After being bound to the learning system in my mother's womb, I became the empress

Chapter 6 I wish I could grow teeth immediately

Lin Cuiniang: "Sister, the swaddling clothes on the baby are very thin and soft to the touch, and the material is better than the silk gown that grandma used to wear. It is certainly not cheap. I think her family is not short of money, so they won't be unable to raise a baby girl. How could you bear to throw her away?"

Lin Chunniang: "Who knows, but I remembered something. Do you still remember the opera troupe that came to the village to sing opera a few years ago?"

Lin Cuiniang nodded, "Of course I remember. Dad was still here at that time. He gave you a bunch of money and asked you to take us to the theater and buy food. At that time, you bought us steamed sugar cakes to eat. I still remember that feeling.”

Speaking of which, that was already four years ago, when she was only ten years old.

Lin Chunniang: "The opera troupe sang a play at that time. It was about a wealthy family. When the mistress was giving birth, the concubine deliberately acted mischievously and secretly changed the mistress's child and then sold it to others. As a result, 16 years later , Miss Zhen entered the mansion again by accident, reunited with her parents and relatives, and the concubine’s conspiracy was exposed."

Lin Cuiniang looked at Yuxue's lovely baby girl in her arms and couldn't help but think: "Could this child have been deliberately switched?"

Lin Chunniang: "Then how do I know? A little baby doesn't need such good materials. You can change them for her later, and I'll take the materials to my good wife to see if I can sell them."

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In the evening, a thin and handsome young man left the town disappointedly and walked back to Mingshui Village.

The boy's ears were scabbed by the cold, and his cuffs and trouser legs were much shorter, exposing his bony wrist bones and ankles. His skin was so white that he turned blue. He was also wearing a pair of straw sandals, and his heels were frozen purple-black.

Today he couldn't find any work in town again.

The family only had two acres of wasteland. The eldest sister borrowed money to buy rice seeds, and the family worked carefully for a year, but in the end there was no harvest.

The eldest sister said it was okay. The fields created from the wasteland were too barren and needed to be cultivated.

So the next year they went around collecting bird droppings and wild animal droppings. They also stored the family's feces and urine in dung buckets and carried them to the fields to fertilize the fields. They also spread plant ash and other things in the fields.

After a year of busy work, the rice was growing well. The harvest was about to be harvested, but it was destroyed by wild boars.

In the third year, last year, they learned their lesson and took turns guarding the fields day and night, and finally harvested the millet.

Unexpectedly, the millet produced from two acres of land was less than a load, and most of the millet was still empty shells.

The rice that comes out after grinding off the chaff is no more than a small bag.

Even if a family of six saves on that small bag of rice, they won't be able to survive the coming year.

After three years of hard work and three years of poor harvests, Lin Erxi, a young man, finally realized a truth. Counting on those two acres of thin fields, the family would not only have enough to eat, but would starve to death, let alone burn incense. Save money to pay off debt.

So he turned to the town to find work.

He was not afraid of hardship or tiredness. It didn't matter that he didn't have any wages at first. He just wanted to have enough to eat.

He knocked on doors and asked, and sometimes even took the initiative to work for those merchants for free, just hoping to stay, but the results were always disappointing.

It was okay to shake his head and wave his hands to reject him. Some people even regarded him as a beggar, with a very vicious attitude.

"Ah!" Lin Erxi couldn't help shouting and ran against the cold wind.

When you run, you can forget about those troubles.

By running, he will be warm and he will be able to get home earlier.

The house was drafty from all sides, not much better than outside, but thinking that his eldest sister and two brothers were all waiting for him, he felt warm in his heart.

When it got dark, Lin Erxi finally returned to the village.

A tall and slender figure stood by the stone bridge at the entrance of the village, like a silent and solid tree. Although he couldn't see the face clearly, Lin Erxi recognized it at a glance, "Second brother, why are you here?"

Lin Dayou took out a still warm bird egg from his arms and handed it over, "Sister asked me to pick you up."

Lin Erxi held the bird egg that was stuffed into her hand and was a little dazed, "Bird egg? Where did it come from?" When they didn't even have food to eat, they would naturally try their best to find food from the wild. He and his second brother I often went up trees to dig out bird's nests, but I was really unlucky and never found one.

Lin Dayou: "We'll talk about it when we get back. Eat it quickly to avoid getting cold."

As soon as he stepped into the house, Lin Erxi noticed that the atmosphere at home was different.

There was a fire burning luxuriously in the center of the room. Sister A and the others sat around the fire. The warm and bright firelight reflected their faces, and everyone had a smile on their face.

There was a fish on the fire. The fish was as long as a man's arms, big and fat.

The skin of the fish had been roasted to a brown color and the aroma was strong. He swallowed hard and felt as if a hand had grown out of his throat. He wanted to drag the fish over immediately.

Lin Chunniang greeted him: "You're back? Come over and warm yourself by the fire."

Lin Erxi sat down blankly, feeling the heat from the fire, which still felt unreal.

Could it be that he passed out from the cold and the scene in front of him was actually his dream?
"Sister, this fish..."

Halfway through his words, he noticed that the fourth sister was holding a doll in her arms. The doll had her eyes closed, her eyelashes were thick and curled, like two small fans, and her skin was whiter than spring snow. When the fire illuminated it, he was afraid of her face. Illuminated.

Lin Cuiniang noticed his gaze and told the story again with a smile. She had to tell it every time a member of the family came back, but she still enjoyed it. Although others had heard it before, they still enjoyed it again.

"...My good mother-in-law gave the baby a name, Lin Xi. Xi means morning light. She floated here lying in a small boat. That boat now belongs to our family. This fish is Sister A. My second brother and I took a boat to the lake to get in.

"We didn't want to eat at noon, so we were just waiting for you to come back and eat together. Sister and the others also picked up a nest of bird eggs from the reeds by the lake..."

Lin Chunniang interjected: "It's a pity that such a big fish is alive. If it were sold alive in the town, it could be sold for twenty or thirty cents at least."

Lin Erxi couldn't believe it.

I picked up a boat for nothing, caught a big fish, and picked up many bird eggs... Did all these good things really happen?

Not to mention that their family has never encountered any good things in the past. If they don't have bad luck, they are already thankful.

If there is any difference between now and before, the only thing is picking up a doll.

Could it be that this doll brought their family's good luck?
"This doll...what do you say, good mother-in-law?"

Lin Chunniang: "My dear mother-in-law, let us treat this child well. Our family will be blessed with endless blessings in the future."

Therefore, she originally planned to sell the swaddling clothes, but decided to keep the swaddling clothes. When the child grows up, she might be able to use the swaddling clothes to find her family in the future.

Lin Xiaomei, who had been staring at the grilled fish without blinking, suddenly said: "Eat fish."

The younger sister's name is Yu Niang, and she is the youngest among the sisters and brothers in the Lin family. She fell into water when she was a child, and after she was rescued, she had a high fever and became a fool. Her IQ has stayed at that time, even though she is now 11 years old, her words and actions are Still like a three-year-old child.

Therefore, the five brothers and sisters above loved her very much.

Hearing her say that she wanted to eat fish, Lin Chunniang no longer felt distressed and patted her head lovingly: "Okay, let's eat fish."

Lin Chunniang divided a large piece of grilled fish and took out a few cooked bird eggs from the fire. The family sat around the warm fire and ate.

Enjoy a rare gourmet feast.

For a while, the only sounds in the room were the sound of chewing food and the occasional crackle of the fire.

Lin Xi was placed on the straw bed, smelling the fragrance and listening to the Lin family eating, wishing she could grow teeth right away and join in.

(End of this chapter)