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

As soon as Mrs. Lu came back, she called Lu Qingqing to the main hall and asked with a gloomy face,

"You silly girl, what's wrong with you at noon? It's already so late and you haven't even started cooking yet. You've made our whole family wait for you. Are you slacking off somewhere? If you don't want to stay in this house, just get out!"

Boss Lu said from the side: "Daya, quickly admit your mistake to your grandparents."

Without waiting for Lu Qingqing to explain, Mrs. Lu glared at Boss Lu.

"Boss, this has happened several times in a row. You can't even take care of a child. I'll talk to you later."

Then he turned to Lu Qingqing,

"Last time you tore my clothes with a stick, and this time you didn't cook. Lately, my clothes haven't been washed clean. Do you feel like I owed you because I didn't call a doctor for your fever last time, and are deliberately causing trouble for the family?"

Old Mrs. Lu became more and more angry as she spoke, and she picked up a bench at hand and threw it at Lu Qingqing.

Lu Qingqing had been on guard against her, and when Old Lady Lu bent down to get a stool, she hid to the side.

"bang"

The sound of the stool hitting the ground was particularly clear at night. Seeing her dodge, Old Lady Lu became even more angry. She found a stick and chased after Lu Qingqing.

As early as when Old Lady Lu called her in, she asked Da Zhuang to call the old village chief.

At this moment, even before anyone arrived, Old Lady Lu was about to take action.

A hit from this rough stick would be very serious.

Lu Qingqing ran out, and just as she reached the yard, she heard Dazhuang's voice coming from outside.

"My grandma is going to beat my sister to death, please come with me!"

Lu Qingqing stopped abruptly and saw that Old Lady Lu was still some distance away from her.

She turned around and knelt down towards Old Lady Lu, crying loudly:

"Grandma, I know you have a problem with me because I accidentally tore your clothes last time, but I am also a child of the Lu family. I have been working on a stool since I was five years old. I have never worried you about any housework, big or small."

"Today, I just wanted to collect more grass for the pigs, so I ran a little further and cooked a little late. Are you going to kill me?"

When Mrs. Lu saw her stop, she picked up a stick and hit her.

"Stop it, Zhenhai's wife!"

As soon as the old village chief entered the door, he saw Old Lady Lu holding a big stick and trying to hit Daya.

After hearing Daya’s crying just now, I felt that Old Lady Lu was even more vicious.

Daya is usually such a well-behaved and hardworking child, but she was beaten to death just because of a piece of clothing.

"Zhenhai, what's going on? What kind of heinous crime has Daya committed? I want you to beat her to death!"

When Old Man Lu saw his cousin coming, he immediately stood up from the stool and hesitantly said for a long time:

"Daya was a disobedient child. She was lazy at noon and missed the meal, causing the whole family to wait for her. Her grandmother had to teach her a lesson."

The old village chief snorted.

"You're using such a thick stick to punish her? Daya has been obedient and sensible since she was young. At such a young age, she stood on a stool to cook for you and also did all the housework."

"Look at any child in the village who is this sensible? Even if it's a little late this time, it must have been delayed by something. Did you find out the reason? Why did you hit the child like that?"

"Are you trying to ruin the village's reputation by doing this? If you get a reputation as mean, who would dare to marry into our village? Your grandchildren won't have to get married in the future?"

The old village chief's conversation made Old Man Lu and Old Lady Lu lower their heads.

The old village chief glared at Boss Lu.

"Your mother beats the child like this, and you don't know how to stop her. If something goes wrong, how can your family have a good reputation? As the eldest son in the family, don't you know how to keep an eye on these things?"

Boss Lu shrank his head and went to help Lu Qingqing who was lying on the ground.

Lu Qingqing looked at it and recalled the scene just now.

When Mrs. Lu was about to hit someone with a stool, Boss Lu was standing in front of Lu Qingqing on the right.

But not only did he not help to stop it, he was afraid that he would be hit and quietly took a few steps back.

I couldn't help but sigh in my heart. I originally thought that Boss Lu was just biased towards boys and he still had feelings for me.

Now it seems that the only person who matters most is himself.

Lu Qingqing thanked the old village chief. The old village chief looked at the thin girl in front of him and couldn't help feeling a little pity.

Then he warned Old Man Lu,

"Use your brain in everything from now on, take care of your home, and don't let the villagers laugh at you."

After saying that, he went back with his hands behind his back.

After the old village chief left, the house became quiet.

Old Mrs. Lu glared at Da Zhuang, but didn't dare say anything. She just looked at Old Man Lu silently.

Old Man Lu took two puffs of his pipe, squatted at the door, stared at Lu Qingqing for a while, and said:

"Daya, we farmers value hard work and duty. Let's put it this way. Starting tomorrow, let Dazhuang and Erya do the housework, and you go to the fields with the family."

As soon as Old Man Lu finished speaking, Lu Qingqing felt as if she had been struck by lightning. She would have no time to enrich her space if she went to the fields.

She hasn't sold the wild boars in her space yet. Although the space can keep them fresh, she is in urgent need of curtains or wooden racks to isolate them from the soil.

I had planned to go to town tomorrow or the day after tomorrow to sell the wild boar and buy some food and daily necessities. Now I don’t have to worry about it in the short term.

Besides, the weather outside is so bad that it can dry people out. Her body is already malnourished, and she doesn't know if she can hold on.

After Old Man Lu finished speaking, he told everyone to start eating without waiting for Lu Qingqing to answer.

When Old Lady Lu was distributing the rice, she stared at Lu Qingqing for a long time before scooping her a bowl of porridge, which was very watery with more water and less rice.

After quickly finishing her meal, Lu Qingqing thought for a while and went to the haystack behind the house.

He pulled some wheat straw and spread it in the corner of the space, gathering it in as he went along until it was a thick layer.

The wild boar and the yam and yam beans were divided into two piles and stacked neatly on the wheat straw.

Leave it like this so it won't come into contact with the ground and rot.

He took out another steamed bun, ate it quickly, and rinsed his mouth before returning to the house.

When Mrs. Lu Li saw Lu Qingqing coming in, she muttered:

"You silly girl, you are becoming more and more unreasonable. You disappear after dinner and don't even help your mother clear the table."

Lu Qingqing looked at Lu Lishi. This mother had no love for Daya at all.

No matter whether she was beaten for washing torn clothes before or she cooked late this time, Mrs. Lu Li had no intention of helping her child at all.

Lu Qingqing didn't say much, just replied that she had to pee urgently, and then she planned to go to bed and rest.

At this time, Boss Lu's voice sounded, with a tone of blame and warning.

"Da Ya, go work in the fields with me tomorrow, but be serious and do more work. Don't play around and be lazy anymore, otherwise not only will your grandparents punish you, but your dad will too."

Lu Qingqing looked at Boss Lu for a while, until his eyes seemed to be evasive, and then she responded softly:

"understood."

In the original body's memory, most of the girls in the village did not go to the fields, but stayed at home to cook, wash clothes and so on.

Only the poorest and most unpretentious families would let their little girls work in the fields.

After all, people of this era would discuss marriage at the age of twelve or thirteen, and most of them would meet in person beforehand. If the person was tanned, no matter how good-looking he was, it would be useless.

There is no way Boss Lu doesn't know about this.

The Lu family is considered a wealthy family in the entire Lujia Village. They have a lot of land and in previous years during the busy farming season, they even hired temporary workers to work there.

The family also raises pigs. In a village as big as Lujia Village, there are no more than five families raising pigs.

It's not even close to the point where a girl of eight or nine years old is required to go to the fields.

It was simply that Old Lady Lu and Old Man Lu felt that Daya was disobedient, and they even dared to ask the old village chief to stand up for her.

I felt that I was laughed at and humiliated by the old village chief.

That's why he used her to establish his authority in the family and maintain his position as the head of the family.

And this time, they didn't even think about listening to her explanation.

Although Old Man and Old Lady Lu look very old, they are actually only in their early fifties.

Old Mrs. Lu had just survived her mother-in-law and had only been in charge of the household for two years. She felt that being in charge of the whole family was the time of her power.

As for Boss Lu, he didn't dare and didn't want to resist the decision of Old Man and Mrs. Lu, or rather, Daya, a little girl, was not worthy of him resisting them.

Lu Qingqing didn't think about it anymore. These were not her real relatives anyway, and there was no way to get away from here for the time being, so she might as well just live like this for the time being.

She cherished this extra life very much and silently told herself to endure now.

The next day, at dawn, Mrs. Lu Li called Lu Qingqing to get up and cook together.

Breakfast is usually prepared by the first, second and third wives in turn, one day for each family.

Breakfast is still vegetable porridge and steamed bread, of course the steamed bread is for men who do heavy work.

Among the other people in the family, only Old Mrs. Lu can eat steamed bread.

After being a daughter-in-law for many years and finally becoming a mother-in-law, Mrs. Lu naturally cannot let go of such rights.

After dinner, Lu Qingqing followed the Lu family to the fields. The family’s land was scattered in several directions.

Before going to the fields, Old Man Lu had already divided the land and decided who would work on which piece of land and what to do specifically.

At this time of year, most of the daily work in the fields involves carrying water, watering, and weeding.

The male laborers in the family were responsible for fetching water from the nearby river or well to the fields, while the women began to water and weed the fields.

Lu Qingqing was assigned to work on the land in the east with Lu Lao Da and Lu Li.

She was assigned to weed. There was dew on the ground in the morning, and the temperature was relatively low before the sun came out.

After a while, his clothes were wet with dew, and he shivered in the cold wind.

Helpless, Lu Qingqing had to lower her body as much as possible.

Although millet is exposed to more dew, its branches are taller and can also block the wind.

As the sun gradually rose higher, Lu Qingqing felt that it might be better when it was cold just now.

There was no high obstruction in the field except the millet stalks and leaves.