Butcher and little girl

Mu Dingxiang looked at the couple in front of her, unable to believe that she was a piece of flesh that fell from them.

The woman in front of her had mean and vicious eyes, as if she wanted to eat her alive.

And the man with beards on the side, his eyes were also breathing fire, and he walked over in three steps in two steps, and greeted her face with thick palms.

Mu Dingxiang reacted quickly and didn't let the slap fall on her face.

After she was ten years old, she no longer easily let others slap her in the face. This is different from her two submissive older sisters. No wonder the Mu family scolded her for being rebellious and uneducated all day long.

To say that Mu Dingxiang is rebellious is really wronging her. She is a soft and weak girl who just doesn't want to live a submissive life at home. She stiffens her neck and fights with her weird parents, and confronts her overbearing brother and brother. good reputation.

Because of her naughty mother, no one in the village now knows that Mu Dingxiang, the third ya of the Mu family, is an uneducated girl. This reputation spreads far and wide, and no one is willing to come to her door to propose marriage when she is 16 years old.

"Look at you, you look so charming. No one dares to take you. Such a big man still wastes a lot of food at home." Mrs. Mu Zhou gritted her teeth and cursed, "Why don't you look like your two older sisters?" It’s useless to exchange a few acres of land for the family, if I had known that I would have drowned you when I was born, it would save me from being an eyesore now.”

"Mother, I do all the farm work in the field by myself now. After I was ten years old, I went out to help others cut pigweed for money. I never ate your meal for nothing." Mu Dingxiang listened to her mother's harsh words, My heart felt cold.

"Pigweed and pigweed, how much money can you get for cutting that pigweed? Why don't you go home and help your mother feed the pigs after the field work is done? How decent is it to run outside every day?" On the ground, his face was full of dissatisfaction.

"Also, you went to help Lao Zhao's family plant peanuts yesterday. Didn't you get ten pennies? Use it to buy pens and inks for your elder brother. A few days ago, Kong Qing told the villagers that he accidentally broke a pen, so you need to prepare more money. Buy a new set of pens and inks."

"My eldest brother has been studying for so many years, and everyone in the family who can work is supporting him. The monthly expenses are so high that gold and silver can be eaten up."

Thinking of myself working hard in the fields every day, but only for such a person, no matter how soft my temper is, I can't suppress the anger in my stomach.

Mu Dingxiang heard some people in the village secretly discussing that Mu Kongqing, the eldest of the Mu family, was studying in the county academy, but in fact he was wandering outside every day, losing his reputation every year, but spending money was not ambiguous at all.

It's just that this word has not reached the ears of the Mu family couple, and no one dares to mention it to them. Mu Dingxiang herself will not be so stupid as to say such words in front of her parents.

The eldest brother Mu Kongqing has been studying since he can remember, and finally passed the exam as a scholar, and he still hangs the list on the tail, and there is no movement after that.

The Mu couple, who have always been mean to their daughter, are very fond of this son who can read a few big characters. They leave all the good things in the house to him, and even her elder brother can get a separate room in this small broken house. But I can only squeeze a small room with my sister and brother.

Fortunately, the elder sister and the second sister are both married, so the room is not so crowded, but now that the younger brother Mu Jueming is 15 years old, it is not appropriate for the two of them to continue sharing the same room.

In addition, Mu Jueming has started to hang out with dubious people outside in the past two years, and his temper has become worse and worse. When he comes back home, he is arousing himself, the third sister who has not left the cabinet.

Mu Dingxiang fought with him a lot, and was able to win before, but now Mu Jueming started to grow taller, and then gradually lost the wind, feeling more and more that this family can't stay.

"You should go. If you leave, I can have a house by myself. I wish you would go away soon! But whoever wants you, no one in the surrounding villages knows that you, Mu Dingxiang, are a lazy and unfilial rebellious girl. You give it away for nothing. I don’t want anyone, it’s really unlucky to have a good face in vain.”

"I'm lazy? Dad goes to help people all day to save monthly money for eldest brother. Mother is tired of feeding two pigs with three meals a day at home. Eldest brother never cares about home when he is studying outside, and you - arrive every day. There was no one at all at night, and I didn't do all the work in the field!"

Even her younger brother talked like this, Mu Dingxiang couldn't bear it anymore, and choked back with hatred.

The farm work in the family is all on her alone, and the few mouths in the family are still saying that she is not, how can it not make people feel chilling.

After finally finishing the farm work, she went out to help others harvest pigweed to earn a little money, and everyone in the family stared at the pitifully few pennies in her pocket.

Of course Mu Dingxiang knew why her parents didn't want to see her. She was different from her two elder sisters when she was young. When she was seven years old, Mu Mu asked her to learn how to cook from her elder sister. The two pigs in it.

This happened every day for three consecutive days. After two beatings, the Mu family and his wife finally gave up the idea of ​​letting Mu Dingxiang into the kitchen.

When Mu Dingxiang was ten years old, the old man Mu asked her second sister Mu Baizhi to marry an old man in his 50s to be a house-filling concubine for five taels of silver. Then send it to the old man's house, and then every time I see Mu Baizhi, I always look dumbfounded.

Since then, Mu Dingxiang has decided not to be submissive. When the old man Mu and his wife asked her to cook, she put salt in desperately, until it was so salty that no one could eat it.

Salt is as expensive as money, and Mu Lixiang's waste of salt will naturally require a beating.

When the wooden old man beat her, she ran, hid, or helped others harvest pigweed to earn some pocket money, but she would not starve to death.

But as a little girl, she has no money, no skills, and no courage to leave Mu's house, so she can only go back after the old man Mu's anger subsides, and then she will take the initiative to work in the fields.

Mu Dingxiang knew that she could still stay in this family because of the few acres of land, no one in the family was willing to work in the field, and her father was working outside all day long, while Mumu was a lazy woman with small feet and a mouth. I just know that I will take care of my children, take care of three meals a day at home, and don't want to do anything else.

Not to mention her 15-year-old younger brother Mu Jueming, who spends his days out in the wild, doing nothing.

Mu Dingxiang works hard and eats little, which is why the old man Mu and his wife can keep her for so long.

But Mu Dingxiang knew that as long as the price was right, the two would marry her off without hesitation.

In the past, Mu Dingxiang would rather go to work in the field than go back to face the family members. When she was tired, she would lie down and sleep under the shade of the trees on the ground. When she was thirsty, she would go to the foot of the mountain to drink spring water. The sweet potatoes in the field were roasted and eaten, and I went back to the small room to sleep at night when it was dark.

It's just for sleeping, and the family won't leave an extra bite of food for her. Sometimes Mu Dingxiang doesn't get something to eat outside at night, so she has to be hungry until dawn.

In this way, she grew up to 16 years old, from a skinny little girl to a slim girl. Fortunately, God has mercy on her, and years of hard work did not let her body break down.

However, he has been a vegetarian for a long time, and he seldom touches any meat, so he is very thin and skinny is visible to the naked eye.

The Mu family said that she couldn't get married because of her bad personal reputation, but the fact is just the opposite. Mu Dingxiang is a good girl in the eyes of outsiders, but she is also a poor girl.

The little girl is good-looking and hardworking, but the people in the family are too weird, and the people nearby dare not propose marriage because they are afraid of being sucked by this family like a blood-sucking bug.

The eldest daughter, Mu Yuzhu, married the son of a carpenter in the neighboring village. A few days after her marriage, Mrs. Mu Zhou came to the door and asked the carpenter to build a desk for the eldest son. After finishing the desk, she ordered a new bed for the younger son. Over the past few months, all the furniture in the house has been replaced with new ones.

Carpenters honestly can't afford the Mu family to take advantage of this. After building furniture for a few months, they don't like to talk to the old couple. .

The carpenter was talked about behind his back, and he and his son held back a lot of resentment, and even looked bad at his daughter-in-law, which made Mu Yuzhu caught in the middle and looked like a human being.

But Mu Yuzhu is cowardly and dare not disobey her parents' orders. She has to go back to Mu's house to help with work every three days, which makes the carpenter's family even more dissatisfied with her. She is a big fat boy, the carpenter's family may not know what to do with her.

It's just that Mu Yuzhu has been oppressed for many years and her temper has been worn out. She looks resigned, even after giving birth to a son, she doesn't please the carpenter's family, and her life is not good.

The two families would have some conflicts every now and then.

Mu Baizhi, the second daughter of the Mu family, has become stupid now, and it was also done by the Mu family for a few taels of silver.

When Mu Dingxiang saw the end of the two sisters, she felt that she couldn't just let her life be ruined by them, and she always wanted to get rid of this huge cage.

It's just that this cage is not something she can get rid of if she wants to.

Yesterday, taking advantage of the finishing work in the field, I went to the Chen family at the head of the village to help cut pigweed and saved ten pennies a few days ago.

The old man Mu found out about it as soon as he got it, and asked her to hand it over both openly and secretly.

It stands to reason that there are so many laborers in the family all these years, and the married daughter also goes home to help from time to time, so the Mu family will not be so poor.

The main reason is that the Mu old man and his wife value sons over daughters and focus on their son. Mu Kongqing started studying at the age of five, and after he became a scholar at the age of nearly 20, everything in the whole family revolved around him. It would be best to send him to study in one of the best colleges in the county. It is said that the college invites old gentlemen who have retired from the Hanlin Academy to teach. A total of one tael of silver.

This cost is a huge expenditure for a small family supported by five or six acres of land.

The old man Mu went out to help people carry logs and unload goods every day, and he only had thirty cash, and he couldn't save enough for Mu Kongqing's monthly money without eating or drinking for a month, and the rest could only be searched from his daughters.

Both the big girl and the second girl are married, and the old couple of the Mu family go to the son-in-law's house every three days to eat and drink, and they can get some. Now that Sanya Mu Dingxiang can earn a little money by herself, the old man Mu naturally wants to find a way to get money from her. Pick it out.

Unexpectedly, he wanted to take it but didn't do it himself. He was afraid that people in the village would make irresponsible remarks, so he asked his wife to do it.

Mu Dingxiang took a different route back today, so she didn't go around to a secret place to bury the money. Sure enough, when she came back, Mu Zhou's family touched it from outside her pocket. Fortunately, she slipped away quickly and the money has not been stolen. Her mother was touched away.

It's just that she didn't expect that her father actually wanted to slap her for the ten cents.

The couple looked distraught, thinking that tomorrow would be her elder brother's rest day, and they were planning to come back to get the money.