Beloved wife

In 1975, Kami Kimura.

Shangmu Village is a small village in the water town of Jiangnan.

It is located on the west side of a certain river that flows into the sea. There is also a small river meandering through the village. The land is fertile and water plants are abundant. The people who live here have lived by farming and raising silkworms for generations.

It is the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the weather is neither hot nor cold, and the villagers in Shangmu Village are busy digging sweet potatoes.

In Shangmu Village, rice has been planted all the time. In some places, two crops are planted a year, and in some places, one season is planted in a year. In this way, the annual rice output is still good, but most of the rice has to be handed over to the public. There is no way to eat white rice all at once.

Therefore, the sweet potatoes dug up today are extremely important - they all rely on sweet potatoes to fill their stomachs!

Digging sweet potatoes is a physical labor. Early in the morning, the young and middle-aged men in the village will use iron rakes to turn over the land where the sweet potato vines have been cut.

Gu Mingxiu was digging the ground.

He is very thin, but his strength is not small. When he raked it down, a large piece of mud was turned over with a lot of sweet potatoes.

The women in the village used their hands to scrape apart the dug up mud, found sweet potatoes and threw them into the bamboo basket next to them.

Occasionally, when I saw some big sweet potatoes being pierced by Gu Mingxiu with an iron rake, I would sigh: "Such a big sweet potato, what a pity."

While talking, they threw the injured sweet potatoes into another bamboo basket - such sweet potatoes cannot be stored for a long time, they should be eaten quickly.

Gu Mingxiu kept digging the ground, and the women followed him and other diggers to pick up sweet potatoes, and behind them, there were some children with runny noses, holding a basket to pick up what the woman in front dropped, but their fingers sized sweet potatoes, or sweet potato roots.

These small sweet potatoes are full of "tendons", that is, thick plant fibers, but they can fill their stomachs anyway, so no one is willing to waste them.

Moreover, the big sweet potatoes have to be handed over to the village chief for distribution, but these small sweet potatoes can be taken home directly.

In order to bring more sweet potatoes home, some women will let their children stay behind them, and then deliberately drop some sweet potatoes that are slightly larger and the size of eggs, and those children will have a much richer harvest.

They are all from the folks in the village, and generally no one says anything.

However, while everyone was working, someone suddenly said, "Where is the educated youth Yan? Didn't come again?"

Their village is next to a town, with less land and more people, so not many educated youths come here, and most of them are relatives of people in the village—people from the nearby towns and counties want to go to the countryside, they all choose the surrounding villages, and some live directly with relatives went.

But this educated youth is different, he came from the capital two years ago.

That's the capital!

When he first came, the villagers were very strange and went to see him, but now... the villagers have avoided him in fear.

This educated youth is tall and big, and his body looks very strong, but he is too lazy!

He has been here for two years, and the work in the field is still not smooth, so he knows to hide at home and be lazy all day long.

"That educated youth is really too lazy."

"Zhang Zugen's daughter had taken a fancy to him before, but recently she gave up on it."

"Don't you want to give up? He's so lazy, getting poorer and poorer..."

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People in the village really don't know what to say about the educated youth.

When he first arrived, he looked glamorous, and his leather shoes were all polished. Everyone thought that his family must be rich, but it wasn't.

In the past two years, no one has sent him anything!

In the first year, he was able to survive by selling the things he brought. In the second year, he relied on borrowing food from the village and people around him.

This is like borrowing food from the village, and everything has to be recorded. He always does not work, and he will definitely not pay at the end of the year. This...

More importantly, the villagers also learned that his family was not well-off.

The people in this Jiangnan water town have soft personalities. In the past few years, there has been a lot of trouble outside. They will also pull people to criticize, but the torment is not serious, and no one will do anything to the educated youth, but everyone doesn't like it. approach him.

Even if he looks very educated, just because of his laziness and bad background, those girls who were attracted to his face at first retreated one after another.

Everyone in the village felt that if the educated youth continued like this, they would be single for the rest of their lives!

As for another person in the village who may spend his whole life as a bachelor, that is Gu Mingxiu who is working hard to plow the ground.

Gu Mingxiu is the best-looking person in their village. Compared with the educated youth, he is not bad at all, and he works hard. When he was 15 years old, he could already get the same work points as adults for doing farm work in the team.

But he also has a fatal flaw.

First of all, his status is also not good - Gu Mingxiu's grandfather was a big landlord in the village back then.

The Gu family used to be in the raw silk business.

Their family built a large yard with a wall that can be three meters high by the big river, and built a pier. For decades in the morning, when the cocoons were harvested every year, people in the vicinity would boat here to sell cocoons. There are people coming and going, and the silver dollars for paying the bills must be packed in bamboo baskets.

The old man of the Gu family had an indescribable scenery, and Gu Mingxiu's grandfather even went to a big city to study, so he was the only one in the village.

It's a pity that times change too fast.

Before Gu Mingxiu was born, the Gu family was already defeated. Not long after he was born, his father committed suicide for various reasons. After that, Gu Mingxiu's mother took Gu Mingxiu to marry an old bachelor in the village who couldn't get a wife, and gave birth to four more. child.

But even if Gu Mingxiu's mother remarried, Gu Mingxiu's status is still not good, and many people are unwilling to marry him, let alone...he still has a family to drag him down.

Gu Mingxiu was in his stepfather's house, so he was an idiot. Since he was a child, he had to do farm work to take care of his younger siblings. He was also the son of a landlord, and he was always bullied in the village, so he always had a bad life.

But it's all like this, God still won't let him go.

When Gu Mingxiu was 14 years old, his stepfather got sick and his belly was getting bigger and bigger. He went to the hospital and the doctor said he couldn't cure it, so he died like that.

His mother is not in good health. She was pregnant with a child at the time, and fell ill all of a sudden. Later, when the child was born, the child came out feet first...

The midwife pulled hard, and the woman was gone.

Gu Mingxiu is twenty this year, and there are no elders in the family to help him. Instead, he has four half-brothers and sisters to take care of. The youngest is only six years old... Who wants to marry him?

However, although Gu Mingxiu's own father was a landlord, the old man of the Gu family had always been kind to others, and Gu Mingxiu was quite miserable, so the villagers were quite friendly to Gu Mingxiu.

It's just that there are occasional criticism meetings, and Gu Mingxiu will still be pulled out to criticize.

These days, there is no other way.

The sun is gradually setting in the west, and it is time to call it a day.

Yan Zhiqing still didn't come to the field.

The aunts couldn't help but sigh again.

"It's really rare to see someone as lazy as Yan Zhiqing!" One of them said, "He's like this, he will starve to death sooner or later."

Gu Mingxiu was carrying an iron rake on his back, and was walking towards the place where farm tools were stored in the village. Hearing this, he couldn't help but said, "He's sick..."

"Illness? You're the only one who believes this kind of nonsense." Those gossiping women rolled their eyes, and said that the educated youth's white and fat appearance is sick?

Gu Mingxiu didn't quite agree with what these women said, but he didn't like to argue with others, so he kept his mouth shut.

There used to be a small temple in Shangmu Village, which enshrined a few Bodhisattvas. This temple was built by the Gu family, but a few years ago, the clay Bodhisattvas in the temple were thrown away. Now this temple has become a village A place to store various things.

The tractors in the village, the farm tools used by everyone, the harvested millet, etc., are all placed in this temple.

Gu Mingxiu put down the rake and went home.

In the early years, there was a big pot of rice in the village, but now it is no longer done, and the food is divided and each family eats its own food.

At this time, compared with the time of the famine more than ten years ago, everyone’s life is much better. Like Gu Mingxiu’s family, only Gu Mingxiu is a strong laborer. Three of the four siblings are already in their teens and want to study. The youngest one is because Being suffocated in the mother's stomach and weak and sickly, he always had a bad time.

However, they have been harvesting sweet potatoes for the past few days, and the village even divided up the sweet potatoes that were injured during digging, so that they would not be hungry.

When Gu Mingxiu came home, he smelled the smell of burning sweet potatoes.

Gu Mingxiu's four siblings are two boys and two girls.

His stepfather was also named Gu, and his younger siblings also had the same last name as him.Among them, the oldest brother is fifteen years old and his name is Gu Yubao, the second sister is thirteen years old and his name is Gu Yulan, the third sister is twelve years old and his name is Gu Yuxian, and the youngest is a boy, he is six years old this year and his name is Gu Yukang.

At this moment, the third sister, Gu Yuxian, has just finished cooking the sweet potatoes.

Wash the sweet potatoes and put them in an iron pot to cook for a long time. Each sweet potato sticks to the iron pot. When it burns to one side, the sweet potatoes are cooked. When the sweet potatoes are burning, she also puts a bowl on the steaming rack. Put in a little bit of rice and steam a bowl of rice.

This meal is for Gu Yukang.

Gu Yukang is weak, but stubborn. He doesn't eat sweet potatoes. If only sweet potatoes are available, he can stop eating them all the time, and then he can't stop crying.

Gu Mingxiu was never a picky eater. He returned home, washed his hands, took sweet potatoes from the pot, and ate them with the skins on.

While eating, Gu Yubao, who was in junior high school in the town, came back.

Their village is very close to the town, and the children in the village go to elementary school in the village. The school is the Gu family's house with a three-meter-high wall, and everyone goes to the town for junior high school.

Of course, the vast majority of people will not go to junior high school.

"What's there to eat at home today?" Gu Yubao went into the kitchen, and was unhappy when he saw that there were only sweet potatoes in the pot: "Only sweet potatoes?"

After he finished speaking, he saw the rice beside him: "Give me this bowl of rice."

"This is Yukang's." Gu Yuxian wanted to stop his second brother, but Gu Yubao picked up the bowl without using chopsticks, and just took a bite of the rice that was steamed brown and smelled of burnt sweet potatoes .

"This is from Yukang." Gu Mingxiu frowned.

"Brother, I want to eat rice too." Gu Yubao reached for the chopsticks.

"You ate at noon, and you ate eggs." Gu Mingxiu snatched the bowl.

Gu Yubao was studying in junior high school in the town and brought meals every day.

Their own food has always been bad, but Gu Yubao said that everyone in the school eats very well, and it would be embarrassing if the food was poor, so Gu Mingxiu could only ask him to bring rice to school, and boiled an egg every day, cut it in half and poured soy sauce Serve him as a dish.

"I still want to eat at night." Gu Yubao said confidently.

When Gu Mingxiu's stepfather and mother were still there, Gu Yubao was the one he loved the most. After all, this was his stepfather's first child, and he was still a son.

It is also because of this that Gu Yubao has developed the temperament that he must have what he wants since he was a child.

Gu Mingxiu used to follow Gu Yubao, but today he was tired all day, and he had something else on his mind, so he said, "If you keep making trouble, I'll take Sweet Potato to school tomorrow."

After finishing speaking, Gu Mingxiu gave the bowl in his hand to Gu Yuxian.

Gu Yubao frowned dissatisfied.

Gu Yuxian was afraid that Gu Yubao would make trouble again, so he quickly brought a bowl to feed Gu Yukang—the six-year-old Gu Yukang didn't know if it was because he had been in his mother's stomach for a long time, and he was a little dazed. Every day, if there is something, I just know how to call brother and sister at the top of my voice.

"You are kind to that idiot!" Gu Yubao curled his lips and picked the best-looking sweet potato to eat.

And at this time, Gu Yulan came back.

The two sisters of the Gu family, the eldest is named Gu Yulan, and the youngest is named Gu Yuxian. Both of their names should be beautiful women, but in fact...

Gu Mingxiu's stepfather was really not very good-looking, so the two sisters were also not good-looking, dark and small.

Among them, Gu Yuxian is younger and works at home to take care of the children while studying in elementary school. Gu Yulan is older and doesn't like reading and has already started working.

When she came back today, she was carrying a basket in her hand, and she showed it to her family proudly: "Look, after I got off work, I went to pick up a lot of sweet potatoes and came back!"

The sweet potatoes in her basket were all quite big, Gu Mingxiu frowned: "Why are they so big?"

Gu Yulan said: "I hid it secretly, everyone left before I went back to get it..."

"Aren't you afraid of being caught?" Gu Mingxiu frowned. Although these sweet potatoes will be divided later, if someone finds out if they hide them secretly, they will be punished!

"I won't be caught! And they all do this." Gu Yulan looked at Gu Mingxiu: "Brother, you are just too honest!"

Gu Mingxiu was a little helpless, he felt that this was not good, but he didn't know what to say.

After eating, Gu Mingxiu went out: "I'm going out."

Gu Yulan said: "Brother, are you going to the town? I'll go with you."

Gu Mingxiu immediately refused: "You stay at home."

Gu Yulan probably suffered a lot when she was a child, she was starving, and wanted to take everything home when she went out, her hands and feet were not clean, so he didn't dare to take anyone out, for fear that she would be beaten or arrested if she caused trouble.

Gu Yulan rolled her eyes and stopped talking.

The village has arranged a vigil at night, not just one person, but several people, to prevent anyone from stealing sweet potatoes.

When Gu Mingxiu went out, he didn't go into the field, but went to the town.

The people in the town have public food to eat and live a very good life. They also look down on the country people and call them "country turtles". Of course, the country people are not to be outdone and call them "street turtles".

Gu Mingxiu is not hostile to the people in the town like some people in the village are, but he does envy them.

The people of the town are having a great time.

When he arrived in the town, Gu Mingxiu went directly to the supply point in the town to pick up sugar cane tips.

The sweet potato harvest has been bumper recently, and sugar cane is also on the market.

Shangmu Village and nearby villages all grow sugar cane. After harvesting, some of the sugar cane will be distributed in the village, some will be sent to sugar making, and some will be sent to nearby counties and towns to supply to local residents.

And this kind of local specialties still don't need a ticket.

In the past few days, the people in the town, basically every household will buy some sugar cane to eat. They are not like the country people, who wash it and eat it with the skin. It will cut off the head and tail.

In this way, the tip of the sugarcane and the leaves above it will be cut off and left on the ground, and this tip will be picked up by someone.

The top tip of the sugarcane is not sweet, but those children in the countryside who lack snacks will still pick it up and chew it. After eating it, it can be dried and used as firewood.

This side is a plain, and basically all the land that can be reclaimed has been reclaimed. Anyway, there is no such thing as a forest.

This has also caused a situation-the firewood in every household is often not enough to burn.

The Gu family used the rice straw and mulberry sticks distributed by the village for the fire, but this was not enough. In order to get more firewood, after the rice was cut, at night, Gu Mingxiu would go to the field to pull the roots of the rice. Will come to the town to pick up sugarcane tips.

Gu Mingxiu picked up a lot in one go, tied them up and took them home.

When he got home, it was already very dark, but there were still many houses in the village with light shining through.

Because their village is far away from the town, it is connected to electricity. Of course, not many people are willing to use electricity.

As soon as Gu Mingxiu came home, several children in the family rushed up to eat what was edible from the tops of the sugarcane.

Gu Yukang shouted at the top of his voice, "Sister! Sister!"

He couldn't make it for himself, so he asked someone to help him.

Gu Yubao never cared about his younger brother, Gu Yukang, and Gu Yulan only cared about eating by herself, so Gu Yuxian found a piece of twig, washed it clean, tore off the skin with his mouth, and then fed some to his younger brother.

The tip of the sugarcane was not sweet at all, so Gu Yukang gave up after two bites, and Gu Yuxian started to eat it by himself.

At this time, Gu Mingxiu took two sugar cane ends that he had long been optimistic about, stood up, and went out.

Gu Yubao frowned: "Where are you going?"

"Maybe to catch frogs." Gu Yuxian said, "Tomorrow I will also catch frogs.

Thinking of frogs, Gu Yubao licked his lips, dropped the unsweet sugar cane tip and went back to the room.

Gu Mingxiu didn't go to catch frogs.

He wanted to go, but he was tired all day today and went to the town again, so he really didn't have the strength.

In fact, he was very hungry right now - he always got hungry very quickly when he ate only sweet potatoes.

There was no sweetness in the sugarcane tips, but Gu Mingxiu was still a bit greedy, but he didn't eat it.

He went to the well to wash the tops of the two sugar canes in his hands, and then went to the old house of the Gu family, where his own father lived.

This house is now used as an elementary school, and at the same time, there is also an educated youth living in it, that is, the very lazy Yan educated youth, and Yan Jingze.

Gu Mingxiu thinks that Yan Jingze's name is particularly nice, and Yan Educated Youth is also very good-looking.

Since Yan Jingze came to the village, he has noticed this educated youth, and he likes this person from the bottom of his heart, wanting to make this person happy.

But he would still secretly send things to Yan Jingze.

He can't take the food at home, but usually he tries to find something that can be imported, and he will always talk to the educated youth.

Today Yan Zhiqing was ill again, and he didn't go to work, so he wanted to give Yan Zhiqing something, but unfortunately he had nothing to give, only the tops of sugar cane.

Even if he took it, he picked it specially when he was picking it up. Compared with the sweeter tip, this thing is a bit hard to give away.

Yan Zhiqing used to be in Beijing, so he must have been able to eat whole sugar cane.

Thinking of this, Gu Mingxiu felt a little embarrassed.

But he knocked lightly on the door anyway.

Yan Jing crossed over.

He woke up suddenly, and suddenly found himself in a hut with bare walls and a strange smell.

It was already dark outside, and there was nothing at home. He couldn't find this place even if he tried to light a lamp, but his stomach was still growling with hunger...

Yan Jing was speechless.

Where did he wear it?

It's fine to time travel, it's fine if you don't give him the memory of the past, why doesn't he have the memory of the original owner of this body?

How does this let him live?

When he goes out tomorrow, will he show his feet and be arrested directly?

The more Yan Jing thought about it, the more entangled he became, his stomach became more and more hungry, and his whole body became listless.

However, he doesn't know what's going on now, and he doesn't dare to go out for a stroll. It's dark everywhere, and he doesn't know where he can go.

He could only lie on the bed helplessly, planning to stay up until dawn.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

The voice was very soft, but it was very obvious in the quiet night. Someone came to him?

Yan Jing got off the wooden bed and groped forward.

The knocking on the door stopped, and the person outside left?

Yan Jing was a little anxious, he rushed to the door, fumbled to pull out the latch, and finally opened the door.

It took a lot of time to open the door, but Yan Jing was already prepared that there would be no one outside the door. Unexpectedly, when the door opened, he saw a person.

There was moonlight outside the house, allowing him to see the appearance of this person clearly.

This is a very handsome man in his twenties, with sword eyebrows and star eyes. When he saw this man, Yan Jing felt his heart beat faster.

He couldn't tell what it felt like, but he knew one thing - he liked this man!

It was love at first sight!

After traveling to a strange place, he fell in love at first sight with a complete stranger.

But he couldn't control his emotions, just seeing this person in front of him, he felt that his heart no longer belonged to him.

"You..." Yan Jing opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

When Gu Mingxiu knocked on the door and no one answered, he became annoyed.

At this point, the sick educated youth Yan might have fallen asleep. Will he disturb others by knocking on the door like this?

He didn't knock on the door anymore, he planned to leave the things in his hands at the door, but he was afraid that someone would take them away in the end, he was struggling, when he opened it, Yan Zhiqing walked out.

Yan Zhiqing is taller than everyone in his village, and his figure looks strong... It is said that it is because the northerners are tall.

Gu Mingxiu opened his mouth: "Yan Zhiqing, I brought you something, I..."

"Do you want to come in and sit down?" Yan Jing asked.

Gu Mingxiu looked at Yan Jingze in surprise.

The country people are all dirty and have lice. It was said that the educated youth would not let them in, but now they let him in?

Just as he was in a daze, Gu Mingxiu saw Yan Zhiqing staggering in front of him, and put his hands on the door frame to stabilize his body.

Yan Zhiqing is really sick, probably very sick!

Gu Mingxiu immediately stepped forward and supported Yan Jingze: "Yan educated youth, are you okay?"

Yan Jing took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, "I'm fine."

He was fine, he just fainted suddenly.

And the reason why he fainted was because he got the memory of the original owner.

Yan Jing clenched his teeth, he was already pissed off - this original owner is such a scumbag!