Li Han’s Little Farmer’s Wife from the Mountains

Chapter 3 Go to Peach Blossom Village

One afternoon, Shen Ruolan was lying on the kang, thinking about how to find money. It would definitely be impossible to borrow money from relatives. She dared to bet with a strand of hair, if she borrowed money from the uncle of the aunt, she wouldn’t be able to borrow a penny. After all, she still has to make her stomach idle. She doesn’t have the habit of torturing. Since she can’t borrow, she won’t be ashamed.

In fact, her home is very close to Wolong Mountain. You can walk up to the mountain in more than ten minutes from the backyard. If she is in good health, she can go into the mountain and try her luck. Maybe she can pick some mushrooms and chop some firewood for money. Miles.

But her dry body is too weak. In her current state, let alone go in to pick mushrooms and chop wood, it will be a problem to walk on the mountain. Besides, there are many wild animals on the mountain, in case you encounter cannibalism. The beast, she doesn’t even have the strength to escape, she can’t wait for the beast to gnaw, think about it, or pull it down.

Turning around, thinking about it, thinking for more than an hour, and finally decided to go to the town or county to try his luck tomorrow to see if there is any way to make money without capital. With her thousands of years of social experience, she should be able to find a way out. Anyway, try her luck first.

Making up her mind, she got up and went to the kitchen, ready to make dinner, so that she would be able to do great things after she was full.

The kitchen at home came out of her bedroom gate. A room was divided into two, with the south half as her bedroom and the north half as the kitchen.

The kitchen is on the dark side, with only a small north window and poor light.

There is a stove near the south wall of the kitchen, and a **** pot with eight seals is installed on the stove. The stove pit is connected to the hot kang in her house. When doing this, I burn the kang by the way. This is the most common in the north. In her previous life, she also grew up in the northern countryside, and is no stranger to such a kitchen.

This family is indeed very poor. It is so poor that there is not a single grain of rice. There are only eight or nine Japanese squash and dozens of Chinese cabbage beside the water tank. There is also a small pile of sweet potatoes, which is only forty or fifty catties. These were planted in their own garden before.

In fact, she also planted some other things, but there were too many weeds in the garden, her body was weak, and she had no strength to manage it, resulting in a poor harvest in the garden, and finally harvested this little thing in autumn.

In the north corner, there is a simple wooden shelf with two or three large large ceramic bowls and a few pairs of black chopsticks. There are also a few bottles and jars of different sizes, which should be seasonings, Shen Ruolan, let’s go. I took a look in the past and found that the bottles and cans were all empty. It should have been empty for a long time, and the ashes that fell inside were thick.

She picked up the gourd scoop, scooped two scoops of water in the water tank, brushed the pot clean, took out two eggs from the space, washed two sweet potatoes, put them in the pot and boiled them.

During the fire-burning time, she was not idle either, took a rag and brushed all the bottles, jars and tableware on the shelf, and wiped the shelf and pot table again.

Now, the kitchen looks much cleaner, and she feels more at ease.

Seeing that the pot was opening, she lifted the lid, used a gourd scoop as a fence, fished out the eggs and sweet potatoes, and ate them with cold water.

The eggs and sweet potatoes also tasted good, but they were too dry. After eating, they choked and choked upright after a few mouthfuls. There was no way. She had to take out a bag of milk from the space, one mouthful of eggs, one mouthful of milk, and another mouthful. Sweet potato settled the supper with a bite of milk.

After eating, the sky gradually darkened. There were no oil lamps or candles at home. Taking advantage of the last glimmer of light, she boiled some water and washed her feet and face.

In fact, she really wants to take a bath. In my memory, the last time she took a bath was in the summer. She didn’t take a bath for a few months and worked all day. Now she has a longer body. The layer is thickly smacked, and the sour smell can be smelled far away.

Shen Ruolan is a clean person and can’t bear to be like this. In the previous few days, she could not move because she was too weak to move. Of course, she must wash well now.

However, there is no bathtub or large basin at home, so you can’t take a bath. You can only use a piece of rag and moisten the warm water in the basin to wipe the bath slowly. This kind of bath is much less effective than the painful washing in a tub. Up.

She secretly made up her mind that when she became rich, she would buy the best bath tub and soak in the bath every day to make up for everything that the original owner hadn’t soaked in before.

After wiping her body, the sky was completely dark. She poured the water and groped and lay on the bed. When she was about to fall asleep, she suddenly remembered that her cousin had already started crying and singing at this hour of the day. I don’t know why there was no movement today.

What’s wrong? Why did you go on strike? Isn’t it because your throat breaks and you can’t come out, right? Or is the problem solved? Otherwise, just her cousin’s temperament would not stop being killed.

In any case, she was finally able to sleep well, and Shen Ruolan covered the quilt and soon fell asleep.

A good night’s sleep.

Before dawn the next day, Shen Ruolan got up early. After washing, she took out the birthday cake in the space and cut a piece for breakfast. She also took the two most valuable things in the family-the only kitchen knife and two. The big bowl, which only seemed to be intact, was placed in the basket, and he carried the basket to the next Peach Blossom Village.

Taohua Village is the wealthiest of the nearby villages. There are two horse-drawn carriages alone. One is to Qisong Town, twenty miles away, and the other is to Nong’an County, fifty miles away. Who are the villagers in the nearby villages? If you want to go to the town or the county seat, most people come to Taohua Village by car.

Of course, there are also some savings who are reluctant to part with the fare, so they just walked on two legs.

In fact, the fare is not expensive. It only costs two cents to go to Qisong Town for a round trip, and it only takes five cents to go to the county seat, and you can bring things.

But Shen Ruolan didn’t have any money. In order to achieve her goal, she carried the two most valuable and unsinkable things in the family, a kitchen knife and two big bowls, and they were ready to be used as a mortgage as a car fare.

She was walking in a hurry, because she was afraid that she could not catch up with the carriage. There were no clocks in ancient times. It was always based on the time of the sun. Sometimes it was early and sometimes it was late. .

I wanted to arrive earlier, but it was in response to the sentence “He was just dead”. When I walked halfway, my unbelievable little body couldn’t move anymore. My legs were filled with lead, and I paid every step I took. tremble.

Finally, when she dragged a branch and moved to Taohua Village step by step, the sun had already risen and only one of the two carriages remained.

“I’m leaving now. Those who go to the county seat will leave right away!”

The man who drove the car saw a villager from outside, guessing that he should be in the car, and immediately yelled at his neck.

Shen Ruolan gasped and said, “…Wait…I…”

The man glanced at Shen Ruolan’s shabby dress, then looked at her skinny figure, and said: “Go to the county for five cents, pay the money first and get on the bus.”