Chapter 13 - Mindless
A few days after Lao Chen’s birth, the first frost came down, and the crops outside the village had dropped their heads heavily, waiting for the joy of the people who had worked hard for half a year to pick the harvest.
Yue Dafu carried a **** and walked Yue Changlu to Tiange. The father and son had just returned from the field. Yue Dafu’s wrinkled face was full of joy: “This year is a good year, the rice is almost cooked, and we will start harvesting tomorrow!” Now almost all the family members in the family have been taken out by the Yue Wentao brothers, which means a good harvest Yue Dafu was naturally happy to sell more silver.
Yue Changlu followed his father, slowed down half a step, with a touch of joy in the face of weather and perennial depression: “I will work in the town when I receive the grain, and I can save some money for the winter.”
Yue Dafu glanced at him with a smile on his face, but still some gloomy son, sighing in his heart, thinking that the second child only has seven granddaughters, can not help shaking his head.
The father and son returned home, and the little Chen’s just cooked the meal. Since the family lost a hundred or two silvers, the old Chen’s was even more selective: the original rice was brown rice, and now they are replaced by water-bashing coarse grains. Congee, there is not even a little bit of meaty in the dishes, a small bowl of pickles and a few bowls of soft fried green vegetables that seem to have no appetite.
However, the old Chen did not dare to starve at Yue Dafu. Yue Dafu had just washed his hands and a thick bowl of coarse grain porridge was in front of him. Then there was Yue Changlu, Yue Wenwei from Changfang and Lao Chen’s, who also got half a bowl of thick porridge. As for Xiao Chen and Yue Youting of Changfang, they can still get a little dry goods, but they are the seven granddaughters of the second room, which is almost a bowl of porridge water for each person.
Yueyoujin felt that she was okay, but several younger sisters were still so young. If their stomachs were hungry, what would be good in the future? But after looking at the proud expression on the old Chen’s face, Yueyoujin knew that she was waiting for her to find something and then teach her a good meal! Suddenly changed his mind, carrying a bowl of grueled porridge water, feeding Xiao Jiu bit by bit, and then chopsticks continued to reach into the dish pot on the table.
When Young Jin caught the third chopsticks dish, the old Chen’s face ugly reached out and took the chopsticks directly to forcefully hit the back of the young Jin’s hand: “The money-losing goods of starving dead reborn, can’t be eaten , Not afraid to hold you up! “
The sudden reprimands of the old Chen not only scared Yueyue Yin and Youzhu Youbao, but also Xiao Jiu, who held the young gold in her arms, cried. Xiao Jiu’s crying was not loud, but it also attracted the attention of the next table Yue Da Fu: “Working hard outside every day, there is no moment to stop when you return home! How do you manage a house?”
Although the words are blaming the old Chen, the dissatisfied eyes stared at Yueyoujin.
Yue Changlu is very sensitive to everything in his family, especially when it comes to those few money-losing goods, so Yue Dafu just started to rebuke, and he did n’t wait for the young gold to react, so he stood up and slapped it to the back of the head. : “A loser, I know crying crying all day long!”
Young Jin was blinded by his movements, only to feel the pain in the back of his head, his body shook a few times before he fell down. You Yin, who was sitting next to You Jin, also found out that her sister was not right, and quickly helped people: “Three Sisters!”
Several younger sisters looked at Young Jin in a panic, afraid of young Jin’s trouble. Young Jin recovered, stretched out a hand and patted Young Yin to reassure her, and then lowered her head to admit her mistake: “Xiao Jiu was suddenly scared before crying, so I took it away.” Nine got up and left the dinner table, glancing coldly at Yue Changlu.
Yue Changlu was frightened by her poisonous glance, and she felt a little hairy in her heart, but she quickly regained her spirit. A hair loss that did n’t even grow, what dare you do? Thinking like this, he sat back and continued to eat.
Young Jin returned to the West Chamber with Xiao Jiu who was sobbing, and Su Shi, who was half lying on the kang, saw it and stood up, “What’s wrong? Why are you crying?”
The left hand holds Xiao Jiu’s buttocks, and the right hand gently pats her back to coax, seeing Su Shiwen only shakes his head gently, and waits for Xiao Jiu to cry and fall asleep before the young Jin will She put it on the kang where the sisters were sleeping on the weekdays, then lifted the white-washed curtain into the Su’s room and told her briefly what had happened.
“Your **** are just hard-mouthed and soft …” Su Shi said such a self-deception that he could not even deceive himself, a sorrowful smile appeared on the shrivelled and yellow face due to perennial malnutrition: “Don’t blame you Your father, it ’s also the blame that the maiden ca n’t give birth to a son and it hurts your sisters … “
“Mother! It’s not your fault!” You Jin saw that Su was going to take all the faults to herself again, and looked at her solemnly: “It’s not your fault that you can’t have a son!” It was because of the relationship between men, but Youjin could not talk to Su’s about xy problems, and she could only try to brainwash her repeatedly. This was not her fault.
Seeing Su’s speechlessness, Young Jin sighed in his heart, and then asked Su’s old tune again: “If we split up, would it be better than it is now? Or my mother took us away from Yue’s house ? The few of us will never starve to death. “
The first time Su heard his daughter say this, the daughter was only nine years old, because her mother-in-law wanted to throw the newly born Xiao Jiu on the mountain and she was rescued by her. Xiao Jiu survived. However, the young Jin, who was later beaten by the old Chen’s body, brutally asked himself these words: “Mother, why don’t you take me and my sisters away, even if you leave the Yue’s house, even starving to death is better than now!” “
After that fight, Young Jin seemed to have grown a lot overnight, no, but she showed her emotions that were originally contained in her heart in front of Su Shi, who had heard such shocking words from the beginning. Shock and disbelief have become so calm, and even occasionally thinking about the feasibility of what her daughter said while dreaming back at midnight!
Today, when I heard my daughter say this, Su sighed and said, “You and a few sisters are still young, and I have always been in a bad shape. If I really left Yue’s house, I would never say to marry someone in the future. It ’s hard to live? ”Where did Su ’s family know that Yue ’s family only looked good on the face, and the insole was actually rotten already, but what could it do? She neither has a maiden that can support herself and Li, nor does she have the skill and courage to raise her own daughters. At least in Yuejia, her own daughters can grow up and marry.
Young Jin shook his head: “Mother, I will be twelve years old, and my sister is almost ten years old. We can feed you and your sister. As long as you want, we can live even if we eat grass and eat bark. “Yu Jin has been in this world for almost 12 years. Although his physical fitness is not as good as his previous life, his ability to survive in the wild and his keen sense are still there. There is always a way to rely on mountains to eat mountains and water to eat water. Live.
“Jin’er, do you really think that we can live without our family?” Su’s life has lived for nearly thirty years. Although it was difficult in the family as a girl, the father and mother also worked hard to support their sisters. No one had thought of a sudden change in the family overnight, both parents died, and their houses and fields were all divided by the uncles of the family. Even both of them and their two sisters were also the big brothers of their fathers and their own uncles. Sold as goods generally married each other. That’s why Su was just rejected by Lao Chen after marrying Yue family, because Lao Chen felt from the bottom of his heart that Su was just a minion from his own family.
In Su’s life, only when the father and mother were still a few days happy, the father and mother have been living under the control of others. Now they are facing such a choice that they do not know where to go, but they do not know what to do. , But inexplicably trust the young elder daughter.
“Mother, as long as you want to take us away from Yue’s house, I must have a way to feed my sisters. I not only have to feed my sisters, but also save them a dowry and let them marry beautifully. Others, live a happy and prosperous life. “You Jin looked at Su Shi with sparkling eyes. As long as Su Shi can firmly believe that he can take himself away with a few sisters, he must have a way to find a chance to let Yue’s family willingly Stay away from Su’s.
Su’s sigh: “If I want to, how can your grandparents and your dad agree?” Su’s is not as optimistic as a young child. She has been at Yue’s house for more than ten years, and then stay a few more. What is the difference in ten years?
Young Jin heard Su’s relief, and walked to her side happily, squatted down, gently touched Su’s bulging belly, and looked up and smiled: “Mother, you can rest assured, I will do something. “
Seeing her with such confidence, Su’s heart inevitably has a hint of expectation: “Well, if you can, the mother will take you and the sisters to leave the Yue family, our family will start elsewhere.”