Jinghong Building

Chapter 456: Five Hegemons of the Capital (Three)

The family who took He Xiaojiu in is surnamed Zhong, a family of six, mother-in-law, two daughters-in-law and three granddaughters.

Yes, there are no males in this family.

At first, He Xiaojiu thought that all the men in this family were dead, but later she learned from her granddaughter Sanya that the men in the family were not dead, but ran away.

On the way to escape, Mr. Zhong took away all the money and money from the family, took his two sons Zhong Da and Zhong Er, and ran away with his grandson, leaving all the women and children in the family.

He Xiaojiu lived there and found that Mrs. Zhong hated the youngest Sanya very much. Even Sanya's mother ignored her. Although except for Mrs. Zhong, the whole family had to get up early and work late, Sanya is the one who does the most and eats the least, and Sanya's clothes are the most torn ones.

Sanya is twelve years old, and her two sisters, Daya is 20 years old and Erya is 18 years old. They are all about to get married, especially Daya, although the woman who is in her twenties in the capital has not been married. Someone is there, but in the countryside, girls usually get married at the age of sixteen or seventeen. Anyone who has not gotten married at the age of twenty or not is either there is no male at home, and the girl wants to stay at home to recruit a son-in-law, or she just wants to My daughter stayed at home for a few more years, so she could make money for the family and serve the whole family.

Mrs. Zhong is not good-looking, and her mother is not good-looking, but she is very capable. She is not worse than a man when she goes to the field to farm. Therefore, Mrs. Zhong wants her to stay at home to recruit a son-in-law, but don’t look at the tricks. The people in Cai Village are very poor, but they are not willing to be son-in-law. The young man from the outside village does not want to come to Zhaocai Village, so Da Ya's marriage is delayed again and again.

Although Zhong Ersao has a pale face and thin skin, her facial features are still beautiful. Erya and Sanya both follow Zhong Ersao, both of whom are beautiful girls.

Therefore, Old Mrs. Zhong said that if she wanted to marry Erya, she would have to pay at least twenty taels of silver.

The same thing is said, Zhaocai Village is not willing to spend twenty taels of silver to marry a wife, and although the outside village is rich, they do not want to marry Zhaocai Village. Therefore, although Erya is good-looking, she has been wasting ten times. Eight years old, not yet married.

Because of the marriage between Da Ya and Er Ya, the villagers talked a lot of sarcastic remarks. Some families who like Da Ya were interested in Da Ya's capable ones, and when they heard that the Zhong family wanted to recruit a son-in-law, they lost their minds. However, the young men in the village who like Er Ya were also I can't afford twenty taels of silver.

On the first day of He Xiaojiu's arrival, the Zhong family had already finished their meal because they arrived at night. He Xiaojiu didn't care. She ate the last piece of snack she brought and went to bed.

In fact, when she left Beijing, she wanted to bring more snacks. She liked to eat red bean pastry, with pastry on the outside and soft red bean pastry on the inside. She loved to eat it since she was a child.

However, the yamen has clear regulations on what those who work hard to work with. As for food, as long as you can eat on the road, it will not work if you have too much food.

He Xiaojiu had only one piece of red bean pastry for dinner. Although he was not full, he could still bear it.

The Zhong family of six slept on a big kang, and He Xiaojiu slept next to Sanya. Although she is the crown prince, she would go to the military camp with her father for a while every year, but the Zhong family's big kang was also It is not comfortable or even harder than the wooden bed in the military camp.

For He Xiaojiu's monthly 30 kilograms of food, Old Mrs. Zhong gave her a quilt.

Don’t underestimate this quilt. The six members of the Zhong family only have two quilts, and Sanya often cannot cover the quilt.

Now He Xiaojiu can have a quilt himself, and everyone in her family looks at her enviously, especially Sanya.

He Xiaojiu generously invited Sanya to sleep in the same bed with her.

The next morning, before dawn, the Zhong family got up one after another. Sanya got up the earliest, and she carefully came out of the quilt, for fear of waking He Xiaojiu.

However, He Xiaojiu couldn't stay in bed either. She was called out by Old Mrs. Zhong.

She thought she was going to have breakfast, but she found that Da Ya Er Ya had already gone to the field to work with their mothers. San Ya was coming back from outside with a bucket of water. San Ya, twelve-year-old San Ya, was only taller than He Xiaojiu Little bit, no matter how you look at it, they are all children, but they can come back with a big bucket of water. Just this, Old Mrs. Zhong didn't give her a good face, and looked at He Xiaojiu with the corners of her eyes: "I'm lazy all day long, and the sun shines on her I still can't get up after my butt."

He Xiaojiu looked at the sky. The sun had just emerged and it was not shining on his butt.

She asked Mrs. Zhong, "Do I go to work in the fields, too?"

She really wanted to go there. There is a vegetable field in the palace, and she likes to go to the vegetable field to catch insects the most.

Old Mrs. Zhong said angrily: "What do you think?"

Sanya stretched her sleeves: "Go with me."

He Xiaojiu wanted to ask, shouldn’t he go to the floor after breakfast?

But looking at the cold pot and cold stove again, it was obvious that the other people in the Zhong family had not eaten, so she, a prisoner, should not ask too much.

When he arrived in the field, He Xiaojiu realized that it turned out that others were all taking dry food to the field, and each of them had a black steamed bun the size of a fist, only she and Sanya did not.

Sanya comforted her: "It's okay, I'll have food to eat tonight."

He Xiaojiu.

He Xiaojiu didn't seem to have done farm work at first sight. She was young. When Mrs. Zhong saw that she opened her hands and didn't know what to do, she asked her to follow Da Ya and work like Da Ya.

He Xiaojiu thought it was quite fresh. Although she was gingering, she still worked with Da Ya.

At this time, she heard someone calling her: "Sister Jiu, Sister Jiu!"

He Xiaojiu looked over in the voice and saw Dong Jinbao running towards her.

"Baby, why are you here? Don't you have to go to the fields to work?"

He Xiaojiu looked behind Dong Jinbao and saw two thin girls standing in the distance, looking here nervously.

Dong Jinbao looked around, pulled He Xiaojiu aside, and whispered: "I don't know how Boss Qin told the people here. The house I went to actually thought I would be from their family in the future. He I had no son at home, so I was so happy to see me. I wanted me to marry their daughter. Now I don’t want me to do any work, and I even cook eggs for me.”

He Xiaojiu.

Dong Jinbao: "Sister Jiu, I know. Boss Qin is much more cruel than shooting a flower girl."

He Xiaojiu: "The one who is more cruel than Huazi is not my brother, but my mother. Do you think my brother alone can get the five of us here?"

Dong Jinbao touched his head: "Hehe, I dare not say it, it's still Sister Jiu who is powerful, Sister Jiu, the family gave me an egg, I will save half of it and give it to you."

As he said that, Dong Jinbao took out an egg yolk wrapped in a veil from his arms. The yolk was crushed and pasted on the veil.

He Xiaojiu: "I remember you don't seem to eat egg yolks, right?"

Dong Jinbao: "It's not that I don't eat, but that I'm afraid of getting fat. I'm already fat enough, and I'll be even fatter if I eat it."

He Xiaojiu: OK, just pretend what you said is true.

"I'm not hungry, so you'd better keep it yourself."

He Xiaojiu was about to return the broken egg yolk to Dong Jinbao, but suddenly felt a cold and looked around. Well, a few pairs of eyes were looking at her, not at her, but at the one she was holding. Broken egg yolk wrapped in a veil.

Especially the two girls who followed Dong Jinbao, they had desire and resentment in their eyes.

Sanya also looked here, and He Xiaojiu clearly saw her throat moving, which was swallowing. At this moment, He Xiaojiu suddenly understood that Dong Jinbao didn't want to eat it. The broken egg yolk that she felt disgusting was delicious in the eyes of these children.

He Xiaojiu stuffed the broken egg yolk into Dong Jinbao's hands and said to him: "If you don't want to eat it, just give it to the sisters and sisters of that family. They are too thin and they are malnourished at first glance."

The word malnutrition was learned by He Xiaojiu from her mother. She often said that Dong Jinbao understood what it means.

Dong Jinbao was a little embarrassed and ran to the two girls, not knowing what they said to them. The two girls were timid and no one dared to reach out to answer them. It was Dong Jinbao who gave them, you see Look at me, I look at you, and then quickly ran to the back of a big tree. When I came out, I only had a veil in my hand.

The sister blushed and said to Dong Jinbao, "The veil is dirty, I'll wash it and give it to you."

She and her sister licked the broken egg yolks on the veil. Their saliva was stained with the veil and they were directly returned to them. How embarrassed it was.

Dong Jinbao waved generously: "No need to wash, I don't want it."

The two were surprised, afraid that they had heard it wrong: "You really don't want such a good veil?"

Dong Jinbao: "I really don't want it anymore. If you like it, then give it to you. If you don't like it, then throw it away."

The two little girls almost jumped up with joy. The veil was embroidered with flowers. They were so reluctant to throw away such a good veil.

Dong Jinbao never expected that a dirty handkerchief would make them so happy. He turned around and looked at He Xiaojiu. Seeing He Xiaojiu staring at them in a daze, he didn't know what he was thinking.

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

When work was over at night, He Xiaojiu was so hungry that she was almost fainted. She actually worked all day on her stomach.

On the way back, she saw Feng Jingchun, who was the same as her, and had a bad face.

She walked over and put her hand on Feng Jingchun's shoulder: "Hey, I'll be hungry after taking me for a while."

Feng Jingchun: "Don't, we are not familiar with each other, you'd better go and take care of others."

"Where is your brother, he has fainted from such a tiring work? Have you brought medicine?" He Xiaojiu asked with concern.

Feng Jingchun shook her head and said she didn't know that she was so tired that she had her brother.

Her brother is not diligent in all four bodies, well, he should have worked more.

When she returned to Zhong's house, she saw that she was so tired that she was tilted. Old Mrs. Zhong was very disdainful. She opened the locked cabinet and took out the food carefully, so she asked Sanya to cook.

He Xiaojiu recited Amitabha in her heart and finally could eat. Now she was so hungry that she could eat a whole pig.

Of course, the Zhong family did not eat pigs, and He Xiaojiu didn't even eat her own food.

Her food rations were millet, but she only received half a black steamed bun, just the same as what Da Ya and the others brought when they were working in the morning.

The steamed bun was hard, and He Xiaojiu had no front teeth, so he could only use the back teeth to bite. Every bite was very difficult.

"Where is my millet, give me my millet and I will cook porridge myself."

She can't cook porridge, but she knows how to cook it.

Old Mrs. Zhong snorted coldly: "What millet? Are you a girl? You are worth eating millet? Some of them are good to eat. If you pick and choose, don't eat them."

He Xiaojiu: "What's wrong with the girl movie? Isn't it worthy of eating millet?"

Old Mrs. Zhong: "Just not worthy!"

He Xiaojiu: "You were also a girl movie when you were a child, so you are not worthy?"

Old Mrs. Zhong: "Of course I'm not worthy. The millet is left for the men at home. Just eat something casually at the women's house."

He Xiaojiu: "It's a pity that all your men ran away. They don't want to eat your millet."

Well, if you reveal others, not your shortcomings, He Xiaojiu is revealing the shortcomings of the old Zhong family.

Old Mrs. Zhong was furious and picked up a stick and called He Xiaojiu: "You little girl, I'll tell you nonsense, let's see if I won't beat you to death!"

He Xiaojiu turned around and ran away, ran outside, climbed onto a big tree, and looked down at Old Lady Zhong: "Come and hit me, come and hit me!"

Old Mrs. Zhong was extremely angry and slapped the tree trunk with a stick a few times, and the leaves on the ground fell, and He Xiaojiu was still making faces at her.

"If you have the ability, you will stay in the tree. If you dare to come down, I will beat you to death!" Old Mrs. Zhong gritted her teeth.

He Xiaojiu: "Give me my rations back!"

Old Mrs. Zhong: "What's yours? If you give me the rations, it's mine. So are you. You work for my family and want to eat millet, bah!"

There was a noisy noise at the door of Zhong's house, and in a short while there were a bunch of people watching the fun.

"What's wrong with the Zhong family? Is it a little girl who took her back yesterday that was disobedient?"

Old Mrs. Zhong patted her thighs and said, "Everyone will judge my old woman. This little girl thinks the food at home is not up to her wishes and insists on eating millet. My God, that millet is something she can eat. Is it?”

An aunt curled her lips: "Old Mrs. Zhong, you said something wrong. That millet was originally for this little girl to eat. If you want to be bored, you can't give it to others at all. You are not happy. so."

Old Mrs. Zhong cursed and rushed forward to beat the aunt: "I'll beat you to death. If you didn't grab it, you're jealous of my millet and see if I don't tear your mouth apart."

The aunt was not a vegetarian either. The two wrestled together, and Old Mrs. Zhong was no match for her and was pushed to the ground.

Old Mrs. Zhong simply couldn't get up and sat on the ground and howled: "Bullying people, bullying my family has no men, and an orphan and widowed mother, I can't live this life!"

The onlookers said everything. Some people said that Old Mrs. Zhong was not a human being. So what if she took out a little millet and gave it to the little girl to eat.

Some people say that He Xiaojiu is ignorant. She eats well in every family, but she even chooses it. She looks like a tricky person. She can't marry a wife like this.

More people envy the Zhong family for being thirty kilograms of millet, and they are not only given one month. I heard that there will be another next month.

When these five children came to the village, they heard that they were given 30 kilograms of millet every month. Many families in the village wanted to bring their own food and work for their families in vain. Where can I find such a good thing?