back to the field

At noon, the originally blue sky suddenly rolled up cloudy clouds with no shape at all, covering the sky, making the sky look blue and not blue, gray and not gray, vaguely as if it was about to bring an unpredictable Uncertain autumn rain.

Qin Zhen hurried home with the net bag in his hand, and just as he put the fish in the net bag into the water tank, he heard her father's loud voice: "It's already past the autumn society, and it's still so hot, it's killing me!"

Her mother's voice is not as loud as the man's, but it's not soft, and there is a hint of sadness in the loudness: "Have you finished the Fajie exam? I don't know if Dalang passed the exam well, and when he will come back!" Saying, I couldn't help complaining, "You only sent him to Zhoucheng, and you didn't stay there for a while, so come back with him!"

Her father said: "Didn't he have his classmates to take care of him! Besides, he has grown up, if he can't even take care of himself, then even if he is admitted to the Juren, can he go to Beijing alone to catch the exam in the future? There are so many children, I am too busy to rest, and the only time I can rest is now."

Her mother snorted hard: "As far as I know, it's fake to deal with the affairs of the village, but it's true to care about the Tang family's siblings!"

Her father let out a heavy "Hey" and said, "Why do you talk nonsense and slander me? I'm a rural scholar, and the siblings are newcomers. What's the problem with me handling their household allowances? If I let go If someone who doesn’t know why enters the village, if something happens, you’re probably going to be a widow!”

"Bah, what nonsense! I don't want to be a widow. If something happens to you, I will take the dowry and remarry!"

Qin Zhen pursed her lips. She knew that the brothers and sisters of the Tang family were said by the villagers to be the children of the unfilial sons of the Tang family in Jianshanli who left the Tang family on their own initiative in the early years.

After more than 20 years, the unfilial person did not come back, but the Tang family siblings who claimed to be his sons and daughters suddenly came back.It's just that the Tang family didn't recognize the siblings, so they had to live in the village in front of the town, and they rented a small courtyard with the Wang family not long ago.

The Tang family is a big family with a history of 300 years. Due to the large number of descendants and never separating the family, the property they own is spread all over Raozhou, so not to mention Jianshanli, the birthplace of the Tang family, half of the villagers in Zhenqian Village are A member of the Tang family.As soon as the siblings entered the village, the news flew all over the village like wings.

Qin Zhen turned a deaf ear to the daily "flirting" of the parents in the house. She stood outside for a long time, and the sweat on her body was not only not less, but more, and her clothes were wet again before they were dry.

Only then did she enter the room, and called out delicately: "Father, mother, are you quarreling again?"

Seeing her coming back, the couple in the room stopped talking about other things, pulled her aside and sat down, and sighed: "Where did you go so early in the morning, and you just came back now? Why are you sweating all over your body? Look at the complexion on your face." pale!"

The concern of parents made Qin Zhen's eyes flash with shame. When she smiled slightly, her eyes were bent, and she looked weak and beautiful.Only the mole of tears in the lower corner of her right eye added a bit of coquettishness to her pure appearance.

"Thinking that my elder brother will be back soon after finishing the Fajie exam, I went to catch a fish and keep it for him to make soup for him when he comes back."

Her mother Su said: "It's still Mother Zhen who cares about Da Lang, not like your father!"

Qin's father, Qin Yu, stared, his eyes were full of resentment at being wronged, but he was too lazy to argue with his wife in front of his daughter.

Qin Zhen has always been the caring little padded jacket of his parents, so he took Su's hand and said: "My parents are very concerned about my eldest brother. Not only my daughter saw it, but my eldest brother also saw it! The eldest brother said, this test After the test, I will bring some gifts back from Zhoucheng to my parents!"

After finishing speaking, he hurriedly covered his mouth and regretted, "Brother told me not to say it, he said it was to surprise parents!"

Qin Yu and Su couldn't help being happy, and said: "It's okay, we just pretend we don't know!"

Su stopped arguing with Qin Yu, and left the house muttering "there is still a lot of work to do at home".Qin Yu originally had something to deal with, but Qin Zhen asked quietly: "Father, do the Tang family siblings really live in the village?"

Qin Yu immediately stopped and took a look outside, and whispered in a voice that Su couldn't hear: "Yes, I checked, and their identities are no problem, and they match the household stickers brought over. Although the household The sticker says that they are from Shezhou, but the government does not expel people from other states, if their siblings are willing, they can be resettled on the spot. Why, Mother Zhen is curious?"

Qin Zhen nodded: "Yes, after all, everyone in the village has moved out. Now it's strange to hear that someone has moved in."

It is the general trend for people in the village to move out. Who made this village more and more people, but the fields are getting less and less?Many families who have been forced to sell their land have no support in the village, so they can only go to the county town or state town to make a living. Isn't it just that more and more people are leaving!

Qin Yu casually said: "The brothers and sisters of the Tang family are not recognized by the Tang family, but they still choose to live. They must be trying to 'persevere', and want to slowly impress the parents of the Tang family, so as to achieve the goal of returning to the Tang family! However, this How can someone who has left have the nerve to come back now?"

Qin Zhen asked again: "The Tang family was already a wealthy family more than 20 years ago, right? Why did their father leave at that time?"

If it was said that the Tang Corporation had already declined when Tang's father left, then it was not wrong for others to say that he was seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and that he could not share weal and woe.But at that time, the Tang family was being praised by the emperor, and several Tang's children who were officials in the court were also highly valued. The whole family of the Tang family was honored, and it was really hard to imagine why someone would set up their own family without such an honor.

Qin Yu said: "How can outsiders know? We only know that Tang Caihou was expelled from the Tang family, and his name was crossed out from the genealogy. It is said that his brother was almost implicated."

After Qin Yu finished speaking, he looked at Qin Zhen suspiciously: "Ms. Zhen, why are you so interested in these things? But did you see Tang Sixian?"

Qin Zhen rested his forehead with one hand, rolled his eyes quietly, then raised his head and said helplessly, "Father, I haven't even met those brothers and sisters of the Tang family, how can I fall in love with Tang Sixian?"

Qin Yu laughed, and said with a big grin: "That's right! I'm afraid my mother Zhen will not look down on such a person!"

Qin Zhen said: "Father, it's getting late, and I won't bother you with your business anymore. I'll go back to the house and weave first."

Qin Yu nodded, and said again: "Okay, you have to pay attention to your body and don't get tired."

Qin Zhen's eyes froze slightly, and soon returned to normal. She exited the main house and went back to her own room.

Her house is divided into an inner room and an outer room. The inner room is where she rests, and the outer room has a loom. On weekdays, she weaves cloth in the outer room and makes some women's reds.

Touching the loom, Qin Zhen was stunned.After a while, she withdrew her thoughts, rolled up the curtains of the mullion windows, let the light shine into the room, and then sat down at the loom and began to weave.

The pedal loom soon made a thin "creak" and "creak" sound.

The afternoon sun squeezed out strands of sunlight through the gaps in the cloudy clouds, casting a vague shadow on the slender figure walking on the uneven and overgrown path.

A head of black hair was tied high in a ball by a black headband, but there were still small locks of hair on the temples and forehead unrestrained, scattered against the wheat-colored skin.

The tall and thin body is wearing short brown clothes made of burlap, and he is pulling a pair of straw sandals under his feet. His skin color and attire seem to be the same as those of farmers working in the fields, but his leisurely posture and restless eyes are quite different. The characteristics of the idle man.

In the field beside the road, a farmer leaning on a hoe and resting straight up saw this figure and shouted, "Tang Sixian, what are you doing wandering around here?"

In the face of strange foreigners, everyone will maintain a kind of vigilance and vigilance.What's more, the villagers don't have much affection for this kind of people whose fathers left the Tang family and their sons shyly wanted to return to the Tang family.

The person called "Tang Sixian" seemed a little slow, and it took a while to realize: "Oh, I'm Tang Sixian, you're calling me!"

Patting himself on the head lightly, "Tang Sixian" replied with an indistinguishable voice: "It's new here, I'm afraid I'll forget the way back after going out, and I want to know the way."

The farmer sneered and muttered in a low voice: "It must not be long, and it's useless to admit it!"

He didn't think that a floating guest who had no land, no property, and offended the Tang family could take root in the village, and he believed that he would have to leave the village in less than a month!

"Tang Sixian" smiled, pretending that he didn't hear anything, and left in a relaxed manner.

The path is bumpy, and it has to pass through several rivers with a width of one foot before it gradually becomes wider and flatter, and the sparse houses gradually become denser.

When "Tang Sixian" passed a courtyard that was larger than other farmhouses, he heard the sound of "creak, creak" spinning from the window, so he stopped and stared.

The interior of the house is not bright, and the thick window lattices also block most of the vision, only a beautiful figure is hidden behind the huge loom, looming.

After a while, "Tang Sixian" left, and sang a catchy poem as he walked: "Chirp, chirp, chirp, Mulan is weaving..."

If the farmer from just now was here, he would be amazed. This man's voice is no longer indistinguishable from just now, but loud and clear.

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Floater: A person who has left his hometown and has no fixed place to live.