In the 15th year of Jin'an in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Nanning Prefecture, Yizhou County, Yongchang County, Baihua Cave.

April 13th, Xiaoman.

It is late at this time (13:00-15:00), the sun is high, and it is the hottest time of the day.

Li Peilan hurried home with a basket full of chicken grass on her back.

After Xiaoman is over, it will be time to plant the seeds. The seeds will be sown at that time, but the land at home has not been sorted out yet. This means there is less rain this year. If it had been in previous years, the seeds would have already been planted.

In the past two days, the whole family went out to dig the ground. Since it was cooler in the morning, she worked a little longer. Unexpectedly, it was too late. If the old man hadn't complained that he was hungry, she might not have noticed it. It's meal time.

The woman was bent over and walked in a hurry. The sweat on her forehead wet her hair, and the locks stuck to her face. Some sweat beads flowed down her cheeks to her chin, and then fell on the ground drop by drop. , then blended into the soil, and finally disappeared.

She thought, hurry up, hurry up, the old man and the child's father are still working in the fields.

It's hot now, I still have to do physical work, and my stomach hurts after being hungry for a long time.

She was walking in such a hurry that she didn't notice the women sitting under the big locust tree at the end of the village.

"Click, click!"

The sound of cracking melon seeds was particularly clear in this hot noon.

"Bah, bah, bah!" The woman spit a few mouthfuls on the ground, "Guilan, what kind of melon seeds do you have? Maybe you took out the bad ones and ate them, why are there still moldy ones?"

Liu Guilan glanced at her, with sarcasm in her eyes, "Yours is good, but you take it out to eat. Go and ask, which one of the good-looking ones doesn't just sell it, but keeps it for yourself like you do?" ah?"

As he said that, he stretched out his hand and took everything that was left in the man's hand, "If you don't want to eat it, why would you ask me to eat it? You don't even take out the delicious food at your house, and you are picky when you eat other people's food." Yeah, I'm used to you!"

After Liu Guilan finished speaking, she turned around slightly, leaving only the back of the man's head.

"Hey, eh, eh," this person was also a thick-skinned person. She patted Liu Guilan on the shoulder, "Look at that, is it Peilan?"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, her family used to be rich, but the situation has changed, and now it's like eating one meal and not having another."

Liu Guilan swung her shoulder and threw her hand away, "I'm talking to Zhang Guihua, are you full? You live here and there all day long. Why don't you go to his door to chew your tongue if you like it so much? You're too lazy to pay attention. You bully the weak and fear the strong." After saying that, he stood up and walked to the middle of the road, waiting for Li Peilan.

Seeing her slow and laborious steps, Liu Guilan stuffed the melon seeds in her hand into her pocket and immediately went up to her.

"Sister Li, why do you carry so much?"

Li Peilan stopped and looked up at her with difficulty, a weak smile on his face, and he was panting.

"I worked a little longer when it was cool in the morning, but I didn't expect that I had overdone it. Why don't I rush back to cook for the old man and the others? This chicken grass grows beside the water, and it is so tender. If I don't cut it, I will get old by then. It’s a pity that they were all carried back.”

As she spoke, she bumped her backpack upwards, and the sweat on her face flowed faster.

"You have a lot of chickens, don't you? I'll take some back later. The ones I have can't eat so many."

"Okay!" Liu Guilan was not polite to her and agreed with a smile. She patted the melon seed crumbs on her hands and took her basket, "Sister Li, let me do it!"

Li Peilan was not polite and put down the backpack, "Then I won't be polite to you."

"Why are you so polite? Who of us is following whom? Besides, if you want to be polite to me, then I will be angry."

She shook the basket on her back, "And it doesn't weigh much, but why are you still going to the ground if you are not in good health?"

Liu Guilan was very strong, so this weight was nothing to her. With a basket full of chicken grass on her back, it was as if she had nothing on her back, and her steps were very brisk.

Li Peilan wiped the sweat from her forehead and said in a soft voice, "Seeing that I'm going to be a little full soon, I haven't finished plowing the ground at home, so I thought I'd come over and do some light work without getting tired."

Liu Guilan nodded, "How is Xiaoqing? Are you feeling better?"

"It's almost done. Her father feels sorry for her and asked her to rest at home for two more days."

The two walked side by side, talking and laughing as they walked towards the village.

Li Peilan's family lives in the village, and Liu Guilan's family is next door to hers. The two families have close contacts and a relatively good relationship.

Looking at the backs of the two people, Zhang Guihua took a sip and said to the people around her: "This Liu Guilan doesn't know what she is doing. She follows Li Peilan all day long, like a mother-in-law, busy in front of her. I don’t see what benefit she got!”

"Who knows, I'm also wondering. You said that this old Su family, with the current situation of not having enough food, what good can she do? After all, it is not the old Su family anymore!"

"Perhaps someone just likes a hot face but a cold butt?"

Several people looked at each other and laughed.

"However, in previous years, their land was the first to be plowed. Why did they do it at this hour this year?"

"You don't know this, right?" Zhang Guihua's tone was full of sourness, "In the past two months, there was work in the town, and several of her family's laborers went to take over the work. I guess they made a lot of money!"

"No matter how much you earn, it doesn't matter. You owe a lot of debt, and there are three medicine jars at home. The old ones, the young ones, and the young ones are all dependent on those old men. How can you bear it? No matter how capable you are, your body will be damaged sooner or later. It’s going to collapse too!”

"I heard that her boss rolled down the mountain a few days ago and cracked his head?"

"No, I saw it with my own eyes. His face was covered in blood and he was unconscious. I thought I couldn't survive it. I didn't expect..."

"What didn't you expect?"

The girl's voice came from behind. Her voice was neither soft nor loud, gentle yet powerful.

The sudden sound startled them. This was probably someone talking behind someone's back, and they felt guilty.

Several people shook their heads, and then looked back, and saw that the girl was dressed very simply, in a green dress, which was covered with patches. The clothes had been washed and turned white, but they were better than clean.

She stood under the sun, her whole body covered with light. The wind was blowing wildly, bringing with it waves of heat, causing her black hair and green clothes to fly wildly.

Perhaps she was recovering from a serious illness, and her face was a little pale.

They were all wearing coarse cloth, but the girl's back was straight and her aura was calm and calm.

People couldn't help but admire her. Mrs. Su was indeed a maid in a wealthy family. The granddaughter she raised has a very good temperament and doesn't look like a girl from their farm family at all.

Seeing that it was her, the women subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief and smiled on their faces, "Ah, it's Xiaoqing. Why did you come out to have a shower? Are you feeling better?"

She smiled too brightly, as if they were not the ones who had just been caught.

Su Ziling raised her eyes and looked at them, taking a step forward without leaving any trace, and finally stopped three steps away from them, with a smile on her face, the smile was not in her eyes, and the corners of her lips curled up in a cold arc.

"How could I know that these aunts care about me so much if I don't come out? It's not me, a junior, that makes these aunts think about me so much."

The girl looked at them with a half-smile, and several women looked embarrassed. Perhaps they had never encountered such a situation before, and they all got up and left.

Seeing Zhang Guihua was about to leave, Su Ziling called out to her, "Aunt Guihua?"

Before she could agree, Su Ziling stepped forward and the two of them walked side by side, "Aunt Guihua, where do you live?"

Probably because the girl's tone was too soft and there was no anger, Zhang Guihua thought she didn't care.

I thought to myself that she was just a girl after all. If her mother heard this, she might act up!

Without thinking, he replied: "I live in the village, just a few houses away from yours."

"Oh~" Su Ziling trailed off and nodded thoughtfully, "It turns out I live in a village. I thought I lived by the seaside."

Zhang Guihua: "?"

As she spoke, she paused, with the corners of her lips slightly raised, looking sideways at her, and said one word at a time: "It's so lenient!"

Zhang Guihua: "..."

Zhang Guihua: "!!!"

This girl, she curses! ! !

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