Since we are hanging on there first, collecting information is the first step.
Xiaoruo hasn't spoken much since she woke up. Firstly, she was probably in a coma for a long time, and her voice is hoarse and dry. Secondly, she often makes mistakes when she talks too much. It's better to listen to what others say.
When someone asked her how she was feeling, she would smile with her lips pursed and cough twice, and others would know to stop chatting.
After a few days of recuperation and other people's narrations, Xiaoruo figured out the general situation of this reborn world.
The original name was also Xiaoruo. I don’t know how to spell it, but the pronunciation is the same. The original parent passed away three months ago. It is said that they both died suddenly of illness, leaving behind a 16-year-old Xiaoruo and two five-year-olds.
Six-year-old twin siblings.
This family is not rich. When my father and mother were alive, they relied on one acre of thin farmland to cultivate the family's food. During the slack season, my father earned a meager salary by copying letters for others. However, everyone in this small village is not well-off, and the folks in the village who copy letters also do not have much money.
Just give me a few copper coins, and sometimes I will give you home-made pickles or eggs instead of money for letters.
Although he did not save much money, he did not lack food and drink for his three children. The original person and his two younger siblings were well-raised to the naked eye, with fair skin and neat clothes. They were not like the other children in the village who were crawling around in the countryside and ravines.
Their skin is dark. Especially the two twin siblings, who have not lost the baby fat on their cheeks even after they are five or six years old, and their arms are as chubby as lotus joints, like a pair of dragon and phoenix dolls walking out of a New Year painting.
Xiaoruo even discovered that in this country where people generally did not know a few Chinese characters, her cheap younger siblings could not only recite enlightenment literature such as "Hundred Family Surnames" and "Three Character Classic", but could also simply calculate numbers within a hundred.
addition and subtraction.
It seems that my parents are not ordinary rural farmers. In ordinary farmhouses, the free space is filled with taro seeds and firewood. There is no free space for bookshelves. There is more than one bookshelf in this home, and the books on the shelves are also diverse.
From agricultural medicine to actuarial deduction, there are over a hundred volumes.
Xu is from a declining scholarly family? I heard that my parents fled to this small village decades ago. Seeing that the soil and water here are relatively rich, they settled here to settle down and raise their children.
However, Xiaoruo has no time to continue wondering where her deceased parents came from. Right now, she has a lot of troubles imminent.
The first thing that happened when she woke up was that Aunt Zhang said she was lame and forced to marry.
This lame Zhang is not from this village, but from a family in the east end of the next village eighteen miles away. When his parents were alive, Lame Zhang once sent his only son to Xiaoruo's house to live for a while, saying that he would give him some money.
Shu Xiu asked Xiaoruo's father to teach him literacy and arithmetic.
In fact, Tu Xiaoruo's father was not a serious private school teacher, so he just took advantage of a cheap place to learn calligraphy.
The so-called Shu Xiu has never actually appeared under the nose.
This lame Zhang's son is called Zhang Guangzong. I don't know if it's hereditary or something, but his left leg is also a little lame. He walks with a limp. For this reason, other children in the village often laugh at him and call him little cripple. Only Xiao Ruo doesn't laugh at him.
, coupled with Xiao Ruo’s delicate features since she was a child, and a pair of big, shining eyes that look like little crescent moons when she smiles, this little cripple is still thinking about Xiao Ruo.
Every time Zhang Guangzong went home, he would talk to Lame Zhang about marrying Xiao Ruo in the future. He talked about it too many times, and Lame Zhang's wife was a big talker. Somehow, word spread in the next village that Xiao Ruo was the betrothed to
of Zhang Guangzong.
Word spread very quickly in the countryside. Within a few days, the rumor of the engagement had spread to the village, and naturally it also reached the ears of Xiaoruo's father and mother.
Xiaoruo had just turned ten at that time, and the flowers had not grown yet, so they could not let the rumors break their branches.
Xiaoruo's father quickly sent Zhang Guangzong back to the lame Zhang family and made it clear that he would no longer teach him how to read. He also asked him not to interact with him in the future. Xiaoruo would not get engaged to Zhang Guangzong.
But this lame Zhang has no other specialties, but he is particularly outstanding in not taking advantage enough and being thick-skinned. Even though Xiao Ruo's father said it so clearly in front of everyone, he still let the little lame run to Xiao Ruo's house on time.
After being rejected several times at Xiao Ruo's house, the little lame boy was asked to bring Malan Tou, Xiao Yu Zi, and other cheap mountain products to his door from time to time. He tried hard and tough for several months, and in the end he didn't even know what was going on.
speaking to the outside world
Ji's family and Xiaoruo's family are distant cousins, and they have been cousins for several lifetimes. Xiaoruo's parents were really helpless and couldn't explain it to anyone, so they simply went with Zhang's family.
Most of them just don’t teach, don’t ask, and don’t listen.
It was going on like this, but Xiao Ruo's parents suddenly passed away, and Xiao Ruo had just passed away. Looking at Xiao Ruo's face like a spring flower and the two houses at home, his thoughts started to rise everywhere.
He yelled that as a distant cousin, he had to take care of Xiao Ruo.
Lame Zhang's mother-in-law dug out the old news again and said that Xiao Ruo was her son's adopted daughter-in-law and she would naturally come to her house. She also said that Xiao Ruo's two younger siblings were ten years apart in age from Xiao Ruo.
It must not have been her parents' biological son, but maybe someone picked it up in the wild. Xiaoruo had asked Xiaoruo to drive away the two oil bottles early and come to their house with family items as a dowry.
Xiao Ruo became more and more angry as she listened. It had been more than ten years since Captain Xiao had been so arrogant. If it had been before she was reborn, such a shameless family as Lame Zhang would have been set ablaze by her.
She might have had her ashes raised.
But after rebirth, not to mention the fire power, with such a slender body, it is difficult to lift a hoe, and even lift other people's ashes.
This reborn dynasty was still in the farming period, and there was no entertainment after sunset. Everyone went home early to rest and sleep.
The village gradually fell into silence, with only a few bean-like lights pouring onto the ground from the tightly closed window lattice. After all, lamp oil is not cheap, and most people are still reluctant to prepare extra lamp oil at home.
Among them is one from the Xiao family.
Xiaoruo and her siblings ate dinner around the small table. The dinner was actually four hard pancakes and fried shepherd's purse with bacon and vegetables sent by Aunt Zhang.
The pancakes were made by my younger sister Xiaoxiao, and the firewood was set up by my younger brother Xiaozhao. There were still a few streaks of charcoal ash on his little face that had not been wiped clean. Xiaoruo couldn't cook, and she had been drinking most of the time for more than ten years.
What I eat is nutrient solution. Occasionally when I want to improve my food, I go to a physical restaurant run by food enthusiasts at the base for a meal.
Aunt Zhang felt really distressed when she saw the three siblings eating hard pancakes, so she went home and hurriedly cooked a dish for them to eat.
Although Aunt Zhang didn't say anything explicitly and told Xiaoniao and Xiao Zhao to listen to their sister, Xiao Ruo still saw a hint of resentment in Aunt Zhang's frown.
Indeed, sixteen years old is not considered too young in this dynasty. It is reasonable to take care of the family life, not to mention that the younger brother and sister are only five or six years old. They are real children, but they have to take care of their older sister. Xiao Ruo also feels in her heart
It doesn't taste particularly good.
"Niao Niao." Xiaoruo gave her sister a piece of bacon with chopsticks. "My sister fell down the mountain a while ago, which made you worried. Can you tell me what happened before my sister fell down the mountain?"
Xiaoxiao looked at the small piece of red bacon in the bowl, took a bite with the tip of her chopsticks, and then put the meat into Xiaoruo's bowl. "Sister, don't you remember?" Her chubby little face has turned out to be so cute recently.
There is a hint of intention to disappear, but it is not as tender and raw as Xiaoruo first saw it.
"My sister said that day that she would go up the mountain to pick cranberries for Niao Niao, and asked her brother and Niao Niao to wait at home. But Niao Niao and her brother waited at home for a long time, and my sister didn't come back. The sun was almost setting." Xiaoxiao said.
As he spoke, he frowned, and his facial features were squeezed into a ball, like a small meat bun that hadn't been steamed in the pot.
"Later, Grandpa Lame came!" Xiao Zhao rushed to say, "Grandpa Lame also brought brother Yaoyao! They both came together. As soon as they came, they opened the door and shouted to find my sister!"
The brother Xiao Zhao mentioned was Zhang Guangzong. As he grew older, he walked more and more wobbly, so he was called "Brother Shake" by Xiao Zhao and Xiao Niao.
"Yes, I said my sister is not here, but the lame grandpa still doesn't believe it, saying that I lied to him." Xiaoxiao chewed vegetables and said vaguely: "The lame grandpa must come in to see if my sister is there, and my brother is standing there.
At the door, the lame grandfather even pushed his younger brother down and said something about two broken bottles..."
Xiaoxiao imitated Lame Zhang's movements and tone at that time, raised her chopsticks and pushed softly into the air.
Xiaoruo knew that this was lame Zhang bullying the two children, calling them two sluggish people.
She bit her back molar resentfully. Although these two cheap siblings were not her biological brothers and sisters, they were smart, cute, well-behaved and soft. Ever since she woke up, they had been sticking to her side every day, calling each other "sister", which was a bit...
I want to stuff her with delicious food and act coquettishly to make her feel better quickly.
Xiaoruo has already classified these two dolls as her own protection. Since they have taken over the original body, she naturally has to take good care of her younger brothers and sisters for her.
"But Grandpa Cripple and Brother Yaoyao left when they saw that Sister was really not here. They also pulled out a lot of the carrots that Sister planted at the door..." Xiao Zhao also frowned, he felt sorry for Sister.
Planted carrots.
After my parents left, my sister was very busy. She had to go to the fields every day to see the seedlings, and when she came back, she had to feed the chickens and ducks. My sister planted these carrots in the dark, and they finally grew to be as thick as a finger. Now
A lot of it was suddenly taken away, and he felt really distressed.
Seeing the two dolls' identical wrinkled faces, Xiao Ruo felt very distressed. She hugged them both into her arms and rubbed their chubby faces: "It's okay. We can still plant carrots after they are pulled out. Zhao Zhao was pushed down.
Does it hurt?"
Xiao Zhao clenched his fist in a manly manner: "It doesn't hurt! Dad said that a man doesn't shed tears when he bleeds! Zhao Zhao didn't bleed either!" This manliness disappeared in a flash, and Xiao Zhao immediately buried his head in the eldest sister's shoulder.
Muttered. "Not long after Grandpa Lame left, my sister was sent back by Uncle Liu and his uncles. My sister couldn't move at that time, her face was as white as snow, she was so frightened..."
Listening to his younger brother's mumbling, Xiao Niao also followed suit and buried his head in the eldest sister's other shoulder. "Niao Niao was also frightened, and Niao Niao even cried..."