt who came to beat you, it’s very pitiful for my aunt to see you living alone, so she can’t help but remind you a few words, so as not to lose her reputation as a girl.”

(End of this chapter)