Chapter 1 Fighting wits and courage
Everything recovers in spring, and the heavy snow that has accumulated for a winter finally melts slowly. The warmth of the sun on the body makes people feel sleepy all over the body, and they can't wait to close their eyes and get under the covers to sleep. It is said that spring sleepiness and autumn fatigue may be just so.

Hua Xiaoqiao sat on the wheat straw at the east end of the village, looked at the roaring river not far away, sighed heavily and stood up.

She is now ready to go home and cook, and there are three mouths waiting to eat at home.

Just about to leave, grandma Liu's deafening voice came: "Hua Xiaoqiao, you are lazy here again, did you pull the pigweed that I told you to pull?"

Hua Xiaoqiao rolled her eyes when she heard Mrs. Liu's words, and replied with a somewhat impatient voice: "I'm talking about it." After speaking, she picked up the pannier placed next to the straw and carried it on her back, and walked to Mrs. Liu not far away. .

Before Hua Xiaoqiao approached, Liu stood on tiptoe to look at the pigweed in Hua Xiaoqiao's back basket, seeing that there was only half of the pigweed in the back basket, she suddenly became dissatisfied, and her face instantly became gloomy.

Just waiting for Hua Xiaoqiao to approach, before Hua Xiaoqiao could react, she stretched out her hand and directly pulled Hua Xiaoqiao's left ear.

Mrs. Liu grabbed Hua Xiaoqiao's left ear very hard, and the severe pain came from Hua Xiaoqiao's left ear, which made Hua Xiaoqiao grin her lips sullenly: "It hurts."

Mrs. Liu refused to give up and didn't let go, instead she exerted more force, snorted coldly and said in a loud voice: "Little Hoof is playing lazy with me again, every time it's your turn to pull pigweed, you pull half of my back basket, don't you see that?" When the pigs in the pigsty grow fat, you will start to get carried away, let me tell you that this pig is a big part of my family, if you let my pigs not eat enough because of your laziness, I won’t tear your ears off.”

Hua Xiaoqiao was a little angry, Liu Shi was still pulling her ears with his hands, and the pain almost made her numb.

Gritting his teeth, he knocked Liu's hand away with a backhand, then rubbed his left ear that was pinched by Liu, and shouted in dissatisfaction: "You are addicted to pulling, aren't you? My family will share a share of that pig." A little money, and you want me to pull as much pigweed as you, you really think I'm stupid, and don't blame me for being rude if you want to pull my ears in the future." After finishing speaking, she gave Liu a hard look.

It's true that Mrs. Liu is her grandma, but her grandma raised three sons and two daughters. Of the three sons, only the youngest son, Hua Yuanwu, lived with the two elderly people. The other eldest, Hua Yuanwen, lived with her. Father Hua Yuantao was separated from the family, and the other two aunts, Hua Yuanru, were already married in the next village, while Hua Yuanyi was still in her boudoir, but they also said that they would marry when they were married.

Just a month ago, the three of them partnered to buy a piglet and brought it back to raise. Because they were poor and couldn't afford much money, they discussed it at the beginning, and they would pull pigweed according to their respective shares. Although their family got the least amount of money, She also wants Piggy to grow up quickly, so she still wears a basket every day, which is enough for a new piggy to last for a day.

And during this period of time, she didn't see anyone from Liu's family and Hua Yuanwen's family come out to pull pigweed. Her ears were pulled, and the anger in her heart shot up directly. The feeling of burning with anger was uncomfortable, and now she wanted to vent it.

Seeing that Hua Xiaoqiao's temper has become more and more exuberant recently, Mrs. Liu didn't give up because of Hua Xiaoqiao's warning. She stepped forward and wanted to teach Hua Xiaoqiao a lesson. While chasing Hua Xiaoqiao, she shouted: "You damn girl, you dare to talk back, do you want to go to the house to expose the tiles after you haven't hit you for two days?"

Seeing that Mrs. Liu was about to come forward again, Hua Xiaoqiao took two steps back and put down the pannier on her back to block between her and Mrs. Liu.

He roared indignantly: "I'll tell you, don't overdo it. I'm the one talking about pigweed every day. Look at what I said. Even if I'm lazy, I'm not eating at your house. I want you to meddle in your own business here." .”

She was really about to explode, this Liu family was born to be against her, since she "arrived" here, she has been taught Liu's vitriol and unreasonable temper every day.

And she is really boring, happy to have fun, and is willing to fight wits and courage with Mrs. Liu every day. As long as Mrs. Liu is not too much, she will treat it as respect for the elderly. She knows that Mrs. Liu is doing things more and more now, but she doesn't care about her family's affairs. She interrupted everything, wanted to take something good from her house when she saw it, and wanted to bully her and her brother every day.

Liu was anxious to see that Hua Xiaoqiao was still talking back, and she also caught the playfulness in Hua Xiaoqiao's eyes, so she didn't know how to vent her anger in her stomach.

Pigs are growing up every day, and naturally they eat more and more, and she herself doesn't want other granddaughters to pull pigweed, and she herself is definitely not going to go, so she thought of Hua Xiaoqiao, anyway, she is not at all. I don't like Hua Xiaoqiao so happy to let Hua Xiaoqiao do more things, just like what Hua Xiaoqiao said, anyway, no matter how much Hua Xiaoqiao does, it's not her family's food, so why not What not to do.

If Hua Xiaoqiao knew that Liu Shi really thought so in her heart at the moment, she would be so angry that she would directly greet the eighteenth generation of Liu Shi's ancestors.

She felt that her own luck was really bad, otherwise she wouldn't have crossed into this impoverished mountain depression even if she traveled through time, and her mother died and her father was still a drunkard, the only consolation There is also a considerate and sensible elder brother Hua Qingshan who shoulders the heavy responsibility of taking care of the whole family, and there is also a cute Zhengtai younger brother Hua Qingmu. Perhaps this is the only encouragement God gave her.

She was not used to coming here at first. After all, the conditions here can only be described as difficult.

Not to mention that her careless father still owes a lot of debts, this Liu family and two aunts are the best of the best, and all they think about are calculations. The only one who is better is her sister-in-law. Hua Yuan wanted to, but it's a pity that Jiji will get married again.

Mrs. Liu saw that Hua Xiaoqiao was able to distract her mind when talking to her. Sister, this is Hua Xiaoqiao's great disrespect for him, so she snorted angrily: "Little Hoof still dares to distract her mind. If I don't If I teach you a lesson, my surname will not be Liu."

Seeing that Mrs. Liu was about to rush up to beat her again, she turned around the basket and smiled playfully: "Come on, catch me if you have the ability, and admit that you are old if you can't catch me."

Women hate being called old. Although Liu Shi is quite old, she doesn't like being called old, not to mention the one she hates the most, Hua Xiaoqiao.

Angrily, Liu grabbed the pigweed in the basket and threw it at Hua Xiaoqiao, and the pigweed in the basket was scattered all over the ground by Liu.

Hua Xiaoqiao was not angry and fled far away, stopped and said: "You throw it and keep throwing it, if you have the ability, you even throw the back basket."

Mrs. Liu was furious, and when she heard Hua Xiaoqiao say this, she really lifted the basket and threw it at Hua Xiaoqiao. The pigweed in the basket was scattered all over the ground like a goddess scattered flowers, and the basket fell on the basket impartially. In the stinky ditch beside it, the mouth of the basket was still facing down, standing upright in the ditch like a green onion.

Hua Xiaoqiao laughed cheerfully, looked at Mrs. Liu and said mockingly: "Let me tell you, I tore up the pigweed. You threw it away yourself. Don't come to me again. I'll forget it and I'll toss it up." One month's pigweed, in the next month, your family and uncle's family will share it equally, and I will suffer a little bit."

Liu Shi was so angry that she blew her beard and stared at her eyes, and looked coldly at Hua Xiaoqiao's chest heaving and falling with anger.

"Little hoof, stop for me. If I don't beat you today, my surname will not be Liu."

Hua Xiaoqiao looked up at the sky and it was getting late, she had to rush back to cook for her family.

The road back is not the only one in front of her, she is planning to take a detour now, looked at Mrs. Liu with a smile and said: "I took the pannier from the stinking ditch under your roof, since you are here, I don't have to return it. I’m going back, and there’s hogweed, I’m going to tear it up anyway, you saw me put it in the pannier, you threw it away yourself so don’t blame me.”

After speaking, he gave a relieved smile, turned around and ran to the side path.

From behind came Liu's voice cursing.

Laughing all the way back home, looking at the dilapidated courtyard of his home from a distance, he sighed heavily.

This home really can’t be called home. The thatch on the top of the head has withered and often falls to pieces of grass, and there are big gaps one after another in the four walls of the earth, and the cold wind comes through the gaps in winter. Bitter cold.

It took her a long time to come back to her senses when she saw this bare house when she just traveled here.

On that cold winter day, she almost froze to death. If her elder brother Hua Qingshan and younger brother Hua Qingmu braved the heavy snow to go out to collect dry firewood and come back to make a fire, she might have been frozen to death as soon as she crossed over.

It has been two or three months since she was flustered at the beginning and now she has completely accepted the matter of time travel. During this period of time, she was often in a daze alone, thinking about everything she had done in modern times. Her husband, and his sickly body.

It's actually pretty good now, although I'm only ten years old, but I feel very happy.

Patted the patched cotton coat on his body, trotted all the way back home.

Pushing open the courtyard door tied up with wooden sticks, seeing Hua Qingmu chopping firewood in the courtyard, Hua Xiaoqiao's heart warmed with that earnest gesture.

"Didn't Aoki say that my sister came back to chop wood, so be careful what happens if the ax hits your foot."

Hua Qingmu is a little thin and thin. Although he is six years old, his body is particularly thin because of lack of nutrition.

Hua Qingmu raised his head with a smile on his lips, threw the ax on the ground and ran towards Hua Xiaoqiao: "Sister, you are back, brother has caught a lot of fish, and we will eat fish at noon."

Hua Qingmu's heart is warm, as long as there is something to eat, she will be happy.

(End of this chapter)

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