I live in Miao Village

After discussing the construction of the school, Xue Yi and A Yaoduo should go back. Village head Yang and all the villagers sent them to the entrance of the village and said, "Mr. I ran away, all for the sake of children's education, but we made things difficult for you for one reason or another, didn't cooperate, didn't treat you to a meal, I'm sorry!"

Xue Yi smiled and said: "What's the matter, what I can do, I will trouble everyone in the future! Go back, and send it to Danliu Village, or you can come to my place and I will treat you to dinner."

Everyone laughed and went back one after another. The village head Yang, his son and the two women who were in charge of the village still did not leave, and insisted on sending them down the dirt slope in front before going back.

"Okay, then it's settled. Once you have delivered the soil slope in front, you are not allowed to send it away again." The country people are hospitable, simple and kind, Xue Yi is really afraid that they will be sent all the way to Danliu village, and they will not send it to Danliu village after the agreement. Will send again.

The crowd walked together for more than ten minutes, and just as they were about to wave goodbye, they saw an eleven or twelve-year-old girl coming down the slope. She was very thin and faltering, carrying two large buckets of water.As soon as he saw them, he quickly lowered his head, hurried past them, and finally flashed into a house as if fleeing, and disappeared.

"Who is this? We have seen all the school-age children on the list, why haven't we seen her?" Xue Yi asked.

"She is not from our village. She is the daughter of a distant relative of Pan Weiliang. She even needs to be called Pan Weiliang's little uncle. After her father was paralyzed, her mother ran away with others. Later, her father died, so she stayed with her. At the home of Pan Weiliang's elder brother, Pan Weiming. Looking at it like this, he must be picking out fairy water for Pan Weiming and his wife again!"

"What kind of water is God? Picking like this every day, can you bear it?" That arm is no thicker than a shoulder pole!

"Mr. Xue, you don't know. Our country children are like this. They started carrying water at a young age, and they can't grow tall. She is doing well. In the spring of last year, she plowed the fields like a cow. It's pitiful..." Village Chief Yang hadn't finished speaking when he heard the sound of buckets falling down, beating, scolding, and begging for mercy from a house in front of him.

Several people ran towards where the sound came from, and as soon as they entered the door, they saw water everywhere in the yard, a wooden barrel was broken, and a bucket rolled and hit the edge of the well.

The little girl was half kneeling just now, wiping her tears with the back of her dirty hands from time to time, and standing opposite her was a middle-aged woman with a big belly, with an angry face, and said angrily when she saw everyone, "Who are you and why are you here?" ?”

"Hey, you don't know me now. I'm Uncle Yang." In the countryside, pregnant women and the elderly often have the highest status. Village Chief Yang would have to laugh when he saw them, "What's the matter? I get angry when something big happens. , It’s bad for your health. This is Ayaoduo from Danliu Village, you’ve seen him before, this is the new teacher from Danliu Village, surnamed Xue, where are you in charge? Zhenfang, get up, call Teacher Xue.”

Village Chief Yang helped the girl up while talking, but the girl knelt still, Xue Yi stepped forward to help her, and said in a warm voice, "Don't be afraid, get up first." The girl still couldn't get up.

A Yaoduo stepped forward and said, "Sister-in-law, please say something."

The woman said impatiently: "Get up, pretending to show someone, what's wrong with making you look pitiful? I told you to carry a bucket of water and never return for a long time. Did you dig a well now?"

The girl was about to stand up, but when she heard this, she wanted to kneel down again, Xue Yi hurriedly grabbed her.

The girl's name is Yang Zhenfang. The fairy water she picked is actually the water dripping from the stalactites. Because the stalactites look like a graceful woman, she is regarded as a god by the nearby villagers. All the women will take it and drink it.

But how much water can a stalactite drop in a day?Yang Zhenfang put the water buckets under it the night before, and only picked up two small buckets the next evening. Because she came back late, she was kicked to the ground by Weiming's wife, asking if you want to die of thirst, or if you hate me? Do I hate it so much?

But if Yang Zhenfang came back early, Weiming's wife said again: "Come back so fast, can't you just pick up water from the fields to feed cows and horses to fool me?"

In short, it’s not right to come back early, it’s not right to come back late, it’s not right at all.

Xue Yi was worried that Yang Zhenfang would be scolded even more after they left, so he took her to Village Chief Yang's house to stay overnight, planning to go there the next day to have a good talk and let the child go to school too.

Yang Zhenfang didn't leave at first, and she moved after being chased away by Weiming's wife. When she arrived at the village head's house, she just cried and said nothing. was beaten.

Xue Yi said that you will be scolded and beaten when you go back tonight, so she asked someone to arrange for her to sleep at the village head's house, and asked the village head what it was like to be a cow plowing the fields.

The people nearby sighed after hearing the words, and the village chief said slowly: "Our place is quite superstitious, especially women who can't give birth to children, often engage in crooked ways. Today I heard people say that prickly pear cake is good for conception. People go to eat prickly pear cake, and tomorrow they hear people say that drinking fairy water is good for qi and blood, so another group of people go to drink fairy water.

Weiming's daughter-in-law didn't know who said that the rice planted in the plowed field has spiritual energy and is easy to conceive, so she thought of Yang Zhenfang and asked Yang Zhenfang to plow the field like a cow..."

Xue Yi was dumbfounded. He didn't expect superstition to be so obsessed. Let alone whether the water dripping from the stalactites can be drunk, is there any difference between the rice grown by plowing the fields?Is it more nutritious or more humanistic?Using people to plow the fields is the only way for the family to be so poor that they can't even afford to borrow a cow!

Village head Yang looked ashamed, saying that I did not do a good job, and this kind of thing happened in this age.

A few women next to her whispered, saying: "I remember that Weiming's wife was very nice when she first came here, she spoke softly and her voice was soft, why did she become like this?"

"It was forced by her mother-in-law. She has not been able to give birth to children these years. Can you not be in a hurry? That is a famous evil mother-in-law. There are three sister-in-laws under her. They are ruthless. Fortunately, three of them married and two of them married. gone."

"Hey, do you think the rice grown by plowing the fields is really useful? Weiming's wife is really pregnant."

Village Chief Yang coughed heavily, and looked at Xue Yi uncomfortably. Xue Yi pretended not to hear, but in fact, A Yaoduo had already told her on the way to bring Yang Zhenfang to the village chief's house, saying that feudalism Superstition is unavoidable. Many people imitated this year's spring plowing, calling themselves husbands, brothers, and other relatives, and secretly plowing the fields at night. It is said that if it is useful, there will be more people doing this next year!

Xue Yi hehe, there are not many places like this in a catastrophe year, and people are required to plow the fields without using good cattle. It is really feudal superstition that kills people!

Because of Yang Zhenfang's matter, Xue Yi and A Yaoduo stayed in Changxing Village for another night. The next morning, they found that Yang Zhenfang had disappeared at some point, and they knew she must have sneaked back last night without even guessing.

Sure enough, when Xue Yi and the others arrived at Pan Weiming's house, Weiming's wife lost her temper again, and a bowl of red hot peppers was overturned to the ground. Yang Zhenfang knelt down and wiped her tears as usual. , It's really bad for your body!Weiming is not here again, Aunt Six has gone to relatives, if you beat her like this, if something happens, who will take care of you, right?

The scene seemed familiar.

"Who wants her to take care of her? This evil spirit just wants to kill me!" Weiming's daughter-in-law's voice was extremely loud, hoarse, and she didn't know where the evil fire came from, and she didn't even give the village head any face.

Xue Yi simply made it clear that Yang Zhenfang was a school-age child and should be sent to study, and wanted to ask for her opinion.

Weiming's wife said that she had no money without even thinking about it. Xue thought that she would say this early in the morning, saying that I could give her free tuition, board and lodging fees, but Weiming's wife said, "Why do you give her so much money?" , Give it to me, what is there for a girl to study, she will get married in a year or two at this age, and it will be useless if she reads, why don't you give it to me."

Xue Yi was so angry that he had no doubt that he would grab the stool next to her and beat her, regardless of whether she was pregnant or not, how could there be such a shameless person?

When impulsive, Xue Yi felt that someone was pulling her, turned her head and saw that it was A Yaoduo who always "don't be cowardly or hate".

A Yaoduo kicked the pepper on the ground with her feet, and said lightly: "Sister-in-law, you have to forgive others and forgive others. We all know that you have not been easy these years, just don't try to be happy for a while, the days to come will be long! Now is Everyone listens to you, what about in the future? Of course, I still have to listen to you in the future. If you don’t want to eat chili, just don’t eat it. Why are you so angry? Zhenfang, quickly apologize to your uncle, she is pregnant with a boy , likes to eat sour food, but you make her spicy food, what is it to ask her to scold you?"

"But..." Yang Zhenfang raised her head and wanted to refute. The uncle obviously likes spicy food more, but she didn't know what happened today, and she lost her temper after eating.

"Huh?" A Yaoduo smiled at her, the smile was extremely majestic, Yang Zhenfang became sluggish, and said yes in a low voice.

These few seemingly light words made Weiming's daughter-in-law turn from anger to fear, from flushed to pale, Xue was confused when she didn't understand, and saw peppers all over the ground, wait a moment, sour?

If this sentence is correct, Weiming's wife may be pregnant with a daughter, but in such a family, how to have a daughter?It would be better not to be born, and to be born would definitely be worse than death.

No wonder Weiming's wife is so scared, and now Ayaoduo told Yang Zhenfang the truth...

"Sister-in-law, since Zhenfang is clumsy, staying here will also annoy you, why don't you send her to school, how about you talk to the sixth wife?"

"Okay, okay, I'll send her away now." Weiming's daughter-in-law was trembling all over, and A Yaoduo continued: "It's not easy for Mr. Xue to start a school, and the money doesn't fall from the sky. Look at the tuition..."

"I'll come out, I'll come out." Weiming's daughter-in-law wanted to send the little plague god away quickly, so as not to reveal her secret, Ayaoduo smiled with satisfaction, and said sister-in-law, you are really kind.Yunshang Xiaozhu

Xue Yi thought, this is the trick, if A Yaoduo doesn't stand by her side, she really doesn't know what to do, ten Xue Yis are not enough for her to fight!

When the sixth wife came back in the evening, Weiming's daughter-in-law told her that although the sixth wife was not happy, the daughter-in-law was pregnant, and no one in the family dared to violate her wishes, so they agreed.

The village chief said that he must invite them to a meal this time. The welcome wine and the door wine were brought up horn by horn. Ayaoduo waved her hands repeatedly, saying that I can't drink it, not at all.

Xue said in a low voice that you really don't know how to do it?That's right, you local, what if you don't know how to drink me, or I pretend I don't know how to drink?Yang Yongchao came out of nowhere and said that Mr. Xue would drink as soon as he drank it. The rice wine has a low alcohol concentration and he can't get drunk. Xue Yi: I believe you are the only one!

Xue Yi met the Miao banquet once, and vowed that he would never meet again, but he couldn't stand the crowds, and he couldn't stand taking a sip of every bull's horn, but there was a constant stream of people on Ayaoduo's side, Xue Yi Looking at Yang Yongchao's face, he thought of Wang Yangming. All kinds of documents and files were flying around in front of him, and he couldn't catch them. If you don’t know how to drink, I’ll come!”

Ayaoduo: "!"