The first peasant daughter of the green garden

Chapter 10 Look, I Won't Kill You

It was an early morning in July.The rooster at the east end of the village began to crow at four or five o'clock.Li Caiwei found a long-sleeved coat and put it on. There was no bamboo hat at home, so she could only wrap a towel around her face. There were still a lot of things waiting to be done at home.

After going out of the house, I first poured out the chamber pot in my parents' room last night, and woke up my brother non-stop, reminding him to herd the cows.

"Brother, remember to let the hen out and feed it, and don't forget to pick up the eggs."

Li Caiwei went along the ridge of the field to release water for the field.When I arrived at my field, I found that there was no water in the field. I checked the ditch next to it and found that there was not much water. After a morning, it could still replenish the rice seedlings in the field.However, she came late, and the water had already been released to someone else's house.

Li Caiwei thought that there was no one guarding her anyway, so she dug a gap and led the water to her field.

Watching the clear stream flow into the fields, don't mention how happy I am.

The edamame planted in April are now bearing fruit.Li Caiwei picked a edamame and found that the bean inside was firm.

Li Caiwei dug out three pockets of edamame with a hoe, and the fat leaves were full of fresh edamame.Here, I looked in my vegetable field, and the gourd I planted has also grown. I pushed aside a clump of grass and found a half-meter-long gourd growing in the haystack on the ridge of the field.

Li Caiwei rushed home with a heavy load of vegetables, and had to go back to make breakfast, the whole family was waiting.

"Father, mother, the gourd at home has grown so big." Li Caiwei pushed open the door and carried the heavy gourd to Li Mingde's room.

"Girl, this is the biggest gourd I've ever seen."

Li Caiwei felt complacent, I'm afraid no one can grow a gourd bigger than this.

"Father, you said how much such a big gourd can be sold in the market?"

Li Mingde reckoned, "This gourd is estimated to weigh ten catties, and a catty of gourd costs about ten copper coins. I think it can be sold for almost one hundred copper coins."

"Father, our vegetable garden is full of the freshest melons and fruits of the season. I planted pumpkins, wax gourds, peppers, water spinach, and loofah... Our family will definitely not be able to eat them all. I want to drag them to the market Sell ​​it, and keep the money you earn. Slowly save it for a year, and it will definitely be enough for my brother to marry a wife."

Li Mingde nodded, but it is not easy to drag this dish to the market for sale. It takes at least ten miles from the market to the village, and it takes two hours to go back and forth. No way.

"Father, I can do it. If I really can't, I can ask my brother to help me."

Li Mingde is a conservative person. His ancestors have been farmers for generations. This kind of business was a speculative thing in ancient times. It would damage the family's reputation, let alone a girl's family, and it violated ethics.

Li Mingde moved his feet, saw the blackness on the top spread again, and thought that there might not be many days.After leaving by himself, this family can only be continued by Cai Bin, and what he cares most about right now is Cai Bin's lifelong event.

"Caiwei, your mother is probably hungry, let's cook."

Li Caiwei saw that Li Mingde didn't seem to agree very much, but if she didn't want to find ways to make money, the family would definitely not be able to survive.

Li Caiwei came out a little disappointed, squatting next to the kitchen and poking edamame, preoccupied.

No, she must think of a way to change the status quo, otherwise she will be sorry to her parents.If it wasn't for me, my father wouldn't have a leg bitten off by a wolf, and my mother wouldn't worry about having a heart attack day and night.In modern times, she must have a solution, but in ancient times, if a leg was broken, it would be good to save her life. In the past two years, she also spent a lot of money. Every time the doctor came, she said that her condition was getting worse and worse.

Thinking of this, she felt extremely uncomfortable.Those people in the village are right, they are a broom star.Part of the reason why my sister married into the Hu family five years ago was also because of me.Because of himself, the closest relatives in the family were implicated.

In the past two years, although I was tired, I was happy in my heart.The most important thing right now is to raise money.

Just after breakfast, I was about to go out to wash clothes by the river, but before I went out, I heard a burst of scolding coming from the front.

"You vixen, you hooked up with men everywhere at a young age, and the people in the village judged it..."

Li Caiwei didn't care, and went out with a bucket of clothes.

However, after walking a few steps, I found that many villagers had already gathered in front of Li's house, and Li's daughter-in-law Xin came to scold the street again.

Xin pointed at this side, pointed at Sang and scolded Huai, and said: "The villagers come to judge, my boy jumped into the ancient well because of this little whore, and he didn't dare to say that he broke a leg. If I didn't find out in time, one of Dahai's legs would be broken." Obsolete."

Immediately, there was a lot of discussion, and the men in the village persuaded: "Damn it, the daughter of the Li family has always been honest. It is impossible for her to do such a thing. I think it is your son's willingness."

Xin spat at the man, "I think you are also fascinated by that vixen."

A few women standing next to him echoed: "Although your Dahai family is usually naughty, he is not very courageous. I think if there is no one to instigate him, he will definitely not jump into the ancient well by himself."

"I asked people in the village, and someone saw it. Last night, the sea in my house went down the ancient well. It was ordered by someone. It was a wild thing that no one raised!"

It's okay to listen to these harsh words, but she doesn't want her parents to be ashamed, and she is not one to swallow her anger. In the past, it was because she was sorry for her parents, but now that people scold her parents, she will not bear it anymore.

Li Caiwei rushed to Li's house, picked up a handful of you from the ground, and threw it at Xin's face in front of the whole village.

"Don't swear at others just because you are an adult. Your son jumped into the well voluntarily, and I didn't instigate it. Also, if you swear at my parents again, it's not a matter of a handful of sand."

Xin's face was thrown with sand, she was angry and humiliated, and in front of the whole village, she hated her so much that her tooth sockets ached.

"What do you want to do?"

"I don't want to do anything, I just want to teach some gossip women in the village a lesson. I didn't say it before because of my parents and I didn't want them to lose face, but now I won't bear it anymore. If someone scolds me in the future And my family, be careful I'm impolite!"

After saying this, Li Caiwei turned around and left.The anger in my heart has subsided a lot.

But she didn't expect that after this incident, the women in the village talked about her even more.

Li Caiwei didn't pay much attention to the discussions in the village, but those rumors made her parents lose face in the village.The feudal thinking in the countryside is very heavy, and everyone will cast aside such indecent things.

The beans are growing well this summer, and if you can, make some bean paste, which is a very expensive seasoning in modern times.It's the end of July now, and the edamame on the ridges of the field has grown firm.I can’t eat any meals this summer, so make some bean paste so that the family can eat more.

(End of this chapter)