MTL - Arrival of the Wealthy Wife-Chapter 1 Rather be an abandoned wife]

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The weather was unusually hot.

For three consecutive years, the weather was hot and rainless. In the rice fields in the south, the fields far from the water source were seriously short of water, cracks appeared on the ground, and the grain harvest failed year after year.

The food shortage is not unique to Jingguo, several neighboring countries have also suffered severe disasters in the past sixty years, and countless people died of starvation.

Because of the competition for food and fertile land, the war continued for three months, and the wolfish ambitions that were already there could no longer be hidden, so the war inevitably happened.

This is what the common people don't like to see, who doesn't want to live and work in peace and contentment, live peacefully until the age of having grandchildren, and finally die in bed, laughing and dying on the bed.

But people's ambitions cannot be filled. They want too many things. It is obvious that the common people have nothing to do with each other. On the contrary, they have made opportunities for the superiors. benefits to oneself.

In Furong Town in Minjiang County, there is a village with a small population and abundant water sources 20 miles outside the town. It is called Wolong, but it is not known for its outstanding people, and it specializes in ruthless villagers.

There are about three or four hundred people living in a small village with less than a hundred households. The villager’s surname is Xiao, and he is the next-door brother to the head of the family. He is also forty or fifty years old. Call him Grandpa Xiao or Uncle Lizheng.

The surname Xiao in Wolong Village is a common surname, and half of the villagers have the surname Xiao. Those who have relatives are more or less related or related by marriage.

There is a rare brick house in the east of the village. It was built less than half a year ago. The owner of the house, Old Man Xiao, is the ninth among his brothers and sisters. The rural farmers who don’t know names named him Xiao Jiu, and his peers called him Xiao Jiu. The juniors called Uncle Nine and Grandpa Nine and shouted nonsense.

But people usually call him Old Man Xiao, because he has been exposed to the sun and rain in the fields for many years, his skin is rough, his body is dark, and he looks old.

Old man Xiao has three sons and one daughter. His daughter married early and rarely sees him three or five times a year. His eldest son, Xiao Jingshan, married his wife Wu, and he has three sons named Dabao, Erbao, and Sanbao. baby.

The third child, Xiao Jingrong, married a small-minded and mean-spirited daughter-in-law. She had two children in three years, and three cubs in four years, one boy and two girls, and the youngest daughter was still breastfeeding.

As the saying goes, the father favors the eldest son, and the old mother loves the son. This is really not deceiving! The second child Xiao Jingfeng caught in the middle is like a child that no one wants. The two brothers got married early when they were sixteen or seventeen, and he was still a widow after the age of twenty-two. Silently working in the fields.

According to his father, there is nothing to do if the family has no money. Marrying a daughter-in-law requires at least three taels of dowry, plus the dowry and banquet, at least five taels of silver. Otherwise, whose daughter would marry in and suffer hardships .

In fact, the elder brother and the third brother have selfish intentions, and each encouraged their parents to suppress the second child from getting married, treating him as the only labor force in the family.

Without a wife, there is no concern, so he can do whatever he wants, so worry free! There are also fewer disputes between sisters-in-law and less food.

It's just that the conscription order came down.

The imperial court strictly ordered that villagers with two or more men in their families must send out one man to join the army, and they would come to lead them after one month.

Now the Xiao family was in trouble. In fact, it wasn't just the old man Xiao's family that was in chaos.

That's war! Nine times out of ten, there will be no return, who will be so stupid as to rush to the forefront and volunteer to die, life is the most important thing.

The same goes for old man Xiao's family. He has three sons. Although he doesn't value the second son Xiao so much, he is also reluctant to send him to his death. His palms and backs are full of meat, and no one can part with him.

Especially the second child is not yet married, if something happens, wouldn't it be impossible? The second wife has no offspring, who will sacrifice after a hundred years?

Old man Xiao was suffering from a headache, he was worried about who to choose, he was in a dilemma.

And his sons also tried their best to avoid military service and pass the responsibility on to others. The eldest and third child stared at the second child with crooked minds and tried their best to push him into battle.

In fact, if you don't want to be a soldier, you can pay ten taels of silver. The court is short of food and silver, and the common people can save themselves from being a soldier by paying the military service tax.

But Mrs. Wu has money but refuses to take it out. The eldest daughter-in-law, Xiao Wu, is the niece of Mrs. Wu's natal family.

Let the eldest go, the little Wu quarreled with Mrs. Wu, moved out of her mother's family to protect her husband, and the third son was Mrs. Wu's treasure, and she refused to let him join the army even if she died.

"Let's get married! Stay a little while before you leave."

Because no one was going, in the middle of a quarrel, as expected, the second child Xiao Jingfeng, who was not loved by his father or mother, was pushed out.

He pursed his lips tightly and looked at his family with deep eyes without saying a word.

Heartache is not enough to describe his feelings. When the eldest brother and the third brother are tired of their families, he will take on this responsibility no matter how unwilling he is, so that the nephews and nieces will not lose the care of their father. The husband supports a family.

But without waiting for him to open his mouth voluntarily, it was as if he was forced to go to the top of the mountain. Everyone in the family, from the old to the young, looked at him, and the self-evident meaning was obvious.

He was very chilled, and he was not interested in marrying this wife. He didn't know if he would come back after this trip. Why did he hurt her girl.

For a time he resisted the wedding, but under the force of Mrs. Wu, he married Li Jinger, an older daughter whose marriage was delayed due to filial piety. After getting along for less than twenty days, he left with the army.

"I do not go."

"What, you're not leaving?!" A roar that could startle a crying child rang out, the voice was full of disgust, impatience, and deep disgust.

"I didn't do anything wrong, why did I leave?" This time, her child will bear a dishonorable reputation for the rest of her life without the protection of the clan.

The person who spoke was a young woman with a slightly darker complexion, with withered hair, chapped lips, a slightly elongated face, which was not considered good-looking, and a slightly collapsed nose.

But what is intriguing is the pair of eyes that are so strangely clear. Before the child was born, they were gray and dull, like two pools of ashen stagnant water, gray and inconspicuous, but the child's life was as bright as a lake in the mountains, bright and bright. There is a moving water color in it, which makes people immerse themselves in it accidentally.

On the whole, she is definitely not a beautiful woman, but a village girl who digs food in the fields, with thick hands and big feet, and she needs to eat at least two bowls of dry rice for a meal to be full.

Before this, the Xiao family could still tolerate her large appetite. After all, she was Xiao's second daughter-in-law, so she couldn't starve to death before he came back from serving as a soldier!

And with a baby in their arms, the mother and daughter must have a stutter, otherwise, as soon as gossip about killing the second child's family spreads, Old Man Xiao's family will stop being human in the village.

It’s just that there has been drought for three consecutive years, and the harvest in the fields has been poor every year. The food that can feed the stomach is getting less and less, and one person can eat less. No one wants to share the food in their mouths with others. Ways to reduce the number of mouths to eat.

The first to bear the brunt is the mother and daughter who have no man to protect them.

It originated three days ago, when the official sent a report to Lizheng's residence, and Lizheng sent the news to old man Xiao's house, so he had today's vicious thoughts.

"You still dare to say that you are right, you loser star, Kefu also suppressed a family of old and young prodigals, first impoverished his mother's family, and then killed his old mother, and now he is coming to harm our Xiao family. If I hadn't been in a hurry to marry my second child, how could I have chosen you blindly, you are clearly here to collect debts..."

Mrs. Wu was cursing, she looked like an old woman in her 50s in her early forties, her hair was already graying, and her cursing voice was full of anger.

She scolded for more than half an hour without stopping, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she is a shrew who scolds the street.

The eldest daughter-in-law and the third daughter-in-law leaned against the door to watch the fun with fake smiles on their faces. One pretended to pinch a bean pod, but after pinching it for a long time, it was still the same root. No one sweeps the melon seed shells.

They hoped that the mother and daughter would leave early so that they would not have to fight for rations. In today's scene, there are also two handwritings. Two things in that room.

The silver for building the brick house was brought back by the second child, Xiao Jingfeng. It was military pay that he was reluctant to spend, a total of twelve taels, half of which was handed over to his family, and the other half was specially given to his wife, because he felt that I'm sorry for my daughter-in-law, I left home shortly after we got married, leaving her alone in the boudoir to serve the elders.

But the selfish Xiao family never mentioned this matter, and did not give a penny to the second family. Instead, they used the money to build a house and build a new house.

However, old man Xiao still has a bit of conscience. The three rooms on the east side of the new house are reserved for the second room, saying that there is no cheating on the second room. When the second child comes back, he will have an explanation. He is using the money on his family. The second son should have nothing to say. ! Something for everyone.

That is, these three rooms are the most eye-catching.

There are quite a few children in the first and third rooms, and they are about to grow up. Who knows if there will be another one? The current house is almost not enough. Unintentionally want to "borrow" it.

At that time, the second child was very weak when she first got married, and she was very easy to handle. She was told to go east and dare not go west, to eat a lot but not to be greedy, to eat a bowl at most and then stop, enduring a half-starved stomach , she does all the chores at home, even if she has a big belly, she also goes to work in the fields, making herself dark and thin, dry and flat.

What's ridiculous is that Xiao Jingfeng, who gives money every three to five months, still doesn't know that his wife gave birth to a daughter. No one in the family can read, and no one is willing to write a letter to inform him. Keeping in the dark, he was still thinking about his family, and wanted to finish the war earlier so that he could go home and reunite.

The second child was pregnant after he left for a month. Country people generally value boys, so before the birth of the child, the life of the second family is not difficult. At least two meals a day are available, and daily farm work is not difficult. Do it lightly, and focus on not hurting the child.

But in the case of not having enough to eat, it was still affected.

"Mother's words are wrong. First, I'm not a loser. My mother hurt her body after giving birth to five children. When I was fourteen years old, she died of frailty. This has nothing to do with me. I After three years of filial piety, no one can find fault with me. Forgive me for your accusation...

"Secondly, going to the battlefield is extremely dangerous. The sword has no eyes. Either you die or I die. Twenty-one strong men went to our village. Ask yourself how many people came back. Many of them were unmarried. And who was it conquered by?"

Li Jing'er held her six-month-old daughter in her arms, the little baby who hadn't yet been weaned didn't know how to worry, her black eyes rolled around and she played with her hands, giggling.

"Reverse, reverse, I say one sentence and you reply ten sentences. Is this still a daughter-in-law? You are unfilial and disrespectful to your parents-in-law. If I don't drive you out, I will keep you to disobey me? Broom star, thief wife, you Killing my son and trying to kill our Xiao family will not work! Get out, get out immediately, you are not our Xiao family..."

Mrs. Wu's tone was very anxious, as if it was a matter of course, as if she was at a disadvantage by having two more mouths, and even wanted to scrape another layer of oil from the mother and daughter.

Her eyes were red and her hands were shaking because...

"Isn't it because of the twenty taels?" Li Jing'er's face was calm, without any trace of cowardice or retreat, and she looked at the flustered Mrs. Wu with spirit in her eyes.

"Wh... What is twenty taels, I've never heard of it, stop talking nonsense." Mrs. Wu panicked and covered her chest with her hands, and there seemed to be something hidden in the two bulging places.

"My husband's pension." Li was distributing from house to house, one ingot of ten taels of silver, and there were two ingots. There were five people killed in the war.

Xiao Jingfeng was one of them.

"You...you immoral woman whose conscience was taken away by dogs, my son is dead, and you still want to take away his money for filial piety to his parents. My life is miserable! Why did you marry an unvirtuous and unfilial daughter-in-law? My son! How can you walk ahead of mother, let mother go with you, lest you be bullied to death..."

Looking at Mrs. Wu who was making troubles, Li Jinger thought in her heart: she is really good at acting, she is suitable for acting, seeing how proficient she is in acting, she is the Oscar queen.

Her real name is Li Shuangjing, who was a firefighter in her previous life. She graduated from the Fire Department of the Police University at the age of 22. After working in the fire station for six years, she was promoted to the position of team leader. She managed seven or eight firefighters and firefighters. Elimination.

In a firefighting operation, she unfortunately sacrificed in order to save a young child caught in the fire at the age of 30.

It happened to be her birthday that day, and my colleagues made an appointment to celebrate her birthday. The boxes were all booked, and they were waiting for the birthday star to arrive. Unexpectedly, a large department store suddenly caught fire, and she and her team members received an emergency call to help. Notice, so the equipment set off as soon as it was worn.

A burst of severe pain hit her, her eyes went dark, and she vaguely knew that her life was about to end, and her only thought before she died was to hug the seven-year-old boy tightly and throw him onto the ladder to pick him up. Teammates, then the building collapsed.

Li Jinger woke up in bursts of throbbing pain. As soon as she opened her eyes, she thought it was a hallucination after a serious injury. She saw the beams and brick walls that only existed in the grandmother's house in the countryside.

Before she could think about it, the tearing pain in her lower body made her realize that she was giving birth, and the baby's head had already come out of the birth canal, and she was just short of the last breath.

The body pushed down unconsciously, and a weak cry like a kitten seemed to be dying. She was stunned, a little overwhelmed and stunned.

The eldest sister-in-law, Xiao Wu, stuffed the baby wrapped in cloth into her arms, said a few mocking words, and walked out of the delivery room with a twist.

It took her three days to accept that she was the mother of a child, and it took another seven days to realize that she had really crossed over, shrinking from a model with a height of 178 to a figure of less than 160 centimeters The bright and tall appearance of the little peasant woman disappeared, leaving only a pitiful appearance of being dark and thin with a pair of rough hands, which made people unbearable to look at.

The most unbearable thing for a woman is to become ugly, and she is no exception, so she ignores her husband and family who are not going to give her confinement. She stays in bed for a month, and no one can ask her to work. She uses this time to recuperate and give birth After the body, I secretly cooked a few confinement meals when people were not paying attention.

Fortunately, the core of this body has been changed, otherwise the newborn baby may not survive. The family's heart is too dark, and they don't want to raise their daughter after giving birth, and they will drown in the water basin.

"Oh! Mom, don't be angry. If you get angry, it's not because you are troubled by yourself. Second siblings, don't force your mother. We are willing to take your mother and daughter in for a long time. I was raised by my elder uncle and my younger uncle, I would be ashamed of you if you don’t blush, my second uncle won’t be ashamed to see his ancestors when he dies..."

The pretending to be kind sister-in-law, Xiao Wu, made trouble. She seemed to be making peace, but in fact, she and Mrs. Wu were out of breath, so she had to stare at the three rooms in the second room.

"Did you hear that, you are as thick-skinned as a tree bark, which of the men in this room is your man? Is it plausible that you are a woman who goes in and out of your house? If you don't know, you think you want to hook up with someone, and I will leave you alone." You have two sons, and you are not allowed to ruin their reputation." Mrs. Wu said plausibly and grandly, as if she really thought about the elder and third sons a lot.

"It's fine if you want me to go, but you have to give me my husband's pension as a family allowance." That's what she deserved, and the imperial court gave it to the families of the war dead.

The wife is the first, followed by the children, and then the parents and brothers. If there is no one in the family, it is a collateral uncle or a relative of the same clan.

"Don't even think about it!" Hearing that Mrs. Wu hugged Yinzi even tighter, her face was full of defense.

"That's right! That's the life-saving money for our family. You are too cruel. You want to eat bran and swallow vegetables for the whole family just because you want to be alone." Xiao Wu dropped the beans and stood beside her mother-in-law, her face was full of tears. to blame.

Li Jinger's eyes flashed, "Who is cruel? It was originally my husband's life money. For more than a year, if my husband hadn't returned his share of the military salary, would our house be able to be built? What do you eat? He has to work hard to get the rice grains."

She has never met the second child of the Xiao family, but she sympathizes with him. With such a disgusting and superb family, it is no wonder that he only married at the age of twenty-two, and he married an older woman who lost her mother.

"Where did you come from talking nonsense! Your husband is my son, and it's only natural for a son to be filial to his parents. I raised him with **** and urine, and I spent so much effort. You, a bereaved star, dare to fight for my advantage, you It’s because the sun has been shining too much, and I’m dizzy!” She will fight desperately with anyone who dares to grab money from her, and the money will be hers in her hands.

"It's justifiable for a husband to raise a wife and daughter. Back then, I was hired by a matchmaker to welcome me into the Xiao family. I had worshiped my ancestors and served tea. I was a veritable daughter-in-law of the Xiao family. I'm going out." These people's faces are too ugly, and they can destroy their conscience for their own selfishness.

"You...you have no offspring." Mrs. Wu looked at the little granddaughter in her arms, and insisted on making a far-fetched and funny excuse, which she herself said very guilty.

Li Jinger answered the words in an unchanging manner, "I plan to let my daughter find a wife."

"Recruit...Recruit?!" She widened her eyes.

"Having a new wife does not count as having no offspring. The children born in the future will all be named Xiao, and will inherit the incense of the second wife of the Xiao family." Do you dare to let the second wife die?

"You..." Mrs. Wu was furious, but she couldn't think of any words to refute. The second child is her son if she doesn't like it, and he can't be sacrificed in a hundred years.

"What do you want to leave?" The old man Xiao, who was smoking a pipe, came over.

The old tortoise finally came forward, he wanted to be greedy for benefits but refused to bear the bad reputation of being talked about. "I want to divide my husband's pension into twelve taels."

Upon hearing the sound of twelve, both Mrs. Wu and the two daughters-in-law's expressions changed drastically, and they wanted to rush up and bite her.

"No, it's too much. This year is not good, and there is still a family to support." If she gave her half of the money, their family would not be able to survive the new year.

Old man Xiao shook his head.

Li Jinger, who was pretending to be unhappy, frowned, pretending that she didn't want to compromise either. "Or, let's take a step back. I will take five taels of silver, but the things in my house are my private property, and you can't come to ask for them again."

"Five taels..." He pondered for a while, thinking that the things in the house were all worthless things, and it would be useless to take them. "Okay! I promise you..."

"Father!" How could she be allowed to take away "their" things.

"Old man..." The second child's family must have hidden money.

Old man Xiao glared, not allowing Mrs. Wu and eldest daughter-in-law to open their mouths. Although they wanted to save food, it was not easy to kill them all. Sister Yue was the heir of the Xiao family after all. "I have the final say."

"Also, I want a formal reconciliation letter and divorce papers." There will be no future troubles, lest this group of blood-sucking leeches come to your door again in the future.

"Breakdown?" He was puzzled.

"Sister Yue broke the Xiao family's relationship. From now on, she will no longer be a descendant of your Xiao family. Whether she is sick or married, it has nothing to do with you. From now on, she will be a stranger." She deliberately said it as if she needed money everywhere. , and Jue Xiao's family came to recognize their relatives.

It was a girl's family, who was weak and thin since birth, and didn't know if she would be able to support her. Old man Xiao agreed after a little thought.

"Mother, why did you ask her to take the child away? He will grow up with rice soup." Hearing that the little niece was also taken away, the third child, Xiao Jingrong, looked annoyed.

"You will keep it here?" Mrs. Wu said angrily.

"I'm a big man, how can I live..." If I don't want to drink some soup, it doesn't take much effort, anyway, I won't stay for long.

In fact, Li Jinger had already seen through the carelessness of the third child in the Xiao family. When the news of Xiao Jingfeng's death came, he hadn't thought about how to attend his funeral. They get some money.

The widow asked her to remarry, and received a few taels of silver as a dowry, and raised the younger one for a few years, to see if she could look good, and sold it to that kind of place for dozens of taels.

No matter how hard it is to sell to a big family in the town, the helpless little orphan still dares to resist, and he will go to ask for monthly silver every month, so that his niece can raise his uncle, and he will live happily ever after, without worrying about food and drink For flowers.

It's a pity that he only showed his head of this idea, and Li Jinger snuffed it out in an instant.

Originally, she intended to leave the Xiao family to make a living on her own, but the child belonged to the Xiao family, and she would definitely not let her take it away, so she was waiting for the right time.

Xiao Jingfeng's death was an opportunity to leave.

As soon as she grasped it tightly, she turned and left without hesitation.

Li Jinger's personal belongings are not many, a few changes of clothes, a pair of silver cloves as a dowry when she got married, a silver bracelet given by her mother-in-law when she started, and a half-person-high back basket that is still not enough to put the child in the bamboo basket. , cover the basket lid, and add a quilt rolled into a tube, this is all her belongings.

However, she was ready to leave long ago. She never thought that the original owner would be good at embroidery. She discovered this when she was in confinement, so she embroidered while recuperating, and asked her to embroider a dozen pieces Pa, the original Li Jinger relied on this skill to make some money for herself.

It's just that after confinement, the Xiao family kept asking her to do this and that as if they wanted to get back their money. She almost embroidered a flower or a few leaves in the gap between breastfeeding.

Even so, the embroidered handkerchief of fifteen cents a piece allowed her to save more than one or two taels of silver during these five or six months, which gave her a little bit of confidence.

In fact, she also understood how the Xiao family behaved. It was impossible for Xiao Jingfeng's twenty-two taels of pension to be in her hands. With their greed, she might not even see a shadow of the money.

When she asked for twenty taels, she wanted to scare them first. Compared with twenty taels, five taels of silver was not so eye-catching, and it was easier to get them.

Five taels of silver is a good deal for a mother and daughter who have nothing to eat. The three-year drought finally ushered in some rain. As long as you work hard, you will have food in the autumn harvest.

To put it bluntly, once the son dies, the daughter-in-law and granddaughter will become superfluous, and they are not grandsons who can flourish, and they will have to pay a dowry in the future.

As the saying goes, a long drought will lead to waterlogging, and an extreme drought will lead to locusts. Not long after Li Jinger left Wolong Village, she thought it was the rain that fell from the sky. The early-maturing rice has still germinated, and the unharvestable ones are rotten in the fields.

A stream surged and flooded countless fertile fields. The crops that could have been harvested were all submerged in the water, and the disaster was worse than during the drought.

The Xiao family, who were lucky to have lost two mouths to eat, also suffered. It is hard to say, they were just happy to be able to charge more for the second room, but in a blink of an eye, there was nothing, even the fifteen taels were washed away by the flood. A brick house with a roof still remains.

Fortunately, Li Jing'er just avoided the flood. She couldn't walk fast with her child, so she walked northward for almost a month, following the waterway without deviating.

On the way, she met a group of refugees who fled. There were many groups of three or four, and the people who went with her were of good and bad character. In order to avoid danger and trouble, she walked with a few friendly families with children, and the board and lodging were separated. not far.

The only thing that was a bit unbearable was that there was a woman who was very talkative and loved to inquire about other people's privacy, and she couldn't stop her mouth even when she was panting from exhaustion.

"Sister, are you really divorced by the Xiao family?"

"It's not divorce, it's reconciliation." Li Jinger untied the only quilt and covered her sleeping daughter.

The further north you go, the cooler the climate becomes. In Wolong Village, it was still hot enough to drink ice water in summer, but the weather changed within a month.

Autumn has just entered, and there is still some power of the autumn tiger. Walking around at noon can still make you sweaty, but it is much colder in the morning and evening, and you will definitely catch cold in summer shirts.

Fortunately, she had to bring a quilt to go on the road, and she had a big fight with Mrs. Wu. In the end, she won by relying on her youth and strength, and took away ten catties of white rice, ten catties of white flour, and twenty catties of coarse grains.

This is the food stored in her house, which she secretly hid.

For this reason, Mrs. Wu burst into tears, accusing Li Jinger of stealing the food from the Xiao family. Grain to satisfy the hunger.

Including the weight of the child, the bamboo basket on the back is less than five or sixty catties, but it is not a problem for the firefighters who have been carrying heavy loads for many years. Sixty catties is very easy.

Some firefighting equipment is much heavier than this. If she can't carry it on her back, how to go to the fire line to rescue, a qualified firefighter must have a strong body and a strong will.

And she was the best of the line, one of the few female firefighters.

"The meaning is the same. She is an abandoned woman who is not wanted by her husband's family. Heli is a nicer way of saying it, and it is not abandoned." The speaker was a woman of twenty-four or five years old, with a son and a daughter. I didn't have enough to eat, and the mother and child were all skinny. Her husband was lighting a fire and cooking a pot of wild vegetable porridge.

"Heli can take away all the dowry, but being divorced means leaving the house." Li Jinger said calmly, never thinking about sharing the steamed buns in her hands with others.

When she left Xiao's house, she had sixty-two, three hundred and twenty-five Wen in her hand. She tried not to eat the grain in the bamboo basket just in case, and bought a dozen big steamed buns and a few easy-to-preserve biscuits along the way as dry food. Gourds picked up by the roadside are tied around the waist, and the seeds are removed to fill the water, which is used as thirsty drinking water when walking all the way.

A few pieces of dried meat were pressed under her bamboo basket, and she chewed a few bites in her mouth when it was dark. She needed enough physical strength to walk the entire distance.

Even so, she still eats "richer" than others, eating two meals a day, can eat 80% full, compared to wild vegetable porridge full of water, it is really delicious in the world.

Li Jinger put on patched clothes very calmly, and pretended to be short of food like all the refugees, as if they would run out of food after eating steamed buns and flatbreads, so the people around were not greedy for her even though they were very hungry The one who stutters, after all, she still has a baby to nurse.

Mrs. Zhou was watching the one Li Jinger ate. She really wanted to grab the steamed bun and stuff it into her own mouth. She was so hungry, but as long as she did it, she would be beaten if she couldn’t eat the steamed bun. Her husband was too upright. In the desperate situation, she is not allowed to **** it.

So she can only say a few sarcastic remarks that are disgusting and disgusting. She herself is not feeling well and she doesn't want others to be too easy. Everyone compares miserable together.

"Then you have a lot of money in your pocket now! No wonder you can afford steamed buns." The sour-mouthed Mrs. Zhou stared at her as she swallowed the last mouthful of dry food, followed by a swallow in her throat.

"How much silver do you think a peasant household with a dozen people can have? The money earned has to be handed over to the parents-in-law. When I left, I couldn't carry my belongings. I left with only a few dozen coins. Otherwise, would I need to embroider while walking?" ?” Who wouldn’t pretend to be poor, she is indeed poor.

In order not to be targeted as a fat sheep, Li Jinger also wanted to save more money. Li Jinger practiced the ability to embroider while walking. She could embroider two handkerchiefs in five days. Enter the item to buy rations.

The child is still young and breastfeeding. She feeds two people alone. In fact, it doesn't cost much money, so it doesn't attract much attention and avoids some troubles.

However, among the refugees there are rich and poor, and some still eat meat. Those who are as obscure as her are not noticeable, as if a drop of water drops into the sea and disappears instantly.

"Then you're pretty good. A woman can walk so far with a baby on her back. Look at me, my son and daughter are skinny. If my husband didn't help carry them, I wouldn't even be able to walk out of the Minjiang River. "Zhou Shi said in a somewhat showy tone, more than enough than the best, at least she has a man, no matter how difficult it is, it is better than an abandoned woman with a young girl.

"It's a fate, I have to grit my teeth, and I have to live on." After drinking a sip of water, she pulled up the quilt, wrapped herself and her daughter in the quilt, and nursed.

Li Jinger is still very thankful for her good luck, her nominal husband did not die before and after she gave birth, which gave her time to recuperate her body that was depleted of energy and blood.

When she had saved up some money and felt that she could secretly arrange to sever ties with the Xiao family, news came that her husband who had nothing to do with her was killed in battle. The Xiao family, who wanted to put her at the mercy of others, God treated the so-called time-travelers a bit favorably, and gave her a "married" status, so she didn't have to worry about getting married when she got old, and she was afraid of marrying the wrong man. The husband has a daughter, who bears the reputation of "widow" and "abandoned wife", which I believe will make many people lose their minds.

"That's right. We have no way to survive there. It's either a drought or a flood. If we are dissatisfied with the locusts in the dark sky, we are forced to go to the capital to seek refuge with our relatives." To leave home is to survive.

"Are you going to the capital?" It's not easy for the emperor to make a living. It looks like prosperity, but in fact it hides filth. Seven out of ten officials are relatives of the emperor.

Since you can't afford to provoke them, stay away, so as not to cause trouble to your upper body.

As a time-traveler, Li Jinger never thought that he was suitable for a royal family with endless battles, or with gold in his left hand and silver in his right hand. He could make money like running water by opening a shop casually, and the prince and prince were like loyal dogs that could not retreat. By his side, he pampered the alien in everyone's eyes affectionately and unrepentantly.

That's not practical! The ancients were also wise. These proud sons of heaven have been brainwashed thoroughly since they were young. They value the concept of family status. It is beautiful to be in love with each other, but what is more important is the right family. Even in modern times, it is rare for a noble son to marry a poor family. Women's marriages, even if there is a couple by chance, spread vigorously and must be someone, but there are many tragic endings, and most of them are married to the daughter of a certain consortium, even if they seem to be divorced, they will not divorce.

This is called reality, love is no match for money first.

That's why Li Jing'er doesn't think about ridiculous and nonsensical things, she just settles down when she's here, she intends to be an ordinary person, don't do trivial things in order to live in peace.

"Aren't you going to the capital?" Zhou coaxed and patted her youngest son on the back, she would not be hungry if she fell asleep, that's what she thought.

"No, I'm going to go to the north where there are big mountains." There are a lot of mountain goods in the mountains, as long as you put your heart into it, you won't be afraid of starving to death.

There are also mountains and forests near Wolong Village where Li Jinger lived before, but the mountains are not high, and there are very few wild birds and animals. Most of them are caught by the village children with slingshots and traps. She wants to get a pheasant to sacrifice. Tooth can not be found.

Where there are mountains, there is no need to worry about lack of food. The mountains and plains are full of food materials. The mountains are high enough to defecate and there will be water. With water, plants will grow, and when grass grows, animals will come to eat, thus creating a circular food chain.

In her situation, it is better to have less contact with people, because she knows too many people, and it is difficult to guarantee that one day she will meet an eminent monk who can see her background at a glance.

There are no wonders in the world, only unexpected, nothing impossible, otherwise she would not have changed from Li Shuangjing in the 21st century to Li Jinger who became a mother.

"Why don't you go to the capital? That's a place where you can make a lot of money." Zhou smiled as if seeing money rolling in, his eyes glowing.

"I just want to be safe now, the baby is still young." After feeding, Li Jing'er closed her skirt, let her daughter lean on her shoulder, and patted her on the back.

Glancing at the not-so-fat but cute little girl, Mrs. Zhou looked at her daughter who was almost ten years old, and sighed with sympathy. "It's all debt to my children. I don't know if I can raise the two of them. I didn't have one before..."

The child who was raised before was sick and died when she was seven or eight years old, so she paid special attention to the two who were still alive, for them to come out of their hometown to see if they could have a future. .

When it comes to children, as a mother, I feel a lot of emotions. A group of refugees are sitting everywhere, and everyone has no smile on their faces. Seeing this, Li Jinger hugs her daughter in her arms even tighter, and sits closer with a few kind families. nearer.

With her back against a tree and the bamboo basket between her legs, she fell asleep breathing steadily.

The next day, she deliberately slept a little late, and walked separately from the refugees heading for the capital. She knew that along the way to the capital, someone would set up porridge sheds to provide food, but she was not a beggar, and she didn't eat from a beggar. She was used to relying on herself, using her hands Work hard for the future.

So, she carried her daughter on her chest, with a bamboo basket on her back, and rolled the quilt tightly, and placed it horizontally on her shoulders.

Just, who is this kid?

A three- or four-year-old girl in old-fashioned clothes pulled Li Jinger's skirt, tears streaming down her cheeks. She didn't know how long she had been crying. Looking around, the refugees around her were almost gone, and only dozens of old people were left. Weak people walk slowly behind.

"Where are your parents?"

The little girl with red eyes like a little white rabbit was sobbing and wiping away her tears. "My mother is not my mother. My father doesn't want me anymore. They say I'm a loser."

what! Is it a discarded child?

Li Jinger felt dizzy and couldn't laugh or cry. She could still afford to raise one daughter, but two children were at such an age. She felt that it was difficult for her to think about it. She was extremely distressed. Excuse me, this mother who is not a mother is probably a stepmother, so if you don't want it, you don't want it.

"Auntie, I'm hungry."

But saving lives is the mission of the firefighters. Looking at those wet and innocent eyes, Li Jinger took out the pancake covered with meat sauce softly, tore off a piece and handed it to the little girl, thinking that saving one would be considered fate .