Civilian Edition Traveling Farming Diary

Banzhan Liuguang launched four new clothes, this time I did not participate in the design, all are the results of Chen Xiang and Rong Niang, so the eight models are all full.

This time it features a large cape!

It's winter now, it's very cold, and the wind is very strong. It's not enough to keep warm just by wearing a cotton coat when going out. A large cloak is necessary to keep warm while keeping the wind out.

Rong Niang continued to be the spokesperson, wearing a new product, wearing a big cape, dark blue, with a white embroidered edge rolled around the side, and a big hat that can wrap her hair in a bun. Wearing a hat and taking notes at the front desk, her complexion is particularly fair, which is very beautiful.

Business is booming again, this time even hotter than last time, because many people have to prepare new clothes for the New Year, this time the big cloak suit is a very good New Year's suit, order it now, and it will be ready for the New Year in more than a month You can wear it, but I'm afraid it will be too late.

They still made a few bags to match the clothes, and they also sold a lot. The big cloak is expensive, so we received a lot of deposits. I think we can start to decorate our home. I want to celebrate the new year in my new home. I don’t know if I will come or not. in time.

It was almost noon today, and the store was not so busy. I saw Pei Shen walking in with a basket. When he entered, Rong Niang had just finished modeling time, and took off the hat that was not necessary indoors. , revealing her stunning face.

I saw that Pei Shen was stuck there just as he was about to talk to me, staring at Rong Niang in a daze.

Rong Niang met his eyes, lowered her head hastily, opened the curtain and ran to the backyard.

Pei Shen straightened his neck and looked around.

I:"……"

It was so funny, I slapped Pei Shen awake and teased him: "Scholar, it's rude to stare at other girls like that!"

Pei Shen came back to his senses, and said with embarrassment: "Sorry, I was rude, don't take offense."

I laughed and said, "I don't see anything strange, you have to tell Rongniang."

Pei Shen muttered: "Rong Niang... She is Rong Niang... No wonder she is so beautiful..."

I followed suit and nodded: "That's right, Rong Niang, the number one beauty in Fengzhou, good at singing and dancing, good at rhythm, 17 years old, single, unmarried, no sweetheart, not even a first love, well-behaved but slightly lively..."

Pei Shen said anxiously: "What do you tell me, this is the girl's private business!"

I pretended to be surprised and exaggerated: "I thought you wanted to know more."

Pei Shen blushed, lowered his head and said, "I'm going back first, take my leave."

I grabbed him and said, "Hey, you've been dazed, you haven't told me what's the matter with you?"

Pei Shen slapped his forehead and said, "Oh, Accountant Qu asked me to tell you that he is free in the afternoon, and if possible, we can go to the engineering team together."

I had contacted Qu Accountant before, and he was also very busy at the end of the year, so I asked him to come to me someday when he had time to help me bargain with the engineering team.

Pei Shen left in a hurry, came back in a short while, put down the basket in his hand, and said, "This is the walnut sesame candy made by my sister. I brought it here for you to taste."

After speaking, he hurried away again.

Look at this guy, how flustered he is when he sees a beauty, he doesn't even remember to take the basket away!

The basket was covered with a layer of cloth, and I uncovered the cloth, and inside was a solid basket of walnut sesame candies, not to mention walnut sesame seeds, even this candy is not cheap, presumably the Pei Shen brothers and sisters spent a lot of money to buy it specially What I did was a kind of gratitude for the help I gave them.

This kid is quite caring.

I tasted a piece, it was crunchy, a bit sticky aftertaste, very fragrant, not too sweet, very delicious.

I took the candy to the backyard, Chen Xiang and the others were rushing to work, I told him it was sent by Pei Shen, Chen Xiang was eating well, so he kept some, and asked me to wrap some in oiled paper and send it to Rong Niang in the design studio.

Come on, I have become a city express again.

Rong Niang was lying on the table in the design room drawing pictures, she and Chen Xiang were discussing to make a new one in less than two months.

I put the oil paper bag on her table, she opened it and smelled it, and was pleasantly surprised: "It smells so good!"

I said, "Try it, it's delicious, it's made by Pei Shen's sister."

Rong Niang ate deliciously, and asked me with a satisfied face: "Who is Pei Shen?"

I pouted outside: "I just stared at you at that one, a scholar, a scholar, and now works as a clerk in the Bibu Bookstore. After three years, when he opens Enke, he will take the exam. He has a good character. There is a Sister, brother and sister depend on each other for life, and they have a deep relationship. My sister's eyes are not very good, but she is very obedient..."

Rong Niang stretched out a finger: "Stop!"

Her face was a little red: "When did you become so nagging!"

I clicked my tongue twice: "When did you become so blushing?"

Rong Niang: "..." She took a long ruler and tried to hit me, so I hurriedly smiled and ran to cook.

After lunch, we had a small break with Chen Xiang. Chen Xiang asked me what was going on with Rong Niang in the morning. I told him that Rong Niang and Pei Shen met each other. Chen Xiang also secretly laughed, but he was very worried that Pei Shen would not He would mind Rongniang's background, but also worried that Rongniang would grow up like Qingping.

I think this is a problem, but it's still a bit early, they haven't said a word, and there may not be any sparks, it's just an interesting encounter.

Chen Xiang told me that if I had any clues, I must ask Pei Shen, and I would not let Rongniang be bullied.

I reassure him.

In the afternoon I went to the Qu Accountant, and we went to the engineering team to have a big fight. In the evening, I invited the Qu Accountant to dinner. Some restaurants have already opened.

Tomorrow I will start to decorate, and I, Chen Xiang, Mr. Feng and Rong Niang are all looking forward to it.

Mr. Feng originally planned to take this opportunity to move out, but I said there is no rush, they have no source of income now, where they can move, it is too late to talk about when the inn opens.

Mr. Feng smiled wryly and agreed. In fact, he was very rich, but when he fled for his life, he didn't have time to take all the bank notes and the like, and was burned again, alas.

Gengzi year November [-]th weather heavy snow

Today I hired a carriage to go to Cui's house to drink the baby's full moon wine.

It is said to be drinking, but in fact it is to have a light meal together, and it is not appropriate to hold a big wedding during the national funeral.

The baby is named Cui Xinghe, which matches his father's name quite well.The nickname is Shishi, hahaha, this is so simple, people like to give their children a simple nickname at this time, saying that it is easy to raise, and Shishi is also very good and tenacious.

Little Stone opened a little bit, big eyes, black eyeballs, he sticks out his tongue when he sees people, he is very cute, the Cui family wrapped him in thick swaddling clothes, took him out and hugged him back when he saw someone, saying yes Children can't meet many strangers, they will be surprised.

Chen Xiang followed the baby and left. He really likes children. He wanted to see Qingping, but he was told that the baby would not go to Qingping's place, but to be raised by the young lady's house, and only when he was breastfeeding Look for Qingping.It seems that his family's affairs have not been dealt with yet.

Cui Changyu has lost a lot of weight, and has a thin beard on his lips, which looks a bit vicissitudes.

When the guests were all gone, he stopped me, Chen Xiang, Mr. Feng and Rong Niang (we are now participating in group activities as a big family), and said that he wanted to be a witness for him. I wondered what to witness at first , but was soon shocked.

Cui Changyu knelt down in front of Boss Cui and Mrs. Cui and kowtowed three times, saying, "Thank you parents for nurturing you for more than 20 years. My son is not filial. Today I would like to ask the two elders for instructions to set up another family."

Everyone was shocked, including Boss Cui, Mrs. Cui, and me.

This is to move out to live by yourself, it is really a big deal.

Let's put it this way, the current tradition is that sons have to live with their parents, and they cannot move out to live alone unless there are special circumstances. Fengzhou is not too particular, and there are many people who move out to live alone. For example, Boss Zou's parents live in the countryside In the big courtyard, he lives in the city with his wife and children. This is because of living and working reasons. There are also rich parents who buy a big house for the child and let him live his life in it. Either The child has an independent career, or he is an arrogant and indulgent rich second generation, and he can build a big house so that he can spend time and drink and run amok in it.

But Cui Changyu is neither of these two. He runs the family business, and his parents are not in the country. He wants to move because of Qingping, for the sake of his children.

Boss Cui was furious, and Mrs. Cui hugged Cui Changrui sobbing. They quarreled together for a long time, but there was no result.

Cui Changyu's request is very simple, either move out and form a family by himself, and he has the final say on the family, or propose Qingping as a second wife, and give Qingping to raise the children.

Boss Cui's idea is also very simple. Qingping was born in a brothel, so she can't be the young wife of Cui's family. The child has to be raised by the aunt's mother. Everyone around her is in the same yard, and she is not allowed to see the child. There is nothing unacceptable.

But Cui Changyu just didn't accept it, and Boss Cui didn't budge.

Those of us onlookers can only watch in silence.

Boss Cui made a move, and Cui Changyu knelt there and leaned against each other, not giving in at all, saying that whether his father agreed or not, he had to decide this matter.

They stalemate for a while, and the young lady Wei Yuanxia came out from behind.

With tears on her face, Mrs. Cui ordered the young Cui Changrui to be taken to the back house, and she took Wei Yuanxia to comfort her in a soft voice.

The young lady was in tears, and she lost her usual calmness. She knelt down opposite Cui Changyu, crying and asked, "Did you ever consider my feelings when you did this?"

Cui Changyu looked at her and said: "I promised you that no matter whether you agree to divorce or not, I will take care of you until the day you don't need me. You decide to stay, so as my wife, you have to take care of me." Listen to me and follow me instead of kneeling here questioning me."

The young lady cried and said: "Young lady? What kind of young lady am I? I have been married to you for so many years, how many times have you entered my house, have you ever really regarded me as your wife? You only have Qingping in your heart, I Backed down again and again and let her in, seeing you loving each other, do you know how heartbroken I am? But you still want her to be your wife now, so what about me, what am I, what do I have, I just want to I just want a child to accompany me!"

Cui Changyu didn't shed a single tear, and said flatly: "You want a child, but you shouldn't snatch Qingping's child."

The young lady broke down and shouted: "Then what do you want me to do? Will you have a baby with me? Once she becomes an equal wife, what am I? How can I gain a foothold at home, have you thought about it?"

Cui Changyu looked at her silently, and said: "Yuanxia, ​​you knew from the very beginning that I didn't like you. Before we got married, I said that I would not like you. Please agree to cancel the engagement, but you refuse. After we get married, I will not like you." I also asked you if you were divorced, and promised that you would have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life, but you also rejected me, so I raised you at home and became your young wife. I never have what you want I refused, isn't that good, why do you insist on Qingping's child?"

The young lady grabbed Cui Changyu's collar and cried, "Give me everything I want? I just want your love and a husband who is violin and harmonious. Have you ever given it to me?"

Cui Changyu let her be torn apart, remained still, and said, "Yuanxia, ​​I'm sorry, I feel ashamed of you, but I can't force myself to fall in love with you."

The young lady sat on the ground completely powerless, staring straight at the ground, as if she lost her mind, and said: "I shouldn't have married you, I should have called off the engagement from the very beginning, I... I was wrong , I have regarded myself as your bride since I was a child, taking care of you and listening to you, but these are useless, you still don't like me, Cui Changyu, am I that bad?"

Cui Changyu didn't speak.

Mrs. Cui pulled the Young Mrs., stared at Cui Changyu and cursed: "You are heartless, Yuan Xia has not been sorry to you for so many years, how could you treat her like this, is your heart hard?"

The young lady cried, laughed and shed tears, and said: "Mother, his heart is not hard, his tenderness is all in that woman."

Madam Cui was furious: "Go, bring Qingping out."

Cui Changyu quickly said: "No, Qingping hasn't finished her confinement yet, what are you asking her to do!"

Master Cui was also angry: "Let her come! It's all caused by her, how can she not come!"

I thought to myself, what does this matter have to do with Qingping? She just gave birth to a child and wanted to raise it by herself. Come out!

In the end, Qingping was brought out. Master Cui asked her to kneel down, and she knelt obediently. I haven’t seen Qingping for a long time. Some are rosy and plump.

Cui Changyu took a futon and asked Qingping to kneel beside him, as if to protect her.

Master Cui and Mrs. Cui became even more angry. Mrs. Cui looked at her knees, probably thinking that no one gave her a futon.

Master Cui scolded Qingping severely, and Qingping wept silently, and finally Master Cui asked Qingping what she wanted.

Qingping choked up in a low voice and said, "I don't care if it's a wife or a concubine, I just want my child back."

Mrs. Cui asked someone to bring the child over, and pushed her hard into Qingping's arms. The child was so frightened that she burst into tears, and Qingping hurriedly hugged the child and gently coaxed her.

Mrs. Cui said with tears: "Here is the child, get out of Cui's house, isn't it just a child? Without your child, will our Cui family have no descendants? Get out!"

Qingping kowtowed with tears, and said: "Master, I remember the kindness Madam has treated me. I can use everything to repay you and do my filial piety for you, but the only thing I can't do is my children. They are my flesh and blood!"

Mrs. Cui let out a snort, and scolded: "Whoever asks you to be filial, you deserve it too! Get out!"

Cui Changyu embraced Qingping and shouted, "Mother, what are you talking about!"

Mrs. Cui continued to scold, saying that Qingping came from a brothel, she was so seductive, so dirty, and would seduce people...

Qingping silently kowtowed again amidst her insults, then picked up the child and turned around to leave. Cui Changyu supported her arm and turned around.

Qingping called out in a low voice: "Sister-in-law, you can't..."

Cui Changyu shook his head.

Master Cui yelled at him from behind, telling him not to come back when he went out.

However, Cui Changyu turned around, knelt down and kowtowed three times, then walked away without saying a word, supporting Qingping.

The four of us who eat melons followed silently.

When I went out, it was snowing heavily outside, and I said, "No way, Qingping and the child must not suffer from the cold!"

I hurriedly took off my cotton padded clothes and said, "Masters take off one piece each, and wrap them up."

Then I found out that there are only me and Cui Changyu among the old men.

And Qingping was picked up from the bed, wearing only a thin jacket.

I said to Cui Changyu: "The cotton padded clothes I changed into today, I haven't worn them before, now is not the time to see outsiders."

Cui Changyu nodded, took off his cotton coat, and said, "Mr. Zhang, thank you very much."

We wrapped Qingping and the child in warm cotton padded coats, and there was a lot of crying and cursing in the warm room behind us, and they rushed into the snow without hesitation.

I'm glad I hired a carriage today, otherwise I would have bid farewell to this bloody world.

Chen Xiang hugged me tightly, using his own body temperature to keep me warm, and I just got into the carriage with my teeth chattering.

It was also cold in the carriage, but there was no wind and snow.

Fortunately, there were so many of us that we all crowded together in the carriage like a nest of winter rabbits to keep each other warm.

Qingping choked with sobs and said to Cui Changyu: "Why did you come out with me? That's your home."

Cui Changyu shook his head, I saw firmness in his eyes, he said: "Where are you and the child, that is our home, the three of us must always be together."

Qingping nestled in his arms and said softly: "A family of three, how nice it is."

She touched the child's face, wept quietly, and said in a low voice: "Madam said that I come from a humble background, so I can't be a good mistress, but I think I really like our child, and I will try my best to be a good mother. "

Cui Changyu said softly: "You will be a good mother."

Rong Niang wiped her tears from the side, and interjected angrily: "What's wrong with our background, what's wrong with us coming out of a music hall, we are not bad-hearted, we rely on our own ability to eat, why don't they say it when they go to listen to the music?" We are humble!"

Mr. Feng patted Rong Niang on the shoulder, silent.

Mrs. Cui's words offended the people in the car.

Also too outspoken.

What I didn't expect was that Chen Xiang spoke silently at this time, and he said, "I have also been in a kiln."

I was so shocked, and everyone in the car was also shocked.I looked at Chen Xiang tremblingly and said, "Ah Xiang, you..."

Chen Xiang shook his head, held my hand and said, "There's nothing I can't say, and Young Master Cui and the others all know that I was once sold into a brothel, and later I was rescued by brother Zhang Cheng during the escape. The scene of the year."

"This is more than a year. I have changed from a country boy who wants to die to a shopkeeper who is half a streamer. It seems incredible to say it, but in fact it is Zhang Cheng who accompanied me step by step."

"So what is the origin? We have hands, we are willing to endure hardships, and we will not admit defeat. We will surely live a good life. We are not dirty or humble at all. Brother Zhang Cheng said that as long as I don't feel that I am Humble, no one in this world can make me humble. You are the same."

These words shocked them, and it also shocked me. My Chen Xiang, my good Ah Xiang, has grown to this point.

It really impressed me, I touched his hair and it really felt like he had grown up.

The whole car was silent, even Mr. Feng lowered his eyes and said nothing.

I was the first to break the silence and said, "Where are you two going now?"

The inn is not open now. My family lives in Cui’s workshop, which is already full, and the two of them don’t want to live in Cui’s house. In the end, we can only temporarily place them in half-light, until tomorrow Cui Changyu and I Go find a house again.

No, it's not true. How dare you split up with your parents before you even found a house?

Cui Changyu said with embarrassment that he didn't actually plan to move out, just to scare them.

I really...

Want to hit someone.

The female worker with half a lamp was still busy at the moment, so Rong Niang ran in first to find someone to help clean up the house and add a charcoal brazier.Sister-in-law Qing saw that there was no confinement woman, and immediately said no, the new house had never been lived in, and it was very cold.

So Hongxiu and Chuncai gave up their house, moved into the new house, worked hard for a long time, finished the new house, let Cui Changyu's family live first, Qingping was moved to tears, and Cui Changyu kept saying thank.

Several female workers said it was nothing, they prefer to look at stones, women, they can't walk when they see a baby.

Chen Xiang took half of Liu Guang's newly made cotton padded clothes and put them on for Qingping, and I finally put back on my own cotton padded clothes.

In the evening, we all ate at half a lamp. I was still the chef, but Mrs. Qing went to buy pig's trotters. Tonight we had a hearty meal.

I stewed a thick and fragrant pig's trotter soup for Qingping. Soybeans were added to the soup, which is milk-feeding. Sister-in-law Qing said that Qingping was too thin and weak and needed to be supplemented.

I cooked several dishes, Cui Changyu said that I didn't expect my cooking skills to be good, we ate around the table, Cui Changyu touched his stomach and said that although he was worried, he felt an unprecedented sense of relaxation.

Qingping went into the house to breastfeed the baby, and the two sister-in-laws helped take care of her.

Chen Xiang and Mr. Feng went to the street to buy some things for children and mothers. I let them go in a carriage, because there would be a lot of things to buy, and it was still so cold outside.

When I came back, I saw that they really bought a lot of things, such as clothes, bedding, diapers, and a small rattle.

Cui Changyu and I were discussing what to do next. Cui Changyu said that he didn’t plan to go to Bibu Bookstore any more. Over the years, he had some savings that could support his mother and son for a while, and then he was going to find another job.

But he was not sure what he could do, but felt that the most important thing now was to find a place to settle Qingping and her daughter down. He said, "I'll go to the dentist tomorrow and ask if there is any vacant house near your new home." , it's best for us to be neighbors."

As we talked, it was getting late, Chen Xiang and I took Mr. Feng and Niang Rong home, Cui Changyu and the others made do with half a lamp of light for the night, and left them a big bowl of pig’s trotter soup in the pot, Qingping was hungry in the middle of the night You can eat it hot.

On the way home, we all had emotions. Although Chen Xiang and Qingping were good friends, he was worried. He felt that Cui Changyu's actions were not good, and he sympathized with Mrs. Shao, but he didn't know how to change the status quo.

Mr. Feng and Rongniang also felt that it was inappropriate to forcibly rob the child, but they couldn't say that it was the young lady who was at fault. She was indeed suffering.

I also feel in my heart that each has its own hardships and its own reasons. In any case, it is wrong to forcibly snatch other people's children without consent, but as the young lady said, she has nothing at home, so she will be a transparent person in the future?

In fact, she is quite transparent now, hard-working, bitter, but also helpless.

Destiny is in her own hands, it depends on whether she can realize this point, it depends on how she chooses, this is her life, and only she knows the ups and downs.

Cui Changyu's grandson, alas, is too impulsive. He is in his 20s, and he can still run away from home in anger after becoming a father. I think it is necessary for me to find an opportunity to educate him.

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The author has something to say:

I think the Cui family is the fullest and most contradictory family in my article. It is so tangled to write, but others seem to be very simple! ~

As soon as I wrote about the Cui family, everyone reacted fiercely. I know what is right and what is wrong. I just want to objectively write a sad story under the background of that era. It does not represent my personal views QAQ

If you are angry, scold the Cui family, don't try to kill me QAQ