Peasant woman's day

Chapter 6

Lin's mother is in Pingle Village, about ten miles away from Furong's village.It took an hour for the bullock cart to arrive.Lin's mother had heard about Yuanyuan a long time ago, seeing Yuanyuan obediently calling her mother-in-law, she was so happy that Mrs. Lin grabbed a handful of fruit and stuffed it into Yuanyuan's bosom, and hugged him for a while before letting go of him. Let him go and play with other kids.

Mrs. Lin sent a letter to her mother, asking her to help keep an eye on whether there is a suitable family.Mrs. Lin understood, and pulled Mrs. Lin to talk again.Fu Rong is not the deity, and she is not familiar with her relatives, so she can only call after her mother, and just sit there smiling and nodding if she doesn't know her.Sitting down in the morning, she felt that the muscles on both sides were stiff.

At noon, the children came back one after another, but Yuanyuan was still missing.Others were busy setting up tables in the yard, and Fu Rong came out anxiously after telling Lin.As soon as she walked to the door, she saw Yuanyuan was hugged back with her whole body dripping and crying.

"Mother!" Yuan Yuan rushed over with tears in her face, and hugged Fu Rong's neck tightly.Fu Rong hurriedly went up and down to see if he was injured.Yuanyuan's little butt pouted, and said fearfully, "Yuanyuan accidentally fell into the river. It was this uncle who saved Yuanyuan."

Only then did Furong notice that the person in front of her was also wet, but her face was so familiar.Fu Rong immediately recognized it: "You are the man from the black doctor's office in the town last time!"

Gu Qingchen's expression twitched, obviously he couldn't accept the word "Black Medical Hall".He cleared his cough, pointed at Yuan Yuan and said, "His knee was injured. I used herbs to temporarily stop his bleeding. You take this herb, and if it still bleeds, replace it with it." He said. , he stuffed the medicine into Yuanyuan's hand and turned to leave.

Only then did Furong feel that she was a little unkind, but the words had already been spoken.She had no choice but to stop him: "Hey, thank you. Can you leave your name, we will come to thank you in person."

"No need, if you have the heart, take the child well, don't get hurt one after another." Gu Qingchen glanced at Fu Rong pointedly.

Furong immediately understood what he meant, that the child was injured again, and it was all because she didn't bring it well.But this time he was really wronged, Fu Rong didn't talk to him, turned around and entered the door.

Yuanyuan lay on Furong's shoulder and waved her little paw to Gu Qingchen.Gu Qingchen turned around and walked out, two women passed by his side.

"The one just now is the eldest granddaughter of the Lin family, tsk tsk, she actually adopted someone else's child regardless of her own reputation. Seeing that the child is raised for nothing, I'm afraid the mother didn't care so much."

"Who says it's not. I heard that the girl had a fight with her family because of this child. But I know she is a kind person. I don't know which good-natured family will get it in the future."

"Hey, I heard that she is still the big maid released by the Fan Mansion. There were many people who came to propose marriage, but it was her adoption of the child, and the marriage was ruined."

The two women also walked into the Lin family.Gu Qingchen stopped in his tracks, and looked back at the five green brick houses surrounded by the earthen walls.So, isn't it her child?
Yuanyuan's knee was only broken skin, and no bone was hurt.Fu Rong put down the trouser legs carefully, and asked Yuan Yuan, "How did it fall into the river?"

A trace of panic flashed in Yuanyuan's eyes, she closed her mouth tightly, covered her mouth with both hands, and shook her head vigorously.Fu Rong pretended to be angry: "Are you playful yourself? Or did someone play with you and push you down?"

"Brother Mumu didn't push Yuanyuan down, it was Yuanyuan who slipped on her foot." Yuanyuan hastily argued.

Brother Mumu is Lin Mu, a child of Furong's eldest cousin's family.Her cousin sister-in-law was sitting on the side, when she heard this, she hurriedly apologized to Fu Rong, and even brought Lin Mu to apologize to Yuan Yuan.Lin Mu glanced at Yuanyuan, scaring Yuanyuan into Fu Rong's arms.The eldest cousin scolded her in a low voice, and Lin Mu apologized.

Furong's marriage was like a stone on Lin's heart, like the last straw that crushed her.When Lin came back from her natal home, she had a persistent high fever and lay in bed unable to get up.Finally the fever subsided, but she lingered on the sick bed.Many doctors have been invited, and almost half of the family property has been taken out, but there is still no improvement.It's just that although there are many matchmakers coming to the door, the man is not willing to ask for such an oily bottle.Lin didn't want her daughter to suffer, and those widowers who filled their houses would not consider it.The successive selections made Lin gradually lose weight.

Today, Mother Lin came over and brought a piece of news.The third son of a family in a neighboring village had not married at the age of 20 because the woman he was engaged to died before she got married, and was delayed for three years because of filial piety.He himself was an apprentice in the town, and his two elder brothers were married, and he had a younger sister, whose family was in the middle of nowhere.

Lin's heart was a little moved after hearing this, but she still hesitated.Such a person, will his life be hard?

Matchmaker Wang slapped her chest on the ground.Fu Rong, who was bringing tea in, was startled. Seeing Matchmaker Wang's still impressive breasts, she couldn't help but subconsciously look down: Does being a matchmaker have to be so real to be convincing?

Matchmaker Wang was still making a promise: "That girl has been in poor health since she was a child. She was hired by his family as a baby girl. Later, she developed tuberculosis, so she went."

Only then did Lin feel relieved, paid out Furong, and asked the family a few more questions.Matchmaker Wang thought in her heart that Mrs. Lin would be willing, and she praised a few more words, which were not very exaggerated.Lin was still worried, so she sent a letter to Mother Lin the next day, asking her to look after the family.

As a result, he was naturally satisfied when he came back. They all said that the man had a good temper and his parents were also kind people.This is probably a relatively good family.Although rural women don't have to go out of the gate, they can arrange it if they want to see each other.But that side is just to look at the appearance.People's hearts can only be warmed up by getting along slowly, and Furong has always believed in this.So when Lin hinted whether she needed to go and see, Fu Rong shook her head with a smile, and nodded in agreement with the marriage.

Lin was naturally overjoyed, and hurriedly called Wang Matchmaker to come to the house, suggesting that she could go to that house to propose marriage.Because of Lin's illness, and the age of both parties can't afford it, both the big and the small will pass quickly.The wedding is just three months away.

Fu Rong embroidered all the things such as the quilt, the wedding dress, and the head covering.After the small order, Fu Rong received a letter, opened it to see, but it was the size of the clothes and shoes.The custom in the village here is that when the man gets married, he has to wear the clothes and shoes and socks made by the woman himself, which is also a way to show the woman's virtuousness.

When the wedding was approaching, the hibiscus was finally embroidered.After she packed her things, she turned her head and saw Yuanyuan had fallen asleep lying on the table.Fu Rong sighed, this child is always unwilling to sleep by himself, and has to accompany her every day.As soon as Furong bent down to pick her up, Yuanyuan immediately opened her eyes, saw Furong clearly, and hurriedly hugged Furong's neck and slipped into her arms: "Mother, I want to accompany you."

"Mother is going to bed too, so Yuanyuan still sits here?" Fu Rong asked with a smile.

Yuanyuan's eyes blinked: "I want to follow mother." As he said that, his arms hugged even tighter.

Furong wanted to make the bed, but Yuanyuan refused to come down. Furong kept talking, so Yuanyuan let go of her hands and sat obediently on the bed in front of the bed, her eyes following Furong all the time.Just after Fu Rong washed her face, Yuanyuan hurried over and hugged Fu Rong's leg.Why is this kid so clingy these days?

The next day, because Fu Rong slept too late the night before, she didn't get up until dawn.Song Chunhua's voice came from outside the window: "You bastard, you just eat eggs. Your mother is going to marry a new father, so she won't take you, a greedy kid."

"I'm not a greedy kid. Mother said she wanted me." Yuanyuan's babyish voice has been crying in love for generations.

Fu Rong, who was still in a daze, suddenly woke up from a doze.She put on her clothes and shoes, opened the door, held Yuanyuan in her arms, and glared at Song Chunhua: "Sister-in-law, how can you say such things to your child!"

"Mother, are you sure you won't leave Yuanyuan behind?" Sitting in a carriage draped with red flowers, Yuanyuan was next to Furong, staring at Furong with a red hijab without blinking, "Mother agreed." I won’t leave Yuanyuan behind, but one day I called her and she ignored Yuanyuan when she was asleep.”

Fu Rong sighed in her heart, remembering the day when she heard Song Chunhua's words and had a big fight with her.She hugged Yuanyuan to her knees, stretched out her fingers, pulled up her little finger, and said solemnly: "Mother will never leave Yuanyuan behind, okay? Don't you just believe what your aunt said, even Don't you believe what mother said? Mother is sad."

Sure enough, Yuanyuan became anxious immediately, and immediately said, "Yuanyuan listens to mother. Yuanyuan believes in mother." After he finished speaking, he poked his head in from under the hijab and saw Furong's heavily made-up face, and Yuanyuan grinned. Smiled: "Mom, you are so pretty."

Fu Rong's face became even redder, she touched her round head, but said nothing.For the future, she is unknown.The first thing to do here is to get that family to accept Yuanyuan first.

The sound of firecrackers rang out one after another outside, and the strong smell of gunpowder went straight into the closed carriage.Fu Rong covered Yuanyuan's nose and mouth with one hand, and her own nose with the other, her face turned red from being suppressed.Just when she couldn't help but want to push the door, the carriage finally stopped.

(End of this chapter)