Across the Market

Chapter 21

Xinghua Village is located at the foot of Jitou Mountain, backed by mountains and rivers. Although there are less than a hundred households, the location is good, the land is fertile, and the climate is mild. Every family makes a living by growing rice.

The people in the village are not very rich, but they are not all as poor as Zhu's family. After paying some taxes every year, the remaining rations are enough to solve the problem of food and clothing for the whole family.Some families even plant some fashionable vegetables on the open ground near their homes, and when the vegetables are cooked, they will sell them in the county town for some money.

In short, in a small town in the south, there is a lot of rain, the land is fertile, and the people have a bumper harvest every year, and life is quite prosperous.

The reason why Zhu Er's family lived so poorly was because the old Zhu's several acres of land were all in the worst places at the foot of the mountain.Not to mention the low annual output, there are still few fields, and after the tax is paid, there is basically not much left.Mrs. Zhu's old lady, Mrs. Guo, is not in good health. The eldest brother in the family still has to study, and the whole family relies on Zhu Er and his wife to support them by farming. Life is really miserable.

To say that 20 years ago, this old Zhu's family was also a relatively wealthy family in Xinghua Village, with more than ten acres of paddy fields and two capable sons. Add a few more people.However, the eldest son Zhu Da has taken a fancy to the girls in the city. How can the people in the city be willing to marry their daughters to the village to suffer?Therefore, the old couple of the Zhu family sold their family's dozen acres of paddy fields, and borrowed some money from outsiders. They worked together to buy a small house the size of a palm in the city.

Regardless of the size of the house, the woman's family reluctantly agreed to have a home in the city.

Later, the dowry was a foreign debt, and a large sum of money was paid back by Zhu Da later by blacksmithing.

Because marrying a daughter-in-law basically spent all the savings in the family, and there was a younger brother who was not married, so Zhu Da was particularly able to endure hardships when he was young. Not only did he pay off his own debts, but he also earned enough money for his younger brother Zhu Er to marry a wife.After Zhu Er married his wife, Zhu Da was relieved, but he could relax, but he couldn't earn less money, because there were still old people on both sides to support.

In the past 20 years, Zhu Da has not been idle for a moment. For the elderly and his children, he has been working from dawn to dusk every day, busy blacksmithing.

As time went by, Tie Da's body also broke down. Zhu Da, who is only in his early forties, can no longer do heavy work and can only take care of him at home.The burden of the whole family falls on Zhu Lu, the eldest son of the Zhu family. Zhu Lu is honest and has many younger brothers and sisters. The current situation of the family is not as good as his father's back then, so it is much more embarrassing than his father's back then.

In the first few days of Zhu Fu's arrival here, she has figured out who the Zhu family is, who should help and who should not be bothered.

Although the second uncle's family is poor, for so many years, not only has they raised their grandma Guo Shi, but they have also insisted on sending some rice noodles every year. The love is really precious.Cousin Gui is a good reader, since she is occupying her cousin's body, she naturally needs to help.

Someone wants to cut off your brother's future, how can Zhu Fu agree?Naturally, he sees the needles and sees through the tricks, and tries his best to clean up the nails on the road to riches and honors of Gui Geer one by one.Sending pork to the village chief was her first step.

Zhao Ren swaggered ahead, his eyes raised above his head, followed by Zhu Er and Zhu Lu who were struggling to lift the wild boar.

Mrs. Yu explained a few words to her husband, and seeing that her husband had finally regained consciousness, she took her son Gui Geer home first to take care of Mrs. Guo.

Sister Nuan kept crying and said that she wanted to look at the fat wild boar again, Zhu Fu hadn't finished speaking, so she carried her limp younger sister to Zhao's house together.

The people in Xinghua Village are all close to each other, and it is only a few hundred steps from Zhu Er's house to the village head Zhao Ren's house.

Compared with Zhu Er's family, this Zhao Ren's house is simply heaven, with five big tile-roofed houses, each room is spacious and bright, and two small houses are built on each side, one is a hut and the other is a kitchen.The yard outside the tile-roofed house is also very spacious. The yard is not surrounded by fences like other houses, but is made of the same materials as houses. White courtyard walls, black tiles, and even a few potted flowers on the walls.

"You can just put this pig in the yard. You don't need to carry it in. I'm going to kill the pig in the yard." Zhao Ren looked at the wild boar with a smile on his stomach, and swallowed unconsciously. Then he laughed and said, "Zhu Er, thank you for your hard work. Later, I will kill the pig and send you a piece of meat."

"Don't give it to him! Grandpa, why should you give it to their family! This pig belongs to me, and it belongs to me alone. The pork can only be eaten by me alone." Goudan'er is very domineering, relying on his grandfather Now, he was no longer afraid of Zhu Fu brothers and sisters, and he even dared to say to Zhu Fu provocatively, "You stinky girl, you were riding me to fight just now, I ordered you to come here and let me fight back."

Zhu Fu didn't even look at him. She has seen such a spoiled kid with bad habits in her previous life, and she doesn't need to pay attention to him at all. If you ignore him, he thinks it's boring, so he won't mess with you. .

"Village chief, can I speak a little bit?" Zhu Fu handed his younger sister Nuan to his brother, and she smiled at the village chief Zhao Ren, "Actually, this wild boar is nothing serious at all. If you like it, village chief, go After that, I can send you a wild boar every once in a while."

"There is such a good thing?" Zhao Ren couldn't believe it. No one dared to go into Jitou Mountain. It was luck to hunt one. How could wild boars be hunted often?Zhao Ren looked Zhu Fu up and down, grinning and shaking his head, "Don't talk big, you're a bratty girl, how can you talk big? Girls should go home and embroider, don't mess around here."

"Who said girls should embroider?" Before Zhu Fu had time to argue, a clear and clear female voice came from outside the yard, and then a tall woman appeared in front of everyone.

This woman has a dark complexion, good facial features, a medium build, and a slightly above-average appearance.

According to Zhu Fu's visual inspection, the women's football team is more than 1.7 meters tall. Standing with her brother Zhu Lu, the two seem to be a good match.

"Xiuhua, why are you back at this time? It's still some time before Chinese New Year." Zhao Ren looked at the woman named Xiuhua with a dissatisfied face, "What do you call Daddy to say about you? Girls don't embroider and farm at home. I've always known how to wield knives and guns all day long, but I'm even whimsically saying something to be a fast catcher..."

(End of this chapter)