Beloved Husband - Chapter 216

In 1975, Kamimura.

Shangmu Village is a small village in Jiangnan Water Town.

It is located to the west of a big river into the sea. There is also a small river winding through the village. The land is fertile and rich in water and grass. The people who live here have been farming and raising silkworms for generations.

It is the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the weather is neither hot nor cold, and the villagers in Shangmu Village are busy digging sweet potatoes.

Shangmu Village has been planting rice. In some fields, it is planted twice a year, and in some fields, it is planted once a year. In this rotation, the annual rice output is still good, but most of the rice must be handed over to the public. There is no way to eat white rice all at once.

Therefore, the sweet potatoes dug today are particularly important-they all rely on sweet potatoes to fill their stomachs!

Digging sweet potatoes is an individual task. Early in the morning, young adults in the village use iron rakes to turn over the ground where the sweet potato vines have been cut.

Gu Mingxiu was turning the ground.

He was very thin, but his strength was not small. As soon as he raked down, a large piece of mud and many sweet potatoes were turned out.

The women in the village smashed the dug out mud with their hands, found sweet potatoes and threw them into the bamboo basket next to them.

Occasionally I see some big sweet potatoes being pierced by Gu Mingxiu with an iron rake, and I will sigh: “Such a big sweet potato, what a pity.”

While talking, they threw the injured sweet potatoes into another bamboo basket-such sweet potatoes can’t be left for long, they have to be eaten quickly.

Gu Mingxiu kept turning the floor. The women followed him and other people who turned the floor to pick up sweet potatoes. Behind them, there were some children with runny noses, holding a basket and picking up what was dropped by the woman in front. Small and small sweet potatoes, or sweet potato roots.

These small sweet potatoes are full of “gluten”, that is, coarse plant fiber, but they can fill their stomachs anyway, so no one is willing to waste it.

Moreover, the big sweet potatoes have to be handed over to the village chief for distribution, but these small sweet potatoes can be taken home directly.

In order to get more sweet potatoes home, some women will let their children stay behind them, and then deliberately drop some bigger, egg-sized sweet potatoes, and those children will have a lot of harvest.

They are all from the village folks, and generally no one says anything.

It’s just that everyone is doing it, and someone suddenly said, “Where’s the educated youth? Didn’t come again?”

Their village is next to a town. There are not many educated youths with a small land but a large number of people. Most of them are relatives of the villagers. People in the nearby towns and towns want to go to the countryside, and they all choose neighboring villages, and many live directly with relatives. went.

But the educated youth is different. He came from Beijing two years ago.

That’s the capital!

When I first came, the villagers were very strange, and they all went to see him specially, but now…the villagers are already afraid of him.

This said that the educated youth is tall, and looks very strong, but too lazy!

He has been here for two years, and the work on the ground is still in trouble, and he knows to hide at home and be lazy all day long.

“That educated youth is really lazy.”

“Zhang Zugen’s daughter also fell in love with him before, and recently she lost her mind.”

“Can you stop thinking? He is so lazy, he gets poorer and poorer…”

…

This is an educated youth, the people in the village really don’t know what to say about him.

When he first came, he looked glamorous and his shoes were all polished oil. Everyone thought that his family must be rich, but they weren’t.

In the past two years, no one has sent him anything!

In the first year, he was able to live on by selling the things he brought, and in the second year, he lived by borrowing food from the village and the people around him.

This borrowed grain from the village, and he had to write down everything he needed. He always didn’t go to work, and he would definitely not pay at the end of the year. This…

More importantly, the villagers also learned that his family’s composition is not very good.

The people in this Jiangnan water village have soft personalities. In recent years, they have been rioting outside. They will also pull people and criticize them, but the toss is not serious, and no one does anything to the educated youth, but everyone does not love it. Approach him.

Even if he is well-educated, due to both laziness and bad composition, the girls who had been in love with him at the beginning quit one after another.

Everyone in the village feels that if the educated youth keeps going like this, they are afraid they will be bachelor for a lifetime!

As for the other person in the village who may be bachelor for a lifetime, it is Gu Mingxiu who is working hard to smash the ground.

Gu Mingxiu is the best-grown person in their village. He is not worse than an educated youth, and he works hard. When he was fifteen, he was already able to earn the same work points as an adult in farm work.

But he also has fatal flaws.

First of all, his composition is equally bad-Gu Mingxiu’s grandfather was the big landlord of the village.

The Gu family used to be in the raw silk business.

Their family built a large yard with a wall of three meters high by the big river, and built a wharf. For decades in the morning, when the cocoons are collected every year, people nearby shake their boats to sell the cocoons here. People come and go, and the silver dollars to pay the bills must be packed in bamboo baskets.

The old grandfather of the Gu family used to be unspeakable, and Gu Mingxiu’s grandfather had gone to a big city to read and was the only one in the village.

It is a pity that the times have become too fast.

Before Gu Mingxiu was born, the Gu family was already defeated. Not long after he was born, his father committed suicide for various reasons. Later, Gu Mingxiu’s mother took Gu Mingxiu to marry an old bachelor in the village who could not marry a wife and gave birth to four more. child.

But even if Gu Mingxiu’s mother remarried, Gu Mingxiu’s composition is still not good. Many people are unwilling to marry him, let alone… he still has a family dragged down.

Gu Mingxiu was at his stepfather’s house. He was a drag oil bottle. He needed to do farm work to take care of his younger siblings when he was young. He was also the son of a landlord. He was always bullied in the village, and he had a bad life.

However, it’s all like this, God still won’t let him go.

When Gu Mingxiu was fourteen years old, his stepfather got sick and his belly grew bigger and bigger. He went to the hospital and the doctor said that he could not cure him, so he died.

His mother was in poor health. She was pregnant with a child at the time and fell ill all of a sudden. Later when she gave birth, the child came out first…

The midwife pulled hard and the woman was gone.

Gu Mingxiu is twenty this year. There are no elders in the family. There are four half-brothers and sisters to take care of. The youngest is only six years old…Who wants to marry him?

However, although Gu Mingxiu’s own father was a landlord, the old man of the Gu family had always been kind to others, and Gu Mingxiu was miserable, so the villagers were still friendly to Gu Mingxiu.

Gu Mingxiu would still be pulled out to criticize and fight occasionally.

This year, there is no way.

The sun was gradually setting from the west, and it was time to call it a day.

Yan Zhiqing still did not come to the field.

The aunts couldn’t help sighing again.

“It’s really rare to be as lazy as an educated youth!” one of them said: “He is like this, sooner or later he will starve to death.”

Gu Mingxiu, carrying an iron rake, was walking to the place where farm tools were stored in the village. He couldn’t help but say: “He is sick…”

“Sick? You believe this kind of nonsense.” The gossiping women rolled their eyes and said that the educated youth was ill?

Gu Mingxiu didn’t agree with these women’s words, but he didn’t like to argue with others, so he closed his mouth and said nothing.

There used to be a small temple in Shangmu Village, which houses several Bodhisattvas. This temple was built by the Gu family. But a few years ago, the mud Bodhisattvas in the temple had been thrown away. Now this temple has become a village. A place used to store various things.

The tractors in the village, the farming tools used by everyone, the grain and grain harvested, etc., are all placed in this temple.

Gu Mingxiu put down the iron rake and went home.

A few years ago, the village had done a big pot of rice, but now it has stopped doing it. The food is divided into different families.

At this time, compared to when there was a famine more than ten years ago, everyone’s life is much better. Like Gu Mingxiu’s family, only Gu Mingxiu is a hard worker. Three of the four younger siblings are in their teens and want to study. The youngest is because I was suffocated in my mother’s stomach and was sickly and sickly.

However, the sweet potatoes have been harvested these days, and the village has divided the sweet potatoes that were injured during the digging process early, so that they will not be hungry.

When Gu Mingxiu returned home, he smelled of roasted sweet potatoes.

Gu Mingxiu’s four younger siblings are two men and two women.

His stepfather is also surnamed Gu, and his younger siblings also have the same surnames. The eldest brother is 15 this year, called Gu Yubao, the second sister is 13 this year, Gu Yulan, the third sister is 12 this year, Gu Yuxian, and the youngest is a boy, 6 years old this year, called Gu Yukang.

At this moment, the third sister Gu Yuxian has just cooked sweet potatoes.

Wash the sweet potatoes and put them in the iron pan and cook for a long time. The sweet potatoes are stuck on the iron pan. When the sweet potatoes are scorched, the sweet potatoes will be cooked. When the sweet potatoes are being cooked, she put a bowl on the steaming rack. Put in a little bit of rice and steam a bowl of rice.

This meal is for Gu Yukang.

Gu Yukang is weak, but stubborn. He doesn’t eat sweet potatoes. If only sweet potatoes are available, he can stay away from it, and then cry nonstop.

Gu Mingxiu was never picky about food. He went home, washed his hands, took the sweet potato from the pot and ate it with the skin.

While eating, Gu Yubao, who was in junior high school in town, is back.

Their village is very close to the town. The children in the village go to the primary school in the village. The school is the three-meter-high house of the Gu family. Everyone in junior high school went to the town to study.

Of course, most people do not go to junior high school.

“What is there to eat at home today?” Gu Yubao went into the kitchen and was unhappy when he saw that there were only sweet potatoes in the pot: “Only sweet potatoes?”

After he finished speaking, he saw the rice next to him: “This bowl of rice is for me.”

“This is Yukang’s.” Gu Yuxian wanted to stop his second brother, but Gu Yubao picked up the bowl without using chopsticks, and directly steamed the bowl to brown, with a bit of burnt sweet potato flavored rice. .

“This is Yukang’s.” Gu Mingxiu frowned.

“Big brother, I want to eat rice too.” Gu Yubao reached out for his chopsticks.

“You ate at noon, and you also ate eggs.” Gu Mingxiu grabbed the bowl.

Gu Yubao is in junior high school in the town and brings meals every day.

They have been eating badly at home, but Gu Yubao said that everyone in the school eats very well. If he eats poorly, Gu Mingxiu can only ask him to take rice to school, boil an egg every day, cut it in half and drizzle it with soy sauce. Serve him.

“I still want to eat it tonight.” Gu Yubao said confidently.

When Gu Mingxiu’s stepfather and mother were still there, Gu Yubao was the favorite. After all, this was his stepfather’s first child and a son.

It is also because of this that Gu Yubao has developed the temperament that he wants to have since he was a child.

Gu Mingxiu used to follow Gu Yubao, but today he has been tired for a day, and something is in his heart, so he said: “If you make trouble again, I will take Sweet Potato to school tomorrow.”

After speaking, Gu Mingxiu gave the bowl on his hand to Gu Yuxian.

Gu Yubao frowned dissatisfiedly.

Gu Yuxian was afraid that Gu Yubao would be upset again, and hurriedly brought a bowl to feed Gu Yukang. The six-year-old Gu Yukang didn’t know if it was because he had been holding back in his mother’s belly for a long time. , Whatever things happen every day, I know to call my brother and sister.

“You are kind to that fool!” Gu Yubao curled his lips and picked the sweet potato with the best appearance.

At this time, Gu Yulan came back.

The two sisters of the Gu family are called Gu Yulan, the younger one is Gu Yuxian. They should all be beautiful women, but in fact…

Gu Mingxiu’s stepfather is really not good, and the two sisters are also shabby, dark and small.

Among them, Gu Yuxian is a little younger, and works at home while raising children while studying in elementary school. Gu Yulan is a little older and doesn’t like to read books. She has already started to work.

When she came back today, she carried a basket in her hand and showed her family with some pride: “Look, after I got off work, I went to pick up a lot of sweet potatoes and come back!”

The sweet potatoes in her basket were quite big, and Gu Mingxiu frowned, “Why are they so big?”

Gu Yulan said: “I concealed it secretly, everyone left, and then I went back to get it…”

“Are you not afraid of being caught?” Gu Mingxiu frowned. Although these sweet potatoes will be divided later, they are secretly hidden and taken away and discovered. That is to be criticized!

“I won’t be caught! And they all do that.” Gu Yulan looked at Gu Mingxiu, “Big Brother, you are too honest!”

Gu Mingxiu was a little helpless. He felt that this was not good, but he didn’t know how to say it.

After eating, Gu Mingxiu went out: “I’m out.”

Gu Yulan said, “Brother, are you going to town? I’ll go with you.”

Gu Mingxiu immediately refused: “You stay at home.”

Gu Yulan probably suffered when she was a child and was hungry. When she went out, she wanted to take everything at home. His hands and feet were not clean. He didn’t dare to take people out because she was afraid that she would be beaten or caught.

Gu Yulan rolled her eyes and stopped talking.

In the village, there is a night watch at night, not alone, but several to avoid anyone stealing sweet potatoes.

When Gu Mingxiu went out, he didn’t walk into the ground, but went to the town.

The people in the town have public food to eat, and they have a very good life, and they look down on the country people. They call them “country turtles”. Of course, the country people are not to be outdone and call them “street turtles.”

Gu Mingxiu is not hostile to the people in the town like some people in the village, but he does envy them.

The people in town have a great time.

When he arrived in the town, Gu Mingxiu went directly to the town’s material supply point to pick up sugar cane shoots.

The sweet potato has been harvested recently, and sugar cane is also on the market.

Shangmu Village and nearby villages all grow sugarcane. After harvesting, part of it will be distributed in the village, part will be sent to sugar, and part will be sent to nearby counties and towns for supply to local residents.

And this kind of local specialties, still do not need to vote.

In the past few days, everyone in the town basically buys some sugar cane to eat. Unlike the country folks, they take the skins and eat them directly after washing, and they often buy them home after they are peeled. It will make people cut off the head and tail.

In this way, the top tip of the sugarcane will be chopped off and the leaves attached to it will be cut off and left on the ground, and this tip will be picked up.

The top shoots of sugarcane are not sweet, but the children in the countryside who lack snacks will still pick them up and chew them. After chewing, they can be dried and used as firewood.

Here is the plain, and the land that can be reclaimed is basically reclaimed. Anyway, there is no such thing as forest.

This has also caused a situation-the firewood in every household is often not enough to burn.

The Gu’s family uses straw from the village and mulberry sticks, but this is not enough. In order to make more firewood, after the rice is cut, Gu Mingxiu will go to the field to pull the root of the rice at night. Will come to town to pick up sugar cane shoots.

Gu Mingxiu picked up a lot in one go, bundled them up and took them home.

When he got home, it was already very dark, but there were still many people in the village who had light coming out of their homes.

Because their village is moving forward from the town, it is powered on. Of course, not many people are willing to use electricity.

As soon as Gu Mingxiu returned home, several children in the family rushed up, and from the sugar cane shoots, they turned out what they could eat.

Gu Yukang even shouted, “Sister! Sister!”

He couldn’t get it to eat, so he called someone to help him.

Gu Yubao has never paid attention to Gu Yukang’s younger brother. Gu Yulan only eats for herself, so Gu Yuxian finds a piece of the head, cleans it and tears it off with his mouth, and then feeds a little to the younger brother.

The sugar cane tops are not sweet at all. Gu Yukang took two bites and didn’t want it. Gu Yuxian started eating it by himself.

At this time, Gu Mingxiu took two sugarcane tips that he had been optimistic about a long time ago, stood up and went out.

Gu Yubao frowned: “Where are you going, brother?”

“Maybe to catch the frog.” Gu Yuxian said, “I will also catch and watch tomorrow.

Gu Yubao thought of the frog, licked his lips, dropped the unsweet sugar cane tip on his hand and went back to the room.

Gu Mingxiu did not catch the frog.

He wanted to go, but he was tired for a day today and went to town again, really lacking energy.

In fact, his stomach is hungry right now-eating sweet potatoes always makes him hungry very quickly.

The sugar cane tops didn’t have any sweetness, but Gu Mingxiu was still a bit greedy, but he didn’t eat it.

He went to the well to wash the two sugarcane tips in his hand, and then went to the Gu’s old house, where his father lived.

This house is now used as a primary school, and at the same time, there is also an educated youth living in it, that is, the very lazy educated youth, who is very lazy.

Gu Mingxiu thinks that the name Yan Jing is particularly nice, and the educated youth of Yan is also very nice.

Since Yan Jingze came to the village, he has noticed this educated youth, and he likes this person from the bottom of his heart, and wants to make this person happy.

But he would still secretly give things to Yan Jing.

He can’t take the food at home, but he usually finds something that can be imported, so he will always tell the educated youth.

Today, the educated youth is ill again. Before going to work, he wanted to give away something to the educated youth. Unfortunately, he had nothing to send, only the cane shoots.

Even if he picked it up specially when he picked it up, compared to the sweeter shoots, this thing is a bit unsatisfactory.

It is said that the educated youth was in Beijing before, and they must be able to eat whole sugar cane.

Thinking this way, Gu Mingxiu felt a little embarrassed.

But he knocked gently on the door.

Yan Jing passed through.

He woke up abruptly, and suddenly found himself in a small house with a strange smell on the walls.

It was dark outside, and there was nothing at home. He couldn’t find this place even if he tried to light a lamp, but he was still grunting with hunger…

Yan Jing is speechless.

Where did he wear this?

It’s fine to pass through, and it doesn’t matter if you don’t give him the memory of the past, why doesn’t he still have the memory of the original owner of this body?

How does this keep him alive?

If he goes out tomorrow, will he show his feet and be caught directly by someone?

Yan Jing became more and more entangled when he thought about it, and his stomach became more and more hungry.

However, he doesn’t know what the situation is now, and he doesn’t dare to go out and wander around. It’s dark everywhere, and he doesn’t know where he can go.

He could only lie on the bed helplessly, planning to stay till dawn.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

The voice was very soft, but it was very obvious in the quiet night. Someone came to him?

Yan Jing got off the wooden bed and fumbled forward.

The knock on the door stopped, and the people at the door left?

Yan Jing was a little anxious, he rushed to the door, fumbled for the bolt, and finally opened the door.

It took a lot of time to open the door, but Yan Jing was ready for no one outside, but when the door opened, he saw someone.

There was moonlight outside, allowing him to see what this person looked like.

This is a very handsome man in his twenties with sword eyebrows and star eyes. When he saw this man, Yan Jing felt his heartbeat speed up suddenly.

He can’t tell how it feels, he only knows one thing-he likes this man!

He fell in love at first sight!

After traveling to a strange place, he fell in love at first sight with a completely stranger to him.

But he couldn’t control his feelings, just seeing the person in front of him, he felt that his heart no longer belonged to him.

“You…” Yan Jing opened his mouth, but didn’t know what to say.

Gu Mingxiu knocked on the door and no one responded, and he became upset.

At this point, the ill educated youth may already be asleep. Will he disturb others if he knocks on the door like this?

He stopped knocking at the door, and planned to leave what he was holding at the door, but he was afraid that he would be taken away in the end.

The educated youth is taller than everyone in their village, and looks sturdy… It is said that it is because of the tall people from the north.

Gu Mingxiu opened his mouth: “Yan, an educated youth, I brought you something, I…”

“Do you want to come in and sit down?” Yan Jing asked.

Gu Mingxiu looked at Yan Jingze in surprise.

The country people are all dirty and have lice. It was said before that the educated youth would not let them in, but now let him in?

Just as he was stunned, Gu Mingxiu saw the educated youth in front of him staggering, and he held his hand on the door frame to stabilize his body.

It is said that the educated youth is really sick, and should be very sick!

Gu Mingxiu immediately stepped forward and held on to Yan Jingze: “Yan educated youth, are you okay?”

Yan Jing took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, “I’m fine.”

He was really fine, he just fainted suddenly.

And the reason why he fainted was because he got the memory of the original owner.

Yan Jing gritted his teeth and was so angry-this original owner is really a scumbag!