What a cheating husband

When Chen Qing's brother and sister returned home after eating the cornbread, they heard the sound of reading on the partition wall. Chen Bi planned to embroider for a while under the light, but was snatched by Chen Qing and stuffed back into the embroidery basket.

"It's getting dark, watch your eyes carefully, you won't be able to mend your eyes no matter how much soup and medicine hurt them." Chen Qing hid Chen Bi's embroidery work in the kang cave. It's still summer, but I'm not afraid that my aunt will search the dirty kang cave. I am not afraid of burning the embroidery.

"It's still a while before Hei Tian, ​​so it's okay." Chen Bi protested in a low voice aggrieved.

"Don't be in a hurry to hand in the work. From now on, you have to learn how to read. From now on, you will practice handwriting at night. I will buy you some paper and ink in two days." Chen Qing said his plan.

"But what's the use of learning to read as a girl? It's a waste of paper and ink." Chen Bi raised her small head high. She knew that her brother could read a few words, but she didn't know that he had been to school. When Chen Qing learned it secretly.

"Who said that girls don't need to be literate? Which of these land deeds doesn't need to be literate to understand? You can't even understand the letter written by your brother at that time, so you have to learn, and girls can read You can also be looked down upon by your in-laws." Chen Qing thought about it for a while, and taught it with principles that Chen Bi could understand.

"Abi listens to my brother." Chen Bijiao laughed. If she could read the words, even if she married far away in the future, she would still be able to keep in touch with her brother from time to time.

"Be obedient" Chen Qing praised his sister in satisfaction. What he worried most was that if her sister married far away, she would not even be able to send him a message if her life was not good.And he was also worried that his aunt would marry her to a man with bad character because of the dowry.

This arranged marriage is also the most unbearable for Chen Qing. If he has the ability to protect his sister for the rest of his life, he will not waste the kindness of his parents in nurturing him. Unfortunately, not only is he unable to support his sister now, he can't even marry her. It's not his turn to make decisions, every time Chen Qing thinks that a young girl will go to a stranger's house to beg for a living, Chen Qing feels as if a knife is going out.

Hey~ It seems that it is better to make plans for the girl in advance. It would be great if there is a good-looking family to propose marriage, even if it is just a peasant family. Although life is hard, at least there is no need to worry about a man marrying a woman. The concubine came back to scare people.

Instead of waiting for the curtain to fall, it is better to take the initiative to find a good marriage for the girl. Getting engaged early will prevent the uncle from sending her sister to a rich family to be a concubine in two years.

The year before last, Yao Jinhua from the neighboring village was married into the town as a concubine. At that time, people in the village discussed that the big family was generous, and the concubine also gave so much dowry. This is still a dowry for the country people. Miss Li, the dowry is still out of reach?

Chen Qing saw the envious look of the auntie at that time, and immediately thought about it, the girl looks pretty good, if someone really wants to take Abi as a concubine, she will follow the auntie's money-greedy nature, and if she is not sure, she will take her as a concubine. The girl was sold.

Being a concubine is completely different from marrying a wife. Married wives can be divorced or divorced. She is always the master of the house and has the right to teach the master's concubine room.

Once this concubine enters the door, she is like a slave who prostitutes herself to the master's house, and her life is no longer her own.Chen Qing later inquired that the man who married Yao Jinhua felt that his wife could not bear a son, so he was forced by his wife to take him as a concubine. As a result, Yao Jinhua also had a bad life, and gave birth to a daughter. Housing was suppressed, and the days after that were even more difficult.

No matter how Chen Qing told this group of stupid people that boys and girls can't blame women, no one in this world would agree with his point of view.So Chen Qing can't let his sister be a concubine no matter what, and would rather live a hard life than entrust her fate to others.

Chen Qing stayed up all night worrying about his sister's marriage, and the girl in that house was also secretly calculating how much money he needed to get his brother a wife.

Chen Qing was busy every day, but luckily it rained yesterday, so Chen Qing didn't have to carry water to irrigate the ground.Early in the morning, the excess water in the paddy fields was drained, and Chen Qing went into the mountains with a basket on his back after checking the conditions of the dry fields to pick some newly grown fresh mushrooms.

It had just rained and the ground was not yet dry. The already difficult mountain road was even more muddy. I slipped into the mountain and followed the footprints of the villagers all the way to the mountainside.

The only thing that satisfied Chen Qing was the cool air in the mountains. In the scorching summer, only in the early morning can there be a refreshing cool breeze, accompanied by crisp birdsong. The newly grown mushrooms are picked carefully to avoid getting soiled, and then the nests are buried, waiting for the next picking.

This mountain forest is probably nature’s feedback to farmers. In addition to the wild vegetables in the fields, there are many fresh seasonal foods in the mountain forest. The more autumn comes, the richer the species and the more edible mountain products.

Chen Qing purposefully selected, picked some green and delicious wild vegetables, and dug up a few familiar herbs, and gradually deviated from the mountain trails, heading towards the sparsely populated grass.

Until he came to a gravel field overgrown with weeds, Chen Qing walked around to check, and after confirming that there was no one there, he dodged and hid behind a stone wall, dug out the pottery pot he had buried among several big rocks, and took it out. After removing the cork, he took out a string of copper coins from inside.

After carefully counting and counting, Chen Qingcai buried the pot as it was, and pressed it down with a stone.After going down the mountain, go home and hide the copper coins before drying the dug herbs in the dustpan.The wild vegetables were rinsed twice with well water and put into the kitchen, and then weeded the fields with a hoe.

After the sun rose, he cut some hogweeds along the way, and then Chen Qing returned to his home, and asked the girl who had accepted the embroidery work to go to the uncle's house to make breakfast.

After Chen Bi fed the flat-haired animals and threw the pigweed into the trough, Chen Qing's breakfast was ready.The uncle's family, except grandpa and grandma who couldn't sleep because they were too old, woke up early and sat under the eaves to bask in the sun. The other three slept until breakfast was ready before getting up to wash.

Chen Qing didn't have breakfast until the family of three came to the table.As usual, it is corn-bread porridge, served with two pots of stir-fried vegetables, and the picked wild vegetables can be eaten as a cold dish after being slightly blanched and mixed with salt.

"Tiantian eggplant and beans, I can't even taste it in my mouth." Chen Ping looked at the two bowls of vegetarian dishes on the table with disgust. Except for some meat oil before frying, there was not even a smell of meat. Students are embarrassed to talk about their own meals.

The school that Chen Ping studied in was the only school opened in the surrounding townships. Of course, it was incomparable with the private schools in the town, but only the children of good families could study there. It's not like his family, unless it's New Year's Eve, you don't want to see any meat.

"Let's have a meal first, I'll go to the river to catch two fish in the afternoon and come back." Chen Qing said in a flat tone, and then greeted his sister for dinner.

"Our family can't compare to the rich families in the village. My poor grandson is hungry and thin." Grandma Chen put a chopstick dish on her grandson with a distressed expression, and said to Chen Qing, "Catch two more for your brother." Replenish the body"

Chen Bibian cursed in his heart, is this fish so easy to touch?There is no net, and my brother always dives into the waist-deep water to catch fish. The currents are small, and the places to catch fish are either small or occupied by others. Grandma loves her grandson, so why doesn’t she think about her brother’s difficulties?

Chen Qing silently patted his younger sister's hand, promised, swallowed a few mouthfuls of breakfast, and went out with the basket on his back.

Chen Bi packed up the dishes and brought home the dirty clothes that her auntie had given her. She planned to accompany her brother to the river in the afternoon. When he caught fish, she washed the clothes as a companion.

After returning home, I closed the courtyard and room doors, and took out the brocade to embroider one by one.After a while, the auntie opened the courtyard door, went into the room and looked around, said a few words if she had nothing to say, then searched here and there, and looked at the embroidery in Chen Bi's hand when she found nothing. I told her to finish the embroidery quickly and change the money before going out to enjoy the shade under the big tree in the village.

After she left, Chen Bi made a grimace, dropped the brocade in his hand, dug out the real embroidery and carefully considered the stitches.When Chen Qing came back in the afternoon, Chen Bi collected the unfinished embroidery and helped his brother sort out today's harvest.

"Brother, why don't you accompany me to do the laundry this afternoon?" Chen Bi begged in a low voice while sorting the herbs.

"Ghost spirit! Well, I'll catch the fish while you do the laundry." Chen Qingqu flicked Chen Bi's forehead with his index finger.He turned out the wild pears under the bamboo basket, washed them, and handed one to his sister.

Chen Bi bit the sour pear and smiled contentedly.Chen Qing doesn't like to eat unripe pears, but green pears are a rare fruit in this remote and remote place.

After tidying up the dried herbs in the yard, Chen Qing took Chen Bi to fish by the river. If it wasn't for the work in the afternoon, Chen Qing would not go out when the sun was at its fullest.

There was bright sunshine everywhere at noon, Chen Qing deliberately brought a wooden basin, fetched a bucket of water, and asked his sister to wash clothes in a shaded place, while she took off her shirt and went down to the river with a bamboo basket.

There is another advantage of coming out at noon, that is to avoid being seen by the villagers and making irresponsible remarks. Chen Qing is still a little brother, and it is not appropriate to be shirtless, but Chen Qing really can't tell the difference between himself and the men. The big difference is that apart from the different internal structures, there are no more and no less external parts that men should have. Why can’t they take off their clothes and go into the river?

Standing in the waist-deep river with a bamboo basket in hand, Chen Qing stood still, her eyes carefully watching the water.A few earthworms are tied with a thread in the bamboo basket, and the bamboo basket can be lifted up to catch the fish only after the fish get into the basket to eat.

This method is really a bit stupid, but it takes more effort to catch fish with both hands, not only good eyesight but also super fast hand speed, this method of fishing with bamboo baskets, Chen Qing has also pondered for a long time, using wicker baskets can only catch fish Feeding small fish to chickens or frying them to eat, fishing is too time-consuming, and he doesn't have a hook.

After standing in the water for half an hour, the fish slowly leaned over and swam freely around. Even though Chen Qing's cheeks were red from the scorching sun, he didn't dare to move, maintaining a posture and waiting for the fish to get into the basket.

When the fish tentatively got into the basket to eat, Chen Qing still held the edge of the basket firmly, and only after seeing two big fish entered the basket, he gritted his teeth and lifted his arms vigorously to lift the basket out of the water.

The water flowed down the gap, and the heavy bamboo basket gradually lost weight. Just now, a big fish fled out with a flick of its tail, leaving only a grass carp weighing a pound and two finger-sized cubs in the basket.

He went ashore with a bamboo basket, dumped the fish on the bank and asked Chen Bi to watch it for him, and Chen Qing returned to the river to continue fishing.This time I changed the place, but unfortunately I was not very lucky, and it took half an hour to catch another crucian carp that weighed a pound and a few small fish.

Chen Bi had already washed his clothes, looked at his brother's flushed cheeks from the sun, and said, "Brother, go back."

"Okay~" Chen Qing touched the sweat on his forehead, after tidying up his things, he plunged into the water and swam vigorously for a while to cool down.