The mulberry life of a small peasant girl

Chapter 10

Nuan Bao went out with Qin Chengyi with a basket in his arm, and followed the crowd towards the fish pond.

The villagers have all heard the news that He Sheng’s family built a fishpond today, which was a big deal in the countryside. In ancient times, the population was small, coupled with natural and man-made disasters, those who survived could barely supplement their own labor needs, so every autumn and winter, Uncle He will always recruit strong and strong young men to go to the fishpond to catch fish together.

Qin Chengyi was also told by his uncle to go down the mountain to help. He Sheng was afraid that his nephew would be treated coldly, so he asked him to work at Zhang De's house first, and come back when the fish pond was up and everyone was busy.I have to say that there is still a small background here.

Qin Chengyi is He Sheng's nephew, and He Sheng's younger sister He Lianhua is Qin Chengyi's mother.Back then, the He family had not yet made a fortune, and the fields were sparse and barren. He Sheng could only support the family by doing odd jobs. Because the family was poor and had no dowry, He Lianhua stayed in the boudoir. Everyone in the village knew about their own situation and would definitely not marry their own family. The only way to get married was to marry an outsider, so He Lianhua was decided to marry Qin Guan.

Qin Guan came here as a refugee from the south. Because he is a foreign surname and has no guarantor, the village head only settled him in the village, and did not allocate any land to him.When Qin Guanchu came here, he brought an elderly grandmother with him. The two had no money to buy land and build a house in the village, so they had to hide in an unoccupied place on the mountainside and build a thatched hut.Ordinarily, such a family, even if poor He Lianhua would not marry, but one day she went to the back mountain to pick wild vegetables, and found that Qin Guan was very good at hunting, and the bags in the back basket were full of pheasants and hares. She felt that instead of being gossiped at home, It's better to marry someone who can eat meat, even if you are poor, it's only for a while.

Sure enough, after He Lianhua married Qin Guan, she lived happily ever after. She became pregnant within a year and gave birth to Qin Chengyi the following year.When Qin Chengyi was five years old, Qin Guan’s grandmother passed away due to wind and cold. Qin Guan was very sad, thinking that his inability to build a house in the village caused his grandmother to live in the middle of the mountain and suffer from the cold. In the following days, he left early and returned late. He went hunting in the deep mountains, hoping to save money as soon as possible to let his wife and children go down the mountains. As a result, when Qin Chengyi was six years old, he entered the deep mountains and could not return.The villagers knew that the Qin family had died for two consecutive years, and they felt that He Lianhua's fate was too hard to kill her husband and grandmother, and because He Sheng had already made a name for himself in the city at that time, and the family was much richer, everyone even more so. He felt that it was He Lianhua who hindered the fate of the He family when he was not married.He Lianhua couldn't bear such rumors, and was overly sad because of her husband's death. Qin Chengyi passed away when he was seven years old.

The gossip then took an immediate turn.The villagers all said that it was not He Lianhua, but Qin Chengyi, who was hard-pressed.Didn't he even kill his mother?Seeing that there was only one child left in his younger sister’s family, He Sheng planned to take him back to the village to raise him, but was opposed by the villagers. However, He Sheng resisted all opinions and insisted on taking him down the mountain. Wouldn’t a seven-year-old child live alone on the mountain? .He just picked it up, but the little Qin Chengyi listened to the ridicule from all directions every day, and suffered endless contempt and disgust. He cried and begged his uncle to take him up the mountain. I took him back to the mountain again and visited him every few days.

In this way, Qin Chengyi would not go down the mountain even if he had nothing to do. After a few years, everyone forgot that there used to be such a little boy living on the mountain, and now the boy has grown into a man.He Sheng asked Qin Chengyi to go down the mountain this time to see the attitude of the villagers. If they accepted him, they could find a matchmaker to make an early engagement.

Nuan Bao didn't know about Qin Chengyi's background, but thought he was so paralyzed

The fish pond was on the outskirts of Zhangjia Village, and there was a piece of bad land nearby, no one took care of it, and the weeds grew up to the height of the calf.Uncle He built a thatched house by the fish pond, and would rest there every day when he cut weeds to feed the fish.

When Nuan Bao arrived at the fish pond, everyone had already dug a hole to drain the water from the pond.

Uncle He filled the opening with a loose fishing net, and the water and small fish fry flowed into the puddle along the mesh, while the big fish could only be blocked in the pond.After a while, the water was gradually decreasing, and everyone began to see a lot of big fish. Uncle He asked everyone who went into the water to prepare a small wooden bucket, and when they caught fish, they put the fish into the bucket, and when the bucket was full, they handed it out Pour it into a big wooden barrel for the people on the shore.

Seeing the water in the pool drop to the level of their calves, the young men rubbed their hands one after another, rolled up their trousers and went down to the pond with a bucket in hand.

There are a lot of fish in the pond, and the most common one is loach. No restaurants can buy loach, so if you catch it, you have to keep it alone. In previous years, most of them were half-sold and half-given to the villagers as additional vegetables.In addition, there are quite a few grass carp, silver carp, Anhui carp, crucian carp...the fish without water jumped into the air one after another, standing on the shore, you can see that a fish weighs more than ten catties.

This time almost the whole village came, full of cheers and boisterous voices, especially the half-grown boys, they danced around with the same gang, laughing and gesticulating at the fish from time to time.The women are not free either, they help pass the barrels to their men, and they also take care of their children so that they don't fall into the pond.

Qin Chengyi told Nuan Bao that he also went into the water, and Nuan Bao worried that Xiao Fu would be brought by Er Niu, so he hurriedly looked for Xiao Fu.

Xiao Fu hugged the puppy and happily followed Er Niu to look at the fish pond.Because Er Niu told Xiaofu that whichever one he liked, he would buy it and cook it for Xiaofu. Hearing this, Xiaofu was of course not far behind, and hurriedly followed behind.

Nuan Bao was still looking for Xiao Fu in the crowd. As soon as Xiao Fu approached, she saw her sister standing there with a basket on her arm. She didn't care about talking to Er Niu, and rushed to Nuan Bao.Seeing that Xiaofu really came, Nuan Bao took her hand and asked, "Who brought you here?"

Xiao Fu thought about turning around and pointing at Er Niu, but how did he know that Er Niu was nowhere to be seen behind him, and suddenly became anxious, "Sister Er Niu came with me, but now it's gone!"

Er Niu is the baby of the family, so he can't be careless.Nuan Bao led Xiao Fu along the way and shouted, "Er Niu, where are you?" Er Niu's family happened to be by the fish pond, and when they heard Nuan Bao's cry, they hurriedly asked what happened.

Er Niu saw a big fish hidden in the corner of the fish pond, but no one noticed it because it was covered by the pond mud. He thought of what he had just said to Xiaofu, and his head became hot, and while everyone was not paying attention, he jumped Go down to the fishpond to catch fish.Obviously this fish is very smart, the harder Er Niu pulled it up, the deeper it dived, and it swung its tail and slapped Er Niu's face with mud.

At this time, a woman just passed by and saw a child sinking into the mud, she screamed loudly in fright: "Come on, someone's doll fell into the pond!"

One word woke up everyone.Everyone ran over to save others, and Erniu's family members were even more flustered that it must be their own child.Er Niu's father tried his best to step on the mud and rushed to the corner, and it turned out that his son Er Niu was still wearing today's blue cloth printed clothes.Father Er Niu picked up the child, handed it to the people above him, and climbed ashore by himself. When everyone was nervous, Er Niu suddenly shouted loudly, "Xiao Fu, where are you? I caught a big fish for you." !"

The villagers suddenly laughed, and they all laughed and teased that Er Niu knew how to please the girl at such a young age.

Er Niu Dad was so frightened that his soul was not complete, but when he heard his son's childish words, he spanked his ass hard.Er Niu burst into tears after being beaten, and everyone comforted him again, which made Er Niu's father stop.

Nuan Bao came with Xiaofu and saw Erniu crying bitterly. She didn't know how to resolve it. You must know that Erniu was like this because of Xiaofu. If there was an accident, the village probably wouldn't be able to accommodate them.

Xiao Fu didn't think too much about it, and happily pulled Er Niu and said, "Is this the big fish you caught for me? It's so big that I can eat it until I grow old!"

Seeing that Xiaofu likes the fish he caught so much, Er Niu stopped crying and looked at Xiaofu and laughed.

The women next to him joked: "Xiaofu, you can't let you eat this fish until you grow old, otherwise you will marry Erniu, and you will have fish to eat in the future."

Xiao Fu rolled his eyes, "Er Niu, you will feed me fish from now on, right?"

Er Niu patted his chest and said proudly: "There are not only fish, but also pigs and sheep. You can eat as much as you like!"

Nuan Bao covered her face... Did Xiao Fu sell herself indirectly?

(End of this chapter)