Chapter 37

Gou Sheng and Shan Guan stayed at Darong's house until dark before going back.

"Leg hurts again?" Shan Guan saw Gou Sheng walking and dragging, and asked him up.

"Well, it's probably going to rain again tomorrow!" Gou Sheng said with a frown.

After two moderate rains like this, the temperature will drop rapidly, and soon the real cold winter will come. The most important thing is that Li Dahua is not feeling well when it rains, and his temper is particularly bad. Pleasing to the eye, rare to serve!

Without further ado, the Shanguan held the dog's left arm and tried to lift him up, "Didn't Darong tell you to soak your legs in hot water every day? It's useless?"

"Some time ago, my mother couldn't get up, so she didn't have time to soak her feet!" Gou Sheng struggled, "I'll go down by myself!"

Shan Guan clasped his hands, put his arms under the dog's buttocks, lifted it up vigorously, and scolded, "Don't move!"

Gou Sheng twitched a bit, but the mountain official refused to let it go, and it was fine, and it was only a few steps away.

"Hey, where did the young couple go?" Wang Chunhua stood at the door of her yard and said with her mouth drawn. It was time to start a fire, but the yard behind her was dark and full of lights. She probably went back to her mother's house again.

After Wang Chunhua had a big quarrel with Li Dahua last year over a few buds in the land boundary, the two families have been awkward. It has been more than a year. The official family moved to Liushutun for more than a year, first to bury his father, and after the winter, his mother disappeared again, except for the leftover family, who had never been on good terms with the people in the village, and two and a half children mixed together They spend more time together, and the women in the village often joke around when they have nothing to do, Gou Sheng and Shan Guan don't care much, but Li Dahua changes his face when he hears it.

Gou Sheng still cared that he was an elder, so he smiled at Wang Chunhua.

"What can the mountain official really do? The little husband has already carried it home!" Wang Chunhua continued to say with a sharp voice.

"If your mouth is not good, God tells you that you will never have a son." Shan Guan suddenly raised his head and said.

"What did you say? Try to say it again..." Wang Chunhua's face became grim, obviously being poked at a sore spot.

Wang Chunhua is the only daughter who recruited her husband to come to eat old rice. Naturally, her waist is particularly hard. In the past two years, her man was immersed in working all day and never said a word, but now it is a bit difficult to say. Wang Chunhua has been married for four years. Her stomach didn't move at all, but her man came to the door because she had many brothers, and the sister-in-law at her husband's house was able to give birth to every one of them, so she often urged her to be adopted by a man. , although Wang Chunhua hasn't conceived in the past few years, she is only in her twenties, and it is too early to talk about adoption...

Shanguan quickened his pace, leaving behind Wang Chunhua's scolding.

"What did you provoke her for?" Gousheng asked in a low voice.

"I don't want her to give me a bite, so why make her talk nonsense!" Shan Guan said with a cold face.

To put it bluntly, it’s because there are too many things in the dog’s head, full of deep-rooted ideas, and he never realized that in this society where men and men also marry and live together due to poverty, such gossip is probably true. It's actually as serious as the bad girl's reputation for my kid!

"If you get entangled with her, you won't have a safe life..." Gou Sheng muttered.

"You just love to worry indiscriminately, what can she do to me!" Shan Guan kicked open the half-covered courtyard door and walked in quickly.

"Brother, Brother Shanguan!" Zhu Tou was sitting at the door of the main room, playing with Xiaocao, and yelled loudly when he saw someone coming back.

Li Dahua leaned against the kang, looking at Xiaojiu, Dandan and the twins.

There was a fire coming from the kitchen, probably Dacao and Huaya were already cooking dinner.

"You don't have long legs, and you even asked the mountain officials to carry you back!" Li Dahua reprimanded angrily after seeing it.

"Auntie, the dog's left leg hurts, I'm going to carry him on my own!" Shanguan looked at Li Dahua and said.

Li Dahua paused, and since he wasn't his own son, it would be difficult to continue the training.

"Mom, where's dad?" Gou Sheng asked and smiled apologetically at Guan Shan.

"Uncle Zhao's family in Nantou died, so I asked your father to help." Li Dahua's tone was still not very good, "Why is your leg hurting again? Isn't it better?"

When someone dies in the village, if you ask someone to help carry it, you have to pay one or two coppers or some good things for a meal. If you ask someone, they will definitely go.

"It's okay, I just feel pain now and then, mother, I'll go to the kitchen!" Gou Sheng dragged the official out of the main room.

Dacao and Huaya were cooking porridge. Gousheng took the pig lungs that had been filled with water and hung for a few days and turned white from under the beam of the house, and cut a small piece. On the earthen stove, without washing the pot, just add half a bowl of water to the remaining rice soup, put the chopped dried chili and garlic in it and cook for a while, until the spicy smell comes out , dripped two drops of oil, put the lung slices in and simmered on a low heat to collect the juice, sprinkled with a few salts, and it was a dinner for the whole family.

A full stomach and a good night's sleep.

Because Gousheng insisted on taking the savings from previous years, and the family bought some food in advance, this winter is going to be a little tighter, but it won’t be unreasonable. It’s not sure if there are still people in the village. Those who don’t have much money, Looking at how the grain tanks are saved, they can't survive the spring.

So Mrs. Wang, with a full face of apologetic smile, and another middle-aged woman with snow-white painted face went back to the village in a small carriage, which caused an uproar.

All of Mrs. Wang's men and sons died early, and there was only one young daughter who was adopted when her man was still alive. A few years ago, the two went to Jiaxing City to join Mrs. Wang's distant relatives.

Dacao can also help with some things now. Li Dahua often throws a few small ones at home, and goes out with a small stool to talk to seven aunts and eight wives for a long time.

In the evening, Li Dahua came back to see something wrong with Dacao's eyes.

"Mother, don't even think about it!" Gou Sheng tried his best to put the porridge for Li Dahua on the low table.

Mrs. Wang's distant relative is doing the business of "human traffickers". Every year, she spends a few dollars to coax the little girl away from the poor family, and raises her for a few months. If she is lucky, she will be picked back by the manager of the rich family to be a little girl. What people want is either sold to a widowed old man as a child bride, or raised for a few years and sent to a low-level kiln... Naturally, these people will not mention it!

"...Young girl from Master Li's family, tsk tsk, those are the days of the old lady, the clothes are newly cut every few days, and the meat is too fat to eat..."

"How can there be such a good thing? Could it be that the old woman is full of nonsense and people believe it?"

Mrs. Wang rolled up her sleeves, and on her left hand was a silver bracelet as thick as a thumb, "Otherwise, I wouldn't be willing to ask my little daughter to come over. Hey, it's only half a year since I brought a pair of bracelets to my old lady." First, it is said that Miss Master thinks the style is simple, so she rewarded people casually... If the big girl who waits close to her will get more rewards, and when she gets married, the master will reward a dowry..."

There was an exclamation from the crowd, and many people wanted to put their eyelids on the bracelet... Li Dahua and others surrounded Mrs. Wang and talked for a long time. Ignore it, but the women in the village think that the man is a "noble lady"...

"What do you think, do you know what my old lady thinks?" Li Dahua picked up the bowl of "Hulu Hulu" and drank a few big gulps, spitting food scum mixed with spittle.

Gou Sheng quietly guarded his bowl with his hands, thankfully he had picked up a large chopstick of pickled vegetables just now, and he was able to deal with it soon.

"When my father and I went to the city, what we earned was the money of the maids of the rich family. The family has served the master for generations. That is called having children. These people grew up in the mansion, and the whole family lives in the mansion. Only in this way can the owner rest assured and put it by his side to serve him. The ones he buys are all menial jobs like emptying the toilet and sweeping the yard. If he doesn’t make mistakes, he will be a rough servant for the rest of his life!” Gou Sheng slammed and sat next to the mountain official, “ Yes or no?"

"Hmm." The mountain official hesitated while drinking the porridge.

"It's not like you don't know how our family is doing. It's fine this year. If God doesn't open his eyes next year, what will the family eat!" Li Dahua said loudly while drinking porridge, "You will live as your old mother!" Decades are worthless, and I don’t know how hard it is to serve people! It’s just harder, work hard, at least you won’t be hungry for the rest of your life!”

"Mom! It's not as simple as you think. If you sign the calligraphy and painting, your life is not your own..." Gou Sheng became a little excited when he said that.

Only now did Dacao realize what his elder brother and his mother were arguing about, and tears fell out as soon as he buried his head. He didn't dare to cry, so he secretly wiped the tears with the back of his hand.

"Ding bang!"

"Eat!" Liu Datie knocked on the rim of the bowl with his chopsticks and said, "How can Gou Sheng talk to your mother! Hurry up and eat, and you have to say something during the meal!"

Hua Ya looked at Da Cao and shed tears, and also looked at Shan Guan in fear.

Shan Guan patted Hua Yazi's head, "Eat quickly!"

When Gou Sheng started to clean up the bowls and chopsticks, Liu Datie hugged the big grass in his arms, and said in a low voice, "His mother, don't make up your minds, our family still has a lot of big grass to eat, and I can't believe Mrs. Wang's words, It’s really as good as she said, why don’t people in the city send their dolls to serve others.”

"I just think about it that way, it's another matter whether people think or not, father and son are equally brain-dead!" Li Dahua said, patting the table.

"This year we huddled together in the outer room for a while, and tomorrow we will clean up the kang inside and plant garlic seedlings. We will sell them before the Chinese New Year, and we can still get some. Jiaxing City will not be completed. I will go to other places to find work in the spring." If you do it, you can't live anymore... A few years ago, when there were leftover dogs, the fields had nothing to harvest, and after eating the leftovers for half a year, Landlord Yang's dog food came here..." Liu Blacksmith unhurriedly persuaded.

Li Dahua said a few more words, after all, it came out of her stomach, and she didn't really want to sell her children, so she never thought about it again.

"Why are you crying? There is no future at all. I will work hard for my old lady at home, or I will sell you to work in someone else's house!"

"Mother, don't say that, who are you bluffing!" Gou Sheng put away the bowls and chopsticks, and said unhappily, "Okay, Dacao, went to scoop water and wash the kang, nothing happened!"

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