I have a backstage in Datang

After all, Gu Tianya was caught up by the woman.

To be precise, chasing and being chased have a kind of tacit understanding that coincides with each other.

Gu Tianya was subconsciously waiting, that's why he was chased up.The woman was able to catch up with him easily because of her strong physical strength.

While the wind and snow were whistling, the woman had a face full of jokes, as if she wanted to get angry with Gu Tianya on purpose, she laughed and teased him and said, "What's the matter? I can't bear to miss my aunt? Is it love! Or worry!"

Gu Tianya turned his face away, and said in a cold voice: "Don't be sentimental, I'm just afraid that something will happen to you, after all... this is night after all."

"That's worry plus distress!" The woman blinked narrowly, her face full of jokes.

With her little hands behind her back, she leisurely circled around Gu Tianya, her eyes constantly staring at Gu Tianya's eyes.

Gu Tianya quickly turned his face to another place, and continued to speak in a cold voice: "I said, it's night after all, the wind and snow are very heavy, it's dark everywhere, and you are a weak woman, it's not good to throw you outside. That's all, don't make wild guesses."

"Yeah, I know, I know!"

The woman nodded like a chicken eating rice, but what she said almost made Gu Tianya's face swell, only to hear her laughing and saying: "It's obvious that I feel sorry for my aunt, but the man pretends to be tough. I understand, my aunt knows everything." I understand."

Gu Tianya was very helpless, he only heard a wry smile and said: "I really can't imagine what kind of aristocratic family can get used to your character."

The woman immediately asked a tricky question, and asked jokingly with a smile, "Do you want to beat me three times a day?"

"Think!" Gu Tianya almost blurted out.

Fortunately, he held back in time, feeling himself being teased again.There is only the saying of beating the wife in the world. There is no precedent for daring to beat the elders. Her so-called aunt was almost thrown into the ditch again by her.

Going to see the woman suddenly chuckled, rolled her eyes at him dotingly, as if an elder was coaxing a child, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, if the trouble continues, my good nephew is going to get angry, let's go, go home When I got home, I was very hungry and wanted to try the fish made by my sister."

She deliberately put the word "sister" very seriously.

Gu Tianya was really swollen with anger this time.

He picked up the cage vigorously, walked towards home without saying a word, suddenly felt a lightness in the crook of his arm, and was surprised to find that the cage had lost weight. He subconsciously turned his head to look, but found that the woman helped him lift it up. I got the cage.

I saw the woman easily carrying the cage with one hand, the smile on her face had turned serious, and she said solemnly: "Seriously, don't think I'm teasing you, you have to eat meat every day in the future, otherwise your physique can't be called a man."

As he spoke, he gently tugged and put the forty to fifty catties heavy cage on the crook of his arm. He looked very relaxed, but his face became more serious, and he solemnly said again: "From now on, you can't stop eating meat. "

Gu Tianya didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he had no choice but to sigh, and said: "Your tone is serious, it doesn't seem like you are teasing me, but the words you said hurt my heart more than mocking me. I have already told you However, my family doesn’t even have overnight food.”

The implication speaks for itself.

There is no food, so how can there be meat to eat.

Unexpectedly, the woman became more solemn, and said in a deep voice: "If you don't have food, you can plant it. If you don't have meat, you can buy it with money. In a word, I don't want you to look like a sick child. If you are hungry and weak all the year round, you won't live too long." Big."

Gu Tianya was stunned for a moment, staring blankly at the so-called 'aunt', he already had a faint feeling that this so-called aunt was sincerely treating him well.

but……

"Ugh!"

He sighed softly, looked slowly at the snowflakes floating in the sky, and said softly: "I don't know if you have heard an allusion, the name of that allusion is why not eat minced meat."

The woman obviously hesitated, and asked curiously after a long time: "You want to tell me about ancient times?"

However, Gu Tianya suddenly shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Forget it, I'll take you to see it directly. The allusions told by mouth are not as good as what you see with your own eyes."

He lifted his feet and left after speaking, as if he was going to lead the woman somewhere, but stopped suddenly, stretched out his hand and grabbed the cage suddenly, and said in a deep voice: "I will carry the things."

The woman glanced at him, and refused in a low voice: "It's easier for me to carry it, but you see that you are sweating from exhaustion."

Gu Tianya was still holding on to the cage, and said again in a deep voice, "I'll carry the things."

The tone was unprecedentedly solemn.

The woman was startled for a moment, then she seemed to understand something, so she gave Gu Tianya a hard look with her eyes, and hummed in a low voice: "This bad temper, this bad face, please mention it, my big man nephew .”

Gu Tianya turned a deaf ear, and brought the cage over with one hand, then collapsed on the crook of his arms with great effort, and then raised his steps to lead the way again.

It is said to be leading the way, but in fact the direction is still to go home, walking slowly along a winding path, and gradually entered the village filled with wind and snow.

It is said to be a village, but it is actually a dilapidated settlement, but after entering the village, there are many ruined walls, and some small thatched houses are built next to the ruined walls.

It was dark at night, so the sightlines were naturally bad, but standing in the village and looking around, one could see through the whole village under the color of snow, which showed how small the village was, and the square circle was only a hundred steps at most.

The woman counted carefully along the way, and found that there were only thirteen lights in the village.

That is not a light, but a fire that burns wood for warmth. Thirteen fires mean thirteen households.

"There are only thirteen families in your village?" She asked Gu Tianya in surprise.

Gu Tianya was carrying the cage in front of him, walking forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow, suddenly he stopped and let out a faint sigh.

He didn't speak, but just looked at a small hut.After a long time passed, he said softly, "Fifteen households."

The woman was slightly startled, and subconsciously said: "Fifteen households? How is it possible? I counted carefully just now, and there are only thirteen lights..."

Before he finished speaking, he stopped suddenly, and his pretty and heroic face suddenly showed a look of shock and trance.

Gu Tianya glanced at her, and said bitterly: "Looking at your expression, I'm afraid you have already thought about it. You guessed right, there are two families who can't even light a fire for warmth."

After he finished speaking, he looked at the small thatched cottage again.

The thatched cottage was dilapidated and small, as if it was about to collapse at any time in the wind and snow, suddenly the pupils of the woman's eyes shrank, and she faintly saw a shivering little figure at the door of the thatched cottage.

"Gu...Gu...Brother Gu, is that Brother Gu?" In the wind and snow, there was a faint voice.

The voice was weak and small, giving people a feeling of timidity and timidity, and it seemed that they were exhausted from hunger, but they still struggled to cry out.

Gu Tianya sighed softly, and walked over carrying the cage with difficulty.

The heart of the woman behind was moved, and she quickly raised her heel and followed her up.

The two arrived at the door of the thatched cottage in a blink of an eye, and their eyes fell on a trembling figure.

It was a girl about thirteen or fourteen years old, her face was already blue from the wind and snow, she was stamping her little feet hard to keep warm, but her eyes were fixed on Gu Tianya's cage.

Without waiting for Gu Tianya to speak, she whimpered and said timidly: "Gu... Brother Gu, my mother, my mother..."

Only halfway through the words, he was already crying, but the crying was very small, obviously he was so hungry that he didn't even have the energy to cry.

Gu Tianya rushed into the cottage in one step.

The woman followed closely behind.

It was very dark inside the thatched hut, and the temperature was not much different from that outside the hut. There were some thatched grass in the corner of the hut, and there seemed to be a faint figure curled up there.

When a person is dying, the body will subconsciously shrink into a certain posture. It is said that that posture is the beginning of wandering in the mother's body, so it will involuntarily imitate it when it is dying.

Gu Tianya has seen countless times of this kind of curled up posture!

So you know what this gesture means.

He jerked his head upwards, as if he didn't want to let his tears flow down. After a long time passed, he asked softly, "When did you leave?"

The girl at the door struggled to climb through the door, sobbing and crying very weakly: "It's...it's getting dark."

Gu Tianya continued to raise his head, his voice had become choked, but he tried his best to hold back, and said softly, "If it doesn't snow tomorrow, I'll dig a hole for your mother."

After thinking for a while, he said softly: "I still have a reed mat at home, use it for your mother to wrap around her body."

The girl was tearful, and she seemed weak even to nod to thank her, but she still knelt down on her knees, kowtowed to Gu Tianya very solemnly, and then cried: "Brother Gu made up a reed mat, one can sell Five cents, my mother said, my mother said..."

"It's a loan!" Gu Tianya said suddenly, his face full of solemnity, and he said: "When a person is gone, you can't bury her in the ground alone. Even if we can't afford a coffin, we have to get a reed mat to wrap her body. A Yao, you don't have to feel guilty, I lent you this reed mat!"

"But my mother said, but my mother said..." The girl was still kneeling, sobbing and crying: "My mother said, Brother Gu's family is not easy. When my mother died, she grabbed my hand and told me not to go to you Asking for a reed mat, she said, a reed mat costs five cents, and Brother Gu has to rely on selling the reed mat to buy food. She also said that everyone borrows your reed mat every time, but you weave every day but rarely sell it , were all, were all..."

"I said, it's an excuse!" Gu Tianya roared suddenly, as if he was filled with great grief and anger, he suddenly pulled the girl up from the ground, and roared again with a livid face: "It's an excuse, I understand Is it? Wrap your mother, so you can't bury it in the ground alone."

The girl finally burst into tears.

There was an inexplicable relief in the sour cry.

If a person has been poor for a long time, he would even feel guilty about borrowing something. Now that Gu Tianya tells her viciously that it is a borrowing, she can be regarded as letting go of the heavy burden in her heart.

It's a loan.

What you borrow must be returned.

But even if it needs to be paid back, it is also a great gratitude to the girl.

Gu Tianya suddenly put the cage on the ground, looked straight at the woman standing there with a shocked expression, and said in a deep voice: "I really have no strength this time, auntie, help me carry it home."

He finally called out to Auntie.

He finally put down his face and said that he had no strength.

The woman was feeling abrupt, but she saw Gu Tianya suddenly bent down, and then hugged the girl with difficulty.

The woman only heard him use a very domineering language, and said to the weak girl: "In the past, you squatted at the door and waited pitifully, and when I came back from catching fish, I asked me if I wanted to go to bed with a flattering face." At the end, this time you don’t even have firewood for cooking at home, Brother Gu can only take you to my house to eat..."

After speaking, he hugged the child and went out with difficulty.

The woman stared blankly at his back, looking at the girl who was almost starved to death, suddenly she let out a breath slowly, and said softly: "Although you walk staggeringly, you are more handsome than countless people, such a Man, such a man...is..."

She picked up the basket full of fish and shrimp, rushed into the wind and snow and caught up with Gu Tianya's figure.

Chapter 8 [My son is eligible to marry anyone]

The wind and snow howled, and finally arrived home.

Gu Tianya asked the girl A Yao to find a place to sit first, and then went to help the girl take out all the fish and shrimp in the cage, found a yellowed rattan basket, and put all the fish and shrimp in it.

Then he struggled to pick up the rattan basket and went out, and put a basket of fish and shrimp in the small courtyard that was swayed by the wind and snow.

The woman was a little puzzled, and followed behind to look around. Gu Tianya turned back to look at her, and explained in a low voice: "After the snow falls, it will be colder, and the big river will soon be frozen. It’s difficult, so this basket of fish and shrimp must be kept well, this is our next daily ration.”

"Frozen fish?" The woman was thoughtful.

Gu Tianya shook his head, and whispered again: "It's not frozen fish, but frozen like this first. When the weather clears up, my mother will wash and clean the fish and shrimp, then dry them in the air, and store them as dried fish. That's it. Even if it lasts until next spring, these dried fish will not stink and rot."

"Why don't you pickle it?" The woman blinked her eyes and said with an idea: "It's easier to store it after pickling."

Gu Tianya glanced at her again, and it took him a long time before he smiled bitterly and said, "I can't bear the salt."

The woman froze immediately.

She looked at Gu Tianya's eyebrows in a daze, and after a long time, she suddenly remembered a worry, and couldn't help asking: "Although this basket of fish and shrimp looks like a lot, it is actually only four or fifty catties, but it lasts for three months in one winter. How can these fish and shrimp survive the winter? Four people can eat them all in a few days..."

"What are you thinking? You can't bear to eat these."

Gu Tianya glanced at her again, and sighed softly: "To tell you the truth, these dried fish are reserved for emergencies. They are not allowed to be eaten at ordinary times, and can only be stored. They are only eaten when the home is suspended for more than two days. I will take out some dried fish to survive the day."

The woman was even more stunned, and asked in a daze: "Then you...what do we usually eat at our house?"

Gu Tianya looked up at the sky, looked at the flying snow, and said softly: "I will go to help others and earn food to live on."

"Help?" The woman hesitated to repeat the word.

"A helper is a job for someone!"

Suddenly someone at the door spoke weakly, it was the girl Ayao.

At this time, she shivered and squatted at the door, helping Gu Tianya explain in a low voice: "That is the work of the Sun family. Every winter, they have to fertilize the field, dig silt, and fertilize the soil. That work is very tiring. Only strong men can do it." Only then can we survive, but Brother Gu went to participate three years ago, when he was only 15 years old, he worked hard for a day, and he could give half a catty of food."

She thought for a while, and then said: "The manager of the Sun family is very unreasonable. He always said that Brother Gu is not considered an adult, so he only gives half a catty of food a day. In fact, Brother Gu's work is no worse than others."

She wanted to say more, but Gu Tianya had already waved his hand at her, and reprimanded pretending to be displeased: "What do you know, you little girl? Sit in the room and don't come out. If you lie down because of cold, be careful Brother Gu threw you out and left you alone."

A Yao hurriedly said "oh", and returned to the house shyly, but before returning, she couldn't help but opened her mouth again, and added weakly to the woman: "The manager of the Sun family is broken. Bullying Brother Gu. Really, I'm not lying..."

Seeming that Gu Tianya was about to get angry with her, he hurriedly shut up and hid in the house.

Gu Tianya watched A Yao hide in the house, then turned his head and shook his head at the woman, and said with a wry smile: "Since this girl has already interjected on her own initiative, then I don't have to tell you about the helper." gone."

He didn't want to say any more, but the woman didn't let her go, and suddenly asked: "The helper is to fertilize the fields for the Sun family? The so-called fertile fields are to dig out the silt and fertilize the soil, right?"

Gu Tianya didn't answer.

The woman's voice seemed to be a little cold, vaguely with some unpredictable taste, and suddenly said: "If you want to dig mud, you probably have to stand in cold water. To do this kind of work in cold weather, it will only give you half a day." catties of food... this Sun family... this Sun family..."

Gu Tianya waved his hand at her and sighed softly: "Which aristocratic family in the world is not like this, there are things like drinking people's blood, there is no way, if the poor want to survive, they have to be squeezed, although the work is a bit hard, But if we can earn half a jin of food every day, as long as we save food and drink, we will be able to survive this winter.”

When he said this, he stopped abruptly, remembering that his so-called aunt seemed to be from a wealthy family, so he lost interest in talking for a while, and turned back to the room with a wry smile.

He went back to the house in a low mood, but he didn't notice the woman's expression. In the cold wind and heavy snow, the woman silently looked at his back, suddenly a sharp look flashed in her eyes, and two cold words appeared in her heart...

"Sun Family!"

She looked up at the sky full of wind and snow, her heroic handsome face was as frosty, as if she wanted to deeply remember the word "Sun Family" in her heart, it would take half a cup of tea to do it. Lift your feet and go back to the house.

……

Gu Tianya moved into the room a little earlier than her, and at this moment he was trying to chop firewood with a hatchet, that A Yao was beside him helping, and the little girl struggled to stack the firewood neatly.