Chapter 19: Cloud Shadow in March 1994
Cloud Shadow in March 1994
The snow continued to melt, the rushing river became more and more turbulent, the village was once again isolated from the world, and the land of the village was gradually revealed.
This year, I am going to expand the ginseng field a little further. I wanted to give the land last year to the Luger family who took me in as a gift, but I didn’t expect their family to have no interest in farming. The rice land can still be used. This year, I opened another 25-square-meter ginseng and potato field next to the experimental field of red and yellow lilac seeds. After carefully picking out the rock fragments, I added fertile humus. The soil is mixed with manure mixed with plant ash, and then the ginseng potatoes are planted in the ground.
The widow's daughter and son have come to me to learn the skills of planting ginseng potatoes before. This time they learned from me very quickly. They not only helped me open a field, but also planted a small piece of ginseng potatoes next to their own house. If you take good care of them Well, maybe enough for a family to eat for a winter.
The widow's son and daughter went home to see her, and they said she was depressed, her belly was bigger than before, she was crying a lot at home, and she was pregnant.
The widow was pregnant, but the man who took her in did not admit that the widow was his child. When he abused the widow, the widow would only cry in a low voice and did not dare to reply.
While staying at that man's house, she did have sex with other men in the village, but she was reluctant to name that or those men, and only cried over and over that it was indeed the child of the man who took her in.
Who will believe it?
No one will believe it.
There are not many single men without wives in the village. Except for the men who took in widows, there were only two old men who were bachelors. Therefore, the women in the village became suspicious and questioned whether their husbands had anything to do with the widows. Of course, the men It was a denial, no one would admit that they had an affair with the widow.
Interesting, it seems that there is no ethical and moral restraint, but the people in the village obviously have conventional views and cognitions on these issues. The widow has committed public anger this time. There is a voice in the village to drive the widow's family out of the village, and the widow begged bitterly. , but it doesn't seem to have any effect.
The widow's daughter and son are very distressed about their mother, and the three of them often hug and cry helplessly.
Where can they go after leaving the village?
Originally, if she sold her daughter and son, the widow could remarry again and lived a comfortable life, but now she is pregnant, and she doesn't want to remarry until the child is born. She said that she also thought about strangling her stomach or wrestling to make her child abort, but these days, women are using their lives to conceive a child. If they are not careful, it is common for pregnant women to lose their lives due to miscarriage.
Such troubles have nothing to do with me, but I took care of the widow's daughter and son, so the widow's troubles also implicated me. She hasn't come to drag me down for the time being, but I have a hunch that if I don't do something , then the widow will have to hit me on the head.
There's nothing I can do, even if I hate widows, I can't send a pregnant woman to the west with a single dose of rat poison, not to mention I've made up my mind to take care of her daughter and son, so I can't avoid her.
When I say "taking care of" the widow's daughter and son, I don't mean I want to marry her daughter and take care of my brother-in-law, but I want to buy her daughter and son from her and make them my sidekicks Or a partner.
With my age and physique, it is difficult for me to survive in this chaotic world by myself, so I need to rely on the strength of others.
Older people are too shrewd, and they may be detrimental to me in the future when they see through my secrets, so I try to choose people I can control as my companions. The widow's daughter and son are the best target partners I can think of at the moment, so I never want to give up on them.
The days went on so slowly. The heavy homework in the second half of the third year of junior high made me a little breathless. No matter how heavy the homework was, it was easier than moving a stone to build a stone wall or planting ginseng and potatoes with my bare hands. I did my best. Do the questions, don't let yourself waste the last little time because of laziness.
Compared with the previous countdown, my grades have improved a lot now. It's a little bit worse for me to pass the high school entrance examination, and the ordinary ones should be fine.
Last year, I was always eager to graduate from junior high school, and then go home to inherit the commissary. Now that the opportunity is in front of me, I am not so eager. I even think that it is good to go to high school.
I'm no longer the little dwarf I used to have low self-esteem. I'm still short, but I'm confident and cheerful. I believe that my life will be better in the future. I'm not afraid to go to high school. Try to get into college.
In order to earn more coins and make my life better in both worlds, I have done a lot of work.
Together with the widow's daughter and son, I maintain each of our ginseng fields; I run a net made of twine and sticks by the river to catch small fish to improve our food; I also sow the seeds of wild herbs in our fields On the side, fresh and tender wild vegetable seedlings enrich our recipes. The beetroots transplanted in the river sand last year finally sprout this year. I can collect fresh and tender beets every once in a while, and my cooking skills have improved a lot.
Not only the sugar beet transplanted last year survived, but also the branches of yellow lilac and red lilac that I cut in the experimental field have also sprung up one after another. It's really hard to tell them apart just by looking at the buds, and if I hadn't marked them in advance, I really wouldn't know which one was which.
The yellow-green rhizoma shrubs whose roots are mixed with yellow-green stones did not bloom in the early spring as I expected, so there is a high probability that they will not bear bright red fruits. fail.
The village is cut off from the outside world by the river, and Ah Fu and his elder sister have grown in size again and again. Now Ah Fu's older sister patrols the village three or four times every day. If I give her extra food, she will definitely be better than her. Her mother is more powerful and strong, and now I can see the shadow of her mother patrolling the village before.
The food of the two brothers and sisters is much better than that of my mother. At least their mother has no condition to eat fish every three days. Now I can put fish in a cage and catch fish in the river, and I can catch fish almost every other day. Not only did I and the widow's two children have fish to eat, but even the widow and two dogs did not eat less fish meat and fish soup.
The widow is in a very conflicted mood now, and I guess she herself doesn't know what to do in the future, so on the one hand, she is taking care of me uneasily, and on the other hand, she is also preparing for her own future.
It is said that stupid people have stupid blessings, and stupid dogs also have stupid blessings.
Take Ah Fu for example, he can't take on the responsibility of guarding the village, so he can lie down in the grass bed and sleep until he wakes up naturally, then wagging his tail and arching his head to let me get up to cook for him; When the sun is standing on the rock beside the village overlooking the whole village, it is either taking a nap under the shade of trees, or chasing birds or fluttering butterflies; sometimes when my sister patrols the village and passes by it, it even jumps over to ask for my sister. Playing with it is not to yell at others and then turn around to let others chase it, or to roll and jump around in front of my sister, playing tricks that it has learned so easily.
Ah Fu's sister was only born less than a minute earlier than it, but compared to it, it is not the same breed. Ah Fu's sister will always leave a little bit for her younger brother when she eats delicious food. If you have something delicious, you will definitely finish it in one bite, and sometimes when your sister is finished eating it, she will run to grab it when she sees it.
The A Fu sisters and brothers are well nourished, and even their coats are shiny and shiny. They look much better than the big dog's rough and unkempt coat, which seems to never be straightened out. Especially standing in the sun, it is very dazzling and powerful. .
Both brothers and sisters are here, but I still think of the big dog. The siblings are still too small, and they don't have the pressure of a calf like a big dog. Their hair is too soft and soft, not like a big dog. Rough and a little thorny.
It's a very dry and rough feel, and you can tell it's a beast even though it's gently embraced by you when you touch it.
This year, according to the original plan, I should build a new house. I have drawn blueprints and plan to build a house about the size of other houses in the village. The basic structure is based on my own semi-crypt house, not only a fireplace , but also for a strong roof and thick doors of wood.
Now that my plan to build a new house has been abandoned, I don't plan to continue to stay in this village, which is isolated for most of the year. This autumn, when the road out of the village opens, it is time for me to leave.
The village rejects me.
They were nice, but they didn't want me to be a part of it, and it was a relief for them to leave, and a good thing for myself.
I will take away the little property that belongs to me, and I will also take away Ah Fu. Unfortunately, Ah Fu's sister is the patron saint of the village. If I want to abduct Ah Fu's sister, the whole village will definitely kill me, so Although I don't want to miss Ah Fu's sister, I still have to say goodbye to her.
The widow's daughter and son I have done thought work, it is best if the widow herself is willing to sell them to me, in this case I will take care of her for a few years until I pay off what I promised her.
But if the widow was desperate to sell them to some estate, then I would run away with her daughter and son, and leave her alone.
I live twice as long as everyone else, but I still feel like time flies, and I travel between two worlds, one with unanswered papers and unfinished homework, and on the other Endless farm work and unfinished hut repairs, half a year has passed so quickly. After preparing for the extremely important high school entrance examination, I passed it safely. I managed to get into the only high school in the county without any risk and continue my study life. .
I've been wondering for so long. Logically speaking, living twice as long as other people, I should grow up or age faster than them. If you count more than a year in another world, I'm almost fifteen years old now, but I'm growing very slowly, and I look younger than other classmates. If it weren't for the fact that this year's photos have changed a lot compared to last year, my shoes have also changed to one size larger. , would even think I didn't grow at all.
When I was graduating, I took a group photo. I was small and wearing a hat and was squeezed into the corner of the crowd. I tried my best to show a big smile, but the person in front blocked half of my face, so that it was difficult for me to see my expression clearly.
This is the end of my junior high school, followed by a long summer vacation.
In the original plan, I would go to other places to play during the summer vacation, and even if it was bad, I would stop by my relatives’ houses and connect with my cousins. If it wasn’t for the commissary that restrained me, my vacation would have been more interesting.
The business of the commissary has been relatively smooth now. There is no debt dragged down, and my parents gradually got started with the business, and their vision for purchasing goods has improved. The canteen has a regular group of customers, and the income is much higher than before.
When I take care of the canteen, my parents can be temporarily freed to walk around and do things they usually want to do but have no time to do. In addition to going to other stores to "investigate" and "spy on the military", my mother also Passionate about visiting relatives and looking for new ideas for making money.
My dad is rather bored. I really don’t know what to do with mahjong. Whenever he has time, he runs to play mahjong. Sometimes he doesn’t even eat or sleep. He quarreled, but he still went his own way and didn't intend to correct it at all.
I also feel that mahjong is not a good hobby, but my dad used to work so hard to repair bicycles. Now he only has this little hobby. As long as he doesn't care about the family's business because of gambling, don't lose all the family's money. Going outside, I can put up with his little diversion.
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