Nongmen Shuxiangzhi returns to ancient writing books

Chapter 1 001 The daughter was sold

Spring returns to the earth, everything is revived, and everything is full of vitality.

Surrounded by mountains, a village has lived here for generations, multiplying, working at sunrise and resting at sunset.

The breeze blows, the fragrance of flowers is pleasant, and everything you see is green, except for the terraced fields with layers of rocks, revealing large areas of loess. Although there is no green at all, it is very lively. The villagers of Fuguang Village are The fields are busy.

At the east end of the village, inside the circular stone wall, there are four yellow mud houses with no tiles on the roof. The thick thatch is made of vines into a square mat, layer by layer, covering the roof. , although not beautiful, but enough to shelter from wind and rain.

There is a water well in the courtyard, and a chicken coop is surrounded by a wooden fence on the left side, and four hens are raised. There is a vegetable field behind the house.

That is the Chu family.

At this time, the men of the Chu family are all busy planting spring in the fields, except for Chu Sanchuan of Xingsan, the only scholar in the village, the hope of the Chu family.

However, today's Chu Sanchuan is not as focused as in the past, his eyes are always inadvertently looking through the window and looking at the door, the brows are extremely complicated, excited and anxious.

After a while, Chu Sanchuan put down the book in his hand and stood up abruptly after hearing a "bang dang". Xu was too anxious, his knee hit the wooden chair, and his body staggered. He picked up the gray robe casually, and made three steps in two Stepping out of the room, he was not as calm as before.

It turned out that a tall village woman hurried into the compound and was walking towards this side. Although she tried her best to cover it up, she still couldn't hide the joy in her eyes.

"How?" Chu Sanchuan was a little anxious, his voice trembling.

"Don't worry about my work?" Mrs. Liu gave him a sideways look, with a look of satisfaction in her eyes.

"How many?"

"It's a full ten taels of silver!" Mrs. Liu stretched out her finger and said in a low voice.

"Ten...Ten taels!" Chu Sanchuan was shocked.

"I was surprised too. At first I didn't expect the money-losing goods to be so valuable. This time, luckily, the second son of the Ye family just happened to choose a girl, and for some reason, he fell in love with the money-losing goods, so he sold them at this price. !"

In a few words, Mrs. Liu gave an overview of the process.

"Ten taels of silver, give two taels to Chu Hong's government examination, and we will save the rest, so that we can have more taels of silver when Xianggong takes the township examination." Mrs. Liu is very shrewd, and on the way back, she has already made up her mind. The use of silver.

I don't think there is anything wrong with selling the eldest brother's granddaughter.

"It's up to you to decide." Chu Sanchuan's brows loosened, and he returned to his usual lofty appearance of a scholar. He turned and went back to his room, and continued to study hard to prepare for the provincial examination.

Mrs. Liu, who got the silver, was very happy. With the wind on her feet, she went back to her bedroom, took out a boxy makeup box from the dark red kang cabinet, opened the small copper lock, and there were two neatly placed inside, which were strung together with hemp rope. It is estimated that there are two and a half of good copper coins.

One must know that a farmer like the Chu family only earns 20 taels of silver for a year, and it is gratifying to have [-] taels of silver left over every year except for daily expenses.

However, how can people not be surprised that Mrs. Liu was able to save this money in private?
Mrs. Liu poured the ten taels of silver in the purse into the palm of her hand, moved her fingers, put the eight taels of silver into the makeup box, and locked it again with a small copper lock.

She just wanted to hide the makeup box in the kang cabinet, but she looked at the two taels of silver in the palm of her right hand, opened the makeup box again, took out half a tael of silver in her palm, put it into the makeup box, and locked it again , hide it well.

"It's just a government test, how can we use so much two taels, one tael and half is enough." After muttering in a low voice, Mrs. Liu walked out of the room satisfied.

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On the far right of the four yellow mud houses of the Chu family, there is a small thatched house, which is dark and damp.

As soon as you enter the house, your eyes are pitch black, which is in sharp contrast with the light outside.

There was not even a decent quilt in the room. There was only a tattered straw mat on the kang, and the only square kang table was so dark that the color could not be seen clearly. One leg of the table was limped and was padded with wooden blocks, barely usable.

Lying on the kang was a woman with a sallow complexion, covered with a quilt made of tattered cloth.

Her lips were chapped and peeled, but her eyes were as bright as stars, which was extremely incompatible with this damp and cold room.

Chu Chu frowned, what kind of dilapidated body did she get into?

At this moment, she missed the vest line she had just practiced very much, but, thinking about it, it has now become a jar of ashes.

"Sister, sister, I only found half a piece of flatbread, you can make do with it first, I won't let the third aunt sell Chu girl, at worst, I won't take the government examination." A little boy hurried into the room , took out half a piece of hard pancake from his bosom, which was hard enough to break teeth.

Chu Chu felt weak all over, even if she was given half a bowl of cold water now, she could gulp it all down, not to mention that it was still a pie that could satisfy her hunger.

She didn't say anything, took the pie and gnawed it directly.

Seeing that Chu Chu finally woke up, the little Chu Hong finally let go of the fear in her heart.

The family has no spare money, but they support a scholar. Although he is young, he also knows that the imperial examination is not easy. Over the years, the third uncle has paid for the examination many times, but failed again and again. .

Now he is just a government test, and the third aunt is pushing grandma to sell her sister's only daughter!
Mother tried to persuade her for a long time, but instead of letting go, grandma scolded mother, and my elder sister even disagreed. However, no one in the whole family would listen to the opinions of a woman who had a child out of wedlock.

Father is not at home, grandma is partial to the third room, the second room is indifferent, mother and elder sister are sick, and he is only seven years old, all kinds of difficulties can be imagined.

Yesterday morning, Miss Chu was carried away by the third aunt, her sister fainted immediately, and her mother couldn't afford it. If it wasn't for the kindness of Aunt Luo, he wouldn't even have the half cake.

Chu Chu tried her best to chew on the hard pancake, she had never had such a rough thing in her life, and now she didn't care about it in order to fill her stomach.She had a vague impression of the little boy in front of her, he seemed to be Yuan Shen's younger brother, who fed her water a few times.

She has been taking care of her since yesterday, and she has never stopped talking. It is only because of him that she can understand the general situation and have some impressions of other people in the family. People found that Chu Chu had changed the core.

"Sister, you don't have to worry, I've sent Uncle Toro a message to Dad, and Dad will definitely come back tomorrow morning, and when Dad comes back, I'm sure Third Aunt will bring Miss Chu back."

Chu Hong comforted him.

Chu Chu stopped chewing, looked up at Chu Hong, with a sallow face, not much flesh on his body, let alone his head, gray pants, thighs, and knees with multiple patches.

Life is hard enough for this family.

This is Chu Chu's first impression.

　By the way, today is a good day to start writing~
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(End of this chapter)