The end of natural disasters: the daily life of child brides in ancient times

Under the scorching sun, Lu Qingqing took out the rags on her body and carefully wrapped the four ants inside.

This is a winged sticky ant that produces an acidic secretion when it bites.

The person who is bitten will develop a large red mark that is numb and itchy.

Looking at the almost full pig feed in the backpack beside him, he straightened up and wiped the beads of sweat from his face.

She quickened the pace of mowing the lawn because she had to get home to make lunch before the sun reached its zenith.

He carried a basket full of pig grass back home, poured half of it into the pigpen, and left the rest for Erya to chop up and feed the chickens.

He carefully put the cloth bag back into his room and began to stand on a small stool to add water to the pot on the stove and light the fire.

After the water boils, pour the washed and chopped vegetables into the pot, then pour the coarse grains in the gourd ladle into the pot. The gourd ladle contains ground millet with the skin.

I stirred it with a wooden spoon, and when I saw bubbles coming out of the pot, I quickly put out the firewood and prepared to scoop it into the bucket.

Don't get me wrong, this is not pig food, this is lunch for a family of more than ten people.

Seeing that no one had come back yet, Lu Qingqing quickly scooped up the thick paste at the bottom with her small bowl.

When Lu and Li come to divide the things, they won’t get anything like this.

Not long after I scooped up the rice, I heard a young female voice.

"Daya, is the meal ready?"

The sound came from far away and got closer. The original body's mother, Lu Li, walked over with an anxious look on her dark yellow face.

"Hurry up, your grandparents are waiting!"

Lu Qingqing looked at the woman in front of her. She was a little over 1.5 meters tall, with a dark yellow complexion and dry and frizzy hair. But upon closer inspection, she could see that her facial features were quite distinctive.

Almost everyone I met after coming here looked like this: skinny, tanned, and malnourished.

"Mom, the meal is ready."

Lu Qingqing shouted.

After coming here, I have the memories of my original body and can speak the local dialect. The language here is a bit like the dialect in modern Shandong.

Mrs. Lu Li looked at the rice left in the pot and felt that it was a bit too much.

He scooped another spoonful back into the bucket and carried the bucket to the field.

After she left, Lu Qingqing poured the porridge back into the pot and stirred it thoroughly.

He started to scoop rice for his younger siblings, and gave more to Dazhuang and Erya. They were older and helped with the housework, so they got hungry quickly.

They didn't care about the heat, just blew on it and started eating the vegetable porridge in big mouthfuls.

Turning around to look at San Ya who was staring at her, the little girl clapped her hands anxiously.

Although Uncle Lu is not a very good person, the baby San Ya is still very cute.

Lu Qingqing hurriedly blew on the food and started feeding him. After feeding him half a bowl, she started to eat her own lunch.

The mush in her mouth made her throat gurgle, and Lu Qingqing couldn't help but miss the various modern delicacies.

In the past two days, she has called on the system, space, the old man with white beard, Doraemon and all other plug-ins she can think of countless times.

After calling out for the 677th time without success, Lu Qingqing lowered her head in resignation.

Even if she could live one more life, her life here was too hard. The food she ate was not as good as modern pig food, and the sleep she got was not as good as the pig pens in modern pig farms.

There is endless work to do every day, and the malnourished body often causes dizziness.

Lu Qingqing suffered a lot from the harshness of life and couldn't help but hum the classic tune.

"Little cabbage in the field is yellow, and it lost its mother when it was only two or three years old."

That’s not right. The original body still had a mother, although she didn’t love her.

Forget it, there is still a lot of work to do.

Thinking of this, he picked up the basin full of dirty clothes at home, took the wooden stick for beating the clothes, and walked towards the small river in the village.

She found a large rock under the shade of a tree, took out a shirt that looked relatively new, rinsed it with water, and then began to scrub it carefully.

If you come across clothes with many patches, you have to cross them through the water and pull them out as soon as you see the dirt being washed away.

In fact, in ancient families, clothes were worn by older children first, and the clothes were patched up, and the cotton and linen materials themselves were not strong.

After years of wearing, patches with too many stitches are more likely to tear.

The tear in Old Lady Lu’s dress was probably caused by hitting it with a wooden stick too hard.

Lu Qingqing now has no other way out and cannot contradict them openly.

If you want to live in this family, you must do these things well.

Just as Lu Qingqing was washing clothes resignedly, she found a white stone next to her hand and wondered if it was jade.

He wanted to reach out and pick up the white stone, but he lost his grip and his fingers rubbed against the stone below.

In an instant, blood beads appeared. Without caring about her bleeding fingers, Lu Qingqing carefully observed the stone she picked up.

I found that although the texture of this stone is like jade, there is no cotton inside.

Instead, there were some green lines on the stone, which looked like a saliva well. Before she could observe it again, the stone in her hand suddenly disappeared.

Lu Qingqing felt dizzy and there was an extra space in her consciousness.

There is a well in the middle of the space. The edge of the well is made of bluestone. The water flows all the way to the well mouth. It seems that there is plenty of water. There is open space all around.

The sudden appearance of a new space made Lu Qingqing ecstatic. She suppressed her emotions and carefully observed her surroundings. It was the height of the sun, and there weren't many people around.

Lu Qingqing carried the clothes basin and walked into the woods by the river. She walked a little further and hid behind a big tree.

After confirming again and again that there was no one around, I thought about trying to enter this space. Just as I was thinking about going in, when I opened my eyes again, I entered the space with the laundry basin.

Apart from the bluestone well, there were no weeds growing in the surrounding open space. Lu Qingqing was a little worried about whether it was possible to grow crops on this land.

After leaving the space, I found two wild vegetables from the roadside, thinking that I must try to see if I can grow them when I get back. I hurried back to the river, washed my clothes, and rushed home.

After hanging up the clothes, Lu Qingqing returned to the house and put up the door stopper. Looking at the wild vegetables that had wilted a little, she hurried to the space to bury them.

He scooped up some water from the bluestone well and poured it on the table, then came out and waited to see what would happen the next day or the day after tomorrow.

At noon, seeing that the children were still taking a nap in the house, Lu Qingqing slipped into Old Man Lu's room with a rag, tinkered with it for a while, and then walked out as if nothing had happened.

When it was time for dinner, Lu Qingqing ignored Mrs. Lu's sarcastic remarks and lowered her eyes, eating the porridge in her bowl in big mouthfuls.

When Lu Qingqing finished her work and lay down on the bed at night, she was exhausted all over, but her spirit was extremely excited.

She wanted to take a look at the space she had obtained today, but considering the person sleeping next to her, she didn't dare to enter the space.

Lu Qingqing hasn't had a single meal in the past few days since she came here.

Now the desire for food has reached its peak. Not to mention the various modern delicacies and snacks, even thinking about big white steamed buns makes people drool.

I don’t know what time it is now. It is quiet all around, with only the occasional chirping of insects.

"Ahhhh, it hurts me so much!"

A sharp voice broke the tranquility of the night. Hearing the screams of Old Lady Lu, Lu Qingqing grinned silently.

When the oil lamp in Old Lady Lu's room was lit, Boss Lu and his companions also got up, put on their clothes and went over.

Lu Qingqing knew that she must have been bitten, but she pretended to be asleep and continued to lie there without moving.

It was quiet at night, and the voices of people talking in the house could be heard clearly.

"Oh, Mom, what bit you? Your face is so red and swollen!"

"Isn't it because the hairy pepper fell on my face? Oh my god, there's such a big piece of it!"

"I'll go get some garlic cloves from the kitchen. It might help."

Everyone in the room was talking at once, and there was chaos.

While rubbing the garlic cloves, Old Mrs. Lu howled even louder.

When bitten by these sticky ants, a large area of ​​redness, swelling and itching will occur, and the more you scratch, the more severe the swelling becomes.

Garlic has no effect on this, and the friction will make the wound worse.

Listening to the cries of pain coming from Old Mrs. Lu in the room, Lu Qingqing touched her left cheek which still hurt a little, and gradually fell asleep.

A group of people were looking for bugs on Old Lady Lu's kang, and no one knew what time they found them.

In the early hours of the morning, Lu Qingqing woke up.

After listening to the snoring in the room for a while, he got up quietly and went out.

I went to listen under the windows of Old Man Lu and my second and third uncles' rooms. They were snoring very loudly because they had been tossing and turning for so long before going to bed.

Lu Qingqing quickly walked into the toilet, closed the door and entered the space.

The space was still as bright as day, and the wild vegetables that had wilted due to the sun were now standing up. Lu Qingqing was delighted that the space could be used to grow things.

Then he thought about the food at home that was locked in the cabinet in Old Lady Lu's house. Every day when cooking, Old Lady Lu would scoop a spoonful of ground flour for him before she went out, so he couldn't grow any.

Lu Qingqing thought that she would go to the vegetable garden behind the house tomorrow and secretly plant some pumpkins, cabbages, radishes, beans and other filling foods.

I didn't know what time I fell asleep after returning to the room. I was woken up by Lu Li when I was half asleep in the morning.

I heard Mrs. Lu Li chatting with Boss Lu and they found two sticky ants on the kang yesterday.

Old Mrs. Lu pinched the ant, threw it on the ground and crushed it hard with her feet a few times, only then did she feel relieved.

In the morning, when Lu Qingqing saw Old Lady Lu, she tried hard not to laugh out loud.

The dark and wrinkled right cheek was red and swollen, extending all the way to the eyelids, and some parts were scratched and scabs formed.

In addition, Old Mrs. Lu couldn't help but scratch her buttocks all the time, and she hissed in pain every time she scratched it.

After a while, he forgot about it and continued scratching and hissing.