Village Flowers and Female Scholars

As the evening approached, the rain gradually lightened up, and dinner was being made noisily in the old house.

The late eldest of the Cao family had two children, Cao Xingshou and Cao Xiaotao.

The second wife, Dou Shi, married and had two sons and one daughter, Cao Xingnian, Cao Xingyue, and daughter Cao Xiaoliu. Because of the support of Dou's butcher's natal family, the eldest son Cao Xingnian was the first to marry a wife among his grandchildren. Now his son is half a child. month old.

The third son Cao Bin, who is single, has nothing to do these days, and has been lying in the house lazily.

It has been raining for the past two days, and more than a dozen people from the whole family, men, women and children, are crowded together, making a lot of noise.

The grandchildren in the family are all sons and daughters aged thirteen to the age of eating, and they eat several catties of rice for each meal.

Mrs. Cao locked the rice cabinet tightly every day. Cao Xiaotao was in charge of cooking, and she would scold her for a long time if she grabbed an extra handful of rice. What kind of treatment is the food.

Listening to the noisy voices outside, Cao E's family of three didn't want to be disgusted by others at this time, and it was rare to have a leisurely day hiding in the cabin.

But they don't want to provoke others, but some people prefer to provoke them.

Especially a boy with a foreign surname like Xie Yuangu, who looks soft and weak, is easy to bully. The sons of Cao Wang and Cao Hong love to bully him.

Xie Jinniang would protect him if she saw it on weekdays, but when the mother and daughter always went to work in the fields, Xie Yuangu would inevitably be alone and bullied, and would often come back with bruises all over his body.

Cao E looked at her son's bruises and bruises at night, and her heart became bitter, but she didn't know what to do.

Living under the fence is always unsatisfactory in one way or another.

The thin rain couldn't stop the playful kids at all, and a few naughty kids hit the door with stones, making a knocking sound, Xie Yuangu was so frightened that he shivered and curled up in his mother's arms.

"Why doesn't Baogu Baogu come out, and hides at home to nurse—"

"Xiao Baogu is as timid as a mouse, and now he has lost his courage, how dare he come out."

"The coward—the broom star—"

"Kefu's little bastard—"

Large and small stones hit the wooden door, and some small pieces bounced through the holes and hit Xie Yan's leg.

This is not the first time that such a thing has happened. Although children have a naughty nature, they did not take this sister-in-law Cao E seriously in such unscrupulous and endless ways. Will not do such a thing.

Not to mention the biggest Cao Xingshou, his father, Cao Dalang, has been in poor health since he was a child, and after having him, he specially named it after the Chinese character for longevity.

And Xie Yan who was in the room felt cold all over, stood up abruptly, opened the wooden door and walked out.

Seeing this, Cao E hurriedly shouted: "Jin'er—"

But Xie Yan didn't seem to hear her voice, and turned around to close the door.

Cao E felt sad. She went out and scolded her once before, but this group of half-grown children didn't pay attention to her, and her words were extremely ugly, and they said, "Sister-in-law, why are you still coming back to our house after you are married?"

If Mrs. Cao saw her go out to stand up for Xie Yuangu, she would scold her indiscriminately.

But Jin'er is only 15 years old, and she is still so thin. None of her cousins ​​is stronger than her, and Cao E's heart is in a mess.

But to my surprise, the noise outside quieted down after a while, and as the door creaked open, Xie Yan walked in unharmed.

"Jin'er, are you okay?" Cao E asked with a heart.

"It's okay, what can happen, it's just a bunch of stunned youths."

"..."

Looking at her mother's suspicious eyes, Xie Yan said casually: "I went out and said, mother is sick now, if they continue to quarrel, your illness will not recover, and tomorrow they have to do rice milling by themselves."

Cao Xingshou and the others hate cutting and grinding rice the most.

During the busy season of farming, Cao E, mother and daughter, did all the things like harvesting, grinding, drying, and harvesting warehouses. If Cao E couldn't do it, then they would be miserable, and they would be forced to work together.

Cao Xingshou has always been used to being lazy, and when he heard Xie Yan say this, he didn't want to be as busy as a dog in the next few days just because he was quick for a while.

He patted the clothes on his body and walked away bored. The little ones behind saw him go, and ran back to the old house together, and they drenched in the rain for a while. Granny Cao and Mrs. Dou found out that they must be going again. Scold for a long time.

This matter has been resolved for the time being, but Xie Yan knows that this is just a moment of peace, only if he truly holds his destiny in his own hands, life will not be as turbulent as it is now.

Xie Yan hated a life without a sense of security, and she urgently needed to find a way out so that she would not be attacked by enemies.

At about five or six in the afternoon, because of the rain, the sky darkened quickly, and the old house was full of excitement, presumably it was dinner time.

As usual, the mother and daughter had to wait for them to finish eating before Cao Xiaotao came belatedly and brought their portion over.

Xie Yan looked at the two and a half bowls of rice in front of him, then looked up at Cao Xiaotao and said, "Three people, two and a half bowls of rice, how do you eat this?"

"What kind of eyes are you talking to me? My grandma said that it has been raining for the past two days and everyone is too lazy to go out to work at home. The rice in the house is eaten fast, and everyone's rations have to be halved. My brother is not enough to eat. Let you The younger brother eats, you can decide for yourself, if you are not convinced, you can tell grandma yourself, and he is a child, and he has been lying down all day, and he is not hungry even if he thinks about it, why are you making such a fuss. "

Hearing Cao Xiaotao's brazen words, Xie Yan was so angry that his lungs would explode.

She and Cao E's mother and daughter are both treated as old scalpers by the Cao family. Even if they rent other people's fields to plant, they can harvest a few taels of silver a year, so why worry about not having enough to eat? The clothes are not warm, but the Cao family has been so bullying that they are not even willing to give half a bowl of food to the children.

Cao E was afraid that her daughter would get angry and argue with Cao Xiaotao, and she had eaten three steamed buns for lunch, so she was still not hungry, so she secretly pulled Xieyan's corner, not wanting her to offend the elder niece.

After all, Cao Xiaotao is now in charge of the fat job of cooking in the Cao family. If she offends her, she doesn't know what will hinder them in the future. They can't afford to put some sand or something.

Of course, Xie Yan knew Cao E's worries, and she also knew that it was not appropriate to have a conflict with Cao Xiaotao at this time, so she suppressed the anger in her heart and said, "All right, then I'll share my half bowl with Xiaogu, If you don’t have the energy to work tomorrow, if your grandma scolds me, I’ll tell you that you only have two bites of food today.”

Hearing what she said, Cao Xiaotao felt a little flustered. The old man Cao and his wife have always paid great attention to the busy farming and threshing season these days. The three of them got used to it, and after a while, they calmed down and said, "Speak as you like, anyway, grandma doesn't know how much food I'll put in, so it won't be you who scolded you for being lazy."

After finishing speaking, he snorted and slammed the door with two small bowls in hand.

Seeing her arrogance, Xie Yan was so angry that she almost threw the half bowl of rice on the ground. When had she ever been so angry in modern times?

However, she is not a person who does not know how to judge the situation from time to time, and she can only bear with the current situation.

Cao E on the side only felt that after her daughter had a fever, her temperament changed a lot when she woke up. She seemed to be much more capable than before, but her temper was also a lot stronger. Because I didn't protect the siblings, otherwise they wouldn't be burnt like this.

Thinking of this, his eyes darkened.

"Jin'er, mother is not hungry after eating buns today, you can eat this half bowl of rice."

"What are you talking about, mother, you are the pillar of the family now, and grandma's eyes are on you now. If you are hungry and can't do it, then we will all have a hard time. I am just angry at her arrogant posture. I still don’t know how to train us in the end, let’s not talk about this shit, don’t we still have three steamed buns, just one for each of us, with these two small bowls of rice gone for soup, we can still eat enough.”

Cao E didn't say a word, but scrambled to eat.

But Xie Yuangu, who was huddled in a corner of the rice bed, felt that the elder sister in front of him had changed, and became more powerful than before. At least today, he was not bullied by those cousins, and he could still eat The children are round, and they eat meat buns.

He decided that in the future, he must listen to Sister's words, hold Sister's thigh tightly, and believe that the days to come will be better than before.