The ancient daily life of a farmer's daughter-in-law

Chapter 5

Waking up early in the morning, Li Qingnuan followed his usual work habits and first released a few hens from the chicken coop in the front yard to feed them.Then she went to the kitchen to cook cornmeal porridge. She quickly lit the fire, and then slammed a handful of dry wood into the earthen stove.After all, the core was changed. Although she lived in the mountains with her grandma for seven or eight years in the previous life, that was all when she was a child, and her grandma loved her and was reluctant to let her cook in a big pot.Therefore, the corn porridge boiled at this moment is not only sparse, but also has a strong corny smell because of the wrong heat.

"Qingnuan, look, next year or the next year your younger sister should reach the age of marriage, and your mother also wants your younger brother to learn calligraphy from Zhu Xiucai..." Old man Li squatted on the millstone at the door of the kitchen, looking back Glancing at the blush-faced girl in front of the earthen stove, "The Tian family is considered a well-off family in our village, if you tidy it up, you can marry her."

Li Qingnuan lowered her head, wondering if it was the remnants of her original body, but she felt sad because of these few words.He raised his arm and wiped the corners of his eyes. It seemed that he didn't need to see that man again, and he didn't need to hesitate anymore. This time, he was married.

She didn't speak, but just pulled out the fire from the stove and poured it out with water. Regardless of whether it would dirty the porridge in the pot, she got up and said in a cold voice, "It's fine if you let me marry, but I will be a cow and a horse for the Li family." For so many years, since I was three years old, I have washed and cooked for my younger sister, carried excrement and urine to my stepmother, and from time to time, I have to be beaten by my stepmother and younger sister with willow sticks." As he spoke, Li Qingnuan stretched out his thin arms and rolled up his clothes. Let the old man Li see, "The kindness from my father is almost repaid. If I marry this time, my father and stepmother will not be able to provoke me again."

Old man Li didn't expect that the most obedient and soft-tempered daughter in the family would talk about such conditions to him. His heart was burning with anger, and his face immediately became gloomy. "What are you talking about!"

"Well, since father recognizes me as a girl, then tell me what dowry my stepmother has prepared for me?"

Li Qingnuan's words hadn't finished yet, when Wang's howling like a pig was heard from the side, "You debt collector, how can my mother have the money to prepare you as a dowry? The house that was just overturned at home owes a whole lot of debt .”

After hearing what his in-laws said, old man Li felt even more uncomfortable. He knew his daughter was beaten and bullied.The family refurbished the house, and the two of them moved into the new house with their third and fourth children. Only the second child, Li Qingnuan, was still sleeping in the small broken room at the back.

Why did the eldest son Li Qingshan become disabled? That finger was chopped off in front of him.It is impossible for him not to feel uncomfortable.Glancing at the woman who was still swearing at him with her back turned, he knew that if she didn't do what the girl said, the girl might not survive.Considering all the misdeeds of the Wang family before, he finally said in a hoarse and pale voice, "Okay, this matter will be done according to my daughter's instructions. If you don't prepare your daughter for a dowry like Xiu'e, then you won't be able to fight in the future." Go messing around with your daughter according to your seniority."

While talking, Aunt Liu from the same village happened to come in.Seeing someone coming, Li Qingnuan's eyes brightened, and immediately repeated the hardships that he and his brother had suffered in the Li family, and made the old man Li re-promise that he would not provoke the married self again.

It stands to reason that such words are unfilial, and if they are spread out, people should poke people's spines.But the Li family is special. This Wang family is a vassal, unkind, and has a bad reputation in the village.On the contrary, Li Qingnuan, who has always been weak and weak, is pitiful in everyone's eyes. People's hearts are always biased, and it is natural to sympathize with the weak.So what came out of Aunt Liu was that Mrs. Wang was playing tricks to force Li Qingnuan's daughter to marry so that she could save a dowry for her family, Xiu'e.

Of course, this is a follow-up.

Chaohegou is said to be surrounded by mountains and rivers, but it is just a big river passing through it. As for the deep mountains, there are, but the villagers can't afford to provoke any wolf, tiger or leopard in the mountains.So even if there are any rare and weird treasures in the mountains, they generally dare not pick them.At most, every autumn and winter, some sour jujubes are collected on the soil slope of the front mountain to satisfy the children's gluttony.As for the hares and house sparrows, they also often set up cages and dig out their nests in the fields, and sometimes change the food for their families every ten or eight days.

(End of this chapter)